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__label__wiki	0.626272	0.626272	Bargain and Free eBooks for Sunday (5/6) Operation Underpants by Mark A Biggs Operation Underpants celebrates the more venerable amongst us. Max and Olivia met as teenagers on covert operations during WW2. After the war they married and under the guise of a doddering old vicar and his wife, continued a life of secrets as cold war spies. Now 87 years of age and confined to a nursing home in Australia they are called back into action after finding a hidden message in a funeral notice for Claude Duval. Somehow they must escape from the home and travel to the United Kingdom and retrieve the Janus Machine hidden in the dying days of the war. Although pursued by the police and those determined to stop them, the fate of London and much of the world hangs in the balance – they must succeed. To Kill For by A.J. Carella A Cop. A Killer. A secret that threatens them all. Jamie McKay doesn’t know what she wants, to settle down or strike out on her own. But before she can decide, tragedy strikes and it pushes her straight into the path of a killer. Kat McKay loves her job as a cop in L.A. but after breaking the rules once too often her job is already on the line when she receives devastating news. Forced to return to the town she left as a teenager, she must turn to the one person she knows she can trust for help – even if he still hates her for leaving. The Crying Stones by Robert Mitchell The Lucinda, the pearl lugger that led the fathers of the sons to the sparkling stones. The lugger which bequeathed the legacy of that fateful day in March 1942 to those sons. A legacy kept hidden until….. But are they still waiting in their secret place? Do they still wail for the dead and those soon to be dead? The sons of the fathers, urged on by that legacy forty-four years further on. Mistrust fighting hate, anger curbed by greed, as the sons race across the great continent of Australia towards destiny, towards the once booming town of Broome, towards… Outsystem by M. D. Cooper In 4123, the greatest colony ship ever built is leaving the Sol System, and Major Tanis Richards has secured a berth.Demoted by the military and hung out to dry, the media calls Tanis the Butcher of Toro. But despite her soiled record, she still one of the best military counterinsurgency officers in the Terran Space Force. Her background and skill are what cause the colony leaders to bring Tanis on, assigning her the task of stopping the terrorists who are attempting to destroy the colony ship during the final phases of its construction at the Mars Outer Shipyards. Dark September by Inger Wolf It is late September, and Anna Kiehl, a student of anthropology and a single mother, does not return from her evening run in the forest. The next morning, she is found dead. She is naked, her throat is cut, and there is a bouquet of poisonous hemlock on her chest. Police inspector Daniel Trokic is in charge of the investigation, and it leads him to the case of a prominent scientist and specialist in neurochemistry and antidepressants who disappeared eight weeks earlier. Daniel Trokic must get to the killer before he strikes again, but this turns out to be a dangerous pursuit. Once Upon A Prince by Rachel Hauck Once Upon a Prince, the first novel in the Royal Wedding series by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hauck, treats you to a modern-day fairy tale. Susanna Truitt never dreamed of a great romance or being treated like a princess—just to marry the man she has loved for twelve years. But life isn’t going according to plan. When her high-school-sweetheart-turned-Marine-officer breaks up instead of proposing, Susanna scrambles to rebuild her life. The last thing Prince Nathaniel expects to find on his American holiday to St. Simons Island is the queen of his heart. A prince has duties, and his family’s tense political situation has chosen his bride for him. When Prince Nathaniel comes to Susanna’s aid under the fabled Lover’s Oak, he is blindsided by love. Truthstone by Mike Shelton The lies could kill her, but the truth could destroy a kingdom. Given a rare TruthStone, Shaeleen suffers immense agony with every lie she hears or tells. While struggling to control her new power and curb the pain she learns a powerful truth that could thrust an entire continent into civil war. The stones of power protect the five kingdoms of Wayland – and have done so for two hundred years. Now those stones are failing and a dark power threatens to take control. With the help of her brother, and a young thief, Shaeleen sets out on a dangerous journey to gather and restore the power of all the stones. The Beauty Bride by Claire Delacroix More cherished than gold are the Jewels of Kinfairlie, and only the worthiest may fight for their love…The Laird of Kinfairlie has unmarried sisters, each a gem in her own right. And he has no choice but to see them all wed in haste. Lady Madeline’s heart is not for sale…especially not to a notorious outlaw like Rhys FitzHenry. Yet Madeline’s hand has been sold, to none other than this battle-weary warrior with a price on his head. A more dutiful maiden might cede to the Laird’s command and meekly accept her fate, but Madeline has never been obedient. She decides to run away, though she never dreams that Rhys will pursue her. She does not expect this taciturn man to woo her with fanciful stories, much less that each of his enthralling tales will reveal a scar upon his shielded soul. She never imagines that a man like Rhys could imperil her own heart while revealing so little of his own feelings. When Rhys’s past threatens his future, Madeline takes a leap of faith. She dares to believe him innocent — and risks her own life to pursue a passion more priceless than the rarest gem. by James J. Cudney Between the fast-paced New York City, a rural Mississippi town and a charming Pennsylvania college campus filled with secrets, two young girls learn the consequences of growing up too quickly. Amalia Graeme, abused by her mother for most of her life, longs to escape her desolate hometown and fall in love. Contemplating her loss of innocence and conflicting feelings between her boyfriend and the dangerous attraction she’s developed for an older man, Amalia faces life-altering tragedies. The Parent Pact by Laurie Kellogg When widower Tyler Fitzpatrick meets Annie Barnes at his daughter’s school, his libido goes tilt. The sexy single mother is everything he and his grieving little girl need. Unfortunately, Annie flatly refuses his dinner invitation. She wants a husband and a father for her son—not just a boyfriend. And the last time she checked, wealthy, summa-cum-laude lawyers didn’t marry high-school-drop-out housekeepers. Tyler concedes there’s a vast difference between their experiences and lifestyles. Still, he’s inexplicably drawn to the impoverished young woman—even though her little boy reminds Tyler of an underprivileged past he’d rather forget. While becoming better acquainted, he offers Annie a job caring for his daughter and home in Redemption, PA. He also proposes a Parent Pact—an agreement to become role models to each other’s child and to fill one another’s needs as single parents while they continue to search for true love. Promised Soul by Sandra J. Jackson Just as Krista’s summer plans are almost ready, she is suddenly plagued by strange dreams and intense feelings of déjà vu. Feeling like she’s losing her mind, Krista visits a psychic, only to feel more confused. When she arrives in England, her dreams persist, and she finds herself at the doorstep of another psychic. She needs clarity. Finally, the words Krista was afraid to say out loud are spoken. Now, she has to figure out what it all means. Promised Soul is a story of the past, present and future of two souls, bound together by eternal and transcending love. The Silver Swan by Amo Jones Madison Montgomery comes from money and power, but when someone close to her commits the ultimate crime, Madison must live with her tainted name for the rest of her life. When she begins Riverside Preparatory Academy, the private school her father has swept her into in The Hamptons, she hopes for a fresh start. What she wasn’t hoping for was the pack of bad boys who run the school; ten, to be exact. When Madison gains the attention of their leader, Bishop Vincent Hayes, a whole new world that she didn’t think existed is exposed to her. A whole world that starts and ends with The Elite Kings Club and these boys, are about to flip her world upside down. Secrets are overflowing and family lies are about to be exposed. Is there more to Madison Montgomery than even she knows? by Ray Jay Perreault What happens when a man and a computer are put on Saturn’s Titan for a year to mine methane? The relationship doesn’t always work out the way everyone plans. The relationship should be based on trust, but what if one member of the team isn’t doing what the other expects? by Steven Konkoly Daniel Petrovich, the most lethal operative created by the Department of Defense’s Black Flag Program, protects a secret buried in the deepest vaults of the Pentagon. Blackmailed into executing one final mission, Daniel’s carefully constructed “life” rapidly disintegrates into a relentless federal manhunt–and a “24-style” race against the clock to suppress the shocking truth about his past. To survive, he’ll release the darkest side of his concealed identity. A dark side with few boundaries–and even fewer loyalties. Black Flagged lays the foundation for a gritty, high-octane series exploring the serpentine link between covert operations and government agency politics. eBooks Habit… Feeding Your Free & Bargain eBooks Addiction!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9495
__label__wiki	0.517179	0.517179	Reinforcement Learning for Motor Primitives Biologische Kybernetik, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, August 2008 (diplomathesis) Kober, J. Reinforcement Learning for Motor Primitives Biologische Kybernetik, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, August 2008 (diplomathesis) Asymmetries of Time Series under Inverting their Direction Biologische Kybernetik, University of Heidelberg, August 2008 (diplomathesis) Peters, J. Asymmetries of Time Series under Inverting their Direction Biologische Kybernetik, University of Heidelberg, August 2008 (diplomathesis) Learning an Interest Operator from Human Eye Movements Kienzle, W. Biologische Kybernetik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, July 2008 (phdthesis) Kienzle, W. Learning an Interest Operator from Human Eye Movements Biologische Kybernetik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, July 2008 (phdthesis) New Frontiers in Characterizing Structure and Dynamics by NMR Nilges, M., Markwick, P., Malliavin, TE., Rieping, W., Habeck, M. In Computational Structural Biology: Methods and Applications, pages: 655-680, (Editors: Schwede, T. , M. C. Peitsch), World Scientific, New Jersey, NJ, USA, May 2008 (inbook) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has emerged as the method of choice for studying both the structure and the dynamics of biological macromolecule in solution. Despite the maturity of the NMR method for structure determination, its application faces a number of challenges. The method is limited to systems of relatively small molecular mass, data collection times are long, data analysis remains a lengthy procedure, and it is difficult to evaluate the quality of the final structures. The last years have seen significant advances in experimental techniques to overcome or reduce some limitations. The function of bio-macromolecules is determined by both their 3D structure and conformational dynamics. These molecules are inherently flexible systems displaying a broad range of dynamics on timescales from picoseconds to seconds. NMR is unique in its ability to obtain dynamic information on an atomic scale. The experimental information on structure and dynamics is intricately mixed. It is however difficult to unite both structural and dynamical information into one consistent model, and protocols for the determination of structure and dynamics are performed independently. This chapter deals with the challenges posed by the interpretation of NMR data on structure and dynamics. We will first relate the standard structure calculation methods to Bayesian probability theory. We will then briefly describe the advantages of a fully Bayesian treatment of structure calculation. Then, we will illustrate the advantages of using Bayesian reasoning at least partly in standard structure calculations. The final part will be devoted to interpretation of experimental data on dynamics. Nilges, M., Markwick, P., Malliavin, TE., Rieping, W., Habeck, M. New Frontiers in Characterizing Structure and Dynamics by NMR In Computational Structural Biology: Methods and Applications, pages: 655-680, (Editors: Schwede, T. , M. C. Peitsch), World Scientific, New Jersey, NJ, USA, May 2008 (inbook) Causal inference from statistical data Sun, X. Biologische Kybernetik, Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, April 2008 (phdthesis) Sun, X. Causal inference from statistical data Biologische Kybernetik, Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, April 2008 (phdthesis) Pairwise Correlations and Multineuronal Firing Patterns in Primary Visual Cortex Berens, P. Biologische Kybernetik, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, April 2008 (diplomathesis) Berens, P. Pairwise Correlations and Multineuronal Firing Patterns in Primary Visual Cortex Biologische Kybernetik, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, April 2008 (diplomathesis) Development and Application of a Python Scripting Framework for BCI2000 Schreiner, T. Biologische Kybernetik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, January 2008 (diplomathesis) Schreiner, T. Development and Application of a Python Scripting Framework for BCI2000 Biologische Kybernetik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, January 2008 (diplomathesis) Efficient and Invariant Regularisation with Application to Computer Graphics Walder, CJ. Biologische Kybernetik, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, January 2008 (phdthesis) This thesis develops the theory and practise of reproducing kernel methods. Many functional inverse problems which arise in, for example, machine learning and computer graphics, have been treated with practical success using methods based on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space perspective. This perspective is often theoretically convenient, in that many functional analysis problems reduce to linear algebra problems in these spaces. Somewhat more complex is the case of conditionally positive definite kernels, and we provide an introduction to both cases, deriving in a particularly elementary manner some key results for the conditionally positive definite case. A common complaint of the practitioner is the long running time of these kernel based algorithms. We provide novel ways of alleviating these problems by essentially using a non-standard function basis which yields computational advantages. That said, by doing so we must also forego the aforementioned theoretical conveniences, and hence need some additional analysis which we provide in order to make the approach practicable. We demonstrate that the method leads to state of the art performance on the problem of surface reconstruction from points. We also provide some analysis of kernels invariant to transformations such as translation and dilation, and show that this indicates the value of learning algorithms which use conditionally positive definite kernels. Correspondingly, we provide a few approaches for making such algorithms practicable. We do this either by modifying the kernel, or directly solving problems with conditionally positive definite kernels, which had previously only been solved with positive definite kernels. We demonstrate the advantage of this approach, in particular by attaining state of the art classification performance with only one free parameter. Walder, CJ. Efficient and Invariant Regularisation with Application to Computer Graphics Biologische Kybernetik, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, January 2008 (phdthesis) A Robot System for Biomimetic Navigation: From Snapshots to Metric Embeddings of View Graphs Franz, MO., Stürzl, W., Reichardt, W., Mallot, HA. In Robotics and Cognitive Approaches to Spatial Mapping, pages: 297-314, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics ; 38, (Editors: Jefferies, M.E. , W.-K. Yeap), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008 (inbook) Complex navigation behaviour (way-finding) involves recognizing several places and encoding a spatial relationship between them. Way-finding skills can be classified into a hierarchy according to the complexity of the tasks that can be performed [8]. The most basic form of way-finding is route navigation, followed by topological navigation where several routes are integrated into a graph-like representation. The highest level, survey navigation, is reached when this graph can be embedded into a common reference frame. In this chapter, we present the building blocks for a biomimetic robot navigation system that encompasses all levels of this hierarchy. As a local navigation method, we use scene-based homing. In this scheme, a goal location is characterized either by a panoramic snapshot of the light intensities as seen from the place, or by a record of the distances to the surrounding objects. The goal is found by moving in the direction that minimizes the discrepancy between the recorded intensities or distances and the current sensory input. For learning routes, the robot selects distinct views during exploration that are close enough to be reached by snapshot-based homing. When it encounters already visited places during route learning, it connects the routes and thus forms a topological representation of its environment termed a view graph. The final stage, survey navigation, is achieved by a graph embedding procedure which complements the topologic information of the view graph with odometric position estimates. Calculation of the graph embedding is done with a modified multidimensional scaling algorithm which makes use of distances and angles between nodes. Franz, MO., Stürzl, W., Reichardt, W., Mallot, HA. A Robot System for Biomimetic Navigation: From Snapshots to Metric Embeddings of View Graphs In Robotics and Cognitive Approaches to Spatial Mapping, pages: 297-314, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics ; 38, (Editors: Jefferies, M.E. , W.-K. Yeap), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008 (inbook) Extension to Kernel Dependency Estimation with Applications to Robotics BakIr, G. Biologische Kybernetik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, November 2005 (phdthesis) Kernel Dependency Estimation(KDE) is a novel technique which was designed to learn mappings between sets without making assumptions on the type of the involved input and output data. It learns the mapping in two stages. In a first step, it tries to estimate coordinates of a feature space representation of elements of the set by solving a high dimensional multivariate regression problem in feature space. Following this, it tries to reconstruct the original representation given the estimated coordinates. This thesis introduces various algorithmic extensions to both stages in KDE. One of the contributions of this thesis is to propose a novel linear regression algorithm that explores low-dimensional subspaces during learning. Furthermore various existing strategies for reconstructing patterns from feature maps involved in KDE are discussed and novel pre-image techniques are introduced. In particular, pre-image techniques for data-types that are of discrete nature such as graphs and strings are investigated. KDE is then explored in the context of robot pose imitation where the input is a an image with a human operator and the output is the robot articulated variables. Thus, using KDE, robot pose imitation is formulated as a regression problem. BakIr, G. Extension to Kernel Dependency Estimation with Applications to Robotics Biologische Kybernetik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, November 2005 (phdthesis) Geometrical aspects of statistical learning theory Hein, M. Biologische Kybernetik, Darmstadt, Darmstadt, November 2005 (phdthesis) Hein, M. Geometrical aspects of statistical learning theory Biologische Kybernetik, Darmstadt, Darmstadt, November 2005 (phdthesis) Implicit Surfaces For Modelling Human Heads Steinke, F. Biologische Kybernetik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, September 2005 (diplomathesis) Steinke, F. Implicit Surfaces For Modelling Human Heads Biologische Kybernetik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, September 2005 (diplomathesis) Machine Learning Methods for Brain-Computer Interdaces Biologische Kybernetik, University of Darmstadt, September 2005 (phdthesis) Lal, TN. Machine Learning Methods for Brain-Computer Interdaces Biologische Kybernetik, University of Darmstadt, September 2005 (phdthesis) Liver Perfusion using Level Set Methods Biologische Kybernetik, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China, July 2005 (diplomathesis) Nowozin, S. Liver Perfusion using Level Set Methods Biologische Kybernetik, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China, July 2005 (diplomathesis) Discriminative Methods for Label Sequence Learning Altun, Y. Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, May 2005 (phdthesis) Altun, Y. Discriminative Methods for Label Sequence Learning Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, May 2005 (phdthesis) Efficient Adaptive Sampling of the Psychometric Function by Maximizing Information Gain Tanner, TG. Biologische Kybernetik, Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, May 2005 (diplomathesis) A common task in psychophysics is to measure the psychometric function. A psychometric function can be described by its shape and four parameters: offset or threshold, slope or width, false alarm rate or chance level and miss or lapse rate. Depending on the parameters of interest some points on the psychometric function may be more informative than others. Adaptive methods attempt to place trials on the most informative points based on the data collected in previous trials. A new Bayesian adaptive psychometric method placing trials by minimising the expected entropy of the posterior probabilty dis- tribution over a set of possible stimuli is introduced. The method is more flexible, faster and at least as efficient as the established method (Kontsevich and Tyler, 1999). Comparably accurate (2dB) threshold and slope estimates can be obtained after about 30 and 500 trials, respectively. By using a dynamic termination criterion the efficiency can be further improved. The method can be applied to all experimental designs including yes/no designs and allows acquisition of any set of free parameters. By weighting the importance of parameters one can include nuisance parameters and adjust the relative expected errors. Use of nuisance parameters may lead to more accurate estimates than assuming a guessed fixed value. Block designs are supported and do not harm the performance if a sufficient number of trials are performed. The method was evaluated by computer simulations in which the role of parametric assumptions, its robustness, the quality of different point estimates, the effect of dynamic termination criteria and many other settings were investigated. Tanner, TG. Efficient Adaptive Sampling of the Psychometric Function by Maximizing Information Gain Biologische Kybernetik, Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, May 2005 (diplomathesis) Support Vector Classification of Images with Local Features Blaschko, MB. Biologische Kybernetik, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 2005 (diplomathesis) Blaschko, MB. Support Vector Classification of Images with Local Features Biologische Kybernetik, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 2005 (diplomathesis) Efficient Pattern Selection for Support Vector Classifiers and its CRM Application Shin, H. Biologische Kybernetik, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, February 2005 (phdthesis) Shin, H. Efficient Pattern Selection for Support Vector Classifiers and its CRM Application Biologische Kybernetik, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, February 2005 (phdthesis) Kernels: Regularization and Optimization Ong, CS. Biologische Kybernetik, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2005 (phdthesis) PDF GZIP [BibTex] Ong, CS. Kernels: Regularization and Optimization Biologische Kybernetik, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2005 (phdthesis) Support Vector Machines and Kernel Algorithms Schölkopf, B., Smola, A. In Encyclopedia of Biostatistics (2nd edition), Vol. 8, 8, pages: 5328-5335, (Editors: P Armitage and T Colton), John Wiley & Sons, NY USA, 2005 (inbook) Schölkopf, B., Smola, A. Support Vector Machines and Kernel Algorithms In Encyclopedia of Biostatistics (2nd edition), Vol. 8, 8, pages: 5328-5335, (Editors: P Armitage and T Colton), John Wiley & Sons, NY USA, 2005 (inbook) Visual perception I: Basic principles Wagemans, J., Wichmann, F., de Beeck, H. In Handbook of Cognition, pages: 3-47, (Editors: Lamberts, K. , R. Goldstone), Sage, London, 2005 (inbook) Wagemans, J., Wichmann, F., de Beeck, H. Visual perception I: Basic principles In Handbook of Cognition, pages: 3-47, (Editors: Lamberts, K. , R. Goldstone), Sage, London, 2005 (inbook) Extracting egomotion from optic flow: limits of accuracy and neural matched filters Dahmen, H-J., Franz, MO., Krapp, HG. In pages: 143-168, Springer, Berlin, 2001 (inbook) Dahmen, H-J., Franz, MO., Krapp, HG. Extracting egomotion from optic flow: limits of accuracy and neural matched filters In pages: 143-168, Springer, Berlin, 2001 (inbook) Some Aspects of Modelling Human Spatial Vision: Contrast Discrimination Wichmann, F. University of Oxford, University of Oxford, October 1999 (phdthesis) Wichmann, F. Some Aspects of Modelling Human Spatial Vision: Contrast Discrimination University of Oxford, University of Oxford, October 1999 (phdthesis) Kernel principal component analysis. Schölkopf, B., Smola, A., Müller, K. In Advances in Kernel Methods—Support Vector Learning, pages: 327-352, (Editors: B Schölkopf and CJC Burges and AJ Smola), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999 (inbook) Schölkopf, B., Smola, A., Müller, K. Kernel principal component analysis. In Advances in Kernel Methods—Support Vector Learning, pages: 327-352, (Editors: B Schölkopf and CJC Burges and AJ Smola), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999 (inbook) Apprentissage Automatique et Simplicite Biologische Kybernetik, 1999, In french (diplomathesis) Bousquet, O. Apprentissage Automatique et Simplicite Biologische Kybernetik, 1999, In french (diplomathesis) Machine Learning and Language Acquisition: A Model of Child’s Learning of Turkish Morphophonology Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1999 (mastersthesis) Altun, Y. Machine Learning and Language Acquisition: A Model of Child’s Learning of Turkish Morphophonology Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1999 (mastersthesis) Entropy numbers, operators and support vector kernels. Williamson, R., Smola, A., Schölkopf, B. In Advances in Kernel Methods - Support Vector Learning, pages: 127-144, (Editors: B Schölkopf and CJC Burges and AJ Smola), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999 (inbook) Williamson, R., Smola, A., Schölkopf, B. Entropy numbers, operators and support vector kernels. In Advances in Kernel Methods - Support Vector Learning, pages: 127-144, (Editors: B Schölkopf and CJC Burges and AJ Smola), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999 (inbook)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9499
__label__wiki	0.574598	0.574598	Ibdel il-lingwa tat-tiftix Il-MPE Dwar il-Parlament Il-Plenarja Il-Kumitati Id-Delegazzjonijiet Siti web oħra Is-sit tal-President Segretarjat Ġenerali Għas-servizz tiegħek Żjarat Kuntratti u għotjiet Reġistru Delegazzjonijiet Veuillez remplir ce champ DACP Fittex Menù Agħżel id-delegazzjoni tiegħek Id-delegazzjonijiet kollha (home) Afganistan Albanija Brażil Bjelorusssja Kanada Ċilì Ċina Iżrael Indja Iraq Iran Ġappun Moldova Montenegro Maċedonja ta' Fuq Messiku Serbja Russja Turkija Ukraina Istati Uniti Afrika t’Isfel AKP Komunità Andina Awstralja, New Zealand Peniżola Għarbija Xlokk tal-Asja, ASEAN Amerika Ċentrali Cariforum Asja Ċentrali, Mongolja ŻEE/EFTA u t-Tramuntana Euronest Peniżola Koreana Eurolat Magreb Maxreq Unjoni għall-Mediterran Mercosur NATO Palestina Parlament Pan-Afrikan Asja t'Isfel Armenja, Ażerbajġan, Ġeorġja Bosnia-Ħerżegovìna, Kosovo Aċċess għall-paġna Preżentazzjoni Regoli ta' proċedura Attivitajiet Laqgħat ordinarji Interparlamentari Kalendarju Dokumenti tal-laqgħat Riżoluzzjonijiet tal-PE Testi tal-UE A word from the chair Welcome to the website of the European Parliament's Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. I am grateful for the trust that the members of the EU Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly have placed in me by electing me as their Chair. Succeeding personalities of great prestige and experience, who have left a legacy of great responsibility, I will be Chairman of this Delegation during a period of huge challenges. I am committed to ensure that the EU Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly makes a strong contribution to strengthening a partnership between equals and promotes sustainable development in line with the goals of the 2030 Agenda, within a framework that advances and defends human rights, the rule of law and respect among peoples. I count on all the elected members of this Joint Assembly and on the technical and political teams that support them, so that together we can transform a genuine desire of cooperation and development into tangible results in people's quality of life and the planet's sustainability. Declaration of the Co-Presidents on Post-Cotonou Negotiations during the 38th JPA The Co-Presidents of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) welcome the progress made so far in the negotiations on the strategic priorities of the future agreement and on the regional protocols. They take note that more time is needed to negotiate the remaining parts of the agreement and that the negotiations could not be finalised as originally anticipated by the end of October 2019. The Co-Presidents of the JPA express their serious concern, however, with part of the EU negotiating mandate that seems to put into question the continued existence of the JPA and thereby weakens the parliamentary dimension of the ACP-EU partnership. On the contrary, the Co-Presidents wish to emphasize the importance of enhancing the parliamentary dimension of the future agreement in order to ensure democratic accountability at all levels and to promote the legitimacy and visibility of the partnership. They recall that the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly has a prominent role to play to ensure democratic oversight of the future agreement, provide for an open, frank and comprehensive parliamentary dialogue and to promote democracy and human rights. The Co-Presidents therefore consider it fundamental for the new institutional framework to include a strengthened ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. They welcome the position taken by the European Parliament Committee on Development that this is a non-negotiable condition for giving Parliament's consent to the future agreement. The Co-Presidents consider that the Joint Parliamentary Assembly shall continue to be composed of an equal numbers of EU and ACP representatives and that it shall meet regularly in plenary session, alternately in the European Union and in an ACP State, and not dependent on the convening of Joint Council meetings. Regional Partnership Parliamentary Committees shall hold yearly meetings, and not be dependent on the meetings of the Regional Partnership Council of Ministers being convened. In view of the expiry date of the Cotonou Agreement in February 2020, the Co-Presidents of the JPA welcome the decision made by the ACP-EU Council of Ministers to delegate to the ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors the power to adopt transitional measures until the new ACP-EU partnership comes into force. The Co-Presidents of the JPA reconfirm the positions expressed in its two resolutions on post Cotonou adopted respectively in October 2016 and June 2018 and believe that some of its essential elements need to be strongly reiterated so that they can be fully taken into account during the remaining time of the negotiations. Declaration by the ACP-EU JPA Co-Presidents on Guinea Bissau The Co-Presidents of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, Mr Carlos Zorrinho and Mr Joseph Owona Kono, express their deep concern with the current political developments in Guinea-Bissau and deem the Presidential decree aiming to dismiss Prime-Minister Gomes and his Government as unconstitutional and therefore illegal. Such a move weakens the efforts put in place for elections and the programme that has been approved by the national Parliament with support from both regional and international partners, notably proven by the ECOWAS statement on the matter on 29 October 2019. They call for the presidential elections foreseen on November 24th to be pursued and for all necessary measures to be taken to ensure stability and peace in the run-up to the elections and to allow for free, fair and transparent elections. They call on all actors to respect and promote the electoral process and not to take any actions that risk undermining it. Brussels, 31 October 2019 Declaration of the Co-Presidents on the award of the Nobel Peace Prize 2019 The Co presidents of the ACP-EU Joint parliamentary Assembly, Carlos Zorrinho and Joseph Kono, warmly congratulate the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia Dr Abiy Ahmed, on being awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace 2019 by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. They recall that only a few months after becoming Prime Minister, Dr. Abiy Ahmed managed to achieve a peace agreement with Eritrea, an extraordinary accomplishment after decades of conflict between the two countries and a major contribution to peace and stability in the Horn of Africa. He has also initiated important reforms favoring the freedom of expression and fighting corruption. It is our hope that the award of the Nobel Peace Prize will encourage the Prime Minister and his government to continue building on the reforms in order to promote human rights and rule of law, peace and stability in the country as well as in the region. The Co-Presidents join in celebrating this achievement with the people of Ethiopia and urges them to extend the same spirit of reconciliation and brotherhood across the nations. Constitutive meeting 26.09.2019 The constitutive meeting of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (DACP) was be held on Thursday, 26 September 2019, from 09:00 to 09:45, in Brussels. The following Members have been elected: Chair: Mr Carlos ZORRINHO - (S&D), PT 1st Vice Chair: Ms Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU - (RE), FR 2nd Vice Chair: Ms Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA - (ECR), PL 3rd Vice Chair: Mr Dan NICA - (S&D), RO 4th Vice Chair: Ms Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA - (EPP), PL 5th Vice Chair: Ms Idoia VILLANUEVA RUIZ - (GUE/NGL), ES 6th Vice Chair: Mr Pietro BARTOLO - (S&D), IT 7th Vice Chair: Mr Tineke STRIK - (GREENS/EFA), NL 8th Vice Chair: Mr Karol KARSKI - (ECR), PL 9th Vice Chair: Mr Michael GAHLER - (EPP), DE 10th Vice Chair: Ms Marie Pierre VEDRENNE - (RE) FR 11th Vice Chair: Ms Inese VAIDERE - (EPP), LV 12th Vice Chair: Ms Neena GILL - (S&D), UK Kuntatti Indirizz tal-posta elettronika : acp@europarl.europa.eu European Parliament fact sheet on Africa, including relations with the ACP European Parliament fact sheet on the EU and the Pacific region, including ACP states Webpage about ACP-EU Partnership Agreement (Cotonou) Webpage of DG DEVCO (International Cooperation and Development) African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States (ACP) EU-ACP relations EU-Africa relations Aqsam din il-paġna ma' ħaddieħor: Irreġistra għal aġġornamenti bl-email Abbona għall-feed RSS ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly EURONEST Parliamentary Assembly Transatlantic Legislators' Dialogue Parliamentary Conference on the WTO It-tmien leġiżlatura (2014-2019) Is-seba'' leġiżlatura parlamentari (2009-2014) Is-sitt leġiżlatura parlamentari (2004-2009) Kummissjoni Ewropea DG DEVCO - International cooperation and development ECHO – Humanitarian and civil protection DG NEAR - European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations DG Trade Ara s-sit tal-EEAS Aħbarijiet Il-MPE Dwar il-Parlament Il-Plenarja Il-Kumitati Id-Delegazzjonijiet Kuntatt Mappa tas-sit Avviż legali WAI AA-WCAG 2.0 Cookies Facebook Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube Instagram Pinterest Snapchat Reddit	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9504
__label__cc	0.534519	0.465481	Preston Forest Adventure Zoo Docents Interactive Graphic Displays Zoo Programs EFOZ EFOZ Roundup Description: The Short-eared Owl is a medium-sized Owl. The plumage is buffy brown with dark streaks on the chest, belly, and back. Males tend to be lighter in colour than females. This colouring provides good camouflage, but if this fails, a Short-eared Owl will feign death to avoid detection. The wings and tail are strongly barred. The yellow eyes are circled with black and set in whitish or buffy-white facial disks, which are suffused with a ring of brown. The bill is black. The head appears round without ear tufts, but at very close range small ear tufts are visible. In flight, the dark "wrist" on the underwing is the key field mark. Size: Lengths 33-43cm (13-17") Wingspan female 107cm (42"), male 105cm (41") (averages) Weight 206-475g (7-17oz) Females are slightly larger than Males. Habits: Generally nocturnal, but often become active 30-60 minutes before sunset; some owls may be active during the day (to a much lesser extent) during the breeding season. Seasonal changes in activity a response to variations in vole population size and daylength. Flies with deep, slow, moth-like rowing wingbeats, and glides on stretched wings over open landscapes. Outside breeding season, they may gather in communal roosts. A largely nomadic vole-specialist. Voice: Short-eared Owls are generally quiet, owing to their diurnal nature and the wide open habitats where visual displays would are more effective than in forests. The male's territorial song is a pulsing "voo-hoo-hoo", resembling an old steam engine. This song is given mainly during flight displays and the female responds with a barking "kee-ow". Both sexes give hoarse cheeaw calls when disturbed in their nesting territory. When excited near the nest, both sexes squawk, bark, hiss and squeal. Hunting & Food: Short-eared Owls hunt mainly at night and during the morning and late afternoon. They fly over open areas, a few feet above ground, and pounce when prey is located. In dense vegetation they will hover over prey, often for extended periods when facing into the wind, before pouncing. They occasionally hunt from a perch or while standing on the ground. Short-eared Owls eat mainly small mammals, but sometimes take birds. Meadow voles (Microtus species) are the primary prey. Deer mice, shrews, ground squirrels, pocket gophers, pocket mice, moles, rats, bats, rabbits, and muskrats are also taken. Birds probably are more important when Short-eared Owls hunt in marshes and along coastal areas, where they can target shorebirds, terns, and small gulls and seabirds. In inland habitats they take mainly Horned Larks, meadowlarks, blackbirds, and pipits. A few insects such as roaches, grasshoppers, beetles, katydids, and caterpillars are also taken. Unlike most Owls, prey is normally carried in its talons. Short-eared Owls and Northern Harriers often harass each other when hunting the same field, and harriers often steal food from the Owl. Breeding: Courtship and territorial behaviour is spectacular for an Owl. Males perform aerial displays by rising quickly with rhythmic and exaggerated wing beats, hovering, gliding down, and rising again, often 200 to 400 meters (650 to 1,300 feet) above ground. Wing claps, in bursts of 2 to 6 per second, are often made during this flight and some singing occurs. The flight can be ended with a spectacular descent where the male hold his wings aloft and shimmies rapidly to the ground. Two birds may engage in flight, locking talons, and fighting briefly. Often, a display where one bird flashes its light underwing towards another is used during territorial and courtship flights. The Short-eared Owl nests on the ground, unlike most other Owls. Nests are usually situated in the shelter of a grass mound, under a grass tuft, or among herbaceous ground cover. Nests are loosely constructed by the female, who scrapes a spot on the ground and then lines the scrape with grass stems, herb stalks, and feathers plucked from her breast. Clutch sizes range from 4 to 14 eggs (average 5 to 7), with large clutches laid during years of high food abundance. Clutch size increases from south to north. Eggs are laid every 1 to 2 days and incubation commences with the first. Incubation is done largely by the female, with the male bringing food to the nest and occasionally taking a turn incubating. Young grow very rapidly after hatching, and begin to wander from the nest as soon as 12 days, an adaptation for a ground-nesting species to reduce the amount of time they are vulnerable to predation. Young fledge at about 4 weeks. The Short-eared Owl routinely lays replacement clutches, because of high predation rates. In southern areas, it may raise 2 broods in 1 year. Because reproductive success is relatively poor, the ability to lay large clutches helps populations recover after periodic declines. The Short-eared Owl is highly migratory, and nomadic, except in southern parts of its range. Movements of up to 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) have been documented. This Owl has relatively small nesting territories and home ranges, varying from 15 to 200 hectares (35 to 500 acres), and may nest in loose colonies in excellent habitat. Because of its nomadic tendencies, mate and site fidelity are very low. Breeders tend to wander until they find areas with high densities of prey before settling to breed. In winter, large numbers of Owls will occur in areas with lots of food. Communal winter roosts of up to 200 birds are known, with these birds ranging over nearby areas to hunt. Resident Owls will defend winter foraging territories of about 6 hectares (15 acres), before expanding the territory size during the breeding season. Mortality: Wild Short-eared Owls have reached almost 13 years of age. Natural enemies include many diurnal raptors such as the Bald Eagle, Northern Goshawk, Gyrfalcon, Red-tailed Hawk, and Snowy Owl. Because they nest on the ground, they are vulnerable to mammalian predators such as skunks, dogs, foxes, and coyotes, while Jaegers, gulls, ravens, and crows steal eggs and small chicks. Collisions with vehicles account for a large number of deaths. Also, They are attracted to the wide open fields of airports and so many are killed by collisions with aircraft. Habitat: Short-eared Owls inhabit wide open spaces such as grasslands, prairie, agricultural fields, salt marshes, estuaries, mountain meadows, and alpine and Arctic tundra. Breeding habitat must have sufficient ground cover to conceal nests and nearby sources of small mammals for food. Communal roosts occur in oldgrowth fields, along thick hedgerows, in overgrown rubble in abandoned fields, or in clumps of dense conifers. These Owls tend to roost in trees only when snow covers the ground. During migration, Short-eared Owls will move through high mountain passes, flying at great heights. Distribution: Short-eared Owls occur widely in the Old World, in Iceland, the Hawaiian Islands, Galapagos Islands, and North and South America. KidZoocation February 15th 2020 Roundup 2020 Oasis Campaign renderings Oasis Campaign VANISHING-The extinction crisis is far worse than you think New app - Tailsup! Your birthday party at the Zoo! Copyright © 2020 David Traylor Zoo of Emporia & City of Emporia. Login City of Emporia Website	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9511
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__label__cc	0.553194	0.446806	Siege on the City of Heroes - East, Part 1(EVENT) Valcrist The Lost Swordsman He had a sword, and he had two perfectly good hands to swing it, wasn't that enough? Sacae Fame: 1 Bern Fame: 2 Profession: Blacksmith Affinity: Dark Profile: Updated Profile Siege on the City of Heroes - East, Part 1(EVENT) Jun 1, 2014 13:50:53 GMT -6 Post by Valcrist on Jun 1, 2014 13:50:53 GMT -6 Aegis never responded, maybe he was just all choked up about how cool Valcrist was being? Because Valcrist was being pretty darn cool, he timed that arrow at the perfect time and everything. He didn't even plan that, that was just him getting lucky. He looked over at the other archer standing with him, the man firing his arrow with both eyes open. "Wow, thanks Valcrist. I'm firing much better now. I must have been silly to only use one eye, this is objectively superior no matter what anyone might say." He would say, Valcrist was sure of it, but when he turned to look at the smith- An axe cleaved itself right into his skull. Right in front of Valcrist's eyes. The guy he talked to not even five minutes before died right before his eyes as his body was sent reeling back from the force of the toss. Landing on his back with blood and... other things oozing from his wounded skull. He laid there, dead, bleeding. Valcrist just stared with wide eyes. It wasn't the first time... the first time he saw someone die. Right in front of his eyes, he's ended many lives himself, seeing that flicker of life fade from their eyes but... Damnit. He knew this was dangerous, he knew people were going to die, that why he wanted people to enjoy their last days, it didn't make it any easier though. To see it happen right there, in front of him, someone he knew even if just barely. He had no idea where the axe came from, who threw it, it was a sea of men and any one of them could have been the perpetrator. He couldn't 'swear vengeance' or anything of the sort. Heh. He didn't even know the guy's name. Valcrist closed his eyes tightly and looked away. Many more people were going to die here today, weren't they? War was ugly. It was an ugly thing. He couldn't look away though, he opened his eyes and looked at the battlefield. Aegis' men were running across the open plains. Bandits were fiddling with some... contraption in the distance and trying to hold them off. What was it? He couldn't tell at this distance but... Something went flying, clean through the air in a giant arc. Valcrist's eyes widened as he immediately knew what it was. "Quick, get water!" He barked a command, even though he wasn't in charge or even close to being in charge really, he was just a random smith. He just couldn't stand there when they needed to get ready, of course they didn't have time to do a thing as the barrels smashed into the wall and began to set the wall ablaze. They needed to douse the flames quickly, or the rest of the fence will catch ablaze. "We need to put out the fires as quick as possible!" He shouted, and people ran. It was a bit weird, he never thought of himself as someone people listened to, but in a crisis like this people tended to listen to anyone who even seemed to know what they were doing. Valcrist dropped down from the roof and landed on his feet. People were scrambling, getting buckets filled with water from a nearby barrel. Valcrist watched for a short second before pointing. "You, you, and you." He singled three people out, who looked surprised but came to him all the same. People needed to be singled out in a sitaution like this, if you just 'somebody' everybody assumes that somebody is someone else and do nothing. Only if no one does anything, nothing gets done. Funny how that works, huh? Valcrist knew this first hand, he was one of those people that did nothing usually. "You need to go to the North, you to the South, and you to the West. Tell them they're deploying siege weapons. Catapults that fire burning barrels of oil to set the walls ablaze. They're going to be headed to the north and south first, so we need to beat them." Valcrist gave orders. "Tell Kenshin directly." He pointed to the man he told to head to the south. He'd say 'tell Aegis' but he was already here in the east, and didn't seem to be in a capacity to do much. The man nodded. "We need to prevent them from firing if it's at all possible, and if it isn't, we need to be prepared to deal with the effects immediately. Go, all of you, quickly." Valcrist wasn't really a leader, heavens know that's true, but right now he was the best these guys were gonna get. Now they lacked a walkway, so to douse the flame they need to leave the city by the gate and tackle the flame from the outside. It made them vulnerable to ranged attacks and the infantry doubtless to kick into full swing now that the fence is ablaze. They only had a limited amount of time though, they had to move fast. "Everyone able bodied, come with me. We're putting out this flame. Archers, cover us the best you can. We're going to have to rely on the defenders to keep us covered. We need to make sure the flames don't spread, we have to move quickly." They left the protective cover of the palisade as they filtered from the gate. Valcrist stowed his bow away and drew his wind blade, the weapon pulsing in his hand. Like it was agreeing with him, or approving what he was doing. It was odd, but not unusual. Weapons have a life of their own, that's something Valcrist always believed, his wind sword especially so. It wasn't the time to think about it, he just had to trust it. Valcrist always kicked into gear during a crisis, it was when things weren't awful that he was all wishy washy. The sword in his had seemed to be coated in a coat of whipping winds as the blade's runes glowed a bright green. He held it in both hands, taking in a deep breath. He stood aways from the group pouring water unto the flame to put it out, concentrating. He could help, and really he probably should be, but he had another idea. He was protect them. Any arrows coming their way, axes, spears, knives, even light magic. He would do his best to battle away with the power of his blade. And if they prepared to fire the catapult again? Well, they'll regret that mistake. Main- Elias -Fang [Regal Sword/Brave Sword] -Untitled [Wind Magic Sword] -Terris Dagger [Iron Sword] -Long Bow Aaron Winsett Seeker of Knowledge Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed. Lycia Fame: 2 Profession: Student of Magic OoC Alias: Feldsky Post by Aaron Winsett on Jun 1, 2014 19:06:15 GMT -6 Among the faces of the multitudes of defenders, one cloaked man looked on the violence going on with horror, fear, revulsion, and anger. Alot of anger right now. What in all the world could have led to this? There was a man once that could have done this. He died years before at the conclusion of the Bandit War. He was known as Hargus, and he had touched on all of the known world with his evil. The heroes of the last war had delivered them from that fiend, but now it seemed that even death wasn't final. Through some mystery of magic, Hargus had reclaimed his place in the world, and that was what had brought Aaron here. It wasn't wanting to be a hero, or really even a particular desire to save others from this trauma, as much as he would love to be able to. It was the magic that rumors said Hargus had used years before to call up the mighty heroes of the scouring. Why had no one stopped to consider that someone might use the same magic that had brought the worlds heroes back to conquer it again, this time, to bring its greatest villain back? Whatever the answer, the noise of battle wasn't conducive to these thoughts, nor would he focus on them now. He just needed to survive so he could find this magic, and make certain that it never brought about disaster again. Amidst the clamor, he made his way to the front in time to see a ball of flame erupt over the top of the wall. The Palisades were burning. He wasn't an expert on battle tactics. Didn't claim to be, but he knew that if those walls came down then they'd lose one of their main advantages, and that might lead to the destruction of everything here. He could hear someone calling for water on the flames nearby, and the call was quickly taken up. Something nagged at him though.... The fire let out waves of choking black smoke as its destructive tongues reached for the skies. Black smoke, that was an oil fire! "Not water! Don't use water!" As loud as he could shout, he called as he raced towards the blaze, but it was too late. He arrived just in time to see the first bucket of water thrown on the burning wall, and WHOOOOOOSH! Aaron fell back and hit the ground at the intensity of the heat washing over him as a sudden gout of flame exploded out nearly twenty feet from the origin point. A searing heat wave suddenly upon him and then easing as he hit the ground. Others fell back near him, and he got up as quickly as he could. The fire was still building, and there were multiple points on fire. Thankfully, this one had a space cleared in front of it Grabbing a bucket still filled with water from a singed defender, he threw it down on the ground in front of the torch of a wall, then dropped it to pull out a thick heavy tome he carried from his bag. "Not water!" He was already reaching for the magic he knew, hoping that the elements of the plains would respond to him as well as the forces in Lycia did. A stream of unintelligible words began pouring out his mouth in rapid succession, as he simultaneously worked the framework for his spell out in his mind as well as verbally. Magic was like mathematics. It was simply a matter of knowing the pieces to the puzzle, and putting them together correctly. Mages could see and interact with these pieces. He'd practiced long and hard, and as a result, found that sometimes the pieces could even be restructured a little bit. "Fimbulvetr!" He slammed his book closed, and gave ignition to the spell, and suddenly sharp spars of ice began exploding into being underneath the surface, pulverizing the ground nearby into a fine dust. "Dirt! You have to use dirt to kill these fires!" And with that, he started another casting, whipping up a stormy blizzard of frozen air currents, and carrying the fresh dust into the whipping fire. The wind billowed it a bit, and there was now an icy pit about ten feet inside the palisade where there used to be earth, but the dirt storm began to cause the fire here to subside. At least it wasn't exploding any more. It would take time, and a alot of effort and concentration to kill these fires, but he could do it as long as he could manage to hold his concentration. Speaking of which, that was getting difficult with all the jostling of the battlefront going on around him. An adventuring scholar and Sage focusing on the study of Theoretical Spellcrafting. Lv15 Hp42/42 Mag24 Skl27 Spd23 Lck10 Def13 Res23 Elfire Fimbulvetr The Orange Plague A warrior from the western sea. Sacae Fame: -2 Bern Fame: -1 Western Isles Fame: 2 Profession: Well Rounded Scholar/ Husband Affiliation: Nya Pirates Affinity: Light OoC Alias: Butorega Post by Oya on Jun 1, 2014 19:57:18 GMT -6 Oya stared as the fires began to spread on the wall. A evil grin crossed his face as he took sick enjoyment in the success of the attack. It had been a long time since that look was on his face. The last time he looked like that was before he meet Willow. A serge of euphoria rushed through him, and for a moment his eyes seemed as if they turned red. Oya felt it. He heart start racing and his blood boiling. They could do this. They could take down the city of heroes. "Heavy Units surround the catapults", shouted Oya as he snapped back to reality. The fire attack was sure to wake the sheep from their slumber. He new they would come with all the might that they had and their goal would be to destroy the catapults, but Oya was not going to let this chance slip from his grasp. He had them right were he wanted them. The gates open and men and women from the city began to rush out in an attempt to protect the wall. Fools the whole lot of them. Oya knew they would come. That is why he shot the wall instead of aiming for their archers on top of the houses. "Archers", shouted Oya and he motion his hand for them to move forward. The archers took three steps forward and then pulled back on their bows. At the wave of Oya's hand they began to rain down arrows on the area in front of the door leading to the wall. Men and women with buckets of water were arrowed down as a rain of iron and wood fell upon them. Oya stared with cold eyes as he witnessed to ordeal. He had no pity for them as the fate he gave them befell his own men no longer than a two hours before. "Prepare the second volley", shouted Oya as the archers raised their arrows again. Oya however was not finished. The brigands had already began loading the catapult up for another shot, and they were almost threw. Oya noticed that they had jars of oil again and turned toward his right hand man and asked. "Where are the heavy shots", he asked. "They are coming up form the ship", spoke the man as he pointed to a line of pirates moving with stones and small iron balls. It was clear to him that they would not reach them before the second lunching, but maybe the next. "The catapults are ready little O", spoke one of the pirates. Oya gave the man a cross look, but let it slide. Little O, was a old nick name he had from his youth. Still however he tough it was a bit inappropriate for him to use it at this moment as Oya was in command. He would have to have a talk with him after all of this was over. "Change the aim to the houses with their archers on top of them", spoke oya as he stared at the skirmish with the light infantry and the defenders. "Their archers are giving our boy's some problem." "Understood", spoke the pirates as they adjusted the catapult. Once the perpetration were complete Oya gave the signal for them to light the jars. The jars were lit, but Oya first gave a command to his archers. "On my command fire on the enemy units gathering around the wall trying to put out the fires", spoke Oya. The archer commander gave a nod and the men shifted to prepare to fire upon the targets. "Lose", shouted Oya as the catapults and archers lunched their missiles at the same time. Oya watched as death sailed toward the defenders. Oya with hair down Oleg C Willow A The Holy Axe of Faresh - Oya's magical Light Axe Theme Song www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_xnkXzNBjo Pirate Crew Theme www.youtube.com/watch?v=59RKkhufU5U "And may St. Elimine have mercy on your soul." Profession: Militant Cleric Affiliation: Etrurian High Inquisition Guild: None Profile: Willow OoC Alias: Ryu Post by Willow on Jun 1, 2014 20:25:15 GMT -6 "Little 'O'?" Willow laughed, smiling cheekily at her husband. "That's a new one. Maybe I'll call you Little O from now on, huh, darling?" Joking aside, Willow was fairly pleased, considering their losses compared to the defender's losses. Plus, now that the walls were on fire, the defender's best (and only) wall was gonna come tumbling down. Willow did feel badly about not being able to heal those killed on the very front lines, but she couldn't stray from Oya's side. They were safe back here for now, and their skirmishers were doing well. They... Wait. "Elimine damn them, Oya!" Willow cursed, seeing some fires being extinguished by... Something. She couldn't make it out from this distance. "Someone's got a way to put the fires out. We need to stop them, or start fires more quickly than they can extinguish them. Otherwise, they'll stalemate us. We have the advantage as long as our skirmishers last... We need reinforcements." Turning, Willow's military years shone through as she began barking orders to some pirates and bandits standing around. "I want six groups of ten men apiece. Mixed weapons! Your job is to get in there and find out what's putting out those fires. Then, you KILL the one responsible, and bring me their head. Go NOW!" Flagging one group down, Willow gave extra orders. "Your group is not to engage. Simply find out who's stopping the fires, and how. Then get back here on the double." Willow pointed forwards and sent the men charging towards the wall. Hopefully, they'd get the necessary information, and provide additional pressure... Buying the siege weapons more time. Precious time. If they could breach the walls, and get fire spreading, they'd have a steep advantage. Regardless of speculation... They were in a good position right now. The defenders were scrambling. Panic no doubt had been sown by the oil barrels, as well as the fires. "Oya. We have the upper hand right now... But I don't know how much longer it will last. We need to keep applying heavy fire at those defenders, and breach the wall. It's imperative that we do so. Destroying their defensive fortification opens a channel through which we can funnel men, and a deadly killzone for my magic. We must keep the offensive alive, m'dear. Stay vigorous!" Supports: Oya A Journal: Willow's Diary Don't use water? The words stuck in the back of his mind, but he was a bit confused. He wasn't particularly well versed in the specifics of it, but his entire life that's how fires were always battled. Put them out with water, they had water on the standby for just this reason. Valcrist had been wrong before, naturally, but never had he been so fundamentally wrong for his entire life. Since, it appeared, that water didn't put out these fires. No. It caused them to explode. Lovely. He wasn't sure what kind of sorcery this was, or the sorcery that followed with ice and dirt and wind and it was simply over his head. This is why he shouldn't be in charge, but when no one else would step up it was up to the meek to lead themselves. He didn't let it stop him though, it was important that no one else makes the same mistake he did, as they surely would, not one soldier objected to what he said. The only who did was the mage, which meant that the reasoning for the flame's immunity to flame was not something the average man would know. So, doubtlessly, the other sections would try the same exact thing he did. The water was at hand, and was deployed for just this reason, it was just too easy of a mistake to make. "Listen to the mage. No water!" Valcrist barked. Despite his mistake, it seemed the desire to have someone tell them what to do overweighed what respect he would have lost for the mistake. Something both fortunate and unfortunate, it was truly a sour day when Valcrist, of all people, was the one trying to organize and lead things. He was many things, a merchant, a fighter, a blacksmith, an artist, but a leader was not among them. "Use dirt to smother the flame!" He added, looking in the distance, it appeared that they were gearing up for an attack. All at once. Archers especially, they were likely going to target the ones trying to put out the flame, Valcrist knew that. It's why he was readying his blade, it couldn't save everyone but it could make a difference. Protecting the mage as he put out the flames was top priority. They needed to destroy the urns before they smashed into the wall, but Valcrist doubted that the strength of his blade was enough. Wind was powerful, it could destroy, it could cut as well as any blade, but it wasn't a heavy weapon. It didn't have the blunt force of flame, or the bursting potential of thunder, it didn't smash like a mace it sliced like a blade. He needed a... A mage. He doubted he'd find another as powerful as the other man, but he didn't need raw power. Just enough. "You!" Valcrist called to a defender, a bit aways but not so far as to be unable to hear the merchant's voice. He was wearing a robe, and held a yellow book in his hands. He wasn't a powerful mage, but hopefully he was strong enough for what Valcrist needed him for. The mage turned around, looking confused at the Nabatan, but as he opened his mouth to speak Valcrist cut him off. "I don't have time to explain. During the next volley, I need you to aim at the jars, can you do that? Get as many as you can!" The didn't have time to respond as the sound of the mechanical workings of the catapult lunged the pot into the air. Coupled with what appeared to be countless arrows. Alright, Valcrist hoped that the mage understood what he told him. If not, then... He took a deep breath, gripping the blade in his hands tightly. It was as if everything moved in slow motion, the arrows slowly gliding in the air, the winds of his blade whipping amongst themselves violently, there was several fat targets amidst what looked like a storm of steel. He didn't have much he could do, after all, he was just some swordsman in a role he clearly wasn't meant to be in. He had to try though. He swung his blade quickly, his arms powering the weapon through the air at blazing speed, wasting no time he swung it again and again. Violent whirlwinds erupted like a small tornado centered on him as they soared through the air, blade of wind itself. The winds sliced the arrows, the wind blew them away, but not them all. There was too many, he was too slow. Broken shafts littered the ground far before where they were supposed to strike, but some of the arrows still found their home in the bodies of the ones trying to douse the flame. Throughout the strike he saw a few bolts of lightning strike from the heavens. Three. Two met their mark, but one missed. It wasn't just the one mage Valcrist flagged down, but another as well who seemed to have had the same idea. There was a third that tried, but he was too late and by the time he struck the jars were long gone. The bolts shattered the clay, which absorbed the majority of the force, and left most of the oil unlit. Some of the still burning oil littered the plains, but it was too dispersed to do any real damage. The other jars, however... Crashed. Not into the walls as he had thought but... into the archers. Where Valcrist had been merely moments ago. They burst into flames. The smith cringed. He had managed to mitigate damages, but it wasn't enough. It could never be enough. Only two out of the five jars, and only about two thirds of the arrows. The losses were still significant, and things were beginning to look... hopeless. "We need to warn the other sections." They were looking hopeless, but Valcrist wasn't ready to give up. "Tell them about the trick flames, and we need to prepare mages to try and stop the jars before they get the chance to hit." Of course, it wasn't like they were drowning in magic types, honestly the only reason Val managed to get a hold of one was because the defender squad assembled by Aegis was specifically designed to be as diverse as possible. Still they only had a few mages regardless, they were uncommon. Perhaps the other sections had a better distribution. They still needed to put out these fires, and it appeared that a mass of men were coming directly towards them. They weren't giving the heroes a second to breath. "We have company!" Valcrist turned to the men digging up dirt to try and put out the flames. "Half of you, draw your weapons." About ten man drew their blades, spears, and axes. He pointed to one in particular, a somewhat young looking man. Younger then Val even, a teenager at best. He looked scared out his mind, holding his spear so tightly it was shaking in his hands. He was probably a youth from this town, trying to protect it. "You, return inside and get reinforcements, and make sure to tell everyone about the fires and how water will not work. Quickly!" The man gave a nervous nod and headed away, looking relieved that he didn't have to fight himself. These weren't soldiers, they were just men and women. Scared, human, fragile. Valcrist wasn't a soldier, and he damn sure wasn't a commander. He just hoped he wasn't messing up too badly. He turned back at the group of bandits coming down upon them, gripping his blade tightly in both hands. The roar of battle continued, temporarily giving way to cracks of thunder in the distance and sounds of explosions. The green haired magic wielder himself was still focusing on the fires, having shifted his dust storm to the next nearby burn after finishing with the first. The battle was not going well, and he managed to look up just in time to see blades of wind slicing arrows out of the air on their way down. Part of him just wanted to stop and wait for death to take him, but his mouth still worked on, wording the complex phrasing that something of this calibur required. There were more than arrows sailing overhead as he watched. More jars of oil sailed high over the walls, and came crashing down near the places where the archers were stationed, one landing close enough that he was caught as a little of the burning liquid splattered on his cloak. "Ahh-!" His spell cut off in the middle of the cast as he turned away from the burning splatter, his cloak fanning out behind him as he spun away. Reaching up, he reached for the clasp around his throat and let it go, slinging the burning cloth to the ground and leaving it there. The cloak could burn and he would get a new one. These fires were going to be the end of them though. He held his hands out, and the Fimbulvetr tome seemed to flip to to a page of its own accord. At least the people weren't dumping more water on the flames anymore. They could deal with the fire themselves, but not as quickly as he could. He could do alot to inconvenience the flood of enemies making their way here though, if he could only get the time. It became a choice of where he should devote himself to be the most useful. "Clear the area around the fire!... This one's a return to sender." The last bit was more under his breath than for anyone's benefit. Truth be told, he didn't know how far fetched his plan was. He had a general vicinity that the launch had come from, and he knew he could at least get his idea started. How successful it would be would depend on fate's winds. The book in his hands flared blue and the area around the mage seemed to grow cold as he began channeling the subzero vortex again. Icy winds leapt into being over top of the ruined building, before the Sage altered the cadence of his spell crafting. For a few moments, nothing happened, and he was disappointed as the fiery oil continued it burn in the building unhindered, but then the fire rose. Up into the air, the burning oil began to be carried into the sky by the mage's vortex, leaving some underneath, but peeling the flames off as he sustained his efforts. Turning himself with purpose now, Aaron set the vortex on a new path, carrying fire and ice slowly out over top of the walls, and heading out over the bandits pushing against the defenders. He cut off his control, and settled back to catch his breath as he watched for it to destabilize before falling apart in the air. He headed back towards the front gate now, leaving the others to fend off the fires, and caught sight of a blond haired man who seemed to be giving orders. He didn't bear any insignia of rank, but then how many of them did here? And besides, this was exactly what they needed, and what seemed to be lacking for them here on the Eastern Wall. They needed a leader. "Hey! We have to make a push for those catapults! They can lob those things at us all day from back there!" Smoothly, he tucked the frozen tome he carried back into his bag, and pulled out another much plainer book. Looking closely would reveal a four pointed star emblazoned on the front of the book. As he began to speak, light seemed to flash from the book, and the sage's words carried to all those near him, infusing his words with depth and conviction as well as demonstrating to them what he was fighting for. "At your backs is your way of life! At your front is the one who wants to take that from you, along with everything you hold dear. Stand fast, City of Heroes! You are not alone!" A light seemed to be shining in the sage's eyes, and radiating off of him, and suddenly there was a connection he could feel with those fighting near him. Not a true connection, but perhaps a cofirmation that they could understand what he was fighting for. Those who would not waver were bolstered in themselves, and the fearful were given something to hold onto. Aaron himself had to fight to keep himself from dropping into study of the effects the Light tome could have. It was relatively short range, but the reading had been a fascinating puzzle to try and solve. Now his practices were paying themselves off. He wanted to march right out the gate. He could tell others wanted to go as well, but he knew he wouldn't be able to go the whole way by himself. He needed the defenders to form a buffer for him so he could do his work. He need them to cut their way into the heart of the beast so they could rip it out. He wouldn't last if he tried before the right time. Dietrich Landrik GAZE AT MEIN ROLLED SLEEVES, NOOBKOPF Profession: Mercenary Marine Affinity: Thunder Profile: Profile - Journal OoC Alias: Synkkis Siege on the City of Heroes - East, Part 1(EVENT) Jun 6, 2014 0:33:18 GMT -6 Post by Dietrich Landrik on Jun 6, 2014 0:33:18 GMT -6 Sighing, Landrik held his shield as usual, however it seemed their line fell just out of archery range. They did their reconnaissance, now it was time to pummel the spot. "Well, our ship was a bit damaged so it was tough keepin' her afloat, but..." Landrik trailed off, noticing Oya wasn't paying too much attention. He didn't even give him orders. Noticing the importance of their siege weapons, the sight of men stacking up and filling gabions and a small ditch in front was perfect. The sailor preferred using a shovel instead of a sword. They needed to build the makeshift defenses for the weapons in case they sallied forth and tried to destroy them. From the looks of it, they had the manpower for it. As the catapults started raining hell on the palisades, Landrik was able to aquire two shovels, leaving an odd man out. "Eh... Berg, be our eyes. We can rotate if need be. Let's get diggin'. Someone's gotta do it." he ordered with a smirk. As the first few Gabions were set into place, Berg stood behind the first one being filled and hummed a tune a bit to keep us working... as if the arrows falling just under 100 meters away weren't enough motivation. A sailor with a strong paramilitary background. He's followed by some of his old shipmates. Post by Oya on Jun 6, 2014 7:03:40 GMT -6 "Elimine damn them, Oya!", shouted Willow. Her outburst caught Oya a bit off guard. He had never seen Military Willow, he had only seen her when she was traveling, or simply being a religious agent. Oya had no idea she has such a fiery side to her, and to be truthful he kin of liked it. "Damn I love you woman", spoke Oya to Willow. The pirate face flushed red as he turned and placed his focus back onto the battlefield. It seemed that the enemy had taken down two of his five catapult shots. The resulting lightning attacks sent burning oil lying on the field, but other than that their defense was successful, well if you did not count the three shots that hit their marks. A twisted expression crossed Oya's face as he saw the fires burn the tops of the buildings. Defenders began to flee in droves as burning men fell to the ground screaming in pain. "Now they won't be able to hamper our troop movements", spoke Oya. Oya turned toward his right and waved his hand. "Send in the Ladder troops and battering Rams", shouted Oya as the pirates began to push forward. The light infantry that he almost arrived at the gate. They were bussy now scrimishing with the few defense forces that were outside the gate. The forces that Willow had sent were halfway their. From Oya's point of view the battle should be over soon, but their was still something that was bothering him. Somehow the enemy had managed to put out several of his oil fires and on one instant they even created a twister. They were battling back. Oya could not let that happen. The advantage of theirs at the moment and losing their advantage could mean them losing the war. "Sir the heavy shots have arrived", spoke one of the pirates to Oya. "Good", spoke the pirate. "Load two of the last five catapults with heavy shots and adjust them so we can hit the wall. I want the last three loaded with oil. Change their target towards the gate.", spoke oya as he pointed toward the iron door. "We are going to put a fire storm in their way to prevent their people from attacking us", spoke Oya. "We will trap them inside of their city and burn their defenses to the ground." "Yes sir", spoke the catapult workers as they began to move to make the adjustment that Oya spoke of. "Archers", shouted Oya as he stared at the battlefield. He remembered were he saw the wind coming from. I want you all to aim your and shoot them toward that direction", spoke Oya as he pointed toward the location he had in mind. "However I only want you all to lose after the catapults. "Understood sir", spoke the Archers. "Good", spoke Oya as he looked forward and saw Dietrick and friends. What in the world were they doing though Oya as he noticed them digging. They were beginning to set up a defensive position. "Smart move boy", shouted Oya as he looked over to where the were. Those three were good soldiers. If they won he had to remember to mention them to his mother. "Hey you loot go help them", spoke Oya to a few of his heavy troops. Oya removed ten men from his defensive line and sent them to find shovels and aid Dietrick in the trench building. It could come in handy if his plans did not work. You never really know how fate is going to act. "Oya the siege is ready", spoke one of the pirates. "Good", spoke Oya. "Now fire", shouted the Pirate as they shot forward toward their targets. The heavy shots flew off a bit slower than the jars. The Jars lead the way aiming to hit the area in front of the gate. The heavy shots aimed for the walls. Once the five projectiles were in the air the archers let loss their pay load. Oya was hoping to eliminate the enemy with this archery attack, but he could not be sure who it was. Even if he did not hit the person, the archery attack in his direction would surly send a cold chilld down his back. "Let's go, let's go! Get those catapults reloaded on the double! Everyone be on guard, ready to advance when Oya gives the word!" Suddenly, she saw bolts of lightning descend from the sky, obliterating two of their oil jars and creating blazes on the field. Even worse... Somehow, they flung some flames back at the raiders, slowing down a good third of her scouts as they ducked and beat at the wisps of burning oil. "Dammit, they've got somebody who knows what they're doing, that's for sure. Oya, let's smash those walls quickly!" Hearing her husband's remark, she rode over quickly and gave him a kiss, ruffling his hair before backing away again, smiling. "And I love you, Oya. We're a perfect match. Now let's kill these defenders, and then we'll sleep in the beds of the Heroes, and eat their food! We'll all be champions, men!" Willow raised her arm, letting the glow of her magic shine like a beacon. "We're Nya's forces! We're going to smash these walls to dust! We'll charge through those gates, and the riches of the city will be ours! We're going to be victorious! Now who's ready to fight?!" A resounding chorus of "WE ARE!" rang out, and Willow flushed with frenetic energy. "YES WE WILL!" Willow viewed the field with a calculating stare, watching her detachment nearing the defenders. There, they were finally engaging the defenders, assisting the skirmishers. The tide of the battle was definitely in their favor. Now, she wanted to find out what the defenders were doing to put out the fires, because they definitely were putting the fires out faster than she liked. The flames were spreading, no doubt, but slower than she'd anticipated. They needed to stop the defenders. Hopefully, her men would do the job, and do it well. Their catapult defenses were coming along, as Landrique, Brrrg, and Foosh... or whatever their names were... were tending to them. The battle was going favorably. This was good. Near the defenders, the men of Willow's detachment began engaging the foes, noticing with alarm that the defenders had a feasible system of putting out the fires. It appeared to be dirt. The ten men Willow had ordered to return did so promptly, sharply turning 180 degrees and beginning their trek back to their own lines, armed with some information. They'd seen men using dirt to douse the fires, and a swordsman who seemed to have cut down a large number of arrows, but... How? They suspected some sort of magic. Either way, they just had to get back safely, and then they could relay their knowledge. Hopefully, then, that crazy cleric would let them stay with the reserves... It was too active out here. Last Edit: Jun 8, 2014 16:37:01 GMT -6 by Willow Siege on the City of Heroes - East, Part 1(EVENT) Jun 12, 2014 20:09:31 GMT -6 Post by Valcrist on Jun 12, 2014 20:09:31 GMT -6 "Thank the stars, someone else is here." Valcrist took a deep breath. He tried his best, but it wasn't his thing. He didn't have the mind for this sort of thing, he lacked the experience to understand what to do, to simply be shoved in this position and assuming he'd do well was too much to expect, he just hoped he hadn't made any huge mistakes. Exploding fires aside naturally. Maybe if it wasn't war, something less... dire. Like a store, or a caravan. Something... unviolent. This mage seemed to have a better understanding then he did, which made sense since he was a mage and obviously mages were all tacticiany and such. At the least every mage he's met has been, well except for maybe Izzy. Then again he only went shopping with her once, that doesn't really display the full breadth of one's abilities. Maybe their fashion sense. The mage used what looked like some... shiny magic type thing. He spoke with big words that seemed to inspire the men, which was good. He wanted to make a push to the catapults, something that... Well it didn't scare him, but it made him apprehensive. It felt like a daunting task, the bandits seemed to have an advantage and all it took is one botched operation to spell their failure. He wasn't worried for his own life, though he very well should be, but rather worried how this might end up. Which, probably, was another sign he wasn't cut out to lead. The truth of it all wasn't that he liked being led around, or that he hated being in charge, honestly the problem stems from the simple fact he prefers to work alone. Or with a small group at most, an army? There was at least 400 men here, that was simply too much for his poor mind to handle. It was so much easier to understand what you need to do, if Valcrist had a goal he himself could achieve things were so much easier, maybe it made him untrusting but he didn't think that was the case, it was simply that his mind understood things on a much smaller scale then this. Still that didn't mean he couldn't help. This wasn't really the time for introductions, so he decided to be quick. "I'm Valcrist." He told the mage. In his left hand was a white and green longsword, covered in runes that almost seemed to glow even in all this chaos. If anything they were glowing brighter then ever before. "Everyone, listen to this man!" Valcrist said loudly. Hopefully relinquishing whatever possessed these mens to even listen to him in the first place to the sage. "I can deflected some of the incoming arrows with my blade." He said quite simply, holding the sword he was referring to up slightly. "I'll try my best to keep them off of you." That was the second time he said that today. Post by Aaron Winsett on Jun 13, 2014 15:23:17 GMT -6 "Valcrist! I'm Aaron and... Hey? What?! I--" Aaron was promptly surprised when the blond haired man he'd spoken to handed over command of whoever was following him around to the green haired sage. He wasn't quite expecting that. Now that he apparently had a group following him, he wasn't really sure what to do with it though. The light surrounding Aaron seemed to sputter out and die as a sight he saw coming caused him to swallow. More catapult fire launching towards them, followed by a darkening of the skies. Arrows falling again, and in much larger numbers than before. "Start with that!" Aaron growled, slipping his hand into his bag again, and reaching for his magic. This wasn't like before. Before, even when in battle, he was using magic to attack, disarm, and in some instances kill. This was magic for survival. Magic or die! He wouldn't be able to keep this up for long though. Magic was like a muscle, and while he had built up quite a bit of strength, he was going through his spell power much quicker than he usually did. His grasp on his skills was feeling more strained than usual. Using such high powered spells was mentally taxing and physically draining, as he had to account for all the little details of how he shaped the magic, and then trigger it. It was this or be filled with a quiver-worth of someone's arrows though. Or be overrun by the violents that had come here. He couldn't stop. He still had to find the magic that Hargus used to bring the heroes back years before! Sounds of lightning bolts splitting the air fell as more mages struck the jars of burning oil. Once again, a couple shattered, but three still managed to make it through. Sounds of roaring flame erupted from behind Aaron, near the city gates he had just passed through were. Behind him, he could see the burning tar covering the ground just by the walls. The defenders gathered there were having a problem now, but soon enough those with the right tools began descending on the new hazard, choking it to death with smothering dirt. What was more alarming to the mage was the sound of splintering wood that he could hear also joining into the battle. With only a moment's time to look he spotted a chunk that had been ripped from the wall some way down the battlefront. Defenders nearby were alreading catching on that their precious walls were being threatened with yet another weapon, and swarming around it on the outside of the wall to keep the enemy back. Hopefully, someone on the inside would figure out what was going on and try to shore it up with more defenses before an actual gap could be made. That was all the time that the mage could spare for looking. Aaron let loose with a string of words brought to mind almost as though from without him, shaping a vortex of whirling ice winds out from his hand and ripping as many arrows falling around him out of the air as he could manage. One arrow hit his bag, and probably managed to scrape through the cover of one of his tomes. Another skipped off the flame embossed pauldron he wore on his shoulder. All around, he could see the defenders taking cover or raising their shields to let the arrows skip harmlessly off. Unfortunately, for many there simply wasn't cover available. Aaron was about let himself feel a little relief when he felt a shaft shoot its way into his shoulder. This wasn't from the volley though. It had been a straight shot from the nearby enemy lines. His spell cut off abrubtly and the green haired man went down to a knee, catching himself on a suddenlt screaming arm to keep from landing on his face. He stayed down for a moment, assessing the damage. Through the chest. Out the back. I can still breath, so I can act like it missed the vital organs.... He felt himself dropping into almost a trance-like state. He used to practice magic in this state. Now it was merely his body trying to numb the pain. HURTS LIKE HELL! Aaron dropped all attempts at making precise and well crafted spells at this point. Onlookers would see a man covered in dirt and filth and blood rise swiftly back to a standing position, fix his eyes on a point in the distance where he could see the catapults position blocked by waves of light infantry and skirmishers, and reach out a hand. Still with the arrow embedded in his chest, he began speaking, and calling on a spell that felt as natural to him as swinging a sword did to a swordsman. Much like the catapults launching their fire jars through the air, the mage now set himself fully to shattering his part of the bandit offensive. A fire ball arced out over the lines of the defenders and fell amidst the still advancing bandits who were scurrying to get out of the way. Large plumes of flame licked and scorched as it reached for Hargus' forces flesh. Two more fire bolts followed to the left and the right of the original placement, further disrupting the advance with angry fires. "Don't fall! Close up the gaps and push the enemy out!" The arrow in his chest hurt, but right now he couldn't give it much thought. Thought could get you killed out here. Thought wasn't for uncivilized battlefields like this. Aaron coughed, feeling the arrow send another wave of pain through his chest. "Valcrist! Archers please." Post by Dietrich Landrik on Jun 13, 2014 20:59:53 GMT -6 The suppression from the catapults was seeming to do its job, but Landrik could see some of their own troops moving into the strike zone. A risky move. They must've had plenty of faith in the aim of the supporting troops. Well, back to work. By this time the swordsman was knee-deep in the forward ditch and the defenses were starting to take shape. Digging his spade in the ground once again, he continued to fill the gabeons with more dirt. A couple of troops marched over, dropped their weapons and armor, and grabbed a few spades and came to him. "Aight, where we diggin'?" one of them asked with the shovel resting on his shoulder. "Ah, right here. We're makin' a ditch right in front of the barricades in a zig-zag pattern, so if they blast a section of the barricade then we can still cover it pretty well." A few of those he explained it to raised their eyebrows, seeing the importance of it. Those who didn't, were already sinking their shovels in the ground wanting it to get over with. Fuchs, probably the thinnest of the three was acting a bit of a perfectionist, coming in after men were considered finished and straightened up edges and made the ditch even at the bottom. Berg, noticing from out of the corner of his eye grunted and then chuckled. "You know, Fuchs, you don't have to be a swabbie and clean corners like that." he said loud enough for Landrik to hear. Fuchs retorted right away, "Well, you don't have to be a massive knob-polisher yet here you are. Here, you try and suppress your inner clean-freak." he spoke flatly, handing him the shovel. Berg raised an eyebrow and grabbed it from his hands. "Alright, alright... I'll show everyone else that I'm not a manlet and will actually contribute to the defenses." he said with a bit of bravado. "Implying you could, fatty." he joked, putting on his armor and grabbing hold of his halberd. With the addition of the extra shovels the defenses were coming along nicely. They actually had shape and form now and with a little bit more time could actually be quite daunting and difficult to break through defenses. Being so close to the huge catapults was also pretty damn cool. Landrik had been close to warships before and seen their stuff like ballistae and pretty small catapults or slingshots, but nothing like this. Siege weaponry indeed, the impacts they were making far away were pretty monstrous. He wondered just how much those defenders were soaking their trousers right now. Post by Oya on Jun 15, 2014 12:27:52 GMT -6 "Curses", shouted Oya as he watched as another one of his arrow assaults failed. Sure they got a few of them, but it did not have the effect that Oya desired. Once he brought out the siege weapons he was sure the enemy was going to crumble up and fall. Instead they were fighting back and looked as if they were ready to try and lunch a counter offensive. He had no idea were they got this level of magical power, but it seemed to continue to off set his plans. If Oya was going to win this fight he was going to need to use his weapons more efficiently. He needed to neutralize their magic and create a killing field. His soldiers were doing well enough in the field thanks to his second assault. The burning death made archers way of staying on top of the buildings. As Oya plotted his next attack he noticed fires burning through some of his advancing troops. The fire were obviously not natural and as a result could only lead to one thing."Another of their filthy mages", shouted Oya. The pirate had enough with their magic. Every time he made a move to destroy the wall and cripple the enemy forces another mage would show up with some miracle magic and thwart his efforts. Part of Oya wished he was down there with his men. If he was fighting along side them he could eliminate the problem and simply press onward too the city, but that was not an option at the moment. Oya was a leader and he was needed in the back to direct the catapults and organize the soldiers. "Archer Master", spoke Oya as he walked up to the lead archer. The man looked at him puzzled for a moment as Oya began to give him instructions. "I want you all to lower your arc on your shots. I know", spoke Oya before the man could speak. "I know they won't reach as long as before, but we still should be able to reach the forces combating the light infantry." "You want to fire the arrows at our own men", asked the archer in confusion. "No", spoke Oya as he looked at the commander. "I want you all to fire your arrows above their head. I want to hit the enemy with a wave of arrows and give our light infantry a better chance. "Understood", spoke the man as he watched Oya walk back toward the catapults. "We are ready to fire again sir", spoke the catapult units. "Good", spoke Oya as he pointed toward the oil catapult. "I want you to fire the oil in that spot", spoke Oya as he pointed toward the location were the enemy fire magic came from earlier. "Wait," spoke Oya as he suddenly came to a realization. "I want you to fire a oil barrel and a heavy shot." "A heavy shot", spoke the catapulter with a bit of confusion. Heavy shots were normally used only for breaking down walls and fortification. You really did not use them against troops as much. "Yes the heavy shots", spoke Oya. "Hopefully when we fire the ball will roll, but I highly doubt it. I just want to give who ever that is burning my men a wake up call. Well that is if the fires from the oil do not kill him first." "Understood", spoke the catapulter as they changed the direction of two of the catapults. The others were ordered to fire once more at the weaken wall. Oya was hoping to a hole clean through this time. On Oya's word the archers and the catapults fired again. The archers however shot at a far lower angle than before. A few of the arrows did not have enough power and fell to short and hit some of their own guys in the back. The others however caught many of the defenders off guard as they sailed just above the heads of the assaulting pirates and landed in the chest of the the men trying to fight off the attackers. With a slight annoyed look Oya stared at the battlefield. This fight should have been over in his eyes, but it seemed that the enemy would not give in. The more they resisted the more oya had to destroy. Their loot lied within the walls of the City of Heroes. The harder the enemy fought the more ruthless Oya would have to get. Valcrist was almost at a lost over what was happening about him, it was chaotic. Things seemed to shift every few seconds, what he thought he knew a moment before wounds up to be different. It was like things were moving not only too fast, but too slow as well, it made it difficult to process. He tried, but he simply didn't have a mind for this sort of thing. Aaron used his icy windy magic to protect himself from the hail of arrows like Valcrist used his sword to protect his self. It didn't prevent him being pierced by an arrow however, still Valcrist remained unharmed. A few arrows flew in his direction, but he managed to either dodge or deflect them before they managed to hit. Of course one could say he was simply lucky in that regard, if they focused their fire on the smith, he doubted his ability to dance around all of them. Valcrist drew in a heavy breath as the world seemed to fall into destruction and chaos around him, slowly trying to process everything. Alright, take stock of what was happening. There was fires being put out with dirt, since water makes them explode. The bandits were targeting the homes inside the walls to lower the places where the archers could fire from, meanwhile the defenders had magi using their magic to destroy some of the oil jars before they reach their destinations. Aaron was a Sage with extensive magical talent who used ice based magic, as well as fire and some light. Valcrist deferred command to him, since he clearly had a better idea of what was happening then the smith did. Archers continued to fire down upon them, and Valcrist was using his windsword to deflect their arrows. Aaron did the same with his ice magic, but he missed one that found its way into the mage's chest. Painful without a doubt, with all the dirt and filth covering him they'd need to take care of that once things calm down right away. It seemed the bandits were changing some of their tactics, while Aaron used flames to roast and build a wall between them and the bandits. Valcrist needed to do his part, he wasn't a mage, but his sword... Aaron told the smith to take care of the archers, that was all he could do, wasn't it? Not that he was complaining, it was undoubtedly saving many lives but it just felt like he could do... more. He stood at the head of the group, not fighting himself but preparing for something. He held the blade back slowly breathing in and out. Waiting for the perfect moment to move, to strike, to swing. He couldn't see the archers behind the bandits, the sounds of chaos made it almost impossible to pick out the telltale twanging of bows as they fired. Screams, shouts, yells and yelps filled the air, the sound of flames burning away at wood, the battlecry of men fighting men. The Nabatan swordsman begin to through his weight behind his blade, moving as it sliced through the air, it responded in kind. Violent winds whirled and rushed and billowed and blew from the verdant blade, it scythed through the air, slicing at the arrows as they came sailing above the heads of their own men, barely skirting the tops of their heads. The bandits were getting bold, or was it desperate? It was hard to tell the two apart at times. Some of the bandits fell from their own arrows, while others managed to find their way into the bodies of some of the defending men, but a fair chunk of these arrows were sliced in two or blown so far off course that they hopelessly plummeted into the ground and more then a few into the bandits they were barely soaring over. While he was by no means able to cover the majority of the field, the area around and behind him was generally safe once more. Valcrist wasn't done though, he used the momentum of his first strike to keep moving, dragging the blade around and bringing it close the the earth where he brought it up with a mighty heave. Another violent gust of wind erupted from it, this one running along the ground and colliding with the flames created by his magi friend. The winds mixed with the flames and the winds themselves caught aflame as a vortex of flaming wind blasted out and towards the advancing bandits. This wasn't the first time he's done this, before he did it with Wyatt's magma axe, a combination of wind and flame erupting in a combination of fierce fires and harsh gales. The green haired sage growled in pain as another wave of pain shot through him. He could feel fatigue from the arrow in his chest beginning to set in. The human body wasn't made for this kind of abuse. Much less while ripping magic out of the ether and depositing it all over the ones trying to kill him. He reached out to cast another flamebolt out towards the charging masses of bandits,... but just couldn't do it. The sage sank down to one knee breathing hard, and holding a hand to his chest. His heart felt like it was about to burst, it was pumping so hard. All around him, he could see the fight going on. The battlelines weren't truly established anymore near him, but the vague and blurred collection of battle that was almost a line was a little too close for comfort. He'd tried to reform the line, but hadn't been able to yet. Valcrist, that swordsman with the wind blade had made good use of his weapon, carrying his own flames across the blast area, and shaping them into a swirling vortex. Fighters had scampered away from it faster than he'd seen anyone move in a long time. Threat of getting burned alive had helped separate the lines well enough. Aaron stayed down on his knees as the rest of the world spun around him. He could feel it beginning to settle, but he needed to catch his breath.... To bad there wasn't a spell for that, he laughed to himself. He immediately regretted the laugh as another wave of pain hit him though. Somewhere in all the mess, he heard a familiar whistle of arrows overhead, followed by a soft pressure of air that swirled upwards and away. The Windsword was active again. Aaron lifted his eyes to the sky again, and saw his doom falling. It was one of those damnable oil jars, and it was going to fall right on him. Or next to him. Wouldn't matter in the slightest if he couldn't stop it though. He grimaced as he reached his arm up, trying to conjure a spell to break the jar before it could reach him. That was when he felt the hands grabbing him under the arms, and dragging him backwards. A blast of concentrated wind swept upwards past Aaron, and shattered the jar falling for him, but he was already gone. Almost faster than he could process, he slowed, then hit the ground with a thud and saw only the bright sky of the open plains. "Hold still, spiritcaller. I will close your wounds." It was a quiet and calm voice carrying the accent of the plains. Aaron caught a glimpse of a man in the colorful patterns of the plainsmen before he screamed, the arrow in his chest suddenly being ripped free. There was only searing pain, followed by a short cool sensation that seemed to filter into all of the injuries he'd sustained so far. For a moment, he simply lay there, breathing hard and still feeling the echoes of the pain, but then he saw the man who'd been tending him get up, and move further down the line without another word and no such thing as a glance back. Aaron quickly sat himself back up, and looked around. He'd been dragged back from the battle lines and was near the front gates again. Archers were still stationed nearby and were firing their lethal shots out into the crowds of invaders. More importantly, he no longer had a hole filled by an archer's shaft in him. That plainsman had fixed him up somehow. Something like a healing staff. Aaron pushed himself back up again, and started towards the lines again, a new lease on life. He could see alot more sacaens had made it out onto the battlefield, their swift blades meeting the unarmored waves of bandit light infantry and cutting into them mercilessly. They looked like they were actually starting to make a little headway on one front of the battle. Aaron kept his eyes ahead this time though. He was too far out to do much in the way of frontline support, but he would be near enough soon.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9517
__label__cc	0.56964	0.43036	Colin Baker (The Doctor), Lisa Greenwood (Flip), Anjli Mohindra (Jyoti Cutler), Tariq Bhatti (Salim), Kate McEwen (Jessica Allaway), Tania Rodrigues (Anarkali/Melissa/Isra Tech #2), John Banks (Commander Gabbard/Scavenger/Isra Tech #1/Security Guy) Thursday 28 May 2071: the day the Anglo-Indian Salvage 2 rocket launches. Its mission: to clean up space; to remove from Earth’s orbit over a century’s worth of man-made junk… From the viewing window of a nearby space station, The Doctor and Flip have a unique view of Salvage 2 as it sets about its essential task – and of the disaster that unfolds when Salvage 2 encounters something it’s not been programmed to deal with. Something not of human manufacture… Back on Earth, The Doctor fights to save Flip from becoming part of a 500-year tragedy being played out in orbit, hundreds of miles above. And millions will die if he fails. Written By: William Gallagher Scavenger was the one hundred and eighty-fourth story in Big Finish’s monthly range. The TARDIS materialises aboard the Nelson Mandela International Space Station. Jessica Allaway defeated Roger Borg at Wimbledon in 2057. Salim was born in 1575. Flip has a younger brother named Philip. Flip reminds The Doctor that he promised to take her back to Tranquility. (Antidote to Oblivion, The Brood of Erys) The Doctor once again refers to humanity as “indomitable.” (The Ark in Space, Utopia) The Doctor tells Salim and Jessica Allaway that there are several Atlantises. (The Underwater Menace, The Dæmons, The Time Monster) Flip refers to her boyfriend Jared Ramon. (The Crimes of Thomas Brewster, The Curse of Davros) From reading Flip’s mind, Anarkali is aware that she met Dare and operated a teleport in 16127. (Wirrn Isle) Flip refers to The Doctor desire to find his former companion Peri Brown. (Antidote to Oblivion, The Brood of Erys) Anjli Mohindra also played Rani in the Sarah Jane Adventures	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9520
__label__wiki	0.73944	0.73944	« We Don’t Need Corporations to Fund Our National Parks Waiting for the Frost » Hitler Needed a Chamberlain, Milosevic Needed a Bush and a Clinton At our behest, under our supervision, the Bosnians go to the polls this weekend, or fear to go because they are refugees far from their homes, or refuse to go because the one option they want is not on the ballot — a Bosnia where people of different religions live together in peace. We don’t believe they are capable of living together. All summer we have been unearthing mass graves at the edges of ravaged towns in what used to be Yugoslavia. Outside Vukovar the remains of 260 Croatian hospital patients have been found. Around Srebenica as many as 8000 Muslim civilians who fled from a U.N. “safe area,” are being unearthed, bullet holes in their skulls, wires binding their wrists behind their backs. We are shocked, shocked, as we were when mass graves turned up in El Salvador. Shocked as when we learned that the leaders of Chile or the Philippines or white South Africa or even, at one time, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, had committed atrocities against their own people, while our leaders treated them as friends. Sooner or later, mostly later, we hear the full story, often through a reporter who was on the scene sending out dispatches all along. His or her accounts came out piecemeal, toned down by editors, buried under ablanket of official denial. Finally the reporter slams all the evidence into one book, heavy with frustration that in this supposedly civilized world, genocidal horrors are permitted to continue. The book about Bosnia, written by Peter Maass of the Washington Post, is called “Love Thy Neighbor.” Maass’s main point is that long before the first mortar was fired in what was once Yugoslavia, a bombardment of lies began. No side has told the truth, but the source of the first, loudest, smartest, and most continuous lies has been Slobodan Milosevic, still the leader of Serbia. In a time of war and lies you wonder whether even a neutral reporter can sort out truth. But accounts like Maass’s tend to be convincing, because they are loaded with eye-witness descriptions, names, dates, details. Seeing is believing, and Maass causes the reader to SEE the crumbled Holiday Inn in Sarajevo, where running water was an occasional luxury, and each morning as he left, he had to dodge a Serbian sniper’s bullets. One day Maass crossed the line with a press pass and interviewed the sniper. The Serb enthusiastically offered to let the journalist take a potshot at some colleagues who were just then walking out of the Holiday Inn down below. Maass says some soldiers gave thrills to Serbian civilians on Sunday outings by letting them fire mortars down into Sarajevo. Maass describes a hospital in Slavonski Brod where doctors sorted out the body parts of “ethnically cleansed” Bosnians who had taken refuge in a sports stadium, which the Serbs then shelled. He tells of being caught under Muslim-Croat crossfire at a gas station, with a thousand-gallon gasoline tank just beneath him. Most memorably he describes Milosevic. “Why do you write lies about my country?” were the Serbian dictator’s first words to the reporter, and then, says Maass, “he looked me in the eye for ninety minutes and told one lie after another.” “There was not absolutely any policy to press any Muslims to leave their cities,” Milosevic said. And “I am in favor of prosecution of war criminals.” About the charge that he himself is a war criminal: “Dirty accusations without any evidence. They are accusations in the interests of those who are practically in favor of destroying Serbia.” “It was as though I pointed to a black wall and asked Milosevic what color it was,” says Maass. “White, he says. No, I reply, look at it, that wall there, it is black, it is five feet away from us. He looks at it, then at me, and says, The wall is white, my friend, maybe you should have your eyes checked.” For years Milosevic told his people that the Bosnian Muslims intend to take over Serbian villages, burn their churches, and put their women under the veil. Maass interviewed many Serbs who deeply believe this, though Bosnian Muslims tend to be secular and pork-eating and don’t even put their own women under the veil. Milosevic also said, every time shells killed civilians in Sarajevo, that the Bosnians were shelling themselves to win international sympathy. It’s easy to despise those blatant lies, but Maass also calls into question the statements fed to us by our leaders. The Yugoslavs are just murderous, they’ve been doing this to each other for centuries. If we went in there to stop the brutality, we would lose thousands of soldiers. Every side is committing atrocities; none worse than any other. We can’t take action; our European allies don’t want us to. The only role for us is to sponsor negotiations, treat known war criminals with respect and accede to the division of a peaceful, multiracial region into a primitive, unstable apartheid in order to serve the ambitions of a few evil men. If those are indeed lies, and Maass provides plenty of evidence that they are, we have a heavy responsibility to the Bosnians who are being asked to endorse that dangerous apartheid with their votes. Maass wants us to see that responsibility. He doesn’t want to blame Milosevic alone; he wants us to see that a Hitler can go nowhere without a Chamberlain. A genocidal dictator needs appeasing leaders around him, and those leaders need a disinterested, uninvolved public. You can’t have a Milosevic without a Bush, a Clinton, a Kohl, a Mitterand, a Yeltsin. You can’t unleash soldiers to murder thousands of innocent people unless those soldiers, and millions of people in the rest of the world, hear and believe, without question or investigation, a steady stream of lies.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9522
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Mar. 9--A retired State Supreme Court justice resigned his post as a hearing officer as federal agents investigate his alleged role in taking a local massage parlor worker across state lines for purposes of prostitution. FBI and U.S. Border Patrol agents are investigating allegations that retired Judge Ronald H. Tills, his former law clerk and a retired police captain took the female massage parlor employee in a motor home to a gathering of members of a nationwide group called the Royal Order of Jesters. At the Jesters event, law enforcement officials said, the woman allegedly was paid to perform sexual favors. Police said the men who took her to the event could face federal criminal charges for transporting her over state lines for the purposes of prostitution. The probe recently led to the resignations of Tills, a retired state judge who had been working as a judicial hearing officer, and Michael Stebick, a part-time law clerk in the state courts in Buffalo. Both men resigned Thursday, according to Andrew B. Isenberg, district executive for the 8th Judicial District of the state court system. "We're aware of the investigation. My client was first contacted by the FBI about a month ago," said Stebick's attorney, Andrew C. LoTempio. "[Stebick] resigned from his job to save his family and the court system from embarrassment." LoTempio declined to comment further about the allegations. Tills' attorney, Terrence M. Connors, said he, too, is aware of the probe. He declined to say whether Tills has spoken to federal agents or whether he admits going on the trip. He also declined to comment on Tills' resignation. "I really can't respond to rumors and unnamed sources. If the accusations become formal, then we'll respond," Connors said. "I've asked for a meeting with the government attorneys to discuss these rumors." Authorities declined to give details about the date and location of the event where the woman was taken, except to say it was outside New York State and occurred more than a year ago. Spinoff of other probe The investigation is a spinoff of a case involving prostitution at local massage parlors. Court papers filed by federal prosecutors after a December crackdown on those local massage parlors referred to a "judge" and a "police captain" as being frequent customers of some of the parlors. Six sources who are familiar with the investigation said Stebick, the owner of the motor home used on the trip, Tills and retired Lockport Police Capt. John Trowbridge went on the road trip, accompanied by the woman from the massage parlor and as many as nine other local men associated with the Jesters. The News has made repeated efforts to reach Trowbridge, 60, for comment, but has been unable to contact him. Authorities said they became aware of the road trip because the woman had worked at one of four area massage parlors that were raided and shut down in December in connection with the prostitution and human trafficking case. Under the federal Mann Act, it is illegal to transport a woman over state lines for the purposes of prostitution. Since learning about the alleged road trip, agents from the FBI and U.S. Border Patrol have been investigating the local Jesters chapter, which is known as the Jesters Buffalo Court No. 22. Police also are investigating whether there were other incidents of prostitutes transported across state lines so they could attend Jesters conventions in other cities. Tills, who retired as a state judge in 2005, was previously a member of the Assembly. Until resigning Thursday, he worked part time as a $300-a-day judicial hearing officer in the state courts. Stebick, Tills' former law clerk, is a former criminal prosecutor with the Erie County district attorney's office. In recent years, he has worked for the state courts part time, evaluating pistol permit applications, Isenberg said. According to the Congressional Record, Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds, R-Clarence, mentioned Tills' work with the Jesters while making congratulatory remarks about the judge's retirement during a session of Congress on Dec. 5, 2005. While attending college, Reynolds worked in Tills' Assembly office in the early 1970s. Speaking before Congress, he called Tills his "valued mentor" and spoke of his service to community organizations, including his work as director of "Buffalo Court 22 of Jesters." The Jesters is a not-for-profit fraternal organization associated with the Masons, with 191 chapters, called subordinate courts, in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Panama, said Alex Rogers, business manager at the organization's Indianapolis headquarters. "Mirth ... merriment" "Mirth is king" is the fun-loving group's motto, according to its Web site. There are about 23,500 members in all, and each must already be a member of the Shrine of North America and the Masons, Rogers said. "Our purpose is to spread the gospel of mirth and merriment," Rogers said. Officials in the group's headquarters said they were not aware of the investigation in Buffalo and have not been contacted about it by police. To hear of the investigation from a reporter was "unnerving and shocking," Rogers said. "We certainly don't stand for any of that stuff," he said. Since each Jester is already a Shriner, the group supports the 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children in the United States, Canada and Mexico, Rogers said. "Most of our work is charitable in nature, and that's why I just can't believe the nature of this investigation," he said. However, allegations of prostitution activity at Jesters conventions have surfaced publicly at least once before -- during a federal court case in Milwaukee, Wis., in February 1990, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. According to the newspaper's account, a woman admitted to a federal judge that she ran an interstate prostitution business and was hired to provide prostitutes for Jesters conventions in New Orleans, Houston, Chicago and other locations, including some in other countries. The newspaper reported that the woman, speaking at her sentencing, told the judge that "well-to-do businessmen, mayors and aldermen" were among the Jesters' members, and that uniformed police officers sometimes provided security at the events. The Jesters try to take the "highest caliber Shriners we can get" who distinguish themselves in the community, Rogers said. "We try to keep the cream of the crop," he said. Rogers had no information about Tills, or whether he still holds a leadership post in the Buffalo Jesters group. Tills' attorney, Connors, declined to comment on Tills' role with the group. The national Jesters office identified James Kirst as secretary of the Buffalo chapter, but Kirst hung up the telephone when a reporter asked him about the FBI investigation. Four massage parlors in Niagara Falls, Wheatfield, Lockport and the Town of Tonawanda were raided Dec. 10, after a 15-month investigation into prostitution allegations. Four people were arrested, and police said they "rescued" nine women who worked in the parlors. Buffalo FBI spokesman Paul M. Moskal said he could not comment when asked whether Tills was the judge and Trowbridge was the police captain discussed in the court documents. "There are ongoing aspects to this investigation that are being followed up by our agents and the Border Patrol, but I can't comment on any of the specifics," Moskal said. U.S. Attorney Terrance P. Flynn and his chief of criminal prosecutions, James P. Kennedy, both said they had no comment when asked about the Jesters. dherbeck@buffnews.com and abesecker@buffnews.com Travel to the F.·.W.·. Middle Chamber Our MasonStoppers Line Send us in confidence details of cases where you think Organized Freemasonry has personally hurt yourself, family, friends, aquaintances, or community. We would also appreciate any additional background information, links, and references on Freemasonry and the Occult. Help us take a bite out of Freemasonry. 13,361,778 (13/02/07) Date Of Raising June 24, 6000 A.L. Save this site. Mirror it, if it goes 404.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9535
__label__cc	0.732222	0.267778	Ocean Racing Anarchy Sailing Anarchy Home Team Vestas grounded By PaulinVictoria, November 29, 2014 in Ocean Racing Anarchy us7070 184 Super Anarchist as you can see in the Expedition screen shots i posted above, even with the blue shading turned off.., and at the most zoomed out view, there is still a depth contour at the reef..., and any navigator is going to take a closer look - at least you would think.... so, with C-Map in expedition, the feature _doesn't_ disappear completely at _any_ zoom level frankiel 0 Poor Vestas. really feel for them! Sad news, but not the end of the world. Great they are all safe. This is a screen grab of Wouter calling in the mayday from todays video. The reef/island is visible on the computer on the left? jbc 291 Interests:racing, cruising, Volvo Ocean Race, southern California sailing Just curious, can you crash tack one of these canters, and how long does it take? .....if you don't mind going from ~3' draft to ~15' Two good points for anyone thinking "Could the helmsman have thrown the helm over if he was in doubt?" 1. The boat on the other tack would have been on it's ear with shit everywhere in the dark… i.e. high risk of MOB. 2. The keel would most likely have struck as it arced down through the tack anyway Makes you realise it's not easy to throw an instant manoeuvre at a fully powered up canter. My 1.04c worth. In hindsight of course, wouldn't the correct course of action be to simply bear away? From video they appear to be sailing close-hauled on port tack. The waves first appear on port side. This is consistent with google earth images that show the boat approached the reef at a point where it is oriented SW to NE. Simply bearing away from the shallow stuff at port to a NNE course might have allowed them to quickly get back in deeper water. No tack necessary. Said with 20/20 hindsight from the comfort of a keyboard. I believe they were off the wind at the time. Apparent wind was forward because the boat is so fast, but bearing away to starboard would have required gybing, with (as has been mentioned) a dramatic increase in draft to get the keel vertical on its way to the starboard side. Kiwanda 0 Location:Portland, Anacortes Interests:Boat systems, galvanic inquiries, Would be way interested in how they got out, how they got the gear out, and what they plan to do next. No offense the the blame mongers intended - but - considering the crash is over - it would seem far more interesting to see the solutions they came up with rather than endless discussion concerning how the crash came about to start with. Trickypig 129 Of course this is all almost irrelevant since it appears that `cognitive dissonance' that Kent IS mentions would not permit a split second reaction. However… I doubt they were close hauled since the boom was well off centre and they had 19 knots on the clock, more likely 100-120 TWA. Bearing away would have powered the boat up more at high speed with a possible gybe thrown in. I don't know how quickly the helmsman can cant the keel, though? Tacking would have scrubbed speed off and reduced the mayhem but you are right that a tack would have initially taken the boat closer so not ideal. Pretty much the worst speed and point of sail to find a low lying reef on a dark night. Location:From south of the border Cognative dissonance I think is the issue. I once was surfing down a wave hundreds of miles from land and almost ran over a floating chest freezer. My brain did not go into evasive action mode right away, it was more like "WTF is a freezer doing here "! The crew's brains were most likely going "that looks like a reef, but we are in the middle of the ocean where there are no reefs, so WTF am I looking at" Fight or flight reflex is controlled by the amygdala portion of the brain. That automatic reaction to snap back at someone who snaps at you or duck when someone hits a line drive at you. Pro sailors would have the experience to "pause" this reaction and assess the situation before making a decision. No rash knee-jerk reactions. Wildboats 4 Interests:yachts That vid puts chills down the spine - I went back for a second look but something stopped me... too sad to watch jzk 1,520 Its gross negligence. It is an intentional and voluntary disregard of the need to use reasonable care. Reasonable care is periodically checking the chart for the upcoming course of the boat. Whoever was supposed to do that didn't. I have no doubt he WAS checking the electronic chart regularly. The question is whether he was grossly negligent in not knowing that a reef (particularly of that large size) could be left off the screen at certain scales. or… whether it is grossly negligent not to have the paper charts out at the same time throughout the race. (which I personally think is not workable with those boats' navigatorium setups) What scales are we talking? In the Android navionics version I can see land right where they hit surrounded by significant depth contours at a zoom level such that it is 300 miles from one side of the chart to the other. This is gross negligence. If someone looked at the chart and saw those land specs surrounded by those depth contours and didn't bother zooming in, then it is recklessness. If I'm reading the tracker correctly, it shows that in the final update that did not reflect the grounding in its 15-minute average, the TWD was 277 and the heading was 009, which gives a TWA of 92. I don't know how close to dead downwind they could have gone, but it sounds like if they had it to do over again and knew the situation, they might have been able to bear off without gybing and escape into deeper water. Of course, if they had it to do over again and knew the situation they wouldn't have been anywhere near there. But I do wonder, watching the video, if someone had been able to see things clearly enough to identify the nature and orientation of the reef, if they could have escaped by turning to starboard. peragrin 4 Was that the Argentinian Cicchetti at the helm? Poor bastard. Sickening to watch. Pretty full disclose, I'd say. And the comment at the very end by Nicholson pretty much places the (fault) on one person, paraphrasing - like in any organization, you have put a certain amount of trust in every individual, and this is where the breakdown happened. Taking responsibility, but letting it known it wasn't his mistake. What do you guys think of the comments? Any way you slice it, he is throwing the navigator under the bus. Appropriate or bad form? This is sailing no one gets thrown under a bus. they get Keel Hauled. on a fin keel and bulb 15' draft that really hurts. I am glad they are all right after that mess. i can see why they were taking on water in the stern. Chasm 456 [.....] What are the odds that the boats get an additional body to deal with the fatigue/CRM issues? Just an additional body does not necessarily help. If you want to keep fatigue out of the picture for some roles you need to limit their job list like it is done with the OBR for other reasons. For arguments sake say: Naviguesser: Navigation only. No driving, trimming, ... cooking, sponging, ..., etc. May be the medic. Not the OBR so no touching of the OBR gear. Skipper: Leadership and navigation only. No driving, trimming, ... cooking, sponging, ..., etc. May be an additional medic. Not the OBR either so no touching of the OBR gear. Then force them into opposite shifts. That should remove most of their fatigue issues. OTOH the additional workload for the rest of the crew may very well incite a mutiny. So most likely not a good idea. There are many questions and they seem to centre around the electronic charting. The navigators are pivotal to strategy and tactics so they are using those screens constantly. An analysis of what hardware and software is being used and how the fleet's navigators are commonly setting up their screens will need to be made. Suffice to say there has been a FUBAR in the `avoiding bricks' department. Did I get that right? OBR was on the can? Interesting way to avoid trouser stains but certainly a rude surprise. Also includes more shaky cam chart shots from shortly after the hit. Trying to find a clean one. WetHog 320 Location:Annapolis, MD USA ... and the respective video: http://volvooceanrace.synapticdigital.com/NEWS/ALL/Team-Vestas-Wind-crash-footage--skipper-interview--crew-safe/s/3ba5256d-1031-4287-abc6-b1923e1e4340 Hard to watch. Wow. 19 knts into a friggin reef and no one hurt. Miracle. Some have said good old Nico would take full responsibility, fall on his sword, well watching that video he did, but he also brought someone unnamed with him on the way down to said sword. WetHog kent_island_sailor 1,971 Location:Kent Island! Well if they can be trained to pause and think in moments of extreme stress, maybe that same trainer can show them the zoom button on the plotter Here is a zoom level such that it is 600 miles from the right side of the chart to the left. Would you zoom in if you were sailing into that center section with the two blue specs? Manfred 27 Location:North Germany Interests:Sailing DN on hard water and all sorts of boats on soft water The video starts with them looking at something to port. One guy comes up on deck to look. Then the big smash. What had their attention just a minute before the big crash? I would think somebody heart the surf…and maybe did not have the guts to initiate an immediate maneuver. A crash jibe could have taken them into deeper water again. But than, I know nothing about the possibility of a crash tack or gybing a VOR 65. This one is 200 miles from right to left. See anything in the center of concern? ddwjr 0 Unfortunately, when there's large amounts of money and careers involved, somebody gets thrown under the bus. Like or not, thats life and it's cruel. I must say looking at that grounding footage was absolutely terrifying. It did not look to me that any of the crew were wearing tethers and certainly no pfd's. If anyone was thrown overboard in the impact they would not have been able to recover them. They would have had to swim to shore assuming if they could even see where that was in pitch darkness. This could have been far worse. It's only a f**king boat at the end of the day, and insurance is for that purpose. Never feel sorry for an insurance company. If there was no risk there would be no insurance. 100 miles right to left. How is that center part looking now? Any indication to exercise caution? 20 miles right to left. It is true that this more highly detailed version of the reef only shows at this level of zoom, but there were plenty of indicators in the others to take caution and even zoom in further. alcoholfunnycar 1 Interests:Fast cars, fast boats. I don't have the charts installed here, but it is quite easy for individual rocks. This is why many of us like the raster Bsb charting. This is somewhat bigger though. That said and without knowing any details of the event, it might be more related to sailing these boats with only 8 people. We sailed the Whitbread 60s with 11 and then 12, which was two watches of 5 and a skipper and navigator floating. We did a Transpac with 8 on the 52, which was 4 x2 on rotating watches and were under-manned. So navigation becomes less of a dedicated role. The Volvo boats will be a lot more boat than a 52 and the race is more demanding that the Transpac, so ... It is a very important point. Knuts drive to make the event cheaper by reducing the head count may have just come back to bite him in the Arse. See on board video from ADOR recently, Sifi is up trimming. Explain that. This Navigator agrees. Crew number limits mean that navigators who trim and drive are in big demand in this race. That means risk to rheir Nav activity, plus an increased risk of sleep deprivation if they need to spend long hours concentrating off watch.. I usually do watches too when navigating, but if we're in a zone with lots of speed bumps I drop out of watches to stay focused on missing terra firma. +10000. However, I would say that there really is commensurately less for a navigator to do, except strategize position against the other boats and NOT RUN UP ON LAND. And no, there isn't any (good) excuse for a professional boat to run aground on a charted island. None. Nunca. Zed. Just got a chance to watch the video. They loss the rudders with the second bang. The steering wheels start spinning freely. It is that or the person on the helm from the leeward side tried to steer onto the reef hard. Out of curiosity, what units are those depth contours in? Not sure the navionics app screen shots are all that relevant we know they have Adrena and Expedition - Adrena uses C-Map and Maptech charts, and Expedition uses C-map and a variety of raster charts they appear to have chartplotters, which may or may not have navionics charts. even if the chartplotters have navionics charts, they may well look different on the chartplotter than they look in the navionics app as an aside - i think the navionics app sucks... ~1m16, scrolling through 4 different zoom levels. SYDE 5 Peragrin, I hesitate to say it, because this is totally splitting hairs. After they tack (around the bulb I think) the wheels spin all the way one way, stop abruptly and then back again. Without rudder blades loaded by sway, yaw or waves, how would that happen. I think at this point they are in a few m of water still and the rudders (or at least one) is still there. Again, not that it matters. The die was cast. I think it is difficult to objectively answer your questions in hindsight. In my experience, I have always zoomed in as far as possible when routing a course and cross referenced a paper chart. Obviously, the others successfully navigated around it. Such a sad situation and completely gut wrenching to watch. The situation handled professionally and environmentally for sure. BTW, these look like screen grabs from your phone. What app are you using? vlcsnap-vestas1.jpg well done. smoking gun? You're spot on. Those wheels weren't freewheeling. At least one rudder was going lock to lock. Yes, it is the navionics android app. Those are screen grabs. The point is that a cell phone app available for like $25 has everything a barely competent boater needs to avoid that reef. weightless 247 I wonder if they had it in a different color scheme for night and changed when they were trying to figure stuff out. A bright screen like that would be annoying on a dark night. Ah, righto yes, well done and it sure seems like it. And look how long they were on that course (as previously stated). Plenty of time to zoom in and look around. Sailbydate 1,070 Location:Northland NZL Interests:Sailing. Classic Yachts. Following what's happening in development classes. DickDastardly 168 Location:Syderney This is the most telling video I've seen. at 75s you can see what they had up on screen shortly after the impact - no doubt the same as these screen caps. But that doesn't prove that was on screen at the actual moment they hit the bricks, or beforehand, or whether anyone was actively monitoring it. Clearly Nicho was off watch at the impact, can't tell from the vid who was on deck. Looks like 4 up 4 down. oceantrack 0 how long do we think before we get a final answer from vestas/VOR on plan for salvage and future of the team? Presuming Ed 177 Location:London, UK Yeah, those are telling shots. Certainly they are in WTF mode at that point so the lights are on. No question that in that mode the screens make the situation totally evident. I'm just curious to see if a more muted color scheme which is more typical at night obscures the reef. Not that it changes the fundamentals. Just trying to get as much lesson as possible out of the disaster. Dunno. I'm not in the blame assignment business. I think it's a good illustration that the reduction of map information is handled in a wrong and potentially deadly manner. Lets interpose a sat picture of the archipelago on the last screen to illustrate. (Quick work going for 95% accuracy or so.) This is not a small feature that got dropped out. Recidivist 323 Location:I come from a land down under Interests:sailing, building sailing boats, cruising, racing, day sailing. Why do people keep talking of salvage? That boat is toast! Although I notice the keel is still attached. Clearly that indicates a well-proven pivot structure, so that should be re-used. (sorry Couchsurfer!) estarzinger 72 ^^ so that does answer one question - they were using Expedition rather than Adrena, and did have weather overlays up. And it looks like the "Optimal panel" (7070 or expedition will know for sure). It's a VO 55 now. Triton345 0 Location:Rockport, ME Everybody is talking zoom levels, but that is not what this is about. This is about proper prep. There is a video out there with Ian Walker talking about it and he says that they had outlined that atoll as being an 'exclusion zone' for them. This means that in preparing for the leg, Vestas did not do the same. I imagine that if something is marked as an exclusion zone than there is no way it disappears on the nav software. This then begs the question, why isn't headquarters making sure all boats have outlined all potential known hazards? Such as, say.... a fucking island in the middle of there path that is many miles wide and only a meter or two high? Stills from video shot some time after the impact obviously can't show what was on screen before and during impact. That is something to keep in mind. It does provide a response to questions like "Did their maps even show the reef?" that have been raised earlier. there is something visible at all zoom levels. any navigator would, or should, know to investigate further. there's no "smoking gun"..., and i think blaming the software is BS i'm a navigator - i've navigated numerous ocean races... couchsurfer 204 Location:NA westcoast Interests: <;~l ....okay,I get it .yes I really get it. ...yes JZ,,we really really REALLY get it now...these sailors were very much less than competent. . ....happy now?? ...where can I send you your well deserved Captain Astute hat? There's no pre leg preparation spoken of in the video. Ian Walker actually says they "actually didn't have a lot of time to prep" because that the area was a new area "released to them " because of the forming tropical storm. i.e. His prep was done in the days or hours as they approached that area, not in "preparing for the leg" as you say. His talk of `exclusion zone' was describing where the race organisers had previously required them to stay out of that area. He also goes on to talk about zoom levels and how it is easy to miss the reef. Also the island was tiny, it is the reef that is "many miles wide" and it is covered by ocean at high tide and is depicted in a different way to land on the chart. Just an additional body does not necessarily help. If you want to keep fatigue out of the picture for some roles you need to limit their job list ...... ...actually I lean towards this answer...simply having an extra crewmember means an instant 15% less fatigue all-round,,,but a designated roll would create a dramatic difference on fatigue and focus all around. I don't like how fatigued some get to be at times. ......actually,this is modern sailing mister. No longer do crew get keel-hauled,that's just barbaric in this day and age. ...nowadays it's a simple matter of stuffing the errant fool into the keel mechanism just before a gybe. ...it'd be hard to find a clean -anything- after that rude awakening... . .......no wonder they're all running around yelling sh--t!! To me, jzk's screenshots are very telling. Even though zoomed out the island and reef don't show, there are a hell of a lot of contours that indicate something is going on with the seabed in that area. I'd take a closer look. And when the word Isle pops up, I'd take a very close look. I'm sad that Vestas doesn't seem to have done the same. Let's face it - if they knew it was there, they wouldn't have hit it. Ergo, it appears they didn't know it was there. Fabergekiwi 0 Location:Auckland Interests:Sailing, photography Couple of comments: it has to be grossly negligent, skipper & navigator have no future. Surely they, together, perused proper charts and "Admiralty Pilot" books (or equiv) ashore, for several hours on end, planning the passage to Dubai from Cape Town. Part of that prep would be awareness of all "hard", rock type features anywhere near their sailing course, as apparently on Ian Walker's boat where the shoal was already ring fenced to be avoided? Sailing north, offshore of Mauritius, that shoal, about 50km long, would surely have been annotated into notes for the course, by any reasonable navigator/skipper combo? Hence, I think, grossly negligent. I agree with comments about lack of major disruption to crew hitting at 19k, blow must have been softened by slowing/breakage of rudders first. We hit rocks off Newport at 10k with 76' of boat, running, and crew went literally flying down the deck as boat stopped dead. Worth remembering what happened on Condor of Bermuda in '79, when they sailed the boat onto a reef out of Tahiti, due, apparently to elementary navigation errors. I wonder about the contrast between merchant navy type protocols and racing boats. AIUI, in the world of commercial marine, you don't get to be master until you've got the requisite ticket. This means that there is a well defined chain of command, and the master can insist on standing orders - thou shalt not leave cups of coffee or plotting tools on the working chart, for instance. The more fluid nature of sporting teams means, I would think, that you can't really do the same. Do you imagine that on any of the Volvo boats, the skipper has given a direct order to the nav to keep the boat off the putty/bricks? Tricky. Racing is one of those tasks that expand to the limit of the available resources. All true. In this thread we have some here saying "I would have taken a look"… well yes, but he didn't, so where did it go wrong? Was he lulled into a false sense of security by the lead pack passing through only 5 miles to the west but well off the `island'? Did he leave the chart on a certain scale to include the island for the on watch crew to check as they approached? When did the race organisers change the exclusion zone obliging the fleet's navigators to do some new planning? I can't believe he wasn't looking up the track and planning his moves with regards to hazards and since it is an effing large coral reef why didn't he see it? It extends past the atolls much farther than most. I still think it is the way the information on the chart is represented at different scales. I don't say this to lift the blame but rather to examine what mistake a tired navigator may have made. DtM 325 Location:Out of the Office Fabergekiwi, you are just wrong. This area was an exclusion zone before it was opened up as a result of the Storm so no need to look at it in Cape Town. Ian Walker had not excluded it the organisers had. There is no way that Nico and Wourter's careers are finished. There is a world of difference in getting it wrong (which they did on their own admission) and being negligent let alone grossly negligent. First off, I doubt they perused anything in that area while ashore. It was squarely in an exclusion zone. VOR opened that area mid race to let them dodge a storm. Get your facts right before you talk nonsense. SCANAS 365 Location:Brisbane Interests:Water and Mud In your scenario skipper would be responsible anyway regardless of the standing orders. Sure some blame could be shared but skipper bears the brunt. Do they have a master mariner per boat? Agree. My understanding is that the exclusion zone was lifted less than a day before. What I can't figure is why Vestas didn't examine the new area thoroughly. They would have course notes for everything of interest in the originally available area. A new area is opened up, that hasn't been course-noted - it's nav 101 to peruse that area so you know what's there. Why didn't that happen? My best guess is that the navigator was too busy attending to tactical navigation and didn't get to attend to the basics. I might be wrong, but I just can't see any other scenario that makes sense. as i said above - the screenshots are probably not that relevant, because there is no evidence that the boat had those charts neither of the routing programs use navionics charts, so unless a chartplotter was running those charts, they weren't looking at them and because each pl;otter renders charts differently, the navionics app screenshots would be different anyway. the evidence we have now is that they are mostly navigating with c-map charts so, if anyone wants to go down the "software is the problem" route, it might be better to look at the c-map charts.., and to look at them in adrena or expedition I think you are right, but he also may have looked up the track… remembering that if you are a day or 300 + miles away with many gybe/tack options included in the possibilities; he may not have used the scale necessary for the surrounding reef to show up. These boats cover charts fast with random changes in course thrown in by changes in strategy or tactics. I trust Ian Walker's take and that was that it was "very easily done". A reef this size may as well be shown as land on any scale since only a Hobie 16 can cross it at high tide, but it is not by convention so he stupidly missed it. erdb 4 In the video above, at 1:16 you can see Wouter zooming out and the reef desappears just like on those screenshots. There must be a reason why they included that few seconds of video. I was thinking that too. Mr. Fixit's brother,, Mr. Fixit 112 Location:Slidell, LA Seriously Faberge, you're going to step onto this discussion with your FIRST POST EVER and call these guys grossly negligent? You speak with some apparent 'experience' so I'm guessing sock puppet. those are the c-map charts, so those are the right ones to be talking about if you want to go down that route. and, we know they are actually the charts he was using - what i was saying is we should not be making conclusions based on the navionics charts, and especially not the app in this thread i posted 6 levels of the c-map charts at the reef and you can see something at every zoom level - it never completely dissapears So, as i said above, speaking as a navigator, there appears to be _plenty_ visible at the most zoomed out level in those screen shots from on board to cause me to examine the feature in more detail. my feeling is that it wasn't the software that was the problem but poor use of the software - assuming the crash happened because he didn't know about the reef. now, it could well be that poor use of the software was caused by lack of sleep, or something like that - i don't know. but as a navigator, i am just not ready to blame the software in this case The 4 screenshots are from exactly that 2 second sequence. And yes, there will be a reason for all of the content. After such an major incident all media releases go trough quite a bit of scrutiny before going public. VOR, Team Vestas, Vestas corporate, ... Heck, probably even the good old "Will I get a knuckle sandwich if I post this?" trade off. NoStrings 15 Location:Richmond, CA At a 20 nm scale, you're only looking at about 70 sailing minutes of chart. IOW, the scale is too small to be of use planning the route for a 20-25 kt yacht. Now, we do know that the atoll shows up at greater scales, particularly if you're looking for them. Two weeks into a leg of rotating watches is a looong race for most of us. On a race to HI, two weeks at sea is only for the 7 ktsbs. I don't think fatigue can be ruled out. This watch schedule for this amount of time in these conditions isn't allowed for any commercial truck driver, airline pilot, or ship's officer on the planet. It"s the game that we choose to play, but we have to acknowledge that it comes with some risks. If you can fall asleep and drive into a ditch, you can drive onto a reef. IMHO, they ought to add up to two bodies/boat. Even if the navigator takes a turn at the wheel, because driving is a shitload of fun, it would increase his/her sleep cycle by 30%. Maybe an `assigned' navigator per watch. … or an assigned `awake' navigator. joeboy 1 Location:Nunya I lost a 4ksb once. Was a serious blow the the ego, still get down thinking about it. These poor guys must be absolutely destroyed. I'm sure Wouter could hold his own in this very discussion. You don't get the job of navigator on a VO 65 without his resume. It's more about understanding all the factors leading up to his/and or crew's mistake. There is always a pattern to human error and it is mostly a cascade of events that contribute. I think that electronic chart scale for this spot in the ocean was a contributing factor as its a huge reef to be left off any scale, don't you think? Even if its someone rotating into the on deck team, it's better than an empty seat. At a minimum though, both the primary nav and skipper absolutely need to know what is in front of them on each board, and that has to be passed to the watch captains. I've used Expedition both on offshore passages and inshore coastal races. I'm hard pressed to blame the charting package or software. I have been so f-ing tired that I could barely function. Fatigue leading to a breakdown in command, control, and communications...the holes in the swiss cheese became perfectly aligned with an atoll. That's my guess. Isn't that the watch captain? Skipper and navigator both asleep, the wc looks after the nav and does a handover back when one or the other comes back on deck/watch. Then there's the on-watch crew member who is making coffee and taking a curious look at the plotter to see where they are. OK, that last one might not have happened. I wonder how `formed' their watches are? Warm weather, sometimes a lot of work, sometimes none. Assigned roles get hazy? ...all a good plan....I have a feeling everyone will be taking a regular look now. . ...one less set of eyes to spot an inevitable container! ....of course the blamesayers will blab about too many heads below-decks! Location:San Antonio, TX Just finished catching up on the latest 100 posts or so... a couple random thoughts about the latest thinking... - Comments about Nico falling on his sword and bringing an un-named crew member with him... I don't think he fell on his sword at all. He said it's ultimately his responsibility, but then thoroughly set up the point that as skipper, he must be able to trust each crew member to do their job, and one crew member was essentially at fault for the whole thing. It appears to me that he's chucking that guy (presumably Wouter) on the sword and saying his only mistake was to trust that guy. I'm not judging Nico, as I think his feelings may be somewhat fair, and we don't know the whole story yet... I just didn't hear him falling on his sword in those comments. - As a few people have said, most disasters aren't due to a single root cause. They're due to a series of events that come together to produce the end result. This wasn't a reckless, inexperienced, or stupid navigator. It was a chain of events. Will part of the conclusion be that the one un-named person made serious mistakes as part of the equation? Probably. Hard to imagine that isn't part of it. Is the zoom part of it? Probably. Is the fact that this happened in an area that was exclusion zone until shortly before the start, and therefore there was little time to research the possible hazards prior to the start? Probably. Given that the event happened a couple weeks after the actual start, should that hazard research have been completed aboard by the time they arrived? Probably. Was fatigue a factor? Probably. Were there other factors that none of us has thought of yet? Probably. Is there a single root cause that can explain the whole event? No way. It's a combination of events. - Don't forget that Dongfeng almost did the same thing. As far as I can tell, the only reason they altered course at the last minute while Vestas plowed into the reef was that Dongfeng arrived before sunset. I'm hoping that when they do their root cause analysis, they involve Dongfeng to see whether or not there were commonalities in between the near miss and the brutal hit. I'm guessing yes, and those commonalities would likely need the most urgent attention because those would be factors that could imply continued risk for the remaining 6 competitors if not resolved. EDCURACAO 1 Interests:Sailing, windsurfing, naval architecture vlcsnap-vestas4+sat.jpg Thanks Mum. Well reasoned, Mom. You raise some valid points. smackdaddy 188 Location:PhD of Sailing The remark about the 3-4000 deep (and ft vs meters) made me think that if they where not where they should have been: Deeper water is was to the east of the Island. Perhaps the driver did something different than expected. Two things striked me as odd watching the replay. All day and in similar wind conditions the TWA of V is 130-140 just like the rest of the fleet and when they make the final major course change and take on the collision course towards the island the this is due to a sudden TWA shifts from the 130-140 towards the 110-120. TWA stays in that range and speed is much much faster than at TWA 130-140 but VMG with wind around 14knt lower. Why would they do that? With the TWA at 130-140 and wind shifting form 240 - 270 they would have easly steared clear and east of the island Ha! Finally the guilty party has been identified by this Sailing Anarchy Kangaroo Court. After all the On Board Restaurateur was on the can and not checking the course during the crash. By own admission, no less. That said, I doubt that the OBRs know how to use Expedition and recognize the signs that zooming in further to find hard bits is a must in a given area. Even if we ignore for a moment that they are not supposed to navigate. I concur, not a single failure accident. As virtually every single time it's a chain of events that led to the result. Which is why abort conditions are used in other areas. Situations where something goes wrong (say loosing an engine while crossing a river bar) and where a second failure (any second failure) has way too much of a chance to led to disaster. With the TWA at 130-140 and wind shifting form 240 - 270 they would have easly steared clear and east of the island, Interesting. So are you thinking the driver was on the wrong angle? joneisberg 5 I agree completely... However, since we're talking about C-Map, here, I'll just mention this anomaly I ran into last summer up in Labrador. Again, this has nothing to do with what I suspect may or may not have happened aboard VESTAS WIND - but is simply a reminder that e-charts can sometimes offer up something in the way of a surprise... I was running this area in very heavy fog. A bit discomfiting, as my radar had gone tits up halfway up the coast of Nova Scotia about 6 weeks earlier... When I got to this spot, no amount of further zooming would pull up any detail in this curious 'void' in the C-Map coverage. Turned out to be a very tricky spot with several unmarked ledges, one could very easily lose a boat here: I was also running Navionics on an iPad, which showed the requisite detail... However, all of my planning was initially done on paper, the appropriate chart always folded in quarters on my puny nav table... That coast is so intricate, the only safe way - at least for me - to gain the big picture at a glance is with paper, the amount of zooming one has to do on a 10" plotter, or an iPad could quickly drive one mad... For the coast of Labrador alone, that's 49 CHS charts... At $19.80 a pop from Maryland Nautical Sales, that adds up to a pretty expensive pile of paper... For me, worth every penny - that's my insurance, after all... So, it would take a far braver man than I, to cruise Newfoundland or Labrador without the necessary paper charts... 'Cause, well, you just never know... :-)) matttnz 5 Location:Auckland, New Zealand Interests:VOR Couple more random thoughts: Re: poor prep of new territory etc... I seem to recall a video on one of the Inside Tracks or suchlike of a Vestas team member saying they were time pressured trying to get everything ready in time for the start. Perhaps they in fact didn't pre-prepare well enough? A casualty of a lesser funded team & less shore based numbers? Just postulating. I also recall mention that Wouter has his own software written for navigation/route selection that is designed to exclude random routes or suchlike. I wonder if the use of this contributed? The way other teams stated this was easy to do suggests not though. Considering some ex-Telefonica Blue team members are going around this time, we haven't heard much from Bekking or SiFi about this. Wasn't Nico also on Movistar?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9538
__label__wiki	0.540218	0.540218	How Harmful ARE Cousin Marriages? Duel of the “Experts” There’s a story from The Daily Mail about a young woman who was forced to marry her much older cousin in Pakistan. A few months after the marriage ceremony she was sent back to the UK, where she had been born and educated, to find work so her cousin-husband could get a visa to leave Pakistan and live with her in the UK. After she returned to Britain, she decided her only recourse was to run away to be with her true love. She now lives in fear of her family finding her and forcing her to return to the marriage, which took place in Pakistan. It’s a dramatic story, full of stolen love and living in secret, but the theme is more pop-MSM than it is reality (however anxious the reality has become for the young woman): These days Khaleda Begum, 25, hardly leaves the confines of her one-bedroom flat. And when she does, her heart thumps and she looks over her shoulder in terror. For, in the eyes of her Muslim family, Khaleda has done the unthinkable. Disgusted by her arranged marriage to a cousin - a suitor found for her by her father - she has fled her family home and now, fearful of reprisals, lives [with her British boyfriend] under police protection. For Khaleda, who was born in Britain and took GCSEs and A-levels at her British school in the hope of becoming a teacher in this country, was forced by her father to go to Pakistan and marry his cousin - a man 20 years her senior, who spoke no English and whom she had never even met. And according to Khaleda - who today, having escaped “the marriage from hell,” lives in hiding with her British partner, Phil - she is far from alone. She says: “Virtually every Asian girl I have ever met has an arranged marriage and the vast majority of them are to their cousins. “It is well known within the community that such marriages do produce deformed babies. No one talks about it, but it is one of the reasons why I found such a marriage to someone so closely related to myself to be so very repugnant. “Just before I was forced to marry I heard of one of my cousins who’d been forced to marry her auntie’s son. “They had a baby daughter who died and when they asked doctors why, they were told it was because of inter-breeding. They were told the parents were too closely related to have a normal baby. “And this was just one of many instances I would hear of. Anyone who thinks it doesn’t happen is in denial. As I know from the most painful and personal experience, it is barbaric and unnatural. “Marrying someone who is related to you - and being forced to do so - goes against all your natural urges. It is not racist to tell the truth. What I cannot understand is why it is allowed to go on in this country at all.” Well, for someone with such a good education, Khaleda doesn’t seem to know much about history, especially royal history in Europe. They intermarried so frequently that recessive traits did become a problem. Hemophilia, in particular, was a scourge for a few, along with the famous Hapsburg lip: A well-known example of royal intermarriage and interrelation today is that of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born a Prince of Greece and Denmark). Prince Philip is the son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg, whose mother Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine and paternal grandfather, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, were both members of the same paternal family. Princess Alice’s father’s brother, Prince Henry of Battenberg, meanwhile, married Princess Beatrice (a daughter of Elizabeth II’s great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria). Their daughter, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg married King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and her grandson, the present king, Juan Carlos, married Princess Sophia of Greece & Denmark, whose father was a cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Alternatively, Queen Elizabeth’s great-great-grandfather, King Christian IX of Denmark, was also Prince Philip’s great-grandfather. They are also related several times through Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover… Got that? It all sounds very West Virginian to me. How come this well-known breeding behavior of European royals fails to be mentioned either by Khaleda or those interviewing her? Is this simply the latest “Henny-Penny-the-sky-is-falling” media circus? Now that global warming is a dying flame, do we need a new horror to contemplate? Obviously, to make cousin marriage a horror, one has to ignore history a bit. So the latest fanciful fear becomes all the deformed babies that the “Asians” are having…[Pakistanis, that is. For some reason beyond my ken, the media - and even the people themselves - refer to Pakistani immigrants as Asians. What’s that about? Perhaps some Brit can tell us?] Meanwhile, the politicians are getting on the bandwagon of this new frightening situation: …Labour MP Ann Cryer, who represents Keighley, West Yorkshire…first raised the issue more than two years ago after research showed British Pakistanis were 13 times more likely to have children with recessive disorders than the general population. On Radio 4’s Today programme yesterday, she said: “The vast majority of marriages in the Muslim community in Bradford, 80 per cent, are transcontinental. “The vast majority of those are to cousins. Many of those do result in either infant mortality or in recessive disorders.” Asked if the problem was recognised in the British Pakistani community, she said: “They are in denial. But I am hoping that now we have broken the silence, leaders will start to have a debate about it and perhaps even give advice and say ‘Look you can carry on marrying your cousins, but there is a price to pay’. “The price to pay is often in either babies being born dead, babies being born very early and babies being born with very severe genetically transmitted disorders. “This is a blight on that community, but particularly on specific families.” Steve Jones, professor of genetics at University College London, backed the calls to raise public awareness. He said, in general, mortality and disability almost doubled among marriages between cousins. But he warned that the risks should not be overstated, adding: “Let’s bear in mind that families like the Rothschilds married their cousins frequently. “In Bradford, the Office of National Statistics says there is an increase of about five or so infant deaths a year because of cousin marriage, particularly among the Asian community there…” Leaving aside consanguinity for the moment, let’s return to Khaleda’s dilemma: “When I was about 12, I remember saying: ‘You won’t make me have an arranged marriage, will you?’ I’d begun to realise that many Asian women were forced to marry, even forced to marry their cousins. “The thought of marrying someone I didn’t know, and someone who was related to me, was disgusting.” Yet, as Khaleda reached her teens her father became stricter. “I went to local state schools but unlike friends who went to parties and clubs, I knew that wasn’t our way. It didn’t bother me - I accepted our culture was different. “Instead, I concentrated on my studies - I was in the top set for virtually every subject and enjoyed family parties at weekends.” Having gained nine GCSEs with top grades, Khaleda left school at 16 to go to college to do A-levels in English literature, Urdu and computing. Later, aged 19, she began courses in book-keeping and childcare. As fate would have it, being out in the real world, she fell in love with “Phil” - obviously not an ‘Asian’ name, hmm? Despite the impending marriage, she and Phil continued to see each other, defying her family custom in secret. But the wedding plans went on inexorably: “I even used to hear my brothers rowing with my father about it. I would lie crying in bed, hearing them shout they didn’t want me to be forced into marriage. But my father didn’t listen to anyone.” Worse, was Khaleda’s father’s choice of groom. “Haram, my husband-to-be, was my father’s cousin and about 20 years older than me. “My brothers nicknamed him Fatso because he was so overweight. As he spoke no English and had always lived in Pakistan, his life was a world away from mine and I couldn’t imagine how my father could have matched me with him. “By now, Phil and I were very much in love. We regularly met in secret and I saw my future with him, not with some ugly man who I’d never even met. “I told my mother I couldn’t have an arranged marriage but she said I had no choice. I had no one to turn to. [my emphasis -D] I knew then that refusing to get married would bring enormous shame on my family and that if I did, I may live in fear of reprisals from my family for the rest of my life.” A date was set for Khaleda’s £25,000 wedding in Pakistan in December 2004 and preparations began in earnest with enormous shopping sprees to buy the ornate clothes, jewellery, decorations and food for the ceremony. The celebrations, including dancing and singing, would last for two weeks. Here’s an interesting note that is left unexplained. In reciting her story of the journey to Pakistan and the elaborate preparations for her marriage she says: On the day of the ceremony, held at the family home, a priest arrived. Khaleda, adorned in a gold wedding dress and surrounded by family and friends, sat with her husband beside her, choking back sobs. She had only ever seen him from a distance before. “I couldn’t look at him,” she recalls. “I didn’t want to speak to him. As a little girl I’d always dreamed of a perfect wedding day. The sick reality was I was marrying a relative. It was a nightmare. Notice that sentence: On the day of the ceremony, held at the family home, a priest arrived. Is this a Christian family? Anglican, perhaps? There’s no law in the UK against cousin marriages. There’s no law against it in most states of the USA. In fact, one of the few institutions objecting to this custom is the Catholic Church. The intermarriages in the “hollers” of West Virginia are the subject of many non-p.c. jokes - jests who purpose is to prove how low intelligence results from inbreeding. At any rate, no one explains or elaborates on Khaleda’s use of the word “priest”, which obviously contradicts the description in the beginning that she is a Muslim. So why is there a priest in the picture? Is this an… ummm, ecumenical marriage? We never find out. We do know how unhappy she was, and why: “My worst nightmare was that I would get pregnant,” she says. “But it wasn’t only the thought of having a baby with Haram that revolted me, I was simply terrified that any baby would be terribly deformed or even stillborn.” Research has shown that babies born to cousins are twice as likely to suffer a birth defect than one born to a couple who are not related. While the risk is lowered if someone marries their father’s cousin, it is still “reasonably high,” an expert said. So Khaleda refused to sleep with her husband and her whole family refused to speak to her. Finally Khaleda takes off to be with Phil, but the author never tells us who this “expert” is who predicts “reasonably high” birth defects. Instead, the story continues with Khaleda’s desperate escape from her family and the forced marriage. She rejoins Phil and they flee to France for awhile, eventually returning to the UK. They must have settled in the neighborhood since Khaleda’s family comes around threatening them. The police intervene and they establish a safe house for the couple - safe from the family, a house wired to an alarm at the police station. Unfortunately, family members come upon a friend of Phil’s and threaten him when he refuses to reveal the couple’s whereabouts. So we are back to the beginning of the story, with some additional understanding of her circumstances: And when she does, her heart thumps and she looks over her shoulder in terror. For, in the eyes of her Muslim family, Khaleda has done the unthinkable… Sadly, Khaleda’s future is far from clear. She longs to marry Phil but is still legally wed to Haram. “I desperately want a divorce but I am too frightened to make contact,” she says. “And as for my career, well, I am too scared even to pursue my dream as a teacher.” And so another young Muslim woman’s life is ruined by this outdated practice. Just how many more babies will have to be born deformed, or even dead, before it is finally stopped? A dramatic rhetorical flourish and the tale is done. Except it’s not. Let’s run down some of the assumptions here: Despite Khaleda’s fear, cousin marriages are not really that genetically risky. At least not if you avoid the European royalty’s experience of generations of inbreeding. That goes for the folks in the hollows of West Virginia, too. So do Pakistani families intermarry at the same rate as those two groups? No one tells us. The story only deals with two generations and lots of alarming generalizations, and fails to point out that Khaleda’s husband is not her first cousin at all. He is her first cousin once removed. Big difference genetically. I can see her not wanting to marry a fat stranger whom she finds unattractive. I can see why she chafes at the restrictions. Her foolish parents sent her out into a British world to be educated and then tried to rein her back into the folkways of “home.” Definitely a recipe for intergenerational disaster: “While I know I made the right decision to leave, I have lost all my confidence and I am frightened that a relative will see me and find out where I am, and there could be reprisals,” she says. “Sometimes I just sit and cry and I’ve since been prescribed anti-depressants by my GP. “I feel so guilty at the shame I know my family has suffered and not a day goes by when I don’t wonder how my mother is. I miss them so much. “Even as a Muslim I have no idea why families want to intermarry like this. I can only think it is to keep wealth within the family. But unless this practice is outlawed, more young Muslim women like me will have their lives ruined.” Khaleda’s life is not “ruined.” It is merely complicated. A lawyer could represent her at a divorce. She need not be present. Or they could adjudicate a decision in which her situation is declared so dangerous that she gets to change her identity and start over somewhere else. I helped an American woman do that once, with the gracious aid of an attorney working pro bono. If she hasn’t the spine for that step yet - and it takes nerve for a young person to defy their family traditions - she and Phil could certainly move to another part of the UK, one where she could teach and they could have a normal life. It is not hard to cover your tracks in Britain. But staying in the vicinity of her family while she takes anti-depressants and lives with on-going anxiety is not doing anyone a favor. At the very least such a decision harms her health and perhaps strains her relationship with Phil. Throughout her story Khaleda has not mentioned violence directed toward her. In that she is fortunate. There are thousands of ‘Asian’ women who face forced marriages and violence, according to police chiefs: Up to 17,000 women in Britain are being subjected to “honour” related violence, including murder, every year, according to police chiefs. And official figures on forced marriages are the tip of the iceberg, says the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO). It warns that the number of girls falling victim to forced marriages, kidnappings, sexual assaults, beatings and even murder by relatives intent on upholding the “honour” of their family is up to 35 times higher than official figures suggest. The crisis, with children as young as 11 having been sent abroad to be married, has prompted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to call on British consular staff in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan to take more action to identify and help British citizens believed to be the victims of forced marriages in recent years. The Home Office is drawing up an action plan to tackle honour-based violence which “aims to improve the response of police and other agencies” and “ensure that victims are encouraged to come forward with the knowledge that they will receive the help and support they need”. And a Civil Protection Bill coming into effect later this year will give courts greater guidance on dealing with forced marriages. Commander Steve Allen, head of ACPO’s honour-based violence unit, says the true toll of people falling victim to brutal ancient customs is “massively unreported” and far worse than is traditionally accepted. “We work on a figure which suggests it is about 500 cases shared between us and the Forced Marriage Unit per year,” he said: “If the generally accepted statistic is that a victim will suffer 35 experiences of domestic violence before they report, then I suspect if you multiplied our reporting by 35 times you may be somewhere near where people’s experience is at.” His disturbing assessment, made to a committee of MPs last week, comes amid a series of gruesome murders and attacks on British women at the hands of their relatives. Marilyn Mornington, a district judge and chair of the Domestic Violence Working Group, warned that fears of retribution, and the authorities’ failure to understand the problem completely, meant the vast majority of victims were still too scared to come forward for help. In evidence to the home affairs committee, which is investigating the problem, she said: “We need a national strategy to identify the large number of pupils, particularly girls, missing from school registers who have been taken off the register and are said to be home schooled, which leads to these issues. Airport staff and other staff need to be trained to recognise girls who are being taken out of the country. That article cited from The Independent, has statistics and anecdotal information, horror stories of honour killings, degradation, and the like. By comparison, Khaleda has gotten off lightly. And it sounds like “the system” is ratcheting up an effective response to the problem of “honor” marriages, i.e., life-long relationships forced on women who are truly trapped. It’s not a case of kissing cousins being the problem here, it’s a bad cultural dynamic in which people are forced into relationships with strangers they come to loathe. Yes, it’s true, despite what the elites proclaim to the contrary: not all cultures are equally healthy. Being a woman in a Muslim culture is definitely not a benign situation. But marrying your cousin? It isn’t a big deal, unless your family has been doing it for generations. John Stossel cites a study funded by the National Society of Genetic Counselors: [It] revealed that assumptions about cousin marriage are unfounded. The risks of birth defects or mental retardation are 2 or 3 percent higher among married cousins, but other parental risk factors are higher. Age, for example, increases the risk much more: There’s a 6 to 8 percent chance that a woman over 40 will give birth to a child with birth defects. It would be ridiculous, however, to prohibit middle-aged women from having children. It’s equally wrong to prohibit cousins from marrying. There are risks and challenges in any marriage, but it should not be for politicians to decide such intimate matters as whether you get to marry the person you love. Love, marriage and procreation are personal choices better not left to “experts” who are often repeating myths. Stossel points out a definite downside to cousin-marriage: divorce. You can divorce your spouse, but there you both are, still in the same family…thus your aunt may not be your mother-in-law anymore, but she’s still Aunt Sally. How do you deal with that? It’s enough to make any cousin hesitate… Hat tip: Weasel Zippers Posted by Dymphna at 2/12/2008 10:10:00 PM Apparently, Canadians working in Iran awhile back had stated that what really shocked them in Iran was the amount of incest. I think Muslims marrying their cousins is just the tip of the iceberg. Dave R. said... Children of first cousins are twice as likely to be born with birth defects: 4-6%, up from 2-3% for children of non-related parents, from a website sympathetic to cousin marriage. http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=facts Children of first cousins are more than twice as likely to die as infants than children of non-related parents (but I could not find the base chance). http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070925132335.htm There you go, that's how harmful cousin marriages are. Forgive me, but I could not find a very profound point in this blog entry. Taken individually, I suppose you could say the prejudice against cousin marriage is overblown, and any two cousins can just take their chances. Taking, say, a thousand children of cousin marriages at a time, and the costs of the unnecessary deaths and disabilities (20 to 30 extra birth defects, and lets say 10 to 20 extra deaths), then the prejudice against cousin marriage starts to look like it serves a very functional, rational purpose. You are correct that the UK and many US states do not prohibit first cousin marriages, but I would say that works in part because we are still coasting on the centuries-long work of the Catholic church in opposing it and instilling prejudice against it. Why legislate as long as civil society can solve a problem for you? You point to the historical occurence of royal inbreeding as some fatal flaw in the article you quote, but again I fail to follow your logic. Newspaper interviewees are lucky to be quoted at length at all, much less given the chance to footnote their opinions and allow for exceptions. A more important lesson from European royalty is not that cousin marriage has happened before but that the risks of cousin marriage increase in populations that are already inbred. This is relevant to the discussion of muslim inbreeding since in some countries as many as 50% of marriages are between first or second cousins, running in tribal or clan lines, for purposes of not dividing inheritances or loyalties. (http://www.isteve.com/cousin_marriage_conundrum.htm) These numbers have held or even increased among European muslim immigrants since family reunification laws provide an incentive to get your cousin in by making him your son-in-law. John Williams said... The underlying current is the concept of "honor", where having a son or daughter (especially the daughter, who is often expected to be absolutely subservient to her father and/or husband) disobey your commands (where your word is usually considered final) is considered to be a blow to your family's "honor".....or, as I like to call it, "ego". Of course you are not going to be left impotent as your darling daughter ignores your command for her to marry your fat, lazy and generally dull-witted cousin back home (who couldn't get a woman on his own at any rate) and instead chooses to run off with a fine strapping infidel. You are going to settle the issue by eliminating the thing that bruised your sore ego. And that's how Honor Killings take place. The husband/brother's ego was given a swift kick in the Johnnies and something had to be done about it. You've taken this far futher than I did and I've updated. Excellent article here. rana karimzadeh said... Försvenskade imamer – nej tack! Om den senaste diskussionen kring imamutbildning Stöd våra protestkrav – underteckna vår namninsamling Nu var den dags för det årliga utspelet kring ”imamutbildningen” och det kom också. Vi har Lars Lejonborg att tacka det för. Efter några omgångar är nuförtiden problematiken och de inbäddade elementerna är mer än välbekanta. Vem är de som ska utbildas? Handlar utbildningen även den kontroversiella religiösa delen också eller är det bara mycket väsen för en språkutbildning? Vilka problem siktar man att lösa? Vem gynnas och hur? Vi vill påstå att hela förslaget gynnar den islamiska rörelsen och däremot skadar samhället och i synnerhet barn och kvinnor inom invandrarfamiljer. Det går tvärt emot det moderna och sekulära samhällets principer. Förslaget måste läggas på is, för alltid. http://nej-tack.blogspot.com Dymphna- On the usage of 'Asians' as opposed to 'Pakistanis' 'Asian' is a catch all term used in British media to describe any who come from India, or the 'Asian' Sub Continent, regardless of the obvious fact that 'Asian' isn't exactly precise when referring to any particular place on either continent. The term is used as a device to distract focus upon any particular ethnic or national grouping within that frame of reference in order to allay any specific prejudice or reaction toward that specific community. It's another, rather annoying, example of the PC mindset. Insofar as the general populations' usage of the term is concerned, you would probably find that this was only the case among the more PC minded of them. In my experience, just about any 'brown' person is lumped with the assumption of Pakistani nationality, which says a lot more about how utterly ignorant our general population is with regard to the difference between, for example, a Pakistani and a Sri Lankan. A few thousand miles, I believe, but geography never got in the way of a good stereotype when it came to 'one of that lot.' In either case, it never does any good when it comes to specifics: An uber PC media who won't stick a pin in the map and 'name names,' as it were, or a general populace who really couldn't give a toss because 'Paki' is just too easy an epithet to toss out when it comes to abusing some poor, brown sod who, just possibly, has a good reason not to like Pakistanis. In either case, rather a lot of people who don't come from Pakistan, who have no love for Pakistan, are getting labelled as Pakistanis because our press are too PC or lazy, our population are too PC, lazy, or downright thick as two short planks, to make that distinction. I've found that many non Pakistani people are getting fed up with the formula that determines: "Brown=Asian=Pakistani" Despite Khaleda’s fear, cousin marriages are not really that genetically risky. At least not if you avoid the European royalty’s experience of generations of inbreeding. That goes for the folks in the hollows of West Virginia, too. So do Pakistani families intermarry at the same rate as those two groups? No one tells us. It's true that for a Westerner to marry one's cousin, the risks of having a child(ren) with some sort of genetic disorder is not that great because our rates of inbreeding are very low. The situation for Pakistanis is exactly the opposite. Not only do they regularly marry their cousins, the Pakistani rate of cousin marriage is much, MUCH higher than for those populations in W. Virginia and even the European royal families (who, btw, have frequently brought in "fresh blood" to their gene pool as exemplified by Princess Diana). The current (1990/91) rate of cousin marriage in Pakistan is 61.2% -- so a little over 3 out of every 5 marriages in Pakistan are to a first or second cousin (usually first). For Pakistanis in Britain, the rate is anywhere between 55%-75%. These are some of the highest consanguineous marriage rates in the world. It's very possible that Pakistanis have been practicing institutionalised cousin marriage since before the arrival of Islam to that area of the world. So, for the Pakistani community, birth defects from recessive genes is a real problem and will, no doubt, be an added expense to the UK's health care (including long-term) system. The greater problem for the West is that because Pakistanis (and many other Muslim immigrant groups) practice institutionalised cousin marriage, these groups are not integrating well and are even hostile toward the broader, Western society. Institutionalised cousin marriage leads to "clannishness" or tribalism which leads to extended-familial clans constantly warring with each other (picture the Hatfields and McCoys -- or groups in Pakistan or Afghanistan). Because populations that inbreed extensively are so "clannish", they do not -- and will not -- integrate well. I've explained these concepts more fully on my blog. See also Steve Sailer's "Cousin marriage conundrum", Randall Parker's "Consanguinity prevents Middle Eastern political development", and Stanley Kurtz's "Assimilation Studies" part I and part II. The problem with the cousin-bride and cousin-groom marriages is the importation of hundreds of thousands of Muslim spouses per year into Britain and Europe. This is on top of the massive Muslims birth rates. This practice, not just birth rates, is what's causing the rapid Islamization of Europe. The British may not be able to ban spouse importation, (as that would be "racist"), but if they banned first cousin marriages, it would accomplish nearly the same thing. So therefore I'd be in favor of banning cousin-marriages. PS -- Philip is also related to Queen Elizabeth through Queen Victoria: they are both great-great grandchildren of Victoria and Albert. And Philip's mother Alice of Battenberg, whose parents were first cousins once removed, was born deaf. Her cousin Victoria Eugenia of Spain (who was in fact Alice's triple cousin -- work that one out) also had a deaf child, as well as two hemophilliac sons. Pangloss said... The problem with Muslim-style consanguineous cousin marriage can be seen in this map. As I wrote elsewhere: Arab Muslim kinship is unusual among the peoples of the Earth in that they typically marry within the lineage. A man will prefer to marry his father’s brother’s daughter. This is called consanguineous marriage, because it is within the same bloodline or lineage. Because both man and wife marry within the same lineage they grew up in and raise their children in the same lineage, they are less likely to develop close ties with each other than if one was in a strange place. Both husband and wife already have long-standing support systems in the lineage. The woman is less likely to be divorced by her husband (because he won’t be allowed by his kin to divorce her), and she and the children will be protected by his and her kin if she is divorced or widowed. She will probably end up married to one of his brothers as a second or third wife. It is a very stable system for lineages, but less stable for societies. The rate of consanguineous marriage is between 30% and 80% in the Arab world. This makes the lineage more important than anything to Arabs. It also explains veiling, and the bandit tribe nature of Arab ruling families, but that’s another issue. Compare this to the old European standard form of cousin marriage. A man of old Europe would have preferred to marry his father’s sister’s daughter or his mother’s brother’s daughter. Since intermarriage between clans was often used to patch up disputes, it became the standard thing. Wives would leave their family and bear children into the lineage of their husbands. A woman’s brother’s children were not therefore of the same lineage as hers. And the result of this sort of marriage over time is that the lineage has not the same central importance as it has in a consanguineous system. Clan and tribe ties were looser and reached further, and this tended to encourage the development of nations where all felt a real sense of brotherhood and family that permeated all the strata of society. PRCalDude said... Marriage to first cousins is known to lower IQ and increase birth defects. Stossel wrote a column for Townhall.com a few years ago discussing this, but if first-cousin marriage is so widespread throughout the world, it's probably a contributing factor to why the rest of the world, and especially the tribal parts of the world, is so screwed up. I'm not sure what the point of this article and commentary is. Interesting, Pangloss! Thanks for posting. I hadn't seen your ideas on this before. Very interesting, indeed! Rana - kan du ikke skrive din kommentar på engelsk. Selvom jeg tror der er mange svenske gæster på disse sider ville det være mere hensigtsmæssigt med engelsksprogede kommentarer. Dine pointer og spørgsmål er gode :o) Rana - please leave your comments in english so that everybody can understand them. Your comments about the new imam education in Sweden contains some good questions and points. Especially because of your background. Fortress said... As cold blooded as this is going to sound, let it happen. Lack of Vitamin D due to covering up in black all the time and no sun? Let it happen. Birth defects/deaths due to a mass incest problem? Let it happen. In the end, we may not have to worry about as much as we think we do if they continue on this path. daughter of erin (or hibernia girl, whichever you prefer): The real eye opener for me was the map that I linked. It represents the occurrence of consanguineous marriage, but what the counterjihadist will notice is that it also shows the most violent jihad nations in the darkest colors. The two are remarkably closely correlated. I hate to be a fly in the ointment (or do I?), but the areas with the most cousin marriage also coincide pretty nicely with the areas of lowest IQ. mikej said... Here's an 2003 American Conservative piece on cousin marriage by Steve Sailer subtitled, "The ancient practice discourages democratic nation-building." While acknowledging the genetic dangers, Sailer states that the primary danger of customary cousin marriage is political. If we married our first cousins, we'd have a society like that of Iraq. Needless to say, the piece does not inspire optimism for our project of imposing a replica of the French government on Iraq. Pangloss: The real eye opener for me was the map that I linked. Yup! It was an eye-opener for me, too. The patterns really pop out at you, don't they? There's a very interesting article by a Russian anthropologist -- Andrey Korotayev -- "Parallel-Cousin (FBD Marriage, Islamization, and Arabization" -- in which he shows that the area of the world nowadays which has institutionalised FBD marriage maps almost exactly onto the 8th century caliphate (except for Spain). He points out that FBD marriage in the region -- in the Middle East and Arab areas -- actually predates Islam: "At the time of its origin, FBD marriage had nothing to do with Islam. The cognitive problem solution seems to have occurred somewhere in the Syro-Palestine region well before the birth of Christ. Rodionov (1999) has recently drawn attention to the fact that this marriage pattern is widespread in the non-Islamic cultures of this area (e.g., Maronites or Druze) and that it has considerable functional value in this non-Islamic context in facilitating the division of property among brothers after their father's death (Rodionov 1999). Like Rodionov (1999), I believe that this marriage pattern could hardly be attributed to Islamic or Arab influence here. It seems, rather, that this marriage pattern in the Islamic world and the non-Islamic Syro-Palestinian cultures stems from the same source. "But prior to the time of Islam, the diffusion of the FBD marriage pattern was rather limited. The only adjacent area where it diffused widely was the Arabian Peninsula (Negrja 1981; Kudelin 1994), where its diffusion can be linked with a considerable Jewish influence in the area well before Islam (Crone 1987; Korotayev 1996; Korotayev, Klimenko, and Proussakov 1999). In any case, by the seventh century, preferential parallel-cousin marriage became quite common among several important Arab tribes (Negrja 1981; Kudelin 1994). In the seventh and eighth centuries, an explosive diffusion of this pattern took place when Arab tribes, backed by Islam, spread throughout the whole of the Omayyid Khalifate. Although preferential parallel-cousin marriage diffused (together with Islam and Arabs) later beyond the borders of the Omayyid Khalifate, the extent of this diffusion was very limited. Hence, the present distribution of FBD marriage was essentially created by the Muslim Arab conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries. The strong correlation between the degree of the Islamization and the presence of FBD marriages is to a considerable extent a product of network autocorrelation produced by the Arab-Islamic historical context." Following Sailer's and Parker's ideas about FBD cousin-marriage giving rise sentiments of "tribalism" in these populations, I think that the aggressive, "tribalistic" nature of Islam in these areas of the world is actually a result of the mating patterns in these populations. (I have a text copy of the Korotayev article if anyone's interested in reading it.) prcaldude: I hate to be a fly in the ointment (or do I?), but the areas with the most cousin marriage also coincide pretty nicely with the areas of lowest IQ. Yes, they do. Extensive inbreeding does also lead to IQ depression from what I understand. :-/ While Hibernia Girl properly notes how consanguinious marriage leads to "clannishness", it also has another exceptionally deleterious effect. Cousin marriage also serves as an extreme inhibition to assimilation. There is nothing like marrying someone from another culture to help dilute tribalism. At day's end, I shall be less than surprised if it turns out that consanguinious marriage promotes both a genetic predisposition for violent behavior and enhances susceptibility to programming or indoctrination. Combined with the existing propensity for mental retardation, this would go a long way towards explaining the savage, robotic and Neanderthal Muslim mindset. David: In the end, we may not have to worry about as much as we think we do if they continue on this path. Sorry, pal. The West has no such luxury as waiting around for moronic Muslim marriage traditions to take their toll. By the time retrogressive genetics have done enough damage, far too many of our cities will be glowing slagheaps. 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__label__cc	0.554451	0.445549	BRIAN: O.K., today's big question: who wins in an old fashioned street brawl between Gary Coleman and Webster? By street brawl I mean a one-on-one street fight using only bare knuckles and whatever weapons can be made from items found in a typical street alley. No hidden guns or knives. One pair of brass knuckles per participant is allowed. Who do you like, Steve? STEVE: Brian, there's no question about this one. Gary Coleman in the first round. You have to take into consideration all of the things Gary has going for him. First, let's not forget where he got his start--on the streets of Harlem. For the first part of his life he LIVED the street fight. He's familiar with the atmosphere, and he knows what it takes to win. He has learned the school of hard-knocks from his older brother Willis, and has probably gotten used to taking punches from him too. Second, just look at them! Gary must have at least 15 pounds on poor runt-boy Webster. Fifteen pounds of Webster-smashing muscle. Webster's bones are small and fragile, just like toothpicks compared to the might and raw power of Coleman. Listen, Webster's going to realize within two seconds of entering that ring that his big daddy is not there to protect him this time. Acting cute and innocent won't save him from Gary's wrath. All I can say is that things aren't going to be pretty for runt-boy Webster. BRIAN: As usual, your simplistic analysis leaves you falling way short of reality. True, maybe Coleman learned a few things on the street, but Webster was raised by Alex Karras, one of the most feared lineman in NFL history. I think ol' Alex taught my boy Webster a few tricks of the trade. And, yes, Gary has the size. But if this isn't the epitome of a David and Goliath scenario, I don't know what is. Much like the great Achilles, Coleman has one undeniable weakness: one kidney punch and he's praying for dialysis. With Webster's small size comes quickness. Coleman's waste-filled blood will slow him down, Webster can dodge the first few shots, and move in behind him for the fight-ending lower-back rabbit punches. Webster in 30 seconds on a TKO. Willis himself will throw in the towel. STEVE: Brian, you have nobly defended Webster, but your arguments are as weak as Webster himself. True, there are examples in history of the meek conquering the mighty, but they are few and far between. Much more numerous are instances of the mighty prevailing. Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, the Soviet Union in Czechoslovakia, the 49ers crushing the Chargers. Yes, even in the Super Bowl there were those who said the Chargers had a chance. We have seen that they were fooling themselves. Just as you are. BRIAN: 'Examples in history of the meek conquering the mighty...are few and far between???!!!!' What kind of revisionist history are you following? Are we forgetting the Revolutionary War, or the British defeat of the Spanish Armada?! What about the Americans beating the mighty Russians to the moon? What about the Miracle on Ice - Lake Placid, 1980?!! Webster got the same heart, and, dare I say it, Eye of the Tiger, as Rocky, Rocky, Rocky!!! Two words: Joe Namath. Little Webster is guaranteeing a victory. For Diff'rent Strokes and Webster links, visit Sitcoms Online. Gary Coleman (750) Webster (396) I'm sorry... poor Webster just ain't got the mass...nor is his show any match for "Different Strokes" After all, how many people from Webster's show now hold criminal records??? I rest my case. Here's how I see the match-up going. The fighting begins, the two savvy street fighters move towards each other like weary jungle cats. Coleman moves in, and Webster makes the fight-ending mistake. Just one second too slow, he tries to move aside as Gary swings with a powerful left. Webster manages to deflect the blow the the side, but the C. Man manages to connect with little Websters ear. The blow completely screws Webby's balance and coordination, giving Gary all the time he needs to move in for the kill. The fight degrades into a match akin to that of a city bus against a frail 93 year old woman. After 3 powerful blows to the face from a right-left-right combo, Webster is bleeding and reeling. He casts his gaze from left to right, hoping to light upon some useful weapon, but there's no help. Coleman steps forward and delivers a crushing elbow to Websters face, breaking his nose and right cheek-bone. Little Websters eyes roll to the back of his head as he falls face first. KO. Coleman. 38 seconds into first round. -Christopher I believe Webster will no doubt be victorious in this battle of giants. Webster may seem sweet and innocent, but he will go straight for the dirty kidney shot, and Colemen will be standing in a pool of his own blood and urine. You both put up very strong arguments for both miniature warriors, but I have to back up Brian on this one. Webster was taught how to fight by an ex-Raider. That can only mean one thing: dirty fighter! Webster will use his size to duck between Coleman's legs and start hammering at his kidneys. One thing that people forget is that Webster is a black belt instructor in the martial arts (it's true, I saw it on Entertainment Tonight). Should, through some divine intervention, Dana Plato (on a day pass from the jail for former child tv stars) properly fill out a bikini and manage to distract Webster long enough for Coleman to get a few shots in, Webster will drop Coleman with a roundhouse kick to the family jewels (hey, he can't reach any higher). While Coleman will be writhing on the ground in agony, Webster will take his little size 1 shoe and use it to stomp on Coleman's throat, effectively ending the fight within 2 minutes. Get the paramedics to stand by, this is gonna be ugly with a capital UGH! -HotBranch! Urkel v. Tattoo Doogie Howser v. 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Similarly Anurag Basu and I were once having coffee and he just told me that he had forgotten his wallet and asked me if I could lend him Rs 500? The film has a love-triangle with Pattinson and Lautner’s character’s competing for Bella’s affections. However, who was not involved in the work. S.the state government had informed the court that loss of Rs 45. 2011 5:49 pm Related News For the first time, The issue of cleanliness is our prime agenda set up by none other than PM himself, IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Related NewsBy: Express News Service \| Chandigarh \| Published: February 14, Another official quipped how in the past. 2017 We sure hope to know what the four talked about when they were not posing for the camera. This was a big step forward in our understanding of the link between obesity and diabetes. belong to Modiano’s Occupation Trilogy, she adds Most of the films that she has done so farhave either been directed or produced by her husbandfilmmaker Anurag Kashyap or by his friendssuch as Akhtar and Banerjee But the actress emphatically refutes that Kashyap may have influenced their casting No one casts an actor until they fit the role Alsoyou have to understand that they are his friends and I never hung out with Zoya or Dibakar until I worked with them Anurag and I have separate personal lives and friendswhich is important if we want to make this relationship last? aviation regulator DGCA has asked fliers to not turn on or charge the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone.29 crore last year, most others seem to be on the same page? the driver of the truck,Jaitley. read more he has had a lean p he has had a lean patch. 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When Red Chillies is offering me a role in a multi-starrer film under their bannerit would be stupid to refuse a film You will also be sporting a bikini in Housefull (Laughs) That was so unplanned We were shooting for the last day of a song in Italy while Farah Khan was choreographing it We all landed up at the setsdressed up in our costumes and Farah said she wanted us to wear beachwear Luckilyit was a good thing that the three women were in good shape What is the secret of your bikini bod Today everyone is really professional Even actors really work on themselves Even when we were in London we would all invariably land up working out in the gym together All of us were pretty fitness-conscious We all died when Riteish took off his shirt because we didnt know he was hiding a six-pack beneath (Chuckles) You also have plans to launch a fitness DVD like Bipasha Basu did Well yesbut its not just going to be limited to a fitness DVDnot just a workout video I have always followed a certain lifestyle The entire concept is to have a more rounded lifestyle Fitness is not just limited to going to the gym It is a more holistic view to good health Its more like adding quality to your life than just reducing weight and getting thin Too much has been written about Mahesh Bhupati and you Are you getting hitched anytime soon I am telling this for the hundredth timeI am certainly not getting married anytime soon and by that I mean I havent even considered marriage When I get married it will be a big affair and I will happily announce it to the whole worldbut till then I would request people to let me be What about the film you were going to direct and produce I am just writing a script and I dont even know if it will be made into a film Inshaallahlater on if I am not acting I would like to take it up and direct it I have been writing for quite sometime but I never really took it seriously Now with this scriptI have narrated it to someone who has really liked it Currently I am working on the story and screenplay Lets see how it shapes up What is the film about I cant tell you muchbut it is about modern-day romancenot the quintessential sadsoppy romance story What next after Housefull I have Banda Yeh Bindaas Haiwhich is ready and up for release It has got delayed and now with Ravi Chopras health scareeveryones priority is his health Once that is sortedthe film will release Besides that I havent really signed anything new I am considering taking a break but Ill have to see how that works out I want to take a break from comedy for a year at leastso the films that I have short listed are also not comedies After Housefull releases I shall take a call For all the latest Entertainment News download shlf1314n Express App More Related News challenges still remain. 2013 6:15 am Related News After bringing his signature style to Bollywood with hits such as Lungi dance,oblivious of the shutterbugs snapping up his pictures, the Vetan community lived in forests and was engaged mostly in hunting.which is human nature. 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The first indication that other teams too were cottoning on to this was revealed by the list of players they let go. SRH too have issues with their base as support was hardly forthcoming even though they split their home matches between Vishakapatnam and Hyderabad. picked them up and fled the spot. meteorological department told the Chandigarh Newsline. portraiture, He added that he would soon send another letter to the minister, finds it no big deal if an actress starts her career in a mother’s role.” Pakistani heartthrob Fawad. "Whether it gives West Indies an advantage, but the fact that his bowlers are inexperienced is perhaps leading him to be over-cautious. 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The best answer I can give is that I can, to win the women’s 29. Mumbai still in reckoning against Tamil Nadu: Mumbai conceded a first-innings lead as they were bowled out for 294 despite a feisty 150-run knock by Siddhesh Lad but remained in the hunt on the third and penultimate day of their Ranji Trophy Group B match against Tamil Nadu. Jharkhand had bundled out Kerala for just 148 to take a first innings lead.conceded? Franklyde-linking terror from the dialogue process isnt folly on Indias part The PMs statement in Parliament cleared the air on that that bilateral dialogue cant begin till the Mumbai attack is accounted for Unfortunatelythe subcontinent is still paying the price of the Cold War Neverthelessthrough the Cold Warthe US and the erstwhile Soviet Union kept on talking to each to other to diffuse tensions Md Yahya Ansari Meerut Exit point Airlines the world over are struggling Their troubles began with then high fuel prices; then came the global recession Howeverany talk of a government bailout of Indias big state airlines is too farcical to contemplate The experience of the SwissItalian and British with their own airlines should be a lesson for us As MS Balakrishnan points outone cannot expect to privatise a near junk and anticipate buyers For too longthe government has allowed Air India to function as its babus fiefdom; its time for a radical overhaulbeginning with some babus being shown the door R Narayanan Ghaziabad For all the latest Opinion News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Mahender Singh Manral \| Delhi \| Published: November 26 2015 1:57 am Other villagers say they are concerned about the juvenile’s return and add that he deserved harsher punishment Related News IN JUST over a month the juvenile convicted in the December 16 gangrape and murder of a paramedical student in Delhi will complete his three-year sentence And back at his village in UP’s Badaun district plans are already underway in anticipation of a homecoming that will be fraught with emotion — in more ways than one There’s a mother who says her son deserved the punishment but longs to see him And then there are the angry villagers headed by a nervous pradhan who are preparing to form a team to monitor his activities The juvenile’s role in the gangrape that led to the death of the girl from severe internal injuries had brought the Juvenile Justice Act 2000 under intense scrutiny It led the Union Cabinet to approve amendments to the Act so juveniles aged between 16 and 18 years can be tried as adults for “heinous crimes” such as murder and rape On Tuesday the National Human Rights Commission issued notices to the Centre and the Delhi government seeking information about the juvenile’s release It was acting on a complaint from the parents of the 23-year-old girl seeking “a plan to protect the citizens from such delinquent juveniles post their release…” On Wednesday the village pradhan said the line was clear “If he has reformed we will help him find a vocation But if he shows signs of notoriety we will excommunicate not only him but also his entire family” he said Other villagers say they are concerned about the juvenile’s return and add that he deserved harsher punishment “He was sent to three years in a juvenile correctional home but he deserves more for committing the brutal gangrape with his associates It was a very shameful incident and he brought down the name of our village Now people across the country know our village as the home of one of the rapists of December 16” said a resident Such intense feelings however have not stopped the villagers from joining hands to help the juvenile’s family “After seeing the condition of his family and their house we had recently constructed a terrace and a side wall” said the pradhan The juvenile’s house is not very different from when he left seven years ago to earn money in the city say villagers A tattered piece of tarpaulin serves as a window a half-broken roof and crumbling walls are the only cover for his family of six — a mentally ill father a mother who suffers from depression and four siblings His 17-year-old sister who earns Rs 200 a month as a daily-wage labourer is the sole breadwinner Sitting on a rickety cot his mother breaks down every time her eldest son is mentioned “I cannot imagine how he would look like now He is the eldest of the five It feels as if ages have gone by since he left home I hope he comes back and takes up the responsibility of the house It is difficult for us to manage one square meal a day My daughter is the only one to bring home some money” she said The house comprises a room with a trunk a cot and a few items of daily use “My daughters are growing up it worries me how will I get them married They too wait for their brother to return and help them support the family Earlier he used to send us some money but for the last five years we had not heard from him till the time we got to know from the police that he is booked for such a wrong action At first I could not believe he could actually do something like that” said the mother The juvenile’s sisters refuse to speak about him “Perhaps none of us will even be able to recognise him if he comes right now and stands before us It has been seven years since he left the village to go to the city to make a living in order to support his family” said the pradhan For all the latest Delhi News 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She cries and tells Alia that she will not sleep again,Ashwin concluded the proceedings. South Africa was the venue for this inaugural World cup.4 overs. so there is a lot to learn and pick before the next game. read more 2017 1117 pm Top \| wjxtwgopi ?, ??? 2017 11:17 pm Top News Delhi BJP President Manoj Tiwari today said the decision of the Sheila Dikshit government to remove farm belt of the national capital from the agricultural area list of the country was “wrong” and that he would take up the matter with the Union Agriculture Minister.” she added.t get technical training in music, Your enterprise may have every system which can be processed and reproduced. The court has “categorically observed this was an illegal and improper exercise”, This means the CBI had come there with an intention to discredit the CM’s office, download Indian Express App More Top NewsWritten by Mimansa Shekhar \| New Delhi \| Updated: August 28,astronaut ? 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(Source: Reuters) Top News The Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) has voted to replace all 15 members of its executive committee and its chairman following a year-long FIFA ban.” he speculated. coming-of-age,guess what,2 billion) have been cleared under viability gap funding, The duo has always created magic with films like. ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’ and ‘Hum Apke Hain Koun! and the team? who presented Fair & Lovely Foundation scholarships to 200 women. who was the investigation officer of Pune rural police in Satish Shetty murder case. suspects. For all the latest Lucknow News, download Indian Express App More Top News sealing wins out of drab fixtures filled with sideways passing and slow build-up play. despite several Swedish attacks of varying potence. putting himself in prime position to secure his full Tour card for 2017. I claimed my first ever top-five in this tournament two years ago. chairperson of the Department of Geology. “Chandigarh lies close to the fracture zones of the Himalayas. Related News Gulshan Grover, who plays the mafia in the Deepa Mehta-directed film, India have not lost a Test at home, Although he tried to damage six CCTV cameras and a power box in the museum his antics were caught on camera and the widely publicized images helped the police pick up leads for the arrest of Revanna. The article adds that the Niira Radia tapes have to be seen together with the 2G spectrum scam.is the head of the party? Leicester. said Ndidi was expected to complete the formalities of his move later this week. download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: IANS \| Mumbai \| Published: February 29, popular for directing “Tere Bin Laden”.8 degrees Celsius. read more	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9554
__label__cc	0.550182	0.449818	Need a SECOND TRY at a LOAN MODIFICATION?..The Court can STOP a FORECLOSURE under NEW LAW HEDGE FUNDS ARE INFLATING PRICES; KILLING MODS & SHORT SALES Bank of America sued for paying bonuses to employees to blow off HAFA\HAMP By Joe Roberts On June 17, 2013 · Add Comment Firm Commentary: Pursuant to the terms of the Pooling and Servicing Agreements of Mortgage Backed Security Trusts, Loan Servicers make more money off investors in default servicing fees when they foreclose rather than allow short sale or mofification. Bank of America routinely denied qualified borrowers a chance to modify their loans or complete short sales and then paid cash bonuses to bank staffers for pushing homeowners into foreclosure, according to affidavits filed last week in a new lawsuit. The allegations mirror the Lawsuits filed by this office against Chase and Aurora wherein homeowners allege that the large servicers has an incentive to delay and deny loan modifications and short sales so as to increase the fees earned at the expense of borrower’s and investors alike. “We were told to lie to customers,” said Simone Gordon, who worked in the bank’s loss mitigation department until February 2012. “Site leaders regularly told us that the more we delayed the HAMP [loan] modification process, the more fees Bank of America would collect.” Gordan and 6 former employees describe systematic efforts to undermine the HAMP program by routinely denying loan modifications to qualified applicants, withholding reviews of completed applications, steering applicants to costlier “in-house” loans frustrating short sales and then paying bonuses to employees based on the number of new foreclosures they initiated. This shocking behavior goes a long way to explain why the government’s Home Affordable Modification Program, launched in 2008 during the depths of the housing collapse, has fallen so far short of the original targets to save millions of Americans from being tossed from their homes. Regulators have repeatedly cited lenders for mistreating borrowers trying to modify their mortgages- but did little to stop the practice. In April 2001, five big banks—including Bank of America—settled a joint complaint with 49 states and federal regulators about their foreclosure practices. The banks agreed to provide $26 billion in relief and adhere to a sweeping series of new rules when modifying loans. Most of the money is in the form of credits and enforcement has been lax. According to Gordon, “A collector who placed 10 or more accounts into foreclosure in a given month received a $500 bonus,” she said. “Bank of America also gave employees gift cards to retail stores like Target or Bed Bath & Beyond as rewards for placing accounts into foreclosure. Bank of America collectors and other employees who did not meet their quotas by not placing a sufficient number of accounts into foreclosure each month were subject to termination. Several of my colleagues were terminated on that basis.” “Based on what I observed, Bank of America was trying to prevent as many homeowners as possible from obtaining permanent HAMP loan modifications while leading the public and the government to believe that it was making efforts to comply with HAMP,” said Theresa Terrelonge, a Bank of America collector until June 2010. “It was well known among managers and many employees that the overriding goal was to extend as few HAMP loan modifications to homeowners as possible.” The reason was fairly simple, according to William Wilson Jr., who worked as a manager in the company’s Charlotte, N.C., headquarters, where he supervised 13 mortgage representatives working on with customers seeking HAMP loan modifications. After stonewalling qualified borrowers seeking an affordable HAMP loan, Bank of America representatives could upsell them to a more costly “in-house” loan modification, with rates 3 points higher than the 2 percent rate available under HAMP guidelines, Wilson testified. Following in the footsteps of Chase and Aurora, Bank of America denied the allegations in the affidavits, which were filed in a Massachusetts lawsuit on behalf of dozens of BofA borrowers in 26 states. The Chase and Aurora matters remain pending in California Superior Court. If you are a homeowner or real estate profesional in need of legal assistance, contact our office. -J. Arthur Roberts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9556
__label__wiki	0.869593	0.869593	Ian Hoskins — Australian historian and author Documenting Australian landscape and history ‘Sydney Harbour’ ‘Coast’ Tag: Pacific War Follow my fellowship: 'The mountain cannot speak' Visiting a place one has read about and intends to write of makes an immense difference. It really does. I spent three weeks in Papua New Guinea [PNG] in September trying to get a feel for the country that Australia ‘ruled’ as a colony from 1905 – that was Papua – and a territory from 1919, New Guinea. PNG came into being in 1949. The trip was background for my upcoming history of Australia and the Pacific. The CH Currey Fellowship from the State Library of New South Wales certainly helped to fund it; PNG is an expensive place to visit. I was four days in Rabaul trying quickly to get a sense of the town which the Germans built in 1910 as the capital of their Pacific colony, the Australians took over in 1914 and made the centre of their League of Nations Mandate from 1919, the Japanese captured in January 1942 as the forward base of their Pacific campaign and the Australians reclaimed in 1945. What was left of old town after Allied bombing was destroyed 49 years later by a volcanic eruption. Four days was not long enough but I covered a lot of ground and had read up in preparation. The papers of Kenneth Thomas, copied from the Pacific Manuscript Bureau collection and held at the State Library of New South Wales, describe the town encountered by a cadet patrol officer in 1927. The young Thomas headed straightaway to Rabaul’s ‘Chinatown’ area to be fitted out with his khakis from the tailor Chong Hing. He bought his helmet from Burns Philp, the Australian shipping and trading firm which dominated ‘Australia’s Pacific’ before the war, and for a time afterwards. Rabaul looking south west from the hills above Blanche Bay, 2019 The Library also holds the original ‘War Diary’ of Jock Maclean who, as a planter, evacuated his family to Australia in late 1941 when news of war with Japan spread; ‘Many people were about, rushing from one place to another. Everyone seemed dazed’. His family farewelled, Maclean then escaped the Japanese invasion in January with a trek and boat journey to Buna, the very place where the Japanese would later land before the ‘Battle of Kokoda’. It is tempting to describe Maclean’s ordeal as extraordinary but, in 1942, it wasn’t. The Australian writer Ian Townsend has told the awful story of the execution of 11-year-old Dickie Manson with his mother and her defacto partner at the hands of the Japanese in his book Line of Fire. The American historian Bruce Gamble wrote three books on wartime Rabaul, including Fortress Rabaul which I found really useful. It is also unusual to read an American take on an Australian story. Brett Evans wrote and presented the radio documentary ‘Last Letters’ which told of the Japanese mail drop of letters over Port Moresby written by prisoners captured in Rabaul. What might have been a rare act of humanitarianism by the Japanese turned out to be a more typical expression of cruelty. The prisoners were already dead. Plaque honouring 2/22 Battalion dead at Bita Paka Cemetery Rabaul. Their bodies lie elsewhere, 2019 That was home work, but on the ground one really needs a good local guide to suggest places of interest and get to them, particularly if time is short. I am so grateful to the Rabaul Hotel, which survived the eruption, for their useful suggestions. I am so very appreciative of local historian Albert Koni who then took me to Japanese tunnels, airfields, wrecks, museums, execution sites and a submarine base. There I snorkelled along a reef drop off before entering two of five tunnels dug into the volcanic cliff face to store supplies for the subs. The last leg of our adventure had us crunching across the red and black beach of volcanic gravel towards the mountain that erupted and the site of Dickie Manson’s execution, a place identified by Albert after talking to a local man who learned Japanese during the war. Albert Koni in front of the volcano which destroyed old Rabaul, 2019 Albert Koni was born in Rabaul, the main centre of East New Britain. His parents were from the Sepik region on the mainland but he claims local Tolai identity by birthright and is recognised as Tolai by others. He trained and worked locally as a butcher and only came to history late in life. Albert takes tours with passengers from the cruise ships that occasionally visit. It must have taken some courage to make that career shift. Albert is deputy president of the local historical society which uses the old New Guinea Club as its headquarters and museum. The pre-war Club was racially exclusive, as were all of Rabaul’s places of entertainment during the Australian administration. I’m not sure if there is irony there but it is certainly poignant. Albert has never studied history formally but his knowledge is extensive. It is matched by his passion and his love for Australia, somewhere he has never visited. That one of his family was tortured by the Japanese has influenced that affection. But he also believes Australia brought modernity to New Britain, and that was a good thing. Albert is a proud Parramatta Eels supporter and wears the football team’s anniversary cap to prove it. Japanese writing on the wall of the command post known as 'Admiral Yamamato's Bunker', 2019 The story of Rabaul during World War Two is Albert’s special interest. He is quite right in believing this is barely known let alone understood in Australia. The battle of Kokoda has been elevated in the Australian collective consciousness so that it rivals, almost, the mythic status of Gallipoli and the Anzacs. But despite the books and broadcasts few who don’t have personal connections with Rabaul, family who served there for instance, know about the tragic story of the abandonment of the 2/22 Infantry Battalion who defended the town along with a few ineffective aircraft and other defence personnel. This was one of the island ramparts that Prime Minister Billy Hughes fought for after World War One. It was, consequently, given to Australia as a Mandated to manage and develop ethically. The men at Rabaul were an ‘advanced observation line’ on that rampart. In the event of an invasion they were to ‘make the enemy fight for [that] line’ in the words of the Australian Chiefs of Staff. But even before the outbreak of war those men knew that the garrison could not withstand the scale of attack that the Japanese could mount. They were right. The defenders of Rabaul were doomed from the start. More than 100 were bayonetted to death by the Japanese with their hands tied behind their backs. A similar number of Tolai people were taken to Papua as forced labour on the Kokoda campaign. I suspect few of them returned. Albert leads me down to a Japanese hospital tunnel, recently discovered, 2019 I asked Albert why he was so interested in history and he came back with something quite poetic and unexpected: ‘The mountain cannot speak’. It is up to people to do the talking, he said. And then cryptically ‘History will sustain you’. The puzzle that is our past will never, of course, be completely reconstructed or understood. But trying to put some of the puzzle pieces together sustains me too. Thanks Albert. 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__label__wiki	0.856596	0.856596	Home page > IV Online magazine > 2001 > IV329 - March 2001 IV329 - March 2001 Latest addition : 10 March 2001. The wind from the southeast 10 March 2001, by Sergio Rodríguez Lascano Seven years ago, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas began. On Sunday March 10th they concluded their march "for indigenous dignity" in Mexico City, where they are to open negotiations with the government of the new president, Vicente Fox. "A world where all worlds fit in" The Fourth International reaffirms its solidarity with the struggle of the EZLN, its March and its demands, and also salutes the Indigenous National Congress which is currently meeting. Marcos, ATTAC and José Bové Saturday, March 11, 2001, before a triumphal arrival in Mexico City the next day, Zapatista leader, Subcommander Marcos met with a French delegation composed of José Bové, Bernard Cassen and Danielle Mitterrand. Political challenges 10 March 2001, by Michel Husson On Sunday, March 10, 2001 after having covered 3,500 kilometres, the Zapatista march ended with a rally of several hundred thousand people in Mexico City. It amounted to a veritable transformation of the political situation. After the success, the same dilemmas 10 March 2001, by Ernesto Herrera There’s no doubt about it. The winds have changed and the horizon is clearing. Only a few years ago, when the neo-liberal counterrevolution was at the height of its arrogance, a World Social Forum of such a magnitude and impact would have been unthinkable. A festival of multicoloured plurality ... unlike Davos No repressive brutality. No riot gas. Neither blows nor arrests as in the mountainous Swiss bunker. Porto Alegre, on the contrary, was a multicolour fiesta of an insolent, chaotic, resistant plurality. Everything was permitted. Social Movements call for mobilisation Social forces from around the world have gathered here at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. Unions and NGOs, movements and organizations, intellectuals and artists, together we are building a great alliance to create a new society, different from the dominant logic wherein the free-market and money are considered the only measure of worth. Indigenous mobilization defeats neo-liberalism The agreement signed between Ecuador’s President Noboa and the powerful National Confederation of Indigenous peoples of Ecuador (Conaie) on February 7, 2000 represents a new victory. In the course of three years, the radical mobilization of the peasant-indigenous movement, alongside the popular urban sectors, has overthrown two neo-liberal governments, divided the Armed Forces, and won a popular plebiscite against dollarisation of the economy and the payment of the foreign debt. The Apotheosis of Bureaucratic Degeneration 10 March 2001, by Andreas Kloke The 16th party congress of the KKE (CPG - Communist Party of Greece), still by far the biggest left political force of the country, took place on Dec 14-17, 2000. The CPG, taking advantage of the outrage about the bombings of Yugoslavia by NATO, got 8.7% of the vote in the Euro-elections in 1999 and 5.5% in the national elections in 2000, roughly maintaining its position. A sea change in Scottish politics 10 March 2001, by Alan McCombes Less than two years after the first elections to Holyrood, Scottish politics has undergone a sea change. With a British general election on the horizon in a few weeks or months, Alan McCombes looks at present and probable future developments.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9567
__label__wiki	0.619395	0.619395	IR2Dx Personalized Medicine for Diabetes About IR2Dx IR2Dx Products IR2Dx Product Features Benefits of TIGAR™ Product Research & Product Development Publications & Abstracts Clinicians & Health Professionals Our Approach to Testing Patient Examples Glossary & Footnotes Harry Rittenhouse, Ph.D. August 13, 2013 by ir2dx Harry Rittenhouse, PhD, is Director of Assay Development, and joined us in 2012. He started his corporate career as a research scientist at Abbott Diagnostics, and focused his 11 years there in cancer research and immunoassay development. He then became head of In Vitro Diagnostics Cancer Research for Specialty Laboratories in California, leading scientists bringing in new specialty clinical tests and developing strategy for new test and licensing opportunities. Dr. Rittenhouse subsequently worked at Hybritech for six years as the head of In Vitro Diagnostics Cancer Research, spearheading the collaboration between Hybritech and the SRL reference lab in Japan. Together he and SRL developed the PSA testing algorithm in Japan and the marketing of SRL for PSA and Free PSA. Following the acquisition of Hybritech by Beckman Coulter, Dr. Rittenhouse worked as Senior Staff Scientist, Cancer Research. During his nearly seven year tenure, he led his research team to identify for the first time components of free PSA for more specific detection of aggressive prostate cancer and a molecular form of free PSA, BPH PSA, which has the potential to aid in the management of clinical BPH. He was an inventor for several issued patents. Dr. Rittenhouse then joined Gen-Probe and became Senior Director, Cancer Program, developing their strategy for oncology, and focusing on PCA3 and other prostate cancer management tests. During his seven years there, he led his research team for molecular diagnostic measurement of cancer genes, to detect cancer cells directly in biological fluids. They eventually received FDA approval for the leading novel molecular urine test for prostate cancer, utilizing the over-expression of the PCA3 gene in prostate cancer. Dr. Rittenhouse is a worldwide authority on prostate cancer testing and has written numerous publications. Dr. Rittenhouse earned a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, and a Ph.D in Biochemistry from Washington State University. ← Barry Ginsberg, M.D., Ph.D. Herbert Fritsche, Jr., Ph.D. → IR2Dx Panels Privacy Policy Website Terms © 2020 IR2Dx, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TIGAR Health, TIGAR, IR2DX and the IR2DX logo are trademarks of IR2Dx, Inc. in the United States and certain other countries.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9569
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Prof. Dr. Sabahattin Zaim Quality and Strategy Corporate Identity Details The Master of masters, Prof. Dr. Sabahattin Zaim was born in Štip Town of Macedonia once included in the borders of Ottoman Empire in 1926. He moved to Istanbul with his family in 1934. He continued his education started at the age of five in Fethiye Primary School located in Fatih, Istanbul. Later on, he attended Vefa High School and graduated with certificate of excellence. He entered the Civil Service (Faculty of Political Sciences) with the idea of serving his country for better and won the Faculty of Political Sciences in Ankara University. Graduating from the faculty in 1947, Prof. Dr. Sabahattin Zaim served as a Head Official in various districts of our country. Afterwards, he completed the Law Faculty in Ankara University. He started his academic career as an assistant in Istanbul University, the Faculty of Economics in 1953. Until 1993, he worked as academic personnel and head of department in Faculty of Economics in Istanbul University. Prof. Dr. Sabahattin Zaim along with his duty in Istanbul University, served as a guest academic personnel in Cornell University of USA During 1955-1957. Following his duty in USA, he gave lectures related to economy in University of Munich, Germany. During 1977-1979, he conducted his duty as a member of Board of Trustees in Middle East Technical University. During 1980-1982, he gave lectures in Socio-Engineering Developments Departments of Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. During 1993-1998, he served as the Dean of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in Sakarya University. During 1998-2000, he served as a member of YÖK (Higher Education Council). During 2003-2004, he worked as Founding Rector of International University of Sarajevo. 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A dear man of science educated in our country, the name, Sabahattin Zaim, was given to the university founded by the Knowledge Dissemination Foundation as an example of faithfulness, where he himself served as a member of board of founder trustees We remember our Teacher with gratitude. www.sabahattinzaim.org Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Turkey © IZU 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9580
__label__cc	0.618782	0.381218	Former Soccer Star, Now Soccer Fan Colbeck Capital Management – A Leader in Securing Corporate Investment Colbeck Capital Management was founded in 2009. The company is originally based out of New York, but today the company also has an office that operates out of Los Angeles, California. Jason Beckman and Jason Colodne started the company, and both men remain actively involved. Beckman and Colodne each serve as a managing partner for Colbeck Capital Management. The company is also referred to as Colbeck Capital Management, LLP. Specializing in providing solutions for what normally are considered hard to finance scenarios, Colbeck Capital Management offers capital that has been tailored to ensure complex financial needs of businesses can be met. The company has made waves with their ability to offer up large sums of money toward investment efforts. Most recently, Colbeck made available $100 million to Summit Risk Advisors in March of 2019. 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__label__wiki	0.592218	0.592218	Alfie · 954 · 33218 Pages: 1 ... 37 38 39 40 41 ... 48 KFers beyond Korat Forum Wizard Re: Brexit Reply #760 on: June 18, 2019, 12:36:48 PM This is quite amusing - from Sky news in Australia. This guy really say's it as it is. https://www.facebook.com/raheemkassam/videos/363177794556424/ Teessider KFers in Korat No metropolis without Ironopolis Reply #761 on: June 21, 2019, 12:22:01 AM OMG 1 of these two will be the next pm. Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions. Blaine Pascal Cheer up Teess. From those 2 pics I'd opt for BJ and his 'bulldog' look. Maybe he'll bite a few ankles in Brussels I'd love that In all seriousness, we could do with another Churchill to lead us out of Theresa May's mess. Is that BJ ? I've no idea - but I'd just mention that when Churchill took charge in 1939 (?) it was despite being widely decried for indiscretions and massive mistakes in times before. We'll have to see what BJ can do The mood around Brexit has changed dramatically since the elections for the European Parliament and the Farage landslide. Brexit seems back ON, with a vengeance, since TM's fall ''If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough'' - Albert Einstein BDS = Brexit Derangement syndrome Boris Derangement syndrome! Courtesy of The Spectator. The Times is almost as bad as the beeb in their anti-Johnson stance. Maybe they envy the copy he sells for the Telegraph? « Last Edit: June 21, 2019, 10:55:14 PM by caller » I heard the tory leadership race described as "the worst health secretary ever vs the worst foreign secretary ever to replace the worst pm ever". dereklev My pride and joy boy Quote from: Teessider on June 24, 2019, 11:02:32 PM That sounds about right. “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit…what a ride!” - Hunter S. Thompson I like that! And the next general election could see Johnson and Corbyn as potential PMs - the worst choice ever? Farage to the rescue, perhaps. 'You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!' Reply #768 on: July 07, 2019, 03:06:47 PM DT last Thursday :- ''The EU is a sham Democracy and it's pitiful new Leaders are the proof Thank you, Eurocrats, for being yourselves. The best cure for Europhilia is always to observe the EU’s big beasts at their unguarded worst, wheeling and dealing in their natural habitat, unencumbered by any attachment to democracy, accountability or even basic morality. The spectacle of the past few days made for compulsive watching: we witnessed rare footage of the secretive process that propels so many retreads and second-rate apparatchiks into positions of immense power in Brussles and Frankfurt, utterly disregarding public opinion.'' Some points :- . . . Ursula von der Leyen - Commission President - almost impossible to find anybody in Germany who has a good woed to say about her - Germany's weakest Minister - inquiries into a spending scandal in her department. . . . Josep Borrell - Foreign Policy Chief - recently fined E30,000 for insider trading - ''his appointment will prove catastrophic''. . . . Christine Lagarde - European Central Bank - embroiled in scandal over Bernard Tapie - neither an Economist or a Banker . . . ''the EU's latest Leaders are hard-core Federalists and won't cut us any favours.'' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/07/03/eu-sham-democracy-pitiful-new-leaders-proof/ Thanks for sharing Roger, it beggers belief how these self centred Eurocrats act in such a revolting manner and revolting is what the citizens of Europe should be doing to stop these people in their tracks..........sickening. If at first you don't succeed you are clearly not cut out for it. Give up and move on. Reply #770 on: July 08, 2019, 04:19:47 AM SFS - thank you and one is reminded of David Cameron's efforts to resist the appointment of the 'orrible Juncker now happily on his way I might be accused of selective extracts - I was trying to give the drift - there is MUCH more in the same vein and I'll post the whole article later when I gain access. Meantime, I can't quite get my head around this - the Greeks have now decisely elected a Conservative Govt against the purported anti-austerity Syrisa party - who later gave in to EU demands for austerity -\ So to achieve longer term approval from the electorate, the new Govt will need to defy the EU more successfully with improved spending plans ? That looks like fun ! And more problems for the EU ? ''Overall unemployment has fallen from 28 per cent in 2013 to 18 per cent this year, while youth unemployment has dropped from more than 50 per cent to around 40 per cent. But it was not enough to convince Greek voters tired of living under the burden of high taxes and social security payments.'' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/07/greek-government-set-landslide-election-defeat-years-austerity/ Problems in Germany too . . ''Deutsche Bank has effectively called time on its global banking ambitions after it unveiled a much more radical than expected overhaul on Sunday. This will include setting up a "bad bank" stuffed with €74bn of toxic assets, closing down large units in its investment banking arm - including equities trading - and laying off about a fifth of its workforce. Following a supervisory board meeting in Germany at the weekend, the troubled bank said the drastic measures were needed to battle falling revenues and rising costs. The overhaul is expected to cost around €8bn.'' UUmmm €74bn of toxic assets - jeepers. Not revelling in that at all but just imagine 'Project Fear's' hullabaloo if that had been a UK Bank, (doubtless they have their own problems). All is not well in this EU - that's for sure. I think that some of the reduction in unemployment on Greece is down to people moving abroad to work. The Greek election isn't a surprise as Syrisa completely caved in to the EU and as a consequence are exactly where they were before the bail out deal with the EU was forced upon them. I doubt the new Govt. will change as the Greek establishment, including their 'powerful political families' sided with the EU against Syrisa, using their press and other influences to beat them. The question is what will the new PM actually do? I suspect the Greeks will be disappointed once more. As for the selection of the new EU masters, assuming they are all rubber stamped by Parliament, just goes to prove that there is no accountability or democracy as claimed, and that the French / German axis rules supreme. It seems the selection of the new EU President has gone down particularly badly in Germany and two of the 4 nominees have (in effect) convictions against their name for corruption. SFS - here's the full DT article by Alistair Heath :- The EU is a sham democracy, and its pitiful new leaders are the proof - July 2019 • 9:30pm ''The spectacle of the past few days has shown the EU’s big beasts at their unguarded worst. Thank you, Eurocrats, for being yourselves. The best cure for Europhilia is always to observe the EU’s big beasts at their unguarded worst, wheeling and dealing in their natural habitat, unencumbered by any attachment to democracy, accountability or even basic morality. The spectacle of the past few days made for compulsive watching: we witnessed rare footage of the secretive process that propels so many retreads and second-rate apparatchiks into positions of immense power in Brussels and Frankfurt, utterly disregarding public opinion. Peeking into Europe’s dystopia was certainly the right medicine for pre-Brexit Britain, guaranteed to convert erstwhile moderates into raging Brexiteers as they looked on, aghast, at the shocking disconnect between elites and people. Everything that is wrong with the EU was shamelessly on display: a Franco-German stitch-up; smaller countries being bulldozed, especially Eastern Europeans; a constitutional coup which sidelined the (useless) European Parliament; the fact that so many of the new generation of EU leaders have had brushes with the law that would have terminated their careers in the US or UK; their explicit commitment to a “United States of Europe” and a “European army” (about which we keep being lied to); and the singing of a national anthem we were promised wouldn’t exist when the European constitution was voted down. For the past three years, the debate in Britain has missed the point: Brexiteers argue that we must leave because we voted to do so, rather than because the EU is bad; Remainers that we musn’t leave because it’s too risky, rather than because the EU is good. But we’ve forgotten what unites 65 per cent of the public, including many Remainers: a profound dislike of the EU as it actually is, of its preposterous schemes, its authoritarian nature, its commitment to harmonising and centralising everything. At times like these, it is obvious that there is no – and can be no – European democracy. For that you would need a genuine demos – a people – and to give them real power – kratos, in Greek. But almost nobody feels primarily European, and the average Sicilian has little in common with a random Finn. There is a such a thing as a metaphysical, abstract Europe; but in practice, no workable common European nation. While the EU apes some of the rituals of democracy, they are a sinister sham, and will always be. The EU is a technocratic empire, and can be nothing else. We must either give up on centuries of democratic, inclusive political progress, or leave. In any case, as imperial ruling classes go, Europe’s is pathetic. Ursula von der Leyen, the Commission president-designate, herself the daughter of a Eurocrat, has wasted many depressing years as German’s defence minister, presiding over a decrepit and underfunded Bundeswehr. A devastating parliamentary report earlier this year exposed planes that can’t fly and guns that don’t shoot. Fewer than a fifth of its helicopters are combat ready. It is almost impossible to find anybody in Germany who has a good word to say about von der Leyen, her appointment a clear case of rewards for failure. “Our weakest minister”, one said. It gets worse: a parliamentary committee has launched an inquiry into a spending scandal in her department, relating to massive contracts awarded to consultants. But she supports a United States of Europe and an EU army, so what other qualifications are required? Josep Borrell’s woes are equally recent, and haven’t prevented his nomination as foreign policy chief. Less than a year ago, as Socialist foreign minister in Spain, he was fined €30,000 (£26,900) for insider trading. The regulator ruled he had engaged in “a very serious violation” of securities law when he sold shares in Abengoa in 2015, “having privileged information on this company”. As champagne socialism goes, this takes some beating and he refused calls to resign. He also supports the disgusting clampdown on Catalonia, has made trouble over Gibraltar and agreed to set up a joint cybersecurity group with Russia last November – a move that won’t end well. Last but not least, he will be worse than useless on Iran: in an interview with Politico, he said: “Iran wants to wipe out Israel. Nothing new with that. You have to live with it.” His appointment will prove catastrophic.'' ''Boris Johnson has attacked the BBC for “conditioning” the public with “gloom and negativity” about the chances of a successful no-deal Brexit. The Tory leadership front-runner was accused by the BBC’s Andrew Neil of pursuing “mission impossible” in saying the UK could still trade tariff-free with the EU if it left without a deal on October 31. (BJ) responded by accusing the BBC of bias in controlling the “mindset of people in this country” ''. Allelleuh to that ! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/07/12/boris-johnson-attacks-bbc-conditioning-public-brexit-gloom/ Here we go then BJ is PM and we'll have to see what he can do with Brexit. Jivvy - I noticed your comment and of course, not everyone will like him Myself I'm happy to see some POSITIVE rabble rousing instead of all the negative rabble rousing. CAN DO ? What do you think ? Re: Brexit - Varadkar is wrong I thought that this was a very enlightening article and I'm interested in other's thoughts about another aspect of EU tyranny. ''Recent days have presented a paradox in Anglo-Irish relations. Leo Varadkar, the Taioseach, and his deputy, Simon Coveney, reaffirmed their desire to be weaponised by Brussels in the EU’s determination to force a no-deal Brexit. Meanwhile, at Lord’s, England and Ireland played their first test match. England were bowled out for 85 by lunch on day one, causing a small earthquake, before recovering to win the match. The sweltering ground teemed throughout with Englishmen and Irishmen joking with each other and enjoying a shared culture in which the English were no longer inevitably the masters. It made one wonder what all the fuss was about the backstop.'' . . . . ''There are few more gratuitous acts in life than to torpedo an important and mutually beneficial friendship. With the British government anxious for good relations with our Irish cousins, Mr Varadkar should urgently look for ways to build upon what we share, and not to wreck that relationship on the orders of his new imperial masters.'' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/07/27/varadkar-wrong-disregard-ancient-ties-britain-ireland/ Thaiwolf I think a united Ireland might be a good idea. If Scotland want to go, fine. Let's call their bluffs. Start building border posts on the Scotish border. The english taxpayer has been subsidising these territories for decades. While we're at it pull out of Nato, we are tired of propping up Europe's defence. Let the world see how important this insignificant little island really is. Time to play hardball Boris. The Irish problem is difficult - Varadkar and Brussels carefully turned it into an obstacle. IMO this DT review is an excellent insight. BJ visits N. Ireland this week so watch his space ! Varadkar can blame Britain all he likes – but he is the real threat to peace Varadkar . . . ''gambled, and exhorted the EU to take the hardest line possible. Before the UK and EU could negotiate their future relationship, he insisted, the border question must be decided. Never mind that this was nonsensical and everybody knew the border could only be fixed in a future trade agreement. With Varadkar’s connivance, Brussels weaponised the Northern Irish border – and with it the peace process – to lock the UK into a customs union and a colonial status in which we would have to follow EU laws. It is easy to see why this approach tempted Varadkar and his allies in Brussels. It suits them very well to keep the UK tied to European laws. It must also have been hugely enjoyable for a young Taoiseach, and his deputy, Simon Coveney, to lord it over Ireland’s former imperial masters. Books will be written about why Britain allowed Ireland and the EU to abuse the peace process in this way. My judgment is that Theresa May liked and wanted the backstop. She believed she had succeeded in splitting the EU’s fabled “four freedoms” – of goods, services, capital and people – by remaining in a customs territory with the EU while allowing Britain to control immigration. But this misunderstood the meaning of Brexit. . . . . Varadkar has sought to impose humiliating terms on Ireland’s larger and more powerful neighbour. He has tried to turn a bilateral peace process between the UK and Ireland into a political standoff between the UK and the EU. And he has abused the Good Friday Agreement for his own ends, while shamelessly accusing Brexit supporters of endangering the peace process. Under Theresa May, the UK almost succumbed. But now Boris Johnson is holding firm. When he visits Northern Ireland this week he should not be shy in pointing out who is risking a no-deal outcome and a hard border in Ireland. It is not the United Kingdom, but Leo Varadkar.'' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/07/28/varadkar-can-blame-britain-likes-real-threat-peace/ Hi TW. Re. Scotland, many Brits feel just the same - if the Scots want out, then so be it. As old Friends though, let's be nice and let them go. But IMO, the Scots will never vote for it. A united Ireland looks more than unlikely to me - maybe Ireland should join the Commonwealth or even, leave the Euro and the EU too That'd make it all easier As far as NATO goes - the USA and UK need to insist that Germany and others pay their full share but I can't agree it'd be a good idea to leave. Hardball's good ! But as yet, we Brexiteers have no substantial progress we can rely on . . . . I do wonder what K-F's from the EU think about what's going on now KiwiCanadian " I do wonder what K-F's from the EU think about what's going on now " As I am not from the EU but a Kiwi, I can remember when Britain told us in the commonwealth, basically saying WE are joining the EU and to do this we don't need you anymore. In New Zealand & Australia it was felt as a kick in the guts as we were looked on as the bread basket of Britain. This caused a mini recession that took a while to recover from. I dont think a lot of people understood how bad this was for our farming communities. NZ & Australia had been exporting produce in refrigerated ships to the UK since the late 1800's for over 50 yrs and got a kick in the guts. All I can say is the time is right, BOJO & Nigel Farage need to hold firm and tell Brussels to F Off. I used to have a handle on life........but it broke	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9598
__label__cc	0.705026	0.294974	Kukla's Korner Hockey Calgary Flames 1989 Cup run nearly derailed in 1st round by George Malik on 08/17/14 at 12:14 AM ET The Hockey News's Adam Proteau has penned the first of a two-part "oral history" chronicling the Calgary Flames' 1989 Stanley Cup win, and it never ceases to amaze me how very heavily Cup-winners are challenged in the playoff round that Scotty Bowman insisted is the most dangerous round: For the second year in a row, the Flames had finished the regular season with the NHL’s top record. In 1988, they’d won their first-round series against the Kings, only to be swept by the Edmonton Oilers in the Smythe Division final. Two years earlier, they’d made it to the first Stanley Cup Final in franchise history, falling to the Montreal Canadiens in five games. But in 1989 – their second year with Terry Crisp as head coach – the Flames proved a more resilient squad. And they had to be right away; In their opening-round series against Vancouver (a team that finished with 43 fewer points in the standings that season), Calgary lost key defenseman Gary Suter in the first game with a broken jaw, then found themselves pushed to the brink of elimination as the Canucks forced a heart-stopping seventh game – and overtime – and yet managed to move on thanks to astounding goaltending from Mike Vernon and the series-winning goal that banked in off Joel Otto’s skate. TERRY CRISP, HEAD COACH We really dodged a bullet in that first round. You’re that close to being gone and maybe never getting another crack at it. When I look back, I think there must have been a divine destiny somewhere in the first round, because Vancouver took us right to the wall. CLIFF FLETCHER, GENERAL MANAGER The pressure of the first round nearly did us in. We weren’t the hockey team we had been over the course of the regular season. We were very fortunate to win that series. Mike Vernon had to make three outstanding saves before we managed to shovel a goal late in the first overtime. AL MACINNIS, DEFENSEMAN If Mike doesn’t make those saves, we don’t move on. But when we got by Vancouver, that’s when I think that pressure was relieved from us, and we felt just felt that, ‘Man, we’re really on our way.’ After that, we lost three games total in the next three series. TERRY CRISP After that, the guys just put it into gear and away we went. Proteau continues... Filed in: \| KK Hockey \| Permalink Tags: al+macinnis, calgary+flames, chuck+fletcher, mike+vernon I love these articles, and I love that Flames team. Posted by Jaromir Blogger on 08/17/14 at 04:46 PM ET Sweet article! Thanks for posting the link. That ‘89 team was something else. Posted by Iggy_Rules from Calgary, Canada on 08/17/14 at 07:35 PM ET Video- Chicago Welcomes Back Joel Quenneville Edmonton/Calgary Still A Hot Topic Brandon Manning Suspended For A Racial Slur Sportsnet Asks NHL Players on Extending 3-on-3 OT Who Is This NHL Goalie? Will The Montreal Canadiens Think Of Trading Tatar And Weber? The Scoring Machine Known As Nathan MacKinnon NHL Short Notes Video- Goals Of The Week About Kukla's Korner Hockey Paul Kukla founded Kukla’s Korner in 2005 and the site has since become the must-read site on the ‘net for all the latest happenings around the NHL. From breaking news to in-depth stories around the league, KK Hockey is updated with fresh stories all day long and will bring you the latest news as quickly as possible. Email Paul anytime at pk@kuklaskorner.com Tweets by @kuklaskorner	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9601
__label__cc	0.620627	0.379373	I Have One Breast, Yet I Date I am a cancer conqueror. I prefer the word “conqueror” to “survivor” because of the active role I played in my battle against the disease. I was diagnosed with a type IV cancer over 15 years ago. They gave me 6 months to live, yet here I am. Note to doctors: people don’t come with expiration dates. About 3 years ago, I was diagnosed with a secondary cancer. I had to have a mastectomy. A few months later, my husband left me. I was crushed. I cried, I raged, I went through boxes of tissues. I eventually made my way back to normality. Yet that’s when I suffered a severe identity crisis. I was a one-breasted woman of “a certain age” who was once again single. It had been over twenty years since I’d last been on the open market. Times had changed and I was confronting a Brave New World of dating apps and social protocols. I wasn’t sure how I would navigate it, but that wasn’t the scariest part. No, the thing that frightened me the most was that I only had one breast. Not only that, I was overweight and “past my prime”. After all, it is common knowledge that men are visual people who only go for cute young hotties. OK, that’s an exaggeration, but I remembered from my dating back in the Stone Age that appearance counted. I had that push-up bra from Victoria’s Secret. I wore cute dresses with my special red heels. So I decided I’d put myself out there, take the risk, get rejected and then go join a convent. I went into it expecting to fail, and fail spectacularly. To my great surprise — men turned out to be way less superficial then I had feared. Maybe it’s an age thing. Just as I had matured, so had the men who were my target audience. It turns out that by the time they hit their mid years, they have realized that a special connection is more important than a perfect body. Or maybe I’d been unfair to men all along. After all, looking back, there have always been women who haven’t fit society’s norms of beauty who still find a connection to someone who can be their best friend and lover. What is really strange, but wonderful — I enjoy dating now more than I ever did before. Maybe it’s because I am no longer worried about my biological clock. I don’t feel pressured to find the man who will be my baby’s father. Instead, I just want to date people I enjoy talking to and doing things with. Age doesn’t really matter. I have gone out with younger and older men, though about +/- 5 years seems to work best. But it’s not a hard and fast rule. What is weird is that several of these dates have turned into friends. We decided, for whatever reason, that we didn’t feel a spark, but we liked each other enough to want to hang out once in a while. I’m not saying there haven’t been some bad experiences. 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__label__wiki	0.503397	0.503397	Posted on December 24, 2012 February 14, 2013 Hoa Nguyen’s “As Long As Trees Last” As Long As Trees Last By Hoa Nguyen Wave Books, 2012 Some years ago, during a seminar on Joanne Kyger in one of my favourite classes at McGill (“Poetry at the Mid-Century: the New York School and the San Francisco Renaissance”), my professor compared Kyger’s fragmentary poems to icebergs: “almost all of it is under the page level,” he said. They hint at larger meanings, to be uncovered by the reader. I couldn’t help but return to his metaphor (and, honestly, to Kyger’s work) throughout reading As Long As Trees Last, Hoa Nguyen’s new collection of poems. The fifty-seven works that comprise the collection are short but dense, and approach meaning through meticulous imagery and multisensory descriptions. One poem, for instance, opens with the aural description “toilet seat slam” (37). Elsewhere, Nguyen writes “chimes” (10, 24), inferring their sound. In the collection’s press release, Nguyen’s poems are described as “chiseled yet spacious,” but in leaving so much to be uncovered, Nguyen hands the chisel to her reader. The poems in As Long As Trees Last orbit the possibilities of selfhood. Throughout the collection, the speaker, rather than claiming coherent subjectivity or understanding of “I”, instead approaches various potential identities with the same regularity as she does quotidian tasks. We see her explore the roles of woman, mother, citizen, and even of proud poet; selfhoods that she ties intimately to spaces and nature, to histories, myths, and cultures. Some of the roles she inhabits, like when she infers motherhood with the line “my boy wears shark pajamas” (2, emphasis mine). Others she identifies with at a distance, like in the poem “US”, when she criticizes “US citizens” because they “fill up their ‘free / time’ with television” (36). The double-entendre of the title, though, of course aligns the speaker with the citizens she critiques. There’s a line in “Dirt-Under- / Nails Dirt” which might be intended to describe love, romance, or friendship, but I think it also perfectly defines the idea of the mutable self that Nguyen circles: “We love are folds / around the stripes of being” (7). Furthering her exploration of multitude identities (and, with many lines in quotation, voices), Nguyen plays with perspective and shape-shifting imagery, portraying the fluidity of the self. “Soul Poem”, for instance, moves between different points of view. Nguyen opens the poem with a description of “the soul” (but not hers), then moves to a coherent subjectivity in the next couplet, which she undermines by the couplet’s end: “I stood on a small hill / impossibly tall and alien.” The fact that the speaker feels alien in her coherent “I” exemplifies Nguyen’s rejection of a fixed identity. Suddenly, the poem’s focus shifts to the third person, fracturing the voice of speaker: The daughter was changed into a cow and then restored (9) This daughter is only one of several instances of shape-shifting in the collection. In “Rain Poem,” the speaker becomes (or hopes to become) “‘the Professor of Transfiguration’” (6); In “Unused Baby,” Nguyen alludes to the “Frog Husband” (10): “I burn / your frog skin to keep you / in the shape I prefer” (10).) Nguyen ends “Soul Poem” with another focal shift, shifting again to first-person and again to third (“I don’t / wear shoes …. Her ponytail / flipped when she swirled”), conveying both inner dislocation (or as she quotes elsewhere, “‘extreme fragmentation’”(41)) and a multifaceted self-awareness. As fluid as Nguyen portrays the self, most of the poems in As Long As Trees Last are grounded in the concrete realness of everyday. Quotidian responsibilities — “Wash towels and rags / on Wednesdays” (5); “Broil the asparagus” (11) – show how much the routine of every day anchors the self. (It’s also no surprise that much of the quotidian tasks are instances of domestic work, typically female responsibilities). In “Rain Poem,” for example, Nguyen plays with the structure of the task-based To-Do list: Mash the sea Evolve Love making the list run slightly absurd while remaining consistent with the poem’s monosyllabic rhythm and thus merging the mutable, shifting speaker with her very regular, concrete reality. Nguyen further anchors (or perhaps paralyzes) her speaker in the very real problems of debt (public and personal) and drought. In “Stimulus Drive Bulge,” she talks directly of the “ ‘Total Public Debt’ // 2001: Three point three trillion / 2009: Seventeen point three trillion” (38), and writes about personal money issues in “The Problem” (“Need a new notebook/ And what does it mean to not want”), and in “You Can Sample”: “Money goes tied to the subprime / we go / ‘month to month’” (39). My favourite allusion to the cost of life and the “problem of money” (35), though, is the repeated line “There are no free Popsicles” (40,45) in the poems “Another Drought Almost-Sonnet” and “Another Chinaberry”. Nguyen follows both iterations of the line with “I would like to see it rain again” (40, 45 with slight variation), integrating the personal drought with the natural. Between quotidian tasks and the problem of money, the morphing self is forced to stay rooted in the real. Drought is the least repeated natural imagery in the collection; as the book’s title suggests, trees, and the birds that inhabit them, recur regularly. Birds, in their diversity, become a metaphor for people, potential characteristics to inhabit: “You could be the Turkey Vulture / grooming your mate for life” (24). They also serve as metaphor for the speaker herself. In “The Spleen Rules Transformation,” Nguyen opens the poem with the line “changing plumes / bare upon a notebook” (58), paralleling the avian metaphor with the role of the poet. In the following poem, “Can’t Help it,” she continues to conflate the avian with the human: Where to fly exactly with split feather tails and gnaw the bow It’s the bird-hurt you feel (59) Anthropomorphizing birds as such provides an external projection of the fluid (flighty) self. But people, like birds, also like to “nest in translucent / comfort” (23), and throughout As Long As Trees Last, trees serve as a metaphor for the home, the environments, and the institutions that we inhabit. The poem “Feather” ends with the line “trees be the church” (32). In “Too Fast Spring Birds,” a tree is “a strong thing”, something to lean on, as well as a “hearth” (17). In the rich object poem “Chinaberry”, Nguyen details the functions and uses of the chinaberry tree. “Also called Bead Tree” (15), its fruit is poisonous to humans but turns its avian inhabitants into “Drunken songbirds” (15). When the fruit hardens, it provides “seeds for making / rosaries”. The chinaberry is a tavern and a church, each a different space for salvation. With the real comes the unreal, as Nguyen also explores definitions of the self through the reworking of myths. Nguyen depicts the duties and the powers of women through their images and stories in ancient Greek, Roman, and Mayan myths (which again brings me back to Kyger, who also retold myths in her poetry). In “Lisa’s Camile In Memoriam, April 18, 2010”, Nguyen writes: She is also called Enyo Goddess of War with torchlight and disheveled hair sister or daughter or wife (19). These female roles exist for even war goddesses like Enyo and Bellona, who were not only fighters but also sisters, daughters, and wives. In “Lady Xoc”, Nguyen defines female domestic and political roles via the Mayan myth of Lady Xoc, wife of the warrior Shield Jaguar and one of the few women in Mayan culture (or at least depicted in Mayan art) to perform rituals and have political power. “She is Lady Xoc”, performing blood-letting rituals, but she also has an enormous responsibility as wife: “how to be a Jaguar God and wife / of that You need a stingray / spine and decorated fringe coat” (21). Playing again with point of view, Nguyen depicts Lady Xoc as powerful in both her public and private roles. Comparatively, “Medusa Poem” explores another kind of female power: “These are my solo powers / hair eyes mouth tongue” (54). Medusa is sexual but not sensual. The poem is aggressive and angry. It is the one with the most profanity. “Unarmored as I am you can / take my head for your fucking / chaste warrior shield” (54). Interestingly, “Medusa Poem” is in the first person; Nguyen presents Medusa as a coherent, powerful woman. She also returns to an image of shape-shifting, although its Medusa’s victims and not herself: “Rocks that I turn you into / shift shapes like that” (55). Shape-shifting, rather than representing a fluidity of self, becomes a power and weapon. “This is me very plain” (43), Nguyen writes at the end of her poem “Bread.” Despite the multitudinous voices and selves in As Long As Trees Last, there is cohesion to the collection. The birds and the chinaberries and the very real practice of every day life all provide a structure and environment for the self to be explored. It’s this chiseled space and this fluid self that keeps bringing me back to Kyger (of whom Nguyen says she has learned a lot): “These several selves that move one self around” (Kyger, As Ever, 143). ` Dana Drori is a freelance writer and model living in New York. She received her B.A. (honours) in English Literature at McGill University, where she wrote her thesis on the significance of the flâneuse in Virginia Woolf’s works. She is easily made happy with a good collection of poetry or an early-20th century novel (the harder the aristocracy falls, the better), and wonders when, if ever, she’ll go to grad school. Posted in Poetry & Poetics, ReviewsTagged Dana Drori, Hoa Nguyen, Reviews, vol. 2 Prev Elegy for Newtown from NRA via David Frum’s Twitter Feed Next Stephen Collis: Letter From Rome	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9608
__label__cc	0.582273	0.417727	Home » * Actors » Chris Pratt » You are reading » Chris Pratt Believes in God Because His Fame Was ‘Perfectly Planned’ January 5, 2017 Chris Pratt Believes in God Because His Fame Was ‘Perfectly Planned’2017-01-05T21:27:48+00:00 - * Actors, Chris Pratt - 1 Comment ‘Passengers’ hunk Chris Pratt has seen firsthand how swiftly “divine” intervention can change a person’s life. The current ‘Vanity Fair’ cover boy opened up about his rise from door-to-door salesman to box-office king in the February issue of the magazine. “I was selling coupons for things like oil changes or trips to a spa,” said Pratt, who told the magazine it didn’t really matter what he was selling because a salesman only has one product: himself. “I was great at that,” he said. He got absorbed in this new gig, walking through town, making the same pitch again and again. It turned out to be perfect training for a future life of audition and rejection. “That’s why I believe in God and the divine. I feel like it was perfectly planned. People talk about rejection in Hollywood. I’m like, ‘You’re outta your f-kin’ mind. Did you ever have someone sic their dog on you at an audition?” And while working at a restaurant in Hawaii, he insists God looked down on him because he met famous actor and pot advocate Tommy Chong’s daughter, Rae Dawn Chong, who set him up with an audition for a comedy, called ‘Cursed Part 3’. He ended up with a leading role. Though it was “the worst movie” Pratt had ever seen, the role earned him a manager, and he believes his A-list path was set then and there. “The whole reason that movie came along was just so I could be brought to Hollywood.” He’s 37. Anatoly Goncharov by Photographer Serge Lee Bernardo Belmar in 'Adon' Magazine Today's Birthday: Carlos PenaVega Sean Alexander in 'Adon' Magazine Celeb Crush Wednesday: Miguel Angel Silvestre Matt Bomer Gives Directing a Shot Killian Belliard by Pascalpprl Photography Singer Cameron Dallas is smokin' http://malecelebnews.com/2017/01/05/chris-pratt-believes-in-god-because-his-fame-was-perfectly-planned/http://malecelebnews.com/wp-content/images/2017/01/pratt2.jpeghttp://malecelebnews.com/wp-content/images/2017/01/pratt2-117x150.jpeg 2017-01-05T21:27:48+00:00 mcn* ActorsChris Pratt 'Passengers' hunk Chris Pratt has seen firsthand how swiftly 'divine' intervention can change a person's life. The current ‘Vanity Fair’ cover boy opened up about his rise from door-to-door salesman to box-office king in the February issue of the magazine. “I was selling coupons for things like oil changes or... Surfwatcher - January 6th, 2017 at 1:00 am He’s definitely come a long way since Everwood. « Durian Willink by Photographer Juliana Soo Gabriel Snow by Photographer Eric McKinney »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9612
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__label__cc	0.54265	0.45735	The best things I ate recently during five weeks in Thailand OUTSIDE BANGKOK Laap ped at Somtum Jinda in Ubon Ratchathani This is my number one. I spent time in Ubon Ratchathani and Khon Kaen, two towns in Isarn province in north eastern Thailand, because I wanted to eat Isarn food, and specifically I wanted to eat laap ped, or spicy minced duck salad. (This is a very thorough explanation of laap.) At Somtum Jinda I had the best laap of my life, far better, even, than any of the other laaps I ate in Isarn. Although 'salad' is the consensus translation of laap into English, most of the time it feels like an awkward misnomer; this dish, however, really did feel like a wonderful salad, in the sense of a carousel of distinct ingredients whirling across your tastebuds. On another night I had a curry of fish belly with fish eggs, which was almost as good. Although I went all over Ubon Ratchathani in search of laap, Somtum Jinda was directly opposite my hotel – clearly, a higher power led me to this restaurant. They even have a menu in English, which is surprising: no Western tourists come to Ubon Ratchathani, because there isn't really anything to see or do there. And that's the problem with a recommendation like this – realistically, none of you are ever going to go to Ubon Ratchathani. But if for some reason you do, you must eat here. Grilled pork neck at Gai Yang Rabeab in Khon Kaen There may be no better place to eat the classic Isarn lunch of grilled chicken, som tam (papaya salad), and sticky rice. And on weekends, they also serve kor moo yang (grilled pork neck, above). Mark Wiens has written about this place on his useful website Eating Thai Food. Everything was superb, including the chilli dip – in Khon Kaen they serve a dip that tastes a lot like a Mexican chipotle en adobo, so it presumably must involved smoked chillis. If you ever go to Khon Kaen – again, there's no reason why you would apart from the food, but I don't know, perhaps you'll get embroiled in some baroque scheme to accumulate air miles which requires you to fly to Khon Kaen – and you want to eat kor moo yang, but it's not the weekend so they're not serving it at Gai Yang Rabeab, I can recommend a restaurant on the main drag with the straightforward name of Kor Moo Yang Khon Kaen. Can I note at this point that I am not a person who takes photos of all my food? Only when I have a hunch that it's going to be amazing. Nam prik ong at Sorn Chai in Chiang Mai The best thing I ate on my prior trip to northern Thailand, a year ago, was the nam prik ong (spicy pork and tomato dip) at at a little place called Sorn Chai which I heard about from Robyn Eckhardt's blog EatingAsia . But I was there on my first day in Thailand, and at the time I couldn't be quite sure that the sheer exhilaration of being back there wasn't distorting my judgement. So on this trip I went as far as to book a hotel near Sorn Chai, and block out a whole day on my calendar, for the express purpose of verifying this nam prik ong. (Obviously it didn't take a whole day, but I just couldn't leave anything to chance.) And it was just as good as I remembered. In fact, if not for Somtum Jinda, this would have been the best thing I ate in Thailand for the second year in a row (which would have been pretty boring, so I'm especially grateful for that laap). Khao soi at Khao Soi Loong Prakid Gard Gorm in Chiang Mai Khao soi is egg noodles in yellow curry sauce with beef or chicken. There are certain khao soi places in Chiang Mai that come up again and again, and this isn't one of them, but I think it's my favourite I've had there. This has apparently been featured on the recent Netflix series Somebody Feed Phil, BUT I WENT BEFORE THAT AND I CAN PROVE IT. Mango sticky rice 'nigiri' at Fruiturday in Chiang Mai I don't think I've ever eaten a dish that was such blatant Instagram bait, but to be honest with you I really enjoyed it. Boat noodles at Chen Long Boat Noodle in Hat Yai Kuaytiaw reua, better known as boat noodles, are rice noodles with meatballs in pork broth. This is one thing I never realised about Thai street food before spending time in Thailand – on the whole, Thai people are not eating pad thai, tthey are not eating green curry, they are not eating anything you've ever eaten in a high street Thai restaurant – they are eating boat noodles. Boat noodles everywhere. In a lot of places you see as many boat noodles stalls as you see all other kinds of stalls put together. In practical terms, boat noodles is the national dish of Thailand. And yet it hardly exists in the west. Personally, I'm not a big boat noodle guy, but I think this one is the best I've ever had. Bak kut teh at Ko Ti Ocha in Hat Yai Bak kut teh is pork rib stew. Yes, that is an entire head of garlic in the bowl. This might be a good place to note that Hat Yai was my 'discovery' of the trip. As with Isarn province, almost no western tourists go there, but I found it an enchanting place: it's the fifth biggest city in Thailand, and the closest major city to the Malaysian border, which makes it very multicultural, 40% Muslim but also full of Chinese influence. If you've ever been to Penang, it's quite similar – not as beautiful, but almost as stimulating to walk around. And the food is spectacular. This, characteristically, is a Malaysian-Chinese dish, which I heard about from Austin Bush's Thai Eats map. Curries at Khao Gaeng Khong in Hat Yai Thailand is full of khao gaeng – rice and curry – shops, but this is the only one I've ever been to that operates as a buffet. They give you a plate and you can just serve yourself anything you want! My hands were shaking I was so intoxicated with possibility! I suspect it's down to the Malaysian influence, because the only other self-service curry place I've eaten at in south east Asia was in Penang. I went here twice and everything I tried was fantastic. It's only open after dark, and it's on Google Maps under its Thai name ข้าวแกง5โค้ง – just copy and paste that if you want to find it. IN BANGKOK Pad si ew at Nai Lao Pad si ew is flat rice noodles stir fried with pork, egg and Chinese kale. I read about this place on Taste of Bangkok, and I think it was the best thing I ate all week. You can't tell from the unflattering photo above, but somehow it looked like something you'd get served in a Michelin-starred restaurant, and it tasted like that too. It cost 40 baht, or 91p, and the place wasn't even busy. Bangkok is an extraordinary place. Goat biryani at Muslim Restaurant This is only available on Mondays and Fridays. The texture of the goat meat was just uncanny, like they'd put it through some kind of experimental matter transmuter from Star Trek. More about this on Eating Thai Food. Yellow chicken curry at Krua OV Extremely good. More about this on Eating Thai Food. Green catfish curry at Jio Also extremely good. I read about this on Leela Punyaratabandhu's blog SheSimmers. It's only open for breakfast and early lunch. Mango sticky rice at Boon Sap This is the closest thing I've ever tasted to a perfect mango sticky rice, although I wasn't able to compare it to the nearby Sor Boonprakob Panich because that was closed for Chinese New Year. More about this on Streetside Bangkok. The first time I tried to go, around lunchtime, they'd already sold out, so go early. I cannot recommend making the trek out to the much-praised Maewaree, which I found unexceptional. This is an illustration of the perverse and Sisyphean reality of being a 'foodie': when I first visited Thailand, I was thrilled by any random mango sticky rice from Chatuchak Market, but now half the time I just feel mild disappointment at the pudding's faults. What a way to live. Pork satay at Jay Eng Until I ate at this stall in Chinatown, I'd thought of satay as something you only ever eat in situations when you wish you were somewhere else having a real dinner: the canapés are coming round at a boring launch party, or you're in an awful central London bar with an 'Asian' menu. But here I learned that satay can be a remarkable thing. I came across it using Wongnai, the Thai version of Yelp. Pad thai at Thipsamai Pad Thai and Orawan Pad Thai I queued for almost an hour to eat the famous pad thai at Thipsamai. Yes, it was impeccable, but the thing is, there are neighbourhood places you can eat a pad thai which is almost as good and you don't have to wait at all. One of them is Orawan, which I read about on Streetside Bangkok. Egg noodles with roast duck and roast pork at Prachack Pet Yang This wasn't on the level of what I ate in Hong Kong and Macau in January, but it was still pretty great. More about this on Eating Thai Food. Nang Loeng market There was no one thing at this market that would have made this list on its own. But if you eat 1. a couple of curries at Khao Gaeng Ruttana, 2. saikrok pla naem (pork sausage with fish powder) at Mae Lek, 3. khao kluk kapi (fried rice with shrimp paste) at Sonthaya, and then 4. kanom gluay (banana cake) at Nanta, you may find yourself, as I did, almost tearfully grateful for the sheer beneficence of Thai cuisine. Three of those four are listed on BK. Special mention: banana leaves Most days in Thailand, my breakfast would be something wrapped in a banana leaf from a street vendor. I say 'something' because I don't speak Thai, so the contents were a surprise every single time; sometimes it would just be sweetened sticky rice; sometimes, best of all, it would be sticky rice with coconut milk and banana; once it was full of tiny sardines cooked with chilli and herbs; once it was just a wad of seasoned raw pork mince! (I was told by a nearby Thai person that although you're normally expected to put one of these in a microwave, you can, if you want, just eat it raw; so I had a taste, but it wasn't delectable enough for me to take the risk of eating the whole thing. After that I learned to check that the banana leaf was darkened by steaming or grilling.) I wish all breakfasts could involve unwrapping a mystery. Why were the 1860s the most boring time in history to take a long voyage from England? "Prior to the 1850s, it was common for ships sailing to India and Australia to stop en route for water and provisions, and many passengers were thankful for the break at Cape Town. In the 1870s, with the advent of the steamship and the opening of the Suez Canal, the journey not only became shorter, it had to be interrupted for frequent coaling stops. But for most of those traveling during the third quarter of the nineteenth century—and only a minority traveled on the celebrated clipper ships—the voyage was made nonstop and out of view of land for almost the entire distance. For those going all the way to Australia, the average journey took one hundred days. "Additionally, whereas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many voyagers had been thrilled to make natural and scientific observations, by the mid-nineteenth century, most of what there was to identify had been identified – and how much more was there to say about the albatross? In short, by the third quarter of the nineteenth century, oceanic travel had become much more monotonous: it was less dangerous, the route was well known, there were few if any stops, land was rarely in sight, and there was little novelty in seeing birds and fish that had been seen and described before. This routinization of travel parallels the bureaucratization of work." from "Imperial Boredom" by Jeffrey Auerbach Two remarkable stories from Bioterrorism and Biocrimes by W. Seth Carus "In early 1991, several French physicians reported on a case in which a 41-year-old woman tried to commit suicide by injecting herself with two to three milliliters of HIV-contaminated blood taken from a friend who had AIDS. Two hours after the event, she went to a hospital emergency room, where she was treated with zidovudine. Despite the treatment, three months after the injection laboratory tests indicated that she was infected with HIV." "According to an official of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mexican contract workers involved in a screwworm eradication program may have deliberately spread that pathogen among livestock. Although the perpetrators were never charged, the workers apparently spread the screwworm because they were seeking to protect their jobs, which would have disappeared once the parasites were eliminated. The releases apparently took place in an area of Mexico about 50 miles south of the border with the United States." The best things I ate recently during five weeks i... Why were the 1860s the most boring time in history... Two remarkable stories from Bioterrorism and Biocr...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9632
__label__cc	0.681336	0.318664	"); document.getElementById("ty2udate203").innerHTML = time203; setTimeout("clock203()", 1000); }; listen("load", window, clock203); Parallel Versing Fundraising concert by Deepani De Alwis - Piano recital Deepani De Alwis - National Gold Medalist for Licenciate Piano Performing: Bach: Partita No. 6, Beethoven: Sonata Op 57 Appassionata, Schumann: Kreisleriana,Debussy: Image 11 18 Sep - Piano Recital at Lionel Wendt at 7 pm. Tickets available at Lionel Wendt. All proceeds go to the Music Project deepani De Alwis Thank you to our Roadshow sponsors Unite Roadshow report UNITE – ROADSHOW 2016 The Music Project's new venture – "The UNITE roadshow 2016". Our founder trustee Shalini Wickramasuriya has often felt that the children of the Music Project Orchestra deserve better exposure to demonstrate years of hardwork, further performance opportunities and to spread the word about what the project. The Music Project is now in its fifth year working with the group of children who registered for the programme in 2011. In addition to the many events and venues at which the children have performed, an integral part of the programme has been the bi-annual residential programme held in Kurunegala and Mullaitivu which provides the children of two formerly divided communities, the opportunity to connect and network as an orchestral community. The children of the north and south work alongside their peers as desk partners, sharing musical scores, engaging in living and working together to make the orchestra happen. This year it seemed relevant to showcase the achievements of the children who are part of a collaborative and united orchestra through a roadshow from Thursday 25 – Saturday 27. The Music Project - Roadshow 2016 The Music Project's - UNITE Roadshow This August The Music Project's UNITE - Roadshow will showcase the talents of 200 of our children from schools of Mullaitivu and Kurunegala through a roadshow which will travel to Kandy, Negombo and Colombo. The children will perform in public locations to inspire the public what these children have achieved. This initiative will help us provide the children with much needed exposure and an unique performance opportunity. Please help us make this a reality – by sponsoring something big or small! Transport (Cost for buses Kurunegala and Mullaitivu for 5 days) = Rs. 455,000/- Public performances (Hire of chairs, sound systems, publicity, certificates) = Rs. 58,500/- Meals (Breakfast, Tea/snacks, Lunch, Dinner)= Rs.549,000/- Logistics (Setting up washrooms, temp. kitchens) = Rs. 25,000/- Total cost of the Road Show - Unite Programme is Rs.1,087,500/- Your gesture would go a long way to make this unique and united performance a reality. So please select items from our wish list above or donate dry rations towards the meals – we thank you so much for your consideration. Parallel Versing visit to Sri Lanka Beyond Skin are pleased to announce the next phase of the Parallel Versing project encompassing a large schools programme and various musician exchanges between Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka. Parallel Versing is a project using music to change the life trajectory of children whose quality of life has been impacted by the legacy of conflict. The project was developed in 2013 by intercultural arts organisation Beyond Skin & The Music Project organisation based in Sri Lanka. The project has been developing and expanding successfully over the past few years receiving global recognition with key support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast Harbour, Arts & Business and Esufally Foundation. With a recent investment from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland through the Professional Arts Abroad Scheme and Belfast Harbour, the next phase of the project will start on 17th February. Educational Tour - to the Colombo Port on 30th Jan 2016 What a valuable experience the Music Project children received by the SLPA. The staff members of SLPA gave a fabulous tour - showing them "Europa 2" - a passenger liner, The Colombo Port Expansion Project and How the South Container Terminal works. At the end of the tour a scrumptious dinner was prepareed by SLPA. Thank you SLPA for such a memorable experience. Educational tour - to the Planetarium on 30th Jan 2016 For most of the Music Project children and their parents this was their first visit to the Planetarium in Colombo Residential Fellowship Programme 2016 This programme held from 29th - 31st Jan 2016 was hosted by The British School of Colombo (BSC) specially for the children of the Music Project. An innitiative designed to cross boundaries, to enocourage fellowship among each other and to learn to respect each other inspite of diverse backgrounds. Who would have thought that some rural kids would be so musically talented and could teach classical music to urban kids? and who would have thought that some rural kids would be compassionate enough to want to share their time to show the music project children how to swim in the pool, teach them how to use paint on the computer and play new fun games? Well thats exactly what happened at the Residential Fellowship Programme 2016! The first day of the programme was conducted by The Music Project children. Where they conducted three activities. 1. a special performance - introducing what an orchestra is about 2. teaching two songs on the recorder (a tamil and sinhala song) 3. "Making a musical instrument". The 2nd day of the programme was conducted by The British School children. where they conducted 4 activities - 1. learn how to be confident in the water & have fun 2. an IT experience -with Paint 3. fun team building games 4. fun sports activities «StartPrev12345678NextEnd» Scottish Charity (Sc041632) NGO registration no. FL 144304 Volunteering with the Music Project in Kurunegala has been a very worthwhile and enjoyable experience. During my time with the Project I have taught English in the mornings at a local school called Lakdasa College. Then in the afternoons I travelled to several different schools with the Music Project itself to teach English, trumpet and recorder. The children are all very eager to learn which makes them a pleasure to teach. Sandy McCleery The Music Project is always looking for more volunteers and donors. If you are interested in what we do and would like to play a part in the future of Sri Lanka, please contact us! UK contact: Claudia Trainer © 2020 The Music Project. All rights reserved. \| Solution by Chinthaka Senanayake	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9634
__label__cc	0.584291	0.415709	Hiking in Utah’s Islands Christi February 23, 2017 March 7, 2017 Project 100 4 Comments Islands — in Utah? Sort of. Surrounded by Colorado Plateau canyonlands instead of ocean waters, Islands in the Sky is one of three sections in Canyonlands National Park divided by the Green and Colorado rivers. From the town of Moab (convenient for visiting Arches National Park as well), and without a 4WD vehicle, the most practical section for us to visit was Islands in the Sky in the northern part of the park. Remote wilderness makes up much of the park’s two other sections, The Needles and The Maze. The Islands in the Sky mesa sits like a sandwich between the Green and Colorado rivers. At an average elevation of 6,000 feet at the top of the plateau, it looks and feels a bit like the Grand Canyon’s little sister. Here, numerous hikes drop down via rocky canyon ledges to the extensive White Rim, a sun-exposed sub-plateau of white sandstone that runs in a meandering V-shape around the Islands in the Sky up above. Our visit in early November was the perfect time to explore this arid country. Our first day we hiked the Murphy Loop Trail, a nearly 11-mile jaunt with magnificent views of Stillwater Canyon through which the Green River flows. Once we arrived at the edge of the mesa, the trail descended very steeply into a canyon where we had a bit of a staring contest with a bighorn sheep who thought he had the trail to himself that day. We continued picking our way down among the boulders until we came to Murphy Hogback, a flat, skinny ridge of land where we stopped for a snack with a view before connecting to White Rim Road. Popular with mountain bikers, motorcyclists and jeep drivers, this rugged, 100-mile back-country road runs along the rim some 1,000 feet above the Green River. We followed White Rim Road to connect to Murphy Wash for the return loop. The walk back up followed the wash for nearly three miles, and some of the rocky cliffs and wash overhangs provided cool shade that we found very welcome on the warm, sunny afternoon. Once back at the junction with the main Murphy Trail, we had one final steep climb out of the crescent-shaped canyon to reach the mesa above. The hike was good preparation for our upcoming foray into the Grand Canyon (see the recap of that here), and we were beat at the end of the day. That didn’t stop us from undertaking an even tougher hike the next day. The Syncline Loop Trail traverses more than eight miles of punishing terrain. It circles the unusual Upheaval Dome crater, which may or may not have been caused by a meteor strike (scientists are still debating the issue). The Park Service considers this trail one of the toughest day hikes in the Islands in the Sky area, with the majority of trail rescues occurring here because of difficult route-finding and incredibly steep stretches. However, the ranger recommended it for fit people wanting a challenge, and that sounded like us. In fact, this was one of our favorite Project 100 hikes. Following the trail clockwise, we descended into a shaded canyon and eventually came to a dry wash as the trail bottomed out. A bit past three miles in we reached the turnoff for Upheaval Canyon, the only footpath to the Green River. We considered detouring to see the river but hesitated to add another seven miles to our day. The main trail soon came to another turnoff, this time for the Upheaval Crater Spur Trail that headed into the heart of the crater. Although we were tempted to explore the crater, adding even five miles seemed unwise. We slowly climbed out of the canyon and then had to navigate an immense boulder field that nearly defied ascent. This is where the truly difficult route-finding came in, and we had to remain alert for small rock cairns marking the way. At one point, if not for a small metal plaque attached to a boulder reading “trail” with an arrow, you would never guess the trail squeezed through the crevice above it. The trail rose through one steep canyon only to come to another, which required a slickrock scramble, and then a longer walk through numerous washes. We wondered if we had lost the trail because it seemed like we had been hiking for well more than eight miles. Yet we continued to spy cairns and footprints in the sandy washes and kept trudging along. We were relieved to see the car when we finally emerged at the trailhead late in the afternoon. Despite our weariness, we wanted to follow the ranger’s other recommendation of catching sunset at the Grand View Point Overlook where the paved road ended. Here, unlike the lightly traveled Syncline Loop Trail, quite a few people waited for the perfect sunset photo from the overlook’s ledges. Our pitiful camera couldn’t capture the beautiful sunset, but we did find the dramatic scene in front of our eyes restorative after a long, hard day’s hike. The air quickly cooled after sundown, and we headed back to Moab in the twilight. ← The Zing of Arches Carving out Time for the Gunnison → 4 thoughts on “Hiking in Utah’s Islands” Maxine February 24, 2017 at 2:31 pm This looks like you did a lot of boulder hiking on this adventure. I was wondering about losing your way on some of these hikes, but it seems you two have done a great job at following the trails.The Islands in the Sky Mesa view was fascinating along with the brilliant colors of the sunset. Christi Post author February 24, 2017 at 5:38 pm The Syncline Loop was tough going but so rewarding at the end. Aunt Shirley March 2, 2017 at 7:43 pm With all that hiking, how many pairs of shoes did you wear out? Sounds like a lot of walking, climbing, and rough rocks! You both get a gold medal in my book! Christi Post author March 5, 2017 at 8:32 am We did put a lot of miles on our feet and had to replace our hiking boots and several pairs of sneakers during the year.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9639
__label__cc	0.613019	0.386981	Miscalculations in Mulegé Christi May 19, 2017 July 12, 2017 Mexico Adventures 2 Comments Leaving Los Cabos, we pointed the car north for the return drive along the Baja California Peninsula, planning to explore Mulegé, a small coastal town we had zipped past on our way south but made a mental note to return to. First, though, we made a quick stop at Todos Santos, a charming, historic Pueblo Mágico on the Pacific Coast that attracts artists, surfers, sea turtle lovers and fans of the group the Eagles. People like to think the town’s Hotel California, built in 1947, inspired the Eagles song of the same name, but band members have denied staying there and said that the song is not about a hotel at all but rather a cautionary tale about the trappings of success and excess. The tidy town also inspires volunteers who come to help nesting leatherback, olive Ridley and black sea turtles on Todos Santos beaches. They collect and incubate eggs during the colder months, then release the hatchlings on the beach at sunset from December through April. We couldn’t stay until the evening to watch one of the hatchling releases, but at least we had time to stroll around downtown at mid-day. We admired a mural by Guadalupe Alfredo Martinez Álvarez illustrating Todos Santos’ history located in a small plaza of shops (below), then satisfied our hankering for seafood tacos at a little thatch-roofed restaurant. The town was much quieter than we’d expected on a Sunday, and as long as it retains its small-village charm, we’d like to return to Todos Santos someday. Onward to Mulegé Continuing north, we spent one night in the inland city of Ciudad Constitución before moving on the next day to Mulegé on the gulf coast. It looked rather charming from the highway and we figured it would be a nice place to spend our anniversary. The town straddles the Santa Rosalía River, which feeds a green ribbon of palm oasis where the desert meets the sea. We drove through the arched entryway to downtown and went in search of lodging. Our first choice, Hotel Hacienda, had a delightful patio and rooms but no running water due to a broken pipe. We walked down the block and settled on the Hotel Hacienda Mulegé, a courtyard hotel that had definitely seen better days. In fact, the whole town has seen better days. Only a few streets were paved, and many buildings and homes appeared abandoned or in a severe state of disrepair, likely due to one of the five hurricanes to have struck here in the last decade. It was also our bad luck to be there on a Monday when nearly every restaurant in town and many shops were closed. We managed to find one humble lunch spot open and ducked inside for rubbery tortilla chips, watery salsa and a greasy bowl of posole, a hominy-based soup that is usually pretty tasty. (It’s hard to say whether that meal was better or worse than our anniversary dinner later that evening — a pouch of refried beans, canned salsa and slightly stale flour tortillas from the grocery store.) In our walk around town, we were surprised by the number of foreign tourists in Mulegé. Other than the Santa Rosalía de Mulegé mission and the river, there is little to see or do in town. How did so many non-locals end up here? How did we end up here? It’s a bit like a woman with gorgeous hair who seems like a real beauty from a distance, but up close she’s missing half her teeth and has smeared lipstick and two-day-old mascara smudges ringing her eyes. Nevertheless, we drove to the end of the road near the lighthouse at the mouth of the river, where the wind blew the sea ashore in strong waves. The weather had become quite blustery, but we walked along the beach and to our delight found an incredible array of shells. We also watched several masked boobies — new birds for both of us — diving into the shallow water at the shoreline. Heading back upriver, we spied several species of gulls, ducks and a pair of reddish egrets fluffing up their shaggy head and neck feathers and flapping their large wings as they stalked prey midstream. Between the beach and the river, we saw more than a dozen bird species. We also saw a strip of much nicer-looking vacation rentals in a Gringoland of sorts on the south side of the river, where we should have looked for accommodations. That’s obviously where all those foreign tourists were staying. Back at our hotel (after the scrumptious anniversary dinner), around nightfall we heard the strains of live music from a band tuning up coming from the square next door. “Oh, goody,” I told Hector, “maybe it’s another a free open-air performance. Let’s check it out!” We walked over to see a band setting up in the town gymnasium. Hector held back, saying he thought it might be a private party. I pooh-poohed his reluctance and strode confidently in, taking a seat a few rows up on the concrete bleachers as Hector looked at me doubtfully. Soon an emcee came out to lead everyone in prayer and then began selecting audience members to come down and recite Biblical passages. We realized we were at an Evangelical Christian revival. Two heathens like us at a revival? Fish out of water! Fearing we might be called forth to testify, we waited until a gaggle of little kids crowded the floor so we could make our escape as unobtrusively as possible. Sometimes I wonder how Hector puts up with me and my ill-conceived ideas. The miscalculations don’t seem to bother him, though, even on anniversaries. What a trouper! ← Bucking the Trend in Cabo Seeking Gray Whales in Guerrero Negro → 2 thoughts on “Miscalculations in Mulegé” Maxine Ferris April 19, 2017 at 3:23 pm Yes, what a trouper that Hector is, and I might say the same for you. You didn’t see the revival as a “sign” of some sort ? I had to do several takes on your picture at the beach, it looked like you had a fancy headband on, or was it trees in the background, sure had me giving it a good look-over. I finally discovered it was your hair.Ha-ha! Adelante! Christi Post author April 20, 2017 at 9:58 am We were just lucky lightning didn’t strike us at the revival! But the wind blowing my hair upright almost makes me look like I was struck by lightning. Time for a haircut!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9640
__label__cc	0.703781	0.296219	VKC, state team to expand services for children with autism Jul. 7, 2016, 9:06 AM The Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) has awarded three training and technical assistance grants totaling $3.25 million to Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD) to enhance statewide services for children with autism and other intellectual and developmental disabilities from birth to kindergarten. This new funding allows TRIAD to strengthen its Early Learning Program, which includes diagnostic and early intervention services for children younger than 36 months through the Tennessee Early Intervention System, as well as various professional development opportunities for TDOE preschool educators statewide. Under two grants — a three-year grant contract focused on extending existing services in Middle Tennessee and a one-year pilot contract focused on developing new services in West Tennessee — TRIAD early intervention programming begins within weeks of an autism evaluation, and ongoing supported mentorship and coaching is available to providers from local Early Intervention Resource Agencies (EIRA) across these regions. TRIAD will expand its deployment of rapid remote diagnostic evaluations, meaning families in rural and low-resource areas will have greater access to these services. “We aim to provide high-quality, evidence-based services and training for families and professionals in the topics and skills of most need,” said Alacia Stainbrook, Ph.D., who directs these programs at TRIAD. “To accomplish this, we’re working with our partners at the state level to increase access to all that need it. We very much believe that geography shouldn’t limit anyone’s ability to receive good services.” In addition, a five-year grant continues a long partnership with TDOE to provide professional development and training opportunities for preschool educators across Tennessee, with a large focus on developing model preschool classrooms in various regions of the state. The TRIAD model classrooms serve as regional training sites and best-practice demonstration sites for preschool educators. Current examples of TRIAD model classrooms are in Medina and Cookeville; a model classroom will be developed within Franklin Special School District during the 2016-2017 academic year. TRIAD received a large five-year grant contract, which began July 1, 2015, to provide professional development services and behavioral support to K-12 educators across Tennessee. TRIAD’s director, Pablo Juárez, M.Ed., BCBA, sees the opportunity to more fully tie these various services together in a way that fosters active family and professional engagement. “We’re working with our partners at the Tennessee Department of Education to develop supportive systems of care and education that use each pivotal point of service as opportunities to empower families and professionals to access the services they need, when they need them and where they need them,” Juarez said. Grant significantly expands Vanderbilt’s autism training for Tennessee educators New report shows prevalence of autism rising in U.S. Tennessee, Vanderbilt launch novel autism intervention program Donation from Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services helps expand Teen Driver Safety Initiative at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Jan Rosemergy · (615) 322-8238 · Reporter Alacia Stainbrook autism Pablo Juarez Reporter July 8 2016 tennessee department of education TRIAD Vanderbilt Kennedy Center	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9647
__label__wiki	0.804007	0.804007	[SITE SEARCH] [CONTENTS] [CONTACT US] Scottish Standards or Colours of the Civil Wars Standards of the Scots in the ECW described by Brian McGarrigle and illustrated by Antony Barton. Article taken from 'Military Modelling', December 1978, includes append from January 1979. A reconstruction of a Lowland infantryman, based on contemporary descriptions and equipment lists. He carries the usual musketeer's equipment, with the addition of a sack of oatmeal, a swine-feather and a "long knife". The issue clothing is of "hodden gray", an enigmatic colour which might be fawn, brown or grey. Standards Illustrated: JUMP to Graphic Navigation and key to images. The Scots entered the Civil War in 1644 on the side of Parliament, having previously (1639-40) been in arms against the King. In 1648, however, they changed sides and from 1648-51 they were royalist. Fighting for the King the Scots suffered three major defeats. At Preston 85 colours were lost; at Dunbar 146 and at Worcester 159, including the King's own standard. These flags were sent as trophies of war to the English Parliament who ordered them to be hung in Westminster Hall where they were carefully recorded and drawn as a "perpetual memorial to His Highness' (Cromwell's) victories". Throughout the Civil Wars the standard carried by the Scottish Armies was their national flag, the St. Andrew's Cross (D2). Unlike the English who placed their flag in canton, the Scots only occasionally did so (E2-5) preferring to display the saltire in full. This flag, the white saltire on a blue field, was adapted for military use; the colours of the field and saltire being changed for regimental distinction (D2-6). The result is very satisfying and must have presented a brave sight on march or in battle. The "Lion Rampant" on the other hand (B2), was the personal standard of the sovereign as King of Scots. It could be flown by him alone or by his Lieutenant. Great respect was accorded to this flag. When raised it was greeted by a salute of trumpets, and it was such a royal salute, in 1645, that first warned Argyll that Montrose, the King's Lieutenant, was upon hini at dawn at Inverlochy. Scottish colours were 6% feet by 6 feet square and were made of silk or taffeta. Some, however, were smaller and those of Colonel Scott's Regiment were 5 feet 3 inches by 4 feet 4 inches. The colour-staff generatly terminated in a spear- point, from which hung two long tasselled cords, used to secure the flag when furled. Colours were unfurled in battle - as a t Newcastle, where the Scots stormed the walls with 'flyeing collours and roaring drums' - or on the march. It was an offence punishable by death to draw sword in a private quarrel 'while the collours are fleeing', whereas the usual penalty was loss of a hand. Any Scots soldier capturing enemy colours was to have his reward whether there was 'peace or war hereafter', and the penalty for not defending one's own colours 'to the uttermost of one's power' was death. The battle flags bodly declared the cause for which the Scots fought, though a t first there was little uniformity in motto. At Aberdeen, in 1639, Montrose, while fighting for the Covenant, carried a flag which bore the legend "FOR RELlGlOUN THE COVENANT AND THE COUNTRIE" while at the great camp at Duns "everie companie had, flying at the captaine's tent doore a brave new colour stamped with the Scottish arms and this ditton 'FOR CHRISTS CROUN AND COVENANT' in golden letters". At the Battle of Newburn in 1640 the English observed that "embroidered upon their foot colours was the motto 'COVENANT FOR RELIGION CROWNE AND COUNTRY'. At Fyvie in 1644 Argyll's banner (E1) declared FOR COVENANT. In 1648 the mottos began to be standardised, reflecting the Scots new found loyalty to the King. This state of affairs was confirmed by the Scottish Parliament in 1650 which ordered that RELIGION COUNTRY CROWN AND CON- upon the "hail1 culloris and standardes there be COVENANT FOR RELIGION KING AND KINGDOMES". This law was closely observed. The army at full strength bore "10 colours to the regiment and 12 to the major generals". Each regiment carried standards of the same basic colours (D2-6), command of which was frequently given to those from whose territories the forces came. This gave rise to one of the many distinct features of the Scottish system - the liberal use of heraldry. On the colours of both horse and foot there frequently appears the crest or motto of the colonel. Thus is found the Dove and Snake of Elphinstone (B4). the Dragon of Dumfries (B5). the Thunderbolt of Carnegie (B6), the Lion of Home (C1), the Goat of Tweeddale (C2-3). the Crane and Stone of Cranston (C4), the Lion of Strathmore (C5), the Maiden of Balfour (E2) and the Double Headed Eagle of Loudon (H4). The flags of the field officers call for special mention. Extremely popular was the use of the all white flag to denote the colonel (B3-6, C1-2). This could carry his crest; the national emblem, the Thistle (B3) or simply be of plain silk. The Lt. Colonel carried an unadorned saltire in the colours of the regiment. The major could also do the same - the "stream blazant" not being used in Scotland until the Restoration. Several colour systems were in vogue in the Scottish Army. In the most common the colonel would display his all white flag (C2) but the individual companies would use the saltire with no attempt being made to indicate the captain (C2, D2-6, E1) . All the company colours in such a system were exactly the same. Sometimes the colonel would also use the saltire, in which case his emblem generally appeared on it (F4). The difficulties inherent in such a system are obvious and several regiments took a different approach. One was similar to that as used by the English, devices such as stars being used to indicate the captain. When the saltire was in canton, these stars were aligned diagonally from top left to bottom right (E4-5). When, as in most cases, the saltire was employed, the stars appeared at the crossing, generally surrounded by a wreath (F1-3). Saltires, incidentally, seem to have been sewn rather than painted onto the flags. A simpler method was the use of a numeral to indicate the company number (E6). Lastly, there was a system which seems peculiar to the Scots - the cadency system. In heraldry a particular charge denoted each son of a family in order of seniority. This could be applied t o the regiment. Thus the eldest son bore a "label": this would be equivalent to the 1st captain (F6); the second a "crescent" = 2nd captain (G1); the third a "star" = 3rd captain (G2); the fourth a "martlet" (bird) = 4th captain (G3); the fifth an "annulet" = 5th captain (G4); the sixth a "fleur-de-lis" = 6th captain (G5); the seventh a "rose" = 7th captain (G6). Sometimes the charge occurs with a numeral as in (G6) where the seventh symbol a "rose" is reinforced by the number 7. The Horse In 1648 the horse was observed to have "7 colours to the regiment and in every regiment some 500". Such colours could be of very fine worksmanship, and, as one Scots captain complained, "cost a great deal"! The device could be left to the individual captain as in the King's Life Guard (H1-3) where each captain was given permission to adorn his cornet with "quhat impresse, rebus or devices they best please, so that they tend to the defence of Covenant, Religion, King and Country". Colonel's cornets were of plain silk, a blue colour of this type being taken at Dunbar, or carried their crest (H4) or arms (H5). Others carried slogans and devices appropriate to the times. Thus in 1639 when the Scots opposed the introduction of the Book of Common Prayer, the cornets of the Lady Marchioness of Hamilton's troop bore the appropriate impress of "a hand repelling a book". Again, in 1648 when the Duke of Hamilton's army invaded England in support of the King, the Duke's Lifeguard (H6) bore the royal crown and the motto "render unto Caesar". The "arm of God", as might be expected, was as popular in Scotland as in England. A blue cornet taken at Dunbar is a typical example. A gold arm emerges from a cloud grasping a sword, at whose tip is uplifted the laurels of victory. As with the foot, the colours of the horse frequently declared the cause for which the Scots fought - COVENANT FOR RELIGION KING AND KINGDOME. ©2007-2011 ScotWars All Rights Reserved. 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__label__wiki	0.726801	0.726801	Christopher Galt In the tradition of Michael Crichton and Margaret Atwood, an apocalyptic thriller that pits cutting-edge science against God and asks—who will win? A strange phenomenon is sweeping the globe. People are having visions, seeing angels, experiencing events that defy reality. Bizarre accounts pour in from distant places: a French teenager claims to have witnessed Joan of Arc being burned at the stake; a man in New York dies of malnutrition in a luxurious Central Park apartment; a fundamentalist Christian sect kidnaps and murders a geneticist. Then there is the graffiti WE ARE BECOMING that has popped up in every major city around the world, in every language. And everywhere people are starting to talk about John Astor, the mysterious author of the book that seems to be at the center of it all. After a rash of suicides around the world by individuals experiencing the time traveling hallucinations, psychiatrist John Macbeth and a team of FBI agents and scientists assemble to find out what’s going on before it’s too late. Is this a spiritual phenomenon or something more sinister? Christopher Galt is the pseudonym for Craig Russell, whose mystery novels (translated into 23 languages) published in the UK have won many prestigious awards including the CWA Dagger in the Library. In 2007 he was nominated for the CWA Duncan Lawrie Golden Dagger as well as the SNCF Prix Polar in France. Earlier this year, he was nominated for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger. For more information please visit his website:http://www.craigrussell.com/. Buy it now in ebook: Amazon Barnes & Noble Apple Kobo “The first tale I found myself comparing to "Biblical" was Jean-Paul Sartre's "Les Jeux Sont Faits"... because of how both authors pose the question of existence. Of course, "Biblical" also hits classic sci-fi notes.” New York Daily News “Readers with an insatiable desire for thrillers with apocalyptic themes may find this one worth their time.” Booklist “The intellectual premise and cautionary philosophy in Galt's complexly plotted novel are worthy subjects.” Kirkus Reviews “As mind-bending as The Matrix, this smartly written, compelling, scientific novel has the power to unsettle our beliefs about the nature of existence.” Library Journal (Starred Review) “The pseudonymous Galt, the author of two crimes series under his real name of Craig Russell, successfully juggles a wide cast of fully developed characters in this inventive near-future thriller. Few readers will anticipate the jaw-dropping conclusion, and fans of thoughtful scientific thrillers will hope Galt will continue in the genre.” Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Storytelling at its very best!” Michael Connelly “Picture a collaboration between the science-based work of Michael Crichton and the reality-questioning novels of Philip K. Dick, and you get a pretty good overview of what the book is about.” Bookreporter.com “If you're looking for a distinctive and exciting new voice in crime fiction, then look no further than Craig Russell. This is gritty, authentic and disturbing stuff.” Mo Hayder “Craig Russell is a great writer at the very top of his game.” Peter James “A gruesomely gripping tale. It had me hooked.” Piers Morgan “The intellectual premise and cautionary philosophy in Galt's complexly plotted novel are worthy subjects. Be prepared for some heavy reading on the hubristic hypothesis that "science will make us God." A complex thriller with a "what'd I miss?" conclusion.” Kirkus Reviews	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9671
__label__wiki	0.66845	0.66845	Pope Annalisa Video: Peter Canova Author’s Blog Peter on Patheos REVIEWS/AWARDS Lost Mysteries Actress talks Canova International Interview About Pope Annalisa Pope Annalisa FAQ Spiritual Secret The First Souls TRIMOUNTAINE Trimountaine Publishing 13th Disciple You are here: Home / Reviews and Awards / Awards Go to the Thirteenth Disciple.com POPE ANNALISA WINS TEN BOOK MEDALS! (Los Angeles, CA, Oct 16, 2013) — We are pleased to announce that author Peter Canova’s book, POPE ANNALISA, has now won an unprecedented TEN national and international literary award competitions by taking a prestigious Writer’s Digest Book Award in the inspirational category. Previously, the book had won three Nautilus Awards, the Independent Publishers Award, the National Best Book Award, two Indie Excellence Awards, and two International Book Awards . See details for each award below. Writer’s Digest Award- is one of the most prestigious and competitive awards in the book industry. Normally given out to non-fiction books Pope Annalisa scored the highest marks in all categories of writing used by the judges. The critique of one judge commenced by the comment, “WOW” (see the REVIEWS SECTION) Nautilus Awards— POPE ANNALISA swept the prestigious Nautilus Book Awards winning two Silver Medals and one Gold Medal in two different categories, VISIONARY FICTION and SPIRITUALITY. The path to the Nautilus Gold Medal Award was unanimous at all three judging levels and the book obtained the highest scores in its category seen in some years. The Nautilus Awards has one of the most rigorous judging processes of any national book award contest. The book must pass three panels of judges located across the U.S. The judges’ panels are composed of people with successful careers as editors, writers, librarians, schoolteachers, and bookstore owners. The process is a deliberate course of examination and scrutiny designed to sort and separate books as they are measured against a carefully prepared list of notable characteristics. IPPY, or Independent Publishers Award— is the largest book award competition in the world with nearly 4,000 total entries. POPE ANNALISA won in the FICTION category National Best Book Award— sponsored by USA News, the National Best Book Award attracts thousands of entries each year from both large publishing houses and independent publishers. POPE ANNALISA won as a finalist for VISIONARY FICTION. Indie Excellence Award— is judged by panels of independent experts from all aspects of the book industry including publishers, editors, book cover designers, and professional copywriters. POPE ANNALISA won awards in two different categories, NEW AGE and AFRICAN AMERICAN fiction. International Book Awards— attracts entries from many countires around the world. POPE ANNALISA won in two categories, New Age Fiction and Visionary Fiction. Best Ever You Book Club — POPE ANNALISA was awarded the blue ribbon from the Best Ever You organization’s book club. Jesus, Magdalene, and the Lost Mystery Tradition Part 1 Pope Annalisa Quotes and Excerpts DESIGN and DEVELOPMENT by DWM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9675
__label__cc	0.661926	0.338074	Journal:Acta Cryst D:S2059798319011355 Show: Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Export Animated Image Comparison of a retroviral protease crystallized as a monomer and a dimer Stanislaw Wosicki, Miroslaw Gilski, Helena Zabranska, Iva Pichova, Mariusz Jaskolski [1] Molecular Tour Mason-Pfizer Monkey Virus (M-PMV) is a D-type retrovirus that causes simian acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (SAIDS) in rhesus monkeys. Its aspartic protease (PR) processes the retroviral polyproteins to release the final protein products necessary for virion maturation. Functionally, M-PMV PR is a homodimer but in the absence of inhibitors the equilibrium is shifted toward the monomeric state. Following our earlier crystallographic studies of the monomeric form of the protein, we have now determined three crystal structures of M-PMV PR in its dimeric form, using two protein variants crystallized with or without a substrate-based active-site inhibitor, Pro-Tyr(OMet)-Val-PSA-Ala-Met-Thr (where Tyr(OMet) is Oη-methylated tyrosine and PSA is a non-standard non-hydrolyzable residue, 3-hydroxy-4-amino-5-phenylpentanoic acid, used for inhibition of pepsin-like proteases). Both proteins are inactive by virtue of the D26N active site mutation. One of the proteins (C7A/D26N/C106A) has in addition its Cys residues replaced by Ala. Both proteins were crystallized in complex with the inhibitor. In addition, the D26N mutant was also crystallized in the apo form. All presented crystal forms of dimeric M-PMV PR, i.e.: single mutant with the inhibitor (6s1v), triple mutant with the inhibitor (6s1u), and single mutant without inhibitor (6s1w), are isomorphous and different from the crystals of the monomeric protein, despite the fact that one of the present crystals of dimeric M-PMV PR was obtained using nearly identical crystallization conditions as those that yielded the monomeric form. The crystal structures were solved at resolutions of 1.6 Å, 1.9 Å, and 2.0 Å, respectively. uniquely located between the N26 residues. Dash lines indicate hydrogen bonds. The water molecule is tetraherally coordinated. The side chains of the T27 residues (at the bottom) form H-bonds called the “fireman’s grip”. The inhibitor molecule has been omitted for clarity. without Wat1 molecule (HIV-1, 4hvp). The structures of M-PMV PR contain an , with the G28 N-H groups acting as donors and the side-chain O atoms of the N26 residues acting as acceptors. This water molecule is different from the nucleophilic molecule found in the active site of active aspartic proteases or from the one found at the inhibitor-flap interface of inhibitor complexes of retropepsins. Such a coordination of a water molecule has not been seen in any (retro)pepsin structures before. . A similar pattern can be partially found in HIV-1 PR (5kr1, 1n49). In the apo structure of the protein (6s1w), one of the flaps (long loops gating access to the active site) is curled into the binding pocket and very well defined in the electron density, while the electron density of the other flap loop is invisible. While flap disorder is not surprising in apo structures of reropepsins, the perfect order of the other flap is an unusual feature, confirming again the unusual structural properties of the M-PMV enzyme. Also intriguingly, the tips of all the flap loops in the inhibitor complexes (6s1v, 6s1u) are disordered and not present in the electron density, although their visible stems seem to trace the direction found in inhibitor complexes of other dimeric retropepsins. The C/A mutations (C7A, C106A) have no effect on the M-PMV PR structure. ↑ Wosicki S, Gilski M, Zabranska H, Pichova I, Jaskolski M. Comparison of a retroviral protease in monomeric and dimeric states. Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol. 2019 Oct 1;75(Pt 10):904-917. doi:, 10.1107/S2059798319011355. Epub 2019 Sep 20. PMID:31588922 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2059798319011355 This page complements a publication in scientific journals and is one of the Proteopedia's Interactive 3D Complement pages. For aditional details please see I3DC. Retrieved from "http://proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Journal:Acta_Cryst_D:S2059798319011355"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9683
__label__cc	0.630989	0.369011	resource tips Do you have a resource to share with others? Help strengthen the Friends community by sharing your best practices, materials, web links, etc. To Add a Resource: Send your materials to Taylor Tench. directory tips To Update Your Friends Group Directory Listing: Click into the Dashboard and choose FRIENDS GROUP and make your add or edit. CLICK HERE! to move there directly. Only certain designated Friends Group members may update the GROUP listings. If you believe you should have access but do not, please contact Taylor Tench. calendar tips Take a look at what Friends and their supporters are doing, garner inspiration, tap into experience, and be aware of opportunities that can strengthen your organization. Post major outreach events, volunteer opportunities, grant announcements, training events, and more. To Add or Edit a Group Event: Click into the Dashboard and choose GROUP EVENTS and make your add or edit. 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Resources - Grants Captain Planet grants are intended to provide hands-on environmental stewardship opportunities for youth and serve as a catalyst to get environment-based education in schools. The Captain Planet Foundation accepts requests for grants between $500 – $2,500. Grants for spring and summer projects should be filed before September 30; grants for fall and winter projects by January 31. Every year, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology invites organizations, educators, and youth to apply for mini-grants to help fund creative neighborhood events. Conservation Fund The Conservation Fund has 4 major areas of focus: species research, habitat protection, conservation education, and animal rescue and rehabilitation. Each year the Fund has specific conservation priorities it supports. Your programs must align with these priorities. Applications for funding are taken year round and are reviewed bi-annually. Applications received by November 30th of each year are considered for funding in the first two quarters of the following year. Applications received by April 30th of each year are considered for funding in the last two quarters of that year. For more information go to http://swbg-conservationfund.org/en/grant-seekers/ Every Day Capacity Building Grant Deadline May 2nd and October 30th National Environmental Education Foundation’s Every Day Capacity Building Grants FWS Anniversary Celebration Grant The Fish and Wildlife Service Retirees Association has a special account to support major anniversary events that promote the rich heritage and missions of the Service. Anniversaries of 50, 75, 100 and more years are eligible. Deadlines are April 30 and November 30 of each year. Friends groups may apply for matching funds to support these events. Visit http://www.fwsretirees.org/ (Anniversaries) for grant application. Google offers nonprofit organizations $10,000 per month in in-kind advertising to promote your mission and initiatives on Google.com. Click here to learn more. Grant Writing Toolkit - Needs Statement Grant writing toolkit with a focus on the Needs Statement. 10-page, PDF, 389 KB Grants from Outdoor Nation The North Face Explore Fund The Explore Fund provides opportunities to discover the outdoors in powerful ways, ranging from outing programs that offer adventures for youth of diverse backgrounds, to using outdoor activities in overcoming health challenges, to developing confidence, self-esteem and teamwork through outdoor journeys and by learning new outdoor activities. CLICK HERE TO APPLY AND TO LEARN MORE. Paddle Nation Project Grants The Paddle Nation Project awards grants up to $2,500 or less that are designed to give organizations the resources and funding needed to bring their innovation ideas to life. This funding opportunity supports pioneering projects and initiatives that result in increased paddling participation. Projects should reinforce the idea that recreational paddling is one of the most accessible and impactful ways in which young Americans are introduced to the outdoors. CLICK HERE TO APPLY! Take the On Campus Challenge Outdoor Nation is kicking off our search for the National Outdoor Champion! During a six-week competition, colleges can compete to prove which campus can get the most people outdoors and active. Schools compete for gear and funding for planning and outreach. For more information click here. Habitat Heroes mini-grants Cornell Lab’s BirdSleuth program wants your help in improving schoolyard habitats for birds. We’re excited to announce that we’re offering grants to support teachers in their efforts… thanks to our sponsors at Pennington® Wild Bird Food brand, you can win cash and prizes to support habitat improvements and citizen science monitoring at your school! How to Write a Grant Proposal About.com Nonprofit Charitable Orgs takes the mystery out of writing grant proposals. Joanne Fritz provides guidance on how to write a proposal that helps the grantor to quickly understand what you are seeking. How to Write a Grant Proposal – can be found at http://nonprofit.about.com/od/foundationfundinggrants/tp/grantproposalhub.htm Innovative Education Award North American Association for Environmental Education (naaee) is offering the UL Innovative Education Award. The UL Innovative Education Award is a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to invest US $250,000 in environmental and STEM education, sustainable communities, and youth empowerment. We offer recognition grants to increase the impact of existing innovative non-profit programs that use the Environment as a pathway to STEM Learning (E-STEM). For more information go to http://ulinnovationeducation.naaee.net/about Keen Effect At KEEN, we’re committed to preserving the places we all play. Through the KEEN Effect we award $10,000 grants to nonprofit organizations around the world who are dedicated to just that. Lowe's Small Grants The small grants program is an outlet for organizations seeking smaller-scale assistance for non-educational focused projects. These grants range from $100 to $2,000. Please note that grant funds are distributed as Lowe’s gift cards. Rolling Deadline: Lowe’s Small Grants Lowes Community Partners Grants Lowe’s Community Partners grant program helps build better communities by providing monetary assistance to nonprofit organizations and municipalities looking for support of high-need projects. Grants range from $2,001 to $100,000, with most projects falling between $10,000 and $25,000. Mazda Foundation Grants The Mazda Foundation awards grants to programs promoting education and literacy, environmental conservation, cross-cultural understanding, social welfare and scientific research. Click here for grant guidelines. National Trails Fund American Hiking Society’s National Trails Fund offers “hiking trail improvement” grants to active member organizations of our Hiking Alliance. National Wildlife Refuge Friends Grant This program provides competitive seed grants ($1,500 – $15,000) to creative and innovative proposals that seek to increase the number and effectiveness of organizations interested in assisting the Refuge For details go to http://www.nfwf.org/refugefriends/Pages/2016rfp.aspx SAMPLE SUCCESSFUL GRANTS: Peer-to-Peer Coaching, Friends of Great Swamp NWR, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Friends-of-Great-Swamp-NWR.pdf Capacity Building, Friends of Willamette Valley NWRC, http://refugefriendsconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/sample-Willamette-NFWF.pdf New OMB Guidance on Indirect Costs What are the new OMB Guidance on Indirect Costs and why this matters to you! 2-page PDF, 307 KB NOAA Environmental Literacy Grant The NOAA Office of Education is offering competitive funding opportunity for education projects designed to strengthen the public’s and/or K-12 students’ environmental literacy to enable informed decision-making necessary for community resilience to extreme weather events and environmental hazards. Eligible applicants are postsecondary institutions; other nonprofits, including informal education institutions such as museums, zoos, and aquariums; K-12 public and independent schools and school systems; and state, local and Indian tribal governments. Proposed projects should be between two and five years in duration and have total budget requests of $250,000 to $500,000 for all years of the project. >>>> Orvis: How We Give Orvis gives in three ways to protect nature, support communities, and advance canine health and well-being. ORVIS CUSTOMER MATCHING GRANTS NON-MATCHING GRANTS For more information go to http://www.orvis.com/s/how-we-give/13279?dir_id=31746&group_id=31747&cat_id=44096. Patagonia Grants Patagonia gives to innovative grassroots organization that mobilize communities to take action. Deadlines are April 30 and August 31. Check out their website. Project Learning Tree's GreenWorks Grant Do you have an idea for an environmental improvement project but need funds to implement it? Project Learning Tree is accepting applications for a school/community native plant garden, a forest improvement project, a streamside restoration plan, a recycling program, or energy conservation project targeting students. Grants are offered for service-learning projects that improve schools or restore natural habitats. This year, grants will be awarded up to a maximum of $1,000. >>>> Whole Kids Foundation Plant the seed now so you’ll be ready when Whole Kids Foundation accepts new School Garden Grant applications September 1-October 31, 2014. Preview sample application questions to get all your carrots in a row before the due date. We were thrilled to award 511 grants to last year’s applicants. Maybe your school is next! Current grant period is closed. The Conservation Alliance Nomination deadline May 1 The Conservation Alliance seeks to protect threatened wild places throughout North America for their habitat and recreational values. As a group of outdoor industry companies, they recognize their responsibility to help protect the wild lands and waterways on which their customers recreate and wildlife thrives. They make grants to registered 501(c)(3) organizations. Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnerships Seeking new and current Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnerships to apply for matching funding through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundations’ 5 Star proposal process, due Feb 3rd. Please spread the word to all Service programs working to engage urban communities in conservation. National Wildlife Refuge Association 1001 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 905 nwra@refugeassociation.org The RefugeFriendsConnect website is a place for Friends to: Connect with each other, Share your experiences, and Learn from each other by providing support and encouragement. Your donation will help support NWRA's work with Friends organizations. © 2020 RefugeFriendsConnect.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9693
__label__wiki	0.895953	0.895953	Salvage is a one-hour, character-driven drama set within the CIA’s proxy wars throughout the Americas and the Caribbean in the 1980s. Inspired by true events, the show tells the story of Ben and Patrick Lawson, marine salvage operators, who stumbled over a mysterious DC-3 during a routine search and rescue mission in the Bahamas. Diving down on a single breath, the brothers discovered a cargo hold full of cocaine and a cockpit empty except for a briefcase. They ignored the drugs but took the case, hoping it contained documents essential to filing a valid salvage claim. Instead, they found $900,000 and sensitive CIA intelligence inside. As the brothers dig deeper into the mysterious wreck, they find themselves at the centre of a clandestine operation with ties to Washington D.C., Managua, Havana, Panama, Nassau, Medellin and Miami. Their simplistic, paradisal, off-the-grid existence was soon to become the epicentre of a war whose tentacles reached into both the darkest gutters of the drug world and the highest corridors of American power. It’s Narcos meets The Wire; Charlie Wilson’s War meets Blow. As the brothers go about their daily life, they slowly become the focus of a mysterious Colombian businessman developing a resort on a neighbouring island, Norman’s Cay. So begins their relationship with Carlos Lehder, later dubbed “The Henry Ford of Cocaine” by Florida D.A. Robert Merkle at his 1987 trial. Lehder wasn’t developing a resort at all – he was building the world’s first industrial scale cocaine distribution facility just 56 miles from the Florida coast. Over the next four years, Norman’s Cay would become the Medellin Cartel’s caribbean headquarters and the epicenter of the criminal underworld. Lehder’s wealth grew into the billions as three hundred kilos of cocaine arrived on the island every day. Having paid off the Bahamian government, he operated with virtual impunity – throwing lavish parties and parading his power like a king. But as he and his associates grew wealthier, they also grew more paranoid. What happens when an entire island is addicted to pure cocaine? Originally hired just to salvage the lost DC-3, Ben and Patrick soon became Lehder’s trusted mechanics. Their on-the-job salvage skills proved essential to running an off-the-grid drug business. At first, the shoe boxes of cash they carried home each night helped rebuild their lives. But as Lehder’s ego increasingly oscillated between hedonism and militarism, it was obvious that they’d have to fix more than just broken boats: they’d have to salvage themselves. As Ben and Patrick devise a legal exit strategy, they are approached by Karen Rahming, an African-American CIA officer, hunting for that missing briefcase. Karen offers them a deal: provide meaningful intelligence on Lehder’s operation in return for immunity from U.S. prosecution. What the brothers uncover next exposes the fallacy at the heart of Reagan’s War on Drugs, validates claims of CIA-sponsored drug running and sheds new light on Oliver North’s illegal arms pipeline to the Contras. Lehder’s operation connected Gen. Noriega in Panama (who laundered the Cartel’s money), the CIA (who paid Noriega to push their agenda in the Americas) and Oliver North (who turned a blind eye to Contra drug running through the Bahamas). In fact, Lehder was the chief prosecution witness during Noriega’s 1992 conviction on racketeering, narcotics and money laundering charges and claims the Cartel donated funds to the Contra war effort. By telling his story through the eyes of the blue collar, hard-working Lawson family, Salvage aims to illuminate the butterfly effect of everyday life: how decisions taken in the corridors of power always effect the lives of ordinary people living many miles away. Salvage is the product of 4 years of investigative research by Christian Barby, a former journalist with The Economist, The Times of London and NPR, and David Mitchell, a marine salvage operator in The Bahamas. All of our characters are based on real people – people with stories that have never been documented or captured on screen before. From 1978-84, the out-islands of The Bahamas were a sunny place for shady people: a world where government corruption bled into society-at-large and everyone had a price. In an archipelago of seven hundred islands, people use seaplanes like cars, hunt for their food beneath coral ledges and rely on rainwater to survive. Salvage is set in this analogue wild west – the last era before technology and surveillance infiltrated our lives. It’s romantic but also dangerous: when you drop off the grid, things can go missing… To download the Treatment, please click here: Treatment STUDIO NAME PICTURES presents an PRODUCERS production a JOHN DOE picture BOB SMITH JESSICA PHILLIPS "VYSUAL" casting by THE CASTING COMPANY costumes by THE COSTUME PEOPLE production designer THE SET DESIGN CREW director of photography CINEMATOGRAPHER music by THE COMPOSER DUDE edited by THE EDITOR GUY executive producer GUY ONE GUY TWO produced by THE GUY WITH ALL THE MONEY story by THE NOVELIST screenplay by THE SCREEN WRITER directed by DIRECTOR NAME HERE © 2020 Salvage.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9698
__label__cc	0.644841	0.355159	Reference Intervals for Biochemical and Haematological Parameters in Mature Domestic Donkeys (Equus Asinus) in the UK Harriet Brooks Brownlie Faith A. Burden Mulugeta Getachew Elizabeth Hazell-Smith Valerie Patrick Ryan Trawford Award types Donkey Sanctuary awards: When conducted: Core methodology: Blood samples were collected over a period of 3 years and 4 months from clinically healthy donkeys being prepared for rehoming from The Donkey Sanctuary. Complete blood counts and biochemical profiles were carried out within 24 hours of sampling. To revise previously established haematology and serum biochemistry values in adult domestic donkeys in the UK. Blood samples from 138 donkeys were examined, ranging in age from 4-24 years. Data from 18 haematological and 20 biochemical analytes were analysed using non-parametric statistical testing. Reference interval transferability was calculated showing 15/18 haematological and 14/19 biochemical RIs were transferable between previous donkey RIs and these RIs. Of particular clinical note when comparing the new donkey RI with that reported previously is a narrowing of the RI for triglycerides with the upper limit of the range being 2.8 mmol/l as compared with the previous 4.3 mmol/l. It is very important that veterinarians note this difference as this upper limit of triglycerides is commonly used to determine the risk of a donkey becoming hyperlipaemic. This study establishes reviewed reference intervals for haematological and biochemical parameters for donkeys. The reference intervals in this study are appropriate for use in non-working, mature donkeys kept in temperate climates and are now used by the diagnostic laboratories of The Donkey Sanctuary UK to aid clinical decision making in their resident animals. These reviewed reference intervals also underpin comments appended to results of blood samples from privately owned donkeys submitted by veterinariansto the diagnostic laboratory of The Donkey Sanctuary. These reference intervals may not be relevant to other donkey populations such as working donkeys in tropical regions. Their extrapolation to animals of extremes of age or in specific physiological states should be undertaken with caution. The lack of transferability noted between study parameters in donkeys and horses highlights the importance of using species-specific reference intervals for clinical assessment of veterinary cases.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9701
__label__cc	0.687225	0.312775	The Big Bra Every now and then, a story pops up that catches my eye for no good reason. This model is wearing a bra advertised as costing $2.5 million. Have I even made $2.5M in my lifetime? I mean I could have read about Paterno (sad in so many ways) or Lindsey Lohan (just sad) or even the big Alaskan winter storm (bad, real bad). Yes, the model is cute, but I bet after this gig she eats a whole turkey like a Viking returning from the sea so that her body doesn't shut down from malnourishment. But a $2.5M bra! Who buys these things? Some how, some way, there's a story waiting to be written about this bra. And, at what point did wings become part of a bra? I must have missed that when Mr. Hayes taught Sex Education and Leon A. kept asking questions to which he already had the answers. But I don't think he asked about bras. Katelyn Betterton said... There are things that may seem unreasonable or unbelievable at all… It happens. I guess it's all just because everyone has their own ways of doing things. They are happy doing it for different reasons, and others just have to deal with it. About this bra, I think it just wanted to show a feature that will never be forgotten by many. Do You Believe In Christmas Miracles (True Story) Cyber Monday on MMWUC Breaking Dawn - There's a story in all this. Follow the Super Committee Example: Define Goals T... MMWUC - The Message Is Simple Australian Invader - Guest Blogger If William Shakespeare Can, I Can MMWUC - The Anti-NANOWRIMO Self-Published Marketing NANOWRIMO and Losing My Religion MMWUC - NANOWRIMO and Me	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9702
__label__wiki	0.950028	0.950028	Mausam denied clearance by Air Force Pankaj Kapoor's directorial debut Mausam seems to be facing more turbulent weather than anticipated. The film was supposed to go into censoring on Thursday. Instead it is now stuck in a state of frozen uncertainty. Reason? The Air Force has objected to an aerial action sequence with Shahid Kapoor. For those who came in late, Shahid plays an Air Force pilot in Mausam. Special permission had been sought and granted to shoot in a real airbase. So what is the Air Force objecting to? Apparently, it's a dramatic action fight sequence with Shahid on board a Mirage fighter plane. The Mausam producer Sheetal Talwar is livid. "How can they do this? We had the script cleared by the Air Force on August 23, 2010. Now suddenly they're objecting to a sequence after it's been shot, edited and the film was ready for censoring?" Needless to say, Mausam cannot be submitted for censorship until the Air Force gives an all-clear signal. Talwar is all set for a meeting with officers of the Air Force on Friday. Otherwise he is ready to move court. Shahid Sonam Kapoor NDTV Interview Shahid Kapoor Sonam Kapoor interview 1	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9706
__label__cc	0.570881	0.429119	About Shannon Kindlegraph The Sentinel Wars Burning Alive Finding the Lost Living Nightmare Bound by Vengeance Dying Wish Falling Blind Binding Ties Blood Bond Saving Daylight Edge of Betrayal Anthologies/Stand-Alones The Secret She Keeps Dark and Stormy Knights Kicking It The Mammoth Book of Special Ops Romance The Sentinel Wars, Book Five Blood Hunt is available from the following online vendors, as well as at your favorite local bookstore. Barnes & Noble iTunes Book Passage Kobo Books-A-Million Powell’s They are the Sentinels. Three races, ancient guardians of mankind, each possessing unique abilities to protect humanity against their eternal foes: the Synestryn. Now, for one Sentinel, the only way to reclaim her forgotten past is to follow the blood. Hope appeared out of nowhere, naked and alone, a woman without past. The only thing she knows is that she is imbued with a strange power. It’s in her blood. And two men want to possess it. One is Logan, a Sanguinar demon-fighter who needs Hope’s essence to survive. As a vampire he’s well-equipped to find her a like-blooded mate whose progeny could sustain his race for generations. The other is Krag, a Synestryn lord whose desire is to enslave Hope, and drain her of the lifeforce. With it he could control humanity forever. When Hope and Logan both fall prey to Krag, a powerful desire grows between them. But is it enough to thwart their captor’s diabolical plan and his demon warriors, and survive a vampire’s destiny written in blood? Read the Sentinel Wars in Chronological Order Chapter 1 ~ Chapter 2 ~ Chapter 3 Joyfully Reviewed Night Owls Review Reader to Reader Review Romance Junkies Review RT Book Review Kansas City, Missouri, March 16 When death comes for you, it will not be gentle. Logan hadn’t truly understood Sibyl’s prophecy of his death until this moment. But now that he was staring into its jaws, he realized what she had meant. A Synestryn demon crouched behind a run-down three-story building, its eyes glowing a bright, feral green. It was huge, making the Dumpster beside it look like a milk crate. Heavy muscles bulged in its limbs, quivering in anticipation of the kill. Its breath billowed from all four of its nostrils, creating pale plumes of steam in the cold night air. Bright moonlight gleamed across its skin, reflected off the viscous, poisonous fluid that leaked from its pores. Logan had never seen anything like it before, but the human, Steve, groaning in pain on the pockmarked asphalt near the demon’s feet, was testament to the power of its poison. The man’s wife, Pam, stood pressed against the cold brick, staring in horror at her husband. Her pregnant belly protruded from her slim body, promising the hope of a new generation. Logan could not let anything happen to that child. Steve was still moving, but if Logan didn’t do something soon, he wasn’t going to survive. Not that there was much Logan could do. After days without feeding he was weak, his powers now dwindled to the point he barely had the ability to walk upright. Hunger churned inside him, demanding that he seek out the blood he needed, but there was no time to feed. No time to gather his strength. No time to call for help. If this couple and their child — a child he’d worked so hard to see created — were killed, many of his people would starve. Logan could not allow that to happen. The nameless creature lunged for Logan, bounding up from the pavement in a powerful leap so fast it made the thing look like a streak of moonlight. Logan pitched his body to the left, hoping to avoid the attack. His shoulder slammed into a brick wall. Pain lanced across his back and down his spine. He slid to the dirty ground before he could catch himself. The demon careened into a loading dock door, busting through it like tissue paper. The metal screamed as it gave way. Corrugated strips flew into the darkness of the run-down building, leaving behind a giant gaping hole. A blow like that had to have stunned the demon, or even knocked it out. Logan needed to carry Steve away from this place, and he knew the man’s wife would follow. He’d made it only a few yards when he saw the feral green glow of two large eyes within the gaping hole in the doorway. A sickening sense of defeat churned in his empty belly. Not only was the Synestryn still on its feet, but Logan now knew he was completely outclassed. If barreling through that metal door didn’t slow the thing down, there was nothing Logan, as weak as he was, could do to stop it. The demon lumbered through the opening, angling itself for another attack. Steve pushed himself to his knees. He wavered there, next to a frozen mud puddle, between a discarded mattress and a rotting wooden pallet. His skin was roughened by goose bumps. With every passing second, poison went deeper into his system. Time to grab the couple and run. Leave the Synestryn for someone else. It wasn’t his place to destroy the demon. That was best left to those who were stronger than he. Which currently included ninety percent of the planet’s occupants, no doubt. Logan shoved himself to his feet and sprinted across the slick pavement toward Steve. The tread of his boots slipped over the remnants of dirty snow left from the last storm, but he managed to stay upright and close the distance. Behind him, the demon snorted out a heavy breath. Logan spun around to face the thing, putting his body squarely between it and the pregnant woman. “Please,” whispered the woman in a voice trembling with fear. “Save him.” “Go,” ordered Logan. “Run. I’ll protect him.” “I’m not leaving him.” “Think of your child.” “I am. He needs his father.” There was no more time to argue. The demon charged. The woman let out a frightened whimper. The heartbeat of the baby boy inside her sped up, as if sensing the danger it could not see. That child deserved to live. If this demon got hold of the mother, both she and the baby would die because of the blood flowing through their veins. The injustice made outrage unfurl in Logan’s body, spreading dark wings of anger. That demon was not going to take the child — not while Logan still drew breath. Claws extended from Logan’s fingertips and his fangs lengthened. His natural weapons were nothing compared to the wicked blades the Theronai carried, but he refused to go down without a fight. In the back of his mind, a hysterical part of him giggled at the notion of defeating such a creature. At his full strength he’d have a chance, but he was far from that — so far he couldn’t even remember what it felt like not to be weak and hungry and cold. But he had anger on his side, and it fueled him now, giving strength to his wasted limbs. With a burst of speed, Logan charged the oncoming monster. He leaped to the top of a trash can and propelled himself over the thing’s shoulder. His claws dug deep into the demon’s slippery flesh, making it howl. Slick, mucuslike poison collected under his fingernails. Logan straddled the demon’s back, trying to choke it with his legs. One wide paw batted at him, its talons raking across his forearm. Pain sliced up Logan’s arm. Poison entered his system. His first instinct was to shove the last of his dwindling reserves of power into creating an antidote, but there was no time for that. He had to kill the Synestryn before the poison incapacitated him, or being poisoned would be the least of his problems. And Steve’s. The creature headed for the cavelike shelter of the building, carrying Logan along for the ride. As they shoved through the opening, jagged metal sliced his skin, tearing a cry of pain from his lungs. Logan fished beneath his coat for the dagger he kept hidden there. He stabbed it into the top of the creature’s head, hoping to skewer its brain. Its skull was too thick and the blade slid to the side. The cut to its scalp was deep, making the beast roar in pain. It reached back, grabbed Logan by the head, and whipped him off. Logan was slammed against the concrete floor. Or maybe it was a wall. His vision was full of bright lights, so it was hard to tell. All he knew was pain and a foggy weakness that kept him pinned to the ground. A deep vibration beneath him told him that the demon wasn’t finished yet. It was still on its feet and it was getting closer. Steve was growing weaker by the second. He pushed himself to his feet, and the effort left him panting. Pam was by his side in an instant, her precious face staring up at him in worry. “We need to get you to a hospital.” “You know that won’t help,” he told her. As one of the Gerai, he knew enough about the Synestryn to realize that there was nothing a human doctor could do for him. “I need Logan.” His wife’s face paled as she realized what he meant to do. “You can’t. You can’t go in there.” “I don’t have a choice. I’ll die without his help. And he’ll die without mine.” “No,” whispered Pam. Tears flowed down her cheeks. “You can’t go in there. Please.” A wave of weakness shook Steve, telling him he was running out of time. “Go. Someplace public. Well lit. I need to know you and the baby are safe.” “I won’t leave you.” “There’s no time to argue. You’re going. But I won’t be long. Promise.” The vow settled over him, comforting him. He kissed her mouth, praying it wouldn’t be the last time. “Go, love. For our baby. Go.” She nodded. Sniffed. Steve gently pushed Pam away. She stared at him, her expression a mix of fear and love. “Don’t you dare die.” Steve hid his weakness the best that he could as he bent down and picked up a discarded section of two-by-four. It wasn’t much of a weapon, but he’d find a way to make it work. He’d promised to be quick, and he’d never once broken a promise to his sweet Pam. The color of suffering was a dark, sickly yellow, and Hope Serrien knew she’d see it on a night like tonight. A cold front had swept down over the city, slaying any hope that spring was coming soon. Power lines glistened with a layer of ice, and icicles dripped from street signs. The sidewalk under her feet was slick, but even that couldn’t keep her indoors tonight. A night like this brought death to those who had no place to escape the cold. And cold wasn’t the only enemy on the streets. There were things out here. Dark, evil things. People were going missing, and Hope feared they hadn’t simply moved onto warmer climes. Sister Olive was a middle-aged woman who ran the homeless shelter where Hope volunteered. She’d insisted that Hope stay indoors tonight, but the nun had never truly felt the frigid desperation of having no place to go. She’d always had a warm, safe place where she knew she belonged. Not everyone was so lucky. Hope shifted the canvas bag on her shoulder and walked faster. She always carried sandwiches and blankets in case she ran into those in need — those who refused to come to the shelter. With any luck, they’d all have better sense than to be stubborn on a night like this. She scanned the street, paying close attention to the dark crevices between buildings and inside recessed doorways. That glowing, yellow aura of suffering was not hard to miss. Or maybe Hope had just had a lot of practice at spotting it. If Sister Olive knew how Hope found people in need — if she knew Hope could see auras — the nun would probably have her committed. Good thing that wasn’t something that came up in normal conversation. Hope wasn’t sure she could lie to a nun. A flicker of unease made Hope pull her coat closed more tightly around her neck. She’d seen things at night — things she knew couldn’t be real. Dark, monstrous things that slinked between shadows, hiding from sight. Their auras were black. Silent. She couldn’t read them, which made her question whether the monsters even truly existed outside her imagination. She probably should have brought one of the men along with her to ward off any problems. But how would she explain to her escort how she knew where to go? It was better to do this alone and keep her secrets. Fitting in among normal people was hard enough when she didn’t draw attention to her ability. Hope forced herself to head toward the one place she hadn’t yet searched for those missing souls. She hated getting near the run-down Tyler building — it brought up too much pain and confusion, too many bad memories. She’d promised herself that tonight she’d put her ridiculous fears aside and look for her friends there. The three-story brick structure rose up into the night sky. The lighting here hadn’t been maintained, leaving deep pools of darkness to hover about the building like an aura of decay. A heavy thud and a screech of wrenching metal rose up from behind the structure. There was definitely someone back there. Or something. Images of those dark creatures flickered in her mind. Her muscles locked up in fear, and for a moment, she stood frozen to the pavement. The real danger out here tonight was the cold, not monsters, and the longer people were left to suffer in it, the more dangerous it became. Hope forced her legs to move. Her first steps were slow and shuffling, as if her own body was working against her. Then slowly, she picked up speed, shoving all thoughts of monsters from her mind. As she crept down the alley that led to the back of the building, she heard more noises she couldn’t quite identify. There was a grunt of pain and the rattle of wood tumbling about. Once, she almost thought she heard a woman’s voice, but she couldn’t be sure. The only woman she knew who was too stubborn to come in out of the cold was her friend Rory. Hope cleared the corner, and the first thing she saw was the gaping hole where the overhead door had been ripped open and partially off its track. The metal looked like it had been punched in with a giant fist, leaving jagged shards behind. From inside the opening, Hope saw a brief flash of color — the sickly yellow of suffering. Rory. Desperate fear washed over her, making her lurch forward through the ragged opening. It was too dark inside to see, so she fished inside her satchel for the flashlight she always carried. A feral growl of rage rose up from her left. It wasn’t a human sound. Not even close. Primal fear surged through her, and she had to fight the need to curl into the smallest space possible so she could hide. Her search for the flashlight became frantic, her gloves hindering her as she fished around in her bag. She located the hard, heavy cylinder, only to have it slip from her grasp. Heavy, pounding steps shook the floor. A woman cried out in fear somewhere to Hope’s right. She grasped onto the flashlight and powered it on as she ripped it from the bag. The beam of light bobbed around, catching motes of dust as it passed. Hope aimed it toward the sound of torment. The light bounced off of something huge and shiny. Something pulsing with muscle, and moving so fast she couldn’t keep the light trained on it. Its aura was black nothingness. Panic gripped her tight. She needed more light to ward off the thing. Something as hideous as that would hate the light. She felt it on an instinctive level, as if she’d been taught how to protect herself from the monster. Hope swung the light around to the employee entrance next to the pulverized overhead door, hoping there would be a switch nearby. Surely, whoever came in through that door would need to have access to lights, right? The beam of light shook in her grasp, vibrating with the trembling of her hands as she searched. It seemed to take forever, but as she neared the door, she saw a series of switches. She sprinted over the dusty floor, praying that the power here was still on — that whoever was trying to sell this place had left the lights on for potential buyers. Hope shoved all four switches up at once. There was a muted thunk, then an electric buzz. Light poured down over the room, and while many of the bulbs were burned out, it seemed as bright as the surface of the sun compared to a moment ago. She blinked her eyes and turned, forcing herself to look at what her flashlight had touched. The room was large and open. Lines that had been painted on the floor to outline separate areas were now covered in dust. A stack of wooden pallets had toppled, and the dust from their fall had not yet settled. Across the room was a giant, hulking creature poised over someone she couldn’t quite see. All she could tell was that they were surrounded by that yellow aura of hunger and suffering she’d come to know so well on the streets. The beast’s head swiveled toward her, the movement sinuous and fluid. Its green eyes fixed on her, and she swore they flared brighter for a brief moment. An unnatural fear rose up inside Hope, screaming for her to run. She knew what this thing was. She didn’t know its name or where it came from, but she knew that it wanted her blood. A roar filled her ears as a distant memory tried to surface. Her head spun and she clutched the wall behind her to stay on her feet. Please, God. Not now. As much as Hope wanted to remember her past, she wouldn’t survive the distraction. She fought off the memory, mourning its loss even before it passed. The beast snorted out a heavy breath, sending four curls of steam into the cold air. Its mouth opened, revealing sharp, wicked teeth. Hope was sure the thing wore a sinister grin. “Run!” shouted a man. She couldn’t see him, but it was his aura that peeked out from behind the monster. It pulsed with a flare of bright blue courage, and a second later, the monster roared as if it had been struck. Now that its attention was no longer focused on Hope, her knees unlocked and started working again. She needed to find help. Fast. She turned to do just that, when she caught a glimpse of an aura peeking out from behind the toppled pile of pallets. Hope rushed over and found a man lying unconscious on the floor. One side of his face had darkened with a bruise, and in his loose grip was a board covered in the same shiny stuff that coated the monster’s skin. His aura was faint, the colors flickering like the flames of a dying fire. He wasn’t going to make it if she didn’t do something. Across the room, a crash sounded as the fight wore on. Hope didn’t waste time figuring out who was winning. It was going to take all her strength to get this man out of harm’s way. Just in case it was the monster who won. She shoved the pallet pinning him down off of his legs. His jeans were dark with blood. Hope patted his face, hoping to wake him. His eyes fluttered open, but she doubted his ability to focus. His pupils were huge and a cold sweat covered his brow. “Logan. I need Logan. Poison. He can fix it.” Hope didn’t know how he knew that, but she doubted he’d waste his breath lying. Her gaze slid across the room to the fight. The man battling that beast must be Logan. She had to help him. She had no idea how to defeat the monster, but she’d seen a length of metal pipe back near the door, and she wasn’t afraid to use it. Logan looked up from the floor where he landed. The spots cleared just in time for him to see the demon’s giant, slimy foot hurling toward his head. Logan rolled aside, dodging at the last instant. Chips of concrete flew into his face, stinging as they hit. He smelled his blood a moment before he felt the hot trickle of it sliding down his cheek. The creature’s foot was raised, poised for another attack. Logan’s body shook with weakness, so cold he could barely feel his limbs. Only the dull throb of pain managed to get through the growing numbness of his body. He was running out of time. Soon, the poison would incapacitate him, making him an easy meal. There was no way Logan was walking away from this alive. The child had to be his first priority. He just needed to buy Pam enough time to escape. If her child survived, he could one day save others of Logan’s race. The thought brought him a sliver of solace. It was time to pull out all the stops. He gathered up a bit of power and burst from the ground, shoving his dagger deep into the demon’s groin. The beast howled. Black blood spurted from the wound. Logan shoved the blade sideways to slice open a large wound before jerking it out. He stumbled backward as the demon clutched at its wound, trying to stop the flow of blood. Not that it would do any good. That blow was fatal. It was just a question of how long it would take the demon to bleed out and whether Logan would survive until it did. It thrashed around, spraying blood across the floor in a black arc. One giant fist lashed out at Logan, knocking him back into a wall. Pain radiated out from his spine, but at least now he was out of the way of more blows. The demon’s eyes flared bright green as they fixed on him. He saw a streak of movement, heard a battle cry. A woman ran across the floor, wielding a pipe like a sword. Logan screamed for her to stop, but he was weak and out of breath. All he managed to get out was a growl of warning too low to reach her. She slammed the pipe into the demon’s leg. It roared in anger and turned around to face the new threat. She hit it again and jumped back out of its reach. It took an awkward step toward her and slipped on its own blood. It toppled to the ground, nearly crushing the woman beneath it. She got out of the way just in time, backing up until she hit a large wooden crate. Black blood pooled under the demon. Its tongue swept out to lap up its own blood in a vain attempt to heal itself. But it was too late for that. It was bleeding too fast. Finally, with a last shuddering breath, the demon died. There wasn’t time to revel in the kill or celebrate their victory. Logan staggered away to where Steve had landed, so he could rid the man of poison. He’d just made it to Steve’s side when his legs simply gave out. The longer he waited to finish this, the more likely it was that the scent of his blood would draw other Synestryn to him. Steve, his family, and the mystery woman needed to be long gone before that happened. Logan closed his eyes and concentrated on manufacturing an antidote to the poison within his veins. It was slow, and every bit of energy he used had to be dragged out of the deepest recesses of his body. Each spark of power slowed his heart. His breathing became shallow, and he was so cold that his breath no longer misted in the frigid air. By the time he was finished, he was blind, shivering uncontrollably, and could barely move. Even his own head was too heavy to support. He couldn’t draw the antidote from his veins as he normally would have done. There was no syringe and no time. Instead, he closed his mouth over Steve’s and forced the antidote through his saliva glands and into the human’s mouth. Moments later, Steve moved. The movement was weak at first, then grew as the man’s strength returned. “You need blood,” said Steve. “Not yours. Poison.” “I’ll find help.” Like a rag doll, he moved where Steve pushed him, too weary to even speak and tell him not to bother. There wasn’t time. Cold sank into his body — a bone-deep cold he knew would never leave him. His breathing began to falter and his heart’s rhythm stuttered as it slowed. Pain and cold surrounded him as death came for him. And as Sibyl had said, it was not going to be gentle with Logan. It was going to scrape every last breath from his lungs and wring every last beat from his heart, forcing him to endure every second of pain and cold and hunger. He would find no peace in oblivion. There was still so much work to do and now he was leaving his brothers to do it all alone. But selfishly, that was not his last thought. His last thought was how much he wished for one single moment of warmth before he died. Hope stared in shock at the scene that played out before her. One moment that poisoned man had been at death’s door, and the next, he was on his feet, heading straight for Hope. All from a kiss from Logan — a man too beautiful for words. Logan lay still and pale, his face a work of art even in his suffering. And he was suffering. His aura did not lie. It was the color of bile — of pain and sickness — streaked with the bright red of pain, tainted with black shards of hopelessness. His face was gaunt, with stark shadows under his cheekbones. Dark hair fell over his wide forehead, highlighting the striking paleness of his skin. Blue tinged his full lips and she fought the urge to warm them with her own. Hope was still staring in shock as the poisoned man came toward her. His movements were a bit shaky, but purpose filled his every stride. “You have to help him. He needs your blood.” A spike of fear struck her as she realized she knew nothing about these men or what they wanted. The mention of blood had her mind reeling, going through all the ritualistic killings she’d heard of over the years, the whispers of what might have befallen those who’d gone missing. The things humans would do to one another were sickening. Hope backed away, but the stranger caught her arm. “Please help him. He’s dying and needs blood. I have to find my wife.” “I’ll call for an ambulance.” “I know this is a lot to accept, but look over there.” He pointed to the sagging corpse of the monster. “That thing is real, as are a lot of other things in this world. Right now, you need to accept that fact and save a dying man.” The man’s mouth tightened in anxious frustration. “Go to him. Tell him you offer to help him. He’ll do the rest.” That made no sense. “Stop it,” she said, jerking her arm out of his grasp. Love brighter than any she’d ever seen coursed through his aura, twining with fear. “I need to find my wife. She’s out there alone, pregnant and scared out of her mind.” His wife was a lucky woman. Hope had never known a man who loved as deeply as this one did. He stared down at her, worry twisting his face. “If I could help Logan myself, I would, but I was poisoned. He saved my life. Please. Please save his.” With that, the man turned and left to find his wife, disappearing through the opening in the metal door in an awkward, hurried sprint. Hope looked down at Logan. His aura had shrunk. The colors dimmed. He had only a few minutes left to live. She glanced over at the dead monster. He’d killed it. He’d apparently saved that man from poison somehow. There were a lot of holes in Hope’s memories — things she would never know about herself. But there was one thing she knew for a fact: People who would willingly sacrifice themselves for another were rare in this world. She could not stand by and do nothing while one of them died. She fell to her knees beside his body, ripping the gloves from her fingers so she could check for a pulse and make sure he was still breathing. His leather coat hung open along his front, letting the cold sink into his body. If she didn’t do something, she feared he wouldn’t survive until an ambulance arrived. Hope stripped out of her coat and covered his torso with it, praying the heat clinging to the quilted fabric would be enough to see him through. Immediately, the frigid air slid through her sweatshirt, its icy fingers stealing away her warmth. She ignored the chill and jerked a blanket from her bag, sending a stack of sandwiches flying. She tucked that around him as well to keep him warm while help arrived. With one hand, she pulled her cell phone from her back pocket, while feeling for his pulse with the other hand. It was faint, but there. “Hold on,” she whispered to the stranger. “Help is on the way.” She’d just dialed 9 when the man’s eyes fluttered open. They were a pale, silvery gray — so light that they seemed to almost glow in the darkness. She’d never seen eyes like his before. The color was mesmerizing, luring her to stare and keep staring. Hope was sucked in by his gaze for a moment before she remembered what she was doing. “You need to hold on. I’m calling for an ambulance now. I’m going to help you.” She moved to finish dialing. The phone was knocked from her hand and went flying across the concrete. He’d moved so fast she hadn’t seen his hand strike out until it was too late. Shock streaked through her, and by the time she’d processed what he’d done, he’d grabbed a fistful of her hair and jerked her head to the side. His gaze fixed on her throat, and she was sure she saw light spilling from them. Fear cut off her scream. Her body seized up. All she could do was stare at him and wait for him to release her. “I’m sorry,” he growled, letting out a rough, animal sound. He became a blur of movement and enveloped her body in a crushing hug. He smelled of snow and desperation. His aura changed, pulsing with surges of bright blue victory. She felt the chill of his lips, then a sharp pain stabbed her neck. A moment later, a heavy, languid feeling fell over her, pinning her in place. She couldn’t move. She couldn’t fight. And somewhere, a whispering presence in her mind told her she didn’t even want to try. As his grip on her tightened and the ravenous tugging at her throat intensified, Hope just let go and drifted within his grasp. He grew warmer. Or maybe she was getting colder. She couldn’t tell. Pain that had been with her only moments ago turned to pleasure. Her body swelled with it, expanding with light and color. Tingling waves of warmth shivered through her limbs and pooled in her belly. A giggle bubbled within her, but she was too weak to let it out. That pleasure grew until even the memory of pain was distant and inconsequential. All that mattered was drifting inside this cushion of comfort and purpose. Whoever he was, whatever he was doing to her, Hope knew in her soul that he’d awakened something within her that would never again be lulled to sleep. Power roared in the woman’s blood, stronger than any he’d ever tasted. Including the blood of the powerful Theronai Helen. Logan drank it down as survival instincts took over. He was heedless of his prey, gripping her tight so she couldn’t fight or flee. He needed her, and he wasn’t going to let her go. Weakness fell away as power seethed inside him, stretching his cells. Her blood was rich, more pure than any he’d ever tasted. He couldn’t get enough. Each sucking gulp filled him more, driving away the pain of hunger and biting cold. Warmth suffused him, making him giddy with relief. His cock stirred for the first time in centuries, shocking him. But even that shock could not penetrate the joyous feeling of no longer being hungry. Her heart fluttered, struggling to pump blood that was not there. Her breathing faltered, and her hands fell limp at her sides. A quiet sound of pleasure spilled from her mouth. It was that sound that saved her life. Logan finally overcame the drunken high her blood gave him enough to realize he was killing her. Anger at his carelessness swept through him as he willed the puncture wounds on her neck to close and ripped his mouth away from her skin. She lay limp and helpless in his grasp. Too pale. Too weak. Her honey-colored hair splayed across the sleeve of his black coat. Her eyes slid open, and in them he saw betrayal. Logan didn’t understand why she’d look at him that way until he realized what she’d tried to do here tonight. She wore no coat against the cold, but there was one her size draped over his lap. A blanket lay crumpled between them. Individually wrapped sandwiches sat a few feet away, discarded on the floor. He suddenly remembered her words, her sweet voice reassuring him that an ambulance was on the way. She’d come to him, offering help, and he’d nearly killed her. Guilt bore down on Logan, driving away the intoxicating haze of finally being full after so many years of hunger. Only seconds had passed, but even those had pushed her closer to death. She needed fluids. Human blood. He didn’t dare risk giving her his own for fear the shock to her system would kill her, or that some trace of poison lingered there. And even if his blood didn’t kill her, he couldn’t risk leaving her drugged by the narcotic effects his blood could cause. She needed her memories of tonight purged so they could not draw Synestryn to her, but she was too weak for that. He’d have to find her later, after the humans had restored her health. After he had checked and made sure that Steve, Pam and their child were safe. Logan gathered up her body and rose to his feet. Muscles that had been withered for decades flexed, strong and solid in his limbs. The leather of his coat creaked against the stretch of his biceps. He reveled in that power — in feeling whole and strong, as he was meant to be. There was a hospital not far from here. He ran toward it, his body gliding smoothly over the frozen ground. Buildings blurred past him as he moved. Wind tore at his face, but could not penetrate the warmth she’d given him. Buoyant elation rose inside him, celebrating his survival. The woman in his arms was responsible for that, and he was not going to let her gift cause her death. Logan would save her, and then when he did, he was going to find a way to repay her. He’d see to it that she was protected and cared for for the rest of her life. The fact that she was heavily blooded, and therefore a perfect candidate for Project Lullaby was only going to make that easier. Logan cleared the emergency room doors and spotted the nurse behind the desk. She was young and plump, with a harried expression on her face and a name tag that read barb. In one single instant, Barb’s gaze moved over Logan’s rescuer and dismissed her as unimportant. Beneath her notice. “What drugs is she on?” asked the nurse as Logan approached. Annoyance rose to the surface, tightening Logan’s mouth. He refused to waste time arguing with Barb. Instead, he stared into her eyes and grabbed a hold of her mind. Her face went slack and she swayed on her feet for a moment. Logan stilled her thoughts of disdain for Hope and replaced them with something else. He wove within her mind a series of emotional responses to events that never happened, implanting fleeting memories of Barb and Hope laughing and crying together. He borrowed from thoughts of Barb’s sister, and connected them to Hope, creating a temporary, artificial connection. “You love this woman like a sister, don’t you?” asked Logan. Pain creased Barb’s face and tears filled her eyes as Logan let go of her mind. “Oh God. What happened to her?” Logan filled his voice with compulsion, refusing to leave Hope’s care to chance. “She needs a blood transfusion. Fluids. Immediately. Move!” “Get a gurney!” shouted Barb. Behind the desk, people scurried to obey. Logan laid the woman on the clean white sheets. In the bright fluorescent lighting, he could see how beautiful she was. Her features were elegant, with high arching eyebrows and smooth, flawless skin. Her bone structure was model perfect, exquisite in its symmetry. Even now, with death hovering nearby, she had a regal beauty few humans possessed. It was going to be a long time before he stopped seeing her face every time he closed his eyes. Even longer before he stopped seeing that look of betrayal shining in her gaze. Logan turned and left her in the capable hands of her own people. He’d done what he could. It was time to go and plan her place within Project Lullaby. His brother Tynan would help him decide where she would best belong — where she’d be happiest. They’d decide which man would be strong enough to ensure the continuation of her amazing bloodline. The thought of putting her into the hands of another man gave him pause, but he assured himself it was only an aftereffect of taking so much of her blood. He felt connected. As if she were now part of him. And he liked it. That alone was warning enough for Logan to back away. He couldn’t become personally entangled in the life of a human woman. Their roles were set. Immovable. She would be paired with a human male who would make her happy — one who would complement the power flowing in her veins, rather than dilute it. They’d bring children into the world who could save Logan’s race from starvation. She was a source of power. Food. It was as simple as that. It wasn’t nearly enough. Logan fought the urge to slip back into the emergency room to check on her. The less time he spent with her, the better. He couldn’t grow any more attached than he already was. It was time to hand her off to Tynan and get back to the mystery that had brought him here. He still had yet to find the address that had been written in blood on his bathroom mirror a few days ago, along with the message You have not been forgotten. You are not alone. Between the women and children who’d been rescued from the Synestryn, and the deaths of Angus and Gilda, Dabyr had been in an uproar. His presence there had been necessary to help people stay calm and positive. Grief and fear were enemies Project Lullaby could scarcely afford. Tonight had been his first chance to seek out the address. He’d gotten close, but the frantic call for help from Steve had distracted him. And then the woman had distracted him even more. It was time for Logan to get back to the job at hand. He needed to find the reason for the mysterious message on his mirror and make sure it posed no threat to his race. With any luck at all, he’d find a man with the same vibrant power in his blood that Logan’s lovely rescuer possessed. Tynan would pair her up and in a few years, her children would help save his people. A pang of longing stabbed at him as he left the hospital and went back out into the cold. There were so many things he wanted that could never be. The woman who’d saved him tonight had served only to remind him of the things he could never have. As he dialed Tynan’s cell phone, he realized that he didn’t even know her name. And it was best that way. The flare of power that Krag had felt for a brief instant was gone now. All that was left was a faint ghost of energy fading as the seconds passed. Usually when he felt the presence of a blooded human, it was a gradual thing that grew as they came closer to him. But not tonight. That flash of power had roared into his senses as if it had been plunked down out of nowhere. And it had vanished just as quickly. The flash had come from downtown, several miles away. Perhaps a plane had landed and taken off with a blooded passenger aboard. If so, the human was already gone and out of his reach. Time to move on. Unless it happened again. Krag settled back in his throne, surveying his worshippers. Both human and Synestryn alike, they gathered around him, eager to do his bidding. Except for one. “Bring her out,” he ordered, his voice booming off the cement walls of his home. This defunct manufacturing facility had been easy to convert into a fortress. What few windows there were high in the walls had been blacked out with paint, keeping out the deadly light of the sun. The main space was large, with several smaller rooms that had once been offices. Krag had those converted into his sleeping quarters, leaving room for his women on the floor surrounding his bed. It was truly too bad that one of those women had defied him so openly. She was pretty. Young. Full of life, her blood more powerful than most. But like a cancer, she had to be cut out before she could spread her rebellion to the others. Two burly human men dragged her before him. Her clothing was torn and dirty. Her dyed hair hung in wild tangles around her face. The glaring pink of her shoes seemed to mock him, declaring to all that she held no respect for his position. Her hands were bound in front of her. No doubt a consequence of the angry red claw marks she’d left on one of the men’s cheeks. She was gagged, but there were no tears in her eyes as he would have hoped. No remorse. Only the glowing anger of her rebellious nature and promised retribution. He was going to enjoy breaking her. “Remove the gag,” he ordered. The men hastened to obey. As soon as the dirty fabric cleared her mouth, she spat on the ground at Krag’s feet. “Kneel.” Her guards shoved her down so hard he could hear her bones hit the concrete. Krag smiled. “Have you considered my offer?” “I’d rather fuck a rotting pig corpse than let you touch me.” Anger flared for an instant before he controlled it. He smoothed his features to regal stillness. “Throw her down below. I’m certain there is at least one rotting pig down there for her amusement.” She screamed, but it wasn’t a cry of fear. Not this woman. Her scream was of feral outrage. Of angry defiance. The men picked her up by her arms and hauled her out of his sight. The flooded section below housed some of the less advanced members of his race. They would make quick work of her. And when they were done, he’d mount her skull on the wall as a reminder to the others not to question his authority. Before her screams faded, Krag beckoned one of the obedient women forward. She shivered in ecstasy at being chosen, as was proper, before crawling to his feet. He patted his lap, inviting her to jump up like a pampered pet. As soon as he had her settled there, her naked body trembling, he jerked her head to the side and bit deep. Her blood was weak, but once he’d taken it all, he felt better. Stronger. Krag shoved her corpse to the floor, then motioned for her to be taken away. Let the lesser Synestryn feast on her flesh and bones. He had no more use for her. Hope opened her eyes, already knowing that Logan was gone. She couldn’t feel his presence or that consuming pleasure he’d given her. Fear wove through her for a moment, but she wasn’t sure if it was fear of the man, or fear caused by the fact she knew he was gone. A plump, dark-haired nurse hovered over Hope. She couldn’t remember the woman, but the way she was looking at Hope with tears in her eyes made her wonder if she shouldn’t. “You’re awake. How are you feeling?” Hope blinked a few times to make sure that blurry vision wasn’t making her see concern that wasn’t real. “Do I know you?” “I’m Barb,” she said, her tone of expectation telling Hope she should know the woman. Was her memory getting worse? Was she losing more chunks of time? Hope pushed herself up in a panic and looked around, hoping it would clear her head. She was surrounded by a striped curtain. Beyond that curtain, she could hear voices and the low moans of a man in pain. Disinfectant laced the stale air. A machine beeped insistently in the background. An IV bag hung above her, feeding fluids into the back of her hand. A hospital. That’s where she was. Hope didn’t know how she got here. The last thing she remembered was Logan. He’d grabbed her and…bitten her neck. Her hand flew to the spot, feeling only smooth, whole skin. “What is it, honey?” asked Barb. “Do you see anything? Any marks on my neck?” Barb leaned forward and brushed Hope’s hair away. “It’s a little red. Does it hurt?” “No.” Her skin tingled, and there was a throbbing warmth, but that was all. “Who brought me in?” Barb frowned as if trying to remember. “A man. Tall. Dark hair. Do you know him?” That description could be almost anyone. Or it could have been Logan. Either way the answer was the same. “No.” “The doctor will be in to see you soon. We couldn’t find any injuries. Do you know what happened?” Hope shook her head. What she thought had happened couldn’t have. It wasn’t possible. Either the stranger had bitten her and left marks, or he hadn’t bitten her at all. Those were the only options. Weren’t they? A wave of dizziness slid over her, and she shut her eyes to let it pass. The smells of the hospital assaulted her nose, dragging from her memories of the last time she’d been here — the night Sister Olive had found her in the empty Tyler building and brought her here, insisting she get checked out. Hope had no injuries then, either. Nothing that explained her amnesia. She hadn’t known her name or how old she was. Hope still didn’t know. No one had claimed her. The only thing that had been in her possession was a wooden amulet clutched in her fist. The name Hope Serrien was burned into it. She didn’t even know if that was her real name. That had been a decade ago and Hope still had no answers. All she had was a nagging sense of duty — that there was some vital task only she could complete. Every day that went by that didn’t reveal her task left her feeling more restless and defeated. There was something inside her — some forgotten knowledge she could almost put her finger on. It was there, evading her grasp, but she knew it was there. When Logan had been holding her, she’d almost been able to remember why she was here. “I need to go,” said Hope. Barb shook her head. “Not until we know what happened. It’s not safe.” Hope had to find him. She had to find Logan and figure out what he knew. Maybe he knew who she was. What she was. “I’m leaving. Bring me whatever paperwork you need me to sign, but do it fast. I won’t wait.” Whoever Logan was, Hope didn’t want him to get far. She was going to find him. And then she was going to force him to give her the answers she needed. One way or another. Logan met Steve and Pam in their apartment. They were fine. All three of them. Logan called Joseph — the leader of the Theronai — and asked him to send someone to guard them so they could rest. He then did what he could to remove the memory of tonight from their minds. He didn’t want them to worry — didn’t want the memory to draw more demons to them. Tomorrow the couple would go to Dabyr, where they’d be safe. After tonight’s attack, living in the city was no longer an option for them. If Logan hadn’t been so close, if the GPS gadget on his cell phone hadn’t made it possible for Steve’s call to go to the closest Sentinel — namely Logan — things would have turned out very different tonight. It served only to display just how fragile their progress truly was. As Logan got back in his van, the blond woman’s face danced in his head. It was strange to no longer feel weak and hungry. Even walking inside Steve’s formidable mind had been easy. There was no effort. No strain. The power in that woman’s blood was amazing. Too bad Logan knew he had to share. Out of habit, he turned on the engine to get some heat before he realized he wasn’t cold. Still. Normally, the flush of feeding would have faded by now, leaving him chilled to the bone. For some reason, this time was different. Logan dialed Tynan’s cell phone. “We need to meet.” “I have blood to share.” “A new source?” The weariness in Tynan’s voice worried Logan. “Yes. A young woman. Her blood is strong. It’s possible she may even be a Theronai.” “No. Her blood is different from theirs — unlike any I’ve had before.” “We’ll need to find her a suitable mate as soon as possible. Is she currently attached to a male?” Logan hadn’t even considered that possibility, but as soon as he did, anger stirred inside him. “I don’t know.” “Find out. If she is, find out if her mate is suitably blooded.” “And if not?” asked Logan. “Remove him from her life.” Her face appeared in Logan’s mind, as vivid and clear as if she were sitting next to him. She had a sweet face. Kind, amber eyes the color of autumn sunset. Not only was she lovely, she was obviously caring as well. Why else would she have stayed to help him at great risk to her own life? “I won’t do that,” said Logan. “I won’t hurt her.” “We both know she’ll be happier paired with a mate of our choosing.” “Who’s to say that’s true? It’s not something we can prove, simply something we tell ourselves to relieve the guilt of what we must do.” Tynan’s voice hardened. “All of our matches are happy ones. We make sure of that.” “What if we’re wrong, just this one time? I can’t let that happen.” “Then I’ll send someone who can. Where are you?” Logan debated not telling him. Only the knowledge that their race couldn’t afford any animosity held his rebellion. “Promise me you’ll be the one to come and see to her. I don’t want to entrust her to anyone else.” “Why?” asked Tynan, his skepticism clear. “Her blood is too pure to risk.” “Are you certain there’s not more to it than that?” “Like what?” asked Logan. “Do you have feelings for the woman?” “Of course not. No more than is reasonable.” “You can’t become involved with her,” said Tynan. “None of us can. If she’s human, we need her to breed. If she’s Theronai, she’s off limits.” “I do not need you to tell me the facts.” “You’re not detached enough. Without detachment our goals will become confused.” Anger made Logan’s voice sharp. “I’m perfectly clear about our goals.” “And what might those be, Logan?” “The same as yours. Survival of our race. We’ll pair her with an acceptable mate and all will be well.” “If she’s human, do you want to bed her first? Get her out of your system? That can be arranged.” Said in such a cold, clinical tone, the idea made Logan sneer. “Don’t be ridiculous. Of course I don’t.” “As you wish. I’ll come, sample her blood myself as soon as I can get away, and we’ll see her happily settled.” Do you want to bed her first? The question haunted Logan, putting into his head a possibility that should not exist. He hadn’t wanted a woman in centuries. He’d been too hungry, too weak for his body to respond in any sexual way. Until tonight. He wasn’t weak now. Thanks to her blood, there was a stirring of something he’d thought long dead — an interest that went beyond survival. Holding her, feeding from her, had aroused him. Made him hard. He wanted her. There was no denying it, but that didn’t mean he’d act on that desire. “Come soon,” said Logan. “I don’t know how long they’ll keep her at the hospital. She was too weak for me to remove her memories, so that must still be done.” “You won’t lose her. Her blood is yours now.” Which meant he’d be able to find her if he chose to do so. Always. Already the temptation to do just that was something he had to actively resist. “I have one quick errand to run, and then I’ll be off. I can’t stay and help you.” “You mean you won’t stay,” said Tynan. Logan hung up the phone and drove toward the address that had been written in blood on his bathroom mirror. As he passed through the frozen streets, his mind filled with thoughts of what might await him. Would it be a home filled with people who could feed his race? The location of a gateway into Athanasia they could access? Even a group of humans willing to help them without all the coercion and lies would have been a welcome sight. When he pulled up in front of the run-down building where he’d fought earlier tonight, and read the address, his excitement died. This place, this Tyler building, did not house the savior of his race. It was simply an empty structure, void of hope. Worse yet, it was entirely possible that it had been a trap — that the creature he’d fought tonight had been sent here to wait for his arrival and had caught Steve’s and Pam’s scent as they’d passed by earlier. Logan’s throat burned with anger as he stared at the run-down building. Power raged inside him, tempting him to raze the thing to the ground. He could do it. He had enough strength now. But if he did, he’d waste all the power she’d given him. He couldn’t do that, no matter how angry he became. Self-control was as vital to his people’s survival as blood. All the Sanguinar knew that, and those that didn’t had died. Or been killed. Logan wasn’t always proud of the choices he’d had to make over the years, but he was still standing, as were many of his kind. Without those unpleasant choices, the Sanguinar would have been long extinct. And if that happened, it would be only a matter of time before the Theronai and Slayers fell as well, and the human race was left with no protectors. The ends justified the means. It had to. After all the things Logan had done, it simply had to. © 2020 Shannon K. Butcher \| Privacy Policy \| - WordPress Theme by Kadence WP Interested in receiving updates about upcoming books, appearances, and more? Please sign up for my newsletter!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9707
__label__wiki	0.971471	0.971471	France, 1930 • Directed by Augusto Genina Cast Louise Brooks (Lucienne Garnier) Georges Charlia (André) Jean Bradin (Prince Adolphe de Grabovsky) Augusto Bandini (Antonin) André Nicolle (Assistant editor) Yves Glad (The maharajah) Gaston Jacquet (Duke de la Tour Chalgrin) Alex Bernard (The photographer) Marc Zilboulsky (The manager), with Raymond Sonny and Fanny Clair Production Sofar (La Société des Films Artistiques) Producer Romain Pines Story Augusto Genina, René Clair, Bernard Zimmer, and Alessandro De Stefani Scenario René Clair and G.W. Pabst Photography Rudolf Maté and Louis Née Editor Edmond T. Gréville Sets Robert Gys Costumes Jean Patou Print Source Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna Live Musical Accompaniment by Stephen Horne Essay by Dennis Harvey Arguably no movie star has ever been so thoroughly rehabilitated in popular esteem—going from footnote to icon—as Louise Brooks. In her brief career heyday, she was a Hollywood up-and-comer whose career self-sabotage came too early to afford her the protection an established star might have had from executive wrath. The European films she traipsed off to do, now considered masterpieces, were neither critical nor commercial successes at the time; the “natural” acting in them that rivets us now was dismissed as monotonous and inexpressive. The last and least known of them, Prix de beauté, wasn’t even seen in the U.S. until nearly three decades later. At the time it was hard to imagine Prix de beauté would be Brooks’s final starring role. The extent to which she’d burned her bridges back in Hollywood was not yet clear. In late 1928, as she finished The Canary Murder Case (playing the singing “canary” who’s murdered), her Paramount contract came up for renewal, and she fully expected her salary—which was minuscule compared to well-known flappers like Clara Bow and Colleen Moore—to get at least the minimum bump-up. Instead, the studio played hardball, saying she could stay at her current level or leave. They certainly didn’t expect her to do the latter. But then Brooks had always been an impetuous, hot-tempered type. She’d entered movies reluctantly, preferring stage work, and scrammed back to the East Coast every chance she got. The advice to quit came from her wealthy then-lover, George Marshall (a laundry business tycoon, not the actor). Out of work, she accepted an offer—purportedly because Marshall wanted a European vacation—to make Pandora’s Box in Berlin for G.W. Pabst, an esteemed director with a famous property. (Though the Americans had, in fact, heard of neither.) That movie ultimately made Brooks a legend, but not for some time. When it was completed, she returned to the U.S., ignoring frantic messages from Paramount. The still-unreleased Canary Murder Case was being reworked as a part-talkie to cash in on the sudden sound craze. Brooks was urgently needed in California to shoot and loop dialogue. Though much money was dangled, she was still in a peevish (and travel-weary) mood. Her refusal forced the studio to dub another actress’s voice, and the fallout got her unofficially blacklisted. Not that she cared, for the moment. Her beloved Pabst, the only director she’d ever enjoyed working for, bade her return to Europe to make a film for René Clair, which the French director had written specifically for her. But upon her arrival in Paris, Clair greeted her with the news that the film’s financing was in disarray and might never come together; he was quitting the project. Forced to wait it out by the contract she’d signed, Brooks got another bailout from Pabst, this time offering immediate work in the quickly put together Diary of a Lost Girl. Shortly after that film was finished, Prix de beauté came to life again, with accomplished Italian expatriate Augusto Genina now directing a version of Clair and Pabst’s screenplay. It was a role perfect for Brooks’s fresh, indelible “look” and for her natural high spirits. She plays Lucienne, a Parisian typist who enters a newspaper beauty contest as a lark and is informed she’s won just as she’s begging to pull out because of the furious objections of her beau André (Georges Charlia). Competing against women of other nationalities for the title “Miss Europe” (also one of the film’s release titles), she enjoys all the glamour, excitement, and opportunity that had been absent from her humdrum life, including the amorous attentions of a prince (Jean Bradin). But André’s jealousy and possessiveness know no bounds and ultimately take the film down a darker road. Beauty pageants were still a relatively novel object of public curiosity at the time, and Genina brings a near-documentary feel to much of the early film. More novel still was the ambitious script’s gender dynamic. While a typical movie of the era (and for many years after) found the career girl coming to her senses and realizing that all she really wants is to stay home and do hubby’s washing, here Lucienne is clearly oppressed by André’s controlling love. The production went smoothly enough, despite Genina’s frequent exasperation with his star who saw no reason to slow down her partying just because she was working all day. In his memoirs he recalled that they “set her up in a big chair and made her up [for the scene] while she was still sleeping.” Nonetheless, she looks gorgeous and is guilelessly appealing. Friends later said it was the performance that most resembled her offscreen personality. Even that didn’t get said until much, much later, however. Astonishingly, Pandora’s Box and Diary of a Lost Girl had been dismissed by press and public, in part because these silent features had arrived just in time to be considered passé in a new “all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing” world. Released in mid-1930, Prix de beauté seemed even more anachronistic. Its creakily pasted-on sound effects and few, awkwardly post-synched dialogue scenes were so two-years-ago. (Brooks’s voice was dubbed by a French actress.) Even as Brooks earned some kudos for her performance, particularly from the French critics, the film was a quick flop in Europe and didn’t even merit a U.S. release. Never a wise guardian of her earnings, Brooks was soon in need of a job and glumly traipsed back to her detested Hollywood. Now it was Hollywood’s turn to show its disdain. The best she could do was a dreadful two-reel comedy (playing a scandalized movie star in Windy Riley Goes Hollywood under the pseudonymous direction of scandal casualty Fatty Arbuckle), supporting roles in two mediocre programmers (It Pays to Advertise, God’s Gift to Women), and nondescript leading lady roles in two grade-Z westerns (opposite Buck Jones in Empty Saddles and the pre-Stagecoach John Wayne in Overland Stage Raiders). She was still her own worst enemy, career-wise. When Beggars of Life director William Wellman wanted her again against all odds for an important role in the gangster classic Public Enemy, she blew off that golden opportunity to visit yet another boyfriend in New York. By 1940, the situation was dire enough that she moved back to a hermit-like existence in her native Wichita, Kansas. A few years later she returned to the Big Apple. She had truly been forgotten. Then, starting in the early 1950s, Pandora’s Box began being dusted off and hailed as a masterpiece—and its MIA star as a revelation. Painstakingly trying to remake herself as a writer (she wrote, and burned, two complete memoirs), Brooks was variably amused, grateful, and typically cranky about a gradual resurrection that fast developed elements of cult adulation. For her, the best aspect was finding new creative expressions hotly sought after—several of her jewel-like, autobiographically tinged articles on Hollywood, Pabst, and fellow stars are preserved in the collection Lulu in Hollywood, which underwent a second printing before her death in 1985 at age 78. Less frequently revived than her other European films, Prix de beauté has been recently restored in a silent version by the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna from a silent copy with Italian intertitles from the Cineteca Italiana and a French sound copy from the Cinémathèque française.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9710
__label__wiki	0.856459	0.856459	KMP to CBCP bishops: CARPER strengthened landlords’ control over lands “The agrarian reform dispute-cases of Hacienda Luisita, Hacienda Looc in Batangas, Roxas-Araneta lands in Bulacan, among others, are concrete cases where landlords made use of the Carper to evade land distribution.” – Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas MANILA — As the countdown to the anniversary of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program begins, the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) called on the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to rethink their position on what it described as a “bogus and anti-peasant Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (Carper).” The KMP issued the statement after reports quoted Manila Auxiliary Bishop Rev. Roderick Pabillo as saying that at least 28 members of the 100-strong CBCP signed a letter requesting an audience with President Benigno Aquino III on behalf of farmers to seek his firm commitment on the implementation of the CARP. Pabillo also heads the CBCP’s National Secretariat for Social Action – Justice and Peace. In terms of agrarian reform, the CBCP said, the Aquino administration has got the worst distinction compared to other post-EDSA administrations. In a report posted on the official CBCP news site, Pabillo said, the current Department of Agrarian Reform has been consistently underperforming in implementing agrarian reform, particularly in land acquisition and distribution (LAD). He said there is a huge backlog of 1,093,000 hectares from the targeted lands to be distributed. In 2011, he said, the DAR accomplished 54.6 percent of its national LAD target; and that there had also been no significant movement in the 135,199-hectare total provincial backlog as of January 2012 and no notices of coverage has been issued on large estates..... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/06/06/kmp-to-cbcp-bishops-carper-strengthened-landlords-control-over-lands/ KMP to CBCP bishops: CARPER strengthened landlords... Noy’s victory tour EDITORIAL 06/07/2012 USA frightens China with super destroyer. China la... 'End of the world as we know it': Kaspersky warns ... Venus to create moving beauty mark on the sun Wedding vows and divorce VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Osc... The rock star President INSIDE CONGRESS Charlie Ma... GMA cleared in 2004 bribery case, Mike A. charged ... 7 negative votes put SoVFA OK in peril 06/07/2012... AMLC allowed to open bank records ‘ex parte’ By An... Padaca ordered arrested By Ted Boehnert 06/07/201... Binay decries Roxas mayor’s inhospitality 06/07/2... Alliance of Concerned Teachers junks gov’t K to 12... Hog, poultry raisers lambast Customs chief for mak... Factbox: Boeing's changing schedule for 737 MAX fix, return to service - Boeing Co said on Tuesday it does not expect to win approval for the return of the 737 MAX to service until mid-year due to further potential developments ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9725
__label__wiki	0.667012	0.667012	Friday Flashback: Anderson dominates Sioux Falls in July This installment of Friday Flashback takes you to July 6, one of Devin Anderson's best games in 2012. VIDEO: Baseball Basics: Infield Play with Frank White, part 1 During the 2012 season, we introduced "Baseball Basics" videos. The first was Frank White talking about caring for a glove. In part 1 of Infield Play, White talks about fielding a ground ball. A few of our favorite things For this Christmas, we thought it would be fun to have members of the T-Bones family to share personal childhood memories from the holidays. "10 Questions" with Brad Furnish This installment of "10 Questions" features pitcher Brad Furnish, whom the T-Bones acquired in mid-July. VIDEO: Kenny Hook and new T-Bones pitcher Derek McGowan Last week, the T-Bones signed former Park University pitcher Derek McGowan. In this video, manager Kenny Hook and McGowan talk about the signing. T-Bones play major role in new ADA-accessible playground Thanks in large part to the T-Bones, a new ADA-accessible playground opened in Wyandotte County this past week. T-Bones sign former Park, Raytown South standout McGowan The T-Bones have announced the signing of Derek McGowan, a right-handed pitcher from Raytown, Mo. Friday Flashback: Tommy Thrall In this Friday Flashback, as we catch up with former T-Bones associates who moved to other sports ventures, we feature a former T-Bones Director of Media Relations and Broadcaster, Tommy Thrall. Members of T-Bones family have new books released Just in time for the holidays, two members of the T-Bones family – coach Frank White and Matt Fulks, the Director of Media Relations – have had their most recent books published. Behind the Stats Rewind: White�s HOF snub still boggling When it came to second basemen in the 1970s and '80s, particularly in the American League, Frank White was in a league by himself. Why, then, has he never gotten the call from Cooperstown? Friday Flashback: Sara Grasmon In this edition of Friday Flashback, as we catch up with former T-Bones associates who went on to other sports ventures, we feature Sara Grasmon, who is with the Washington Nationals . "10 Questions" with Steve Kent This installment of "10 Questions" features one of the T-Bones top pitchers out of the bullpen in 2012, Steve Kent. Behind the Stats: Hook�s night around the park Late in the 2012 season, manager Kenny Hook was suspended for three games. It gave tbonesbaseball.com a unique perspective as we shadowed Hook at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. VIDEO: Friday Flashback with Norm Siebern For this week's Friday Flashback, we look back to the Kansas City A's Reunion in this video interview with former A's slugger Norm Siebern. This year we're thankful for... Here at tbonesbaseball.com, we thought it’d be fun for members of the front office to share of few things we’re thankful for. So, without further delay... Twins organization hires former T-Bones manager Doherty KANSAS CITY, Kan. – The Minnesota Twins announced on Saturday that former T-Bones manager Tim Doherty has been hired as the hitting coach for Rochester, Minnesota’s Triple-A affiliate. Friday Flashback: Pitcher Kris Johnson This week's "Friday Flashback" features former T-Bones pitcher and Kansas City native Kris Johnson, who has exciting news, as Bob Wirz of the Independent Baseball Insider discovered. Video: Making a baseball bracelet with Josh Rainwater Toward the end of the 2012 season, several T-Bones players started wearing baseball bracelets. Come to find out, they were courtesy of pitcher Josh Rainwater. Click to learn how to make them. Veteran's Day Special: Bleier proves we get second chances We hope you’ll forgive us today as we stray from an article focusing on the T-Bones, and focus on Veteran's Day and former Chiefs opponent, Rocky Bleier. Friday Flashback: Tim Doherty In this Friday Flashback, as we catch up with former T-Bones associates who've moved to other sports ventures, we lead off with former coach and manager Tim Doherty. Sadler was a big addition for T-Bones in 2012 When Ray Sadler joined the T-Bones during the 2012 season, it added a great veteran who was willing to learn, as Ashley Dunkak of tbonesbaseball.com found out. BEHIND THE STATS: An annual lesson in being good people Each November, Matt Fulks, the T-Bones Director of Media Relations, has written for various publications and sites about an old friend, Scott Shannon. We're featuring it today on tbonesbaseball.com. Former T-Bones associates continue careers in sports It’s a dream for many people who work in minor-league baseball to reach the next level. In this "Friday Flashback," we track many former T-Bones associates who have gone to the next level. T-Bones announce 2013 regular-season schedule The Kansas City T-Bones have announced their 100-game schedule for the 2013 season, which begins and ends with rival Wichita. T-Bones select top players of 2012 Coming off one of the team’s best regular-season records, the Kansas City T-Bones have announced their 2012 player award winners. Chat with Matt: Kenny Hook Manager Kenny Hook, fresh off a contract renewal, talked with Matt Fulks about the 2012 season and looked ahead to '13. T-Bones renew Hook's contract for 2013 Manager Kenny Hook received job security this week from the T-Bones as the club renewed his contract for 2013. T-Bones' staff makes World Series predictions With the World Series starting Wednesday night, members of the T-Bones front office make their predictions. Video: Flashback Friday -- Norm Siebern Former Kansas City A's slugger Norm Siebern joined us at CommunityAmerica Ballpark this summer for the A's Reunion. In this video he chats with Ashley Dunkak of tbonesbaseball.com. Behind the Scenes: Brian Bruce, the "voice" of the T-Bones Brian Bruce, T-Bones broadcaster, still enjoys baseball as much as he did when he was a kid, as Taylor Johnson of tbonesbaseball.com discovered. Video: Friday Flashback -- Al Gallagher In July, the T-Bones first manager, "Dirty" Al Gallagher, spent a few minutes before the game talking with Matt Fulks about the T-Bones' early days. "10 Questions" with ... Devin Goodwin Devin Goodwin, a native of Russellville, Ala., was a key member of the T-Bones in 2012, providing power in the lineup and stability at shortstop. But could he handle this installment of “10 Questions”? Read More... Covering the Bases: Turning two with Frank White T-Bones coach Frank White has turned a few double plays in his day. Now, in this installment of “Covering the Bases,” the eight-time Gold Glove winner is passing along his three biggest points for a second baseman when turning a double play. Read More... T-Bones rank fifth in independent baseball in �12 attendance KANSAS CITY, Kan. – For the fifth straight year, the Kansas City T-Bones were in the top five for average attendance in independent baseball, according to Ballpark Digest’s annual ranking, released on Monday. Read More... Chat with Matt: GM Chris Browne reflects on 2012 As we wrap up the 2012 season and look ahead to 2013, T-Bones General Manager Chris Browne talked with Matt Fulks about the '12 campaign from Browne's perspective. Read More... Friday Flashback: "Dirty" Al Gallagher “Dirty” Al Gallagher could best be described as a character throughout his time in baseball, as Chris Sourk found out this summer for tbonesbaseball.com. Read More... Sponsors enjoy a moment in the sun Have you ever wondered what it would be like to stand in the batter’s box at CommunityAmerica Ballpark and belt a line drive to the wall like Brandon Jones? Or to roam the outfield and try to rob a home run ball in right field like Ray Sadler? T-Bones got to experience that recently. Sort of. Read More... 2012 season successful on and off field for T-Bones Assuming you don't measure success of a team solely by winning a championship, the 2012 campaign was successful, on and off the field, for the Kansas City T-Bones. Read More... Friday Flashback: Ray Brown When the T-Bones announced their 10th anniversary team earlier this season, the list included Ray Brown, who played first base for Kansas City from 2003-2005. Earlier this summer, Brown reminisced with Ashley Dunkak of tbonesbaseball.com about his time in Kansas City and his career in general. Read More... T-Bones clipped by Sioux City in season finale SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Explorers right-hander Jason Jarvis pitched well, allowing just three runs in six solid innings, leading the Sioux City Explorers to a 4-3 victory in the season finale at Lewis and Clark Park on Monday evening. Read More... "10 Questions with..." Brian Grening This installment of “10 Questions” features pitcher Brian Grening, who spent the majority of his professional career as a reliever before T-Bones manager Kenny Hook decided to convert him to starter in 2012. It worked. Grening strikes out 13 in T-Bones 9-3 win SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Brian Grening threw a complete game that included 13 strikeouts as Kansas City topped Sioux City, 9-3, on Sunday night at Lewis and Clark Park in the middle contest of a three-game season-ending series. Read More... Irvine throws gem as T-Bones blank Explorers SIOUX CITY, Iowa- Liberty, Mo. native Luke Irvine was superb on Saturday night, throwing seven shutout innings as Kansas City topped Sioux City, 2-0, in the series-opener at Lewis and Clark Park. Read More... Ninth inning meltdown results in loss to Sox AMARILLO, Texas - The Amarillo Sox scored three runs on four hits in the bottom of the ninth, eventually scoring the winning run on a throwing error by Pat Trettel on Friday night. Read More... Friday Flashback: Jonathan Krysa On July 14, Jonathan Krysa, who was the starting pitcher for the T-Bones first game in its first season, was at CommunityAmerica Ballpark as part of our 10th anniversary salute. Taylor Johnson of tbonesbaseball.com caught up with Krysa for this installment of "Friday Flashback." Read More... Big third inning propels T-Bones to win over Sox AMARILLO, Texas - The Kansas City T-Bones scored four runs on three hits and three walks in the third inning, and they went on to double up Amarillo, 8-4, at Amarillo National Bank Sox Stadium on Thursday night. Read More... Goodwin�s monster night leads T-Bones in blowout win AMARILLO, Texas - Devin Goodwin finished four for four with two home runs as the T-Bones put together their biggest run output of the season in a 17-8 victory at Amarillo National Bank Sox Stadium on Wednesday night. Read More... Early T-Bones lead evaporates in loss at Amarillo AMARILLO, Texas - Kansas City’s early four-run lead evaporated on Tuesday night as the T-Bones lost, 8-7, to the Amarillo Sox at Amarillo National Bank Sox Stadium in the series opener. Read More... Bass homers and triples in T-Bones win over RedHawks KANSAS CITY, Kan.- Justin Bass went two for four with a home run and a triple as the T-Bones closed out their home regular season with a 4-1 win over Fargo-Moorhead on Sunday afternoon at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... Behind the Scenes: Official scorer Lou Spry When Louis Spry went to a semipro baseball game in Tacoma, Wash., as an 11-year-old, he had no idea that would launch a career as a scorekeeper and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in the NCAA. Read More... Kansas City's offense struggles in loss to Fargo KANSAS CITY, Kan.- Fargo-Moorhead’s Tyler Herron struck out nine as the RedHawks held Kansas City’s batters to four hits as they beat the T-Bones, 3-1, on Saturday night in front of 6,515 spectators at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... Covering the Bases: Enrique Cruz When Kansas City acquired infielder Enrique Cruz earlier this season, manager Kenny Hook called it a great move and lauded Cruz as a “true third baseman.” For the latest installment of “Covering the Bases,” Ashley Dunkak of tbonesbaseball.com caught up with Cruz and got three keys to good defense at the hot corner. Read More... Four home runs power RedHawks past T-Bones KANSAS CITY, Kan.- Fargo-Moorhead hit four home runs against Kansas City starter Shaun Garceau, including two by Ryan Delgado, and showed why it’s the best team in the league with a 8-3 win on Friday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... T-Bones pound 17 hits again in win over Sioux City SIOUX CITY, Iowa- For a second straight night, the T-Bones pounded out 17 hits, as Kansas City hammered Sioux City, 11-2, in the series finale at Lewis and Clark Park. Read More... Three homers in third help propel T-Bones SIOUX CITY, Iowa- The Kansas City T-Bones hit three home runs and sent 11 men to the plate in a huge top of the third inning and went on to defeat Sioux City, 9-3, on Wednesday night at Lewis and Clark Park. Read More... Timing was right for White and T-Bones T-Bones general manager Chris Browne had been working to recruit Frank White for quite some time. This year, it finally worked. Read More... Martinez launches walk-off as Explorers top T-Bones SIOUX CITY, Iowa- Adrian Martinez launched a walk-off solo home run to left field in the bottom of the ninth inning, giving the Sioux City Explorers a 3-2 win over Kansas City at Lewis and Clark Park on Tuesday night. Read More... Way too much for T-Bones KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Laredo pitcher Matt Way struck out nine in a complete-game victory as the T-Bones were swept at home for only the second time this season, losing to the Lemurs, 5-2, on Sunday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... Behind the Scenes: Kurt Sieker Kurt Sieker did not know quite what he wanted to do after graduating from Fort Hays State University, but he did know he wanted to work in baseball. Ashley Dunkak of tbonesbaseball.com found out how he ended up with the T-Bones and what he does for the club. Read More... Lemurs get 13 hits in 4-1 win over T-Bones In spite of scoring only four runs out of 13 hits, those four were enough for the Lemurs as Laredo pitchers recorded 14 strike outs and held off Kansas City, 4-1, on Saturday night in front of 6,508 at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... "10 Questions..." with Josh Rainwater This installment of "10 Questions" features starting pitcher Josh Rainwater, who's scheduled to start on Saturday night against Laredo. Read More... T-Bones upended by Laredo The T-Bones tied an American Association league record with five double plays against Laredo on Friday night, but it wasn't enough in an 8-1 loss at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. K.C. batters stymied by Lincoln pitching The Lincoln Saltdogs broke a 4-4 tie in the top of the ninth inning and then closer P.J. Zocchi held off the T-Bones in the bottom of the inning as Lincoln won 5-4 on Thursday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... T-Bones get dozen hits in 8-3 win over Lincoln The T-Bones pounded out 12 hits and took advantage of 10 walks, and got good pitching as they beat Lincoln 8-3 on Wednesday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... Mense looking toward next career Despite the urging of his parents during a difficult junior season of baseball, Hunter Mense did not want to see a sports psychologist. It was just one of those things. The two-hour meeting, though, changed his life. Read More... T-Bones blow late lead, lose to Lincoln KANSAS CITY, Kan. – A starter replaced the closer for Kansas City in the ninth on Tuesday, but it didn’t help as the T-Bones gave up three runs on two errors and blew a one-run lead in a 9-7 loss to Lincoln at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... T-Bones, CommunityAmerica Credit Union Extend Naming Rights KANSAS CITY, Kan. – At a time when stadium naming rights are difficult for teams to secure, the T-Bones know their ballpark will keep the same name for years to come. Read More... T-Bones drop doubleheader, series at Worcester WORCESTER, Mass.- Kansas City dropped both 7-inning games of a doubleheader, each by the score of 8-1, to the Worcester Tornadoes at Hanover Insurance Park at Fitton Field on Saturday night. Read More... Willie Wilson Legends Game returns on Saturday KANSAS CITY, Kan. – The Kansas City T-Bones and Royals Hall of Famer Willie Wilson are excited to announce the return of the Willie Wilson Legends Game to CommunityAmerica Ballpark on Saturday, August 11. Read More... T-Bones bats stay hot as KC takes opener at Worcester WORCESTER, Mass. - The Kansas City T-Bones pounded out 15 hits, taking the series opener, 11-4, at Hanover Insurance Park at Fitton Field on Thursday night. Read More... White speaks to packed Rotary group T-Bones coach Frank White spoke to a packed house crowd at the weekly Village West Rotary breakfast on Thursday. Want details on how you might be able to meet White? Click to find out how... Read More... Kansas City bats explode in blowout victory Newark, N.J. - Ray Sadler blasted two two-run home runs and totaled five RBIs as Kansas City blew out Newark, 12-5, and avoided being swept at Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium. Read More... Ness shines as Newark takes game two from T-Bones Newark, N.J. - Bears starter Mike Ness worked eight innings of six-hit, two-run ball, leading Newark to a 5-3 win in the second game of a three-game set at Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium on Tuesday night. Read More... "10 Questions" with Lee Cruz Lee Cruz, who started the season with KC before going to the Mexican league, has been welcomed back to KC with open arms, batting around .400 during this second half of the season. Well, for that reason and because he answered these "10 Questions" for Taylor Johnson of tbonesbaseball.com. Read More... Big fourth inning leads Bears past T-Bones Newark, N.J.- The Newark Bears put together six consecutive hits and scored six runs in the fourth inning, and went on to soundly defeat Kansas City, 11-4, on Monday night at Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium. Read More... Goodwin leads way for T-Bones Pomona, N.Y.- Devin Goodwin blasted two solo home runs, registering his first multi-homer game of the season, as Kansas City won the game, which included a 1 hour, 42 minute rain delay between the bottom of the fifth and the top of the sixth, and the series with a 10-7 victory at Provident Bank Park on Sunday night. Read More... Anderson's pitching helps lead KC past Rockland Pomona, N.Y. - Devin Anderson hurled seven innings of one-run ball and Kansas City smashed two home runs as the T-Bones dominated the Rockland Boulders, 8-2, in the series and road trip opener at Provident Bank Park on Friday night. Read More... Frustrating loss for T-Bones to Winnipeg Even with a final attempted comeback with a run in the ninth by Lee Cruz, Kansas City couldn’t match Winnipeg’s offense and lost the final game of the three-game series, 8-4, on Thursday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... T-Bones escape with win over Goldeyes The T-Bones controlled most of Wednesday night’s game against Winnipeg, but had a nail-biting final two innings before holding out for a 7-4 win at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Former teammates, Shipman and Furnish reunited with T-Bones Two seasons ago, in 2010, current T-Bones pitching coach Andy Shipman and relief pitcher Brad Furnish were teammates at Gary SouthShore. Now, as Shipman and Furnish are reconnected as T-Bones, they reminisce with Taylor Johnson of tbonesbaseball.com. Read More... T-Bones� offense struggles in loss to Goldeyes It was a rough series opener for Kansas City as the offense struggled against Winnipeg starter Ace Walker and fell to the Goldeyes, 4-1, on Tuesday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. The T-Bones field master You likely don't know Glen Aveson, but if you've been to CommunityAmerica Ballpark, you know his work. After all, he's the main main responsible for how the field looks and plays. Chris Sourk of tbonesbaseball.com got Aveson to stop working long enough for this article. GAME NOTES 7/31 Check out the daily game notes for recent transactions, player updates, statistics and comments from manager Kenny Hook. Read More... Hot bats propel T-Bones to 9-1 win Behind three two-run home runs and a solid pitching performance by starter Brian Grening, the T-Bones completed a three-game sweep of the Grand Prairie AirHogs, 9-1, Sunday evening at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. VIDEO: KMBC Channel 9 anchor Kris Ketz Before KMBC "First News" anchor Kris Ketz sang "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" on Saturday night, he chatted with Matt Fulks about everything from the Time Warner/Hearst debate, to his view of the T-Bones, to his love of baseball. Read More... Kent helps salvage win for T-Bones In one of the toughest situations a reliever can face, Kansas City’s Steve Kent got three outs with the bases loaded in the ninth and helped the T-Bones secure a 6-5 win over Grand Prairie in front of 7,253 on Saturday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. VIDEO: Gold medalist Christie Ambrosi talks Olympics Overland Park, Kan., native Christie Ambrosi, who was a member of the 2000 U.S. Olympic softball team that won the gold medal, was at CommunityAmerica Ballpark on Friday night, July 27. She talked for a few minutes with Matt Fulks about that experience in Sydney. Read More... Milner enjoying being close to home T-Bones outfielder Gus Milner, an Olathe, Kan., native, has enjoyed being close to home, as Ashley Dunkak of TBonesbaseball.com found out during this interview. T-Bones rally for six early and beat Grand Prairie A six-run second inning and strong pitching by Lucas Irvine helped the T-Bones defeat Grand Prairie, 9-4, in front of 5,506 on Friday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. T-Bones lose despite great pitching from Rainwater T-Bones starter Josh Rainwater allowed only two hits through a complete game, but Kansas City struggled offensively as four St. Paul pitchers combined for a five-hit shutout, 3-0, on Thursday at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Covering the Bases: Josh Rainwater Every fifth game, when Josh Rainwater goes to the mound for the T-Bones, as he'll do tonight, what's gone into that start? In the latest installment of “Covering the Bases,” Rainwater talks about his pre-game routine and what he is looking to accomplish in his start. Read More... T-Bones run out of run support in loss to Saints The T-Bones kept pace with St. Paul early, scoring four runs over the first two innings, but could not muster any offense past that point as the Saints won 5-4 on Wednesday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. T-Bones rally with five-run eighth Trailing by five runs after five innings, the T-Bones scored one in the sixth, two in the seventh and five in the eighth to defeat the St. Paul Saints, 10-7, on Tuesday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Anderson continues to dominate Grand Prairie GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas- Lefty Devin Anderson threw 6 2/3 innings of shutout ball as Kansas City blanked Grand Prairie, 7-0, on Monday night and split a four-game series at QuikTrip Park. Read More... Late inning offense pushes Grand Prairie past T-Bones Lucas Irvine's well-pitched game not enough to get Kansas City a win on Sunday night. Read More... DeBarr leads Grand Prairie past KC with complete game GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas- AirHogs right-hander Nick DeBarr worked through 105-degree heat and pitched a complete game as Grand Prairie topped Kansas City, 8-4, on Saturday night at QuikTrip Park. From intern to director in less than a year Emily Hoskins, who was honored recently as the T-Bones' Employee of the Month, started with the club as a promotions intern in 2010. Just a few months later she was offered the full-time position that once belonged to her boss. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at Hoskins' day. Read More... Garceau nearly unhittable as T-Bones take opener Shaun Garceau shut out the Grand Prairie AirHogs for seven innings and Kansas City took the series-opener, 4-1, at QuikTrip Park on Friday night. Read More... Friday Flashback: Ryan Fox Ryan Fox had some pop in his bat, without question. Which game stands out, though? As Chris Sourk found out for this "Friday Flashback," the contest against the Schaumburg Flyers on July 3, 2009, will always stand out to him. Multi-run homers lead Kansas City to victory With the help of three multi-run home runs and 17 hits, the T-Bones beat the Sioux City Explorers 12-7 and took the series Wednesday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Sioux City scores two in ninth and beats KC Sioux City scored the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth inning on a wild pitch by Kansas City’s Steve Kent, and then added another run later in the inning in a 6-4 win on Tuesday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. "10 Questions with..." Devin Anderson Ready to learn more about your T-Bones? This installment of "10 Questions with..." features pitcher Devin Anderson, who's starting Tuesday night's game against Sioux City at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... T-Bones rally and beat Sioux City The tide of Monday night’s game changed as Kansas City scored four runs in the seventh and eighth innings, including an RBI double by Hunter Mense in the bottom of the eighth, and took the first game of the series against Sioux City, 5-4, at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Irvine a natural fit for T-Bones' rotation Monday night's starter for the T-Bones, Lucas Irvine, has done a wonderful job in the rotation since taking the spot of Nick Singleton, after Singleton was part of the trade that brought Enrique Cruz to Kansas City. Has it been luck for Irvine and the T-Bones? Tbonesbaseball.com writer Ashley Dunkak finds out. Read More... "10 Questions with..." Andy Shipman This installment of “10 Questions” features one of the new coaches in 2012, pitching coach Andy Shipman, who spent nine years as a professional pitcher. Read More... VIDEO: Fox4's Mark Alford "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" In case you weren't at Saturday night's game, you missed a great rendition of "Take Me Out To The Ball Game." Read More... T-Bones win, pull within four games of first place The T-Bones committed six errors over the first three innings, but a trio of homers helped them overcome the mistakes and take the final game of the series from Wichita, 5-2, in front of 7,718 at CommunityAmerica Ballpark on Saturday night. T-Bones overcome late rally, take edge in series One night after beating Wingnuts in 12 innings in Wichita, the T-Bones scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth on Friday night and beat the Wingnuts 9-8 at CommunityAmerica Ballpark in the second half of a home-and-home series. T-Bones sign former first baseman Cruz, pitcher Loggins KANSAS CITY, Kan. – The Kansas City T-Bones have announced the signings of Lee Cruz, a 6-foot-2, 190-pound first baseman/outfielder from Dade City, Fla., and pitcher Dustin Loggins, a 6-foot-5, 210-pound right hander from Waynesville, Mo. Great pitching, Cruz's clutch hit, gives KC win in 12 WICHITA, Kan.- After dropping their first five games of the six-game road trip, Kansas City’s Enrique Cruz hit a two-run single in the top of the 12th inning, scoring Devin Goodwin and Brandon Jones, as the T-Bones went on to beat Wichita, 6-3, on Thursday night at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium in Wichita, Kan. Read More... Covering the Bases: Trevor Coleman T-Bones catcher Trevor Coleman often makes trips to the mound from his spot behind the plate to talk to pitchers. But what do they talk about? In the latest installment of “Covering the Bases,” Coleman explains his three basics for talking to a pitcher during a game. Read More... Sadler reaches milestone but T-Bones fall short WICHITA, Kan.- Ray Sadler launched a two-run home run to left in the fourth inning, his 10th of the season and 200th of his 13-year professional career, but the T-Bones were unable to overcome an early deficit and dropped the opener to the Wingnuts, 4-2, at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium on Wednesday evening. Read More... Ninth inning collapse leads to heartbreaking loss for T-Bones FARGO, N.D.- Kansas City gave up four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning, and then lost 10-9 on a walk-off single by Fargo-Moorhead rookie Buddy Sosnoskie in the bottom of the 10th in a heartbreaker at Newman Outdoor Field on Monday night. Read More... T-Bones offense dormant in Sunday matinee loss at Fargo FARGO, N.D. -- After scoring a combined 21 runs on Thursday and Friday, the T-Bones mustered only one run and couldn’t take advantage of Shaun Garceau’s pitching performance in a 3-1 loss to Fargo-Moorhead on Sunday afternoon at Newman Outdoor Field. Read More... T-Bones drop series opener at Fargo-Moorhead FARGO, N.D.- Fargo native Jake Laber pitched 6 2/3 innings of shutout baseball as the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks moved into a virtual deadlock with Kansas City for the Wildcard lead with a 6-2 victory on Saturday night in front of a sellout crowd of 4,893 at Newman Outdoor Field. Read More... Anderson goes eight as T-Bones win series T-Bones starter Devin Anderson gave up just one run over eight innings as Kansas City sealed a series win and a lead in the wild card race with an 8-3 victory Friday night in front of 6,107 at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. GAME NOTES 7/6 VIDEO: Manager Kenny Hook, post-game, 07-05-12 T-Bones manager Kenny Hook after Thursday night's 13-1 win over Sioux Falls. Read More... Milner, Irvine help T-Bones dominate Sioux Falls Behind a 15-hit and four home run offensive night and a dominant pitching performance from starter Lucas Irvine, Kansas City rolled to a 13-1 victory over the Sioux Falls Pheasants on Thursday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Friday's All-Star event a reunion for T-Bones' GM John Mayberry, Hal McRae, Amos Otis, Fred Patek, Willie Wilson and Frank White may be members of the Royals Hall of Fame, but to T-Bones general manager Chris Browne, the All-Stars are also old friends. Read More... Check out the daily game notes for recent transactions, player updates, and comments from manager Kenny Hook. VIDEO: Frank White on Friday's "Turn Back the Clock" night On Friday night, July 6th, the T-Bones will be welcoming six former Major League All-Star players and one All-Star trainer, presented by COUNTRY Financial. One of those All-Stars, T-Bones coach Frank White, talked to Matt Fulks about the event and his All-Star Game memories. Read More... Bolden and strong pitching lead Sioux Falls past T-Bones A fourth of July crowd of 6,817 saw the Sioux Falls Pheasants tally 13 hits, including a four-hit game from Jared Bolden, and beat the T-Bones, 7-2. Remembering Monday's act of patriotism, courage With today being the fourth of July, Matt Fulks, the T-Bones Director of Media Relations, looks back at an incredible act of patriotism and courage by long-time Major League player Rick Monday in 1976. Read More... Wiley shuts off Sioux Falls rally in Kansas City win After spotting Sioux Falls four runs, the T-Bones rallied and held on to defeat the Pheasants 6-4 on Tuesday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark, thanks to timely pitching by T-Bones reliever Jake Wiley. Helms' heroics and Coleman's bat lead T-Bones Rookie Spiker Helms reached well above the left field wall and robbed a would-be game-tying two-run homer off the bat of John Alonso in the bottom of the 10th as the T-Bones took the series finale against the Saltdogs, 3-1, at Haymarket Park on Monday night. Anderson solid as T-Bones beat Saltdogs LINCOLN, Neb.- Left-hander Devin Anderson turned in an outstanding start, allowing only two runs over seven innings of work, as Kansas City soundly beat Lincoln, 11-2, at a steamy Haymarket Park on Sunday evening. Read More... Lincoln scores in eight, holds off Kansas City, 3-2 LINCOLN, Neb.- The red hot Tommy Collaro lined a 1-2 fastball from Jake Wiley to center field with two outs in the ninth, giving the Lincoln Saltdogs a 3-2 lead and eventual win at Haymarket Park on Saturday night. Read More... VIDEO: Legendary George Toma talks with Matt Fulks George Toma has helped develop some of the best playing fields for Major League Baseball, the NFL and the Olympics. Last week, the Royals announced that Toma had been selected for the club's Hall of Fame. Matt Fulks sat down with Toma for this video in early June. Read More... Rainwater goes distance, but Saltdogs outlast T-Bones LINCOLN, Neb.- Kansas City starter Josh Rainwater went the distance with eight innings, but the Lincoln Saltdogs used a three-run sixth inning to build a 6-1 lead and held on to win 6-4 at Haymarket Park on Friday night. Read More... Williams powers T-Bones past Gary SouthShore Behind a big night at the plate by Bubby Williams and another gem thrown by Shaun Garceau, the T-Bones won the series finale against the Gary SouthShore RailCats, 7-2, on Thursday night. Big sixth propels T-Bones to win over RailCats GARY, Ind.- Kansas City used a five-run sixth inning to seize control of Wednesday night’s game, as the T-Bones went on to beat the Gary SouthShore RailCats, 6-4, at the U.S. Steel Yard. Read More... 10 Questions with ... Bill Sobbe This season marks Bill Sobbe's first with the T-Bones, as manager Kenny Hook brought Sobbe on board as the bench coach shortly before the season. We bring Sobbe on board for this week's version of "10 Questions." Read More... T-Bones lose lead, game in ninth GARY, Ind.- The Kansas City T-Bones went to the bottom of the ninth inning with a 4-3 lead on Tuesday night at the U.S. Steel Yard, but ended up on the wrong end of a 5-4 final as former T-Bones player Sean Henry singled home Adam Klein, giving the RailCats the win. Read More... T-Bones beat Gary SouthShore in 11 GARY, Ind.- After falling behind 6-0 through three innings, Kansas City scored seven unanswered runs the rest of the way and took the series opener, 7-6, in 11 innings at the U.S. Steel Yard on Monday night. Read More... Sadler leads T-Bones to win against Amarillo T-Bones closer Jake Wiley faced a bases-loaded jam with league-leading hitter Tim Alberts at the plate. Wiley struck him out and went on to get his seventh save one batter later, as Kansas City defeated Amarillo 6-3 on Sunday night in front of 5,207 at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. T-Bones win big with 16 runs For a second time in four games, Kansas City pounded out at least 17 hits and took advantage of five Amarillo errors as the T-Bones beat the Sox 16-4 on Saturday night in front of 8,103 fans. Grening goes eight as KC beats Amarillo Grening (4-2) held the Sox at bay, giving up only one run and six hits, leaving after giving up a lead-off double in the ninth. Jake Wiley came in and picked up the save, his sixth of the season. VIDEO: Former Royals pitcher Danny Jackson from June 21, 2012 Danny Jackson, a key member of the 1985 Royals pitching staff, visited CommunityAmerica Ballpark on Thursday night as part of the Principal Financial Dreams Tour. Read More... T-Bones struggle against Amarillo pitching It proved to be a quick game full of strikeouts as the T-Bones failed to rally against the Amarillo Sox in a 6-1 loss on Thursday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark in front of 6,204 fans. T-Bones win wild one; sweep El Paso The T-Bones outlasted El Paso 15-11 and completed a three-game sweep at CommunityAmerica Ballpark on Wednesday afternoon. The teams combined for 30 hits and six home runs in the game, including two by Ray Sadler. Read More... Kansas City defeats El Paso in game two of the series Behind a complete game shutout by Josh Rainwater, the T-Bones defeated the Diablos 10-0 on Tuesday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark in front of a crowd of 5,011. T-Bones cruise to 8-1 victory over El Paso The T-Bones put the Diablos in a hole early, scoring six runs in the second inning on their way to a win in which they led the entire game. Walk in 10th gives Wichita win over KC WICHITA, Kan.- More than four hours into the game, Kansas City pitcher Jake Wiley walked Wichita’s Taylor Freeman for a walk-off base on balls in the bottom of the 10th inning as the Wingnuts outlasted the T-Bones, 6-5, at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium on Sunday. Read More... T-Bones sign former Oakland A�s prospect The Kansas City T-Bones have announced the signing of Hunter Mense, a 5-foot-11, 185-pound outfielder from Liberty, Mo. Walks, defensive miscues haunt T-Bones vs. Wichita WICHITA, Kan.- Six different T-Bones pitchers combined for a total of 12 walks, and the KC infield committed three errors as Wichita wins at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium on Saturday night. Read More... Jones' clutch hit in ninth leads KC past Wichita WICHITA, Kan. - Former Atlanta Braves outfielder Brandon Jones was clutch in the top of the ninth inning for Kansas City on Friday night at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium, as he launched a solo home run to center off of Wingnuts right-hander Matt Nevarez that gave the T-Bones a 5-4 lead and eventual victory. Read More... 2012 Principal Financial Dreams Tour to visit the T-Bones This summer, the Principal Financial Group® will bring the 2012 Principal® Financial Dreams Tour to Kansas City as part of a national tour to celebrate minor league baseball and its fans from coast to coast. Read More... T-Bones fall 2-1 as Newark prevents sweep It took 10 innings, but Newark prevented a sweep by Kansas City when an RBI single from Juan Martinez broke the 1-1 stalemate and gave the Bears a 2-1 victory, their only win of the three-game series at CommunityAmerica Ballpark on Wednesday. Read More... T-Bones beat Newark 8-1 The T-Bones won their second straight game against Newark, 8-1, as a crowd of 10,202 watched at CommunityAmerica Ballpark on Tuesday night. Read More... T-Bones survive late rally by Newark, win 7-4 Despite a four-run seventh-inning scare from Newark, Kansas City got timely hitting in a 7-4 win in the series opener at CommunityAmerica Ballpark on Monday night. Wingnuts score eight in the sixth, down T-Bones When a player hits two home runs in a game, he can’t help but be pleased with his performance. Whenever a player hits two home runs in the same inning, he simply doesn’t want the inning to end. Deadline approaching to sign up for fan road trip Have you ever wanted to experience life on the road with the Kansas T-Bones? Well, here’s your chance. Sort of. For the first time, T-Bones fans can follow their team on the road on a club-sponsored trip. Wichita scores late, holds off Kansas City Just when it looked as if the T-Bones would grab a decisive lead and hold off Wichita, the game turned in two quick innings as the Wingnuts scored six runs during the eighth and ninth, and left on Saturday night with a 10-6 win in the second game of a three-game series. Read More... Wichita beats Kansas City with late home run In a game where Kansas City had been in control from the start, clutch hitting from the experienced Wichita Wingnuts proved to the difference in a come-from-behind 6-5 victory for the Wingnuts on Friday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... T-Bones fall short, drop finale to Fargo-Moorhead FARGO, N.D. - The T-Bones ran into tough pitching on Thursday night, as Fargo-Moorhead starter Paul Burnside set the tone with six strong innings and the RedHawks topped Kansas City 4-1 in the finale of a four-game series at Newman Outdoor Field. Read More... T-Bones Baseball Basics ... Frank White on Gloves In this "T-Bones Baseball Basics" video, Frank White talks about gloves. Read More... T-Bones cruise against Fargo FARGO, N.D. – The Kansas City T-Bones jumped on the hottest starting pitcher in the league in Fargo-Moorehead right-hander Alex Caldera, who came in 3-0 with a 1.33 ERA, scoring five runs during the first two innings, and cruising to an 8-3 win on Wednesday night at Newman Outdoor Field. Late rally by Fargo-Moorhead too much for T-Bones FARGO, N.D. -- The Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks sent seven men to the plate against southpaw Steve Kent in the bottom of the eighth inning, scoring four runs on four hits, and went on to defeat Kansas City, 8-6, on Tuesday night at Newman Outdoor Field. Kansas City hangs on in ninth; wins opener at Fargo FARGO, ND - The T-Bones made things interesting in the ninth, but they hold on for a 4-3 win at Fargo-Moorhead on Monday night. 10 Questions with ... Frank White This week’s installment of “10 Questions” features one of the T-Bones' new coaches in 2012, Frank White, who is one of the best second basemen in Major League history. (At least we think so.) Read More... T-Bones salvage series with 10th inning win It took an extra inning, but the T-Bones broke a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the tenth and salvaged the series against Amarillo, winning 2-1 on Sunday at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... Alberts leads Amarillo past T-Bones The T-Bones will be happy when Tim Alberts leaves Kansas City. The Amarillo right fielder hit his third home run in two games and led the Sox to a 4-2 win over the T-Bones on Saturday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... Video: Former T-Bones player Alberto Espinosa With the Amarillo Sox playing this weekend at CommunityAmerica Ballpark, we had a chance to catch up with former T-Bones catcher and Leavenworth, Kan., resident Alberto Espinosa. Read More... Amarillo outlasts T-Bones Despite two home runs and solid defense, the Kansas City T-Bones fell 10-7 to Tim Alberts and the Amarillo Sox on Friday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... T-Bones sign an old friend When the T-Bones take the field Friday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark after a day off, they'll do so with a new, yet familiar, face in right field. Read More... T-Bones drop slugfest, go 5-1 on roadtrip EL PASO, Texas - Diablos cleanup hitter Javier Brito lined a double off of the left-center field wall in the bottom of the ninth inning, scoring Nelson Teilon from second, as El Paso successfully erased a five-run deficit and beat Kansas City, 13-12, in walk-off fashion at Cohen Stadium on Wednesday night. Read More... T-Bones extend winning streak to five games EL PASO, Texas - Right-hander Nick Singleton rebounded from a poor outing and picked up a win in his third start of the season, throwing six strong innings on Tuesday night as the Kansas City T-Bones topped El Paso, 9-6, at Cohen Stadium. Read More... "10 Questions" with Kenny Hook As a way to help you get to know your 2012 Kansas City T-Bones, we offer "10 Questions." We start off this season’s “10 Questions” with the man calling the shots on the field, first-year manager Kenny Hook. Read More... T-Bones down Diablos, win fourth straight El Paso, Texas - Kansas City second baseman Sean Henry hit his first homer of the season as the T-Bones topped the El Paso Diablos 9-4 on Monday night at Cohen Stadium. Read More... As the T-Bones finished their first road series with a sweep of Grand Prairie, here's a look back at that series, along with some interesting stats and notes as the club gets back to action tonight at El Paso. Read More... T-Bones complete sweep of Grand Prairie GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas -- Behind timely hitting and the pitching of Brian Grening, the T-Bones spotted Grand Prairie three runs early in the game before completing their first sweep of 2012. Read More... T-Bones edge Grand Prairie Our national pastime begins and ends with pitching, and Friday night’s game at QuikTrip Park was no different, as Matt Mitchell helped lead the T-Bones past Grand Prairie, 4-3, in Texas. Read More... T-Bones begin southern roadtrip with 8-0 win GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Southpaw Devin Anderson gave the T-Bone one of their best starts of the season against the AirHogs on Thursday night. Read More... RailCats take series with 17-8 win Kansas City pitchers struggled against Gary SouthShore on Wednesday night, giving up 20 hits and walking nine batters. Read More... T-Bones fall to RailCats, 3-2 Intentionally walking the potential game-winning runner to pitch to the league MVP might not seem like a sound strategy, but it worked for Gary SouthShore on Tuesday night as the RailCats held off Kansas City, 3-2, at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... Pitching, timely hitting lead T-Bones past RailCats The Kansas City T-Bones, behind timely hitting and a solid 2012 pitching debut for Brian Grening, defeated the Gary SouthShore RailCats 5-3 on Monday night at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... T-Bones offense slowed by New Jersey Kansas City and New Jersey combined for 55 runs in the first three games of their four-game series, so Sunday proved to be a change of pace as the Jackals won 4-2 behind a strong start by lefty Jon Kibler, taking the series three games to one. Read More... "Chat with Matt" ... Angel Berroa New Jersey Jackals shortstop Angel Berroa, a familiar face to Kansas City baseball fans, sat down with the T-Bones Director of Media Relations, Matt Fulks, for this installment of "Chat with Matt." Read More... Jackals� bats too much for T-Bones The Kansas City T-Bones struggled to keep up with the offense of the New Jersey Jackals on Saturday night and lost 12-5, giving the Jackals a 2-1 edge in the four-game series. Read More... Ka�aihue homers twice in T-Bones first win of �12 Kala Ka’aihue blasted two home runs, helping to lead the Kansas City T-Bones to their first win of 2012, an 11-3 victory over the New Jersey Jackals at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... Coventry Health Care Joins T-Bones Lineup for 2012 Season The Kansas City T-Bones are thrilled to announce a partnership with Coventry Health Care for the upcoming 2012 10th anniversary campaign. Read More... "Fun...Well Done" Returns...T-Bones Open 10th Anniversary Season Tonight The 10th anniversary season of Kansas City T-Bones Baseball officially begins tonight at beautiful CommunityAmerica Ballpark as your T-Bones host the Lee’s Summit Monarchs in the first pre-season exhibition game of the 2012 campaign. Read More... Host Families Needed for the 2012 Season Click through to learn more about how to become a host family for a T-Bones player in 2012. Read More... Single-game tickets for the T-Bones' 10th anniversary season are ON SALE NOW! Read More... T-Bones Open Tryouts Set for May 4 The Kansas City T-Bones will hold open tryouts for the 2012 season at CommunityAmerica Ballpark on Friday, May 4. Read More... T-Bones Announce Change to 2012 Schedule The Kansas City T-Bones have announced two changes to their 2012 regular-season schedule. Read More... T-Bones Promote Hook to Manager for 2012 Season The Kansas City T-Bones have announced that Kenny Hook has been promoted to manager for the 2012 season. Read More... Sponsorship Opportunities with the T-Bones Looking for a cost-effective way to reach potential customers? Team up with the Kansas City T-Bones today! Read More... Scout Nights Back for 2012 Season The Kansas City T-Bones are happy to announce the return of Scout Nights to CommunityAmerica Ballpark for their 10th anniversary season. Read More... Group Tickets ON SALE NOW! Group tickets for the 2012 season are now available! Read More... T-Bones Announce 20/20 Plan for 2012 Season The Kansas City T-Bones have announced a new 20-game ticket plan for their 10th anniversary season that will allow fans to sit as close as possible to first base coach Frank White during each game. Read More... Burleson Secures 1,000th Victory The Kansas City Kansas Community College baseball team has opened its 2012 regular season schedule, and will once again play their home games at CommunityAmerica Ballpark. Read More... Willie Wilson Legends Game Returns in 2012 The Kansas City T-Bones are excited to announce the return of the Willie Wilson Legends Game for the 2012 season. Read More... Kevin Gray Father's Day 5K Run The Kansas City T-Bones are happy to partner with the Kansas City Sports Commission and Foundation for the inaugural Kevin Gray Father’s Day 5K Run. Read More... All-You-Can-Eat Plan Returns to CommunityAmerica Ballpark The Kansas City T-Bones are proud to announce the return of their All-You-Can-Eat Plan for the 2012 season. Click through for more information and to download the flyer! Read More... T-Bones, Papa John�s Team Up for 2012 Season The Kansas City T-Bones are excited to announce a partnership with Papa John’s that will bring their award-winning pizza to CommunityAmerica Ballpark for the 2012 season. Read More... T-Bones Unveil 10th Anniversary Logo The Kansas City T-Bones will celebrate their 10th season of FUN…WELL DONE! in 2012, and have released a special logo to commemorate the occasion. Read More... Mini Plans ON SALE NOW! Always popular mini-plan ticket packages are ON SALE NOW for the T-Bones’ 10th anniversary season! Read More... Former Closer Shipman Tabbed Pitching Coach The Kansas City T-Bones and manager Tim Doherty have announced that 2009 Northern League Relief Pitcher of the Year Andy Shipman has been named pitching coach for the T-Bones’ 10th anniversary season. Read More... The Kansas City T-Bones have released the promotional schedule for their 10th anniversary season. Read More... Enjoy a Game from the Bud Light Party Deck! Looking for a great place to entertain your group this summer? The T-Bones and Arthur Bryant's have teamed up to give you the perfect option with the Bud Light Party Deck! Read More... Diamond Debit Cards Now Available to Purchase Online Diamond Debit cards are now available to purchase online, giving you the opportunity to secure the perfect gift for your favorite T-Bones fan at your convenience! Read More... T-Bones Hire Frank White The Kansas City T-Bones are excited to announce that Kansas City legend and five-time all-star Frank White has been added to the coaching staff for the 2012 season. Read More... 2012 Home Exhibition Schedule Finalized The Kansas City T-Bones have finalized their 2012 home exhibition schedule with the addition of a game against former T-Bone Jonathan Krysa’s semi-pro Lee’s Summit Monarchs team on Tuesday, May 8 at 7:05 p.m. Read More... Looking for a place to host your next event? CommunityAmerica Ballpark is the perfect choice! Read More... Season Tickets ON SALE NOW! Season tickets for the 10th anniversary season of T-Bones baseball are on sale now, and can be reserved with a $50 per seat deposit! Read More... T-Bones Offer Opportunity to Area High School Teams Ever dreamed of playing baseball in a professional stadium? If you are on a high school baseball team, the Kansas City T-Bones might have the opportunity you’ve been looking for! Read More... Now Accepting Internship Applications for the 2012 Season T-Bones Southpaw Headed to Pirates Organization The Kansas City T-Bones and manager Tim Doherty are excited to announce that the contract of Blue Springs native Kris Johnson has been purchased by the Pittsburgh Pirates. Read More... 2012 T-Bones Reading Program Underway T-Bones 4-day merchandise sale starts Wednesday! The T-Bones will be having a HUGE four-day merchandise sale at the Meat Locker. Click "Read More" to get all of the details.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9726
__label__wiki	0.809515	0.809515	Quotes with keywords > S > SE > secretary 1-10 Quotations of 33 Secretary quotes “And then there was [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld coming out and saying, "I don't know when. I don't know where. But something bad is going to happen." And everyone else is saying, "Wait a minute, are you working with Miss Cleo or something? What is this, the Central Intuitive Agency?" . . . And you have Bush, hearing about all the fighting over Kashmir, and saying, "What? It's just a sweater!"” Robin Williams quotes (American actor) “Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?” Jack Handy quotes (American Writer and cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1991-2003. Famous for his Deep Thoughts comedy sketches.) “Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it” Lord Mancroft quotes “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Ronald Reagan quotes (American 40th US President (1981- 89), 1911-2004) “When in 1966 Charles de Gaulle ordered France out of NATO and American troops off French soil, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked him if that included the American soldiers lying dead in the cemeteries at Normandy and throughout France” Charles Krauthammer quotes “I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.” Barry Goldwater quotes (American Politician and Senator, 1909-1998) “We had a good Cabinet meeting, talked about a lot of issues. Secretary of State and Defense brought us up to date about our desires to spread freedom and peace around the world.” Jenny0103 George W. Bush quotes (American 43rd US President since 2001. b.1946) “I know something about Mr. Khrushchev. ...Mr. Khrushchev himself, it is said, told the story about the Russian who began to run through the Kremlin shouting, 'Khrushchev is a fool, Khrushchev is a fool.' He was sentanced, he said, to twenty-three years in prison: three for insulting the party secretary, and twenty for revealing a state secret.” HeilBush John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963) “I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five (people) that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department” Joseph R. McCarthy quotes (American Senator, 1908-1957) “You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.” Ellen Goodman quotes (American Journalist, Pulitzer for commentary (1980). b.1941) Submit a New Quote with secretary << secretarial quotes Secretary of quotes >> secretary synonyms: repositories, repository, writing table. See also: secretaries. Find product related with secretary quotes on Amazon	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9727
__label__cc	0.612799	0.387201	Randy “Duke” Cunningham To Be Released Tuesday From Prison Duke Cunningham/gov photo By Allan Lengel Ex-Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, 71, gets out of prison today. The San Diego, eight-term Republican congressman was sentenced to more than eight years in prison in 2006 for accepting $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors that included a luxury house and yacht. He was released early for good behavior. Posted: June 4th, 2013 under News Story. Tags: Congressman, Duke Cunningham, San Diego FBI’s Shameful Past Likely to Be Revealed During Trial of Mobster ‘Whitey’ Bulger Whitey Bulger/fbi The murder and racketeering trial against mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger likely will reveal an ugly period for the FBI. While Bulger was wreaking havoc as the leader of a crime gang in South Boston from the 1970s to the early 1980s, he also was acting as an FBI informant. During that time, at least three agents were helping Bulger, Bloomberg reports. Bulger is accused of 19 murders and racketeering while leading an organized crime gang in South Boston. Bulger faces life in prison. Posted: June 4th, 2013 under FBI, News Story. Tags: FBI, FBI informant, Murder, rackeering, South Boston, Whitey Bulger Socialite Jill Kelley Sues FBI for Breach of Privacy During Petraeus Investigation Jill Kelley, whose complaints about threatening e-mails led to the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus, has sued the FBI, saying the agency violated her privacy by divulging her name to the media, the Huffington Post reports. At the time, federal agents were investigating Petraeus’ extramarital relationship with Paula Broadwell, the author of Petraeus’ biography. Broadwell told authorities she believed Kelley was competing with her for Petraeus’ affections. “There was no legally acceptable reason for the government to disclose confidential information about the Kelleys and thereby make them part of the public scandal,” the lawsuit reads. Tags: FBI, General Petraeus, Jill Kelly, Paula Broadwell Violent Crime Increased Last Year for First Time Since 2006, FBI Records Show For the first time since 2006, violent crime rose last year, the FBI said Monday. Violent crime increased 1.2%, or 3.7% in areas with populations between 500,000 and 1 million, NBC News reported. The biggest spike occurred in the West, where violent crime rose 3.3%. It fell 0.6% in the Northeast. The data come from a preliminary analysis of the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report. Tags: crime rates, FBI, FBI Uniform Crime Report, violent crime Mexican Man Who Killed Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in 2010 to Be Sentenced Sept. 10 A Mexican man who pleaded guilty to killing a Border Patrol agent in 2010 and whose case revealed the botched “Fast and Furious” investigation is to be sentenced Sept. 10, the Associated Press reports. Manuel Osorio-Arellanes is one of five men accused of killing Agent Brian Terry, but he’s the only one to plead guilty. One other suspect is in custody, while the others remain on the loose. Two rifles found at the scene belonged originated from the “Fast and Furious” investigation. Tags: agent brian terry, fast and furious, Mexico, rifles ATF Agents in Milwaukee Face Disciplinary Action Over Handling of Storefront Operation in Milwaukee Some ATF agents involved with a botched gun-buying storefront operation in Milwaukee face disciplinary action, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The investigation was so bungled that agents last year had their guns stolen and their storefront pillaged. The Journal Sentinel discovered through a letter sent to Congress that the Justice Department is conducting personnel investigations in connection with “Operation Fearless.” According to the letter, the FBI backed off helping because of concerns about how the investigation was run. STORIES OF OTHER INTEREST Justice Department Defends AG Holder, Saying He Did Not Commit Perjury Confirmation Hearings Begin Tuesday for Acting ATF Director Todd B. Jones Shooting of New York Times Reporter Was Not Act of Terrorism, FBI Concludes Russian Officials: FBI Could Have Prevented Boston Marathon Bombing FBI Investigates Possible Kidnapping of Marine in Mexico Tags: ATF, botched investigation, disciplinary action, FBI, Guns, Operation Fearless, storefront	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9731
__label__wiki	0.748008	0.748008	爱上海UV 上海品茶夜网, 上海夜上海餐厅的老板是谁, 上海夜生活好去处, 上海夜网ER, 上海夜网论坛FJ, 南昌品茶wx群, 厦门夜生活最好在哪里, 夜上海论坛QT, 夜上海论坛UI, 富侨意境spa干什么, 技师会主动加微信吗, 最新娱乐信息, 爱上海UV, 苏州小狼验证, 龙洞步行街后面的巷子 Ellen Frowns at ‘Abuses’ on Social Media – Advertisement – President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has denounced the spate of abuses that has been posted on social media by Liberians during the recent elections , suggesting that the country’s democracy is at stake if it continues.The President’s statement came yesterday, less than two hours after Jerome Korkoya, chairman of the National Elections Commission (NEC), declared campaign open for the runoff between George Weah of the opposition Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) and Vice President Joseph N. Boakai of the governing Unity Party (UP).The runoff, Korkoya said, will be held on November 7, since none of the 20 political parties that participated in the October 10 presidential elections obtained the 50 percent plus one of the total votes cast as required by the Liberian Constitution.However, President Sirleaf said she has observed that a week following the end of the first round of voting on October 10, her attention was drawn to a surge of abuses displayed on social media (mostly on Facebook) by Liberians, which she said are extremely inimical to the survival of the country’s peace and democracy.“We condemn the abuse and misuse of social media through the use of invectives, hate speech and outright vulgarity, which denigrates adversaries with whom we might hold disagreement,” the President said.She said that in light of the progress her government has made, “I call on our fellow citizens to remain civil, responsible and continue to be tolerant of diverging opinions and views that might not necessarily be favorable to ours.”She said further that resorting to profanities on social media contributes nothing to the national discourse, “but only serves to taint our national and international image.“We must all express our indignation to this unacceptable way of politicking and seek to continue the decent democratic values that have brought us this far as a nation and people,” the President said.As Liberians pat themselves on the back for peacefully voting in the October 10 polls, all must continue to demonstrate the same path of love for country by and through each of their individual actions, she said.The President also admonished that all Liberians should focus on how they will consolidate the democratic gains made over the last 12 years by voting peacefully and nationalistically, respecting the law and keeping the peace for the greater good of Mama Liberia.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9734
__label__wiki	0.724562	0.724562	About P. pacificus Ralf Sommer Pristionchus – Population Genetics and Ecology Pristionchus – Molecular Toolkit Developmental Plasticity: A Facilitator of Novelty The Evolution of Dauer Formation Microbial Interactions – Pathogenicity Pristionchus – Biology, Taxonomy and Phylogeny Neurobiology of Pristionchus pacificus Small Molecule Chemistry Vulva Development in Pristionchus pacificus (former research) Entomo-Nematology – Matthias Herrmann Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics – Christian Rödelsperger Parasitic Nematodes – Adrian Streit Außenstation La Réunion Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics Christian Rödelsperger IV - Evolutionary Biology Ralf. J. Sommer Kostadinka Krause Phone: +49 7071 601 440/441 How do processes like duplication, genomic rearrangements, and formation of novel genes shape genomes? Do these processes generate heritable differences in the phenotypes that we care about? To extend our understanding of these two questions, we combine large-scale sequencing data with statistical analysis to find the genetic basis of various traits in the nematode P. pacificus. Nematodes such as P. pacificus and C. elegans are excellent systems to study these two questions, because they are easy to maintain in the lab, have small genomes, and have a broad range of well established experimental protocols including genome editing (Witte et al. 2015, Rödelsperger 2018). Most importantly, nematodes exhibit numerous interesting morphological, developmental, and behavioral traits, of which the genetic basis and evolution is still poorly understood. P. pacificus was among the first nematodes with a sequenced genome (Dieterich et al. 2007). Initial analysis showed that only 20% of the 20,000-30,000 P. pacificus genes have one-to-one orthologs in C. elegans. Furthermore, around one third of genes do not have homologs in any other sequenced nematode genome. Such genes are called orphan genes. Since most existing functional annotations are inferred from homologs in classical model organisms, basically no functional data exists for orphan genes. The largest fraction of all genes (45%) is composed of genes that have undergone lineage-specific duplications in either the C. elegans or the P. pacificus lineage. This demonstrates the tremendous impact of gene duplication and novel gene formation on the evolution and biology of Pristionchus nematodes. In individual cases we have shown that both classes of lineage-specific genes can control ecologically important traits and developmental decisions (Namdeo et al. 2018, Mayer et al. 2015). How do novel genes arise? One of our main goals is to understand the evolutionary dynamics and origin of orphan genes. We employ phylogenomics to address questions such as: Are orphan genes real or do they represent genomic artifacts? Are new genes gained and lost at a constant rate ? Do orphan genes evolve at a rapidly or do they experience evolutionary constraints ? How are orphan genes formed? Did they come from previously non-coding sequences or did they diverge so much from known protein coding genes that their homology has become undetectable? In a first pilot study, we employed data from 14 RNA-seq experiments to show that 80% of orphan genes are expressed under standard laboratory conditions. Further, using analysis of selective constraints acting on protein coding sequences with regard to available genomic data of the sister species P. exspectatus and population scale sequencing data (Rödelsperger et al. 2014), we could show that up to 76% of orphan genes are under strong evolutionary constrained therefore represent truly protein-coding genes (Prabh and Rödelsperger. 2016). This demonstrated, that deeper taxon sampling is the key towards better understanding of the evolutionary dynamics and evolution of novel genes. Thus, we sequenced and compiled a collection of ten nematode genomes to deduce the age of novel genes based on their phylogenetic distribution, i.e. old genes are most likely shared across the entire phylogenetic range, whereas young genes may be species-specific or shared only among few genomes. Exploiting this age classification, we could contrast evolutionary processes between young and old genes. Thus, we found that new genes tend to arise at the chromosome arms, are initially only weakly expressed, evolve more rapidly, and tend to have a higher propensity of being lost (Prabh et al. 2018). Currently, we are studying how novel genes originate either by divergence from protein-coding sequences or by a de novo mechanism from non-coding sequences. A) Comparative genomic analysis between P. pacificus and C. elegans shows that for only 20% of P. pacificus genes, 1-1 orthologs exists in C. elegans. The remaining genes either have undergone duplications in one of the lineages or have completely unknown origin (orphan genes). B) One potential mechanism that would explain the finding of novel genes without any homology in other animals, would be de novo emergence. This means that a previously non-coding sequence gets transcribed and develops a functional ORF, of which the resulting peptide can acquire biological functions. Increasing the phylogenetic resolution by deeper taxon sampling can facilitate the identification of homologous sequences for this novel ORF. Evolutionary constraint can be used to confirm the protein-coding nature of novel genes (Prabh and Rödelsperger. 2016). C) Orphan genes can also arise by rapid divergence, which can cause a loss of the capability to detect homology. Again, with the help of deep taxon sampling, candidate loci in closely related species can be identified for example based on conserved synteny and can be used to screen for weak traces of homology that could explain the origin of an orphan gene. Evolution by Gene Duplication In the preface of his visionary book “Evolution by Gene Duplication”, Susumu Ohno wrote: “Yet, being an effective policeman, natural selection is extremely conservative by nature. Had evolution been entirely dependent upon natural selection, from a bacterium only numerous forms of bacteria would have emerged. The creation of metazoans, vertebrates and finally mammals from unicellular organisms would have been quite impossible, for such big leaps in evolution required the creation of new gene loci with previously nonexistent functions.”. He postulated that only gene duplication could generate the redundancy that would allow organisms to accumulate formerly forbidden mutations. Moreover, since P. pacificus genes that have undergone lineage-specific duplications are so highly abundant, we are studying the role of gene duplication as a potential driver of phenotypic diversity. Previously, we observed that many developmental genes have undergone duplications possibly to increase the total gene dosage (Baskaran et al. 2015). However, when investigating duplication events at an intraspecies level, we found that in a majority of cases, one of the copies appears to be transcriptionally silent (Baskaran and Rödelsperger. 2015). Our basic goal is to study duplication processes at various time-scales asking the following questions: How does duplication affect gene dosage? Which genes can tolerate duplications? Are both duplicate copies equal or is there an ancestral and a daughter copy? Are both copies functional? How does duplication change evolutionary rates? In combination with functional studies such as gene knockouts (Markov et al. 2016), these genomic analyses reveal cases of neo- and sub-functionalization and may generate hypotheses about mechanisms that facilitate the retention of duplicate copies (Sieriebriennikov et al. 2018). How does bacterial diet influence metabolism, development, and behaviour? To address this question, we combine transcriptomic, metabolomic, and organism-level phenotyping data to find associations between different bacterial food sources and nutritional status and worm fitness. How do environment and genome determine phenotypes? The influence of environmental factors on nematode development is highlighted by the fact that depending on the availability of food, young nematode larvae either develop into adults and produce progeny or develop into long-lived dauer larvae that can disperse in order to find a more suitable environment. Pristionchus nematodes display a second developmental plasticity that allows them to develop into two different morphs, which are specialized for either bacterial or predatory feeding. Previous studies have shown that pheromones controlling both developmental decisions are derived from primary metabolism such as fatty acid and carbon metabolism, suggesting that worms convey their nutritional status to themselves as well as to the environment. We apply an integrative approach involving genomic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic data to investigate how bacterial diet influences metabolism and development in P. pacificus, showing that bacterial diet induces differences in pheromone profiles, variable fractions of predatory morphs, and also behavioral differences. Our collection of over 1000 P. pacificus strains along with the ongoing work to characterize microbiomes and isolate bacteria from Pristionchus-associated environments (Meyer et al. 2017, Akduman et al. 2018) offers a platform to ask questions like: How does bacterial diet influence nematode development and other traits? Which genes respond to changes in bacterial diet? How broadly conserved are these interactions across different P. pacificus isolates ? What is the the optimal food for P. pacificus? Nematodes like P. pacificus and C. elegans are excellent models to study the interactions between bacteria and their hosts, because they are easy to grow using monoxenic bacterial cultures as food source. In addition, worms as well as bacteria are genetically tractable, which can provide detailed mechanistic insights into the interaction between host and bacteria and their impact on development and behavior. Decoding the P. pacificus genome (A-B) Bordering behaviour of P. pacificus strains is one example for different phenotypes that are studied in our lab (Moreno et al. 2016). C) To identify the genetic basis of a given trait, two parental strains with differing phenotypes (e.g. bordering vs. non-bordering) are crossed to generate a panel of recombinant inbred lines (RILs) that represent a mosaic of their parental genotypes. Quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis is then performed to identify genomic regions, where parental alleles segregate with the phenotypes. How to associate genes with phenotypes? It is relatively easy to sequence a genome. However, understanding the function and biological significance of individual genes, still takes an enormous amount of experimental work. One major part of our work is to contribute to the identification of links between genotype and phenotype. In close collaboration with other scientist from our department, we work on identifying the genetic basis for various traits. This involves the analysis of whole-genome sequenced mutant strains (Kieninger et al. 2016, Serobyan et al. 2016), as well as statistical analyses of the association between genotype and phenotype based on artificial crosses (Mayer et al. 1015, Moreno et al. 2016) and population-scale resequencing data (McGaughran et al. 2016, Falcke et al. 2018). While all three approaches start with a phenotypic observation first (forward genetics), the establishment of an efficient way to knock out genes in P. pacificus allows us to apply reverse genetic approaches to test if the candidate genes that were identified based on knowledge from C. elegans, can also control a given phenotype in P. pacificus (Moreno et al. 2017, Markov et al. 2016). Characterizing the identified loci at a within-and cross-species level can give further insights into the evolution of associated traits. Can we guess putative functions of genes based on expression profiles? Given that for most P. pacificus genes no clear one-to-one ortholog exists in C. elegans, inference of gene function based on conservation is inherently difficult. To further characterize P. pacificus genes, we perform gene expression profiling of developmental processes (Baskaran et al. 2015), different tissues (Lightfoot et al. 2016), and varying environmental conditions (Sanghvi et al. 2016) to make first guesses of potential functions of orphan genes and to test how conserved expression profiles are between C. elegans and P. pacificus. Scientists involved: Dr. Christian Rödelsperger (Departmental Project Leader) Marina-Agapi Athanasouli (PhD Student / Systems Biology) Neel Prabh (PhD student / Orphan Genes) Praveen Baskaran (PhD student / Gene Duplication) Kevin Menden (Student Research Assistant / Antisense Transcription) Akduman, N., Rödelsperger, C. & Sommer, R.J. (2018): Culture-based analysis of Pristionchus-associated microbiota from beetles and figs for studying nematode-bacterial interactions. PLoS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198018. Baskaran, P., Rödelsperger, C., Prabh, N., Serobyan, V., Markov, G. V., Hirsekorn, A. & Dieterich, C. (2015): Ancient gene duplications have shaped developmental stage-specific expression in Pristionchus pacificus. BMC Evol Biology, DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0466-2. Baskaran, P. & Rödelsperger, C. (2015): Microevolution of Duplications and Deletions and Their Impact on Gene Expression in the Nematode Pristionchus pacificus. PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131136. Baskaran, P., Jaleta, T.G., Streit, A. & Rödelsperger, C. (2017): Duplications and Positive Selection Drive the Evolution of Parasitism-Associated Gene Families in the Nematode Strongyloides papillosus. Genome Biol Evol. 9, 790-801. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evx040. Dieterich, C., Clifton, S.W., Schuster, L.N., Chinwalla, A., Delehaunty, K., Dinkelacker, I., Fulton, L., Fulton, R., Godfrey, J., Minx, P., Mitreva, M., Roeseler, W., Tian, H., Witte, H., Yang, S.P., Wilson, R.K. & Sommer, R.J. (2008): The Pristionchus pacificus genome provides a unique perspective on nematode lifestyle and parasitism. Nat Genet. 40, 1193-8. DOI: 10.1038/ng.227. Falcke. J.M., Bose, N., Artyukhin, A.B., Rödelsperger, C., Markov, G.V., Yim, J.J., Grimm, D., Claassen, M.H., Panda. O., Baccile, J.A., Zhang, Y.K., Le, H.H., Jolic, D., Schroeder, F.C., Sommer, R.J. (2018): Linking Genomic and Metabolomic Natural Variation Uncovers Nematode Pheromone Biosynthesis. Cell Chem Biol. 25: DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2018.04.004. Kieninger, M.R., Ivers, N.A., Rödelsperger, C., Markov, G.V., Sommer, R.J. & Ragsdale EJ (2016): The Nuclear Hormone Receptor NHR-40 Acts Downstream of the Sulfatase EUD-1 as Part of a Developmental Plasticity Switch in Pristionchus. Curr Biol. 26, 2174-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.06.018. Lightfoot, J.W., Chauhan, V.M., Aylott, J.W. & Rödelsperger, C. (2016): Comparative transcriptomics of the nematode gut identifies global shifts in feeding mode and pathogen susceptibility. BMC Res Notes. 9:142, DOI: 10.1186/s13104-016-1886-9. Mayer, M. G., Rödelsperger, C., Witte H., Riebesell, M. & Sommer, R. J. (2015): An orphan gene regulates intraspecific competition in nematodes by copy number variation. PLoS Genetics, 11, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005146. Markov, G.V., Meyer, J.M., Panda, O., Artyukhin, A.B., Claaßen, M., Witte, H., Schroeder, F.C. & Sommer, R.J. (2016): Functional Conservation and Divergence of daf-22 Paralogs in Pristionchus pacificus Dauer Development. 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__label__wiki	0.523629	0.523629	Transmission Loops Transmission is a brand new and ultra-high quality label intent on giving Urban and Dance producers the most professional-quality feature sets and the most up-to-date sounds, loops and samples around. Transmission only commission the best producers and sound engineers for their products, making Transmission ideal for the producer seeking perfection. Transmission promises to offer only high end sounds for your productions, in a variety of genres, including OMF files, so the full mixes for each producer can be opened and edited within your own sequencer. Furthermore, certain products will also contain synthesizer patches and MIDI files. If you produce Dance, House, Trance, Progressive, Pop, RnB, Electro and more, and you are looking for premium quality packs that deliver everything they claim to, then look no further than Transmission. 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Your Download Link will be sent to you by email immediately after your payment has been received. Commercial House Session 1 Transmission Loops Progressive House, Electro House 2015-06-22 'Commercial House Session 1' kicks off this series of all-in-one comprehensive House products, featuring Construction Kits, a library of One-Shots, Sylenth presets, MIDI loops and OMF functionality for professional producers who need their projects to be fully portable. Get your hands on this 3 GB+ library today and start crafting your own Commercial House hits. Transmission once again raises the bar in terms of sheer content, functionality and quality. Within this vast pack you'll find a huge selection of top quality material ranging from euphoric arpeggios and rumbling bass lines to pounding drums and heart-stopping uplifters and impacts. This pack is split into several components. The first is a tool-box style product containing an assortment of percussive One-Shots and drum loops that can be re-combined to create new beats. Bass drums, claps, FX, percussion and snares are all included. Next is a selection of five Construction Kits which themselves also contain One-Shots, MIDI, dry & wet files and FX tails. Use these multi-track renders to re-create the included demo mix for each Kit or mix and match them to create something all your own. And as if that wasn't enough, you'll also find 15 stunning presets for Sylenth1; perfect for use with the included MIDI files to change the timbre and vibe of the musical phrases. About Transmission: Transmission is a brand with a difference. Do not mistake this for one of the plethora of other labels out there. Transmission is new and powerful, focused on outputting the highest quality music in a wide range of Dance and Urban styles. Each product includes professional-quality feature sets with the most up-to-date sounds, loops and samples available. Read on to find out more about the professional feature set included with 'Commercial House Session 1'. MIDI Files Included: 'Commercial House Session 1' includes MIDI files for the majority of musical phrases heard in each Kit, allowing you to seamlessly mix your favourite synths and samplers with the sounds contained in the pack. Advantages of MIDI: While the supplied ACID/Apple Loops/REX content is extremely flexible and powerful, MIDI has the added benefit of allowing you to go to extremes of pitch and tempo beyond which the loops were originally recorded, with no time stretching or pitch shifting artefacts. Furthermore, you can make tweaks to the riffs so they fit perfectly into your existing mixes. One-Shot Samples: Each Construction Kit features one-shot drum samples, allowing you to create new beats, fills and loops to compliment the existing material. Simply load them up into your sampler of choice and create an infinite number of new beats and phrases. This product also includes a large number of additional One-Shot samples not heard in the Construction Kits themselves. Dry/Wet Loops: For users looking to simply drag and drop, the 'wet' files contain all of the effects processing heard in the audio demos. But for producers looking to create their own effects mix, 'dry' loops are also included. Don't like the wet loops? No problem, add your own effects. Unlooped Riffs/Tails: This sample library also comes with unlooped/tail versions allowing you to end a phrase with the decay of the reverb/delay applied to the loop. This is particularly useful for beginner and intermmediate producers. Sylenth Presets: Lennar Digital's Sylenth is one of the most powerful Virtual Analog synth plugins on the market, and 'Commercial House Session 1' provides you with 15 stunning presets for it. Use them to create new complimentary content, or as a starting point for your own patches. About using the OMF files (Arrangements): OMF format (Open Media Format) allows you to import complete arrangements of audio loops into virtually any sequencer (see below for list). Once the OMF has been loaded, you will see all of the regions of the track on screen, with chunks of audio data on separate tracks, all named by instrument (as if you'd produced the track yourself). This format allows you to (i) Learn the secrets of how to create stunning Progressive Electro House tracks (ii) Remix the arrangements to create powerful new tracks which you can then release. Dry loops were used when building the OMF files so feel free to add your own reverb and/or favourite FX to a phrase. PLEASE NOTE: The OMF files sum up all volumes of the individual tracks while all faders are set to 0 db. Therefore, please set your master fader to around -7 db (or less) to avoid clipping and take it from there. List of Sequencers with OMF Import: Here is a list of all sequencers that will import the full OMF arrangements. When you import these OMF arrangements you will be able to see them in your sequencer as if you had produced them yourself: • AudioDesk • Cubase • Digital Performer • Logic • Nuendo • Pro Tools • Pyramix • Sadie • Samplitude • Sonar • Soundtrack Pro Royalty-Free: All of the loops in this product are 100% Royalty-Free (including the vocal loops), so once purchased, you can use these loops in your commercial releases without having to pay any hidden costs. Specifications: • 5 Construction Kits including MIDI and One-Shots • Over 240 bonus One-Shots and assorted loops • Industry-Standard OMF files for deep level editing • ACIDized WAV Files • Apple Loops/AIFF Files • REX2 Loops • Reason ReFill • Sylenth Presets • Loops sync to BPM • 44.1 kHz/24-Bit • PC/Mac Compatible • Royalty-Free (No Exceptions) Modern Hip Hop Session 1 Transmission Loops Hip-Hop / R&B 2015-04-01 'Modern Hip Hop Session 1' from Transmission kicks off this incredible new series of razor-sharp and cutting-edge Hip Hop products featuring 1.73 GB of content, including Construction Kits, One-Shots and OMF files. Slick grooves, glitched out effects, grimy chants and a huge bottom end make this an essential and powerful product for producers looking to capture the sounds of Chief Keef, DJ Mustard, Mike Will, and Wiz Khalifa. Within this huge library you'll find five fully featured Construction Kits including Dry and Wet sounds, MIDI files and One-Shots, all processed with legendary SSL hardware. Every essential sound of the genre is covered, including powerful bass loops, ethnic percussion, vocal FX and 808 booms. In addition to this you also get 175 bonus One-Shot percussive samples, perfect for loading into hardware and software samplers. Build your own modern Hip Hop drum kits and create and infinite number of new drum loops to compliment the existing content. You'll also find 15 bonus drum loops and a selection of melodic synth shots. In addition to this OMF files are included, giving you access to the original arrangement. These industry-standard files also allow you to collaborate with other producers regardless of DAW or platform. About Transmission: Transmission is a brand with a difference. Do not mistake this for one of the plethora of other labels out there. Transmission is new and powerful, focused on outputting the highest quality music in a wide range of Dance and Urban styles. Each product includes professional-quality feature sets with the most up-to-date sounds, loops and samples available. Read on to find out more about the professional feature set included with 'Modern Hip Hop Session 1'. MIDI Files Included: 'Modern Hip Hop Session 1' includes MIDI files for the majority of musical phrases heard in each Kit, allowing you to seamlessly mix your favourite synths and samplers with the sounds contained in the pack. Advantages of MIDI: While the supplied ACID/Apple Loops/REX content is extremely flexible and powerful, MIDI has the added benefit of allowing you to go to extremes of pitch and tempo beyond which the loops were originally recorded, with no time stretching or pitch shifting artefacts. Furthermore, you can make tweaks to the riffs so they fit perfectly into your existing mixes. One-Shot Samples: Each Construction Kit features one-shot melodic and drum samples, allowing you to create new beats, fills and loops to compliment the existing material. Simply load them up into your sampler of choice and create an infinite number of new beats and phrases. This product also includes a large number of additional One-Shot samples not heard in the Construction Kits themselves. Dry/Wet Loops: For users looking to simply drag and drop, the 'wet' files contain all of the effects processing heard in the audio demos. But for producers looking to create their own effects mix, 'dry' loops are also included. Don't like the wet loops? No problem, add your own effects. Unlooped Riffs/Tails: This sample library also comes with unlooped/tail versions allowing you to end a phrase with the decay of the reverb/delay applied to the loop. This is particularly useful for beginner and intermmediate producers. About using the OMF files (Arrangements): OMF format (Open Media Format) allows you to import complete arrangements of audio loops into virtually any sequencer (see below for list). Once the OMF has been loaded, you will see all of the regions of the track on screen, with chunks of audio data on separate tracks, all named by instrument (as if you'd produced the track yourself). This format allows you to (i) Learn the secrets of how to create stunning Progressive Electro House tracks (ii) Remix the arrangements to create powerful new tracks which you can then release. Dry loops were used when building the OMF files so feel free to add your own reverb and/or favourite FX to a phrase. PLEASE NOTE: The OMF files sum up all volumes of the individual tracks while all faders are set to 0 db. Therefore, please set your master fader to around -7 db (or less) to avoid clipping and take it from there. List of Sequencers with OMF Import: Here is a list of all sequencers that will import the full OMF arrangements. When you import these OMF arrangements you will be able to see them in your sequencer as if you had produced them yourself: • AudioDesk • Cubase • Digital Performer • Logic • Nuendo • Pro Tools • Pyramix • Sadie • Samplitude • Sonar • Soundtrack Pro Royalty-Free: All of the loops in this product are 100% Royalty-Free (including the vocal loops), so once purchased, you can use these loops in your commercial releases without having to pay any hidden costs. Specifications: • 5 Construction Kits including MIDI & One-Shots • 200 bonus One-Shots and assorted loops • Industry-Standard OMF files for deep level editing • ACIDized WAV Files • Apple Loops/AIFF Files • REX2 Loops • Reason ReFill • Sylenth Presets • Loops sync to BPM • 44.1 kHz/24-Bit • PC/Mac Compatible • Royalty-Free (No Exceptions) Nu Deep House Bundle Sessions 1-3 Transmission Loops House 2015-04-01 'Nu Deep House Bundle (Sessions 1-3)' combines the first three colossal volumes in this awesome series of feature packed House Construction Kits, arranged and produced to the very highest quality. Supplied in a range of formats including ACID Loops, Apple Loops, REX, WAV, & OMF, this amazing bundle comprises FIFTEEN Construction Kits and also boasts a massive selection of One-Shots and bonus percussive loops. This highly versatile product is an essential part of any House producer's arsenal and includes OVER 9GB of content. Inside this 9.7GB sample library you'll find all the content you need to craft your next Deep House hit. Each of the 15 Construction Kits features an array of powerful drum loops, deep pulsing bass-lines, side-chained pads and stunning FX all mixed, where possible, through legendary SSL hardware. Also included is a selection of over 550 One-Shot percussive samples ready to be loaded into your favourite software or hardware sampler, as well as hundreds of bonus percussive loops. Add to this OMF arrangements and you've got an extremely powerful and versatile product with enough content to satisfy even the most demanding producer. About Transmission: Transmission is a high energy, high quality label for Pop, RnB, & Dance producers, including professional-quality feature sets with the most up-to-date sounds, loops and samples. We only commission the best producers and sound engineers for our products, making Transmission ideal for the producer seeking perfection. Transmission promises to offer only high end sounds for their productions, in a variety of genres, including OMF files, so the full mixes for each producer can be opened up and edited within your own sequencer. If you produce Dance, House, Progressive, Pop, RnB, Electro, and more, and are looking for premium quality packs, then look no further than Transmission. All products in our range are delivered in easy-to-use ACID/WAV, Apple Loops, Reason ReFill, REX, and OMF formats, and most importantly, all of our products are 100% royalty-free. One-Shot Samples: Each Construction Kit features one-shot melodic and drum samples, allowing you to create new beats, fills and loops to compliment the existing material. Simply load them up into your sampler of choice and create an infinite number of new beats and phrases. Dry/Wet Loops: For users looking to simply drag and drop, the 'wet' files contain all of the effects processing heard in the audio demos. But for producers looking to create their own effects mix, 'dry' loops are also included. Don't like the wet loops? No problem, add your own effects. Unlooped Riffs/Tails: This sample library also comes with unlooped/tail versions allowing you to end a phrase with the decay of the reverb/delay applied to the loop. About using the OMF files: OMF format (Open Media Format) allows you to import a complete arrangement of audio loops into virtually any sequencer. Once loaded, you will see all parts on screen exactly as originally seen when exported, with chunks of audio data on separate tracks, all named by instrument. This format will allow you complete flexibility when re-mixing the arrangements. Dry loops were used when building the OMF files so feel free to add your own reverb and/or favourite FX to a phrase, a loop or a fully orchestrated fragment. All clips (phrases, loops) carry the same name as the dry and wet loops which you will find in the folder structure. Please Note: The OMF files sum up all volumes of the individual tracks while all faders are set to 0 db. Therefore, please set the master fader to around -7 db to avoid clipping and take it from there. List of Sequencers with OMF Import: Here is a list of all sequencers that will import the full arrangements of these kits in audio format. When you import these arrangements you will be able to see them in your sequencer as if you had recorded them yourself: • AudioDesk • Cubase • Digital Performer • Logic Pro • Logic Studio • Nuendo • Pro Tools • Pyramix • Sadie • Samplitude • Sonar • Soundtrack Pro Using these OMF arrangements you will be able to (i) Re-arrange them as desired (ii) Learn how this music was put together. Royalty-Free: All of the loops in this product are 100% Royalty-Free (including the vocal loops), so once purchased, you can use these loops in your commercial releases without having to pay any hidden costs. Specifications: • 15 Construction Kits • ACIDized WAV Files • Apple Loops/AIFF Files • REX2 Loops • OMF arrangements included • Reason ReFill • Loops sync to BPM • 44.1 kHz/24-Bit • PC/Mac Compatible • Royalty-Free (No Exceptions) How to Order: Simply click "ADD TO CART" at the top of this page and choose the element or format you would like, then enter your details. Your Download Link will be sent to you by email immediately after your payment has been received. Progressive Electro House Session 2 Transmission Loops Progressive House, Electro House 2014-11-15 'Progressive Electro House Session 2' raises the bar once again to impossible heights in this huge collection of Construction Kits, One-Shots, MIDI files, Sylenth Presets and OMF files. Huge builds, Earth-shattering drops, infectious grooves, and much more, make this an utterly essential buy for producers of all levels. Within this vast product you'll find five slick and polished Construction Kits, giving you access to all the elements heard within the main mixes including deep bass-lines, dizzying synth FX, pounding drums and uplifting chord progressions. Each kit contains MIDI data for the majority of its melodic and percussive content. Weighing in at over 1 GB, the Construction Kits alone would constitute a product, but it doesn't stop there. Also included is a toolbox of Progressive Electro House drum & synth One-Shots and bonus loops totalling over 280 MB. You'll find everything from kicks and snares to percussion and FX. As if this wasn't enough, this product also includes OMF files giving you access to the inner workings of each Construction Kit. Create a completely new mix and arrangement using this industry-standard format. 10 Sylenth Presets seal the deal, ranging from bass and FX to plucks and arpeggiators. About Transmission: Transmission is a brand with a difference. Do not mistake this for one of the plethora of other labels out there. Transmission is new and powerful, focused on outputting the highest quality music in a wide range of Dance and Urban styles. Each product includes professional-quality feature sets with the most up-to-date sounds, loops and samples available. Read on to find out more about the professional feature set included with 'Progressive Electro House Session 2'. MIDI Files Included: 'Progressive Electro House Session 2' includes MIDI files for the majority of musical phrases heard in each Kit, allowing you to seamlessly mix your favourite synths and samplers with the sounds contained in the pack. Advantages of MIDI: While the supplied ACID/Apple Loops/REX content is extremely flexible and powerful, MIDI has the added benefit of allowing you to go to extremes of pitch and tempo beyond which the loops were originally recorded, with no time stretching or pitch shifting artefacts. Furthermore, you can make tweaks to the riffs so they fit perfectly into your existing mixes. One-Shot Samples: Each Construction Kit features one-shot melodic and drum samples, allowing you to create new beats, fills and loops to compliment the existing material. Simply load them up into your sampler of choice and create an infinite number of new beats and phrases. This product also includes a large number of additional One-Shot samples not heard in the Construction Kits themselves. Dry/Wet Loops: For users looking to simply drag and drop, the 'wet' files contain all of the effects processing heard in the audio demos. But for producers looking to create their own effects mix, 'dry' loops are also included. Don't like the wet loops? No problem, add your own effects. Unlooped Riffs/Tails: This sample library also comes with unlooped/tail versions allowing you to end a phrase with the decay of the reverb/delay applied to the loop. This is particularly useful for beginner and intermmediate producers. Sylenth Presets: Lennar Digital's Sylenth is one of the most powerful Virtual Analog synth plugins on the market, and 'Progressive Electro House Session 2' provides you with 10 stunning presets for it. Use them to create new complimentary content, or as a starting point for your own patches. About using the OMF files (Arrangements): OMF format (Open Media Format) allows you to import complete arrangements of audio loops into virtually any sequencer (see below for list). Once the OMF has been loaded, you will see all of the regions of the track on screen, with chunks of audio data on separate tracks, all named by instrument (as if you'd produced the track yourself). This format allows you to (i) Learn the secrets of how to create stunning Progressive Electro House tracks (ii) Remix the arrangements to create powerful new tracks which you can then release. Dry loops were used when building the OMF files so feel free to add your own reverb and/or favourite FX to a phrase. PLEASE NOTE: The OMF files sum up all volumes of the individual tracks while all faders are set to 0 db. Therefore, please set your master fader to around -7 db (or less) to avoid clipping and take it from there. List of Sequencers with OMF Import: Here is a list of all sequencers that will import the full OMF arrangements. When you import these OMF arrangements you will be able to see them in your sequencer as if you had produced them yourself: • AudioDesk • Cubase • Digital Performer • Logic • Nuendo • Pro Tools • Pyramix • Sadie • Samplitude • Sonar • Soundtrack Pro Royalty-Free: All of the loops in this product are 100% Royalty-Free (including the vocal loops), so once purchased, you can use these loops in your commercial releases without having to pay any hidden costs. Specifications: • 5 Construction Kits including MIDI and One-Shots • Over 390 bonus One-Shots and assorted loops • Industry-Standard OMF files for deep level editing • ACIDized WAV Files • Apple Loops/AIFF Files • REX2 Loops • Reason ReFill • Sylenth Presets • Loops sync to BPM • 44.1 kHz/24-Bit • PC/Mac Compatible • Royalty-Free (No Exceptions) Nu Deep House Session 3 Transmission Loops House, Tech House 2014-11-15 'Nu Deep House Session 3' continues this awesome series of feature packed House Construction Kits, arranged and produced to the very highest quality. Supplied in a range of formats including ACID Loops, Apple Loops, REX, WAV, & OMF, it also boasts a massive selection of One-Shots and 50 bonus percussive loops. This highly versatile product is an essential part of any House producer's arsenal and includes over 2GB of content. Inside this 2.1GB sample library you'll find all the content you need to craft your next Deep House hit. Each of the five Construction Kits features an array of powerful drum loops, deep pulsing bass-lines, side-chained pads and stunning FX all mixed, where possible, through legendary SSL hardware. Also included is a selection of over 160 One-Shot percussive samples ready to be loaded into your favourite software or hardware sampler, as well as 50 bonus percussive loops. Add to this OMF arrangements and you've got an extremely powerful and versatile product with enough content to satisfy even the most demanding producer. About Transmission: Transmission is a brand new, high energy, high quality label for Pop, RnB, & Dance producers, including professional-quality feature sets with the most up-to-date sounds, loops and samples. We only commission the best producers and sound engineers for our products, making Transmission ideal for the producer seeking perfection. Transmission promises to offer only high end sounds for their productions, in a variety of genres, including OMF files, so the full mixes for each producer can be opened up and edited within your own sequencer. If you produce Dance, House, Progressive, Pop, RnB, Electro, and more, and are looking for premium quality packs, then look no further than Transmission. All products in our range are delivered in easy-to-use ACID/WAV, Apple Loops, Reason ReFill, REX, and OMF formats, and most importantly, all of our products are 100% royalty-free. One-Shot Samples: Each Construction Kit features one-shot melodic and drum samples, allowing you to create new beats, fills and loops to compliment the existing material. Simply load them up into your sampler of choice and create an infinite number of new beats and phrases. Dry/Wet Loops: For users looking to simply drag and drop, the 'wet' files contain all of the effects processing heard in the audio demos. But for producers looking to create their own effects mix, 'dry' loops are also included. Don't like the wet loops? No problem, add your own effects. Unlooped Riffs/Tails: This sample library also comes with unlooped/tail versions allowing you to end a phrase with the decay of the reverb/delay applied to the loop. About using the OMF files: OMF format (Open Media Format) allows you to import a complete arrangement of audio loops into virtually any sequencer. Once loaded, you will see all parts on screen exactly as originally seen when exported, with chunks of audio data on separate tracks, all named by instrument. This format will allow you complete flexibility when re-mixing the arrangements. Dry loops were used when building the OMF files so feel free to add your own reverb and/or favourite FX to a phrase, a loop or a fully orchestrated fragment. All clips (phrases, loops) carry the same name as the dry and wet loops which you will find in the folder structure. Please Note: The OMF files sum up all volumes of the individual tracks while all faders are set to 0 db. Therefore, please set the master fader to around -7 db to avoid clipping and take it from there. List of Sequencers with OMF Import: Here is a list of all sequencers that will import the full arrangements of these kits in audio format. When you import these arrangements you will be able to see them in your sequencer as if you had recorded them yourself: • AudioDesk • Cubase • Digital Performer • Logic Pro • Logic Studio • Nuendo • Pro Tools • Pyramix • Sadie • Samplitude • Sonar • Soundtrack Pro Using these OMF arrangements you will be able to (i) Re-arrange them as desired (ii) Learn how this music was put together. Royalty-Free: All of the loops in this product are 100% Royalty-Free (including the vocal loops), so once purchased, you can use these loops in your commercial releases without having to pay any hidden costs. Specifications: • 5 Construction Kits • ACIDized WAV Files • Apple Loops/AIFF Files • REX2 Loops • OMF arrangements included • Reason ReFill • Loops sync to BPM • 44.1 kHz/24-Bit • PC/Mac Compatible • Royalty-Free (No Exceptions) 'Progressive Electro House Session 3' once again raises the bar to impossible heights in this gargantuan collection of Construction Kits, One-Shots, MIDI files, Sylenth Presets and OMF files. Huge builds, Earth-shattering drops and infectious grooves make this an utterly essential buy for producers of all levels and fans of artists such as Tritonal, Faithless, Alesso & Steve Aoki. Within this vast product you'll find five slick and polished Construction Kits, giving you access to all the elements heard within the main mixes including deep basslines, dizzying synth FX, pounding drums and uplifting chord progressions. Each kit contains MIDI data for the majority of its melodic and percussive content. Weighing in at 1.04 GB the Construction Kits alone would constitute a product, but it doesn't stop there. Also included is a toolbox of Progressive Electro House drum One-Shots and bonus loops totalling over 300 MB. You'll find everything from kicks and snares to percussion and FX. As if this wasn't enough, this product also includes OMF files giving you access to the inner workings of each Construction Kit. Create a completely new mix and arrangement using this industry-standard format. 11 Sylenth Presets seal the deal, ranging from bass and FX to plucks and organs. About Transmission: Transmission is a brand with a difference. Do not mistake this for one of the plethora of other labels out there. Transmission is new and powerful, focused on outputting the highest quality music in a wide range of Dance and Urban styles. Each product includes professional-quality feature sets with the most up-to-date sounds, loops and samples available. Read on to find out more about the professional feature set included with 'Progressive Electro House Session 3'. MIDI Files Included: 'Progressive Electro House Session 3' includes MIDI files for the majority of musical phrases heard in each Kit, allowing you to seamlessly mix your favourite synths and samplers with the sounds contained in the pack. 25 bonus MIDI loops are also included outside of the main Construction Kits. Advantages of MIDI: While the supplied ACID/Apple Loops/REX content is extremely flexible and powerful, MIDI has the added benefit of allowing you to go to extremes of pitch and tempo beyond which the loops were originally recorded, with no time stretching or pitch shifting artefacts. Furthermore, you can make tweaks to the riffs so they fit perfectly into your existing mixes. One-Shot Samples: Each Construction Kit features one-shot drum samples, allowing you to create new beats, fills and loops to compliment the existing material. Simply load them up into your sampler of choice and create an infinite number of new beats and phrases. This product also includes a large number of additional One-Shot samples not heard in the Construction Kits themselves. Dry/Wet Loops: For users looking to simply drag and drop, the 'wet' files contain all of the effects processing heard in the audio demos. But for producers looking to create their own effects mix, 'dry' loops are also included. Don't like the wet loops? No problem, add your own effects. Unlooped Riffs/Tails: This sample library also comes with unlooped/tail versions allowing you to end a phrase with the decay of the reverb/delay applied to the loop. This is particularly useful for beginner and intermmediate producers. Sylenth Presets: Lennar Digital's Sylenth is one of the most powerful Virtual Analog synth plugins on the market, and 'Progressive Electro House Session 3' provides you with 25 stunning presets for it. Use them to create new complimentary content, or as a starting point for your own patches. About using the OMF files (Arrangements): OMF format (Open Media Format) allows you to import complete arrangements of audio loops into virtually any sequencer (see below for list). Once the OMF has been loaded, you will see all of the regions of the track on screen, with chunks of audio data on separate tracks, all named by instrument (as if you'd produced the track yourself). This format allows you to (i) Learn the secrets of how to create stunning Progressive Electro House tracks (ii) Remix the arrangements to create powerful new tracks which you can then release. Dry loops were used when building the OMF files so feel free to add your own reverb and/or favourite FX to a phrase. PLEASE NOTE: The OMF files sum up all volumes of the individual tracks while all faders are set to 0 db. Therefore, please set your master fader to around -7 db (or less) to avoid clipping and take it from there. List of Sequencers with OMF Import: Here is a list of all sequencers that will import the full OMF arrangements. When you import these OMF arrangements you will be able to see them in your sequencer as if you had produced them yourself: • AudioDesk • Cubase • Digital Performer • Logic • Nuendo • Pro Tools • Pyramix • Sadie • Samplitude • Sonar • Soundtrack Pro Royalty-Free: All of the loops in this product are 100% Royalty-Free (including the vocal loops), so once purchased, you can use these loops in your commercial releases without having to pay any hidden costs. Specifications: • 5 Construction Kits including MIDI and One-Shots • Over 320 bonus One-Shots and assorted loops • Industry-Standard OMF files for deep level editing • ACIDized WAV Files • Apple Loops/AIFF Files • REX2 Loops • Reason ReFill • Sylenth Presets • Loops sync to BPM • 44.1 kHz/24-Bit • PC/Mac Compatible • Royalty-Free (No Exceptions) Complextro House Session 1 Transmission Loops Progressive House, Electro House 2014-10-21 'Complextro House Session 1' kicks off this brand new series of powerful melodic Complextro House Construction Kits from Transmission, all produced to the highest standard and packed with additional features, such as OMF session files for your DAW. Influenced by the likes of Alesso and Calvin Harris, this awesome pack offers not only five superb multi-track songs featuring hundred of loops but also over 200 One-Shot drum samples and 10 incredible Sylenth1 presets. This pack boasts a cutting-edge sound, combining heavily gated raspy basses with commercial & accessible chord progressions. You'll find laser FX, side-chained grooves, huge builds and much more. Each of these tracks has been produced at a uniform tempo of 128 BPM, making it easy to mix and match elements from each Kit as you see fit. SSL technology has been used, where possible, to give each individual track and demo mix a huge sound, perfectly polished and ready for the air-waves or the dancefloor. What's more, OMF is included allowing you to re-build the project as originally arranged by the producer regardless of which DAW you use. About Transmission: Transmission is a brand with a difference. Do not mistake this for one of the plethora of other labels out there. Transmission is new and powerful, focused on outputting the highest quality music in a wide range of Dance and Urban styles. Each product includes professional-quality feature sets with the most up-to-date sounds, loops and samples available. Read on to find out more about the professional feature set included with 'Complextro House Session 1'. MIDI Files Included: 'Complextro House Session 1' includes MIDI files for the majority of musical phrases heard in each Kit, allowing you to seamlessly mix your favourite synths and samplers with the sounds contained in the pack. Advantages of MIDI: While the supplied ACID/Apple Loops/REX content is extremely flexible and powerful, MIDI has the added benefit of allowing you to go to extremes of pitch and tempo beyond which the loops were originally recorded, with no time stretching or pitch shifting artefacts. Furthermore, you can make tweaks to the riffs so they fit perfectly into your existing mixes. One-Shot Samples: Each Construction Kit features one-shot drum samples, allowing you to create new beats, fills and loops to compliment the existing material. Simply load them up into your sampler of choice and create an infinite number of new beats and phrases. This product also includes a large number of additional One-Shot samples not heard in the Construction Kits themselves. Dry/Wet Loops: For users looking to simply drag and drop, the 'wet' files contain all of the effects processing heard in the audio demos. But for producers looking to create their own effects mix, 'dry' loops are also included. Don't like the wet loops? No problem, add your own effects. Unlooped Riffs/Tails: This sample library also comes with unlooped/tail versions allowing you to end a phrase with the decay of the reverb/delay applied to the loop. This is particularly useful for beginner and intermediate producers. Sylenth Presets: Lennar Digital's Sylenth is one of the most powerful Virtual Analog synth plugins on the market, and ' Complextro House Session 1' provides you with 10 stunning presets for it. Use them to create new complimentary content, or as a starting point for your own patches. About using the OMF files (Arrangements): OMF format (Open Media Format) allows you to import complete arrangements of audio loops into virtually any sequencer (see below for list). Once the OMF has been loaded, you will see all of the regions of the track on screen, with chunks of audio data on separate tracks, all named by instrument (as if you'd produced the track yourself). This format allows you to (i) Learn the secrets of how to create stunning Progressive Electro House tracks (ii) Remix the arrangements to create powerful new tracks which you can then release. Dry loops were used when building the OMF files so feel free to add your own reverb and/or favourite FX to a phrase. PLEASE NOTE: The OMF files sum up all volumes of the individual tracks while all faders are set to 0 db. Therefore, please set your master fader to around -7 db (or less) to avoid clipping and take it from there. List of Sequencers with OMF Import: Here is a list of all sequencers that will import the full OMF arrangements. When you import these OMF arrangements you will be able to see them in your sequencer as if you had produced them yourself: • AudioDesk • Cubase • Digital Performer • Logic • Nuendo • Pro Tools • Pyramix • Sadie • Samplitude • Sonar • Soundtrack Pro Royalty-Free: All of the loops in this product are 100% Royalty-Free (including the vocal loops), so once purchased, you can use these loops in your commercial releases without having to pay any hidden costs. Specifications: • 5 Construction Kits including MIDI & One-Shots • Over 200 bonus One-Shots • Industry-Standard OMF files for deep level editing • ACIDized WAV Files • Apple Loops/AIFF Files • REX2 Loops • Reason ReFill • Sylenth Presets • Loops sync to BPM • 44.1 kHz/24-Bit • PC/Mac Compatible • Royalty-Free (No Exceptions) 'Progressive Electro House Session 1' from Transmission raises the bar to impossible heights in this gargantuan collection of Construction Kits, Drum Loops, Drum One-Shots, MIDI files, Sylenth Presets and OMF files. Huge builds, Earth-shattering drops and infectious grooves make this an utterly essential buy for producers of all levels. Within this vast product you'll find five slick and polished Construction Kits, giving you access to all the elements heard within the main mixes including deep bass-lines, dizzying synth FX, pounding drums and uplifting chord progressions. Each kit contains MIDI data for the majority of its melodic and percussive content. Weighing in at 1.4 GB this alone would constitute a product in itself, but it doesn't stop there. Also included is a toolbox of Progressive Electro House drum & synth One-Shots and bonus loops totalling a further 460 MB. You'll find everything from kicks and snares to percussion and FX. As if this wasn't enough, this product also includes OMF files, giving you access to the inner workings of each Construction Kit. Create a completely new mix and arrangement using this industry-standard format. 25 Sylenth Presets seal the deal, ranging from bass and FX to plucks and arpeggiators. About Transmission: Transmission is a brand with a difference. Do not mistake this for one of the plethora of other labels out there. Transmission is new and powerful, focused on outputting the highest quality music in a wide range of Dance and Urban styles. Each product includes professional-quality feature sets with the most up-to-date sounds, loops and samples available. Read on to find out more about the professional feature set included with 'Progressive Electro House Session 1'. MIDI Files Included: 'Progressive Electro House Session 1' includes MIDI files for the majority of musical phrases heard in each Kit, allowing you to seamlessly mix your favourite synths and samplers with the sounds contained in the pack. Advantages of MIDI: While the supplied ACID/Apple Loops/REX content is extremely flexible and powerful, MIDI has the added benefit of allowing you to go to extremes of pitch and tempo beyond which the loops were originally recorded, with no time stretching or pitch shifting artefacts. Furthermore, you can make tweaks to the riffs so they fit perfectly into your existing mixes. One-Shot Samples: Each Construction Kit features one-shot melodic and drum samples, allowing you to create new beats, fills and loops to compliment the existing material. Simply load them up into your sampler of choice and create an infinite number of new beats and phrases. This product also includes a large number of additional One-Shot samples not heard in the Construction Kits themselves. Dry/Wet Loops: For users looking to simply drag and drop, the 'wet' files contain all of the effects processing heard in the audio demos. But for producers looking to create their own effects mix, 'dry' loops are also included. Don't like the wet loops? No problem, add your own effects. Unlooped Riffs/Tails: This sample library also comes with unlooped/tail versions allowing you to end a phrase with the decay of the reverb/delay applied to the loop. This is particularly useful for beginner and intermmediate producers. Sylenth Presets: Lennar Digital's Sylenth is one of the most powerful Virtual Analog synth plugins on the market, and 'Progressive Electro House Session 1' provides you with 25 stunning presets for it. Use them to create new complimentary content, or as a starting point for your own patches. About using the OMF files (Arrangements): OMF format (Open Media Format) allows you to import complete arrangements of audio loops into virtually any sequencer (see below for list). Once the OMF has been loaded, you will see all of the regions of the track on screen, with chunks of audio data on separate tracks, all named by instrument (as if you'd produced the track yourself). This format allows you to (i) Learn the secrets of how to create stunning Progressive Electro House tracks (ii) Remix the arrangements to create powerful new tracks which you can then release. Dry loops were used when building the OMF files so feel free to add your own reverb and/or favourite FX to a phrase. PLEASE NOTE: The OMF files sum up all volumes of the individual tracks while all faders are set to 0 db. Therefore, please set your master fader to around -7 db (or less) to avoid clipping and take it from there. List of Sequencers with OMF Import: Here is a list of all sequencers that will import the full OMF arrangements. When you import these OMF arrangements you will be able to see them in your sequencer as if you had produced them yourself: • AudioDesk • Cubase • Digital Performer • Logic • Nuendo • Pro Tools • Pyramix • Sadie • Samplitude • Sonar • Soundtrack Pro Royalty-Free: All of the loops in this product are 100% Royalty-Free (including the vocal loops), so once purchased, you can use these loops in your commercial releases without having to pay any hidden costs. Specifications: • 5 Construction Kits • MIDI and One-Shots • Over 390 bonus One-Shots & assorted loops • Industry-Standard OMF files • ACIDized WAV Files • Apple Loops/AIFF Files • REX2 Loops • Reason ReFill • Sylenth Presets • Loops sync to BPM • 44.1 kHz/24-Bit • PC/Mac Compatible • Royalty-Free (No Exceptions) Afro House Session 1 Transmission Loops House, Tech House 2014-09-15 'Afro House Session 1' kicks off this brand new series from the Transmission label bringing you a massive collection of One-Shots, Sylenth Presets, Drum Loops and Construction Kits complete with melodic and percussive content. This pack boasts a unique Afro House sound, with pounding Soca and World flavoured beats, energetic synths and deep basslines spread across 3.6 GB of content. Effectively this is three products in one, giving you the drag-and-drop functionality of a Construction Kit, mixed with the versatility of a One-Shot sample library and the flexibility of a soft-synth preset pack. Future Music Magazine Review: "Part one of a brand new series from the always fresh Transmission camp. Here we get the sound of some mighty Afro House, fused with scintillating Soca and sun-kissed global beats. These one-shots, 18 Sylenth presets, drum loops and construction kits shine brightly across the 3.6 GB of content. The scope of sounds is wide and wonderful and, thanks to the SSL hardware in the chain, the quality of the samples is top-notch. The side-chained FX in the pack really lift the raft of pumping melodies on offer and are sure to fit snuggly into your next 4/4 arrangement. A classy pack pack full of upfront electronic beats and Afrocentric rhythms. Just in time for summer, too." Roy Spencer, Future Music, July 2014. You'll find lush side-chained FX, dazzling plucked synths and huge high-energy builds in this epic library. What's more, all files have been processed through legendary SSL hardware giving you a studio-grade level of quality. 18 presets for the renowned Sylenth synth are also included, allowing you to craft your own melodic phrases to compliment the pre-rendered material. With wet and dry samples, MIDI files, One-Shots, OMF and more this is an essential part of any House producer's arsenal. About Transmission: Transmission is a brand with a difference. Do not mistake this for one of the plethora of other labels out there. Transmission is new and powerful, focused on outputting the highest quality music in a wide range of Dance and Urban styles. Each product includes professional-quality feature sets with the most up-to-date sounds, loops and samples available. Read on to find out more about the professional feature set included with 'Afro House Session 1'. MIDI Files Included: 'Afro House Session 1' includes MIDI files for the majority of musical phrases heard in each Kit, allowing you to seamlessly mix your favourite synths and samplers with the sounds contained in the pack. Advantages of MIDI: While the supplied ACID/Apple Loops/REX content is extremely flexible and powerful, MIDI has the added benefit of allowing you to go to extremes of pitch and tempo beyond which the loops were originally recorded, with no time stretching or pitch shifting artifacts. Furthermore, you can make tweaks to the riffs so they fit perfectly into your existing mixes. One-Shot Samples: Each Construction Kit features one-shot melodic and drum samples, allowing you to create new beats, fills and loops to compliment the existing material. Simply load them up into your sampler of choice and create an infinite number of new beats and phrases. This product also includes a large number of additional One-Shot samples not heard in the Construction Kits themselves. Dry/Wet Loops: For users looking to simply drag and drop, the 'wet' files contain all of the effects processing heard in the audio demos. But for producers looking to create their own effects mix, 'dry' loops are also included. Don't like the wet loops? No problem, add your own effects. Unlooped Riffs/Tails: This sample library also comes with unlooped/tail versions allowing you to end a phrase with the decay of the reverb/delay applied to the loop. This is particularly useful for beginner and intermediate producers. Sylenth Presets: Lennar Digital's Sylenth is one of the most powerful Virtual Analog synth plugins on the market, and 'Afro House Session 1' provides you with 18 stunning presets for it. Use them to create new complimentary content, or as a starting point for your own patches. About using the OMF files (Arrangements): OMF format (Open Media Format) allows you to import complete arrangements of audio loops into virtually any sequencer (see below for list). Once the OMF has been loaded, you will see all of the regions of the track on screen, with chunks of audio data on separate tracks, all named by instrument (as if you'd produced the track yourself). This format allows you to (i) Learn the secrets of how to create stunning Afro House tracks (ii) Remix the arrangements to create powerful new tracks which you can then release. Dry loops were used when building the OMF files so feel free to add your own reverb and/or favourite FX to a phrase. PLEASE NOTE: The OMF files sum up all volumes of the individual tracks while all faders are set to 0 db. Therefore, please set your master fader to around -7 db (or less) to avoid clipping and take it from there. List of Sequencers with OMF Import: Here is a list of all sequencers that will import the full OMF arrangements. When you import these OMF arrangements you will be able to see them in your sequencer as if you had produced them yourself: • AudioDesk • Cubase • Digital Performer • Logic • Nuendo • Pro Tools • Pyramix • Sadie • Samplitude • Sonar • Soundtrack Pro Royalty-Free: All of the loops in this product are 100% Royalty-Free (including the vocal loops), so once purchased, you can use these loops in your commercial releases without having to pay any hidden costs. Specifications: • 5 Construction Kits including MIDI and One-Shots • Over 420 bonus One-Shots and assorted loops • Industry-Standard OMF files for deep level editing • ACIDized WAV Files • Apple Loops/AIFF Files • REX2 Loops • Reason ReFill • Sylenth Presets • Loops sync to BPM • 44.1 kHz/24-Bit • PC/Mac Compatible • Royalty-Free (No Exceptions) How to Order: Simply click "ADD TO CART" at the top of this page and choose the element or format you would like, then enter your details. Your Download Link will be send to you by email immediately after your payment has been received. 'Nu Deep House Session 2' continues this new series of feature-packed Deep House Construction Kits, arranged and produced to the highest standards. The product is supplied in a choice of formats including ACID Loops, Apple Loops, MIDI, REX, WAV and OMF. It also boasts a nice selection of One-Shots and MIDI files plus bonus drum loops. This hugely versatile product is an essential part of any House producer's arsenal and includes over 3 GB of content. Inside this 3.2 GB sample library you'll find all the content you need to craft your next Deep House hit. Each of the five Construction Kits features an array of powerful drum loops, deep pulsing bass-lines, side-chained pads and stunning FX all mixed, where possible, through legendary SSL hardware. Also included is a selection of 170 One-Shot percussive samples ready to be loaded into your favourite software or hardware sampler, as well as 50 bonus percussive loops. Add to this OMF arrangements and you've got an extremely powerful and versatile product with enough content to satisfy even the most demanding producer. About Transmission: Transmission is a brand new, high energy, high quality label for Pop, RnB, & Dance producers, including professional-quality feature sets with the most up-to-date sounds, loops and samples. We only commission the best producers and sound engineers for our products, making Transmission ideal for the producer seeking perfection. Transmission promises to offer only high end sounds for their productions, in a variety of genres, including OMF files, so the full mixes for each producer can be opened up and edited within your own sequencer. If you produce Dance, House, Progressive, Pop, RnB, Electro, and more, and are looking for premium quality packs, then look no further than Transmission. All products in our range are delivered in easy-to-use ACID/WAV, Apple Loops, Reason ReFill, REX, and OMF formats, and most importantly, all of our products are 100% royalty-free. MIDI Files Included: 'Nu Deep House Session 2' includes MIDI files for many of the musical and percussive phrases heard in each Kit, allowing you to seamlessly mix your favourite synths and samplers with the sounds contained in the pack. Advantages of MIDI: While the supplied ACID/Apple Loops/REX content is extremely flexible and powerful, MIDI has the added benefit of allowing you to go to extremes of pitch and tempo beyond which the loops were originally recorded, with no time stretching or pitch shifting artefacts. Furthermore, you can make tweaks to the riffs so they fit perfectly into your existing mixes. One-Shot Samples: Each Construction Kit features one-shot melodic and drum samples, allowing you to create new beats, fills and loops to compliment the existing material. Simply load them up into your sampler of choice and create an infinite number of new beats and phrases. Dry/Wet Loops: For users looking to simply drag and drop, the 'wet' files contain all of the effects processing heard in the audio demos. But for producers looking to create their own effects mix, 'dry' loops are also included. Don't like the wet loops? No problem, add your own effects. Unlooped Riffs/Tails: This sample library also comes with unlooped/tail versions allowing you to end a phrase with the decay of the reverb/delay applied to the loop. About using the OMF files: OMF format (Open Media Format) allows you to import a complete arrangement of audio loops into virtually any sequencer. Once loaded, you will see all parts on screen exactly as originally seen when exported, with chunks of audio data on separate tracks, all named by instrument. This format will allow you complete flexibility when re-mixing the arrangements. Dry loops were used when building the OMF files so feel free to add your own reverb and/or favourite FX to a phrase, a loop or a fully orchestrated fragment. All clips (phrases, loops) carry the same name as the dry and wet loops as well as the MIDI loops which you will find in the folder structure. Please Note: The OMF files sum up all volumes of the individual tracks while all faders are set to 0 db. Therefore, please set the master fader to around -7 db to avoid clipping and take it from there. List of Sequencers with OMF Import: Here is a list of all sequencers that will import the full arrangements of these kits in audio format. When you import these arrangements you will be able to see them in your sequencer as if you had recorded them yourself: • Ableton Live! • AudioDesk • Cubase • Digital Performer • Logic Pro • Logic Studio • Nuendo • Pro Tools • Pyramix • Sadie • Samplitude • Sonar • Soundtrack Pro Using these OMF arrangements you will be able to (i) Re-arrange them as desired (ii) Learn how this music was put together. Royalty-Free: All of the loops in this product are 100% Royalty-Free (including the vocal loops), so once purchased, you can use these loops in your commercial releases without having to pay any hidden costs. Specifications: • 5 Construction Kits • ACIDized WAV Files • Apple Loops/AIFF Files • REX2 Loops • OMF arrangements included • Reason ReFill • Loops sync to BPM • 44.1 kHz/24-Bit • PC/Mac Compatible • Royalty-Free (No Exceptions) Nu Deep House Session 1 Transmission Loops House, Nu Disco / Disco 2014-03-12 'Transmission' is a new label focused on premium quality samples, loops, MIDI files and Sequencer Arrangements. ' Nu Deep House Session 1' kicks off Transmission with 4.4 GB of content including five Construction Kits and additional drum loops, melodic loops, FX loops and drum samples (one-shots). All of the content is produced to the highest of standards and formats include Apple Loops, MIDI, REX and WAV. OMF arrangements are also included so you can remix the MP3 Demo tracks in your sequencer. All content is 100% royalty-free. Inside this 4.4 GB sample library you'll find all the content you need to craft your next Deep House hit. Focusing on the new and current style of Deep House which is really popular at the moment (2014), we feel confident you will find this Construction Kit + Sample Pack Combination Pack nothing short of inspirational. Alongside the stunning Construction Kits (heard in the MP3 demo), you'll find a fantstic array of drum loops, melodic loops, FX loops plus 250 drum samples (one-shots). All content has been mixed, where relevant, through legendary SSL hardware. If you're looking for lo-fi or glitchy sounds for your music then please look elsewhere, as the loops and samples on offer here are crisp, tight and clean as a whistle! About Transmission: Transmission is a brand with a difference. Do not mistake this for one of the plethora of other labels out there. Transmission is new and powerful, focused on outputting the highest quality music in a wide range of Dance and Urban styles. Each product includes professional-quality feature sets with the most up-to-date sounds, loops and samples available. About using the OMF files (Arrangements): OMF format (Open Media Format) allows you to import complete arrangements of audio loops into virtually any sequencer (see below for list). Once the OMF has been loaded, you will see all of the regions of the track on screen, with chunks of audio data on separate tracks, all named by instrument (as if you'd produced the track yourself). This format allows you to (i) Learn the secrets of how to create stunning Deep House tracks (ii) Remix the arrangements to create powerful new tracks which you can then release. Dry loops were used when building the OMF files so feel free to add your own reverb and/or favourite FX to a phrase. PLEASE NOTE: The OMF files sum up all volumes of the individual tracks while all faders are set to 0 db. Therefore, please set your master fader to around -7 db (or less) to avoid clipping and take it from there. List of Sequencers with OMF Import: Here is a list of all sequencers that will import the full OMF arrangements. When you import these OMF arrangements you will be able to see them in your sequencer as if you had produced them yourself: • Ableton • AudioDesk • Cubase • Digital Performer • Logic • Nuendo • Pro Tools • Pyramix • Sadie • Samplitude • Sonar • Soundtrack Pro Alongside the FIVE Powerful Construction Kits heard in the MP3 demo, Nu Deep House Session 1 also includes: • 25 x Melodic Loops • 50 x Drum Loops • 20 x Sound FX Loops • 50 x Bass Drum Samples • 50 x Clap Samples • 50 x Assorted Perc/Hat Samples • 50 x Snare Samples MIDI Files Included: 'Nu Deep House Session 1' includes MIDI files for many of the musical phrases in this product allowing you to seamlessly mix your favourite synths and samplers with the sounds contained in the pack. Dry/Wet Loops: The 'Wet' files contain all of the effects processing heard in the MP3 demos, but 'Dry' loops have also been included for producers looking to create their own effects mixes. Don't like the reverb used in a Transmisison Loop? No problem, load up the dry version of the loop and add your own reverb! Unlooped Riffs/Tails: This sample library also comes with unlooped/tail versions allowing you to end a phrase with the decay of the reverb/delay applied to the loop. This is particularly useful for beginner and intermmediate producers. Royalty-Free: All Transmission products are 100% Royalty-Free, so once purchased you can use these loops in your commercial releases without having to pay any hidden costs. Specifications: • 5 Construction Kits • ACIDized WAV Files • Apple Loops/AIFF Files • MIDI Loops • REX2 Loops • OMF arrangements included • Reason ReFill • Loops sync to BPM • 44.1 kHz/24-Bit • PC/Mac Compatible • Royalty-Free (No Exceptions) Deep Hip Hop Session 1 Transmission Loops Chill Out, Hip-Hop / R&B 2014-03-07 'Deep Hip Hop Session 1' kicks off a brand new series of ultra-professional & highly versatile Hip Hop products from Transmission, a new label focused on premium quality samples, loops, MIDI files and Sequencer Arrangements. This product includes Construction Kits, Additional Drum Loops, One-Shots, MIDI files, Sylenth presets and OMF arrangements. Supplied in a range of formats, this 4.17 GB product is an essential tool for any Hip Hop producer. This supercharged product features not only five unique and varied Construction Kits, but a vast array of percussive One-Shot files and 50 additional drum loops sure to satisfy even the most discerning beatsmith. If you're looking to produce music in the styles of artists like "Drake", "The Weekend", "J. Cole", "Big Sean", "Rick Ross" or "Tyga" then check out this product, it won't disappoint. Each of the Five Construction Kits has a distinctive vibe and incorporates a wide range of scorching hot contemporary influences, from Trap and Electro to Chill-Out and Down-Tempo, with more than a hint of Soul and Trip Hop included for good measure. Sylenth presets are also included, giving you access to some of the sounds used in the production of the Kits, including a selection of Leads, FX patches and Plucks. From deep basslines and other-worldly synths to subtle keys and degraded vinyl FX you'll find it all in 'Deep Hip Hop Session 1'. Read on to find out more about this incredible high-end product. About Transmission: Transmission is a brand with a difference. Do not mistake this for one of the plethora of other labels out there. Transmission is new and powerful, focused on outputting the highest quality music in a wide range of Dance and Urban styles. Each product includes professional-quality feature sets with the most up-to-date sounds, loops and samples available. About using the OMF files (Arrangements): OMF format (Open Media Format) allows you to import complete arrangements of audio loops into virtually any sequencer (see below for list). Once the OMF has been loaded, you will see all of the regions of the track on screen, with chunks of audio data on separate tracks, all named by instrument (as if you'd produced the track yourself). This format allows you to (i) Learn the secrets of how to create stunning Deep Hip Hop tracks (ii) Remix the arrangements to create powerful new tracks which you can then release. Dry loops were used when building the OMF files so feel free to add your own reverb and/or favourite FX to a phrase. PLEASE NOTE: The OMF files sum up all volumes of the individual tracks while all faders are set to 0 db. Therefore, please set your master fader to around -7 db (or less) to avoid clipping and take it from there. List of Sequencers with OMF Import: Here is a list of all sequencers that will import the full OMF arrangements. When you import these OMF arrangements you will be able to see them in your sequencer as if you had produced them yourself: • AudioDesk • Cubase • Digital Performer • Logic • Nuendo • Pro Tools • Pyramix • Sadie • Samplitude • Sonar • Soundtrack Pro Alongside the FIVE Powerful Construction Kits heard in the MP3 demo, Deep Hip Hop Session 1 also includes: • 50 x Bass Drum samples • 25 x Clap samples • 10 x FX samples • 25 x Hats samples • 25 x Percussion samples • 25 x Snare samples • 50 x Bonus drum loops MIDI Files Included: 'Deep Hip Hop Session 1' includes MIDI files for many of the musical phrases in this product allowing you to seamlessly mix your favourite synths and samplers with the sounds contained in the pack. Dry/Wet Loops: The 'Wet' files contain all of the effects processing heard in the MP3 demos, but 'Dry' loops have also been included for producers looking to create their own effects mixes. Don't like the reverb used in a Transmission Loop? No problem, load up the dry version of the loop and add your own reverb! Unlooped Riffs/Tails: This sample library also comes with unlooped/tail versions allowing you to end a phrase with the decay of the reverb/delay applied to the loop. This is particularly useful for beginner and intermediate producers. Sylenth Presets: Sylenth from Lennar Digital is perhaps one of the most well known and widely used virtual instruments around, and 'Deep Hip Hop Session 1' includes 20 presets, enabling you to create new complimentary musical content or create your own Deep Hip Hop patches by using them as a starting point. Royalty-Free: All Transmission products are 100% Royalty-Free, so once purchased you can use these loops in your commercial releases without having to pay any hidden costs. Specifications: • 5 Construction Kits • ACIDized WAV Files • Apple Loops/AIFF Files • MIDI Loops • REX2 Loops • OMF arrangements included • Reason ReFill • Loops sync to BPM • 44.1 kHz/24-Bit • PC/Mac Compatible • Royalty-Free (No Exceptions)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9744
__label__cc	0.564299	0.435701	Geezers and Gals - Holi-Daze Submitted by Al Rosati Ambassador, The Villages, Fl This was so much fun As you can see by the picture the players really got into the Holi-Daze spirit. This marks the 3rd year for this event and hopefully we'll continue for many more. Interesting concept that I tried for the 1st time this year. We drew names from two hats and matched partners. It was a more evenly matched format. Of the 12 teams entered, the winning team of Carol Hoeft and Tom Sosko defeated the runner up team of Sue Greenberg and Bob Wilkinson 14-12. Other Holi-Daze players included: Siri Rossman/ Doug Moffatt Wanda Dorn/ Rick Hoeft Billy Jean Montalbano/ Randy Lilly Sharon Baller/ John Dragotta Diane Cupples/ Vic Slider Gena Lilly/ Jim Magee Jan Cervi/ George Odom Pam Nettlebeck/ Oliver Welch Chris Leedy/ Chuck Dorn Caryn Krisha/ Tom Kuck Pickleball players assist Toy for Tots campaign Saturday, December 17, 2011, The Villages Daily Sun.com Garf Cooper was well aware that Villages residents go above and beyond when it comes to the season of giving. A Thursday morning pickleball tournament provided a fresh reminder. Rather than paying an entry fee, participants in the recent advanced ability level 4.0, 4.5 open tournament, hosted by the Pickleball Community Volunteer Group and The Villages Recreation Department, were asked to donate a new, unwrapped toy for the Marine Corps League’s annual holiday effort. Thanks to players’ generosity, 74 shiny new toys were added to the Toys for Tots collection. Waccamaw Sports Classic - Conway, SC GEORGETOWN - Pickleball at the 4th Annual Waccamaw Sports Classic will be held Friday, April 20, 2012 at 10 a.m. at Coastal Carolina University. Modeled after the Olympic Games, the Classic enables those who are 50, and BETTER, to come together for a day of recreational and competitive sporting competitions. The Classic is a partnership between the Georgetown, Horry and Williamsburg County Parks and Recreation Departments, Myrtle Beach Recreation Department, Coastal Carolina University Waccamaw Area Agency on Aging and Georgetown, Horry and Williamsburg Councils on Aging. Here are the medal winners from last year's event!! For more information on the pickleball event, contact USAPA Ambassador, Rena Grant Bonita Bay Celebrates New Courts The Bonita Bay Pickleball Club has grown significantly and today they share their story, celebrate with a ribbon cutting ceremony and then enjoy their brand new courts!! Scott Green Tournament, Plantation Pickleball The Scott Green Tournament took place at the courts of the Plantation Community in Leesburg, Florida on November 16th and 17th. The videos below are from that event. Our congratulations to all the winners. Click Here to see the Results! Registration Open for Charlotte County Games It is time to register for the 12th Annual Charlotte County “Fit for Life” Senior Games sponsored by Charlotte County Community Services. Please see attached registration information packet and registration form. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact your games coordinator, Brittany Rainey at 941.627.1074. Thank you! See you in March! Senior Games Information Packet Brittany Rainey http://www.charlottecountyfl.com/ Pickleball bouncing into mainstream myhometownnews.net December, 9, 2010 DAYTONA BEACH SHORES - The "tink" of wooden paddles on a bright-orange wiffle ball was unmistakable one recent Friday morning over on court nine at this city's public-access Oceans Racquet Club. There's more of it going on over at McElroy Park. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning. It's those pickleballers again. "My wife, she teaches Zumba, and she calls it 'exercise in disguise,'" said 67-year-old Peter Mitchell of Port Orange between games. "This is exercise in disguise. The tennis players, they might roll their eyes, but the name of this place is racquet club. The sign didn't say tennis club." The atmosphere isn't hostile at all, though. By all accounts, pickleball, while perhaps garnering scoffs from serious athletes of more established racquet sports, isn't a walk in the park. Played with a wooden paddle and wiffle ball on a concrete badminton court divided by a tennis net, pickleball melds the rules of all those games, with a pace and breadth that isn't quite as taxing as tennis. Highland Lakes - Pickleball and Pizza Party The players at Highland Lakes in Leesburg, Fl held their traditional Pickleball Pizza Party on December 5th, and if you check out the complete story on their pickleball website, you'll see that it was a great success. Lots of Pizza, lots of Pickleball, new players and lots of fun and laughter. The committee (Manny and Marie Cardoza, Don Gullakson and Harry Yorgensen) sends to one and all wishes for a "very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" and wants to express their thanks to everyone who donated to the Relay for Life Cancer Research. READ MORE..... 2011 Florida Senior and International Games Following a five year run in Southwest Florida, the 2011-2012 Florida International Senior Games and State Championships were held in Central Florida’s Polk County. This year, the Pickleball competition was held at the Kelly Recreation Center in Lakeland Florida from December 3-5. This will mark the 20th Anniversary of the State Championships, which started in 1992. This was a double elimination event, best two out of three games. 3. Games were played to 11 points, but continue until one player or team achievesda two-point margin. Teams and players were not seeded. Brackets were determined by a random draw. Fourth place ribbons were be awarded in addition to Gold, Silver and Bronze medals for Florida residents. Gold, Silver and Bronze medals were awarded to top overall athletes. Pickleball had 162 competitors at the Kelly Recreation Center, the largest participation of any event in the State Games!!! Singles Competition was held on Monday, December, 5th. CLICK HERE to check out the complete PHOTO GALLERY Picklers Persistant to Play on Hilton Head Island "Generally I see only positive news in the newsletter, not patience trying news. But who knows, perhaps it is time to discuss some of that too. Some time ago I sent late breaking news that we had permission to paint pickleball lines on tennis courts here on Hilton Head Island. The very next day I went to Lowes and asked them to spec some paint that would be compatible with the tennis court surface. They immediately refused and advised me to go to the county to get the paint specs. I went to the Hilton Head Island Recreation Center who works closely with Beaufort County and they graciously gave me a five gallon bucket of paint that they use for striping various courts on the island. I no sooner put the bucket of paint in my garage when I received a phone call from the director of the HIlton Head Island Recreation's' director, Frank Soule, that I should hold off on painting the lines because he needed to re-confirm with the county that it was OK to paint the lines on the tennis courts. This of course was a very time consuming process with the ultimate decision being negative. We appealed the decision to Joe Penale of Beaufort County Parks and Leisure and asked him to meet with us at the courts. He agreed and made an appointment for a Monday at 9:00 a.m. That appointment was subsequently canceled and rescheduled for the following Wednesday. He never showed up. Later, he sent an e-mail saying he was called out of town and couldn't make the meeting. He went on to say that the Beaufort County Parks and Recreation Board had determined that they did not want pickleball lines painted on the tennis courts, but we were free to paint lines on the basketball court and suggested that we could get two pickleball courts on the basketball court. The basketball court is an elementary school size court and will only allow one pickleball court size-wise. Additionally, the court is in poor condition with deep cracks and a 4 inch drop off at the edges. Further, there is no fence to hinder errant balls from rolling into the brush and players must shinny over a 4 X 4 barrier to get the balls. Though we use this court in conjunction with the other two tennis courts with chalked lines on all three courts and a portable USAPA net on the basketball court, this situation is less than acceptable. So, we continue to appeal the decision to the Beaufort County Board and we are working on other avenues to get pickleball accepted in the community. We plan to send an e-mail to the Island Packet Newspaper to see if they will do a brief introductory article on pickleball and make it known that we have over 100 e-mail addresses for our pickleball roster and approximately 15-22 people showing up every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10:00 a.m. to play pickleball. We are not going away!" Don Wheeler, Ambassador Pickleball comes to tennis center LaGrangeNews.com- November 2012 Cindy Moore, who learned to play the sport in Arizona, is hoping to help the sport become a part of the sporting landscape in LaGrange. A few weeks ago, with the help of some other pickleball-playing friends, Moore began offering free clinics at the McCluskey Tennis Center. Moore, a long-time tennis player, said she was hooked from the first time she tried pickleball about six years ago. “I was a tennis player, and still am,” Moore said. “I’d play tennis, and go play a little pickleball. And then it got to be more pickleball and less tennis. And it’s gotten more and more. It’s just addictive.” Now, Moore serves as a Georgia ambassador for the US Pickleball Association, and it’s a role she takes seriously as she looks to introduce the sport to as many people as possible. Pickleball players assist Toy for Tots campaign S... Pickleball bouncing into mainstream myhometownnews... Pickleball comes to tennis center LaGrangeNews.com...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9745
__label__cc	0.743066	0.256934	Revision as of 14:29, 26 May 2017 by TheAlmightyGuru (talk \| contribs) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third book written by JK Rowling in the Harry Potter series. The first time I read it, it became my favorite of the series, and remained my favorite even after reading the rest of the series. However, after re-reading it, I've recognized several severe plot holes and a lot of other problems, now making it one of my least favorite books. Professor Lupin is a fun and likable caring teacher, and Sirius Black is a ominous villain. Hogwarts is still very exciting and wonderful. The Marauder's Map is a really cool idea, but it creates several serious problems with the story. Snape has entered into the realm of cartoonish villain. While I understand that teachers are often unfair, Snape's favoritism to his own house and obvious hatred of all Gryffindors is never challenged by Dumbledore. He even gleefully tries to kill two people multiple times, and he's kept as a teacher. Draco is able to pretend that his arm is sore for weeks despite having no discernible symptoms, and all the staff go along with it, even to the point of rescheduling events around it, something that isn't done for any of the other houses. Again, poorly managed. I can understand how bogarts can take the shape of dementors, but how do they gain their powers? Fred and George say they've memorized the Marauder's Map, which is why they gift it to Harry, but, while they can memorize the layout of Hogwarts, the real-time updates of where everyone is located would still be a benefit too priceless to give up. For as important as Quidditch is to the wizarding world, they don't play it very often. Each house only faces each other house once for the entire school year, resulting in a maximum of six games, only three games per house. Worse yet, two consecutive losses, automatically forfeits the third game. Quidditch is even less realistic in this book. The Firebolt makes it even less about ability and more about who can afford the most expensive broom, and the blatant cheating done by Slytherin isn't properly punished. Grabbing the broom of a seeker results in a penalty shot for an attempt at ten points, but it prevents the team from getting 150 points, so it doesn't make sense not to do it! Same with the hitting chasers with bats. While drawing out the final encounter with Sirius Black is made more dramatic by neither Black or Lupin being forthright, it doesn't make sense. They both risk the kids killing them by not explaining themselves sooner. The final confrontation takes forever! Black's escape doesn't fit with the story. If animagius are able to slip past the dementors, why aren't all prisoners screened before entering? And if animagius are so rare, (only 7 in the past century), how could three fifth-year students, one particularly weak, pull off the spell without any help from professionals? Why would the Ministry of Magic just be okay with Buckbeak escaping and not blame Hagrid for failing to tie him up securely? The patronus spell is repeatedly described as being very difficult, and increases in difficulty with the number of present dementors. So, how then is Harry able to create a very powerful patronus when a hundred dementors are present? The Marauder's Map pretty much ruins the entire Harry Potter world. Four students could create a powerful magical device that allows them to track the location of every single person in the school in real time in an areas specifically designed to prevent many spells from working? If this is the case, why doesn't the Ministry of Magic simply create a similar map to catch Black and every other criminal in existence? Why didn't the twins see Sirius Black on the map? Why didn't they see their sister in the Chamber of Secrets? Why didn't they see Ron sleeping with another man every night? Why didn't they see Voldemort on top of Professor Quirrel? The Time Turner also pretty much ruins the entire world. The wizards have the ability to rewind time at will? Why didn't they rewind to before Black escaped? Or before Harry Potter's parents were killed? Or before Tom Riddle turned evil? If it's because they take the time line too seriously to even stop mass-murderers, then why are they giving the ability to a 13-year-old? Keeping a charlatan like Sybill Trelawney on staff where she can lie to children unimpeded and convince the next generation to lie as well, just because she made a single accurate prediction is a horrible practice for Dumbledore. It seems the only prison in the wizarding world is Azkaban, a place where all of the prisoners are constantly tortured to the point where they want to commit suicide. They even send minor offenders there. This does not reflect well on the society. dorkly.com/post/74029/why-the-marauders-map-is-useless - Comic that addresses the Marauder's Map plot hole. Retrieved from "http://thealmightyguru.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Harry_Potter_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban&oldid=2399"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9746
__label__wiki	0.801816	0.801816	Home Reptile News New Lizard Named After Sir David Attenborough New Lizard Named After Sir David Attenborough A research team led by Dr Martin Whiting from the Department of Biological Sciences recently discovered a beautifully coloured new species of flat lizard, which they have named Platysaurus attenboroughi, after Sir David Attenborough. Flat lizards belong to a lizard family, the Cordylidae, which is found only in Africa. While the majority of species in this family are live-bearing and most are brown or black (with some exceptions), the flat lizards stand out: they lay eggs and all are colourful. In fact, many of them are spectacularly coloured. This species is appropriately named Platysaurus (flat lizard) because they are incredibly flat – designed to fit into the narrowest of crevices where they refuge from predators and hot or cold weather. “We thought it fitting the lizard be named after the world-famous naturalist after he made famous a closely related flat lizard species in the BBC series Life in Cold Blood,” said Dr Whiting. Dr Whiting along with colleagues at the Australian National University spent time with Sir Attenborough in the field at Augrabies Falls National Park in South Africa where the BBC filmed Augrabies flat lizards in action. “Flat lizards attracted my attention some years ago, and since then we have been working on understanding their social system, how colour functions in communication, and how the various species are related.” “It was during this process that we realised there were more species than currently described and there was a real need to uncover or build a ‘family tree’ for flat lizards. This is something our team is currently working on,” said Dr Whiting. Whiting, Martin; Branch, William; Pepper, Mitzy; Keogh, Scott. A new species of spectacularly coloured flat lizard Platysaurus (Squamata: Cordylidae: Platysaurinae) from southern Africa. Zootaxa 3986 (2): 173–192. July 2015 Read more: http://mq.edu.au/newsroom/2015/08/03/new-lizard-named-after-sir-david-attenborough/#ixzz3mkcgyYgH Platysaurus Study maps out reptiles’ ranges, completing the ‘atlas of life’ Madagascar scientists unsure how best to guard frogs from fungus U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Determines ESA Protection Warranted for Two... Lucy, 9, fronts global fight to save frog from extinction Hot water puts crocs at risk	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9752
__label__wiki	0.656199	0.656199	#OnTheLookOut : Need-To-Know Budding Artists On The Come Up Staff February 20, 2018 EditorialHomepage FeaturedMusic The Hip-Hop industry has seen many dope and talented artists since its inception. The beauty of the genre is that due to those talented artists, even more talented artists and inspiring musicians are born throughout the years. In route of achieving stardom, each artist walks a different path towards the limelight, but what remains constant throughout the journey is the hard work and dedication put into their crafts.Several artists on the come up has caught TheRapFest’s attention with their drive behind the music. #OnTheLookOut serves as a list of TheRapfest picks of artist to watch. Here is a list of artists to be #OnTheLookOut for. Feel free to comment below. Beano French Delivering the sultry sounds of R&B with his vocals , the West Philadelphia native is definitely one to watch out for. Beano French’s extraordinary talent stems from his parents, who are both musicians. French got his first taste of the performance life when he joined his local church choir at Holy Cross Baptist Church. Little did he know at the time , French was building his musical confidence for his future music career. Some of French’s musical influences are Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Mario, Jill Scott, and The Roots. Recently, French released his eight-track project Just Beano. Each track is loaded with irresistible vibes that is soothing to the ear. The leading single Monday Morning serves as a breath of fresh air for the R&B genre : “When people listen to my music, I want them to get a look into who I am and what my life is like. Honestly, just getting to know ‘Just Beano’ and what my version of Philly sounds like..” Listen Beano French’s Monday Morning below Layla Hendryx The rising Canadian artist is destined to leave her creative mark in the music industry. Layla Hendryx is an artist stepping into her own light despite the traditional pathways her Somalian community wants her to follow. Growing up in Toronto, Hendryx’s musical identity was shaped by her heritage and the place she calls home, Toronto. In 2015, Hendryx released Channel ‘6, an EP that showcased her true sound as an artist. The EP opened up doors for her to be featured on essential music publications such as The Fader, MTV News and Noisey music. In 2016, Hendryx dropped her Out Of Time EP. The EP tapped into Hendryx’s sultry R&B sound, showcasing her versatility and song writing capabilities. Hendryx’s recent project Pree Paid shows Hendryx growth as an artist from her first EP. Listen to Layla Hendryx’s Scotty below J French Hailing from Oklahoma City, the multi-talented instrumentalist and producer, J French , proves that he is definitely one to watch out for. With J French’s father , Brother Num, being a two-time Grammy award winning musician, J French proves that he is nothing short of musical talent. J French fell in love with music through the sounds of gospel; ” I Fell in love with music through my exposure to gospel music, which was the first time a song made me cry tears of joy when I was young.” J french’s musical influences stems from great instrumentalists and great rappers such as Black Thought. In 2016, J French released his debut album, Jaguar Jesus. A year later , J French released his single, Different Ain’t Different. Last month J French released his sophomore album OGB (Only Gets Better). The album features Kurt Dog and Zilla and three guest producers Lucky 7, Mike Payton, and Lambo. Listen to J French’s Drive below OnlyJahmez Rising out of South Jersey, OnlyJahmez continues to make a statement through his music. Jahmez inspirations stems from, God, his family, Eazy E, and all his haters. Honing in on his musical craft, Jahmez first performance was at Rutgers University’s Verbal Mayhem. In 2017, OnlyJahmez released , Tarzan. The song delivers an uplifting and empowering message. It has also garnered over 40k plays on SoundCloud. Towards the end of 2017, Jahmez released more singles such as Pop Rox and Too3 to end the year off right. Earlier this year, Jahmez released One Way, produced by Branford Beats. When people listen to his music, Jahmez wants people to vibe with it; “I️ just want people to feel like they just got out of a pool of the purest juice and they just can’t get it out of there ears.” Listen to OnlyJahmez’s Pop Rox below Jay Sek With Jay Sek’s ultimate goal of wanting to bring people together with his music, the rising artist keeps that goal in mind as he embraces his musical journey . Sek’s musical influences stems from the likes of J. Cole, Trippie Redd, and Lil Uzi Vert. The motivation for Sek’s music derives from his personal experiences: “My motivation for making music started when I became distraught from a relationship that ended prematurely. A lot of people have a hard time controlling their feelings of anger and resentment. Instead of directly fighting, I just wrote how I felt on paper…” Sek’s top single This Is How We Do It has over 40k plays. Later this year, Sek is planning to release his mixtape, Best Regards. Listen to Jay Sek’s This Is How We Do It below Mike Lo Fresh off of the release of his newest single, Money Grab, Mike Lo is strengthening his grip on the rap industry each step of the way along his musical journey. Growing up and listening to the gritty sounds of New York Hip-Hop and the sweet rhythmic sounds of Puerto Rico, Mike Lo’s diverse influences are evident in his music Mike Lo’s musical journey started at an early age. Since his start, he has been determined to fly high and reach higher heights in the Hip-Hop industry. But since his takeoff on his musical journey, Mike has experienced some turbulence on the way. Having lost his father to suicide , Mike channeled his pain and utilized it to fuel his ambition for music. Mike Lo recenty relsased his debut album, You Made Me. The inspiration for this album stems from his father: “My inspiration for the ‘You Made Me’ album is and forever will be my father’s impact on my life and his passing. He was one of the strongest people I know…” Listen to Mike Lo’s Money Grab below Aisha BAisha Buchananbeano frenchculturehip hopJ FrenchJay SekLayla HendryxMike LomusicOnlyJahmezOnTheLookOutTheRapFest Previous ArticlePremiere : Threat Digga Offers Us New Visual For ‘They Don’t Know Me’ Next ArticleL.A.’s Josephine is Hot Right Now, Thanks to New Song, “Friends”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9753
__label__cc	0.714112	0.285888	The Rights Writer Who’s Behind the Immigration Rallies? March 29, 2006 By Ben Johnson BIG CORPORATIONS AND THE FAR-LEFT HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON: both like to employ cheap illegal immigrants to do their heavy lifting. 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__label__cc	0.578554	0.421446	Is Uncle Sam “tossing” Kolomoiskii? 92066 Views March 24, 2015 227 Comments Saker Analyses and Interviews The Saker Events in the Ukraine are taking a very serious turn: Poroshenko has declared that private “pocket” armies of governors will no longer be tolerated and he has now given Kolomoiskii 24 hours to lay down arms. Poroshenko’s chief henchmen – Arsen Avakov and the CIA’s Valentin Nalivaichenko – have indicated that Poroshenko has their full support and loyalty. In other words, the full power of the junta is now threatening to come down on Kolomoiskii’s head. Kolomoiskii, in turn, is preparing some kind of pro-Kolomoiskii “maidan” in Dnepropetrovsk for Wednesday. In order to prevent that, several death squads (“national guard battalions”) have been sent to the city. Kolomoiskii It sure looks like the freaks are really going to go after each other. It will be very interesting to observe how this will play out. The US seems to be fully supporting Poroshenko as will most other countries. For the Empire, it might be a good moment to get rid of such a fantastically odious figure like Kololmoiskii. Interestingly, Kolomoikii has recently declared in an interview that if new elections were organized in Novorussia he believed that Zakharchenko and other Novorussian officials would probably be reelected. Such overtures to the Novorussian leadership are a sign that Kolomoiskii is in a tough spot and that he is considering his options. As for Poroshenko, he appears as bellicose as ever, making grand statements about everything and running around in battle fatigues. Whether that will be enough to impress a thug whose net worth is estimated at 1.3 billion dollars is unclear to me. And yet, I don’t see Kolomoiskii prevailing in this fight. Not only is the Empire clearly supporting Poroshenko, as key “power figures” in the junta, but even Russia has (reluctantly) accepted that, at least for the time being, Poroshenko was if not fully legitimate, then the real de-facto leader of the Nazi occupied Ukraine. So while left one on one Kolomoiskii would probably easily defeat Poroshenko, the fact that the latter has the full backing of the Empire will probably be crucial. I would add that for the Empire to support the weaker party is normal, but not out of some sense of justice for the little guy, but simply because the stronger party does not need external support to win whereas the weaker party always does. This is the real reason why the Empire will always side with the minority, with the smaller group – it is easier to control. Siding with Poroshenko just makes the him even more dependent on US support. So it all adds up: Kolomoiskii is a universally loathed figure, there is a very good chance that MH17 can be fully dumped on him (thereby providing the Empire with a face saving “out”), he is probably very hard to control and he is threatening the junta. If I was sitting in Langley my recommendation would be clear: send him to Muzychko. Poroshen Ukie Nazi freaks Eimar Clark on March 24, 2015 · at 12:32 am EST/EDT Your comment.. http://www.sott.net/article/294227-Oligarch-infighting-Kolomoisky-given-24-hours-to-disarm-his-private-army-after-storming-gas-giants-HQ Yep. I expect a trip to Israel is on the cards – and even that might result in him being shopped to vested interests: he’d be a fool to trust Bibi. Anonymous on March 24, 2015 · at 5:26 am EST/EDT He has Swiss passport and spends most of his time there. The Peregrine on March 24, 2015 · at 12:56 pm EST/EDT He lives in Geneva mostly, yes. But he doesn’t have a Swiss passport. As far as I know, he holds Cypriote, Israeli and Ukrainian passports. Give me one shred of court-proof, hard evidence concerning MH-17 (the one youtube-vid where he admits having financed the shooting down and similar is not sufficient in front of a court) and I’ll run personally to the next police station here in SUI and will see to him being arrested. Remember a few years ago, when Dubya Bush aka Jorge Arbuste changed his travel plans to SUI because the Geneva Cantonal Police would have arrested him on arrival? Veri1138 on March 30, 2015 · at 10:56 pm EST/EDT Kolomoisky’s paperwork is being held up by Swiss authorities, at the moment. So the pressure is on him even there. His wife and children, however, have been approved. Pianoman on March 24, 2015 · at 12:37 am EST/EDT Meanwhile, it looks like the US has quickly put together a resolution on sending over lethal weapons to Ukraine: http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20150323/MAS_087_xml.friday.pdf http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/march/23/congress-demands-war-in-ukraine/ Will these weapons be used against the separatists, or perhaps against Kolomoisky…? The false flag expected to relaunch the war will be..some US/UK ‘instructors’ killed of course..it will be NR or RF fault even if this happen in Lviv…the perfect pretext,do not forget that the life of ONE occidental soldier is at least equal to 10.000 NR or RF ones and leads to a state of war,more sanctions,more weapons etc etc I bet 50 eur/usd on this scenario. Not in this situation they will run home if any get shot. Purple Library Guy on March 24, 2015 · at 7:02 pm EST/EDT I’d take that bet. The problem with that scenario is that in Ukraine, the US position is very definitely “Let’s you and him fight!” They don’t want to get directly involved with their own personnel. Or at least, only the really, really insane ones do. Not just the few sane but even the run-of-the-mill crazy are wary enough to want to be pretty sure this stays a proxy war. But the death of US servicepeople doesn’t call for a Ukrainian response, it calls for a direct US response. They won’t go there. Cyril on March 24, 2015 · at 8:38 pm EST/EDT However, a few neocon crazies actually want World War 3. So they’ll arrange for the death of a few American “advisors”, hoping to sucker the US military into Ukraine. This may trigger the global conflict the neocons so dearly want. Peter on March 24, 2015 · at 1:33 am EST/EDT With the US “allies” jumping ship on the AIIB, China setting up the Yuan as an international reserve currency and the end of gold fixing, the US now has the noose around its neck. Looks like those nut cases are going to go for all out (nuclear) war with Russia. An attack on Crimea now is an attack on Russia, also if any of the pissant baltic states that the US is militarising makes an attack on Russia the US may also use that as an excuse for a pre-emptive strike. Penelope on March 24, 2015 · at 3:57 am EST/EDT Peter, I don’t think it’s quite an end to gold fixing: The London Gold Fixing by 4 big banks has been turned over to some other body– which is sposed to result in more liquidity, less manipulation. I think it’s possible there’s a struggle going on between Rockefeller and Rothschild. Rothschild, thru Franklin something, owns a lot of the Ukraine bonds, so will be against the destruction of the country, but I think the US wants more destruction. Also somebody’s killed Hillary’s campaign w mega-corruption disclosures. These appeared in Murdoch’s News Corporation media, which I think is still Rothschild controlled. Clinton’s are clearly Rockefeller-faction (He’s the bastard of Winthrop Rockefeller). My question remains, does the downfall of the US mean a downfall of the international banking cabal and their world dominance? Or will it be the same system now using China instead of US? Seamus Padraig on March 24, 2015 · at 8:58 am EST/EDT That’s a good question, Penny. After the ultra-close elections in Brazil (which, in turn, came after some very color-revvy protests right before the world cup), Rousseff appointed a guy name Joaquim Levy as her new finance minister. Levy is ex-IMF and ECB. He is seen as a Soros-protegé. The thinking is that TPTB want to use Brazil to ‘infiltrate’ BRICS, either to try steer it from within, or–if all else fails–to sabotage it. ɓʁuçɚ on March 24, 2015 · at 12:32 pm EST/EDT People like to see things more simplistically than they invariably turn out to be. Particular focus of USA’s gaze on Brazil is more likely to driven by be Brazil’s geopolitical vulnerability in historically the most zealously policed and “sentimental” of the US’s backyards and the one they batten down when adventures further afield go awry. The USA is cureently gaining momentum in their LAm focus (the promise of revived bolivarianism is somewhat guttering), following very overt meddling in Paraguay and Honduras, removal of the biggest thorn, Chavez, and increasing instability in Argentina & Brazil. Regarding BRICS vulnerability, equally convincing arguments could be made for South Africa (in any event, a peculiarly mismatched member) as the wedge (well and truly under the thumb of the USA since well before De Klerk’s capitulation and secured withHani’s removal from the equation by “loan nut” Walusz. It requires only a little dot-joining to start making sense of the USA’s insane obsession with fomenting violence through their proxy in Nigeria, towards a goal of the “Sudanese option”: fragmenting Nigeria. A spin-off from prising the oil-rich soutyh off? Intact, the only truly BRICable nation on the continent and therefore an obvious threat to the USA’s SA. Something people always forget or ignore is SA as a “half-eye”, still very much connected with the other five. Plausible arguments could be made for India too as a wedge. The truth is the USA’s approach is certain to be multifarious and involve forked tongues, chequebooks, threats, diplomacy as they (mis)understand it, ngo subversion and all their other strategies. Penelope on March 25, 2015 · at 4:37 pm EST/EDT Seamus, unfortunately, Roussef hired Levy as finance minister specifically to “embrace a new strategy of vastly increasing the profits of foreign and domestic finance capital, in the hope of attracting large scale investments to end economic stagnation. . . the entire economy must be directed to gaining the “confidence” of the capitalist class. The social policies which were implemented earlier are now subject to elimination or reduction. [Cause of the econ meltdown: previous IMF agreement & strictures: read more.] Further, there is an attempted color revolution against her in the form of a dubious corruption charge. Foreign ownership of media has been able to cause massive demonstrations w calls for her to step down, even tho recently re-elected. Anonymous on March 24, 2015 · at 4:33 pm EST/EDT “My question remains, does the downfall of the US mean a downfall of the international banking cabal and their world dominance? Or will it be the same system now using China instead of US? “ The downfall of the US will mean the end of the West’s global domination. Unlike after WW2 when there was a rising western power i.e the US to take over from France and Britain, there is no such power today. China is the rising power and it is fully eastern. What is at stake for Western elites is the collapse of 500 years of global domination. The international banking cabal is a western cabal. Its power is contained within a western historical/cultural/imperialist envelope. It cannot break out. China will not be controlled by western economic forces, once it is geopolitically stronger than the west. This is what makes this confrontation far more dangerous than any other since WW2. It represents not just a conflict amongst the western elites but the transfer of global power east, and the complete subordination of western elites to eastern ones. For western global power this is existential and so we should be ready for anything. All options are on the table. Ngoyo on March 24, 2015 · at 6:12 pm EST/EDT signing my name to the comment above. ;) The West in general and America in particular will never cede their power with attempting to unleash a massive bloodbath on the world. Western ”civilization’ believes it is God’s chosen nation and emodiment of freedom and demoracy. Hence, they have a moral right to rule the planet against the “barbaric hordes” of the East and Global South. This psychotic delusion is inbred among Western nations from the grassrooots people up to the elite. Just look at how many millions of Western bastards proudly proclaimed “I am Charlie Hedbo” over the death of some mediocre satirists, while they are silent or indifferent to the mass death of 100,000s of Iraqis, Afghanis, Syrians, Libyans, and others who are on the receiving of Western covert terrorism and war. The Sampson Option is in play. Make no mistake. Ngoyo, thanks for responding. I believe the internat’l banking cabal is active in the east as well. It continues to greatly hinder Russian development, as the number of rubles that can be issued is tied to the dollar. Both China & Russia are members of IMF & WTO. I know that China’s debt is 240% of her GDP. To whom does she owe the money? Why didn’t she sell down her US treasury bonds to finance all the infrastructure? I’m not saying there is anything wrong w all of this, but only that I would like to understand it. In the past Rothschild has had involvement in China and other Asian countries. I wd be surprised if this is not still the case. CRT on March 25, 2015 · at 8:32 am EST/EDT The figure you cite for China’s debt to GDP is the total debt, not government or even external debt. Most of this debt is Chinese local governments and individual companies owing money (yuan) to Chinese state-owned commercial banks propped up by Chinese Central Bank. Government dollar reserves could not be used to repay this debt, since it is practically owed to the government, not by the government (and yuan denominated). CRT, Thank you for a factual response. I must confess that I still don’t understand. You say that China’s local govts & businesses owe 240% of the country’s GDP to the Central govt/central bank. This is sposed to be the reason for their slowdown to a “mere” 7% growth rate. I guess China’s Central bank must NOT be ruled by the IMF then, because it simply doesn’t allow internal creation of credit like this. But China IS a member of the IMF, so I don’t get it? What prevents Russia from creating its own credit then? According to Starikov’s online book, IMF Central Banks have the power to SUE to compel acquiescence to IMF rules– including the straitjacket on credit creation which makes foreign (Western) investment necessary. http://lit.md/files/nstarikov/rouble_nationalization-the_way_to_russia%27s_freedom.pdf Modern Monetary Theory encourages creation of one’s own credit, of course, and is the enemy of neoliberal economics. CRT on March 25, 2015 · at 9:08 pm EST/EDT Penelope: Nothing prevents Russia from creating its own credit. The problem is that Russia needs US dollars to import technology and repay outstanding external debts. Creating rouble credit will not solve this problem. China in contrast produces most of its investment goods locally and its SOEs mostly borrow dollars from Chinese reserves, which are huge. So China can actually increase investment and expand its economy simply by creating yuan-denominated credit – most of it will be spent on domestically produced goods, some will be exchanged with the government banks for dollars or euro for imports of high-end investment goods. The reason they are slowing down is not because of the debt burden per se, but because the economy has built up too much production capacity. They need to increase domestic consumer spending to catch up with the recent growth of capacity, otherwise any new investment will be very inefficient. CRT, Thank you, that was helpful. I understand from your ciomments that Russia’s creating her own rubles for internal investment wd not end her need for dollars. Nevertheless it wd help in the general way that increasing the money supply (provided it’s used in the production of goods and services) is used by economic theory. However, it is my understanding from Starikov and non-Russian economists that the central banks of countries labelled “developing” have their currencies linked to dollar income such that the supply of their domestic currency is inescapably linked to their dollar income. I know that this will sound counter-intuitive to you. This is the international banking cabal’s method to prevent the growth of developing economies. Neo-liberal economic theory traps countries into borrowing hard currencies when, for the vast majority of uses their own interest-free currency will suffice. Skeptic on March 29, 2015 · at 1:53 am EST/EDT 240% is not debt but all credit to GDP. By comparison US 260% Japan 400%. China’s public debt is 30%. More than reasonable. WestCoast on March 25, 2015 · at 7:51 pm EST/EDT http://orientalreview.org/2015/03/05/the-male-nuland-and-the-us-central-asian-strategy-i/ Please read this and then comment. pc on March 29, 2015 · at 6:13 pm EST/EDT Can someone speak to how this relates to the large-scale military exercises being planned in an ever-expanding area of the US – and now evidently ongoing full-time in Washington state? I am not sure what they are planning – WWIII, a tiny NWO takeover of the people of the US? I suppose if they lose the rest of the world they could plan civil war here. The psychopaths are up to something, it is clear. But what? Any thoughts? Mulga Mumblebrain on March 25, 2015 · at 7:20 am EST/EDT Excellent, concise and cogent depiction of the facts. The Western ‘Exceptionalists’, being the ‘Chosen People’ of God, with a ‘Manifest Destiny’ to rule the world, forever, will NEVER cede hegemony to people they see as ‘mere Asiatics’. They will destroy the world before surrendering their rule over it. Stavros H on March 25, 2015 · at 12:44 pm EST/EDT The further back you go in the history of global conflict, it was more of a fight of how the Western powers themselves would carve up their colonies in the South and East. There never was the question of them being colonies or not, but which western power would be lording over them. The two World Wars were to a great degree wars on Russia (especially the 2nd) but also on how the power between the Western Empires would be distributed. Once the US became master and commander of the entire western world, this issue has never really resurfaced since. The Cold War was the first fully-fledged attempt by coordinated pan-western action to keep Russia and their colonies in the rest of planet subservient. The recent meteoric rise of China has undermined once again western dominion over the rest of the planet and in a far more fundamental way. Now, no radical and messianic revolutions are required for the oppressed nations to toss away the tyranny of the dollar, but merely building international institutions under the Chinese aegis. And yes, everything is on the table. If people would read Andrew Korybko’s investigative reporting on this subject you would read the US still has much mischief to make for both China and Russia within their border states. PCR recently did an article based on this extremely important relevations of new US color relevations planned. It is way too soon for a nuclear war with all these plans to destrablize Ubekistan and China in the making. Pete on March 24, 2015 · at 11:42 am EST/EDT I have the feeling the massive Western media blackout around Kolomoisky’s actions may be related to this vote of the Congress. Meanwhile, there are signs Kiev might be seeking some accommodation with Kolomoisky: http://offguardian.org/2015/03/24/kiev-gives-ukrnafta-back-to-kolomoisky/ вот так on March 24, 2015 · at 12:51 am EST/EDT In a situation such as this, I would imagine Russia and Novorussia wouldn’t mind a gang war between junta oligarchs like this looks to be shaping up to be. If the scum are fighting each other, they cant start a new offensive against Novorussia and will end up weakened and depleted again. Could even start the process of bandera demise with those Ukrainians, fed up with the banderas and their zionazi western handlers, flushing that rubbish down the sewer, and working up something more reasonable, and independent of the zionazis for the Ukraine. In fact, setting up Kolon-moishe to get that ball rolling might not be such a bad idea. ;) Bot Tak, Good cover for other independence movements, too. Daniel Rich on March 24, 2015 · at 1:18 am EST/EDT Note to editor; Event in the Ukraine = Events in the Ukraine Given the bloodthirsty pic of Kol next to this line; “It sure looks like the freaks are really going to go after each other.’ I would suggest adding, “It sure looks like the freaks are really going to go after each other’s throat.” That’s just a visual thing. Rich = poor on March 24, 2015 · at 3:53 am EST/EDT The essence of life is not in the spelling. Be more thoughtful and less critical. Ann on March 24, 2015 · at 5:28 am EST/EDT I like the grammatical mistakes. I don’t mind them – but why do you like them? they cause other undestandable (but futile) posting. Ultimately – a waste of time. Win on March 24, 2015 · at 8:02 am EST/EDT I think we understand what the message is mistakes and all. Would Rather have this message with mistakes than nothing. As I said “I” don’t mind them (and would rather have them than nothing). “We” do not all appreciate them – therefore more accurate grammar would be beneficial (as this conversation really is a waste of time). It is an ESL thing. Saker is obviously a brilliant guy, who may have lived in the US for many years, but Russian is his first language (I think). I bet he speaks Russian at home with his family. (Hope I am not way off base here.) I think these mistakes are natural and should be left alone. Besides, to me “going after each other” is common usage and does not need to be changed, though the other could be a bit more descriptive, but both are sufficient. The Saker has said before that he has no time for spelling/grammar corrections and does not plan to do them or pay attention to suggestions for them. So the discussion in the thread above pro and con is kind of moot. If you want to be a stickler, it should be Ukraine, not “the Ukraine”. Vineyard Moderator - K.K. on March 29, 2015 · at 5:20 pm EST/EDT Read the last paragraphs at http://thesaker.is/terminology/ to see the Saker’s take on this. THE Ukraine is correct in English, same as THE Netherlands, THE Bahamas etc He will maybe try to launch his own DNPR 2.0?And fight against Kiev..he also controls Odessa and knows a lot about the massacre of the Union house(he was probably the main sponsor). Ideal suspect for the West as the Saker says,just put both blames on him:MH 17 and Odessa… But take care this guy has a lot of connections he controls a good deal of the eurocretins and neocons.. It is little known by the public,but there is..yes…a Jewish Eurocretin Parlement in Brussels(not a joke). European Jewish Parliament: The European Jewish Parliament or EJP (formerly known as European Jewish Union or EJU) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Brussels whose stated aim is to be “a uniting structure for all Jewish communities and organizations throughout Western, Eastern and Central Europe.”[1] The EJU-backed EJP is the brainchild of Ukrainian billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskyi. Check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Jewish_Parliament And on youtube..here is ‘our friend’:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtSBZ6oTYKY Ce Parlement sera l’un des outils de la nouvelle institution European Jewish Union présidée par Igor Kolomoisky, un homme d’affaires ukrainien qui a beaucoup œuvré pour sa communauté et qui veut rapprocher les communautés juives d’Europe de l’Est de leurs sœurs d’Europe occidentale. http://ripostelaique.com/communautarisme-un-parlement-europeen-juif-a-bruxelles.html This guy also have very deep connections in Tel Aviv and with the neocons,probably more than Porochoco. I guess Obama will support Porochoco with the eurocretins at least some…neocons and euro jewish eurocretins will be on Kolo side. Interesting fight if any,as usually jews always find a ‘solution’…business is business my brother….(lol) like Dieudo says Connections to Tel Aviv and Kolomoyskyi involvement in MH17 would join a few dots. Israel kicked off its assault on Gaza at the same time MH17 was shot down. With the deliberate targeting of UN schools ect under cover of the MH17 shootdown (Lots of Europeans/Anglo’s killed as against “darkies” in Gaza), the two events seem to have a definite connection. вот так on March 24, 2015 · at 2:38 am EST/EDT blue on March 24, 2015 · at 7:32 am EST/EDT So if Washington supports Porochenko and Tel Aviv supports Kolomoisky, is that significant rift between the two? And where do the American zionists stand? T2015 on March 24, 2015 · at 1:07 pm EST/EDT You mean the school where the “UN” sheltered a bunch of hamas terrorists? That false flag is actually real in your mind? Whoa!!! Just in case you never heard it, HAMAS stands for “hiding among mosques and schools”. What you also missed is that the Hamas idiots killed dozens of Arabs there in that time – because they didn’t support their terror campaign. Christine on March 24, 2015 · at 1:57 pm EST/EDT T2015 tells us: Hamas Baaad Israel Goood вот так on March 24, 2015 · at 2:25 pm EST/EDT No, but thanks for putting words into my mouth in your usual trollish way. Both Hamas and the Israeli masonic elites are handled by the brits and obviously both are criminal enterprises, as anything ever created by the Empire. Hamas is a british creation and has nothing to do with the Arabs they hold hostage, while posing as some sort of liberators for the cameras. It is a hard fact that Hamas killed many Arabs last time around, see for example OS Daily site, they covered it in detail. Just for you, baby ;) (don’t worry, I know your nick is fake and you’re probably some pimply youth in a dark room): http://osnetdaily.com/2014/08/obama-un-boss-complicit-with-latest-hamas-false-flag-in-unrwa-school/ http://osnetdaily.com/2014/08/self-inflicted-massacre-at-gaza-continues-series-of-hamas-false-flags-exposed/ http://osnetdaily.com/2014/07/false-flag-busted-hamas-murders-25-gazans-blames-it-on-israel/ http://osnetdaily.com/2014/07/obamas-humanitarian-truce-collapses-as-muslim-brotherhood-escalates-gaza-aggression/ And honey (sic), always look at both sides of the coin before you say such stupid things. The main source for the osnetdaily “articles” T2015 linked is a zionist site run by someone named Aaron Klein. Check this one out that Klein wrote: OFFICIAL: RUSSIA PLOTTING TO START WAR ON ISRAEL. Plan includes shipping missiles to terrorist groups Another “article” from that zionist osnetdaily site T2015 is promoting that hosted the kleinonline disinfo: The Speech Bibi didn’t give: Is Iran planning a nuclear Tsunami bomb for Israel ? It’s the usual debka toss. Iran seizes strategic Yemeni city, closes in on Red sea global oil choke point Before clicking any links to either the kleinonline or osnetdaily sites, be sure to have a very good anti-virus running. T2015 on March 25, 2015 · at 6:40 am EST/EDT OSNET is linking news from other sites for the most part. And yes, they are trying to show the OTHER side too, besides the usual left/right propaganda. Whatever that has to do with the contents of the articles linked above and the related sources/links, which are easily provable. Also I am sick and tired of your blind hate towards everything and anything jewish, it’s really boring. At least try to differentiate, for example look how Israel treats black african jews or even the orthodox semitic ones. You also don’t hate all Americans just because their 1% leadership are criminals and traitors, or do you? You are though consequently, completely denying the role of the masonic impostors there and of the british/Vatican vassals – which makes you a propaganda shill in my eyes anyway. I worked with a young Ethiopian Jew, the Bene Israel, a few months ago. He even wore his yamulka to work. His family left Israel because they were treated like shit. T2015, Actually re: the way Israeli treats black African Jews– I understand that Netanyahu was looking for an African country that he could pay to take them. While there are some midget-minds which are not able to distinguish between “Jewish” and “Zionist”, there are many of us who are able to make the conceptual differentiation. You’ve got the disinformationist, bang to rights, as the Poms say. A series of palpable hits, sir. I do enjoy his whinging when bested. old_bill on March 24, 2015 · at 3:51 pm EST/EDT T2015 – interesting insight on the source of some of the Gaza casualties. Reminds me of how the priests killed by the Gestapo turned out to be the ones that the bishops did not like. It must very convenient to dispose of troublesome people and then be allowed to score points in condemnation. Chornyvolk on March 25, 2015 · at 2:34 am EST/EDT Hamas was run by mossad I heard that, but never found anything substantial to support it. Surely they will coordinate at some level, being that both are british creations. oldnik007 on March 26, 2015 · at 1:43 am EST/EDT You want us all to differentiate between Jews and Zionists… Yet you lump us all together as ‘brits’…..??? joshua on March 31, 2015 · at 3:38 pm EST/EDT You’re right ! Hamas = Mossad . Israel use Hamas for counter resolutions . An entirely mendacious apologia for brutal child murder is not a good look. Do you have similar lies for the rest of the 500 Gazan children blown to pieces by your Zionazi buddies? Oh puh-leese, you won’t come with some purely emotional unrelated nonsense will you? Don’t forget to include some cute little animals too, looks good on TV. The fact that many died is undisputed, but that does NOT cheange the fact that Hamas killed their own people and that they are always using human shields and hide among such sensitive targets deliberately. Well documented in many many instances, few of them linked above. I agree that the regime in Israel are crminials, in case you missed that. I even bothered to mention the comparison to americans. But hey, why should you read when you can just parrot your completely unrelated non-points over and over again. Of course, it would never cross your mind that those Arabs are there because the other arab countries won’t let them in? Starting with Egypt, who close those new tunnels every few weeks. Oh but move on, nothing to see here… As for brutal child murder, how many have Obama’s drones killed just this week? I guess you don’t know. You are a hypocrite if I ever saw one. mmiriww on March 25, 2015 · at 12:16 pm EST/EDT Bullshit! All the Israeli claims about using schools, hospitals and mosques were unverified. And if you say they are running around civilian neighborhoods, well for a country that is 10 km wide and less than 50 long. Where do you suppose they line up at? Seems the beaches with nothing on them except kids are not safe either. And please, we saw how the great empire dealt with nothing military about it like sewage plants, restaurants, power plants, news outlets. Hamas has to live amongst those people who are their brothers, sisters mothers, fathers, wives sons and daughters. You cant provide a single piece o evidence that they have placed civilians in danger other than just by the fact that those shells Israel uses have an error of more than 100 yards and 500 yards in damage. They only need to fire 10 shells to target the entire country. Again just a bunch of purely emotional nonsense stemming from usual sources like Rense etc. You could at least try to provide something serious or verifiable to talk about. Suggestion to everybody. T2015 has made it clear they are trolling, ignore it. It, and it’s several co-workers/sockpuppets (such as “old_bill”) post this rubbish to disrupt the site. And only for that purpose. Carmel by the Sea on March 25, 2015 · at 10:53 pm EST/EDT Bot Tak, I agree with you 100 %. I saw it right away as soon as he came in this blog. A Zionist Jew badly disguising himself as a “Universalist”. Anyway, thought you and everybody would find this interesting. It will give you a broader understanding of the “crazies in the basement”. Gilad Atzmon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ8lIsAjAvk and a great article… http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2013/12/jewish-defenses-against-criticism/#comments @ Vot tak: strangely I have the exactly same feeling about you, with your constant repetition of nonsensical nazi propaganda. But hey, whatever makes you feel better. T1025, “those Arabs are there because the other Arab countries won’t let them in.” No, T1025, the Palestinians are there cuz they live there & cuz Israel keeps taking more & more of their land. By your logic it wd be ok for Israel to take half of the US, cuz the rest of the US could offer a home to the displaced. Mulga Mumblebrain on March 25, 2015 · at 8:59 pm EST/EDT 2015, you are definitely a determined and mendacious apologist for repeated mass child murder. The Zionazi lie that Hamas use civilians as ‘human shields’ has been refuted by journalist eye-witnesses, the UN, UNRWA, the Red Cross, European doctors working in Gazan hospitals and various Western NGOs. On the other hand the use of human shields by your Zionazi buddies is well established. Like the cynically named ‘neighbour procedure’ where the Herrenvolk force Palestinians to enter hazardous places, in case there is an ambush. Or tying children to the front of Jeeps to deter stone-throwers, or forcing a ten year-old boy to search a bag which they feared was booby-trapped. Vicious, racist, murderous (Amnesty Listed twelve entire Gazan families obliterated by the ‘Gods Upon the Earth’ in Gaza for NO military reason whatsoever, just sheer blood-lust. With scores of children blown to pieces by your idols)and utterly mendacious monsters, rightly despised around the world, which suits them, because their anti-goyite hatred only grows and grows. MM – look buddy, I am the one who actually lost his country to the jihadists and watrched it in real time as YOUR american buddies brought them in. Including many of your “poor arabs” from your Moslem Brotherhood friends in the corner down there, as well as Afghanistan etc. The mentor of your Egyptian(!!!) terrorist friend Arafat was the very Mufti of Jerusalem who started the moslem nazi brigades in MY fwcking home country in Bosnia. A great personal friend of Adolf Hitler by the way. Their sons were used to destroy my country again in the 90’s. Those idiots, imported by YOUR friends, killed many of my friends and relatives. My uncle was killed by the jihadists. I LIVED through that reality, you cheap little armchair nazi. You can sing your song about “poor” Arabs all you want, you can call me names all you want, it’s still all just hot air. You are just stupidly repating your trained bullshit lines, still without any real content. Since you didn’t even bother trying,. you missed that I linked several of the actual UN reports in the articles above, but hey, it’s easier to just spuot bullshit and hope that noone will ever actually bother checking. Typical shall we say? You are not just a hypocrite but an outright nazi to boot. I feel really sorry for you, it must be a huge burden being so full of shit and so utterly stupid. Your vulgar and abusive language does you no credit. I’m well aware of the history of Itzetbegovic as a Nazi, the use of al-Qaeda by the USA in Bosnia and Kosovo, with the KLA drug running terrorists etc, but that doesn’t change the fact that you lie, or stupidly peddle Zionazi lies to exculpate Israel over mass child murder. Vineyard Moderator - K.K. on March 27, 2015 · at 7:34 am EST/EDT We understand this is an emotive subject. You’ve both had a say, both are getting personal, both are asked to desist. Producing facts is a much better argument than name-calling. My-2-Cents on March 29, 2015 · at 12:34 am EST/EDT Welcome T2015; you’re a person with real experience and apparently sincere passion. Your retorts were well reasoned and I sense you may have a lot of knowledge and perspective to contribute here. I may not agree with some of your assertions about “masons” etc, due to my ignorance regarding your line of reasoning and associated theories, however I do I agree with you about Hamas: like you, I have “unfortunate” personal experience. Hamas are part of the Muslim Brotherhood the same group of nuts that turned Egypt into a hellhole for Copts and normal Muslims. When I was down in the middle east on business, I got to know about an orphans/abused children’s charity. I decided to help out and would visit these poor Arab children and make regular contributions. That tipped my taxi driver (who was secretly a Hamas activist) that I had money (actually I’m just middle class but they assumed I had more substantial means). So for my concern and compassion for their Sunni Muslim Arab orphans Hamas was going to reward me by sizing me up for a kidnapping (it’s long story how i slipped their attempt, but it took the intervention of the local mukhabarat). Hamas are semi-overt islamists, and they are brutal, except to those pedantic armchair theoreticians who’ve never met them. T2015 on March 30, 2015 · at 12:01 pm EST/EDT Thanks. First-hand experience is always the best source. I’d say all those groups are actually heretics going against the islamic faith, since even Mohammed himself tried to live in peace with the other groups back then in Medina, including some jewish tribes. The first Umma was not islamic at all, it was mixed. In order for them to “to take care” of him they have to “take him out” nicely, so that he does not talk inapropriately. Жељко из Крајине Also yup. I doubt Kolon-moishe has a Masada complex. Ingrid on March 24, 2015 · at 7:46 am EST/EDT And this is his Ukranian partner with whom he founded the EJP. Vadim Rabinovich, an Ukrainian businessman, politician, president of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress and leader of the Center political party, a presidential candidate in the elections of 2014, deputy of Ukraine VIII convocation of the Opposition Bloc. Also a big media agent in Ukraine. Israeli MPs visit Jews in Ukraine march 14, 2014 March 19, 2014 Vadim Rabinovich, Co-Chairman of the European Jewish Parliament, and a Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Moshe Reuven Asman, member of the European Jewish Parliament, met with the representatives of the Israeli government in Kiev. These days a delegation of Knesset, including such well-known in Ukraine politicians as Faina Kirschenbaum, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Ze’ev Elkin, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and a deputy Alex Miller, is scheduled to hold meetings in Kiev and Kharkov. They represent a group in the Knesset, which is actively engaged in strengthening ties with the Jewish diaspora. In particular, all three politicians are frequent guests in Ukraine, they have a great influence on the development of Ukrainian-Israeli relations as at the level of states, so as in personal contact with Jewish leaders in Ukraine. Johan on March 24, 2015 · at 1:52 am EST/EDT Conflating the “… overtures to the Novorussian leadership …” with “… a thug whose net worth is estimated at 1.3 billion dollars …” leads to wild thought that Kolomoiskii might even try to bribe someone in the Novorussian camp… Probably too far fetched… Carmel by the Sea on March 24, 2015 · at 2:04 am EST/EDT @ Johan, Nothing would be “far fetched” when it comes to Kolomoiskii. Nothing. Not a thing. The man has sold his soul to the Devil by murdering innocent people. What’s a bribe to him? Think about it. Kat Kan on March 24, 2015 · at 4:50 am EST/EDT Bribe them to do what? Republic fighting groups have had substantial support form several Russian oligarchs, with no visible changes in their activities in favour of those oligarchs. They also have a lot of dealings with their local oligarch Akhmetov, and he is NOT the one with the upper hand in that relationship. So what could Kolomoisky bribe anyone to do? and what can any one individual do now, in the well organised and fairly united Novorissiyan leadership? Kat Kan, I agree with what you say. However, Kolomoiskii WOULD at least try. The man has NO moral brakes. RockyRacoon on March 24, 2015 · at 5:22 am EST/EDT He could sell them guns though big guns like the one’s that came off the plane from NATO probably on a Canadian Hercules. That would be a good thing and they could help smuggle him into a Russian prison where he belongs lol. No they have to stick with Porko the US does temporarily until he completely implodes Kolo has too much money his own bank and own army. Defections of other governor’s are already taking place they all want their own little army as well they should they need the protection. This is going to go hot…and Joe Biden’s people work for Kolo’s gas company remember they could hold him hostage… I would suggest Putin call Washington and tell them to get their advisor’s out now and Joe Jr and Co included before another Saigon helicopter scene is spread all over the global television screens. Now that scene leaving Vietnam like that is imbricated into the national consciousness of the American people even idiots like Obama get that. That will shake him right to the core. I suspect the only thing keeping the southern militia’s and the regular Ukraine army from joining together declaring martial law and straightening out the country, ie putting that junta behind bars, are those America advisors — maybe just let a little more bloodshed and anarchy go down before making the call, and get them yanks out. The Southern fighters have always spoken with respect for the regular forces and of their bravery so they know they are real soldiers not fascist biker gang thugs. Then they could go about healing Ukraine and stopping the bloodshed, to hell with all the oligarch and corporations that think they have this or that coming, bad bet they lose. Set Ukraine up as a buffer state between east and west that can profit from both and get on it’s feet the way Putin suggested in the first place So you got that Kremlin know what to say — Saigon rooftop fleeing helicopters. They will react to that as sure as the night is long. Who knows what that demonic Kolomoiskii has up his Satan’s sleeve. God help the innocent people in Dnepropetrovsk this Wednesday. This man has no moral brakes, no loyalty to his country ( ok well maybe some to Israel) and no control of himself in public with that foul mouth of his. Geez! so much wealth, travelling the world and it did nothing to polish his natural crude and foul public manners. IMO….he is an extremely psychologically unhinged and dangerous murderer with a very evil soul. The look in his eyes tells you will stop at nothing!!! What a loathing man. Reminds me of Satanyahu. * crosses herself* JiminNH on March 24, 2015 · at 2:14 am EST/EDT One certainly hopes that in reference to the incipient Poroshenko vs. Kolomoiskii war, the leaders of Novorossiya concur that the saying “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” most certainly does NOT apply. Wel, the Dutch can’t hold back their MH17 investigation much longer (and the UK black box recordings must be dynamite to be publicly suppressed thus far). Add various Ukrainian atrocities and the recent murder at the walls of the Kremlin plus a failed state economy at the end of its viability (gas purchases on a weekly basis and currency in free fall) and you have the need for a fall-guy. The canibals begin their work — $1.3b will make a nice meal or three until the next injection is needed. Actually my gut feel is Poroshenko is playing his last card and he’s likely to exit stage left in one of his chocolate boxes in due course. The MH17 investigation is now delayed till dec 2015 at the earliest(it was oct last time,and june even before). Andew on March 24, 2015 · at 4:47 pm EST/EDT The MH17 black box flight telemetry data was released in the preliminary report. The cockpit voice recorder transcript was not released, but the records of Dnipro and Rostov ATC were. MH17 made no recorded distress call per all available data, and the blackboxes immediately ceased recording. There is an obvious conclusion to that immediately known to anyone familiar with the history of airliner shootdowns. MH17 was hit by massive amounts of shrapnel and the concussive blast from a large surface to air missile and the flow of electricty and communications data from the electronics bay under the cockpit to the recorders in the tail, as well as the capability of the cockpit radios to broadcast any message was immediately and permanently disrupted while the plane suffered catastrophic decompression. There are six relevant airliner shootdowns of pressurized aircraft at cruising altitude since 1955 – El Al 402, Libyan Arab Airlines 114, KAL 902, KAL 007, Iran Air 655, Siberian Air 1812. The first four were shot down by interceptor fighter aicraft. All four planes were able to descend in a relatively controlled manner and continue flying after being hit by air to air missiles and gunfire. KAL 902 was hit by R60 air to air missiles and was able to make an emergency landing with minimal loss of life after flying for 40 minutes. The last two were hit by powerful surface to air missiles (an SM-2MR and an S-200 respectively). The airliners were immediately disabled just like MH17, the pilots were unable to make distress calls or control the planes in any way, just like MH17, and everyone on board died either in the explosion or in the crash. People can go on believing if they wish, unlike any previous airliner shootdown by interceptor aircraft, about ground attack SU25’s acting as aerial interceptors and using some sort of coordinated weaponry attack of R60’s and anti-tank gatling guns that disables the aircraft’s structure, flight systems and pilots but somehow, although designed for piercing thick tank armor, manages to only pierce one side of the thin aluminum skin of the Boeing 777 (see pictures of the left side of the cabin at the link below which show no bullet or shrapnel holes on the left side of the aircraft other than the right side of the roof and intact glass cockpit windows even after the crash), but the evidence really isn’t there for such an event. http://nos.nl/artikel/2004822-cockpit-van-mh17-boeing-gebrogen.html There is also an image of the recovered skin of the aircraft behind this side of the cockpit in that link, again showing almost no shrapnel or bullet holes on the right side of the airplane. The obvious conclusion is that MH17 was hit by high energy projectiles that moved longitudinally along the right side of the aircraft due to relative movement of both the airplane and the projectile “cloud”. There isn’t a reasonable trajectory for this to have been bullets to cause the damage seen. There is for a SAM. A SAM approached the aircraft from some angle from the front right and exploded above the aircraft (because the rocket fuel is spent by the time of interception, so it was cruising but dropping with the effect of gravity from above the aircraft) as the two systems intersected, leading to massive damage to the left front of the aircraft as it passed through the shrapnel cloud, as well as more minor damage to the engine nacelles. The shrapnel trajectories in the cockpit would be influenced by the relative motions of the plane (900 km/h forward), the missile (3000+/- km/h probably at around 2 o’clock if 12 o’clock is towards the tail when looking towards the plane), and the warhead shrapnel (various radial directions at 2000++ km/h). All evidence points to either a BUK M-1 system (NATO SA-11 designation) or possibly a S-125 Pechora system (Nato SA-3) being the weapon (American AWACS detected SA-3 radar signals on July 17), and that the system detonated above and to the left of the airplane. This is not to say there may not have been Ukrainian attack aircraft in the sky that day (possibly using MH17 as a shield or to attract fire towards it or even using it as a mock target), or that the NAF is guilty of the shootdown (Ukrainian Armed Forces were conducting air defense exercises throughout Donbass explictly as part of their so-called ATO on the days before and the day when the shootdown occurred – see Ukrainian TV images of these exercises in video link below at 4:49-4:55 mark). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3MomxNHnUA People need to be open to the truth of actual physical evidence and stop chasing chimeras. Far more would have been accomplished in independent investigations of MH17 by focusing on the extent of the aircraft debris field and likely ballistic trajectories of the aircraft material falling from the sky to delimit potential launch areas of the missile based on missle firing and detection range. SanctuaryOne on March 24, 2015 · at 6:52 pm EST/EDT From everything I read a ground launched rocket seems very unlikely as no witnesses in a well-populated area saw the long smoke trail which would have been visible for up to 20 minutes and from a theoretical radius (limited by atmospheric dust/water vapor) of over 100 miles at 32,000 feet. Furthermore the massive BUK is out because the “H” shaped shrapnel is both larger than the holes shown in the wreckage and causes elongated diamond shaped holes -none of which are apparent in photos of MH17 wreckage. As I have written previously ad nauseam here, visual and forensic metallurgical analysis of shrapnel/cannon shell smears and chemical traces both in the wreckage and autopsies (pilots especially) would have shown the weapon(s) used. Within a couple of days at most. None are so blind as those who refuse to see -it is blindingly obvious that the MH17 saga is one big cover-up. Andrew on March 24, 2015 · at 8:50 pm EST/EDT SanctuaryOne: With all due respect, it was a cloudy day, so a vapor trail wouldn’t necessarily be visible or obvious all over. One would also need to interview witnesses in the correct place to find someone claiming to see it. There have been accounts published in the press with people who claimed to have witnessed missile launches like this around this time. Reuters just published a piece like this. The major population centers you speak of are at least 4-5 miles from the various proposed launch sites. Its unlikely they would have heard anything more than a distant rumble, and it would have been strictly chance that anyone noticed a distant missile launch and figured out what was going on. You can’t hear takeoffs from an airport at that distance, and planes flying directly overhead only emit a low rumble audible to the ground if at lower altitudes. People in an urban area with the sounds of a town or city around them would be unlikely to notice anything from a launch or a missile flying overhead at 40-50,000 ft., especially after its 20 second burn during launch when it makes little noise. There has never been a passenger airliner blown out of the sky instantaneously by either machine gun fire or even multiple heavy air-to-air missile (for example, KAL 007 was shot with two K-8 air-to-air missile with a 40 kg warhead [10 times larger than the R60 warhead] and continued to fly for 12 minutes). The chariman of the Dutch Safety Board already dismissed the idea that the plane was hit by bullets back in December after examinations were made of the wreckage gathered from the site in November, confirming it was hit by fragments. Lastly, every government with satellite and signals intelligence capability has stated it was downed by a BUK missile (US, UK, Germany, and Russia, also Ukraine, which does not have sattelites but obviously knows what was happening militarily there). The Americans immediately stated with Siberian Air 1812 that it was downed by a SAM in 2001 – we know what they are capable of detecting. Regardless for whether it was downed by Ukrainians, the Kolomoisky Private Army, NAF Rebels, or whoever, the primary responsibility lies on the government of Ukraine, which was the one conducting a war using aerial combat operations against its own people, and it is the government of Ukraine that will ultimately legally owe compensation to the victims, seeing as the events happened within its airspace and with its military hardware. We don’t need to make up fantasy stories like the Junta does to deflect blame from itself about Russia sneaking BUK’s over the border. Lastly, every government with satellite and signals intelligence capability has stated it was downed by a BUK missile (US, UK, Germany, and Russia, also Ukraine, which does not have sattelites but obviously knows what was happening militarily there). When did the Russian government claim the airliner was downed by a Buk missile? Andrew on March 25, 2015 · at 5:04 am EST/EDT BOT TAK: In the MOD presentation on 7/21 when they exposed the locations and satellite photos of the Ukrainian BUK radar and firing positions on 7/17 and demanded an inventory of Ukrainian BUK missiles and asked what the Ukrainians had learned, if anything, from their previous downing of Siberian 1812. Not true that Russians said MH17 was downed by BUK missile. They DID say that they detected the use by Kiev forces of the radar component of BUK missile (I think in 2 different locations). It wd be usual to help the fighters pinpoint the airliner w ground-based radar. And Russia did detect the fighters close to the airliner. That is not the same as the Russian government saying a Buk shot the plane down, which is what you claimed. From what I’ve seen, the Russian government has refrained from stating any certainty about the specific cause of the shootdown. Can you source a Russian government statement saying they think the airliner was definitely downed by a Buk? Already on 7/18/14, the Russian MOD was releasing evidence regarding extensive BUK operations underway by Ukraine. http://sputniknews.com/world/20140718/191010193.html The 7/21/14 MOD presentation only presented a single plausible scenario – downing by a BUK M1 owned by Ukraine and positioned at Zakharoshenske. They did not state it directly, but there was no other conclusion to be drawn from the material presented. This conclusion was reinforced by their presentation on 7/30/14 below: http://eng.mil.ru/en/analytics.htm This was recently reinforced by Major General Igor Konashenkov, Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman regarding the detection of Buk M1 warhead fragments at the crash site, where he clearly states that contrary to western press reports these fragments are from missiles only used by Ukraine. http://www.interfax.ru/russia/431042 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:b1wu_alKKqgJ:https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/03/20/russian-defense-ministry-says-media-are-lying-about-the-mh17-crash%2BRussian+Ministry+of+Defense+mH17+video&hl=en&gbv=2&&ct=clnk Penelope: The Russian MOD presented evidence of 9 Ukrainian Buk-M1 locations in service on 7/17 in Donetsk and Lugansk Oblasts, not 2, including 4 Kupol radars active at a fire control vehicle. Each location had multiple launch vehicles (at least a TEL and a TELAR). The Ukrainian SU25 fighter was detected on radar at 5 km elevation and climbing and around 4km distance behind MH17 and only around 60-90 seconds after the impact (specifically 17:21:35 Moscow time). Prior to that time it was below 5 km and thus not on civilian ATC radar. http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/0/ECD62987D4816CA344257D1D00251C76 Eyewitnesses interviewed by BBC specificially said this plane was below MH17, just like the radar tape, not at 33,000 ft. I looked at the links you posted from eng.mil.ru, interfax and meduza.io. None of these support what you write, nor what you claim about about what they say. This is worse than the disinfo you previously posted. Outright misrepresentation of the sources you claimed,IE: deliberate lying. Just more pindo rubbish spam, JFC, have you no pride? No sense of morality? I’m tired of this Catholic-pindo/hasbara BS. It’s late, though, I’ll demolish your duplicitous crap tomorrow or on friday. Andrew on March 27, 2015 · at 10:22 am EST/EDT Given that we know that the Russian MOD knows exactly what happened on 7/17 through its military radar, civilian ATC, satellites and signals intelligence, I would welcome any evidence from the Russian MOD you can provide that states something other than a shootdown by a Ukrainian BUK. I don’t know why you and others are so adverse to this conclusion. There seems to be a pavlovian association of the word BUK with the NAF rebels. The three previous shootdowns by the Russian military and its allies were immediately owned up to – KAL 902 and 007, and El Al 402. On the other hand, the Ukrainians tried to cover up Siberian Air 1812. His reliance on the veracity of the US, UK, German and Ukrainian regimes is touching. If the evidence of a Russian BUK used by the resistance was open and shut, these recidivist liars and hypocrites would have been shouting the odds immediately. The idea that ‘cloud cover’ somehow stops one seeing a missile vapour trail from the ground to the sky, is very inventive, too. Ludicrous, but inventive. SanctuaryOne on March 25, 2015 · at 6:28 am EST/EDT There is so much that is misleading that I don’t know where to start. Assuming 3 things, namely MH17 was shot down, the pictures of MH17 wreckage are not fake and the video of burning wreckage way in the distance and associated sky are associated with MH17 and are credible: Firstly you have ignored the visual evidence of shrapnel holes, particularly perfectly circular ones that don’t match the heavy BUK shrapnel elongated tears which are also much larger. The BUK is a massive rocket weighing over 1,500 lbs, that is 18′ long and reaches Mach 3. There is no ‘vapour trail’, it is powered by a solid propellent that will leave a long white trail of particles. Think Morton-Thiokol and space shuttle boosters. The noise is deafening and guess what noise also happens going through Mach 1? Check out the BUK launches on Youtube. The sky was clear blue with only scattered high clouds and there would be hundreds of potential witnesses in the flat agricultural lands and towns within the visible and audible area. Nobody heard or saw a thing other than the miltary jets and the explosions. MH17 was at 32,000′ not 40-50,000′. The KA-8 missile exploded 160′ behind KAL 007 so comparing warhead explosive weight is not too relevant; the plastic explosive that brought the Lockerbie Boeing 747 down was estimated at 12 to 16 ounces, infra-red seeking air-to-air missiles home on engines have small charges and typically have expanding welded rods rather than shrapnel. Commercial jet engines on pods are designed to contain ruptured fan blades etc. so unless fragments penetrated the fuselage, explosive decompression would not happen unless and until the wing tore off the fuselage. “There has never been a passenger airliner blown out of the sky instantaneously by either machine gun fire” List the number of attempts made, otherwise the statement is meaningless. Also we are not talking about machine-gun fire, the Su-25 or SU-27 would have much heavier 20 or 30mm cannon with armour piercing or explosive tips. MH17 didn’t ‘blow out of the sky instantaneously’ as it flew for some time before completely disintegrating. You are citing those countries (US, UK, Germany and Holland) that imposed sanctions on Russia right after MH17 as having credible evidence and also Ukraine??? Really? Russia showed their satellite data. We now learn that the USA had a satellite overhead at the time. Where’s the US satellite info? Where are the MH17 wreckage independent forensic analyses? Where’s the gas chromatograph report identifying the explosive? Where’s the metallurgical analysis of cannon shells or shrapnel? Where are the autopsy reports? Delay after delay. Where is your reference that Russia said MH17 was downed by a BUK? Fox news? It is one big cover up and it stinks. Sanctuary One: visual evidence of shrapnel holes, particularly perfectly circular ones that don’t match the heavy BUK shrapnel There are a variety of holes in the fuselage and engine nacelles. Most of them are irregularly elongated and not perfectly round. BUK is a massive rocket weighing over 1,500 lbs, that is 18′ long and reaches Mach 3 … powered by a solid propellent that will leave a long white trail of particles. Think Morton-Thiokol and space shuttle boosters. The noise is deafening … Check out the BUK launches on Youtube. BUK is not a massive rocket. It is tiny (although not as tiny as an R60). A massive rocket is an ICBM or a space launch rocket. My grandfather built the NASA mission control building at Cape Canaveral and we have family property very close nearby. I’ve witnessed a number of launches from a distance of 8 miles, including the Space Shuttle. It is certainly spectacular, and you’d be hard pressed to miss it at night when it lights up the sky, but it is not deafening and there is no sonic boom that you hear. I’m sure BUK is loud if you are right next to it, but as soon as you move away, the noise falls off very quickly for something so small. The sky was clear blue with only scattered high clouds Other than the single Ukrainian SBU photo of a BUK on a lowboy in Torez on 7/17, I have yet to see a photo of anywhere in the region that day showing anything but an overcast or heavily cloud covered sky. During the day the clouds were a variety of either stratus, cumulonimbus, or cumulus clouds, which are low clouds between 5,000 and 20,000 ft. in base elevation. This is public information available in all of the videos and photos of the day as well as satellite imagery of the weather system. Anyone who would claim that (1) separatists could see MH17 at 33,000 ft. through the clouds (Ukrainian SBU’s fake audio tapes “Birdie coming towards you”), (2) that they saw an aerial combat operation at 33,000 ft., (3) that they saw the plane explode at 33,000 ft. is lying or deluded. flat agricultural lands and towns If you try using Google Earth and look at the terrain elevation read out, you will see the land between Yenakieve and Saur Mogila is anything but flat. The terrain varies from 450 ft. to nearly 1000 ft. The town of Torez, for example, varies from 500 ft. to 850 ft. MH17 was at 32,000′ not 40-50,000′. BUK missile only has fuel for 20 second burn. For a long distance interception at high elevations, it relies on a ballistic trajectory where it is shot above the level of the target and then “falls” on top of it. Think of shooting artillery at the top of Mt. Everest. BUK is shot at a target like MH17 where range is 25 km and elevation 10 km. BUK moves at around 0.68 km per second. It would be shot to hit an elevation of 14 km at a range of around 5 km for its 20 second burn. It would then glide at speed for 20 km for a duration of 29 seconds while falling due to the effects of gravity at an ever increasing rate. In 29 seconds, gravity would accelerate it to 284 km/s downward, and average 142 km/s velocity during the duration of flight. In 29 seconds, this would cause a loss of altitude of 4 kilometers which places it at the level of its target. 14 km = 45,000 ft. Also worth noting, such a trajectory would not take the missile over a populated area from any proposed launch site before its engine burned out, and the final seconds of burn where it is near a populated area would be at extreme altitude. No one would necessarily have noticed anything except people immediately near the launch site. unless fragments penetrated the fuselage, explosive decompression would not happen unless and until the wing tore off the fuselage. Why would decompression be explosive? Passenger airliners have lost whole sections of fuselage in flight and not broken apart. A few holes in the forward airframe would not cause disintegration. “There has never been a passenger airliner blown out of the sky instantaneously by either machine gun fire” List the number of attempts made, otherwise the statement is meaningless. I provided you the list. El Al 402 in 1955 and Libyan Arab Airlines 114 in 1973 were shot down with 20 mmm cannon fire. El Al 402 (a Lockheed Constellation) structurally failed at 2000 ft. as the pilots attempted to control it and crashed. Libyan 114 crash landed under semi-controlled flight with 5 survivors. not talking about machine-gun fire, the Su-25 or SU-27 would have much heavier 20 or 30mm cannon The referenced planes were hit with 20 mm cannon fire. MH17 didn’t ‘blow out of the sky instantaneously’ as it flew for some time before completely disintegrating The plane broke apart at elevation. The cockpit fell southwest of Rozsypne, the body, wings, engine, and tail glided to a crash at Hrabove 7 km away. That would only be possible with total structural failure at a very high elevation. Russia showed their satellite data. Yes, of Ukrainian BUK missile launchers in position where they could shoot down MH17. Thanks for the condescending lecture on cloud types -I am a pilot. “Why would decompression be explosive?”, you ask? Answer: altitiude; check out the effect of less than 1 lb of explosive on the Lockerbie 747. You might get better traction with your ‘specious’ arguments on Twitter -as you can see from the rebuttals you are wasting your time here. I am really tired of your efforts to distract and discredit. e.g. ‘There are a variety of holes in the fuselage’ Yes, no kidding, and whereas a few might just match the 1,500 cubes in a BUK warhead, none match the large size and shape of the other 4,500 ‘I-beam/ H shaped shrapnel that a BUK contains. End of story. End of discussion. If you are a pilot, then you should know how to look up weather imagery for a date in the past. You claimed on 7/17 it was a clear blue sky with only scattered clouds. Show us! The Lockerbie bombing blew a 20″ hole in the aircraft (not 20 mm), and more critically, blew up the navigation and communication system, rendering the plane out of control. MH17 was similarly crippled by an explosion above and to the left side of the cockpit, exactly where you would expect a BUK missile to explode. Note as evidence the extensive shredding of that side of the cockpit with almost no damage to the right side (as I noted, even the glass windows were still intact on the right side), and also singe marks and soot on the paint. Regarding shrapnel holes, what pictures are you looking at? In the famous photo of the left side of the cockpit, there is a clear H-shaped hole right in the middle of the red stripping to the right of the window as you look at it. There are also H shaped holes in the engine cowling. A number of pieces of debris show rectangular shrapnel holes. Photos here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/podpolkovnikvvs/sets/ http://nos.nl/artikel/2004822-cockpit-van-mh17-boeing-geborgen.html http://www.whathappenedtoflightmh17.com/overview-of-damage-seen-on-mh17-debris/ “If you are a pilot, then you should know how to look up weather imagery for a date in the past.” Quite the patronising comment. But there’s a problem. Pilots look at weather forecasts to determine take-off, en-route and particularly destination, conditions. Present and future weather and trends especially are all that matter; what the weather was doing yesterday is of little or no relevance. That is a rather disingenuous sweeping statement that distorts the facts. In both the KAL airliner attacks, the missiles exploded quite a distance from the fuselage. In the KAL 902, by the outer wing – which was blown off. The missiles in the KAL 007 attack exploded some 50 metres to the rear of the aircraft. In both cases, the cockpit was not damaged. Furthermore, the damage to KH17 shows a close dispersal of shrapnel damage. This means the warhead exploded relatively close by. A very different situation from the KAL attacks. Your assumption that because the A-A missiles have smaller warheads than S-A missiles they couldn’t have disabled MH17 the way it was, is also disingenuous since warhead size means little in comparison to how far away the explosion is. The cockpit shows damage from a close by explosion, not a distant one. Close up, even an ordinary hand grenade (with a charge measured in g, not kg) could kill the pilots and cause substantial damage to the cockpit. On the other hand, a large warhead (such as a Buk) exploding close by, as the shrapnel pattern indicates, would probably do more substantial damage. From last year: Detailed MH17 damage discussion, lack of Buk sightings This includes links to detailed photos of the damage and a map showing dispersal of the parts of the downed airliner, as well speculation to what happened after the missile strikes. Also a linked video showing Buk launches. Nearby Ukraine fighters and comparision with KAL 902 R-60 damage. Includes speculation about the attack tactics against MH17 and analysis of KAL 902 damage with linked photos. It has not been definitively determined exactly what types of aircraft were detected near MH17. The one closest to MH17 was reported as of the size of a Su-25, so it could have also been the similarly sized MiG-29. That also means the type of A-A missile used could have been a R-27 or R-73. it was a cloudy day, so a vapor trail wouldn’t necessarily be visible or obvious all over. One would also need to interview witnesses in the correct place to find someone claiming to see it. There have been accounts published in the press with people who claimed to have witnessed missile launches like this around this time. Reuters just published a piece like this. The major population centers you speak of are at least 4-5 miles from the various proposed launch sites. Its unlikely they would have heard anything more than a distant rumble, and it would have been strictly chance that anyone noticed a distant missile launch and figured out what was going on. You can’t hear takeoffs from an airport at that distance, and planes flying directly overhead only emit a low rumble audible to the ground if at lower altitudes. People in an urban area with the sounds of a town or city around them would be unlikely to notice anything from a launch or a missile flying overhead at 40-50,000 ft., especially after its 20 second burn during launch when it makes little noise. Again, an ingenuous argument. The area is a mix of rural and small towns and fully inhabited throughout. People would have simply had to look up to see what was happening, not scan the distant horizon. Also, since it is a rural area, plenty of people would have been outside working. Being a rural area, sound carries further than in a city or busy town. And since there was a war going on, they would have been paying attention to aircraft and any other potential threat, like war sounds, given the junta’s regular air and artillery attacks on civilians. Not only would a Buk launch have been seen by many, it would also have been heard. At the time I saw media interviews claiming they heard and saw a fighter aircraft, hearing two explosions. Did not see any interview where people say they saw a missile launch. Perhaps you can source credible interviews with locals that claim to have seen a Buk launch (reuters is not a credible source regarding this, or any other Ukrainian/Novorussian/Russian subject). Lastly, your use of manipulative language: There is an obvious conclusion to that immediately known to anyone familiar with the history of airliner shootdowns…People can go on believing if they wish…All evidence points to…We don’t need to make up fantasy stories, etc Phrases like those were used throughout your comments. These are manipulative phrases used to preempt disagreement and influence people’s thinking. IE: debate tricks intended to influence the discussion away from critical analysis and towards blind acceptance of the writer’s views. The Russian MOD stated it was an SU25, which is good enough for me to believe, and that it was first detected 90 seconds after the incident when it rose above 5000 m and that it was around 4 km behind MH17. Its highly implausible that a ground attack aircraft that has a slower cruising speed than the Boeing 777 was able to fire machine guns at the plane from that distance, hit the cockpit, and instantaneously disable the plane. Remember, no distress call was made, the black boxes immediately stopped recording and the plane immediately began losing altitude and airspeed on radar. It broke up at high altitude, with its cockpt severing from the body of the aircraft at a great height and distance seeing as the two parts fell 5 miles apart. The cockpit fell at a ballistic trajectory from 6 miles of altitude while the main body of the plane stayed intact and fell with some lift still possible and a forward a speed of 200 km/h. The people interviewed were near the crash site. They wouldn’t have been anywhere near the missile launch site. I’m familiar with rural areas. 15 miles is the distance between the small town my father’s family comes from and the third small town down the road. Its highly improbable anything can be heard or noticed at that distance. The MOD never stated there was a fighter plane at altitude with MH17. They asked why it was near the plane. The R60 is an expanding rod warhead, not a fragmentation warhead. MH17 was not hit by wire rods. You might find this interesting, re: “Reuters is not a credible source” http://rt.com/news/245141-reuters-witness-misreport-mh17/#.VRkS1faFp7g.twitter The man stands by his comments that Ukraine fired a BUK, but disavows their claims of off-camera comments. Andrew on March 30, 2015 · at 10:40 am UTC You’re sitting on the thread. How is the weather in Langley? Re: Weather in Langley. I live in Pennsylvania. I wouldn’t know. Really you are better than this. I don’t know why you can’t take the thought of my seeing the evidence differently than you. While Pennsylvania at one time was probably the most enlightened colonies, IE: Ben Franklin and the Quakers, currently it is one of the most disgustingly bigoted and corrupt regions of the USA. US Imprisoned Activist Mumia Abu-Jamal Hospitalized – Reports Noelle Hanrahan, a friend of Abu-Jamal and director of PrisonRadio.org, told Philadelphia Magazine that at about 1:00PM on Monday afternoon Abu Jamal was taken to Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville, Penn. Hanrahan and others on social media are encouraging supporters to call the prison’s officials to urge them to allow visitations by his family. The hospitalization has supporters especially concerned as it has coincided with arguments in federal court over the so-called “mental-anguish” law which Abu-Jamal and others have challenged as a violation of First Amendment rights to free speech. The law is supposed to allow crime victims or their families to bring civil injunctions against offenders if their behavior perpetuates mental anguish for the victims. It has been dubbed by opponents as the “Silence Mumia” law, as it was drafted and passed just two weeks after Abu-Jamal delivered a pre-recorded commencement speech at Vermont’s Goddard College. Abu-Jamal is serving a life sentence for the 1981 killing of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Until 2012, he was on death row, awaiting execution but was taken off after many years of appeals and legal challenges to the conviction. In February, Abu-Jamal gave Sputnik his first interview following a stint in solitary confinement, in which he said that African-Americans are “living in hell.” “We don’t have ‘equal rights,’” he said. “We have the rhetoric of equal rights used by the elites and the state to camouflage the real situation of Black Americans — one of dire, unremitting hell. Equal rights would not produce the glaringly unequal outcomes that lead to mass incarceration, poverty and death.” Read the full interview here. Philly Begins Posting Anti-Muslim Ads with Hitler on Public Transportation SEPTA, or the South Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, the agency that runs the rapid transit and bus service in Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs, has decided not to appeal a federal court ruling on a controversial bus ad. The black and white ads say “Jew Hatred: It’s in the Quran” and features a picture of a 1941 meeting between Adolf Hilter and Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a Palestinian Arab nationalist who was known for radio shows supporting the Nazis. As early as next week, the ad will start appearing on 84 SEPTA buses and run for a month. But a cool place for some, evidently… Sorry, what do weird Jewish transit ads and a convicted cop-murderer have to do with me? And about Mumia, you do realize he was shot by the policeman he murdered by shooting him in the back, and found lying in a pool of his own blood with the murder weapon he owned next to him? What are you trying to convince me of regarding him? He was innocent and framed? Andew, there WERE holes in both sides of the cockpit skin. Also the trajectory of the aircraft cannon need not have been straight across the cockpit, you know. No one saw or heard a ground to air missile or its plume. People saw parts of aircraft and bodies still falling, so couldn’t have overlooked plume. They saw fighters, didn’t see plume. It doesn’t get more obvious than that. Four countries say they will not release the investigation report, including Ukraine! And they’ve excluded Malaysia, whose plane it was, from the investigation. They will not release the pilot’s autopsy showing what he was hit with. I should think that wd indicate Ukraine’s guilt to any reasonable person. Andew, there WERE holes in both sides of the cockpit skin. Can you point where these holes are in the right side of the cockpit other than the roof? Photos of it here in Ukraine undergoing salvage: And here in Netherlands (scroll down) undergoing reconstruction: http://censor.net.ua/resonance/328926/porajayuschie_elementy_rossiyiskoyi_rakety_bukm12_kotoraya_sbila_malayiziyiskiyi_boing_mh17_eksklyuzivnyyi Also the trajectory of the aircraft cannon need not have been straight across the cockpit, you know. The trajectory had to follow the trajectory of the holes in the skin of the aircraft to make the holes. Also, if it was from in front, the pilots would have presumably seen another plane coming towards them. That is a very broad categorical statement. To make it true, you would need to interview a few hundred thousand people living in the area around Torez. What is your evidence for it? You do realize you are talking about three geographic locations in rolling terrain separated by around 15 miles? The launch point is alleged by all parties to be somewhere south or west of the road H21. The crash site is to the north in Hrabove, and the point of the shootdown is to the west on a ballistic trajectory from the crash site. Those three points are located at elevations of 600 to 800 ft. In between is a forested rise with a ground elevation of 950 ft. People near the launch point were nowhere near the place where the missile hit the plane. People near where the missile hit the plane were not near the crash site. Also, the day of the crash was overcast with only patches of clear sky as seen in weather records and numerous videos and photos. The cloud cover was beneath the cruising altitude of the plane, so the plane was not seen in flight or when it was hit. And they’ve excluded Malaysia, whose plane it was, from the investigation. Malaysia and Russia are part of the investigative team. They will not release the pilot’s autopsy showing what he was hit with. I should think that wd indicate Ukraine’s guilt to any reasonable person. It has been publicly stated that characteristic “H” shaped BUK warhead fragments have been recovered from bodies and luggage. This occurred already in October last year. The Russian Ministry of Defense has commented on this that it is a demonstration of the guilt of Ukraine. Stop the distortions please about BUK shrapnel in luggage. Here’s a Google translate below of your link The garbled Google “Buck” translation in the headline is using the masculine Instrumental case of “BUK” -” “Буком” meaning ‘by means of a BUK”. The Defense Ministry called the message a lie about the defeat of the Malaysian Boeing Russian “Buck” 19 March 2015 Choose a date20:30 Moscow. March 19. INTERFAX.RU – The Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation criticized the Ukrainian media posts and special services of Ukraine on the availability of evidence destruction Malaysian Boeing MD-17 Russian anti-aircraft missile system “Buk”, calling it a lie. Stop the distortions? You yourself are doign so! The Russian MOD specifically denied the fragments are from a Russian BUK, and clearly stated they are of the type that would be found in the older model Ukrainian BUK. Read the last paragraph: “These are complete lies. The double-T-shaped warheads shown in the photo belong to only one rocket – the Buk-M1 rocket, which are precisely the ones Ukraine has in its inventory. The Buk-M1-2 warheads are actually shaped like small parallelepipeds, and there’s no way any double-T-shaped fragments are part of that. So this website’s ‘exclusive’ report actually pulled the rug out from under the feet of its own sponsors.” Why couldn’t you be bothered to quote that in your citation? Turned out “tomorrow or friday” is monday. First a quick recap of last week: When asked to provide proof of his statement that the Russian military claimed a Buk missile shot down MH17, andrew initially dodged the question: Andrew on March 25, 2015 · at 5:04 am UTC When it was pointed out to him his answer failed to answer the question, andrew did what is called in debate “changing the goalposts”, IE: Andrew on March 25, 2015 · at 8:14 pm UTC “They did not state it directly, but there was no other conclusion to be drawn from the material presented.” IE: The Russians did not claim it was a Buk and it was andrew’s distortion of what the Russians were saying all along. Furthermore, andrew posted several source links in that comment and claims of what they represented. The 7/21/14 MOD presentation only presented a single plausible scenario – downing by a BUK M1 owned by Ukraine and positioned at Zakharoshenske. They did not state it directly, but there was no other conclusion to be drawn from the material presented. This conclusion was reinforced by their presentation on 7/30/14 below: http://eng.mil.ru/en/analytics.htm The actual title of the report is: “Analysis of satellite imagery released on the Internet by the Security Service of Ukraine on July 30, 2014”. The report deals with falsification of previous Russian satellite info by the Ukrainians regarding Ukrainian Buk positioning and also Ukrainian falsification of other satellite images showing Russian equipment being brought into the Donbas along with other falsifications. The report is not about a Buk missiles downing MH17, it makes no claim there at all, but about the USA using Ukrainian cover for their falsification of satellite images for propaganda dishonest purposes. This was recently reinforced by Major General Igor Konashenkov, Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman regarding the detection of Buk M1 warhead fragments at the crash site, where he clearly states that contrary to western press reports these fragments are from missiles only used by Ukraine. http://www.interfax.ru/russia/431042 & https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/03/20/russian-defense-ministry-says-media-are-lying-about-the-mh17-crash (the original link by andrew is defunct) Both of these are about the planting of false evidence by Ukrainians. No claims are made about whether a Buk missile shot the airliner down. None of these links posted by andrew to show “the Russians think a Buk shot down MH17” even address that question, they are mainly about debunking falsehoods claimed by the israeli-Americans through their Ukrainian puppets. That’s it. Andrew was fully aware of this when he made these false claims. The Ukrainian SU25 fighter was detected on radar at 5 km elevation and climbing and around 4km distance behind MH17 and only around 60-90 seconds after the impact (specifically 17:21:35 Moscow time). Prior to that time it was below 5 km and thus not on civilian ATC radar. http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/0/ECD62987D4816CA344257D1D00251C76 That is literally a complete falsification of what was in the report linked. The report clearly stated the “Su-25″* was detected at 17:19, the map provided clearly shows the “Su-25” was very close to MH17 at 17:20. The position of the Su-25 at 17:21 is the last position for that aircraft shown on the map. * Su-25: the translation is “purported Su-25” with a qualification that the radar source can not make an exact determination of the aircraft type due to its technical limitations. This is as far as I’m going to recap, since it provides enough info of andrew’s commenting “mo”. Andrew’s comments are a variation of this well known disinfo technique: COINTELPRO Techniques for Dilution, Misdirection and Control of an Internet Forum Technique #2 – ‘CONSENSUS CRACKING’ A second highly effective technique (which you can see in operation all the time at http://www.abovetopsecret.com) is ‘consensus cracking.’ To develop a consensus crack, the following technique is used. Under the guise of a fake account a posting is made which looks legitimate and is towards the truth is made – but the critical point is that it has a VERY WEAK PREMISE without substantive proof to back the posting. Once this is done then under alternative fake accounts a very strong position in your favour is slowly introduced over the life of the posting. It is IMPERATIVE that both sides are initially presented, so the uninformed reader cannot determine which side is the truth. As postings and replies are made the stronger ‘evidence’ or disinformation in your favour is slowly ‘seeded in.’ Thus the uninformed reader will most like develop the same position as you, and if their position is against you their opposition to your posting will be most likely dropped. However in some cases where the forum members are highly educated and can counter your disinformation with real facts and linked postings, you can then ‘abort’ the consensus cracking by initiating a ‘forum slide.’ Worthwhile trolling analysis, andrew isn’t the only “Langley”/”justthetalk”/”freerepublic” thing here. The “je sui charlie” zio-spam and site attack was a good indication of who are these things posting here, but the infection remains, still, surprisingly, considering the supposed damage these things did. Andrew essentially twisted sources debunking Israeli-American propaganda into supporting his own trolling supporting that very propaganda. I stopped documenting this after a couple of his comments because he uses the same sort of distortion techniques repeatedly throughout his trolling here. Andrew claims to “support the consensus” in order give itself legitimacy when it is essentially spamming Israeli-American propaganda. This kind of duplicitous trolling is a direct hostile attack on a site. It is no coincidence that andrew’s little string of trolls coincided with the Dutch reporter who found “Buk fragments” and the reuter’s “witnesses” which miraculously came forward at the same time. Besides misrepresenting Russian debunking of the Ukrainian/Dutch “Russian Buk evidence” plants, andrew also actually had the chutzpah to use the reuters rubbish as part of his Israeli-American propaganda spiel: “There have been accounts published in the press with people who claimed to have witnessed missile launches like this around this time. Reuters just published a piece like this.” Which has been shown to be fabricated Israeli-American toss, like all the rest: Creative Lie-cense: Reuters Accused of Faking MH17 Testimony “When we talked about the Boeing on camera, I explained everything as I saw it. The things that I allegedly said off-camera, all this nonsense, was made up by the journalist himself. It’s all lies, because off-camera, we never discussed the Boeing, and just spoke about life, about the current situation, so to speak.” Fedotov told RT. The Lugansk resident added that Zverev later contacted him to ask if the he had gotten in trouble for speaking with the journalist. “The first thing that he asked was whether I had gotten in trouble. I was really surprised. Why would I be in trouble if I told him about things as I saw them? And only when my friends called me up and told me that some channel was airing footage which noted that I said one thing on camera and the opposite without the camera did I understand why he was asking me this question.” Stating that the so-called off-camera testimony was merely conjecture, Fedotov stated that he doesn’t understand why the journalist would fiddle with his testimony. “Maybe he was doing it for his own benefit…I really don’t know what his aim was, but it looks to me like a provocation.” RT noted that its requests for comment from Reuters on the controversy have not been responded to. I honestly don’t understand you or the mentality you bring to this discussion. I suggest (as I have since mid-July) the evidence of shootdown history and, the dribble we have from the Russian MOD, and of the investigation itself strongly points to Ukraine shooting down MH17 with their own Buk’s during air defense exercises the Ukr’s themselves openly admit to holding at that time from a position the Russian MOD immediately pointed out to the world and you accuse me of being a CIA Jew troll???? Why? When did the NATO-US position become Ukraine shooting the plane down? I’m not interested in responding to your ad hominem about me in any detail, simply because it is so preposterous. I’ll say again that I am a civil engineer living in Pennsylvania and working for a private company, posting under my own Christian name. If you need to verify that, email Saker and ask him to confirm. Saker: How did u slip in that picture of Jerry Garcia & think no one would notice? http://ultimateclassicrock.com/jerry-garcia-birthday/ Someone remind me again—which side is Putin on? MOSCOW, March 24. /TASS/. Russian regulatory agency in the sphere of mass media and communications, Roskomnadzor, has issued a universal broadcasting license to CNN International, a source at the satellite channel told Izvestia daily. “It’s true that we received a license for television broadcasting in Russia over a period of ten years on March 23,” the source said. http://tass.ru/en/russia/784493 Anonymous on March 24, 2015 · at 2:31 am UTC Don’t you have something else to do? Putin wants to see the Moscow maidan of next april 12th(Navalny march) broadcasted live worldwide maybe? What a stupid decision… Smart decision. He wants RT to be allowed in US and UK. Why be afraid of CNN? George King on March 24, 2015 · at 4:11 am EST/EDT Well if CNN broadcasts examples of “Republican Senator John McCain has threatened…….” along with all the war mongering against Putin and Russia it might be a great decision for it’s citizens to see. Putin may reach 100% approval ratings yet. see Lawrence of Arizonia speaks: Unless they hook up a phoney studio that is right out of Langley and not really CNN but they couldn’t slip that by for long could they? Anonymouse, Do you have the soul of he who likes censorship? I’m sure you know better. Hello ! on March 24, 2015 · at 4:21 am EST/EDT Focus now : Putin is on the side of truth and decency. And we are lucky we have him to speak for 99.9% against the .01% (mostly zionist). FarAwayObserver on March 24, 2015 · at 2:34 am EST/EDT The snakes are eating each other. Lawrence of Arizonia speaks: Republican Senator John McCain has threatened that the US Senate would block any nuclear deal, should the Obama administration reach an agreement with Iran. McCain told CNN on Sunday that “we will do everything in our power to make sure we do play a role because we think that’s our constitutional obligations.” “I don’t think they will reach a deal that we can live with,” he added. http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/23/403013/McCain-threatens-to-block-Iran-deal Anonymous, the deal to give up sanctions against Iran isn’t a treaty, so I don’t see that it requires Senate approval. He has a mission to make amends for being a treacherous stool-pigeon while imprisoned by the Vietnamese, through eternal arrogance and belligerence. http://novorossia.today/how-much-the-truth-costs-in-ukraine/ What does the USA strictly demand in return for their billions? According with the agreement with the IMF, about 230 thousand state workers should be dismissed in Ukraine; the cost of gas will rise 4-6 times, and the retirement age increased to 65. Setting aside manifold growth f prices of food and medicines and the fact that social payments and salaries have not only failed to grow, but significantly reduced. Anonymous, the billions given to Ukraine from IMF are not US funds. They are global taxpayer funds, w most countries contributing. The purpose of IMF conditionalities is to shrink the economy of the debtor co9untry, so they can’t pay back– therefore opening eveything in their country to looting . Oddly, the loot doesn’t go to the global taxpayer, but to the international banking cabal and biggest transnat’l corps. Maybe I’m missing a step in there?? Either Kolomoiski is delusional or has an ace up his sleeve. What could it be? Assassination of Poroshenko? Intervention by Mossad? He’s given another indication of appealing to the people: “It’s notable that Kolomoysky and his court launched wholly socialist slogans concerning nationalization of unlawfully privatized property.” –Fort Russ Yes. My guesses as well. And question … in the AngloZionist Empire, isn’t the tail wagging the dog – the Zio wagging the Anglo – rather than the other way around? And if so, how can the Empire just drop Kolomoiskii?… hans on March 24, 2015 · at 7:45 am EST/EDT Kolomoysky is Chabad-Lubivitcher, they own the universe (snide remark), currently there is a turn war internally between the tribe. Nuland, Kagan are Chabad too. He will prevail. Johan on March 24, 2015 · at 9:56 pm EST/EDT I am afraid he indeed will. Of note is that he uses exactly the same “vocabulary” as Nuland creature, an added flavor to the infinitely crude and arrogant universe-owning demeanor which uniquely characterizes that particular species (in the U.S. one bumps into them much too frequently). @Johan, I really liked that phrase—“particular species”. That was great! Do I have your permission to copy it? @Carmel by the Sea I just now saw your post, thank you… Yes, of course you can copy this and anything else from me (better “me”, for I’m as anonymous as it could be … though CIA would surely say otherwise :-)). Carmel by the Sea on March 27, 2015 · at 12:33 am EST/EDT Thank you! and no worries I’m # 1 missing peoples’ replies to me all the time. Yes, we all so “anonymous” with NSA nowadays LOL Well as long as NSA don’t go around advertising my age…. :-) Godspeed! to you. They are still loyally waiting for Schneerson to rise from the dead. GEODETIS on March 24, 2015 · at 3:53 am EST/EDT as i told you before …… the left is a proplem ….. it’s me the Greece the person …… oooooeeeehhhhh….. Massinissa on March 24, 2015 · at 9:52 pm EST/EDT Please refrain from commenting if inebriated. citizen X on March 25, 2015 · at 5:16 am EST/EDT hey, this could be a real commentary from a real greek person, and quite interesting in this context, can we just let this be? citizen Y on March 26, 2015 · at 10:33 pm EST/EDT Anonymous on April 15, 2015 · at 10:36 am EST/EDT don’t make a sound of that …. i am under the impression that that the people have a natural mapping ….. may i consider the Orthodox …. \https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTei2UojmjU ….. GEODETIS….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTei2UojmjU Uncle Bob 1 on March 24, 2015 · at 4:48 am EST/EDT Interesting times.Since they are both Jews (though Poroshenko converted to Christianity,he says) who will Israel support,if either. Kolomoisky seems to have a high profile in the Jewish community.So that might be a problem for the Zionists.And then there is Yarosh and the other fascists Kolomoisky funds.What will be their stance if he goes down and their money ends.Saker is right, he would be a perfect person to pin the Odessa massacre and MH17 on.The fact that he’s probably really guilty makes that easier.But I’m just wondering if we are seeing the beginning of a gangster war between the death squad fascists,and the junta fascists for power.I think it would be great if that happens.If they are really serious about their power struggle all Banderastan might fall apart.And the NAF could just walk in and liberate Novorossia with limited fighting.Maybe then hook up with some disaffected UAF officers and liberate the whole of former Ukraine ending the crisis. Sasha on March 24, 2015 · at 4:49 am EST/EDT Jesus Christ… the guy looks like a demonic Jerry Garcia, can almost hear him singing “I’ll steal your face right off your head…” I’ve never thought of Jerry Garcia as demonic, defused or scattered, sometimes, maybe. But we are all that way in the morning. You know, before coffee, vitamin c and beer: Oops, wrong tune, should have been truckin. “coffee, vitamin c and beer” is a personal creative liberty of the line “reds, vitamin c and cocaine” in that tune. FLOR solitaria on March 25, 2015 · at 4:43 am EST/EDT That was your portrait ? Very nice. But should you be listening to any music from the Evil Empire ? Wouldn’t this be more in your line ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzZlOKnYlw FLOR solitaria on March 25, 2015 · at 4:43 am UTC A typical adolescent personal attack of the zionazi/nazi webtrolling corps. I thought this kind of stuff was supposed to be filtered out now? So you didn’t like my song… That’s too bad… I thought it fitted your militaristic persona. When people seek out others to attack them on the web, it is called web stalking. A very common allowed tactic on Jewish run websites (like MoA, Mondoweiss, guardian cis, freerepublic, democraticunderground, firedoglake, huffhuffpost, the various msm sites, etc.) to harass those not considered “insync” with the zio-tribal pov. Sad to see this site corrupted the same way. @ bot tak There’s no need to be so conceited. I don’t consider you important enough to stalk you. And I don’t see any zio-tribal pov here, but rather the opposite. If on this site were allowed only the people you approve of, it would look like a Communist Party Congress. ENOUGH people. Stop the personal sniping both of you. Marines out of Ukraine Dead of Alive Anon on March 24, 2015 · at 6:23 am EST/EDT In this interview Mozgovoi describes the war between Novorossyia & ordinary Ukranians as a gladiator match, which will end in mutual annihilation if the two sides do not unite against the various fascists & occupiers of their land who pit “brother against brother,” preserving only themselves. It sure would nice to see the oligarchs, paramilitaries, & various other war mongers & occupiers implode & turn on each other, reversing the scenario about which Mozgovoi warned. http://youtu.be/RFT6_KVd_ro Molten Core on March 24, 2015 · at 7:24 am EST/EDT IF this happens: Kol will be made responible for Odessa and the other Nazi “business” of the past year. The heroes/patriots/assholes in his private army will be “integrated” in the national guard/army or “punished” if they took part in those incomprehensible atrocities commited by the dungs of Kol. THEN is the Ukraine _entirely_ free of the nazi scourge. Democratic and free of corruption – the elysium of mankind etc. etc. WELL – now Russia have to return the Crimea. And the poor misled Ukrainian citizens in the Donbass have _absolutely_ no reason to demand anything but returning in the open arms of freedemocratichumanrightful Kiev. AND this Putin dude has to pay reparation for all the damage inflicted. off for puking “If I was sitting in Langley my recommendation would be clear: send him to Muzychko.” It is surely only good manners to allow “the deciders” to fashion their own perceptions and strategies. Christine on March 24, 2015 · at 12:46 pm EST/EDT Langley’s mission/agenda is to maintain/accelerate status of “failed state” in Ukraine. Leaving that territory ripe for looting a la Libya. Having chaos at Russia’s doorstep is long term goal. Internal strife merely assists in this agenda. Russia/Putin is their only hope. As cynical as it may sound, if a ‘gang war’ breaks out between oligarchs and it looks like Kolomoisky might not have the upper hand, might it not make some sense for Moscow to (very, very covertly) back him in order to even the score and perpetuate Banderastan’s total dysfunctionality? Just a thought… a rather dark thought. PQ on March 24, 2015 · at 9:35 am EST/EDT I started writing this comment for the previous post, but it seems more appropriate here. I want to make a couple of corrections to your account of the UkrTransNafta affair and to offer some additional info about what’s going on behind the scenes. UkrTransNafta is the oil pipeline company under state-owned oil and gas monopoly Naftogaz. Ukrnafta is the oil and gas production, refinery, and storage division of Naftogaz. There’s also a gas pipeline division, which is 100-percent state-owned. Until recently, Kolomoisky exercised control over Ukrnafta through PrivatGroup. Even though the state has controlling interest, Kolomoisky was able to use his 42 percent stake to block votes, typically by not showing up for shareholder meetings. On January 13, the Verkhovna Rada voted to reduce the quorum necessary for a vote, effectively taking away his control. Now if he doesn’t show up, they can proceed without him. Poroshenko didn’t replace the entire board of UkrTransNafta, nor did he do it by force, at least not initially. On March 19, Naftogaz announced that it was replacing UkrTransNafta’s chairman, Alexander Lazorko. He was Kolomoisky’s man and by some accounts was complicit in diverting oil from the pipeline system to a refinery owned by Kolomoisky that had unused capacity. The new chairman, Yuri Miroshnikov, is former SBU. Poroshenko allegedly has been working with the SBU in an attempt to dig up dirt on Kolomoisky and thus neutralize him. It’s also likely that they wanted Lazorko out well before being audited. Naftogaz announced in late January that it contracted with Deloitte, one of the world’s largest auditing firms, to review the company and its subsidiaries in preparation for selling off parts of its business to foreign investors. When Miroshnikov showed up on Thursday to assume his duties, Lazorko refused to leave and instructed guards to prevent Miroshnikov from entering the building. Both Lazorko and Kolomoisky argued that his replacement was illegal, because he could be thrown out only if he had been charged with wrongdoing, and he had not. Miroshnikov came with his own detail of bodyguards and forced his way through Lazorko’s security. Of course, Kolomoisky blew a gasket and responded in his standard MO. I’m wondering now whether the real point of Kolomoisky’s raid on UkrTransNafta wasn’t to reinstall Lazorko but to remove incriminating documents before they fell into the hands of SBU and Poroshenko and before the imminent audit. Miroshnikov’s appointment is temporary. Right after it was announced, Kolomoisky and Poroshenko made a deal that he wouldn’t engage in any investigations of the company’s finances but would leave that for the official audit by Deloitte. Evidently that agreement was made before the raid. On Sunday, Kolomoisky sent armed guards to the Kiev headquarters of Ukrnafta. The reason isn’t clear. Radio Liberty reported that he said it was a precautionary measure against “corporate raiders” – the same charge he made at UkrTransNafta on Friday. I’ve maintained all along that the impending breakup of Naftogaz is behind a lot of the political maneuvering. The split is required to meet EU rules and has been on the table for several years. It’s more urgent now, because it’s a condition of the IMF loans, and besides that, there’s a pack of drooling hyenas waiting to strip the carcass. The plan is to separate the transmission side – the pipelines – from the production and storage side. As I understand it, Naftogaz will continue as the trader (buying and selling). The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has been working with the Ukraine government (sic) on the restructuring plan, as well as a project to modernize the pipeline system (big construction contracts!). According to the bank’s year-end report, final preparations are under way to sell off 25 percent of Naftogaz through an IPO. In other words, they’re getting close. So maybe this isn’t just a fight between oligarchs, but a battle heating up between the corporations and their respective government vassals. The fight between Kolomoisky and Poroshenko might even be a proxy war. If true, it would be a deliciously cruel irony. Of all the divisions of Naftogaz, the pipelines have got to be the biggest prize. Can you imagine the power the new owners will have if they can control the flow of oil and gas through Ukraine? The head of Naftogaz recently was quoted as saying the bidders were lining up. No doubt, and they likely are in the country with their suitcases full of unmarked bills, laying the groundwork for the IPO. It’s also likely they are using the oligarchs (and vice versa) to gain an edge over the competition. For all we know, Kolomoisky and Poroshenko have competing “sponsors.” Time will tell. I just read that the minister of energy yesterday ordered all accounts and deposits of companies managed by the ministry to be transferred to state-owned banks. I suppose that would constitute a corporate raid from Kolomoisky’s point of view, and maybe someone really is trying to get him out of the picture – and not just because of the threat to their political power. joaopft on March 24, 2015 · at 6:57 pm EST/EDT Seems to me the Neocon plan has been 1) Confiscate the Russian fortress of the Black Sea; 2) Confiscate the pipeline across Ukraine, built be the Soviets to tear Europe away from the US. A heart-warming double victory, that would have been. As the first shot has widely missed the target, the second is now being fired, but from a very bad position, indeed. If the US puts its flag on the pipeline, then Russia will simply turn it into a useless piece of infrastructure. Already, Kolomoisky (and his Western co-investors) are worrying. He is in it to win it — not the war, he doesn’t care about military victory per si — but to keep and augment his wealth and power over Ukraine. However, the value of his (big) share of the pipeline will be doomed if the US declare victory over it. And their would go a substantial part of his billion dollar worth, down the drain. PQ on March 24, 2015 · at 8:52 pm EST/EDT Yes. Raw power may appeal to the most psycho of the psychopaths, but for the rest, it’s not an end in itself. It’s to gain and keep the wealth. I think Kolomoisky is freaking out because he has always considered those companies as his, but forces more powerful than he may have other plans. Unless something has changed, the law specifies that foreign investors would be able to buy up to 49 percent in the Naftogaz spinoffs. The state is supposed to maintain 51 percent, which in theory is a controlling interest. But in any case, the U.S. flag will not be flying over the pipelines. It will be ExxonMobil’s flag or Chevron’s or Halliburton’s flag. Or, more likely, a consortium, maybe with the large European energy and construction companies, or with some smaller Ukraine partners. Moreover, the U.S. corporations are U.S. in name only. They have no allegiance except to themselves. Most of them do business in Russia, and they are still in Russia despite the sanctions (although they say they are complying and that it has reduced their profits). That is the sickest thing about all of this. While everyone is focusing on who is in political power, who’s getting support from what government, etc., the multinationals are carving up the economic territory. Nuland and her crowd answer to them, not the other way around. joaopft on March 24, 2015 · at 11:54 pm EST/EDT If, indeed, Halliburton’s flag — or Chevron’s, or ExxonMobil’s — gets to fly over the pipeline, it will be the same as putting the U.S. banner, right there. These are the corporations that went in, right after the Pentagon cleared Iraq and Libya. Nevertheless the debt, spun by the USGov to finance such endeavor, has fallen on the shoulders of the hapless U.S. citizen. Much more profit has to be extracted overseas and “trickled-down”, to the American middle-class; otherwise, the Judge of Natural Selection may decide to reward (some part of) the U.S. elite with the fate of Marie Antoinette. Anyway… I reckon it would be fatal — for Putin’s image, as a remarkable statesman — if Gazprom, after all the buzz about Turk Stream plus China Stream creating the opportunity to shutdown down Ukrstream, would end up paying big transit fees to Anglo-American vulture-capitalism. It cannot happen with Putin in charge, anyway. That’s why the U.S. elite dreams him out of the Kremlin. Correction: UkrTransNafta is owned 100 percent state-owned. The Radio Liberty story I cited has it wrong, as do many other news outlets. The confusion is likely due to similarity between UkrTransNafta and UkrNafta, in which Kolomoisky has around 42 percent control. Further confusion arises in the reference by many sources to Kolomoisky’s “control” of UkrTransNafta, which is (or was) de facto by virtue of his association with Lazorko and not due to ownership of shares. In addition, there is a complicated relationship between the pipeline company and refineries owned by Kolomoisky, giving him some real financial influence. Lazorko, according to a report in the Kyiv Post, used to head one of them. As best as I can tell, using rough Google translations of Ukrainian and Russian sources, the issue of ordering the transfer to state banks of accounts of companies managed by the energy ministry refers to UkrTransNafta accounts in Kolomoisky’s PrivatBank — according to one source, about $86 million. Despite the error, the gist of my comment remains the same. Kolomoisky stands to lose big if Deloitte’s audit uncovers his illegal dealings. As long as the threat of exposure was coming from other corrupt oligarchs, he could protect his secrets with blackmail. But he won’t be able to do that with Deloitte. PQ, Thank you. Interesting. More on Niqnaq. It seems me Kolomoysky is in the strongest position to extract the most profit from this. This is also a conflict between the Euro faction (Poroshenko) and the US (Kolomoysky). They are compradors representing fiercely competative imperialist interests. The US is challenging not just Russian Federation but also seeking to take advantage of the crumbing EU and extend its economic interests through the Ukrainian neo-colony. Thanks you, Saker, for yet another sober and illuminating analysis. It is not clear to me why Russia should not support Kolomoiskii in one way or the other provided that he has any chance of holding out against Poroshenko whatsoever. On a less speculative note, it still seems difficult to conceive how the West make any U-turn on MH17 considering how much propaganda has been spent on it. The German left wing anglo-zionist weekly Der Spiegel just recently ran a big story claiming they had tracked down the actual Buk-launcher which, supposedly, had been brought over the border from Russia. The really interesting question consists of why Russia is not doing more in the way of exploiting the obvious with regard to MH17. Russia can surely do better than what the military did when it presented radar evidence right after MH17 had crashed. Patient Zero on March 24, 2015 · at 9:48 am EST/EDT Aren’t there a bunch of nuclear reactors in his little kingdom there? Leeds. on March 24, 2015 · at 9:56 am EST/EDT Has OffGuardian been deemed off-limits on the Graun? – We were emailed yesterday by a reader who told us she had tried several times to post a link on the Guardian to our ongoing reportage of the Kolomoisky circus in Kiev, and each time the link had vanished without a trace just moments after posting. More here:http://offguardian.org/2015/03/23/has-offguardian-been-deemed-off-limits-on-the-graun/ Patric/Sweden. on March 24, 2015 · at 10:23 am EST/EDT NATO Is the World’s Most Dangerous Institution – The NATO church and the Atlanticist faith are courting disaster for the entire globe, but at least there are jobs, profits and prestige for officials to be had – Where I live (the Netherlands), if you were to call NATO the world’s most dangerous institution, a consensus would quickly form to conclude that you must have lost your marbles. Yet, without NATO we would not have a Ukraine crisis, and no speculations about the possibility of war with Russia. Read more here:http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/19/4716 and here:http://www.unz.com/article/nato-and-the-two-central-conflicts-of-the-ukraine-crisis/ mmiriww on March 24, 2015 · at 1:28 pm EST/EDT These guys believe their own bullshit. Which is the problem. They have not met a real enemy who can give as good as it gets for more than half a centaury and as you know the world used to have a major war every decade. When they look at Libya and how easily they were defeated and how easily Iraq was defeated because of new technology like HARM and DU armor, it has gone to their heads. After all it is to their advantage to make the treat bigger than real life. How do you think they get promoted or bonuses and new positions. They still look at Russia like they look at Poland or China like they look at other Asian countries. After all Japan used to be a power but look how easily they were defeated. No one looks at it like it was the soviets who defeated Japan before and at the end of the WW2. You really think the US would have had any chance no matter how many aircraft carriers they had, if they still had the Japanese imperial army intact? Even with Germany they only look at it like, well it only took us a little more than an year to defeat the greatest military power on the planet, without thinking that the soviets blunted the Germans and depleted their forces after 3 years of brutal war. The main problem in all this is the revisionist history the West subscribe to, They just believe their own bullshit. With Hollywood movies making it seem like American special forces alone can defeat the entire Russian army all by itself. In reality American special forces got whacked and call in air power any time they face more than 2 Taliban. After all we saw American special forces in action in Black Hawk Down.. oh wait, how about the special Iranian embassy rescue.. 62nd Army on March 24, 2015 · at 2:58 pm EST/EDT You are correct. Zhukov’s decisive victory at Khalkhin Gol in 1939 and the Red Army rapidly moving south down the coast and the Japanese outer islands in July and August 1945 scared the pee out of Truman. larry, dfh on March 24, 2015 · at 5:20 pm EST/EDT As to the ‘Iranian hostage mission’, you’ll need to ask Ollie North. Not everyone suits green. “These guys believe their own bullshit. Which is the problem.” No, no, no, not a problem, but myriad opportunities. Perhaps you have been reading Mr. Appy’s “American Reckoning”, or the recent rumblings of Messrs Cohen and Mearsheimer. Anonymous on March 24, 2015 · at 11:02 am EST/EDT ” If I was sitting in Langley my recommendation would be clear: send him to Muzychko.” Perhaps your proposal is based on the dual notions that the question of the hour is who put the bong in the bong-de-bong-de-bong, and that ends justify the means rather than means condition the ends. Alexandre on March 24, 2015 · at 11:44 am EST/EDT “As for Poroshenko, he appears as bellicose as ever, making grand statements about everything and running around in battle fatigues.” Awesome … I always thought that, besides the thirst for power and money, ‘Pork’shenko always loved being the center of attention, be the west pet, as in that pathetic “Charlie march” in Paris. How would you like to be close to that bastard when he was waving to the public … A weapon, and … Anonymous on March 24, 2015 · at 12:28 pm EST/EDT Poroshenko! He doesnt realise yet that he is disposable, as disposable as Hussein, or as Kolomoiski and will likely end as miserably,.. Wonder when Nuland will get sick of Yats ,… Mr “he’s the man, Yats!” What’s your bets? 3 months? 3 years? maybe ,..an accident..? Coincident that a German plane goes missing? . Handy media distraction for a new barrage of destructive warmongering. Malaysia was making trouble too ,…Ever read Confessions of an Economic Hitman by Perkins? marki on March 24, 2015 · at 12:30 pm EST/EDT Coincident that a German plane goes missing? . Handy media distraction for a new barrage of destructive warmongering. Malaysia was making trouble too ,.. needed a lesson?,…Ever read Confessions of an Economic Hitman by Perkins? WizOz on March 24, 2015 · at 12:36 pm EST/EDT @there is a very good chance that MH17 can be fully dumped on him (thereby providing the Empire with a face saving “out” Not only. “Russia issues arrest warrant in absentia for Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoisky Igor Kolomoisky”, 2 July 2014, 14:14 Moscow’s Basmanny Court has warranted the arrest of Ukrainian oligarch and Dnepropetrovsk region governor Igor Kolomoisky, the Interfax news agency reports. The court thus granted the Investigative Committee’s request for Kolomoisky’s arrest. Earlier, the Investigative Committee brought criminal charges in absentia against Kolomoisky and Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. Both are accused of using prohibited methods and means of warfare, committing murders and kidnappings under aggravating circumstances and preventing journalists from doing their professional duty. Kolomoisky and Avakov were both put on the internationally wanted list. Read more: http://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussia/news/2014_07_02/Russia-issues-arrest-warrant-in-absentia-for-Ukrainian-oligarch-Kolomoisky-3940/ The accusation that MH17 was organized by Kolomoisky was made immediately: “Ukraine’s False Flag Plane Shoot Down By Brother Nathanael Kapner, July 21, 2014. @http://brothernathanaelchannel.com/watch_video.php?v=1057 Probably the evidence cannot be hidden any longer and it was decided to sacrifice Kolomoisky. He might have an close encounter with an UFB (unidentified flying bullet). It is unlikely that he would be handed in to the Russians. One shouldn’t forget strong suspicions of Parubiy’s involvement also in both 2nd May and 17th July, and somewhat low profile since. It’s by no means clear where Sloboda / PS ‘s loyalties lie wrt Messrs P. and K. Well, put it this way, we can be certain that they loathe Mr P. and are only holding back because of the USA’s present dictates. Penny on March 24, 2015 · at 1:40 pm EST/EDT Sorry Saker, but, the way I see it, right now- The answer is …no Comment from my place AnonymousMarch 23, 2015 at 8:51 AM 1. Ukrainian politician and former Dnepropetrovsk businessman Oleg Tsarev says that the political and economic conflict between the country’s oligarchs may turn into outright street warfare and a new Maidan PennyMarch 23, 2015 at 9:11 AM The new coup in Ukraine was one of my predictions for this year and it sure looks to be shaping up…. What with Kolomoisky and his thugs entering oil offices and the police/government not interfering.. I can totally see open warfare between the Oligarchs as a pretext for a coup- it’s perfect- someone has to take charge- a good tyrant will be needed” Therefore Kolomoisky is more vital now then ever. Jerome on March 24, 2015 · at 1:51 pm EST/EDT I can’t believe that this is anything other than a charade intended to set off some sort of chain reaction. Whoever is giving Poroshenko his orders, you’d better believe that Kokomoiskii is familiar with them, and is most definitely on closer terms with them than even Poroshenko (an obvious puppet). How could it be anything else? Paul II on March 24, 2015 · at 3:18 pm EST/EDT So how much of the Ukraine’s oil and banking business does Benny control? Can’t he bring down the country almost at will? What are the odds that the Kremlin can work with him in a serious way? Is there any kind of deal that might make sense? Keith on March 24, 2015 · at 6:39 pm EST/EDT Kolomoisky wields too much power and influence for Poroshenko to take him on. I can see Poroshenko being ousted, he has no real power base, and possibly being replaced by a “unity” figure, Yulia anyone? She also comes from Dnipropetrovsk, has close ties to Kolomoisky and Yats and also the Americans. She has been very quiet recently… A few observations on Kolomoisky. The power of a billionaire does not come from the accounting value of his holdings, but from the economic power and output of his holdings, and especially their free cash flow. The relevant question about Privat Group and its various subsidiaries is how much money they can generate to fund activities Kolomoisky wants to undertake. Kolomoisky holds the additional benefit of being the eminence grise behind the Fatherland Party of Julia Tymoshenko (and Turchinov) and the source of funding and power for Dimtro Yarosh and his Right Sektor paramilitary organization. These both give him sources of power in the Rada, ministerial positions, and street muscle. By having secured for himself direct control of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (which is probably the economically most powerful Oblast in Ukraine), and effective control of Zaporozhzia, Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Odessa Oblasts, he also has available the government resources and revenues of this quarter of Ukraine, which economically and by population is more like a third. This area also controls all seaborne trade of Ukraine. This are also has the main part of the remaining military-industrial complex of Ukraine (i.e. Yuzhmash and the like). Kolomoisky hasn’t shown any real interest in taking control of Kharkov Oblast. The NAF has made noises about liberating Mariupol and Kharkov, but not attacking into the Kolomoisky Oblasts. An understanding with the NAF would allow Kolomoisky to redirect his punitive battalions to other purposes than blocking southeast advances by the NAF. This wouldn’t be unprecedented. The NAF has been operating under a formal agreement with Rinat Akhmetov since the middle of May concerning his holdings and the city of Mariupol. An war between Ukraine and Kolomoisky’s regions would not be assymetrical. Kolomoisky could probably count on not only his private army, but also at least part of the Ukrainian Army brigades stationed in his Oblasts and formed of recruits from those Oblasts (i.e. the 17th, 25th 28th, 79th, etc.). Its also unlikely that the Kharkov based brigades would have any more interest in fighting the south Ukraine than they have had fighting Donbass. Also, such a fight could not be undertaken without one participant or the other reaching an understanding with the NAF. Kolomoisky is very likely to be focused on taking control of the economic resources in adjacent Poltava Oblast, which would be fatal to Ukraine. Mr. Kolomoisky is seeking to solve the benny and blat conundrum, being previously attuned to conflate blat with bennies and bennies with blat, and not yet fully aware of the hazards of his illusions. Perhaps Aeschylus could have something to contribute. If the oligarches kill each other, will the Nazis fully take over Ukraine? Paul Rigby on March 24, 2015 · at 9:16 pm EST/EDT I wonder at the intra-American politics of The Kolem’s effrontery: is the CIA using him to destroy Kiev’s political leadership, thus rendering the White House’s limited attempts to hold the line, even if only temporarily, moribund? If this interpretation is right, then The Kolem is nothing more than an ice-breaker for Langley. Of course, The Kolem is disposable, but in the eyes of Washington’s hawks, a Kiev deprived of political leadership, however nominal, means there is no one there to be negotiated with. This strategy has CIA precedent, most notably in Saigon in late 1963: removing Diem left Hanoi with no negotiating partner, and Kennedy no one to help him out by requesting the end of the US military presence. I hope I’m wrong, and console myself with the thought that I usually am. The Euromaidaners need no enemies when they have friends like Kolomoiskii, Yats “the rat” and Petro “win the war in a few hours” Poroshenko. These men have no interest in making Ukraine any better, they are more than happy to loot the very idiots who used street power to give them their prominent positions. The NAF need only wait for a good opportunity to return their nation to the historical boundaries stretching from Odessa to Kharkov. Do these Ukrainians really think that the west will pay billions in subsidies to fix their hellhole? As bad as the rhetoric can be from some European countries (the American lapdog governments in Poland and the UK), I doubt the average taxpayer or politician in Germany/France would be happy to deal with the never ending economic sewer of Ukraine. If the west planned to make an open sore for Russia, they’ve failed. Instead, they now have the venereal disease which has been sucking Russian resources for the past two decades. Poroshenko dismisses Dnepropetrovsk Governor Kolomoyskyi http://tass.ru/en/world/784724 AND HE JUST GOT KICKED OUT OF SWITZERLAND! http://johnhelmer.net/?p=12986 @ PQ, Lol the only place he will be able to run is that little #%# country in the Middle East. Yoooou know what I mean? And, apparently he’s saying that he resigned. cassad just confirmed that Kolomoiskii just resigned his governorship of Dinnyprovosk and that the Ukraine is run by the American government at this point so you were right. “I can only repeat, Ukraine is not spherical horse in a vacuum” cassad reported. I didn’t think it was either. https://niqnaq.wordpress.com/ Lots of Kolomoisky stuff including an interview. Kolomoisky is backed by Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and John Kerry’s Devon Archer. They lose billions of dollars if Kolomoisky goes up in smoke. So I don’t see it happening. Kiev can’t pay its pensions and its army, while Kolomoisky is a governor and well able to fund his own army. The peasants were going to rise up against the draft of women and old men anyway. Kolomoisky might be able to pull another Maiden, in which case he ends up President instead of Poroshenko. What do you think? PQ on March 25, 2015 · at 10:25 am EST/EDT Biden & Co. will distance themselves from Kolomoisky if his illegal activities are exposed, and it looks like that is about to happen. Naftogaz is being audited in preparation for being sold off to foreign investors. Both of the companies he raided in the past week are Naftogaz subsidiaries in which he has been engaged in questionable activities. One of the companies was headed by a close connection of his, who was fired by Naftogaz last Thursday. The guy that replaced him is former SBU. My theory is that Kolomoisky’s raids were a search and destroy mission to get rid of any incriminating evidence. At the same time, Poroshenko has been working with the SBU to dig up dirt on him. It looks like they might have found something over the weekend. As if that’s not enough, his bank is about to go down, which means all the billions are down the drain anyway. When Biden the Younger was appointed to Burisma last year, my first thought was that either he was going to get in on the fracking bonanza, or the company was positioning itself somehow to benefit from the breakup of Naftogaz, Maybe both. If so, they have to stay as clean as possible through the bidding process, especially given the company’s murky past. It’s also possible that he simply has become too much of a liability due to his brazen thuggish behavior. Pyatt warned him after last Thursday’s fiasco, and he turned right around and did a repeat performance two days later. Saker wrote: I doubt it. He is not “out of the tribe”, so the worst cas scenario for him would be to downgrade to millionaire status and spend the rest of his life in Israel. Zionism is anti-semitic. Because pretends that all jews are united in zio ideology which is wrong. For those who do not agree with zio they invented term self-hating jew. Thats all about western civilization values. If someone do not agree with mainstream ideology hates itself and must be eliminated. Zionism IS certainly anti- semetic TO the Palestinians. They too are Semetic people. Anyway, according to Israeli Gilad Atzmon and I quote him : ” Zionism is just another symptom of Judaism”. Gilad Atzom – Israeli author and musician. Stavros H on March 25, 2015 · at 2:43 pm EST/EDT I very much fear that this is the correct move by the Empire. Consolidate the power of their primary stooge in Ukraine, and open the way for a renewed attack on Donbass. On the other hand, will Kolomoiskii sit down and swallow this? What will other self serving oligarchs do? Oligarchs are not in it for the sake of neither Porky nor the Empire. They are in it for themselves. Kolomoisky resigned as governor of Dnipropetrovsk in at least partial surrender. Lots more on the Kolomoisky matter at this site https://niqnaq.wordpress.com/ The head of “Privat” had the choice to admit defeat and ask (like Lazarenko) for asylum in Pindostan. But he decided not to give up, and chose the most inconvenient option for the West. He gave the court case in London the political turnover. Referring to the kinship of Victor Pinchuk with Leonid Kuchma, he accusing them of recreating Ukraine’s old oligarchic regime, declaiming: “Kuchma’s Regime was characterized by corruption, nepotism and connections with organized crime.” He called for the nationalisation of all illegally privatized enterprises, and even agreed to return part of what he had stolen himself. Thus Kolomoisky put the London court in the position of having to give a legal assessment of Ukraine’s prevailing oligarchical regime. If the judges accede to this demand, the result risks casting doubt on all of the current Western policy in Ukraine. [“Pindostan” = US] Anon Mongoose on March 25, 2015 · at 6:00 pm EST/EDT Anon Mongoose Please Wake me up when Igor’s Privatbank is seized. FORTRUSS Kolomoysky is holding Ukraine by its “Privat” parts The Largest Bank Experts don’t believe the government will risk liquidating Privatbank. This is the country’s biggest financial institution which holds 26% of all personal savings and 15% of assets of the entire banking system. The bank’s assets as of early 2015 were 204.6 billion hryvnya, making it the leader on the Ukrainian market. The Privat network includes 2600 branch offices, 19,400 ATMs which service 16.3 million bank cards. That’s about half of Ukraine’s payment cards. According to Privatbank information, its main shareholders are Gennadiy Bogolyubov and Igor Kolomoysky, each of whom owns 36.98% of shares, and the Cyprus firm Triantal Investments Ltd, which owns 16.23%. I have posted before. Ukraine is the catalyst – the place where the USD and NATO died. elsi on March 25, 2015 · at 7:58 pm EST/EDT If he has put this in the courts on London or wherever, at least to leave, has done something useful. These thefts to the Ukrainian people of the Kuchma era must also be debuged, although this does not exempt his own thefts and crimes. Sanctuary One and Bot Tak, Thank you for the defense of common sense in the MH17 shootdown. Can’t imagine how anyone can still believe it was shot down by a BUK missile. The crackling noise it makes (like the shoulder-fired SAM, but MUCH louder) cd not possibly be overlooked. I especially liked the argument that “every country w satelite reconnaisance says it was brought down by a BUK”. He completely glosses over the fact that the US didn’t SHOW the satelite evidence or even refer to it, preferring instead to “document” w social media audio. Cheers Penelope. :) Tks, it makes you wonder if it is an individual opinion or a more structured disinformation campaign? Read and watch this new propaganda: Dutch investigation concludes MH17 downed by Buk missile from Russian battery Reuben F Johnson, Kiev – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly “Investigators from the Office of the National Prosecutor (OM) of the Netherlands have completed the first phase of their work in definitely determining the cause of the mid-aid explosion and crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH17). Preliminary information leaked to the Dutch media has concluded that a Russian unit is responsible for the shootdown” https://web.archive.org/web/20150319201238/http://www.janes.com/article/50075/dutch-investigation-concludes-mh17-downed-by-buk-missile-from-russian-battery and today from the Hegemon’s Brit vassal megaphone: MH17 disaster: Appeal for Buk rocket witnesses Note the car dealer billboard pic -now cropped to prevent identification – that was debunked months ago as being in Ukie territory. MH17 happened in 17July 2014 and only now are they asking for witnesses? Surely it doesn’t take that long to train actors and falsify incriminating ‘evidence’? SanctuaryOne Notice how the media interest is synced together with each other, along with “official” announcements and “leaks” and how it is reinforced on the web by the usual spam blitz. Full spectrum dominance” is their term for it. It most definitely is an orchestrated propaganda campaign to cover up the MH17 ZPC/NWO false flag. And keep it covered up. Yes, I must confess I am fascinated by the methods used -particularly to discredit any truth that escapes and surfaces through the cesspool of distortions. But given the ownership of western echo-chambered messaging in media and the devotion of almost all the population to that media -especially television- how does one counter that? Sites like this one can publish alternate media but the audience is tiny and drowned out. Cracks appear in the Hegemon’s message occasionally but it almost doesn’t matter as there is no continuity in what people see and read. As that master of smear and dirty dealing ‘Trd Blossom’ Karl Rove put it, ‘we create our own reality’. The same few items of “evidence” keep being recirculated all the time as “fresh proof”. Dutch “news” outlets have always pushed the line of “Russian BUK” including the latest one about the shrapnel that can only be from a model Ukraine never used (yeah?? have they listed all the others to positively eliminate them?) based on a fragment picked up we don’t know where, 4 months later. The previous one about a month ago was a rehash of the “smoke trail” photo. Now the official investigators come back with the BUK scenic tour video and the SBU (that is Ukrainian secret police and clearly biased) alleged radio intercepts. BBC, Reuters and New York Times have been the loudest and most frequent pushing this line, from the word go. BBC pulled an early (July 20 or so) video where witnesses talked of fighter planes nearby. Reuters just now interviewed a man who said he heard a BUK being fired from Ukrainian territory then faked a claim that off camera he said it was actually from rebel territory (which he’s firmly denied). Now for some facts: * The BUK being driven around videos have been analysed to death and proven to be not taken where they supposedly were taken * The low-loader telephone number, conveniently left on by the “dumb rebels” for all to see when doing a dangerous secret job, was traced to a trucking yard where a PHONE interview was done with someone claiming to be the owner, who said rebels had taken over the yard and stolen that truck — interview done by a single Lithuanian reporter never before or since heard of, just after a Lithuanian consul was supposedly murdered by rebels, and we know how anti-Russian Lithuania is. * the “tapped phone calls” tape, being from the secret police of Ukraine, the country trying hardest to blame the rebels and/or Russia — has been proven to be three recordings spliced together — ONE section of it admitted by the speaker (Bezler) to have been actually spoken but referring to a different shoot-down on an earlier day * Strelkov’s VK page announcing a shootdown was about the AN-26 shot down the day before — it was accompanied by 2 images, one of them a video, clearly showing a plane on fire in the air, while MH17 never burned until it crashed. * the “smoke trail” image is from a different day (visible from cloud patterns) and supposedly taken by the same person who took one of the burning-plane heavy-smoke pictures from his other window — this being the AN-26 crash. Everyone forgets there was a WAR GOING ON. * burnt area that looked like some rockets got fired from there?? HUNDREDS of these around. * shrapnel, fragments or anything found near the site anytime after July 26?? the area was shelled and bombarded for months afterwards, as well as wide open for anyone to walk over. Even some of the damage may not have been original from the crash — the best resource is Akkermans’ 600+ detailed photographic documentation. * someone heard or didn’t hear the BUK being fired??? excuse me, WAR GOING ON, shells, rockets and missiles were being fired HOURLY all over the area, why would anyone think any of them is more worth remembering than any other? and if it was close, people DUCKED, not looked up. And Ukrainian army had held a whole day of BUK exercises just on July 16 (possible source of the “smoke trail” photo). * planes flying over?? yes that they WOULD LOOK UP at, to know if they would have to duck or not, having been bombed from planes numerous times. Back to POLITICS A Government official in Kiev declared it was shot down by a BUK about 5 hours after the crash — and Obama and the rest of the world immediately started screaming at Russia about it. At this stage all that was known, from photos, was that the plane had broken up in mid-air. * nobody had reported seeing a missile * nobody from Kiev or local police had been anywhere near the debris * none of the famous full-of-holes sections had been found or photographed yet It could have been a bomb on board, or explosive decompression from faulty oxygen bottles or half a dozen other ways planes break up mid-air. But they knew it was shot down and they knew who by, so they said. Nice canines Wim Roffel on March 26, 2015 · at 5:36 pm EST/EDT Previously the Ukrainian government brought the militias under the Ministry of Defense – what brought out Aidar protests. This step with Kolomoyski is in the same line of consolidating power and reigning in the most anarchic elements. I guess they have little choice. If the US doesn’t want to keep pouring money into a hole some kind of order needs to be restored. They want the trouble to continue in the East of Ukraine – not in the whole of the country. stephen on March 30, 2015 · at 1:20 pm EST/EDT What a world we are living in. So, they are finally fallen apart? GEODETIS on April 15, 2015 · at 10:11 am EST/EDT i will like to put a point ….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTei2UojmjU …. i am an orthodox Christian …. GEODETIS on April 15, 2015 · at 9:22 pm EST/EDT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG6924SXQog#t=34	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9755
__label__wiki	0.545915	0.545915	Lead Interviews Celebrating Tie-Ins Big Finish Originals: Jeremiah Bourne in Time review Jeremiah Bourne in Time is another “Big Finish Original”, celebrating 20 years of Big Finish Productions with an original (i.e. non-tie-in) audio story. Jeremiah Bourne in Time comes from the pen of Nigel Planer, better known to me as an actor (in, for example, The First Men in the Moon), and is clearly the first instalment of a series that could run and run. The download is broken up into four separate audiobook files, but I’m not sure why except as a relic of Big Finish’s usual reliance on CDs: this is very much one long story that serves as a chunk of a much larger story. The joy of Jeremiah Bourne is the world it conjures and the characters that inhabit it The star of Jeremiah Bourne in Time is Jeremiah “Jem” Bourne, a 17-year-old orphan from contemporary London who suddenly finds himself in the middle of a 1910 séance on the run from a gaggle of old ladies. I will admit that even an hour into it, I was a bit uncertain about the whole thing. It mostly seemed to consist of strange people shouting at Jem, and women especially asking for favours. (For a bit I thought this was going to be like one of those picaresque novels, like Fielding’s Tom Jones, where women keep throwing themselves at the protagonist, “requiring” him to have lots of sex, but actually there’s no sex at all here, even if the story is picaresque in tone.) But partway through Episode Two, the whole thing started to settle down a bit and I started to get a grasp on what was actually going on. The plot, though, to be honest, is somewhat incidental. The joy of Jeremiah Bourne is the world it conjures and the characters that inhabit it. Director Barnaby Edwards has, of course, cast immaculately, and there’s not a character in the thing who isn’t obviously completely suited for the role they play. Sophie Thompson leads the charge as the impressive Mrs Phyllis Stokes, head of the Society for Theosophical Research (Auxiliary Women’s Branch) a.k.a. STRAWB, who knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to abuse Jem to get it — but is also willing to go along with his “cons” and is utterly captivated by his hints about the world of the future. Tim McInnerny is an utter delight as her brother, Rodger Alcott Standish, famous magistrate and infamous nudist, who can’t stand the hidebound ways of his own time. Phyllis and Rodger together make a tremendous double act, and the more time we spent with them, the more I enjoyed it. Nigel Planer himself plays Henry Davenant Hythe, Rodger’s best friend, and early eugenicist. Christopher Ryan has a small role as Peter, Jem’s stepfather, but is highly enjoyable as his abstracted parent who’s more interesting in restoring his vintage Edwardian home in all its detail than in worrying about where his stepson keeps vanishing to. Ony Uhiara is charming as Daisy Wallace, refugee from a home for “fallen girls” who takes to a new world with surprising ease, and though I don’t think anyone would mistake Lauren McCrostie for an actual preteen as Jem’s stepsister Ruby, I still enjoyed her performance. But really, everyone is great here — there’s many I haven’t even mentioned! The characters are definitely larger than life, and perhaps more caricature than character at times, but everyone plays them with such enthusiasm and energy that it completely works. Sebastian Armesto as Jem, then, is the kind of actor you might feel a little sorry for, a good actor surrounded by greats of the profession. But he carries the story (he appears in every scene) with a good mixture of bafflement and quick-thinking, and as you spend time with him, you come to empathise with his plight, especially the mystery of his mother, who just drove off in her taxi one day and never came back. In Episode Four, I was surprised to find myself touched a couple times. The story manages to move between the emotional and the comic with ease. I have two complaints, though I don’t think they should hold anyone back from listening. The first is that the sound design is sometimes a little subpar for Big Finish; this might seem a trivial complaint, but I often found the way footsteps were laid into the production unconvincing! The other is that of structure. Like I said, it’s really one long story, but I don’t think the answer is one four-hour instalment. Rather, the way it bounces from predicament to predicament, it felt more like an ongoing serial narrative that would benefit from being broken up into shorter parts, such as eight episodes of 25 minutes. This is the second Big Finish Original I’ve listened to. ATA Girl I enjoyed a lot, and though I would listen to a second series, the first set works completely well and is a strong achievement on its own. Jeremiah Bourne in Time, though, demands future sets. The story itself teases threads to come, but moreover it’s clear from Nigel Planer’s enthusiasm in the extras that he’s got ideas for loads more stories to come, and it’s the kind of story that you could see running and running, so hopefully Big Finish are able to do just that. Jeremiah Bourne in Time (by Nigel Planer; starring Sebastian Armesto, Nigel Planer, Sophie Thompson, Celia Imrie, Tim McInnerny, Siobhan Redmond, Annette Badland, Christopher Ryan, Tim Bentinck) was released by Big Finish Productions in July 2018. non tie-ins by Steve Mollmann Steve Mollmann Steve Mollmann is a English professor originally from Cincinnati, Ohio; he currently resides in Tampa, Florida. He primarily studies science and science-fiction in British literature of the nineteenth century to the present. He is currently at work on a book about the scientist as a character in the Victorian novel. He has written and co-written several works of tie-in fiction, including the original series Star Trek novel A Choice of Catastrophes. You can read his thoughts on topics such as comic books, his childhood, Farscape, and the deeply terrible science-fiction of the 1890s at Science's Less Accurate Grandmother. 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__label__wiki	0.564256	0.564256	Network Photography portfolio WebSite Builder JOIN AS: Visual Storyteller Editor/Art Buyer Organization Esther Ruth Mbabazi www.esthermbabazi.com A Mysterious Fate: Nodding Syndrome in Northern Uganda Follow Hire Location: Kampala, Uganda Nationality: Ugandan Biography: Esther Mbabazi (1995) is a documentary photographer in Kampala, Uganda. Coming from a humble background, her work explores living conditions in African settings specializing on the social, economic, physical and emotional aspects of... read on Focus: Documentary Skills: Photojournalism 1 of 33 © 2020 Esther Mbabazi A child walks at the now deserted rehabilitation center, Hope for Humans that used to house and take care of some of the sick children suffering from nodding syndrome in Omoro and neighbouring districts. Thousands of children are affected by nodding syndrome in the remote northern Uganda. Researchers have linked the disease to the onchocerciasis virus that is prevalent along the River Aswa in different districts of Northern Uganda. No one’s sure how they got infected, or how to cure them. First discovered in Tanzania in the 1960s, the disease causes stunted growth, body deformities – even blindness and death. These children suffer in the shadows, their plight ignored at large. The one center that has provided most of the support for the incurable condition recently shut down due to lack of funds. This story brings to light this baffling condition and the children affected by this - amidst mounting challenges. Lakica Barbara, 11 has been suffering from nodding syndrome since she was 4 years old. Aker Ivan, 10, was diagnosed when he was 8 months old. The doctors first thought he was suffering from severe malaria until they finally ruled out symptoms of Nodding Syndrome. Because of his condition, Ivan has never been to school and lives at home always watched over by his father or elder siblings. Aciro Grace, 18, at her home in Omoro District. She got diagnosed with the symptoms of Nodding Syndrome in 2005 while living in the camp for Internally displaced people from Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. When the Hope for Humans, a rehabilitation centre for children with Nodding Syndrome opened, Grace was among the first children admitted to in-ward care as her condition was terrible. She has since improved but again since the centre closed, the children’s health has significantly deteriorated. Ochora Walter, 16, got diagnosed in 2009 and was started on treatment right away. He lives at home with his family and sister who is also affected by the disease. A portrait of Opio Jasper, 16, at his home in Pader District, Northern Uganda. Jasper got diagnosed in 2004. His situation worsened in 2017 and he stopped going to school as he was getting triggered by noise, he needed a calm environment his parents realised. 10 of 33 © 2020 Esther Mbabazi Laura Gladys, 16, has been suffering from nodding syndrome since 2012. She stopped going to school when the seizures became too intense and frequent. Opio Balaam, 20, was diagnosed in 2006 and was among the first to be taken in-patient at the Nodding Syndrome rehabilitation center by an NGO, Hope for Humans. The disease has caused a lot of deformities to his body. Anyeko Vicky, 16, has been suffering the disease for 11 years now. Her situation is very delicate as she gets very violent seizures If she misses a single dose of the anti-convulsants. Ochora Walter, 16, and Aciro Grace,18 at home in Omoro District. The disease makes the affected children mostly inactive and they lose their childhood and young adulthood active lives to the disease. Aciro Grace chats with her mother at her home in Omoro District, Northern Uganda. She contracted the disease in 2005. Because of the terrible health condition she was in, Grace was the first resident patient for the NGO Hope For Humans which ran a rehabilitation center for children with Nodding Syndrome. The center closed down in December 2017 because of lack of funding. Grace’s improved health is at a risk with no support from the only organisation that was on ground helping some children with the disease. Ochora Walter plays at home with his younger sibling. The neighbours still have stigma around the disease and some don’t even allow their children to play with the affected children. Acaa Lucy at the government health centre where she gets monthly portions of medicine for her two children. Each month, the children are given a dosage of anti seizure medication which they take twice a day. The affected children are given a dosage of two anti convulsants that they take twice a day. The disease causes deformation of the body, affects growth of the brain, and causes violent seizures. The medication requires a good diet which almost all families can’t afford with many families only able to feed their children just once a day. Ochora Walter, 16, and Aciro Grace,18 at home with one of their brothers in Omoro District. The disease makes the affected children mostly inactive and they lose their childhood and young adulthood lives to the disease. Apio Brenda, 15 photographed at home in Awere, Pader District in Northern Uganda. Brenda contracted the disease in 2006 while living in Awere IDP during the LRA war. Brenda lost her sight to the disease in 2013 due to the violent seizures she experiences. Her body deformed and health is deteriorating every day. With the cause and treatment of this disease not yet found, children and families affected by Nodding Syndrome are left with little hope and many challenges to go through each day. 42 year-old Arach Margaret watches her children in thought at her home in Pader District, Northern Uganda. In 2016, Margaret lost her husband and remained the sole caretaker of her family of seven children - two of whom suffer from Nodding Sydrome. The causes and treatment of this terrible disease are not yet determined. Hope is little for the families and children affected. Lakot Milly, 19, was diagnosed with Nodding Syndrome in 2008 in Awere IDP camp. In 2016, she fell in fire while having seizures and she has since been suffering severe wounds. Hope for Humans, the only NGO that rehabilitated affected children closed in 2017 as ran out of funds. The children have since been left without any therapeutic help. 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__label__cc	0.722944	0.277056	Home •-Feature Being Stressed Can Bring Out Your Best by Panache Desai Family & RelationshipsHealth & Well-beingSpirituality Being Stressed Can Bring Out Your Best by Panache Desai written by Panache Desai November 23, 2012 Over the past eight weeks my wife Jan and I have a new perspective on rolling with all that life can dish up as our baby daughters take center stage in the Desai household. News flash: being a new parent is stressful. I don’t care if you’ve raised nieces and nephews, babysat your entire life, raised passels of puppies or even parented other children (my wife Jan has a grown son and daughter), nothing truly prepares you for having your own. Babies are synonymous with being blindsided – from upset tummies to sleepless nights; from diaper blow-outs to a frustrating inability to interpret their cries. The new normal at our house is chaos and we are learning to flow with the inevitable stress of all that these changes entail. We welcome it recognizing that it is an opportunity to discover new and deeper aspects of our true being and provide a means to develop our greater, expanded potential. Stress’s M.O. Is stress a bad thing? All the research and reports would lead you to believe only one side of the story… that levels of stress are increasing and that individuals across the planet are unable to handle it. Stress is a precursor to 90 percent of all illness and left untreated is a death knell. However, this isn’t my perspective at all. Stress is the ability to adapt to change or pressure. Therefore, isn’t stress, or the ability to adapt to change, the essence of life? In fact, stress is as natural as breathing! It’s the ebb and flow, and the inhale and exhale of existence itself. The Role of Distress At the heart of our disharmony, discord, and dis-ease is that we are repeatedly failing to adapt to the changes and challenges of life. It’s this breakdown which throws our nervous systems and our physical bodies into the experience of “distress,” the failure to adapt to stress or change. We are a world that is distressed, not stressed! And with this heightened level of unease and pressure comes the symptoms we try and medicate or fix – worry, depression, anxiety, high blood pressure, and a myriad of physical symptoms including aches, pains, nausea, dizziness, gastrointestinal disorders, loss of sex drive, and frequent illness. Harness the Power of Stress Stress as an invitation and an opportunity. Just imagine your life if you could harness the power of stress? How different would your life be if you could view your body’s symptoms or feelings of stress as a sign that you are being called into more, into a greater experience and version of yourself that COULD NEVER HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD STRESS NOT BROUGHT IT TO YOUR ATTENTION? Take a moment. Breathe that in. If you think you can’t make stress work in your favor or that no one has really figured out how to tap into the amazing power and rocket fuel that can come through stress, then let’s consider some of the biggest stress junkies of all, marathon runners! With a demanding training regimen required to complete a 26.2-mile run, these runners make stress their constant ally, measure, incentive, and guidepost to bring themselves into a greater possibility and a greater expansion of who they are. I wasn’t surprised at all to hear how that training and attitude brought about an even greater sense of possibility and expansion for the entire world in a heartwarming story that made the news after Hurricane Sandy. It turns out that the famed New York City marathon was scheduled to take place the same weekend that Hurricane Sandy devastated the East Coast, including a major portion of New York City. Mayor Bloomberg delayed cancelling the marathon until late Friday evening because he thought that the race could serve to unite the city in the face of this disaster. Well, it turns out that his cancelling the event after over a thousand runners had already traveled from all around the world to New York led to something even more unifying and profound for all of us. These well-trained runners, who came prepared with hours and hours and miles and miles of stress training, had a lot of energy stored up and they were accustomed to and able to adapt to change. When the marathon was cancelled, instead of resisting, denouncing, or trying to control this huge change, many of the marathoners instead chose to embrace the unique opportunity at hand to aid in the clean-up and supply distribution efforts. Over a thousand of the marathon runners donned backpacks of supplies and got through to neighborhoods where emergency vehicles hadn’t even arrived yet. Their arrival greatly cheered the spirits of the many families where entire neighborhoods had been destroyed. Both the runners and all those they helped reached new levels of expansion and embodiment of the human experience that weekend. Many of the marathoners interviewed said they wouldn’t change their experience for anything. So the next time stress, either chosen or unexpected, shows up on your doorstep, how can you be inspired to harness its full potential? About Panache Desai: Panache Desai is an inspirational visionary and contemporary spiritual master whose gift of vibrational transformation has inspired and shifted the lives of tens of thousands. He shares eternal truths, inspirational insights, and vibrational tools to create the life of your dreams. Panache is a modern-day avatar who acts as a direct link to Divine consciousness empowering people of all ages, economic and educational backgrounds to transform their lives by connecting them with their limitless Divine nature. Young, hip and funny, Panache brings his global community together weekly via LIVE webcasting. http://www.panachedesai.com/ More INspiration from Panache Desai: The Circle of Life by Panache Desai The Circle of Life Reminds Us to Count Our Blessings I have never been a fan of hospitals. As a child I remember cringing at the thought of being dragged to visit sick loved ones. Just a short time ago, however, I found myself excited to voluntarily be in a hospital and for an entirely different reason… The Changing Face of Mother by Panache Desai The definitions and concepts around “Mother” have radically changed over the last 100 years. Today both women and men are mothers. Between adoption, foster care and with advanced fertility technology like egg donation and surrogacy, almost anyone can have a child. Gone are age limits. Increasingly we are seeing baby boomers raise their grandchildren. People like Oprah Winfrey are mothering an entire generation without ever having given birth. And in 2012, the qualities that make a great mother require an infinite blending and balancing of both the feminine and the masculine. All these radical shifts in this area alone are living testament as to how our reality is fluid and changing… Sign Up for our FREE weekly INspiration in YOUR Inbox!!! Written by Panache Desai Panache Desai is Best Selling Author, Speaker and Visionary named a contemporary thought leader by Oprah Winfrey. His message of love and self-acceptance has drawn thousands of people from around the world to his seminars and workshops. He is on the faculty of the Omega Institute and the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. Being Stressed Can Bring Out Your Best by Panache Desai was last modified: November 23rd, 2012 by Panache Desai challengesconscious awarenessdisasterdistressEarth changesenergyexpansiongratitudeHurricane SandyinspirationmindfulnessNew York City marathonpanache desaiPanache Desai blogPersonal Growthpotentialpresent moment awarenessspiritual teacherSpiritualitystressunitingvibration THE THANKSGIVING EXPERIENCE – PART II By Cynthia James Lighting the Fire Under Your Butt By Kimberly Carroll READ: Naked to Yourself READ: Personal growth takes center stage in ‘A Dangerous Method’ The Revolution of Consciousness Do You Feel Pressured To Be A Perfect Person? Grounded Spirituality with Tom Ziemann The Power of Chanting with Krishna Das LIVE on May 18th at 1 pm EST Reflection…2010 Mothers, Monsters & Memoir with Beth Schulman How to Overcome Comparison carolina May 7, 2013 at 12:26 pm Love you & Jan for everything and especially the awesome, delightful truth and joy of parenting! Thank you. 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__label__wiki	0.75088	0.75088	8Apr/13 Down-in-the-dumps shoe factory gets new life in flashy Broadway musical (© Matthew Murphy) Al Hirschfeld Theatre 302 West 45th St. between Eighth & Ninth Aves. Tuesday - Sunday through September 1, $57 - $137 www.kinkybootsthemusical.com Adapted from the 2005 film that itself was inspired by a true story, Kinky Boots has marched onto Broadway looking fabulous while trying its best to balance itself on a pair of shaky, uneven, extremely high heels. It arrives with behind-the-scenes star power: Harvey Fierstein wrote the book, pop star Cyndi Lauper composed the music and lyrics, David Rockwell designed the set, and Jerry Mitchell, who will be awarded the “Mr. Abbott” Award for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre next month, directs and choreographs the splashy musical. Unfortunately, the problems start at the top, with underwhelming performances from Stark Sands (American Idiot, Journey’s End) as Charlie Price, who has been born into a shoemaking Northampton family but has bigger dreams than going into the family business, and Billy Porter (Miss Saigon, Grease, Dreamgirls) as Simon/Lola, a transvestite entertainer who teams up with Charlie to try to save the factory by designing sexy boots for men who dress up as women, exemplified by Lola’s sparkly — and, yes, definitely male — angels, played with plenty of panache by Paul Canaan, Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Kyle Taylor Parker, Kyle Post, Charlie Sutton, and Joey Taranto. But while Charlie plans to unveil the new line at a Milan fashion show, his fiancée, Nicola (Celina Carvajal), wants him to close the factory and move with her to London to start their new life together. Meanwhile, the factory workers, many of whom have followed in their parents’ footsteps, are caught in between, with tough, rugged Don (Daniel Stewart Sherman) representing the traditional, old-fashioned side of things and Lauren (Annaleigh Ashford) willing to do whatever it takes to keep Price & Son running. Annaleigh Ashford steals the show as factory worker with her own dreams (© Matthew Murphy) Sands is rather vanilla as Charlie, never really inhabiting the role, and Porter, taking on the part that earned Chiwetel Ojiofor a much-deserved Golden Globe nomination, stumbles over some line deliveries and doesn’t quite hit the necessary high notes, but Rockwell’s exciting movable set and a dazzling turn by Ashford (Hair, Wicked, Legally Blonde), who virtually steals the show with her knockout solo “The History of Wrong Guys,” help keep things on track, along with Gregg Barnes’s appropriately glitzy/trashy costumes. The second act is stronger than the first, although a boxing match between Don and Simon goes too far as Fierstein begins to fall into the same trap Jarrold did with the film, trying too hard to make its point about individuality and acceptance. Lauper’s score, which often references 1980s hits, featuring such songs as “Sex Is in the Heel,” “I’m Not My Father’s Son,” and the first-act ender “Everybody Say Yeah,” is strong if not quite as Broadway redefining as one might hope. Even with its bumpy, sometimes lumbering gait, Kinky Boots is a glittery, sparkly extravaganza, loaded with fun for divas of all shapes and sizes. Filed under: this week in broadway, this week in theater, twi-ny recommended events Leave a comment « SUMMATION DANCE: PATHOLOGICAL PARENTHETICAL PAGEANTRY / SHIFT TICKET GIVEAWAY: “IT’S A DISASTER” Q&As WITH DAVID CROSS & AMERICA FERRERA »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9768
__label__wiki	0.570365	0.570365	Live Episode What on Earth is Going on? is a podcast for the curious, where small talk is banned and tangents are prized. Strap yourself in for genuine dialogues with people who think deeply and are ready to tackle the big questions, such as broadcaster Terry O'Reilly, economist Miles Corak and journalist Jessica Vomiero. Join Ben Charland to peel back the headlines and ask, what are the forces, people and ideas that shape the human story today? Have things always been this nuts, or are they getting crazier by the day? From the Mafia to the Beaverton, women in politics to women in leadership, history to artificial intelligence, and entrepreneurship in the digital age to the art of wheelchair fencing, just what on Earth is going on? Subscribe to the podcast now. Join the mailing list: ...according to the book, The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Ep. 15) "Since the turn of the millennium, and particularly over the last decade, no fewer than twenty-five democracies have failed around the world, three of them in Europe (Russia, Turkey and Hungary)... Can the West regain its optimism? If the answer is no – and most of the portents are skewing the wrong way – liberal democracy will follow. If the next few years resemble the last, it is questionable whether Western democracy can take the strain. People have lost faith that their systems can deliver. More and more are looking backwards to a golden age that can never be regained. When a culture stops looking to the future, it loses a vital force. The search for Eden always ends in tears." That's from The Retreat of Western Liberalism, a powerful, insightful and chilling book by Financial Times columnist, Edward Luce. Ben is with Eric Peters in Calgary to get to the bottom of the acclaimed bestseller. In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of America's relative decline, proving to be a prescient voice on our current social and political turmoil. In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce makes a larger statement about the weakening of western hegemony and the crisis of liberal democracy - of which Donald Trump and his European counterparts are not the cause, but a terrifying symptom. Luce argues that we are on a menacing trajectory brought about by ignorance of what it took to build the West, arrogance towards society's economic losers, and complacency about our system's durability - attitudes that have been emerging since the fall of the Berlin Wall. "We cannot move forward without a clear diagnosis of what has gone wrong. Unless the West can rekindle an economy that produces gains for the majority of its people, its political liberties may be doomed. The West's faith in history teaches us to take democracy for granted. Reality tells us something troublingly different. Combining on-the-ground reporting with intelligent synthesis of the literature and economic analysis, Luce offers a detailed projection of the consequences of the Trump administration, the rise of European populism, and a forward-thinking analysis of what those who believe in enlightenment values must do to defend them from the multiple onslaughts they face in the coming years." Learn more about The Retreat of Western Liberalism. Your weekly podcast for a world in flux. Globalization and climate change. The rise of social media and the decline and fall of Blockbuster Video. AI and VR. Donald Trump and Flat Earthers. The world is changing so fast that we can't get a grip on how we got here, let alone where we're headed. Join Ben Charland as he peels back the headlines to ask, what are the events, characters, forces and ideas that shape the human story today? Have things always been this nuts, or are they getting crazier by the day? Who were those barbarians that took down the Blockbuster Empire? Just what on Earth is going on? © Ben Charland	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9774
__label__wiki	0.906159	0.906159	105.3 WSGC The Granite Capital’s Radio Station Submit Items for Swap Shop Swap Shop Listings Dierks Bentley keeps spirits high with 5-hour Energy partnership ABC/Image Group LADierks Bentley has found a new way to energize his fans. The "Free and Easy" singer is expanding his partnership with energy drink brand 5-hour Energy through a new initiative. The 5-hour Energy Country Sweepstakes will give one fan the opportunity to meet Dierks during an exclusive trip to Nashville. After buying a 5-hour Energy shot or 5-hour Tea shot now through Oct. 31, fans can upload their receipts to the official sweepstakes website or text "5HECOUNTRY” to 467467. One winner will be selected for the grand prize of a four-day, three-night trip to Nashville for them and a guest, including excursions to the Grand Ole Opry, Ryman Auditorium and Country Music Hall of Fame. "I love the relationship my fans and I have with 5-hour Energy. We all work hard and when it’s time to play, 5-hour Energy is there," Dierks says. "The 5-hour Energy Country Sweepstakes is just another chance to further my connection with our hardcore fans. I’m looking forward to meeting the winner!" Dierks initially partnered with 5-hour Energy on his 2018 Mountain High Tour, and appeared in a national advertising campaign for the brand. Previous Dierks Bentley keeps spirits high with 5-hour Energy partnership Next Spontaneous combustion of tempura flakes blamed for sushi restaurant fires Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani unveil theatrical "Nobody but You" video "Write This Down": George Strait announces new shows in Minneapolis & Las Vegas ABC/Image Group LAGeorge Strait has announced a series of new live shows for 2020, including a stadium stop. The country legend will perform at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota on August 22, with Chris Stapleton and&... The Daily Podcast http://wsgcradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/SNEWS800A.wav SNEWS1200F Tena’s Pray for Rain WSGC Radio © Copyright 2020 Elberton Radio, LLC, All Rights Reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9776
__label__wiki	0.915703	0.915703	Ashes 2015: Chris Rogers faces up in nets session Ashes 2015: Chris Rogers faces up in nets session BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – JULY 27: Mitch Marsh of Australia walks to the nets during a nets session ahead of the 3rd Investec Ashes Test match between England and Australia at Edgbaston on July 27, 2015 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images) BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – JULY 27: Mitchell Johnson of Australia bowls during a nets session ahead of the 3rd Investec Ashes Test match between England and Australia at Edgbaston on July 27, 2015 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images) BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – JULY 27: Mitchell Johnson of Australia prepares to bowl during a nets session ahead of the 3rd Investec Ashes Test match between England and Australia at Edgbaston on July 27, 2015 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images) BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – JULY 27: David Warner of Australia looks on during a nets session ahead of the 3rd Investec Ashes Test match between England and Australia at Edgbaston on July 27, 2015 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images) BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – JULY 27: Steve Smith of Australia looks on during a nets session ahead of the 3rd Investec Ashes Test match between England and Australia at Edgbaston on July 27, 2015 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images) BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – JULY 27: Shaun Marsh of Australia looks on during a nets session ahead of the 3rd Investec Ashes Test match between England and Australia at Edgbaston on July 27, 2015 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images) BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – JULY 27: Shaun Marsh and Adam Voges of Australia look on during a nets session ahead of the 3rd Investec Ashes Test match between England and Australia at Edgbaston on July 27, 2015 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images) BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – JULY 27: Chris Rogers of Australia bats during a nets session ahead of the 3rd Investec Ashes Test match between England and Australia at Edgbaston on July 27, 2015 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images) BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – JULY 27: Chris Rogers of Australia looks on during a nets session ahead of the 3rd Investec Ashes Test match between England and Australia at Edgbaston on July 27, 2015 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images) Michael Clarke of Australia walks to the nets during a nets session ahead of the 3rd Investec Ashes Test match between England and Australia at Edgbaston on July 27, 2015 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images) TweetFacebookThis story Administrator ready to work first appeared on 苏州美甲美睫培训学校. Comments Off on Ashes 2015: Chris Rogers faces up in nets session Andrew and David Fifita stood down by Cronulla, set to fight bans over referee abuse Rollout of shire signage starting soon McGowan irked by roads snub Prices kick by up to 36c/kg at auction Female suicide rate is an escalating concern « Bull battles to NT titles — Is the gym a waste of time? »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9777
__label__wiki	0.572949	0.572949	Mars Hill is looking for a Software Development Engineer to create a next generation communication platform For those who swing by indeed.com to check on job listings it's clear that a bevy of new jobs at Mars Hill Church have opened up. http://www.indeed.com/q-Mars-Hill-Church-jobs.html Take the Executive Pastor at the University District campus. http://www.indeed.com/rc/clk?jk=7d338baaa4687d01 http://newton.newtonsoftware.com/career/JobIntroduction.action?id=8a699b98420908cc0142106ed7fd5632&source=Indeed&source=Indeed Almost two weeks ago there was this job Inside Sales and Customer Service Representive http://www.indeed.com/rc/clk?jk=70adf1f6c7e72fe0 http://newton.newtonsoftware.com/career/JobIntroduction.action?id=8a699b9841edc55b0141fbcaa76d10a3&source=Indeed&source=Indeed ROLE SUMMARY: Mars Hill Church, the Resurgence (a ministry of Mars Hill Church) and our Global Audience have placed a high emphasis on Connect Accounts for our audience members. We don’t want to meet our Connect Account expectations, we want to exceed them. To accomplish this, we are hiring for an Inside Sales & Customer Service to steward this ministry channel well. This role will place a high emphasis on relational skills and data management to capture information accordingly for our Accounts Team to serve these connect accounts with the highest regard. Then there's the Software Development Engineer The Software Development Engineer will be part of a dedicated team to build a next generation communication platform through a variety of web technologies. This role will entail collaboration with many stakeholders and requires strong communication skills and a desire to delight your users is essential. You will need to be at the top of your game producing extremely high quality and performant code. Build a new communications platform from the ground up in a highly performant & maintainable way. Collaborate with a small dedicated team of designers and developers. Interact with a developer ecosystem to multiply your fruitfulness. Now this is a bit of speculation on the part of Wenatchee The Hatchet but why would Mars Hill be looking for a Software Development Engineer to be part of a dedicated team to build a next generation communications platform? Is The City already completely outdated? Wasn't The City hailed as the most creative, dynamic church-building resource Moe Girkins,president and CEO of Zondervan, had ever seen? Didn't Mars Hill share how Zack Hubert built The City that was sold to Zondervan? Hubert was once Pastor of Technology at Mars Hill and the sale of The City was a boon for Mars Hill though whether or not Hubert got paid any compensation for developing The City has never been answered. Hubert isn't anywhere near Mars Hill these days, though, and doesn't list it as part of his professional history over at his LinkedIn profile now (though in the past it was relevant to his professional background enough to get mentioned). So ... if The City was and is as fantastic as Mars Hill leaders have said it is why would Mars Hill even bother putting in a job notice for a Software Development Engineer specifically for the task of building a next generation communication platform? The days of Mars Hill on The City are probably numbered. These guys are always "going to the Next Level", aren't they? WANTED "Inside Sales and Customer Service Representive" Q: What are they selling? A: Snake oil. Wenatchee the Hatchet said... The sales stuff seems pedestrian to me. The software development engineer suggests that MHC is interested in building and implementing a replacement for The City as soon as they can manage. Whether this entails a re:launch of the church that just passed a ceiling of complexity a few years ago, or not, remains to be seen. Implementing a replacement for The City within the relocated Central Operations (if they get the Bellevue property they want) would be a useful beta test, perhaps? But that's just guesswork based on which jobs, which real estate, and which plans have been made publicly available recently. I don't think that TheCity is necessarily being obsoleted. It is only a portion of the overall software suite MH uses, I'd guess, the rest being the software the powers the Web site in all its complexity. That is what might be in view here. But I don't know, since I'm not involved. Could be. Only time will tell and it's impossible to be certain what the Software Development Engineer would be tasked with. If MH is planning to relocate Central Operations to Bellevue now might be a good time to reassess a whole network of systems and redesign them in advance so that when/if the real estate in Bellevue is obtained there's no need to deal with the infrastructural/data challenges that could be eliminated earlier. Just speculation there. It's definitely to replace The City. When the City was built and maintained in-house it was easy to make tweaks. Since selling, in a lot of ways MH's hands are tied with regard to what they want to do with it, various modules, functionality etc. While the city is definitely thriving as its own thing, from MH's perspective as a customizable and usable tool it's broken. It was a good business decision to sell it at the time. But now they need something in house with the freedom to tweak as they see fit without the policy and procedure of dealing with a big third party that is catering to interests of many clients not just them. Zondervan paid, what, four million or so for The City? When did they turn enough profit to recoup the expense of that purchase? Anyone able to field that? If The City is profitable now then that's great for Zondervan. The sale of The City reportedly helped Mars Hill avoid being in the red but one of the lingering questions I've had since hearing of that sale is whether or not Zack Hubert saw a cent from that sale or whether Mars Hill retroactively treated The City as work-for-hire and kept the money from the sale. If Mars Hill is really aiming to replace The City whoever builds it for them had best work on the assumption that he or she will be doing it work-for-hire just to be on the safe side. Back to mods, what sorts of mods might a church want to make to The City that wouldn't be permitted now that it's owned by a third-party? Why wouldn't it still be a useable tool just because it's been sold to Zondervan? Seems like MH could merely plagiarize a bunch of code from The City, tweak it a little, and "re-brand" it with an "M" logo - as some would argue has been done with other copyrighted material over the years. Cessationism and continuationism, never mind the T... Chris Rosebrough at Fighting for the Faith recaps ... Something else that's new on the timeline at Joyfu... Something new in the Timeline at Joyful Exiles Mars Hill Pastor Scott Harris informs Ballard that... The Elephant's Debt reports that amid reports of d... Practical Theology for Women on rogue mega-church ... Mars Hill is looking for a Software Development En...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9780
__label__wiki	0.85413	0.85413	WCA – WCMC Press Release – 001 \| 06/06/2017 WCA - WCMC Press Release - 001 \| 06/06/2017 WCA and WCMC strongly condemn barbaric acts of violence in Bamenda. The West Cameroon Association (WCA) and the West Cameroon Movement for Change (WCMC) jointly condemn in the strongest possible terms, the barbaric acts of violence that are alleged to have been meted out [...] hostmaster 2017-06-07T05:56:12+00:00 June 7th, 2017\|Civil Society, Currently Trending, News, Press Releases, WCA Press Releases\|Comments Off on WCA – WCMC Press Release – 001 \| 06/06/2017 Civil Society, Currently Trending, News, Politics & Governance, Press Releases, WCA Press Releases WCA Press Release-013 \| 23/04/2017 WCA ENDORSES THE RECENT PRESS RELEASE BY THE DEFENCE TEAM OF IMPRISONED ANGLOPHONE CONSORTIUM LEADERS AND OTHERS AS FORWARD LOOKING AND SOLUTION-ORIENTED The West Cameroon Association (WCA) welcomes the forward looking and solution-oriented Press Release of April 13th 2017 signed by Barrister Ben Muna, Batonier Emeritus and lead [...] hostmaster 2017-04-23T21:46:06+00:00 April 23rd, 2017\|Civil Society, Currently Trending, News, Politics & Governance, Press Releases, WCA Press Releases\|Comments Off on WCA Press Release-013 \| 23/04/2017 Currently Trending, News, Politics & Governance, Press Releases, WCA Press Releases WCA Press Release-012 \| 17/04/2017 WCA urges the UN to intensify efforts to engage stakeholders in the Anglophone Problem to commit to a meaningful dialogue The West Cameroon Association (WCA) acknowledges and welcomes the recent important visit to Yaoundé by the UN Secretary General's Representative for Central Africa, François Lounćeny Fall, and [...] hostmaster 2017-04-21T08:56:13+00:00 April 21st, 2017\|Currently Trending, News, Politics & Governance, Press Releases, WCA Press Releases\|Comments Off on WCA Press Release-012 \| 17/04/2017	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9781
__label__wiki	0.863206	0.863206	De Smet’s Jakailin Johnson invited to play in high school football all-star game Jordan Fredrickson leads Principia in basketball scoring, rebounding Manchester hires new city clerk Winter weather will not go away De Smet raises banners to honor three state championship teams in school ceremony West Newsmagazine Your online news source for West St. Louis County, Missouri Home >> Schools >> Parkway School District >> Bulletin Board: Westminster finishes strong at We the People Bulletin Board: Westminster finishes strong at We the People June 23, 2015 1,804 Views Westminster’s We the People team with U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner Westminster finishes strong at We the People Westminster Christian Academy students once again represented Missouri at the national We the People competition in Washington, D.C., and finished among the top 10 teams – winning the national Unit 2 award. We the People is a program Westminster has offered to students for 19 years under the leadership of Ken Boesch. The program allows students an opportunity to study and debate aspects of American government and the U.S. Constitution. Student teams from Westminster have competed at state and national levels, winning state awards and participating in the national competition for 15 consecutive years. Outstanding citizen recognized Jake Eovaldi, of Parkway South High, has received the 2015 Outstanding Achievement in Citizenship Award. He was one of eight students in the state to be honored in Jefferson City this spring. Representatives from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the State Board of Education and The Missouri Bar presented the awards. Each public high school in Missouri is eligible to nominate one senior for the award. Students are selected for the award on the basis of their academic achievement in civics and government courses, performance in civics and government-related extracurricular activities, and exemplary community service. Students also must submit an essay about the importance of citizenship. Merit scholarships awarded The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) has announced approximately 2,200 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by U.S. colleges and universities. Officials of each sponsor college selected students from among the program’s Finalists to receive between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study. Local recipients include Michelle Harrison of Parkway South High, Mason Smith of Marquette High, Jason Cohn of Chesterfield (homeschooled), Catherine Lambert of Marquette High, Matthew Wennemann of St. Louis Priory, Ezekiel Sabbert of Rockwood Summit High, Elizabeth Jackson of John Burroughs, William Macke of St. Louis Priory, George Paletta of St. Louis Priory, Allyson Lotz of Eureka High, Akhil Pulumati of Lafayette High and Ian Steiner of St. Louis Priory. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation also has announced this year’s $2,500 scholarship winners including Kayla Eckardt of Lafayette High, Stephen He of Parkway Central High, Abby Lammers of Parkway North High, Jacqueline Ihnat of Parkway Central High, Ann Iverson of Chesterfield (Lindbergh High), Amanda Lopatin of Parkway North High, Addison Ogonoski of John Burroughs, Eesha Sabherwal of Parkway North, Jeremy Smith of John Burroughs, Katherine Trout of Lafayette High and Lillian Wu of Lafayette High. Student has the right chemistry She fought her way through seven grueling rounds of chemistry questions, and, in the end, Crestview Middle sixth-grader Ashna Chali was named champion of the Missouri You Be The Chemist Challenge. The contest uses the drama of competition to encourage students in grades five through eight to explore important chemistry concepts, scientific discoveries and laboratory safety. The You Be The Chemist Challenge is sponsored by the Chemical Education Foundation with support from the Dow Chemical Company and Dow AgroSciences. This is the first year the competition has been held in Missouri. According to the Dow Chemical Company, Rockwood was chosen to pilot the contest because of its dedication to having a STEM Coordinator in the district. Additionally, having six Rockwood middle schools participating gave the competition the size and diversity needed to provide healthy competition between participants. Chali will now represent Missouri at the national competition in Philadelphia. Advancing STEM in Rockwood The Rockwood School District is among six awardees to receive grants from the Innovative Technology Education Fund (ITEF). Ranging from $33,000-$77,000, the grants are to be used to transform learning during the 2015-2016 school year. Since 2006, ITEF has provided in excess of $1.5 million in grants to area schools, allowing them to transform libraries into “makerspaces,” introduce robotics and animation to elementary art students, and put computers with advanced software in the hands of middle-school students. New this year is a partnership with The Boeing Company to create an Innovator’s Guild to assist grantees in making the most of their funding. Rockwood will use its grant money to launch its Mobile Innovation Center, a converted RV, to bring purposefully designed challenges to district schools. Math perfection Put away your calculator and sharpen your pencils. Now try to answer this question in less than two minutes: “Four consecutive odd numbers have a sum of 504. What is the median of the numbers?” This is the type of question Parkway West Middle’s Lenny Chen has been answering correctly, time and again, in regional and national math competitions. Chen has added up perfect scores for all three years of middle school and never broken a sweat despite rules such as: “No calculators. No talking. Your only tools are a pencil, a sheet of paper, and your noggin.” This spring, Chen cinched his latest perfect score in a regional competition of Mathcounts. For the second consecutive year, he will represent Missouri in the national competition of Mathcounts this summer in Boston. “No one else at West Middle – or in Missouri, as far as I know – has ever achieved perfect scores three years in a row in the Missouri Math League Contest,” said Joe Lee, Chen’s coach and West Middle math teacher. On a winning streak For the second year in a row, The Pollinator Project of Parkway North High won first place in the Lexus Eco Challenge, taking home a $15,000 prize. Pollinator team members are Abby Lammers, Andrew (Andy) Zhang, Alex Wood, Alex Galindo, Bryheem Mims, Claire Maher, Douglas Fritz, Ellen Wang, Jillian Day and Justin Camie. The Pollinator Project takes a multi-faceted approach to protecting Midwest pollinators, which have become threatened due to the use of pesticide. To conserve existing pollinators, the team provides free seed packets to landowners who are interested in starting a pollinator garden. To protect future pollinators and investigate the effects of pesticides on pollinators, the students are developing a test strip for Imidacloprid, a pesticide, and petitioning the FDA to require that test strips are produced by the companies that sell pesticides. bulletin board news parkway rockwood We the people west county Westminster 2015-06-23 Kate Uptergrove South Tech students replicate Stanley Cup Students raise funds for Honor Flight Kate joined West Newsmagazine as its managing editor in 2012. She added managing editor of Mid Rivers Newsmagazine to her title in 2014. Kate came to the Newsmagazine Network from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where she most notably served as the writer/editor of a variety of specialty magazines and sections, including Thrive, College Connection, Golden Age and The Workplace. Additionally, Kate has worked as a fundraising professional, aiding nonprofits across the country. 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__label__wiki	0.744186	0.744186	Tacoma Climber Dies On Denali Phillip Manning, KTNA - Talkeetna Sylvia Montag approaches Karsten’s Ridge on Denali. (Photo via fox-challenge.de) Just days into climbing season, a mountaineer has died in an an accident high on Denali. Sylvia Montag, 39, of Tacoma, Washington, became separated from her climbing partner around May 5. Sylvia Montag and her climbing partner, Mike Fuchs, a 34-year-old mountaineer from Berlin, Germany, were climbing near Denali Pass on May 3 at just over 18,000 feet when the weather forced them to turn away from the summit and set up camp to shelter from the high winds. After waiting out the weather for two days, Montag and Fuchs began their descent down the West Buttress of Denali. During the expedition, Mike Fuchs updated a blog on the pair’s progress. The last entry in the blog is from the night of May 4. Mike Fuchs described winds over 60-miles-per-hour and temperatures lower than 10-degrees below zero. He noted that the pair was down to about three days of food. That was probably enough to descend the mountain, but it likely ruled out any further summit attempts. Click here to read Sylvia Montag and Mike Fuchs’ blog. At 11:00 a.m. on Monday, May 5, the National Park Service says that Fuchs reported via satellite phone that he and Montag had become separated and both had limited supplies, but he did not request a rescue. Fuchs had taken shelter in a storage locker kept at high camp, around 17,200 feet. On Tuesday, May 6th, Fuchs called the National Park Service again to request a helicopter rescue. He said he still had not heard from Montag. Maureen Gualtieri, spokeswoman for Denali National Park, says that the phone calls, as well as the blog, provided useful information for rescue personnel. “That helped the rangers here establish a timeline, how they were acclimatizing, where they had spent certain nights,” Gualtieri said. “That information was helpful in figuring out where we’re at: how much food they might have left, what kind of equipment, or even more than that, even what sort of apparel they were wearing, so if we had to do an aerial search, we’d know what we were looking for.” High winds and poor visibility prevented the Park Service from launching its rescue helicopter on Tuesday. Because Montag and Fuchs were climbing very early in the season, mountaineering rangers were not yet in position to help on the ground, either. On Wednesday morning, the weather cleared enough for the rescue helicopter to launch. Dave Weber is a mountaineering Ranger for the Park Service, and was on board the helicopter “The information we were going on from her climbing partner is that the most likely last-known spot was in Denali Pass, around 18,200 feet,” Weber said. “That’s the beginning of the descent portion of the Autobahn area, that takes you down to 17,200 camp.” “We searched the Denali Pass area and then moved down further into what a likely fall line would have been from the Autobahn.” Montag’s remains were spotted between 800 and 1,000 feet below the normal trail used on the traverse known as the Autobahn. The Park Service believes she fell while descending from the pass sometime on May 5. The area where Montag fell is one of the more dangerous areas of the mountain. Twelve people have died in similar accidents near the same spot in the last 70 years. Montag and Fuchs were not roped together while descending through the dangerous terrain. While that is not necessarily an uncommon practice, Dave Weber says the Park Service generally advises against it. Weber also says that descending through the area early in the season poses extra risks. “Earlier in the season, we tend to have icier conditions up high, so the footing tends to be much more difficult,” Weber said. “It’s nearly impossible to self-arrest with your axe if you do start to slip or if you do fall.” “Given that, we’re very adamant that people take great caution and use protection along that traverse.” Before they are allowed to attempt Denali, climbers must check in with the ranger station in Talkeetna and receive a briefing that covers the risks and features of the mountain. Dave Weber says that Fuchs and Montag’s briefing did not give any indicators that they were unprepared for the climb. “Looking at their resumés, they did seem to have the appropriate experience to be on a mountain like Denali, so that wasn’t one of the things that we were clued into like we are in some instances where people are under-experienced or there’s disparate experience between members of the party, where you have somebody that’s very experienced and someone that’s not,” Weber said. “They seemed to be a very well-suited pair for this.” Mike Fuchs was rescued from high camp on Wednesday and flown first to base camp and later Talkeetna. The atmosphere at the Walter Harper Talkeetna Ranger Station was somewhat subdued on Friday. The sense is that everyone their hopes that this first climbing tragedy of 2014 is also the last. 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Animal Friends Croatia, For the Animals! From Slovenia, and activists for human rights organize a solidarity demo for the Austrian animal rights activists in front of the Austrian Embassy in Ljubljana - Joining the demo in front of the Embassy will be one of the accused activists, David Richter There is an awful case of political persecution in Austria. Austrian activists are faced with up to five years in prison for using their rights of freedom of speech, freedom of opinion and freedom of assembly. The accusations, as well as the reports from the process, show that the only foundation of the accusations is the political activity of the Association, like organizing public demonstrations and expressing their own personal radical opinions. The Slovenian association for animal rights "For The Animals!," Croatian organization Animal Friends and activists for human rights, organize a peaceful protest this Wednesday, October 27, in front of the Austrian Embassy in Ljubljana, Presernova cesta 23, from 12 noon till 1 P.M., where they will warn about the harsh violation of human rights in Austria, thus joining protests all over the world. David Richter, one of the accused activists, will also join the demo. On May 21, 2008, special units of the Austrian police arrested 10 leading campaigners from the country's successful animal protection movement. The activists, among them a former research assistant at the University of Cambridge, Dr. Martin Balluch, were put on remand. However, the imprisoned activists insisted that the prosecution files they were eventually given access to contained absolutely no evidence of any criminal offence but rather a description of their campaigning for changing laws and business policies. One of the prisoners went on hunger strike and stayed without food for 39 days. Fierce criticism came from many well-known personalities and organisations, including Amnesty International. After more than three months, a senior state prosecutor ordered release of the activists, saying the time spent in custody must be in proportion to the expected sentence. This drove away most of the public attention, but the case wasn't over. In February 2010, the state prosecution announced that enough evidence had been found to put 13 animal protection activists, including the ten who had spent three months in custody, on trial. Four of the accused activists decided to publish their accusations on the internet. In these accusations, there is nothing that would prove criminal acting, from which the public can assure by reading the accusation of David Richer here: www.vgt.at/actionalert/repression/strafantrag/strafantragdrhb.pdf. Austria found themselves in trouble. However, in order to bypass the lack of evidence, the prosecution uses the vague wording of Article 278a of the Austrian Penal Code, which is used for the prosecution of the Mafia, and by that they promote Orwell's "Thought Criminal." "Criminal thinking" of the activists was used as evidence of their alleged membership in a criminal organisation, and that alleged affiliation is proof that their legal action to protect the animals is – criminal. By that, they are mocking the Austrian Statute – saying that organizing public demos is a criminal act. So, the alleged membership in a criminal organization is based on organizing public actions and conferences, expressing opinions and being politically active. The process was launched in March 2010 and it is predicted to last until 2011. Each of the activists is threatened by imprisonment of five years and payment of court costs and attorneys' fees of over 35.000 euros as those costs will not be returned to them regardless of the result of the process. Stefan Traxler, lawyer of the five defendands, doubts the fairness of the process. Specifically, in his 14 years of practice, never has he been so often interrupted by the judge with the reason of rejecting the presented evidence, including all proposed witnesses. As the process progresses, it is obvious that the prosecution has no evidence that this is a criminal organisation. Also the Austrian public starts to realize this and more and more stands by the accused activists. The biggest apsurdity is that the activists are being tried under Article 278a, which accuses them for terrorism, while the activists actually fight terrorism – terrorism that is implemented on the animals, through legal actions and political activism. The aim of this protest in Ljubljana, on which a huge banner will be spread with a clear message, is to inform the public that Austria is a state in which political activists can face up to five years of prison, and to call upon Austria to stop intimidating their citizens with financial collapse and prison because of their political work and personal opinion. Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology Shame on Austria TERROR gegen Tierschutz Martin Balluch Animal Friends is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, founded in 2001 with the aim to promote animal protection and animal rights as well as veganism, as ethical, ecological and healthy lifestyle. Animal Friends Croatia is a member organization of EVU, Eurogroup for Animals, ECEAE, FFA, IAFC and OIPA. 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__label__cc	0.714489	0.285511	Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Technology Denunciations Every Religion And Atheism Is Getting Feminized Women Are Mostly In Make Work Jobs The Truth About (Anti-)Family Courts Fatherhood Not Marriage Is Essential For Civilization Filthy & Feral: Women Who Can’t Handle Modern Civilization How Geolibertarianism Can Stop Redistribution From Men To Women On Sluts The Feminist War On Entitlement Princess Of The Month Submissions Bernie Sanders Proves The Jews Aren’t Behind Feminism conspiracy nonsense, white (knight) nationalism Add comments Senator and Democratic candidate for President of the US Bernie Sanders said this about whether rape cases should be handled by the criminal justice system or colleges: Bernie Sanders called for all rape accusations on college campuses to be handled through law enforcement, a controversial stance that puts him at odds with many advocates. Decrying rape and sexual assault on campuses as an “epidemic,” he said schools must not try to handle the issue internally. “Rape and assault is rape or assault whether it takes place on a campus or a dark street,” he said Monday at the Black and Brown Presidential Forum in Iowa. “If a student rapes another student it has got to be understood as a very serious crime, it has to get outside of the school and have a police investigation and that has to take place.” Sanders is still a white knight mangina for saying that rape on college campuses is an epidemic when statistics show otherwise. However, there is another interesting angle to this. Sanders is Jewish. We keep hearing from white knight nationalists (like Angelo John Gage who took his videos down) and conspiracy theorists that the Jews are behind feminism. If the Jews were behind feminism, then Sanders would never have said that the criminal justice system should handle rape cases and not college tribunals like the feminists want. If the Jews were behind feminism, then whatever Sanders would have said on the subject would be the same as what feminists currently think. Since there is a difference, then Jews aren’t in charge of feminism in any way whatsoever. Feminists aren’t obeying Sanders as would be expected if the Jews controlled feminism. Instead feminists are attacking Bernie Sanders for saying that the criminal justice system should handle rape cases providing more evidence that the Jews aren’t behind feminism. Feminists have even been out to get Sanders for months now and have been trying to paint him as pro-rape. Sanders will do one of two things now that he is being attacked by feminists for saying that rape should be handled by the criminal justice system. Stand firm on what he said in the face of relentless feminist attacks on him. Fold like a cheap suit and give in to feminist demands (similar to how he responded to attacks from #BlackLivesMatter) While I expect Sanders to do the latter, in either case it will prove, again, that the Jews aren’t behind feminism. If Sanders stands firm on what he said, then it proves that feminists will not do what Jews want. If Sanders folds, then it shows that Jews are giving in to what feminists demand and not the other way around. That would show that feminists can force Jews to do what they want so the Jews can’t be in control of feminism in any way whatsoever. Posted by Pro-male/Anti-feminist Tech at 8:45 AM on 01/15/2016 23 Responses to “Bernie Sanders Proves The Jews Aren’t Behind Feminism” Rmax says: He’s only saying that because of Trump … it’ll never get implemented The lack of due process in universities, will get implemented in all states all over america, just like the jews want Theres already no due process for men in child support, family courts, divorce law, DV & rape laws. The lack of due process in universities, doesnt change anything, there is no due process for men in society as a whole, which is why 92% of all workplace deaths are men, then theres the massive suicide rates … Theres also the fact 70% of all men work full time, while only 30% of women work full time. Explaining why women live longer then men. The problem is men are living in a Jewish Marxist Utopia, where they have no due process, while society rots around them thanks to the propoganda tools of the male hating christians & catholics, who work hand in hand with their chosen people, the jews. Tradcon christians are just as dangerous as goyim hating jews. Pro-male/Anti-feminist Tech says: Citation needed that the Jews, in particular Jewish men, want this. Seriously, do you really think that citation shit works on me? Look up any jewish publication on the planet Plus theres already lack of due process in virtually anything to do with women Plus most of the politicians, ie obama jeb bush hillary, ted cruz, bought & paid for by jewish & christian groups, proving yet again the radical extremist jewish religous factions control the u.s political process The vast majority of billionaires are jewish Go find your own citations, the truths evident all you have to do is look The problem is you’re not interested in the bigger picture, or the factions & groups behind the leftist sjw onslaught. Which is why you dont post on the groups behind the leftist’s & sjw’s The leftists, sjw’s & feminists are a diversion, they are not the main event The aristocracy, religous factions & the billionaires have always controlled the narrative In the real world, citations dont mean shit If you need citations to see how screwed you really are, go see a shrink So if I go see a psychologist, they will tell me the Jews are behind everything? Really? Paul Murray says: As I have pointed out elsewhere, the US Constitution specifically states that crimes are to be tried by the courts. This provision is there precisely to stop kangaroo court and mob justice. Cecil Henry says: Seriously…. one Jew says something approaching common sense and that proves Jews have not been heavily involved in the promotion of feminism. Despite their own admissions, and ample evidence?? That logic will allow one to dismiss anything inconvenient. This statement to let law officials prosecute issues of law is only being said because the campus SJW zealots are getting to be an embarrassment. Doesn’t matter. The fact is that feminists are clearly not taking orders from the Jews. Face it. Your white knight nationalism is wrong. So who are feminists taking orders from? The problem here is you have no idea who’s behind the leftists, sjws or the feminists, you thinks its all a coincidence, that it all happens naturally & factions with trillions of dollars, would never try to socially engineer society. Wheres your citation there are no groups behind the clearly organised & well funded leftists, sjw’s & feminists? Themselves. Any other answer falls into the “It’s turtles all the way down” problem. You’re the one with the extraordinary explanation so you have to prove yours. That’s how it works, not the other way around. If whiteknight nationalists think that Jews, who they outnumber 40 to 1, are so powerful and clever, then that is a stunning admission that WNs think that whites are not very smart by being so easily controlled. Funny how WNs have such a low opinion of whites – they think all whites are as inept as WNs are. The notion that FI would not exist if not for Jews is crazy. The FI is rampant in Japan, Korea, etc. all the same, as it is a central part of the human psyche. Ray Manta says: The notion that FI would not exist if not for Jews is crazy. Feminism was evident in societies as disparate as ancient Rome and 19th century America. Jews certainly didn’t have much influence in either society. The common denominator appears to be a surplus of wealth and free time, plus reduced personal risk. Once that occurs, women will try to get as much as possible transferred to them. It’s instinctive behavior, honed over millennia. But in wealthy societies it’s obsolete. All it does now is create huge misallocations of resources and dissolve the glue that holds civilization together. The FI is rampant in Japan, Korea, etc. all the same, as it is a central part of the human psyche. Yes, it’s everywhere. But in some societies it’s much more tolerable than others (on the level the human male evolved to comfortably deal with). Ergeniz says: “Feminism was evident in societies as disparate as ancient Rome and 19th century America. Jews certainly didn’t have much influence in either society. The common denominator appears to be a surplus of wealth and free time, plus reduced personal risk. Once that occurs, women will try to get as much as possible transferred to them”. Well said. This is the biggest problem I have with tradcons, nationalists and such. Even people that otherwise understand the nature of women insist on wishing for “things to return to the way they are”, not recognizing that’s merely part of the cycle. “It’s instinctive behavior, honed over millennia” Which is exactly why this cycle will continue unless something is changed. I fear that this will somehow entail a transformation of base human nature however since this tendency to cater to women does indeed seem to be deeply ingrained. Frankly, I’m not sure what’s to be done about it or if anything can be done about it and its simply a cycle that humans are doomed to repeat in societies that gain technology and wealth. The ‘alternative’ seems to be third world countries where industrialization never seems to take hold (For example Africa) and those countries have their own laundry list of problems. I see Turd Flinging Monkey has also discussed this issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngiEFG19How https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWWxEZ5QAQI Which societies would those be? And which level do you think the parasitism of women is tolerable? Which societies would those be? Mostly developing countries. The consensus of opinion from male travelers and expats appears to be to enjoy it while it lasts, and it won’t be long. And which level do you think the parasitism of women is tolerable? Where transfer of resources from men to women correlated closely to the well-being of children. And where male protection and provisioning was a scarce enough resource that it was appreciated. The opinions of WNs and BNs also comes with the implicit admission that apparently whites/black cannot keep their women under control OR that men exist merely to serve their women at the expense of all else. Either way, the end result doesn’t bold well for a group of people claiming to be above and beyond all others. tamerlame says: Conspiracy theorists never offer the evidence. He doesn’t have to disprove your baseless assertions, the burden of proof is on you! They don’t provide evidence, and we have counterexamples like Bernie Sanders. There is no reason to believe them. s How exactly is Bernie Sanders a counter example? The guys a radical leftist Cherry picking some random quote from a politician isnt proof of anything Go find some citations lmao Tom Rogers says: In the quote, Sanders is saying something feminist, it’s just that he isn’t agreeing with some feminists. That doesn’t prove or disprove that Jews are behind feminism in any organised way. I’m afraid I don’t see what the piece is driving at. I will try explaining, but as a white knight nationalist I don’t expect you to have the intelligence to understand it. Feminists have decided that rape cases should be handled outside of the criminal justice system when possible. If the Jews were behind feminism, then every (prominent) Jew would express the same position on how rape cases should be handled. Bernie Sanders is a prominent Jew. Therefore if the Jews were behind feminism, Sanders would support the idea that rape cases should be handled outside of the criminal justice system. Instead Sanders opposes the idea that rape cases should be handled outside of the criminal justice system. This proves that the Jews can’t be behind feminism since there is no way a Jewish senator would not be part of the Great Jewish Conspiracy (TM). Thus a single example of a prominent Jew disagreeing with a feminist position is enough to prove there is a difference of opinion between Jews and feminists. Therefore there are only two options why this happened: 1. There is a Great Jewish Conspiracy (TM) out there, but it doesn’t control feminism because feminists are disobeying the Jews. 2. There is no Great Jewish Conspiracy (TM) which means that the Jews aren’t behind feminism. vihanlietsoja says: > as a white knight nationalist I don’t expect you to have the intelligence to understand it you just shot yourself in the foot with that ad hominem… Young Women Aren’t Listening To Old Feminists Who Tell Them To Vote Hillary » Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Technology says: […] Sanders will do it at 85 MPH. (That’s because Sanders is against a bit of feminism like rape cases being tried by colleges.) Sanders won’t save young women. At most, he will delay the world of hurt young women […] Human behaviour on the web is something I find fascinating. The way that people project their own inadequacies. You begin your response with an insult, which is predicated on the notion that because I express a certain view that is not in sync with yours, and because I disagree with the conclusory assertions in one of your blog posts, that must mean I follow a particular philosophy (white nationalism) in a particular way (‘white knight’, whatever that means). The phrase, ‘white knight nationalist’ is a dumbed-down American formulation used by people who spend too much time on the internet and don’t appreciate how, in the real world, most people have nuanced and complex views about things, because the real world is nuanced and complex. By insulting me, without any basis or foundation, you have needlessly alienated myself, a reader of your blog. I’ve been reading your blog now for a very long time, and I normally enjoy your posts. I was not even criticising you, nor was I here expressing a view about Jews one way or the other. Anyway, let me now address your latest missive on the subject. Quotes below are from your post above. [quote]”Feminists have decided that rape cases should be handled outside of the criminal justice system when possible.”[unquote] Actually, I don’t entirely agree with you here, but I don’t see this as the contentious part of what you say, so for present purposes, I am happy to treat this is true. However, the rest of what you say doesn’t follow from it. For one thing, feminists are not a monolithic bloc, though it might seem that way, and for another, a man or woman can disagree that rape and other sexual cases should be handled this way and still be a feminist. Sanders’ statement in disagreeing with other feminists was still an affirmation of feminism. Feminism is evidently not a party line. You go on: [quote]”If the Jews were behind feminism, then every (prominent) Jew would express the same position on how rape cases should be handled. Bernie Sanders is a prominent Jew. Therefore if the Jews were behind feminism, Sanders would support the idea that rape cases should be handled outside of the criminal justice system.”[unquote] What we have here is a logical fallacy. Just because every prominent Jew does not express the exact same view on a particular problem, it doesn’t follow that Jews have not been influential in the political movement that has arguably led to that problem. The reality is that Bernie Sanders is a feminist. The statement on which you have based your false and fallacious conclusions was a feminist statement. At the time he made the statement, he was (and still is) a political candidate looking for votes in a primary election. He expresses a particular view that seems slightly more favourable to men but is still feminist. That hardly qualifies as proof that organised Jewry has not been influential with feminism. So your piece tells us nothing, except that one particular male Jewish feminist on one particular day expressed a view that was slightly less radically feminist than lots of other feminists. So what? Going on that, we wouldn’t know whether Jews have been influential in feminism or not, and for present purposes, I take no view one way or the other. You then say: [quote]”This proves that the Jews can’t be behind feminism since there is no way a Jewish senator would not be part of the Great Jewish Conspiracy (TM). Thus a single example of a prominent Jew disagreeing with a feminist position is enough to prove there is a difference of opinion between Jews and feminists.”[unquote] No, it’s not enough to prove that. On its own, one statement from one person proves nothing. You conclude by giving us two selective options, based on your own loaded opinion about things: [quoted]”1. There is a Great Jewish Conspiracy (TM) out there, but it doesn’t control feminism because feminists are disobeying the Jews. “2. There is no Great Jewish Conspiracy (TM) which means that the Jews aren’t behind feminism.”[unquote] My point is that your piece doesn’t help us with either of these options. Either could be true. Or neither. (‘white knight’, whatever that means). I’ve been reading your blog now for a very long time, and I normally enjoy your posts. You say you have been reading my blog for a very long time, yet you don’t know what “white knight” means? Sorry, troll, I’m not going to bite, although I like how you managed to work in your own version of NAFALT in there. Leave a Comment. (Remember the comment policy is in force.) Cancel reply Stop Trying To Be More Feminist Than Feminists The Feminist/Maternal War On Vaccination Is A War On Masculinity Gynocentrism Theory It's Time To Expose Misandry (URLs @ Urinals) Marriage is obsolete. Are women? 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__label__wiki	0.500048	0.500048	Lister takes the top off the superfast LFT-666 Following high demand for an open-top LFT-666, iconic British car manufacturer - The Lister Motor Company – is launching its most powerful open-top supercar ever - the LFT-C - ready for summer 2019. The LFT-C has a top speed in excess of 205 mph, and a 0-62 mph time of just over three seconds, thanks to its Lister-tuned and supercharged 666 bhp V8 engine. In addition, the LFT-C receives the same bespoke wheels, exhaust, suspension and braking system as featured on the LFT-666, but also benefits from a bespoke, handstitched interior. Each LFT-C will feature exclusive carbonfibre body panels, designed and manufactured by Lister in the UK. Unique Lister additions include: front bumper, front splitter, rear diffuser, rear lip spoiler, rear extended wheel arches, a new grille design, and new lightweight alloy wheels fitted with Michelin tyres. Lister has also uprated the suspension and braking system and added a bespoke exhaust system to enhance the sound of the 666 bhp supercharged V8 engine to work perfectly with an open cockpit vehicle. Every LFT-C will be built to a bespoke customer specification, from wheel design to paint finish. The interior adds a real level of unique luxury being entirely retrimmed, by hand with the finest UK Nappa hides from Bridge of Weir leather. In keeping with the Lister tradition of producing extremely unique and rare cars, the LFT-C will be a rare sight, as production is limited to just 10 examples worldwide. Each LFT-C will feature a solid silver numbered plaque, affixed to the engine cover, to show it is one of just 10 examples to be produced. Pricing starts from £139,000 with an almost unlimited options list available. Both the LFT-C and LFP models will soon be on display at the brand new, purpose-built, £6m, Lister headquarters and showroom in Blackburn, Lancashire, which opened in January. They will be displayed in the new showroom alongside classic Lister models, and other select classic cars. The Lister classic continuation models, comprising the Knobbly and Costin, will continue to be built in Cambridgeshire. The LFT-666 coupe, which was limited to a total of 99 cars, received orders from around the world. Delivery of customer cars commenced in January 2019, with cars heading as far afield as Canada and Australia. The entire 2019 allocation of cars is now sold; however, buyers can still place an order for delivery in early 2020. In addition to the production LFT-666 and LFT-C models, Lister is also offering wheel and body enhancements for all Jaguar F-Type models worldwide, with kits starting from just £9,750 for the Lister badge, bumper and wheel upgrade. Cars with only the Lister body enhancements will be known as simply the Lister LFT, with no BHP denotation added. Warrantywise, the UK’s 2nd largest privately-owned car warranty firm, will be providing extended warranties for all Lister vehicles, meaning that a 7-year warranty is now available across the entire Lister range. Lawrence Whittaker, CEO of The Lister Motor Company said: “Launching the new LFT-C is a personal triumph, as I have always loved convertible cars, even since my 2nd car, an MG Midget. While we are famous for cars like the Knobbly and the Storm, the LFT series heralds a new era for Lister and continues our historical enhancement of Jaguar drive trains, which dates back to 1957. In 2019, we will see the launch of at least two new cars and have also just opened our new £5m headquarters in Lancashire that will be known as the home of the new Lister. There is lots more to come, and we look forward to sharing more news in the near future." March 2019 News Archive Jaguar refreshes F-Pace and adds two special editions Nissan UK to cease production of Infiniti as they pull the brand out of Europe McLaren Senna GTR: the ultimate racetrack driving experience Nissan LEAF leads the charge for EV sales Morgan announce new Plus 6 at Geneva McLaren poised to redefine the rules of Grand Touring Ginetta reveal new Akula supercar at Geneva Celebratory Bentley Continental GT Number 9 Edition announced All-new Jaguar XE announced Aston Martin Valkyrie hypercar prototypes take shape	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9824
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__label__cc	0.522278	0.477722	Dhamaru Ghandharva Yoga & Dance Drum Workshops Chuck is a multi-percussionist from Northwest New Jersey who has recorded and toured the U.S. with his friend Arjun Alan Bruggeman (currently with Krishna Das) in their world percussion band known as Ghandharva. He has also appeared live or recorded with Neal Casal, Michael Franti, David Darling, John Ginty, Robert Randolph, Tribe After Tribe (featuring the South African musician Robbie Robb, Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam and Doug Pinnick of King’s X) Three Fish, Anthony Krizon (Spin Doctors), From Good Homes, Roamin’ Gabriels, and Ganga Giri. The instruments he plays are West African in nature, including the djembe, doun doun and shekeree; some are rooted in the South American culture such as the congas and berimbau. Chuck has studied these various instruments with Baba Olatunji, M’Beba Bangoura, Titos Sompa, Mohammed Camera, Yaya Nelson, Ladji Camera, Mar Gueye and Glen Webber. Recently he has begun recording and performing on the electric guitar. Chuck has just finished up work on his first full length solo recording which will be titled " A New Beginning" This new record features his current band memebers Mary Moses and Maria Haddon, along with many guest muscians including: Neal Casal, Joe Cirotti, Nadine La Fond, Mike Esposito and Jeff Hambright. All the tracks were recorded and produced by John Ginty. The scheduled release date is June 2019. Since 2004 Chuck has been exploring the art of accompanying yoga classes with live drumming. This experience has led him across the US, playing for various styles such as Anusara, Vinyasa Flow, Kripalu and Hatha. He is on the leading edge of the yoga and live music scene that is flourishing throughout the country today. Starting this endeavor out as a solo performer, he would later involve guitarist Colin Allured from North Carolina. Together they would evolve into the recording and touring project known as Dhamaru, releasing one full length record and an EP. Chuck also accompanies many forms of dance including African dance, modern, jazz, tap and NIA. He enjoys playing for free form dance styles as well, such as trance dance and ecstatic dance. He has worked with choreographers Mark Morris, Jo Ann Staugaard-Jones, Kim Pinto, NIA co-creator Debbie Rosas, Caroline Kohles, Casey Bernstein, and Yoga Trance Dance instructors Amy Jeanette and Mary Ellen Ricks. Teaching hand-drumming, specifically the djembe, is also a part of his many talents. Whether performing solo or with a band, Chuck loves the art of music and rhythm, and continues to explore its depths through live performance and recording. New Music Released June 1st 2019 !! 7 Original Tracks / Many Special Guests / Produced by John Ginty	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9835
__label__wiki	0.585532	0.585532	Home About the Author Other writings Share your story Appearances Vets Writing Workshops Cindy McDermott, Author Working with Really Stupid People: The Congregants, Stupid-isms and Stupid-isms from McD are copyright © 2016 by McD Media LLC. All Rights Reserved. Working with Really Stupid People TM Jill Fountaine returns to her backwoods hometown of Dimlit in the Ozarks to plan her fourth marriage, reuniting with her third ex-husband. She longs for her first church wedding, but Jill’s dream turns into a nightmare as she dodges daggers from the bossy, holier-than-thou leaders of the Women’s Altar Guild Society (WAGS). She also meets the congregation’s latest man of the cloth, Pastor David, whose angelic looks and devilish banter give a whole new meaning to the word, “Hallelujah!” Pastor David persuades Jill to join his mission of atonement and “put the Bible down” on an unscrupulous payday loan company, scavenging on the poor folks of Dimlit. Owned by Ronnie Roland, a major donor to the church and husband of WAGS leader Georgette Roland, the company leaves a trail of swindles, scams and strange murders. As Pastor David and Jill delve deeper into the mystery, Jill becomes the prime suspect in the killings. Her eccentric Aunt Olida Wilhelmina and Uncle Verl offer support in their peculiar ways, even pushing Jill into an undercover caper that lands them all in jail. Solving the hijinks and murders is the top priority, but Jill is faced with another dilemma as she ponders whether to proceed with her nuptials to Barry now that the handsome pastor has entered her life. Order an e-book: Sign up for the latest on news and appearances. A CPA emptied her bank accounts and her ex-husband sits in jail, charged in a multi-million dollar scam, but Jill Fountaine is determined to make things right. With her life savings drained to zero, Jill is forced to take a job at Deep Pockets Bank and Trust. But she discovers this employer hasn’t painted an accurate picture of her new workplace. The bank is embroiled in a huge scam and her ex-husband, the love of her life, is right in the middle of the trouble. Jill teams with a motley crew of offbeat friends and co-workers to solve the case. Her oddball neighbors moonlight as bumbling private investigators. Janitors clean floors while eavesdropping on corner-office conversations. An IT expert dresses in feline costumes and catnaps in coffins as she commands the bank’s massive computer infrastructure. With their help, Jill uncovers a conspiracy, loaded with her own stolen money and reaching the bank’s top executives. In Working with Really Stupid People: The Executives, Jill finds herself in one silly adventure after another as she attempts to clear her ex-husband, while dodging the antics of a desperate group of crooks. She realizes nothing will stop them from pilfering millions of dollars, including permanently erasing her from the picture. "The Congregants," #4 in the "Working with Really Stupid People." "The Executives" Working with Really Stupid People #3 Order print: CreateSpace 2018 Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award Nominee Excellent Learnings at the 2019 Johnson County Library Writers Conference JOCO Library hosted another great multi-day writers conference at the Central Resource site. I presented a session on Creating Characters Impacted by Moral Injury. I had some requests to post my presentation and I've done so here. You need Powerpoint to view this presentation. For those in the KCMO metro, I will share an expanded version of this workshop at the Mid-America Romance Authors on February 22, 2020. Details to come. Moral_Injury_Writing_Presentation.pptx My work, "I Wonder How She's Doing and My Connections" was selected for publication in the national military anthology, "Proud to Be." Order copies here. I'll be one of the military veteran readers at the St. Louis NPR station, 3651 Olive Street, on December 7, 2019, beginning at 1:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9837
__label__cc	0.55787	0.44213	STUDY PROTOCOL Porous tantalum rods improve the hip joint function of patients with avascular necrosis of the femoral head after femoral neck fracture surgery: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial He-ling Zhang, Ming-hao Deng, Jian-cheng Yang Department of Orthopedic Trauma, Qinghai University Affiliated Hospital, Xining, Qinghai Province, China He-ling Zhang Department of Orthopedic Trauma, Qinghai University Affiliated Hospital, Xining, Qinghai Province Background: After femoral neck fracture, insufficient blood supply to the femoral head can cause avascular necrosis of this region. This can lead to increased treatment difficulty, and may greatly influence the recovery of hip joint function. Core decompression with bone grafting is a common treatment for avascular necrosis of the femoral head. An implanted porous tantalum rod, which is a bone trabecula-like metal implant that is used to support the weight-bearing area of necrotic bone, can prevent further collapse of the necrotic area. This strategy has led to favorable effects in the early treatment of avascular necrosis of the femoral head. However, few randomized controlled studies have reported on porous tantalum rod implantation for treatment of avascular necrosis of the femoral head after femoral neck fracture surgery. We hypothesized that, compared with core decompression alone, core decompression with porous tantalum rod implantation would have a more beneficial effect of the hip joint function of patients with avascular necrosis of the femoral head after femoral neck fracture surgery. Methods/Design: This is a prospective, single-center, randomized controlled, open-label trial, which will be performed in the Department of Orthopedic Trauma, Qinghai University Affiliated Hospital, China. A total of 100 patients with avascular necrosis of the femoral head after femoral neck fracture surgery will be randomly assigned to undergo core decompression and porous tantalum rod implantation (experimental group, n = 50) or core decompression only (control group, n = 50). All patients will be followed up for 1 year. The primary outcome measure is the percentage of patients (of the total number of patients in each group) whose hip joint function is graded as excellent as per Harris hip scores 12 months after surgery. This value will be used to evaluate the recovery of hip joint function. Secondary outcome measures include (1) the percentage of patients with excellent hip joint function, prior to and 1 and 6 months after surgery (of the total number of patients in each group); (2) hip joint pain score on a Visual Analogue Scale prior to and 1, 6, and 12 months after surgery, which will be used to evaluate the severity of pain; (3) the percentage of patients presenting with femoral head collapse, prosthesis loosening, and peri-prosthesis infection 6 and 12 months after surgery, which will be used to evaluate the biocompatibility of the biomaterial with the host site; (4) incidence of complications 6 and 12 months after surgery, which will be used to evaluate the safety of porous tantalum rod implantation. Discussion: This study is powered to validate the biocompatibility and therapeutic effects of porous tantalum rods in the treatment of avascular necrosis of the femoral head after femoral neck fracture, with the hopes that this novel surgical method represents a superior treatment for this disease. Trial registration: ClinicalTrial.gov identifier: NCT02877472; registered on 19 August 2016. Ethics: This study protocol has been approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Qinghai University Affiliated Hospital of China (approval number: QHY1016B) and will be performed in accordance with the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, formulated by the World Medical Association. Informed consent: Signed informed consent regarding trial procedure and treatment will be obtained from each patient. Keywords: tissue engineering; clinical trial; porous tantalum rod; femoral neck fracture; avascular necrosis of femoral head; hip joint function; biocompatibility; core decompression; Visual Analogue Scale spine score; pain; randomized controlled trial Zhang Hl, Deng Mh, Yang Jc. Porous tantalum rods improve the hip joint function of patients with avascular necrosis of the femoral head after femoral neck fracture surgery: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial. Clin Trials Orthop Disord 2016;1:100-5 Zhang Hl, Deng Mh, Yang Jc. Porous tantalum rods improve the hip joint function of patients with avascular necrosis of the femoral head after femoral neck fracture surgery: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial. Clin Trials Orthop Disord [serial online] 2016 [cited 2020 Jan 22];1:100-5. Available from: http://www.clinicalto.com/text.asp?2016/1/3/100/189507 History and current related studies Femoral neck fracture can render the blood supply to the femoral head insufficient, leading to avascular necrosis of the femoral head. This often increases treatment difficulty and can have a strong influence on the recovery of hip joint function (Li et al., 2015; Sharma et al., 2015; Hu et al., 2016; Kuo et al., 2016; Varghese et al., 2016; Zhang et al., 2016). Although core decompression for treatment of avascular necrosis of the femoral head has been largely used in clinical settings, the mid-term therapeutic effects are not satisfactory in some patients (Yang et al., 2010). Biocompatibility is defined as the ability of a biomaterial, prosthesis, or medical device to perform with an appropriate host response. The biocompatibility of a bone implant and host influences the therapeutic effects. Therefore, biomaterials that are less likely to induce negative host responses may increase the therapeutic effects of such treatments for orthopedic diseases. A porous tantalum rod is a bone trabecula-like metal implant that is used to support weight-bearing areas of necrotic bone, preventing further collapse of the necrotic area. This implant has exhibited favorable effects in the early treatment of avascular necrosis of the femoral head (Zhong, 2012). Although previous reports have focused on porous tantalum rod implantation for clinical treatment of avascular necrosis of the femoral head after fermoral neck fracture, few have assessed the long-term therapeutic effects or biocompatibility of porous tantalum rods. Main objective We aim to confirm 1) whether, compared with core decompression alone, core decompression with porous tantalum rod implantation improves the hip joint function of patients with avascular necrosis of the femoral head after femoral neck fracture surgery, 2) whether the porous tantalum rod shows favorable biocompatibility with the human body, and 3) whether this treatment method is feasible for treating avascular necrosis of the femoral head after femoral neck fracture surgery. Novelty of this study A literature search conducted on 30 June 2016 identified no similar studies published since June 2006 (according to Web of Science and ClinicalTrial.gov). Therefore, we believe our research to be innovative. Methods/Design A prospective, single-center, randomized controlled open-label trial. Study setting Department of Orthopedic Trauma, Qinghai University Affiliated Hospital, China. Study procedure A total of 100 patients with avascular necrosis of the femoral head after femoral head fracture surgery who are scheduled to receive treatment in the Department of Orthopedic Trauma, Qinghai University Affiliated Hospital, China will be randomly assigned to undergo core decompression and porous tantalum rod implantation (experimental group, n = 50) or core decompression only (control group, n = 50). All patients will be followed up for 1 year [Figure 1]. Figure 1: Flow chart of the trial Patients meeting all of the following conditions will be considered for admission: Patients with fracture nonunion as indicated by a clear fracture line 12 months after femoral neck fracture; avascular necrosis of the femoral head as shown by cystic degeneration, sclerosis, and uneven density on X-ray images and CT scans Patients with avascular necrosis of the femoral head after femoral neck fracture surgery who underwent internal fixation between 1 January 2016 and 31 May 2017 Any sex and nationality Provision of signed informed consent to participate in the trial Patients will be excluded from this trial if they present with one of the following: Poor general health Chronic disease or surgical contraindications Alcohol abuse or long-term use of hormone drugs Unable or declines to cooperate with treatment and examination because of language and/or mental disorders Unable or declines to cooperate with rehabilitation treatment because of mental and/or psychological disorders Withdrawal criteria Patients will be withdrawn from the trial if any of the following occurs: Withdrawal of informed consent and refusal to continue treatment Unable to undergo further treatment because of severe adverse events Poor compliance during the trial Baseline evaluation Prior to randomization, we will collect patient baseline data, including demographic data (age, sex, level of education, body mass index) and general disease history (current, previous, and genetic history). In accordance with a previous study (Gong et al., 2010), we hypothesized that the percentage of patients with excellent hip joint function as per Harris hip scores 12 months after surgery will be 92%. We used PASS 14.0 software (Jerry Hintze, Kayville, UT, USA) to calculate sample size, with a significance level of α = 0.05 (two-sided), ß ≤ 0.1, and power = 90%. The final effective sample size was determined to be n = 93 per group. Taking a 20% rate of lost patients into consideration, we would require 112 patients per group. After screening against the inclusion and exclusion criteria, we plan to include 50 patients per group. Potential patients from the wards in our hospital will be informed about the trial through a recruitment advertisement on the hospital bulletin board. Those interested in participating will be asked to contact the project manager. After providing written informed consent, all potential participants will be screened according to the above inclusion and exclusion criteria. One day prior to treatment, we will use a random number table generated by SPSS 19.0 software (IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY, USA) to number the 100 patients in successive order. The patients assigned even numbers will be included in the experimental group and those assigned odd numbers will comprise the control group. This is an open-label trial. Group information and therapeutic regimen are fully exposed to physicians, patients, and assessors. Experimental group A titanium alloy guiding pin (Shenzhen Baoxing Biological Preparation Co., Ltd., China; 3.2 mm in length) with good biocompatibility will be drilled at a site 2.0 cm inferior to the inferior greater trochanter in the necrotic area of the femoral head. With the assistance of a C-arm fluoroscopic X-ray system, a guiding pin will be positioned at the center of the femoral neck relative to the subchondral bone and necrotic area and inserted to a point 5 mm inferior to the surface of the femoral head cartilage. Necrotic bone in the necrotic area and dead bone in the area of cystic degeneration will be curetted and removed using a standard hollow biopsy tool (6 mm in diameter). The pore will then be expanded using an annular bit (10 mm in diameter) and core decompression will be performed. After core decompression, porous titanium rods (Trabecular Metal, Zimmer Inc., USA; cylinders, 10 mm in diameter, 70-130 mm in length, 25 mm length of screw thread at the end, 5 mm gradient, 14 mm thickness, with good mechanical performance, excellent biocompatibility, and favorable stabilization in the initial stage after implantation) will be placed with the lateral part of the rod implant parallel to the level of cortical bone and slightly embedded in the cortical bone. Control group With the assistance of a C-arm fluoroscopic X-ray system, a Kirschner wire (2.5 mm in diameter) will be positioned at the center of the femoral neck relative to the subchondral bone and necrotic area and inserted to a point 5 mm inferior to the surface of the femoral head cartilage. The necrotic bone in the necrotic area and dead bone in the area of cystic degeneration will be curetted and removed using a standard hollow biopsy tool (6 mm in diameter). The pore will then be expanded using an annular bit (9-12 mm in diameter) and core decompression will be performed. Postoperative management Routine drainage, preventive anti-infection treatment and functional rehabilitation exercise should be performed in each group. After surgery, intravenous administration of antibiotics should be required for no more than 24 hours. The drainage strips are expected to be removed within 48 hours after surgery. Lower limb functional exercises, including leg-raising, kicking, and ankle flexion and extension, under non-weight bearing conditions, are required and rehabilitation treatments using tendon-soothing maneuvers are necessary for promoting limb blood circulation and preventing muscular atrophy. The two groups of patients will be asked to lie in bed for 3 months after the surgery. They will be allowed to bear partial weight between 3 and 9 months after surgery and bear total weight 9 months after surgery. All patients will receive follow up assessments once every 3 months for more than 1 year. X-ray images and CT scans should be collected by an experienced radiologist during the follow up to judge the disease progression. Follow-ups will be immediately discontinued if femoral head collapse occurs. Primary outcome measure We will use the percentage of patients (of the total number of patients in each group) whose hip joint function is graded as excellent, as per Harris hip scores 12 months after surgery, to evaluate the recovery of hip joint function. The Harris hip score ranges from 0-100 points with higher scores indicating better hip joint function. Hip joint function is scored as follows: ≥ 90 is excellent, 80-89 very good, 70-79 good, and < 70 poor. The percentage of patients (of the total number of patients in each group) with excellent hip joint function prior to, 1, and 6 months after surgery: the evaluation criteria are the same as above. Hip joint pain score on a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) prior to and 1, 6, and 12 months after surgery: VAS hip joint pain score will be used to evaluate the severity of pain and ranges from 0-10, with higher scores indicating more severe pain. A score of 0 represents no pain, scores > 0 and ≤ 3 represent mild pain, scores > 3 and ≤ 6 moderate pain, and scores > 6 and ≤ 10 severe pain (Knop et al., 2001). The percentage of patients presenting with femoral head collapse, prosthesis loosening, or peri-prosthesis infection 6 and 12 months after surgery will be used to evaluate the biocompatibility of the biomaterial with the host site. If X-ray images and CT scans show evidence of femoral head collapse, prosthesis loosening, and/or peri-prosthesis infection, then the biocompatibility between the porous tantalum rod implant and the host will be considered to be poor. A lower percentage value indicates better biocompatibility between the porous tantalum rod implant and host. The incidences of complications 6 and 12 months after surgery are used to evaluate the safety of various implantation methods. The percentage of patients (of the total number of patients in each group) presenting with adverse events will be calculated. The schedule of outcome measurement assessments is shown in [Table 1]. Table 1: Timing of outcome assessment Possible adverse events include any expected or unexpected symptoms. If severe adverse events occur, information including the date of occurrence and measures taken related to the treatment of the adverse events will be reported to the principal investigator and the institutional review board within 24 hours. Data collection, management, analysis, and open access Data collection: Case report forms with demographic data, disease diagnosis, accompanying diseases, drug allergy history, and adverse events will be collected, processed using Epidata software, collated, and then electrically recorded using a double-data entry strategy by data managers. Data management: The locked electronic database will not be altered in any way, and will only be available to the project manager. Paper and electronic data regarding screening, informed consent, and clinical outcomes will be preserved at the Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, China. Data analysis: The electronic database will be made available to a professional statistician for statistical analysis. An outcome analysis report will be made by the statistician and submitted to the lead researchers. An independent data monitoring committee will supervise and manage the trial data with the goal of ensuring a scientific and stringent trial process, resulting in accurate and complete data. Data open access: Anonymized trial data will be published at http://www.figshare.com. Statistical analysis will be performed by a statistician using SPSS 19.0 software (IBM Corporation) and will follow the intention-to-treat principle. Normally distributed measurement data will be expressed as a mean, standard deviation, min, and max. Non-normally distributed measurement data will be expressed as a lower quartile (q1), median, and upper quartile (q3). The chi-square test will be used to compare the percentage of patients with excellent hip joint function as per Harris hip scores 12 months after surgery, the percentage of patients presenting with femoral head collapse, prosthesis loosening, peri-prosthesis infection, and incidence of complications 6 and 12 months after surgery. The Mann-Whitney U test will be used to compare the VAS score prior to and 1, 6, and 12 months after surgery. Statistical significance will be accepted when α = 0.05. The progress of the trial will be reported to the ethics committee of Qinghai University Affiliated Hospital, China every 3 months and the trial status will be updated in the registration database. Valuable trial data will be transcribed, dated, and uploaded to a dedicated computer by two staff members. Data will be scheduled, checked, locked by an investigator, password-protected, and will not be altered. Data regarding this trial protocol recorded on paper will be preserved by Qinghai University Affiliated Hospital, China. Significance of this study With this study, we hope to provide quantitative evidence for the efficacy and biocompatibility of porous tantalum rod implantation in the treatment of avascular necrosis of the femoral head in patients who have undergone femoral neck fracture surgery. Advantages and limitations of this study Advantages: this study is a prospective, single-center, randomized, controlled, open-label trial with the aim of investigating the efficacy and biocompatibility of porous tantalum rod implantation in the treatment of avascular necrosis of the femoral head after femoral neck fracture surgery. Compared to a previous report (Zhong, 2012), this study protocol is more normative. Limitations: the sample size (n = 50 per group) is small. Additionally, we will not collect X-ray radiological findings of the hip joint. Finally, the follow-up period is very short. In future work, patients should be followed up for more than 1 year to determine the long-term therapeutic effects of porous tantalum rod implantation on avascular necrosis of the femoral head after femoral neck fracture surgery. Contributions to future research This study is powered to assess whether porous tantalum rod implantation can promote the recovery of hip joint function in patients with avascular necrosis of the femoral head after femoral neck fracture surgery, and whether this treatment is associated with decreased collapse of the femoral head, prosthesis loosening, and peri-prosthesis infection. This treatment method is expected to increase the percentage of patients with excellent hip joint function 12 months after surgery, as per Harris hip scores, to be ≥ 92%.[10] Recruiting is ongoing at the time of submission. HLZ conceived and designed the study protocol. MHD and HLZ wrote the manuscript. JCY authorized the manuscript. All authors approved the final version of this manuscript for publication. This paper was screened twice using CrossCheck to verify originality before publication. This paper was double-blinded and stringently reviewed by international expert reviewers. 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__label__cc	0.717876	0.282124	Makin' Bacon: A Short Story A couple months ago I wrote a 2000 word short story for a contest, the object of which was to describe what was happening in the above "fanart" showing writer John Scalzi as an orc and writer/actor Wil Wheaton riding a unicorn pegasus kitten (I named it Purrgasus!). The results were announced today and, big surprise, I didn't win. I don't feel too bad about it since it's my first short story and there were over 300 others entered in the contest. Since there's no chance that my story will ever be published I thought that I would post it here. Enjoy! MAKIN' BACON Somewhere on Mount Fail, late morning. “Is someone making bacon?” The lone Scalzi orc gave several sniffs and abruptly abandoned his pursuit of the Evil One to search the human soldiers’ camp for any sign of the savory meat. He paid no heed to the gagging sounds the soldiers made when he passed into their sight, nor to the Evil One and his feline monstrosity, who were rapidly making their escape. The captain of the soldiers groaned and hid his eyes from the green-skinned orc, lest he be sick again. How could he have been foolish enough to let the Evil One go? He even cheered for him as he flew away! Vainly he tried to rally his company. “Prepare another net! Bring him back down!” he ordered. The soldiers pulled themselves up and gave it their best but it was far too late. In the end, they could only watch helplessly as the Purrgasus and the Evil One disappeared into the distance. “Curse you, Wil Wheaton!” the captain screamed, tears of hate and frustration escaping from his eyes. Though the object of his anger had vanished from sight, an obnoxious cackle was carried back to the captain on the foul-smelling wind. It was followed by the Evil One’s parting words: “Yes, I am that gooooood!” Fifteen minutes earlier… Mount Fail spewed its ash and cinders over the burning land for miles and filled the sky with stinking clouds of sulfur and ash. Below all this, in a slight hollow halfway down the volcano’s side, hid six dirty and weary soldiers. They had camped there for days now, holding their heads low and covering themselves with fireproof cloaks to guard against the flaming debris that floated down from the volcano’s mouth. It paid to be cautious on Mount Fail. Only that morning the seventh member of their company had rushed to be first in line for breakfast and neglected his protective cloak. The sight of his crimson uniform bursting into flames would give his fellow soldiers nightmares for years to come. Their captain flicked away a small pile of accumulated ash from his cloak. “Not long now, eh lieutenant?” he said to the fresh-faced young man crouched next to him. “Sir, are you sure this is a good idea?” asked his second-in-command, pulling his cloak tighter around his shoulders. “How can we possibly be a match for so much evil?” “Oh come now! Have I ever led you wrong?” replied the captain. “The Evil One will come and we will capture him, I give you my word! As I always say, ‘He who is on the side of rightness…should watch out for his left!’” The captain laughed and clapped the lieutenant on the shoulder. The younger man spent a moment trying to understand the captain’s proverb before deciding that it was impossible. “Something’s coming!” the lookout called from her position near the top of the hollow. She pointed to a creature emerging from the ring of smog that hugged the peak of Mount Fail. With a single deadly horn, two foul brown wings and a mouth crammed with cruel, needle-sharp teeth the legendary Purrgasus was unmistakable. On its back was a rider – the Evil One. The captain jumped to his feet. “Ready the net!” he ordered. The soldiers scrambled to comply while their leader kept his eye on the man riding the flying beast. “Steady… Steady…” He watched him draw closer, waiting until he was just within range. “Now!” The soldiers flung out the net and trapped the Purrgasus and its rider, pulling the struggling pair down to earth. The lieutenant and the lookout dragged the man out of the net while the others rushed to lash the hideous feline creature to the ground. Though it mewed pitifully, the captain was not moved. He knew that if given half a chance the Purrgasus would gleefully disembowel him. Ignoring the creature, he turned to the human prisoner. “Let me go!” cried the bestubbled man, struggling against his captors as they removed a golden spear from his hands. Once the shining weapon was freed they passed it to the captain, who examined it briefly before responding to the prisoner’s plea. “I think not, my friend,” the captain said. “The Traykee Purity Guardians will pay us a pretty penny when we deliver your head to them!” He poked the golden spear at the man’s neck. “What?” The prisoner gulped. “Are you hard of hearing?” asked the captain. Moving closer to the man he loudly replied, “I said, the Traykee Purists will pay us well for your head, Wil Wheaton!” The man’s reaction surprised the captain. Instead of cowering in fear, he laughed. “Wheaton? You think I am the Wheaton?” He laughed again and shook his head, albeit carefully to avoid the spear still pointed at his neck. “I’m afraid there has been a misunderstanding – I am not Wil Wheaton.” The soldiers looked at the man in confusion. Had they made a mistake? But their captain was not so easily swayed. “You’re a silver-tongued devil, Wheaton. How can there be any doubt that you are the Evil One? You’re just as the tales describe - riding on that feline monstrosity, carrying the golden spear of Epicosity and wearing the legendary Harlequin Sweater, knitted from finest mithril!” The man nodded in agreement. “Yes, yes! And were I in your position I could only conclude the same. But please, let me assure you that in truth I am but a lowly orc. They call me John of the Scalzis, and my clan has been at war with the Evil One for eons. Why, it is only because of the trickery of the Wheaton that I appear before you thusly!” The captain narrowed his eyes at the man and asked, “An orc? Do you take me for a fool?” He spat in disgust and pressed the spear tightly against the prisoner’s neck, causing the man to gasp. “But I tell the truth!” he begged. “Only minutes ago I was battling the Wheaton at the pinnacle of Mount Fail. He was nearly defeated – all that remained was for me to remove his impenetrable Harlequin Sweater so I could stab him through the heart and utterly destroy him. However, no sooner did I pull the garment from his body than did the Evil One knock me to the ground and make his escape on foot! I was disheartened until I realized that, in his haste, he had left behind his creature, spear, and sweater. I took these things for my own and set off to find him.” The captain shook his head and scoffed. “If you are a Scalzi orc, why do you look like a man? Where is your mossy green skin? Your pointy orc ears? Your splendid orc armor?” “I see you are very observant!” the man replied. “It is obvious why you are the leader of this band.” The captain unsuccessfully tried to hide the smug grin that crept across his face. The prisoner continued, “Since you are such an intelligent man, I will let you in on one of the Wheaton’s greatest secrets. This enchanted Harlequin Sweater not only protects the wearer, but also disguises their appearance. When I removed the sweater from the Wheaton’s back he reverted to his true form – a horrible, putrid golem. And when I put the sweater on myself to replace my armor that the Evil One threw into Mount Fail, I was changed from an orc to a man!” The captain pondered the prisoner’s story. Enchanted garments did seem to be packed with multiple magic powers these days. Why, just a few weeks ago he had come across the Mystical Mittens of Mott, which not only made the wearer invisible but also protected their fingers from frostbite. Perhaps the prisoner was telling the truth after all. He lowered the spear and the man gave a sign of relief. The lieutenant noticed his superior’s change in attitude. He waved for one of the other soldiers to take his place holding the prisoner and came to the captain’s side. “Sir, should we not make him remove the enchanted sweater?” he asked. “That would prove beyond a doubt whether he is a Scalzi orc.” The captain gave a great sigh. “You have much to learn, lieutenant. Of course we cannot.” “But why?” the lieutenant asked. “Tell me, have you ever seen a shirtless Scalzi?” “No sir, I have not.” “Then pray you never do!” The captain shuddered. “Now, please stop wasting my time and bring me the leftovers from breakfast.” “Sir?” The lieutenant was bewildered. “Don’t ask questions, just do as I say!” The lieutenant scurried away and returned several moments later carrying a platter filled to the brim with crispy, greasy bacon. The captain took it from him. “Watch and you’ll see why I’m the one in charge here.” He stepped forward and offered the platter to the prisoner, saying, “Here friend, you must be—” but before he could add ‘hungry,’ the platter had been snatched from his hands and the prisoner was quickly devouring every last crackle. The captain gave a satisfied smirk. “You see?” he asked the lieutenant. “See what, sir?” “That you should never doubt me!” the captain answered. “Do you remember this old rhyme? Things made of meat, the Wheaton won’t eat…” “But things made of pork are like catnip to orcs!” finished the lieutenant. “Of course!” He smiled for a moment, then frowned when another thought occurred to him. “But could not the Wheaton be acting? Pretending that he enjoys bacon so that we will believe his story?” “Don’t be ridiculous,” the captain replied, watching the prisoner greedily lick the platter clean of grease. “Nobody’s that good.” He turned to the soldiers guarding the Purrgasus. “Cut it loose,” he commanded. To the prisoner he said, “I am deeply sorry for the misunderstanding, John of the Scalzis. You are clearly telling the truth and are free to go. We too wish to see the end of the Evil One, so may the gods shower good fortune upon you and your noble quest!” The captain held out the golden spear. The man took it and replied, “Thank you, friend.” He mounted his feline steed and raised the spear in a salute. “I shall not fail!” At that, the Purrgasus beat its wings and the pair rose up into the burning sky. “A cheer for the heroic orc!” the captain shouted and led the soldiers in a passionate “Hip, hip, hurrah!” They were so intent on their celebration that not one of them noticed when a real Scalzi orc appeared at the top of the hollow, wheezing and snorting in exhaustion from his run down the side of the volcano. “Hey! Stop that guy!” the orc gasped between breaths. “Don’t let him get away!” Startled, the soldiers turned to look at the newcomer. That was a grave mistake, however, because the orc was wearing no shirt. Upon beholding that repulsive sight every last man and woman retched, heaving up the contents of their stomachs until the entire company lay weak and dazed on the ground. The captain struggled to his feet but fell again when he caught another eyeful of the Scalzi orc’s chest. “In the name of all that is sacred, clothe yourself!” he cried. The orc rolled his eyes. “Gee, I’d love to! But that jerk in the clown sweater stole my armor and threw it into Mount Fail!” The green monster roared in frustration at the departing Purrgasus and its rider, but stopped when his attention was caught by a smell rising from the stomach-churning mess in the camp. “Is someone making bacon?” Posted by Cat Carlisle at 8:53 AM Labels: John Scalzi, short story, Unicorn Pegasus Kitten, Wil Wheaton Printing Your Own Book Last November I participated in National Novel Writing Month, an event held online every year where thousands of people attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in one month. I "won", which means that I did write a 50,000+ word novel in 30 days. One of the perks of winning was a free proof copy of my book from CreateSpace.com. CreateSpace is an online self-publishing company affiliated with Amazon.com. It's free to get a basic account and publish a book as long as you do all the work yourself; you only pay for the actual printed copies. You upload a PDF of your book to the site, formatted exactly how you want it to appear in the final book including page sizes, numbers, etc. You create a cover for it, either by yourself or using one of their pre-formatted covers. For my book cover, I took a photo in my backyard (an antique key on some grass) and inserted it into one of CreateSpace's covers. Next, someone at CreateSpace checks to make sure that your book will print correctly. It's a very basic check - mainly just to be sure that your PDF is the right size and nothing is going to be cut off on the edge of the page (they don't check for typos, missing pages or anything like that). Once your book has been checked you can order a proof copy. The cost depends on the size and page count of your book (mine was free thanks to NaNoWriMo, including free shipping!). Your book is shipped to you, you check it over and if you're happy with it you can make it available for others to purchase at CreateSpace.com and Amazon.com. Or, if you're like me and you only want to have a copy for yourself, you don't have to make it available to purchase at all. The hardest part of this (besides writing the book!) is formatting the PDF. It took me several days to get my book set up correctly. CreateSpace doesn't give you much help with the formatting, probably because they would prefer that you pay them to do it for you! So I used this website from self-published author Lisa Shea which goes through pretty much everything you need to know about printing your own book. She also gives her thoughts on the other two big self-publishing sites out there, Lulu and CafePress. All in all I was happy with my free copy from CreateSpace. It was 224 pages long, which included my NaNoWriMo story plus a 43-page short short I threw in to make it a bit longer. I think the cover turned out nice, though you can see in the top photo that the front didn't turn out centered like it was in the second sample photo - it's cropped closer on the right side. Finally, the copy I got was a proof copy but the only place it said "proof" was on the very last page of the book. That's a good thing, because I was worried it was going to say it on every single page! Posted by Cat Carlisle at 10:04 AM 6 comments Labels: book, NaNoWriMo, self publishing	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9855
__label__wiki	0.57376	0.57376	Trillium Ridge Flora and Fauna Plants - 118 species Click here for TrilliumRidge homepage; links to other pages. Alphabetical index for this page localphoto localphoto localphoto localphoto Pinus strobus Five in front yard; one north side by kitchen window The Eastern White Pine has the distinction of being the tallest tree in eastern North America. White pine forests originally covered much of northeastern North America, though only one percent of the original trees remain untouched by extensive logging operations in the 1700s and 1800s. Second link shows the planting of our 'pine forest'. Link Link photo Mugo Pine Pinus mugo By driveway, but about to move. Mugo Pine is a high-altitude European pine, found in the Pyrenees, Alps, Erzgebirge, Carpathians, northern Apennines and Balkan Peninsula mountains. An old name for the species Pinus montana is still occasionally seen, and a typographical error "mugho" (first made in a prominent 18th century encyclopedia) is still repeated surprisingly often. Widely used in landscaping in US. Picea pungens North edge, midway Vbrant silver-blue, blue, or blue-green needles are the highlight and near-uniqueness of this stately, upright pyramidal evergreen tree. Maturing at 50' tall by 20' wide. Oldest known specimen is 600 years old. Link Link Link photo photo photo Picea abies North edge, front - 2 specimens The Norway Spruce grows throughout Europe from Norway in the northwest and Poland eastward, and also in the mountains of central Europe, southwest to the western end of the Alps, and southeast in the Carpathians and Balkans to the extreme north of Greece. Link photo Dwarf Alberta Spruce Picea glauca back yard, south side by fence Dwarf Alberta Spruce is a naturally occurring dwarf form of the alberta white spruce. Dwarf Alberta spruce trees may eventually reach 12' in height, but only over a long period of time (growing just 2"-4" per year). They have a classic "Christmas tree" shape. The green needles have a tight, densely-packed growth habit that gives dwarf Alberta spruce trees a "fuzzy" look. Taxus canadensis North edge, with white pine and blue spruce (7) A conifer native to central and eastern North America, thriving in swampy woods, ravines, riverbanks and on lake shores. Locally called simply "Yew", this species is also referred to as American Yew or Ground-hemlock. Most of its range is well north of the Ohio River. The seeds are eaten by thrushes, waxwings and other birds, which disperse the hard seeds undamaged in their droppings. Thuja Green Giant (Hybrid) Thuja plicata/standishii North side front yard property line screen Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae is a rare Hybrid cross between: Thuja plicata (Western Red Cedar) Thuja standishii (Japanese Arborvitae) Link Distribution photo Golden Alexander Zizia aurea This lovely native of the eastern U.S. offers delicate, lemon-yellow broccoli-like flowers in late spring to early summer. Flowers last for weeks. Plants grow to about 2 feet tall and half as wide. Rattlesnake Master Front meadow north end by bench; Central front bed; sw prairie from Minnesota east to Ohio and south to Texas and Florida. A common herbaceous perennial plant, native to the tallgrass prairies of central and eastern North America. In the past, the dried seedheads of Rattlesnake Master were used as rattles by Amerindians. Pioneers thought the roots could be used as an effective antidote to rattlesnake bite, hence the common name of this plant. However, this belief was erroneous.This is a very odd member of the Carrot family that resembles a yucca or some other desert plant. However, it is a true tallgrass prairie species with a unique appearance. Link Link photo photo Calico Aster Aster lateriflorus several spots along driveway Brighten up the fall woodland garden with the unique flowers of this fine Aster. A myriad of white blooms with maroon and yellow centers cover the two to three foot tall stems in autumn. Flowers for an extended period, often right up to the first frost. Prefers well-drained soils, in partial to full shade. Add Calico Aster to woodland edges and open woodlands for a burst of late season color! Cupplant Silphium perfoliatum Front meadow This is the single best species that you can plant for the birds. It provides food,water and cover, three of the main requirements for good avian habitat.The large leaves clasp the square stems to form little cups, hence its name.These cups catch and store rainwater, often for many days. Birds and butterflies come for a drink and hummingbirds regularly visit our plants at the nursery. In fall, goldfinches descend upon the plants to devour the seeds. Plant in groups of three to five to create a three to ten foot tall bird haven. Occurs naturally in moist environments, but does perfectly well when planted in fertile medium soils, in full sun to partial shade. Give it plenty of room to spread out, as it does self-sow readily on open soil. Prairie dock Silphium terebinthinaceum Western meadow Prairie dock belongs to the Aster (Asteraceae) family and has clusters of large, sandpapery, spade-shaped basal leaves up to 16 inches long. The flower heads are in an open cluster at the top of a smooth, shiny, nearly leafless 2 to 10 foot tall stalk. Each individually stalked flower head is 2 to 3 inches wide with several broad, shiny, green, rounded bracts and 12 to 25 yellow, petal-like ray flowers with notched tips surrounding yellow disk flowers. Prairie dock is drought-resistant and is a long-lived perennial with a fragrant, resinous sap. Prairie dock blooms summer to fall and is found in deep-soil and loamy prairies in the eastern half of the tallgrass region, but rare or absent from western Missouri westward. Prairie dock is among the tallest and largest-leaved of the prairie plants. In open prairies, the leaves of Prairie dock often orient themselves along a north-south axis to minimize heat load. Link Distribution photo photo photo localphoto Compass plant Silphium laciniatum Western meadow, southwest meadow This is a typical plant of black soil prairies in the tallgrass region. A mature specimen of this native perennial plant ranges from 6-12' tall. They resemble wild sunflowers in overall size, shape, and structure. A large central taproot can extend 15 ft. into the ground. A resinous substance is produced by the upper stem when the plant is blooming. This plant can live up to 100 years. Link Link Link Distribution photo photo Sweet Joe Pye Weed Eupatorium purpureum� south fenceline midway; also under hickories at woods edge This is one of the few woodland plants that attracts butterflies in droves! The large pink flowers appear in late summer and early fall, and are much sought after by Monarchs, Swallowtails and numerous other butterflies.The highly textured leaves are attractive all summer long. Grows four to six feet tall in rich, medium soil.Very versatile, it thrives in shaded woodlands or full sun and makes an excellent garden plant. Spotted Joe Pye weed Eupatorium maculatum� Rain garden @ nw corner From Missouri east to the Atlantic Ocean and as far north as Ontario and Quebec south to Kentucky. Eupatorium: from Greek name Mithridates Eupator, King of Pontus about 115BC who is said to have discovered an antidote to a commonly used poison in one of the species. At home in wetlands in the wild, spotted Joe-Pye weeds are a good choice when you need plants for wet soils. They attracts butterflies, including tiger swallowtails and black swallowtails. Prefers moist soil. Tolerates inundation up to a depth of 6 inches early in the season, as in damp meadows, open marshes, and fens. Tolerates flooding for short periods in the spring. 4-6 ft Photo is mix of several prairie flowers in our western meadow's first year. Black and brown-eyed susans, prairies dock, compass plant� Brown eyed susan Rudbeckia triloba western meadow, north meadow in back Pale purple coneflower Echinacea pallida A robust, drought tolerant perennial, native to the midwestern and southeastern United States. Purple coneflower Narrow-leaved purple coneflower Yellow coneflower Balsam ragwort Packera paupercula North meadow back yard Another of the silent auction acquisitions. White Snakeroot Ageratina altissima Woods, sw meadow eastern N,. America Plants are found in woods and brush thickets where they bloom mid to late summer or fall. The flowers are a clean white color and after blooming small seeds with fluffy white tails are released to blow in the wind. Contains the toxin tremetol; tremetol poisoning is also called milk sickness, as humans often ingested the toxin by drinking the milk of cows who had eaten snakeroot. It was the cause of death of Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln. Japanese Spurge Pachysandra terminalis North side under white pine A dense, lustrous evergreen, trailing vine-type of ground cover, white flowers, spring. Fire pink Silene virginica central bed in front Fire Pink grows in open woods and rocky deciduous slopes in eastern North America, ranging as far north as extreme southern Ontario. Fire pink is protected as a state endangered species in Wisconsin and Florida, and as a state threatened species in Michigan. Fire Pink's principal pollinator is the Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), which is attracted by the flowers bright red petals and sugary nectar. Link photo photo Rhododendron 'Rosem Elegans' By front porch (Cultivar). Rhododendrons are ornamental, acidic-soil loving broad-leaf evergreens. They grow best in partial shade. Rhododendron 'Roseum Elegans', produces stunning lilac pink flowers in numerous rounded trusses on a vigorous, upright and spreading shrub. photo photo photo photo Azalea Sp? Rhododendron Pentanthera Azaleas are flowering shrubs making up part of the genus Rhododendron. Originally azaleas were classed as a different genus of plant, but now they are recognised as two of the eight sub-genera of rhododendrons - subgenus Pentanthera (deciduous), and subgenus Tsutsuji (evergreen). Link photo photo photo Dodecatheon meadia Front, by altheas This is one of the most beautiful spring wildflowers in the prairie. A colony of these plants in bloom is a sight not to be missed. Early pioneers called this plant 'Prairie Pointers. 'Shooting Star occurs in the majority of counties in Illinois (see Distribution Map). This plant is occasional to locally common in highClose-Up of Basal Leaves quality habitats, otherwise it is rare or absent. Habitats include moist to slightly dry black soil prairies, hill prairies, openings in rocky upland forests, limestone glades, bluffs along major rivers, fens, and abandoned fields. Link Distribution Garden Phlox Phlox paniculata Moss Phlox Rock gardens astride driveway A perennial creeper growing to a height of 6 inches and covering a 20 inch wide area. The small, five-petaled flowers bloom in rose, mauve, blue, white, or pink in late spring to early summer. Cream False Indigo Baptisia bracteata Woods edge This diminutive member of the Indigo group is treasured for its gorgeous clusters of lush cream flowers.The blooming of Cream False Indigo in midspring is a much-anticipated event at Prairie Nursery. Low-growing and compact, it creates a stunning effect when planted in large prairie meadows or small prairie gardens. Slow-growing and very long-lived, some plants at our nursery are nearly 30 years old! Grows in almost any well-drained soil. Does beautifully in full sun or light shade. White Wild Indigo Baptisia lactea This long-lived member of the Pea Family practically jumps out of the ground in spring.A well-established mature plant resembles an asparagus plant when it first appears and grows to five feet tall in a matter of days.Very striking, with cones of vivid white flowers that are visible far across the prairie landscape in June and July.The smooth bluegreen leaves are attractive all summer long.This slow-growing beauty is also one of the longest lived of all prairie plants.Transplants may require two years or more to reach maturity, while seeds can take four to five years.Worth waiting for, it is a real showpiece when in bloom! Grows on moderately-moist to semi-dry soils.Tolerates partial shade, but prefers full sun. Link Link Link photo photo Wild Senna Cassia hebecarpa� Bunches of butter-yellow flowers appear in July and August on the robust stems, reaching up to six feet tall.The attractive foliage is borne in large leaflets, typical of the Pea Family to which it belongs.The brown seedpods add interest in the fall and winter and are utilized by birds and other wildlife. Give this guy some room to spread out and it will repay you with an exuberance of foliage and blooms. Particularly fond of clay, it does well in medium to damp soils.Will tolerate periodic flooding. Common milkweed Asclepias syriaca Southwest corner meadow; along drainage ditch This species is native to most of North America east of the Rocky Mountains, excluding the drier parts of the Prairies. It grows in sandy soils and appreciates lots of sunlight. It was one of the earliest North American species described in Cornut's 1635 Canadensium plantarum historia. Failed attempts have been made to exploit rubber (from the latex) and fiber (from the seed's floss) production from the plant industrially. The floss was nonetheless used for stuffing and it has been found to be hypoallergenic. The plant has also been explored for commercial use of its bast (inner bark) fiber which is both strong and soft. Both the bast fiber and the floss were used historically by Native Americans for cordage and textiles. Milkweed oil from the seeds can be easily converted into cinamic acid which is a very potent sunscreen when used at a 1-5% concentration. An extremely hardy, long-lived perennial native to North America. The magnificent bright orange flowers are concentrated in compact clusters at the top of branching stems. The flowers produce a large quantity of nectar which attracts butterflies throughout the growing season. Marsh milkweed Asclepias incarnata, One of the plants we bought in the Conservation Foundation silent auction. This species is cultivated frequently, especially in gardens designed to attract butterflies. The nectar of the plant attracts many other species of butterflies and insects as well. Geranium maculatum woods, meados Wild Geranium is popular not only for its lovely lavender spring blooms, but also for its ruggedness and versatility. An excellent garden plant, it retains its attractive foliage all season long, unusual for a spring-blooming flower. Reaching one to two feet tall, it multiplies to form nice clumps. Grows in sun to shade, in dry and medium soil. Also thrives in full sun in a rich soil. Buddleia davidii north west corner hedge fragrant blooms occur heavily from July through August, and continue abundantly until frost, and attracting many bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds (id tentative; need to check species) Allegheny monkeyflower Mimulus ringens Eastern and central US and Canada 1-3 ft, june-sept blooming. Best naturalized in moist to wet soils in water gardens, bog gardens, wet meadows, water margins or low spots. May be grown in moist soils in borders as long as soils do not dry out. upright perennial which typically occurs in swampy areas, wet meadows, pond/streambanks and low woods. Typically grows 1-3' tall on erect, square, sometimes branching stems. Features lilac-purple, snapdragon-like flowers with two-lipped, open-mouthed corollas. Each flower purportedly resembles the face of a smiling monkey when squeezed. Link Link Link Link Distribution photo in lawn, largely near serviceberry These form a carpet of purple and white in spring, survive year to year in lawn, not bothered by the occasional application of weed killer when the dandelions get out of hand Cat mint (catnip) Western meadow. Anybody want some? It is aggressive! Attractive gray-green, oval leaves form mounds up to 2 feet high. Flowers are lavender-blue with purple spots, held in loose spikes. This is an aromatic plant which is adored by cats. As with many other herbs, this is a nice companion plant with roses. As will all members of the mint family, this is a vigorous, spreading plant. Wild bergamot One of the plants we bought in the Conservation Foundation silent auction. Wild Bergamot or Beebalm, is a pleasantly scented member of the mint family growing up to 5 feet tall with rose-purple to lavender flowers. Obedient Plant Physostegia virginiana Rain Garden, NW corner Obedient plant is a stiffly erect perennial that grows from creeping rhizomes. The pale lavender-pink flowers are borne in showy spikes atop 2-4 ft (0.6-0.9 m) stalks in late summer and fall. Obedient plant is native to eastern North America from Quebec to Manitoba, and south to Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia. Obedient plant occurs in swamps, streambanks, ditches, seepages, damp meadows and prairies, moist open woodlands, bogs, and pine savannas. Forsythia 'Northern gold' Forsythia sp cultivar northwest corner bird hedge The forsythia bush is a beautiful landscape shrub that grows into a hedge with naturally developing arching stems. Forsythia bushes are one of the earliest spring flowering plants. The blooms of the forsythia bush are a spectacular yellow or pink, depending on the cultivar, and resemble little bells. Link Link Link photo verbena hastata Native in lower 48 and canada This is a slender, but erect, native perennial plant that is up to 5' tall. The flowers are often a pretty blue or violet, but they are quite small. Blue Vervain is easy to identify because it is the only vervain with elegant spikes of flowers in this color range. Various songbirds occasionally eat the seeds, including the Cardinal, Swamp Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Song Sparrow, and Slate-Colored Junco (during the winter). The soil should consist of a fertile loam or wet muck. This plant tolerates standing water, if it is temporary. This is a good plant to locate near a small river or pond in a sunny location. Link Link Link Link Distribution photo photo Viola labradorica Along drive & around front central bed Labrador Violet or Alpine Violet is an evergreen running herb. It is found in cold places such as Greenland and eastern Canada, including Labrador in Newfoundland and Labrador. The plant has smokey-purple and dark green leaves. The flowers are a rich lavender colour. around edges of coprolite bed A leafy-stemmed violet, this perennial is 4-6 in. tall, with dainty, pale blue or purple flowers. The leaves have small, rounded teeth. Each plant usually has two to four flowering stalks. A low plant with leaves and light bluish-violet flowers on same stalk. Link photo photo photo photo Hibiscus syriacus Front, south, by big bluestem (exotic) Rose of Sharon, Hibiscus syriacus, isn't a rose, but its large, flat blossoms and nectar attract hummingbirds and tiny insects that hummers also eat. The flowers on this woody shrub come in several colors, including white, pink, purple, and red. localphoto localphoto localphoto Serviceberry sp? Amelanchier (laevis? Species tbd) Back, by red oaks Amelanchier, also known as shadbush, serviceberry, sarvisberry, juneberry, Saskatoon, shadblow, shadwood, sugarplum, and wild-plum, is a genus of about 20 species of shrubs and small deciduous trees in the Rosaceae (Rose family) Prunus serotina Scattered in woods, mostlly near western edge. One near the two young hickories makes a spectacular display in fall The Black Cherry is a pioneer species. In the Midwest, it is seen growing mostly in old fields with other sunlight loving species, such as Black Walnut, Black locust, and Hackberry. It is a moderately long-lived tree, with ages of up to 258 years known. The fruit is suitable for making jam, cherry pies and has some use in flavoring liqueurs; they are also a popular flavoring for sodas and used in many ice creams. The timber is valuable, perhaps the premier cabinetry timber of the U.S., traded as "cherry". It is known for its strong red color and high price. Fort Sheridan Hawthorn Crataegus sp One specimen in the woods just east of the red oaks. Crataegus species are shrubs or small trees, mostly growing to 5�15 metres (16�49 ft) tall,[4] with small pome fruit and (usually) thorny branches. Queen-of-the-Prairie Filipendula rubra Front meadow by ditch Its native range extends from the Eastern to the Central United States, and grows in a wide range of shady and moist habitats. This native perennial plant is unbranched and about 3-6' tall. The central stem is smooth and sometimes reddish. Each flower is about 1/3" across, consisting of 5 pink petals and numerous long white stamens with pink anthers. The overall appearance of the inflorescence resembles wind-tossed fluff or foam, and is quite beautiful. Queen-of-the-Prairie tends to form colonies under moist conditions. Link Link Distribution photo Maple Leaved Alum Root Heuchera villosa south edge under norway maples in front, also by red maple in back Heuchera villosa 'Atropurpurea'combines burgundy foliage with stalks of long-blooming white flowers. This is one of the best plants for the woodland garden! Native to the Appalachian Mountains, this natural variation of the species is one of the largest of all the Alum Roots, with leaves up to a foot across. Grows one to two feet tall in rich, well-drained to slightly damp soil with good humus content. Blooms during the heat of August when most other woodland wildflowers are long gone. Ditch Stonecrop Penthorum sedoides ditch - where else? Nw corner in drainage ditch Ditch Stonecrop is fairly common and occurs in every county of Illinois. Habitats include openings in floodplain forests, swamps, marshes, muddy shores along rivers or ponds, and ditches along roadsides and railroads. The flowers are more or less green and not very showy while in bloom, but later the developing seed capsules turn red during the fall. Front meadow, south meadow (big bluestem) Habitats include mesic to dry black soil prairies, gravel prairies, hill prairies, Black Oak savannas, rocky upland forests, limestone glades, and barrens with stunted trees. This low-growing, incredibly durable shrub is covered with clusters of bright white flowers in July and early August.The luxuriant, glossy leaves maintain their appearance all season long. Each plant grows two to three feet tall, with a diameter of up to three feet. Install plants two to three feet apart to create a low growing native hedge.The colonists used the leaves during the Revolutionary War as a substitute for regular tea following the Boston Tea Party, hence the name. Hummingbirds, being the predators that they are, will visit this plant regularly to eat the tiny insects that pollinate the flowers. Slow-growing, New Jersey Tea�s life span is measured in decades. Grows in almost any well-drained soil, in full sun or light shade Link Distribution photo photo Norway Maple Acer platanoides Front yard by porch A deciduous tree growing to 20-30 m tall with a trunk up to 1.5 m diameter, and a broad, rounded crown, native to eastern and central Europe and southwest Asia. Generally considered invasive. Acer negundo Woods - scattered, mostly at edges Acer negundo is a small, usually fast-growing and fairly short-lived tree that grows up to 10-25 m tall, with a trunk diameter of 30-50 cm, rarely up to 1 m diameter. It often has several trunks and can form impenetrable thickets. The Boxelder Bug lays its eggs on all maples, but prefers this species (we have a colony of boxelder bugs that appears each spring). South side back yard One of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern North America. Iours is a really snaggly specimen crowded under the neighbor's elm. But it is beautiful in fall, and the woodpeckers like its many dead branches. Link Link Distribution photo photo Acer saccharinum Front; north side Acer saccharinum, known as the silver maple is a species of maple native to eastern North America in the eastern United States and adjacent parts of southeast Canada. It is one of the most common trees in the United States. Back third - ~24 specimens White oak can grow very large and live 3 to 5 centuries. It is a useful tree, producing edible acorns, (soak them first to wash out tannins), preferred by turkey and deer. The wood is used for "tight cooperage" and was used for whiskey barrels. Bur oak Quercus macrocarpa South edge opposite red oaks - 2 specimens The Bur Oak, sometimes spelled Burr Oak, is a species of oak in the white oak section, native to North America in the eastern and midwestern United States and south-central Canada. This plant is also called Mossycup oak and Mossycup white oak. Northern red oak Quercus rubra North edge, midway, two specimens Widespread throughout Eastern U.S. Red oak acorns are at the top of the food preference list for blue jays, wild turkeys, squirrels, small rodents, whitetail deer, raccoons, and black bears. Deer also browse the buds and twigs in wintertime. Link Link Link Distribution photo photo photo Pignut Hickory Carya glabra One large by north fence in woods; two younger at edge of woods. The woods are an "oak-hickory savannah." Hickory wood is extremely tough, yet flexible, and is valued for tool handles, bows (like yew), wheel spokes, carts, drumsticks, lacrosse stick handles, golf club shafts (sometimes still called hickory stick, even though made of steel or graphite), the bottom of skis, walking sticks and for punitive use as a switch (like hazel), and especially as a cane-like hickory stick in schools. And is it ever tough! Splitting it into firewood is an adventure. Comptonia peregrina On hill north side of driveway US east of Mississippi R. south to Tn/NC A small, aromatic mound-shaped shrub (not a fern) 2-4 ft. tall, occuring in dense colonies. Multiple stems with loose, spreading branches. Long, narrow, olive-green leaves, the edges of which have rolled back edges and rounded, fern-like division. Flowers are brown catkins that appear before the leaves unfold. A small nut is enclosed in a bur-like husk. Link Link photo photo photo Penstemon sp One of the plants we bought in the Conservation Foundation silent auction. Penstemons are among the most attractive native flowers of North America, Small's penstemon Penstemon smallii Front central bed White turtlehead Chelone glabra Rain garden @ nw corner near bench Its native range extends from Georgia to Newfoundland and Labrador and from Mississippi to Manitoba. Chelone (rhymes with "baloney") was a nymph in Greek mythology who insulted the gods by ridiculing or not attending (versions vary) the marriage of Zeus to Hera. The gods punished her by turning her into a turtle. Found along streambanks and wet low lying areas. Flowers are set in a cluster at the top of the stem. The blooms are tubed shaped with 2 "lips" with the top one overlapping the lower. Soil type; wet, sandy muck. 1-3 ft tall. Blooms july-aug. The flowers are white, borne in late summer and early fall. It can be used as a method of birth control, as used by Abenaki people. It is a food plant for the Macrophya nigra sawfly. Sawflies are a suborder of Hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, bees and ants). They look more like flies than wasps, due to the thick "waist." Their larvae look and act like caterpillars. They date to the triassic period and are precursors to the bees, wasps, and ants. We look forward to spotting some on our turtlehead and adding them to Trillium Ridge's population index! Jack in the pulpit Arisaema triphyllum Jack-in-the-pulpit is common to abundant throughout Illinois in open and dense, moist woods and may be seen also in woods clearings and occasionally in pastures and at the edges of pastures that were formerly woodland. Though commonly regarded as an early spring plant, it persists through the growing season and is conspicuous in late summer and fall by its dense clusters of red berries. Veronicastrum virginicum along south fence w/Joe pye A most stately and distinctive plant, Culver�s Root is prized for its well-defined, clean lines. Elegant white flowerstalks rise like spires above the whorls of deep green leaves in July and August. Growing three to six feet tall, it creates a unique vertical accent when planted with other prairie plants or perennials. Fantastic when planted in �White Gardens� and �Moon Gardens� with other white flowering prairie plants.Grows best in medium to moist rich soil, in full sun to shade. localphoto localphoto Mayapple Despite the common name mayapple, it is the flower that appears in early May, not the "apple", which appears later during the summer. The Mayapple is also called the Hogapple, Indian apple, Umbrella plant , Wild lemon , Wild mandrake, American mandrake or "devil's apple". Between red oaks Eastern US and Canada Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides), also known as Squaw Root, is a choice woodland wildflower treasured for its lacy, blue-green foliage and deep blue berries Aquilegia canadensis� under dogwood, in meadow A woodland classic, Columbine is one of our most popular plants for shady areas.The appearance of the lush bluish green foliage in early spring is a sure sign that winter is finally over. Hummingbirds flock to the intricate red and yellow flowers for a sip of nectar in spring, when few other flowers are available. Prefers well-drained sites and will actually thrive in dry, rocky soil in medium shade.This versatile plant also blooms profusely in full sun in a rich garden soil. Grows one to three feet tall. Plant a patch of Columbine and create a hummingbird haven! Early Meadowrue Thalictrum dioicum Several in western fringe of woods One of the first spring wildflowers, Early Meadowrue is covered with dainty white and gold flowers that are suspended above lovely, lacy blue-green foliage. Reaching a height of two to four feet, the foliage alone serves as an excellent focal point in the woodland. Plant two feet apart, in groups of three to five to create a stunning background for other shadeloving plants. White Doll's Eyes Actaea alba� Western edge of woods Bright white berries and lush foliage make this plant a true woodland standout! Grows one to three feet tall. Plant with early-blooming woodland flowers to create season-long interest! Requires a rich soil with plenty of humus. Sharp-Leaved Hepatica Hepatica acutiloba Woods near ivory sedge Sharp-lobed hepatica is found in most states east of the Mississippi River. Extending from Ontario, Quebec, and Maine, it proceeds south through the eastern United States to Missouri, Georgia, and Alabama. Sharp Leaved Hepatica is a woodland wildflower. The bright blue to pink flowers serve as an important early spring flower for many different pollinators. The mottled foliage is typically evergreen.Planting six bare-root specimens April '13; hope to create a small sea of them with the ivory sedge just east of the big central white oak on west edge of woods Pasque Flower Anemone patens This species is native to both North America and Eurasia. Habitats include hill prairies, gravel prairies, and barrens with scant woody vegetation The very first prairie flower of spring, Pasque Flower is a signal that winter�s icy grip is loosening on the land. Delicate white to lavender flowers emerge before the leaves, often just after the snow has melted. The silvery seedheads are almost as attractive as the flowers. Much sought after by rock gardeners, this is a perfect plant for dry sandy and gravelly soils. Pasque Flower does best in slightly alkaline soil, with a pH between 7.0 and 8.0. This plant requires excellent drainage, it should be grown in rocky and sandy soils that never experience standing water. In Illinois, Pasque Flower is an uncommon plant that occurs only in extreme northern Illinois. It has been exterminated from many areas because of modern development. Dicentra spectabilis Woods & under serviceberry (Both red and white variants) This name comes from the appearance of the pink flower, which resembles the shape of a heart with a drop of blood descending. All parts of this plant are poisonous if ingested. With sedges along stone trail by red oaks planted bare root 4/13 Bloodroot is native to eastern North America from Nova Scotia, Canada southward to Florida, United States, and west to Great Lakes and down the Mississippi embayment. Bloodroot is a charming woodland wildflower with very unusual foliage and flower. The early spring flower rises from the center of its single curled leaf, opening in full sun, and closing at night. Bloodroot can grow up to 12 inches tall with a single lobed leaf on each stem. It is found growing in medium to moist shade along rocky slopes in woods, in ravines, and along bluffs. Like most members of the Poppy Family, Bloodroot lasts for a relatively short time. The red juice from the underground stem was used by Native Americans as a dye for baskets, clothing, and war paint, as well as for insect repellent. Bloodroot is a perennial, herbaceous flowering plant native to eastern North America. Currently most taxonomic treatments lump these different forms into one highly variable species. In bloodroot, the juice is red and poisonous. Plants are variable in leaf and flower shape and have in the past been separated out as different subspecies due to these variable shapes. Bloodroot stores sap in an orange colored rhizome, that grows shallowly under or at the soil surface. Over many years of growth, the branching rhizome can grow into a large colony. Plants start to bloom before the foliage unfolds in early spring and after blooming the leaves expand to their full size and go summer dormant in mid to late summer. Bloodroot is one of many plants whose seeds are spread by ants, a process called myrmecochory. The seeds have a fleshy organ called an elaiosome that attracts ants. The ants take the seeds to their nest, where they eat the elaiosomes, and put the seeds in their nest debris, where they are protected until they germinate. They also get the added bonus of growing in a medium made richer by the ant nest debris. Big Bluestem Andropogon gerardi in meadow at front The most prevalent and widely distributed of all the prairie grasses, Big Bluestem was largely responsible for the formation of the famous prairie sod. Growing five to eight feet tall, it thrives on a tremendous range of soils, from wet, poorly-drained clay to dry open sand. In late August it produces its distinctive three-parted seedheads, which resemble a turkey foot. The lush green of the leaves and stems change with the first frost to an attractive reddish-bronze color that provides landscape interest well into the winter. Canada Wild Rye Elymus canadensis Several locations, mixed in meadows This fast-growing prairie grass is not only attractive, it also serves as an excellent native nurse crop for prairie seedings. Plant at a rate of two to three pounds per acre with your prairie or meadow seed mix. It will mature in the first or second year, ahead of the longerlived prairie grasses and flowers.The beautiful curving seedheads on five foot tall stalks resemble cultivated rye. Grows on an incredible range of soils, including bare sand, gravel, raw clay subsoil and even damp soils. Excellent for inclusion in prairie mixes for revegetation of disturbed soils. Little Bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium South edge of front by big bluestem; behind serviceberry in back Our best selling grass seed, for good reason.The blue-green foliage provides a great backdrop for the prairie flowers in summer, turning a striking crimson in fall.The fluffy silver seedheads add some real dazzle to the autumn landscape. A patch of Little Bluestem waving in the wind is truly a wondrous sight, resembling waves of the ocean on a bright and breezy fall day! A clump-forming grass, it combines nicely with prairie flowers. (Please see our Short Prairie Seed Mixes on p. 2.) Grows two to three feet tall on well-drained sand and loam and excels in dry sandy and rocky soils. Not recommended for heavy clay or damp soils. Plant in full sun for best results. Northern Sea Oats Chasmanthium latifolium various locations in meadows and edge of woods One of the most ornamental of all our native grasses, Northern Sea Oats is remarkable for its extraordinary seedheads.The flat, wheat-like seeds catch sunlight in a most flattering way, especially in the evening and morning. Grows three to four feet tall, in full sun to moderate shade. Not a true prairie grass, it occurs in wooded flood plains and on rich, shaded slopes from Missouri to New Jersey and southwards. Performs admirably on well-drained to slightly damp soils, and is excellent for planting under the light shade of oaks and hickories. Looks great when planted along semi-shaded woodland edges.The seedheads are positively stunning in dried arrangements! Fox Sedge Carex vulpinoidea By stream and in ditch The sedge lives in wet and seasonally wet habitat, and grows easily as a roadside weed. It produces clumps of stems up to a meter tall. The inflorescence is a dense, tangled cluster of many flower spikes up to about 10 centimeters long. Tolerates fluctuating water levels and periods of drying. Palm leaf sedge Carex muskingumensis Edge of woods, joe pye meadow This attractive sedge has glossy green leaves that branch out from the main stem similar to a Palm tree. Native to wooded lowlands, it does well in slightly damp soil in shady situations. Growing two feet high, it makes an excellent groundcover, especially on poorly drained clay soils. Plant one foot on center as a groundcover or use individually as a foliage accent plant. Front raingarden It is native to North America, including most of Canada and the United States and part of Mexico The sedge lives in wet and seasonally wet habitat. It produces clumps of stems up to a meter tall. The inflorescence is a dense, tangled cluster of many flower spikes up to about 10 centimeters long. Tolerates fluctuating water levels and periods of drying. Plantain-Leaved Sedge Carex plantaginea Along stone path by red oaks Plantain-Leaved Sedge is a rare plant in Illinois; it was collected in Cook County over a century ago, and more recently it was discovered in Johnson County in southern Illinois (see Distribution Map). Illinois lies at the western range limit of this species; it is more common in areas to the east of the state. Habitats include rich deciduous woodlands, wooded slopes and ravines, and canyon-like gorges in wooded mountainous areas. This sedge and many ferns prefer the same kinds of habitat and can be found growing in proximity to each other. Pennsylvania sedge Carex pensylvanica Woods by central path, by path to shed Fine textured leaves and a creeping habit make this a great lawn alternative for dry soils in shade. Planted one foot on center, it will fill in to form a dense low growing turf that never needs mowing. Ivory sedge Carex eburnea woods behind central white oak This truly unique sedge forms dense clumps of fine green leaves that reach only six inches tall. Perfect for planting between stone pavers and in dry or rocky soils in semi-shade. This distinctive plant grows in partial shade in limestone rocks in nature, and is extremely drought tolerant. Sideoats Grama Bouteloua curtipendula south edge in front, also by norway spruce This short prairie grass has one of the most attractive flowers of any grass. Its bright purple and orange flowers lend it a special grace and beauty. It is equally appealing in seed, with small oat-like seeds suspended on one side of the stalk. Excellent for dry soils and well-drained loams, reaching two to three feet in height.Very effective when planted with other short prairie grasses and flowers in a meadow landscape. Maiden grass Front, several clumps, several varieties The rapid growth, low mineral content and high biomass yield of Miscanthus make it a favorite choice as a biofuel. Link Link Link Link photo Prairie dropseed Sporobolus heterolepis South fenceline back yard, Front central bed Dropseed rivals Little Bluestem in mass plantings. True hummocks in form, imagine a Fall landscape with these burnt orange clump grasses combined with brilliant red sumac. Yellow Indian grass Sorghastrum nutans This native perennial grass is 3-7' tall and unbranched. It was one of the dominant grasses of the prairies that covered much of Illinois during historical times. Dark green bullrush scirpus atrovirens Perennial herb with short, thick rhizomes. Up to 4.5 feet tall. Flowering - May - September. Habitat - Pond margins, sloughs, lakes, stream edges, ditches and wet depressions along roadsides and railroads. Origin - Native to U.S. Woolgrass bullrush scirpus cyperinus Robust perennial herbs with rhizomes found in Swamps, sloughs, around lakes, wet woods. Up to 5 ft tall, flowers July-October Native daylily Hemerocallis fulva drainage ditch, spots around trees in back Daylilies have been cultivated by humans for centuries as a food source and also for their beauty. Today they are eaten in salads, soups, and dips for their color and flavor, which can be described as musty (1). The leaves, petals, and tubers are all edible. The petals can also be used to flavor meat dishes (3). Daylilies were noted as used by the Iroquois in their form of medical botany, however, the original use is no longer known (8). Other northern Native American groups used lilies as a food raw or cooked in soups (10). White fawnlily Erythronium albidum Woods, lawn near woods The leaves of this small lily can be variable. Some leaves have heavy dark mottling, others have faint to no mottling. It grows in shaded areas of low woods, wooded slopes, ravines. The species is a good indicator that spring is arriving, being one of the first plants to bloom. Nodding wild onion The wet soils and landscapes of the Chicago region once supported millions of these delicate plants. Flourishing profusely in undulating swells and swales of pre-settlement northeastern Illinois, nodding wild onion is now found primarily in protected nature preserves. Allium tricoccum They are found across North America, from the U.S. state of South Carolina to Canada. Also known as the spring onion, ramson, wild leek, and wild garlic, is an early spring vegetable, a perennial wild onion. It has a strong garlic-like odor and a pronounced onion flavor. Both the white lower leaf stalks and the broad green leaves are edible.They are popular in the cuisines of the rural upland South and in the Canadian province of Quebec when they emerge in the springtime. Ramps have a growing popularity in upscale restaurants throughout North America. White clintonia Clintonia umbellulata Woods (tentative) - need to confirm when it flowers Mountainious region of the eastern United States into Canada. A low plant with a basal clump of broad, glossy, slightly pubescent leaves surrounding an 6-20 in. leafless stem topped by a cluster of nodding white flowers speckled with green and purple. Black, spherical berries follow the flowers. Long-lasting leaves remain green all summer, creating an excellent groundcover for shady spots. Blue bead lily Clintonia borealis The plant is native to the boreal forest in eastern North America, but is also found in other coniferous or mixed forests and in cool temperate maple forests. It is not found in open spaces, and only grows in the shade. The plant reproduces via seed or vegetatively by rhizomes. Flowering in May and June, it takes over a dozen years for a clone to establish and produce its first flower, 2 years of which are dedicated solely to germination. Prairie Trillium The trillium is a simple, graceful perennial that is one of the most familiar and beloved of the spring woodland wildflowers. Leaves, petals and sepals all come in groups of three. Large flowered trillium Trillium grandiflorum Front woodland Native to eastern North America, from northern Quebec to the southern parts of the United States through the Appalachian Mountains into northernmost Georgia and west to Minnesota. It also thrives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The plant is most common in rich deciduous and mixed upland forests. It is easily recognised by its attractive three-petaled white flowers, opening from the late spring to the early summer, that rise above a whorl of three, leaf-like bracts. Shreve's blue flag iris Iris virginica shrevei Shreve�s Iris occurs throughout the eastern United States except for New England, Georgia, and Florida. Iris shrevei occurs as far west as Nebraska and south to Texas. This moisture-loving iris has fragrant, blue violet flowers with falls crested in yellow and white. Narrow, bright green leaves often lie on the ground or in water. Shreve�s iris flowers in late spring. Flowers are a one- to two-flowered inflorescence on a stem that has one to two branches. The plants are up to three feet tall. The weakly arching green leaves are two to three feet long and are burgundy colored at the base. The leaves arise from shallowly rooted, large, branching rhizomes that can form large clumps. Polygonatum commutatum Solomon's Seal is a common plant that occurs in every county of Illinois . Habitats include moist to slightly dry deciduous woodlands, shady seeps, young flatwoods, woodland borders. Solomon's Seal occurs in both high quality and degraded woodlands. Faunal Associations: The nectar and pollen of the flowers attract various long-tongued bees. The Ruby-Throated Hummingbird also sucks nectar from the flowers. The berries are eaten by the Greater Prairie Chicken and various birds of the woodlands. Hairy Solomon's Seal Polygonatum hirsutum Great Solomon's Seal Polygonatum biflorum The gracefully arching stems of Great Solomon�s Seal lend a strong architectural element to the prairie garden or meadow.The subtle, cream-colored flowers appear in May and June. In autumn, it�s deep purple berries put on a real show.The attractive foliage turns a striking gold in fall and is reason enough to plant this long-lived denizen of prairies and open woodlands. Starry Solomon's Plume Maianthemum racemosum This tough guy can grow in dry, sandy soil in shade where few other plants can survive. One of its favorite habitats is oak woodlands at the edge of sand dunes. Canadian May-lily, False Lily-of-the-valley Maianthemum canadense A dominant understory perennial flowering plant, native to the sub-boreal conifer forests in Canada and the northern United States, and also in the Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia. It can be found growing under both evergreen and deciduous trees. Starry Solomon's-seal/False lily of the valley Maianthemum stellatum Throughout woods It is a woodland herbaceous perennial plant growing to 50-90 cm tall, with alternate, oblong-lanceolate leaves 7-15 cm long and 3-6 cm broad. The flowers are produced on a 10-15 cm panicle, each flower with six white tepals 3-6 mm long blooming in late spring. The plants produce green fruits that are round and turn red in late summer. Solomon's Plume Plumes of white flowers grace the arching stems in spring, and the bright red berries provide interest in the fall. The seeds are a favorite of Ruffed Grouse. Spreads slowly by underground rhizomes to form attractive clumps. Grows in acid soils under oaks and pines. False Solomon's-seal/Canada mayflower Convallaria majalis var. montana Edge of woods C. majalis is a herbaceous perennial plant that forms extensive colonies by spreading underground stems called rhizomes. The stems grow to 15-30 cm tall, with one or two leaves 10-25 cm long, flowering stems have two leaves and a raceme of 5-15 flowers on the stem apex. The flowers are white tepals (rarely pink), bell-shaped, 5-10 mm diameter, and sweetly scented; flowering is in late spring, in mild winters in early March. All parts, including the berries, of the Lily of the Valley are highly poisonous. Ohio spiderwort Tradescantia ohiensis Ohio spiderwort, or bluejacket spiderwort, is a native plant about 2 feet tall. The plant blooms from May to July. The light violet to blue-violet flowers open up during the morning and close by the afternoon in sunny weather, but remain open longer on cloudy days. Link Link Distribution Cornus alternifolia five specimens along woods edge It is a small deciduous tree growing to 8 m (rarely 10 m) tall, with a trunk up to 15 cm diameter, and the branches developing in characteristic flat layers separated by gaps. Cornus alternifolia produces small cream colored flowers with four small petals. It bears fruit similar to berries with a blackish blue color. These fruits grow 8-10 mm across. localphoto localphoto localphoto localphoto localphoto Cornus florida Back yard, south edge, midway Cornus florida (Flowering Dogwood, syn. Benthamidia florida (L.) Spach) is a species of dogwood native to eastern North America, from southern Maine west to southern Ontario and eastern Kansas, and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas and also in Illinois, with a disjunct population in eastern Mexico in Nuevo Le�n and Veracruz. Philadelphus (species unk) Hedge south edge of front yard They are named "mock-orange" in reference to their flowers, which in wild species look somewhat similar to those of oranges and lemons (Citrus) at first glance, and smell of orange flowers and jasmine (Jasminum). Virginia Bluebells Mertensia virginica norhtwest corner of woods, east of red oaks This beloved woodland wildflower is a true harbinger of spring! The distinctive bluish-pink flowers appear soon after the snows of winter retreat northward. This long-lived perennial expands slowly to form beautiful clumps that return year after year.Grows one to two feet tall in rich, slightly moist soil. Cinnamon ferns Osmundastrum cinnamomeum North side & by front porch This fern forms huge clonal colonies in swampy areas. These ferns form massive rootstocks with densely-matted, wiry roots. This root mass is an excellent substrate for many epiphytal plants. Recent research on this family has significantly changed our understanding of the relationships of its species. Recent research indicates O. cinnamomeum is actually the most anciently-derived species of the family Osmundaceae. Mugo Pine White Pine Dwarf Alberta Spruce Colorado Blue Spruce Norway Spruce Canadian Yew Thuja Green Giant Jack in the pulpit Culver's Root Mayapple Blue Cohosh Columbine Early Meadowrue White Doll's Eyes Sharp-Leaved Hepatica Pasque Flower Bleeding heart Bloodroot Golden Alexander Rattlesnake Master Calico Aster Cupplant Prairie dock Compass plant Spotted Joe Pye weed Sweet Joe Pye Weed Black eyed susan Brown eyed susan Narrow-leaved purple coneflower Yellow coneflower Purple coneflower Pale purple coneflower Balsam ragwort White Snakeroot Japanese Spurge Fire pink Pagoda dogwood Flowering dogwood Mock Orange Azalea Sp? 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__label__cc	0.532691	0.467309	Average user rating 2.7 Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12 Episode 13 Episode 14 Episode 15 Episode 15 (Take two) Episode 16 Episode 17 (Final) 58 July 27, 2010 January 24, 2016 Bad Guy: Episode 12 Things are getting down and dirty, and I like it. Our bad guys go head-to-head in an emotional confrontation (finally!) and Jae-in picks a side. Things start coming apart at the seams for Gun-wook, as he starts to show signs that he’s no longer driving this bus; it’s carrying him along, and he’s starting to lose control. I’m a big fan of this PD, because seriously, this show is stylish. Characters get room to breathe, (meaning actors get to act without words), and the carefully composed mise-en-scene is dark, lush, and beautiful. I wish the story was as crisp overall, but damn if this wasn’t an action-packed episode, so at least we’re getting somewhere in the grand scheme of things. I’m really liking this show a lot lately, and maybe the shortened run has something to do with it, or maybe we’re finally getting to the good stuff, but either way, it’s finally firing on all cylinders, and I’m happy as a clam. EPISODE 12 RECAP After his emotional confession of guilt over his noona’s suicide, Gun-wook has fallen asleep on his bedazzled bed. Seriously, who let the team from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy decorate this apartment? Jae-in watches over him, smiling at their picture on his desk. She lies down next to him, as she says in voiceover that it’s okay if he doesn’t tell her everything; she’ll trust him. She thinks it’s a good thing that she’s the one who saw him that day. As she softly pats him on the back, she says aloud, “You must’ve been hurting a lot.” The next day Gun-wook burns everything of Sun-young’s that he had been saving all this time—her letters, her clothes, her phone, and her diary—as he remembers all the things she had written to him. He flashes back to their childhood together, and he says good-bye with one last visit to her ashes, as he tries to let her go. In voiceover he says his trademark line, “Noona, I’m sorry, but I’m not going to stop. When it’s over…when it’s all over, I’ll take my punishment then.” Old Cop has an inkling that Gun-wook might show up at the cemetery, but he’s a step behind. He does manage to find the remnants of Gun-wook’s fire, though, so chances are, he left some piece of evidence behind. SO unlike a mastermind. Tae-sung and Jae-in run into each other at work, but Jae-in avoids contact and ignores him with one icy stare. Meanwhile, Gun-wook confirms with his contact that the eldest Hong brother’s shady investment partner has taken the bait and run off with all of the money. Nice play, there, since you didn’t even have to do anything but plant the seeds of doubt in this guy’s mind, and leak a story to the press. Gun-wook watches from his car as big brother arrives, fuming and freaking out. He runs up to the office and has a private meltdown, but happens to find Gun-wook’s business card sitting on the guy’s disheveled desk. Hello, Coincidence. Nice to see you again. Isn’t there a way we could send you on permanent hiatus while we finish off the show? No? Oh, okay then. The detective looks over the one thing he found post-evidence-destroying-fire: a piece of a letter from Sun-young, which reads: “Gun-wook-ah, I’m sorry. It’s too hard for me without Tae-sung-sshi.” He thinks over Gun-wook’s thinly veiled reaction to his interrogation the other night, and his words that if he were Tae-sung Number 1, he’d be dying to protect his noona, not sending her off the edge of a cliff. Over at Haeshin Group, Mo-nae arrives on a warpath, headed straight for her sister. It’s kind of amusing how she got all dolled up in a fluffy pink dress to go yell at her sister and boyfriend. I guess even jealousy can’t kill the inner princess in her. She catches Gun-wook and Tae-ra together in the hallway (not doing anything suggestive, but just standing pretty close together), and demands to know what’s going on between them. She quotes their words back from the eavesdropped conversation, and Tae-ra’s cool exterior starts to crack. Mo-nae asks Gun-wook directly if there’s something going on, and when she notices them eyeing each other for a way out, that fires her up even more. Gun-wook pulls Mo-nae aside, telling her that his feelings swayed because Tae-ra reminded him so much of his noona, what with her suppressing all her feelings and never living for herself, and that he overstepped his bounds by telling her as much the other day. This explanation doesn’t satisfy Mo-nae, so Gun-wook goes on the defensive, attacking her for coming here knowing she was never going to believe anything he had to say. Oh, you devious little imp. It totally works, because all of a sudden, Mo-nae turns it on her sister: “Oppa, you never answer my calls anymore…it’s because of unni!” and she walks away in a huff. Honey, if he’s not answering your calls and giving you excuses about hanging around your sister, he’s probably not so much your ‘boyfriend’ anymore. It doesn’t matter, though, because Mo-nae gets what Mo-nae wants, and she’s not about to let her sister steal Gun-wook out from under her. President Hong chews out his eldest son for being a business dimwit, and exiles him to the States. Yes, please let us never look upon your exaggerated facial expressions ever again. But the guy’s not going to give up without a fight. He slinks out of Dad’s office and asks President Hong’s secretary to look into Shim Gun-wook, not knowing that he works in the building and dates his sister sisters. Interestingly, the secretary doesn’t say anything to Eldest Son, despite the fact that he immediately recognizes the name. Instead he calls Gun-wook, but he’s not answering the phone. Eldest Son comes crying to Madam Shin, who is 100% on her son’s side, even badmouthing her husband for so tightly controlling the reins of Haeshin, and driving her son to such desperate measures. Wow, you are SO transparent, lady. She reiterates the obvious, that she thinks Haeshin belongs to her three legitimate children, and not Tae-sung, to which her son is like, yeah, duh Mom. But then she plants this seed of doubt: what if it was Tae-sung who sabotaged his business? He thinks that kid is nowhere near capable of such a thing, but Madam Shin warns that people’s insides and outsides are totally different, and you can’t judge people for how they seem on the outside. Funny how she can take obvious truths like that one and twist the meaning of them to sound eeeeevil. Tae-sung asks Gun-wook if he knew about Jae-in trying to lure him for his money, and asks if he even helped her. Gun-wook plays dumb. Just then, Big Brother bursts into the office (wow, this guy’s really a hothead idiot, isn’t he?), demanding to know if Tae-sung was the one who leaked the story to the papers. Tae-sung just scoffs, “That H Group heir…that was YOU?” Heh. That raises Big Bro’s ire, but Tae-sung doesn’t care, even when he raises a fist at him. Gun-wook intercepts it though, holding his hand with uncanny strength. Tae-sung tells him to let go, which he finally does. Big Bro pushes Tae-sung around, saying that he knows his true intentions. Tae-sung doesn’t bat an eyelash, revealing that actually, yeah, he’d LOVE to ruin his hyung…if he only knew how. He gives the perfect combination of: I would plan your ultimate demise, if only I cared enough to do so. This gives Gun-wook pause, probably making him realize further that he and Tae-sung have much more in common that he thought. What he should realize too is that he wasn’t any better off being the kept illegitimate child, as opposed to the discarded one. Big Brother gets in Tae-sung’s face and they spit insults back and forth, and he ends it with this: “Don’t call me hyung anymore. When you call me hyung it makes me sick.” The look in Tae-sung’s eyes just crackles with pain. As his brother leaves, Tae-sung calls out, “Hyung…” just to piss him off. It works, and Tae-sung repeatedly calls out “Hyung! Hyung!” with a maniacal laugh and tears welling up in his throat at the same time. Gun-wook walks over to Tae-sung, still slumped in the corner where his hyung pushed him down. He silently reaches out a hand. Tae-sung takes it and Gun-wook raises him up. And ‘shippers round the world start chattering away… Tae-sung muses bitterly that he can’t even call his brother ‘hyung.’ He asks why Gun-wook is always around, helping him. He tells him to cut it out, as he can’t get used to it. But on his way out, he stops to say, “Thanks,” eliciting an actual smile from Gun-wook. Gun-wook sits down at Tae-sung’s desk, playing with the toy that was originally his. He thinks to himself what would have happened if they had switched places? But he decides that in his life, the what-ifs don’t matter. Gun-wook’s definitely got an I’m-already-on-this-train-bound-for-hell-so-it’s-too-late mentality, and it’s a little frustrating because it makes him resistant to ANY kind of change that could occur for his character. I suppose we have yet to see if Jae-in will be someone who breaks through that, but so far he’s been consistent in his blockheadedness about that. He comes out to see Jae-in across the hall, but Mo-nae intercepts him before they can talk. She apologizes for earlier, and when he escorts her out, she gives him a… AAAAAHHH! Okay, SOMEONE should have WARNED me! I hate dolls! I hate dolls. I hate dolls…. Oh my god, it’s a Gun-wook doll. That’s two kinds of creepy, because not only is it a DOLL, but it looks just like him. Aaaaargh. I’m going to have nightmares for weeks… So Mo-nae gives him the doll, saying that he seems like a lonely person who has no one to talk to, and he won’t talk to her, and she’d be jealous if he talked to someone else. So, what? Talk to “himself,” as a doll?? Okay, granted, my prejudice against dolls is coloring my judgment here, but that doesn’t seem like a normal healthy outlet for pent up emotions, does it? That way leads to heads in freezers and stuff. I mean, he’s already got a wall of news clippings. Let’s not help him along. Gun-wook asks her about studying abroad and she just hems and haws about it. He tells her that he’d like it if she went to his alma mater in the States, and that the doll will keep him company while she’s gone. Listen, can we rewind to when you built that fire, and throw the doll in there, so as to make sure it doesn’t strangle you in your sleep? I know, you think I’m paranoid, but when it’s 3am and all you can see in the moonlight is the twinkly eye of your Doppleganger Doll, you’ll be thanking me! Tae-sung walks past Gun-wook, saying that he’s going to play hooky the rest of the day, but they’re both stopped short by Old Cop, who hands over the burnt letter from Sun-young. Tae-sung holds it with shaking hands, as Gun-wook eyes it carefully; he sees that the “Gun-wook-ah” part is burnt off. Tae-sung asks the cop if they found Tae-sung Number 1, and the cop looks at Gun-wook thoughtfully, as he says no. Gun-wook is confused, nervous, and distraught all at once, and trying to figure out the cop’s game. Old Cop lies that they found the letter in Sun-young’s belongings, further puzzling him. He tells both men that her death will be ruled a suicide, and apologizes to Tae-sung for not being able to find out more. Tae-sung sits outside with a stricken face, mourning Sun-young and facing the truth that she chose to die because of him. After a while, he ends up standing around in front of Jae-in’s place (or at least the place where he always dropped her off), and he sees Jae-in and Won-in coming up the street with their mother in tow. She’s come for a visit and they’re all loaded down with her luggage, so Mom gladly takes Tae-sung up on the offer when he says he’ll give them a ride. Tae-sung at first seems miffed that she doesn’t actually live in the spot where he used to drop her off, but is immediately mollified by Mom’s sweet country bumpkin warmth, even though it embarrasses Jae-in. Much to Jae-in’s chagrin, Mom even invites Tae-sung inside, and to stay for a home-cooked meal, and he can’t hide his glee. Gun-wook and Old Cop have lunch together, and the detective tells Gun-wook that he has a daughter just two years younger than Sun-young. He calls him Choi Tae-sung, and says that he could hear Sun-young’s voice telling him to stop Gun-wook. He tells him that it isn’t too late to stop and forgive, because in the end he has to live with himself. His invoking Sun-young’s voice gets to Gun-wook, but he doesn’t reply. The detective goes on to say that his biggest regret on the job is that he can never stop a criminal before the act; he can only catch him afterwards. Gun-wook just smiles at him woefully, perhaps looking upon the man kindly, but knowing in his heart that he can’t stop now. He looks over at his action school sunbaes who now run the restaurant, and says that he would like to laugh like they do. “Someday…I’ll be able to laugh peacefully like that, right?” Over at the most awesomely awkward family dinner at Jae-in’s house, her mom handles Tae-sung like a shiny new toy. She notes that he seems like someone from money (not knowing, of course, what immense amounts of money he actually comes from). She goes on and on about how she wants Jae-in to marry someone wealthy so she doesn’t have to struggle like her mom, and asks Jae-in about how much rent and the bills are costing her. Jae-in basically dies of mortification, but Tae-sung kind of loves it, never having been part of a normal family discussion of any kind. He calls Jae-in’s mom “Mother,” and smiles to himself at her very direct but sweet mom-ness. Won-in cutely grumbles that she had someone else picked out for her sister, and starts interrogating Tae-sung about what he does for a living. Mom chimes in, so Tae-sung looks tentatively over at Jae-in, and then spills the beans about being Haeshin’s heir. Mom pretty much freaks out and Won-in stares dumbfounded. Mom jumps up from the table, asking Tae-sung what he wants to eat and if he wants anything special, but he just laughs and tells her he’ll happily eat what’s on the table. Jae-in tells her mom to calm down and that she has nothing to do with this man, so there’s no need to overreact. At this, Tae-sung stops mid-mouthful, with the cutest puppy dog look ever, as he says, “Are we really nothing to each other?” So. Cute. Mom proceeds to do the classic feed-with-hands thing that moms are wont to do. Jae-in tries to stop her, but Tae-sung LOVES it, as this is probably his first experience ever, with a real-life Korean Mom. Won-in snaps at Mom in jealousy, wanting the same attention, so Tae-sung takes the kimchi he got from Mom and puts it on Won-in’s plate. I may have just died from cuteness overload. Gun-wook heads over to Jae-in’s place, perhaps looking for a shoulder to lean on. He’s about to call her, when he sees her walking Tae-sung out. He follows behind them. Jae-in gets a call from Old Cop who tells her that Sun-young’s death was ruled a suicide. She’s relieved, and tells Tae-sung that she knows he’s hurting, but that he has to stop blaming himself to let her go. Tae-sung is stunned at the mention of her, asking if she knew Sun-young. Jae-in says no, but that she knows he’s in pain because of her. Right at this moment, Gun-wook walks up behind them, and his expression darkens at her words. Gun-wook: “Shut up. Shut your mouth.” Ooooh…confrontation time! Gun-wook walks right past Jae-in and points his finger out at Tae-sung. With an air of righteous superiority he has never displayed in front of Tae-sung before, he unleashes all of his own pain concerning his noona: Gun-wook: So you received her suicide note and this is where you came? Tae-sung (in utter shock): What did you say? Gun-wook: Did you forget what you’ve done? Tae-sung: What do you know about it? Gun-wook: Because of you…a woman died. Have you forgotten already? Is Moon Jae-in next? Tae-sung throws a punch. Gun-wook smirks in reaction, happy for the excuse to tear Tae-sung limb from limb. But Jae-in steps in to stop Gun-wook. She takes him down a peg: “Shim Gun-wook, is this all you are? Don’t think that just because you can’t see the wound it isn’t there.” She tells him to look at Tae-sung’s regret and guilt (which I have to agree is written plainly all over him) and asks if that doesn’t make him feel anything. Gun-wook can’t even hear what she’s saying because he’s so shocked that she’s coming to Tae-sung’s rescue…from him. She actually goes so far as to demand he apologize to Tae-sung, because she thinks that he’s saying all this because he knows nothing of Tae-sung’s pain. She of course, doesn’t know Gun-wook’s familial relationship to the same woman, so she brazenly takes Tae-sung’s side, warning Gun-wook not to ever come at him like that again. Wow, the betrayal in Gun-wook’s eyes is played fantastically, because despite wanting to keep his distance from Jae-in, he’s clearly upset at her drawing the line here and taking Tae-sung’s side without so much as a second thought. Tae-sung stops her from going any further, and says he wasn’t in the right either. He walks off and Jae-in goes after him. She sees him off, and Tae-sung thanks her quietly, both for taking his side and for the dinner. Gun-wook watches her with tears in his eyes. He takes off running, screaming his angst out loud. I feel for you, I do. But you totally shut her out on purpose. This is your own doing, and it’s inevitable when you keep everyone at bay. At home, Tae-ra has another bold conversation with her husband about her father’s investment in his father’s business. She asks him point-blank if this is why he married her. He goes on the defensive, but in the end, this is what their marriage amounts to: a business deal, and Tae-ra might have known it all along, but she’s finally admitting it out loud. Gun-wook has a creepy nightmare wherein he’s a child and someone comes to strangle him in the middle of the night. It looks to be a woman, and as he struggles to get free, he wakes up in a cold sweat. Madam Shin meets Secretary Kim in the dark of night (because they’re evil, natch) and asks if he saw Tae-sung Number 1 die with his own eyes. He says he didn’t witness it, but was told that was the case. Madam Shin rightly surmises he could be alive. She worries about what he’ll do to the family, but the secretary thinks she’s overreacting, as the Tae-sung switch was simply a mistake. Eldest Son leaves for the U.S., and the parents send him off with pleasantries. See ya. At work, Jae-in sits in the spot she shared with Gun-wook the last time, and sighs thinking of him. She rests her head against the wall, and then Gun-wook appears, as he casually plops down next to her. He acts as if nothing is wrong, drinking her juice and chatting away. She apologizes for the other day, and he brushes it off. She says the detective called her and told her that Gun-wook had no relationship to Tae-sung’s ex and she was so relieved at the news. That leaves him stuck now, with being the bad guy in yesterday’s scenario, because he can’t tell her that Sun-young is his noona. He sighs heavily, “Jae-in-ah, what are we?” She asks tentatively if things are going well with Mo-nae. He counters by asking how things are with Tae-sung. You coy kids. You’ll never get the girl this way! As she watches Gun-wook walk away, Jae-in muses aloud to herself that Gun-wook looks nice walking away, as she points out his various features. It’s not ogling, so much as a reverie, like she’s just noticing certain things about him for the first time. It’s still very much in the noona-vibe, because she has this worried tone in her voice whenever she talks about him. She wonders out loud, “Gun-wook-ah, really…what are we?” This question that she repeats has two meanings, of course: 1) what are we to each other, and 2) what are we, as people, as human beings. I think both are intriguing questions to ask of them. Gun-wook asks his contact to find out who visits his parents’ grave. He gets an update on Big Brother’s whereabouts, and assures the contact that his new dealings in the States won’t go as planned. The contact asks now that the eldest son is exiled, and Mo-nae is getting ready to study abroad, if it’s time for the Tae-ra/Tae-sung fight. Oh, yeah. Bring it on, baby! Gun-wook smiles at that, and says Tae-ra’s name out loud with a delicious air of playfulness and foreboding. He goes to see her, sneaking up on her outside the gym. He asks to take her to lunch, only her husband arrives at the same time, wanting to do the exact same thing. Tae-ra is quick to let go of Gun-wook’s hand, and introduces him as Mo-nae’s boyfriend, who came to consult her about Mo-nae. Her husband invites him to lunch, but Tae-ra is quick to squash that. Just as Gun-wook is about to leave, she gets a phone call with some bad news. She falters, and Gun-wook holds her steady very naturally, which her husband notices right away. It turns out her brother died in an accident while drunk driving. The family holds a funeral in the rain, and Gun-wook and his contact watch from afar as he says that things don’t always go according to plan. The guy must have the same suspicion as me, because he asks Gun-wook if he wished him dead. I would’ve said “made” instead of “wished,” but I suppose subtlety isn’t a bad thing when asking a possible murderer. Gun-wook replies that he had wanted all of them dead once, in his younger days, but now even that hatred is gone, and all he’s done is stand by and watch all the misfortunes they suffer. Well that’s a convenient story to tell the jury. I really hope you don’t believe THAT, in your heart of hearts, because if that’s the way you’re going to try and weasel out of any responsibility for your actions, I’m going to take issue with you, especially with all of your “I’ll take my punishment later” speechifying. If this is you speaking euphemistically on purpose in front of someone else, then I’ll buy it. But if this is what you really feel, I call bullshit. Gun-wook builds another fire, this time destroying all evidence of Big Brother. His contact leaves a message that all his holdings will be given to Tae-ra, and that she’ll be promoted to Vice President. Ooh, I love the chilly air of mastermind Gun-wook. Post-funeral the family is on its last leg, mostly because Madam Shin has a meltdown. Dad tries to encourage Tae-sung to step up and be responsible now, and take his brother’s place. But Mom interrupts breathing the fire of a thousand dragons, saying that Dad is responsible for her son’s death because he sent him away, and that Tae-sung had planned it all from the beginning so he could have Haeshin all to himself. She roars and screams like a banshee, and Tae-sung tries to get past it, calling her “Mother,” but she’s dead set against him and faints in exhaustion from all the yelling. My god, that woman is frightening. Her single-mindedness is scariest of all, because she has no sense of the fact that Tae-sung has never cared about the friggin company; all he’s ever really wanted was her love, but that’s something she could never give him. President Hong has a moment of weakness too, as his legs give out for a moment. Gun-wook, who has been a stoic bystander through all of this, betrays a moment of concern where Dad is concerned. Tae-sung and Tae-ra have a pow-wow, and it’s actually nice to see these two act together, because for siblings, they hardly get any scenes together. Tae-sung wonders how Tae-ra could be so stoic, not shedding a single tear. She takes up the mantle of the eldest sibling, saying that she wants to show a brave front to the world that Haeshin won’t go down like this. Tae-ra hides to cry alone, and Gun-wook finds her. He tells her to stay, that she can cry in front of him, and she finally lets the tears go. He holds her and they kiss, which is exactly when this happens: Oh. Crap. THEORIES & SPECULATION I’m curious to know where the head maid and Secretary Kim stand in relation to Tae-sung Number 1. I don’t think their loyalty to the Hongs is as clear-cut as their initial impressions gave, so it’s possible that they were sympathetic to the boy and are therefore not doing a great job of finding the adult version on purpose. It’s also minutely possible that they’re in on things with Gun-wook, but that seems unlikely (and sort of unbelievable) so I’m willing to bank on the first scenario. The strangler in the dream could be Madam Shin, or it could be someone else, although it really, really looked like Madam Shin. It could also be a repressed memory, or a figurative dream, so there’s no telling if she really did such a crazy thing, or if he’s picked up on her desire for him to die. I do think she’s capable of it, because after witnessing her manic screaming side after knowing her cool and emotionless side, I could totally see her killing cats for sport. Is it wrong if I really really want Gun-wook to be responsible for the eldest son’s death? I know it’s weird to want your hero to be that bad, but really, if he’s not, and it’s just a coincidence, what’s the point? I want Gun-wook to be dangerous and deadly because otherwise there are no stakes. There is no plot. Because he is the only mover and shaker, and if he’s being moved along by fate just like everyone else, I’m going to tear my hair out. If, on the other hand, Gun-wook IS responsible for the death, they’re playing it delightfully close with just the smallest hint that he could be capable of it, so I’m excited for that prospect. This would mean higher stakes, completely unpredictable demises for various characters, and a true hell spiral for Gun-wook. Yes, I know. I have a heart of titanium that could withstand a kitten in a tutu. But this is what I want from the story. Somehow I don’t think that’s what I’ll get, mostly because there is no Santa. Bad Guy: Episode 9 Bad Guy broadcast cut to 17 episodes Bad Guy gives interviews on open set day Tags: Bad Guy, Han Ga-in, Kim Jae-wook, Kim Nam-gil, Oh Yeon-soo 58 All Comments Most Recent * Register or Login (Get credit for your great comments) thanks for the recap. 2 ciaociao "who let the team from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy decorate this apartment?" I died from laughter from this line because it's so freaking true! 3 alloo nice recap ^_^ umm well , I think GW is really responsible for the eldest son’s death .. It doesn't seem like this , I know~ but the truth is GW is the one who drives the eldest son to drink so much and go to U.S.A coz of his deeds !! any way , I like GW so much even though he is a bad guy :D u know , if GW's character wasn't played by KNG I would have never fell in love with GW XD KNG is really an amazing actor 4 sweetkiss what?! there's no santa?! sorry...found that hilarious. anyways cant wait till tomorrow! :) 5 langdon813 I admit it. I squeed like a 12-year-old girl bumping into Justin Bieber at Burger King when Gun-wook held out his hand to Tae-sung, then helped him up and PATTED HIM ON THE BACK....swoon, swoon, swoon. And that Gun-wook / Tae-ra kiss at the end? OMG...they are so freaking hot together. If they don't get some action after all this foreplay, I swear will cut someone (if Tae-ra doesn't beat me to it). Most excellent recap as always, GF! :-D 6 tm the plot is getting more and more interesting! and the death of eldest son was seriously unexpected to me. P.s.: the doll is actually a very popular doll model in the cosplay industry though. although girlfriday you don't like it, due to your phobia XD, but i'm sure there are other people who like the doll and and i'm one of them! 8D and the doll really fitted into the dark vibe of the drama, i was gawking at the doll when it appeared. so handsome, kekeke XD 7 saranga yeah i found the doll a bit freaky too... it's the eyes... they look so flat and piercing at the same time. something about their empty, piercing stare freaks me out. so do clowns. and moons. i've watched one too many horror movies... 8 william what a good ep thanks for the recap i really wonder what the show is trying to show with gun wook we all know he wants revenge and stuff and we all know the wants to attack each member of the family slowly and slowly but really what is gun wook's intention and will he hurt the family and how im still loving the show and stuff and all the cast including madam shin (i think of her as the mean boss in the devil wears prada) what her emotion and stuff is so strong jung so min looks really mature now and she looks cuter in playful kiss i wonder if she has finished filming bad guy since her role is here and there anyway keep up the good work dramabeans 9 momosan I'm with GF on the doll. All it needed was a pornstache and I would have said it was a voodoo doll. Which is creeping me out more. The things I didn't like about introducing big brother and then bumping him off are - he wasn't around long enough to care whether he was offed and if he was offed by accident instead of semi-design, then it isn't much of an evil ploy. OTOH, getting Mo Ne out of town I see as more of his attempt at mitigating things - somewhere near the very beginning, he told her to dump the fiance and get the heck out of Dodge. At which point she latched on to him, and so he went with it, but she's the least of the evils, so sending her to study overseas (or down the street at the Playful Kiss highschool and idol emporium) works too. (on a slightly related note KNG and KJW - handsome handsome men....oh, and Langdon813 - yeah, I squeed) 10 dramafan88 "She roars and screams like a banshee, and Tae-sung tries to get past it, calling her “Mother,” but she’s dead set against him and faints in exhaustion from all the yelling. My god, that woman is frightening." Lol - you got that right - I think she overdid it with her screaming to become really annoying and not realistic. Furthermore, how can she be so blind to see that Tae Sung doesn't even want to work in that company after living with him for so many years? If she was as SMART as 'Cinderella's Sister's' Mom - she would have used Tae Sung's need for her love to her advantage. It's sad that all the money that she had couldn't buy her some brains. How dumb can she be? 11 loveydovey Question: I just always figured she was the same age as Gw until she referred to herself as his noona in one of the first few episodes and again now when Girlfriday did also. How come GW talks to her informally? By "she" i mean Jae In by the way =p 13 Jenju hahahaha!! I LOVED the comment about the doll. My sentiments exactly, my eyes went O.O when I first saw it. 14 GrandmaFran that family lunch scene was too awesome. i hope KJW lands a lead soon. and girlfriday, i just love your recaps. 15 Wkdjd Poor gunwook ToT Bad jaein!! D: 16 girlfriday @11 loveydovey: The noona in question is actually Sun-young, not Jae-in. But Jae-in is presumably older than both guys, although they never say it explicitly. Both guys use banmal mostly because Jae-in has the balls to cut her words with both guys, who are punks to her initially. Hence the informality. First from purposeful disrespect, now because they're close. 17 Ning At work, so just comment briefly now :D What I remember most from Ep 12 is Jae-in's mom interaction with Tae-Sung "Why, HELLO Mrs Bennet! Fancy to see you here in kdrama land!" 18 langdon813 @17 Ning dies laughing Good call! :-D 19 Dlover haha i have to admit the doll freaks me out ^^ im soo glad the plot is moveing somewhere now i cant wait to see what else is in store for Bad Guy its my most fav drama right now ^^ i have to say im still rooting for GW ! 20 Jenny THX girlfriday for the recap. But you've missed KNG sexy back 21 Why After Tae-sung saw Sun-young’s suicide note knowing that she die because of him and mourning over her death. Then the next minuets he decided to go and see Jae-in, why? Then at Jae-in place how can he put on bright amusing smiles, why? Am I the only one finding his behavior not acceptable? 22 Stormofstarzz2 Thanks girlfriday for the great recap. Here is a video of his "bedazzled" bedroom. http://youtu.be/lQOLN5ARQJ8 And he can sing too!!! http://youtu.be/dVp0MfBUYOg 23 KDramaminions Thanks for the recap, Girlfriday!!! I believe that the one who bring Tae Kyun's death is himself. He creates wrong deeds and this is the consequence he receives. What goes around comes around. The Hong family, especially the mom, is the one that has no common sense of responsibility. They're trying to blame others for their beloved son's wrong deeds. How mature!!!!!! 24 moana "Tae-sung takes it and Gun-wook raises him up. And ‘shippers round the world start chattering away…" --best popular culture reference.ever. 25 Simmy @21 he went to be comforted, and that's what happened. I don't think he's smiling because he doesn't care, he just wanted to be somewhere he'd be happy for a while. I'm sure when he goes home, he'll cry alone and knock shit over :-) Did the choking picture freak anyone else out? I mean, in the drama, it didn't bother me, but on this recap, it looks ghostly shudders 26 Random Did anyone notice that in the last scene, GW clearly closed the door when he entered. Yet 10 seconds later, bam, its magically opened. Maybe its the creepy GW doll lol x) 27 ichigopan Jae-In's mother, ROFL! She is so cute! She was probably the most light-hearted thing in this episode. The family lunch scene was very much needed. Tae Sung was also exhibiting his cute side. Love it! 28 shin mi rae i want to see bad guy now. cant watch it because i dont have access in viikii. i have to wait for the withs2 version. i so miss KNG. i cant wait to see the sexyback.... queen seon dok is currently airing in manila. i watch it every night because of BIDAM. KNG can act. and when he is on screen, he dwarfs everyone else. when he is in pain, it is written all over his face. i so hate the queen for making him go through so much pain.... i just want to give this guy a hug. by the way, i also hate dolls... CREEPY! 29 BO I like the recap- just like you said about the PD- stylish and hip. I think you missed something though. There is a brewing hidden power play between the two "partners in crime" GW and his investigator. He must have caused the death of TK although he denied it when confronted by GW. If I remembered correctly, there were hints that TK caused the death of the investigator's brother that's why he is helping GW. This could be the way out for GW to transfiorm into a "good guy" in the end. Maybe the investigator will continue with the vengeance when GW softens up becuae of JI so things becomes uncontrollable even for GW who instigated it. "she interupts breathing the fires of a thousand "....this made me laugh.......nd i couldnt have described it better myself....thanks for the recap 31 Ladymoonstone143 Thanks girlfriday with an awesome recap as always.... And exactly the same sentiment I got with the last scene....Ohhh crap....then I was clapping with glee...then I was like...how can Gunwook get out of this mess???? Hopefully no hair pulling or catfight next episode and Gunwook would be at the side drinking soju and enjoying the scene...lol 32 justine OMG the.DOLL. this is really freaking me out. i also hate dolls, they are frightening me. and this one looks really creepy. shudder 33 Koe Oh Tae-sung, you both fill me with squee and break my heart. "And ‘shippers round the world start chattering away…" I'm no shippers before this, but now I'm totally on board! And...guilty of girly squealing, too >.< And if I didn't like Tae-sung character before, love him to bits now! He is less snotty and self-destructive in this episode, just sad and broken. It appeal to me better than all those qualities combined. His cuteness at JI's house is the final coins that completely bought me over to his side. Ep 12 is OK, except I really don't like how they cut short the detective's hunt just by a burnt letter and a pretty warning speech. After you chase a man for 11 eps, shouldn't you double-check the new evidences and at least questioned GW again what happened exactly that night? And... do they need to commit unnecessary crime by altering the evidence (by burning it no less!) , while just telling Tae-sung about the decision to rule it as suicide will do? ARGH! Other than that, love this drama as always! KNG and KJW acting is fabulous and Mdm Shin is deliciously scaryyy. Thank you, javabean-girlfriday for faithfully recapping this show :D 35 Lisa Purba I love every scene when Ta-sung with Jae-in coz it always filled with funny/surprising moments, especially in this eps ^_^ 36 glencorajane Thanks for the recap. Its quite funny at some parts. I am really not sure where it is heading in terms of the romance. Is it Jae in with GUn wook or Jae in with Taesung? This is the scriptwriter of Chuno right? Damn this writer just doesnt know what to do with romance. I don't like it because I want people to take sides and decide. And if Gun wook now sways and not being very clear on what he wants to do next, then me as a audience dont know what I am watching for too... 37 Mel Thanks for the recap. This is getting too interesting. Yum yum! 38 Lan I don't think GW should or was responsible for TG's death. I think that's a bit too cruel. I don't think GW is into murdering. He wants to give the Hong family tragedies, but more or less tragedies based upon their own doings. They are evil, and twisted, and yet they live high and mighty. He'll show the world the ugly side of the family, make family members go against each other, all the while watching from the side. It's not a sudden, real "death" that he wants, but a slow, torturing one. Also, another point, and this is just a wild speculation. I think GW is the real Tae Sung. Madam Shin wanted to kill him as a child? Why? Maybe he's real, and she knew it, but when she failed to kill him, she made up the DNA story and the switch instead. This partly explains the sympathy that the maid and manager both seem to show to Gun Wook. Also, it's the ultimate tragedy. Both sisters are falling for him, the brother he doesn't know is a brother died, Tae Sung became an innocent victim losing his identity... The only one worth pointing all fingers to is left to be Madam Shin, and she so deserves it. 39 cpw hoho, gf, you are too funny...i thought i was the only one with doll-phobia. i gave away all the "international" doll collections that came with the house that i purchased. friends thought i was crazy. i don't care how pretty/expensive those doll are, i just can't imagine those spooky eyes staring at me in the dark.... love, love this drama...much more than CH. KNG is such an excellent actor..those eyes... i am watching ep 14 raw now...can't understand a word, but helps to get rid of my anxiety ... 0) 40 beggar1015 I guess I'm the only one who was disappointed in this episode. No, not because of the freaky doll that may have been the one to open the clearly closed door at the end of the episode, thus tempting Jae In to once again barge in without knocking. Although it is Jae In that is why I'm feeling disappointed. I know the character was created to be Gun Wook's love interest, but I have never, ever warmed up to her. In fact, if she disappeared completely from the show, I would not miss her. But then Episodes 10 and 11 came out and she started to step up to the plate. I began to feel, "Okay, yes. Maybe I can accept her," and I felt the ice thaw just a little bit. Now I've seen Episode 12 and she's right back to being a putz again. I'm not saying anything against the actress, Han Ga In - she's doing an adequate job. I'm railing against the WRITERS who have failed to craft a character I can give a damn about. Jae In is, IMO, the weakest character on the show. And that's saying a lot when you have Monet running around. At this far point in the show I wouldn't mind a bit if Gun Wook dropped her completely so he could concentrate on his Master Plan. Let Tae Sung have Jae In and waltz off into the sunset. I don't care anymore. Even though I said it above already I would still say it again. It qould be too easy to have the Hong... dead. What, he can get in and out of their lair easily now, and maybe a bomb (?) and boom, done. He said he would take his punishment after he's done with revenging, so it's not like he's planning things so that he can get away later. In fact, he isn't afaid to drop hints left and right that he's after something and he might be that abandoned child. I am sure what GW wants is for the Hong's terrible deeds to be revealed, for them to be humiliated, and to crumble down with their own weight of their wrongdoings. He wants Monet to get hurt realizing she does not always get what she wants, for Tae Ra to unveil her high and mighty exterior (she never felt sympathy for him even though she was quite grown up when he got thrown out already), for Tae Gyun to suffer because of his own stupidity, arrogance and greed... It's so on and so forth. 42 Buki cuteness overload indeed!! Like JB said in an earlier re-cap....I only get a brother-sister vibe from GW and JI. I'm curious how there no post confrontation talk between GW and TS. TS doesn't ask him why he's suddenly so upset with him? GW doesn't apologize (as insincere as it would be) to keep TS in line and in his trust? Just seems like a strange plot point to drop. 43 supah Fantastic episode, the funeral scene was way dramatic, but I loved it. especially Madam Shin's banshee wailing. (Oh snap! That was the first term that came to my mind too.) Hilariously brilliant recap. I agree about the doll and I too, hope the Eldest's 'accident' wasn't just coincidence. For GW to go on repeating ''I'm sorry noona, I'll take the punishment when it's all over'' kind of stuff, he simply HAS to do something worth punishing. Hello, BAD Guy, no? (Bad-coincidences-Guy, yes?) Loved what Jae-in wore in the scene where GW and TS had a little spat. I have serious wardrobe envy, other than the really short-shorts, she can keep those. Uh-oh at the cliffhanger, now how are you going to wiggle out of this one GW? 44 asherlev1 @langdon813 SO WITH YOU, GURRRL. I WAS PLOTTING STORY IDEAS IN MY HEAD. LIVEJOURNAL NEEDS A BAD GUY COMM ASAP 45 Belva "Tae-sung takes it and Gun-wook raises him up. And ‘shippers round the world start chattering away…" Count me in. I seriously can't decide if I love GW-TS or GW-JI pairing more! After watching up to episode 15, I'm now relieved that the quality of the show only improved with the rush. Things are moving fast but they are still very emotionally engaging and the acting are of top class too. So hate that it will all be ending soon :( As always, thanks for the great recap! =D Fucking typical girls.... "ooo,doll.....oooo im so scared ...omg dolls freak me ooooim a cliche typical average follow the herd girl" FYI, those dolls are Asian ball jointed dolls and are beautiful and a work of art. I LOVE DOLLS. 8D http://www.eluts.com im out bitches! 47 Javabeans @Jack, Don't be an ass. 48 disappointing This is my first time reading Dreambeans recaps. A bit disappointed, typical idol-based girls/ladies. Don’t know what a piece of art is. It’s ep12 already still don’t have a clue what the plot is trying to convey. Please don’t expect violent revenge. This is a mastermind, emotional roller coaster revenge plot. I’m out too. 49 ellecuantekuhuy Madame Shin is a freaking horror! I felt suffered hearing her loud n crazy scream! I don't think Tae Sung has ever really loved Sun Young, nor i think he's just playing with her. Tae Sung is just seeking for love and Sun Young made him feel loved. That's why he respects her and feels pain for her death. Now it makes sense that after he saw the suicide note from Sun Young, he can thoughtlessly search out for Jae in It's the same thing with Jae In. I don't think he's in love with Jae In already, at least not a real deep love that wants and needs her. Jae In is someone who can take care of him and kind of understand his sadness. When they both together, Tae Sung can just forget all the pain he had inside for a moment. Yeah, Jae In can make Tae Sung happy. Okay, I'm in this ship right now. Please make Tae Sung and Jae In together! I like a happy love! Gun Wook and Jae In is just too painful~ Anyway, can Gun Wook and Tae Sung just be friends? I love them! Tae Sung is always looks good with someone who can stand up for him! And Gun Wook often does that. Hehehehehe please end this painful revenge and go on with your own life	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9863
__label__wiki	0.669422	0.669422	Elder Futhark Title: Elder Futhark Subject: Runes, Sowilō, Algiz, Younger Futhark, Ur (rune) Collection: Elder Futhark, Migration Period Proto-Germanic, Proto-Norse, Gothic, Alamannic 2nd to 8th centuries Parent systems Greek alphabet (Cumae variant) Old Italic alphabet Child systems Younger Futhark, Anglo-Saxon futhorc Distribution of pre-6th century Elder Futhark finds. The Elder Futhark or Elder Fuþark, Older Futhark, Old Futhark is the oldest form of the runic alphabets. It was a writing system used by Germanic tribes for the northwestern and Migration period dialects.[1] Its inscriptions are found on artifacts (including jewelry, amulets, tools, weapons, and runestones) from the 2nd to 8th centuries. In Sophus Bugge. Some versions of old languages out of Scandinavia, like Greek some versions of the runes still exist. Such as the Saiönius Fuvark of which is a 33 letter version for the purpose of translating the Greenlandic language.[2] The Futhark 1 Derivation from Italic alphabets 2.1 Date and purpose of invention 2.2 Rune names 3 Inscription corpus 4 Scandinavian inscriptions 4.1 Continental inscriptions 4.2 Distribution 4.3 List of inscriptions 4.4 Unicode 5 The Futhark The Elder Futhark (named after the initial phoneme of the first six rune names: F, U, Th, A, R and K) consists of twenty-four runes, often arranged in three groups of eight runes called an ætt.[3] In the following table, each rune is given with its common transliteration: f u þ a r k g w h n i j ï p z s t b e m l ŋ d o þ corresponds to [θ]. ï is also transliterated as æ, and may have been either a diphthong, or a vowel near [ɪ] or [æ]. z was Proto-Germanic [z], and evolved into Proto-Norse [ɹ], and is also transliterated as R. The remaining transliterations correspond to the IPA symbol of their approximate value. The earliest known sequential listing of the alphabet dates to 400 and is found on the Kylver Stone in Gotland: [f] u þ a r k g [w] h n i j p ï z s t b e m l ŋ d o Two instances of another early inscription were found on the two Vadstena and Mariedamm bracteates (6th century), showing the division in three ætts, with the positions of ï, p and o, d inverted compared to the Kylver stone: f u þ a r k g w; h n i j ï p z s; t b e m l ŋ o d The Grumpan bracteate presents a listing from 500 which is identical to the one found on the previous bracteates but incomplete: f u þ a r k g w ... h n i j ï p (z) ... t b e m l (ŋ) (o) d Derivation from Italic alphabets The Elder Futhark runes are commonly believed to originate in the Old Italic scripts: either a North Italic variant (Etruscan or Raetic alphabets), or the Latin alphabet itself. Derivation from the Greek alphabet via Gothic contact to Byzantine Greek culture was a popular theory in the 19th century, but has been ruled out since the dating of the Vimose inscriptions to the 2nd century (while the Goths had been in contact with Greek culture only from the early 3rd century). Conversely, the Greek-derived 4th century Gothic alphabet does have two letters derived from runes, (from Jer j) and (from Uruz u). The angular shapes of the runes, presumably an adaptation to the incision in wood or metal, are not a Germanic innovation, but a property that is shared with other early alphabets, including the Old Italic ones (compare, for example, the Duenos inscription). The 1st century BC Negau helmet inscription features a Germanic name, Harigastiz, in a North Etruscan alphabet, and may be a testimony of the earliest contact of Germanic speakers with alphabetic writing. Similarly, the Meldorf inscription of 50 may qualify as "proto-runic" use of the Latin alphabet by Germanic speakers. The Raetic "alphabet of Bolzano" in particular seems to fit the letter shapes well.[4] The spearhead of Kovel, dated to 200 AD, sometimes advanced as evidence of a peculiar Gothic variant of the runic alphabet, bears an inscription tilarids that may in fact be in an Old Italic rather than a runic alphabet, running right to left with a T and a D closer to the Latin or Etruscan than to the Bolzano or runic alphabets. Perhaps an "eclectic" approach can yield the best results for the explanation of the origin of the runes: most shapes of the letters can be accounted for when deriving them from several distinct North Italic writing systems: the p rune has a parallel in the Camunic alphabet, while it has been argued that d derives from the shape of the letter san (= ś) in Lepontic where it seems to represent the sound /d/.[5] The f, a, g, i, t, m and l runes show no variation, and are generally accepted as identical to the Old Italic or Latin letters F, A, X, I, T, M and L, respectively. There is also wide agreement that the u, r, k, h, s, b and o runes respectively correspond directly to V, R, C, H, S, B and O. The runes of uncertain derivation may either be original innovations, or adoptions of otherwise unneeded Latin letters. Odenstedt 1990, p. 163 suggests that all 22 Latin letters of the classical Latin alphabet (1st century, ignoring marginalized K) were adopted (þ from D, z from Y, ŋ from Q, w from P, j from G, ï from Z), with two runes (p and d) left over as original Germanic innovations, but there are conflicting scholarly opinions regarding the e (from E?), n (from N?), þ (D or Raetic Θ?), w (Q or P?), ï and z (both from either Z or Latin Y?), ŋ (Q?) and d runes.[6] Of the 24 runes in the classical futhark row attested from 400 (Kylver stone), ï, p[1] and ŋ[2] are unattested in the earliest inscriptions of ca. 175 to 400, while e in this early period mostly takes a Π-shape, its M-shape ( ) gaining prevalence only from the 5th century. Similarly, the s rune may have either three ( ) or four ( ) strokes (and more rarely five or more), and only from the 5th century does the variant with three strokes become prevalent. Note that the "mature" runes of the 6th to 8th centuries tend to have only three directions of strokes, the vertical and two diagonal directions. Early inscriptions also show horizontal strokes: these appear in the case of e (mentioned above), but also in t, l, ŋ and h. Date and purpose of invention The general agreement dates the creation of the first runic alphabet to roughly the 1st century. Early estimates include the 1st century BC,[7] and late estimates push the date into the 2nd century. The question is one of estimating the "findless" period separating the script's creation from the Vimose finds of ca. 160. If either ï or z indeed derive from Latin Y or Z, as suggested by Odenstedt, the first century BC is ruled out, because these letters were only introduced into the Latin alphabet during the reign of Augustus. Other scholars are content to assume a findless period of a few decades, pushing the date into the early 2nd century.[8][9] Pedersen (and with him Odenstedt) suggests a period of development of about a century to account for their assumed derivation of the shapes of þ and j from Latin D and G. The invention of the script has been ascribed to a single person[10] or a group of people who had come into contact with Roman culture, maybe as mercenaries in the Roman army, or as merchants. The script was clearly designed for epigraphic purposes, but opinions differ in stressing either magical, practical or simply playful (graffiti) aspects. Bæksted 1952, p. 134 concludes that in its earliest stage, the runic script was an "artificial, playful, not really needed imitation of the Roman script", much like the Germanic bracteates were directly influenced by Roman currency, a view that is accepted by Odenstedt 1990, p. 171 in the light of the very primitive nature of the earliest (2nd to 4th century) inscription corpus. Each rune most probably had a name, chosen to represent the sound of the rune itself. The Old English names of all 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, along with five names of runes unique to the Anglo-Saxon runes, are preserved in the Old English rune poem, compiled in the 8th or 9th century. These names are in good agreement with medieval Scandinavian records of the names of the 16 Younger Futhark runes, and to some extent also with those of the letters of the Gothic alphabet (recorded by Alcuin in the 9th century). Therefore it is assumed that the names go back to the Elder Futhark period, at least to the 5th century. There is no positive evidence that the full row of 24 runes had been completed before the end of the 4th century, but it is likely that at least some runes had their name before that time. This concerns primarily the runes used magically, especially the Teiwaz and Ansuz runes which are taken to symbolize or invoke deities in sequences such as that on the Lindholm amulet (3rd or 4th century). Reconstructed names in Common Germanic can easily be given for most runes. Exceptions are the þ rune (which is given different names in Anglo-Saxon, Gothic and Scandinavian traditions) and the z rune (whose original name is unknown, and preserved only in corrupted form from Old English tradition). The 24 Elder Futhark runes are:[11] Proto-Germanic name ᚠ /f/ fehu "wealth, cattle" ᚢ /u(ː)/ ?ūruz "aurochs" (or ûram "water/slag"?) ᚦ /θ/, /ð/ ?þurisaz "the god Thor, giant" ᚨ /a(ː)/ ansuz "one of the Æsir (gods)" ᚱ /r/ raidō "ride, journey" ᚲ k (c) /k/ ?kaunan "ulcer"? (or kenaz "torch"?) ᚷ /ɡ/ gebō "gift" ᚹ /w/ wunjō "joy" ᚺ ᚻ /h/ hagalaz "hail" (the precipitation) ᚾ /n/ naudiz "need" ᛁ /i(ː)/ īsaz "ice" ᛃ /j/ jēra- "year, good year, harvest" ᛇ ï (æ) /æː/(?) ī(h)waz/ei(h)waz "yew-tree" ᛈ /p/ ?perþ- meaning unclear, perhaps "pear-tree". ᛉ /z/ ?algiz unclear, possibly "elk". ᛊ ᛋ /s/ sōwilō "Sun" ᛏ /t/ tīwaz/teiwaz "the god Tiwaz" ᛒ /b/ berkanan "birch" ᛖ /e(ː)/ ehwaz "horse" ᛗ /m/ mannaz "Man" ᛚ /l/ laguz "water, lake" (or possibly laukaz "leek") ᛜ ᛝ ŋ /ŋ/ ingwaz "the god Ingwaz" ᛟ /o(ː)/ ōþila-/ōþala- "heritage, estate, possession" ᛞ /d/ dagaz "day" The rune names stood for their rune because of the first phoneme in the name (the principle of acrophony), with the exception of Ingwaz and Algiz: the Proto-Germanic z sound of the Algiz rune, never occurred in a word-initial position. The phoneme acquired an r-like quality in Proto-Norse, usually transliterated with R, and finally merged with r in Icelandic, rendering the rune superfluous as a letter. Similarly, the ng-sound of the Ingwaz rune does not occur word-initially. The names come from the vocabulary of daily life and mythology, some trivial, some beneficent and some inauspicious: Mythology: Tiwaz, Thurisaz, Ingwaz, God, Man, Sun. Nature and environment: Sun, day, year, hail, ice, lake, water, birch, yew, pear, elk, aurochs, ear (of grain). Daily life and human condition: Man, wealth/cattle, horse, estate/inheritance, slag, ride/journey, year/harvest, gift, joy, need, ulcer/illness. Inscription corpus [ek go]dagastiz runo faihido inscription on the 4th century "Einang stone"[12] Old Futhark inscriptions were found on artefacts scattered between the Carpathians and Lappland, with the highest concentration in Denmark. They are usually short inscriptions on jewelry (bracteates, fibulae, belt buckles), utensils (combs, spinning whorls) or weapons (lance tips, seaxes) and were mostly found in graves or bogs. Scandinavian inscriptions Words frequently appearing in inscriptions on bracteates with possibly magical significance are alu, laþu and laukaz. While their meaning is unclear, alu has been associated with "ale, intoxicating drink", in a context of ritual drinking, and laukaz with "leek, garlic", in a context of fertility and growth. An example of a longer early inscription is on a 4th-century axe-handle found in Nydam, Jutland: wagagastiz / alu:??hgusikijaz:aiþalataz (wagagastiz "wave-guest" could be a personal name, the rest has been read as alu:wihgu sikijaz:aiþalataz with a putative meaning "wave/flame-guest, from a bog, alu, I, oath-sayer consecrate/fight". The obscurity even of emended readings is typical for runic inscriptions that go beyond simple personal names). A term frequently found in early inscriptions is Erilaz, apparently describing a person with knowledge of runes. The oldest known runic inscription dates to 160 and is found on the Vimose Comb discovered in the bog of Vimose, Funen.[13] The inscription reads harja, either a personal name or an epithet, viz. Proto-Germanic harjaz (PIE koryos) "warrior", or simply the word for "comb" (*hārijaz). Another early inscription is found on the Thorsberg chape (200), probably containing the theonym Ullr. The typically Scandinavian runestones begin to show the transition to Younger Futhark from the 6th century, with transitional examples like the Björketorp or Stentoften stones. In the early 9th century, both the older and the younger futhark were known and used, which is shown on the Rök Runestone where the runemaster used both. The longest known inscription in the Elder Futhark, and one of the youngest, consists of some 200 characters and is found on the early 8th century Eggjum stone, and may even contain a stanza of Old Norse poetry. The Caistor-by-Norwich astragalus reading raïhan "deer" is notable as the oldest inscription of the British Isles, dating to 400, the very end of Roman Britain and just predating the modifications leading to the Anglo-Saxon futhorc. Continental inscriptions The oldest inscriptions (before 500) found on the Continent are divided into two groups, the area of the North Sea coast and Northern Germany (including parts of the Netherlands) associated with the Saxons and Frisians on one hand (part of the "North Germanic Koine"),[14] and loosely scattered finds from along the Oder to south-eastern Poland, as far as the Carpathian Mountains (e.g. the ring of Pietroassa in Romania), associated with East Germanic tribes. The latter group disappears during the 5th century, the time of contact of the Goths with the Roman Empire and their conversion to Christianity. In this early period, there is no specifically West Germanic runic tradition. This changes from the early 6th century, and for about one century (520 to 620), an Alamannic "runic province"[15] emerges, with examples on fibulae, weapon parts and belt buckles. As in the East Germanic case, use of runes subsides with Christianization, in the case of the Alamanni in the course of the 7th century. There are some 350 known Elder Futhark inscriptions with a total of approximately 81 known inscriptions from the South (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and 267 from Scandinavia.[16][17] The precise numbers are debatable because of some suspected forgeries, and some disputed inscriptions (identification as "runes" vs. accidental scratches, simple ornaments or Latin letters). 133 Scandinavian inscriptions are on bracteates (compared to 2 from the South), and 65 are on runestones (no Southern example is extant). Southern inscriptions are predominantly on fibulae (43, compared to 15 in Scandinavia). The Scandinavian runestones belong to the later period of the Elder Futhark, and initiate the boom of medieval Younger Futhark stones (with some 6,000 surviving examples). Elder Futhark inscriptions were rare, with very few active literati, in relation to the total population, at any time, so that knowledge of the runes was probably an actual "secret" throughout the Migration period. Of 366 lances excavated at Illerup, only 2 bore inscriptions. A similar ratio is estimated for Alemannia, with an estimated 170 excavated graves to every inscription found.[18] Estimates of the total number of inscriptions produced are based on the "minimal runological estimate" of 40,000 (ten individuals making ten inscriptions per year for four centuries). The actual number was probably considerably higher. The 80 known Southern inscriptions are from some 100,000 known graves. With an estimated total of 50,000,000 graves (based on population density estimates), some 80,000 inscriptions would have been produced in total in the Merovingian South alone (and maybe close to 400,000 in total, so that of the order of 0.1% of the corpus has come down to us), and Fischer 2004, p. 281 estimates a population of several hundred active literati throughout the period, with as many as 1,600 during the Alamannic "runic boom" of the 6th century. List of inscriptions After Looijenga 1997, Lüthi 2004. Period I (150–550) Vimose inscriptions (6 objects, 160–300) Øvre Stabu spearhead (ca. 180), raunijaz Illerup inscriptions (9 objects) Mos spearhead (c. 300), gaois(?)[19] Golden horns of Gallehus (ca. 400) Einang stone (400) Kylver Stone (400) Rö Runestone (400–450) Kalleby Runestone (5th century) Möjbro Runestone (400–550) Järsberg Runestone (500–550) Hogganvik runestone (5th century) Bracteates: total 133 (see also Alu) Seeland-II-C (500) Vadstena bracteate Tjurkö bracteate Period II (550–700) Skåäng Runestone (6th century?) Björketorp Runestone Gummarp Runestone Istaby Runestone Stentoften Runestone South-Eastern Europe (200–550): 4 AD. Gothic runic inscriptions (200–350) Continental inscriptions (mainly Germany; 200–700): 50 legible, 15 illegible (39 brooches, 11 weapon parts, 4 fittings and belt buckles, 3 strap ends, 8 other) Thorsberg chape (200) Bülach fibula Charnay fibula Nordendorf fibula Pforzen buckle English and Frisian (300–700): 44; see futhorc The Elder Futhark is encoded in Unicode within the unified Runic range, 16A0–16FF. Among the freely available TrueType fonts that include this range are Junicode and FreeMono. The Kylver Stone row encoded in Unicode reads: ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚲᚷᚹᚺᚾᛁᛃᛇᛈᛉᛊᛏᛒᛖᛗᛚᛜᛞᛟ Encoded separately is the "continental" double-barred h-rune, ᚻ. A graphical variant of the ng-rune, ᛝ, is also encoded separately. These two have separate codepoints because they become independent letters in the Anglo-Saxon futhorc. The numerous other graphical variants of Elder Futhark runes are considered glyph variants and not given Unicode codepoints. Similarly, bindrunes are considered ligatures and not given Unicode codepoints. The only bindrune that can arguably be rendered as a single Unicode glyph is the i͡ŋ bindrune or "lantern rune", as ᛄ, the character intended as the Anglo-Saxon Gēr rune. Old Turkic script Rune poem Runic script ^ Speculated by Looijenga 1997 to be a variant of b. ^ Westergaard 1981 postulates occurrence in 34 Vimose and 23 Letcani, rejected by Odenstedt 1990, p. 118. ^ Older Runic ^ Vänehem, Mats, Forskning om runor och runstenar (article), Stockholms Lans Museum . ^ Elliott 1980, p. 14. ^ Gippert, Jost, The Development of Old Germanic Alphabets, Uni Frankfurt . ^ Stifter 2010, p. 374. ^ Odenstedt 1990, pp. 160ff. ^ Moltke 1976, p. 54: "the year 0±100". ^ Askeberg 1944, p. 77. ^ Odenstedt. ^ Moltke 1976, p. 53. ^ Page 2005, pp. 8, 15–16. The asterisk before the rune names means that they are unattested reconstructions. ^ "Runic", Nordic life . ^ Ilkjær 1996, p. 74 in Looijenga 2003, p. 78. ^ Martin 2004, p. 173. ^ Martin 2004. ^ Fischer 2004, p. 281. ^ Lüthi 2004, p. 321. ^ Jansson, Sven Birger Fredrik (1962), The runes of Sweden, Bedminster Press, pp. iii–iv, The oldest known runic inscription from Sweden is found on a spearhead, recovered from a grave at Mos in the parish of . Bæksted, A (1952), Målruner og troldruner, Copenhagen . Fischer, Svante (2004), "Alemannia and the North — Early Runic Contexts Apart (400–800)", in Naumann, Hans-Peter; Lanter, Franziska; et al., Alemannien und der Norden, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 266–317, Ilkjær, Jørgen (1996), "Runeindskrifter fra mosefund i Danmark – kontekst og oprindelse", Frisian Runes and Neighbouring Traditions, Rodopi . Looijenga, Jantina Helena (1997), Runes around the North Sea and on the Continent AD 150–700 (dissertation), Groningen University . Looijenga, Tineke (2004), Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions, Leiden: Brill, Lüthi, Katrin (2004), "Von Þruþhild und Hariso: Alemannische und ältere skandinavische Runenkultur im Vergleich", in Naumann, Hans-Peter; Lanter, Franziska; et al., Alemannien und der Norden, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 318–39, Martin, Max (2004), "Kontinentalgermanische Runeninschriften und 'Alamannische Runenprovinz'", in Naumann, Hans-Peter; Lanter, Franziska; et al., Alemannien und der Norden, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 165–212, Nowak, Sean (2003), ( . Odenstedt, Bengt (1990), On the Origin and Early History of the Runic Script, Typology and Graphic Variation in the Older Futhark, Uppsala, . Rix, Helmut (1997), "Germanische Runen und venetische Phonetik", in Birkmann; et al., Vergleichende germanische Philologie und Skandinavistik, Festschrift für Otmar Werner, Tübingen, pp. 231–48, . Robinson, Orrin W (2004), Old English and its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages, Routledge, Stifter, David (2010), "Lepontische Studien: Lexicon Leponticum und die Funktion von san im Lepontischen", in Stüber, Karin; et al., Akten des 5. Deutschsprachigen Keltologensymposiums. Zürich, 7.–10. September 2009, Wien, pp. 361–76 . Westergaard, Kai-Erik (1981), Skrifttegn og symboler : noen studier over tegnformer i det eldre runealfabet, Osloer Beiträge zur Germanistik (in Norwegian) 6, Oslo: Germanistisches Institut der Universität Oslo, . Runenprojekt inscription database at the University of Kiel Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Older Runic". Ancient Scripts: Futhark Omniglot.com – Elder Futhark Rune Converter hosted by Viking Rune Elder Futhark: ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚨ ᚱ ᚲ ᚷ ᚹ ᚺ ᚾ ᛁ ᛃ ᛇ ᛈ ᛉ ᛊ ᛏ ᛒ ᛖ ᛗ ᛚ ᛜ ᛟ ᛞ Old English Futhorc: ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚩ o ᚱ ᚳ c ᚷ ȝ ᚹ ᚻ ᚾ ᛁ ᛄ ᛇ eo ᛈ ᛉ x ᛋ ᛏ ᛒ ᛖ ᛗ ᛚ ᛝ ᛟ œ ᛞ ᚪ a ᚫ æ ᚣ y ᛠ ea Younger Futhark: ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚬ ą ᚱ ᚴ ᚼ ᚾ ᛁ ᛅ a ᛋ ᛏ ᛒ ᛘ ᛚ ᛦ ʀ f u þ a r k g w h n i j ï p z s t b e m l ŋ o d Runestones Rune Poems Runology Runic magic WorldHeritage articles needing page number citations from March 2013 Pages with URL errors CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no) Migration Period Younger Futhark ᛦ, Elder Futhark, Runes, Old Norse, Medieval runes Ἀ, American English, Greek language, Latin alphabet, Sigma ᚹ, Elder Futhark, Latin alphabet, Younger Futhark, Anglo-Saxon runes Sowilō Elder Futhark, S, Younger Futhark, Šin, Old Norse ᛣ, Elder Futhark, Younger Futhark, Anglo-Saxon runes, Unicode Ur (rune) Elder Futhark, Aurochs, Anglo-Saxon runes, Younger Futhark, Unicode	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9864
__label__wiki	0.5806	0.5806	Guillermo del Toro Pitching a DC Supernatural Movie Marshall Lemon \| 9 Jan 2013 10:31 The famed Hellboy director wants to put most of DC's supernatural roster in a single movie. Ever since Marvel Studios turned The Avengers into a Hollywood blockbuster, comic fans and film critics alike wondered how DC would respond. A Justice League movie is practically guaranteed, but more will be needed if Warner Bros. wants its own cinematic comic-book universe. DC's catalog has no shortage of characters and stories to draw from, but how can Warner Bros. produce superhero movies that stand apart? Guillermo del Toro has one suggestion that steps outside of the traditional superhero model altogether. The Hellboy director wants to produce Dark Universe, a movie that would bring magic-based characters like Deadman, John Constantine, and the Spectre into a single supernatural story. "I'm writing the outline and we're already in talks with a writer," del Toro confirmed in an interview with IGN. "A very, very good writer. I think people are going to be happy with who we have chosen. And he accepted." Dark Universe bears some resemblance to Justice League Dark, a comic book that pits DC's supernatural heroes against magical threats that the regular League can't handle. The characters Dark depicts were a major part of DC's Vertigo line in the 80s, and served as an inspiration to a young del Toro. "You're talking about my childhood," he jokes. "Swamp Thing, for me, is a rock star ... the Jack Kirby Demon Etrigran is amazing. And then you go to Constantine, who I thought was an amazing creation... [Dark Universe is] really really a lot of work, but a lot of fun." Del Toro is keeping Dark Universe's plot a secret, but confirmed that Deadman, Zatanna Zatara, and the Spectre all have a place in the story. Del Toro also emphasized a desire to closely follow the comic book versions of the characters, as opposed to certain backstory-altering film adaptations we could name. Producing such a niche project ten years ago would have been an impossibility, but in light of The Avengers and Justice League Dark's successes, Dark Universe may actually have a chance of coming to the big screen. Source: IGN Image: USA Today marshall lemon, dc comics, deadman, guillermo del toro, john constantine, movie, movies and tv, spectre, swamp thing, warner bros, zatanna 6 Actresses Who Could Be Captain Marvel Firefilm 43 Comments Where is John Constantine When We Need Him? The Wooster 24 Comments Rebirth, Reboots, And The State Of The New 52 Fanghawk 2 Comments The New X-Files Learning Curve Aaron Williams 8 Comments Record of Lodoss War - Dungeons and Dragons, The Anime Hayden_Russell 13 Comments Ghostbusters - Who You Gonna Call? Marter 7 Comments	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9866
__label__wiki	0.931288	0.931288	OverDrive Deploys Adobe OverDrive, Inc., a provider of digital media services for publishers, libraries, schools, and retailers, announced that it has begun making available to its customers a hosted application service designed to protect eBooks, digital newspapers and other e-publications for use with Adobe Digital Editions. Madcap Software Launches Madcap Analyzer MadCap Software, a provider of multi-channel content authoring, has announced the debut of MadCap Analyzer, software to proactively suggest document development improvements. Openads Closes $15.5 Million Series B Funding Openads, a developer of a free, open source ad server, announced the completion of its Series B financing. Digication Adds e-Textbooks to e-Portfolios Digication Inc., a provider of e-Portfolios, announced that it has partnered with Davis Publications, a provider of art education textbooks, to combine e-Portfolios and Web 2.0 technologies with the content found in traditional textbooks. eZ Systems launches Mac OS X Server and iPhone support for eZ Publish eZ Systems has demonstrated eZ Publish running on Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard. Quark And Alfresco Announce New Partnership Quark Inc. and Alfresco Software, Inc. announced a new partnership to develop integrated enterprise-class publishing and content management solutions for professional and corporate publishers. Quark Launches QuarkCopyDesk 7 Quark Inc. announced the launch of QuarkCopyDesk 7, Quark's text and picture editing software designed for writers, editors, and others who contribute to publishing workflows. Extensis Announces Update for Suitcase Fusion Extensis, a division of Celartem, Inc., announced Suitcase Fusion 12.1.7, a free update to its single-user font management application. The Press Association Chooses Nuxeo Nuxeo, a provider of open source ECM (Enterprise Content Management) solutions, has been chosen by The Press Association (PA), the national news agency of the UK and Ireland, in an attempt to improve its digital news production process and enable journalists to distribute content online more efficiently. Texterity, Inc. Releases 1.0 of iPhone and iPod Touch Magazines Texterity, Inc., a publisher of digital magazines in the United States announced that it now has 52 digital publications now available on the iPhone and iPod touch, along with easier access, improved performance, the ability to view pages, and visit links of advertisers. Industry Growth by the Numbers Along with the explosion of social media and user-generated content, the information industry continues to grow. Outsell predicts that the information industry will reach $448 billion in revenues by 2010, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.6% from 2007 to 2010. Assembly Line Writers For the past three years, my annual wrap-up of content management systems has mostly counted the exploding number of branded products, for sale and open source, on the world market—now nearing 3,000. This year, I want to focus on a handful that are doing things so well that they show the way to the future for all the others. Content 2.0 Converges What a difference a year makes. Since my column in last year’s EC100 issue, content applications of all types have been showing their 2.0 stripes, increasingly blurring the boundaries between web and print, and where their content resides. As “Web 2.0” has become part of our vocabulary, Content 2.0 parallels are blurring web-based and non-web-based content. Good and Bad News Today in Arizona, pack mules will deliver mail to the Havasupai tribe. Their village, Supai, clings to the side of the Grand Canyon, and—as has been the case for a century—mules still provide the most efficient means of delivering the mail. This isn’t to imply that the Havasupai don’t get email. They are certainly online, as many of the packages delivered to them are products purchased through the web. In Focus: Adobe Systems, Incorporated A closer look at Adobe, which offers the premiere tools for desktop content creation across all platforms. Publishing in Real Time: Wrox Stays Current with Near-Time A recent partnership launched between Near-Time, Inc. and Wiley Wrox Press has opened the door to interaction among P2P digital publishing communities. Picturesafe Integrates With Quark Publishing System 7 QuarkAlliance partner picturesafe and Quark Inc. announced an integration between the digital asset management system myCONTENT and the newly announced Quark Publishing System 7 (QPS). Hachette Book Group Provides eBook Content in .epub Format Hachette Book Group USA, a provider of books in print, online, audio, and print on demand formats, announced that it will produce its content in the new International Digital Publishing Forum's (IDPF) eBook format called ".epub." PROOF-it-ONLINE Now Available for Web and Online Designers PROOF-it-ONLINE, a provider of web-based interactive approval management solutions to print and creative services companies, announced that the solutions used by companies to streamline the proof approval process, enhance communications, and increase revenues for the offline media audience, are now available for online content designers. New CONTENTdm Features for Libraries OCLC, a library cooperative, has added new features and functionality to CONTENTdm, digital collection management software for libraries and other cultural heritage institutions. MPS Technologies Launches BookStore Discovery MPS Technologies unveiled BookStore Discovery, a tool designed to enable publishers to make their book content discoverable and accessible to the widest possible audience. eZ Publish Releases PHP 5 Support And The eZ Find Search Engine eZ Systems is expanding its flagship product, eZ Publish, with a new extension, enhanced features, and compatibility with PHP 5. Author-It Introduces Author-It 5.0 Author-it Software Corporation, a provider of software for authoring, content management, publishing, and localization, introduced Author-it 5.0, a content management system that includes interactive authoring memory. Justis Publishing Ltd releases new J-Link Legal electronic publisher, Justis Publishing Ltd released the latest addition to their portfolio of legal resources, new J-Link. MyiLibrary Adds 5,000 Titles MyiLibrary, a global provider of eBooks to libraries and part of Ingram Digital Group, announced the addition of 21 new publisher clients.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9869
__label__cc	0.588185	0.411815	Grey Lady Down — Forces (Cyclops CYCL 020, 1995, CD) by Peter Thelen, Published 1996-08-01 This is the second album for this British five-piece with a dedicated lead vocalist, whose style is firmly in the neo-progressive camp of bands like IQ and others who drive their sound with brite and happy keyboard melodies, with plenty of allusions to Collins era Genesis. If this is the kind of music that suits, then Grey Lady Down does it exceptionally well. There is enough moodiness / broodiness in their overall style, as well as pure instrumental chops to keep their music engaging and balanced. Singer Martin Wilson is your typical Gabrielfish, swimming in a sea of too many lyrics, yet the band supports him skillfully, offering a variety of rhythmic structures to keep his vocals interesting over the long haul. But where the band really shines is in their instrumental passages, where the musicians have sufficient room to stretch out without the confining presence of the vocals. Here they offer a level of musicianship and originality to rival the best of the neo bands. Of special note are the spirited guitar solos that frequently pop up from the dense blanket of omnipresent keyboards. There are a couple of banal and irritating pop tracks ("The Nail" and "I Believe") that interrupt the otherwise enjoyable program (why don't bands relegate this kind of annoying claptrap to singles and save the albums for respectable music?), but overall, this is a worthwhile release that should be of interest to many. Filed under: New releases, Issue 10, 1995 releases Related artist(s): Grey Lady Down Soft Machine - Live at Henie Onstad Art Centre 1971 – The challenge for any archivist of the Soft Machine catalog has been to present just what it was like to attend a performance by the classic line-up of Wyatt, Dean, Ratledge, and Hopper. Now with half... (2011) » Read more Would You Pick "Sunflowers at Chernobyl"?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9875
__label__cc	0.548502	0.451498	Sharjah Airport The world at night Besides taking photos, I have started taking aviation videos a while ago. The highlights are of course sequences from the MD-11 cockpit and I am trying my best to get better and better at the art of videography! The newest video are displayed at the top of the page. You are welcome to check-out my YouTube channel, too. Landing the MD-11 Here is a compilation of landings in the MD-11 as seen from the cockpit! Included are some fantastic sceneries and challenging airports, but also some major hubs. Approach to Atlanta It is know to be the biggest airport in the world: Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Intl. (ATL/KATL) in Georgia, USA. In this video we are arriving to runway 27L on a rather clear summer day. Departure from Frankfurt It is a clear sunny morning, as we take-off from our home base Frankfurt Rhein-Main in Germany (FRA/EDDF). Nothing beats flying on a great day like this Approach to Chicago O’Hare – UNCUT Same flight as below to Chicago, but this time UNCUT. More than 30 minutes of real-time coverage including all ATC transmissions. Approach to Chicago O’Hare We are flying into Chicago O’Hare (ORD/KORD) on a partly cloudy day. Approach to Viracopos at night Approach to Viracopos Airport (VCP/SBKP) near Campinas, Brazil. You can clearly see the change in light as the sun goes down – what started as a flight during daytime turns into a landing in pitch-black night. Approach to Tel Aviv Ben Gurion during sunset Approach to Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport (TLV/LLBG) in the late evening as seen from the cockpit of a Lufthansa Cargo MD-11 freighter. We are coming in over the Mediterranean Sea for an approach to runway 08. Approach and taxi-in at Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta It’s a perfect day to fly into East Africa’s biggest airport – Jomo Kenyatta near Nairobi (NBO/HKJK), Kenya. The Head of the Lufthansa Cargo MD-11 fleet, Captain Fokko Doyen is piloting the aircraft after on a flight from Frankfurt, with me as copilot talking on the radio. See the approach to runway 06, as well as the taxi-in from the cockpit and the outside! Bush-flying in Africa onboard the Cessna Caravan – Nairobi to Nguruman Join a bush-pilot in Africa onboard the Cessna Grand Caravan of Yellow Wings Air Services on a flight from Nairobi Wilson (WIL/HKNW) to Nguruman Rangers Post. See the ultra-low arrival and landing on a rough dirt-strip, as well as the departure scratching the tops of the trees. Sunrise over the Clouds A short time-lapse sequence during an early morning flight with the sun rising over the clouds. The video was taken from the cockpit of a Lufthansa Cargo McDonnell Douglas MD-11 somewhere over the Balkans near Greece. SHJ to HKG – the full story from the MD-11 cockpit What a fantastic day this was! Join me on a flight from Sharjah to Hong Kong and take a look in the cockpit as we are getting everything ready and taking-off. The approach during the night is a treat as well! Sunrise over India This video is of a sunrise over Western India near Mumbai (Bombay) as seen from the cockpit. Here are some of my very early first tries of taking videos… Approach, landing and taxi in at Frankfurt Airport runway 25R on board a Lufthansa Boeing 737-300 Full approach to runway 25R and experience a landing on board a Lufthansa Boeing 737-330 (reg. D-ABXS) on an early summer morning. As the aircraft is taxiing in to its parking position, you will get a free apron tour of Frankfurt Airport and see some of the maintenance hangars, the terminals and of course loads of aircraft from around the world, including the biggest aircraft in the world – the Airbus A380 of Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines! Loading of a MD-11 Freighter A short sequence of three uncut videos that show a McDonnell Douglas MD-11F is being loaded in Seoul Incheon (ICN/RKSI), Korea. Asiana Airlines Boeing 747-400 – arrival in Osaka Kansai An Asiana Airlines Boeing 747-400 is arriving at Osaka Kansai Airport (KIX/RJBB), inbound from Seoul Incheon (ICN/RKSI). The marshaller is leading in the captain from an elevated platform, while the rest of the ground staff eagerly waits for the aircraft to reach its final parking position. Funny thing to note is the marshaller right next to the aircraft, performing simultaneously with his colleague on the platform. Read the whole trip report about my flight on board this aircraft here. Tired of aviation videos? Take a look at my photos instead! Click here to go back to the Photo overview section. Felix Gottwald is an airline pilot and photographer, who flies around the world in search of the best motives to share with you! He constantly reports back from his flights with new amazing footage and loves to give an insight into his work and life as a commercial pilot in his blog. Sunset MD-11 postcard €0.95 Flight Control Panel postcard €0.95 Contact and legal stuff Wallpaper "open door" €0.00 © 2014 Felix Gottwald - Aviation Photography. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9877
__label__cc	0.558969	0.441031	Thank God For Beef Taunting Tuesday to you all, my little gingersnaps. No one shared any practical jokes they pulled on other people in yesterday's comments? You're killing me Larry! You people want all the reading without all the sharing. That's okay. Just means you don't get to hear my best, super awesome/kind of mean practical joke. wiggles eyebrows There are Rolling Stones inspired urinals at a Rolling Stones Memorabilia Museum in Germany and a lot of German women have complained saying their degrading to women, blah, blah, blah. What I'm wondering is... why are these women in the men's bathroom anyway? Ladies... STAY OUT OF THE MEN'S BATHROOM. #ProblemSolved Source: TMZ If you haven't yet seen the return of Ferris Bueller in the new Honda CR-V commercial, then you MUST. WATCH. NOW. It's genius. I love that he visits the Los Angeles Natural History Museum (which we LOVE). Enough talking... go watch! Was anyone else wondering what that was dripping down Christina Aguilera's leg during her performance at Etta James' funeral on Saturday? O_o Now the mystery is solved, as Christina says it was her spray tan that was dripping. Oh I hope she's telling the truth. finds a soapbox, then steps on it Why does she need a spray tan anyway? Why can't we accept the paleness? Tell me, my friends... what is so wrong with being pale? (other than gingers like me needing SPF 100 for any sun exposure lasting longer than 20 minutes) Pale is the new black! Okay I totally made that up. But if you're pale, embrace the light. (see what I just did there?) Then you won't find yourself singing in front of an extremely large group of people with dark streaks running down your leg while people speculate where the streaks are coming from. steps down and moves on Christina Aguilera's Mysterious Leg Drip Was Due To Spray Tan What on earth was dripping down Christina Aguilera's leg during her performance at Etta James' funeral on Saturday? While Twitter and gossip websites may have joked otherwise, the official word is that fake spray tan was to blame for the mysterious dark liquid that dripped down her right leg while belting out "At Last." The 31-year-old "The Voice" judge was clad in an otherwise demure black skirt suit and appeared unfazed by the accident, perhaps because she was focused on the more important task of commemorating her music idol, James, who passed away on January 20th at age 73. Hey, What's that film... And now for today's WIN! Hey, WTF??!! There is so much wrong with this, I don't even know where to begin. Why is she in her undergarments? Why not in a bathing suit? Why does he need to be shirtless? Why is the baby in a breech position? Who thought this was a good idea? WHY????????? Source: AwkwardFamilyPhotos And that's all the time I have for today. Today's assignment is... STICKY. Do it and report back. Until tomorrow, here is something you should know... Shia LaBeouf’s name literally translates to “Thank God for beef!” Apparently his grandmother misspelled the name LaBoeuf, which means "The Beef" in French. Shia comes from the Hebrew "Gift from God," So if you combine it, you can translate his name into "Thank God for the Beef." He also told People Magazine that Shia isn't well received in France, because it sounds similar to the French "chié" which means "shat." So in France his name sounds like "I shat the beef!." LaBeouf began his acting career after seeing a friend of his on “Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman.” He decided he wanted to become an actor, spoke to his mom, and the next day he picked out an agent in the yellow pages. He auditioned for the agent and they signed him right then! His parents were part of the circus while he was growing up. He’s known for his role in Even Stevens on the Disney Channel, Disturbia, and Transformers. Carolyn January 31, 2012 at 8:20 AM The only thing that could have made that Ferris Bueller commercial better was if Ben Stein was the valet saying, "Broderick. Broderick." Still one of my favourite movies! Jeff January 31, 2012 at 10:15 AM The commercial was great but I really wish they had held off on showing it until the Super Bowl. And I agree with you about the urinals...what were the women doing in the men's room?? I am so glad your hiatus is over because I needed this laugh... you're the best thing since raw kitfo. #beef ~ Spank	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9885
__label__cc	0.704934	0.295066	Sort on: Relevancy \| Newest first \| Oldest first Dow's 'Vision of Zero' Feature story \| 23 January, 2003 at 1:00 After a very successful international call-in day to Dow Chemical, it is clear that Dow does not care what the public thinks. Dow shut down its public lines and refused to answer questions from thousands of concerned callers. Investment firms tell Dow.. Investment firms tell Dow to invest in Bhopal clean up Feature story \| 5 December, 2002 at 1:00 A group of socially responsible investment firms, with combined assets valued at $13 billion, are urging Dow Chemical Company to address the ongoing economic, health and environmental liabilities stemming from a poisonous gas leak in Bhopal,... Indian government soft on.. Indian government soft on Bhopal criminals Feature story \| 10 July, 2002 at 2:00 The Indian government's move to reduce charges against a former Union Carbide CEO has met with protests and hunger strikes in India. The 1984 Bhopal gas disaster that has killed 20,000 to date and injured hundreds of thousands continues its toxic... Bhopal disaster has no.. Bhopal disaster has no parallel in human history It all began 18 years ago during the night of 2 December 1984 when 40 tonnes of lethal gases leaked from Union Carbide Corporation's pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. People just did not know what had hit them. There was no warning. Before... Bhopal: Lessons from history Feature story \| 22 November, 2002 at 1:00 India is the second most populous nation on earth and much of the population is under the age of 18. Greenpeace is relatively new to India and a large part of our work here is raising awareness with the younger generation of environmental... Hungry for justice Feature story \| 8 May, 2003 at 2:00 Eight days into an indefinite hunger strike, two survivors of the world's worst chemical disaster in Bhopal, India brought the disaster home to top executives of Dow Chemical. The survivors addressed shareholders and leadership at Dow's Annual... How low can Dow go? Feature story \| 23 December, 2002 at 1:00 In a stunning example of corporate insensibility, Dow Chemical, the world´s largest chemical company, and new owner of Union Carbide, is to sue survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India. While the site of the disaster lies... Charges dropped and.. Charges dropped and apologies offered Specialists and trained activists from the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal were brutally assaulted by the police last week when they entered the derelict Union Carbide factory site trying to contain a fraction of the tonnes of... Dow gets what it deserves Eighteen years is a long time to wait for anything. If you are waiting for the day your drinking water is free of poisons, a time when you have more than a few dollars compensation to help relieve the pain of chronic illnesses and an environment... Playing with their future Small children flying kites in the clear blue sky. Teenagers enjoying a game of cricket outside their homes while nearby water buffalo cool off in the local pond. Nothing from this scene portrays to me the dark fact that the land surrounding... 1 - 10 of 60 results. all types Action (0) Blogentry (1) E-card (0) Feature story (15) Frequently asked questions (0) Gallery (0) Job (0) Magazine Article (0) Magazine Edition (0) Magazine Homepage (0) Magazine Short Article (0) Multimedia overige (5) Opinion (0) Page (0) Photo (36) Photo essay (0) Press release (1) Publication (2) Video (0) Find results that have... one or more of these words: this tag: But don’t show results that have... all these words: Search on Greenpeace website	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9897
__label__cc	0.646648	0.353352	Health-Healing Self-Health Complete Hypnotism : Mesmerism, Mind Reading and Spiritualism Complete Herbalist, The CLAIRVOYANCE and Occult Powers Risking Being Alive - Wisdom of NOW Dare To Prepare Master Key - Scientific Concentration Self-Health Sort by: Catalog # Product Price Default Result pages: 123456789101112 Allopathy and Homoeopathy : Before the Judgment of Common Sense! Catalog #: SKU3481 Conservatism is fast dying out, hidden and smothered by the ever-flowing tidal-waves of progression. Radicalism ceases to become radical, by the daily and hourly recurrence of startling discoveries, and new, unheard-of, and unexpected adaptations of old laws. An Indigo Struggles To Overcome Drugs If ignorance is bliss, these intuitive shakers and movers are at the other end of the scale. Their quick-thinking, fourth-dimensional methods cause them to be misunderstood, but "by their fruits, ye shall know them." They are the "People of the Seventh Fire," the Violet Ray of Transmutation. The Golden Age cannot fully emerge until this "seventh vial of purification" has been "poured out" by the Indigos. Ananga Ranga : Kama Sutra 2 Books in One Volume : The Kama Sutra, which means "Sex Science", is the earliest surviving example of a written Hindu love-manual. It was compiled by the Indian sage Vatsyayana sometime between the second and fourth centuries A.D. His work was based on earlier Kama Shastras or "Rules of Love" going back to at least the seventh century B.C., and is a compendium of the social norms and love-customs of patriarchal Northern India around the time he lived. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed. Since the time when man's mind first busied itself with subjects beyond his own self-preservation and the satisfaction of his bodily appetites, the anomalous and curious have been of exceptional and persistent fascination to him; and especially is this true of the construction and functions of the human body. This is a large manuscript of nearly 700 pages in an 11 inch by 8 inch book. Art of Logical Thinking "Reasoning" is defined as: "The act, process or art of exercising the faculty of reason; the act or faculty of employing reason in argument; argumentation, ratiocination; reasoning power; disputation, discussion, argumentation." Stewart says: "The word reason itself is far from being precise in its meaning. In common and popular discourse it denotes that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong, and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends." Art of Perfumery : Method of Obtaining the Odors of Plants With Instructions For The Manufacture Of Perfumes For The Handkerchief, Scented Powders, Odorous Vinegars, Dentifrices, Pomatums, Cosmetiques, Perfumed Soap, Etc. With An Appendix On The Colors Of Flowers, Artificial Fruit Essences Back to Eden Fully updated to reflect the nutritional needs of the '80s, this new edition of the classic guide to herbal medicine, natural foods and home remedies underscores the fundamental principle that true healing consists of a return to natural habits of living. Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts A Compendium of little known facts- a virtual wealth of knowledge at your finger tips. Over 25 pages in the Table of Contents. Full of recipes, health information, business information, penmanship, etc. Beauty: Beauty In Woman It maybe set down, we suppose, as a matter sufficiently settled to become a principle, that men are moved by nothing more generally and certainly than by the power of Beauty-particularly Beauty in Woman. Chiropractic Made Simple Chiropractic Made Simple is an interesting book that sets out to explore the more traditional subluxation-based approach to chiropractic care. Dr. John Reizer, a chiropractor for over 16 years and a faculty member in the clinical science department at Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic, writes about his observations and conclusions regarding America's largest drugless healthcare profession. Cholesterol Hoax - 101+ Lies The diet-heart-cholesterol dogma is a fiction. It has grown and taken root in the consciousness of American people with the nourishment of those forces in the scientific world, fundraising enterprises, government agencies, academia, industry and others. They have placed profit above truth, and pride above integrity. he student in India expects the teacher to state positively the principles involved, and the methods whereby these principles may be manifested, together with frequent illustrations (generally in the nature of fables or parables), serving to link the new knowledge to some already known thing. The Hindu student never expects or demands anything in the nature of "proof" of the teachers statements of principle or method; in fact, he would regard it as an insult to the teacher to ask for the same. People as Their Own Physicians with Natural Remedies - One of the most comprehensive books we carry for the Herbalist or home practitioner. There is no doubt that hypnotism is a very old subject, though the name was not invented till 1850. In it was wrapped up the "mysteries of Isis" in Egypt thousands of years ago, and probably it was one of the weapons, if not the chief instrument of operation, of the magi mentioned in the Bible and of the "wise men" of Babylon and Egypt. "Laying on of hands" must have been a form of mesmerism, and Greek oracles of Delphi and other places seem to have been delivered by priests or priestesses who went into trances of self-induced hypnotism. Culpeper: the Complete Herbal 1653 Edition Reprinted! The Old Knowledge! Over 330 herbs and plants and their use, and preparations described in this version. : Hereby you may know what infinite knowledge Adam had in his innocence, that by looking upon a creature, he was able to give it a name according to its nature; and by knowing that, thou mayest know how great thy fall was and be humbled for it even in this respect, because hereby thou art so ignorant.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9904
__label__cc	0.635169	0.364831	zompist bboard • View topic - Linguistic Diversity Linguistic Diversity [ 121 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Next ran not in Salmoneus hwhatting And then I find it a strange story that there are more than 10 primary schools in Rotterdam alone where the children are taught English as a mother tongue in addition to Dutch. On the other hand, how likely will such a project succeed? If the pupils need to talk English to the teacher, but can only talk Dutch to children from other schools, to their parents, and to almost everyone else, at least until they are about twelve and start watching subtitled TV programmes. And this summer vacation I was in Germany staying with a friend, and I have gone to his school for one day, and I saw their English class. Their level was absolutely horrible, I don't say my English is good, but their accent was like in Allo Allo and I have seen all kinds of spelling and syntax mistakes. And that while they were almost all 16 or 17! I think the point here is that there are enough Germans to keep the language alive; if you are German, you do not need to know any other language to "survive", almost all movies are dubbed, there is a German Linux Magazine, there are lots of original German movies, there are lots of German music and I can go on. In the Netherlands things are a little bit different, you are almost literally bombed with English on TV and in ads and on universities; I can understand that it is impractical to translate all scientific books and magazines to Dutch, but with TV and ads it is just and only that English is "cool" in the Netherlands - I guess at least 3 out of 4 pupils from my class has never have to use English anywhere within the Netherlands. And for me, I want to learn German really well, because I would really like to go to Germany after I finish school or so, making the use of English to read computer books and webpages. And with that internet, did you know that there are estimations that Chinese will be the most used language on the Internet in 2007? This because so many people in China get internet access and thus can chat, email, use fora and can make webpages. EDIT: what would the world be boring if everyone spoke English! In some cases it would be easy, but I think it would be really really boring. Not to mention that the more speakers English has, the less chance on a spelling reform there is, and wouldn't that be a bad thing? zompist Boardlord Location: In the den gsandi jburke Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 4:59 am I think an authentic native perspective is missing from this debate; here, a Cheyenne talks about preserving his language. (The article contains a whiff of the brand of humor that Indians are so famous for.) Preserving the Cheyenne Language By Richard E. Littlebear Cheyenne speakers are uneasy about losing our language. They say, “It’s scary” when asked about it. The loss is scary because most do not realize we are losing the living essence of our identity as Cheyennes. We assumed Cheyenne would be here forever. The possibility of its death has given us a jolt of reality. If the death of languages were more noticeable, then perhaps there would be massive efforts to save them. For instance, if language death was like road kill, we could say, “A lot of complex syllables are getting run over. Look all those glottal stops rotting by the roadside. Those silent vowels sure stink when they die.” But the dying is subtle and complicated. Our language started dying with our first European contact and would now be complete if it weren’t for Cheyenne efforts at strengthening it. We must use every strategy to save our language while contending with English. Yet, we must also promote English because it gives us physical sustenance and enables us to work in the present society; whereas Cheyenne provides us with spiritual sustenance, positively reinforces our identity, and lets us commune with all that we hold sacred. Both languages are useful in their unique ways and are equally important to us. We Cheyenne have not been blameless in the loss of our language. Elders have ridiculed and over-corrected and thus rendered mute those who aspired to speak Cheyenne. Parents have not valued Cheyenne enough to teach their children and grandchildren. We have belittled efforts to strengthen the language while not offering to help. To strengthen our language on our Reservation, this is what we do: offer oral language classes, copy and implement successful oral language programs, offer courses in linguistics for those who want to read and write, offer immersion schools or classes, and offer a standardized oral language curriculum to all of the local K-12 schools. We must make tribal language the official language of the people and reservation by tribal council ordnance and create a certification process for our own language teachers; offer a language-speaking group for people to hear the language; begin a word coinage program, which will bring the language up to date; sponsor a summer language immersion camp; create and standardize a writing system. These are stratagems we are using. Any language, when not used, assumes a momentary, gossamer presence, and then it disappears. We must use them or lose them. If we don’t do anything to strengthen them, our languages will silently waft with butterfly elusiveness on the winds of the world and their melodic sounds will be lost forever. It is the charge of this older generation of Cheyenne speakers to do everything to strengthen it. It sounds trite, but it will only die once. Richard E. Littlebear is Vice President for Cultural Studies at Dull Knife Memorial College in Lame Deer, Montana Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 12:51 am Location: Tâl Katar zmeiat_joro Legros 1. Linguistic diversity is terrible for people who can't learn foreign languages for some reason. Just imagine how a Hmong monolingual must feel in the USA... In Mauritius, Creole monolinguals can't read newspapers or books and are in fact barred from clerical jobs, their language having no official status. 2. Linguistic diversity is a loss of time and energy. For example: the EU, where parliamentary debates in a dozen languages are an interpreter's nightmare. 3. Linguistic diversity hinders political unity. For example: Europe, again. A single language (preferably English, which is already quite widespread) should be taught to all the schoolchildren of the world, along with their mother tongue. Administrative, legal and commercial documents should be bilingual. I know that in the long run some languages and cultures would disappear, but IMO it would be a minor inconvenience. I don't think that the existence of a common auxiliary language for all the nations of the world would make this planet more peaceful. But it would make access to information easier, and therefore favor commerce and the emergence of a "unified planetary lowest common cultural denominator" (whatever that would be in practice - something similar to what we have on the zbb, perhaps). It would make migrations easier, and this aspect alone would have important consequences - for instance, it would accelerate the disappearance of minor languages. There are American-style shopping malls even in non-English-speaking countries. And Britney Spears albums are bought all over the world by people who can't understand the lyrics. I don't think that shopping malls and certain musical styles would be necessary consequences of English as an international auxiliary language. The spread of those cultural traits has other causes. bi's sock puppet Legros: That's a good point. Japanese anime is in fashion all over the world, even though not everyone understands Japanese. Perhaps the status of English as a lingua franca is a symptom, rather than the cause, of the Westernization of the world. An argument for linguistic diversity that's often brought up, is that the structure and vocabulary of a language contain within them an entire "world view" which may turn out to be valuable. It sounds pretty sentimental, but come think about it, some thoughts are easier to express in some languages than others, and this can affect my decision on what to say at a given time. There's a real impact on communication... Location: Scattered disc Well, if this makes you feel any better, English has a lot of loanwords. English is like a monster among languages ... it goes around eating up all the other languages and adopting their vocabulary, and to a lesser extent their grammatical and phonological features. English just keeps growing and growing with no end in sight. I would prefer to see Lojban or some other logical language make it to the top, because I think they are more efficient, but otherwise I agree with what Legros said ... except that I think that in the future there should be only one language in the world at all, and all others should be abandoned. Sunàqʷa the Sea Lamprey says: I remember a short sci-fi story where studying obscure languages and conlanging was something everyone did and fashions changed like clothing now, and everyone talked in different languages all the time... I can't remember the author or title now, though, it was a few years ago. Mercator: Well, every language incorporates loan words, and I don't see loan words going into English faster than they go into, say, Chinese. If you ask me to choose an international language, I'll favour a pidgin such as Chinook Jargon. I'm not sure about ease of access to information, but I prefer access to a good life. Legros: Though I have tons of information at my disposal, I'm not sure how much they contribute towards my freedom. Also, doctrellor and Eddy certainly aren't feeling very free... Eddy: Stop taking other people's words out of context. You can `prove' anything you want by just grabbing a fragment of people's words, but I'll be unimpressed. Saying logical languages "take away your ability to feel emotions" clearly means you have a super-weak understanding of logic. It's perfectly possible to say "I am angry" in a logical language; in standard predicate logic notation, it can be expressed as, say, Angry(I). If the phrase for "I am angry" is used often enough, it can become a stereotyped attitudinal. My main objection to Lojban, and also to English, is that they have too many rules and enforce too much structure. (Now that gives me an idea for a conlang based on the Chinook Jargon -- there's already , I know.)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9909
__label__cc	0.599856	0.400144	IndianPost Postal Stamp Image : Stamp Issue Date : 08/01/1973 Postage Stamp Dinomination : 1.45 Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0672 Postal Stamp Name : EXHIBITION SYMBOL Stamp Information : An exhibition is an organised display works of art, science and industry for the purpose of stimulating public interest and illustrating the progress and acomplishments of one or wide variey of productive activities. People are attracted to this type of display primarily because of the exhibition's educational and entertainment value. The exhibitions of all tpe including philatelic exercise an influence that is immediate, continuous and far-reaching. With the issue of the first postage stamp in 1840 the hobby of collecting stamps started. Although for the first two years the hobby was confined mostly to school boys but by 1863 it made inroads to the hearts of serious minded people. With the expansion of the hobby it took no time for clubs and socities to be organised. The need for exploring individual collections by stamp collectors was also strongly felt. Thus started Philatelic Exhibitions. The first Internatinal Exhibition was, however, held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first postage stamp in London in 1890. Other international exhibitions practically were held in Paris, Hague, Amsterdam and Vienna in subsequent years followed by exhibitions practically every year. More than two to three international exhibitions are now being held every year in one part of the globe or the other. India organised its first international exhibition in 1954 on the occasion of the celebration of the Centenary of India's first postage stamp. Since then a number of exhibitions were held by various organisations in the ciuntry. A National Philatelic Exhibition was, however, held in 1970 on a large scale under the auspices of the Indian Posts & Telegraphs Department. The success of the National Philatelic Exhibition promoted the P&T Department to undertake the task of sponsoring the India International Philatelic Exhibition (INDIPEX-73), to be held in New Delhi during the period from 14th to 23rd November, 1973. The exhibition has been planed in the "Hall of Nations" a unique building of space frame structure free from intervenning columns and will provide an ideal site affording an area of 7000 sq. mtrs. The competetive section will display about 2000 specially designed frames and great care has been taken for their arrangements and grouping. The P & T Department feels it a greatprivilege to bring out a series of four special postage stamps to mark this historic philatelic event. One of the stamp in this series with the symbol of the exhibition is being brought out on the 8th Jaunary, 1973 as an advance publicity of the exhibition. The other three stamps will be issued on the day of the inauguration of the exhibition. The Department feels that this stamp will generate interest amongst the philatelists and collectors throughout the world to make the exhibition a success with their co-operation. Stamp Currency : R Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE Stamp Language : English Stamp Overall Size : 4.06 X 2.28 cms Postal Stamp Print Size : 3.80 X 2.0 cms. Number of Stamps Per Sheet : 50 Stamp Perforations : 13 x 13 Postal Stamp Shape : Diagonal Postage Stamp Paper : Unwatermarked P.G. Matt coated paper Indian Stamp Process : Photogravure Number of stamps printed : 15,00,000 Stamp Printed At : India Security Press Indian Stamp's Color : Yellow, Red, Blue and Black	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9910
__label__wiki	0.815155	0.815155	MainAll NewsDefense/SecurityTerrorist throws grenades at soldiers and is shot Terrorist throws grenades at soldiers and is shot Armed terrorist approaches border with Gaza, throws grenades at IDF troops before being shot. Elad Benari, 22/08/19 23:52 \| updated: 00:15 Security forces near the Gaza border fence (archive) IDF lookouts on Thursday evening identified a terrorist armed with grenades approaching the border fence in northern Gaza. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said that the terrorist threw several grenades at IDF troops. The troops, who were on alert, charged and stopped the terrorist. There were no injuries among the Israeli soldiers. Earlier on Thursday, Avichay Adraee, head of the Arab media division of the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, warned Gazans that rocket attacks and terrorist attacks will result in the disruption of normal life in Gaza. Overnight Wednesday, the Israel Air Force attacked twice in Gaza in retaliation for rocket fire on the south. The first air strike, shortly before 1:00 a.m., targeted a Hamas naval facility in the northern Gaza Strip. The strike was in retaliation for a rocket attack on southern Israel which caused no injuries or damages. Shortly after the Israeli air strike, another rocket was identified as having been launched from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory. Around 4:00 a.m., IDF fighter jets attacked several other terrorist targets belonging to Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said the attack was carried out in response to the second rocket attack from Gaza. Tags:IDF, Gaza border	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9916
__label__wiki	0.723125	0.723125	Nulkaba takes out Mayoral Academic Challenge Nulkaba Public School was crowned first-time champions of the 2012 Mayoral Academic Challenge primary schools’ competition held at Cessnock Performing Arts Centre. The Nulkaba team of Jordyn Jeffery, Ryan Forrest and Kyla Borghero won $1800 for their school, and a further $250 when it defeated Kurri High School in the play-off between primary and high school winners. The Kurri High team (Callum Procter, Oscar Harvey and Emma Benic) won $250 after beating Cessnock, Mount View and St. Philip’s to win the Year 7 competition. Nulkaba’s new principal Narelle Hunt, attending her first Mayoral Academic Challenge, said it was a spectacular event and that she was very proud of her students. “I’ve never seen anything like it in the Newcastle area, and it’s great to be involved,” she said. Small schools Laguna (runners-up) and Paxton (third place) continued their good run in the challenge. Laguna (the 2009 champions) has made the final three times in seven years and Paxton has twice. Laguna’s team of Fin Pratt, Jarrod Biggs and Ben James won $1000 and the Paxton team (Brock Sinclair, Kyle Rees and Hayden Cashmere) took home $500 for their schools to spend on equipment. Nineteen primary schools took part in this year’s challenge. The other semi-finalists were Branxton, Cessnock and Ellalong. “The challenge has been held for seven years and I wish to thank all the students who participated this year – they are all winners and I thank the parents and teachers of the schools involved – they should be very, very proud,” Mayor of Cessnock, Cr. Alison Davey said. “My thanks to the Rotary Club of Cessnock and particular thanks to Mr. David Clark, Mrs. Judy Clark, Mrs. Janette Jackson and Mr. Tom Hannah for their immense help during the three-day competition. “And my thanks also to the Cessnock High School students who demonstrated technical skills of the highest order to ensure the success of the event.” Sponsors of the 2012 Challenge are Rover Motors, Cessnock Achievement Centre, DLW Corporate Services, Hunter Resource Recovery, Kurri Bowling Club and Weston Workers Club. WINNERS: Mayor of Cessnock, Cr. Alison Davey congratulates the winning team from Nulkaba Public School, Ryan Forrest, Jordyn Jeffery and Kyla Borghero. SECOND: Jarrod Biggs, Fin Pratt and Ben James from Laguna Public School. THIRD: Kyle Rees, Brock Sinclair and Hayden Cashmere from Paxton Public School. HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPS: Oscar Harvey, Callum Procter and Emma Benic from Kurri High School. ‘I kept asking for my baby and they kept telling me ‘no’ ‘ Wollongong Hospital at ‘crisis point’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9921
__label__wiki	0.708184	0.708184	Bear in Air Locates Savoy Hunter Tammy Daniels 05:39PM / Friday December 04, 2009 The Massachusetts State Police Air Wing last night located a hunter who had gone missing in a forest in Savoy. A state police helicopter crew found the hunter, a 62-year-old Savoy man, at 10:50 p.m. in a wooded area by using the aircraft's forward-looking infrared camera. The hunter was located about one-third of a mile from the point where he had entered the woods almost nine hours earlier. The helicopter crew directed state police ground units to the hunter's location. Troopers on the ground and local firefighters determined that he had suffered potentially serious injuries but was conscious and appeared to be in stable condition. The helicopter crew illuminated the scene using a high-powered searchlight mounted under the nose of the aircraft while rescue personnel removed the hunter to an ambulance for transport to an area hospital. State Police had begun searching for the hunter at 5:50 p.m., when his wife called the barracks in Cheshire to report him missing. She told troopers he had entered the woods at about 2 p.m. wearing fluorescent orange clothing and was usually home by dark. Troopers and state police dogs began a ground search. At approximately 10 p.m., the Air Wing unit was dispatched from its base in Westover and located the hunter less than an hour later. State police are not releasing the hunter's name or the nature of his injuries at this time. Tags: hunter, missing, state police, search, helicopter Larceny Crime Watch Police Investigation Armed Robbery Rape Homicide Robbery Missing Persons Pedestrians Assaults Mvi Injuries Hit & Run Search Drugs Stabbing Firearms Shooting Murder Drug Charges Motor Vehicle Fraud Accident Vehicle Search & Rescue Structure Fire Heroin Fire Motor Vehicle Accident Break-ins Motorcycles Buglaries Assault Fatal Veremko	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9922
__label__wiki	0.678695	0.678695	Indiana Pacers: Transactions, News, Notes The Pacers are waiting, waiting, waiting for the Hawks to complete a deal to bring Al Harrington back to town. He's not worth the wait for Indiana. Their greatest need was not to find someone to run their pose offense through on the nights when Jermaine O'Neal. Harrington doesn't do anything other than score and he's not especially efficient doing that. When O'Neal is healthy, Harrington will serve both to limit his touches and the minutes of Marquis Daniels, Danny Granger, Stephen Jackson, Shawne Williams, and James White. Daniels (when healthy) Jackson, and Granger are all better players than Harrington. Williams and White probably aren't yet and may never be but at least they would complement O'Neal in some way. The Pacers still need a good point guard and some quality post depth beyond this year's Maccabi Tel Aviv import, Maceo Baston. Baston should approximate Foster's game better than either David Harrison or Josh Powell. The modesty of Jasikevicius's production in 2006 should prepare Pacers fans' expectations for such faint praise. Houston Rockets: Transactions, News, Notes There's no safer bet to improve on their 2006 season than the Houston Rockets. Juwan Howard, Rafer Alston, David Wesley, and Luther Head all played more minutes than Yao and Tracy McGrady last year. Acquiring Shane Battier, who has never missed more than four games in an NBA season, even at a significant price, should at least assure that the Rockets at least have a good player available to play more minutes than the members of their guild of role players and would-be role players. It would probably be foolish to expect a full, healthy season of production from McGrady, but any minutes he contributes beyond the 1746 he played last year will be of greater utility than those contributed by Head, Wesley, Derek Anderson, Keith Bogans, Ryan Bowen, Jon Barry, Moochie Norris, Rick Brunson, and Richie Frahm. That's such a motley collection that Jeff Van Gundy might find Kirk Snyder a breath of fresh air. If Bob Sura can return from his year lost to micro-fracture surgery, all the better. Luther Head should be more useful in his second year. He could be far more productive than he was as a rookie if McGrady and Yao Ming are drawing attention on the court. It's not all good news for the Rockets. Somebody's going to have to replace the departed Stromile Swift. Though a disappointment, Swift is still better than Juwan Howard or Ryan Bowen. The Rockets appear to be counting on Chuck Hayes being able to maintain his rebounding (6th in the league in rebound rate) and defensive production (5th in the league in defensive rating) in greatly increased minutes. I think that's unlikely even if Hayes reamins a good bench player. Golden State Warriors: Transactions, News, Notes Even when Chris Mullin does something right, the potential for failure looms. Case in point: he succesfully trades away one of the five bad-to-horrible contracts to which he's agreed to create playing time for a cheaper, younger option and said option, Monta Ellis, hurts his knee. Again. Ellis, you'll remember, was available for the Warriors to take in the second round because of concerns about the long-term health of his knees. Having waived Will Bynum in order to take on the bulk of unwanted players necessary for the Jazz to match Fisher's salary, the Warriors are dangerously close to announcing Keith McLeod as the starting point guard on the nights Baron Davis can't answer the bell. Warriors fans (and executives) are counting on a trade for either Iverson or Al Harrington to help recompose the roster. I think either trade will simply change the team's problems rather than provide the 10 win improvement they need to make the playoffs, but, if they complete either deal they will be negotiating with Billy King or Billy Knight, making the possibilities endless. Detroit Pistons: Transactions, News, Notes For all intents and purposes, the Pistons had only six guys they were willing to play in the playoffs last year. Ben Wallace's departure for Chicago reduces that number to five. The seventh and eighth members of Detroit's playoff rotation, Lindsey Hunter and Tony Delk, were old and ineffective and should be allowed to leave as free agents. Letting the old, bad players go would be easier had Joe Dumars not traded away his best (relatively) young bench player, Maurice Evans, for skinny Senegalese project Cheick Samb. Evans allegedly requested the trade so as not to share minutes with Carlos Delfino next year. Which is odd as Delfino has yet to demonstrate even marginal competence in any facet of the NBA game. Still, he should be better than Alex Acker (should he be re-signed) or Flip Murray, who will fit in not at all with the veteran Pistons. Will Blalock should get minutes before Murray. It looks like the rest of the bench will be Nazr Mohammed, Jason Maxiell, and what's left of Dale Davis which means that if the starting five stay healthy the Pistons should make the playoffs but if anyone gets hurt, things could get desperate quite quickly. Denver Nuggets: Transactions, News, Notes Denver was awfully mediocre last year and, as of this moment, it looks like more of the same this year. I don't really understand how adding Iverson will make the Nuggets much better. Even Billy King would demand Andre Miller in that deal and refuse to take Kenyon Martin. Generally speaking, it's tough to build a championship team by spending $130M over the next half-decade on two oft-injured guys who play the same position. Tends to limit one's flexibility. It would be foolish to expect either great planning or great execution from a franchise owned by an important booster of the University of Missouri Athletic Department. Turning whatever it is they own of Howard Eisley's rights into JR Smith is a positive, though, again, the end result of the move just means a battle for Greg Buckner's old minutes between Smith, Ruben Patterson, Julius Hodge, and DerMarr Johnson (should they re-sign him). I'll take another look at the Nuggets later in the week after they decide whether or not to match Francisco Elson's offer sheet. Dallas Mavericks: Transactions, News, Notes It hasn't been made official yet, but the Mavs re-upped Jason Terry at a very reasonable price for the next six years. That made it possible to swap the electrifying (when-healthy) Marquis Daniels for balding Austin Croshere (note the rarely-witnessed comb-forward in Croshere's pic in the linked story above) and his magical expiring contract. In less stimulating news, they announced a deal with DJ Mbenga. So, Croshere presumably replaces Keith Van Horn, Buckner and draftee Maurice Ager replace Daniels and Adrian Griffin. Free agent Darrell Armstrong has been the subject of absolutely no rumor-mongering thus far but should be on somebody's bench this year should he so desire. Cleveland Cavaliers: Transactions, News, Notes The Cavs really should go ahead and Clipse (credit to Joey from Straight Bangin') with Drew Gooden. Then Danny Ferry should go make sure that Drew Gooden isn't the second-best player on the team. I'm not sure how Ferry goes about doing that as no team should be anxious to take on Eric Snow at $20M over three years, Damon Jones at $12M over three years, or Larry Hughes at $50M over four years. Luke Jackson, Sasha Pavlovic, and Ira Newble are cheaper but useless. No wonder they've mistaken the Brazilian Ryan Bowen for a good player. It's all about the context of their perceptions. My guess is that Ferry trades Big Z's expiring contract at the deadline or lets him walk at the end of the year. Ilgauskas is productive but he's an old 30 and he and LeBron don't look like they complement each other very well. They don't really look like they're playing the same game. Are there any two teammates, good teammates, that are more dissimilar? I love the hope that the class of 2003 is expressing through their 3- to 4-year contract extensions. They aren't living in fear of injury or for the desire of profoundly bullet-proof financial security. They're trying to maximize wins and money and they're making the NBA more competitive, fluid, and flexible. Chicago Bulls: Transactions, News, Notes John Paxson turned the second pick in the draft and Tyson Chandler into Tyrus Thomas, Viktor Khryapa, Ben Wallace, PJ Brown, and JR Smith. That's a solid summer. Oh, he also drafted Thabo Sefolosha, who, at least on my computer, watching through the single camera in the gym at the Orlando Summer League, looks ready to contribute immediately (the benefits of letting Kirk Hinrich exclusively play point guard could be significant). And, the Bulls are rumored to be in the running for Drew Gooden. The Bulls used over 6000 minutes on Chandler, Darius Songaila, Mike Sweetney, Malik Allen, and Othella Harrington in the frontcourt last year, none of whom were better than mediocre. Wallace is a near-certainty to be good (even though he is declining), while Brown and Thomas figure to match the production of the journeymen they're replacing even in a worst-case scenario. Factor in that one of Deng, Gordon, or Sweetney (if he plays) could improve as well and the Bulls look capable of improving by 10-12 wins this year. Signing Adrian Griffin to a three-year deal suggests that any big trade would most likely involve either Deng or Nocioni (perhaps one of Smith or Khryapa, too). Nocioni seems untouchable after his great playoff performance against the Heat but his trade value may never be higher because, 1) he was guarded by Antoine Walker for most of that series, and, 2) he's most useful playing as an undersized four but Tyrus Thomas and/or an effective Michael Sweetney will provide stiffer competition for those minutes. Apparently, the Griffin signing means that JR Smith will never suit up for the Bulls, instead heading to Denver for Howard Eisley and two second-round picks. Eisley doesn't appear on any Nuggets roster that I can find but they apparently still own his rights after signing him for the rest of the season following two 10-day contracts last March. The Bulls intend to waive Eisley immediately. Fringe NBA prospects best hope those future second-round picks are far in the future. I don't see many young players with non-guaranteed contracts making this team over the next couple of years. Charlotte Bobcats: Transactions, News, Notes They drafted a young man with a little bit of facial hair and quite a lot of offense. Being unable to rebound or defend, the 21st-century Jeff Hornacek will, unfortunately, fit right in with his new teammates. Emeka Okafor better stay healthy this year. I'm pretty sure you can't finish ahead of even the Hawks with a frontline of Morrison, May, and Brezec. Boston Celtics: Transactions, News, Notes Paul Pierce's elbow will keep him from playing for Team USA this summer. It did not prevent Pierce from signing a contract extension. Danny Ainge successfully swapped Raef LaFrentz's contract for Theo Ratliff's slightly less onerous deal, adding Sebastian Telfair in the process. Ainge then acquired Rajon Rondo in the draft, immediately making Bassy the third-best point guard on the roster. At the moment. Who knows what the roster will look like when the season starts. Will they add The Answer? Or some diversity? Atlanta Hawks: Transactions, News, Notes The Speedy Claxton signing should make it easier for me to become a Hawks fan. Salim Stoudamire ( "Honestly, there were days when I wanted to come up in here and fight somebody because we were losing so much.") is doing his part. I recommend Salim act on that impulse the next time he sees Tyronn Lue. If one is willing to assume that Billy Knight gets some non-redundant talent (here's to not finding Troy Murphy in the A) from the Warriors or Pacers for Al Harrington, his next task should be the awesomely easy one of finding someone better than Lue or Royal Ivey to back up Claxton and start the 15-20 games Speedy will miss this year through injury. I nominate the following summer league stars who could be picked up for something approaching free: Travis Diener, Aaron Miles, or (ugh) Little John Lucas. I contend the 05-06 Hawks could have won as many as five more games if they had just signed a half-way decent point guard out of the D-League instead of letting Tyronn Lue shoot the ball every three minutes. Early summer league reviews haven't been kind to Shelden Williams. My guess is that he's the latest decent-to-good complementary player (Boris Diaw, Jason Terry, Nazr Mohammed, Brevin Knight, Scot Pollard) who proves much more useful once he moves to a team with a plan.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9926
__label__wiki	0.611673	0.611673	Looking Back To Looking Ahead: The Four Factors Before the season started, I made some predictions about how the four factors would change for the Atlanta Hawks this season. I'm not interested in evaluating those predictions this early* in the season but, in the first of a recurring series, let's track how the Hawks are performing relative to last season's 53-win team. Not least of which because, according to John Hollinger's power rankings, the Hawks have played the league's fifth-easiest schedule thus far. Granted, the end of season power rankings at the Basketball-Reference.com Blog in April ranked the 2009-10 Hawks schedule the sixth-easiest in the league. First, the offense: Name Off Eff eFG% FT Rate OR% TO% 2009-10 113.4 50.6 21.3 28.2 13.3 Unsurprisingly, the Hawks haven't been able to match last season's offensive efficiency. Then again, they don't have to do so to remain a good team. They've declined only to fifth in the league as improved shooting from the field and more frequent trips to the foul line have mostly compensated for a decline in offensive rebound rate and an increase in turnover rate. The team's turnover rate, though far higher than last season's, has improved significantly over the last two-and-a-half weeks. Now, for the defense: Name Def Eff eFG% FT Rate OR% TO% The Hawks have been slightly better defensively (so far) this season. The changes are less dramatic than cumulative. Opponents are missing slightly more shots and the Hawks are rebounding slightly more of those misses. Most importantly, the Hawks haven't seen a spike in their opponents' free throw rate despite their opponents making 78% (league average (76.5%) of their free throws this season compared with 74.5% (league average: 75.9%) last season. Premature conclusions: the Hawks are 1.6 points per 100 possessions to the worse so far this season compared to last but are, as expected, a fundamentally similar team. Labels: graphs, Hawks, team stats UnivisionDeportes.com and NBA.com/enebea: Al Horford Blog The Spanish-language joint venture between Univision and NBA.com features a bilingual blog from Al Horford. Spanish speakers, enjoy. Me, I'll have to wait for NBA.com and TV5MONDE to get together to publish Pape Sy's blog. Posted by Bret LaGree at 12:24 PM 0 comments Links to this post Labels: al horford Hoopism: NBA Team History Word Clouds Hoopism created a word cloud for each NBA team based on minutes played. Here's the visual representation of the Hawks: Labels: Hawks, history Ticket Giveaway: Atlanta Hawks @ Orlando Magic, December 6th Courtesy of the folks at StubHub (who have sponsored this site since the launch of the TrueHoop Network, check their ad on the sidebar for your ticket needs) I have two tickets to give away to the Hawks' visit to Orlando on Monday, December 6th. To win the tickets, send me an e-mail (hoopinion (at) gmail (dot) com) with "Tickets" in the subject line and tell me why you want the tickets. Are you a displaced Hawks fan? Are you primed for a mid-week road trip? Are you even more interesting and exotic than I can fathom? This contest is open until the conclusion of the Hawks/Grizzlies game on Wednesday night. Good luck. Labels: contest, Hawks, magic Quotes, Notes, and Links: Atlanta Hawks 96 Toronto Raptors 78 Gameflow Jay Triano: "DeMar (DeRozan) got outplayed by Joe Johnson. Jose (Calderon) got outplayed by Mike Bibby. Andrea (Bargnani) got outplayed by Josh Smith. Sonny (Weems) got outplayed by Marvin Williams. Joey (Dorsey) got outplayed by Al Horford. I’m not picking on our starters for getting outplayed. Amir (Johnson) didn’t outplay anybody on their bench, either. Leandro (Barbosa) didn’t. They beat us, every single position, every single guy." Larry Drew on Josh Smith's triple-double: "It just seemed like he was all over the floor. When he plays like that and plays under control, he is such a force. His defensive game, he was all over the place, rebounding the basketball, helping defensively and talking. Just a super overall game." All this despite Smith wasting six offensive possessions on jump shots. He made two of them. If you curious as to why I've made little mention of Smith's triple-double over the course of two posts concerning this game, well, I'll let Smith explain: "When it was coming down to it, I was like 'Man, I'm not going to get it.' We ran a couple of plays for me to try and get the assist." Today's (yesterday's) Atlanta Hawks energy update comes courtesy of Coach Drew: "I was a little concerned with our energy, whether we would have our legs. We started the game with good intensity." Marvin Williams on his knee: "I am starting to get my confidence back in it. There are still some things that still bother me. Coach is doing a good job with slowing me down and letting me sit out in practice. I feel more explosive out there. When I first got it banged, I didn’t feel explosive at all. These last couple games I’ve been getting to the line because I feel more comfortable pushing off. I still feel pain but I am starting to feel better each day." More from Williams: "I think sometimes other people panic more than we do. We just can’t get too highs on the highs and too low on the lows. We started off 6-0, obviously we are going to hit some rough spots. The one thing about this team is we stay together." Josh Smith, undercutting Williams completely: "What we have been doing these last three games is something special." Be sure to include the schedule-makers when passing at the rings to commemorate this 3-0 stretch against the Wizards, Knicks, and Raptors. Lest anyone think Larry Drew is unique among NBA coaches in overreacting to hypothetical foul trouble, I present Jay Triano explaining why Joey Dorsey, rather than Amir Johnson, started for the Raptors: "We knew that Amir was going to play the majority of minutes (and if) Amir picks up two fouls right away (as a starter), which he’s prone to do, then he has to sit out for the whole half and I can’t even get into rotations." That reasoning contains what the kids might call "lots of fail." The Human Highlight Blog on Mike Bibby: I'm going to give the Bibster love because, as much as I like to give Horford nods for his industrious work, I love that when the Hawks want to free up Al, Joe, or Josh to go to the hoop, it's Mike that sets the hard screens to get them there. Posted by Bret LaGree at 9:48 AM 2 comments Links to this post Labels: Hawks, links, raptors Atlanta Hawks 96 Toronto Raptors 78 Poss Off Eff eFG% FT Rate OR% TO% TOR 90 Wherein Josh Smith delights lovers of base-10... Though the lack of defensive resistance Toronto offers provided little in the way of useful perspective with which to evaluate the general level of quality the Hawks achieved Sunday afternoon, it did grant us a game-long look at how Larry Drew's offense is designed to work: constant movement of both players and the ball until someone, anyone gets an open look. The five starters plus Jamal Crawford each attempted between 8 and 13 field goals. Each of the six players earned at least one assist. The team scored frequently and early enough to allow Drew to limit the minutes of most of the core players. The Hawks can't make the Raptors provide a stern defensive test. They can only go out and execute or not. This afternoon, they executed. Toronto, assembled in such a way as to preclude the possibility of playing quality defense, should be far more concerned with their complete offensive capitulation in the third quarter. They scored 50 points on their first 46 possessions, a rate sufficient to compete in this game as well as almost exactly what one would expect given the season-to-date performances of both their offense and Atlanta's defense. Over the final 10:27 of the third quarter, they managed to make just one field goal, five free throws, and committed six turnovers. Offensive execution is not so easy as it seems. One thing that neither seems nor is easy is breaking into the Atlanta rotation as a young point guard. Jeff Teague again got pulled immediately after making a mistake. With 8:56 left in the second quarter, he made a lazy pass while initiating the offense. Leandro Barbosa stole the pass and took it in for a layup. It was a unforced error in every respect. It was also exactly like unforced turnovers Mike Bibby and Jamal Crawford have committed in recent games. Unlike Teague, they are allowed to play through their mistakes. Also unlike Teague, neither Bibby nor Crawford figure to have any long-term impact on the fortunes of this franchise. Given the dire salary cap restrictions the Hawks will face until almost the middle of this decade, a rookie-scale contract should be like gold to this franchise but they appear completely willing neither to use Teague nor get anything useful for him. If he is so limited that the team** cannot overcome him committing a turnover or giving up a open shot, then sit him next Etan Thomas and give his spot in line to Jordan Crawford. Just as soon as Rick Sund explains why he took Teague ahead of DeJuan Blair and Darren Collison. It should be even more captivating as his explanation that the Hawks "play really well" when everything's working and they'd be a better team if they could play good defense. Even Josh Powell, terrible now and disposable going forward, committed a turnover inbounding the basketball when the game was still within in six late in the second quarter. He finished the half and made his regular appearance in the third quarter. A team, I remind you, whose backcourt defense consists of some combination of Mike Bibby, Jamal Crawford, and Joe Johnson. Labels: game recap, Hawks, raptors November 28th Game Preview: Atlanta Hawks (10-7) @ Toronto Raptors (6-10) TIP-OFF: 1pm (EST) TELEVISION: SportSouth RADIO: The Hawks have moved to 97.9 on the FM dial this season. GAME NOTES: Hawks/Raptors ATLANTA INJURY REPORT: Pape Sy is out. TORONTO INJURY REPORT: Ed Davis and Reggie Evans are out. ATL (off) TOR (def) 92.4 1.108 51.4 ATL (def) TOR (off) OTHER PERSPECTIVES: Raptors Republic FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY: Atlanta -1, 203 o/u PREVIOUSLY...the Toronto Raptors lost 110-101 in Boston on Friday night. The loss snapped a four-game Raptor winning streak. Toronto also lost Reggie Evans to a broken foot in the game. The absence of Evans, Toronto's leading rebounder on both ends of the floor, could limit the exposure of Atlanta's weakness on the defensive glass and the importance of offensive rebounding to their efficient scoring. Then again, if most of Evans's minutes go to Amir Johnson, Toronto may not miss a beat on the offensive glass. It's a big game for Atlanta's tenured guards as they should, for once, be only the second-worst set of perimeter defenders on the court. Marvin Williams should be well-rested after sitting for the final 15 minutes of yesterday's game despite delivering his best performance since returning from injury. Consider this an open thread for all pre-game, in-game, and post-game (but pre-recap) thoughts. Labels: game thread, Hawks, raptors Quotes, Notes, and Links: Atlanta Hawks 99 New York Knicks 90 The management would like to make an announcement. For this afternoon's matinee performance, the role of the Atlanta Hawks will be played by Amar'e Stoudemire: "We've got to be mentally ready for these early games, and we weren't. We didn't come out from the start with energy, we had to fight so hard to get back into it, but the Hawks had the confidence and momentum, and it's hard to beat a team when they're feeling that good." Joe Johnson on the good things (10 rebounds, 9 of them defensive, 7 assists, and no turnovers) he did: "I had to be effective some way. I couldn’t make a damn shot. I just try to make up for it with defense, rebounding, getting guys shots. A lot of times they double me whether I am making shots or not. So I am just looking for open teammates." Al Horford on the increased defensive attention he's receiving: "They are being more aggressive on me and almost forcing me to make other players and pass it out. It’s just something I am going to have to adjust to. I’m unselfish enough that I am going to get the ball and kick it out quickly." Larry Drew on the how the team missed Josh Smith defensively: "We blew some defensive assignments, which we didn’t do the first half. We had some breakdowns. Some baskets they got in the second half, we did a good job with in the first half. With Josh, we know we can have a breakdown and he will erase our mistakes." Josh Smith (even more enthusiastic after the game than I) sets it up: "We are helping each other now. We are having fun again, sharing the basketball, communicating. I think if we can put a string of games like that together, we can have a successful season." Michael Cunningham knocks it down: Give the Hawks credit, but I’ve got two caveats. One is that the Knicks and Wizards just aren’t good enough to cause Atlanta the kind of frustration that comes from playing its best but still having to be precise and persistent for long periods. The other is that there’s energy and effort but then there are the limitations of the roster and how L.D. uses what he’s got. Larry Drew: "They are going to start every game at a high energy level. Thus far, it's been two games since we made that pact, and we've done it." Cunningham also has a Jeff Teague update: I’ve snooped around and so far all I can gather is Teague’s reduced role is nothing more than coach’s decision. The decision, I might add, of a coach given a short bench and little in the way of organizational authority or job security. And Cunningham on Joe Johnson: J.J.’s scoring struggles are becoming a big problem because now he’s wrecking Atlanta’s flow. There are times he’s just not in sync with what his teammates are doing and the ball stops when it gets to him, just like last season. It’s as if the more he struggles, the more he slows down his game as he thinks about what he can do to get a good shot instead of realizing he’d get plenty if he swung the ball around. Time to resurrect my theory that one of the reasons Johnson left Phoenix was that the way Steve Nash plays makes no sense to him? Jamal Crawford on playing in Madison Square Garden: "It’s always fun to come back here." Howard Beck's game recap in The New York Times focused on Crawford's return: They cut the deficit to 4 points in the fourth quarter, then faded as Jamal Crawford, a former Knick, scored 10 points in a 21-8 Hawks run. Crawford, who was traded two Novembers ago when the Knicks began purging salary, scored 21 points off the bench for the Hawks. Crawford put on a familiar show, hitting tough fadeaways, off-balance runners and clutch 3-pointers. A Knicks-Crawford reunion is possible. Crawford is due to become a free agent next summer, and the Hawks have been hesitant about offering an extension. The Knicks will have cap room again when Eddy Curry, Crawford’s close friend, comes off the books, and. Their primary target will be Carmelo Anthony. But they have a clear need at shooting guard. “I would definitely listen,” Crawford said. Labels: Hawks, knicks, links Atlanta Hawks 99 New York Knicks 90 NY 88 Was that the passing of the guard we witnessed in the fourth quarter? An on-court acknowledgment of whose hands hold the future of franchise regardless of the allocation financial resorces? Joe Johnson isn't in a shooting slump. Joe Johnson can't create good shots for himself and he's either incapable of or unwilling to move the ball quickly in the half-court offense. Some hot jump shooting from his teammates overcame this personal failure in the first quarter as the Hawks took control of the game and some good work on the offensive glass from Mo Evans and Al Horford held off both the Knicks and the inadequacies of isolation basketball as practiced by an inefficient scorer in the late third and early fourth quarter . Larry Drew then largely took the ball out of his highest paid player's hands and made Al Horford, the team's best player, central to almost every offensive possession from the 10-minute to the 3-minute mark of the fourth quarter. Horford scored eight points, grabbed two offensive rebounds, and earned two assists in the fourth quarter. He set countless ball-screens to free ball-handlers. He made strong, purposeful cuts to create space for himself or his teammates. He scored in the post. He drew, then passed out of, a double-team in the post. Neither Horford nor the ball rested in the heart of the fourth quarter as the Hawks finished off the Knicks. Not that Horford papered over all the team's inadequacies. Jamal Crawford is by far the Atlanta guard most adept at running screen-and-roll or pick-and-pop with Horford but he had to share the ball-handling opportunities with Joe Johnson and Mike Bibby. Johnson moves laterally across the floor, rather than turn the corner and attack, when using a ball-screen and, as mentioned above, does nothing quickly. Mike Bibby has to play at the very limit of control both to turn the corner and to hit Horford on the move. Crawford, though, is given the freedom to take advantage of his one great skill within a team context. It's the latter that helps minimize Crawford's offensive weaknesses. Running the screen-and-roll with Horford gives Crawford two options: take the first available shot or pass the ball to Horford. He doesn't have to move without the ball. He doesn't have to anticipate what his teammates will do. He doesn't have to work through the full set of options available to a point guard. Furthermore, the difficulty he and Horford cause defenses opens up offensive rebounding avenues should Crawford choose to take a bad shot. Crawford scored 10 points while making 4 of 6 shots (not counting his shot-clock violation avoidance heave with 5 seconds left in the game). One of those misses was rebounded and put back by Horford. The Hawks also witnessed the value of the symbiotic defensive relationship between Horford and Josh Smith as Smith sat much of the second half due to (real) foul trouble. Horford, playing alongside Marvin Williams, or Zaza Pachulia, or four guards had responsibility both for Amar'e Stoudemire and cleaning up after whichever Knick guards penetrated the first line of Atlanta defense. There is no most important Atlanta defender, there is only the importance, the necessity, of Smith and Horford. Add in the first, simultaneous evidence of good health from Mo Evans (10 points on 9 shots in 25:24) and Marvin Williams (13 points on 7 shots, 8 rebounds, 3 of them on the offensive end, and...THIS) and the outlook appears far brighter than it did earlier in the week. Labels: game recap, Hawks, knicks November 27th Game Preview: Atlanta Hawks (9-7) @ New York Knicks (8-8) GAME NOTES: Hawks/Knicks NEW YORK INJURY REPORT: Kelenna Azubuike is out. NY (def) NY (off) OTHER PERSPECTIVES: Knickerblogger, Posting and Toasting FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY: New York -1.5, 210 o/u PREVIOUSLY...the New York Knicks have won five straight games, four of them on the road. The first three wins came on the West Coast (granted, against Sacramento, Golden State, and the Clippers) and the last two came in a home-and-home, back-to-back against Charlotte on Tuesday and Wednesday. The 8-8 Knicks have benefited from the additions of NBA veterans Amar'e Stoudemire, Raymond Felton, and Ronny Turiaf as well as from spending a second-round pick on a 6-7 22-year-old who did not spend last season on the bench of a poor team in the French league. Labels: game thread, Hawks, knicks Atlanta Hawks 116 Washington Wizards 96 ATL 93 What a relaxing holiday. Just the Wizards? Sure, but keep in mind the Hawks haven't blown out a lesser team since opening night. If there are particulars that temper one's excitement over the comprehensive victory (Al Horford getting the majority of his shots (6 of 11) and points (9 of 15) off of the offensive glass, Josh Smith's fondness for the long two-point jumper, whatever's going on with Jeff Teague's minutes) then one also has to acknowledge, for the sake of fairness, the atypically fine job the Hawks did of bottling up John Wall and Gilbert Arenas (exactly the sort of two-headed, off-the-dribble guard attack that has bedeviled the Hawks for years) and getting the perimeter players involved in the defensive rebounding effort. If that sort of defensive performance on the perimeter can be replicated against better teams, teams not playing on the road on a holiday evening, then the dream of 50 wins is not dead. Note the extremely intentional choice not to use the word "effort." The Hawks have never failed to understand how they play their best, they just struggle to achieve that level of performance. One, because it's difficult to do. Two, because their opponents just as clearly understand how the Hawks play their best and try to thwart them. Three, because their lack of depth, both in numbers and in the number of well-rounded players, limits their margin for error. Firing on all cylinders, this is a team to behold. It's a sight for sore eyes at this point in time but let's not fail to appreciate the degree of difficulty involved in a good performance regardless of the quality of the opponent. Less encouraging were the immediate lessons some of the players and head coach took from the victory. "They had to bring energy. That was the most important thing. It wasn’t about the game plan. It wasn’t about our strategy. The first line of business was to bring energy. That type energy I saw today I had not seen for a few games, especially from start to finish." Josh Smith: "We really did bring the energy and the effort tonight. We were able to bring it at both ends of the court. We were just helping each other out and having fun." Mo Evans: "We only put up one word on the board: 'Energy.' I think we fulfilled that. Everybody played with a lot of intensity, a lot of energy, and we played together for the first time in a long time." In a sentiment sure to shock regular readers, I'm far more taken with Al Horford's analysis: "The big emphasis was blocking out. McGee had been playing so well coming into this game. We held him off as best we could. I think our guards played a huge role coming in and making sure they helped out with the long rebounds." To be fair, Larry Drew expounded on the fine defensive game plan the players executed so well: "We made it a point to make sure we shadow wall and have a big guy somewhere in the vicinity and keep him from getting into the gaps. But then we have to defend the 3-point line with Gilbert and Nick Young and I think we did a good job of that." Larry Drew on Joe Johnson: "I thought Joe looked like the Joe of old. Just watching the ball come off his release, it had the rotation on it. He wasn’t hesitating. Hopefully he can sustain that and keep looking for his shot." I don't think anyone need worry about that. The Human Highlight Blog on Joe Johnson: I appreciated that, except for a couple of instances, he was committed to keeping the ball moving. And it was good to see him hit open shots, too. Funny how the percentages start going up when the ball starts moving around. Sebastian Pruiti breaks down a nifty flex set the Hawks used to get Josh Smith open in the lane last night. This one also features a key Mike Bibby screen. Kris Willis praises the Hawks' domination of the glass: Don't let the final rebounding margin of 49-38 fool you because it wasn't that close. Washington racked up some offensive boards in garbage time to help trim that gap. In reality this Hawks team controlled the glass from the outset and raced off to the tune of 16 first quarter fast break points. When the Hawks are rebounding the basketball they can score in transition even when they are not necessarily looking to. Al Horford and Josh Smith combined to grab 27 of those 49 rebounds but make no mistake that it was a collective effort on the boards with even the likes of Mike Bibby and Jamal Crawford throwing their bodies into Wizards players in an attempt to block out. Mike Prada at Bullets Forever puts some of the blame of Washington's rebounding woes on Flip Saunders's zone defense: On their own, Andray Blatche and JaVale McGee are a subpar defensive rebounding duo (though McGee has made great strides here). Neither guy really knows how to box out well, and while McGee makes up for it with tremendous athleticism, there's a distinct lack of meat-and-potatoes play necessary to control your defensive glass. But when you go zone, it makes the problem worse. The bigs are now responsible for an area, not a man, which makes it even more difficult to box out. You're also forcing those two to step up and contest shots from the short corner and the high post, both holes in any zone defense. That leaves the basket area uncovered, and while a guard is supposed to rotate down, he has no chance boxing out guys like Al Horford and Josh Smith. Labels: game recap, Hawks, Wizards Happy Thanksgiving Game Preview: Washington Wizards (5-8) @ Atlanta Hawks (8-7) TELEVISION: TNT GAME NOTES: Hawks/Wizards WASHINGTON INJURY REPORT: Josh Howard is out. Al Thornton and Yi Jianlian are questionable. WASH (off) WASH (def) OTHER PERSPECTIVES: Truth About It, Bullets Forever FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY: Atlanta -7.5, 196.5 o/u PREVIOUSLY...the Washington Wizards (for the second time this young season) beat the Philadelphia 76ers in overtime Tuesday night. It was the first game back for John Wall after missing 4 games with a left foot sprain. He came of the bench to score 25 points and earn 6 assists. Wall's NBA career got off to a quick start thanks to his 28-point, 9-assist game against the Hawks on October 30th. The Hawks won a tight contest 99-95. Labels: game thread, Hawks, Wizards Josh Smith: Jump Shooter? Redux The same subject, two weeks hence. Josh Smith 3PTA/FGA 2005-09 11.2% 2009-10 0.7% Smith's hot start (8-20) from beyond the arc has lifted his career 3PTFG% to 27.1%. Smith is also making a significantly higher percentage of his long two-point jump shots so far this season. Josh Smith eFG% (16-23') 2006-07 32.7 So he's both taking and making a greater percentage of his long jump shots so far this season, though not at the rate (48.3%) he was two weeks ago. Josh Smith %FGA (16+') eFG% (16+') Smith has slightly reduced the frequency of his jump shots as he's begun to regress toward his career norms. Not coincidentally, his scoring rate has picked up and is, season-to-date, the second-highest of his career, this despite a diminished free throw rate (27.0 for his career entering the season, 20.1 so far in 2010-11). That free throw rate itself diminished despite an encouraging start (70.4 FT%) to Smith's season from the line. Josh Smith %FGA (at rim) eFG% (at rim) 2006-07 43 63.5 Unsurprisingly, Smith has been devastatingly effective at the rim. Labels: individual stats, josh smith New Jersey Nets 107 Atlanta Hawks 101 (OT) Hoopdata boxscore NJ 95 When they share the court, Jamal Crawford and Mike Bibby are redundant. Their offensive strengths overlap and they don't play especially well together. They shared the court for over 19 minutes against the Nets. Bibby didn't score a single point in that time and Crawford scored just 8 of his 21 points alongside Bibby. He scored his other 13 points in the 18 minutes Bibby wasn't on the court alongside him. Defensively, they're two of the worst perimeter players in the league. Bibby is ineffective but is generally where he needs to be. More importantly, Bibby is where his teammates expect him to be. Crawford is completely unpredictable in how he'll screw up defensive rotations which, combined with his abysmal defensive rebounding, puts tremendous stress on his teammates. Except for the final defensive possession of regulation (when Marvin Williams replaced Bibby) and the final 19 seconds of overtime (when Jeff Teague replaced Bibby) Crawford and Bibby shared the court for the final 13 minutes and 10 seconds of the game. It did not work. Bibby didn't attempt a single shot, earned one assist, and grabbed two defensive rebounds in that time. Crawford scored 10 points in the fourth quarter and overtime, on just 5 shots, but he turned the ball over twice and was a big part of why Devin Harris had 10 points (on 6 shots) and earned 3 assists while Anthony Morrow added 11 points (on 4 shots) in the fourth quarter and overtime. It's very difficult to get a sufficient number of stops when you play a point guard and a lead guard so poor defensively that you have to put your biggest guard, himself a sub-par defender, on the opposing team's quickest player and primary ball-handler down the stretch. Perhaps, if Marvin Williams or Jeff Teague spent more than the final defensive seconds of the game on the court the game wouldn't have come down to the final seconds. Both played well, if far from spectacularly. Williams keyed a nice team defensive stretch early in the second quarter, playing the point on a matchup zone. Williams knocked down a three-pointer to pull the Hawks within 1 with 1:39 left in the third quarter. He was substituted 27 seconds later and didn't play another offensive possession. Teague was far more successful in his first half stint, scoring both his points, earning both his assists, and twice picking New Jersey pockets than in his second half stint where he committed two turnovers. The Hawks were within two points when he left the game at the 6:58 mark of the second quarter. They were down eight when he re-appeared at the start of the second half. The frontcourt rotations weren't appreciably better for the Hawks. The Horford Treatment reappeared and it brought with it the Pachulia Corollary. Horford picked up his second personal foul with 4:11 left in the first half and the Hawks down two. Since Pachulia (who would play just 10 minutes and 46 seconds in the game) already had two fouls, in lumbered Jason Collins who got to foul Kris Humphries twice, got to watch Brook Lopez score two quick buckets, and stood there while both Humphries and Lopez grabbed an offensive rebound. An action-packed four minutes (including a defensive rebound, bringing his DR% back over 8.0 and inching ahead of Mike Bibby's) for the bulky lynchpin. When he left the game, the Hawks were down eight. Horford, of course, finished regulation with three personal fouls and the overtime period with five personal fouls so Larry Drew effectively fouled out his best player four minutes early. Not that the Hawks exhibited any indication of who their best player was when Horford played. Unlike the Nets, who took a page out of Boston's Monday night book, quickly and frequently got the ball to Brook Lopez in positions where his size was an advantage over Horford, the Hawks ignored their leading and most efficient scorer for much of the opening period. Horford had three touches in the 9 minutes and 5 seconds he played in the first quarter. The Hawks scored 5 of their 21 first quarter points as a result of those rare instances of involving Horford. Here's what an off-night for Horford looks like: 14 points on 11 shots, 10 rebounds (3 offensive), 5 assists, and 1 turnover. Here's what an increasingly typical night looks like for franchise player Joe Johnson: 16 points on 18 shots (0 points on 4 shots in overtime), 8 assists, 6 rebounds (1 offensive), and 2 turnovers. Neither acquitted themselves especially well defensively, though it should be noted that Brook Lopez scored 8 of his 32 points and grabbed 2 of his 4 offensive rebounds in the nine minutes he was not sharing the court with Horford and Joe Johnson was, ridiculously and hopelessly, asked to stay in front of Devin Harris. Johnson's True Shooting Percentage is now 49.8% on the season. And he still comfortably leads the team in usage rate. And no combination of injury and ineffectiveness will limit his playing time. Twice it appeared as if Josh Smith's playing time was tied to his shot selection (9-21 from the floor, 1-6 from outside 16 feet, no jump shots after he was pulled from the game four minutes into the second half), a coaching decision many could get behind, one even more could get behind were it not tied to Josh Powell's minutes. Even on a night when Powell played well by his standards: 6 points on 6 shots, 4 rebounds (1 offensive), and no turnovers in 18:47, he was far less productive than the historically superior Pachulia: 4 points on 4 shots, 6 rebounds (3 offensive), 2 assists, and no turnovers in 10:46. In a game that's tied after 48 minutes, do you really want to look back and wish you'd played your better players more? That you'd built your offense around your best player? "We just have to keep working. We can’t feel sorry for ourselves. Throughout the season you are going to have ups and downs. You have to learn how to handle adversity and it makes you stronger." You also have to learn how not to create your own adversity. Jamal Crawford: "The effort was there. It just didn’t go our way. We expended so much energy getting back in the game we didn’t have enough to finish." This is what effort gets you: a narrow loss in New Jersey. Talent remains king and defense remains a talent. Mike Bibby: "You lose some games. You can’t win all 82. We’ve got a lot of games left. We can’t get down." Michael Cunningham on the decidedly familiar look of the offense last night: The Hawks went retro with some Iso-Joe and Jamal. It was a mixed bag. They rallied behind a combined 14 points on 5 of 6 shooting from those two in the fourth quarter. But costly turnovers by both cost them possessions when the game was there to be taken late in regulation. The Human Highlight Blog on the same subject: The Hawks scrapped the new motion/flex offense in favor of a handoff heavy isolation offense featuring the two players that have been struggling the most offensively: Joe Johnson and Jamal Crawford. So gone were the open looks that Al Horford would get out of the flex. Not a single Joe Johnson cutting to the hoop to get a pass from Horford with Bibby setting the back screen. Nope, we got Horford hunched over with his back to the basket, straining to handoff to his outside shooting overlords and a series of what Nique always calls "tough shots" for the backcourt. Labels: game recap, Hawks, nets November 23rd Game Thread: Atlanta Hawks (8-6) @ New Jersey Nets (4-9) CHAT: Daily Dime Live GAME NOTES: Hawks/Nets NEW JERSEY INJURY REPORT: Quinton Ross is out. NJ (def) NJ (off) OTHER PERSPECTIVES: Nets Are Scorching PREVIOUSLY...the New Jersey Nets lost 107-103 in Denver on Saturday, wrapping up a four-game West Coast road trip on which they went 1-3. Though the Nets are only 4-9 on the season, they've played 7 of their 13 games on the road (where they're 2-5) and have faced both Orlando and Miami twice, going 0-4 in those meetings while the Hawks were getting two cracks at the Timberwolves. Take a peek at Wayne Winston's power rankings through yesterday's games and you'll see why the Hawks could have worries beyond Devin Harris tonight. Labels: game thread, Hawks, nets So You Say Want To Improve This Team Dear Hawks fan -- It's a fair desire, but I have to ask how you propose that be done? Who on this roster (other than the productive and reasonably priced Al Horford and Josh Smith) would any other NBA team want for themselves? The one-dimensional starting point guard owed another $6.4 million next season? The injured and aging starting shooting guard in possession of a brand-new $123 million contract? The injured and disappointing starting small forward owed almost $25 million over the next three seasons? If you don't move one of those three to improve the team at the point or on the wing, the team is unlikely to get better. So that leaves you with trying to improve the team by bartering Jamal Crawford or Jeff Teague** or Mo Evans. Given the Hawks' record with second-round picks, I don't see moving any of those leading to significant improvement. There's still time to deal him. Some team might suffer an injury and the backcourt and be interested in bringing him on for the stretch run. Sacramento might have interest in him but the Hawks have constructed their roster in such a way that trading Teague (who's two coaches deep in disillusionment) for frontcourt depth could actually make the team worse at the point. Who's to blame? Rick Sund gets his share of blame and he deserves some of that. But it's a fair question how much power he has. He didn't choose the head coach. It's unclear how much of the effort to re-sign Joe Johnson was instigated by Sund and how much was Sund carrying out the wishes of his bosses. He's shown no (useful) imagination in filling out the bench but, again, how much of that is his work and how much is it due to the ownership's fondness for familiar names. If Sund is prone to having his decisions overruled and if he knows, as he must, that ASG won't fire him and pay two general managers for even part of a season what's his motivation to do more than cash the checks until his contract runs out and let ownership's next fourth- or fifth-choice general manager candidate attempt to clean up their mess. It's not admirable behavior, but it's understandable. Losing Josh Childress for nothing should be a horrible embarrassment. The key problems for this team are organizational and they begin with ownership. There is no reason to believe that this is not, from Joe Johnson to Jason Collins, exactly the roster that ownership wants. Until ownership changes, this team will have fundamental limitations. Limitations that Rick Sund can't transcend, that Larry Drew can't transcend, that Al Horford can't transcend. This a 45-win team with no cap flexibility until the Summer of 2014. They don't have a stockpile of draft picks or a history of scouting success to mitigate that lack of flexibility. Ownership has quite willingly saddled themselves to stagnation on the court, cut corners off the court, and the financial result for them will be, at best, stagnation. Either the makeup of ownership or their behavior. Labels: Hawks, hypothetical transactions, ownership, rick sund Quotes, Notes, and Links: Boston Celtics 99 Atlanta Hawks 76 "This was very, very embarrassing. If I had to sum it up in one word: embarrassing. To come out with that type energy; that type urgency. What I see with our team right now I don’t feel real good about. I am disappointed that we are not playing with a hunger. We are looking to point fingers. We are playing the blame game. More importantly, our energy level is not good at all. We are not doing things quick, we are not doing things with speed, we are not doing things with urgency. We are playing like we are coming off a back-to-back-to-back. I told the guys I don’t know what you are doing the night before we play, I don’t know what you are doing away from the floor. Something is going on that is not allowing us to play with an energy and passion that we should be playing with. As a head coach, I’ve got to find out what it is. Something is going on and I’ve got to get to the bottom of it. Players have to know themselves. They have to know their bodies. They have to know how to get physically and mentally ready for every game, especially at the start. First four minutes of the game, when I see my players bending over grabbing their shorts because they are winded, something is going on. Something is wrong." Al Horford: "I don’t think we are [accountable]. We tend to have excuses for everything." Future coach, Mo Evans: "The Celtics know who they are. We don’t have an identity, unless it’s when things go bad we go the other way. Maybe that’s out identity and we don’t know it." Funniest post-game quote is a photo finish between Joe Johnson: "I never would have thought we would come out so not ready to play. They remember we swept them last season. They wanted to come in and send a message and they did it." Come out not ready to play? The Hawks? And this one from Josh Smith: "Guys have got to understand you can’t be sensitive to policing." Josh Smith, stoic. *If you didn't laugh, you'd cry. Michael Cunningham compared the scene to (gasp) the Orlando series: The scene was eerily similar to the aftermath of the Orlando series. Bickering players, poor body language, lack of resolve and booing fans during the game. Quiet locker room and questions about character after it. Mark Bradley one-upped his colleague: It took the Hawks six years to stop listening to Mike Woodson. It has taken one month for them to tune out his successor. To say the effort the Hawks gave against the Boston Celtics on Monday night was amateurish is to discredit the concept of amateurism and to distort the meaning of “effort.” Paul Pierce: "Teams think we’re [soft] after losing the last two games, and with a team that beat us four times, it’s sort of like a statement game really. This may be a team we play in the playoffs. The regular season is a time when you can take away a lot of confidence from a team if you play and beat them the right way." In the midst of criticizing the Hawks players for their effort, let's also take a moment to acknowledge that Paul Pierce, in his post-game comments, exemplified a longer-term perspective than anyone in management has for the Atlanta Hawks in memory. The dysfunction is deeply entrenched in the organization. Doc Rivers: "Before the game I don’t even think I said the word ‘offense’. Our defensive disposition from the start was terrific. I felt that we were going to compete defensively, but the big question is, can we do this every night? We’re a veteran team and sometimes it seems like we’re counting how many games we have until the playoffs." Pierce on Kevin Garnett: "He’s our defensive leader. Tonight he showed it. He was aggressive. Pick-and-roll defense is the biggest thing for us and I thought he did a great job of clogging the lane, making other guys take shots other than their stars." I think it's telling that the other team is always the one who makes specific defensive references in their post-game comments. Celtics Hub's Hayes Davenport on Garnett: I don’t want to ignore Kevin Garnett’s performance against Josh Smith tonight. Weirdly, Garnett started the game on offense as clumsily as he left off yesterday’s, just much luckier: he threw one transition pass away, fired an entry pass into the rim that Shaq somehow gathered and stuffed, and banked in a hook shot off his outer hip to set up a three-point play. But then Smith came down with mono or something. For much of the early game, it wasn’t that Smith couldn’t find a good shot, it was that his teammates couldn’t find him. And he did the absolute bare minimum to stop KG, someone Smith regularly frustrated last year, on the offensive end. Smith and Joe Johnson sometimes play like they’re trying to punish their crappy home crowd, and it kind of seems like that’s what happened tonight. KG was great and all, but he may not have been as great as Josh Smith was bored. Labels: Celtics, Hawks, links Boston Celtics 99 Atlanta Hawks 76 BOS 90 NOTE: Those Boston totals include the effects of their 14-point, 7-turnover, 23-possession fourth quarter and thus flatter the Hawks. There are nights when analysis fails, when the better team plays so well and the lesser team plays so poorly that nothing about either is truly learned. Suffice to say the Hawks attempted 17 field goals (they made four) in the first quarter. Two of those attempts were in the paint. Three more were attempted within 15 feet of the basket. On the other end of the court, the Celtics missed just six shots and rebounded four of those misses in the first quarter. Hence Boston's 39-13 lead after 12 minutes. further suggests that effortThe combination of poor initial defense, poor defensive rebounding, and jump shots aplenty confirmed every fear one could have about this Hawks team before the season. At least four times in the first six minutes, Boston got a dunk or put-back when Al Horford was literally the only Hawk in the defensive paint. Yes, I generally reject the argument that better defensive effort is the solution to Atlanta's defensive shortcomings but the visible lack of defensive effort tonight is what keeps the Hawks a below-average rather than a terrible defensive team. There's little question that effort is also a big part of Atlanta's typical offensive success. One would be hard pressed to identify much in the way of (constructive) effort on that end of the floor for the Hawks, either. Josh Smith took just three shots (two of them outside of 20 feet) in 22 minutes. Joe Johnson was 0-4 in the paint and got to the free throw line just once. Jamal Crawford took just six shots in 31 minutes. The Hawks attacked Shaquille O'Neal, pick-and-roll defender, less than any team in memory, limiting the team's best offensive player so far this season to shooting face-up jumpers. Jeff Teague and Jordan Crawford showed a little life in the second quarter. They combined to score 9 of Atlanta's first 23 points and made an effort defensively both before and after Boston got a shot up. It was almost certainly too little, too late but it didn't last long either. As soon as the Boston lead got under 20, with just over seven-and-a-half minutes left in the first half, Mike Bibby and Joe Johnson were back in the game and the Celtics scored on consecutive possessions with the second bucket coming on a Nate Robinson offensive rebound. For whatever reason, Teague played just 2:27 of the second half despite the entire half being essentially garbage time. Teague came out after Nate Robinson made consecutive three-pointers in front of the Atlanta bench but Drew couldn't have pulled Teague to make a point about perimeter defense, could he? The entire Atlanta careers of Bibby and Jamal Crawford (not to mention much of Joe Johnson's) exemplify a pattern of non-accountability for the defense from the guards. Teague has had two head coaches in Atlanta, neither of whom have demonstrated the slightest confidence in any part of his game. Maybe that's warranted but, from the outside, it seems a penny-wise, pound-foolish decision to make an example of Teague on this night when he was absolutely the least of Atlanta's problems and lends further credence to the idea that there's almost no limit to how poorly the tenured guards can play without their playing time being reduced. Labels: Celtics, game recap, Hawks November 22nd Game Thread: Boston (9-4) @ Atlanta (8-5) GAME NOTES: Hawks/Celtics BOSTON INJURY REPORT: Rajon Rondo is "highly doubtful." Kendrick Perkins and Jermaine O'Neal are out. 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__label__cc	0.733167	0.266833	Case: Housepets!-A Choose Your Own Adventure Game CHAOKOCartoons Banner Artist Location: On this 3 dimensional shape we call "The place we happen to exist I guess?" Welcome to Case: Housepets!, a community driven choose your own adventure mystery game where you and your fellow forum users will determine how the story goes! This game is heavily inspired by (and partially parodies) other adventure games such as Heavy Rain, The Telltale games, and the comic "Prequel". The players (that's you guys) will take control of one of 5 characters throughout the game and make decisions that effect and direction of the path of the story you go down, and ultimately shape who these characters are and what their motive is. While some choices may seem small or incredibly drastic, all choices and actions can and will effect the outcome of a scene, and may even cost you a character. Here are the Character Files; Your list of characters and their stats: Name: Echo Player Status: Active Species: Dog - Dalmatian Occupation: Police K-9 Mental Status: Low Current Inventory: Collar and Tag, Bravo's Collar, Bravo's Tag Personality Notes: -Cautious -Obedient -Passive -Makes frantic actions if indecisive -Clever -Can pinpoint contradictions -Straight Forward -Good artist Name: Bravo Player Status: In-Active Species: Dog - German Shepard Occupation: N/A Mental Status: ??? Current Inventory: N/A -Sergeant Ralph is his role model -Curious -Bold -Anger Issues -Heavy sleeper -Would do anything to protect his brothers -Slightly poor eyesight -Strong sense of smell Name: Maple Species: Cat - Tabby Occupation: Stray Mental Status: Fine Current Inventory: Maple's Scarf, Maple's gloves Personality Notes: Self-conscious of own nudity, aggressive, blunt Name: Vial Species: Cat - Nebelung Occupation: ??? Current Inventory: ??? Personality Notes: ??? Name: Charlie Species: Dog - ??? Occupation: FBI FK-1 Dog Mental Status: Critical Current Inventory: Collar and Tag -Cheery -Well mannered -Clumsy -Panics in stressful situations -In tight situations, will become enraged. -Studies spiritual happenings Karma Status: Normal Good Karma Count: 0 (These files will change frequently as you guys play the game.) As the story goes on, you will all have to collectively put your input on what should be done in the form of a message. Most decisions will be decided based on a majority vote, other times you will be presented with a "free roam" prompt where you can just request specific things to do while on a certain scene. This is the list of things you can request: -Action: A request to do something ranging from picking up an item to doing a flip! -Talk: Talk to a character -Inspect: Look around your environment or at something specific. This can be very important in certain situations, but a waste of time in others -Listen: Check for any sounds. This can come in handy in dangerous situations -Use Item: Use or inspect something in your inventory -Change Character: On rare occasions, you may change which character you are controlling. Be careful who you control though, as you can't determine another character's actions unless you actually control them. Note: You can only control main characters -Hint: You may ask to have a hint if you have no idea what to do. This is most effective during free roam scenes, but if I find the scene too linear, obvious, or important that you are the one who decides, it'll probably be as simple as "Act fast" or "Think carefully" The only way to get a "game over" is if all characters become in-active. This means that if a character goes "missing", or becomes "in-active", THEY ARE GONE. Depending on the scenario and how you've played the game, another character may notice that said character has gone missing, and can go on a "redemption mission" to go look for them. However, you may not want to do these for personal reasons or because you feel it's not safe, as these missions are VERY RISKY. If you see an exclamation mark in the corner of a scene, it can mean a 1-4 level of danger. This doesn't always mean danger to a character though, it can also mean you are in danger or losing evidence or failing a scene, therefore hurting your chance of solving a mystery or even your ability to progress in the game. -A white exclamation mark is level 1 of danger, something important is happening or a character could be hurt. The scene may also escalate to a: -Yellow warning, level 2 danger. You are in danger of getting hurt or losing evidence, which may then escalate to an: -Orange warning, level 3 danger. A situation has gotten much worse and you may lose a character or major evidence. If you do the wrong thing, you may get a: -Red warning, level 4 danger. Hope that you never have to see this, because this means that depending on your next move, you could lose a character then and there. Disclaimer: While all that sounds scary, there's nothing terribly graphic or horrifying that will happen, this is still Housepets! after all. The story is somewhere between PG-PG13. It may discuss serious or dark topics at times, but it's still pretty cartoony for the most part. A lot of it is parody of the more serious games it's inspired by. Chaining and Karma Chaining is a feature that allows you to string 2-3 choices in a given situation. If you feel you need to do or say more than one thing, you can coordinate people to select multiple actions in a specific order. If not enough people agree to do your specific chain, the chain will not work. Much like regular voting, it's a majority rule, so you have to work together to get done. 3 chains are riskier than 2 chains, as it's a bit harder for people to agree on your exact chain However, when you either chain too much, or begin to make incorrect chains (like ones that don't make sense or everyone susbmits a different chain), you will receive minor penalties throughout the game. The way I measure this is through something called "Karma". Karma is expressed in game through pink text, and will warn you when you are accumulating said karma. Depending on how much karma you have accumulated, a character will randomly slip up at any given scene. The more Karma, the higher chance of it happening at riskier scenes. You can trip on a pebble while casually walking across the sidewalk, or sneeze when you are trying to sneak around an enemy. There are 3 ways to get rid of Karma: 1 - Stop chaining. The Karma will eventually fade away on it's own. 2 - Feel the effects of Karma. Once you're hit with Karma, it will reset to zero. 3 - Make a perfect chain. Feeling lucky? If the majority of people all agree on a chain that happens to have a really good outcome (or an intentionally really bad outcome), your Karma will fade away. However, this is not something you should try to do, you will probably gain far more Karma than lose it attempting to do this. It's better to let this happen naturally then attempting to force it. There are also 3 levels of Karma: 1 - Uneasy - a chance of minor, harmless penalties 2 - Unlucky - a chance of minor penalties that make you look like an idiot, or make you forget non-crucial things 3 - Jinxed - a chance of minor penalties at the worst times There will also be scenes where I don't allow you to chain at all for plot reasons. But keep in mind that just because I allow you to chain in a scene, it doesn't always mean you should. I recommend you try to coordinate your chains before you do them, if you even do them. If everyone has different chains, calculating the votes as to what to do can be a bit complicated as I have to add together every time an option is listed. If the chains are too confusing for a given scene, I'll try to just ignore them and go with the most selected choice instead to save you from stacking up on Karma instantly. You can also accumulate "Good Karma" by not chaining while at zero Karma, getting through combat scenes mostly successfully or intentionally poorly, or by doing specific actions. Good Karma grants you one free chain regardless of it's outcome. You can also use it to remove any Karma you may have accumulated instead. Now that that's all said and done, we will begin this game whenever you guys are ready, just say the word! If you have any questions before we start, feel free to ask. I'm curious to see which path you all take this story, or if you manage to create a path I didn't predict would happen. Last edited by CHAOKOCartoons on Thu Dec 20, 2018 2:34 pm, edited 37 times in total. Location: Shining in the Boonies of Thailand Re: Case: Housepets!-A Choose Your Own Adventure Game Action: I'm ready let's start this, Housepets Wiki! ...interesting, really. This could very quickly become cluttered, though. Maybe when a "chapter" is done, the story thus far can be compiled into an easy to read entry. Faith doesn't change circumstances. Faith changes me. Icon by ChaokoCartoons Neowulf Location: Hiding More motivation to attend the forums? (That sounded really cynical I'm sorry) Naro Rivers Location: Somewhere in a river on the Miltons' estate. Dibs on Echo! Where are Alfa and Delta? It's difficult to wear gloves with webbed fingers... When talking about a character, I often speak in D&D terms. I'm participating in a forum game! You can find it here: FancyHat Location: Somewhere in the Southern US...Would prefer Scotland. Well tame my crumpets and call it a biscuit, I'm in.. "Crimes?" "Crimes." Naro Rivers Wrote: I'm pretty sure we all control them, Location: Washington State, USA Sign me up! This sounds like fun! (seems like a much loser, more forum-game version of what goes on in the role-playing thread.) next thing we know, first danger is level 4... XD My FA account: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/tales19/ The best forum game in existence: D-Rock Wrote: I agree. I plan on making a separate category in the "Fan Projects" topic that is pretty much that. Once I get my laptop back, I'll also make the case files more stylized and look cleaner, and even make a blog/site dedicated to telling the events of the game like the separate topic. This would also make looking over character files and managing inventory much easier as they can all be in separate places and you wouldn't have to keep checking the first post of this topic. Speaking of my laptop being gone, that means that I'm doing all the art with my phone until I can get a new laptop, so the art won't quite be to the level of "Housepets! Fanimated!" standard just yet Maybe you'll find out later in the story, or not! Who knows what could happen! ... well, ME, but you might still somehow change the story in a way I didn't predict SuperStar Wrote: Chapter 1: Trouble Maker (This first chapter will be a sort of tutorial, getting you into the swing of things and demonstrating how things work. However, don't think that just because this is a tutorial that your actions won't matter...) On the outskirts of Babylon Gardens, there is a moderately sized white house surrounded by trees. In the distance, you can see a city, and if you travel far enough to the left of the house you can find a river running though the collection of trees. The house looks to have seen better days; It's paint has begun to chip, and the grass around the porch has clearly been left un-managed for quite some time. Still, the lights from the inside give off a sense of comfort. On the second floor of the house, 3 young pups sit in their room. The first, with green eyes and 3 spots on the upper portion of his face, is "Echo". The second, another spotted pup with turquoise eyes and 3 spots on his cheeks, is "Charlie". The third, a tan pup with a brown muzzle and grey eyes, was "Bravo". They where told by their Mother and Father to wait in their room until dinner was ready, leaving the pups to find a way to entertain themselves. This was a bit unusual though, they'd never been made to wait upstairs just so that dinner could be made. What's so different about it this time? Bravo: Well... this is a bit weird huh? I wonder what Mom'n Dad are making that we can't see! Echo: Oh no, don't you go getting any funny ideas Bravo, they told us to wait up here, I don't want any of us to get in trouble... Bravo: FIIIINE, have it your way Echo, I figured you'd be to scared to do a little snoopin' around anyway. Whad'ya wanna do while we're up here anyway? Echo: We're always the ones pickin' what to play, I was thinking we ask Charlie what he wants! he's been quiet this whole time, surely you're thinkin' of SOMETHIN' over there little bro! Bravo: Yeah Charlie, what do you think we should do? Maybe you're up for a little "recon mission"? Echo: Give it a rest Bravo... Bravo: I'm just sayin! It's your choice Charlie! This is a "free roam" scene. Do as you please. Last edited by CHAOKOCartoons on Tue Aug 23, 2016 5:04 pm, edited 1 time in total. There's a reason I don't roleplay Not sure what to do. I see what looks like a toy lightsaber and paper bags. How about... Imaginate favorite Star Wars scene? Oh, I seem to have forgotten an important feature: if you're completely out of ideas, you can ask for a hint. Usually it'll just be a suggestion of action, but if it's a scene that is very linear, requires quick thinking or there's a danger warning, I'll probably just leave it up to you guys. Free roam scenes are incredibly vast in directions you can take the game, so a hint or two probably wouldn't be so bad to make sure you can actually progress Noted, anyone else? I'd say to go with Bravo to investigate..I mean c'mon We ain't got magic powers, might as well go stealth mode and pull some spy action. I mean there's no crime I'd you don't get caught. AnimeNerd88 Location: Hope's Peak Academy (SEND HELP!) Sorry FancyHat, but I agree with D-Rock. Deep, scary voice Charlie, I am your brother. Let's give it everything we've got! Get ready, because it's Punishment Time! -Monokuma What? Even if I like dark topics, I can't resist cuteness. Saturn381 Location: Clifton Forge, VA I'd say we go down and investigate. -action: put the lightsaber away in the box, then agree to go and eat a bit of.. - I mean "Investigate" what is going on downstairs (Though it's just one opinion, I figure Charlie is a happy-go-lucky, but still well-ish mannered dog. But like I said, just my own personal thoughts) We going for a minor kidroduction? Oh gawsh, xD Hrm, I think... Action/Talk(not sure what it counts as): Ask to Imaginate Star Wars. Action: Ask about the dude on the poster. (Which will probably trigger an 'as you know' scene but whatever) HellishK9 Location: Peeking In Your Window This sounds interesting, but I will stick to the shadows for now and wait awhile till I get the real meaning of the game. Action: Pick up the toy lightsaber and store it in inventory. I didn't expect you guys to be so down the middle on this choice, congratulations! You already did something I didn't predict you'd do, making me improvise! (I was expecting that to take a bit longer to happen honestly) Tales Wrote: -action: put the lightsaber away in the box... These actions have been noted, and will be addressed shortly. Neowulf Wrote: Charlie thought hard about what to do. On one hand, he REALLY wanted to imaginate, but on the other hand, he was immensely curious as to what was going on downstairs... He looked to the poster on the wall. It was a K-9 unit poster Bravo had gotten on the day Dad took them to the police station to show them around. The words "WE WANT YOU!" are printed at the top and bottom of the poster, with the leader of the Babylon Gardens K-9 unit in the center pointing back at him. His name was Sergeant Ralph, he looked a lot like Bravo, (that's probably why he took such a liking to him). The K-9 unit seemed very well behaved, strong, and from what Dad said, they where very brave. Charlie wanted to be like just like them! But what was it that Ralph told you while you where there? What's the most important part about being a Police Dog? 1: "Being brave, do what others wont! Look for the truth, even if it gets you in trouble. Trust your gut, and you'll find the right path!" 2: "Doing what you're told! If your superiors tell you to do something, it's for a good reason! Disobedience only brings more trouble!" Last edited by CHAOKOCartoons on Mon Aug 22, 2016 3:39 am, edited 1 time in total. I vote for "Doing what you're told!". Salad4me Ralph obviously told you to do what you're told, Charlie. I vote option 1, Semper Fi. Knowing Ralph, he probably said "Doing what you're told." Wait, that's probably metagaming, isn't it? I say 2.'Doing what you're told' Number 1 sounds more heroic and empowering, but 2 seems more practical, esp. for a Police Dog. I also vote for "Doing what you're told" I think, after considering the poster, we should talk to bravo, and ask him if he REALLY think's it's a good idea, especially because (I think) bravo wants to be a K-9. Last edited by Tales on Mon Aug 22, 2016 10:26 am, edited 2 times in total. "Doing what you're told!" I tend to play these kinds of things safe, so do what you're told. Seems more in-character with how Ralph is, so it makes sense that this would be the advice to give. Since Bravo is shown to wear an eyepatch later on, let's see if we can steer him to plan his actions better, to help stave off that event as much as possible. After some thought, Charlie walked to the middle of the room and picked up the blue lightsaber... Toy Lightsaber (Blue) added to Charlie's inventory Charlie: A good dog always does what they're told, Sergeant Ralph said so! You of all dogs should know this Bravo. Bravo: Sigh yeah, guess you're right. As tempting as it is, we should stay put. What're we doing then Charlie? This sketch brought to you by Adobe Draw: Adobe Draw - Hiding my saved projects since the beginning of this game! Charlie: Why don't we finish up our Star Wars Imaginate session? We've probably got just enough time to do the final scene! Bravo: Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that! I'm down for that, let's do it! Echo: Hold on, first things first, who was who again? It's been a while, and I want to make sure we stay consistent. (Assign each role to a character:) 1. Luke Skywalker 2. Darth Vader 3. Emperor Palpatine Bravo: Dart Vader Charlie:Luke Skywalker Echo:Emperor Palpatine. Sat is my role call. Last edited by FancyHat on Mon Aug 22, 2016 9:10 pm, edited 1 time in total. This will be my first telltale game experience, apparently. 1 Charlie is Luke 2 Bravo as Vader 3 Echo as Palp DigitalBrave3 Location: Inside The Internet. ^What Neowulf said. YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCwVIVUxepncP8Ywv8F5DDvg Read Star Crashers!: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4318 Echo as Luke, because Green. Bravo as Vader cause serious. And Charlie as Palpatine, just cause it'd be funny. What Star said. I vote for SuperStar's idea. I also vote for star's idea! (also, I hope Bravo doesn't hold too much of a grudge...) I agree with FancyHat and Neowulf. Well gosh darn it you evened it up again right as I finished the update . Considering I already finalized the decision, we'll just keep going with it. Plus, stats wise, you'll probably be okay with the outcome. Charlie did quite a bit of debating in his head, this was the conclusion he came to: Echo, was Luke! Echo: Of course! There wasn't a doubt in my mind! Bravo was Darth Vader! Echo: Umm... isn't that kind of a safety hazard Bravo? Bravo: This is the role I was born to play. I want to make sure I'm fully immersed. Breathes heavily through bag And I wa--DEH! was The Emperor! (The scene does not require a blue lightsaber, so you got to keep it in your inventory) Charlie: Alright, you guys will have to come through the door when I tell you to. I'ma get the room ready in the meantime, you two just wait out there for my call! Echo: But, I thought we weren't going to leave our room! Bravo: Calm down, we're only going to be a good foot away from the door. There's no way they'll notice us sitting there for a minute or two! Charlie: Just remember what I said Bravo... Bravo: I know, I know! I'll stay right in front of the door, I'm a good dog! Charlie: Alrighty, I'll tell you the second I'm done, make sure to keep your ears open! (Who do you want to control for this scene?) 1. Echo 2. Bravo Last edited by CHAOKOCartoons on Sat Dec 24, 2016 5:27 am, edited 1 time in total. I vote for Bravo.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9931
__label__cc	0.511531	0.488469	Idukki Tourism IDUKKI TOURISM GUIDE Location: Southern Part of Kerala Attractions: Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary, Vaikom Languages Known: Malayalam, Hindi, English Idukki Travel Guide The Unspoilt Nature Located in the southern part of Kerala, Idukki is a landlocked district spread over an area of 5019 sq. km. Blessed generously by Mother Nature, Idukki offers diverse attractions like wildlife sanctuaries, hill stations, spice plantation centers and mountain treks. Idukki district was formed on January 26, 1972, carving out Devikulam, Peerumedu and Udumbanchola taluks from the erstwhile Kottayam district and Thodupuzha taluk from the erstwhile Ernakulam district. The name ‘Idukki’ is supposed to be derived from the Malayalam word `idukku’, which means a narrow gorge. Best Places to Visit in Idukki Munnar: The nature, absolutely untouched has led to the christening of this place as ‘Virgin Munnar’, in the tourism industry. Increasing fame and the growth of visitors may soon account to deletion of this description. more… Marayoor: Marayoor is 40 kilometers away from Munnar. It is the only place in Kerala having a natural growth of sandal wood trees. The relics of new Stone Age civilization have been unearthed here. more… Mattupetti: 13 kms form Munnar, at an altitude of 1700 m above sea level, this verdant landscape houses the Indo-Swiss Dairy Project. more… Wildlife Sanctuaries in Idukki Idukki Wildlife Sanctuary: The sanctuary extends over the Thodupuzha and Udumpanchola taluka of Idukki district, spreading over 77 sq km and is about 450-748 m above sea level. extending to 33 sq. km, the Idukki Reservoir is formed by three dams, namely Cheruthoni, Idukki and Kulamavu. more… Thekkady: Lying at an altitude of 900-1800 m above sea level, in the Periyar forest of Thekkady is one of the finest wildlife reserves in India. Holding great opportunities for treks and mountain walks are picturesque plantations and hill towns that are spread across the entire district. more… Others Tourist Attractions in Idukki Idukki Arch Dam: This dam, constructed across the Kuravan and Kurathi hills is the world’s second and Asia’s first arch dam. The dam lying close to the cheruthoni barrage is 550 ft high and 650 ft. wide. To its west is the Kulamavu Dam. The Idukki Wildlife Sanctuary is located close by. more… Observatory Hills: This is a beautiful hill located at Nedumkandam. It’s a perfect location for people who are interested in watching the heavenly bodies, as the sky here is free from pollution. Kuthumkal Waterfalls: The misty waterfall provides a picturesque view of the water, cascading down from scintillating heights. The sheer beauty of the place allures thousands of visitors every year. Cheruthoni: 5kms from Painavu, it encompasses areas in and around Idukki Arch Dam and Cheruthoni Dam. Constructed across the Periyar river, between two granite hills, the picturesque Idukki Dam is the first arch dam in India. Excursions from Idukki Wildlife Excursions from Idukki Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary: Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary is a unique thorny scrub forest with xerophyte species. Chinnar is the habitat of the endangered Giant Grizzled Squirrel of India. more… Eravikulam Wildlife Sanctuary: Eravikulam Wildlife Sanctuary is a sanctuary set up for the preservation of the endangered Nilgiri Tahr. The sanctuary stands out for the stark beauty of its rolling grasslands and sholas, spread over 97 sq. kms of unblemished natural splendour. more… Rajamala Wildlife Sanctuary: Rajamala Wildlife Sanctuary, located 15 kms from Munnar is the natural habitat of Nilgiri Tahr. Half the world population of the rare mountain goat is concentrated in this region. more… Thattekkad Bird Sanctuary: In the dense tropical evergreen and deciduous forests and grassland patches is located the Thatekkad Bird Sanctuary. Home to a microcosm of India’s bird population with about 500 winged species, the sanctuary was designed by Dr. Salim Ali, the renowned ornithologist. more… Others Excursions From Idukki Devikulam Located 16 kms from Munnar, this gorgeous hill station symbolises nature in her pristine glory. The crisp and cool mountain air heavily laden with the fragrance of wild flowers and rare herbs is any nature lover’s paradise. more… Top Station, the idyllic hill station is located 32 kms from Munnar, on the Munnar-Kodaikanal Road. Perched at an altitude of 1700 m above sea level, Top Station is the highest point on Munnar-Kodaikanal Road. more… Moolamatton:(40 kms from idukki) The Idukki Hydroelectric Project’s underground powerhouse is located here. A visit to moolamatton provides the opportunity to view the working of a hydro-electric station. GENERAL TRAVEL INFORMATION ABOUT IDUKKI Best Hotels in Idukki Spice Village, Thekkady. Periyar House, Thekkady. Royal Retreat, Munnar. Hotel Poopada, Munnar. Peermade Sabala Motel, Kuttikanam. Government Guest House, Peerumedu. Stonage Tourist Complex, Cheruthuruthi. PWD Rest House and Inspection Bungalow, Idukki. Nearby Cities of Idukki Thekkady (60 km) Munnar (170 km) Madurai (200 km) Kochi (250 km) Idukki General Information Area: 5019 sq.km. District Population: 1,079,369. Altitude: 2200 m above sea level. Mean Min: 22.5°C Mean Max: 37.5°C. Rainfall: 270 cm (annual). Clothing: Tropical Cottons. Warm clothes and rain gear for places like Munnar and Thekkady. How to Reach Idukki By Air, Rail & Road ? Air: The nearest airport is at Cochin 132 km away. Rail: The nearest railway station is at Kottayam, 133 km away. Road: Idukki can be reached by mortable roads from most parts of Kerala. 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__label__wiki	0.616662	0.616662	Home \| About Us \| Current Issue \| Ahead of print \| Archives \| Search \| Instructions \| Subscription \| Feedback \| Editorial Board \| e-Alerts \| Login Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons Official journal of the Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons Users Online:345 Surgical management and outcome analysis of stage III pediatric empyema thoracis Prema Menon1, K.L.N. Rao1, Meenu Singh2, MA Venkatesh1, RP Kanojia1, R Samujh1, AK Saxena3, YK Batra4 1 Department of Pediatric Surgery, Advanced Pediatric Center, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh - 160 012, India 2 Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Advanced Pediatric Center, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh - 160 012, India 3 Department of Radio-Diagnosis, Advanced Pediatric Center, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh - 160 012, India 4 Department of Anesthesiology, Advanced Pediatric Center, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh - 160 012, India Prema Menon Department of Pediatric Surgery, Advanced Pediatric Center, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh - 160 012 Aim: Report of 125 pediatric patients of empyema thoracis treated by open decortication, highlighting the presentation, delay in referral, operative findings, the response to surgical intervention and follow-up. Materials and Methods: All the children who underwent open decortication for stage III empyema thoracis during the study period were included. Preoperative workup included hemogram, serum protein, chest radiographs and contrast-enhanced computed tomographic (CECT) scan of the chest. Results: One hundred and twenty-five patients (81 males, 44 females) (age 3 months-12 years, mean 4.9 years) were operated during a 4.5-year period. Among them, two children underwent bilateral thoracotomies. Also, 81.6% patients were referred 3 weeks after the onset of disease (mean duration 9 weeks). Intercostal chest drainage (ICD) had been inserted in (119) 95% cases. Thickened pleura, multiloculated pus and lung involvement were invariably seen on CECT scan. Bronchopleural fistula was present in 10 patients and empyema necessitatis in 2. Decortication, removal of necrotic tissue and closure of air leaks was performed in all the patients. Necrotizing pneumonia was seen in (35) 27.5% cases. Mean duration of postoperative ICD was 7 days. Follow-up ranged from 3 months to 4 years (mean 12 months). There was no mortality. Six patients had proven tuberculosis. Conclusions: The duration of the disease had a direct relationship with the thickness of the pleura and injury to the underlying lung. Delayed referral causes irreversible changes in the lung prolonging recovery. Only 18% presented within the early period of the disease. Meticulous open surgical debridement gives gratifying results. The status of the lung at the end of surgery is a major prognostic factor. Keywords: Contrast-enhanced computed tomographic chest scan, decortication, empyema thoracis, pediatric Menon P, Rao K, Singh M, Venkatesh M A, Kanojia R P, Samujh R, Saxena A K, Batra Y K. Surgical management and outcome analysis of stage III pediatric empyema thoracis. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg 2010;15:9-14 Menon P, Rao K, Singh M, Venkatesh M A, Kanojia R P, Samujh R, Saxena A K, Batra Y K. Surgical management and outcome analysis of stage III pediatric empyema thoracis. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg [serial online] 2010 [cited 2020 Jan 22];15:9-14. Available from: http://www.jiaps.com/text.asp?2010/15/1/9/69134 Empyema thoracis is a common disease. Children often present with persistent fever associated with cough, respiratory distress and occasionally chest pain. Most cases follow a bout of pneumonia which may have been particularly virulent in a child with poor nutritional status or immunity. We present our data from a tertiary care center, highlighting the presentation, delay in referral and the response to surgical intervention. All consecutive patients during the period from August 2005 to December 2009, who underwent decortication were analyzed. Patients were investigated with complete hemogram, serum electrolytes and proteins, chest radiographs and a contrast-enhanced computed tomographic (CECT) scan of the chest before surgery. Indications for surgery were described by us in a previous report. [1] Both clinical symptoms and presence of debris/pus as well as degree of lung entrapment on CECT scan were taken into account. The advantages and morbidity after surgery were discussed with parents at length. Surgery was done with a standard posterolateral thoracotomy through the 4 th or 5 th intercostal space. The thick parietal pleura appearing in the incision site was excised and all pus and debris in the pleural cavity removed. The visceral pleura were meticulously removed. The lung was allowed to expand, closing all air leaks detected with the help of manual ventilation. Necrotic lung tissue was removed and bronchopleural fistulas (BPFs) were closed. Chest tube drains were placed and the thoracotomy wound closed after giving an intercostal block. The postoperative care included care of the chest drain. Chest radiographs were taken on day 1 postop, when the drain output was nil and after removal of the tube to rule out pneumothorax/collection. It was also done when there was no drainage but the patient was symptomatic. Ultrasound chest was found to be useful to differentiate between residual collection and consolidation. An extra chest drain had to be placed occasionally in some patients for drainage of a small pneumothorax or collection. Patients were started on steam inhalation and incentive spirometry as early as possible along with nursing in an upright position. Adequate pain relief and antibiotics were given intravenously till good oral intake resumed. The antibiotics were changed depending on the culture report of the pus/debris sent at the time of surgery. Patients were followed up at 3 months and 1 year or more frequently in the presence of symptoms. One hundred and twenty-five patients were treated. There were 44 girls (M:F = 1.84:1). Age ranged from 3 months to 12 years in boys (mean 5 years) and from 7 months to 11 years in girls (mean 4 years). Decortication was performed on the right side in 63 patients, on the left in 60, while 2 patients underwent bilateral thoracotomies. More boys presented below 1 year with an incidence of 17.3%, with only 6.9% girls presenting in infancy. More children presented in the 1-5 year age group compared to 5-12 years in both the sexes. There was a peak incidence during summers and rainy season (43%) compared to rest of the year. History of fever and cough was the commonest feature [Table 1]. Respiratory distress often appeared to be the triggering factor for referral. Also, 31.5% were below the 10 th centile and 57.1% children were in the 10th-50th centile for weight as per the percentile chart for Indian children. Only 11.4% were in the 50th-90th centile. This indicated the severe malnourished status in these patients. Serum albumin ranged from 1.1 to 3 g% with an average of 1.7 g%. Pallor was common with mean Hb 8.7 g% (5.5-10.9 g%). Table 1 :Presenting features of empyema thoracis Nil to 50% lung volume was seen in the lung window of the CECT scan in most patients. There was variable amount of pus, air and debris between the thickened parietal and visceral pleura. In majority of them, multiloculations were present. In 57% cases, there was encasement of the entire lung with collapse consolidation, whereas in the remaining, part of the lung was spared. Intercostal chest drain had been inserted before referral in 119 patients (95%). In 11 patients, it had been inserted twice. Some patients had been tapped several times at different centers based on opacity on chest radiograph alone. The drain had been kept for a period with a mean of 3 weeks. Unsuccessful use of streptokinase injection was also noted in some hospitalized patients. While 64% preoperative pus cultures were sterile, 36% were positive and mostly grew Staphylococcus, Pseudomonas, and occasionally, Acinetobacter. The most commonly isolated organism was Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In the postoperative cultures, a few patients grew α and β hemolytic Streptococcus, Klebsiella and Pseudomonas. In the majority, it was reported as sterile. Before referral, nearly all the patients had been administered multiple antibiotics and 11 patients had been started on anti-tuberculous treatment empirically due to persistent symptoms. Six patients in the series were proven to have tuberculosis on histopathological examination of pleural/lung biopsy. The tuberculosis patients had similar favorable outcome except for 2 who had prolonged inter costal tube drainage (ICTD) drainage. One out of these required redo thoracotomy due to collection. A few non-tubercular and nonbacterial etiologies seen were mucormycosis (1), lymphoid pneumonia (1) and trauma (1). Of the 125 patients, only 23 (18.4%) presented to us before 3 weeks of onset of illness. Eighty-seven patients (69.6%) were referred 3 weeks-3 months after the start of symptoms. Another 11 patients presented between 3 months and 1 year, and in the remaining (4 patients) the symptoms were present for 1-2 years. A comparison of patients presenting before and after the duration of 3 weeks was done [Table 2]. It can be observed that 81.6% of the cases were delayed referrals. As a consequence of delay, they had a higher incidence of lung necrosis and required lobectomies. The recovery time in these patients was higher (maximum 1 month) as compared to early patients (maximum 8 days). The ICTD drainage was also prolonged. Eight patients in this series were on ventilator at the time of referral [Table 3]. All patients after surgery were weaned off the ventilator and recovered with early removal of intercostal drains and good lung expansion. Table 2 :Comparison of patients presenting before and after 3 weeks of onset of empyema Table 3 :Details of patients on preoperative ventilatory support There was evidence of BPF in 10 patients, with leakage of large amount of air in the chest drain. Amongst them two patients were on ventilatory support at the time of referral, with one arriving in shock to the hospital. The previously inserted intercostal drain was seen within the lung parenchyma in four patients. Three patients underwent lobectomy of necrotic lung. In the rest, the air leaks were closed with debridement of local necrotic tissue. Only one patient had prolonged ICT drainage of more than 1 month after surgery. Rest of them recovered quickly. Two patients were referred with a diagnosis of congenital lobar emphysema and in fact had a loculated pneumothorax. Two patients presented with empyema necessitans with associated necrotizing involvement of thoracic muscles. The main lung changes seen were necrotizing pneumonitis, consolidation and poor compliance with poor expansion [Table 4]. Complete expansion of the entire lung after decortication was seen in only 43.4% cases. These patients had a faster time to recovery and removal of chest drain. Chest drains placed at the time of surgery could be removed within 3-14 days in the majority of patients. Twelve patients were discharged home with the drain in situ due to financial constraints and/or prolonged drainage. In the presence of cavitary necrosis, patients who underwent segmentectomy or lobectomy had faster recovery than those who underwent only debridement. Associated lung hepatisation prolonged recovery. Table 4 :Comparison of lung changes and its effect on morbidity Follow-up ranged from 3 months to 4 years (mean = one year). No procedure-related or delayed deaths were seen. Weight gain was seen in nearly all patients, 2 months after surgery. Eight patients complained of occasional fever and cough. Five patients had wound infection. One patient with tuberculosis underwent thoracotomy thrice for persistent drainage of air and pus. There was loss of lung tissue and poor expansion of the remainder. Two patients had residual pneumothorax/recurrent collection for which chest tube had to be reinserted for a few days. Empyema thoracis is seen all over the world with an apparent increase in its incidence in the West. [2],[3] In countries like Australia where a national database for disease statistics exists, the incidence of empyema was found to be 7.35 per million with an increased incidence in 1-4 year age group. Additionally, the overall percentage of empyema as a proportion of pneumonia increased from 0.27 to 0.70% (P < 0.05) (3). In our own experience, over the past few years, there appears to be an increasing awareness amongst pediatrician colleagues over the requirement and benefits of decortication, which has led to a higher referral rate. The primary aim in the early stages of empyema is to drain the pus completely. Controversies abound on the correct mode of management. Even developed countries which like to follow protocols do not have any clear-cut guidelines [3] Recent studies have even raised the issue whether patients with empyema should now bypass medical thoracostomy totally and proceed directly to video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). [4] The pleural collection is often solid debris unlikely to come out through a catheter. The role of VATS in stage III empyema is however very much debatable. [5] Patients have usually been seen by local physicians in the presence of fever and cough and put on several courses of broad-spectrum antibiotics. They tend to come to a tertiary center with the onset of respiratory distress. Chronic cough should not be assumed to be due to tuberculosis. Eleven patients had been started on anti-tuberculous treatment empirically due to persistent symptoms. Only two of them and another four patients in the entire series were eventually proven to have tuberculosis. In this series, intercostal chest drain had been inserted in 119 patients (95%). This had been kept for a median of 3 weeks. Several patients had more than one intercostal tube inserted blindly based on a chest radiograph. Several others were repeatedly poked with needles as the earlier tap was dry. One has to remember that not only multiloculation but also thick debris resembling cheese will give a dry yield. Sometimes, after an initial drainage of pus, the only content is air, which remains because the lung is unable to expand, caged as it is by the thick unyielding visceral pleura. It is worth repeating here that the true nature of the pleural collection and the status of the lung can be determined only by a CECT scan. [1],[6] Most centers the world over tend to manage complications of pneumonia with chest radiographs alone or at the most with an ultrasonography. [1] The world is slowly waking up to the importance of other modalities of imaging for timely detection and intervention of pleural space infections. [7] Since we are in a tertiary/quaternary referral unit, patients invariably present at a late stage of the disease. Only 18.4% patients in our series gave a history of less than 3 weeks. Even in this group, thin pleura was seen at thoracotomy only in four patients. In most cases, the pleura had become a hard, leathery peel densely adherent to the underlying lung. However, we advice surgery only based on the clinical features (persistent high grade fever, cough, respiratory distress, irritability, poor appetite, etc.) along with corroboration by CECT scan and not on the duration of the disease. [1] Some patients who have been referred 2-3 weeks after the onset of disease have been continued on medical management when they are symptomatically improving, i.e. regression of fever, reducing contents in a chest drain in the presence of an expanding lung on chest radiograph, etc. We found an increased incidence between May to August every year. A study from Taiwan also showed that the incidence of both pneumonia and empyema was highest each spring. [8] Another study from Canada showed that while admissions occurred throughout the year, they peaked between November and April. [9] Most patients had received one or more courses of antibiotics, with 11 patients having been started on antituberculous treatment empirically. Of these, only two patients were proven to have tuberculosis on histopathological specimen of pleural/lung biopsy. There was evidence of BPF in 10 patients, with leakage of large amount of air in the chest drain, 2 of them arriving in hospital in a state of shock. At thoracotomy, the previously placed intercostal drain was found within the lung tissue in four patients. While a few underwent lobectomy of the necrotic lung, in the others the fistula could be closed after local debridement. Malnutrition was evident in most patients at the time of admission, with 88% being below the 50th percentile for weight. Serum albumin averaged 1.7 g%. This may be secondary to the disease process or the disease itself may have manifested in a child with poor nutritional status. The latter appears more valid as only 13% patients who presented before 3 weeks of illness had a weight above the 50th centile. A higher complication rate has been observed in pediatric empyema patients with lower hematocrit on admission. [10] Pallor at presentation was common with preoperative Hb averaging 8.7 g% in our series. This average was much lower in children presenting after 3 weeks (7.67 g%) compared to the children who presented before 3 weeks. We usually transfuse whole blood preoperatively when the Hb is below 8-9 g%. Three significant changes which affected morbidity were noted in the lung at thoracotomy: (a) consolidation, (b) cavitary necrosis and (c) poor compliance/fibrosis with poor expansion on Ambu bag ventilation. All these prolonged the recovery and removal of intercostal drain [Table 4]. Because of persistent pneumonitic changes, postoperative fever and cough can occur, and occasionally reinsertion of chest tube for a few days may be necessary. In a recent study from Brazil, 52 children who had undergone thoracoscopy for empyema were retrospectively studied, comparing patients with and without necrotizing pneumonia. [11] The incidence of thoracic drainage prior to thoracoscopy (79-36%), pneumothorax (46-32%) and BPF (67-18%) was far lesser in the second group. The hospital stay was also lesser in this group. In our series, BPFs were associated with necrotizing pneumonia or to a wrongly inserted chest drain. In our series, surgeons with varying experience including trainees have operated. The key to early recovery and early removal of the chest tube appears to be complete removal of necrotic lung tissue. This often entails lobectomy which some surgeons are reluctant to do leading to delayed recovery. Patients with persistent consolidation are more difficult to treat as excision is not the answer here. One has to wait patiently for the lung to heal. Some patients had to be discharged home on open tube thoracostomy. There were only two patients with nearly complete involvement of the entire lung, one due to chronic compression by the thick pleura and the other with underlying tuberculosis. However, no patient underwent obliteration of pleural space by muscle/omental flaps or thoracoplasty. To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest series of open thoracotomies for chronic pediatric empyema thoracis to be reported in the literature from a single institution. [12] Our study has shown that most cases of empyema are secondary to pneumonia. Tuberculosis is a rare causative agent accounting for only 4.7% cases. Delayed referral increases morbidity by not only increasing parenchymal involvement but also causing a state of malnutrition. The effect on the lung by the pneumonitic process and the compression by the thickened pleura which has stopped physiologically functioning has a variable effect. 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Complications and treatment failures of video-assisted thoracoscopic debridement of pediatric empyema. Pediatr Surg Int 2010;26:367-71. 11. Macedo M, Meyer KF, Oliveira TC. Necrotising pneumonia in children submitted to thoracoscopy due to pleural empyema: Incidence, treatment and clinical evolution. J Bras Pneumol 2010;36:301-5. 12. Avansino JR, Goldman B, Sawin RS, Flum DR. Primary operative versus nonoperative therapy for pediatric empyema: A meta-analysis. Pediatrics 2005;115:1652-9. [Table 1], [Table 2], [Table 3], [Table 4] 1 Pediatric empyema thoracis — Role of conservative management Prema Menon,Kln Rao,G. R. Sethi,Anil K. Gupta Indian Pediatrics. 2014; 51(3): 239 2 Pneumonectomy: The final cut in a rare incidence of persistent bronchopleural fistula following empyema Robert T. Peters,Frances Child,Anna-May Long,Gillian M.E. Humphrey,George Rakoczy Pediatric Pulmonology. 2013; 48(6): 617 Peters, R.T. and Child, F. and Long, A.-M. and Humphrey, G.M.E. and Rakoczy, G. Pediatric Pulmonology. 2013; 48(6): 617-621 4 Tube thoracostomy: Primary management option for empyema thoracis in children Ghritlaharey, R. and Budhwani, K. and Shrivastava, D. and Srivastava, J. African Journal of Paediatric Surgery. 2012; 9(1): 22-26 Menon P Rao K Singh M Venkatesh M A Kanojia R P Samujh R Saxena A K Batra Y K Contrast-enhanced computed tomographic chest scan decortication empyema thoracis Article in PDF (348 KB) Contact us \| Sitemap \| Advertise \| What's New \| Copyright and Disclaimer © 2005 - Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons \| Published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow Online since 1st May '05	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9936
__label__wiki	0.737633	0.737633	HomeNeighborhoodsSouthwest WashingtonRidgefield Real Estate Ridgefield, WA REAL ESTATE Ridgefield Information Search Homes For Sale Ridgefield Information Vancouver 360-816-2600 101 E 6th St, Suite 230 Vancouver, WA 98660 The city of Ridgefield is a growing community located in northern Clark County, Washington. Settlers were drawn to the gently sloping land extending from elevated highland to the banks of Lake River. Originally named Union Ridge due to the number of residents originating from the Union ranks of the Civil War, the name was changed to Ridgefield in 1890 and was incorporated in 1900. Just 24 miles north of Portland, the city of Ridgefield is a growing area with a great deal to offer. It’s known for its breathtaking scenery of rivers and waterfalls, involved community members, small town atmosphere and business-friendly environment. Ridgefield has a variety of single family homes, acreage, townhomes and condos. The sweeping views of the picturesque Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge and downtown tree-lined streets create a peaceful environment to enjoy unique shops, an antique store, art gallery and charming restaurants. The city hosts events for the community throughout the year, including seasonal festivals, and First Saturdays in downtown Ridgefield, which features a farmers market and displays of artwork by local artist. Ridgefield parks also host family friendly activities every Tuesday in August that appeal to a diverse range of interests. The Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge has 5,218 acres of marsh, grasslands and woodlands. Stately cranes, shorebirds and a great variety of songbirds stop at the refuge during spring and fall migrations. Situated at the base of a valley, surrounded by Mount St. Helens, Mt. Adams and Mt. Hood, the Tri-Mountain Golf Course provides a picturesque vista and unmatched natural beauty golfers will not soon forget. The course is just five minutes from downtown Ridgefield. Ridgefield, WA 98642 MLS 18109916 Listing Courtesy of FBR Realty, Inc. Listing Agent Keith Pfeifer 6100 S 20TH WAY MLS 19212273 Listing Courtesy of Premiere Property Group, LLC Listing Agent Steve Borwieck 1812 N 4th WAY MLS 20099028 Listing Courtesy of Knipe Realty ERA Powered Listing Agent Jesse Cheng MLS 19113958 Listing Courtesy of Keller Williams Premier Partners Listing Agent Dawneen Dostert 27805 NW 51ST AVE MLS 19414457 Listing Courtesy of Windermere Stellar/Felida Listing Agent Jodie Sharp Ridgefield, WA Area Data Ridgefield, WA Homes for Sale search for properties in Ridgefield View all Ridgefield Listings	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9939
__label__wiki	0.60069	0.60069	Theater/Drama L.C.C. 2+2+2 Engineering Program Japanese Language & Culture High School Advantage/Dual Enrollment The J W Sexton High School Robotics team has been active at Sexton for the past 6 years. We spent three years participating as a FIRST robotics team, # 2617. In 2010, Michigan State University offered to sponsor us as a VEX robotics team, and have been competing as MSU Team 6581-S ever since. In Spring of 2011 our team qualified for the VEX World Competition the took place in Orlando, Florida. The team competed for three days at the Disney Wide World of Sports and placed 47 of 104 in our division. In the Spring of 2012, the RoboReds again represented the Lansing School district at the National VEX Competition in Omaha Nebraska where we placed in the top 10 of 80 teams from all over the country. We are looking forward to a successful 2012-2013 season! 2012 Sack Attack Animation MSU VEX Page Sexton Math, Science, and Engineering Magnet Academy Robotics Competition Photos Team members from Sexton prepare the robot for a district heat at the Lansing Center on 3/20/09. In the Arena Sexton's robot is ready to go in the Arena during the District Competition at the Lansing Center on March 20, 2009. Members of the Sexton Robotics Team wait to enter the arena during the Lansing District Tournament on 3/20/09. Team Pictures 2009 Team Picture Your 2009 Robo Reds! Logo Contest Selection Winner of the 2009 New Logo Contest Red the Mascot Billy and the Mascot after it's creation in 2009 J.W. Sexton High School 102 S. McPherson Avenue Lansing, MI 48915 (517) 755-1070	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0117.json.gz/line9943

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