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__label__cc	0.74492	0.25508	The 2014 Zeiss Art Calendar by Mary McCartney Starring Alec Baldwin and Gemma Arterton. Photographer Mary McCartney, the daughter of music legend Paul McCartney, has shot the fifth edition of the Zeiss Art Calendar. Starring American actor Alec Baldwin and British Actress Gemma Arterton posing together at New York landmarks, it's called “Moments in the City,” and is being distributed to clients of Zeiss, which makes a variety of camera lenses, this month. above photo of Mary McCartney by Simon Abboud Using a 35 millimeter camera with Zeiss lenses, Mary shot all the images in black and white. Taking advantage of the lens, she shot wide shots, close ups and other varied angles. Below are all the images from the 2014 Zeiss Art Calendar including front and back cover, followed by a video of Mary discussing the project, a link to an exclusive "Behind The Scenes" video, the press release and more information- courtesy of Zeiss and Mary McCartney. Outtakes: Mary McCartney used the Distagon T* 2,8/15 ZF.2, Distagon T* 2/25 ZF.2, Distagon T* 1,4/35, Planar T* 1,4/50 ZF.2, Planar T* 1,4/85 ZF.2, Apo Sonnar T* 2/135 ZF.2, Biogon T2.8/25 ZM und C Sonnar T 1.5/50 ZM. Mary discusses shooting the calendar in the video below: And a Behind The Scenes look at the shoot from Mary McCartney herself can be seen here on Vimeo. The press release: The ZEISS Art Calendar 2014, HAMBURG/Germany, 22.10.2013. The House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany, provided the backdrop for the presentation of the 2014 ZEISS Art Calendar on 21 October 2013. Mary McCartney staged the calendar under the theme "Moments in the City." The photographer with the big name and expressive imagery accompanied Hollywood stars Alec Baldwin and Gemma Arterton as they experienced very special moments in New York City. In Manhattan the protagonist from The Aviator, Getaway and Blue Jasmine (a Woody Allen production) and the actress from the James Bond flick Quantum of Solace and action film Hansel and Gretel wallowed in the magic of the metropolis and imbibed the charm of outstanding sites and locations. In scenes that focus on the very special atmosphere of each individual location, Mary McCartney shows how the couple is bewitched by these fascinating surroundings: in the aura exuded by the Metropolitan Museum or at the top of the Empire State Building. "The striking photographs by Mary McCartney enchant the viewer with their astounding clarity and discrete intensity. They make a strong impression in this fifth issue of our art calendar series," says Jörg Nitschke, Head of Corporate Communications. The ZEISS Art Calendar is devoted exclusively to the customers and friends of the company. It was for them, and them only, that it was created by the artist, only they will receive it as a limited edition – underscoring how highly the company values its customers and those special moments linking it with them. above photo of the unveiling by Backstage Berlin The text below is courtesy of the Zeiss Camera Lens Blog: A man, a woman. A couple in front of the camera in a popular place. It sounds like a simple concept, but it requires talent. This concept has delighted the friends and customers of ZEISS who have received the ZEISS Art Calendar in previous years. For the fifth time in a row, the premium lens manufacturer followed this approach again. For the 2014 calendar, entitled “Moments in the City“, ZEISS engaged Mary McCartney, who is known for her expressive and very personal portrait photography. “When I was approached, I already knew that ZEISS brought out a calendar each year. I really liked the idea, because as a photographer ZEISS has an absolutely excellent reputation,” says McCartney about her motivation to help style the calendar. Next, McCartney thought about how to give shape to the calendar theme. For the couple she chose the well-known Hollywood actors Alec Baldwin (“Aviator“, “Getaway“, “Blue Jasmine“) and Gemma Arterton (“A Quantum of Solace“, “Hansel and Gretel“). For the location she selected New York City. “The basic concept of the calendar was explained to me. Until now it always relied on a man and woman as a couple. I developed this idea further: this man and this woman have just met each other. It is early in the morning. They have just come back from a black tie party which they were both invited to the night before. She is from England and he is from New York. And he invites her to explore the city with him,” explains McCartney. Though digital photography is ubiquitous these days, Mary McCartney wanted to capture the charm of New York, and in particular Manhattan in the early morning light, in a classic, old-fashioned way. She therefore photographed on black-and-white analog film, which gives her images a timeless feel. Looking at her images, connoisseurs of traditional black-and-white photography will be reminded a bit of the legendary images by Andreas Feininger (“New York in the Forties “). For her photographic work, McCartney had a wide range of the latest ZEISS lenses at her disposal: Distagon T* 2,8/15 ZF.2, Distagon T* 2/25 ZF.2, Distagon T* 1,4/35, Planar T* 1,4/50 ZF.2, Planar T* 1,4/85 ZF.2, Apo Sonnar T* 2/135 ZF.2, Biogon T2,8/25 ZM and C Sonnar T 1,5/50 ZM. During the shooting, all eight lenses were used, depending on her preferences with regard to perspective. She used the classic portrait lens Planar T* 1,4/85 as well as the C Sonnar T* 1.5/50. This lens is based on the classic Sonnar T* 1,5/50 of the 1930s and, thanks to its harmonious bokeh and attractive 3D images, fit very well with the analog technology selected by McCartney. “I really enjoyed working with ZEISS lenses. Together with the 400 ISO TRI-X black-and-white film I used, images were created that really bring out the lenses’ imaging performance regarding sharpness and tonal values. During the photo shoot, I used various different lenses with different focal lengths and image perspectives, from a wide angle to intimate close-ups.” above: During the presentation of the images in the ZEISS Art Calendar 2014 in Hamburg: Photographer Mary McCartney (middle) with Dr. Michael Kaschke, CEO of Carl Zeiss AG (right), and Anke Degenhard from the agency Crossover. A select group of invited guests was able to experience the extraordinary intensity of McCartney’s images live during a festive “First View” event with the photographer herself on October 21, 2013 in the House of Photography in the Deichtorhallen exhibition halls in Hamburg, Germany. For Michael Kaschke, CEO of Carl Zeiss AG, it was a more than adequate setting: “The importance of the ZEISS Art Calendar lies in its special combination of art and technology. On the one hand, we make high-quality lenses that photographers can use to make fantastic pictures. And vice versa, these pictures motivate our employees to continue developing technology.” Once again, this year’s exclusive calendar, which appears in a limited edition, is for the friends and customers of ZEISS. They will receive the calendar as an annual gift. Labels: art calendar, black and white photos, celebrities, celebrity, New York, photography And That's A Wrap, Folks. Here's What Mattered To ... 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__label__wiki	0.633412	0.633412	Tag Archives: culture (New) in Print NIP Carmela Murdocca: To Right Historical Wrongs: Race, Gender & Sentencing in Canada via UBC Press 7 November, 2013 Sonia Lawrence Leave a comment York University Associate Professor Carmela Murdocca‘s (Sociology) book is just out from UBC Press in the Law and Society series. (Tell your librarian!) In To Right Historical Wrongs, Carmela Murdocca brings together the paradigm of reparative justice and the study of incarceration in an examination of this disconnect between political motivations for amending historical injustices and the vastly disproportionate reality of the penal system — a troubling reality that is often ignored. Drawing on detailed examination of legal cases, parliamentary debates, government reports, media commentary, and community sources, Murdocca presents a new perspective on discussions of culture-based sentencing in an age of both mass incarceration and historical amendment. via Ubcpress.ca :: University of British Columbia Press. Interested in some of Carmela Murdocca’s other work? Some is listed in her faculty bio, of course, for instance: (2010), “There Is Something in That Water”: Race, Nationalism, and Legal Violence. Law & Social Inquiry, 35: 369–402. (not open access requires access to Wiley pubs) and “From Incarceration to Restoration: National Responsibility, Gender and the Production of Difference,” Social and Legal Studies18, 1 (2009): 23-45. (not open access requires access to Sage Publications) and Murdocca, C., “Pursuing National Responsibility in a post-9/11 World: Seeking Asylum in Canada for Gender Persecution” Not Born A Refugee Woman: Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices, Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Khanlou and Moussa, eds. Berghahn Books and Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, 2008, 254-263. Three papers are on SSRN here (open access). Enjoy! Carmela Murdoccaculturegenderhistorical amendmentHistorical wrongsmass incarcerationracereparative justiceSentencing Jotwell: Grant reviews Fournier, McDougall & Dekker "Dishonour, Provocation and Culture: Through the Beholder’s Eye?" 19 June, 2013 Sonia Lawrence Leave a comment Isabel Grant (UBC Law) reviews Pascale Fournier (Ottawa Civil Law Section), Pascal McDougall & Anna R. Dekker, Dishonour, Provocation and Culture: Through the Beholder’s Eye?, 16(2) Can. Crim. L. Rev. 161 (2012), here. In their thought-provoking work Dishonour, Provocation and Culture: Through the Beholder’s Eye?, Pascale Fournier, Pascal McDougall and Anna R. Dekker use a unique blend of historical, cross-cultural and empirical analysis to reveal the connections between so-called “honour killings” and intimate femicides where the defence of provocation is invoked. While “honour killings” typically involve “non-Western” defendants, and concerns about gender equality are more explicit, intimate femicides raise similar equality concerns which are often unrecognized and concealed. The authors acknowledge that there are differences between our typical conception of honour killings and the spousal homicides in which provocation is raised by Western defendants. For example, traditional honour killings invoke the idea of public honour, whereas in the provoked intimate femicides, “the locus of honour has shifted from the traditional extended family to the individual man” (178). cultureHonourintimate femicidesIsabel GrantjotwellNIPPascale FournierProvocationpublic/private Calls for..., Other Events, What we're thinking/reading/doing (IFLS blog) CFP Gendered Rites/Gendered Rights : 2013 Conference of the Project on Gender, Culture, Religion, and the Law 17 December, 2012 Sonia Lawrence Leave a comment CFP Deadline December 31; Conference April 14-15 2013 GENDERED RITES/GENDERED RIGHTS:Sex Segregation, Religious Practice, and Public Life 2013 Conference Project on Gender, Culture, Religion, and the Law Hadassah-Brandeis Institute This call for papers via Osgoode grad, former Iacobucci J. clerk, and Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law, Dr. Lisa Fishbayn Joffe GENDERED RITES/GENDERED RIGHTS:Sex Segregation, Religious Practice, and Public LifeCall for PapersThe Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Project on Gender, Culture, Religion, and the Law seeks paper proposals for an international conference entitled Gendered Rites/Gendered Rights: Sex Segregation, Religious Practice, and Public Life. The Conference will be held at Brandeis University on April 14-15, 2013. Anat Hoffman, chairperson of Women of the Wall and Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center will open the conference, delivering the 5th Annual Markowicz Memorial Lecture on Gender and Human Rights.Many religious traditions prescribe sexually differentiated roles in religious rites and in public life. Doctrines that deem women the repository of family or communal honor may be interpreted to require that women’s behavior be carefully monitored and controlled. Conceptions of women as vulnerable to temptation or as the embodiment of temptation for men may justify demands for the segregation of women during prayer and study. In both theocratic and secular states, attempts are being made to permit segregationist practices to migrate from the religious realm to the public sphere.The challenge posed by the intersection of religious traditions that mandate these forms of sex segregation with civic norms of gender equality can be seen around the world and across religious traditions. Recent developments in Israel pose a particularly challenging example as women are subjected to demands for segregation on public buses, trains, supermarkets, doctor’s waiting rooms and merely walking in the street. This conference seeks to explore the historical and theoretical underpinnings of these developments and to identify effective and appropriate responses. Submissions dealing with these issues in a range of religious traditions and national contexts are invited. The closing date for submission of proposals is December 31, 2012. Please include an abstract of 200 words accompanied by a brief biography. The Project on Gender, Culture, Religion, and the Law has limited funds to support travel and accommodation expenses but participants will be asked to explore funding from their own faculties. Please submit proposals and queries to Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, Director of the Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and Law at fishbayn@brandeis.edu Hadassah-Br andeis Institute \| 515 South Street BrandeisCFPculturegenderOsgoode AlumnireligionSegregation Prof. Leti Volpp on cultural difference – text, video, audio 27 August, 2012 Sonia Lawrence Leave a comment Framing Cultural Difference: Immigrant Women and Discourses of Tradition by Leti Volpp I have been enjoying Volpp’s work for many years now. She’s at Berkeley and you can see her faculty profile here. You can see her below, at the 2012 Duke Women’s Studies Sixth Annual Feminist Theory Workshop on “The Indigenous as Alien” And you can hear her talk about her work on KPFA 94.1 program “Against the Grain”, “about double standards and the perilous politics of culture,” here. Those strange people’s culture is to blame, we’re told, when wife-battering or other interpersonal violence occurs in the households of immigrants from certain parts of the world. But does culture determine violent or misogynist behavior? And are non-Western cultures in fact regressive, as they’re so often represented to be? Leti Volpp talks about double standards and the perilous politics of culture. cultureinterpersonal violencelawLeti Volpp What we're thinking/reading/doing (IFLS blog) An IFLS Screening Series? Kikkik E1-472 7 May, 2012 Sonia Lawrence Leave a comment Following on my post about Rex v Singh, my colleague and Grad Program director Ruth Buchanan alerted me to another film that would be great for the series, one that she and Rebecca Johnson (Uvic) are writing on, called Kikkik E1-472 (2002). It’s a harrowing true story from the 1950’s, another one which involves a trial and takes up questions about the use of/place of race and culture in Canadian nation building projects. The bones of the story are here, on wikipedia. Kikkik was an Inuit woman who, in 1958, was charged with but acquitted of murder, child neglect and causing the death of one of her children. Here is an article from the Nunatsiaq News which looks at the participation of Elispee Karetak, one of Kikkik’s children and a student at Akitsiraq law school, in the making of the film: The story recounts the relocation of Inuit in the interior of the Kivalliq region, the devastating starvation that followed, the murder of Karetak’s father and her mother’s struggle to keep her starving children alive. It is the heart of Kikkik, a documentary the crew is filming in Iqaluit. The camera is rolling and Karetak, a 45-year-old originally from Arviat, is ready to unravel the emotional tale. “This is a story of my people, the Ihalmiut, and what happened to us after the first contact with the white people and their government,” Karetak says in Inuktitut. The 2002 version was made by a team including Karetak, Martin Kreelak and Ole Gjersted in English and Inuktitut. The judge who acquitted Kikkik, John Sissons, commissioned an incredible series of three sculptures to tell Kikkik’s story (for more on Sissons and those carvings, see this book). canadaculturefilmgenderIFLS Screening SeriesKikkiknation buildingraceRex v. Singh	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1270
__label__wiki	0.742919	0.742919	Home>Concert>TSUBURAYA CONVENTION 2019 “Ultraman Zero 10 Years Anniversary New Generation Heroes to Gather!” TSUBURAYA CONVENTION 2019 “Ultraman Zero 10 Years Anniversary New Generation Heroes to Gather!” December 14, 2019 (Sat.) - December 14, 2019 (Sat.) New history will begin with 2 DAYS(Tsubukon)! Ever biggest event in the history of Tsuburaya Productions Ultraman Zero marks 10th anniversary since its debut on Earth. To celebrate this milestone, all New Generation Heroes from Ginga to Taiga will be gathered and will be seen with figures both Ultraman and human! First luxurious special live ever in the history of New Generation, looking back the meeting with zero and them with talk, action and music. Voyager, who has colored the new generation with songs, and Takatsu Terashima, who sings the theme song of his latest work 'Ultraman Taiga' will be also joined. ⇒TSUBURAYA CONVENTION 2019 “Opening Ceremony” ⇒TSUBURAYA CONVENTION 2019 “ULTRAMAN MUSIC LIVE～The Symphony～” In September 2018, Avril announced that she had been struggling since she was diagnosed with Lyme disease in December 2014 and released a new song “Head Above Water,” which she wrote in the midst of the hardship.In February of the following year, she... the GazettE vigorously into their own Tokyo’s gig circuit in 2002,and have been expanding stages with irresistibly force across the world ever since.In 2006 the band earned their first headline performance at Japan national hall "Nippon Budokan", and... Snoopy Museum Tokyo Snoopy Museum Tokyo is the sacred place for PEANUTS fans in Santa Rosa, California, USA, and the only official satellite of Charles M. Schulz Museum in the world.From December 2019, we will move and reopen at Minami-machida Grandberrypark with full of... Don't miss a miracle moment.The first Japan tour after receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature!Japan-only performances at a live music club will make the world jealous! !Official Website The Chemical Brothers have announced that "NO GEOGRAPHY TOUR LIVE IN JAPAN"!This tour will be amazing experience with their smashing album "NO GEOGRAPHY" released on April and 20th Anniversary editions of their 1999 classic album 'Surrender' on... PLÁCIDO DOMINGO Premium Concert in JAPAN 2020 Plácido Domingo has attracted many people in numerous concerts.In particular, he came to Japan right after Great East Japan Earthquake and sang “Furusato” in front of a crowded audience.That performance healed victims' hearts of the earthquake and... The first orchestra concert "PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス (Saikopasu) IN CONCERT" produced by Yugo Kanno, who is in charge of music for the entire "PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス" anime series, and Yoshikazu Iwanami who is also the sound director of the entire anime series,... UNKO MUSEUM TOKYO WELCOME TOMAX UNKO KAWAIIWelcome to MAX Kawaii UNKO UniverseJapanese are proud of its "kawaii" (cute) culture.Once it was born, it will be flushed away and gone forever.Poo's life is always short....Some of you may say that"Why do you think poo is... DEATH NOTE THE MUSICAL The manga ゛DEATH NOTE゛ (written by Tugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata) was serialized in ゛Weekly Shonen Jump゛ from 2003 to 2006. It sold over 30 million copies in Japan and the movie ゛DEATH NOTE゛ was released in 2006.In 2015, the musical was... Fujii Kaze "NAN-NAN SHOW 2020" Kaze Fujii is a 22-year-old musician from Okayama Prefecture, who has been covering songs from various artists from all over the world since the age of 12, and his unique arranged covered song that is posted on YouTube are catching on.In 2019, the... CHESS THE MUSICAL The legendary musical "CHESS" will be on stage with new direction using the original London script.Starring tony-nominee Ramin Karimloo("Les Misérables", ”Anastasia”), Samantha Barks("Les Misérables",”Pretty Woman”), this will be her longed-for japan... GEAR - January Performance in FebruaryPerformance in MarchPerformance in AprilPerformance in MayPerformance in JuneFirst of its kind in Japan, GEAR is a unique non-verbal performance that stimulates your five senses with a moving story set in the future. Accompanied...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1279
__label__wiki	0.690472	0.690472	support@ica.edu.np Whatsapp/Viber : 9818505224 Operation Calender International Center For Academics ICA the First Partner Institution of IGNOU in Nepal has been conferred with the Best Overseas Partner Institution 2014 Mr. Biswajit Mukherjee , Managing Director of ICA receiving “The Best Overseas Partner Institution 2014” for Best Services from the Guest of Honour Dr. Vijitha Nanayakkara, Vice Chancellor, the Open University of Sri Lanka at the 27th Convocation held on 16th April 2014 at IGNOU Head Quarters in New Delhi , India. ICA the First Partner Institution of IGNOU in Nepal has been conferred with the Best Overseas Partner Institution 2013 Award for the Best Services by Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India among the 82 (Eighty Two) Overseas Partner Institutions including the Pan Africa Network, SAARC Tele-Education Network, UNESCO and the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation support centres present in 43 (Forty Three) countries. The Award was provided on the occasion of The 26th Convocation held at the IGNOU Head Quarters at New Delhi, India on April 12, 2013. Gold Medal and Citation was provided to Mr. Biswajit Mukherjee , Chairperson of ICA by the Hon. President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee. This is the second time that IGNOU has recognised ICA with such prestigious award. ICA had already received the Best Overseas Partner Institution 2011 Award for the Best Services by Indira Gandhi National Open University at the 22nd Convocation held on 2nd April 2011. IGNOU awards ICA as the Best Overseas Partner Institution 2011 for the Best Services ICA the First Partner Institution of IGNOU in Nepal has been conferred with the “Best Overseas Partner Institution 2011 for the Best Services” by Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India among the 67 (Sixty Seven) Overseas Partner Institutions present in 40 (Forty) countries. Gold Medal and Citation was provided to ICA on the 22nd Convocation of the University held on 2nd April 2011 at the University Headquarters, New Delhi, India. Mr.Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource and Development, was the chief guest during the ceremony. He delivered his convocation address in a teleconference mode. Guest of Honour Prof. P.T. Manoharan, eminent scientist, former Vice-Chancellor and Raja Ramanna Fellow handed over the Gold Medal and Citation to Mr. Biswajit Mukherjee , Managing Director of ICA. eGyanKosh Past Question Term End Results Registraton Status Contact ICA Gyaneshwor, Kathmandu, Beside German Embassy Postal code : 44601 POB : #8975, EPC-5155 Kathmandu, Nepal 01-4445540 / 4434492 / 4413104 Copyright © International Center For Academics 2020. All rights reserved. Created by : NEXTMORSE	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1280
__label__wiki	0.6029	0.6029	Marcellina Hotel Marcellina Hotels Find out more about Marcellina Where to stay in Marcellina What's Marcellina like? If you're looking for a place to get away, look no further than Marcellina. Whether you're planning to stay for a night or for the week, the area around Marcellina has accommodations to fit every need. Search for hotels in Marcellina with Hotels.com by checking our online map. Our map displays the areas and neighborhoods around all Marcellina hotels so you can see how close you are from landmarks and attractions, and then refine your search within the larger area. The best Marcellina hotel deals are here with our lowest price guarantee. What types of hotels are available in Marcellina? We have Marcellina accommodations with prices starting at INR 1166. Choose one of our 15187 deals and get discounts of up to 65%. Below are the number of accommodations by star rating in Marcellina and the surrounding area: How to Get to Marcellina What are the closest airports to Marcellina? • Rome (FCO-Fiumicino - Leonardo da Vinci Intl.), 29.8 mi (47.9 km) from central Marcellina • Rome (CIA-Ciampino), 16.6 mi (26.7 km) from central Marcellina Things to See and Do in Marcellina What is there to see near Marcellina: • Villa d'Este (3.6 mi/5.9 km from the city center) • Hadrian's Villa (4.2 mi/6.7 km from the city center) • Terme di Roma (4.1 mi/6.6 km from the city center) • Lunghezza Castle (7.2 mi/11.6 km from the city center) • Villa Gregoriana (3.6 mi/5.8 km from the city center) What is there to do near Marcellina: • Roma Est (7.8 mi/12.6 km from the city center) • Marco Simone Golf Club (6.9 mi/11.1 km from the city center) • Tiburtino Shopping Center (4.7 mi/7.5 km from the city center) • Gabii Archaeological Area (8.3 mi/13.3 km from the city center) • Centro Sportivo Salone (8.6 mi/13.8 km from the city center) When is the best time to visit Marcellina?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1287
__label__cc	0.557066	0.442934	Written by Sarada Thompson Sunday, 17 July 2016 11:23 India Dance Wales Image Courtsey: India Dance Wales Age-old majestic trees stood, swaying in the background as if joining in to watch the many puranas/legends enacted by all who participated in the exquisite unique style of Indian classical dance, on Sunday 10th 2016. The weather was kind and except for a brief instance of rain-drops, not that it would have dampened any spirit; the show would have carried on. An image of Lord Nataraj, Lord of Dance with two traditional brass-lamps, was set high in the background. For me it was quite a spiritual experience, watching the plays of Lord Shiva, Lord Krishna and other aspects of the Divine, so vividly brought to life. The whole troupe presented a spectacular show bringing to life age-old narratives. I was there, supporting my granddaughter, Shivani Devi and enjoyed the entire team coming together incorporating Sishyas/students of all ages, abilities and backgrounds for this exotic gala event in Cardiff Open Air Theatre Festival in Sophia Gardens. The superb Sishya Show was followed by an equally splendid performance of the legendary Shankutala. Thank You to Gurus Kiran Ratna and Megan Lloyd of India Dance Wales. https://indianinformer.com/events/uk-events/item/121-shishya.html#sigProIde0c2a84d8d Sarada Thompson Sarada is an Indian artist and writer, resident in the U.K. since 1973 and in Wales since 1990. Born in Singapore she worked as a journalist for local newspapers. In England, she spent the next two decades raising a family, writing for local weeklies during this time. Sarada has exhibited her artwork at numerous venues in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia and has offered story-telling workshops through art, drama, writing in schools and in mental health groups. Her work draws upon great Hindu classics, the multi-cultural influences of her background, life experiences and travels. Sarada has won awards for her work in mini-tales in the National Association of Writers’ Groups in Durham, and won Travel and President’s awards in the local writers’ circle, and has had short stories published in both the University’s Anthology ‘Shadow Plays’ in 2010 and more recently in the writing group anthologies. Sarada was awarded her Masters Degree in Creative Writing at Trinity St David Carmarthen; University of Wales in 2012. The first 20,000 words of ‘The Neem Tree,’ formed her dissertation, titled ‘Outcaste.’ Latest from Sarada Thompson Ganesh Chaturthi - Happy Birthday to Lord Ganesha! Thaipusam - In Honour of Lord Murugan: The Divine Commander May Your Pot Flow With Abundance From Darkness To Light - Happy New Year Navarathri - Nine Nights of the Feminine Force More in this category: « Krishna Speaks Indika:Instrings »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1289
__label__cc	0.631067	0.368933	Home Gaming Did Microsoft Invest in the Wrong Exclusives? Did Microsoft Invest in the Wrong Exclusives? Let’s get one thing out of the way right now. Microsoft is not in financial trouble. Microsoft is very richer. They are richer than you, richer than me, and richer than several fine countries in the world. It’s hard to imagine the series of business decisions that could topple their $500 billion empire. That being the case, why is it that Microsoft is having so much trouble securing exclusives for the Xbox One? For some time, gamers have been speculating that Xbox One was short on exclusives. It’s a fear that has been validated thus far in 2017 as Sony and Nintendo have been using exclusives to dominate the marketplace (with games like Horizon: Zero Dawn and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild leading the pack) while Microsoft has only really released the good, but not great, Halo Wars 2. The lack of big-name exclusive titles for Xbox One seems like one of those problems that money could solve, doesn’t it? After all, if you’re a consumer who wants a game you simply go out and buy it. Isn’t the process roughly the same for a company like Microsoft? The process is similar – plus or minus a few big catches – but the culture is different. There was a time when developers were seen solely as weapons in the great console wars. He who acquired the most developers typically had a greater advantage over their competitors. While that is still somewhat the case, the problem is that fewer developers want to be bought. The rising cost of game design dictates that they not limit themselves to one platform in order to increase their chances of recouping costs and turning a profit. In fact, many major exclusive relationships can be traced back to older generations. Nintendo has, obviously, always kept their own games exclusive, while Sony has maintained a relationship with companies like Naughty Dog (The Last of Us) and Guerrilla Games (Horizon: Zero Dawn) for years now. Those exclusives have been “grandfathered” into the new era, if you will. That brings us to Microsoft. Microsoft’s most notable exclusive deals over the years have been their agreement with Remedy Games, their acquisition of Rare, their purchase of the Halo franchise, and the relative exclusivity of Gears of War. The harder you look at that list, the more you realize that Microsoft’s current predicament is the result of betting on the wrong horses. Granted, that’s not the full list of Microsoft exclusive properties and many of the games on that list have resulted in millions of dollars in sales for Microsoft. However, those are some of Microsoft’s most expensive exclusivity investments, and each of them comes attached with baggage. The Remedy deal has fallen apart, Rare has yet to return to their former glory, and Halo and Gears of War are slowly starting to show diminishing returns. Other major investments, like the Forza series, cater to a select demographic, while games like Crackdown and Phantom Dust have simply been hibernating for too long. Then you have companies like Smilebit, Realtime Worlds, and Fasa Studio who all once developed major Microsoft exclusives and have since shut down. Not to mention exclusive titles like Scalebound which simply died on the vine. All of these occurrences have contributed to Microsoft’s current reliance on bombshell releases in what is becoming a war of attrition. Microsoft’s situation is not hopeless. Hey, few situations are when you’re worth around $500 billion. However, the next time you ask yourself how Microsoft got into this minor mess, consider the possibility that their problems can be traced back to the investments. DC's 'Wonder Woman: Bloodlines' Blu-ray Details & Exclusives 'Dumbo' Blu-ray SteelBook & Exclusives up for Pre-Order Aquaman Blu-ray SteelBook & Retailer Exclusives Detailed 'Captain Marvel' 4k Blu-ray, SteelBook & Retailer Exclusives 'Glass' Blu-ray, Digital, DVD & Retailer Exclusives… Will Sony Remain the King of Exclusives Next Generation? Previous articleApple Sale Offers Critically-Acclaimed Movies Under $10 Next articleRogue One: A Star Wars Story Digital Release, Here’s Where To Buy KT Chong March 24, 2017 at 5:54 am Sony does not just “maintain a relationship” with Naughty Dog and Guerrilla Games. Sony OWNS Naughty Dog and Guerrilla Games. Sony OWNS the IP of Uncharted, The Last of Us, and Horizon, much like Microsoft owns Halo. Super Mario Run Can Save Mobile Gaming Who Has the Most to Prove at E3 2017?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1295
__label__wiki	0.661574	0.661574	Home Gaming Sea of Thieves Is Not the Great Game the Xbox One Needs Sea of Thieves Is Not the Great Game the Xbox One Needs There are just video game experiences that transcend the entire concept of video gaming. One of the most obvious examples of that effect was the rhythm game, Rock Band. You and your friends always wanted to be in a world-famous rock band, and that title allowed you to recapture that experience. Now there is Sea of Thieves; a new multiplayer title from Rare that allows you and friends to command a pirate ship as you plunder, drink, play music, do battle with other player-controlled ships, and live the pirate lifestyle you always imagined living before you ever knew scurvy was a thing. Yes, the world of Sea of Thieves is a cartoonish take on the pirate lifestyle, but that’s the brilliance of it. The game envokes the spirit of those days spent on the playground just goofing around with your buddies and letting your imagination do all the work. The difference is that Sea of Thieves doesn’t demand quite so much of your imagination. Even in the game’s earliest stages – it is only currently available in a limited form via a closed beta period – it’s clear that Rare has packed the impressively large world of Sea of Thieves with more than enough to do. What’s truly impressive about Sea of Thieves‘ content offerings, though, are the little touches. Things like hearing the voice chat of opposing players as you do ship to ship battle or having the option to lock players in the brig – a diversion that never ends well – ensure that even the most uncreative of players grin from ear to ear while playing. If you so happen to play Sea of Thieves with a group of companions willing to talk like pirates, coordinate duties, and maybe even sail off while your shipmate is still on an island, that’s when the game reveals itself as a truly magical experience. That’s also kind of the problem with Sea of Thieves as it relates to what it can do for the Xbox One. For some time now, we’ve heard people say that the Xbox One is in dire need of a killer app experience. That’s not entirely true. It’s actually in need of several killer app experiences that will convince millions of gamers that it is indeed worth buying an Xbox One after all this time. Sea of Thieves is looking like one of those experiences, but it’s a strange kind of killer app. It’s the kind that demands you play with not only a group of gamers you are able to communicate with, but that you preferably play it with a group of gamers that you personally know and who are able to turn even the dullest moments into a fun time. That’s a bit of a problem in terms of Sea of Thieves‘ ability to move Xbox Ones. For one thing, it’s tough enough for people to find the right group of gamers who will be willing to play this game the way it was meant to be played. Already, we’ve heard reports from beta players who have tried to match with random crew members and discovered they weren’t having near as much fun as some of the most popular streamers have been having with the game. That’s a problem that doesn’t become any easier to resolve when you consider that those ideal friends need to also own an Xbox One or a fairly capable PC along with their own copies of the game. Sea of Thieves is an easy game to root for because its inventive, welcome, and the kind of game that exists for you to have fun with. In some ways, it reminds me of the most exciting VR titles, though. They’re undeniably exciting experiences, but they’re hindered by hardware requirements and a somewhat limited scope that may ensure they’re never played by as large of a group of gamers that would enjoy them. Xbox All Access: Is It Really a Great Deal? Will Sea of Thieves be the new No Man's Sky? 20 Great Movies You Can Get for $5 on Apple… DirecTV presenting the MLS All-Star game in 4k HDR How PS4 Became the World's Most Popular Game Console Will Cyberpunk 2077 Be The First Next Generation Game? Previous articleFree Movies Leaving Vudu Soon: Jan. 2018 Edition Next articleReminder: Transfer Your Digital Disney Movies By Feb. 28 Dan February 1, 2018 at 10:46 am Where is the rest of the article. This is pointless Microsoft updates Xbox D-Pad controller STARZ PLAY launches for Xbox 360, Xbox One support ‘Top Priority’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1296
__label__cc	0.719878	0.280122	European Hospital LabBook RadBook Laboratory/pathology Fig.1. (a) Human pancreatic cancer cells were grafted onto mice, which were then given targeted alpha radiation therapy (225Ac‑FAPI‑04). Compared with mice given a control treatment (black squares), mice given 225Ac‑FAPI‑04 (open circles) showed a marked decrease in tumor growth. (b) Mice were injected with targeted positron radiation (64Cu-FAPI-04) to enable positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. The imaging shown here indicates uptake of 64Cu-FAPI-04 into the pancreatic tumor (arrow). Source: Osaka University Targeted therapy for pancreatic carcinoma Hitting cancer with 'homing' radioactive molecules Pancreatic cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer‑related deaths worldwide. Patients with pancreatic cancer often receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy, which are not always effective and can have toxic side effects. In a collaborative research between Osaka University and the University of Heidelberg, researchers are exploring a new method of treatment that brings powerful yet targeted radiation therapy directly to cancer tissue. The method may offer an effective treatment for pancreatic cancer with fewer side effects in surrounding organs. The researchers published their study in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy typically work by stopping cancer cells from dividing. Side effects often come about because the treatment also stops healthy cells from dividing and thriving. “With traditional anti-cancer therapies, there’s a tradeoff between efficacy against cancer cells and off‑target effects in non‑cancerous cells,” explains Dr Tadashi Watabe, lead author of the study and a researcher in nuclear medicine and tracer kinetics at Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine. “We’re focused on finding ways to re-balance this tradeoff in radiotherapy, by increasing the dose of radiation delivered to cancer cells while keeping it localized to those cells as much as possible.” We think the approach has enormous therapeutic potential, particularly for patients with pancreatic cancer who’ve exhausted their other treatment options Tadashi Watabe One way this can be done is by making a radioactive “homing” molecule that, when injected into a patient, travels straight to the site of a tumor to deliver its cancer-killing payload. The research team did precisely that – in this case, using a molecule that goes directly to pancreatic tumors. “We used a molecule with an isotope that emits alpha particles,” says Dr Watabe. “These particles travel a shorter distance than the beta particles emitted by traditional isotopes, which means their off-target effect is limited. Our molecule binds to a protein called FAP, which is found almost exclusively on stroma cells that surround pancreatic tumors and various types of cancers. Together, this allows us to target a high‑energy dose of radiation directly to the site of the tumor.” The stroma is part of a unique environment that encases solid tumors, acting as a kind of barrier. Treatments for pancreatic cancer are often stymied by this barrier but, remarkably, this doesn’t seem to be the case with the new experimental treatment. In the study, the team offers a proof of concept that their technique can act as a powerful cancer treatment. They injected their FAP-binding molecule into mice that had human pancreatic cancer grafted under their skin. The result? A dramatic decrease in tumor growth with no apparent effect on the body weight of the mice, the latter indicating that the treatment likely had few toxic side effects. “We are very encouraged by these initial results,” Dr Watabe concludes. “We think the approach has enormous therapeutic potential, particularly for patients with pancreatic cancer who’ve exhausted their other treatment options. What’s especially exciting is that our method of targeting the stroma can in principle work against many other types of cancer. 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__label__cc	0.726186	0.273814	If Your Vet Shames You Like This, High-Tail It Out of There Golden Retriever ‘Digs in’ for a Mud Bath German Shepherd and Cat Play Hide-and-Seek Pet owners are asking the right questions about vaccines — they are the questions veterinarians should be asking, but aren’t As more pet parents question the wisdom of repetitive and unnecessary vaccines, some conventional veterinarians are labeling these clients “anti-vaxxers” and digging in their heels If your vet is more casual than cautious about vaccines, or can’t adequately address your concerns about over-vaccination, it’s up to you to advocate for your dog or cat The conventional veterinary community would be wise to reevaluate its position on repetitive vaccinations and make antibody titer tests available and affordable In the meantime, it will continue to be up to pet parents to explain the difference between responsibly vaccinating and an “anti-vaxxer” to their veterinarians, and insure their animal companions aren’t receiving unnecessary noncore vaccines, or boosters against diseases to which they’re already immune By Dr. Karen Shaw Becker More and more pet parents are questioning conventional vaccine "wisdom" with regard to dogs and cats. They're asking questions like, "Does my pet really need all those vaccines," and "Why do we automatically revaccinate pets all their lives, but not people," and "What if my pet gets sick after a vaccine?" This is actually an encouraging trend, because pet owners are asking the very questions veterinarians should be asking themselves, but aren't. In fact, many conventional vets call concerned pet owners "anti-vaxxers," suggesting these clients are conspiracy theorists who are against all vaccines in every situation. There's a monumental difference between responsibly vaccinating your pet and being an "anti-vaxxer." Vets who presume they're the same are only further demonstrating their ignorance on the subject. From my perspective as an extremely cautious vaccinator and titer test advocate, if veterinarians were more concerned about what type and how many vaccines they're injecting into their patients, clients could relax and be less anxious about the likelihood their pet is receiving potentially unnecessary and harmful vaccines. Vet Laments the Increasing Number of 'Anti-Vaxxer' Clients in Her Practice I'm hesitant to quote from an article on anti-vaxxers I ran across recently, written by a conventional vet (Dr. Sarah J. Wooten) for a conventional veterinary journal, because it's really quite condescending and offensive. Unfortunately, I suspect it's a fairly accurate illustration of the way many vets erroneously view pet owners who are concerned about vaccines. The purpose of the article is to warn other veterinarians that the anti-vaccination movement has spread to pets. Wooten writes "… some of your clients may firmly believe that vaccines cause autism in their pets and may refuse lifesaving inoculations."1 I'm not sure how many pet owners worried about autism Wooten has encountered in her practice, but I doubt it's very many. I think she's using the autism example (a diagnosis that currently doesn't exist in veterinary medicine) to illustrate just how supposedly misinformed, misguided and perhaps downright crazy anti-vaxxer pet parents are. Do People Who Refuse to Allow Their Pets To Be Over-Vaccinated Deserve the 'Anti-Vaxxer' Label? "How can you promote the health and safety of your patients when their owners' decisions to refuse vaccines threaten herd health," Wooten ponders. "And how do you reason with clients who insist on the harmful effects of vaccines against overwhelming evidence to the contrary?" Seriously? Why would she need to "reason with" perfectly reasonable pet parents who have very legitimate concerns about the potential for adverse reactions to vaccines? Note she doesn't mention whether she's trying to sell initial vaccines (puppy and kitten shots), revaccinations (boosters) or noncore vaccines (e.g., bordetella) to hesitant pet parents. This is a hugely important distinction many casual vaccinators refuse to acknowledge when they complain about anti-vaxxers. The term anti-vaxxer generally indicates someone who's against any and all vaccines. It should never be used to describe someone who refuses to over-vaccinate an animal companion, but I believe that's how many veterinarians choose to use it. In my experience, most pet owners understand very well the importance of the initial series of core vaccines given to pups and kittens. In fact, many very young pets are kept completely isolated by owners fearful they'll be exposed to a life-threatening disease before they're fully immunized. My guess is Wooten is primarily trying to administer revaccinations and noncore vaccines, and she's getting some reasonable pushback from vaccine-savvy clients. Again, there's a huge difference between too many vaccinations and protective vaccinations. Those of us (pet parents and vets) who are cautious vaccinators are not advocating never vaccinating under any circumstances. We're advocating the smart use of minimal vaccines to create immunity against disease in puppies and kittens, with follow-up titers for the lifetime of the pet. Interestingly, upon admission to veterinary school students must all be vaccinated for rabies. My guess is Dr. Wooten does not boost herself annually or every three years with the rabies vaccine, so she too could be considered an "anti-vaxxer." Why aren't veterinarians continually boosted for rabies throughout their careers? Because we know this is unnecessary (via titer testing) and could lead to other health consequences long term (for people, but not for pets, according to Wooten). There's a big difference between creating protective immunity in a pet and creating vaccine toxicosis. Some veterinary vaccines are substantially more toxic than others. It's your job as your pet's advocate to know enough about the subject to make the best decisions for your animal companion. As my friend and colleague Dr. John Robb puts it: "The job of veterinarians is to vaccinate to produce immunity with the smallest volume and the smallest number of vaccines to produce that immunity. Once the pet is immune, we're done." Vet-to-Vet Suggestions for Managing Disobedient Pet Parents Wooten offers tips to fellow veterinarians when they run up against anti-vaxxer clients who are "driven by fear." My comments follow her tips. Tip: Don't debate about core vaccines. They are required. The only core vaccine required by law is the rabies vaccine. If your puppy or kitten received the full series of the other core vaccines (e.g., distemper, parvo and adenovirus for dogs), my recommendation is to titer every three to five years to monitor ongoing immunity. The truth is that many pets retain immunity throughout their lives after receiving their puppy or kitten shots. Revaccinating a pet who is already immune doesn't "boost" his immunity, but it does increase his risk for adverse reactions. Tip: Don't assume that clients understand how vaccines work. Apparently vets don't understand how they work, either, because if they did, they wouldn't revaccinate pets who are already immune. Instead, they would offer antibody titer testing to determine immunity, and for those pets who need boosters, they would give single agent (versus combo) vaccines against only the diseases with low titers. Tip: Draw parallels to human health where applicable — for example, the recent whooping cough and measles outbreaks due to the rise in people not vaccinating their children. Educate, don't scare. My advice: Ignore any vet who attempts to draw parallels between human and veterinary vaccines. There are problems with both, but they're simply not comparable. Any vet who brings up disease outbreaks in children as a way of convincing you to accept additional pet vaccines is most definitely using scare tactics. Tip: Going hardcore? Drawing a line in the sand? Practice what you preach by firing anti-vaxxer clients. Interestingly, I always recommend that pet owners fire any veterinarian who's a "hardcore" or casual vaccinator. You are ultimately responsible for and in charge of your pet's health. If your veterinarian has no respect for your role in your pet's life or your legitimate concerns about too many vaccines, it's time to find a new vet. Tip: Don't take it personally. Even though it feels like personal rejection of your role as wise counselor when clients refuse to follow your vaccine recommendations, it's really not about you. Time to check that bloated ego at the door! If a veterinarian genuinely wants to be a wise counselor to her clients regarding vaccines, she needs to become a subject matter expert. At a minimum she needs to be able to explain why repeated revaccinations are preferable to titer tests (hint: they aren't). To be a wise vaccine counselor, your vet must be at least as concerned about over-vaccination as you are. Tip: Above all, remember that the client wants to be heard, wishes to be respected, seeks credible information, desires informed consent and wants to be involved in decisions about their pet's healthcare. Great tip! And I have a few additional tips for my fellow veterinarians. Pet owners who are concerned about vaccines don't want or deserve to be called anti-vaxxers. They don't want to be disrespected for refusing unnecessary or questionable vaccines. They don't consider "Because I said so" or "Because that's what I learned in vet school" to be credible guidance or an argument for informed consent. Bottom line: Pet parents most definitely want to be involved in decisions about their dog's or cat's healthcare. And from my experience, what they want most of all is to feel they can trust their veterinarian to do what's best for their furry family member. Questions to Ask About Every Vaccine Your Vet Recommends Is your dog or cat healthy? If he has allergies, endocrine issues, organ dysfunction, cancer (or is a cancer survivor) or another medical issue he's not a candidate to receive vaccines. Is the vaccine is for a life-threatening disease (this eliminates most noncores immediately)? Does your pet have the opportunity to be exposed to the disease? Is the vaccine considered both effective and safe (most aren't, especially the bacterins). Has your pet ever had an adverse reaction to a vaccine? Do not vaccinate a pet that has had a previous vaccine reaction of any kind. Understand that several noncore vaccines are only available in combination with other vaccines, some of which are core. I recommend you check with your vet to insure none of the noncore vaccines are being piggybacked on core vaccines your pet receives. Unfortunately, most traditional vets do not carry single vaccines, so it's a good idea to ask to see the vaccine vial before assuming your pet is only receiving one agent at a time. dvm360 October 3, 2017 1 dvm360 October 3, 2017 Previous Article Golden Retriever ‘Digs in’ for a Mud Bath Next Article German Shepherd and Cat Play Hide-and-Seek	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1302
__label__cc	0.672948	0.327052	Nintendo's latest marketing initiative: the "Why Wii U?" poster by Mark Tyson on 25 March 2013, 17:37 Tags: Nintendo (TYO:7974), PC Quick Link: HEXUS.net/qabudf The marketing department at Nintendo has been working overtime to come up with a way to get more Wii U consoles shifted. At the end of last week we reported on Nintendo UK meeting with worried retailers and that Big N had a plan, even a vision, to present to retailers “in the coming weeks” with a strategy to help build “Wii U momentum over the course of 2013”. Now, with the image of this new marketing flyer on the screen in front of me, I am imagining someone in the Nintendo marketing department piped up in a meeting to say “I know, let’s print a flyer” and without any better ideas being volunteered, this got produced. Take a gander at it below. The flyer is entitled “Why Wii U?” and is in the form of a checklist comparing the Wii U and Wii consoles. All the features of the Wii U are listed with a big tick. If the Wii shares the highlighted feature, there’s a tiny dot to denote that, otherwise the comparison check box is left blank. Geoff Keighley of GameSlice.com picked up the flyer from a retailer at the weekend and commented, via his Twitter account, that he was “speechless”. So how does the new Nintendo flyer/poster sell people on the idea that buying a Wii U may be a better thing than buying a much cheaper Wii console? It doesn’t really, and that’s the point and why Keighley, above, was speechless. If you are designing a marketing communication to sell something you will usually highlight the best stuff at the top. The top of Nintendo’s new marketing checklist boasts of improved internal and external storage capacity for the Wii U. The next two items in the list show us what games are played on each system. Both play Wii games, while only the Wii U can play Wii U games... Not surprisingly there is no checkbox for GameCube compatibility on the list; GameCube discs aren’t playable on the Wii U. (Though they can be downloaded.) Oddly placed, almost near the bottom of the list Nintendo has decided to mention the HD graphics capability/support built into the Wii U. Aren’t better graphics one of the major reasons people upgrade to new consoles? Especially as compared with the Wii’s contemporary competition, graphics were a weak point. Overall, this poster/flyer looks ill conceived and badly executed. 1 Dying Light 2 will be significantly delayed Previously a Spring 2020 release, devs say they will provide a new date in the coming months. 10 UK NHS mental health director wants ban on gaming loot boxes Says that loot box infested video games are "setting kids up for addiction" to gambling. 39 QOTW: What's the best-looking computer game you've played? Which titles have dazzled when it comes to visuals? Cyberpunk 2077 release date delayed to 17th Sept 2020 Epic extends its weekly game giveaway plans through 2020 The Witcher 3 Nintendo Switch port initially ran at 10fps Xbox One was the UK's best selling console over Black Friday Steam hit PC Building Simulator becomes available on consoles HEXUS Forums :: 9 Comments Posted by Noxvayl - Mon 25 Mar 2013 17:49 Agree with the writer, badly conceived and executed. If they want to drive interest they need to do better than showing their console as being a worth while upgrade from the older version. Posted by TheVoice - Mon 25 Mar 2013 18:09 Trying to continue the Wii ‘brand’ seems to have backfired on them enormously. They simply didn't do enough at the start to differentiate it as a new console; similar name to the Wii, similar hardware design, same crap marketing and advertising. Their adverts plainly stating “It's a new console!” and now this, it smacks of Nintendo desperately trying to make people realise it's not just an upgraded Wii, but doing a comparison like the above almost has the opposite effect for me. The console can't do enough on its own to stand out so Nintendo has to point out the differences for you. Posted by stanonwheels - Mon 25 Mar 2013 18:45 Advertising student here, trying not to kill myself. Posted by OilSheikh - Mon 25 Mar 2013 19:50 Just die already Nintendo. You have used up all your lives. Game over. Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH - Mon 25 Mar 2013 20:07 OilSheikh What have their 5000+ employees done to hurt you?? You want them to lose their jobs?? Really now?? How would you like if someone wished the company you worked for, or a business you started would go bankrupt,so you could be left unemployed??	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1306
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__label__cc	0.560007	0.439993	Reviews: the ghost in me – winter production The response to in situ:‘s summer production the ghost in me led to an autumnal revisiting of some of the remaining material which was reworked into a new performance given in The Leper Chapel. These Read more… By richardhare, 1 year ago 10/01/2019 Reviews: Hamlet Review By Silvano Squizzato The version of Hamlet by in situ: is a unique one-man show, such an unusual, compelling, gripping performance that the audience yesterday froze in silence for several moments after it was Read more… Reviews: Woyzeck Review by Silvano Squizzato This promenade performance in the Leper Chapel is a mesmerising, synesthetic experience through various sensorial dimensions, where a powerful visual stimulation overlaps a mysterious soundscape and a claustrophobic warm air. When Read more… Preview: Woyzeck This summer, in situ: presents The Woyzeck Project, an interpretation of the unfinished work by George Buechner, which we will be performing in the Cambridge Leper Chapel. Here, Susan Quilliam speaks to director Richard Spaul Read more… Preview: The Demon Lover This winter, our new production is The Demon Lover, the third in director Richard Spaul’s series of spine-chilling tales performed in the Leper Chapel. Here he talks about the show. Why is the idea of Read more… Reviews: Ghost Stories By Francesco Dimitri: On a miserable winter night I travelled all the way from my cosy home in Greenwich to an old chapel in Cambridge to listen to Richard Spaul tell ghost stories. It turned Read more… Preview: Tales of Mystery and Imagination This summer, director Richard Spaul brings a pair of one-man shows on spectral themes to the atmospheric setting of the Leper Chapel. Tales of Mystery and Imagination contains two of the stories from Edgar Allan Read more…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1310
__label__cc	0.595209	0.404791	Indonesia’s tourism industry \| An analysis on the fastest growing sector in Southeast Asia eszterullar Indonesia’s tourism industry is booming. In 2017, the country welcomed over 14 million overseas visitors, an increase of more than 2 million from the previous year. This rapid increase in… Businesses are relocating in Indonesia amidst global economic slowdown The recent softening of global economic growth is “strongly welcome,” Indonesia’s investment chief told CNBC Wednesday, warning of financial risks that had been building up in China and beyond. “I… Indonesia among the favourite destinations for Chinese tourists during Chinese New Year Around 7 million Chinese tourists will travel abroad during the Chinese New Year holiday, according to a report from online travel agency Ctrip. The report revealed that people from 100… Nihiwatu resort on Sumba island \| The story of one of the best resort in the world Less than an hour south-east of Bali and Lombok lies the spectacular island of Sumba, offering an entirely alternative landscape to its volcanic northern neighbours. Twice the size of Lombok,… The Gili Islands are leading the way to a bright touristic season for Lombok in 2019 Majority of tourism operations in Lombok, Indonesia, are open again and hungry for business as they recover from the natural setbacks of 2018. Around 90% of tourism operations in Lombok, Indonesia,… Direct Lombok-Perth flights by AirAsia \| What are the implications for the Lombok tourism industry Malaysia’s budget airline Air Asia is eyeing to set Lombok International Airport (LIA) in West Nusa Tenggara as its airline hub for the domestic and international flight. The corporate will open two… Indonesia’s investment outlook 2019 \| ASEAN briefing Report Indonesia in recent years has registered a steady growth at above 5 percent. Steady investment flows have also allowed Indonesia’s economy to expand at a rapid pace. Most notably, the… Indonesia’s power economy: between stability and growth Views of the Indonesian economy oscillate between optimism that it is set to become the world’s next economic giant and fear of global insecurity. Such views, however, get the story… Surfing in Southern Lombok: premium waves in an unspoiled island Lombok Island is an ideal holiday getaway with its clear blue skies, sparkling turquoise waters and white, sandy beaches. But ever since a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the island in August,… Indonesia’s international investment position in last quarter of 2018 proved positively resilient Indonesia`s IIP at the end of the fourth quarter of 2018 recorded a net liability of US$297.0 billion, or 28.5 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP), relatively unchanged… 20 Secret Locations to Explore on Lombok Island Lombok: A rental Yield Paradise in Indonesia Australia regains its Bali tourism crown from China after 1.23 MILLION Aussies visit the Indonesian paradise in a year Country risk: Indonesia’s in-built resilience makes it one to watch in 2020 How to Set Up a Representative Office in Indonesia Turisno_Dob on Australia’s ambassador to Indonesia has emphasised the Federal Government’s commitment to try and help boost tourism in Indonesia Bali as the Blueprint for Future Tourism in Indonesia \| IAmDanElson.com on What is the Mandalika Project in South Lombok and why is it relevant in 2019? 10 new bali - YOEXPLORE, Family Trip - New Bali in Indonesia on Indonesia MotoGP circuit in Lombok is included in the scheduled 3-years Grand Prix calendar from 2021 What does sports sponsorship in Indonesia look like? on Indonesia MotoGP circuit in Lombok is included in the scheduled 3-years Grand Prix calendar from 2021	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1312
__label__wiki	0.901956	0.901956	Clear Channel Outdoor, Broadsign Partnership Expands Access to U.S. Programmatic Digital Out-of-Home Inventory Download PDF Format (opens in new window) Ad Tech Integration Opens DOOH Programmatic Pipes More Broadly to Digital Buyers, Helps Brands Execute More Efficient and Measurable Omnichannel Campaigns MONTREAL and NEW YORK, Nov. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadsign, the leading digital out-of-home (DOOH) marketing platform and Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE: CCO), one of the world's largest OOH providers, today announced a new partnership that enables brands to tap CCO's U.S. DOOH inventory via Broadsign's programmatic supply-side platform (SSP) Reach. Several brands, from sports entities to leading healthcare companies, have already tapped the integration to extend the reach, impact and efficiency of online and mobile campaigns using DOOH bought programmatically across CCO's roadside digital media. With the integration, Broadsign Reach's U.S. inventory now tops 35,000 screens. Digital buyers using Broadsign partner demand-side platforms (DSPs) can now access CCO's U.S. network, which comprises 1,600 digital bulletins, posters, spectaculars and transit shelters spanning 26 markets across the country, including highly coveted regions in California, Florida, Massachusetts, the Midwest and New York City's Times Square. In addition, fifty of Clear Channel's premier international and regional airports can be purchased in a real-time biddable fashion, offering a mix of both display and video-capable ad formats. Media planning agency MDG recently tapped the integration to weave targeted DOOH ads into a digital campaign across Florida for one of its clients in the healthcare industry. "For brands, differentiating your business from the competition has never been more important than in today's digital age," shared Jill Calefate, Media Director, MDG. "Including DOOH as an offering has opened up incredible creative opportunities for how our clients reach their target audiences across digital platforms, helping them stand out and drive both new and repeat business. Having access to CCO's screens through this integration helps us further extend our client's message to a broader audience." "Broadsign's Reach platform has integrated with an impressive number of DSPs both domestically and internationally, allowing us to partner with new ad tech players and their buyers through our shared Reach connection," said Wade Rifkin, SVP/GM, Programmatic, Clear Channel Outdoor. "Brands are recognizing the value programmatic brings to OOH via enhanced targeting, speed-to-market and flexibility, and the space is scaling quickly because of it. We're excited to see this growth continue as our partnership with Broadsign evolves into next year." "DOOH inventory fragmentation has become a massive barrier to the industry's growth, so partnering with a market leader like Clear Channel Outdoor to bring more premium inventory into a centralized solution like Reach represents a step in the right direction," said Adam Green, GM and SVP, Broadsign Reach. "It helps cut out a lot of the clutter typically involved in integrating DOOH buys into omnichannel campaigns, while expanding the audience that media buyers can reach." Broadsign is making it easier than ever for publishers, agencies and brands to harness the power of out-of-home and connect with audiences across the globe. Powering 187,000 digital screens in airports, shopping malls, health clinics, transit systems and more, Broadsign is at the heart of people's lives. The Broadsign platform enables marketers and agencies to easily book screens and has helped brands like Pepsi, Turkish Airlines, The UFC, Unilever, Volkswagen, John Lewis and more, launch successful programmatic DOOH campaigns. For more info, visit www.broadsign.com. About Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO) is one of the world's largest outdoor advertising companies with a diverse portfolio of 450,000 print and digital displays in 31 countries across Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America, reaching millions of people monthly. A growing digital platform includes over 14,000 digital displays in its international markets and more than 1,600 digital displays, including more than 1,300 digital billboards, in the U.S. More information is available at www.clearchanneloutdoor.com Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/CCOutdoor Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/CCOutdoorNA View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/clear-channel-outdoor-broadsign-partnership-expands-access-to-us-programmatic-digital-out-of-home-inventory-300951180.html SOURCE Clear Channel Outdoor	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1313
__label__wiki	0.598659	0.598659	Back to Allfie main site Living away from Home Opportunities and Expectations Life After School About Oral History About ALLFIE Schools Pack Additional Worksheets Additional Free Materials Further External Resources What Young People Say What Doesn’t Help What Helps What’s Important Disabled People’s experiences of education over the last century Worksheet for teachers. This resource, endorsed by the Anti-Bullying Alliance in support of Anti-Bullying Week, raises the issue of disablist bullying in schools today. It explores disabled people’s experiences of being bullied when they were at school and thinks about what we can all do together to prevent these experiences being repeated for all school children […] We Can Stop Bullying Worksheet for teachers. This resource, endorsed by the Anti-Bullying Alliance in support of Anti-Bullying Week, raises the issue of disablist bullying in schools today. It explores disabled people’s experiences of being bullied when they were at school and thinks about what we can all do together to prevent these experiences being repeated for all school children today. We Can Stop Bullying - Black and white version Growing Up in World War 2 Worksheet for teachers. This resource explores one person’s childhood experience during World War 2. Ronald Leedham was born in 1929 and from the age of eight spent the war in what was described as a ‘Home for Crippled Children’ in West Wickham. Aged eleven, he was transferred to another home in Kent. His vivid memories will give children great insight and understanding into the impact of wartime on children separated from their families. Growing Up in World War 2 - Black and white version Learning with Oral History Worksheet for teachers. This resource aims to help teachers think about the ways that Oral History can be used within the school curriculum and includes guidelines teachers can use with their students to set up and carry out Oral History interviews. Learning with Oral History - Black and White version Join the Alliance and help us build a better, more inclusive world. © The Alliance for Inclusive Education 2020 · Disabled People’s experiences of education over the last century The Alliance for Inclusive Education 336 Brixton Road SW9 7AA · Tel: 020 7737 6030 · Email: info@allfie.org.uk Registered charity number: 1124424 *	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1316
__label__wiki	0.509171	0.509171	The Hoydens blog on life, laughs, science, progressive politics and foiling diabolical masterminds. The Hoydens tigtog Lauredhel Chally Jo Tamar Megpie mimbles shonias linkfest Home › Culture › arts & entertainment › Whoydensday quickhit: Nine or Ten? Whoydensday quickhit: Nine or Ten? By tigtog on 2008-07-30 • ( 22 ) I’m working on a long post which is being a tad recalcitrant, so talk among yourselves. Which Doctor do you prefer, and does that preference extend to other work from the same actors? Or did you not know either Christopher Eccleston or David Tennant until you saw them in Who? ‹ Quicklinks: Immigration Detention reform and a new indigenous representative body Moving from thieving money from children into casual racism › Categories: arts & entertainment Tags: acting, christopher eccleston, david tennant, doctor-who, gratuitous ogling #AWW2017 – non-fiction – six reviews Otterday! And Open Thread Wonder Woman movie marketing machine tied up in knots Vale John Clarke #PutOutYourGumboots ampersand duck 2008-07-30 • 12:07 PM I used to think I liked CE best, but I’ve been watching reruns of the first series and I don’t find his attitude towards humans very appealing. I know that’s the fault of the writers, but one of the charms of The Doctor is the way he wants to protect humans like they were his pets. He’s just a bit too off-hand. I had seen DT in other things, but hadn’t paid much attention to him (such were the nature of the roles he was in) and I do like him very much as The Doctor. Those teeth can be charming and disarming, which does it for me 🙂 Plus I like the fact that DT took on Dr Who as a long-term thing, which CE wasn’t prepared to do. Coward! Beppie I think that Nine would have probably been my favourite if he’d stayed around longer, but since he didn’t the Tenth Doctor is far more well developed– I’m far more attached to Ten now. Also, since I’ve seen more Old Who, I appreciate how much David Tennant is able to pick up on little things from his predecessors, particularly Tom Baker, while still making the role his own. I don’t think Eccleston had that extra layer to his performance, even though his acting was always superb. The first time I saw both Eccleston and Tennant was in the movie Jude, in which Eccleston had the title role. I saw it about ten years ago, and I wasn’t actually aware that it was the same actor until after the Ninth Doctor had regenerated. Having said that, however, he did do a fine job in that film. I can’t really say much about Tennant’s role because he only had a very minor part. The first major thing that I saw Tennant in was Casanova and, I have to confess, I actually wasn’t all that enamoured of the show ducks flying tomatoes. It was his portrayal of Barty Crouch Jr. in the Goblet of Fire film that made me sit up and ask “who is this guy?” When I found out that he was the person replacing Eccleston, I was very happy– before that I’d been so sad that CE was leaving that I was considering not watching the show further. After that (but before he made his Who debut) I also saw him in Blackpool, which I really liked. Oh, and I also saw Eccleston in 28 Days Later, where he played an bad guy who– well, I won’t say what he did, because this post doesn’t have a trigger warning. I guess he acted the role pretty well, but I think that Who allowed him a better range for his acting abilities. 2008-07-30 • 1:03 PM I’m one of those stubbornly against-the-grain Nine fans. I liked Eccleston in Heroes and loved him in Doctor Who. No particular acting analysis; who needs an explanation for fanlurve? I think Tennant is great too, though he’s probably just about due for a regeneration, I reckon – I’m ready to move onto a new Doctor. ducks flying tomatoes from angrily-squeeing fans everywhere Oh such a tough question. I like CE’s dark angry parts. Really, who could live for nearly 1000 years and not be a bit dark and angry? DT is just delicious to watch. But I’m with Lauredhel- I can’t wait to see who the next Dr is going to be. I think the 10th has run his course. I would love to see a woman doctor though. I was giddy over [spoiler disemvowelled – sorry Red Queen ~tigtog] DctrDnn. wsh sh cld hv stck rnd. Actually, I kind of agree with you Lauredhel, about David Tennant– I know I said just a few weeks ago that I hoped he’d stay for a fifth full series, but after seeing Journey’s End, I feel like his story arc has really come to a close now, and it’s time for someone new. Or in other words, “Don’t you think he looks tired?” 😉 Actually Lauredhel, in the episode before last – Planet of the Ood (spoiler alert to anyone who hasn’t seen it) the Ood said his song was coming to an end soon. So maybe your wish will come true? I’m always sad when one Doctor leaves, like Beppie I actually wondered if I would like the new Doctor enough to want to watch when CE left, but now I lurve him. Same when Rose went, but then we got Martha and now Donna and well, I love youse all. Must embrace change, especially of fiction characters. M-H CE was in a quirky little play about what would happen if Christ re-incarnated in Britain that was shown on the ABC a couple of years before his DW incarnation. It was a weird little thing, but he was brill in it. I like both of them. No faves here. And what happened to the Sarah-Jane spin-off we were promised? Sarah Jane Adventures is alive and well– they’re currently filming the second series of 12 25-minute episodes. Unfortunatley, the first series hasn’t aired here in Australia yet, and I’ve heard rumours that it was bought by Channel Ten instead of the ABC (much like Torchwood), but Ten has decided that it won’t get sufficient ratings. It should, however, be released on DVD here at some point. And the show is awesome. lilacsigil I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Nine fan (though my favourite is actually Seven, who is very like Ten!) because he is less together than other doctors, and because of his pure joy when he does save lives. I’d like to second the Sarah Jane Adventures – I watched the whole first series immediately after watching the end of the latest series with Donna, and it really took the bad taste out of my mouth. The first episode is written by Russell T Davies and thus has a bit of “The Doctor was the only man for me, sigh, woe,” but that’s the only episode like that. baroquestar Mmm, I’m torn. I love both of them. I’m not really a one-Doctor-woman. 😀 joins the queue behind Cap’n Jack But Ten, probably, because of (usual refrain) that disarming grin and slight mania. And Tennant’s made of phwoar. For a Tennant-fangirl, I’ve actually probably seen more of CE’s work than DT’s. I saw that second coming of Jesus thing he was in, but I’ve never seen Blackpool or Casanova. I’d seen quite a lot of both actors, and I’ve always thought Christopher Eccleston was one of the best actors working, though I wasn’t sure about his casting as the Doctor — no worries about his skill, just about how camp the revival was going to be and would he overpower the whole enterprise, because he is a bit of a force of nature (Oncoming Storm indeed). But he had me at “Run!” and actually made me love a show I’d only been a casual viewer of before. Tennant was almost exactly the opposite — I’d seen him in things, thought he was always a little too lightweight for the things he was cast in, but thought he’d be excellent in the role of the Doctor … except I think it’s my least favourite of any of his performances — unpopular opinion, I know. He’s had a few good moments (ironically, his best moment was as John Smith!), but I’ve found Nine a much more fully developed, rounded, and layered character in one series than Ten has been in three (and the chemistry between Nine and Rose was quite extraordinary). I wasn’t surprised at CE only staying around for a year, though, given that he had completed an arc, and he left Cracker when he was practically an unknown because he felt he’d done all he could, so… So both of them have confounded my expectations, in their different ways. (I got here through some random clickage, but I thought the question was posed in such an interesting way I couldn’t resist!) Sorry- I totally forgot that was a spoiler moment. Oops. I have to 2nd (3rd) the Sarah Jane Adventures. We don’t have cable but finding episodes online hasn’t been difficult. My son and I both love Sarah Jane and Maria is an awesome role model for any kid (male or female). snokful I find myself leaning more towards Ten. It’s his personality, it’s so manic and enthusiastically geeky, but kind of emotionally stunted too. Egotistical, intellectually arrogant. I suppose that should be a negative but I find that really interesting to watch. And the quick switches between joie de vivre, darkness, generosity, passive aggression. I like Nine and he’s got his own charm and intensity, he’s more earthy and powerful onscreen; he was brilliant in Dalek, but I can relate to Ten better, he’s more like me I guess (except hopefully not as annoying), plus he’s the current Doctor so I’m more used to him. (And he’s quite like Seven, I like Seven.) I am starting to think that I’m looking forward to Eleven, though, maybe do something different with the emo. I’ve seen the two actors in other things (The Second Coming, & Casanova, Harry Potter respectively) and they’re both excellent in those. I didn’t know about David Tennant when he debuted on DW at the end of Series 1, except “oh no! it’s that really ugly guy from the Harry Potter movie!” but I got used to him 🙂 I also think I’m influenced in liking DT from the meta stuff, like the fact that he’s a raving DW fanboy, seems quite pleasant and modest in person unlike most male actors, and he’s a self-described socialist. I’m glad someone else already mentioned the Oood – But I reckon they gave a pretty good clue there. Quite frankly I like them both and in reality I am just so relieved to see the series back on TV at all that I would accept lesser mortals – both 9 & 10 have been great however. Grendels last blog post..A win for rainfall watchers – at least in Perth Deus Ex Macintosh I’m not actually sure. Loved Eccleston in 28 Days Later (NOT a good advert for the great British squaddie) but hadn’t run into the skinny scotch git anywhere previously at all though his performance in Dr Who has been ‘brilliant’. Am still trying to get my head around a Doctor young enough for me to date! 2008-07-31 • 9:02 AM Oh, I want this dream casting to happen (spoilers for S4 of DW and S2 of Torchwood). Damian Lewis for 11 – Rude AND Ginger! (the rest of the dream casting would definitely make Mt. Fandom explode). I’ve followed Eccleston since Cracker and his run as the Duke of Norfolk in Elizabeth. Anytime I saw him in the cast listing, I watched it. He’s obviously in acting for the Craft and the long haul of a career that will last until he’s a decrepit ruin, and isn’t about to let himself be typecast as any one character. He will be a silver-haired Sir Christopher OBE by and by, a treasure of the profession chosen to play the Gandalf/Dumbledore figures of the day. (If they ever do a cinematic version of House of Cards he’d make a great Francis Urqhart in another ten years.) Tennant, while also a fine actor capable of great subtlety at times, doesn’t quite have Eccleston’s depth, although with a bit more age he may well acquire it. He’s also an actor I’ve enjoyed watching for years (Taking Over The Asylum was my first exposure, in which he was dorkily charming and very engaging to watch but not yet Hot). Will he also make old acting bones? I’m not quite so sure of that for DT as I am for CE. I hope so, because having spry silver-haired DT and CE as duelling wizards in something when I’m a nana would be awesome. As to which is my favourite between Nine and Ten, I vacillate somewhat, but in the end it comes down to which one I’d shag in a heartbeat and which one I’d wonder whether I really should despite the undeniable temptation. Nine gets the PHWOAR with no reservations. Oh, I forgot: I watched the first episode of Hornblower on DVD on the weekend, and I could totally cope with Ioan Gruffudd as 11 (seeing as it doesn’t look like A&E is willing to fund the filming of the later Hornblower stories yet (and maybe never, the bastards)). I loved his work in The Forsyte Saga and Amazing Grace, and he also managed to look as non-ridiculous as possible under the circumstances of The Fabulous Four leotards. 2008-07-31 • 10:22 AM I know I’ve heard a few murmurs about the possiblitity of returning to an older Doctor for Eleven, although I think a lot of that is just nostalgic fans who haven’t moved on from Jon Pertwee regenerating in 1974. 🙂 (My next comment is SLIGHTLY spoilery for S4, but doesn’t give away any significant plot points.) Still, some of the comments made in Stephen Moffat’s episodes in S4 do perhaps indicate that he envisions the next regeneration being older in appearance. But that depends– the comment I’m talking about might have also referred to spiritual age, rather than physical age. harlemjd Actually started watching Who only because I’d heard they’d cast CE (though I was a bit surprised, since I knew him from Shallow Grave, and Elizabeth and 28 Days Later, none of which are exactly light). For the first couple of episodes with DT, I kept wanting to see how CE would have played a scene (especially when Cassandra took over his body), but he’s grown on me. I love nine. Eddie Izzard for doctor and Clare Thomas, the lass who plays Ingrid in Young Dracula as an offsider. She should of course still be a vampire called Ingrid. That would be cool. I’ve loved CE since Shallow Grave (glad someone else mentioned it, as I couldn’t remember what it was called) and would watch anything he was in. But I didn’t much like him as the Doctor. A bit too serious, I think. DT, on the other hand, I’ve never noticed in anything else, but he seems made to be the Doctor. Since Doctor Who, I’ve listened to him reading a children’s book (Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III) which he does in his natural scottish accent. Well worth a listen, if you have a child to use as an excuse. Meg Thornton I have to admit, I did love Chris Eccleston as the Doctor – but then, I’ve been an Old School fan for years, and it was fun seeing the Doctor as both a darker and a more serious character than he had been previously. I have to admit, I found myself wondering how Mr Eccleston might have tackled some of the scripts from the Colin Baker era (6th Dr), which varied from rather dark and disturbing through to truly naff, and whether he would have been able to pull a diamond or two out of the dross. Oddly enough, I’m seeing semi-parallels between the first six Doctors and the subsequent six. Sylvester McCoy’s 7th Dr was very much a hearking back to both William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton (Hartnell in depth, Troughton in characterisation); what little we saw of the 8th Doctor in the TV-movie was pretty much Troughton for attitude, Pertwee for dress sense. So for me, Chris Eccleston’s 9th Doctor was pretty much a hearking back to the Pertwee days, when the Doctor was stuck in a particular location, in circumstances he didn’t like, for reasons beyond his control and having to learn to cope with that (the Pertwee era Doctor was effectively a prisoner on Earth, except when the Time Lords wanted him to act as their errand boy). It would have been interesting to see how things progressed if Christopher Eccleston had stayed on as the Doctor (and my mental fanon is that there’s a lot more stories floating around from before he met up with Rose, where he’s still dealing with the worst of the shock of losing his home, his history and his life all in the one go – and dealing with one hell of a lot of survivor guilt). 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__label__cc	0.61933	0.38067	Get Interviewed Write for IT Chronicles Where Technology Decisions Are Made Data Analytics Leader Yellowfin BI Delivers on New Visions of Data-Driven Decisions and Stories Posted 1 year ago by Michael Dortch The Vaporware Fog: How To Be Vapor-Wary Halloween may be an already-faded memory, but it was also when a data analytics company called Yellowfin BI introduced new tricks and treats for businesses that use data to drive decisions. Recently, Yellowfin announced immediate availability of two new solutions, Yellowfin Signals and Yellowfin Stories. Each is designed to enable better business decisions by providing innovative views of the data that drives those decisions. Yellowfin Signals: Beyond the Dashboard Business dashboards are very popular, because they consolidate and present diverse data in forms that promise easier understanding and faster time to action. Many, however, are much better at enabling creation of fanciful interfaces than they are at revealing the underlying data. Almost every business dashboard presents data analytics based on recent or historical data, not what’s happening now. Yellowfin Signals runs continuously in the background. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) to scan data sources for patterns, trends and unusual events. When it detects anything noteworthy, it automatically scans and correlates relevant data from other sources. It then delivers an alert to designated recipients, equipping them with sufficient data analytics to choose and agree upon a course of action quickly. In a sense, Yellowfin Signals turns “cat eyes” on your business data. Cats can’t see detail at a distance or color as well as we can. Their eyes, however, are much better than ours at detecting nearby motion, which could be dinner or a predator. Yellowfin Signals helps decision makers focus on events and relationships within their business data that deserve further attention – the signals, not the noise. Yellowfin Stories: Better Stories Mean Better Decisions The company positions Yellowfin Stories as “the first-ever data-storytelling product.” It lets users collect data from multiple online sources, including dashboard tools from other vendors. Yellowfin Stories then provides the tools to curate multiple data streams into a single story, complete with supporting data. As businesses evolve into agile, project-based teams and pursue digital transformation, significant changes in infrastructure, operations and culture are often needed. To make these changes, those leading each pursuit must be able to convince stakeholders, including executives and colleagues, to support their efforts. The ability to tell more credible, compelling stories can be a great aid to these and other initiatives at almost any business. Yellowfin: The Rest of The Story Yellowfin was founded during 2003, and the company has had a singular focus throughout its existence: revealing the “why” behind every business decision faster. Yellowfin Signals and Yellowfin Stories combine innovative technologies with flexibility and ease of use. They can help decision makers discover challenges and opportunities, plan actions in response and gain support for those actions with credible, actionable data analysis. In its announcement of the two new offerings, the company quoted John Santaferraro, Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). “EMA considers Yellowfin to be a leader in the use of AI, machine learning, contextual storytelling, and social communication for business intelligence.” After seeing the new offerings and talking with the CEO and the lead developer, I’d have to agree, and so does Gartner. It ranked Yellowfin among the top five vendors across all 15 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. Yellowfin also has approximately 27,000 organizations as clients, so there’s a track record behind the promise of the new offerings. Here is what other major analyst firms have to say about Yellowfin. Yellowfin Signals and Yellowfin Stories are each available as standalone solutions. They can also be implemented as elements of the Yellowfin Suite, which also includes tools for data discovery and preparation, and for creating dashboards. If data drives decisions at your business – and it should – you ought to check what Yellowfin has to offer. I think their latest offerings signal the appearance of some pretty compelling stories during the near future – and probably even before next Halloween. Michael Dortch Michael Dortch has more than four decades of information technology industry experience as an analyst, journalist, consultant, and marketer. 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__label__wiki	0.635886	0.635886	Microsoft's browsers have scratched out user share gains in three of the last five months, halting what late last year looked like a death spiral. Less than half of the half-a-percentage point increase since November has come from Edge, the Windows 10 browser Microsoft has bet on for the foreseeable future. [ Further reading: Google's Chromium browser explained ] According to data published Tuesday by California-based analytics vendor Net Applications, Microsoft's Edge and Internet Explorer (IE) combined to account for 16.8% of the browser market during April. The one-tenth of a point increase over March was near the browsers' five-month average. The rosier outlook for Microsoft's browsers stood in contrast to earlier forecasts based on Net Applications' numbers. The reason for the change: The metrics company again went back into its data, this time for February, and revised its numbers after expelling bot traffic. As it did in November, Net Applications purged the bot traffic because it skews results. These software-based tools are usually deployed by criminals and hucksters, who program the bots' automated scripts to mimic human online behavior, often for ad click fraud purposes. "Bots can cause significant skewing of data," Net Applications explained last year. "We have seen situations where traffic from certain large countries is almost completely bot traffic. In other countries, ad fraudsters generate traffic that spoofs certain technologies in order to generate high-value clicks. Or, they heavily favor a particular browser or platform." The revised data put Microsoft's browsers in a slightly better light, with increases to both Edge and IE since November's retuning. There's little indication that either browser actually grew its user share - as opposed to the bot scouring causing the gains - because both Edge and IE added to their share. As a second-class browser since Microsoft relegated it to legacy support duties, IE is unlikely to climb in user share. Of Microsoft's two browsers, Edge was responsible for just under half - 48% - of the November-to-April increase; IE accounted for the remaining 52%. Mozilla's Firefox did not benefit from Net Applications' latest bot cleansing, as it again shed share in April, losing four-tenths of a percentage point to end at 10.2%. That was after March's decline of six-tenths of a point to 10.5%. As Computerworld has pointed out several times since Mozilla launched a revamped Firefox labeled "Quantum," the redesign and associated attention has failed to stop the browser's long bleeding of user share. In the five months since Quantum's debut, Firefox has lost 1.3 percentage points, which represented 11% of its end-of-November share. If the trend over the past five months continues, Firefox will slip under the 10% user share bar this month, and fall below 9% by September. Meanwhile, the user share of Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari fell and climbed, respectively, last month. Chrome lost almost a tenth of a percentage point, slipping to 61.7%, while Safari scratched out another half of one-tenth of a point to make an even 4%. However, Safari continued to lose ground where it counts, on Apple's Mac systems. Like Microsoft, Apple has been laid low by "Chrome Disease," as more of its Mac owners have deserted the company's own browser (Safari) for an alternative (almost certainly Chrome for the most part). Although Safari was the browser of choice for as much as two-thirds of those running OS X (the former name for macOS), Safari slipped into the minority on Apple machines in December. Last month, Safari was the primary browser on just 43% of all Macs. Net Applications calculates user share by detecting the agent strings of the browsers people use to visit its clients' websites. It then tallies the visitor sessions - which are effectively visits to the site, with multiple sessions possible daily - rather than count only users, as it once did. Net Applications thus tracks both users as well as their activity, where rivals analytics sources focus solely on the later. The company also accounts for the size of each country's online population to better estimate share in regions where it lacks analytics customers, such as China and India.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1322
__label__cc	0.645702	0.354298	Add to Favorites Software EngineerRemoved from favorites Submit ResumeSoftware Engineer Apple Media Products (AMP) first delighted users with downloadable music in April 2003 with the opening of the iTunes Store. Since then, AMP has delivered countless innovations around the digital delivery of audio and video, and in 2008 revolutionized smartphone app distribution with the launch of the App Store. Being the source for so much digital content requires maintaining relationships with a vast number of providers, from record labels to movie studios to app developers. The Digital Supply Chain Engineering team (DSCE) is responsible for ensuring that new content is uploaded, processed, cataloged, and available on our storefronts when the provider expects it to be, and with the highest quality. Apple is looking for a forward thinking self-starter to join the App Ingest team. This is a hands-on engineering role on the team whose software validates, ingests, thins and performs other processing of apps to the App Store. There are very few teams that have the breadth of involvement in Apple's product pipeline across the board as that exercised by this team. Expertise in Object Oriented Design and Programming Deep knowledge of Swift or other object oriented language Strong written and oral communication skills Strong problem solver At least 5 years hands-on experience with the following: Building application server components and services Designing and implementing secure REST APIs Schema design for a high-performance database like Cassandra JSON and Protobuf serialization Experience deploying software on elastic platforms such as Kubernetes, EC2, Mesos, etc. Knowledge and experience with Swift on the server You will participate in designing and implementing logic for ingesting apps that demonstrate new features in future devices and upcoming versions of iOS, tvOS and macOS. You will implement functionality that analyzes apps on ingest, extracting and storing information displayed on the App Store, and used in the App Store’s review and curation processes. You will implement enhancements and improvements to the workflow by which apps are thinned, encrypted, signed, and otherwise processed for distribution to TestFlight and the App Store. Join our team that has been leading the industry by constantly developing creative features since its launch in April 2003. We are looking for a self starting, high-energy individual who is not afraid to question assumptions and who has excellent communication skills. We look for good teammates who are able to take on problems under tight deadline constraints and deliver imaginative solutions. BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience. This position is in a small team that is tightly focused on a specific set of critically important systems. Your ability and self-motivation to learn new technologies, and promote novel solutions to the problems at hand, is important to success. The team is remotely distributed across the continental US, so strong communication skills are necessary. See all roles in Seattle	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1330
__label__wiki	0.587768	0.587768	Jalopnik ReviewsCompacts/HatchesHyundai How The Hyundai Veloster N Became The New Office Favorite Jalopnik Staff Filed to:Jalopnik Track Day Photo: Aaron Brown/Jalopnik Jalopnik ReviewsAll of our test drives in one convenient place. If you had told any of us five years ago that arguably the best value in the hot hatch segment would not just come from Hyundai, but it’d be a hotted-up version of the Veloster, we’d have been on the phone with your loved ones and your physician to stage an intervention. But here we are today, living in a world where the Hyundai Veloster N is unquestionably the real deal. And it’s a car that Team Jalopnik seems universally in love with. Why Pick A 2019 Hyundai Veloster N Over A Civic Type R, GTI or Mini Cooper S? It’s an interesting era for high-performance hatchbacks. The Ford Fiesta ST, Focus ST and Focus RS… The Veloster N took part in our big track day test last week (and it served as a last-minute substitute—we were supposed to get a Toyota Supra, but someone who wasn’t us crashed it ahead of time and put it out of commission) and it ended up being the surprise hit of the bunch. After all, it’s easy to make a great $70,000-car like the Mustang Shelby GT350, or a great $160,000-car like the Acura NSX. (Full disclosure: Jalopnik wanted to do a staff track day, so it asked Monticello Motor Club for access to its track, which it generously granted us. Then we asked Hyundai if we could take its Veloster N to the track at the very last minute. Hyundai said yes.) But a really remarkable $29,000 performance car? Much tougher to do, but Hyundai did it. Here’s our team’s take. Patrick George I didn’t do the track day—I have far more fun things to do, like chasing down freelancer invoices—but I did get to tool around New York City in the Veloster N for about a week beforehand. And I really came to enjoy using it as a daily driver. Our tester was pretty base, about $29,000 with cloth seats (which had really nice bolstering without being too aggressive, I’ll add) and no navigation, though it did have the $2,100 Performance Package for a bump to 275 HP and 260 lb-ft of torque, upgraded brakes front and rear, electronically controlled LSD and multi-mode exhaust. The car’s pretty nice inside even in its more stripped-down specs. It’s got a clean, modern layout with just the right amount of buttons and some quality materials throughout. It never felt cheap. Of particular note was the N’s steering wheel, which came with these pastel blue (same as the seat belts!) paddles for toggling the performance settings. There’s a few things it gets really right. The first is the 2.0-liter turbo four, which has a ton of grunt for highway passing and gives you some delightfully aggressive sounds along the way, along with that exhaust. The second was the rev matching feature on the six-speed manual gearbox. I remember when that was the stuff of Cadillacs, Corvettes and M cars; now it’s trickled down to affordable Hyundai hatchbacks. I kept it on most of the time in ordinary driving and it proved a great partner there. You can turn it fully on or off, too, with a “Rev” button on the steering wheel—super easy. That’s something you can’t always even say about BMW’s cars. I love the size of it, too. It’s got a practical back seat thanks to that third door and a not-bad hatch area (though that’s not as good as, say, a Volkswagen Golf) but remains small enough that it’s extremely tossable in the corners and super easy to park in the city. It was great to have a fun, performance-oriented car that I could actually use with such ease in NYC. For years, as Hyundai’s cars became better and better, it seems like the one thing the Korean company couldn’t quite nail was performance. Remember the Genesis Coupe? I actually almost bought one, once. But it was such an “almost, but not quite” car compared to competitors. With the Veloster N—a car developed after Hyundai poached folks from BMW’s M division—they’ve finally done it. You may not yet equate Hyundai with performance, but don’t let that fool you. This hatch is extremely legit. Unlike Patrick, I scored zero road time in the Veloster N and only used it on the track. Getting into it, I can tell you immediately that I loved the red exterior trim, the electric blue seat belts and the fact that it only has three doors. The interior was a little plasticky, but that doesn’t affect how a car drives. If anything, it should make the car lighter. Typically, I find a four-cylinder drone nasally and unpleasant to listen to, but the Veloster N’s exhaust has been tuned to sound raspy and buzzy, like a true hot hatch ought to sound. The clutch was light to work, the shift throws came quickly and the whole package was just so damn chuck-able. It delighted in being tossed into corners, braked hard and then slapped back into flat-out mode on the straights. Monticello Motor Club is definitely a power circuit, but the little Veloster N never felt like its legs were too short. In the sweeping corners, the steering fed information to my fingers beautifully. I learned to shift alright almost immediately, since the gates are spaced intuitively apart and it’s almost impossible to mis-shift. The Veloster N is a delightful yet forgiving car that I have no problem imagining someone buying as their first manual sports car. It gate-keeps nobody; the clutch is easy to figure out and it rewards spirited driving generously. In terms of the dwindling, entry-level fun cars, this one is a standout. I, a notorious front-wheel-drive hater, was excited yet skeptical of the Veloster N. It’s decent looking, powerful, quirky, and checks all of the boy-racer boxes that I generally require for personal approval, being a young, Subaru WRX STI driver and whatnot. But, with all of its power being sent to the front wheels, I was unsure if it was actually capable of earning my love. Quickly after hopping into the driver’s seat, my concerns were put to ease. I drove the car on the two-hour, early morning drive, from Brooklyn to upstate New York, that Justin Westbrook and I took to get to the track last week. It was 6 a.m., and I am by no means a morning person, but I had no issue feeling wide awake behind the wheel of the Veloster N. After just a few miles of city driving the hatch, I was impressed by how its torquey engine just pulls and pulls, seemingly without having the steering wheel try to jump and torque steer away from me at launches. And it wasn’t just the lack of torque steer that impressed me. The brakes felt strong and the pedal firm, the steering was nimble yet appropriately heavy on center depending on the chosen drive mode, and I even found its ride to be acceptable on New York City highways while in Sport mode. Oh, and those damn exhaust pops. Ugh, I’m such a child, but I love it. Here, listen for yourself: The only things I didn’t immediately like with the Veloster N were its shift feel, which felt a bit plasticky at first, but I got used to it quickly. And the interior isn’t my favorite—I’d prefer, of course, the German interior in a Volkswagen GTI or possibly even the interior of one of the fallen Ford hatchbacks over this—but it wasn’t explicitly bad. The infotainment system was fine, and I appreciated the ability to see more information about the car’s drive modes through it. Anyways, after my time in the Veloster N, I’m confident that it’s one of the best front-wheel-drive, performance hatchbacks on the market, and a superb deal of a performance car for around $30,000 with the Performance Package. I’d probably even choose it over a Honda Civic Type R. Justin Westbrook Aaron drove us out, and I drove us the reverse route back from Monticello that evening—and let me tell you folks, I had a great time. I can’t begin to calculate how big of a compliment it is to the Veloster N to get into it after a full day of driving a Mazda 3 (which I have a soft spot for), GT350, and a damn NSX, and still feel like I was driving a performance car I would hesitate to give up. But that’s exactly what the little N is. Photo: Justin Westbrook/Jalopnik Ask anyone in the office and they’ll tell you I was beaming about how much pull this car keeps in sixth gear. It shouldn’t be possible! It doesn’t make sense! You can downshift, there’s another gear right there! But those crazy bastards at Hyundai, or from wherever Hyundai got them, found a way to make even sixth gear dangerous to drive in on the highway. It just pulls and pulls, and you can legitimately pass people—in top gear! This thing is super fun in the city, even a little eye catching in the fantastic Performance Blue paint job. It’s super fun pulling on the highway. And I’m told it’s a hoot on the track. That’s a big bingo, my friends. Sure, I hate the three-door setup. I hate that the rear seat is engineered so that you can only get in on one side and have to scooch across, but instead of a three-seat bench, it’s two seats separated by a plastic divider you have to drag your ass across. What is that about? And if there’s beverages in the cup holders? Forget about it! I also hate that there’s no left-passenger window to roll down, or even crack! The buffeting! The third door is a gimmick and it’d be a better car with four. But the Ford STs are dead, and all of you little scamps better run out and buy the Veloster N now because it’s one of the few genuinely great deals new right now, and it’s going to be even better used. Do us all a favor. I also only got track time in the Veloster N, and even that was short, but I was in love with the car as soon as I saw it. I’ve always liked the Veloster’s looks and thought it had the potential to be a hot hatch that looks just hot enough to be desired, but not like it’s trying too hard—something that can divide the masses, like the reaction to the Civic Type R. That’s partly because, I think, I’ve enjoyed a lot of Hyundai’s styling choices—and offerings of manual transmissions in its cheaper cars—over the years, and have wanted to see what it could do with a modern hot hatch. I just never knew if I’d get to, until the Veloster N came around. But here we are, in 2019, with the Veloster N, and it meets every expectation I could’ve had when it comes to looking the part of a hot hatch without being too over the top. I gawked over it before I got the chance to even drive it, and when I was asked what I wanted to take on track first, it was the N. No question. The baby-blue accents all throughout the interior were one of the first things I noticed, and reminded me of the baby-blue N Hyundai’s put on all of its ads and posters. The color was quirky, like the Veloster N’s third door, and the interior was comfortable. When I hopped into the back seat for a demo of Monticello Motor Club at our track day last week, it didn’t feel cramped at all. The N was a blast to drive. Its clutch was light, like Kristen mentioned above, and it was crisp through the shifts. The car took a curb we were told to hop at Monticello like it was born to do that, and the progressive shift lights between the two gauges to indicate when to upshift while driving hard, as opposed to a casual up arrow when the time comes like many cars have, made it feel that much more like a track-oriented car. Torque steer, a common plague to front-wheel-drive performance cars, wasn’t noticeable for me, but that might have just been the food poisoning dulling my senses. We all liked the Veloster N so much that when the track day was over, Jalopnik’s deputy editor, Mike Ballaban, asked if he could take it home. He was scheduled to drive the Mustang GT350 back, and ended up taking it for logistical reasons. I could see the disappointment in his eyes. Although we didn’t have much time together, I feel like the Veloster N is my son—my beautiful, fast, three-door son whom I am very proud of, and would like to see succeed in life, because he’s done so well thus far. Don’t overlook him. The 2019 Hyundai Veloster N Actually Kicks Ass The Hyundai Veloster N Is So User-Friendly You Can Learn Stick and Autocross It in a Day Hyundai Might Work Its Way Up To A Mid-Engine Flagship Hot Hatch	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1333
__label__cc	0.506267	0.493733	Editing Services For Reviewers For Libraries Publication Ethics Review Process CrossMark Policy New study on interactional effects of grouting pressure on the displacement of nailing bond Pouyan Abbasi Maedeh1 , Wei Wu2 , Ali Ghanbari3 , Jia Lin4 , Marelianda Al Dianty5 , Kourosh Ghaffari Irdmoosa6 , Amir Shahraki Ghadimi7 1, 2, 4University of Bodenkultur, Vienna, Austria 3, 6, 7Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran 5University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy 1Corresponding author Journal of Measurements in Engineering, Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2018, p. 10-24. https://doi.org/10.21595/jme.2018.19597 Received 2 January 2018; accepted 25 January 2018; published 31 March 2018 Copyright © 2018 JVE International Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Table of Contents Abstract Full-text Download PDF Acknowledgements References Reads 43 JVE Conferences "Vibration and Acoustics in Civil Engineering and Fault Diagnostics" April 2-4, 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates "Dynamics, Noise and Vibration Engineering: Problems and Applications" May 7-8, 2020 in Dublin, Ireland "Electrical Engineering and Communication Electronics" June 4-6, 2020 in Almaty, Kazakhstan "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Engineering Applications" June 29 - July 1, 2020 in St. Petersburg, Russia www.jveconferences.com The maximum displacement in a soil nail bond system considering the pull-out, overburden load and grouting pressure effects has been evaluated. The Pull-out tests were carried out in five sites that located in Tehran, Iran. Moreover, additional pull-out test data from South Korea is considered. The displacement of the nailing system due to gravity and pressure grouting has been measured. Based on achieved data, four practical relationships between bound strength and pull-out displacements are developed. The parameters overburden load, grouting pressure, borehole diameter, moisture content and soil’s strength parameters have been chosen as the major inputs for the relationships. The correlation coefficients of the linear relationship range have been achieved between 0.89 and 0.99. While by using the multi-layer neural network for estimating it has been illustrated approximately 0.95. Keywords: soil nail bond, pull-out, relationship, grouting pressure. The soil nailing system is one of the common methods to stabilize soil wall for deep excavated areas and surface of slopes [1, 2]. Low costing, no dependency on a lot of apparatus and effortless running are the significant advantages of the nailing system [3]. However, in some special cases of soil conditions, site geometry or loading, the nailing system may not be affordable or efficient [1]. The nailing system clearly has an increased activity in the soil shear strength [4]. A common nailing system has the steel bars with diameters between 25-40 mm are prevalent to use as reinforcing elements [5, 6]. Rotary drilling, driven casing, augured and jet grouting are most widespread for coring between 95 to 120 mm diameters [1, 2]. Moreover, the length of drilled borehole directly related to bar length and slope or excavation height [1, 2]. The set of the borehole and its steel bar should be full of cement grouting or soft concrete [4, 7]. Most of the nails have been placed by using gravity pressure grouting. Occasionally, to increase bound strength the pressure-grouting technique has been done for nailing installation that grouting pressure most of the times would be considered between 300-1000 kPa. While this technic has been demanded additional equipment such as pump, packer system and instrument tools. Furthermore, higher quality control compares with regular gravity pressure soil nails is necessary in case of pressure grouting. In addition, using pressure grouting system would be able to improve the grouting formation in the borehole [7], expand the diameter of the borehole and reducing the total number of used nails. There is no a direct relationship to approximate the bound strength due to effective parameters and nailing system displacement and just in site experimental work such as pull-out would be used. A substantial method to estimate the bound strength is presented in FHWA [1, 2]. The numerous of last studies have assessed the pull-out conduct of gravity and pressure grouting nailing by using numerical simulation and laboratory or field tests [4, 6]. Some of the previous research on bound strength and nailing system displacement are [8-11]. The current work has been focused on to develop new practical relationships to estimate the outcome displacement for nailing system which may be resulted during pull-out test considering soil conditions and site loading. Both cases of pressured and gravity grouting conditions would be considered. The base of input results has been generated by using the in-site pull-outs test and previous literature. Furthermore, linear regression is used to developing the relationships, while the multi-layer neural network has been used for verification. 2.1. Experimental data and filed work Twenty different pull-out test has been conducted in five different place in Tehran, Iran. The places Tejrish, Artesh and Sayyad shirazi Highway areas are placed in the north and northeast of Tehran. While Sadeghiye and Shahrak gharb areas are located in west and north-west of Tehran respectively. Additional pull-out the data have been taken from [11]. Information for the data type for each of sites has been presented in Table 1. Table 1. The site name, location and the data types Site No. Tajrish Artesh Sayyad shirazi Highway Sadeghiye Sharak gharb Pull-out- Numerical Gyeonggi The mechanical properties of soil such as cohesion, friction angle, elastic modulus, moisture content and percentage of coarse- and fine-grained soils were determined in the laboratory for Kharazmi university of Iran, while the data analysis and finalized result is performed in the Institute of geotechnical engineering (IGT) in Austria. The disturbed samples were used to determine the soil physical properties like particle size distribution. Test method for Particle-Size analysis of was succeeded according to the standard of [12]. The particle size graph shows in Fig. 1. Fig. 1. Soil particle size dispersion graph for Tehran province sites To evaluate the mechanical properties of the soil, the direct shear test is performed in the mentioned laboratory. The values of soil cohesion and fraction angle have been evaluated according to [13]. Standard method [14, 15] are also used to assess the moisture content and soil density respectively. The plate load test (PLT) has been performed to estimate the attribute values of soil elastic modulus (Fig. 2). Hence it is conducted regarding the standard method [16]. The achieved results of all laboratory and filed experimental works are reported in Table 2. Fig. 2. In hole plate load test experiment to evaluate the in-situ elastic modulus Table 2. The mechanical properties of soil in different evaluated sites [kPa] Elastic modulus [kN/m2] Ʋ 3 (4 m) N.D* * Depth of measurement ** Non-detected The properties of nail bars that have been used in current study tests presented in Table 3. Two sizes of steel bars have been chosen 40 and 32 mm for both sites for Tehran and South Korea respectively (Fig. 3). The unbound length for all test is considered 1m and the length bounded skin has been reported in Table 3. In addition, the maximum grouting pressure in current work is chosen 200 and 500 kPa. The overburden load as the soil’s column height has been selected both 2 and 8 meters (Fig. 4). Furthermore, the diameter of nailing hole is considered 110 mm and 105 mm for experimental and reviewing work respectively. Table 3. The nail rebar properties that used in this study D [mm] Elastic modulus [kPa] Bond length [m] Unbound length [m] Max pressure [kPa] Hole diameter [mm] Overburden [m] 1,20E+10 The standard pull-out test due to a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) report, has been conducted in mentioned sites on the non-structural nails for this destructive tests. Due to a FHWA report, a period of 7 days is needed to get the desired physical strength after grouting. In order to perform the test, an Enerpac 600 kN cylindrical hydraulic jack was used. The pressure gauge has been calibrated according to ISO 143904-Ukas (England) (Ukas, 2006). The parts of the jack and its displacement and pressure gauge have been shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 3. The steel bar that have been used in Tehran Fig. 4. The facing for the nailed wall in site of Pasdaran, Tehran province Fig. 5. Pull-out test by using Enerpac 600 jack to pulling the rebar The test has been carried out with constant force with 10 min rest time. During each stage of the experiment, the value of force increment has been increased 50 kN. The force-time diagram related the site of Sayad Shirazi Highway is shown in Fig. 6. Fig. 6. The Force-Time diagram for Sayad Shirazi Highway site considering 10 min rest Results of pull-out tests in due to two different type of gravity and pressure injection are presented in Fig. 8. It is observed that the maximum bound strength in case of gravity pressure would have occurred in both of Tajrish and Artesh sites that are located in the north of Tehran province. While bound strength for Pussan and Goenngy have shown higher range in the comparison with the mentioned sites in Tehran. In a detailed comparison, it is observed that some factors such as the soil mechanical properties, the hole diameter and the elastic modulus of bars would be affected by the bond strength. In addition, the results of pressured injection pull out the test is reported on the right side of Fig. 7. The graph shows that in the case of pressure grouting, the response of bound strength for a nailing system significantly has been changed. In addition, it is observed that in case of pressure grouting, the response of bound strength in the site of Sadeghiyeh has been increased more than Tajrish site. However, once again both cases of Geoyongy and pussan are have been shown the highest response of shear bond strength. Fig. 7. Results of pull-out test of site: a) gravity grouting pressure, b) high pressure grouting pressure 2.2. Statistically analysis The primary statistical analysis to determine the values of mean, median, standard errors and variance of soil domain has performed and its results are reported in Table 4. 223 different data have been extracted out from pull-out tests to use as input for future development. Table 4. Result of primary statistically analysis for evaluated soil Statistically analysis type Moisture content [%] Elastic modulus [kN/m2] γ [kN/m3] ϑ Std. error of mean Std. Deviation To assess the correlation for each impressive factor on the shear strength and its relationship with soil nailing system displacement, a Pearson correlation (PC) test to determine the coefficient correlation has been conducted. Results of PC analysis showed that, the displacement values (Dis) strongly depended on the rate of moisture content (MC), soil specific weight (γ), bounded length of nails bar (BL), pull-out shear stress (PSS), nail elastic modulus (NEM), hole diameter (D), grouting pressure (G.P) and overburdens length (OB). A number of parameters have had negative and others have had positive effects on the nailed system displacement. Furthermore, it is observed that PSS, BL, D, NEM, OB, GP, Υ and MC had the highest effect on the Dis respectively. The finalised PC values have been reported in Table 5. Table 5. Results of Pearson correlation for soil measured data B.L G.P To complete the statistical analysis a hierarchical clustering (HCA) has been performed. The results of hierarchical clustering usually would be presented in a dendrogram. The group dendrogram for impressive factors illustrated in Fig. 8. It is observed that the relationship between the set of moisture content and pressure grout is more considerable than the relationship between the set of soil specific weight, hole diameter, and bound length. Besides, the dendrogram truly has been shown that the poison ratio would be depended to cohesion and dilation angle has a meaningful relationship with soil friction angle. Fig. 8. The HCA dendrogram for nailing system specific groups 2.3. Principal assumptions According to the results of PC and HCA analysis, the integral effective parameters for Disp had been selected. Hence, four different sets of input parameters are generated as the models in current work. A general and three special models (model 1 to model 3) to develop new practical relationships for estimating the “Disp.” have been considered. The constant condition for bounded length also had been considered in the current work. While the effects of G.P in case of the general model has been neglected. To consider the effects of G.P on the Disp, the model 1 have been generated. Also, other relationships that have focused to reduce inputs were also made as models 2 and 3. The effects of G.P neglected in model 2 while it has been considered in model 3. The input parameters for all of the developed models are shown in Table 6. Table 6. Input parameters for each of generated model to develop new relations General model ϒ S.E.M N.E.M P.S.S 3. Results and discussions The extracted results of displacement, bond strength and total strain for the nailing system have been evaluated by using the Kriging method. The total strain is consisting of elastic strain for steel bar, elastic strain for cement grout, elastic strain for soil and plastic strain. The primary estimation of the displacement and total strain of nailing system are performed by using Kriging method. The result of kriging prediction has been illustrated in Fig. 9. It is observed that the total strain has a semilinear behaviour considering the increase of shear stress. Fig. 9. The kriging estimation of total strain considering pull-out shear stress and displacement Fig. 10. The kriging estimation of displacement considering pull-out shear stress and grouting pressure Displacement and bond strength has been directly estimated by using the Fig. 10 that generated by using the Kriging method. The grouting pressure effect on the shear strength has been illustrated in this figure. It is shown that in case of high bound strength by increasing the grouting pressure, the Disp would be reduced. While in case of weakly bound strength, the grouting pressure effects can be negligible. 3.1. Results of Regression estimation Due to principal assumptions, to develop new relationships for finding the nailing system displacement, four different linear regressions had been conducted. The coefficient determination and standard error for the estimation have been reported in Table 7. The result of the general model shows that it has the fully linear behaviour by achieving the R square 0.997. While the achieved results of Disp in the case of model 1 also show that considering grouting pressure effects the R square coefficient would be reduced up to 9 percent. It means that the grouting pressure might become a nonlinear behaviour compares with gravity pressure. However, the outcome R square in both cases of model 2 and 3 are lower than general model while both of them are reported extremely similar. Table 7. Result of coefficient determination and error coefficient in developed models R Square Adjusted R square Std. error of the estimate To develop relationship related to general model is driven as Eq. (1). It has 11 different parameters as inputs. While the measuring of someone of inputs such as total strain is not so easy. Hence this equation would be so used fully in case of verification: D i s p G e n e r a l = - 26.07 - 0.195 M . C + 0.019 P I + 3.58 E - 7 S . E . M + 0.011 C - 0.001 G . P + 0.004 P . S . S - 0.018 O . B + 0.008 ω + 0.336 D - 28.013 ϑ + 3689.912 ε . To consider the effects of pressured grouting the relationship that related to model 2 is generated as Eq. (2). Hence it is able to consider pressure effect and removed the strain parameters. This equation is probably useful and practical while it has around 10 different input that they would become complicated to use in a relationship: D i s p M o d e l 1 = - 35.466 - 0.784 M . C + 0.232 γ - 1.36 E - 5 N . E . M - 0.212 ∅ - 0.093 C + 0.055 P . S . S - 0.258 O . B + 0.458 ω + 0.435 D - 0.008 G . P . Due to the aim of current work and to use minimum input parameters for developing new practical relationships the following equations have been generated. Eq. (3) is able to estimate Disp without considering the grouting pressure and Eq. (4) is capable to estimate Disp considering grouting pressure as well: D i s p M o d e l 2 = - 295.098 - 1.758 M . C - 5.848 γ + 0.172 ∅ - 0.132 C + 0.055 P . S . S - 0.279 O . B + 3.913 D . D i s p M o d e l 3 = - 254 - 1.734 M . C - 5.721 γ + 0.169 ∅ - 0.131 C + 0.055 P . S . S - 0.269 O . B + 3.524 D - 0.008 G . P . The extracted results of the general model and experimental pull-out tests have been shown in Fig. 11. The reasonable result has been observed due to use this verification. Hence negligible overestimation results would be occurred by using the Eq. (1). Fig. 11. Comparison results of new developed relation for general model and experimental work Results for estimation capability for Eq. (2) that has used to consider grouting effect is also illustrated in Fig. 12. It is observed that the effect of grouting pressure in the collaboration for estimating the Disp would have decreases role in a comparison with gravity grouting cases. While considering the pressure effect may decrease the normal linear behaviour for Disp and it may be changed to nonlinear behaviour. Hence, the G.P effects can increase the estimation error. Results showed that in case of higher pressure grouting the error for estimation would be increased while in case of lower pressure it has a reasonable estimation. Therefore, it is recommended to use the Eq. (2) for estimating just in grouting pressure values lower than 500 kPa. Fig. 12. Comparison results of new developed relation for model 1 and experimental work Fig. 13. Results of linear regression for model 2 and experimental work Results of two practical developed relationships (Eq. (3) and Eq. (4) are also shown in Fig. 13 and Fig. 14. With an emphasis on gravity pressure, it is observed that the estimated values by using the Eq. (3) a good estimation for displacement in a compare with extracted results of experimental work would be illustrated. Figures show that in the last part of each relation estimation the maximum error to estimate the displacement would occur. The local result of coefficient determination is near 0.85. The main reason of this weakly estimation is outcome regarding the difference in injection pressure and nail elastic modulus. Hence it would have resulted that mentioned relationships have an excellent estimation in case of grouting pressure lower than 500 kPa and normal elastic modulus for bars. 3.2. Neural network prediction A multi-layer neural network is generated to verify the results of model 2 and 3. A one hidden layer neural network by using the hyperbolic tangent for activation has been considered to estimate the Disp. In addition, 8 different input factors for two cases of neural network have been used and have reported in Table 8. Furthermore, 221 different data are used as neural network’s input parameters. 70 percent of input data have been used for training step and others used for test step in neural network processing. The identity function is also used for the output activation function. Finally, the Sum of Squares has been chosen for error investigating in the network structure. The generated structure of the neural network in the current study has been shown in Table 8. Table 8. Structure of input, hidden and output layer of neural network Input layer G.P* Hidden layer(s) Number of hidden layers Number of units in hidden layer 1a Activation function Hyperbolic tangent Output layer Dependent variables Rescaling method for scale dependents Sum of Squares * G.P is used just in Neural network model 2 The results of neural network predicting for both generated neural networks are reported in Fig. 15 and Fig. 16. The coefficient determination for the first neural network is found 0.95. The mentioned coefficient for the second model of neural network (G.P effect) is also reported 0.91. It is observed that the neural network has a good estimation in case of high-pressure grouting and high range of nail elastic modulus. Fig. 15. Comparison results of neural network (Model 1) and experimental work to estimate of displacement Results for each conducted analysis in this work are shown in Fig. 17. It has been observed that the maximum error occurred in case of linear regressions (L.R) models that have estimated around 10 percent. However, in case of high-pressure the neural network has done better estimation in a compare with the L.R. Due to all of the achieved results it would be recommended to use the linear regressions in case of gravity pressure or pressure grouting not more than 300 kPa and normal stiffness steel. Moreover, in case of highly pressured grouting and stiff nail bar the generated neural network in current work would be able to excellent estimate the Disp. Fig. 17. Complete comparison for all analysis during current study To show comparison results separately, the achieved results of developed relationships, neural network experimental pull-out test have been plotted in Figs. 18 to 21. The nonlinear estimation of neural network has been illustrated in mentioned figures. Fig. 18. Results of displacement estimation in site of Gyeonggi: a) displacement estimation in case of high grouting pressure [500 kPa]; b) displacement estimation in case of gravity pressure grouting Fig. 19. Results of displacement estimation in site of Shahrak gharb: a) displacement estimation in case of gravity pressure grouting and 4 meters of O.B; b): displacement estimation in case of high grouting pressure [200 kPa] and 4 meter O.B. Fig. 20. Results of displacement estimation in site of Shahrak gharb: a) displacement estimation in case of gravity pressure grouting and 8 meters of O.B; b) displacement estimation in case of high grouting pressure [200 kPa] and 8 meter O.B. Fig. 21. Results of displacement estimation in site of Artesh: a) displacement estimation in case of high grouting pressure [200 kPa] and 8 meters of O.B; b) displacement estimation in case of gravity pressure grouting and 8 meter O.B. The sensitivity analysis for the rate of important parameters has been performed. Related results are also shown in Fig. 22. It is observed that in case of pressure grouting the degree of importance of P.S.S will decrease compared with gravity pressure cases. While in case of pressure grouting the O.B and hole diameter have considerable effects compare with the results of gravity grouting. Furthermore, the result shows that in non-pressure grouting, the soil mechanical properties have a significant effect to decrease the displacement. However, in case of pressured grouting, the effective parameters have been changed. Parameters O.B, D, and γ have an integral role to estimate the nailing system displacement compare with their role in gravity grouting. Fig. 22. The values of importance factor in case of a) pressure grouting and b) gravity grouting The number of the experimental pull-out test has been done and their results are used as input data to develop the new relationship for estimating the displacement of a nailing system. The standard procedures of the pull-out test have been performed in five different sites in Tehran, Iran. Moreover, results of a previous experimental work are chosen as additional data. Furthermore, new relationships to consider the grouting pressure effect on displacement has been considered. New relationships for both cases of gravity and pressured grouting has been developed. The following Conclusions are extracted from current research: 1) The two times increasing in G.P can increase the pull-out shear stress maximum to three times. It means the grouting pressure maximum to 600 kPa would be increase the bond strength to three time greater compare with gravity grouting conditions. 2) Results of developed relationships showed that the general relationship is able to estimate displacement with lowest error and determination coefficient 0.99. Hence it is so useful for verification. Furthermore, results of other models have had determination coefficient among 0.89 to 0.91. The result of this relation showed that dependency of bound skin fraction to other significant gravity grouting factors could be linear. However, in case of pressure grouting, the dependency is changed to nonlinear. 3) Achieved results showed the linear regressions have good estimating for displacement considering gravity and pressure grouting not more than 300 kPa. In case of higher pressure grouting and high stiffness steel bar, the recommends neural network would be more capable of better estimation compare with linear regression. 4) Maximum importance factor related to input considered in both case of gravity and pressured grouting is reported by P.S.S. achieved result show that the soil mechanical property is the major factor which has significant effect on nailing system displacement. Parameters γ and moisture content have secondary powerful effects upon nailing system displacement. In case of pressured grouting the pattern of s importance factor for parameters will be changed. The effects of D and O.B will be increased until 3 times. 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__label__cc	0.582937	0.417063	Procedure Guide for Construction of LPG Filling Plant and Autogas Station September 4, 2017 \| Author: cmyeole \| Category: Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Electrical Wiring, Gases, Industries, Energy And Resource Procedure-Guide-for-Construction-of-LPG-Filling-Plant-and-Autogas-Station... Guidelines for LPG plant DPR DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES THE PROCEDURE AND CONDITIONS TO BE FULFILLED BEFORE THE GRANT OF APPROVAL AND LICENCE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, MODIFICATION, RELOCATION OF A LIQUIFIED PETROLEUM GAS (LPG) FILLING PLANT AND AUTOGAS STATION PETROLEUM REGULATION 1967 June 2010 Department of Petroleum Resources PROCEDURE AND CONDITIONS TO BE FULFILLED BEFORE THE APPROVAL, CONSTRUCTION, MODIFICATION, RELOCATION AND LICENCE OF A LIQUIFIED PETROLEUM GAS (LPG) PLANT AND AUTO GAS STATION. SECTION I ABOVEGROUND LIQUEFIED STORAGE TANKS 1.0 APPLICATION PROCEDURE. In accordance with part IV section 87 sub-section (2) of the Petroleum Regulation of 1967, no Petroleum Gas Plant or Installation shall be constructed or modified without approval granted by the Director of Petroleum Resources. Contravening such regulation constitutes an offence and is subject to a fine or imprisonment or both. (See section 10.0 under offences). Accordingly, all applications that fall, under the above classification shall be addressed to the Director of Petroleum Resources, 7 Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos or through the nearest field office, giving full details of the proposals. The following documents and design diagrams shall accompany the application. 1.1 STATUTORY DOCUMENTS AND DESIGN DIAGRAMS. (a) Three copies of the approved drawings showing the existing or proposed buildings on the site and the relevant distances to the roadways and adjoining properties, if any. (b) Three copies of Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) of the gas filling plant and manufacturers' data sheet of the storage tanks with codes and standards adopted in the design. (c) A provisional approval letter and fire report by Chief Federal/State Fire officer or an officer authorized by him on his behalf, that he is satisfied with the proposed arrangement for the prevention of fire. (d) A letter from the appropriate Town Planning Authority, authorizing siting of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas filling plant at the proposed site. The Town Planning approval stamps on all design drawings are accepted. (e) Three copies of Memorandum and Articles of Association of the company and evidence that the company is duly incorporated by the Federal Ministry of Trade to deal in petroleum products. (f) Tax clearance certificate for the preceding three years of application or Tax exemption certificate for new company. (g) An application fee, as may be determined by DPR, in Bank draft or certified cheque made payable to "Federal Government of NigeriaDPR Fee Account" is payable on submission of application. (h) Three copies of Codes, Standards and Specification adopted in the design of the tanks and ancillary equipment. (i) A copy of Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) proposal for the proposed plant and Environmental Impact Assessment report of the site. 2.0 PROCEDURES FOR GRANT OF APPROVAL TO CONSTRUCT (ATC) AN LPG PLANT. Prior to the grant of Approval To Construct a proposed LPG plant, it is mandatory that the applicant satisfies the following regulations: 2.1 The Review of Documents and Drawings. The documents and design drawings submitted will be reviewed in-line with the specifications. If the documents and drawings satisfactorily meet the statutory requirements, the site proposed for the plant will be inspected accordingly otherwise the applicant will be advised to rectify all the shortcomings observed in the application. 2.2 The Site Inspection Report. The site proposed for the plant will be inspected to determine the suitability of the location for the gas plant. The adjoining properties (if any) will be considered accordingly. If the above listed requirements are met, the Director or Officer assigned by him will grant Approval To Construct (ATC) the LPG plant. The validity of the ATC shall be two years. 3.0 CONSTRUCTION PROCEDURE. The regulations and conditions governing the construction of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) filling plant are as follows: (a) Liquefied Petroleum Gas must be stored under pressure in vessels designed to withstand safely the vapor pressure at the maximum temperature. Construction of such vessels must be to an acceptable design code such as; (b) The Nigerian Standards Organization approved standard on pressure Vessels and Liquefied Petroleum Gas containers N1 S220/85. (c) The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) boiler and pressure for use in the chemical, petroleum and allied construction, test and certification. (d) The American Petroleum Institute standard 2510(2). (e) The British Standards (BS) 1500 PART 1, fusion welded pressure vessels for use in the chemical, petroleum and allied Industries pr BS15500 for new vessels design, construction, test and certification. (f) The installation/construction of piping, instruments and the plant must be carried out by an accredited DPR Company. (g) The materials used for the construction of the filling shed must be noninflammable material. (h) The filling shed must be open-sided for good ventilation. 4.0 PROCEDURES FOR LICENSING A NEWLY COMPLETED LPG PLANT. 4.1 Pre-Licence Inspection On completion of construction works, the applicant shall notify the nearest DPR office and the following statutory/technical requirements shall be met or provided to facilitate pre-license inspection of the plant: (a) A completed application form for the grant of LPG licence. (b) Certification from Weight and Measures Division Federal Ministry of Commerce that the measuring equipment installed at the plant are calibrated satisfactorily. (c) Certification from Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) that the gas tank meets specifications and is safe for the proposed purpose. (d) Final fire safety certification issued by Federal or State Fire Department. (e) Mechanical leak tester. (f) Gas detector. (h) Warning notices and Personnel Protective Wears for the Plant operators. (i) Gas tank and pipeline pressure test reports and certification. These facilities should be pressure tested by DPR accredited company and witnessed by Director’s assigned officer. 5.0 PROCEDURE FOR GRANT OF LPG OPERATING LICENCE (a) When all the requirements listed in 4.0 above are satisfactorily met, DPR engineers will conduct pre-licence inspection of the plant and auxiliary equipment. (b) If the plant is built according to the approved diagrams and the engineers are satisfied with the safety arrangement of the plant, Management will consider the grant of LPG plant operating licence to the deserving company. (c) The LPG licence grant fee shall depend on storage capacity of the gas vessel installed at the plant. All applicants are to note that failure to meet the above statutory and technical requirements or any other which may come into force during the construction of the plant, may lead to non-licensing of the plant for operation. 6.0 PROCEDURE FOR RELOCATION OF EXISTNG LPG PLANT TO A NEW SITE. If a company desires to relocate an existing and licensed LPG plant to a new site, the applicant must submit the following requirements: (a) The justification (reasons) for the proposed relocation of the plant to a, new site. (b) Three copies of revised and approved plant layout diagram showing the existing or proposed buildings on the site and relative distances to the roadways and adjoining properties if any. (c) Three copies of revised and approved Piping and Instrument Diagram of the gas filling plant. (d) Three copies of gas storage tank sectional diagram. (e) A letter from the appropriate Town Planning Authority, authorizing siting of the LPG filling plant at the proposed site. (f) A provisional approval letter or certificate signed by Chief Federal/State Fire Officer or an officer authorized by him in that behalf that he is satisfied with the proposed arrangement for the prevention of fire. The conditions for the grant of Approval to Construct and operating licences for a new LPG plant shall be the same for relocated LPG plants. 7.0 GAS STORAGE TANK DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS AND FITTINGS. (a) All tanks for the storage of liquefied petroleum gas shall be designed for a working pressure corresponding to the vapour pressure and at the highest temperature that the tanks are likely to reach. (b) All storage tanks should be fitted with the pressure gauge and devices for measuring the liquid content and its temperature. The maximum quantity of LPG filled into any tank should be such that the maximum operating temperature it would occupy shall not be more than 95% of the capacity of the storage. (c) Excess flow valve should be fitted to prevent the loss of liquefied Petroleum gases from storage tanks, transport tanks and points where flexible hoses are used. . (d) Remote control hydraulically operated shut-off valves should be fitted to each storage tank. (e) Water sprinkler system should be provided on top of the gas vessel. Access ladder to the top of the gas storage should be provided for inspection and maintenance needs. 8.0 TANK LOCATION DISTANCES. 8.1 Location and Spacing. The distances given in Table 1 below indicate the minimum approved distances from aboveground gas tanks and refer to the horizontal distances between the nearest point on the storage tank and as specified feature, e.g. an adjacent storage tank, building or boundary. The distances apply to both spherical and cylindrical tanks. TABLE 1 Location and Spacing for high-pressure storage. S/N APPROVED SPACING Between LPG high-pressure One quarter of the sum of the storage tanks diameters of the two adjacent tanks To class "A" To building containing 15 meters flammable materials e.g. filling shed, storage building 15 meters from the top of bound surrounding class "A" or "B" product tanks 9.0 CYLINDER FILLING SHED, OPERATION AND STORAGE. 9.1 CYLINDER FILLING SHED. (a) Cylinders should be filled with LPG only in building designed for that purpose. Filling buildings should be open-sided. The filling of cylinder: should not be done in cellars of upper story of building. (b) Floor should be near ground level or raised to a minimum of 1 meter to vehicle platform height. (c) A fence of at least 2 meters high should be provided to enclose the filling and gas storage area if the filling is not carried out within a fenced area. (d) No duct or blow-off line should be directed into or discharged near sewer systems or drains used for other purposes. (e) Water drains from the filling area should be provided with effective seals. (f) Piping should be protected or painted in appropriate industrial colour. (g) Fire extinguisher in sufficient quantity should be provided at strategic places within the premises and the plant personnel should have easy access to the extinguisher. (h) Cylinders should not be stored in the cylinder filling area. An area within the plant should be designated for cylinders storage. (i) Adequate lighting should be provided to illuminate the working and the storage areas of the plant. 9.2 GAS FILLING OPERATION. (a) Cylinders should be filled accurately and the quantity to be filled in any cylinder should not occupy more than 95% of the total capacity at a temperature not more than 65degrees centigrade. (b) The system should be designed in such a way as to minimize Liquefied petroleum gas escape when the connection to the cylinder valve is released. 9.3 PORTABLE GAS CYLINDERS. (a) Portable gas cylinders should be designed, constructed and tested in, accordance with the approved Nigerian Standard Organization (SON) specification for LPG cylinders. 9.4 STORAGE OF LPG CYLINDER (a) The layout of the gas cylinders should be such as to facilitate quick removal of the cylinders in case of emergency. (b) Cylinders should not be in proximity to corrosive or highly flammable substances. (c) Gas cylinders should be stored:  Only in a place with adequate ventilation and  At or above ground level, away from cellars, drains hollow etc where vapour might collect. (d) Gas cylinders should not be exposed to excessive heat. (e) Cylinders should be stacked in such a manner that they are all times accessible for inspection. 9.5 CYLINDER PRESSURE TEST STATION Cylinders pressure test station should be provided where the integrity of the cylinders will be tested as prescribed in the Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) cylinder maintenance code. The cylinders shall be pneumatically tested with air or LPG as the testing medium. SECTION II: UNDERGROUND LIQUEFIED STORAGE TANKS 1.0 APPLICATION The construction of underground LPG Plant shall apply in writing to the Director or through the Operations Controller of the DPR office nearest to your proposed location or site as stipulated in article 1.0 of aboveground LPG storage plant above. 2.0 DOCUMENTS REQUIRED: The documents so required in the construction of underground LPG storage plant shall be as stated in article 1.1 subsections (a) to (j) of aboveground LPG storage plants. 3.0 PROCEDURE FOR SITE INSPECTION: On receipt and complete review of the said document as indicated above, a competent officer of the DPR shall be assigned to conduct a site inspection to ascertain the suitability of the site for the proposed project. The site shall be granted approval only when it meets the following parameters; a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i) It does not fall within any pipeline right of way The distance between the highway leading to and passing the proposed site is within the distance specified in the regulation. The distance between an existing LPG plants is in consonant with the distance specified in the Regulation. The distance of the proposed site from another property which may be built upon shall not be less than 50 feet. The drainages to constructed or existing ones shall not be channeled to a stream or water. The proposed site is not less than the distance specified in the regulation of public buildings, schools etc The proposed site shall not constitute a threat or hazard to the area. The proposed site is up and above two plots of 100 x 100meters. The proposed site is not sited under PHCN high tension wire. 4.0 PROCEDURE FOR GRANT OF APPROVAL TO CONSTRUCT: The grant of approval to construct shall be similar to that of Section 2.0 subsection 2.1 to 2.2 of the aboveground LPG storage plant. 5.0 `PROCEDURE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FACILITIES: a) No tank or tanks shall be buried without DPR approval. b) All tanks to be buried should meet all the specifications of the manufacturer, ASTM, and other internationally approved codes c) d) e) f) g) The excavation of the pit for the LPG storage tank should permit allowance of not less than 70 centimeters below ground level when the tank has been set in its final position. The tank should be set in a chamber of waterproof concrete of not less than 23 centimeters thick and the top a water tight detachable or removable concrete slab with a manhole a the center. The manhole of every tank installation shall be raised above the level of the surrounding ground to prevent the ingress of surface water into it. All pipelines including ventilation pipes below ground level, shall be protected against damage and corrosion to the satisfaction of the DPR. All individual tanks shall be provided with efficient electrical earth connections independent of pipe connections, having an electrical resistance value not exceeding 10 Ohms when measured by an earth resistance tester of the “Megger” or similar type. All fixed pipes shall be of metal or fiberglass coated and shall be in position where they may not be liable to damage. 6.0 PROCEDURE FOR LICENSING A NEWLY COMPLETED LPG PLANT: The licence procedure shall be the same as in article 4.0 subsection (4.1) (a) to (4.1) (i) of the aboveground LPG storage plant. 7.0 PROCEDURE FOR THE GRANT OF OPERATING LPG LICENSE It shall be the same as stipulated in section 5.0 subsection (a) to (c) 8.0 OPERATIONS: All LPG storage plants shall be licensed and manned by competent persons recognized and approved by the DPR at all times. SECTION III: DOMESTIC LPG SUPPLY INSTALLATIONS The guidelines shall deal on domestic LPG supply installation where LPG is stored under pressure at ambient temperature in fixed vessels larger than 500kg LPG capacity. 1.0 LPG Storage – Fixed Tanks The installation or construction of a liquefied petroleum gas storage tank, together with any associated pipe work connecting the system to a combust ion appliance providing space or water heating, or cooking facilities should be designed, constructed and installed in accordance with the requirements set out in the Nigerian Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association if any or an internationally accepted code. 1.1 Every tank should be separated from a building, or fixed source of ignition, in order to; a) reduce the risk of fire spreading to the tank in the event of fire b) enable and/or maintain safe dispersal LP gas in event of venting or leaking. 1.2 Tanks should be situated outdoors in a position that will not allow accumulation of vapour at ground level. 1.3 Ground features such as open drains, manholes, gullies and cellar hatches, within the separation distances in column A of the Table below should be sealed or trapped to prevent the passage of LPG vapour. Separation distances for liquefied petroleum gas storage tanks Maximum capacity (in tones) Of any Of any single group of tank tanks 0.25 1.1 4.0 Maximum separation distance for above ground tanks (in metres) From a building boundary or fixed Between tanks source of ignition to the tank A B No fire wall (1) With fire wall (1) 2.5 0.3 [2] 1.0 3.0 1.5 [2] 1.0 7.5 4.0 1.0 2.0 LPG storage – cylinders Where LPG storage installation consists of a set of cylinders, a way of meeting the standard would be for the installation to be in accordance with the Nigerian Liquefied Petroleum code if any or should be in accordance with an internationally accepted code. 2.1 The construction or installation of cylinders should be in form of two or more sets of paired cylinders connected to a manifold, with supply provided from one pair of cylinders at any one pair. 2.2 The installations should enable cylinders to stand upright, secured by straps or chains against a wall outside the building. 2.3 The cylinders should be positioned on a firm, level base such as concrete of at least 50mm thick or a paving slabs bedded on a mortar, and is located in a well-ventilated position at ground level, so that the cylinder valves will be: a) at least 1m horizontally and 300mm vertically from openings in the buildings or from the source such as flue terminal or tumble dryer vents; b) at least 2m horizontally from untrapped drains, unsealed gullies or cellar hatches unless an intervening wall not less than 250mm high is present c) cylinders should be readily available, reasonably protected from physical damage and is located where they do not obstruct exit routes from the building. SECTION IV: AUTOMOTIVE LPG (AUTOGAS) STATION 1.0 APPLICATION PROCEDURE See Section I, Articles 1.0; 2.0; 3.0; 4.0 and 5.0 for guidance. 2.0 STORAGE VESSELS – LOCATION AND SPACING June 2010 Department of Petroleum Resources Separation distances are intended to protect the LPG facilities from the radiation effects of fires involving other facilities as well as to minimize the risk of escaping LPG being ignited before being dispersed or diluted. Storage vessels are normally installed above ground in the open air but they can be buried underground or mounded. They should never be installed in or on buildings or in open pits. Storage vessels, whether at ground level, underground or mounded, should be spaced and located in accordance with World LPG Association Guidelines or other international standards recognized by DPR. The distance between an above ground LPG storage vessel and any part of the vehicle being filled is not less than 3 m. For buried LPG vessels this distance is from the LPG vessel valve assembly. Separation Distances between various items of Plant The separation distances between items of plant (nearest point to nearest point) should not be less than those specified in Table 2. Table 2 “Tables of Safety Distances” Source: Turkish Standards TS 11939 - Liquefied petroleum gases (LPG) refueling station for automotives- Safety rules. Table 2 – Minimum Tank Safety Distance (1) Under Ground (3) Tanks (m) Tank Capacity (2) (m3) Ground Safety Distance Between Tanks Tanks (m) (m) (4) (1) Stations planned to construct next to highways have to consider with different rules and need to get the extra permission from the highway authorities for safety distance from station to highway. (2) The capacity of tank measured by water (allowable maximum capacity 10m3) (3) The safety distances related with underground tanks are measured starting from the safety valve. June 2010 Department of Petroleum Resources (4) The safety distances related with above ground tanks are measured starting from the tank’s nearest tip surface to the related location. Table 3 “Tables of Safety Distances” Table 3 - Minimum Safety Distances at the LPG Fueling Station (meters) (1) Under Ground LPG Tank Above Ground LPG Tank LPG Dispenser Fuel Dispenser Under Ground LPG Tank Table 2 Table 2 Fuel Dispenser Building Highway Public Buildings Fuel Building Public (3) Neighbour Buildings Land 1. There are no need for any security distances between tank and pumping units 2. These distances are not carried out between the horizontal distances of LPG tanks which have Water capacity 0.5 m3 or less and fuel tanks which have water capacity 2.5 m3 and less. 3. Public Buildings such as hospital, school, park, train, metro (sub-way) stations, mosques, churches, etc. 3.0 DESIGN AND INSTALLATION 3.1 General Design The design of vessels, vessel fittings, pumps, dispensing systems, hoses, filling nozzles and adaptors and breakaway/pull-away systems should be designed for efficient and safe operations in line with applicable codes and standards. 3.2 Installation The installation and commissioning of the system should only be undertaken by competent personnel, and in accordance with manufacturer's instructions. June 2010 Department of Petroleum Resources Written procedures should be drawn up for installation and/or commissioning. Mineral Oils Safety Regulations (MOSR), 1997 should be observed in these installations, particularly the taking of all the necessary measures to reduce risk as much as reasonably practicable, including the replacement of the hazardous by the non-hazardous or by the less hazardous. 3.2.1. Storage Vessels See section III, Article 1.0 3.2.2 Pumps Pumps, other than submersible types, should be adequately secured to a concrete foundation or bolted to a structural steel vessel support. Where the drive unit is not integral with the pump, attention should be given to ensure correct alignment, and all moving parts, belts, etc., should be suitably guarded. 3.2.3 Dispensing Equipment Dispensing equipment should be securely fixed to avoid strain on connections under normal working conditions. On a petrol forecourt site such valves should be immediately upstream of the shear valve or excess flow valve protecting the meter. 3.2.4 Pipework and Valves Pipework should be run as directly as is practicable from one point to another and with as few restrictions such as elbows, bends etc., as conditions will permit. The location of underground pipework should be recorded and indicated by appropriate means. It is essential that the piping system is clean prior to commissioning. 3.2.5 Wiring and Cables Wiring and cables that may be exposed to a flammable atmosphere must be suitably enclosed where appropriate. The installation should comply with MSA EN 60079-14:2003 and BS 7671:2001, or their equivalent European Standards. 3.2.6 Earthing and Bonding The installation should have electrical continuity and be effectively connected to earth and bonded to comply with the requirements of the Institute of Petroleum's Model Code of Safe Practice, Part 1, Electrical and BS 7671:2001 or equivalent European standard. 3.2.7 Electrostatic Hazard Precautions An effective earthing point and/or bonding connection on the storage vessel should be provided for discharging static electricity from bulk delivery tankers, prior to commencing each delivery of LPG to the main storage. 3.2.8 Master Switches In addition to the site main isolator controlling the electrical installation, a separate isolation switch should be provided to isolate the supply to the LPG installation. This should be so positioned as to be readily visible and within easy reach for quick operation in cases of emergency. June 2010 Department of Petroleum Resources 4.0 FIRE PROTECTION AND SECURITY 4.1 Fire Protection The possibility of a major fire outbreak, leading to direct flame impingement on the storage vessel, can be minimized by sound engineering, plant design and layout. Of similar importance are good operating practices and the proper instruction and training of personnel on both routine operations and on action to be taken in emergency. 4.1.2 Portable Extinguishers At least two dry powder extinguishers less than 9kg each and suitable for LPG fires with a test fire rating of at least 21A and 183B as defined in MSA EN 37:2004 should be readily available at strategic locations to deal with fires adjacent to the meter/vehicle being filled. 4.1.3 Water Reservoir Stations storing LPG for Autogas should have a clean water reservoir of minimum size 108 m3. 4.1.4 Security Adequate steps should be taken to prevent the unauthorised interference with vessels and ancillary equipment such as lockable covers. When the site is closed the equipment should be protected from unauthorised interference or operation by isolation of electrical supplies, locking nozzles and locking of cabinet doors of ancillary equipment. 4.1.5 Warning Notices All notices shall be conspicuous and easily understood by those to whom they are directed. Where possible they should conform to EN 92/58 - Safety Signs and Colours, or equivalent, and where relevant, to the Work Place (Provisions of MOSR, 1997) 4.1.6 Dispensing Control Device A notice of the form below should be displayed. LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS HIGHLY FLAMMABLE SWITCH OFF ENGINE APPLY HANDBRAKE NO SMOKING - NO NAKED FLAMES SWITCH OFF MOBILE PHONES Pictorial representation may be used. Master Switch Notice: A notice of the form below should be displayed. LPG PUMP - SWITCH OFF HERE June 2010 Department of Petroleum Resources 4.1.7 Emergency Telephone Number An emergency telephone number for summary assistance should be displayed at sites accessible to the public in a position where it can be seen even if the site is closed. 5.0 Commissioning Storage vessels, other equipments and pipings should be commissioned after installation in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions, including a leak test of the vessel and its fittings. 6.0 Operations Written procedures should be established for relevant personnel to understand their roles for normal operation and closing (out of hours) of the refuelling facilities, and for the reception of road tanker deliveries. Note: Stand-by weighing apparatus shall be kept to verify volumes of LPG sold to customers by DPR officials. 6.1 Training of Personnel Training is vital both to help prevent incidents and to minimize the consequences should an incident occur. Employees who may be called upon to use the filling equipment must have adequate training in its proper use, and the action required in the event of mal-function or to deal with an emergency. The training may take many forms, including the giving of instructions (verbal or written) and formal training courses. All training should be recorded 6.2 Action in an Emergency other than fire In the case of a substantial spillage or a leak of LPG, isolate the electric supply to all fuel dispensers, stop the flow of LPG if possible, call the nearest Fire Department, keep personnel and members of the public away from the area in which the vapour is spreading, alert neighbours to the danger, especially if there are nearby cellars or basements in which vapour could collect, if necessary call the police so that they may re-route traffic and advise the Department and other appropriate authorities of the incident. 7.0 INSPECTION & MAINTENANCE The installation shall have to conform to any legal inspection and maintenance regulations pertaining to the conditions of its license. It is required of the user to ensure that a Written Scheme of Periodic Examination is drawn up by a competent person. The user shall ensure that the system is properly maintained so as to prevent danger. When used at point of sale, meters need to be maintained to ensure dispensing liquid LPG within the tolerances specified in DPR guidelines. 7.1 Survey and Maintenance Surveys and maintenance should be carried out in accordance with a documented programme to the suppliers' recommendations and/or based on The Mineral Oils (Safety) Regulations 1997. June 2010 Department of Petroleum Resources Report "Procedure Guide for Construction of LPG Filling Plant and Autogas Station" Share & Embed "Procedure Guide for Construction of LPG Filling Plant and Autogas Station"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1352
__label__wiki	0.72497	0.72497	Latest issue of The Northern Virginia Review -- http://www.nvcc.edu/depts/nvreview/nvr-latest.htm includes Kyi May Kaung's short story Beast and her painting Lady Vanda. Cambodian survivor of Killing Fields fame, Dith Pran, dies of pancreatic cancer -- Offerings -- Bali -- photo copyright Kyi May Kaung (The ephemeral art of Bali) http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/30/dith.pran.obit.ap/index.html I was just speaking of Sidney Schanberg's biography of Dith Pran, The Death and Life of Dith Pran, and of Haing S. Ngor's autobiography, among other things, at my Bookshelf (Dr. Kaung's Salon) discussions in Silver Spring on Friday. I am very saddened to hear of Dith Pran's death at this comparatively young age. I would like to dedicate this talk I gave about Cambodia to the Cambodian survivors and all those 2-3 million who were killed by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1978, when Cambodia was liberated from the Khmer Rouge by Vietnamese forces. My talk went well and was attended by a number of people including three who had been recently to Cambodia. I will post the book list shortly. Sort of Nyepi -- for the whole world -- from Sophie Lwin -- Hey, I just found out about this event where millions of people around the world are joining together to make a statement about climate change by turning their lights off for an hour. It's called Earth Hour and I just signed-up to participate-I thought it might be something you'd want to sign up for too. Earth Hour is on March 29 from 8 - 9 p.m. local time, and it looks like it's going to be really big. So far 25 cities around the world are taking part, including Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix and San Francisco in the U.S.Sign up for Earth Hour by visiting www.earthhour.org/sign-up and join the movement with me.And remember - Lights Out on March 29! IF 2 MILLION PEOPLE NOT USE ANY SORT OF ELECTRICITY FOR 1 HOUR THE EQUIVALENT EFFECT IS TAKING 48,000 CARS OFF THE ROAD FOR A YEAR Please do this everyone....and forward this email to everyone you know!! Note: During Nyepi (Balinese New Year) -- there is no fire (no cooking!) and at night, no light. From the incomparable Howard Zinn -- "One of the things we can learn from history is that history is not only a history of things inflicted on us by the powers that be. History is also a history of resistance. It's a history of people who endure tyranny for decades, but who ultimately rise up and overthrow the dictator. We've seen this in country after country, surprise after surprise. Rulers who seem to have total control, they suddenly wake up one day, and there are a million people in the streets, and they pack up and leave. This has happened in the Philippines, in Yemen, all over, in Nepal. Million people in the streets, and then the ruler has to get out of the way. So, this is what we're aiming for in this country. "Everything we do is important. Every little thing we do, every picket line we walk on, every letter we write, every act of civil disobedience we engage in, any recruiter that we talk to, any parent that we talk to, any GI that we talk to, any young person that we talk to, anything we do in class, outside of class, everything we do in the direction of a different world is important, even though at the moment they seem futile, because that's how change comes about. Change comes about when millions of people do little things, which at certain points in history come together, and then something good and something important happens. Thank you." Dr. Kaung's Book Shelf -- "All about Cambodia" night -- BOOK CLUB. March 28, 2008, Dr. Kaung's Book Shelf: All About Cambodia. Books to be discussed include Francois Bizot's memoir The Gate, First They Killed my Father by Loung Ung, The Killing Fields (the movie), The Death and Life of Dith Pran by Sydney Schanberg, and Dr. Haing S. Ngor's autobiography co-written with Roland Jaffe. 963 Bonifant St. Silver Spring MD One block from Silver Spring Metro -- free parking on Wayne Av. and Bonifant St. Within walking distance of many ethnic and other restaurants. Great cappuccino and desserts at Kefa. ABC: Rhetoric or Revolution: Obama Rev's Fiery Language -- http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=4490869&page=3 Guest column: Obama and His Church by Elisabeth Null Every now and then, I invite friends who have sent me serious, thought provoking, fair-minded pieces to allow me to post their articles on my blog. Here is one by Elisabeth Null. FYI -- Lisa, I and a group of friends are working on a panel discussion to be held at Kefa Cafe, Silver Spring on this topic. Watch for the date! KMK In the spirit of Obama's wish to have us think honestly about race and to search for greater common understanding, I offer these thoughts. Many of my own observation about black church experience come out of the research and collecting I did 20 years ago as part of the Waterbury Ethnic Music Project. Feedback welcome. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ My Jewish partner Charlie has been reading the sermons of Obama's pastor, Jeremiah Wright, comparing him to the peace activist Rev.William Sloane Coffin, for whom he served as a chaplain's assistantat Yale. Charlie finds much to admire in Wright's words and actions,whatever his shortcomings. Wright has turned his church, Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, into a leading exponent of "thesocial gospel" and "black liberation theology." What this means,is that God's kingdom is best reflected by struggling for justice, compassion,and human betterment in this world whatever one does in preparation for the next. The person who developed black liberation theology, basically an American adaptation of "liberation theology," was James Cone (http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11232007/profile.html). Cone further argued that black Americans, long cowed into submission by white owners and enforcers of white supremacy, need to interpret theology for themselves and take fuller control of their religious development. While Wright's sermon was over the top, it is not quite as nutsy as it sounds. Many people, including me, subscribe to the idea that our government made an indirect pact, when combating anti-American forces in Central America, to allow America's inner-cities to be flooded with crack cocaine. This was chronicled by Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News (1996), and I followed his three-part series of articles with some interest. When I moved to DC in 1991, the black radio stations frequently discussed the problem and its international aspects . Sometimes this agenda was known as "the Plan." I cannot imagine why Wright bought into the idea of aids as a conspiracy against blacks, but if our government collaborated in infecting blacks with syphilis, which it did in the Tuskegee Experiment (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762136.html) without telling them, it is not too hard to imagine why even an educated man might get conspiratorial about this. I don't mind a bit that Wright damned America, this seems to fall within the prophetic tradition so important in black (and Puritan!) church history. As long as it is not taken in vain, it seems a perfectly reasonable thing to say from time to time. One of my favorite Nina Simone tunes is "Mississippi God Damn!" To roundly condemn one's country while working hard to redeem it does not seem to be an unpatriotic contradiction. I do not mind Wright's assumption that Clinton cannot understand certain things because she has not experienced them -- the biographies I have read about her show that her approach to poverty issues, even as a girl, was well-meaning but rather like a young Lady Bountiful. I do feel that in some sense we were partially responsible through our dreadful foreign policy for what happened during 9/11 -- of course we didn't deserve it, but NOT to examine more carefully how we got into this situation was a xenophobic reaction on our part. Hate is not an answer; it is a symptom. Any anti-semitic or stereotypically anti-white comments in any of Wright's sermons are inexcusable and not worthy of defense though, as Obama says, it is important to explore what lies at the base of hatred. I confess though, I often have a hard time sitting in many churches because whenever the Sadducees and Pharisees are taken on in the New Testament. I wonder if it is a veiled attack against the Jews. As for Jews, I live comfortably with Charlie who believes Jews are A chosen people, not The chosen people, but how do I feel among Jews when I am thought of as a spiritually second-class citizen not even worthy of "conversion?" Coercive conversion is a human rights violation but, when I am not even included in the compact because I lack a genetic pedigree, I also feel humiliated. I know how bitter Charlie's mother felt at death not to have been educated, as a woman, in the meanings and traditions of Jewish prayer and torah study. Exclusion hurts. It is not the same as hatred, but there is sometimes implicit contempt or condescension there too. I spent one summer doing field work in black churches for my degree in folklore at Penn and have to admit that after immersing myself in the prayer meetings and praise services of black churches, mainline Christian churches seemed tepid and uninteresting by comparison! First of all, many of the black churches have great, all-engulfing Second, there is a lot of attention given to praising and thanking God as opposed to just asking him for forgiveness or asking for the things one desires. Third, the sermons are central and are designed to be a sort of ritual catharsis -- which is why they address things that are not expressed elsewhere -- just like the blues. They are interactive. People get up and testify -- deliver narratives with a positive outcome about how they were lost, or down, or broken-hearted, or desperate. The sense of collective understanding and acceptance is overwhelming. On one level these churches seem very much like white Christian evangelical churches but differ in subtle ways -- most black churches, as I have seen them, are more allegorical than fundamentalist in a literal sense, and there is a typological or metaphoric sensibility that allows the poetic and the mundane, the spiritual and the worldly to come together and coexist. Another lovely thing about the black churches, at least the more charismatic ones, is an emphasis on healing that, at the very least, fortifies people with a positive spirit for survival. If you haven't been to a prayer meeting full of old dying people swooping you into a shared embrace as they wheel about the room praising God for one new day of breath in their body, you haven't lived! That's how powerful the spirit engendered in black churches can be. The Congregational Church (The United Church of Christ these days), is heir to the old puritanical churches. It has a special role in black church history in that it was the spiritual home of many abolitionists and a place where blacks and whites interacted before the civil war. It had little presence in the South but did reach out to establish black colleges such as Howard and Fisk Universities. As such, it drew many black intellectuals and members of the black middle class within urban areas. It has an inter-racial denominational membership and there are white members in Obama's congregation, but the United Church of Christ is also sufficiently decentralized for black congregants to bring their own devotional traditions (several of African origin) into worship. Swooning, big hats, a frequent emphasis on white dress, charismatic traditions, call-and-response gospel singing are just a few African-American religious practices with strong analogues in Africa and elsewhere within the black diaspora. Other churches within the United Church of Christ, which was formed when the Congregational, German Evangelical and Reformed Churches merged in 1957, also maintain their own ethnic traditions if their individual congregations wish to do so. In many churches, for instance, Christmas Eve is associated with sausage and sauerkraut dinners or the singing of "Stille Nacht" in German. The United Church of Christ's congregations were critical to the civil rights movement and remain an important node of connection between black and white communities within the denomination as a whole. Black and white congregations often work together to continue a shared heritage of social reform. Obama must have found this church a natural link to his childhood in Hawaii as the Punahou School (a prep school he attended on scholarship), was founded by Congregational missionaries. Joining Trinity would have allowed him to embrace black culture without having to divest himself of the familiar. Why don't blacks go to inter-racial churches more frequently? Until recently, blacks were not welcome in "white churches" though initially, during the First Great Awakening, they were contributing partners in shaping American worship. Even during my childhood, blacks at the New York Episcopalian church I attended were directed to other congregations "where they'd feel more comfortable." This is one reason why I left it after confirmation. Antebellum blacks were not choosing racial separatism when forming their own congregations but were responding to circumstances that forced them into their own spiritual gatherings. Their own religious worship sustained them through slavery and helped them create the great religious, oratorical traditions and community-organizing skills instrumental to the civil rights movement. When blacks go to inter-racial churches, they generally must abide by the devotional practices already established by those congregations-- this leaves little space for their own traditions. Sometimes this forces a rupture: George Augustus Stallings, an African-American priest in Washington DC, was excommunicated by the Catholic Church after founding the Imani Temple to practice an Afrocentric version of Catholicism. While his form of worship differed theologically in time, the dispute started initially over incompatible styles of ritual and worship. Congregational Ministers, white and black, have spoken in defense of Wright's ministry and its practice of the social gospel. One cannot fault Obama, married to an African-American woman and raising two African-American children, for finding an anchor in the church he discovered and which discovered him as a community organizer. I'm glad he rejected the racist and hateful language of his pastor; I hope he did take issue with that pastor's biased ideas face-to-face; but I completely understand why he did not reject either his church or the flawed man who nevertheless provided him with so much spiritual instruction. (Posted with the author's permission. Opinions and comments are those of Lisa Null and may or may not coincide with those of Kyi May Kaung) America's role in the Burmese democracy struggle -- http://www.irrawaddy.org/print_article.php?art_id=11084 Pics from "the king's capital city" -- Burma- http://dorseyland.blogsome.com/2008/03/23/buyin-me-an-abode-in-burma/ Split This Rock was indeed smashing -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032103319_pf.html Ernest Hemingway's (5) Rules for Writing Well -- http://www.copyblogger.com/ernest-hemingway-top-5-tips-for-writing-well/ Kyi May Kaung's short story Beast wins award -- Editor in Chief Dorothy Seyler, TNVR. My short story Beast, based on the Thiha Bahu legend in Burma, won an award at The Northern Virginia Review, published by Northern Virginia Community College, in Annandale, VA. TNVR also published my painting, Lady Vanda. Copies are available from NVCC Bookstore. The award ceremony was on Thursday, March 20, 2008. I also enjoyed the keynote speech, which was about the healthy (and commercial as well as artistic) rivalry between Marlowe and Shakespeare. Burmese orchid species now extinct -- Very soon we will have nothing left but blaring purple Thai hybrids. "Wardii" are those orchid and other species discovered by famous botanist Frank Kingdom (sp?) Ward. Among his most famous discoveries were the beautiful tree Amhearstia (one used to grow near the Convocation Hall in Rangoon University), a rhododendron from the north and the famous blue poppy Meconopsis. "For in the end, we will save only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." Senegal. Burmese-Chin refugees receive strategic help from volunteers in Princeton, N.J. Kindness of strangers eases refugees' arrival in United States Date: 18 Mar 2008 \| UNHCR News Stories PRINCETON, United States, March 18 (UNHCR) – The schedule for the week ahead runs to five pages, with each day broken down into near hourly tasks assigned to different volunteers. At the dining room table in a house in Princeton, New Jersey, the creator of this plan of action runs through each item with the couple at the centre of the activity. Za Bik Thang, his wife Par Tha, and their three children arrived in Princeton in mid-2007 from Malaysia, where they had lived as refugees for several years after fleeing persecution in their native Myanmar. Tom Charles and other members of the Nassau Presbyterian Church were on hand to meet the family when they arrived in the United States and have been providing support ever since. "We were a little scared of coming to the US," recalls Za Bik from the family's rented home, which was arranged for them by the Nassau congregation. A pending move to an apartment in an affordable housing complex closer to downtown will reduce the couple's commute to their jobs. For now, Charles continues in his role as traffic controller, ensuring the smooth movement of the five Thang family members to and from school, work, English lessons, choir practice, dental appointments, chess club meetings and church services. "We have around one hundred volunteers from our church working in refugee resettlement," says Charles. "A core group of between 15 and 20 are involved in the day-to-day assistance, so the errands are spread around. Morning pick ups to get Za Bik to work are done by the early risers, while getting the kids home from school is done by people who have the afternoons free." The Thangs are the eighth family the Nassau congregation has sponsored as part of a programme that goes back nearly 25 years. Among those assisting the family are individuals who a few years ago were on the receiving end of the community's efforts. Dental care is provided by a former refugee from Bosnia; the pool of drivers includes a Somalian refugee who arrived in Princeton several years ago. The church is one of many religious groups in the north-eastern state of New Jersey involved in refugee resettlement. Referrals come from agencies such as Lutheran Social Ministries, based in the New Jersey capital, Trenton. The director of its immigration and refugee programme, Rev. Stacy Martin, says voluntary groups can provide a level of attention which surpasses what agencies dealing with hundreds of cases a year can offer. "The sponsors and the refugee families can create genuine relationships that go well beyond the 12 to 18 months we would typically be in contact with a family," she says. Resettlement in the United States is largely handled by faith-based organizations, which turn to their communities for volunteers when additional assistance is needed. According to a US Department of Labour survey published in 2007, more than one quarter of the population – around 60 million people – had volunteered for an organization in the previous 12 "Volunteers offer a distinctly personal touch that builds on the support offered by local resettlement affiliates," says Ralston H. Deffenbaugh Jr., president of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, a national resettlement agency. Even with assistance, establishing new lives in a foreign country is not without challenges. Unable to speak English, the Thang children initially found the classroom a frightening and lonely place. Everyday costs such as rent, groceries and visits to the doctor can seem overwhelming. Here, too, the Nassau congregation has stepped in, helping Za Bik to land a job at a supermarket chain while Par Tha does alterations at an exclusive menswear The couple have also been given financial planning advice. "When we first arrived we couldn't do anything for ourselves. Today we can live our lives, though we still rely on rides," says Za Bik, who has begun the process of getting a driver's licence. For the Nassau congregation a commitment that began nearly 12 months ago is nearing its end, and it is apparent that not just the Thangs have benefitted. For Charles, working with resettled refugees "has been one of the great joys of my life." Former strangers are now friends, foreign cultures are understood and accepted and the often abstract concept of helping those less fortunate has taken the tangible form of an embrace. By Tim Irwin in Princeton, United States Recent Bangkok Post Editorials on new Thai government and Burma policy -- Bangkok Post - Wednesday March 19, 2008 Burma policy needs rethink Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's remarks last Sunday on his weekly television talk show were ill-considered, even for one who has made it something of a trademark to leave his listeners scratching their heads. In justifying expanding economic ties with Burma, Mr Samak dismissed that country's horrible record on human rights by saying: "Burma is a Buddhist country. Burma's leaders meditate. They say the country lives in peace." Coming just six months after the ruling junta ordered the brutal suppression of peacefully protesting Buddhist monks and their followers, Mr Samak's statement is an affront not only to Buddhists but to all people of conscience. The remarks came after a courtesy visit last Friday by Mr Samak to top Burmese generals including Senior General Than Shwe in Naypidaw, the new Burmese administrative capital, in which several development projects were discussed. Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama said on Saturday that Thailand will push ahead with construction of the Tasang hydropower dam on the Salween River in Burma's Shan State, about 130km from the Thai-Burmese border. According to Salween Watch, the reservoir will flood hundreds of square kilometres of land. Also discussed were the Tavoy deep-sea port on Burma's Andaman coast to open trade and investment links with western Thailand. While Mr Samak's words on the talk show may not have been well thought out, clearly that is not the case with this government's policy on Burma, which is pretty much a resumption of the one under deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, although Mr Thaksin at least had the good sense to keep it very low profile. The new out-in-the-open relationship will put the country squarely at odds with the European Union and United States, two of Thailand's most important strategic and trading partners. Japan also has begun to take a tougher stance on Burma since the September crackdown, which left a 50-year-old Japanese journalist dead. Meanwhile, the International Labour Organisation office in Burma has reported an upsurge in the military conscription of children, some as young as 10 years old. It can be argued that constructive engagement would be more productive than a total blacklisting of Burma. Yet there is no indication that any concessions to human rights or democracy were sought by Mr Samak, or that the junta would honour such concessions if they were given. With the mission of the UN special envoy to Burma having ended in failure, the international community is wondering what can be done to pressure the junta to pay more heed to the plight of its own citizens. One possibility would be a high-profile visit by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The generals have shown they are sensitive to international pressure if the spotlight is bright enough. In that regard, human rights activists are of the view that rather than boycott the Beijing Games, it would be better to turn the Olympic Village into a globally televised free speech zone on issues like Tibet, Darfur and Burma. Mr Samak's comments may have earned Thailand a centre-stage position at that very dramatic venue. http://www.bangkokp ost.com/News/ 19Mar2008_ news21.php ............ ... ASEAN SECRETARY-GENERAL Surin advises Samak on Burma attitude Asean secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan has advised Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej to be prudent before commenting on issues involving Burma. Mr Surin stressed the need to approach the political situation in Burma with an in-depth understanding and respect for its sensitivity. The government should gauge its readiness to explain Burma to the world, he said. His comments followed Mr Samak's offer on his Sunday television programme to mediate with the international community. Mr Samak said Westerners are overly critical of Burma and he has new-found respect for the junta following his visit to the country last Friday. Mr Surin, who was foreign minister during the Democrat-led coalition government from mid-1997 to 2001, said Asean _ the Association of Southeast Asian Nations _ supports reconciliation in Burma, the role the United Nations is handling until Asean member countries find solutions and the Burmese junta opens itself to Asean's help. The junta has been condemned by the international community for its crackdown on peaceful street protests against the military regime in September. In a related development, Burmese police raided an island underneath the Thai-Burmese Friendship Bridge in Tak's Mae Sot district yesterday and arrested seven suspected Burmese gang members. Around 100 armed Burmese police and volunteers burned down the shelters and took away the suspects, while Thai authorities were told to stand guard on the Thai side. Burma moved at the request of Tak governor Chumporn Polarak who said Burmese gangs on the island in the Moei river wielded much influence. They trafficked speed pills and attacked Thai and foreign tourists at the Thai border market. A gang of Burmese illegals occupying the island is believed to have been behind the attack on Pol Sgt Ake-kachai Biewnoi. The Thai policeman was shot in the torso on the island on March 3. Letter from Nyunt Than of Burmese American Democratic Association and All to UN Secretary General Mr Ban Ki-moon -- Following is a sample letter to UNSG Ban Ki-moon. It is immensely important that UNSG is stepping up to help the people of Burma. Please personalize and send it out to the Secretary-General to voice the grassroots' concerns. Our letter is posted here: www.badasf.org. Nyunt Than ------------ ----- An Open Letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Mr. Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General S-3800, United Nations, New York, N.Y. 10017, USA I would like to acknowledge your efforts to overcome the political stalemate and bring about a speedy political transition to democracy in Burma. The dictatorship is wrong, harmful, and has no place in Burma, and your efforts to reject this regime are appreciated. You and your predecessors have sent various envoys trips to Burma to address this matter. Unfortunately, however, your efforts have failed to secure even the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, nor to broker truthful and meaningful dialog. Your efforts have also failed to realize any progress towards establishing democracy in Burma. In recent history, the people of Burma have repeatedly rejected dictatorship through various means, including uprisings and an historic election. In 1988 they rose up, only to be brutally crushed. In 1990, the people overwhelmingly voted for the National League for Democracy and its representatives in Burma's historic Election, but the results were put aside. The people rose up against the brutal regime yet again last year in September and October. As always, the regime responded with ruthless force and brutal crackdowns while the world watched. The people of Burma have endured so much hardship and suffering in the past 46 years due to successive brutal and dictatorial regimes. Charles Petrie, top UN officer in the Myanmar Country Team, has released very grim data on the plight of the Burmese people on the occasion of UN Day on Oct 24, 2007. In fact, during all these years of UN involvement and visits by the UN envoys, the country has sunken even deeper into poverty. The people continue to suffer greatly and our opposition has been crushed ever more fiercely, while the regime's grip on power has flourished and its officials and their cronies have thrived more than ever. The world was on edge during the protests and crackdowns in late 2007, hoping the UN would help bring about progress, but now the regime is again strengthening its authority and legalizing military rule through the one-sided and sham process called the Roadmap to Democracy. The historic results of the 1990 election will be erased forever in Burma through this fake referendum to be held in May 2008, and people will be forced to accept a constitution with which they do not agree. Your envoy's last visit to Burma from March 6 to March 10 has failed yet again. The regime has not only openly denied Aung San Suu Kyi, her party, and her elected representatives any role in the process they are working toward, but it has also clearly rejected any international interference. Therefore, it is clear that your powerless and low-level envoy's visits to Burma have in effect helped the regime buy time and quell the world's outrage and anger over various crackdowns, while allowing them to elude the international community. Your envoy's meager efforts have allowed the regime to realize their true ambition of holding on to power at any cost. It has been clear to us for many years, and should be clear to you by now, that there is no more room for low-level and powerless envoy visits to Burma. They will not bring about change, as we have already seen. Any more attempts of such ineffective diplomacy will only waste our precious time, and give more time to the dictatorship to bury its roots even deeper in Burma. The time has come for you and the United Nations Security Council to step up and get tough on the regime. As proven by the already-demonstrate d facts, anything short of powerful diplomacy backed by the measures outlined by the Security Council will be more harmful than helpful to Burma and her people. The Regime does not understand diplomacy; it understands the voice of power. In fulfilling your priority of building a stronger United Nations for a better world, you must make sure Burma issues are resolved in a speedy and peaceful manner. It is time for you to get involved as the General Secretary of the world's body. Furthermore, the time has arrived for the United Nations Security Council to start taking concrete measures through binding resolution calling for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners; establishing a comprehensive arms embargo; and enforcing strong collective and comprehensive economic and financial sanctions. Only forceful measures will change the regime's attitude and their continued refusal to release their grip on power, through a peaceful and truly democratic process. Therefore we call upon you to: Visit Burma with due respect to help break the political stalemate as the world's most powerful diplomat. Start providing leadership in establishing, through binding resolutions, the concrete actions outlined above by the Security Council. May Sweet's "death" was another bogus "news story." http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=10947 I feel May Sweet and her PR people should put out a notice that this was not true, try and find the source of the rumors and sue them in court. Maybe "failed asylum seeker" was cue that it's wasn't a real AP news dispatch. Australia sets up fund to promote Human Rights. http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=38619 China Terrorises Tibet -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/opinion/18tue3.html?th&emc=th Includes comment on Burma. This week beginning Thursday -- Split This Rock Poetry Festival in DC will be smashing. Nita of FBB says this is a neat pun. I think it may be part of a neat metaphor -- anyway -- http://www.splitthisrock.org/ March 20-23, 2008. Sponsored by DC Poets Against War, Busboys and Poets, Institute of Policy Studies. A must for people who think politics and words matter. Upcoming -- Asian-American Heritage Week at North Eastern Illinois University, Chicago. April 1-7, 2008. http://www.neiu.edu/~acdevelo/Asian%20Program%2008.pdf The program includes photo exhibits and panels on Burma, as well as many other topics on many other Asian countries. If you are in the Chicago area, mark this on your calendar. You will need to copy the link and paste it into a search engine like Google. Blogspot has not allowed direct opening of links in text for some time now. This turned out not to be true: "Famous Burmese Singer May Sweet dies in car accident in UK" THIS IS ENTIRELY DISPUTED: "Myanmar's famous singer and actress May Sweet dead" -- SEE LATER IRRAWADDY NEWS ITEM. Maybe that's why post says "AP?" with a question mark. I did wonder if AP might care about a Burmese singer. Is it a plant by the junta? See comments. Fishy that in last few weeks we have seen one very real assassination and two fake "deaths," one of Kyemon U Thaung. Where is all this disinfo coming from? I found it on a Burma list sent to dissidents. "reharsals" another typo -- for now I am keeping this post for reference. kmk 3-18-08 London, United Kingdom (AP) ?Myanmar's famous actress and singer May Sweet died in head on collision car accident near M4 Motorway in London, United Kingdom. Details of the accident are sketchy at the moment, however, according to sources at West Ealing Hospital, Sweet was travelling with 3 other passengers in an old Ford Escort. The driver has been identified as Mr. Pauk Sa, a failed asylum seeker with no fixed address and have no driving license. The Ford Escort car, which Sweet and party were travelling was said not to be in a road worthy condition and that the car was travelling well above national speed limit. Sweet body has been taken to West Ealing Hospital and a detail post morten will be carrying out on Monday evening to determine the cause of death. A spoke person from Myanmar community in United Kingdom said Sweet was in London for pre-gig reharsals for her upcoming Myanmar New Year festival concert with fellow Myanmar singer, Thein Dan. Copyright ?2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Great foodie blog - apparently based in Singapore -- http://superfinefeline.blogspot.com/search/label/S%27pore%20Hawker%20Food Hope she's not fat. Maybe she's a thin girl who can eat. Anyway, this is good for feasting one's eyes. Travel advisory for women tourists in Kuta, Bali. http://www.littlespeck.com/region/CForeign-Ind-040102.htm Be careful of what's lost or added in translation. Very funny -- http://www.maddogproductions.com/bali10.htm Balinese women in their beautiful clothes -- http://colloidfarl.blogspot.com/2007/12/portraits-in-temple.html Burma -- "Don't Blame Gambari." by Nehginpao Kipgen -- This article is very sound, but should also mention Mr. Gambari's controversial background in Nigeria. I don't believe there should be another election to make Daw Suu and the NLD "go through it all again" and a former diplomat said this time the military junta is likely to cheat. It did not last time because it believed its own polls that it would win. International Press Coverage of the Assassination of KNU's Pado Mahn Sha in Feb 08 http://antidictatorship.wordpress.com/2008/02/17/assassination-of-pado-mahn-shar-lar-phan/ During my trip I met an analyst often quoted in the international media. He said, "As Mahn Sha was the brains of the KNU, for the SPDC, that would be a great coup." This man went to the memorial service, and mentioned how sad it was, "Lots of crying. The family did not come due to security reasons. I did not get to talk to Saw Hse Hse (Pado Mahn Sha's son. "The KNU is moving its HQ back to (the Liberated Areas) where it can have armed guards. He stayed in Mae Sot took long in one place and was too open and accepting. Anybody could just walk in the house, so it made it just easier for the assassins." I also met a woman who used to work for a well known Human Rights organization. She was in Mae Sot when the assassination took place, and "only came back the morning of the memorial service." She said there was a lot of panic, and very real fear. Then she added ironically, "All it did though was increase the bribe that Burmese (dissidents) have to pay for 'traffic violations' when they are intentionally stopped by the local (Thai) authorities." Since then the Bangkok press has suggested Mahn Sha might have been killed because he refused to allow access for a damn to be built in KNU controlled areas by Thai companies and called for more complete probes into the motivation behind the killing. The Dark Underbelly of Bali -- Prostitution, HIV/AIDS and all the rest -- http://www.balibs.org/mission.html Sounds like Burma! I hope this never happens to the people in the village I visited. Review of Kyi May Kaung's art and Henry Callahan's in Washington City Paper, March 2002 Henry Callahan, Kyi May Kaung TO APRIL 28 Henry Callahan Unlike even the most experimental artists who preceded them, the abstract expressionists of the mid-20th century prided themselves on ignoring cues from the tangible world. For them, art was predominantly a way to express their deepest emotions. On first inspection, Henry Callahan's acrylics on canvas--now showing at the Foundry Gallery along with works by Kyi May Kaung--call to mind the works of Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. But where those ab-ex giants would channel their emotions, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Callahan unabashedly channels nature when making his abstractions: Before the Storm (pictured) calls to mind a sea-and-sky horizon, complete with piscine forms roiling in the ocean. Similarly, Titanium Crescent features cresting waves and vertical strips that approximate undersea vegetation; the dark-hued upper half of Concrete Jungle suggests a deep forest. Kaung's palette is much lighter, though not always cheerier. Her works are a mix of watercolors and monotypes, influenced almost equally by Asian calligraphy and Western action painting: Several of her calligraphic pieces suggest a cacophony of street signs in an urban business district, whereas a number of her inkblot-filled works spin propulsively beyond the matte in the spirit of Jackson Pollock or Franz Kline. But her simplest works are her most pleasing; Courage and Haiku (for DG), feature balletic brushstrokes that cohere in near-perfect harmony. Both artists' works are on view from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday; and from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, to Sunday, April 28, at Foundry Gallery, 9 Hillyer Court NW. Free. (202) 387-0203. (Louis Jacobson) Kyi May Kaung's Art Shows in Bali and Chiangmai -- Snacks provided by Liz and Dragonfly Restaurant at my art show opening reception in Ubud, Bali, on March 4, 2008 -- that I was too nervous to eat. Photo -- Kyi May Kaung Yellow Sails -- copyright Kyi May Kaung Musicians playing at Opening Reception -- "Splash, Drip, Pour" Show -- Dragonfly Restaurant, Ubud, Bali. March 4, 2008. Waiter with poster that Liz of Dragonfly Restaurant made for me -- My poetry books and art on display at Payap University, Chiangmai, Thailand. My art on display at Payap University, Chiangmai, Thailand. February 28, 2008. Food! --Delicious dishes at Mandala Desa in Bali, and in "Little Burma" Bangkok -- Chicken betutu and prawns among other fabulous dishes, Liz' dinner, day after Nyepi (Balinese New Year), March 8, 2008 - served by Made (pronounced "Mar Day") by candlelight, Mandala Desa, Bali. Burmese family meal in Bangkok -- by Daw K.S. Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung Fruit plate and Nasi Goreng breakfast -- real pepper and sea salt in small square dishes - Photo Kyi May Kaung Ayam Taliwang -- or Sundanese chicken -- photo - Kyi May Kaung Asian Art Museum appoints Jay Xu as Director -- http://www.usasianwire.com/release.php?id=1863782501 Balinese kecak dancing -- based on the Ramayana -- Rama (in green) and Lekhana (in yellow) -- the brothers dejected after Sita is abducted by Ravana -- surrounded by kecak dancers -- Dance at Mandala Desa, Bali, photo copyright Kyi May Kaung -- The dance was beautiful and perfect, danced by Liz' neighbor villagers -- It was amazing. See Mandaladesa.com as well as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kecak March 7 was Nyepi, or Day of Silence in Bali -- for the Balinese New Year -- see --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyepi http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Lunar-New-Year-Kuta2C-Bali-Bali/ss/events/lf/020208lunarnewyear/im:/080306/ids_photos_en/r1558036127.jpg/ After a long absence, I'm back! My new bio as of March 11, 2008. Kyi May Kaung is a Burma-born literary activist with a doctorate in Political Economy from the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked in international radio, broadcasting to Burma, and with the Burmese democratic government in exile. Her poetry collections are Pelted with Petals: The Burmese Poems, and Tibetan Tanka. Her poetry has been included in the Norton Anthology of S.E. Asian Poetry. She has just returned from exhibiting her art in Ubud, Bali and in Chiangmai, Thailand. Cambodian survivor of Killing Fields fame, Dith Pr... Sort of Nyepi -- for the whole world -- from Sophi... Dr. Kaung's Book Shelf -- "All about Cambodia" nig... ABC: Rhetoric or Revolution: Obama Rev's Fiery L... Guest column: Obama and His Church by Elisabeth N... America's role in the Burmese democracy struggle -... Burmese-Chin refugees receive strategic help from ... Recent Bangkok Post Editorials on new Thai governm... Letter from Nyunt Than of Burmese American Democra... May Sweet's "death" was another bogus "news story.... This week beginning Thursday -- Split This Rock Po... Upcoming -- Asian-American Heritage Week at North ... This turned out not to be true: "Famous Burmese S... Great foodie blog - apparently based in Singapore ... Burma -- "Don't Blame Gambari." by Nehginpao Kipge... International Press Coverage of the Assassination ... The Dark Underbelly of Bali -- Prostitution, HIV/A... Review of Kyi May Kaung's art and Henry Callahan's... Kyi May Kaung's Art Shows in Bali and Chiangmai --... Food! --Delicious dishes at Mandala Desa in Bali, ... Balinese kecak dancing -- based on the Ramayana --...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1353
__label__cc	0.569776	0.430224	Happy New Year--Chinese pilgrim Fa Hsien's account of visiting Jetavana Monastery, now in present day India https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fa-hien/f15l/chapter20.html Free images from Wikipedia. Foundations of 2 kuti or huts (foundations), one with rose petals said to have been occupied by Gautama Buddha. Banyan tree planted during Buddha's life time, and sculptures of the donation, when merchants covered the ground with gold coins. 12-31-2017 Niagara Falls, not totally frozen over yet but Winter Wonderland. http://www.wusa9.com/weather/frozen-niagara-falls-attracts-visitors-despite-cold/503395310 Politico: Bannon puts Jared through the grinder-- https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/23/swamp-diary-breitbart-bannon-kushner-216166 trmp claimed all Haitian visa holders "all have AIDS"--how could it be, statistically impossible https://www.democracynow.org/2017/12/26/headlines/fbi_deputy_director_andrew_mccabe_to_resign scroll down on same page. Trmp's tweets ref McCabe called stupid, and they probably are-- http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/366555-former-bush-ethics-lawyer-trumps-mccabe-tweet-a-very-stupid-thing-for Unhappy Christmas for 2 Kachin pasters and their families and communities-- http://internationalcampaignforfreedom.blogspot.com/2017/12/christmas-in-jail-for-two-ethnic-kachin.html Wow--new areas where this blog is being read--Thank you readers! Brazil Philippines Belgium Ukraine 2 Burmese Reuters journalists arrested, will be allowed to see their families-- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-journalists/myanmar-to-grant-families-access-to-two-reuters-journalists-after-remand-period-expires-media-idUSKBN1EH0EV?feedType=RSS&feedName=newsOne&google_editors_picks=true Quote of the day--I know you may find this distressing, or like some "friends" or "colleagues" you may say--"it didn't really happen" or "who started it?" but you need to know, From Rwandan Genocide wiki: The genocide was planned by members of the core political elite, many of whom occupied positions at top levels of the national government. Perpetrators came from the ranks of the Rwandan army, the Gendarmerie, government-backed militias including the Interahamwe and Impuzamugambi. Sound familiar to you? It does to me. 12-22-2017 CHIP, child health care insurance discussion, please watch-- http://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber/watch/mother-s-plea-dangerous-risk-to-kids-without-chip-1121184835834 Don't be a holocaust or Rohingya Genocide denier--MSF data-- http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/msf-least-6700-rohingya-killed-during-attacks-myanmar?source=ADD170U0U00&utm_source=AdWords&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=GooglePaid&utm_content=nonbrand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_LCMpcKc2AIV14SzCh11oQKjEAAYASAAEgJjivD_BwE Burmese general Maung Maung Soe hit by US sanctions. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42447510# Burmese general Maung Maung Soe sanctioned by US Treasury for Hurma Righta Abuses in Arakan/Rakhine. https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20171221.aspx First 6 not guilty in violent Inauguration Day protests, video from Washington Post building https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/the-first-of-six-people-on-trial-in-violent-inauguration-day-protests-is-found-not-guilty/2017/12/21/6c97fd84-ded9-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html?utm_term=.3faa10b8c67d Cambodian Genocide--wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide Dr. Yanghee Lee, UN Human Rights Rapporteur for Burma--don't mess with her-- http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/SP/CountriesMandates/MM/Pages/SRMyanmar.aspx CNN -- mass graves discovered in Arakan, 2 Reuters reporters missing, UN Human Rights Rapporteur Dr Yanghee Lee denied access http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/20/asia/myanmar-grave-journalists-intl/index.html CNN Rohingya page including time line-- http://www.cnn.com/specials/asia/rohingya Burma national heritage of color parabaiks (folded books) http://www.uclmyanmar.org/national-heritage-of-colour-parabikes/ Abuse of Singapore domestic workers, many Burmese-- https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-03-15/vile-abuse-singapore-s-domestic-workers Abuse against domestic workers in Singapore--many Burmese Mario Batali steps away from restaurant chain amid allegations of sexual abuse. https://ny.eater.com/2017/12/11/16759540/mario-batali-sexual-misconduct-allegations Special post--Rachel Maddow--MSNBC--GOP attack on Mueller Team falls apart. http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-attack-on-mueller-trump-investigation-falls-apart-1119446083709 Peter Morgan--complete screenplay--The Queen http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/TheQueenScreenplay.pdf This is much better written than The Audience, the conflicts and inner conflicts are better delignated. I didn't read all of The Audience, but I felt it went serially and was too "talky." kmk 12-29-2017 Clips from Peter Morgan's play The Audience, which I saw, but I could not hear very well- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44HTf_mYJNk My short story Black Belt in Himal Southasia. http://himalmag.com/black-belt/ Addendum--my post on my book, "Rohingya Genocide" I decided to write this book, as there is already an excellent academic book on the Rohingya as well as a journalistic book which interviewed both perpetrators and survivors. I wanted to give you a lot of information in a compact form, as well as the names of leading specialists and and what we have done and hope to do. A summary of a history of Muslims in Burma, the legacy of wars of territorial conquest and ethnic minority prisoners of war is also given as well as many images and maps. Rape was a weapon of war has been catalogued and confirmed by groups such as Human Rights Watch, Shan Women Action News Network, and other groups, not just against Muslims, but also against other minorities, such as Christians, Karen, Shan, Chin and other groups. I also go into the question of why it is misinformed to blame Aung San Suu Kyi, who is NOT a de facto leader, but a nominal leader, while the junta is still a junta. One Christian of Persian origin asked me if junta is the name of an Islamic terrorist group. Junta is a military government. Of course, the Burmese junta would love to label the 20! "terrorists" with muskets and home made weapons as "terrorists" BUT instead we now talk of the Rohingya Genocide. Paperback copy of my Activists' Handbook, Rohingya Genocide in Burma (2012-2017) is now available on Amazon-- https://www.amazon.com/Rohingya-Genocide-Burma-2012-2017-Actvists/dp/1981805028/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1513645031&sr=1-5&refinements=p_27%3AKyi+Kyi+May Rohingya Camp in Bangladesh--Medicins sans Frontieres. Both e book and paperback editions of my book Rohingya Genocide in Burma (2012-2017) now out-- https://www.amazon.com/Books-Kyi-May/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AKyi%20Kyi%20May Note" "Kyi Kyi May" is not me, but the former BBC Burmese section chief who was fired for being pro-junta. Two reliable sources told me that a Burmese dissident died in the 1990s due to her. Both my sources were broadcasters/journalists and one was a westerner and has written for BBC. 12-18-2017 Both e book and paperback of my latest publication, Rohingya Genocide (2012-2017) now available on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Books-Kyi-May/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AKyi%20Kyi%20May Universities Central Library, Rangoon, website http://www.uclmyanmar.org/state-counsellor-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-visited-the-universities-central-library/ Kelly Currie, US Special rep--UNHRC special session on Burma. https://geneva.usmission.gov/2017/12/06/eov-unhrc-special-session-on-burma/ I knew Kelly slightly in 1997-98. She's a Republican, she was not helpful with my serious concerns with the radio station where I worked then. She started her phone conversation with, "Congressman Porter thinks --" But what could the congressman think without looking into what was going in. There was a very clear sabotaging and angling of radio programs to undermine Aung San Suu Kyi and democracy in Burma. Eventually, "Thomas A. Jerk" was fired after 10 years. He was fired because someone sued him, who had been asked in a job interview, "If I ask you to speak ill of Daw Suu will you do it." The radio station from hell was obliged to pay up $300,000 for this piece of smart alecking. BUT, those of my colleagues who remained on till 2012, told me that the jerks male and female who succeeded Thomas were just as bad, in fact worse. In 2012, all my remaining colleagues there from the 1990s were fired, right during the time when Daw Suu was in town. Lots of injustices and political slanting, needing to be corrected. kmk 12-18-2017 My article from 2014 in Truthout, Speakout--Fire in the Eves to-- http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/24889-fire-in-the-eves-to-major-conflagration-its-high-time-to-evaluate-burmas-so-called-democratic-reforms Federal appeals judge will resign after sexual misconduct allegations-- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/federal-appeals-judge-announces-immediate-retirement-amid-investigation-prompted-by-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct/2017/12/18/6e38ada4-e3fd-11e7-a65d-1ac0fd7f097e_story.html?utm_term=.3fd0acd85e32 You can now pre-order Kindle e book edition of my activists' handbook--Rohingya Genocide (2012-2017) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078G3W3XL?ref_=pe_2427780_160035660 The release date is Dec 21st and the print book is in the works. kmk 12-17-2017 Are the British royals worth it? https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/is-the-british-royal-family-worth-the-money/278052/ N. Korea's neighbors, China & Russia carry out high tech drills in Beijing. http://www.newsweek.com/russia-and-china-join-forces-anti-missile-defense-drill-beijing-750711 Special counsel Robert Mueller obtains legal access of 000s of trmp transition emails https://www.cbsnews.com/news/special-counsel-robert-mueller-gets-access-to-thousands-of-trump-transition-emails-ap/ SNL X'mas new--trimming the tree-- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/12/17/snl-cold-open-trumps-white-house-celebrates-christmas-by-remembering-the-haters-and-losers/?utm_term=.dbad8578e4a3 Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.) edited--Let it Fly with the Flowers: Essays about the Institute of Economics, Rangoon, Burma. https://www.amazon.com/Let-Fly-Flowers-Institute-Economics/dp/1514616378 My memoir, A Time to Write: Not just about Burma-- https://www.amazon.com/Time-Write-Burma-Memoir-Memoirs/dp/153977421X Al Jazeera special report from 2012 on Rohingya/Burma (myanmar) warning GRAPHIC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I81_-wrHv88 NY drone photos http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/drone-photos-of-new-york-city.html Google search results, Is Trump going to fire Mueller--links don't come through, you will have to Google on your own More for Is trump going to fire Mueller Is Trump going to fire Mueller? 6 disturbing signs. – ThinkProgress https://thinkprogress.org/is-trump-going-to-fire-mueller-6-disturbing-signs-c3eec263... 5 days ago - No one really knows what Donald Trump will do next — not even Donald Trump. 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Firing Robert Mueller makes sense only if Trump is guilty on Russia https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/.../trump...mueller.../823479001/ Nov 2, 2017 - Many of President Trump's biggest supporters want him to make Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation go away. Some suggest that the president fire Mueller. Some propose that he pardon everybody and anybody conceivably involved in colluding with Russia. And some argue for both. That is all ... Trump is Going to Fire Mueller - Patheos www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2017/12/10/trump-going-fire-mueller/ 4 days ago - Trump has publicly declared any investigation into his finances would constitute a red line, and that he reserves the option to fire Mueller if he investigates them. Earlier this month, it was reported that Mueller has subpoenaed records at Deutsche Bank, an institution favored both by Trump and the Russian ... Rod Rosenstein: No good cause to fire Mueller - CNNPolitics - CNN.com www.cnn.com/2017/12/13/politics/rod-rosenstein-house-judiciary.../index.html 10 hours ago - Jerry Nadler, if he's seen a cause to fire Mueller, Rosenstein responded: "No." And later when asked by another member of the committee if President Donald Trump has asked him to remove Mueller from the investigation, he said no one has asked him to do that. Read More. "I am not going to be ... Searches related to Is trump going to fire Mueller who can fire special counsel will trump resign the presidency robert mueller education robert mueller special counsel robert mueller wife robert mueller net worth remove trump from office robert mueller political party Rosenstein defended Mueller, despite aggressive questioning from GOP https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/12/13/republicans-embarrass-themselves-while-questioning-rod-rosenstein/?utm_term=.9a26eaa61586 Wary of trmp, foreign born tech workers choose Canada over USA-- http://beta.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-tech-canada-20171214-story.html Canada will gain what USA loses, and as tech grows fast, it may be evident in next 5 to 10 years. SAD. 12-14-2017 Federal Communications Commission (USA) to repeal net neutrality. http://beta.latimes.com/business/la-fi-net-neutrality-fcc-20171214-story.html Providers will be able to control how fast you see a website. 12-14-2017 Deputy Attorney General USA Rod Rosenstein testifies before House Judiciary Committee-- http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/13/politics/rod-rosenstein-house-judiciary-committee/index.html What happens to China if US and N Korea go to war? https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahsu/2017/12/13/what-happens-to-chinas-economy-if-a-conflict-breaks-out-between-north-korea-and-the-u-s/#4ede99c532fe From 2012--Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi at Columbia Univ. ymhttp://www.worldleaders.columbia.edu/events/discussion-featuring-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi Actually very good presentation and Qs. A lot better than the one at American Univ. in D.C., wh was not run by the Univ, but by the infighting Burmese community. It makes me sad to see all the flak she has been getting recently. km Kyi May Kaung Words Sounds and Images My official website- http://www.kmkaung.com/ Kyi May Kaung's review of Bertil Lintner's Outrage. https://www.amazon.com/review/R3VJ3JC3AMG6XO/ref=pe_1098610_137716200_cm_rv_eml_rv0_rv U.S. universities whose graduates make highest starting salaries-- https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/12/01/10-national-universities-where-grads-make-highest-starting-salaries/23294237/#slide=7169651#fullscreen California wildfires likely to spread further--already 800 buildings destroyed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/12/10/california-fires-rage-into-second-week-as-massive-blazes-expected-to-spread/?utm_term=.52213e882a24 SNL X'mas for you--previous SNL post trending nicely. https://decider.com/2017/12/10/snl-james-franco-sza-recap/?_ga=2.144533874.652110086.1512921092-786459401.1512921092 Better link trmp vs reporters CNN & WAPO https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/09/trump-cnn-wikileaks-288628 trmp calls for WAPO reporter who apologized already to be fired-- Just trmp attacking Wapo--but he's the much bigger black pot, than one reporter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/president-trump-calls-for-washington-post-reporter-who-apologized-for-inaccurate-tweet-to-be-fired/2017/12/09/2fb467de-dd4b-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html?utm_term=.1585df24b13d ">https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/president-trump-calls-for-washington-post-reporter-who-apologized-for-inaccurate-tweet-to-be-fired/2017/12/09/2fb467de-dd4b-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html?utm_term=.1585df24b13d My friend blogger blogging about me, sort of-- As she uses "Kanlaon" handle, I don't feel I should give her real name, https://anthropologist.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/kyi-may-kaung-berlin-2005/ But she wrote an amazing story called Mayor of the Roses, which describes a mass rape inflicted on a Philippine Beauty Queen, which was pinned on her boyfriend. "The autopsy collected 42 different semen samples." I met "Kanlaon" in Berlin where 5 or 6 of us from SE Asia were invited as "Writers who dare to confront." They found us on the Internet. One was Gunawan Mohammed, founder of Tempo, the Indonesian Time Magazine. Also the group included Linh Dinh, Vietnamese-born poet and his friend Chan or Chang, who did not speak English. Loved that part, meeting other writers, hotel on River Spree, though did not like the ominous Burmese men who came looking for me, whom I managed to avoid. They spotted me as I was about to go back to hotel, and I recognized them speaking to each other in probably very broken German, I didn't like the female Philippine ambassador either, who came with K's mother, a concert pianist, and denied no such thing as mass rape took place, Poor K had to go with them to dinner, though we urged her not to. She has since given me permission to write about it, but I have not written a short story about it yet. In another unrelated book talk I hosted on Orhan Pamuk in Silver Spring, MD, Turkish embassy folk came and denied an Armenian genocide had ever taken place, but a woman who came who had read all of Pamuk's books and the rest of us talked back, and the 3 people left in a huff-- but now I see what happened in the summer when Ergodan's goons beat up Turkish US Citizens in DC demonstrating, I feel a bit scared. FYI, the Burmese embassy was always very ugly, filmed demonstrations from inside, once greeted a dissident with a baseball bat and smashed windscreen of a car that dissident parked in their driveway. I post these things because there are some Burmese who are sort of wishy washy as regards the junta. To them I would just say, like Ygritte in Game of Thrones: You know nothing Jon Snow. Attachment is Ishtar Gate, at Berlin Pergamon Museum. This is the real thing. What Saddam Hussein re-built is a replica. km 12-10-2017 Ishtar Gate at Pergamon Museum, Berlin, photo copyright Kyi May Kaung Kyi May Kaung Words Sounds and Images Interview of veteran Burma journalist, in fact he's a legend, Bertil Lintner on Rohingya of Burma. https://scroll.in/article/860053/rohingya-refugee-crisis-its-not-muslims-versus-buddhists-says-writer-bertil-lintner Photos from Internet Bitcoin tumbles 20% in 10 hours https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/inside-the-market/market-updates/after-dramatic-gains-bitcoin-tumbles-20-per-cent-in-10-hours/article37267691/ Special post--ABC--Diana, in her own words (Diana, Princess of Wales) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDjFiN9U0mg A few of Diana's friends talk to the filmmaker-- It's a searing indictment of Prince Charles, the establishment and the monarchy in general. No wonder they don't like it in the UK. But it is a well made documentary and does set the record straight, in my opinion. In Burmese terms, the prince was a koke ka myinn, someone who acts up in secret while keeping a "dignified" exterior. The filmography, culled from news shots, is very telling and quite brilliant. The Muslims in the story however, are hardly mentioned--Dr. Hasnat Khan, heart surgeon, and her fiance at the time of her death, Dodi Fayed and his father. A Youtube video seems to have been removed, but a few years ago I saw a documentary financed by Mr. Fayed Sr, which alleged Princess Diana was killed by a conspiracy set up by Philip and Charles. Mr Al Fayed insists the Princess was pregnant by his son, and that they were going to get engaged. My own opinion is that she was trying to escape as Jackie Kennedy did with her marriage to Onassis, but it just did not happen. Maybe, the Establishment was too strong to fight, and those on Diana's side were not so strong. In any case,it's good people are speaking out more. Photos from Internet. 12-8-2017 Best books on India-- http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/arts-books/travel/10-best-indian-novels-and-travel-books-travelouges-salman-rushdie-william-dalrymple-vikram-seth-a6672421.html To:you Details http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/arts-books/travel/10-best-indian-novels-and-travel-books-travelouges-salman-rushdie-william-dalrymple-vikram-seth-a6672421.html I've read some of these, incld White Tiger, but I don't know why Dalrymple's, The Last Moghul and White Moghuls is not on this list. I loved City of Djinns too, and if I ever go to India, will take that small light book with me. km My blog audience is changing again, they are in this order, highest to lowest-- Malaysia--last week-1514 France 327--for years and years, front runner USA 277--for yrs and yrs, 2nd after France Indonesia, 152--first time I see this Singapore Ukraine Germany Portugal--all first timers Burma--minimal, insignificant audience. Not surprising as I have shifted my focus away. UAE--first time appearance, But sudden upsurge for few days from "Russia" was I think bots, and now due to Rohingya posts? "Russia" is very fishy, in 2016, sudden upsurge for one or two days, and then disappeared, and same thing now. I don't think they are real people or else they are FSB. Yesterday, total, 500+ day before yesterday, 700+ I consider it pretty good for a blog that's over 10 years old. I give myself some flowers. Photo, K M Kaung--copyright Today is Pearl Harbor Day--12-7-1941-- See Presidential historian Michael Beschloss' Twitter acct for many photos. https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC?lang=en Mueller team subpoenas Deutsche Bank https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-deutsche-bank/trump-lawyer-denies-deutsche-bank-got-subpoena-on-trump-accounts-idUSKBN1DZ0XN Best Saturday Night Live in ages -- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/alec-baldwin-visited-by-ghosts-trumps-past-snl-cold-open-1063782 Historical fiction by time period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_fiction_by_time_period BBC The Secret World of Haute Couture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqkgo6fV8q8 Phantom Thread--last movie with Daniel Day Lewis who is retiring-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Thread K.M. Kaung--Dancing like a Peacock and Koel Bird https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Like-Peacock-Koel-Bird/dp/1497514851 Based on real stories, fictionalized. What it's like living a marginal existence. Some of the short stories and novellas I have published. Not all of them are set in Burma or Thailand, but some are, and all are about human beings struggling to be free. Kyi May 12-2-2017 Collection of essays about Institute of Economics, Burma, edited by me, Kyi May Kaung Trmp says he's not worried, then tweets-- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-has-nothing-to-fear-from-flynn-then-stokes-new-controversy-with-tweet/2017/12/02/034a9e56-d7ac-11e7-95bf-df7c19270879_story.html?utm_term=.d2ab4e1bd9f6 Elton John singing at Princess Diana's funeral in 1997+ Earl Spencer's tribute-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg_MIysNGIU Happy New Year--Chinese pilgrim Fa Hsien's account... Niagara Falls, not totally frozen over yet but Win... Politico: Bannon puts Jared through the grinder--... trmp claimed all Haitian visa holders "all have AI... Trmp's tweets ref McCabe called stupid, and they p... 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__label__cc	0.742998	0.257002	Nurturing the Creative Spirit Within Inspiration, Resources & Bible studies from Jody Thomae Bio: By Way of Introduction Books: "God's Creative Gift" & "The Creator's Healing Power" Media: Reviews, Interviews & Testimonials Bible Studies: Digging Into His Word General Devotionals Music: About "Song of the Beloved" Creative Spiritual Practices Creative Prayer & Worship Embodied Practices Books, Blogs & Pages Dance & Embodied Prayer Drama, Theatre & Film Prayer & Inspiration Visual & Fine Art Writing, Poetry & Journaling Order my NEW Book Order My 1st Book Order My Music Like Jody Thomae on Facebook © Jody Thomae, 2013-2018 Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Jody Thomae with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Any questions can be directed to jodythomae@zoominternet.net Protected by Copyscape Embodied: How We “Treat” Trauma My husband might suggest to you that I’m addicted to the BBC series Call the Midwife, and, perhaps he’s correct. I recently viewed a powerful episode that dealt with the issue of trauma, and more specifically how we “treat” those who’ve been affected by trauma, particularly in our early response to trauma. In my mind, it conjured thoughts of sterile emergency rooms and even more sterile conversations with those required to gather evidence… of not-so-well-meaning statements of “should’ve-known-better” judgement and “if-I-were-you” advice… of well-meaning friends who try so very hard, but still fail in their offerings… In Call the Midwife (series 5, episode 6) a violent attacker is on the loose. Even with support and care, the great weight of shame keeps two women from making a report to the police, and the third woman attacked is young Sister Mary Cynthia, one of the sisters of the local Anglican order that helps care for women in the Southeast District of London in the 1960’s. Upon her return to Nonnatus House, she is at once scolded by Sister Julienne for riding her bike home alone late at night, of course, highlighting the victim-shaming that is often so common in these situations. As she begins to come out of the fog of her attack, Sister Mary Cynthia becomes angry and won’t allow anyone to touch or console her. I watch with frustration, “Why won’t she accept the comfort of those who love her…” but I realize that her anger must work itself to the top and be expelled with all the questions, doubts and fears along with it. In perhaps the most powerful scene of the episode, Sister Mary Cynthia goes for a bath. Her friends want to help her but she snaps at them as she enters the bathroom. She wants left alone to wash away the grime of the affront against her. They submit to her command, and yet they are worried and beg her not to lock the door. And while the younger women honor Sister Mary Cynthia’s request, Sister Monica Joan does not and proceeds to enter the bathroom. Sister Monica Joan is the oldest sister of the order. She is often portrayed as a bit “off-her-rocker” as the euphemism goes… prone to wandering, confusion, and sneaking the last piece of cake. Not an episode goes by that she doesn’t blurt out some odd statement that is either completely baffling or, as often the case, compellingly brilliant. As Sister Monica Joan enters the bathroom, Sister Mary Cynthia does not protest. Cynthia slowly, gingerly, slips her outer garment from her shoulders and stands before the hot tub in her long white undergarment. In a moment that eerily echoes the rite of baptism, Sister Monica Joan takes Cynthia’s hand and, almost ceremoniously, helps her step into tub and lower into its cleansing waters. Quietly, tenderly, Monica Joan begins to bathe Cynthia, wiping away the dirt, grime and shame of the physical attack. Then, into the silence of this sacred ritual, she speaks, “There is a time for us to mortify our flesh and a time to cherish it and marvel at its strength.” I am profoundly struck by the sacredness of this moment. I am also struck by the idea of how tenderly and sacredly we must treat trauma. Peter Levine says, “The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.” I have seen those affected by trauma who are destroyed, unable to conquer the nightmare that haunts them. I have also seen those who have transformed places of deepest pain into places of resurrection and redemption. I cannot tell you there’s an easy formula to guarantee the second outcome, but I can tell you that how we treat those affected by trauma, especially in the critical first hours or first “telling” of the abuse or attack, helps others in their journey in overcoming tragedy. Just a few simple thoughts to help us all become more trauma-informed: Establish safe space Do your best to create a sense of safety by inviting them to sit in a place that faces exits and doors. Remind them that they are safe now, and that you will be there to make sure they remain safe. If possible, do not leave the room. Give them space, and do not enter their space without asking permission first. In the Call the Midwife episode, everyone wanted to reach out and provide comfort, which is wonderful if that’s what the person desires, but please don’t assume that it is. Offer practical assistance Offer them a blanket, if possible. Place a bottle of water there for them if they want it. Offer to bring them a warm beverage, but don’t press them. Offer and back away. Let them know that you are there to offer assistance and help them with anything they need. Listen with an open heart and mind Not only offer assistance but be there to listen. And then listen! Do not offer advice or victim-shame. Never say, “If only…” as in: “If only you hadn’t gone out with someone you didn’t know” or “If only you hadn’t been walking alone.” They are already bringing that shame on themselves in their own head: don’t add to it! Create sacred space People who have been harmed might not only be experiencing guilt and shame, but also questioning why God let this happen to them. Again, listen! Give them space and permission to ask the questions of lament and grief without judgement, lecturing or preaching. Why is it that Sister Mary Cynthia wouldn’t let anyone help her, but when Sister Monica Joan stepped in without permission she allowed her in? I surmise that it has something to do with her aged wisdom and quiet strength, gained through years of living life in a fallen world. Like a great grandmother, or perhaps hallowed saint, she steps in with quiet mercy and tender compassion. No judgement or questions—only love and grace. With her life-gained-wisdom, she brings a sacred, glowing ember into the dark night of her young friend’s shattered soul, and simply offers to be there. She quietly assists and brings gentle cleansing in such way as to echo back to the sacred rite of baptismal cleansing—a cleansing that brings new life to mind, body and soul. William Butler Yeats said, “We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us to see their own images and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even a fiercer life because of our silence.” In the midst of someone else’s chaos, be the peace. In the midst of weakness, be the quiet strength. In the midst of terror, be the courage. When tragedy strikes, be the still water that allows others to see their own beautiful reflection, that helps them live a clearer life, perhaps a fiercer life, despite the circumstances in which they find themselves. What other ways have you found to be helpful (or not helpful) in times of tragedy? Comment below. We’d love to hear from you! Also… Check out MORE EMBODIED SERIES posts here! Shine brightly, Jody Thomae © 2019 All Rights Reserved Jody Thomae is the author of God’s Creative Gift—Unleashing the Artist in You and The Creator’s Healing Power—Restoring the Broken to Beautiful, both in-depth, interactive devotional books that are part of the Bible Studies to Nurture the Creative Spirit Within series and serve as resources for creative Christians, artists, and lovers of beauty and worship. Jody has been involved in worship arts ministry since 1997, and is a guest lecturer on creativity, embodiment, and spirituality with Healing Care Ministries. Her passion is for the revelation of God to be made more real through the prophetic use of the arts in church and the use of creativity in formational and healing ministry. It is her desire to portray the message of Christ’s desperate and unfailing love for His people to help sustain the hearts of the broken and weary. She is particularly interested in the reclamation of the body in the healing of trauma and works in the area of embodiment with survivors of abuse, addiction, and trauma and is a lead trainer for Trauma Sensitive YogaFaith, hosting yearly trainings in Ohio. Print and digital (Kindle) copies of the Bible Studies to Nurture the Creative Spirit Within series are available through Amazon. Signed print copies are available for purchase through Square where her resources are available most affordably (and in bulk amounts for your creative ministry team or group study). Jody’s devotional CD, Song of the Beloved, is also available through Square, iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, and other music outlets. If you liked this won't you please share it? Tags Christianity, embodied prayer, healing, Jesus, quotes, recovery, redemption, restoration, spirituality, trauma, trauma informed, trauma sensitive, yoga Kintsugi of the Soul, edition 19 6 thoughts on “Embodied: How We “Treat” Trauma” After more than 20 years of life with an abusive husband I found myself in a situation in which I , for the first time, told someone of the abuse. Her reaction was to rant and rage , pound the table and be absolutely incensed and appalled that anyone would treat me so.! And for the first time in ages I felt within my rights to be angry at him for his abuse. This was transforming freedom. Due to circumstances, I never had contact with her again, but she initiated a change in my life. Jody Thomae Thank you so much for sharing your experience and wisdom. What incredible validation you received that day!! To have someone HEAR and RESPOND and RISE up like a woman hearing this should is a valuable treasure. Amen! May you continue to be blessed on your healing journey, Jody Bobbi J Andrade Good word, Jody Thank you Bobbi!! Blessings to you, my friend! Pingback: Kintsugi of the Soul, edition 31 – Nurturing the Creative Spirit Within Pingback: EMBODIED :: Postures of Prayer & Praise – Nurturing the Creative Spirit Within Leave a Reply to Jody Thomae Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1358
__label__wiki	0.741798	0.741798	divergent divergent trilogy book 1 Download Book Divergent Divergent Trilogy Book 1 in PDF format. You can Read Online Divergent Divergent Trilogy Book 1 here in PDF, EPUB, Mobi or Docx formats. Author : Veronica Roth The explosive debut by No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth. DIVERGENT – a major motion picture series. Allegiant Divergent Trilogy Book 3 What if your whole world was a lie? The thrillingly dark conclusion to the No. 1 New York Times bestselling DIVERGENT trilogy. DIVERGENT – a major motion picture series. Divergent Trilogy No. 1 New York Times bestsellers DIVERGENT, INSURGENT and ALLEGIANT in collector’s trilogy set. DIVERGENT, INSURGENT and ALLEGIANT were major blockbuster movies in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Genre : Young Adult Fiction This first book in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy is the novel the inspired the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet. 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__label__cc	0.626426	0.373574	Leid Stories–The Clinton Foundation Is A Millstone Around the Clintons’ Necks, And They Can’t Shake It Off–01.31.19 Retired Wall Street banker Charles Ortel, a crusader against corporate and institutional fraud, files his latest report on the Clinton Foundation. Ortel's years-long, self-initiated forensic investigation of the foundation and its network of spinoff entities has revealed them to be a money-making machine for the Clintons, who leveraged (and still are leveraging) their political clout and connections to solicit big-money "donations" to their putative "charities," running afoul of U.S. charity laws in the process. Leid Stories–Maduro Between A Rock and Two Hard Places; Pentagon Says No ‘National Emergency’ At Border–01.30.19 Can Venezuela's embattled president, Nicolas Maduro, even with support from Russia, China and Turkey, hold out much longer against the mounting pressure by the United States and allies to remove him from office? Defeated in his plan to build a wall along the 2,000 mile-long southern border with Mexico, President Donald Trump plans to fund the $5.7-billion project by declaring it a national emergency. But Pentagon officials testifying yesterday before the bipartisan House Armed Services Committee said there is no national emergency at the border. Leid Stories–Why Is the United States A Principal Actor In Venezuela Crisis?; Trump’s Brilliant Threat/Idea: Declare A National Emergency–01.29.19 Leid Stories' politically savvy listeners analyze these current policy issues. Leid Stories–U.S., Allies Push Coup in Venezuela; Trump Hints Shutdown 2; We Called It On Starbucks’ Ex-CEO … and More!–01.28.19 Leid Stories looks at major issues in the news, and updates a few stories we were way ahead of the pack on. Leid Stories–First, Free Your Mind!–01.25.19 You're cordially invited to our weekly open forum, "Free Your Mind Friday," where your opinion really matters. Call 888-874-4888 and share your thoughts on the issues of the day or any subject you choose. We especially like it when folks offer solutions to problems. Leid Stories–Trump Stokes Overthrow of Venezuela’s Maduro; The Shutdown Continues, But to What End?; Is Trump Winning the Propaganda War?–01.24.19 Leid Stories looks at troubling signs that we're losing ground. Bigly. Leid Stories–Puerto Rico: Still In the Eye of the Storm–01.23.19 Citizen-journalist Elisa Llenza has been reporting for Leid Stories on the devastating impact of Hurricane Maria, the worst natural disaster to hit Puerto Rico in almost 100 years. Her report today confirms that the island nation remains in the eye of the storm, as political, real estate and unseen interests wrangle over post-hurricane development money. Meanwhile, they appear to be running their own parallel governmental system to divvy up the spoils while avoiding oversight and input from the people. Leid Stories–Fuel Crisis in Haiti Compounds Other Major Woes; U.S. Pushes Ouster of Venezuelan President–01.22.19 Kim Ives, investigative reporter, independent documentarian and editor of the English-language editions of Haïti Liberté, updates his report on Haiti's fuel crisis, which has added to the turmoil in the debt-ridden nation. The Trump administration says Venezuela is not a "real" democracy and is actively encouraging the ouster of the country's president, Nicolas Maduro, saying his recent reelection was rigged and therefore illegitimate. Leid Stories asks: Are the U.S.'s involvement and actions regarding Venezuela legitimate? Leid Stories–Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: The Debt We Owe–01.21.19 He was born on Jan. 15, 1929, but a nationwide (and international) push to honor the life, work and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. resulted in the designation of the third Monday of January as a federal holiday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Leid Stories is encouraging all of us to give real meaning to this day. Leid Stories–Don’t Fall for Their Madness, Resist and Free Your Mind!–01.18.19 It's "Free Your Mind Friday," our weekly free-form open forum in which we trade in information, opinions and ideas, and you take the conversation where you want it to go. Prove you aren't falling for their games. Call 888-874-4888 and join us in freeing our minds.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1365
__label__cc	0.622909	0.377091	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark June 11, 2019 / ShereeKUWTP / 6 Comments I managed to score this Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at a market stall, for the princely sum of just $5. I’d been searching for it for so long, I’d happily have paid four times that. According to the author bio, Muriel Spark was pretty damn prolific, and yet this is the only book of hers that I’ve ever come across – and it was bloody hard to find! It’s definitely the best-known of her works, first published in The New Yorker, and then as a book by Macmillan, in 1961. The introduction promises: “… a sublimely funny book. It is also very short and has much to say about sex.” Honey, once you’ve made the sale, stop selling. Buy The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie here. It opens in 1930s Edinburgh. The titular Miss Jean Brodie – who is, indeed, in her prime, and doesn’t waste a chance to remind you of that fact – is a teacher at a school for girls. She has selected for herself six ten-year-old students, her special favourites, the “Brodie set”. It was a funny change of pace going from The Thirty-Nine Steps, which had an almost entirely male cast, to The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, which (by nature of its setting and its story) is almost entirely female. Under Miss Brodie’s mentorship, these six girls (Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, Monica, and Eunice) learn all about world travels, love, and fascism. Yep, apparently that’s the new reading, ‘riting, ‘rithmetic, and it’s one heck of a combo! Miss Brodie finds herself entangled in a dramatic love triangle with her colleagues: the singing teacher, Mr Gordon Lowther, and the handsome one-armed (married!) war veteran, Mr Teddy Lloyd. It’s Lloyd that really gets Miss Brodie’s motor running, but ultimately she turns him down. He is married, after all, and she has some self-respect. She embarks on an affair with Lowther instead, probably closing her eyes and thinking of her one-armed Teddy all the while… Anyway, the girls grow up (as kids are wont to do), but they maintain the close bonds they formed under Miss Brodie’s tutelage, and she keeps having them all around for tea and whatnot. The headmistress at the school, Miss Mackay, is not a fan of Miss Brodie’s teaching methods and the course this is all taking (hard to imagine why), so she starts throwing a few tea parties of her own, trying to gather dirt from the girls that would give her grounds for dismissal. Sudden unemployment sure does put a quick end to a woman’s “prime”, eh? Now, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie does have a jumpy timeline, which normally I’m not inclined to enjoy, but I actually didn’t mind it so much in this case. One of the “flash forwards” in the story reveals that one of the Brodie set will ultimately (gasp!) betray their patroness, dobbing her in to the headmistress… but doesn’t show the reader which one. It was really cleverly done by Spark, and added an extra air of mystery and suspicion to the whole thing. Anyway, back in the regular timeline, poor Teddy is still lusting after Miss Brodie, and (prepare yourself for an avalanche of creepy) he starts having the girls from the Brodie set come around and pose for his portraits. He ends up drawing all of their faces as his lady love vomit. Let me say that one more time for the cheap seats in the back: this teacher literally paints Miss Jean Brodie’s primey head onto the bodies of her pubescent students. Isn’t that the grossest thing you’ve ever fucking heard?! And yet, they all seem like they’re cool with it! Miss Brodie’s pretty damn flattered, even. She pulls a few strings, trying to egg Rose on to having an affair with the creepy old guy, figuring the young girl would be an adequate distraction from all of her prime-ness… but Teddy ends up sticking it to plain ol’ Sandy, instead, much to everyone’s surprise. Oh, and while all this is going on, Lowther dumps Miss Brodie. Pretty understandable really, given everything. And this is where Miss Brodie really fucks up: she accepts a new member to the Brodie set, Joyce Emily. This newbie seems open to the whole fascism thing, so Brodie fans the flames, encouraging her to run away and fight in the Spanish Civil War on the nationalist side. Of course, Joyce Emily follows the suggestion… and is promptly killed en route. Yikes! Sandy has become Miss Brodie’s confidante, so she gets all the inside scoop on this turn of events, all the while still fucking the teacher that paints his lover’s heads on students bodies (I’m sorry, I can’t get over that, it’s just so icky, and NONE OF THEM SEEM TO CARE! WHY?!). Sandy’s interest in Teddy wanes over time, but her Swimfan-y obsession with Miss Brodie reaches boiling point. She winds up approaching the headmistress, giving her all the dirt she has on Miss Brodie, which (it turns out) is enough to get her fired. Then the little betrayer converts to Catholicism and becomes a nun, Miss Brodie dies never knowing that Sandy ratted her out, the end. Now, maybe I’ve been at this reading-and-reviewing-the-classics game a little too long, but I couldn’t help reading this as a religious allegory. I mean, I don’t know dick about religion, so I could be way off-base, but hear me out: Miss Jean Brodie is Jesus (right?), and she gathers all these disciples (students) around her, and goes about preaching an alternate worldview, until Judas (Sandy) betrays her. That’s about right, isn’t it? Even if it isn’t, The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie is ultimately a story about loyalty. You can tell, because Sandy keeps on repeating “it’s only possible to betray where loyalty is due”, which is an interesting moral philosophy in and of itself. It’s also a funny book, in the way that Jane Austen’s Emma was funny: I didn’t laugh out loud, but I appreciated how it was witty and clever. And damn, Spark manages to cram a whole lotta story into very few words: this review is about as long as the book! If you haven’t already had your fill of creepy for the day, here’s the final serve: Miss Jean Brodie is based on a real person! Christina Kay was Spark’s teacher for two years at James Gillespie’s School For Girls, and Spark credited her with encouraging her burgeoning talent for writing. Spark, like Sandy, also later converted to Catholicism. No word on whether the perverted painting and underhanded betrayal parts are true-to-life, but they do say “write what you know”… The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie will give you a lot to chew on; don’t be fooled by how short it is! It’s definitely worth a read. It’s unlikely to become your special all-time favourite, but it will stick with you for a while. I’m selfishly hoping you’ll all read it and be creeped out as I am, if for no other reason than to validate my feelings! It can’t just be me… right? My favourite Amazon reviews of The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie: “Good story no real purpose though. Well written.” – Courtney McFeters “Muriel Spark, to me, is one of the greatest writers of her time. Each book is a gem, but of course, this one really sparkles.” – Sally “I consider myself a fairly inteligent high school student who is eager to be challenged mentally. The problems with this book are several fold. It jumps around like a five-year on a jolt cola bender. The characters are unimpressive and serve somehow or another to emulate each other and form some sort of omni-character – which i dont care to figure out. The plot is about as unsubstantial and insignificant as an ant taking a dump. [note: the reason i am so profane is due to my hating the book and having to analyze the non-existent humor in it for my AP literature class, apologies around] THIS BOOK IS THE ATTEMPT BY MURIEL SPARK TO ACADEMICLLY POSTURE HERSELF INTO A POSITION OF PSEUDO-INTELLECTUAL AUTHORITY AND DISPLAY HER COMPLEX AND INSIGNIFICANT FICTION FORMAT. MAKE NO MISTAKE, THIS BOOK IS ONE PRETENSTIOUS(sic) PAGE AFTER ANOTHER. a mad millburn lit student (2002-2003)” – nozama woleb “I just wanted to say that this book made me wish that theyd legalise hand guns in the UK. It is the kind of book that makes little children cry. I have read more interesting stuff on the bake of crisp packets. In conclusion 9/10 phycopathic maniacs recomend reading The Pride of MJB before going on a random killing spree.” – Mr Cook’s Favourite Pupil Keep up with these too: What Do We Think Of The Dymocks Top 101 for 2019? 14 Great Bookstagram Accounts You Should Really Be Following Comedy, Mystery The Best Classics For Your Beach Bag 8 Most Annoying Characters In Literature ali whitelock Oh I LOVE your review Ms KUWTP! And so weird, I never noticed the creepiness you describe! How funny! I absolutely LOVE The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (and you’ll find her referenced in a few of my own scribblings). The movie is wonderful (Jean played by Maggi Smith) if you ever feel the need to watch it. I could watch it on a loop. Oh, fun fact, 2018 was the centenary of Muriel Spark’s birth. Was a big deal in Edinburgh 🙂 https://murielspark100.com Congrats AGAIN KUWTP on yet another riveting review! ShereeKUWTP (Post author) Awwww, thank you, Ali! I’m glad I did one of your special favourites justice 😉 I definitely want to check out the movie, if for no other reason than Maggie Smith is a QUEEN and I would watch her clean a kitchen. Thank you!! ❤️ Lord it sounds terrible, and what on earth is the prime for a person anyway, 18 when your muscles have fully developed, early twenties when your brain is actually working properly early 30s when you finally stop worrying about all the rubbish you put up in your twenties or when you retire and say you don’t care what anyone has to say because you’re going to do what you want from now on? I’m with the person forced to review it for a course. Hahahaha I suspect one’s “prime” is whatever age one is at the moment of contemplating it… I’m certainly in mine! 😉 Paula Vince Great wrap-up. This is one of the books I’ve just finished reading lately, and I tend to agree with your creepy verdict, and some of the harsher reviewers you’ve quoted 🙂 Still trying to get my thoughts around all those crazy happenings within such a very short book. If this is Muriel Spark’s best book, I’m not really anxious to go rushing out to find more 😀 I’m sort of 50/50 now, upon reflection, whether I want to read any more of her work. I feel like I won’t be actively seeking it out, but if I happen across one that looks interesting, I’ll give it a go. Looking forward to seeing your thoughts, though – glad we were on the same page (once again!) re: the creep factor.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1372
__label__cc	0.612427	0.387573	Versatility Will Be Kentucky’s Strength in 2019-2020 By Aaron Torres \| July 17, 2019 \| 8:00pm \| 6 Over the past couple weeks, John Calipari’s social media accounts have been ablaze with all of the typical, mid-summer Calipari content. You know what I’m talking about. Calipari is always putting out all sorts of good stuff – updates on old friends (no one catches up with more middle and high school friends than Calipari does), old players he’s run into on the recruiting trail, things like that. But quite a bit of Calipari’s content lately has also been about what next year’s team could look like. And once again Calipari is throwing out one of his favorite words – “position-less” – to describe next year’s roster. Yet while too many coaches throw around the phrase “position-less” haphazardly nowadays (heck, Calipari may have done it once or twice himself in the past) I think it accurately describes what the 2019-2020 Kentucky basketball roster will look like. I also think that the Wildcats positionless-ness (pretty sure I just made up that word) should actually be a strength heading into next season. It’s funny really, because when I interact with Kentucky fans (be it on social media, or when they e-mail into my podcast) it seems as though every UK fan’s biggest fear is that next year’s team simply isn’t big enough. That a roster with only Nick Richards, EJ Montgomery and Nate Sestina isn’t enough, and that they’re one big man short. That they “need” N’Faly Dante to reclassify and become a member of the 2020 Kentucky Wildcats. A couple thoughts on that. One, based on everything I’ve heard, I’m not sure that Dante will be able to reclassify in time to get to campus for next season. After all, making up a year of high school is harder than most folks realize – especially when the player involved (Dante) doesn’t speak English as his first language. Not to mention that after having KSR’s Jack Pilgrim on my podcast this week, Jack seems convinced that even if Dante were to reclassify, Kentucky might not be his first choice in colleges. (To listen to all of Jack’s comments on Kentucky recruiting, click here and download Monday’s show). Therefore, while any school would be willing to take a kid as talented as Dante, I’m not sure that Kentucky will get him for next season. More importantly, I’m not sure Kentucky necessarily “needs” him either. My mentor and friend, Coach Hall, likes our new team. He loves that we made a bunch of jump shots. He said this could be our best shooting team. Said we made our first nine shots when we scrimmaged. pic.twitter.com/VF7z0CZ67r — John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) July 15, 2019 It sounds preposterous, but just hear me out on this. Because in looking at Kentucky’s personnel for next season, they really do have the guys to play small ball and position-less. As a matter of fact, playing small ball and position-less might put their best players in the best position to succeed. Which might, in the process, help the Wildcats reach their potential as a team next season. At guard, it’s hard not to love the blend of talent and experience that Ashton Hagans, Immanuel Quickley and Tyrese Maxey provide. I’ve already written at length about Hagans this summer, where I explained why I truly believe he will evolve into an All-SEC type point guard. I also think that folks are completely sleeping on Immanuel Quickley and his ability to potentially serve as “instant offense” for this team. Quickley showed flashes last season and should be even better in 2019-2020 whether he comes off the bench or is in the starting lineup. As for Tyrese Maxey, well, his talent speaks for itself. He’s a McDonald’s All-American and was a guy that coaches told me was the best shooter all week at the Nike Hoops Summit back in April. This guy is just a straight up baller. There’s a reason that he’s projected by virtually everyone as Kentucky’s best long-term NBA prospect. Then there’s the wing and in the front-court, which is where things get really interesting for the Wildcats. We all know that Johnny Juzang will get buckets from deep, but it’s at the forward spots where Kentucky can really create mismatches and give opposing teams headaches. Kahlil Whitney (and to a smaller degree Keion Brooks) can play as a “traditional” three-man when Calipari wants to go big, with Montgomery at the four and Nick Richards at the five. Or, Whitney can play a new-age “small ball” four with Montgomery sliding over to the five. Can you imagine, the speed, versatility and athleticism that a Hagans-Maxey-Juzang-Whitney-Montgomery lineup would have, and the mismatches it would create? Same if you sub Quickley in at one of the guard spots. Or Brooks or Nate Sestina at the four spot. Remember, the Golden State Warriors just made three straight NBA Finals with what they called their “death lineup” of four perimeter players (Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Andre Iguodala, Kevin Durant) on the floor, with Draymond Green serving as the team’s “big.” While I’d never, ever compare the talent of college kids to the best team in the NBA over the last few years, Kentucky’s own version of the “death lineup” could give opponents all sorts of fits. Put simply, no matter what you think of this collection of players, it promises to be one of Calipari’s most versatile rosters yet. So no, don’t believe the narrative that Kentucky is “a big man” short, or that they “need” N’Faly Dante. Dante would certainly be nice. But this roster has the talent and versatility to not only win games – but give opponents nightmares in the process. Article written by Aaron Torres Aaron Torres is covering football and basketball for KSR this season after four years at Fox Sports. Follow him on Twitter @Aaron_Torres, Facebook or e-mail at [email protected] He is also the author of the only book written on the Calipari era, â€œOne and Fun: A Behind the Scenes Look at John Calipari and the 2010 Kentucky Wildcats.â€ 6 Comments for Versatility Will Be Kentucky’s Strength in 2019-2020 mashman 93 9:12 pm July 17, 2019 Permalink Love the podcast Aaron. I love all sports UK but I am a college basketball junkie. Keep up the good work. UKFanSC Great article. Good insights on a variety of topics. Like last years opener with Duke, this year we get #1 Michigan State right off the bat. This game will give Ashton Hagans a unique opportunity to establish himself as the nations best PG against Cassius Winston. Will probably teach us a lot about our team very early. Will need a great contribution from the freshmen to beat Michigan State. Robkycats54 11:02 pm July 17, 2019 Permalink I really think quickly has been forgotten as well as a soph I expect him to be more comfortable & while he may not start but I think he will probably be on the court at the end of the games… & as far as freshmen Juzang is the most player I’m excited to see play he got a little Klay Thompson in him humble killer on the court although I believe keion brooks has the most upside of anybody on the team…. kjd 7:36 am July 18, 2019 Permalink Position-less vs zone defense. Toss it up this fall, we’ll see. Except for NOT having a center it’s all good. just a guy 11:24 am July 18, 2019 Permalink I love this roster, and love the potential, I’m just waiting to see if Cal will actually do it. Positionless and we’re running more DDMO has been said for 4-5 years now, but ultimately on every rebound they stop and look for the PG to bring ball up court (even on FB) and someone becomes the back to the basket guy with a baby hook. If Cal truly runs positionless basketball, they can be lethal, but if he tries to put same offense in as he has every single year, we will be one big man short.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1375
__label__cc	0.548315	0.451685	Board index Kenya Business SGR, Mombasa Economy & Ignorance Business advice and ideas. dovu Post by dovu » Sun Aug 11, 2019 6:37 am “Parliament has summoned Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia over a directive that forces importers to use the standard gauge railway (SGR) for goods coming to Nairobi and beyond from the Mombasa port. “Last Friday, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) issued a joint public notice to importers requiring them to move their containers from Mombasa to Nairobi Inland Container Deport (ICD) through the SGR. “On Tuesday, Mvita MP Abdulswamad Nassir said the order by the KRA and the KPA will effectively kill container freight stations along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway, cripple transporters and force closure of warehouses, leading to massive job losses. “Mr Nassir was supported by Leader of Majority Aden Duale and his Minority counterpart, John Mbadi, who demanded Mr Macharia and the KRA commissioner-general, James Mburu, be summoned.” https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/new ... index.html The level of IGNORANCE in Kenya is too high. KBC should immediately start a program called “Eliminating Ignorance in Kenya”, where they will counter these kind of stupid arguments with facts. Some MPs are complaining that Mombasa economy will die if SGR is used to transport goods directly to Nairobi (instead of trucks/lorries). What will they say when the SGR reaches Kampala, and all Uganda-bound goods will be loaded onto the SGR in Mombasa and ferried direct to Kampala? Did you know that there are many Kenyans who believe that SGR will kill the trucking industry? Yet, in countries with plenty of railways they also happen to have plenty of trucks? Therefore, more railway leads to more trucks, not the other way round. This is a fact. Anyone interested in my argument above can easily perform an online research to confirm or disprove my assertion about the direct relationship between railway length & number of trucks in a country (take country A, find the railway length, and number of trucks/lorries in that country. Repeat for other countries). What surprises me is that there are very many well travelled Kenyans who know about these facts I am quoting here. So, where does the erroneous beliefs come from? Its quite amazing. I think these beliefs are the product of tunnel vision. For instance, trucking businessmen know about the Mombasa-Kampala route. Some don’t realise that the northern region all the way to Ethiopia is open for business. Furthermore, after the SGR unloads, the goods will still need trucks to take them to their final destination. Do you know that many people believed there would be massive joblessness due to computers? Has that happened? The argument that SGR will “kill container freight stations” & “force closure of warehouses”, is similar to the argument that the government should not allow combine harvesters to harvest wheat & rice, since many people can be employed to do the harvesting manually. An argument can be true and retrogressive at the same time. The priority of the government/importers is to ensure imported goods reach customers as quickly as possible and as cheaply as possible. Businesses should be aligned to fit into the customers’ needs, not the reverse i.e. customers to align their cargo to fit the transport businesses’ needs. Post by dovu » Fri Oct 11, 2019 1:19 pm More than 20 activists and truckers were arrested during the anti-SGR directive demos…The activists included those from the Muslims for Human Rights and Fast Action Business Community under the Okoa Mombasa Coalition.” https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2019-10 ... sgr-cargo/ Police have set free demonstrators who were arrested during a protest against the monopoly use of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). The activists and the transporters took to the streets to push the government to effect an order it had suspended on the use of SGR as the only means of transport of cargo from Mombasa to Nairobi.” https://www.nation.co.ke/counties/momba ... index.html Mombasa traders on Monday staged a demonstration against the government over a decision to transport all containers from Kilindini harbor to Nairobi Inland Container Deport. The demonstrators carrying placards castigating Kenya Ports Authority, Kenya Revenue Authority officials and a minister walked over 10 kilometres as they sang songs against the government.” https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article ... o-business Government must not relent in pushing for goods from the Mombasa port to be ferried upcountry via SGR. The big picture is that the SGR is meant to eventually link Indian ocean port to Atlantic Ocean port, greatly improving economies of Kenya and neighbouring countries. Selfish interests by “Mombasa businessmen” must not be allowed to thwart this plan. Actually, the reality is that the major opponents of the directive to use SGR are the cartels that have been operating at the Mombasa port for generations. These cartels have engaged in corruption at the port for so long that they have come to believe it is their birth-right to “manage” business at the port. If they have been involved in genuine businesses at the port, then they would not have any problem operating from Nairobi, Naivasha, Kisumu or elsewhere. SGR is very good for Kenya and the region, and those who genuinely believe it has taken over their business can always invest in other businesses. Remember the Simu ya Jamii businesses all over Kenya? Where are they now? Yet these businesses employed thousands of people. Some tunnel-visioned Simu ya Jamii investors went as far as destroying any public phone booths near their premises “to boost business”. Some rogue Simu ya Jamii owners went as far as cutting/stealing telephone wires, believing that would guarantee them good business for ever. They were reasoning like the current opponents of SGR in Mombasa. Even after sabotaging the competition, almost all Simu ya Jamii businesses closed (because a time came when almost everyone could afford a phone+credit). Some diversified to Mpesa, selling phone accessories etc. People protesting about SGR are trying to fight the wind. What they need to do is to be flexible in their business operations. For those fighting the SGR because it is ruining their corruption cartels, they should be ashamed of themselves - corruption is a very serious crime. Return to “Business”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1376
__label__wiki	0.507858	0.507858	By Sam Benson Smith Published December 26, 2019 2:52 pm Indian Canyon Dr. closed at the wash due to flooding, traffic signals out in Palm Springs Indian Canyon Drive has been closed at the wash in Palm Springs due to flooding. The news was shared out by the Palm Springs Police Department at 2:41 p.m. No timeline has been released about the length of the closure. This is the second major closure of a road at the wash in the valley; earlier Thursday afternoon, Cathedral Canyon Drive closed at the Whitewater Wash in Cathedral City due to flooding. At 2:51 p.m., the Palm Springs Police Department sent out an alert stating that the power is out at the intersection of South Palm Canyon Drive and East Sunny Dunes Road as well as at the intersection of South Palm Canyon Drive and East Arenas Road. Traffic lights at the intersection of Palm Canyon Drive and Ramon Road are on flash in all directions, per PSPD. Stay with News Channel 3 for the latest updates on this developing story. Sam Benson Smith Sam Benson Smith is the Digital Content Director for Gulf California Broadcasting. Learn more about Sam here.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1378
__label__wiki	0.898731	0.898731	Bernie Sanders says it would be ‘great’ if Cardi B runs for office Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is encouraging rapper Cardi B to run for political office, the latest exchange of compliments and support between the unlikely duo. “Cardi B is deeply concerned about what’s happening in the country. She knows what it’s like to live in poverty and struggle, and it would be great for her to bring that experience to politics” Sanders told TMZ in an interview posted Tuesday. On Sunday, the rapper herself floated the idea of seeking office. “I think I want to be a politician.I really love government even tho I don’t agree with Goverment (sic)” Cardi B tweeted. Sanders and Cardi B have long been fans of each other. The pair teamed up in July to film a campaign video discussing the cancellation of student debt, the climate crisis and raising the minimum wage in an effort to appeal to young voters. Before entering the nail bar where the video was filmed, Sanders told CNN what it meant to have Cardi B’s support. “What it means is, what Cardi B does, not only is she an enormously popular entertainer, what she is doing is speaking to young people about the important issues that are on their minds and I applaud that very much” Sanders told CNN in July. In December, Cardi B told Vogue why she supported Sanders as part of a wide ranging interview. “People are not perfect, but he has the perfect intentions. He naturally cares about minorities. He actually cares about people getting Medicare because he knows they can’t afford it. I don’t feel like he’s just saying these things ’cause he want the vote,” Cardi B said. When asked by “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon in November why musicians like Cardi B and Ariana Grande have expressed support for him, Sanders joked, “That is a good question. I’m still trying to figure that out.” Supreme Court considers Montana ruling blocking government subsidies for religious schools Behind the scenes: Why the opening day of the impeachment trial felt like the first day of school Here’s what ‘pettifogging’ means and why Chief Justice John Roberts would say it in the impeachment trial John Roberts scolds legal teams after tense exchange: ‘Those addressing the Senate should remember where they are’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1379
__label__cc	0.6576	0.3424	Can a contract alter a lease? I rent an office in a small office building in Connecticut. I've leased this office for many years and currently don't have a lease. The owner of the building has decided to sell, and the new buyer has contacted me and asked me to sign a lease. There is absolutely no benefit to me to signing a lease. Office space is plentiful locally, so the new owner needs me more than I need them. However, the buyer informed me today that if I don't sign a lease, the mortgage won't be approved. I don't want to be the guy who killed a real estate deal and end up with both the current owner and future owner mad at me. So the buyer proposed writing a contract "on the side" between us that releases me from the lease if I provide 90 days notice. The mortgage lender would be unaware of this contract. I'm amenable to that, but it raises some questions: Concealing the contract from the mortgage company is probably credit fraud of sorts, but my view is that's the buyer's problem, not mine. Am I correct on that? Would it be a legal, enforceable contract? If I give 90 days' notice and the landlord refuses to release me from the lease, would a court find in my favor? Am I missing other legal pitfalls? contract-law lease connecticut Carey GregoryCarey Gregory What --if anything-- does the "official" lease (the one to be presented to the mortgage company) say about termination notices? would inclusion of the 90-day provision in the official lease hinder his process with the lender? – Iñaki Viggers Jun 11 '19 at 20:22 @IñakiViggers I haven't seen the lease yet but the fact that the buyer is asking for this deal leads me to believe the lease terms are much stricter than 90 days notice and that including a 90 day notice in the lease would hinder the mortgage process. I can't imagine why else she would ask for this. – Carey Gregory Jun 11 '19 at 20:47 Yes. A lease is a contract and, as such, is amenable to mutually agreed modifications. my view is that's the buyer's problem, not mine. Am I correct on that? Yes. The problematic scenario might be if you were planning to leave the building in the foreseeable future and the new buyer intentionally concealed that knowledge from the lender. That could be actionable as conspiracy with --or abetting of-- the new buyer. Your description does not reflect any plans of yours to vacate the premises, though. Would it be a legal, enforceable contract? Yes. However, it is utmost important that the "separate" contract make it clear the superseding effect it has on the full contract that is presented to the lender. The primary reason for this is that, when interpreting a contract, a court is supposed to restrict its review to the language of the contract only. Any external records are ignored unless they explicitly relate to the contract, or in situations where the language of the contract lacks guidance as to the controversy at issue. Also, without proper reference to the official lease, the separate provision would look as a one-sided promise rather than an exchange of considerations (by definition, a contract is an exchange of considerations). Thus, you would be more vulnerable to the new buyer's eventual decision not to honor the provision. Strictly speaking, the separate contract with no references to the official lease could make it clear that your consideration was in the form of helping the new buyer in his mortgage process. However, for obvious reasons the new buyer will refuse to reflect that in the separate contract. Hence, your protection consists of ensuring that the relation between the official contract and the separate contract is explicit in the latter. He is guilty of fraud - using deception to receive a benefit. You are guilty of accessory to fraud. You are both guilty of conspiracy to commit fraud. No - a contract entered into for a criminal purpose is void. This applies to both the lease and the side deal but because voiding the lease would adversely affect the mortgage, it would probably be upheld for equity reasons (promissory estoppel). Your sarcasm at the OP ("The good news is, the rent on a jail cell is even cheaper than on office space") is bad taste, and it shows your confusion about what constitutes a (mis-)representation of material fact. The side provision only exempts the OP, subject to certain condition(s), from liability in the event of a premature leave. It falls short of "conspiracy to commit fraud". That the OP has been renting the office space --without remotely purporting here a prospect of leaving it anytime soon-- is a very real fact, as can be evidenced by his history of timely rent payments. – Iñaki Viggers Jun 12 '19 at 12:00 Normally a lease can be modified by agreement of the parties to it. A lease is, after all, simply a particular kind of contract, and unless a contract specifies that it cannot be amended, any contract can be altered by mutual agreement. However, in this case the lease is being submitted to the mortgage lender, presumably as part of the evidence that the buyer will have enough income to pay the mortgage. You know this. Your "side agreement" so modifies the lease as to make it materially deceptive to the lender, and you will be complicit in that deception, and therefore in fraud. If you do not wind up wanting to leave your rental before the 'official" lease would let you leave, the side agreement is of no value to you, and is pointless. If you do leave early, excising your rights under the side agreement, the fraud would have resulted in actual damage to the lender, as it would increase the risk of default by the borrower (the new owner). In such a case the side agreement and the deception over the lease might well come to the attention of the lender. Whether the lender would then take legal action, no one can say. If the borrower was able to find another tenant, or make the mortgage payments out of other resources, quite probably the lender would not choose to sue. Since you did not revive any direct benefit from the deception (except the good will of your former and future landlords), it seems a bit unlikely that you would be criminally prosecuted for fraud. But if the facts came to light, you probably could be prosecuted with a chance of success. You might want to find out what is the least restrictive lease that would be acceptable to the lender, and whether you could sign that without an undue burden to yourself. Perhaps there is some offsetting concession you could obtain. That would avoid any specter of fraud. Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged contract-law lease connecticut or ask your own question. Consumer Rights Act 2015 vs EU DIRECTIVE 93/13/EEC Tenant rights when unhappy with new owner of property - Ohio Lease: Rent increase legal? Canceling an “email” contract Is it breach of contract if dismissed before starting work? Agent breaking the lease After a lease is signed, do the things said in emails become nul and void, or are they relevant in a dispute? Can a landlord use the delivery of U.S. mail as a method of surveillance? My former employer is threatening to sue me	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1384
__label__cc	0.741611	0.258389	James Crowe Recognition of influenza H3N2 variant virus by human neutralizing antibodies. Bangaru S, Nieusma T, Kose N, Thornburg NJ, Finn JA, Kaplan BS, King HG, Singh V, Lampley RM, Sapparapu G, Cisneros A, Edwards KM, Slaughter JC, Edupuganti S, Lai L, Richt JA, Webby RJ, Ward AB, Crowe JE JCI Insight. 2016 1 (10) PMID: 27482543 · PMCID: PMC4962875 · DOI:10.1172/jci.insight.86673 Since 2011, over 300 human cases of infection, especially in exposed children, with the influenza A H3N2 variant (H3N2v) virus that circulates in swine in the US have been reported. The structural and genetic basis for the lack of protection against H3N2v induced by vaccines containing seasonal H3N2 antigens is poorly understood. We isolated 17 human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that neutralized H3N2v virus from subjects experimentally immunized with an H3N2v candidate vaccine. Six mAbs exhibited very potent neutralizing activity (IC < 200 ng/ml) against the H3N2v virus but not against current human H3N2 circulating strains. Fine epitope mapping and structural characterization of antigen-antibody complexes revealed that H3N2v specificity was attributable to amino acid polymorphisms in the 150-loop and the 190-helix antigenic sites on the hemagglutinin protein. H3N2v-specific antibodies also neutralized human H3N2 influenza strains naturally circulating between 1995 and 2005. These results reveal a high level of antigenic relatedness between the swine H3N2v virus and previously circulating human strains, consistent with the fact that early human H3 seasonal strains entered the porcine population in the 1990s and reentered the human population, where they had not been circulating, as H3N2v about a decade later. The data also explain the increased susceptibility to H3N2v viruses in young children, who lack prior exposure to human seasonal strains from the 1990s. James Crowe (Member)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1391
__label__cc	0.732022	0.267978	Track + Mercury Log-in Deutsch English Français Nederlands 中国大陆 English 中国大陆 Adapting distribution infrastructures to serve multiple channels E-commerce, Fulfillment, Global, International Parcel E-commerce companies around the world are investing vast amounts of money in large automated warehouses from where orders will be fulfilled. To meet the demand for prompt, convenient delivery, they are adapting their existing distribution centres to create a unified supply chain in partnership with logistics companies. Cost-effective solutions to address the growth in e-commerce A number of companies are developing new solutions to take on the challenge of the ever-increasing growth in e-commerce. Their existing operations – which involve separating out direct sales from e-commerce fulfilment using different distribution centres and systems – no longer provide them with the most efficient way of fulfilling orders. This is because separate operations and center can lead to an excess of stock as well as redundant building and system costs. While large companies might have the capacity to build more distribution centres to cover the geographical areas in which they operate, small and medium-sized enterprises find the cost of doing this prohibitive. A key solution is to work with logistics companies that are able to combine direct sales and e-commerce fulfillment as well as B2C orders through the same distribution centers and inventory pool. This reduces both the costs to the e-tailer and the complexity of the operation. According to the Future of Supply Chains (by Nitin Chaturvedi, Mirko Martich, Brian Ruwadi, Nursen Ulker, March 2013), businesses that get the supply chain right can achieve increases in distribution centre throughput of 40%, a reduction in lead time to the customer of one to two days and distribution centre cost reductions of up to 20%. What to look out for in logistics partner Partners should be able to offer accurate and efficient picking and packing systems, manage inventory effectively and provide an integrated shipping service as well as tracking. Some logistics companies like LogVad based in Belgium and France, for example, are able to fulfil all these roles. Through its arrangements with bpost International, the company has been able to consolidate volumes and reduce customers’ delivery costs. Landmark Global itself boasts a personalised e-fulfilment solution, offering e-tailers everything from pick-up, storage and pick and pack, to the delivery of goods all over the world. Leveraging its global networks, the company delivers millions of cross-border shipments, which can be tracked, to over 220 countries. Logistics providers are increasingly providing businesses with the option of unifying their multichannel operations, cutting out waste, eliminating duplication and saving on cost. For more information on how we can help you, visit our solutions page. 2019 E-Commerce Russia Factsheet Please fill out the form below to download. Thank you. You can download the file here. 2019 E-Commerce Canada Factsheet Have a specific question? Want to start a future collaboration? Discover what we can do for you Thank you for subscribing. We'll be in touch soon. To get Trends + Insights updates and more, connect with us. Landmark Global Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions FAQ	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1395
__label__cc	0.651391	0.348609	Mcdonough,GA Do you take pride in providing excellent meals and having fun at the same time? As a Server at Red Lobster, you will enhance guest experiences by offering personalized service, suggestions and pairings. Daily tasks will include taking orders accurately, delivering hot food promptly, clearing tables, and managing transactions! Skills to Make the Grade Multi-tasking, listening and communication skills Job Qualifications Must be of legal age to serve alcohol based on state requirements Perform the Physical Demands Lift and carry up to 30 pounds, remain on your feet for several hours, work under pressure, bend, reach, and stoop BIG plans are on the horizon for Red Lobster. Our team and restaurants are great today, but our future is even better. There is no better time than now to join the Red Lobster Family! Great Seafood You can be proud of the food you serve. The tremendous variety of seafood makes us the perfect destination for seafood lovers. Our annual Ultimate Events like Lobsterfest, Crabfest, and Endless Shrimp are more widely known than practically any other restaurant. You will serve fish at a premium standard. We are a global pioneer and an industry leader in Seafood Sustainability. With seafood served from over 30 countries, Red Lobster has a long standing commitment to sustainable fishing and farming. We are a founder and current member of the Global Aquaculture Alliance and a current member of National Fisheries Institute. Our team is proud to be known for not serving any endangered species on the menu and for buying only from fisheries that are sustainably managed through BAP (Best Aquaculture Practices) standards. You will work at a destination for celebration. Our restaurants have a rich history of hosting birthdays, anniversaries, receptions, reunions, and other important memorable occasions. You are part of an amazing family. Our restaurants are a place where you can both make friends and find a mentor. It s important that our family of team members flourish, learn and grow. Our RL Cares program, for instance, is designed to help team members with unplanned expenses in times of great need. You give back to the community. Our RL Shares program donates millions of pounds of food to Food Banks and Food Shelters across the country making a significant difference for the homeless and hungry in the communities where we operate. The #1 Seafood Restaurant Company in the US. Opened in 1968, we have earned an exceptional name, brand recognition, and reputation. The #1 casual dining employer for our size. (Forbes Magazine 2016 List of America s Best Employers and 2016 List of Canada s Best Employers) A restaurant that is loved. Our ratings are among the highest in casual dining for restaurant followers and consumer engagement.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1399
__label__cc	0.691706	0.308294	(-)Humanities (-)International Development English (BA, DipHE, CertHE) Study English with academic direction from Goldsmiths, University of London. Global Public Policy (MSc) This programme puts at its heart the policy challenges of cross-cutting, transnational issues. History (BA) BA History, expand your knowledge and understanding of the past, and reflect on the diversity of past human experience. Human Rights (MA, PGDip and PGCert) Explore human rights from a diverse range of fields, including law, international relations, development and environmental justice via distance learning Humanitarian Action (MSc) The MSc Humanitarian Action is a new online programme that builds on the strengths of SOAS’ expertise in the areas of violence, aid and security. International Development (MSc) This is a dynamic field concerned with processes of change in the South and social, economic, political and cultural change in middle income countries. MRes in Modern Languages (Master of Research) Students at the Institute of Modern Languages benefit from a diverse range of events and the networks associated with its specialist centres Philosophy (BA, DipHE, CertHE) The BA Philosophy degree will prepare you for many careers, including public service, teaching and research, media and journalism. The History of the Book (MA/MRes) The programme provides outstanding research training and equips students with the skills to undertake independent research with confidence and success	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1404
__label__cc	0.712031	0.287969	Police Called on Metal Band For Sitting in Van in Walmart Lot Lauryn Schaffner MetalSucks.net This headline isn't a joke — metal has been stigmatized once again. Death metal group Torn the Fuck Apart were sitting in their van in a Walmart parking lot near Chicago, and someone called the police because they found it suspicious. Good grief. According to MetalSucks, TTFA were wrapping up their tour with Atoll and Mortal Torment near Chicago when they decided to park in a Walmart lot to relax. A little while later, the van was surrounded by police. The band knew the officers had just been doing their jobs — especially because Walmart is pretty infamous for sketchy occurrences — but they were upset to have been profiled as dangerous for doing absolutely nothing. Frontman Michael Langner provided a statement to MetalSucks regarding the experience. In the morning we had stopped and parked in the back of the Walmart parking lot in forest park, IL to stretch out and grab a few things after a night off of tour and enjoying the Chicago Domination Fest. We had been there for about an hour as our drummer was inside the store getting a few things, and about 15 mins after he went in we heard radio dispatch from behind the van and noticed a cop car pull up behind us. Just as quickly we saw three more pull up and surround us. After a few minutes of answering questions, the cop said that they were there because they had received multiple calls about a dark van with “suspicious characters ” in it. After all IDs were checked they knew that wasn’t the case. The cops were very professional and respectful to us after they realized we were no threat to anyone, and they even took pictures with us as though we were under arrest, and played along with us to tell our drummer we had warrants and were under arrest when he came back to the van. We don’t blame the cops for doing their jobs; they handled it well. But it was upsetting that we had been profiled for the way a “metalhead” looks. This isn’t something we haven’t encountered before and life goes on. Now we get ready for our last show of the tour Saturday at the Chicago Domination Fest. When the police realized there was nothing suspicious about the band whatsoever, they even staged an arrest with Langner for a photo, which can be seen above. 60 Infamous Rock Star Mugshots Categories: Metal, News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1406
__label__cc	0.581787	0.418213	You are here: Home / Archives for Towns / Deep River Cappella Cantorum Presents Christmas Concert This Afternoon at Valley Regional HS The conductor for Cappella Cantorum’s Christmas Concert is Simon Holt (pictured above.) DEEP RIVER — Cappella Cantorum Masterworks Chorus begins its 50th anniversary year with the performance of Parts 1, 2 and 3 of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio on Sunday, Dec. 15, 3 p.m. at Valley Regional High School in Deep River. Professional soloists and orchestra will join the chorus. Simon Holt of the Salt Marsh Opera and First Congregational Church of Old Lyme will direct. Celebrate the holiday season by attending this Baroque masterpiece by Bach. Tickets are $35. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.CappellaCantorum.org. Tickets will also be sold by Cappella members and at the door. Filed Under: Deep River, Lyme, Old Lyme Enjoy ‘Cruise Blues & Brews’ Festival Today in Chester Jake Kulak (center) and the Lowdown (Jason LaPierre at left and Jeremy Peck at right) will be performing at the ‘Cruise Blues & Brews’ Festival at Chester Fairgrounds, Sept. 21. The band recently won the $10,000 grand prize in Foxwood’s ‘Battle of the Bands.’ CHESTER — The blues-rock power trio, Jake Kulak and the LowDown just won the “Battle of the Bands” $10,000 grand prize, sponsored by the Foxwood Resort Casino. The band has been wowing audiences all over the state. They have also won the CT Blues Society Band Challenge, they were voted Best Blues Band in the CTNOW’s Best of Hartford Reader’s Poll and they were nominated as Best New Act of the Year at the New England Music Awards. Jake Kulak and the LowDown will be one of the seven top CT Blues Bands performing at the 5th Annual Cruise Blues & Brews Festival, Sept. 21, at the Chester Fairgrounds. Other bands that will be appearing include: Ninety Nine Degrees, Clayton Allen Blues Band, Ramblin’ Dan and the Other Cats, Cobalt Rhythm Kings, Blues on the Rocks, and Vitamin B-3. Ramblin’ Dan Stevens is another of the featured blues musicians at the ‘Cruise, Blues & Brews ‘Festival on Saturday, Sept. 21, at Chester Fairgrounds. The Cruise Blues & Brews Festival will also feature hundreds of antique and unique cars on display, a food court with a variety of food trucks, locally brewed craft beer on tap, a marketplace of vendors, a kid’s play area full of activities, trophies, games and prizes. All proceeds from Cruise Blues & Brews Festival support the At-Risk Boys Fund at the Community Foundation of Middlesex County. Established in 2013, The At-Risk Boys fund has awarded over $80,000 in grants to organizations throughout Middlesex County. These grants have helped hundreds of boys and young men achieve success and a better life. The 5th Annual Cruise Blues & Brews Festival will be held Saturday, Sept. 21, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (rain or shine), at the Chester Fair Grounds. Admission is a $10 suggested donation, and kids are free. Tickets can be purchased at the gate during the Festival. To learn more about this fun-filled festival, visit www.cruisebluesandbrews.com Filed Under: Chester, Deep River, Essex, Lyme, Old Lyme Famed Deep River Ancient Muster Takes Place Today The Moodus Fife and Drum Corps proudly marched in the Muster in a prior year. (File photo) DEEP RIVER — The largest gathering of Fife and Drum Corps is upon us. The annual Deep River Ancient Muster (DRAM) is the third weekend of July at Devitt’s field in Deep River Center. This year the DRAM has been designated as the United States National Muster! The event consists of a “tattoo” on Friday evening at 7 p.m., which showcases selected corps. The tattoo featured the Deep River Juniors Fife and Drum Corps, The Company of Fifers and Drummers Junior Camp –featuring the Music of Roy Watrous. Other notable corps were also showcased that evening. Beginning on Saturday morning at 11 a.m., the 50+ corps will parade through downtown Deep River. The parade will start at Kurtland Street and proceed down Main Street commencing at Devitt’s Field. At the conclusion of the parade each corps will march onto the muster field and perform a selection of their choice. The corps performances will take the remainder of the day. All are welcome to come down to the muster field, check out the vendors, listen to music, enjoy some great food. The event is open to the public. Find more information at: deepriverancientmuster.com Filed Under: Deep River Legislators, Superintendents, Residents Express Universal Opposition to Forced School Regionalization April 15, 2019 by Suzanne Thompson 1 Comment Special to LymeLine.com Sitting in the front row of the audience at Monday night’s forum on school regionalization were local school superintendents (from right to left) Ian Neviaser (Lyme-Old Lyme), Pat Ciccone (Westbrook) and Jan Perruccio (Old Saybrook.) Over 100 people turned out for an Education and Regionalization Forum at Old Saybrook Middle School on Thursday, April 11. The event was hosted by Rep. Devin Carney, (R-23rd), with Senators Paul Formica, (R-20th), and Norm Needleman, (D-33rd). While the two parties differ on Connecticut road tolls, all three local officials said they are against forced regionalization of school district bills proposed by Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney, Senators Bob Duff and Cathy Osten, Deputy President Pro Tempore, and by Governor Ned Lamont. Rep. Carney said there was an enormous public outcry by small towns and school districts, thousands of pieces of testimony received and hundreds of people, including students from Region 18 schools, who testified in March hearings. While this probably means that the idea of aligning school districts with recently consolidated probate districts is not advancing, the matter of reducing and reallocating education costs is very much still alive, and pieces of proposed legislation could still become law. “Nothing is truly ever dead until we gavel out at midnight on June 5,” Rep. Carney said, explaining the state legislative process and timelines of the ongoing session in Hartford. State Rep. Devin Carney (R-23rd) addresses the audience Monday night while (left) State Sen. Paul Formica (R-20th) awaits his turn to speak. Almost hidden from view, State Sen. Norm Needleman (D-33rd) stands to Rep. Carney’s right. Of the six bills introduced that address regionalization of schools or services, three have been passed by the Education Committee and further action could be taken on them: Governors Bill 874 establishes an appointed Commission on Shared School Services that is charged with developing shared school services recommendations, requires boards of education (BOEs) to report on currently shared school services and requires regional BOEs to post online monthly current and projected expenditures and to submit information to their town’s legislative body. The commission would issue a report in December 2020, recommendations could be binding on towns and districts. Because of costs of setting up a commission, the bill has been referred to Appropriations Committee; HB 7350 requires regional education service centers (RESCs) to distribute an inventory of goods and services to member BOEs, and the Department of Education (DOE) shall develop a report of best practices by RESCs for regional cooperation. (LEARN, at 44 Hatchetts Hill Road in Old Lyme, is a RESC); SB 1069, proposed by Sen. Needleman, which allows the DOE to study the effects of towns working together as Local Education Agencies, is intended to encourage voluntary regional cooperation and maximize efficiencies and cost savings without being mandated to become regional school districts. Superintendents Ian Neviaser (Lyme-Old Lyme), Jan Perruccio (Old Saybrook), and Pat Ciccone (Westbrook) addressed how their districts have been sharing services and resources to reduce costs while maintaining the quality of curriculum along with educational, extracurricular and sports activities and programs. Standard practices include health and dental insurance, energy, financial software, food service and supplies, plus student transportation for specialized programs. Old Saybrook, Westbrook and Region 4 (Chester, Deep River and Essex plus the three elementary schools for each of those towns, which are not part of Region 4) school districts already share staff, Perruccio said, in an arrangement that has the flexibility to change yearly based on each districts’ demographic needs. Perruccio said she was alarmed that the forced regionalization bills showed a lack of regard and understanding of how school districts are already sharing resources with a focus on quality of education. Ciccone cited how the districts are coordinating to provide professional development for their teachers, and how Westbrook’s school facilities, sports programs and fields are utilized by the Town Parks and Recreation Department and local YMCA. The schools and town share legal and financial services support, as well. Lyme-Old Lyme Schools Superintendent Ian Neviaser stands at the podium during Monday evening’s forum. “There is a money issue here, we need to be frank about it,” said Neviaser, pointing out that significant redistribution of wealth from school districts with higher property values and tax base already occurs. Fifty-one percent of New London’s school budget is paid by the state, he said., as is over 60 percent of Norwich’s, 33 percent of Montville’s and 14 percent of East Lyme’s school budgets. Meanwhile, Lyme-Old Lyme Schools receive less than one percent of operating expenses from the state. “There was no mention of improving educational outcomes in these regionalization proposals,” commented Tina Gilbert of Lyme. “It is because of our school district’s focus on that, we are in the top four in the country in education. There is no discussion of parent involvement in schools; we are not wealthy or privileged people, we chose to live in this school district for our children. What it takes to build [highly performing schools] is parent involvement, working with parents.” When asked if they moved to their town because of the quality of the schools, a high number of people in the audience raised their hands. While the majority of questions and comments addressed specifics of proposed legislation, the overarching issue of state fiscal problems and how to address government spending arose. Lyme and Old Lyme residents were some of the most vocal about the impact of proposed legislation on property values, taxes and the quality of local school districts. “The majority of the state doesn’t have a problem, town government works in Connecticut, but Hartford is not responsible,” said Curt Deane of Lyme, pointing out a seven-page summary of education service-sharing produced by LEARN in February. “The initial [regionalization] proposals would have raised my property taxes by 50 percent overnight. Taxes go up, property values go down. People have to understand, this is going to hit our property taxes and hit hard. This isn’t going to go away.” “We can’t be a state with only great little towns and not great cities,” Sen. Needleman said, citing imbalances of health care outcomes and school performance between wealthier communities and the state’s large cities. He continued, “While we don’t want to mess up what we have, we can’t turn our backs on the disparities.” The legislators encouraged voters to speak up, write letters, follow grassroots organizations such as Hands Off Our Schools or form their own group to express concerns to elected officials. Filed Under: Chester, Deep River, Essex, Lyme, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook, Politics, Schools, Top Story, Westbrook Mendelssohn’s ‘Elijah’ to be Performed This Afternoon by Cappella Cantorum The conductor for Cappella Cantorum’s April concert will be Simon Holt. This spring brings a treat to area concert-goers: Cappella Cantorum Masterworks Chorus will perform Felix Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” Sunday, April 14, 3 p.m. at John Winthrop Middle School, 1 Winthrop Rd., Deep River. Simon Holt of the Salt Marsh Opera will direct the chorus and professional soloists and orchestra. Audiences will enjoy Mendelssohn’s lyricism and use of orchestral color in this Romantic oratorio that depicts the events in the life of the prophet Elijah. Chorus selections include the well-known anthems, “Lift Thine Eyes to the Mountains” and “He, Watching Over Israel.” A reception will follow the concert. Tickets are $30 purchased in advance, $35 at the door. They may be purchased from chorus members or on-line at www.CappellaCantorum.org. For more information, visit the website or call 860-941-8243. Filed Under: Community, Deep River, Lyme, Old Lyme Essex Winter Series’ Presents ‘Chanticleer’ This Afternoon in Old Saybrook The final concert in this season’s Essex Winter Series will feature ‘Chaticleer.’ Essex Winter Series’ presents Chanticleer, the Grammy Award-Winning ensemble dubbed an orchestra of voices, on Sunday, April 7 at 3 pm at Old Saybrook High School, 1111 Boston Post Road, Old Saybrook. They are celebrating the ensemble’s 40th anniversary with the program, Then and There Here and Now, which contains music by some of Chanticleer’s favorite composers. From Palestrina and Victoria to Mason Bates and Steven Stucky, with lustrous examples of the South American baroque, as well as audience favorite arrangements by Jennings, Shaw and others. This program reflects the expansive aesthetic and seamless virtuosity in ensemble singing which have been Chanticleer’s hallmark for four decades. Essex Winter Series is honored to be part of Chanticleer’s anniversary year and concludes its season with this fabulous program. Seating is general admission and tickets may be purchased by calling 860-272-4572 or visiting www.essexwinterseries.com. The 2019 season is generously sponsored by The Clark Group, Essex Meadows, Essex Savings Bank, Jeffrey N. Mehler CFP LLC, Masonicare at Chester Village, Tower Laboratories, Guilford Savings Bank, and BrandTech Scientific. Filed Under: Chester, Deep River, Essex, Old Saybrook Needleman Proposes New School Regionalization Plan, Public Hearing Today on Another Proposal on Same Subject State Senator Norm Needleman (D-33rd) Yesterday State Senator Norm Needleman (D-33rd) proposed a new plan for school regionalization. His proposal would create legislation tailored to help school districts and municipalities cooperate to share services and resources on their own terms, in contrast to recent legislation that would mandate school changes. Needleman appeared with East Haddam Selectman Robert Smith, Chester First Selectman Laurent Gister, Deep River First Selectman Angus McDonald, Essex Board of Education member Lon Seidman, Portland First Selectman Susan Bransfield and CABE Deputy Director and General Counsel Patrice McCarthy. Watch this news clip from NBC to see a summary of what Needleman proposed. The 33rd Senatorial District includes the Town of Lyme. Today a public hearing will be held at 11 a.m. in Hartford on HB 7192, AN ACT CONCERNING MUNICIPAL AND REGIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND EFFICIENCIES, a Governor’s Bill dealing generally with regionalization and shared services for local governments Sections 7-10 of the bill are the same as Sections 1-4 of SB 874, the Governor’s Bill on school regionalization and shared services. If you have already submitted testimony to the Education Committee on school regionalization bills, this is an opportunity to comment before a different committee specifically on SB 874. – Make sure to read the four sections of HB 7192 (again) and comment on them specifically (of course, you may also comment on any other sections you choose). – Include only HB 7192 (same as first sections of SB 874) in your testimony, as this is the only language from the three school regionalization bills that is before Planning & Development. Written testimony should be submitted by 9 a.m. to PDtestimony@cga.ct.gov Sign-up to speak between 9 and 10 a.m. (lottery) in Room 1D. Filed Under: Chester, Deep River, Essex, Lyme, Politics Puccini, Saint-Saens Featured at Cappella Cantorum Concert This Afternoon Tenor Brian Cheney will be a soloist in the Dec. 2 Cappella Cantorum concert. Bring in the spirit of the holiday season by attending Cappella Cantorum’s Christmas Concert Sunday, Dec. 2, 3 p.m. at John Winthrop Middle School, One Winthrop Road, Deep River. Cappella’s Masterworks Chorus will perform Puccini’s “Messa Di Gloria” and Saint-Saens’ “Christmas Oratorio,” two glorious works from the late 1800s. Featured soloists will be soprano Abigail Paschke, tenor Brian Cheney and baritone Paul Fletcher. Simon Holt will direct the chorus and professional orchestra. Tickets are $30 purchased in advance, $35 at the door. Puccini is best known for his later works, the operas “Tosca,” “La Boheme,” “Madama Butterfly” and “Turandot.” His “Messa Di Gloria” was composed earlier but is no less masterful. Saint-Saens is perhaps best known for his opera “Samsun et Dalila” and “The Swan” from his “Carnival of Animals.” For more information or tickets, visit www.CappellaCantorum.org or call 860-526-1038. Filed Under: Deep River, Old Lyme State Awards $1.25M to Valley Shore Emergency Communications for Upgrades Essex First Selectman Norm Needleman stands with Paul Fazzino, President of Valley Shore Emergency Response after the announcement was made. After years of planning and local town coordination, the Valley Shore Emergency Communications received critical state funding to upgrade emergency communications for numerous towns in the region. Valley Shore Emergency Communications serves the towns of Lyme and Old Lyme along with Chester, Deep River, Durham, East Haddam, Essex, Haddam, Killingworth, Middlefield, and Westbrook. The State Bond Commission approved $1.25 million in grant-in-aid to the Town of Essex on behalf of the Valley Shore Emergency Communications, Inc. The funding will be used for upgrades to the outdated emergency radio dispatch system serving 11 towns. The upgrades will interconnect all member towns and allow coordination with adjoining systems to allow for better communication for police, fire and ambulances. “I want to thank the tremendous work of the various public safety departments to make today a reality,” said Essex First Selectman Norm Needleman. “Throughout this process we worked together to bring our local emergency communications into the 21st century. This new funding will strengthen the safety of our towns and allow our public safety employees to better serve our communities.” Filed Under: Chester, Community, Deep River, Essex, Lyme, Old Lyme, Top Story Democratic Candidates Come to Town: Old Lyme Forum Offers Opportunity to State Positions, Take Questions Ned Lamont, a Democratic candidate for Connecticut Governor, addresses the audience at Monday evening’s forum in Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School. All photos by M.J. Nosal. Around 100 residents of Lyme, Old Lyme and Old Saybrook turned out at the Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School Monday night for a Democratic Candidate Forum arranged by the Democratic Town Committees of the three area municipalities. Local residents heard from and were able to ask questions directly of: Ned Lamont, candidate for governor (pictured above); Old Lyme Selectwoman Bonnie Reemsnyder stands at the podium to introduce Denise Merrill. Denise Merrill, incumbent candidate for secretary of the state; Shawn Wooden is one of the candidates running for State Treasurer — State Senator Art Linares (R-33rd) is another. Shawn Wooden, candidate for state treasurer; Matt Pugliese will challenge State Rep. Devin Carney (R- 23rd) in the November election. Matthew Pugliese, candidate for state representative in the 23rd District, which includes Lyme, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook and part of Westbrook; Martha Marx. Martha Marx, candidate for state senator in the 20th District, and Lyme Selectman John Kiker (left) listens to Essex First Selectman and candidate for State Senator (20th District) Norm Needleman speak. Norm Needleman, candidate for state senator in the 33rd District. The Tri-Town Democratic Town Committees’ event started at 6:30 p.m. and lasted two and a half hours. Filed Under: Chester, Deep River, Essex, Lyme, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook, Top Story, Westbrook Cappella Cantorum to Perform Haydn’s ‘Creation’ This Afternoon with Pittsinger, Cheney, Callinan as Soloists Tenor Brian Cheney Bass David Pittsinger AREAWIDE — Celebrate Earth Day and the creation of this beautiful planet by attending Cappella Cantorum Masterworks Chorus’ performance of Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Creation” on Sunday, April 22, 3 p.m. at John Winthrop Middle School, 1 Winthrop Rd., Deep River. Simon Holt will lead the chorus, professional soloists and orchestra. Soloists will be internationally known bass David Pittsinger, tenor Brian Cheney and soprano Sarah Callinan. Haydn’s oratorio depicts the creation of the world from darkness and chaos to the creation of light, order and harmony. It is considered one of Haydn’s finest works. Tickets are $25 purchased in advance, $30 at the door. For more information or tickets, visit www.CappellaCantorum.org or call 860-526-1038. Tickets on Sale Now for Community Music School’s 35th Anniversary Gala, April 27 Making plans for this year’s 35th anniversary CMS gala are, from left to right, CMS Music Director Tom Briggs, CMS Trustee and Gala Sponsor Bruce Lawrence of Bogaert Construction, CMS Trustee and Gala Sponsor Jennifer Bauman of The Bauman Family Foundation, and CMS Executive Director Abigail Nickell. Community Music School’s (CMS) largest annual fundraiser is the CMS Gala and this year the organization is celebrating its 35th anniversary with For the Love of Music! The event takes place on Friday, April 27, at 6:30 p.m. in Deep River at The Lace Factory and includes fabulous musical entertainment provided by CMS faculty and students. Enjoy cocktail jazz and an exquisite dinner show, as well as gourmet food, dancing, silent auction, fine wines and more. Featured faculty and student performers include Music Director Tom Briggs, Noelle Avena, John Birt, Amy Buckley, Luana Calisman-Yuri, Audrey Estelle, Joni Gage, Silvia Gopalakrishnan, Martha Herrle, Ling-Fei Kang, Barbara Malinsky, Matt McCauley, Kevin O’Neil, Andy Sherwood, and Marty Wirt. Support of the Community Music School gala provides the resources necessary to offer scholarships to students with financial need, as well as weekly music education and music therapy services for students with special needs. For The Love of Music sponsors include The Bauman Family Foundation, Bob’s Discount Furniture, Bogaert Construction, Clark Group, Essex Savings Bank, Essex Financial Services, Grossman Chevrolet Nissan, Guilford Savings Bank, Jackson Lewis, Kitchings & Potter, Maple Lane Farms, Reynold’s Subaru, Ring’s End, Shore Publishing, Thomas Alexa Wealth Management, Tidal Counseling LLC, and Tower Labs LTD. Early bird tickets for the evening are $125 per person ($65 is tax deductible) by April 13 and $135 thereafter. Event tickets include hors d’oeuvres, gourmet food stations, wine and beer, live music, and dancing. Tickets may be purchased online at community-music-school.org/gala, at the school located at 90 Main Street in the Centerbrook section of Essex or by calling 860-767-0026. Community Music School offers innovative music programming for infants through adults, building on a 35 year tradition of providing quality music instruction to residents of shoreline communities. The CMS programs cultivate musical ability and creativity and provide students with a thorough understanding of music so they can enjoy playing and listening for their entire lives. To learn more, visit www.community-music-school.org or call (860)-767-0026. Filed Under: Arts, Chester, Community, Deep River, Essex, Lyme, Old Lyme, Top Story Cappella Cantorum to Perform Haydn’s ‘Creation,’ April 22 Franz Joseph Haydn Celebrate Earth Day and the creation of this beautiful planet by attending Cappella Cantorum Masterworks Chorus’ performance of Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Creation” on Sunday, April 22, 3 p.m. at John Winthrop Middle School, 1 Winthrop Rd., Deep River. Filed Under: Deep River, Top Story Acclaimed Bass-Baritone David Pittsinger Performs This Afternoon at Essex Winter Series March 3, 2018 by Admin Leave a Comment David Pittsinger Essex Winter Series artistic director Mihae Lee welcomes the return of bass-baritone David Pittsinger to the series with pianist Simon Holt on Sunday, March 4, at 3 p.m. at John Winthrop Middle School, 1 John Winthrop Middle School Drive, Deep River. Pittsinger is internationally renowned for his magnificent voice and dramatic performances. His first Essex Winter Series concert in six years will be a unique program that includes Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn and Brahms, as well as selections from the American Songbook to celebrate the American spirit. With a busy performance season that has taken him all over the world, Mr. Pittsinger conveyed a message while abroad at the Dutch National Opera: “I look forward to seeing you all soon. Returning to my community in anticipation of my performance for EWS has really buoyed my spirits through all my recent travels.” Essex Winter Series’ 2018 season concludes on April 8 with The Quodlibet Ensemble, a New York-based string chamber orchestra of young, dynamic artists who regularly present a range of great music, from the Baroque to the modern day. The concert takes place on April 8 at Valley Regional High School and will include Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, as well as music by Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Nathan Schram. All performances take place at 3 p.m. and seating is general admission. Tickets may be purchased by visiting www.essexwinterseries.com or calling 860-272-4572. The 2018 Essex Winter Series season is generously sponsored by The Clark Group, Essex Meadows, Essex Savings Bank, Guilford Savings Bank, Jeffrey N. Mehler CFP LLC, Tower Laboratories, and BrandTech Scientific. Media sponsor is WSHU Public Radio and outreach activities are supported by the Community Foundation of Middlesex County and donors to the Fenton Brown Circle. Filed Under: Deep River, Essex Cappella Hosts Spring Concert Featuring Haydn’s ‘Creation,’ April 22 Cappella Cantorum Masterworks Chorus will present their spring concert, Sunday, April 22. The concert will feature Haydn’s masterpiece, “The Creation,” that includes the well-known “The Heavens are Telling the Glory of God.” It will be performed with professional soloists and orchestra with Simon Holt of the Salt Marsh Opera directing. For more information visit www.CappellaCantorum.org or call 860-526-1038. Filed Under: Arts, Deep River, Lyme, Old Lyme Award-Winning Photographer Presents ‘Tools of Travel Photography’ at CT Valley Camera Club Meeting October 2, 2017 by Admin Leave a Comment Shadows of camels and their riders in the Sahara desert in Erg Chebi, Morrocco (Photo by David H. Wells) The guest speaker at next Monday’s (Oct. 2) meeting of the Connecticut Valley Camera Club (CVCC) will be award-winning photographer/videographer David H. Wells, who will give a presentation titled, “The Tools of Travel Photography.” The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Lymes’ Senior Center, 26 Town Woods Rd., Old Lyme, Conn. All are welcome. Wells uses whichever technology he feels is most appropriate for the specific situation to create visual narratives. He is based in Providence, RI, affiliated with Aurora Photos and is also a photo-educator. One editor described him as a “… specialist in intercultural communication and visual narratives that excel in their creative mastery of light, shadow and sound, stills and video.” Wells became the photographer he is today by first trying on the styles and/or methods of other well-known and historic photographers. Then he mastered the challenging discipline of color slide film. He fused all of these experiences, over 30-plus years, to develop his own style, built on a mastery of light, exposure and tonality, framing and composition with predictable and consistent control over focus and depth of field. As a photography educator, he leads students to learn how to master consistently these same elements of photography. He was featured in Photo District News as one of “The Best Workshop Instructors.” A Sicilian sunset (Photo by David H. Wells) His project on the pesticide poisoning of California farm workers was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Over the years he has worked on assignment for such magazines as Fortune, Life, National Geographic, Newsweek, The Sunday New York Times, Time, etc. He also worked for corporations such as Consolidated Natural Gas and DuPont as well as for non-profits such as the Ford Foundation and the New Israel Fund. His work has been featured in more than 50 exhibitions and he has taught workshops at the International Center for Photography in NYC and at the Maine Media Workshops. He has received two Fulbright fellowships, a grant from Nikon/N.P.P.A., a fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation’s Program of Research and Writing on International Peace and Cooperation. For more information on David H. Wells, visit his website. Connecticut Valley Camera Club is dedicated to offering its membership the opportunity to become better photographers. The club offers a variety of presentations and interactive workshops to help members expand their technical and creative skills. Photographers of all levels of experience are welcomed. The club draws members from up and down both sides of the river, from Middletown to Old Saybrook; from East Hampton to Old Lyme; and along the shoreline from Guilford to Gales Ferry. For more information, visit the club’s website at https://ctvalleycameraclub.smugmug.com/. The Club’s meeting dates, speakers / topics and other notices are also published on the club’s Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/CTValleyCameraClubPage/ Filed Under: Arts, Chester, Deep River, Essex, Lyme, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook, Westbrook Cappella Cantorum Concert Registration Scheduled for Monday Cappella Cantorum Men’s Chorus by Madeleine Favre of Deep River. Registration and first rehearsal for Cappella Cantorum’s 2017 Christmas concert will be Monday, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m. at John Winthrop Middle School, 1 Winthrop Rd., Deep River. No auditions are required. All are welcome to join Cappella Cantorum and its new director, Simon Holt, to prepare for the Dec. 2 concert. Holt is also the artistic director of the Salt Marsh Opera and director of music at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme. He joins Cappella in its 48th year. The program will feature Bach’s Cantata #140 (“Sleepers Wake”), Rutter’s “Gloria” and Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on Christmas Carols.” Registration fee is $40; music is $20. Late registration will be Sept. 18, same time and place. Use the rear entrance. For more information or to register in advance, visit www.CappellaCantorum.org. Cappella Cantorum Presents Medleys from Phantom, Les Mis, Choral Showcase in Concert This Afternoon Drawing by Madeline Favre of Deep River of Cappella Cantorum inspired by a performance in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Old Saybrook. On Sunday, March 26, Cappella Cantorum will present Medleys from Phantom of the Opera & Les Miserables & A Choral Showcase, including: He Watching Over Israel, How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place, Precious Lord, Take my Hand and Down by the Riverside. The performance will start at 3 p.m. at Valley Regional High School, Deep River. A reception will follow the concert. Tickets are $25 at the door or online at www.CappellaCantorum.org For more information, call Barry Asch at 860-388-2871. Emergency Vigil in Deep River This Afternoon in Response to Refugee, Immigration Ban The Valley Stands Up will host an emergency vigil outside Deep River Town Hall at 4:30 pm today (1/29/17) to show solidarity with protests across the nation in response to the refugee and immigration ban. At 3 p.m., the group will hold a public meeting at the Deep River Public Library to discuss further actions. “You are welcome here” yard signs will be available for purchase. The Valley Stands Up is an independent civic group created to unite our diverse communities in the Lower Connecticut River Valley area through outreach, organizing, and advocacy to support the dignity and human rights of all. thevalleystandsup@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/valleystandsup/ Hear Cappella Cantorum Sing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ This Weekend; Old Lyme Church Choir to Accompany Chorus Come and celebrate the beginning of the Holiday Season with the Cappella Cantorum MasterWorks Chorus performing Handel’s Messiah (Christmas Section), Saturday, Dec. 3, 8 p.m. at St. Paul Roman Catholic Church, 170 Rope Ferry Rd., Waterford CT 06385. The concert will be repeated Sunday, Dec. 4, 3 p.m. at John Winthrop Middle School, 1 Winthrop Road, Deep River 06417. The chorus will be joined by members of the choir of the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme and will be accompanied by a professional orchestra. Simon Holt will conduct at the Waterford concert, and Barry Asch will direct at the Deep River performance. Messiah is one of the most popular choral works and is a joyous start to the season. Tickets are $25 and may be purchased at the door or at www.CappellaCantorum.org. Cappella Cantorum is the lower Connecticut River Valley and Shoreline’s premiere non-auditioned community choral organization whose primary purpose is to learn, perform and enjoy great choral music while striving for excellence and the enrichment of its singers and audience. Filed Under: Deep River, Old Lyme, Uncategorized	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1416
__label__cc	0.733933	0.266067	Rivetless chain and Conveyor chain related knowledge of equipment introduction Time: 2015-08-21 (number one)Rivetless chain What's the Drop Forged Rivetless Chain? Rivetless chain is available in the following sizes: X698, X678, X458 and X348. The larger the chain, the heavier the load it can sustain. Heavy-duty applications will likely call for X678 chain, which rides in 6-inch track and can have an ultimate tensile strength in excess of 125,000 pounds. Light manufacturing facilities may utilize X348 chain, which goes into 3-inch track and typically has an ultimate tensile strength of less than 40,000 pounds. There are three main components of drop forged rivetless chain: center links, side links, and pins. The simplicity of the design and construction of the chain makes it easy to replace links or sections without loss of time; assembling or disassembling is a simple, speedy operation. In addition to the main components, a variety of trolleys, attachments and pusher dogs can be used to fit the specific needs of a plant's conveyor line. A trolley is essentially a wheel that mounts to a conveyor chain to enable it to move on an I-beam or in a steel channel. The chain may be equipped with attachments to allow parts to attach to the conveyor line for processing. Pusher dogs are engaged at key points along the system to initiate specific events. The parts of this chain are simply and quickly reversed without special tools or equipment to allow for assembly or disassembly of the chain to increase their life and lower the cost of replacement. Furthermore, the design and manufacture of the chain stops it from becoming disconnected while in operation. Installing the chain is also relatively simple. Normally, the chain will be shipped in ten-foot lengths, which are fed into the system. They are then connected to each other by the turn of a conveyor pin. There are differences between conveyor chains. The factors of metallurgy, accurate forging, precise broaching, and well-controlled heat treatment give the particular qualities to the drop forged rivetless chain. High carbon steel, high alloy steel and microtuff materials are all common metals used in its manufacture. There are also several finishes utilized in its making like zinc, dichromate, or black diamond. These finishes are applied to the chain to enable it to operate well in differing environments. (number two)Conveyor chain How applications with Conveyors Equipments can be Industries? Conveyors are mechanical handling equipments, which are utilized to move materials from one place to another. These equipments are used for many purposes that mainly involves movement or transportation of bulky or heavy materials. The efficient and quick transportation of a variety of materials are carried out by these Conveyors, which make them very popular in packaging and material handling industries. There are two types of varieties available in the Conveyors that comprises of Overhead and Floor Chain Conveyors. These chain equipments have multiple specifications like I Beam, Enclosed Tracks, Power and Free, Towline and Pushed and Hand Trolleys. There are many industries which are benefited from these equipments. These equipments offer transportation of objects from one level to the other. This act of transition was once done manually which was quite expensive as well as strenuous. The Conveyors can be easily installed anywhere and proves much safer than using the other machines or forklifts to move the objects. These equipments can transport materials of all weights, shapes and sizes. These equipments have multiple safety features, which are really helpful in preventing hazards. The varied types of options are provided in these equipments that includes, Fully Automated, Mechanical and Hydraulic Systems, etc. All these systems are equipped accordingly to meet the individual requirements. These equipments are also utilized in many industries such as Agricultural, Automotive, Computer, Food Processing, Electronics, Aerospace, Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Bottling, Print/ Finishing and Canning/Packaging. A wide variety of objects are conveyed, some of which are Food Items like Nuts and Beans, Cans and Bottles, Scrap Metal, Automotive Components, Powders and Pills, Furniture/Wood and Animal Feed and Grain. The selection of accurate equipment is based upon many significant features that should be known in advance, before using these equipments appropriately. There are individual areas of the equipments which should be considered and it mainly includes the Conveyor Operations like Accumulation, Transportation and Sorting, Material Weight, Size and Shape, and where the Pick-Up and Loading points needs to be installed. Before purchasing these equipments the reputation of the Chain Conveyor Supplier should be checked carefully, so that the genuine equipment is delivered. The companies interested in buying these equipments can directly contact the Chain Conveyor Manufacturer to avail these products at market leading prices. Hangzhou ZMIE is a special chains company that is on forged chain,conveyor chain,cast chain,CC600 chain,enclosed track chain,bi planar chain,conveyor chain,overhead trolley,rivetless chain,scraper chain,forged link and so on. Previous: Where is the way out for the chain Next: Lubrication method of conveyor chain	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1418
__label__wiki	0.819426	0.819426	Trevor Noah's bringing sexy back to 'The Daily Show' in first trailer Image: Comedy Central By Neha Prakash 2015-05-28 16:35:37 UTC We're not saying sexy ever left The Daily Show, but just in case, Trevor Noah is bringing it back. Comedy Central dropped the first trailer for Noah's takeover from Jon Stewart on Thursday, showing Noah getting comfortable with his new desk. Stewart announced that he would be stepping down as host in February, and the South African comedian was announced as his replacement in late March. Noah's first episode will air September 28. Jimmy Kimmel has some handy ways to visualise Trump's 16,241 lies Topics: Entertainment, jon stewart, the daily show, trevor noah, Television, Video, Videos, viral video, Culture	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1422
__label__cc	0.652008	0.347992	Confusion about the null (empty) set being contained in other sets I'm having a tough time understanding how the set theory of null sets work. I have: $$ X=\emptyset,\quad\quad Y = \{\emptyset\},\quad\quad Z = \{\{\emptyset\}\}. $$ Some of my self-study exercises include these true or false questions. Now, I'm more concerned with the reasoning behind why they're true or false as opposed to the answers as I already have the answers, I just want the understanding. $\emptyset \in X$. I know this is false because the null set is not an element of any set. $\emptyset \in Y$. I don't know why this is true. $\emptyset \in Z$. I don't know why this is false. $X \subseteq Y$. I know this is true because the null set symbol is directly within the set. $Y \subseteq Z$. $X \in Y$. The same reason why (2) is true, I understand this one. $Y \in Z$. This is true because $\{\emptyset\}$ is directly within the set defined by $Z$. elementary-set-theory John YatesJohn Yates $\begingroup$ Your reasoning for 1) is incorrect. Think of $\emptyset$ like an empty box. What is inside of an empty box? Well, there is nothing in there, so any statement of the form $blah \in \emptyset$ is false. $\endgroup$ – Braindead May 14 '15 at 5:36 $\begingroup$ For set $Y$. Imagine putting an empty box inside of another empty box. $Y$ is your "outer" box. What is inside of your outer box? Well, there is that empty box we put in there. Do you think you can continue from here? $\endgroup$ – Braindead May 14 '15 at 5:38 $\begingroup$ Your reasoning for 4) is incorrect. $\endgroup$ – Braindead May 14 '15 at 5:40 $\begingroup$ Out of curiosity, why did you think the null set can't be an element of any set? $\endgroup$ – David Z May 14 '15 at 17:58 Very important facts: Set membership ($\in$) and set inclusion ($\subseteq$) are two very different things. When we write $A = \{b\}$, it implies that $b \in A$ but it does not imply that $b \subseteq A$. The only way for $b \subseteq A$ to be true is if $b$ is a set and the set $b$ does not contain any members that are not also members of $A$. Now to apply these facts: The null set can be an element of a set. (For example, it is an element of $Y$.) But the null set has no elements, and since $X=\emptyset$, $X$ has no elements and you cannot write $v \in X$ for any $v$ whatsoever, even $\emptyset$. $\emptyset \in Y$ because it was written that it is, as clearly as can be. The notation $Y=\{v\}$ means that $Y$ has one element, and $v$ is that element. Well, let $v=\emptyset$, that is, $Y=\{\emptyset\}$. The statement we made before about $v$ is now true about $\emptyset$: $Y$ has one element, and $\emptyset$ is that element. $Z$ has just one element. That element is the set $\{\emptyset\}$. But $\emptyset\neq\{\emptyset\}$. Therefore $\emptyset$ is not an element of $Z$. It is true that $X \subseteq Y$, but this is not because $\emptyset$ is an element of $Y$. It is because $X=\emptyset$, and $\emptyset$ is a subset of any other set that can ever be. In other words, it doesn't matter what is in $Y$. This is false. In fact, $Y \not\subseteq Z$, because $\emptyset \in Y$, but $\emptyset \not\in Z$. Again, $Z$ has just one element and that element is the set $\{\emptyset\}$, which is not the same thing as $\emptyset.$ You are right, this is the same as 2. Since $X=\emptyset$, when we write $\emptyset\in Y$ we are saying that $X\in Y$. I don't know the mathematical definition of "directly within" as applied to sets. I suppose you mean that $\{\emptyset\}$ is found in the list of elements between the outer braces in the definition of $Z$, $Z=\{\ldots\}.$ So yes, $\{\emptyset\} \in Z$, and since $Y=\{\emptyset\}$, that implies $Y\in Z$. David KDavid K $\begingroup$ +1 great answer imo, just one comment "to be true is if $b$ is a set" is unnecessary everything is a set in set theory $\endgroup$ – user153330 Feb 4 '16 at 22:51 Here is a good "crutch" that you can use for these types of problems. $X= \emptyset$ is an empty box, $Y = \{\emptyset\}$ is a box that contains an empty box, $Z = \{\{\emptyset\}\}$ is a box that contains a box that contains an empty box. Does an empty box contain an empty box? (No, an empty box is empty.) Does a box that contains an empty box contain an empty box? (Yes.) It is easy to get confused here. $Z$ contains a box that contains a box. $Z$ does not contain an empty box. In other words, we don't care that $Z$ contains a box that contains an empty box. Is everything inside the empty box also in $Y$? (Yes, because there is nothing inside the empty box.) Are all the elements in the box $Y$ in the box $Z$? (No, $Z$ does not contain an empty box). This is the same statement as 2. Does $Z$ contain a box that contains an empty box? Yes. I find that sometimes thinking about sets in this manner provides a helpful paradigm shift. $\begingroup$ I really doubt that the box analogy is helpful. For example if we have the sets $A=\{1,\{42\}\}$ and $B=\{2,\{42\}\}$, we would have to imagine a box containing the number $42$, and that box is inside both box $A$ and box $B$, but neither $A$ nor $B$ are inside each other. Boxes don't behave that way! $\endgroup$ – hmakholm left over Monica May 14 '15 at 19:11 $\begingroup$ What if we have disjoint instances of $\{42\}$? $\endgroup$ – user157227 May 17 '15 at 19:40 $\begingroup$ x @user: We don't -- or at least we shouldn't, when we're trying to explain a set theory that satisfies the Axiom of Extensionality: There does not exist two different sets whose members are exactly the same. $\endgroup$ – hmakholm left over Monica May 17 '15 at 19:48 $\begingroup$ @HenningMakholm I have a solution that satisfies both Henning Makholm's and user157227's disagreement. Let $C$ be the box that contains $42$. Then at some time, say 1:00am, let $A$ be a box containing $1$ and $C$. Then at 2:00am, let $B$ be a box containing $2$ and $C$. Because $A$ and $B$ are defined at different times, it is possible to change ownership of $C$ while still maintaining the Axiom of Extensionality – that $C$ is a unique box. It's not a perfect analogy, because set theory is time-independent, but it might be useful for beginners. $\endgroup$ – chharvey Feb 10 '17 at 1:41 1)$X=\emptyset$ means that X is the null set that means it doesn't contain any elements or in a better way the subset of X is the null set. 2) $Y=\{\emptyset\}$ means that $\emptyset$ is an element of this set Y than means it contains this element $\emptyset$. You can also this this as that the subsets of this set will be the element and the null set 3) $Z=\{\{\emptyset\}\}$ means that this set $\{\emptyset\}$ is an element of the set $Z$ . This means that the subset will contain the set$\{\emptyset\}$ which is an element of $Z$ and the null set. I think after this logic you will be able to answer all your questions Others have already provided some good answers. This answer looks at determining set inclusion mechanistically, which may be easier to work with to get started. Instead of writing the empty set as $\emptyset$, write it as {}. Then for each statement of the form $a \in B$, just look within the outermost set of braces of $B$ to see if you can find an instance of $a$. If it's there, then the statement is true. If it isn't, then the statement is false. So, for example, the empty set {} doesn't contain the empty set. The set that does contain the empty set looks like {{}}. LawrenceLawrence I recently read a proof of why the null set is contained in every set, a concept which heretofore had confused me. In formal logic, if the antecedent of an implication is false, then the implication as a whole is true. This is because the truth value of the consequent is independent of the truth value of the antecedent (though the converse of this statement is false). With this in mind, consider the following implication: $x$ $\in$ $\emptyset$ $\implies$ $x$ $\in$ $S$, where $S$ is an arbitrary set. By the definition of the empty set, the antecedent is always false. Thus the implication itself is always true. This is why your reasoning behind (1) is false. The reason "false" is the correct answer is because $X$ $=$ $\emptyset$; in other words, $X$ contains nothing. The null set is something, and so $X$ cannot contain it. (2) is true because $Y$ clearly contains $\emptyset$. (3) is technically true, for the argument given above. But suppose $Z$ is some exceptional, nonexistent set that does not contain the null set, which seems to be the assumption of whoever wrote this problem. The message being conveyed is that a set containing the null set is not the same as the null set itself, which is why it is false, even though such a set does not, and cannot, actually exist. (4) is true, but vacuously so. This is because $X$ $\subseteq$ $Y$ can be rewritten as $x$ $\in$ $X$ $\implies$ $x$ $\in$ $Y$. As shown above, this implication is true because the antecedent is always false. (5) is actually false. The notation here is a bit subtle. If $A$ and $B$ are arbitrary sets, then, if $A$ $\subseteq$ $B$, $x$ $\in$ $A$ $\iff$ $x$ $\in$ $B$, for all possible $x$. However, if $A$ $\subset$ $B$, $A$ is known as a "proper subset" of $B$, and implies that there exists at least one element $x$ such that $x$ $\in$ $B$ $\land$ $x$ $\notin$ $A$; in other words, all elements of $A$ are contained in $B$, though the converse of this statement is false. It may be the case that whoever wrote these problems uses $\subseteq$ to mean "proper subset of", in which case (5) is true. (6) is true for the same reason (4) is false. (7) is true for the same reason (6) is true. It is important to make the distinction between $X$ $\subset$ $Y$, which means all elements of $X$ are contained in $Y$, and $X$ $\in$ $Y$, which means the set $X$ itself, though not necessarily the individual elements of $X$, is contained in $Y$. Doktor MabuseDoktor Mabuse Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged elementary-set-theory or ask your own question. Subsets of sets containing empty set In the context of regular languages is Ø* = Ø? For every set $A$, the empty set is a subset of $A$. The empty set is a set. Therefore, the empty set has a cardinality $\geq 1\ldots$ The case of being “vacuously true / trivially true” and the empty set The Null Subset of a Given Defined Set Union on the empty set and the set containing the empty set Since the null/empty set is the subset of every set, why is the powerset of {a} different from the powerset of $\{a,\emptyset\}$ Empty set, subsets, and vacuous truths Sets and subsets: What is the difference between these two statements? Does the set of empty set contain set of empty set?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1424
__label__cc	0.580983	0.419017	Yahoo Rumored in Talks to Acquire Hitpost, Makers of the Popular Mobile App SportsBet October 1, 2013 - Hitpost – makers of the social sports betting app Sports Bet which is ranked #3 in the iOS App Store Sports category – is rumored to be in talks to be acquired by Yahoo. The company is a next generation sports network where fans can keep tabs on teams and their upcoming events and make virtual bets on their favorite teams and players. The company offers beautifully designed web and mobile experiences where their community of sports enthusiasts caption and comment on scores, games and photos. They already send traffic to Yahoo’s Fantasy Sports portal. It will be interesting to see how their sense of design (check out the cool use of scroll effects on their website) could be incorporated into Yahoo Sports, which just launched a design a few weeks ago which has not been very popular. Hitpost was founded in the Spring of 2009 by Silicon Valley native Aaron Krane, who formerly worked for Slide, and has 8 employees according to LinkedIn. The company most recently raised a $2 million round from FLOODGATE and Quotidian Ventures in April 2012. Their @sportsbet Twitter account has not tweeted since their TechCrunch coverage on August 13th, which could suggest the deal took place shortly thereafter. Update: Kim Mai Cutler also has the story over on TechCrunch and mentions that founder Aaron Krane, who stepped down from his CEO role earlier this year, will not be joining Yahoo. We have reached out the the company and will update this post as we learn more. See Hitpost on Mattermark Pro – sign up for a 30 day free trial	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1426
__label__wiki	0.526068	0.526068	About Lisa Mason, the Author lisamasontheauthor Lisa Mason, Fantasy and Science Fiction Author Archives for category: 2019 THE GILDED AGE is Back In Print in Seven Countries, an Ebook on Eighteen Markets Worldwide “A thoroughly entertaining time travel story supported by vivid characterizations and settings” New Reviews! A New York Times Notable Book, Sequel to Summer of Love! Lisa Mason #LisaMason #SFWApro #SFWAauthor #timetravel #1890s #Victorianage #farfuture #dystopia #darkromance #feminist #printbook #ebook December 28, 2019 // New Review of The Gilded Age at http://sfbookreview.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-gilded-age-by-lisa-mason.html: “The world of 2495 is at an unsustainable twelve billion population. Zhu Wong is a Daughter of Compassion, a group working to enforce the birth restriction laws. She is in jail awaiting trial when she is recruited by the Luxon Institute for Superluminal Applications (LISA, I love the acronym) to t-port back to 1895 San Francisco. She accepts the deal. Her mission is to find Wing Sing, take her and the aurelia to the mission run by Donaldina Cameron. In 1967 Wing Sing’s daughter will eventually give the brooch to Chiron at the end of his stay in the Summer of Love project. Zhu finds Wing Sing, but she doesn’t have the aurelia. They are captured by a Chinese gang. Zhu is bought away from them by Jessie, a madam, Wing Sing stuck with the Tong. Zhu does work for Jessie, but is more valuable as a bookkeeper so avoids becoming a prostitute. Daniel Watkins is the son of a real estate magnate coming to San Francisco to collect on debts. He is low on funds and is referred to lodging at Jessie’s where his life becomes entwined with Zhu’s. Somehow Zhu is attracted to this heavy drinking smoker who has distinct views of women. Despite herself and her mission, Zhu cares about Jessie and Daniel. I loved the character of Zhu. Somehow I wasn’t repulsed by Daniel and Jessie. They are more a product of their environment doing what they can with their sense of right and wrong. Very enjoyable, I read the last two hundred pages straight through. This is definitely a stand alone novel, though Summer of Love is mentioned several times. I’ll have to read that one as a prequel rather than book one.” And this is from Library Journal: “The discovery of a golden brooch that should not exist in the 25th century prompts the Luxon Institute to send a young Chinese woman 600 years back in time. She arrives in San Francisco in 1895 to prevent the future from altering the past. This sequel to Summer of Love (LJ 6/15/94), seen through the eyes of an observer from the future, juxtaposes the tempestuous, sprawling milieu of boomtown San Francisco with its shadowy underside of prostitution and decadence. Mason’s graceful prose and her skill in orchestrating a complex and satisfying plot make this a solid purchase for sf collections. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. This is from a reader: https://www.amazon.ca/Golden-Nineties-Lisa-Mason/dp/0553373315 5.0 out of 5 stars Hypnotic Read By,Robin Booneon Published on Amazon.com\|Verified Purchase “Lisa Mason’s Summer of Love and The Golden Nineties both have this quality – you want to reread them as soon as you’ve read them. Her writing conveys an abiding love of San Francisco, and interesting bits of California history are woven into the storylines. The writing is so compelling that you feel as though time travel were a possibility. I hope she writes more of these San Francisco fantasies!” And this is from Publisher’s Weekly https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-553-37331-8 “Mason’s sequel to Summer of Love is a delightful expansion of that work and a major step forward for her. The tale centers on Zhu Wong, a Chinese national whose lawyer plea-bargains her release from prison so that Chiron and his companions from the previous novel’s Luxon Institute for Superluminal Applications can transport her 600 years into the past to find a macguffin called the aurelia. Once in San Francisco, 1895, Mason brings the environment and the times to life with her rendering of the city’s activities, especially its corruption. The several historic personages who appear–including Frank Norris, Jack London and Susan B. Anthony–are all given dimensions that reflect the rigor of Mason’s research without leaving the reader overburdened by minutiae. Zhu Wong finds herself embroiled in a world of decadence and prostitution; she sees friends and companions abuse themselves with such things as alcohol, cocaine and corsets. As with Karen Joy Fowler’s Sarah Canary, Mason uses the novel partially to explore the role of women in society. As Zhu grows to understand the hypocrisies of the 1890s, she becomes even less comfortable with the presumptions of her own time. She creates several “closed time loops,” apparent paradoxes that impede her mission–and, perhaps more important, thwart her own desires. Eventually she finds her way out of the time loops and in the process teaches everyone–including herself–a few lessons about life. Her bravura performance with this book should both leave the reader wanting more and solidify her position as one of the most interesting writers in science fiction.” And this just in from an Amazon.com reader By Uke Enthusiast Format: Kindle Edition\|Verified Purchase “One of my favorite books. I am delighted it is back in print. A thoroughly entertaining time travel story supported by vivid characterizations and settings.” Book Description: The year is 1895 and immigrants the world over are flocking to California on the transcontinental railroad and on transoceanic steamships. The Zoetrope demonstrates the persistence of vision, patent medicines addict children to morphine, and women are rallying for the vote. In San Francisco, saloons are the booming business, followed by brothels, and the Barbary Coast is a dangerous sink of iniquity. Atop Telegraph Hill bloody jousting tournaments are held and in Chinatown the tongs deal in opium, murder-for-hire, and slave girls. Zhu Wong, a prisoner in twenty-fifth century China, is given a choice–stand trial for murder or go on a risky time-travel project to the San Francisco of 1895 to rescue a slave girl and take her to safety. Charmed by the city’s opulent glamour, Zhu will discover the city’s darkest secrets. A fervent population control activist in a world of twelve billion people, she will become an indentured servant to the city’s most notorious madam. Fiercely disciplined, she will fall desperately in love with the troubled self-destructive heir to a fading fortune. And when the careful plans of the Gilded Age Project start unraveling, Zhu will discover that her choices not only affect the future but mean the difference between her own life or death. “A winning mixture of intelligence and passion.” The New York Times Book Review “Graceful prose. . . .A complex and satisfying plot.” Library Journal “Rollicking. . . .Dazzling.” Locus Magazine “Should both leave the reader wanting more and solidify Mason’s position as one of the most interesting writers in science fiction.” Publisher’s Weekly The cover, by San Francisco artist Tom Robinson, is styled to look like an 1890s billboard. The Gilded Age is BACK IN PRINT! Order the beautiful trade paperback in the U.S., in the U.K., in France, in Germany, in Italy, in Spain, and in Japan. The ebook is at BarnesandNoble, Apple, Kobo, and Smashwords and on Kindle worldwide at US Kindle, Canada Kindle, UK Kindle, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan, India, Mexico, and Netherlands. So there you have it, my friends. Bantam Books, a division of Random House, published this as The Golden Nineties. Yes, I changed the title. I think the new title is better. (Wish I’d thought of it in the first place) This is the Author’s Preferred Print Edition. Whether you’re a longtime reader or new, I hope you enjoy this classic! Join my other patrons on my Patreon page and learn the shocking reason I’ve opted for Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/lisamasonfantasyandsciencefictionwriter?alert=2 I’ve got delightful new stories and previously published stories, writing tips, book excerpts, movie reviews, original healthy recipes, and more. Donate a tip from your PayPal account to lisasmason@aol.com. Visit me at www.lisamason.com for all my books, ebooks, stories, and screenplays, reviews, interviews, blogs, roundtables, adorable cat pictures, forthcoming works, fine art and bespoke jewelry by my husband Tom Robinson, worldwide links, and more! Please disregard any ad you see here. 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Dick Award Finalist, Print Book, Published Book, Published Worldwide, San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book, Science fiction, Speculative Fiction, The Gilded Age, The Gilded Age A Time Travel, Time Machines, Time Travel, Time Travels to San Francisco Brand New Amazing Stories Review of CHROME! Lisa Mason #LisaMason #SFWApro #SFWAauthor #CHROME #novel #speculativefiction #sciencefiction #womenssciencefiction #geneticengineering #CRISPRtechnology #offworld #planetoid #murdermystery Here’s Steve Fahnestalk (with 19,000 subscribers): “Next month, January 2020, will be my seventh consecutive year of writing for Amazing Stories® online! I hope you’ve enjoyed my writing as much as I have enjoyed being a part of Steve Davidson’s reboot of this famous magazine, and I hope to be able to do this for a long time to come. For my last column of the 2010s (and 2019 in particular), I’ve chosen to review two very good genre works, one an excellent magazine, and the other an excellent semi-noir full-on SF work by a terrific author I’ve reviewed before, and (as the cover above says, a New York Times notable author). I’m talking about Lisa Mason’s new novel Chrome, first. I hesitate to characterize it, because it’s so much more than a short description can convey, but in my mind it stands out as a science-fiction homage, in part, to the noir books and movies of the forties and fifties, only brought forth into a future time a quarter-millennium from now. There’s no world-weary Robert Mitchum-type ‘tec as a protagonist; rather, our hero is a beautiful half-human, half puma thief named Luna Lightfoot, who makes her main living as what we might call a video star. Millions of people back on Earth pay for the privilege of watching her at home while she eats, sleeps, and carries out her home life for their voyeuristic pleasure. She also hangs out with the rich and famous. Luna lives on an artificial planetoid, called Chrome, at one of Earth’s LaGrange points, put there 250 years ago by one of Earth’s wealthiest and greediest corporations, the Emirk group. (If you want to know where Emirk came from, the name refers to a tributary of one of Earth’s big rivers, according to the author. When you get to that part, you’ll understand.) Back in our time (and this is true), a Chinese scientist claims to have gene-edited a couple of children using the CRISPR method, which is sort of like gene cut-and-pasting. Scientists around the world—and, finally, this own government—decried the use of CRISPR on humans. However, in this book, Emirk started experimenting (at first, openly, but then, thanks to public and governmental outcries, covertly) with “improving” the human genome by adding genes from practically every oxygen-breathing species of animal on the planet. Spending billions to build Chrome, Emirk’s experiments were moved there and continued. Human subjects were given or sold by outlaw governments and factions to Emirk’s scientists; and now there exists a whole society of human/animal interbreeds, called “blends,” on Chrome. Humans can not live there anymore, thanks to a plague that killed off (and continues to kill off) any unmodified humans, yet Emirk still owns Chrome, and figures it owns all the inhabitants too. Luna attends a party given by Bunny Hedgway, one of Chrome’s glitterati in order to steal an artifact from Bunny’s treasure room, but while she was engaged in this theft, witnessed the murder of Chrome’s prima ballerina, an ostrich Blend named Zena Kinski, by an unidentified Blend who was wearing a wolf costume, but who may not have been a wolf. Because she was witnessed on the roof of Bunny’s place at the time of the murder, Luna needs to clear herself and find out who the Blend is who actually killed Zena. In the process, Luna finds herself becoming familiar with Chrome’s criminal underworld, and gains enemies as well as new friends and allies. One of those is the tortoise Blend Terralina Rustabrin, who is about to be bond-mated to a Prince of tortoise Blends. (Blends are not legally humans; therefore, cannot marry, according to Emirk Corporation. So “bond-mating” is their substitute.) Although Terralina’s eyesight is poor, she happens to be close to several significant happenings related to the murder, and actually saw Luna come down off Bunny’s roof. In this book, Lisa has created a world and a society that mirrors our own in many respects; although we have no (to the best of my knowledge) actual Blends on Earth, corporations and governments on this planet are actively trying to (and in some cases have succeeded) treat humans as if they were Blends, or property. And you can just bet that these kinds of experiments will happen somewhere on Earth if they aren’t already happening. Like what happens to most enslaved people everywhere, many Blends are rich or getting rich by actively helping Emirk subjugate their fellow blends. There are Blend geniuses, one of whom created the “Tatts,” a type of tattoo that acts as a communications device, archival device, amanuensis (a blend of Alexa and Google in some ways) and other things. It’s a fully-realized society that takes some of the attributes of the animal parts of Blends and applies what those traits might mean to humans who have them. And as for the noir mystery part; whether Luna solves her own problem (of being a suspect and a fugitive from the killer(s)), you’ll just have to read the book to find out. I really appreciate the fact that the ending is not a “pat ending.” I suspect Lisa may someday turn out a sequel to Chrome. Anyway, I liked this book and recommend it; it’s available in Kindle format in most countries.” Here’s the Amazing Stories link so you can see the beauteous photo of me holding an issue of The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy in which I’d published a story a little while ago. Not the F&SF issue in the Amazing Stories review, though Steve Fahnestalk compared a theme in one of the stories in the November-December issue to my theme in CHROME. https://www.amazingstories.com/2019/12/my-last-column-lisa-masons-chrome-and-fsf-nov-dec-2019/ The CHROME cover, by San Francisco artist Tom Robinson, is comprised of a dozen different elements which Tom carefully researched. We think the imagery looks kind of mid-century. I love the color scheme. And yes! A Brand-new Reader Review of Chrome, You’ll find it on Amazon: “So Walter Mosley reread Animal Farm and The Island of Dr Moreau and says to himself, “Oh, yes indeed, I’ve got a terrific idea for my next best seller.” But! Lisa says, “Hold on, hot stuff. You’re too late. Chrome is already on the streets. Haha!” Wow! I just tore through Chrome. So much fun. Oh, I guess I should take a time-out to say that it was very well-written too, but I was enjoying the characters and the story so much that the superb writing simply did its job and I had to consciously reflect to notice the excellent and clever construction and reveals. Uh, isn’t that the definition of good writing? I’m not usually a fan of sequels, but could we please have at least one more romp with Ms Lightfoot and her sidekick Terralina?” Yes, I’m working next on a second CHROME book and a third book to round out a trilogy, plus a prequel novella. LIBERATION DAY, which will explore the mysteries of the events leading up to freeing of the Blends from their cages. CHROME is in U.S. print as a beautiful trade paperback. Also in U.K. print, in German print, in French print, in Spanish print, in Italian print, and in Japanese print. 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Dick Award Finalist, San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book, Science fiction, Speculative Fiction New Five-star Reviews of Cyberweb (Sequel to Arachne) In Print in Seven Countries and Also An Ebook on Eighteen Retailers Worldwide! #LisaMason #SFWApro #SFWAauthor #novel #cyberpunk #artificialintelligence #sciencefiction #womenssciencefiction #SanFrancisco I just discovered these two new five-star reviews of CYBERWEB while I was collecting the print links. Sheesh! I need an assistant. 4.0 out of 5 starsDEEPER THAN DEEP On re-reading CYBERWEB a year later, I don’t think my first review does it justice. The writer has peeled off the difference between conscious robots and flesh and blood man. Almost without fanfare the robots are provided with souls. Her mechanical characters are given both consciousness and emotion. Their only difference to man is in their composition. This becomes very clear when the outmoded Spinner character uploads herself into Patina’s flashy, lifeless bodywork. I MUST NOW RATE THIS BOOK FIVE STARS. The writer, thus, dives deeply into the unseen world that controls man’s apparent freewill existence. By using mainframes as purposeful beasts, seeking to control fleshy man, some very deep philosophical questions are posed. She leaves it up to the reader to fill in the blanks to this very entertaining and thoughtful story. THE OLD REVIEW READ: Mason leads her cyberpunk reader into the arena of sci-fi comics. It’s not possible for humans to grasp the feelings and desires of these robot characters but it’s still a lot of fun to try. She challenges your imagination to follow her characters’ avatars, cones, cubes and three headed chimeras as they flit in and out of cyberspace. But hard questions are run up the flagpole. Can bodiless people exist in this virtual world of telespace? Can a soul exist in a nonorganic body? Should robots be discarded like machines when a new model arrives? Can our culture continue to absorb the changes computer power is unleashing? Is our reality but an extension of the bits composing telespace? Even the questions of what consciousness might consist of and whether it is really an advantage to being born as flesh and blood. She makes no attempt to answer these questions but even considering them makes this book a very creative endeavor. You could certainly invest your time on a much less entertaining story. Also it is short and sweet. 5.0 out of 5 starsInteresting…pretty cool actually… Cyberweb is a pretty nifty cyberpunk novel…lots of interesting ideas…I liked it… So there you have it, my friends. One reader at a time….. 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Tags cyberpunk, Cyberpunk Classic, Cyberweb, Cyberweb the Sequel to Arachne, Lisa Mason, Lisa Mason Fantasy and Science Fiction Author, Lisa Mason Fantasy and Science Fiction Author on Facebook, Lisa Mason on Facebook, Lisa Mason on Twitter, Lisa Mason Romantic Suspense Author, Lisa Mason Screenwriter, Lisa Mason Urban Fantasy, Lisa Mason Urban Fantasy Author, Lisa Mason's Patreon Page, San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book, science fiction Categories 2019, A.I., Arachne, Arachne the Novel, Arachne the Omni story, Artificial Intelligence, author, Books, Booksellers, Bookstore, bookstores, Computers, cyberpunk, Cyberpunk Classic, Cyberweb, Lisa Mason, Lisa Mason Fantasy and Science Fiction Author, Lisa Mason Fantasy and Science Fiction Author On Facebook, Lisa Mason Official Website, Lisa Mason on Facebook, Lisa Mason Romantic Suspense Author, Lisa Mason Screenwriter, Lisa Mason Urban Fantasy Author, Lisa Mason's Patreon Page, Patreon, Print Book, Published Book, San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book, Science fiction, Speculative Fiction “Every Mystery Unexplained” by Lisa Mason published in David Copperfield’s Tales of the Impossible (HarperPrism) #historicalfantasy #publishedstory #anthology #fantasywriter Every Mystery Unexplained Lisa Mason “As long as the human mind delights in mysteries, so it will love magic and magicians. I would say to all beginners, ‘Keep three things in mind: First–Practice constantly new sleights, novel devices, and invent new combinations of old feats. You must always have something new wherewith to dazzle. Second–Make your work artistic by clothing each illusion with all the glamour and shadows of fairyland and the suggestions of incantations and supernatural powers in order to prepare the observer’s mind for a mystery. Third–Leave every mystery unexplained.'” –Harry Kellar, “The Greatest Magician in the World,” 1887 My father is done with the doves and colored scarves by the time he gets to the spirit show. “And now, ladies and gentlemen,” Uncle Brady announces, his voice as sonorous as a Shakespearean ghost, “Professor Flint will endeavor through his astonishing, miraculous, and mysterious psychic powers to establish communication with the Spirits of the Dead!” “Endeavor to establish communication with the Dead,” I whisper to Mr. Pannini, the booking agent for the Tivoli Theater, as we watch from the wings. “A pity he seldom endeavors to establish communication with me.” The audience shifts and titters, restless in the early evening, which is awfully cold and gloomy even for fog-haunted San Francisco. Gaslights flicker, leaking fumes into the chill, damp air. A smell of mold clings to the dark velvet curtains, a sepulchral odor that leaves me uneasy. “The old man is a boiled shirt, is he?” Pannini says with a grin. He is a dapper, clove-scented, well-oiled dandy in fancy gabardine and a velvet bowler, a massive mustache curling over his lip. Some ten years my senior, I suppose, with the air of the rake about him. My father dislikes him intensely. “Nothing a young gentleman like yourself cannot handle, I’ll wager.” “I endure,” I say, “the dutiful son.” I like Pannini. He slips me a Mecca cigarette. I light up, quick and guilty. My father has forbidden me to smoke. My father has forbidden me to grow a mustache till I reach the age of one-and-twenty, which has been a source of more contention between us than cigarettes, since extravagant mustaches are all the rage for gentlemen in our year of 1895. A requirement of fashion that occupies many of my thoughts despite other concerns, such as the bank panic, massive unemployment, and civil unrest throughout our great nation of America. What lady will consider me without a mustache? I chafe at each passing day of these next nine months, shave the scant fuzz from my lip–dutiful son–and speculate pessimistically on what poor bristles may be produced when Pop’s injunction has expired. “And what will you do, Professor Flint,” Uncle Brady is inquiring onstage, “if you should encounter the Grim Reaper Himself?” “I shall challenge Him to a duel!” my father replies. “A duel?” Uncle Brady says, inviting the audience to marvel with him. “A duel to the death!” my father declares. Onstage, my father arduously prepares himself to establish communication with the Spirits of the Dead. Of Pop’s many talents, this is one of his best, the dramatic preparation for impending dire difficulty. Uncle Brady assists him, yanking off Pop’s cutaway coat, ceremoniously withdrawing the dueling sword from the trunk. My father effects much rolling of eyes, rolling up of sleeves, girding of loins. He kneads his forehead, unleashing psychic powers. A pity he had not prepared so well for my mother’s death. Someone snores in the audience with an exaggerated gargle. A heckler? A pack of hoodlums in scruffy top hats tip rotgut in the back row. There has been an air of uncertainty, of desperation, since we arrived in San Francisco. No one in the far West honors paper money. You must pay in gold or silver coin. Only half the seats in the Tivoli are filled tonight. “He ain’t Houdini,” Pannini says, not unkindly. “With a switcheroo act.” No, Pop is not that dare devilish young rascal, the dexterous Harry Houdini. No one can top Houdini who, with his wild antics, has spoiled audiences from St. Pete’s to Nome. Everyone is clamoring to see “Metamorphosis,” during which the monsieur and the mademoiselle, each bound at wrist and ankle, exchange places in the box in three seconds flat. “No, but I know how Houdini pulls off ‘Metamorphosis,'” I say. “I know exactly how he does it. The box trick has been around for a hundred years.” “The box trick?” Pannini raises his eyebrows. Over the years, the box trick has been vastly improved, ingeniously improvised, and presented again and again, fresh as the morning dew. But I bite my tongue. I cannot reveal how Houdini’s “Metamorphosis” is pulled off, not even if I wanted to. “You know all about the box trick, do you?” Pannini prompts, intrigued by my hesitation. “Sorry,” I say. “We magicians have a code of secrecy. We’ve all sworn not to reveal how an illusion is accomplished. Even if we’re not the ones performing it. Especially then.” “Ah, a code of secrecy,” Pannini says with a shrug. “Well, don’t look so glum, Danny. It’s a fair crowd for the Tivoli. For a magic act.” Now I shrug, and draw deeply on the Mecca. “The old man has got to get himself a pretty heifer onstage,” Pannini says. “That’ll draw ’em in.” “Oh, we had a beautiful lady in the act.” “Did you?” Pannini says, suddenly animated. “Well, trot her out, sir.” “She died,” I say. “Last spring.” I fling the Mecca to the floor, stamp it out. My father will raise Cain when he smells tobacco on my breath. “Sorry,” Pannini says. When I look again, he’s vanished. As it is, my father has got a good act. Not a great act, perhaps, not a spectacular act like Harry Houdini’s, but a very good act. He’s worked on this act, in its various permutations, for all the twenty years I have walked upon the earth and before then, too, according to Uncle Brady. My father is no dare devilish robust rascal, but a well weathered man, lean of flesh and spare of hair, whom some people mistake for my grandfather. Yet Pop has not lost his touch, in my opinion. In my opinion–and as his only son and heir apparent, I’m entitled to my opinion–it’s a lousy crowd for the astonishing, the miraculous, the mysterious Professor Flint. Then again, nothing seems right since my mother died. Now my father takes up the sword, commences feints and thrusts. In the sulfuric glare of the limelights, I can see sweat pooling over the starched wing collar that throttles his throat, soaking through his threadbare brocade vest like a bloodstain. I used to worry about Pop’s health. He always was a scrawny bird, and scrofula and consumption ran in his family. Sometimes it seemed to me that the exertions of the stage, not to mention the financial uncertainties of magic, would do him in. I don’t worry so much about Pop anymore. He turned out to be the strong one. Which only goes to show you. You never can tell from the look of things what the truth is or what, an illusion. With a swift, decisive jab, my father thrusts the sword–back into its scabbard. That’s right. This preliminary action sequence is intended to arouse any flagging interest among gentlemen in the audience. Gentlemen are by nature discontent and easily bored, not to mention skeptical. Sure enough, one of the hoodlums in the back row shouts, “Bloody well get on with it, man!” But my father never concedes to a quick, cheap thrill. No, there are ladies and children in the audience–usually there are, anyway, though such tender persons appear to be singularly lacking at the Tivoli tonight. Ladies and children of sensitive sensibilities may become alarmed by Professor Flint’s aggressive antics. They may pause, they may press gentle pale fingertips to their pale throats, they may wonder if the next mystery will be too much for them to bear. It is for this portion of the audience that my father sheaths the sword. A portion deserving, as my mother used to say, of a performer’s special courtesy. A portion endowed themselves with the power of trembling lips, of fluttering eyelashes, of little cries of joy or alarm, of those gentle pale fingertips just as she, my mother, was so amply endowed. It is for them that my father now trots out the dancing handkerchief. “But first, ladies and gentlemen,” he announces, “before I challenge the Grim Reaper to a duel to the death, I shall endeavor to prove that the power of Life goes beyond Death. Beyond the grave itself!” To be honest, I personally think the dancing handkerchief is the silliest of illusions. I’m always astonished at how much the ladies and the children and the gentlemen love it. Need I say that all of the Tivoli’s stagehands, Mr. Pannini, and anyone and everyone not privy to our techniques, have been banished from backstage. Need I say that Uncle Brady and I sprint like souls possessed to our respective positions at each wing abutting the stage. Need I hint that the dancing handkerchief illusion works much like a marionette. Need I add that we gleefully seize the wonderfully simple and devilishly clever devices. For they are devices. There is no person on earth once clearly shown who would ever mistake the technical application of wrist and wire for the appearance of something supernatural. “Ladies and gentlemen,” Pop is saying, “I will endeavor to demonstrate the miraculous Power of Life utilizing the most ordinary of personal accoutrements.” My father has got one of those masterful voices and the ability to project his ironic personality out into a crowd. Yet I worry how well he will project his personality tonight, for the air feels thick in the Tivoli Theater. I feel a chill sweep through the room, like a draft from a back door left carelessly ajar. “Does anyone,” Pop says, “have a handkerchief? Of purest white silk, if you please?” In this surly crowd, reeking of cheap whiskey and unwashed clothes, I fear no person in attendance is genteel enough to possess the requested accoutrement. The chill deepens, and a cloud of bay fog drifts in. Clear across the stage I can see Uncle Brady twist his head around, glancing behind himself, at me, out there. He’s working up a fury for the stagehands. Some rotter has left a door open, taking petty revenge, perhaps, for his banishment from backstage. One of the very few ladies in the audience stands, works her way to the aisle, and approaches the stage. I heave a sigh of relief. Across the stage, Uncle Brady pantomimes wiping his brow. What a lady she is, too, tall and slim, in a ruffled burgundy dress. Her coiffure tilts above her forehead at a saucy angle, a curl coiled on the high curve of her cheek. She smiles at my father, who bows graciously, and glances around at her neighbors, seeking their approval of her boldness. Her dark eyes light upon me, as I peer out from the wing. I can smell her perfume, a rich musk of red roses. She holds forth a white silk handkerchief in her elegant fingers. “Da,” she says in a purring contralto, “I have handkerchief.” And then she winks at me. Oh, Lord. I duck out of sight. Pop will have my hide if he should notice that someone in the audience has spied me skulking about in the wings. He proceeds apace with the illusion, however, deftly knotting one corner of the lady’s handkerchief. When he’s done, the handkerchief looks just like a little ghost, with a pert peaked head and a drooping shroud. He tosses the handkerchief on the stage, casually leaning over to rearrange the silk and attach the fabric to the—ah, never mind. It’s a mystery unexplained. Much like a marionette, as I’ve said. That’s all you need to know. “Thus I shall prove, ladies and gentlemen,” my father says, “that within each small thing, even a mere handkerchief from this beautiful lady, the Spirit of Life can come alive.” And off we go, Uncle Brady and me at opposite ends of the stage, making that little ghost come alive. First, the handkerchief raises its head, struggling to become animated, then (pardon me) gives up the ghost, and falls slack again. My father coaxes it, by turns tender, then stern, and the handkerchief rises, rises, growing more vigorous by the moment, finally standing upright and positively lively. The ghost leaps into Pop’s hands, leaps down again, and capers across the stage like a maniac. Pop gives chase, captures it. It swiftly escapes, and he gives chase again. At last he seizes the handkerchief and hands it to the lady, still bobbing and wiggling like a hooked fish. She cries out. Pop takes the wiggler back, unties the knot, and, with a murmured apology, releases a lifeless handkerchief. The lady beams and displays her erstwhile ghost. Everyone in the front rows leans forward, entranced, applauding wildly. Like I said, they always love the dancing handkerchief. “Thank you, madam,” Pop says. “What is your name, please?” “I am Zena Troubetzskoy.” “Bloody well get on with it, man!” the hoodlum in the back row yells again. His pals guffaw. “Madame Troubetzskoy, I am charmed,” my father says, ignoring the hecklers, and takes her handkerchief yet again and produces from it a fresh red rose. He regards the rose as if it is a wondrous treasure and hands silk and bloom to her. Zena stares, openmouthed. As I peer from the wing again, I see a flush infuse her cheeks, staining her face as if with a sudden fever. “Can you really communicate with the Other Side, Professor Flint?” she asks. “I certainly can,” Pop says. Liar, I think. The enmity between stage magicians and spiritualist mediums revolves around this very point–what we each claim we can do. No one has actually established communication with the Spirits of the Dead. No one has proven that the soul survives. Yet spiritualist mediums deceive people with cruelties–and with illusions any stage magician can readily replicate. Maskelyne, the Royal Illusionist, exposed the Davenport brothers’ spirit cabinet as nothing more than the good old box trick. Anderson, the Great Wizard of the North, produced better table-tipping and spirit raps than the Fox sisters, who have bilked many a silver dollar from the bereaved. If my father really could establish communication with the Other Side, don’t you think he would have contacted my mother? But what else is my father supposed to say? No, not really? He cannot say that, not in front of an audience in a theater. A magician must never reveal the secrets of his illusions, must never explain the mystery though there is no mystery. That is our code of secrecy. Still, I am uneasy with Pop’s charade, his disingenuous answer. Is he any better than a deceitful spiritualist medium? If Zena Troubetzskoy is perturbed by my father’s lie, however, she gives no sign. “How marvelous,” she says and returns to the darkness beyond the limelights. Now our rented orchestra strikes up a sprightly tune. Uncle Brady rushes onstage to assist Pop, while I pull the ghost getup over myself, head to toe, and sprint to my appointed place before the pane of plate glass. The pane, which the audience cannot see, is situated just so, in relation to the activities onstage and the activities offstage, and to a strategically placed spotlight. When light and darkness are arranged precisely right, when the physics of reflection and refraction are manipulated correctly, you will see an apparition appear out of nowhere onstage with Professor Flint. You will see the apparition joust with him in a death-defying duel. You will see him pierce the apparition clear through with his sword. At which point, you will see the apparition perish amid much pathos, and disappear before your very eyes. All right, the ghost duel is not actually so death-defying. Not like the real stunts of that dare devilish Houdini, who trusses himself up like an animal bound for slaughter and swallows needles. Nor is the ghost duel original to my father. Professor J. H. Pepper pioneered the illusion, and many others have presented it in various permutations such as “The Blue Room” or “The Room of Mortality,” in which a skeleton in a coffin transforms itself into a young woman, then withers again into bare bones. Still, I think the ghost duel is the high point of Professor Flint’s act. I never tired of watching this illusion back in the days when my mother played the ghost. When I was a kid, I used to love it. Uncle Brady would intone his Grand Invocation of the Spirits of the Dead, and the ghost would appear–just like that!–floating over the stage. And you could feel how the audience began to believe. Ladies would weep, and children cry out. Some gentlemen would toot their noses, while others would gasp, with fear or shock or the wonder of it all. One time in Cheyenne someone called out, “Praise the Lord!” and someone else answered, “Amen!” What a ghost my mother played! Pop would fling down a leather glove in challenge, whip his sword from its scabbard. The apparition would fling down its own white silk glove, defiantly produce its own weapon. And off they would go, leaping and sparring. My mother was so charming and spritely and graceful that the ladies would stop their weeping, the children would laugh, the gentlemen would stop tooting in their handkerchiefs. These hardy people of our young American nation, who faced death daily by consumption or childbirth or fever, they would gaze at that graceful ghost and they would smile. I could see joy stealing into their hearts, and it was magic. I am not nearly as charming a ghost as my mother once was, but I can spar, I can feint, and the duel has got this audience warmed up at last. From the location offstage where I accomplish my part of the illusion, I can hear the cheers and exclamations of encouragement. Pop pierces me through the heart, I perish and vanish, and it’s over. I fling off the ghost getup, and dash up onstage. The audience stands and applauds. Mr. Pannini gives me the thumbs-up. I can see the relief on my father’s face. Pop is the sort of man who makes a meticulous accounting of each triumph and especially of each failure, however small. The failures disturb him far more than the triumphs ever give him satisfaction. Uncle Brady beams and bows, but he gives a little shake of his head, a sort of cringe to his shoulder, and I know what he’s thinking. He’s thinking nothing has seemed right since the accident took my mother’s life last spring. The woman in the burgundy dress rushes up to the stage, clapping furiously, the red rose tucked behind her ear. Zena Troubetzskoy says, “How marvelous! Oh! How marvelous!” First light of the dawn, and I smell wood smoke and the bitter, bracing scent of coffee. The flicker of a fire pries my eyelids open. Uncle Brady is already up, bending over our campfire, brewing coffee in a dented tin pot. I have spent the night out of doors, in the fog and the gloom, and I am aching all over, I am shivering, and my mouth tastes of stale cigarette smoke. “Rise and shine, Danny,” Uncle Brady says. “You look like Pepper’s ghost warmed over, son.” I do not doubt it. We have been on the road for a long time. I’m accustomed to sleeping on the ground or in the back of our wagon, accustomed to roots and rocks and rough boards assaulting my spine. But that doesn’t mean I no longer feel pain. Years ago, my father invested in a Henderson freight wagon with a canvas top. The thing is enormous, a regular cabin on wheels, built for durability, not comfort or speed. We require a team of four sturdy draft horses to pull it. Most of the customized interior is devoted to the transport of our equipment. I know well the narrow confines of my bunk, the sweltering heat or the numbing cold, the lack of a moment alone–but that doesn’t mean I relish each nightly ordeal any more than when Pop first started us out. For months I’ve yearned for this engagement in San Francisco. For months I’ve hoped our stay would bring me some relief. There are magnificent hotels in San Francisco, hotels as fine as the best in New York City or Paris. What I would give for just one night at the Palace or Lucky Baldwin’s. For a stuffed mattress, a down pillow, a blazing fireplace, and a hot bath. For a cup of coffee brewed by one of the hotel chefs whose culinary reputations are repeated among vagabonds like us in the reverent tones reserved for legends and miracles. But though it’s likely Pop could afford just one night at a magnificent hotel, though Pop suffers from arthritis in his hips and surely yearns for a hot bath and a soft mattress more than I do, the magnificent hotels will not permit Uncle Brady to stay in a suite with my father and me. Which is a mystery to me. For Uncle Brady is as deft with my father’s craft as any of our finest illusionists. He assists my father with our books of account and the management of our tour as shrewdly as any Harvard-schooled mercantilist. He is my dearest friend, and he was my mother’s faithful companion in the years before she and my father married. But Uncle Brady’s complexion is the same rich brown color of the coffee he’s brewing. The magnificent hotels will insist that Uncle Brady stay in the servants’ quarters, and that is unacceptable to my father. When it comes to Uncle Brady, Pop has never tolerated anything but treatment equal to the hospitalities offered himself or me. He may be a boiled shirt, but my father has insisted upon this policy ever since he met Uncle Brady and my mother. And that was at the end of their journey from Georgia, in the terrible year before I was born. So we’ve camped out for the night in the weedy field at Fourth Street and Mission, side-by-side with the medicine shows and quack peddlers and dime museums. The field is a carnival by day and a shindig by night, hosted by some of the most disreputable scoundrels in the far West. I have spent the dawn hours sitting up against a wheel of our wagon, wrapped in a reeking, buffalo-skin blanket, a derringer in one hand, and a large brass bell in the other. My father does not actually expect me to kill or even fend off a would-be horse thief. If our horses are accosted, I am to shoot into the air and ring the bell like mad, and Pop and Uncle Brady will make their appearances with our revolver and our shotgun. Instead vigilance, however, I fell into a poor facsimile of sleep, my slumber tormented by a dream of the gypsies we encountered in Cheyenne last spring. I dreamed of Leilani, taunting me. My father extracts himself from our wagon with all the brittle dignity of a nobleman come to survey his hinterlands. Does he say good morning as I am painfully rousing myself? Does he inquire about my comfort or well-being or the restfulness of my slumber? “You smoked a cigarette last night, Daniel,” is the first thing my father says to me. He seizes the mug Uncle Brady offers him and tosses scalding coffee down his throat. He does not wince or grumble at the taste or heat. “Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned,” I mumble. “When you turn twenty-one, you may do as you please, sir,” he says in a tone that leads me to suspect I will have little more freedom then than I do at twenty. “You may give over your health to wrack and ruin. You may cast away all I have taught you, cast away your livelihood, cast your very soul to the Devil. But till then, sir, till then, as long as you are in my company, you will abide by the rules.” “Professor,” Uncle Brady says before I can summon up another disrespectful retort. “May we please discuss the state of our affairs?” I collect my own mug of grit, crouch by the fire, and brace myself for the bad news. “We’re broke,” Uncle Brady says. “Nearly broke.” “I thought we cleared ten thousand dollars in Tacoma,” Pop says. “An agent from Tacoma showed up yesterday afternoon,” Uncle Brady says. “I saw no agent,” Pop says. “I try not to worry you, Professor, before a performance,” Uncle Brady says. “He said the theater wasn’t insured. The fire cleaned them out.” “It wasn’t our fault!” I say, though I know that’s not strictly true. Pop keeps kegs of methylated spirits for fireworks effects. A cigarette discarded by some careless stranger sent everything up in flames, including a good deal of our equipment. Worst of all, the accursed pane of plate glass, which we cart about in the wagon swaddled up like a newborn babe, was ruined. Uncle Brady had to wire ahead to San Francisco for a new pane, which we employed to such good effect last night. My father is impassive. “You reimbursed him?” “Of course,” Uncle Brady says. “We must do that if we’re ever to play Tacoma again. Then there’s the new glass, and the extra charge for an expedited order. There’s all the equipment that has to be replaced.” He pulls a list from his vest pocket, fits spectacles onto his nose. “The magic portfolio. The vanishing birdcage. The enchanted demon’s head.” “Not the enchanted demon’s head!” I say. Uncle Brady shoots me an exasperated look over the top of his spectacles. “The flip-over boxes and the feathered bouquets. Then there’s the costumes. I was only able to salvage three or four of them.” My father grunts, I groan, and my stomach emits a sound resembling the utterances of a rabid dog. I’ve not eaten a thing since yesterday noon, and that was a meal of pemmican washed down with hard well water. The water had a smell to it that much reminded me of a cesspool. Traitorous thoughts fill my head. Perhaps I could secure employment as a waiter at one of the famous restaurants of San Francisco. At Coppa’s, say, or the Tadich Grill. At least then I could get something decent to eat and drink. My father only says, “I’m grateful our suppliers have been so prompt, trustworthy, and courteous. We could not have gone on with the show without them.” “Nevertheless,” Uncle Brady says, “we’re broke. Nearly broke. I’ve got a bill here for fifty dollars.” He wets his thumb and leafs through a stack of invoices. “It’s forty days overdue, Professor. We’ll get no more credit from the Chicago Magic Company if we don’t pay it at once.” “Pop,” I say, “I’m hungry.” “Go feed the horses,” my father says, unmoved. To Uncle Brady, “Pay it. And the take from last night?” “The theater was half-full,” Uncle Brady says. “At this rate, our engagement here won’t cover our traveling expenses from Tacoma.” Our engagement here is to last three weeks. “Oh, that’s splendid.” I pull myself to my feet. “You may both go and starve and good luck to you. As for me, I’m tired of magic. I’m not cut out to be a magician, anyway. I shall seek my own fortune in San Francisco.” I strike a defiant pose. “I shall go wait tables.” “Perhaps the boy should go find some day work, Professor,” Uncle Brady says. “We’ll have to rehearse without him.” “If you’re through with your coffee, Daniel,” my father says, ignoring the both of us, “go feed the horses like I told you.” “May I remind you, Uncle Brady, I’m a person of twenty years, not a boy.” And to my father, “I will take no more orders from you, sir. I will abide by no more of your rules.” “Comport yourself like a person of twenty years and attend to your animals, sir,” my father says. “They cannot feed themselves, whereas you can.” “This squabbling won’t pay the bills,” Uncle Brady says. “The bills,” I say. “Always the bills. You can take the bills and go–” “I beg your pardon, gentlemen,” says a purring contralto. “Forgive me for interrupting your breakfast.” We all turn, mouths gaping. Zena Troubetzskoy strolls up our campfire, smiling serenely. She is composed and fresh in her burgundy dress, the red rose tucked behind her ear. When I meet her gaze, she gives me that wink of hers. “What breakfast,” I mutter but my anger vanishes like magic before her flirtatious wink. She is no girl of my age, but a woman older by a handful of years, and my pulse quickens in her presence. My father casts a look at me that could choke a horse. He stands and bows, ever gracious. “Good morning, Madame Troubetzskoy.” “You remember me, sir?” “But of course. What on earth brings you to this unwholesome campground, madam?” He flips his hand at me; go get her a stool to sit on. I hop to it, retrieving one from the back of our wagon. She sits, warming her hands over the campfire. “Professor Flint,” she says, “last night you said you can communicate with the Souls of the Other Side. Didn’t you?” Uncle Brady and I trade glances. My father clears his throat. “So I did.” “Then, Professor Flint, I must ask if you would attempt to communicate with my dear husband. There is something I urgently need to tell him. I cannot find peace till I do.” My father takes her hand. “My dear Madame Troubetzskoy.” “Please call me Zena.” “Zena. I am a magician, Zena, a stage magician. Not a spiritualist medium.” “Whatever you wish to call yourself is fine with me, Professor.” “Zena.” My father kneels at her feet and lowers his voice. “We are not before an audience, so I must tell you something in the strictest confidence.” “Yes?” Her eyes shine with anticipation. “I’m a magician, as I’ve said. What I do, what we do–up there on the stage. It’s only an illusion.” Her face darkens. “Oh, please, I implore you, Professor.” “All an illusion, madam. It isn’t real.” “But you told me you can communicate with the Other Side. You told me you have psychic powers. You told me.” My father glances at Uncle Brady and me, and his mouth puckers up as if he has bitten a lemon. Pop does not consider anything he does in his act to be a lie. He never misrepresents himself. The audience knows it’s stage magic. The audience knows it’s an illusion. But this lovely woman in a burgundy dress has taken him at his word. And he does not want to confess that he lied, even if he did fudge a bit. He does not want to admit to false pretenses, however fleeting. He cannot bear to be exposed as a hypocrite like poor old Anderson, the great Wizard of the North, who so effortlessly discerned people’s intimate secrets onstage, but got so addled with drink that he often could not find his own way home. “I said I endeavor to communicate with the Other Side,” my father scrupulously corrects her. “Then endeavor for me,” she says. “Oh, please, won’t you try? You’ve got more psychic power than you know, Professor.” Bosh,” my father says, but he glows with pleasure at her praise, nonetheless. Account for each triumph, however small; that’s Pop. I roll my eyes at Uncle Brady, but he shrugs and looks away. “I shall pay you, of course.” Whereupon she rummages in her burgundy satin purse and pulls out two gleaming gold coins. Need I say our eyes bug out? “Mercy,” Uncle Brady whispers. He helps himself to the coins in Zena’s outstretched palm, gives one to me. It turns out to be not a coin, at all, but a fat, irregular lozenge of pure gold, soft to the tooth and heavy in the hand, without the smell of inferior metals. The sort of unmarked token gamblers, robbers, and prospectors prefer to carry in the far West. Better than minted money because you can cash it in at any assay office or bank. Or you can trade such a token for goods or services at any respectable establishment or, for that matter, with any corsair or brigand. No questions asked. The piece I hold in my hand could be worth fifty dollars, or much more. Enough to pay the Chicago Magic Company in full, and then some. My father clears his throat again. “Madame Zena,” he says, “would you like to sit at a séance? Is that what you would like to do?” “Oh, yes, please!” she says. On the one hand, I’m disgusted with my father for stepping over the ethical line drawn between stage magicians and spiritualist mediums. On the other hand, I’m proud of him for this small sacrifice of his integrity he’s willing to make for the sake of our show. For the sake of his family. I don’t really want to wait tables. I am Danny Flint, the eminent Professor Flint’s only son and heir apparent. I have been immersed in the wonder and the business of prestidigitation my whole life, starting when my father plucked me in my diapers out of a folding portfolio and told me to wave at the audience. One day he will pass the mantle of magic on to me. Need I say that Uncle Brady and I dash to the wagon like souls on fire as my father serves Zena coffee and chats with her, commenting on the new day and the alarming direction of ladies’ fashions. Pop has made his decision. Uncle Brady and I trade grins. We are not displeased. “This is going to be tricky, son,” Uncle Brady says. “We don’t know a thing about her.” I hold up the gold piece. “We know this.” Make no mistake, spiritualist mediums who convince the gullible that they actually communicate with the Dead undertake plenty of research before they work their illusions. They make it their business to discover intimate details about those who come to sit at a séance. They possess the con artist’s knack of parlaying what they discover in the heat of the moment into more information, more confidence. Mediums employ the “Room of Mortality” illusion; they employ the good old box trick. Let no one ever be deceived about that. We feverishly set up the tiny dining area at the back of our wagon, rearranging our shabby little table and four chairs. We position false walls gleaned from our backdrops. I’m feeling better and better about this turn of events. In truth, rigging up a parlor to produce a fake séance for an audience of one is absurdly simple for us. Excitement chases away the last dregs of my discontent. Gold. The lady has got gold. “What else do we know about her?” Uncle Brady quizzes me. When my father is hard on me, Uncle Brady is forgiving. When my father is a boiled shirt, Uncle Brady is the soul of kindness. When my father imposes his rules and injunctions, Uncle Brady gently takes me by the hand and leads me down the paths of new knowledge. I respect my father. I love Uncle Brady. I have always called this distinguished, dark-skinned man Uncle Brady. So did my mother. For that matter, so has Professor Flint. I grin, intrigued by his new game. “She was married.” “And widowed,” Uncle Brady coaches me. “She’s Russian,” I say. “Plenty of Russians in California, aren’t there?” “Russians settled in this territory forty years ago,” Uncle Brady says. “A lot of them gold miners.” “She wears some expensive perfume, a wonderful scent of red roses. Nice touch, Pop giving her that fresh rose. Where did he get it from, anyway? We haven’t paid a florist, have we?” Uncle Brady shakes his head. “The mysterious Professor Flint has got a few tricks up his sleeve, I guess. Her dress is very pretty, but not quite in the height of fashion. I’d say she’s frugal.” “I’d say she’s rich. Perhaps she owns a gold mine.” I rub my fingertips on the token. Let no one dissuade you that the sight of pure gold cannot send a lustful thrill through your very marrow. “They’re coming.” Uncle Brady ducks behind the false walls, leaving me to brush bread crumbs from the table. I take Zena Troubetzskoy’s hand as she climbs into the wagon. My father climbs in after her, gallantly producing a red silk rose, a prop quite the worse for wear, kept in our inventory far too long. “Oh, no thank you,” Zena murmurs, patting the bloom tucked behind her ear. The red rose, the real one, is dewy and fresh, as if it has just been plucked from the bush. “You need not try to amuse me with parlor tricks, Professor Flint. I want to speak with my husband.” My father glances at me, and I see the frisson of panic in his eyes. He’s out of his depth, and he knows it. “Go get us a candle, Daniel.” “Yes, Father.” I unobtrusively relieve Zena of her burgundy satin purse, excuse myself, and duck behind the false walls as my father continues to chat with her. Uncle Brady seizes the purse. We have no intention of relieving the lady of any more gold than she has freely relinquished. Instead, silently, carefully, we empty the purse, searching for information. A lady’s purse typically contains a calling card, a monogrammed handkerchief, perhaps a ferrotype of the dearly departed. A pressed corsage would be superb, a letter even better, but I would settle for any sort of personal effect that would provide a clue as to who Zena Troubetzskoy is. Cosmetics, liver pills, a receipt from her dressmaker, the label on the purse itself. All I require are a few clues, which I will convey to my father through the simple method of coded. . . .never mind. Suffice it to say, we have methods of conveying information to each other which Zena could not possibly detect. But there is nothing. Nothing but the purse itself–no label–and the plain white silk handkerchief she lent to my father last night. And gold. More gold tokens, quite a trove of them. I slip back into our makeshift parlor, restore the purse to the lady, set candlestick and candle in the center of our table. I signal my father regarding the paucity of our findings. I sit. My father lights the candle and closes the canvas flap over the back of our wagon, plunging the parlor into darkness dimly lit by candlelight. We three join hands. “I shall now endeavor to establish communication with the Souls of the Other Side,” my father says, cleverly borrowing her own words. He throws back his head and closes his eyes, hoping to unleash psychic powers. Uncle Brady sets to work behind the false walls, producing a fitful breeze that causes our candle flame to flicker convincingly. Zena’s hand begins to tremble violently in mine. “Oh, Nickie,” she whispers under her breath. Before my father can utter a word, I murmur, “Nickie?” “Oh, yes!” Zena cries. “Nickie, is that you?” “‘Tis I, my rose,” I say, unable to stop myself. “‘Tis Nickie.” My father blinks at me, but he dare not scowl. “I’m so sorry, Nickie,” Zena says. Tears burst from her eyes. “I never meant to leave you. I never meant to leave you in the mountains, the terrible mountains.” “The terrible mountains,” I say. “And here I am in my dress with a rose in my hair,” Zena says. “You look beautiful as always,” I say. “I never cared about the gold, not really. I just wanted to be near you. Yet I abandoned you, Nickie. I’m so very sorry.” “I forgive you, Zena,” I say. “I know you did not mean to abandon me.” “Do you, Nickie? Do you really?” “Of course, my rose.” “All I’ve wanted ever since is your forgiveness.” “I forgive you, Zena,” I say. “Always and forever.” She begins to sob in earnest, withdrawing her hands from mine and my father’s, and covering her face. My father blows out the candle, and stands, and throws back the canvas flap. Morning sunlight and fresh chilly air pour into our wagon. Zena finds her white silk handkerchief in her purse and dabs at her eyes. My father is impassive. I cannot read his face when he glances at me. “Thank you,” she says to me, pressing my hand. Her touch is as cool and light as the brush of a bird’s wing. “Thank you so very much.” “I am honored to assist you, madam.” I confess I am wildly pleased with myself, despite the lady’s distress. I read her like a book. Perhaps I am cut out to be a stage magician, after all. “May I return tomorrow morning?” she says to my father. “There is so much more I want to say to my husband.” “Oh, I think not, Madame Zena,” my father says sternly. “As I’ve said, we are not spiritualist mediums.” “But do you see how talented your son is? Oh, he’s quite amazing! I knew he would be.” “Yes, but this is not his calling or mine,” my father insists. Do I detect a small sour note of envy in his tone? Only a moment ago, he was the amazing Professor Flint. “We must rehearse. We are expecting an important shipment of new equipment, which must be unpacked and made ready. We must go on with the show, madam. I’m sorry.” “Oh, please, Professor,” she says so plaintively that only a man with no heart at all could refuse her. She dips into her purse, pulls out another gold token. She tucks it into my hand, closes my fingers over it. Only a fool would refuse her. My father is no fool. “Very well,” he says. “Tomorrow morning.” And off she goes, the hem of her dress rustling over the damp grass. Uncle Brady tears down the false walls and stacks them carefully around the plate glass. I linger at the table, mulling over my small triumph. It’s odd, but I’m sure I felt something. A sort of stirring when I’d taken Zena’s hand. “Daniel?” my father says. “Ah, yes, the horses,” I say, and scramble to my task. I’m ashamed of my earlier outburst. Perhaps my father will let the incident go unremarked, but, knowing Pop, that’s not likely. “When you finish with the horses, sir,” my father says, “go downtown.” “I didn’t mean it, Pop,” I say. “I don’t know the first thing about waiting tables.” “They say those fancy restaurants will stiff a new waiter,” Uncle Brady says. “Profit from his labor, then pinch his penny.” He throws a look of sympathy in my direction. “Go downtown,” my father repeats and shakes his finger at me, but his eyes hold something new. “She’ll want more than a con artist’s tricks from you tomorrow morning. You’d better go and see what you can dig up on our Madame Troubetzskoy.” To discover what Danny finds out about Zena and the dark secrets of his past, read the complete story of “Every Mystery Unexplained” and join my Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=23011206. Thank you for your help while I recover from the Attack. 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She wrangled excellent deals for three anthologies with Big Publishers, for which she commissioned me to contribute three stories, including this one for the anthology, David Copperfield’s Tales of the Impossible. Yes, that David Copperfield, the handsome stage magician who appeared frequently on television in the 1990s and has a long-running show in Las Vegas (still, I think). From the San Francisco Bay Area where I met her, Jan had moved to Las Vegas, crossed paths with David, and convinced him (she could be very convincing) to put his name on the anthology. He contributed a story, as well. The gorgeous hardcover anthology was published by HarperPrism (a division of HarperCollins) in 1996, then also in a mass paperback edition, and in several foreign countries. Jan’s proposal could not have come at a better time. I’d recently finished The Gilded Age, a time travel which takes place in 1895 and in 2395, as well as Celestial Girl, A Lily Modjeska Mystery, a four mini-book series and a passionate historical mystery which takes place exclusively in 1895. I was conversant in that time period in San Francisco and I was fluent in my Victorian voice, which is a bit different from my modern voice(s). The project was also ably suited to my resources at hand. It turns out that Tom Robinson, the abstract symbolist artist and studio jeweler (and my husband), was fascinated by stage magic as a boy growing up in Los Angeles. He collected stage magic magazines and books, acquired magic tricks from a local curio shop, and invented a few tricks himself. He and a friend were wandering through their neighborhood in the Los Angeles hills when they came upon a fence surrounding a warehouse. In the backyard were placards and instruments and strange devices. Tom recognized them at once. “Those are stage magic tricks!” He hopped over the fence and met John Guaghan, the premier stage magic illusion-builder in the world, purveyor to Blackstone and probably to the young David Copperfield. Tom worked for Guaghan while he was still a teenager in high school, building and decorating stage magic illusions. he opening quotation of “Every Mystery Unexplained” (and the title) is from one of Tom’s magic books and the ebook cover of “The Great Socar”, a stage magician from India, is a charming illustration from one of Tom’s carefully preserved magazines. My story, “Every Mystery Unexplained”, is the only stage magic story in Tales of the Impossible. I expected other authors to turn in stage magic stories, but they didn’t. Mine is the only one! Here’s what one critic had to say: “This is the type of story I was hoping for from these anthologies: a blend of fiction and magic history . . . Mason knows her magic history (the title is from a Harry Kellar quote) and she knows San Francisco. My favorite story of the year!” -Katherine Nabity, The Writerly Reader To read the complete story of “Every Mystery Unexplained”, join my Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=23011206. Thank you for your help while I recover from the Attack. I’ve posted delightful new and previously published stories, book excerpts, writing tips, movie reviews, original healthy recipes, and more! 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The Garden of Abracadabra Is In Print In Seven Countries “Very Entertaining Urban Fantasy” Also an Ebook on Eighteen Markets Worldwide Lisa Mason #SFWApro #SFWAauthor #urbanfantasy #modernfantasy #contemporaryfantasy #magiccollege #magicians #magicapartmentbuilding At her mother’s urgent deathbed plea, Abby Teller enrolls at the Berkeley College of Magical Arts and Crafts to learn Real Magic. To support herself through school, she signs on as the superintendent of the Garden of Abracadabra, a mysterious, magical apartment building on campus. She discovers that her tenants are witches, shapeshifters, vampires, and wizards and that each apartment is a fairyland or hell. On her first day in Berkeley, she stumbles upon a supernatural multiple murder scene. One of the victims is a man she picked up hitchhiking the day before. Torn between three men—Daniel Stern, her ex-fiance who wants her back, Jack Kovac, an enigmatic FBI agent, and Prince Lastor, a seductive supernatural entity who lives in the penthouse and may be a suspect—Abby will question what she really wants and needs from a life partner. Compelled into a dangerous murder investigation, Abby will discover the first secrets of an ancient and ongoing war between Humanity and Demonic Realms, uncover mysteries of her own troubled past, and learn that the lessons of Real Magic may spell the difference between her own life or death. The Garden of Abracadabra is an ebook on BarnesandNoble, Apple, Kobo, and Smashwords. On Kindle in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and India. The Garden of Abracadabra is in Print in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and Japan. “So refreshing. . . .This is Stephanie Plum in the world of Harry Potter.” Goodreads: “I loved the writing style and am hungry for more!” Amazon.com: “Fun and enjoyable urban fantasy” This is a very entertaining novel—sort of a down-to-earth Harry Potter with a modern adult woman in the lead. Even as Abby has to deal with mundane concerns like college and running the apartment complex she works at, she is surrounded by supernatural elements and mysteries that she is more than capable of taking on. Although this book is just the first in a series, it ties up the first “episode” while still leaving some story threads for upcoming books. I’m looking forward to finding out more.” So there you have it, my friends! I’m delighted to announce The Garden of Abracadabra is in print and an ebook worldwide. 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The producers have actually taken out a full-page ad in The Hollywood Reporter tauting the film’s “seamless weaving of several storylines.) And I like complex films (and books and stories) with several storylines interwoven. But A:E presupposes fluency in the all the characters and universes brought into play. That’s not us. We’ve seen a number of Marvel movies, but by no means all. And even with fluency, the over-all story is slow, full of unexpected sadness, and laborious, culminating in a violent blow-out battle typical of all Marvel films. Only combining all those characters and universes like a stew made of leftovers. The result is dissatisfyingly unfocused and diffuse. And they take a full hour to get around to their (plot spoiler alert) time machine! Sheesh. I nail down my time machine on the first page of Chapter 2 of Summer of Love and on the first page of Chapter 1 of The Gilded Age, both of those chapters told from the point-of-view of the respective time travelers. 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__label__cc	0.577855	0.422145	Literary Titan Book Awards April 2019 The Literary Titan Book Awards are awarded to books that have astounded and amazed us with unique writing styles, vivid worlds, complex characters, and original ideas. These books deserve extraordinary praise and we are proud to acknowledge the hard work, dedication, and imagination of these talented authors. Gold Award Winners Silver Award Winners Visit the Literary Titan Book Awards page to see award information and see all award winners. Posted in Literary Titan Book Award Tags: action, adventure, alibris, author, author life, authors, award, barnes and noble, bible, biography, book, book award, book club, book geek, book lover, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, christian, church, CIA, crime, detective, ebook, faith, fantasy, FBI, fiction, god, goodreads, humor, ilovebooks, indie author, indie award, indiebooks, kids book, kindle, kobo, literary award, literature, memoir, mystery, nonfiction, nook, novel, picture book, poem, poetry, publishing, read, reader, reading, recognition, religion, romance, sailor, satire, science fiction, scifi, shelfari, smashwords, space, story, suspense, thriller, writer, writer community, writing, writing award, YA, young adult The Money Trail The Money Trail is another excellent edition to and Sean Kruger series. Once again we meet Sean Kruger and his band of intriguing friends. It’s obvious that Fields cares about his characters as the development of core characters that have been present throughout the series is extremely well done. There’s just enough action to get your heart pumping and just enough drama to have you on the edge of your seat. It takes skill to keep readers coming back again and again to read about the same characters in slightly similar situations. It can get redundant and boring when executed poorly. That is not what readers will find in this book. Lovers of the Sean Kruger Series will only find more of what they’ve come to love and expect out of Fields. His characters are well developed, the action and drama are paced well and the twists and turns will have readers guessing with just the right amount of bait. It’s hard to put down a book in the Kruger series once you’ve picked it up and The Money Trail is no exception. Fields has been writing these books for nearly five years. That’s a long time to keep characters straight and ensure that you don’t have them acting out of turn. Clearly Fields has a method to his madness as every book further develops the characters personalities and honors their growth from installment to installment. His books have won awards and are sure to influence a generation of readers. High praise for someone who began as an Indie writer making a break on their own. Reading an installment of the Sean Kruger Series can be bitter-sweet. There is the thrill of the read: finding out what Kruger is up to now, where he will go and who he will bring with him. But there is also the disappointment when it ends because you simply want more. The Money Trail by J.C. Fields brings out that feeling effortlessly. It’s such an engaging read that is engrossing and fun. This book is an excellent installment in the series and I can’t wait for the next thrilling drama he gets caught up in. Pages: 349 \| ASIN: B07MTMCCDQ Tags: action, adventure, alibris, america, assassin, author, author life, authors, barnes and noble, book, book club, book geek, book lover, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, conspiracy, crime, crime fantasy, crime fiction, detective, drama, ebook, FBI, goodreads, government, ilovebooks, indiebooks, jc fields, kindle, kobo, literature, nook, novel, publishing, read, reader, reading, russia, sean kruger, shelfari, smashwords, story, suspense, terrorism, terrorist, the money trail, thriller, united states, writer, writer community, writing Six Minutes Early – Trailer Max Kenworth, a former Delta Force officer and nuclear weapons expert, is tasked with stopping a major attack on US soil in this thrilling adventure. FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) has stolen a cache of man-portable nuclear devices from a secure American facility in Panama. The weapons end up in the hands of ex-special forces officer Bart Madison. With the help of ISIS, drug cartels, and a US senator, Bart is planning to use the devices to create an atrocity in the American heartland. Max is briefed on the situation by SOCOM (Special Operations Command) and teams up with FBI agent Gail Summers and Mossad agent Danya Mayer to find the weapons before they can be used against American citizens. The three will face opposition from both foreign enemies and so-called allies as they follow Bart’s trail across the continental United States. Their foe is intelligent and well connected, but the three of them are determined to stop this terrorist before more lives are lost. Patrick Parker tackles today’s most important issues in this sociopolitical suspense novel. He uses Six Minutes Early to explore the tension between intelligence agencies, holes in national security, and threats from around the world. Posted in book trailer Tags: action, adventure, alibris, amazon, america, author, author life, authors, barnes and noble, book, book club, book geek, book lover, book trailer, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, cartel, conspiracy, ebook, fantasy, farc, FBI, fiction, goodreads, government, ilovebooks, indiebooks, isis, kindle, kobo, literature, military, mystery, nook, novel, nuclear, panama, patrick parker, political, publishing, read, reader, reading, shelfari, six minutes early, smashwords, socom, special forces, story, suspense, terrorism, terrorist, thriller, trailer, weapons, write, writer, writer community, writing Spiral into Darkness – Trailer He blends in. He is successful, intelligent and methodical. There are no clues. There are no leads. The only thing the FBI and local police have to go on is the method of death: two bullets to the face- gruesome and meant to send a message. But it’s difficult to understand any message coming from a dark and damaged mind. Two adopted boys, struggling in their own world, have no idea they are the next targets. Neither does their family. And neither does local law enforcement. Tags: alibris, amazon, author, author life, authors, barnes and noble, book, book club, book geek, book lover, book trailer, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, crime, detective, drama, ebook, family, fantasy, FBI, fiction, goodreads, ilovebooks, indiebooks, investigation, joseph lewis, kindle, kobo, literature, murder, mystery, nook, novel, police, publishing, read, reader, reading, shelfari, smashwords, spiral into darkness, story, suspense, thriller, trailer, write, writer, writer community, writing Imaginary Offshoots Terry Tumbler Author Interview Future World Rolls follows two FBI agents with psychic abilities as they start recruiting for a mission that will change human history. What was the inspiration behind the setup to this fascinating story? Research into the 19-year-long career of one individual, a remote seer for the US government. He reported on the existence of ‘buck naked’ green men on the moon and its irregular placement as a protective screen against the solar flares of the sun. By whom? One may well ask. As always, your characters are unique and fun to read. What is your process like to create such lively characters? I always loosely base them on real, memorable people like Stan Laurel and the Big Bopper. Disparate? Maybe. You masterfully imbue your work with music throughout the story. What were some key themes in your choice of music for this book? Pure relevance to the storyline, plus hefty research into the ways in which these series of songs originated. I used this method to carry on the themes they might have used if they’d stayed on course, like Buddy Holly staying with The Crickets. In some instances, I began writing original tunes as imaginary offshoots. A classic example is the 2190 Overture, which could be sung by the likes of Queen in the same vein as Bohemian Rhapsody. I am well into the first few chapters of book 3 of the Carousels of Life, Simply Spiffin’, Future Criminologist. It is all in my mind, to keep on track. Author Links: Twitter \| Facebook \| Website \| Blogspot This Space Opera is set to Rock n’ Roll and classical music, many of the songs being entirely original and composed by the author. It starts in the mid-20th century with two talented FBI Special Agents being tasked with recruiting people to undertake a really unusual mission. In the process, they are themselves abducted to take a leading role in that mission, which is intended to save the human race from alien conquest. It involves time travel into the future, as they lead their hostile hunters on a merry chase across the centuries. They have the full support of other sympathetic races in their imaginative survival techniques, allowing them to go on the offensive. The characters within embark on a series of adventures that are truly moving in their significance. Based initially on our own Planet Earth, the story employs reported alien sightings and events. Future World ROLLS to its very core! Tags: adventure, alibris, author, author life, authors, barnes and noble, book, book club, book geek, book lover, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, Buddy Holly, detective, earth, ebook, facebook, fantasy, FBI, future, future world rolls, goodreads, ilovebooks, indiebooks, kindle, kobo, literature, music, mystery, nook, novel, opera, publishing, read, reader, reading, rock and roll, satire, science fiction, scifi, shelfari, smashwords, space, space opera, story, survival, terry tumbler, The Crickets, time travel, twitter, writer, writer community, writing Future World Rolls! Charles Bone and Stan Loren are two FBI agents with quite the special set of skills. The least of which is their ability to communicate without vocalizing their thoughts. As two men with psychic abilities, they have been given the job of heading up a recruitment drive unlike any other in history. Charles and Stan, in the early 1970s, manage to pinpoint over 3,000 individuals exhibiting the qualities making them the perfect candidates for the job. Little do the recruits know the mission for which they have been chosen is one that could change the course of human history. Terry Tumbler’s Future World Rolls (We Are Family) Book 2 in the Carousels of Life series has one of the most unique settings of its genre. Spanning centuries and with locations varying from Winter Park Florida in the 70s to vessels in space including the Voyager 6, Tumbler carries the reader on quite the raucous ride through time and space via Charles and Stan and the plethora of alien life forms peppered throughout this second in a series. There is a Men in Black feel about the novel that gives the book a light, fun air. Fans of this type of science fiction will appreciate Tumbler’s alien beings, their idiosyncrasies, and the banter between the main characters as they go about the task set before them. As with Tumbler’s first book in the series, Future World Rolls is laden with song lyrics, references to artists’ best-known works, and well-timed and perfectly-placed excerpts of the world’s best (my own humble opinion) music. Tumbler’s characters are more than capable of standing on their own, but these song references help to add another light note to the text. I thoroughly enjoy the opportunity to hum along to the tunes Tumbler sets as pleasant little earworms from the beginning to the end of the book. I mean who doesn’t love to be reminded of George Harrison’s “Here Comes the Sun” and “All Day and All of the Night” by the Kinks? Tumbler doesn’t just incorporate music from the 1960s. He takes readers on a nostalgic journey through music history, hitting all the right notes–so to speak. To say Future World Rolls is fast-paced would be a gross understatement. Tumbler keeps the reader engaged from one jam-packed chapter to the next. Billed as a space opera, this book hops, skips, and jumps from one scene to the next introducing new and engaging characters while building on the already well-developed Charles, Stan, and the just-short-of-amazing green giants. Science fiction fans who enjoy lively plots and bigger-than-life characters will find Tumbler’s works meet all of their expectations and more. Tumbler writes beautifully and manages to pull off humor in the most eloquent of ways possible. Some science fiction books are fraught with terminology and processes that overwhelm the reader. Tumbler combats all of that with his stunning cast of characters and an upbeat tone that is set from the first chapter. Pages: 314 \| ASIN: B07H4QQR8K Tags: alibris, author, author life, authors, barnes and noble, book, book club, book geek, book lover, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, ebook, fantasy, FBI, florida, fun, future world rolls, george harrison, goodreads, humor, ilovebooks, indiebooks, kindle, kinks, kobo, literature, men in black, music, nook, novel, psychic, publishing, read, reader, reading, rock and roll, satire, science ficiton, shelfari, smashwords, space, space opera, space travel, story, terry tumbler, time travel, writer, writer community, writing A Stake in Murder – Trailer Sebastian Hemlock had once been a respected reporter. “Mister News” is what they used to call him. If there was a story to be found out, he usually was the one who uncovered it. That was until Phoenix, Arizona. In 1991 the police were working on a series of murders. The victims were all drained of blood, the officials were not talking, and Hemlock soon discovered why. The killer was a vampire! With only his FBI friend to assist, the reporter went ahead, investigated, and tracked down the killer to destroy it. Captain Darren Matheson, of the L.A.P.D.Homicide Division, was a pleasant enough fellow. But when the FBI uses him to track down news reporter Sebastian Hemlock as a “special investigator,” he understandably is curious. Hemlock, learning that he had failed with his first killing of an undead creature, seeks a chance to redeem his integrity as well as gaining back the woman he had once loved. Captain Matheson thought the whole case as nothing but a waste of time.He had a murderer to catch! Now…the vampire has returned! We tell our children that there are no such things as monsters. We comfort them with the knowledge that we will always be there to protect them. What happens when we are proven wrong? Tags: a stake in murder, alibris, amazon, author, author life, authors, barnes and noble, book, book club, book geek, book lover, book trailer, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, crime, detective, donald allen kirch, ebook, fantasy, FBI, fiction, goodreads, homicide, horror, ilovebooks, indiebooks, killer, kindle, kobo, LAPD, literature, monster, murder, mystery, nook, novel, paranormal, publishing, read, reader, reading, shelfari, smashwords, story, supernatural, trailer, vampire, write, writer, writer community, writing Kidnapped: A Personal Account of John Doe #2, Oklahoma Bombing, April 19, 1995 This is a personal account of a young women’s journey of being kidnapped and surviving dangerous encounters with this man. Juan Carlos Parraga. From Carlos’s personal connections to El Salvador and his training by Che Guevara as a young boy of fourteen in the jungles of Guatemala. Carlos is a violent man destined to live on the edges of crime and violence. Judith not being allowed to communicate with others lives in silence but is observant of all activities he did around her. Changing her name to save her life and living a secluded life to protect herself from being kidnapped and murdered by Carlos was her life after being his victim. Realization of how dangerous he became was revealed on April 19, 1995, as Judith watched the unfolding and recognition of Juan Carlos Parraga as John Doe #2. Judith turning him into the FBI and letting him go her home in White Rock, British Columbia was arson with the intent to murder her per the RCMP investigation. Tags: abuse, alibris, amazon, author, author life, authors, barnes and noble, biography, Bombing, book, book club, book geek, book lover, book trailer, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, che guevara, crime, ebook, el salvador, FBI, goodreads, guatemala, ilovebooks, indiebooks, investigation, John Doe, Juan Carlos Parraga, Judith Anne Warner, kidnapped, kindle, kobo, literature, memoir, murder, nook, novel, Oklahoma, publishing, read, reader, reading, shelfari, smashwords, story, terroism, terrorist, timothy mcveigh, trailer, true crime, violence, write, writer, writer community, writing The Cold Trail J.C. Fields has brought back our favorite FBI special agent Sean Kruger in The Cold Trail. Without missing a beat, we pick up where we left off: Kruger is retired, teaching at a university and things are moving along for him. However, when an incident that reminds him of an unsolved set of cases from his past pops up, Kruger goes back to where he’s most comfortable: to the FBI. Kruger is truly in his prime as he works to apprehend a malicious murderer who has haunted him all these years. It’s an emotional roller coaster that involves international intrigue and understanding of the human soul. Fields does not disappoint in this installment in the saga that is Sean Kruger’s life. There’s no denying that Kruger’s retirement from the FBI in the last installment of the series may have left fans wanting more. Whether it was planned or not, Fields has given us more time with Kruger. The chilling case that Kruger couldn’t solve in the nineties has come back in full force as he attempts to settle in at the university. We know Kruger isn’t made for this and he soon returns to the FBI, hot on the trail of the elusive perpetrator of heinous acts. The emotion is raw as Fields uses his skill to describe a very disturbing chain of events that left several college athletes missing. The best part about a book by Fields is that while it is not lacking in action and intrigue, there is also compassion and an excellent unveiling of the human heart and mind. There are moments when the reader will hold their breath, waiting in anticipation of what will happen next. Fields keeps all of us guessing who the true criminal is while pulling out all the stops along the way. Characters we know and love from earlier installments in the series make their appearance and Fields has clearly crafted a spectacular world. Characters don’t suddenly act contrary to how they were portrayed in earlier books which can be hard to do when you’ve been spanning four full length novels. While it might seem unrealistic to develop four full novels in less than five years, Fields does it and he does it well. The best part about reading a Fields book, aside from wonderfully crafted characters, is the fact that he makes his genres easy to read for those who may not be familiar with them. Mysteries and thrillers set in a law enforcement atmosphere run the risk of inundating readers with terminology and actions that will be alien to them unless they have worked in that field or have been aggressively reading books in that setting for a long time. Fields knows this and uses just enough vernacular to make it believable while also catering to all types of readers. Anyone who is looking for an excellent read about the human condition and what we are all capable of needs to pick up a copy of J.C. Fields’ The Cold Trail as soon as possible. Readers will no doubt come to love Sean Kruger and his band of merry agents as they traverse the country in their quest to quell the darkness of the human soul. Pages: 357 \| ASIN: B07DTJN5X2 Tags: action, adventure, alibris, author, author life, authors, barnes and noble, book, book club, book geek, book lover, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, crime, crime fantasy, crime fiction, detective, drama, ebook, fantasy, FBI, fiction, goodreads, ilovebooks, indiebooks, jc fields, kindle, kobo, literature, mystery, nook, novel, publishing, read, reader, reading, shelfari, smashwords, story, suspense, The Cold Trail, thriller, writer, writer community, writing A u 7 9: A Tracker Novel Stuart Dyson of the Laredo ATF is missing, and his girlfriend, Tracy, an officer with the Laredo police department, just may know more than she is willing to share with the men and women dedicated to finding Stuart. When the FBI Trackers are assigned Stuart’s case, Tracy cooperates while running her own investigation on the side. The Trackers are a specialized unit within in the FBI and have a stunning track record of successes. They are Stuart’s best hope, but they can barely do their job for keeping Tracy in check. When the entire investigation hinges on determining the significance of a note scrap reading “27.43 pounds”, the Trackers find themselves fighting against the clock to rescue not only Stuart but Tracy as well. Anita Dickason’s A u 7 9 is a unique brand of thriller. The FBI Trackers embody all of the mind-blowing aspects of the FBI, and Nicki Allison stands out among the members of the team. Her dedication to each investigation knows no boundaries, including sleep. Dickason paints a vivid picture of Nicki as she manipulates her way through staggering amounts of data to pinpoint needed evidence. She is a character to be admired. Eddie Owens, the young reporter receiving anonymous tips as to Stuart’s possible involvement in his own disappearance, plays a key role throughout the book. Not one of the characters readers might put a lot of stock in at the outset of the book, Eddie becomes more and more colorful as the chapters pass. Eddie easily stands as my favorite character from A u 7 9. I appreciate the way Dickason stretches out each discovery and keeps readers guessing regarding the meaning of the “27.43 pounds.” As each character ponders the meaning and subsequent research is conducted by the Trackers, the reader becomes increasingly invested in finding out how something so seemingly insignificant could impact Stuart and the fight to find him before his time runs out. I am not sure I can remember the last thriller I read that has such a satisfying way of slowly revealing the connection between the title and the book’s plot. I kept trying to guess the significance of A u 7 9 to the sequence of events and was pleasantly surprised at the ultimate reveal. Dickason pulls together the plot and title in a unique and refreshing way. Dickason’s writing is engaging to say the least. Many times, books of this genre can be heavy on narrative. Dickason, however, provides the perfect blend of dialogue and narrative adding to the overall depth of her characters. As far as crime thrillers go, Dickason has hit it out of the park. The team of Trackers who serve as her main characters do not disappoint, consistently provide suspense, drama, and humor. Any fan of crime dramas/mysteries will be drawn to both the writing style and the engaging plot of A u 7 9. Dickason’s own background in law enforcement plays heavily into her writing and makes for a book no fan of crime thrillers will be able to forget. Pages: 315 \| ASIN: B07CWG4DD5 Tags: A Tracker Novel, A u 7 9, action, alibris, anita dickason, atf, author, author life, authors, barnes and noble, book, book club, book geek, book lover, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, crime, crime fiction, crime novel, detective, drama, ebook, fantasy, FBI, fiction, financial, goodreads, heist, ilovebooks, indiebooks, investigation, kindle, kobo, laredo, literature, missing, nook, novel, publishing, read, reader, reading, shelfari, smashwords, story, suspense, texas, thriller, writer, writer community, writing	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1435
__label__cc	0.599384	0.400616	Bound Darkly Seeing is believing… most of the time. In the case of Sinnie, to see her one would never believe that she is a fairy. For all intents and purposes, Sinnie is strong-willed, highly-trained, woman of confidence and skills. Descending from the Captain of the Queen’s Guard himself, Sinnie has everything she could possibly want and knows where she is headed in life–but something is missing. Much to her family and friends’ chagrin, that something is an unseelie, one of the darkest members of the fairy world. Sinnie’s heart knows what it wants and, unfortunately, her heart wants Hueil. Bound Darkly, the second in the Darkly series by Tarrant Smith, primarily follows Sinnie, a strong woman and fairy–one of the seelie clan. Sinnie, though a fairy, is battling many of the same feelings as any mortal when it comes to love. She knows what she wants, but is leery of pursuing it for fear of the reactions of others. Like many a mortal woman, Sinnie is attracted to the rebel–the bad boy–and Hueil is, without a doubt, one of the worst. Their story more than makes the book a worthwhile read. The chemistry between the two and the true feelings of love experienced by Hueil are raw and relatable. Hueil is a well-developed character and appealing in all the wrong ways. Readers will love to hate him and likely grow to understand very quickly Sinnie’s attraction to him as the bad boy. Smith goes to great lengths to make Hueil as colorful as possible and details everything from his exploits to his determination to have Sinnie and to do the job with which he has been tasked. Jen, another fairy but not Smith’s main focus in this installment, possesses a unique ability that I found to be quite captivating. The emotional shielding Jen is able to demonstrate is an amazing facet of her personality and life as a fairy. Though it is draining and taxing, watching her put it into play is fascinating. In my opinion, Bound Darkly easily fits into two genres. It is clearly a beautifully crafted work of fantasy with the fairy realm as its primary focus. Warriors and fairies alike have the most unique and stunning powers. Their abilities keep the pace of the book moving and the amount of action in the book is perfect when compared with some books that seem to be overfilled with such scenes. In addition, Smith gives her characters a fair amount of romantic encounters and is especially explicit in detailing their escapades. Smith has succeeded in offering readers a sequel to Book 1 that is easy to follow for those new to the series. I highly recommend Smith’s second book in the Darkly series to any reader who seeks books with a combination of fantasy and romance. Pages: 338 \| ASIN: B0041OSG66 Tags: author, book, bookblogger, Bound Darkly, ebook, fairy, fantay, fiction, goodreads, kindle, kobo, literature, magic, nook, novel, paranormal, read, reader, reading, romance, story, Tarrant Smith, writer, writing A Steampunk Adventure Ora Wanders Author Interview Children of the Elements follows four children as they discover magical abilities only revealed when they come together. What was the inspiration behind the idea for this novel? I really don’t know where the idea came from. I was super into Harry Potter, and I was seriously just laying on the floor one day and thought of it. When I finally started writing, I had been thinking about it for like two years and slowly building up a story line. I felt that the characters were well developed and changed with the story. What were some driving ideals behind their characters? Well, Brenna was the most like me, so she was easy. Dimitri was a lot like my “best friend” at the time. Adara is sort of the person I think I am growing into (my mom totally says so!), and Wyndham is kinda me when I am around new people! What has been a motivating factor for you to become a young writer and how has your family supported you? My mom published books that were doing really well, and I was like, “I wanna do that!” Then my mom gave me a copy of her friend’s daughter’s book (The Fairies of Waterfall Island by Emma Sumner who was only eight at the time), and I knew I could do it too! But my mom kept on me because I get distracted easily. She’s a book editor and owns an editing company, so she helped me plot out the milestones and character arches and helped a LOT with vocabulary and avoiding repetition–like everything ending with “said.” Cuz I do that a lot… This is book one in a series. Where will book two take readers and when will it be available? Well, it’s gonna show us life in the Realm of the Gods and why it’s WAY more boring when everything is perfect! Dimitri is the main character in Book Two instead of Brenna. There will also be four new elemental characters (hint: rhymes with schragons!). And there will actually be four books total. With each Devins kid as the protagonist. I finished the rough draft already, but now it’s going through my mom before it goes through the rest of her editing team. Editing Book One took almost six months, so I guess I will be lucky to get it out by the end of this summer (2019), but that’s the goal. I hope to have Books Three and Four done by the end of 2019 too. Author Links: GoodReads \| Website \| Instagram When twin girls, Brenna and Adara, move from posh Victorian England to a humble farmhouse in America, they quickly notice that all is no longer as it seems… While Brenna has always had an affinity for water and Adara has always loved fire, the girls now discover they have some sort of CONTROL over these elements as well! They learn how true this is when they meet another set of twins—boys named Dimitri and Wyndham who also live in their new town. When the four children get together magical things start to happen! But they aren’t the only ones who know about this power now… Something sinister has been lurking in the town waiting for the moment the four children finally activate their newfound abilities. You’ll love this magical steampunk fantasy by a child-author because of the lovable characters and non-stop action! Tags: author, book, bookblogger, Children of The Elements, ebook, fantasy, fiction, goodreads, harry potter, kindle, kobo, literature, magic, nook, novel, Ora Wanders, read, reader, reading, steampunk, story, writer, writing, YA, young adult How She Evolved Sam L. Marshall Author Interview The Immortal Queen is an epic fantasy novel that finds Earth on the brink of being plunged into chaos by dark forces. What was the inspiration for the setup to this story? The main starting point for the story came from my childhood. In fact, a portion of the story was written then (before being rewritten by adult me). I spent a fair portion of my childhood holidays on Waiheke Island, in the Hauraki Gulf (North Island of New Zealand). There was a reserve that my grandparents holiday home was nestled against, which largely inspired Arcon. I would sit, with a wonderful view of Mackenzie Reserve all the way down to the bay and get lost in the forest as I built it up in my mind. That little track our family dubbed $2 corner (because my nana found $2 there) became part of the path that lead to the heart of Arcon. From there, I pictured, drew and wrote out what the village – which became a city – looked like. Then ‘She’ appeared. Endya. So, I followed her story, her life and I wrote the good the bad and the ugly. When it came to the pivotal point in the story, there were a lot of other novels and movies floating about of heroic deeds done – heroes saving the day and having a happily ever. But I knew real-life didn’t work like that. Fairy-tales are seldom true, and I also wanted to frame the story in a way that was true to the characters. The characters in this book were interesting and well developed. What were some driving ideals behind your character development? I wanted them to be as real as possible – hard when you are dealing with Faeries, Elves, Demons and Gods – but Gods are people too! For both the major and the not-so-major characters – i.e. some of the Gods. I fleshed them out individually (some more than others). Their power base – for example, how their god-powers have shaped their personalities? What are their wants and needs? How do they feel about this situation? Right down to looks. For some I even wrote up quick dossiers or character sheets. (Being a Role-Player pays off sometimes). I knew, regardless of how much ‘scene time’ they’d get, if I were writing them, they were being made ‘flesh’. That and I feel you should never leave a character, no matter how small, undeveloped – because you never know when that development is needed. A small character now might be a big character later. What were some sources of inspiration for you while writing this book? My first inspiration, other than Waiheke itself, was my uncle’s mother. She was an author here in New Zealand. I knew writing a book would never be easy, but the worlds and characters she created intrigued me. It was absolute pleasure and delight in having her read the first three or so chapters when I was twelve (well before the rewrite!) I remember hovering in her house, admiring the view (a little cove and ocean to the horizon) from her personal little library while she finished up reading the pages – all handwritten! She smiled and told me to keep writing because there was a story there that needed telling. It took many years, but I got it done. Sadly, she passed before she could read the final manuscript. Robin Hobb’s Liveship Traders trilogy! The Liveship Traders: Ship of Magic (book one) was the first Fantasy novel I ever read. I was an advanced reader as a kid, and I remember wanting to get into the young adult section and every time my attempts were thwarted by the librarian who would kindly guide me back to the children’s section. Then one day I saw this book. It was hardcover, it was massive (in my eyes) and it had a picture of a fearless young lady on it standing in front of a ship. I wanted – no, needed to read that book….and it just so happened that it was on the sale table. I had much delight in standing with mum as she handed the librarian my pocket money and I got to walk out of the library with my prize. I read and reread that book (still own it) as it was years before I could find and finish reading the trilogy. There was something about the main character, her actions, the way she held herself and faced the perils. How she evolved. I guess in a way she inspired the creation of Endya. Other inspirations ranged from some of my favourite books such Tolkien’s works (if you have Elves in your word, you need to have same knowledge of Tolkien’s work). Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series. And more modern series like Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games series and Veronica Roth’s Divergent series…and because of the whole shadowy/hidden organisation, Dan Brown’s, Robert Langdon series – which I haven’t even fully read yet! My next book is a complete change from The Immortal Queen. It’s called Astraque. It’s Science Fiction and it takes place in a very cyberpunk/biopunk/technologically advanced but very distorted future. But, as we all know, not all advancements are for the better. It’s about to go into the editing phase and we hope that it will be available sometime next year. Author Links: GoodReads \| Website At the end of her world, a noblewoman steals a precious prize from fate. A goddess rises in the city of Sundregham as invaders from another world sweep in to burn the world to the ground. A young girl from Earth discovers she’s the final piece in a game the gods have been playing for a long time…and failure may mean the end of it all. This is the story of Endya & Elizabeth and their fight against the Darkness. This is the story of the Immortal Queen. Tags: alibris, author, author life, authors, barnes and noble, book, book club, book geek, book lover, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, dan brown, demons, divergent, ebook, elves, Faeries, fantasy, fiction, gods, goodreads, hunger games, ilovebooks, indiebooks, kindle, kobo, literature, magic, magical, nook, novel, publishing, read, reader, reading, shelfari, sl marshall, smashwords, story, Suzanne Collin, Tad Williams, The Immortal Queen, tolkien, Veronica Roth, writer, writer community, writing The Water Kingdom Kevin James Breaux Author Interview Three Burning Red Runaway Brides finds Sabrina fighting for her life as she’s trying to save millions of others. How did you envision starting this novel and how did that change as you wrote? I had a very sturdy thread I was connecting books one and two together with, and that thread only gets stronger with book three. I wanted to build the story to a place Sabrina had not yet been. She was on top again. The object of desire, a leader—someone people listened to and respected. She was in control, but still had this one obstacle looming in the distance. This one last thing to overcome before she could finally rest and fully enjoy her new status. I envisioned starting this novel off with a bang… (insert smirk here). And that is exactly how I started it off. (insert giggle here). This novel did not change much from what I envisioned. The only thing I had to decide, before I got to the end, was how to end it. I had three outcomes in my mind. And juggled them. I wrote three endings and gave them all to my editor and proofreader and a trusted friend. I wanted to see how they felt. As it turns out, the book ends as I originally envisioned it…with a couple tweaks. I am happy with this book. It concludes the story of Sabrina while opening the world more and beginning the story of another character. I plan on writing more books. This series, The Water Kingdom, is done. The next books will be in the other Kingdoms: Fire, Air, Earth. We get to learn more about who Dunyasha is, her past and how she became the cursed undead. Was this something you already had developed or was it something you started exploring in this book? The elder vampire Dunyasha was always meant to be something more. But I did not know what the was until book two: TWO POLLUTED BLACK-HEART ROMANCES. In book three, I finally spill the beans and reveal it all. At the same time, I leave a little mystery surrounding her, because she will be the focus of the next series. Dunyasha was fun to write in THREE BURNING RED RUNAWAY BRIDES. In fact, she was more fun to write in this book than the others. In many ways, I am sad to see the “old” Dunyasha go. Or should I say see the “old” Dunyasha back? What is a scene from the book that was particularly challenging for you to write? The end. As I said before, I had three versions in my head. One version was much-much longer. And had an entirely different outcome. It was brutal and ugly. But I wasn’t sure readers would enjoy it. It felt right to me, but it was like taking your favorite childhood toy and selling it. Sure, you can use the money for other things you want now, but you might miss that toy and want it back. I was torn. Do I keep that ending or not? I wrote the three endings. And rewrote them. And edited them. And rewrote them. I picked my favorite and edited it more. Added dialogue. Removed dialogue. I struggled and I normally don’t struggle at writing at all, so I knew it must have been important. After some feedback and some time to think, I picked an ending and edited and polished it again and again. I think in the end; my characters are all where they should be. In some ways…many ways, they get what they deserve. Where will the next book in the series pick up and when will it be available? This series, The Water Kingdom Series, is done. It was a trilogy. One Smoking Hot Fairy Tail. Two Polluted Black-Heart Romances and Three Burning Red Runaway Brides. The next series will be another trilogy. The Elemental Kingdom Series. And it will have one book each for the Fire, Air, and Earth Kingdoms. These books will show how the events in the Water Kingdom have rippled across the Elemental world. Each Kingdom will have a story to tell. I think that will bring it all to an end. But then again, I might write some supplemental short stories. The next book will not come out until 2020-2021. I will start writing it next year. I am writing the sequel to another book right now, one you reviewed and loved, THE LIFEBLOOD OF ILL-FATED WOMEN. That sequel is long overdue. Not George R.R. long overdue…but still…way late. Sabrina London is back! The fate of the Elemental Kingdoms rests in the hands of its newest ruler: Sabrina London. When last seen, the fairy princess had made a deal with the King of Filth to save the lives of her friends. Now she is fighting to live the life she wants while trying to save the lives of millions. A monster, more dangerous than any other she has overcome threatens both the human and non-human world. How will she restore the balance? Despite the risks, Sabrina enlists the aid of one of her people’s biggest rivals. She has spun a complex web of lies and deception, now trying to gain her freedom, unaware that everyone she allies with has their own plans. Tags: alibris, author, author life, authors, barnes and noble, book, book club, book geek, book lover, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, ebook, elemental, fantasy, fiction, goodreads, ilovebooks, indiebooks, kevin james breaux, kindle, kobo, literature, magic, nook, novel, paranormal, publishing, read, reader, reading, shelfari, smashwords, story, supernatural, the water kingdom, Three Burning Red Runaway Brides, urban fantasy, writer, writer community, writing It Might Be Magical Sherry Leclerc Author Interview The Dragon Shifters at Southgate is the second book in your Seer Series. Was this a natural continuation of the first book or did you want things to develop organically while writing? All the novels in The Seers Series are part of the same over-arching story. While they each have a complete storyline in themselves, they leave a bigger question open to be answered down the road as the series ties up. They are all pieces of the puzzle that will come together to form a complete picture in the end. Readers will see this especially in the last planned book of the series. That said, there are some things I don’t plan down to the minute details while I am outlining and planning, because there are aspects I want to occur more organically. This is especially true for conversations between main characters, for example. I know where I want a scene to go, but I try to let dialogue occur naturally, so to speak. How would this one character, for example, respond to what another character says of does? Obviously, there is “craft” in the formulation of every scene, but I don’t want to force words or actions on a character who wouldn’t naturally say or do them just for the sake of meeting a certain end. The lore surrounding the ley lines and dragonkin is intricate and well developed. What is your strategy for building your world? To bring it right down to the basics, it all needs to make sense to me. Even if the readers don’t get to see all the details or know all the background, I need to answer those questions for myself—the ones I wonder about when I read fantasy novels with different characters and magical systems. I am a huge fan of J.R.R. Tolkien and the intricacies of his world-building. If you read his lesser known works, such as The Silmarillion, you can see the detail he goes into, right down to how/why Middle Earth was formed, why humans and elves are different, why elves are immortal and so on. The Silmarillion reads almost like a history book. While I don’t believe today’s readers need to know all the details and history of the world and the magic system you are building, if an author has a solid grasp on those elements themselves, they can create better and more realistic worlds—and with fewer plot holes. It might be a magical, impossible world, but if it makes a kind of logical sense then the reader will be more able to relate to it and it will feel more believable. This was a belief I’d formed over time, being a fan of authors who themselves create well-developed and intricate worlds and magical systems, such as Tolkien and J.K. Rowling. Then, while I was writing The Dragon Shifters at Southgate, I came across Brandon Sanderson’s Laws of Magic. It was a concise way of verbalizing what makes a magical system work. I try to keep these laws—and all the lessons I’ve learned from the masters over time—in mind when I create my own worlds and their lore. What served as sources of inspiration for you while writing? Inspiration comes from all over, really. I write in the fantasy genre, but I am often inspired by real-world issues. For example, I try to make gender a non-issue in my books because I believe it should be a non-issue in the real world. Discrimination and segregation based on race is also an issue in my books, because I want to express my belief that we are all equal. Yes, people have differences, but people should be judged on their merits, not on some preconceived notions that don’t really have a place in our modern world. Yes, there may be differences, but why not look to how those differences can compliment each other and add strength to the whole? If you’ve been following politics and have been active on social media at all, I’m sure you can see that there are a number of things that have taken place over the past couple of years—and things that are still taking place—that have inspired me to make that point even more. I also find inspiration in books I read, interactions I see at home or on the street, music I hear and so on. Anything from the smallest little details to the largest world issues can be inspiration, really. You never know when inspiration will strike. You just have to be open to seeing it and to using it when it happens. Where will book three in the series pickup and when will it be available? Book three picks up with the third seer champion, Edan Carr, and his journeys and struggles as he attempts to fulfil his part and his responsibilities in preparing the realm for what’s to come. As the champion of Westgate, he will be traveling to that gate-town to protect it and its keystone, but he will get waylaid along the way. There will be a lot of internal angst in this book, as there was in the first two books, but it will be of a different sort. We will meet shifter species that weren’t seen in the first two books. We will also see a lot more of the Dark Sorcerer and learn a lot more about him. We’ll see the beginnings of the “full” story and get a deeper peek into what drives him. The third book, The Warrior of Westgate, will be available in the fall of 2019. Author Links: GoodReads \| Twitter \| Facebook \| Instagram \| Website A Seer Champion sworn to protect Southgate. A Dragon Shifter Lord sworn to protect his clan. Can they bring their peoples together to defeat the evil forces that threaten to destroy them all? Seer Champion Talwyn Sevi must protect Southgate and its keystone against the evil forces that threaten their destruction. Knowing she cannot do it alone, she seeks help from a group of reclusive Dragon Shifters. In return, she offers them information vital to their survival. Can Talwyn gain the Dragon Lord’s trust in time to save Southgate and the dragonkin? Tags: adventure, Brandon Sanderson, epic fantasy, fantasy, fiction, J.R.R. Tolkien, Laws of Magic, magic, Silmarillion, The Dragon Shifters at Southgate A Dark Side of History Micah Genest Author Interview The Land of Ick and Eck follows Harlot’s strange encounters as she travels through a strange land. What was the inspiration for the setup to this intriguing story? I’m fascinated by children’s stories that are strange and make you think, “Wait, What? Haha, did that just happen?!” Victorian literature for children, as well as older versions of fairy tales, are where I found inspiration for the setup up of this book; they so often make you take a step back, laugh, think, and then continue on with curiosity. These stories can sometimes be whimsically mature, exploring violence, sexuality, and/or morality in creative, imaginative ways. Not treating children like delicate sugar-flakes and allowing for such content adds so much depth to the meanings and understanding of the stories, something I have found difficult to come across in modern children’s literature. So when I started writing, I wanted it to be something that that gave me similar feelings to when I read older, bizarre fairy tales. I wanted it to take place in a strange world, where things were non-sense, but also made sense if you had the knowledge to understand what was happening, especially when the reader becomes aware of the innuendos. Like many episodic folkloric tales, there is much more than what lies on the service, multiple understandings; that is what I really enjoy about such types of stories. This is one of them. The world that you’ve built is enthralling and curious to say the least. What were some sources of inspiration for when creating this world? Reading literature about/from the faerie, medieval, Georgian, and Victorian world was where some of my inspirations came from. I would often find myself reading, for example, faerie lore and tales, medieval fabliaux and chivalric romances, and strange episodic stories that involve children, such as Jerzy Kosiński’s The Painted Bird (a modern tale). I wanted to create something like Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Lewis Carol’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but darker and with more macabre and questionable situations. The realm of Ick and Eck needed to somewhere that made sense not necessarily for the human world but in the faerie world. It was to be a place that the mind of an imaginative child could easily follow and bring to life, but for adults, things might seem a little off (unless they still have the child within them). It needed to be absurd, but penetrable if you put yourself in a different sort of mind-set. To get this inspiration, I often found myself delving into the artworks of Brian Froud and other artists who have continued to add to the world of faeries and fantasy, also mixing them with some of my other interests. One of those curiosities was religion. There are many religious characters in the book, ranging from the fat-Friar, empty moon creatures, Crowned-Alter-Fops, gluttonous monks, to name a few; I enjoy studying Abrahamic religious texts, traditions, as well as medieval stories of how clergy use power to control others. Several scenes in the book comment on these injustices, but they are mixed in with the faerie world to create a more folkloric feeling. Truth be told, no hesitation of satire was taken. Another source of inspiration was the study of medieval and Victorian prostitution. As a reader would observe, the protagonist’s name is Harlot; yes, the story does indeed explore the ideas of a dark side of history, as well as a subject very much alive today. From the exploration of courtly love and the desperate knights in need of a doctor’s (i.e. a beautiful woman) cure to save them from love sickness, to the poetic grocery-list like booklets of women found in Harris’s List of the Covent Garden Ladies, these studies were an essential backbone and driving force of inspiration. The story is a critique of this behaviour. It is meant to bring light to a subject so many people want to hide. The introduction of the book lays this out: Into a land of fantasy With haste we cast them all aside No tearing if you cannot see That is what we all make-believe My list of inspiration could keep going on, so I will stop before I get carried away even more. Harlot is a curious and innocent character that I found endearing. What were some driving ideals behind the character? I wanted to create a character that constantly found interest in novel things, while at the same time never really learns much from their experiences. Even after Harlot is assaulted at the beginning of the book (i.e. her blue flower), deceived, used, and treated as inferior, she continues on. Some say this might be a weakness, others a strength, that is for the reader to decide. I have found it quite funny though, how some people really like Harlot, while others really do not. Some like her curious and innocent perspective, while others think she is rude and inconsiderate, and do not want their children to read about her because she is a negative role model. In any event, what drives Harlot is her curiosity, her unwavering innocence, and her ability to navigate such a strange place, the land of Ick and Eck. She is such a strong character, a feature I have seen in people who have been abused. I can never understand their strength. They are stronger than I could ever be. I am currently working on a couple projects, but I am a very slow writer. It took me eight years to be contempt enough to pursue publishing The Land of Ick and Eck: Harlot’s Encounters. But in any event, I am working on a continuation to The Land of Ick and Eck, per say, following a girl named Perfume, as well in another section about Harlot. Each are separate and different stories, written in different styles, but in a way they meet together through common characters, situations, and absurdities. I am quite excited about it, though I do not know how long it will take to complete. Author Links: GoodReads \| YouTube A much too trusting Harlot finds herself in the preyful Land of Ick and Eck, a place where she encounters peculiar creatures that have the most awful intensions of the carnal sort. By happenstance, she finds the company of a Ground Faerie, a Wood and Water Nymph, and a Butter-Maiden to assist her (sort of) along the way. But Alas! How the outlandish figures are quite the handful, ranging from the likes of Spriggans, the-man-with-a-can-for-a-head, Jaw Skins, to Alter-Fops, a knight of courtly love, and a Nigwig (to name a few). Thankfully, there are moments of repose, such as those with the band of eunuchs with sacs on their heads, the beautiful Milk-Maidens, and the adventures within the Faerie Ring. Though the bombardments continue to pursue her, Harlot’s innocent temperament, irrational faith, and devotion to feeding her curiosity provokes her forward, and thus her true strengths are revealed within the Land of Ick and Eck. Tags: Abrahamic, adventure, alibris, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, author, author life, authors, barnes and noble, book, book club, book geek, book lover, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, childrens stories, Covent Garden Ladies, ebook, faerie, faerie ring, fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, folk lore, Frank Baum, Georgian, goodreads, Harlot's Encounters, horror, Ick and Eck, ilovebooks, indiebooks, Jerzy Kosiński, john bauer, kindle, kobo, Lewis Carol, literature, magic, medieval, micah genest, nook, novel, publishing, read, reader, reading, religion, satire, shelfari, smashwords, Sorcery, story, strange, The Land of Ick and Eck, The Painted Bird, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, victorian, writer, writer community, writing Children of the Elements Brenna and Adara are twins living in England that spend their days with tutors and fancy automated machines. When not working on their schooling they’re reading from the Grimoire. From the Grimoire they learn of the Elemental Gods and pretend they were them. It wasn’t until they moved to Massachusetts that they began to realize they were different. On their first day of school they meet twin boys, Dimitri and Wyndham that share their same last name, Devins, as well as strange white streaks of hair. From there they realize they all have over-sized pets, a toad, lizard, owl and rat that just found the children and attached themselves to them. Slowly as they get to know each other they develop strange powers, telepathy, the ability to control elements, and the mysterious Grimoire that each has a part of starts morphing before their eyes. What does it all mean? How are they connected? Why are strange things happening to them? What happens when the stories they read as children suddenly start coming to life? Children of the Elements by Ora Wanders, is set in a steampunk reality of the semi modern world. There are parts that remind me of early frontier times, the one room school house, the simple country life, but then she adds in the steampunk elements of automated machinery and clothing choices. It is a mix of modern and old and blends together in a fascinating way that makes sense to the story line. Each set of twins have similar backgrounds, only one parent, both moving from homes with lots of machinery to a simpler life and only bringing a few things with them, the Grimoire that seems incomplete to each set. When they meet, it is literally like puzzle pieces fitting together. The story is exceptionally well written and everything flows naturally and story elements occur organically. I could picture the characters clearly, the bickering and playing around that you expect from young adults comes out. I found it all relatable, even in the magical setting. This was a book that I didn’t want to put down. The plot moves quickly, the character development is integrated with the plot, so you’re not weighed down with back stories and character development early on. All that information comes out as you meet the characters and see them interacting with their pets, teacher, and each other. They are typical teenagers with attitudes and short tempers, but you see them grow from the early pages to the end. Without giving away key elements, I can say that all four children are able to grow and see their potential while still retaining a child like wonder of the world. It has all the elements a reader of fantasy could want; magic, conflict, family drama, growth, and an open ending to continue the saga. One of the most amazing things about this novel is the author. Ora Wanders is only ten years old! I could not believe this when I finished the novel and wanted to learn more about the author because I loved the book that much. I am looking forward to the second book in the series and much more from this amazing young lady. Pages: 310 \| ISBN: 1797718002 Tags: adventure, alibris, author, author life, authors, barnes and noble, book, book club, book geek, book lover, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, Children of The Elements, childrens fantasy, conflict, creatures, ebook, england, family drama, fantasy, fiction, goodreads, grimoire, ilovebooks, indiebooks, kindle, kobo, literature, lizard, magic, massachusetts, nook, novel, Ora Wanders, owl, publishing, rat, read, reader, reading, saga, shelfari, smashwords, steam punk, story, teen fantasy, teen fiction, toad, writer, writer community, writing, YA, young adult The Love of Gods The Love of Gods, written by Tarrant Smith is the first book in the paranormal romance series, The Legends of the Pale. The story is an intriguing combination of a murder mystery and love story. As with any good romance, the story has a masculine hero – Lugos. Despite being a god, Lugos prefers the company of humans. Whilst Lugo is investigating the death of a high-ranking witch his relationship with Keely Ann Lee, a Southern bar tender develops from a simple friendship into romance. Unbeknownst to Keely, Lugos has loved her over several different lifetimes. This time, he will do all he can to protect this mere mortal. The story is set in Pale, which are a group of supernatural communities, but the characters are spread over different physical locations including Ireland and America. There is a large and daunting cast of characters, which appear and disappear throughout the book. The author provides a comprehensive character list at the beginning, which is appreciated, but flipping back and forth gets a bit disruptive. The number of characters is further complicated by the fact that these are paranormal characters such as demons, witches, gods, shifters, demigoddesses and familiars. Each character has their own special powers as well as personality and location. That said, it did not take long to get my head around the number of characters and any fan of epic expansive fantasy novels will appreciate the intricate backstory that Tarrant Smith ha created. Interwoven into the story are both paranormal and human experiences. Characters constantly move from using human technology such as cell phones, luxury cars, classic cars, security systems and Google maps to teleportation and shape shifting. They move from the mundane such as using passports to shifting from human form to animal form. This adds interest and intrigue and ensures the story is fast moving. The dialogue between characters is rich and realistic and enhances the relationship between characters. The tale is also enhanced with some interesting metaphors, for example, Keely is described at one point as “a puddle of need”; which is my new favorite phrase. The Love of Gods is a well written story. The dialogue is engrossing and most of the characters and their loyalties are intricate but explained in depth. Both the love story and the mystery will keep you guessing until the end. Pages: 268 \| ASIN: B07PWB8V36 Tags: A Gina Myoko Mystery, alibris, author, author life, authors, barnes and noble, book, book club, book geek, book lover, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, ebook, epic fantasy, fantasy, fiction, god, goodreads, ilovebooks, indiebooks, kindle, kobo, literature, love, love story, magic, mystery, nook, novel, occult, paranormal, publishing, read, reader, reading, romance, shelfari, smashwords, story, supernatural, Tarrant Smith, The Love of Gods, witch, wizard, writer, writer community, writing The Immortal Queen The Immortal Queen follows first, the life of Endya, an elven warrior with demon magic. Although plagued with prejudices, Endya finds her soulmate and becomes a leader that the kingdom of Sundregham never wanted. Elizabeth, on the other hand, grew up on Earth with a normal life. Her own nightmares reveal to her that life on earth is about to be thrust into chaos. Both women are needed as dark forces seek to end all of existence. Worlds collide and every kind of magic imaginable is released on Earth as war begins. Even the gods themselves are on the edge of their seats as the final encounter arises. The Immortal Queen has the potential to be a best selling fantasy novel. Complete with magic and guns, queens and intrigue, even gods and demons. This book combines lore from several fantasy sub-genres and mashes them into one, making this a highly ambitious epic fantasy novel. However, at times I felt that there was too much going on in this story and felt like some things were not explained completely. While the magic in itself isn’t always meant to be understood, I would have liked to have a better understanding of how things worked because what is presented is intriguing. As the story jumps from scene to scene with little background information, I spent my time trying to figure out where and when a scene took place. This is exacerbated by the fact that halfway through the story all the main characters names were changed. The Immortal Queen has huge potential to be on par with other high fantasy novels, which is a genre I enjoy. I love it when worlds collide and there are seemingly infinite types of magic. Near the end of the book, dragon riders were even introduced and I almost squealed in delight. There is a constant stream of action throughout the story that kept me interested and was one of the main factors in getting me flipping pages. Pages: 426 \| ASIN: B07N1PW8KL Posted in Book Reviews, Three Stars Tags: alibris, author, author life, authors, barnes and noble, book, book club, book geek, book lover, bookaholic, bookbaby, bookblogger, bookbub, bookhaul, bookhub, bookish, bookreads, books of instagram, booksbooksbooks, bookshelf, bookstagram, bookstagramer, bookwitty, bookworks, bookworm, demons, ebook, epic fantasy, fantasy, fiction, gods, goodreads, ilovebooks, indiebooks, kindle, kobo, literature, magic, medieval, nook, novel, publishing, read, reader, reading, s.l. marshall, shelfari, sl marshall, smashwords, story, The Immortal Queen, war, writer, writer community, writing The Answer Was Doombringer Aaron Bunce Author Interview The Winter of Swords starts when Eisa is snatched by a monster which begins the convergence of several different characters. What was the inspiration for this thrilling story? The story was originally inspired by a song: “Protectors of the Earth” by Two Steps from Hell. I visualized a scene in a forest clearing, where an army of dark creatures, led by a terrifying six-limbed beast, faced off against a massive wolf. I wrote the sequence with the intention of having my protagonist realize that he shares a magical bond with this wolf (a spirit guardian of nature). After finishing the chapter, the story took off in a completely different direction. I’d been reading a lot of fantasy at the time, and struggled with the disappointment that so much of it was the same, and not just tropes, but theme, archetypes, and even magical creatures. I was tired of dragons and elves especially, but also of questing heroes. I wanted cool new beasts, but more so, I was looking for something that would terrify me. The answer was Doombringer – whose physical presence might only be surpassed by his cunning and intellect. I wanted a creature that characters can’t simply run away and hide from, but one that watches, understands, and hunts them. I structured the beginning of the story differently, too, as I wanted to defy expectation and convention. And heh, everyone loves a good twist! Eisa, Hunter, and Luca are integral to the overall arc in the series, but their stories don’t necessarily move as most people expect. A seemingly routine trip into the wilds to collect resources proves to be the catalyst for a much grander story in scope and scale. There’s an assortment of varied and well-developed characters in this novel, and I found everyone to be interesting. Who was your favorite character to write for? This is a hard question to answer, as I love all of my characters. In fact, it feels like trying to single out one of your children as your favorite. But if I had to choose, I would say that Roman is my favorite to write. As you discover in The Winter of Swords, he has a fairly tragic backstory. To me, Roman represents resiliency, honor, and an unflappable sense of nobility. He’s introspective, shy, and a bit socially dysfunctional, but it’s his relationship with his adoptive companion, Tusk, that makes him so loveable. So many people struggle to fit in, and Roman is no different. I think that, in part, is why his interactions with Dennah are so much fun for me to write. You get to see how two people from vastly different upbringings can bond and find mutual ground. I don’t want to spoil anything, but Roman is also probably the most complicated character in the series – for reasons people will see by the time they finish Before the Crow. Beyond Roman, another of my favorites was Balin – a slippery rogue in Gladeus’ employ. In the original draft of the book, Balin appeared for a total of two or three paragraphs. By the time I finished the draft I was so enamored with him and his story that I had to go back and expand on him as a character. I think those morally gray characters can add such a wonderfully complicated dynamic to the story. I enjoyed the in depth world building in this book. What were some themes you wanted to capture while creating your world? I wanted to present the concept of the “ancient evil returned to threaten the world”, but wanted to avoid the “good vs evil” light fights the dark, or the evil lord who refuses to die returns once again to enslave the world, tropes that were prevalent in Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and so many others. That in part is why the readers get to see the antagonists, too. By seeing their rebirth, understanding a bit about their fall, and their motivations and aspirations, I think it makes the conflict a little richer. I’m also a huge nerd for history. So much of the back-story in Denoril is shades of feudal Europe, the protestant migration to the new world, the concept of world war, and the effect of colonialism on indigenous people, and abolition of slavery. The theme of indigenous people plays out in with the dalan – a magical people readers don’t necessarily get to meet until a little further into the series. I think it’s worth the wait! This is book one in the Overthrown series. What can readers expect in book two, Before the Crow? Oh, boy! That’s the question. The Winter of Swords really sets the stage, but like so many introductory volumes, it scrambles things up and tears the characters down. Before the Crow picks right up where Swords ends in that regard, so it is definitely “binge ready”. The conflict deepens and spreads, but the cat is out of the bag to an extent, so we get to see how some of our characters start to deal with the threat, but also what might set them apart from everyone else, and in the end, help them become the heroes Denoril needs so badly. For people who read through to the end of Winter of Swords, I strongly suggest they go right into Before the Crow. They just might find some events at the end of the second book incredibly rewarding! Author Interview: Twitter \| Facebook \| Goodreads \| Website An intelligent, six-limbed beast snatches a girl away from her family. An orphan confronts the darkness in his past, while a menace stalks his small town. A young woman cast into servitude tries to forge her own path in an unforgiving world. And an inexperienced soldier following the path of honor and duty comes face to face with a foe born from his worst nightmares. Seemingly unconnected, this small group of normal folk will fight to survive, for an ancient evil has awakened, and Denoril will need heroes if it is to endure The Winter of Swords. 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__label__cc	0.685294	0.314706	Review: Qatar Airways QSuites Business Class Mumbai to Doha May 8, 2018 by Ajay 9 Comments As I arrived at the boarding gate assigned for my Qatar Airways Mumbai to Doha flight, I noticed that Qatar Airways‘ ground team was setting up the boarding area, but a crowd had already started to walk around the gate area instead of being seated. Qatar Airways Mumbai to Doha flight is operated by a Boeing 777ER aircraft which is fitted with the latest QSuite product, a fact that is not well advertised because Qatar Airways did not put out a press release or do much pomp and show about it. Within about ten minutes, pre-boarding was called. First up were wheelchair passengers and passengers with small children (in arms). The process moved pretty quickly, and within 5 minutes, all passengers with different tiers with Qatar or oneworld were called, along with the Business Class passengers. Everyone was brought into a holding area and then released in one go, to the plane. Qatar Airways announced boarding per tiers. However, it was a mad dash to get on the plane. I boarded through gate 1L, which was exclusively used for Business Class boarding on this flight. As I entered, the first thing I noticed was the Qatar Airways motif on a dark backdrop. Very imposing and very premium. Qatar Airways QR 557 Mumbai (BOM) – Doha (DOH) Arrival: 05:25 AM Duration: 03:50 hours Aircraft Type: Boeing 777-300ER Seat: 10A (QSuite Business Class) Meal Service: Breakfast Qatar Airways operates two-class flights on most of their planes now, with the understanding that QSuites is a product as good as most First Class, so a separate First Class cabin is not needed. Once on board, the agent at the gate inspected my boarding pass and directed me towards my seat. By the time I had booked my ticket, most of the single seats were gone or blocked, and I was auto allocated a seat in the middle. At the time of check-in, however, I was unable to check-in to any of the QSuite seats with the 4-seater Quad. So, I requested help from the Qatar Airways Twitter team, who allocated me seat 10A. On each plane which has the QSuites installed, the seats next to the windows marked A/K, are reverse facing. The forward facing seats, marked B/J, are placed away from a direct view outside the window. On the middle set of four seats, it is organized as two forward and two reverse facing seats, allowing for four people to rendezvous mid-air if they would like to. This is beneficial for families or colleagues traveling together. I went WOW! as soon as I walked into the QSuites cabin for the first time. The most ergonomically designed seats out there, with privacy for each passenger. The best part, however, was that each seat took the same footprint as a standard Business Class seat, so there was no loss of capacity while installing this product. The Boeing 77W equipment of Qatar Airways has 42 Business Class QSuite seats, 24 in the forward cabin (pictured above) and 18 in the smaller rear cabin. Today, the cabin was fully occupied. The rear cabin, where I was seated was dimly lit in pink mood-lighting. I was allotted 10A, which is the seat closest to the engine and reverse facing. It was my first time on a reverse-facing Business Class seat, having done the drill a few times flying Etihad Apartments being seated backward already. I walked up to my seat and was quickly followed by a flight attendant. The first thing as I parked myself into the QSuites, and begun to take some pictures of this marvelous product. Everything you need for a long-haul flight enclosed in a cubicle with enough space to move around. As I mentioned, 10A is right next to the engine. So I had a good view of the GE90-115B engine which was going to be company for the next 3.5 hours. On the next gate, we had an Emirates A380 getting ready for its trip to Dubai. On my seat, there was already a blanket placed, along with an amenity kit from Nappa Dori, which is an Indian luxury brand of leatherwear. All medium-haul flights of Qatar Airways get a Nappa Dori designed amenity kit. The amenity kit contained socks, eyeshades and lip balm from Castello Monte Vibiano Vecchio. There were no sleeper suits given out on this flight, due to the short length of the flight. Also missing was the throw pillow which is placed on most Qatar Airways flights with the QSuites, and is yours to take home. There is a 21.5″ high-resolution touchscreen on every QSuite, which was the right size for this distance from the eye level. Looking around, the sliding door, which is the best part of the QSuite, stood out. Like you can see, I could not peep across if the Suite door was slid shut. As I was exploring the Suite, the flight attendant working my galley approached me and introduced herself. She walked me through the various features of the seat. She collected my blazer and offered me a choice of a welcome drink. I asked her what was available, and I was informed there was water, fresh juice or a honey and mint lemonade. Next, she wanted to know if I wanted to get a hot or a cold towel. I requested for a cold towel and a honey and mint lemonade, which was brought very quickly to my seat. The seat had a small leather box next to it, which looked like an ottoman, but would pop open into a box which could hold your stuff. A bottle of water and the headsets were placed inside. The seat controls were built into a panel which was accessible very easily. It had a whole set of buttons to control the movement of the seat in all directions along with lumbar support, and various preset seat positions as well. There was a lot of space right under the table, which could be used to store your travel documents or a laptop when not using it. The side panel had controls for various sort of connectivity and charging options. There were two USB ports, including a high-voltage port exclusively for charging. Additionally, there was an HDMI connection to beam your content to the screen, a headphone jack and a charger port. All in all, it was an intuitive design. Not shown in the picture is an NFC reader, which QR intends to use with NFC-enabled phones to be able to set IFE preferences via the Qatar Airways app. This functionality is not enabled at the moment. The touchscreen handset, shown below, allowed to control the Oryx One IFE system and showed various other details during the flight, such as the flight map and time. The headsets placed were not of any particular brand but were noise-canceling regardless. They did a decent job, given I was sitting next to the engine and I could not hear much but a low hum through the duration of take-off. The seat footwell was decently sized as well and addressed a fundamental flaw for most staggered seat designs these days, where there is not enough space for those who want to sleep sideways to keep their feet together. Qatar Airways also put two individual air nozzles above each seat so that we do not have to depend on the cabin crew to feel too hot or too cold in the cabin. While the other passengers were boarding, reading material was circulated through the cabin. They were just newspapers, and I passed since I do not fancy reading much at 4 AM. The IFE had a whole bunch of flight map data being served up, which continued to entertain me during while the flight was being prepared. Soon enough the menus were distributed. While we began our taxi, the orders were taken for our meal service. This was a breakfast flight. Qatar Airways has a fantastic selection of wines on their menu. More than that, they do real justice to those beautiful wine bottles, putting a full picture with the descriptions. Here is one insert from the wine list for my flight. On this route, Qatar Airways was offering Lanson Champagne ($40), and also the Rose Champagne from the same brand. Here is the rest of the wine list that was offered, which covered almost all the geographies with good wine I think: Chardonnay: Laroche Chablis Premier Cru 2015, France Sauvignon Blanc: Leyda Single Vineyard Garuma 2016, Chile Assemblage Catarrato & Pinot Bianco: Leone D’Almerita Terre Siciliane 2016, Italy Medoc: Chateau Haut Condissas 2010, Bordeaux France Shiraz: Hollick Wrattonbully 2015, South Australia Assemblage Petite Syrah & Zinfandel: Conundrum Red 2014, California Sweet Tokaji: Royal Tokaji 5 Puttonyos 2013, Hungary Port Wine: Gran Cruz Porto 1992, Douro Valley, Portugal There was also a selection of cocktails available. After take-off, meal service began almost immediately, given the short length of this flight. I had requested to have Rose Champagne after take off. However, orange juice was served along with a ramekin of hot nuts. I started to sip on the orange juice, not realizing there was a mixup and we will never get to the Rose Champagne. The juice was fresh, and the nuts were warmed to the right temperature. I started to watch a movie, and in a bit, it was time for breakfast. The foldable table under the screen was brought out and set up for breakfast impeccably. The attendant working my galley was very experienced and sort of a perfectionist, knowing where to bring the bread basket exactly. It was a pretty looking bread basket, and it had a muffin, a croissant, and some bread. I requested for some strawberry preserve to be brought along. First, Qatar Airways’ unique date and cinnamon smoothie was brought along, which was delicious. A fruit platter followed. The fruit was very fresh. For breakfast, I had requested the Amritsari Channa Masala, in keeping with the tradition to try out an Indian entree to see how various airlines deliver it. It came with some Onion Bhajiya (Onion Fritters) and Alu Badam Tikki (Potato/Almond Patty), along with a large helping of tangy tamarind sauce. It was lip-smacking good. Hats off to Qatar Airways for delivering an excellent Indian meal on their plane. After the breakfast service was complete, plates were quickly cleared out. The cabin crew was doing their best to finish meal service early so that passengers had an opportunity at catching a nap. In fact, most of the cabin went straight to sleep after takeoff, so I was one of the very few people to be eating at this hour. I quickly visited the lavatory. It very spacious in my opinion. Helps many passengers on the longer segments were sleeper suits are handed out. There were Rituals amenities in the dispensers, and shaving and dental kits were set out for passengers who would need them. A nice touch was the after mint which was placed by the cabin crew while I was gone. I did not ask for the bed to be prepared for me. However, at some point in time, I did slide myself into bed mode and dozed off. The best part about the flight was a real duvet in Business Class. It was not a thin cloth, but a real quilt. Okay, I cannot emphasize enough on that. The footwell had enough space to allow me to sleep comfortably on the side as I mentioned before. I woke up after about 1.5 to 2 hours of sleep; about time descent commenced on this flight. The first thing to notice was the slightly longer route this flight had to take, to stay clear of the airspace of UAE and Oman, perhaps adding a bit of time to the flying time as well. There were some beautiful views of Qatar coming in at this early hour of the morning. Soon enough, we touched down in Doha at the Hamad International Airport. We pulled over next to other QR Boeing 777s which were getting ready to fly their missions today. My jacket was brought to me without having to ask for it, and in no time I headed out of the plane. Apart from the small mixup on the juice, the service was flawless. While Qatar Airways has also hired crew from across the world, Qatar Airways has done an excellent job of bringing together a great team who feel affiliated with the airline. This is unlike at least one of their Middle-Eastern peers who have not been able to train the crew enough so that they behave as one team. It was my first experience with Qatar Airways QSuite product, and all I have to say is it is the best Business Class out there right now. The privacy that it offers and the high standard of the product is not comparable. Have you flown the Qatar Airways QSuite? How do you rate the product? + Private Suites for all business class passengers + Impeccable food & beverages + Real thick duvet + Good Footwell space + Enough storage - Not the complete QSuite experience on medium-haul flights such as this one Posted in Airlines, English, Global, India, International, Middle East, Reviews Tagged Doha, India, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Qatar, Qatar Airways « Review: GVK Premium Class Lounge, Mumbai Terminal 2 Citi Transfer Partnership with Radisson Rewards Ending » Deepak Rao says: Nice review. How could I connect my Galaxy phone to the screen? Just a USB c to HDMI cable? And when I do that, can I still hear the audio on my Sony wireless NC headphones? SH says: Very comprehensive review. And great pics as well. Only if you could device a way for us to sample the food… Rohit B says: Really loved this particular trip report… very well written with pictures to make the reader feel absorbed! @Rohit, Thanks. We just started to touch up pictures before posting them this time around 🙂 Glad you like it dheeraj says: hi ajay is there any way to know if a particular 777 flight will have the q suite product. is it shown at the time of booking. @Dheeraj, I use Expertflyer, but you could check the seat map of the flight as well PM1 says: Loved the review Ajay! I have flown their 777 business class seat (not the reverse herringbone or Q-Suites) multiple times and while the seat is so-so, the soft product is the best in the world. Excited to try the Q-Suites out at some point. One suggestion: While the departure and arrival time are useful, you may want to add duration (a little work to calculate due to time zone differences). @PM1 done. Actually, I always used to add Duration, I don’t know where we started skipping it. I was on this very flight! I was in 4J! 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__label__wiki	0.58744	0.58744	Home 24-7 Papakura bowlers play the long game FifthEstate1 MIL NZ OSI MIL OSI - New Zealand Papakura bowlers play the long game LiveNews Publisher Former All Black and new Papakura Local Board member Keven Mealamu turned his attention from rugby to bowls recently, moving the motion that saw the Papakura Bowling Club granted a new 33-year lease on its Green Street site. “My competitive rugby days are behind me, but I might want to take up bowls one day,” he said. “This is a club that’s been at the centre of the community for a long time and it will be good to guarantee its long-term future.” The Papakura Bowling Club entered into a lease with the former Papakura District Council back in 1986, with the new lease not now expiring until 2052. The lease was granted subject to conditions that include a review of the club’s performance to ensure all lease conditions are being met, to determine there is a need for the club, and that the organisation is financially sustainable The bowling club has more than a century of history, dating back to 1905. It has about 100 members who compete at the local, regional and national levels. The club also encourages local schools to include bowls in their programmes and hosts regular summer social events open to the public to encourage people to try the sport Previous articleManurewa community grants top $40,000 Next articleFranklin funding safeguards waterways https://livenews.co.nz Johnson Electric reports Business and Unaudited Financial Information for the Third... Overnight closures this weekend on SH73 Arthurs Pass – Turiwhate Culture – UPDATE – Uenuku PRIDE at Auckland Museum panel discussion Research Sector – Well-communicated, quality research rewarded Help us fight avian botulism	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1438
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__label__wiki	0.858564	0.858564	Bioaccumulation and distribution of silver in four marine teleosts and two marine elasmobranchs: Influence of exposure duration, concentration, and salinity Nathan A. Webb, Chris M. Wood Marine Biology and Fisheries The bioaccumulation of waterborne silver (added as AgNO3) was compared amongst drinking (teleosts: rainbow trout, tidepool sculpin, plainfin midshipmen, and English sole) and non-drinking marine fish (elasmobranchs: Pacific spiny dogfish and long nose skate) exposed to 14.5 μg/l Ag for 21 days in 30-ppt seawater. In addition, 21-day exposures were performed on trout, midshipmen, and sculpin at 0 (control), 1.5, 14.5, and 50 μg/l Ag to evaluate the effect of silver concentration, and on sculpins acclimated to 18 and 30 ppt salinity and sampled periodically up to 21 days to evaluate the effects of salinity and exposure duration. A 48-h acute exposure (250 μg/l Ag) was also carried out on sculpins at 10, 18, 24, and 30 ppt. The 1.5-and 14.5-μg/l Ag levels are of regulatory importance, but are several orders of magnitude higher than normal environmental levels. Silver uptake occurred in all exposures, but internal accumulations were less than proportional to exposure concentration (1.5-50.0 μg/l Ag), and tended to saturate over time, suggesting that physiological regulation occurred. Control (non-exposed) fish exhibited measurable levels of silver in all tissues (10-200 μg Ag/kg wet weight), suggesting that they accumulate silver from the natural environment throughout their lifetimes. After 21-day exposure to 14.5 μg/l Ag, silver levels increased 2-20-fold in most tissues of all species, with the greatest concentrations occurring in the livers of teleosts (order: liver > gills ≥ intestines > white muscle) and the gills of elasmobranchs (order: gills > liver > white muscle > intestines). Rainbow trout accumulated more silver than the other teleosts, and were the only species to suffer significant mortality, effects likely associated with added salinity stress. Accumulations were fairly uniform amongst the other teleosts. Similar concentrations in gills and intestines suggested that both branchial and intestinal uptake occurred, with the latter potentially dominant; indeed sole exhibited no silver build-up in the gills. The two elasmobranchs exhibited no silver build-up in intestines but much higher levels in gills, indicating that in the absence of drinking, only branchial uptake occurs. Nevertheless, based on whole liver content, the elasmobranchs accumulated silver 5-15-fold faster than the three teleosts. Over 21-day exposures (1.5-50.0 μg/l Ag) in sculpin, salinity markedly affected silver accumulation, with tissue-specific levels approximately 6-fold higher at 18, than at 30 ppt. However, there was negligible effect of salinity on silver accumulation during 48 h at 250 μg/l Ag. Silver bioaccumulation appears to be markedly affected by speciation. At lower salinities, or higher [Ag], a neutral charged AgCl(aq) complex exists in the water, allowing for increased bioaccumulation to occur. At higher salinity, only less bioavailable, negatively-charged AgCl(n)(1-n) complexes are present (AgCl2-, AgCl32-, AgCl43-). (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-445X(99)00063-6 Elasmobranchii teleost exposure duration Cottidae Oncorhynchus mykiss uptake mechanisms Webb, N. A., & Wood, C. M. (2000). Bioaccumulation and distribution of silver in four marine teleosts and two marine elasmobranchs: Influence of exposure duration, concentration, and salinity. Aquatic Toxicology, 49(1-2), 111-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-445X(99)00063-6 Bioaccumulation and distribution of silver in four marine teleosts and two marine elasmobranchs : Influence of exposure duration, concentration, and salinity. / Webb, Nathan A.; Wood, Chris M. In: Aquatic Toxicology, Vol. 49, No. 1-2, 01.05.2000, p. 111-129. Webb, NA & Wood, CM 2000, 'Bioaccumulation and distribution of silver in four marine teleosts and two marine elasmobranchs: Influence of exposure duration, concentration, and salinity', Aquatic Toxicology, vol. 49, no. 1-2, pp. 111-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-445X(99)00063-6 Webb NA, Wood CM. Bioaccumulation and distribution of silver in four marine teleosts and two marine elasmobranchs: Influence of exposure duration, concentration, and salinity. Aquatic Toxicology. 2000 May 1;49(1-2):111-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-445X(99)00063-6 Webb, Nathan A. ; Wood, Chris M. / Bioaccumulation and distribution of silver in four marine teleosts and two marine elasmobranchs : Influence of exposure duration, concentration, and salinity. In: Aquatic Toxicology. 2000 ; Vol. 49, No. 1-2. pp. 111-129. @article{b1aa9c6fef1645a3812747d994977226, title = "Bioaccumulation and distribution of silver in four marine teleosts and two marine elasmobranchs: Influence of exposure duration, concentration, and salinity", abstract = "The bioaccumulation of waterborne silver (added as AgNO3) was compared amongst drinking (teleosts: rainbow trout, tidepool sculpin, plainfin midshipmen, and English sole) and non-drinking marine fish (elasmobranchs: Pacific spiny dogfish and long nose skate) exposed to 14.5 μg/l Ag for 21 days in 30-ppt seawater. 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AB - The bioaccumulation of waterborne silver (added as AgNO3) was compared amongst drinking (teleosts: rainbow trout, tidepool sculpin, plainfin midshipmen, and English sole) and non-drinking marine fish (elasmobranchs: Pacific spiny dogfish and long nose skate) exposed to 14.5 μg/l Ag for 21 days in 30-ppt seawater. In addition, 21-day exposures were performed on trout, midshipmen, and sculpin at 0 (control), 1.5, 14.5, and 50 μg/l Ag to evaluate the effect of silver concentration, and on sculpins acclimated to 18 and 30 ppt salinity and sampled periodically up to 21 days to evaluate the effects of salinity and exposure duration. A 48-h acute exposure (250 μg/l Ag) was also carried out on sculpins at 10, 18, 24, and 30 ppt. The 1.5-and 14.5-μg/l Ag levels are of regulatory importance, but are several orders of magnitude higher than normal environmental levels. Silver uptake occurred in all exposures, but internal accumulations were less than proportional to exposure concentration (1.5-50.0 μg/l Ag), and tended to saturate over time, suggesting that physiological regulation occurred. Control (non-exposed) fish exhibited measurable levels of silver in all tissues (10-200 μg Ag/kg wet weight), suggesting that they accumulate silver from the natural environment throughout their lifetimes. After 21-day exposure to 14.5 μg/l Ag, silver levels increased 2-20-fold in most tissues of all species, with the greatest concentrations occurring in the livers of teleosts (order: liver > gills ≥ intestines > white muscle) and the gills of elasmobranchs (order: gills > liver > white muscle > intestines). Rainbow trout accumulated more silver than the other teleosts, and were the only species to suffer significant mortality, effects likely associated with added salinity stress. Accumulations were fairly uniform amongst the other teleosts. Similar concentrations in gills and intestines suggested that both branchial and intestinal uptake occurred, with the latter potentially dominant; indeed sole exhibited no silver build-up in the gills. The two elasmobranchs exhibited no silver build-up in intestines but much higher levels in gills, indicating that in the absence of drinking, only branchial uptake occurs. Nevertheless, based on whole liver content, the elasmobranchs accumulated silver 5-15-fold faster than the three teleosts. Over 21-day exposures (1.5-50.0 μg/l Ag) in sculpin, salinity markedly affected silver accumulation, with tissue-specific levels approximately 6-fold higher at 18, than at 30 ppt. However, there was negligible effect of salinity on silver accumulation during 48 h at 250 μg/l Ag. Silver bioaccumulation appears to be markedly affected by speciation. At lower salinities, or higher [Ag], a neutral charged AgCl(aq) complex exists in the water, allowing for increased bioaccumulation to occur. 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__label__wiki	0.665424	0.665424	Office Communications Server Renamed Lync, Close to Release By Jeffrey Schwartz Microsoft has renamed its Office Communications Server Lync Server 2010 and has posted the release candidate and a planning tool. Code-named Communications Server 14, Lync Server 2010, is intended to either enhance or replace PBXs. In addition to providing presence, instant messaging and conferencing, Lync Server provides voice calling capabilities accessible through a browser, mobile phone or its own Communicator client. Microsoft demonstrated it at the TechEd North America conference in New Orleans back in June, saying the communications server product should be ready for release by year-end. Key to the new release is the fact that the new unified communications platform will work seamlessly across both PCs, browsers and mobile devices, according to Microsoft. All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley reported the name change last week, pointing to an unidentified blog post outlining the features of Microsoft Lync. The blog post included screen shots, emphasizing the ability to view presence within Outlook, a telephone-like dialer and a video conferencing interface. According to the release candidate notes, Lync Server 2010 has a single, consistent management infrastructure, new capabilities to increase availability, and interoperability with existing phone systems. Administrators also use a new PowerShell-based foundation for administration consistent with Exchange Server, Active Directory and other Microsoft server products, according to the release notes. Microsoft also issued a release candidate for the new planning tool. A wizard-like interface asks the partner or administrator questions to determine what features a customer may want to utilize. Among other things, the planning tool will estimate the amount of bandwidth a customer may need for a WAN based on what features they may be using. With the tool, administrators can also view their edge network diagrams and enter FQDNs and IP addresses, and view the certificates, DNS settings and firewall settings, according to the release notes. Customers can view their edge networks within central sites when using DNS Load Balancing for Edge Server and also can import this information to Topology Builder, according to Microsoft. The planning tool is available for download. Jeffrey Schwartz is editor of Redmond magazine and also covers cloud computing for Virtualization Review's Cloud Report. In addition, he writes the Channeling the Cloud column for Redmond Channel Partner. Follow him on Twitter @JeffreySchwartz.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1457
__label__wiki	0.548603	0.548603	Village at Blue Meaford Live Music Updates on the Live Music Scene in Meaford and Area Open Mic Stages Future Stars Honeymoon Suite Rocked The Eighties December 20, 2017 Events, People No comments In his book about the now defunct Music Express magazine, writer Keith Sharp talks about being a judge for the 1983 Q107 Homegrown contest. Entries from regional bands were adjudicated in a three-hour listening session. About the fourth or fifth track into the process they heard Honeymoon Suite’s “New Girl Now” and fell off their chairs. One of the judges was Warner Canada’s new A & R chief Bob Roper. “It was like, ‘Wow! Who are these guys?’” Honeymoon Suite had taken its name from its home town, Niagara Falls where it was founded with the help of producer Tom Pendergast. He brought lead singer Johnnie Dee together with guitarist Derry Grehan to form the group which with the later addition of drummer Dave Betts, Ray Coburn on keys and Gary Lalonde on bass, became Honeymoon Suite. He’d already scared up some interest in the UK and was in the process of pitching the band to Warner when Bob Roper was scribbling in his notebook at the Q107 Homegrown judging. So it didn’t take long for things to happen. “New Girl Now” peaked at #57 on the Billboard Hot 100, the video was a mainstay on MTV and three hit singles followed in Canada. By 1985 the album was selling platinum in Canada and the band toured the world with bands like Billy Idol, Jethro Tull, The Kinks. Their 1986 album went platinum out of the box. (By now those sales have tripled). They ruled the eighties. In 1986 they were awarded ‘Best Live Act’ at the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo. That same year they took home a Juno for “Group of The Year”. Their songs were used in “Miami Vice”, “Lethal Weapon II” and “One Crazy Summer”. And great songs they were – : “Burning in Love,” “Wave Babies”, “Stay in the Light” – songs with videos that were always on high rotation on Much. Big waves of synths, crunchy guitar riffs and great vocals. Through the nineties, as trends moved away from big hair bands toward grunge, Honeymoon Suite continued to tour and record. They worked with some of the biggest producers in the business, including Bruce Fairburn and Ted Templeman. After multi-platinum success the band was no longer selling as well and the inevitable lineup changes happened as some members left. Johnnie Dee and Derry Grehan remained at the core of the band, working as a songwriting team. They filled the gaps with sidemen who had played with Billy Idol, Sass Jordan and others. When Johnnie Dee was hit by a car at LAX airport, and had to take time off to recover, he was temporarily replaced by Michael McDonald, formerly of The Doobie Brothers and yet to break out as a solo artist. In the new century, recording independently gave the band more room to stretch creatively. In 2007 the original lineup reformed and recorded “Clifton Hill” with Tom Treumuth, who had produced their breakthrough initial album. In the years since then the touring band has had some departures and returns, but they came back together this past spring to record some new songs for an EP entitled “Hands Up”, featuring new songs along with a couple of bonus tracks, live recordings of their old hits “Burning In Love” and “New Girl Now”. Since then they have been touring across Canada with the show they are bringing to Meaford Hall, featuring new and old songs from the original band. Showtime is 8 pm on Sat., Dec. 23rd. Earlybird tickets are sold out but some remain at the door for $55 Billboard Hot 100, Billy Idol, Bob Roper, Bruce Fairburn, Dave Betts, Derry Grehan, Gary Lalonde, Honeymoon Suite, Jethro Tull, Johnnie Dee, Juno awards, Keith Sharp, Meaford Hall, Michael McDonald, Q107 Homegrown contest, Ray Coburn, Sass Jordan, Ted Templeman, The Doobie Brothers, The Kinks, Tom Pendergast, Tom Treumuth, World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo David Francey, Canada's Folksinger, This Saturday at Meaford Hall Memphis Jones Brings His Hometown to Collingwood for the Elvis Festival Last Chance This Week to Catch Hunnay at CROW Meaford Summer Concert Series Features Sean Cotton August 23, 2018 Canadian and Japanese Music Presented In Meaford Concert August 21, 2018 Alison Young Quintet Coming To Meaford July 31, 2018 Latin Grammy Winner Alex Cuba Headlines Weekend at Blue Mountain Village July 30, 2018 Chuck Jackson’s All Star Band Plays Meaford Summer Concert Series July 24, 2018 The Best of The Best To Start the Meaford Summer Concert Series July 12, 2018 Meaford Summer Concert Series Back For Third Year June 28, 2018 Bring Your Own Vinyl night returns to The Red Door June 26, 2018 Blue-Eyed Soul, Meaford Style June 21, 2018 Farmer The Band Visits The Barn June 20, 2018 Opportunity for Music Students June 19, 2018 By Popular Demand… June 19, 2018 Signing Off May 31, 2018 Steve Dickinson’s Songs and Stories For A Saturday Night May 22, 2018 The Ezra Duo Brings The Work of Pioneering Women Composers To Meaford May 15, 2018 It’s A Jazz Weekend For Local Fans April 27, 2018 Patricia Wheeler Quartet Brings Jazz Concert to Meaford April 24, 2018 CROW Sessions Spotlights Stephen Fearing April 20, 2018 Massie Hall Promises a Great Summer and Fall Lineup of Talent April 18, 2018 There’s Good Rocking Tonight April 13, 2018 GBCS Battle of The Bands Becomes Music Madness April 12, 2018 Annie Sumi Is Truly a Breath of Fresh Air March 29, 2018 The Barn Celebrates Sherry Snider March 28, 2018 This Year’s Maplepalooza Benefits Beaver Valley Outreach March 22, 2018 Remembering Sherry Snider March 21, 2018 The Wolfgang Brothers In Concert at The Barn March 15, 2018 Songwriters’ Circle Moves East March 12, 2018 Community Helps Launch Talent of Jayden Grahlman March 9, 2018 Danny Michel Brings School Night Mondays To Crow February 28, 2018 BYOV Dance Party In Kimberley February 22, 2018 Canada’s Queen of Soul Coming To Meaford Hall February 21, 2018 Tom Wilson Shares a Stirring Story of Family Secrets Mixed With Songs February 16, 2018 H2O Quenches Headbanger Thirst February 8, 2018 February’s Range of Great Music at Meaford Hall January 29, 2018 Promising Fugitives Show Sold Out January 24, 2018 Damon Fowler Has Earned A Big Reputation Among Guitarists January 19, 2018 Scott Merritt Emerges From The Cottage January 17, 2018 All You Need is (The David) Love (Band) January 12, 2018 A Show To Catch: January 11, 2018 Pantychrist Rages On January 10, 2018 Multi-Artist Collaboration Inspired By Original Songs January 8, 2018 Rockin’ For The Food Bank 2017 December 27, 2017 Honeymoon Suite Rocked The Eighties December 20, 2017 Bringing In The New Year With Live Music December 19, 2017 A Skydiggers Christmas Returns To Meaford Hall December 11, 2017 Success Has Been Chasing The Once December 7, 2017 Thornbury Rotary Club Brings Who’s Who of Toronto Jazz to Marsh Street December 6, 2017 One More Lumdy Lai by Jon Zaslow December 4, 2017 ‘Tis The Season, Fa-la-la-la-la November 30, 2017 Sharlene Wallace Brings The Harp to Harp and Holly Christmas Concerts November 29, 2017 Road Heroes the Weber Brothers hit Collingwood November 28, 2017 Meaford Musical Community Shines In “The Last Waltz” November 27, 2017 Jazz At The Library Caps Season With Mary-Catherine Pazzano November 21, 2017 Join Coco Love Alcorn at Roxy November 20, 2017 My Son The Hurricane Blows Into Clarksburg November 16, 2017 Beggar’s Road Brings Original Celtic Music To Meaford Hall November 15, 2017 Sass Jordan Revisits Her Triumph Twenty-five Years Later November 10, 2017 Clap For The Sinners Choir November 8, 2017 Lemon Bucket Orkestra Brings The Party To Meaford November 7, 2017 Weekend Poster Board Nov. 3rd, 2017 November 3, 2017 Amelia Curran Brings Her Watershed Tour to Heartwood November 1, 2017 Jack de Keyser, Blues Legend, Coming to Harbour Street Fish Bar October 31, 2017 The Thursday Outlook – October 26 to 31, 2017 October 26, 2017 Three Songwriters Back For More In Meaford October 25, 2017 My Sweet Patootie and Emma Wright Join Cast of The Last Waltz October 24, 2017 Learn About Balfolk Dancing With Fiddlefern October 23, 2017 The Thursday Outlook – Oct. 19 to 23, 2017 October 19, 2017 Some of the Special Guests at The Last Waltz October 17, 2017 The Thursday Update – Oct. 12 to 16, 2017 October 12, 2017 Canada’s Northern Frontier In Story and Song October 11, 2017 A Night To Remember At The Gayety Theatre October 6, 2017 The Thursday Outlook – Oct. 5 to 9, 2017 October 5, 2017 Jayden Grahlman Kicks Off CROW Residency With A Benefit October 4, 2017 Two Communities Meet At The Arena October 2, 2017 The Thursday Outlook – Sept. 28 to Oct. 2, 2017 September 28, 2017 Special Concert With Honeymoon Phase September 27, 2017 Drew McIvor To Celebrate CD Release at Heartwood September 26, 2017 Last Chance This Week to Catch Hunnay at CROW September 25, 2017 Be Part Of A Recording at The Gayety with Chuck Jackson and Tyler Yarema September 22, 2017 The Thursday Outlook – Sept. 21 to 25, 2017 September 21, 2017 Heartwood’s Second Anniversary With The Celebration Army September 20, 2017 Songwriters Night at The Bleeding Carrot September 19, 2017 Local Players Excited To Be Doing The Last Waltz September 12, 2017 John Brownlow Previews The Summertime at The Red Door Tonight September 8, 2017 CHRIS SCERRI PRESENTS Chris specializes in creating a live music experience to suit any venue and occasion. From opera houses to festivals and private functions, Chris works closely with music director Tyler Yarema, to bring together a talented cast of performers while delivering a musical experience like no other. With the success of multiple theatre show productions, headline performances at resorts and festivals, and numerous private functions and small venue shows, Chris Scerri Presents continues to create outstanding live entertainment to suit every client. More » Village@Blue Link to Local News To get all of the latest Meaford news, click here to visit The Meaford Independent More » Our Municipality For everything related to The Municipality of Meaford, from news, services, to businesses and events, click here More » © 2020 Meaford Live Music Powered by WordPress \| Theme Designed by: here \| Thanks to black friday, http://attfreeactivation.com and sprint black friday 2016	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1459
__label__cc	0.575867	0.424133	+44 (0)1284 337540\|info@mediamanagers.co.uk Social Media and PR Marketing Communications Consultancy It’s all about the hashtag. By Ellie Banahan As the Twitter hashtag turns 10 years old, I’ve been taking a look at the purpose of a hashtag on social media and how we should be using them. Why use a hashtag? Hashtags are conversation drivers – they’re designed to link users to others who are interested in or talking about the same topic. By clicking on a hashtag on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, you’ll be taken to a whole host of other posts which also include that hashtag. When you include a hashtag in a post, your visibility is greatly increased and it’s one of the only ways to increase your reach to others outside your own audience without having to invest in paid for content. Should I use hashtags on Facebook? I’m often asked this question and the jury is still out. Again, hashtags on Facebook are designed to link you to other users and in theory should make you more visible. However, hashtags only really work if the audience understand the purpose of them and I don’t think this is the case on Facebook. If you’re using a specific hashtag for a campaign which has been rolled out across other social platforms, it makes sense to use the hashtag on Facebook to show brand unity. Using hashtags will not be the key to your Facebook success but there’s nothing to lose by including the occasional #MondayMotivation. Top tips for using hashtags When used correctly, hashtags can be really worthwhile so here are a few tips: Don’t go overboard and hashtag everything – it puts users off. Instead, just pick out a couple of key words. Consider whether your hashtag will be seen – search for your hashtag first to check others are using it. Create a specific hashtag for people to use at your event – this gives you a simple way of checking what other people are saying about your event across social media. Piggyback on popular hashtags – Using hashtags such as #WednesdayWisdom and #ThrowbackThursday increases your reach. Check your trending hashtags on Twitter and see whether any of these could be applied to your tweets. Happy Birthday Twitter hashtags. Now it’s your turn to go out and use them. By Ellie Banahan\| 2017-08-23T12:21:22+00:00 August 23rd, 2017\|Uncategorized\|Comments Off on It’s all about the hashtag. info@mediamanagers.co.uk First Floor Offices 24 Brentgovel Street IP33 1EB © Copyright 2019 - Media Managers Group	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1462
__label__cc	0.67348	0.32652	Difference between revisions of "Selecting and Finding More" From BCcampus Mediawiki Terrie (Talk \| contribs) m (moved Week 3: Selecting and Find More to Topic: Selecting and Find More) m (moved Topic: Selecting and Find More to Topic: Select and Find More) In this topic you will explore several more repositories and the various criteria that helps faculty select one open textbook over another. Peer reviews provided by College Open Textbooks and other repositories will be analyzed. 1 Open Textbook Get Reviewed 2 Visit the Review site 3 Practice Finding and Selecting 4 Where else can you find open textbooks and peer reviews? 5 Weekly Forum Questions Open Textbook Get Reviewed At the Community College Open Textbooks Collaborative, books are reviewed on the following criteria: Clarity and comprehensibility - content, including the instructions and exercises Accuracy - this requires subject matter expertise Readability - in terms of logic, sequencing, and flow Consistency of course materials - consistency in the content language and use of key terms as is necessary to facilitate understanding by novice users Appropriateness of content - appropriateness of the material for community college level courses Interface - technological issues such as broken links, improperly displayed graphics, and ease of navigation Content usefulness - the ways in which the content could be useful for teachers, students, and those with a general interest in the subject area Modularity - the ability to adapt, rearrange, add, delete and modify the content by sections Content errors - the presence or absence of factual errors, grammatical errors, and typographical errors in the content Reading level - appropriate for community college level students Cultural relevance - use of examples that are inclusive of diverse races and ethnicities Visit the Review site When you are considering an open textbook, it is good to know what other instructors think about its quality. Several organizations, including the College Open Textbooks, have posted reviews of some of the open textbooks that are now available. Practice Finding and Selecting Using the COT website, find the textbook called Collaborative Statistics by Illowsky and Dean. Once you locate the title, click on it. Did you notice that you were brought to the Connexions website? This is where the actual textbook is stored. COT is merely linking to it and acting as a search engine or filter for open textbooks. Some repositories actually store the books, others will be like COT and link to them. It's now time to head off on your own. Using COT's website,or another site look for a book that may work for your subject area. Be prepared to report back what book you found, and what repository you found it on. There are several things to note about this particular book - it has been adopted, peer-reviewed, and reviewed for its accessibility by all learners. All of that information is available before even going to the actual textbook itself. You can also see the copyright license. CC is Creative Commons and BY requires you to include an attribution when using the book. Question: Of the above information provided by College Open Textbooks (licensing, adoption, peer review, and accessibility review), which is also available from the actual textbook site on Connexions? Examples: Scott Leslie undertook initial research of known sources of Open Textbooks and OER to determine if there existed any suitable replacements for textbooks in the Information and Computer Technology Program. His search uncovered a number of potential candidates that are listed in detail at http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/Open+Textbook+Replacements+for+ICT+Collaborative+Program Another example for the Applied Business Technology Program Accounting Now search in the other Open Content Repositories Where else can you find open textbooks and peer reviews? MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. Its collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials are catalogued by registered members and includes a set of faculty development support services. Over 1000 open textbooks are listed on their site. The Assayer is the web's largest catalog of books whose authors have made them available for free. Users can also submit reviews. The site has been around since 2000, and is a particularly good place to find free books about math, science, and computers. FolkSemantic is a website that provides a more personalized experience than search engines in finding open educational resources and courses. Through the use of meta-data tags, folkesemantic can search for OER on websites as you are browsing. Members are encouraged to recommend OER by registering the URL and tagging the content contained there. Project Gutenberg contains over 100,00 books that were previously published but their copyright license has expired with the result that they are now available in the public domain. As such they may be freely used, distributed, and adapted in the United States and in many other countries that hold to the public domain right. Weekly Forum Questions Question #1 - Now that you've had some time to explore the open textbooks repositories and read the COT peer reviews, please explain what you consider the most important criteria for instructors as they make open textbook adoptions. Are there ones beside the 11 factors used by COT peer reviews that are more critical? Do you think the criteria are discipline-specific? Please continue to brainstorm with other participants. 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__label__cc	0.59516	0.40484	How to ReWire Individual Reason Instruments into Logic Pro by Joel Falconer 11 Sep 2008 Difficulty:IntermediateLength:ShortLanguages: Englishاُردُو Mixing & MasteringLogic ProReason Reason doesn’t offer users the greatest control over sound processing. The built-in reverb, compressor and so on will do the trick when you want to start composing a new song, but what about when the composition is done and it’s time to mix? In this tutorial, we’ll go through the steps required to get your entire Reason rack routing into individual channels in Logic, a simple, handy process, but one that's a dark and mysterious art to many newcomers. Open Logic and set up a new project. Once that’s loaded, you can fire up Reason. Open the apps in this order. Do not change the order around because the Rewire host needs to be loaded before the client. Create a Redrum unit and an NN-XT synth in Reason. Try making some sound with them—you won’t hear anything because Reason has detected that a host is present and set up a Rewire connection. In order to hear anything, we need to finish that Rewire connection on Logic’s end. Click on the Mixer tab and add two new stereo auxiliary channel strips (this option is under the Mixer’s Options menu). Set the input of one to Reason’s channels 3 & 4 and the other to Reason’s channels 5 & 6. In Reason, press Tab to flip to the back of the rack where you’ll see the wires connecting the inputs and outputs of various devices in the Reason rack. Move the left and right output wires of the Redrum device out of the mixer and attach them to channels 3 and 4 on the rack device marked “Hardware Device” at the very top. Do the same with the NN-XT’s outputs, attaching them to 5 & 6. You should now be able to hear these instruments. If not, check your faders in the Logic mixer. If you’re going to use Reason like this without recording the instruments to straight audio later, right click on the two aux tracks in the mixer and click “Create/Select Arrange Track” to have the channels appear in your main Arrange window. You can now apply inserts on the auxiliary tracks so you don’t have to use Reason’s terrible reverb unit or any other effects. Select the track in the Arrange window and you’ll see the channel strip settings bar on the left. Under Inserts, click and hold an empty slot until a menu appears with the various plug-ins available to you. If this is enough for you, you can stop here. If you’d rather commit the Reason instruments to audio once the samples have been selected and the instruments all sequenced and finalized, go on to the next step. There are quite a few reasons you might want to do this, though keeping your sequenced audio in the sequencer is best unless you have a specific reason. It’s still important to learn how. Create two audio tracks using the Track > New menu option. Set their inputs to bus 2 and bus 3 (these are arbitrary numbers, of course). Now go to your aux tracks for the Redrum and NN-XT and set their outputs to bus 2 and bus 3 respectively. Under Project Settings, go to the Record tab and select “Record pre-roll” with 0 seconds, instead of the count-in option. Count-in wrecks the ability to record from Reason if you’re starting from the first bar of the song (at least for me). Press record to commit your Reason instruments to audio and you’re now able to edit and chop them up just like any other recorded audio. If you’re wondering why one would route individual instruments through Logic in order to mix them, listen to the difference in this audio sample. The first four bars are straight out of Reason, and the second set of four bars plays the same audio with Logic’s much better effects processing the signal. It’s clear that Logic’s audio processing is far better than Reason’s. Comparison between Reason & Logic processing Joel Falconer Joel Falconer is the co-founder of public relations company Methodic Studios, publishes the gaming blog StartFrag, and is an editor at leading technology news site The Next Web. You can follow him on Twitter.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1468
__label__cc	0.720683	0.279317	Parent Support Network Academics Main MSS Experience MSS Experience Main Servanthood Life After MSS About Main Admissions Main Sliding Scale Tuition Campaigns & Funds Sbu, Class of 2019 June 9, 2019 \| Abby Liu Sbu will attend Chatham High School next year. He looks forward to the high-quality academic program. But more than that, he’s excited about the wide variety of extracurricular activities. Sbu plans to participate in the school news station. Comedy Club. And sailing team. During his time at Mustard Seed, Sbu’s improved as a writer. He’s learned a number of writing techniques which he’s used in assignments from formal essays to persuasive writing. He’s also learned to share his voice and become more assertive. Before he came to MSS, Sbu was shy and kept his ideas to himself. That boy is long gone, replaced by a young man who’s unafraid to speak his mind. A man who sees a problem and does everything he can to find an effective solution. If Sbu could travel anywhere, the first location he would visit would be Japan. He’s fascinated by Japanese culture and advanced technologies. On his trip, he’d take the bullet train to Tokyo and go to popular tourist locations. Restaurants. And tech stores. Then he’d follow in the footsteps of manga and anime artists and writers and venture to the beautiful and peaceful countryside, to Takayama. Out of everything he’ll miss about MSS, Sbu will miss his teachers the most. Especially his language arts teachers, Mr. Harris and Ms. Decker. Abby Liu Ms. Liu loves to tell the Mustard Seed story. She’s the parent of a current MSS student and a recent alum. Deepika Peters ’95 Michael Sanchez (’15) “I’m attending Yale to become a doctor to care for underserved populations.” Video! Dominique’s Story Mustard Seed School 422 Willow Avenue Accredited by the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1469
__label__wiki	0.87354	0.87354	The final trailer for Disney’s ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ is here The final trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker dropped on Monday, giving fans even more insight into the eagerly-awaited “Skywalker saga” conclusion. The… Shereesa Moodley TV & Movies • 22 Oct 2019 Disney to launch new Star Wars animated shorts for kids Disney has revealed a Star Wars-themed YouTube channel for kids set to feature the new Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures show. The show will… Shereesa Moodley Streaming • 29 Nov 2018 Disney+ streaming service will launch in 2019 Disney has announced the official name of its upcoming streaming service along with a few shows that are set to be aired on the… Shereesa Moodley Streaming • 9 Nov 2018 It’s 2018, and ‘Trekkies’ are still spoiling May The 4th for everyone It’s 4 May 2018, or if you’re an internet nerd or American, May The Fourth. It’s a pretty important date for Star Wars fans…. Andy Walker Humour • 4 May 2018 Stars Wars: The Last Jedi: frenetic, powerful, a joy to behold Stars Wars: The Last Jedi does not start well. The exposition plods, the editing jars, and the dialogue feels unnatural. Just as emotional moments… Julia Breakey TV & Movies • 14 Dec 2017 Disney wants to undercut Netflix’s price ahead of 2019’s streaming war If you feel that Netflix charges users a bit too much for its streaming content, don’t worry, Disney’s CEO thinks so too. Quoted by MarketWatch,… Andy Walker TV & Movies • 10 Nov 2017 Everyone is making fun of the Han Solo movie title It’s inevitable that if you drag something out long enough and don’t deliver the goods, people are going to be left unsatisfied — and that’s just what director Ron… Julia Breakey TV & Movies • 18 Oct 2017 [Watch] Star Wars: The Last Jedi official trailer is here The Star Wars franchise may be going through some trials of will and creative differences, but it’s time to brush that all aside so… Disturbances in the Force: a timeline of recent Star Wars ‘creative differences’ This year has taken its toll on Star Wars writers and directors. Venturing in and out of the franchises like indecisive shoppers, seemingly every creative in Hollywood has… Julia Breakey TV & Movies • 14 Sep 2017 15 classic Star Wars GIFs to use this #MayTheFourth We know the pressure you’re under today. While mashing away at your keyboard trying to get those reports and submissions prepared, you’re also trying… Staff Reporter Humour • 4 May 2017 Here’s what you’ll be watching for the next 5 years If you’re someone who doesn’t like change or lights at the end of tunnels, then, boy, do I have good news for you. Hollywood… Julia Breakey TV & Movies • 28 Mar 2017 Carrie Fisher: Twitter reacts to death of an icon Carrie Fisher is the latest death in a tumultuous year for celebrities, having died as a result of a heart attack suffered earlier this… Hadlee Simons News • 29 Dec 2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story movie review: return of the blue milk Disney is pushing full force with their Star Wars movies. Not only have they started a brand new trilogy with Star Wars: The Force Awakens,… Graham van der Made: Staff Reporter Geek Culture • 14 Dec 2016 Feast your eyes on the first teaser trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story After the critical success of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, it’s time for the next big screen Rebels vs. The Empire cinematic…. Graham van der Made: Staff Reporter Geek Culture • 7 Apr 2016 Hachette Partworks extends Mightiest Heroes, tests out Star Wars graphic novel series There’s good news for those of who don’t own enough graphic novels. Popular international partworks company, Hachette Partworks, has announced a 40 volume extension… Graham van der Made: Staff Reporter Geek Culture • 11 Jan 2016 The Force awakens to Star Wars backlash, harsh criticism Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens opened with almost universal praise while smashing box office records. Unfortunately, it hasn’t all been lightsaber battles… Graham van der Made: Staff Reporter Geek Culture • 7 Jan 2016 Star Wars: The Force Awakens: the spoiler free review We respect our readers and anticipation around Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. Any plots points discussed have already been revealed in trailers… Memeburn dives into Geek Crate’s first themed box of goodies [video] We’ve previously reviewed Geek Crate‘s first and second boxes and now it’s time to look at its third offering. This is the mystery crate… Graham van der Made: Staff Reporter BurnMedia TV • 1 Dec 2015 JJ Abrams is giving you the opportunity to be in the next ‘Star Wars’ movie Always wondered what it must be like to be behind the scenes on a mega sci-fi movie watching aliens go by? You may have… Lauren Granger General Tech • 22 May 2014 #Maythefourthbewithyou: 8 of the best posts about Star Wars Day Trekkie? If you were anywhere near the internet yesterday, chances are you considered a move over to the dark side. The web was joyfully… Lauren Granger Ads & Marketing • 5 May 2014 #MayTheFourth be with you: our favourite tweets Look, as much as we’d like to pretend that Star Wars is still a geeky niche franchise, it’s become a cultural phenomenon. Nonetheless, there… Stuart Thomas News • 4 May 2012 Volkswagen follow up to 2011 viral success involves Star Wars, dogs [Video] Car manufacturing giant Volkswagen has released a teaser for its 2012 Superbowl commercial. The ad will reprise the Star Wars theme of its wildly… Stuart Thomas Video • 19 Jan 2012 The pros and cons of the game-changing Kinect I spent a large portion of last weekend flapping and waving my arms about, throwing phantom roundhouse kicks and trying to maintain a zen-like… Uzair Parker: Staff reporter General Tech • 13 Dec 2010	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1479
__label__cc	0.629661	0.370339	MemsaabStory Nahiiin! Face Gallery Filmi Index (Alphabetical) Filmi Index (Chronological) Other Filmi Posts & Trivia Edu Productions Memsaab’s Story Parwana (1971) April Fool (1964) Roop Tera Mastana (1972) (mini-review) The old cowhand… Prem Kahani (1937) Lalkar (1972) Alibaba (1977) Guest Post: Indurani, a star of the 1930s (I am not out of my mind, I am a) Rajput (1982) Aurat (1967) Anonymous on (I am not out of my mind, I am a) Rajput (1982) memsaab on April Fool (1964) narendra101 on April Fool (1964) Srinivas Murty on April Fool (1964) Satyajit Mukerji on April Fool (1964) Gopinathan T P on Pyar Mohabbat (1968) memsaab on Feel the love! Asha Parekh Suhan on Feel the love! Asha Parekh husaynaga on Khel Khilari Ka (1977) Razi MUJTABA on Tarana (1951) Air Cmde RN Dhagat on Fearless Nadia sandhya on Tumse Achha Kaun Hai (1969) Suhan on Happy birthday Shammi Kapoor! Don't want to miss anything new? 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EarthMusic Network Kamal Kapoor Papa Ajoba Philip's Fil-ums Shammi's Site Tarun Bose & the World of Cinema What is everybody reading? Mehboob Ki Mehndi (1971) 3 Idiots (2009) Andaz (1971) 36 Ghante (1974) Samadhi (1972) « Smuggler (1966) \| Insaniyat (1955) » Wardat (1981) Gun Master G-9! will…claw your eyes out? Mithun has been sadly underrepresented in my Hindi film experience—I have only seen him in Disco Dancer, Ashanti (meh) and Ganga Jamuna Saraswati (argh, plus he was totally wasted in it). I don’t really “get” the Mithun appeal based on those three films—I keep hearing what a great dancer he is, for instance, but have not seen any evidence to support it. I’ve actually never seen any evidence that there was any choreography at all in Hindi films from the 80s, so perhaps it isn’t really his fault. In any case, I thought perhaps I could watch this and expand my Mithun knowledge a wee bit. I was warned against it, I admit, but I’m tired of looking for Surakksha; Gun Master G-9 is Gun Master G-9 after all, right? How bad can it be? It’s really bad. It is “So Bad It’s Good” in fact, and let me just say that I am very picky about the whole SBIG thing. I tried to watch Dance Dance once, as it was recommended as a fine example of the genre, but couldn’t get through it (so actually I have watched three and a third Mithun films). Generally I find any film considered SBIG just plain intolerable. But this one is so gleefully and unrepentantly awful (as opposed to merely indifferently or incompetently awful) that I have to give it kudos! It works truly hard to be this bad, and doesn’t let up at all—the end is as ludicrously stupid as the rest of it. Shabash, Ravi Nagaich, shabash! There are lots of screen caps, because honestly there was something at least every 3-4 minutes to keep my attention riveted. I also decided to watch the songs closely (which is painful for me when Bappi Lahiri disco tunes are involved) to see if Mithun really can, in fact, dance. Mithun Dance Exhibit A: Standing motionless in a John Travolta pose ‡ dancing (neither does twitching uncontrollably, marching in place or writhing on the floor). Mithun is not dancing yet. Shakti Kapoor plays a character named…Shakti Kapoor! I cannot abide the man; even before I knew what a creepy guy he is in real life too, I couldn’t stand him. But that creep factor does make him really villainous. And his deeds in this film are even creepier than he is—he is unleashing armies of locusts on local farmers to manipulate the price of wheat and rice (which he has also doctored with “medicine” that has an aphrodisiac effect on all who eat it). Please note that the dead locusts are clearly made of yellow plastic. No attempt whatsoever has been made to make them look real. Shakti’s day job is being the CEO of a company called Profit Promoters. His business model is similar to that of the Underpants Gnomes in South Park, to wit: Step 1: steal underpants Step 2: hmmmm…uhhhh… Step 3: profit! Shakti reports in to a mysteriously unseen man—unseen that is, except for his riding boots (black leather, of course). They apparently believe that there is only one obstacle standing in the way of their world domination: Gun Master G-9 (Mithun, duh) (get it? heh). I wonder if they would be so worried if they could see his bedroom decor: It’s not the girl’s room—it is GMG-9’s room. Seriously. Mithun Dance Exhibit B: Channeling Amitabh Bachchan’s movements ‡ dancing. Neither does standing on one leg like a stork and bending backwards. I’m still waiting to see Mithun dance. GMG-9 works for the Chief (Iftekhar), a man who loves his flashing, beeping gadgets and needless complications like pointless code words. The Chief and GMG-9 seem to have a love-hate kind of relationship, and I have to wonder if it bothers the Chief at all that his agent drives around in a car which loudly advertises his not-so-secret status (and actually, why is he even called Gun Master? He almost never has a gun!). The Chief has been working with Professor Malhotra, a bug expert with a wayward daughter named Kajal (Kajal Kiran). Kajal meets GMG-9 when he “borrows” her motorcycle in a chase with the bad guys. She is thrilled by his prowess, as it were, and begs him to teach her some riding tricks. She is overcompensating for being a girl instead of the boy her mother (Praveen Paul) wanted. The motorcycle lessons give me another opportunity to scrutinize Mithun’s dancing: Mithun Dance Exhibit C: Sadly, butt-butting does not constitute dancing either, although I think the sterilizing tightness of his pants may be an adequate excuse this time. Another scientist is working for the Chief too; Anand wears gold chains in lieu of shirts, and has a sister named Anuradha (Kalpana Iyer) who is a doctor. When Anand (along with his voluptuous assistant named Rosy) is killed by Shakti, Anuradha vows revenge. Misled by Shakti into believing that GMG-9 is her brother’s murderer, she attempts to lure our hero into a trap by blowing up a river raft thingie. She is certainly dressed more for seduction than for boating (and apparently it doesn’t bother Dr. Anuradha to kill other people as part of her plan). She blows it up as GMG-9 is crossing a bridge, and he jumps in to rescue her. He takes her home, where she is instructed by Shakti to keep him “happy” until he can get there and kill him. Her hairstyle by itself would be entertainment enough, but she takes the opportunity to don another slinky dress too. Mithun Dance Exhibit D: Pelvic thrusting while you stand and stare like a moron ‡ dancing. Mithun, Mithun…how you disappoint me! Truly you are running out of time; I am not sure how much more of Bappi’s music I can take. Luckily, a plot element is introduced which somewhat compensates for the lack of Mithun dancing: a hunchback! I’m always happy to see one, especially in a lab with flashing lights. And also: Mithun strips to the waist in order to apply some Locust Repellant! Kajal applies some too, and they fly their small plane directly into an oncoming locust swarm. They probably should have put their repellent on the plane itself, because all those locusts getting into the engine causes them to crash. Back at HQ, the Chief gets word that Shakti and his men have kidnapped Professor Malhotra, and are demanding that GMG-9 turn himself over to them in exchange for the Professor’s life. GMG-9 rescues the Professor with very little trouble indeed, to Kajal’s unending gratitude. She now insists on accompanying GMG-9 into the jungle (along with sidekick Jagdeep, who was pathetically unfunny), where someone has discovered a way to manipulate the locusts (GMG-9 deduces this by reading Anand and the Professor’s “research”). In the jungle, some shenanigans and another horrible song ensue: Mithun Dance Exhibit E: No, no, no, no. That is not dancing either! I don’t care how much aphrodisiac-infested rice you ate! And finally, our trio finds the headquarters of evil belonging to the riding-booted madman. Evil HQ appears to be some sort of Egyptian tourist site patrolled by tiny silvery semi-transparent men in fencing outfits complete with swords. Inside, we learn that Shakti’s boss has a three-pronged approach to taking over the world. In addition to locusts and freakish medications in the world’s rice supply, the laboratory hunchback has been manufacturing…babies! “They will be like no babies ever before!” Shakti announces to the group of African tourists picked up as extras off the streets of Bombay. Then he introduces them to his boss: the jack-booted jodhpur-clad hunchback named Jambola. Jambola has bigger problems than his deformed back. He invites them all to a celebration that night, which I cannot wait for! (Two words: tribal disco.) Will Mithun finally dance? Will the Africans be offended by all the faux-tribal caricaturing? What will happen to all the plastic babies and locusts?? Can Gun Master G-9 save the world??? Watch Wardat to find out. But I warn you—it’s bad. Really really bad. SPOILER: Mithun doesn’t dance. Strutting in a circle while singing that evil guys will get theirs! ‡ dancing. So I am still mystified as to where his rep as a dancer comes from. And furthermore, whoever sang for him (I think it might have been Bappi himself) sounded like Mickey Mouse on speed—it was completely incongruous with the GMG-9 persona. Mithun is puppy-dog cute, though, in the same way that Sanjay Dutt is. END SPOILER. Posted on August 20, 2009 at 4:45 pm in Hindi movies \| RSS feed You can skip to the end and leave a reply. Tags: Bappi Lahiri, Gun Master G-9, Iftekhar, Jagdeep, Kajal Kiran, Kalpana Iyer, Mithun Chakraborty, Praveen Paul, Ravi Nagaich, Shakti Kapoor, So Bad It's Good 81 Comments to “Wardat (1981)” Ranya Oh.My.Goodness!! I laughed so hard reading this post.. and I’m at work too!! Not Safe!!! :P :P Mithun was a craze in Bangladesh in the 80’s (He was a Bengali, after all!). I was born in ’84, but even I wasn’t spared from it. I’d always look forward to when my parents would rent a “Mithun Chakraborty Uncle” movie (yes, that’s what I called him!! LOL!! :D) I believe he was a very good actor when given a chance — but these kinds of B-grade movies are what brought him fame & fortune, which is pretty sad. I don’t recall any of his younger days’ movies anymore, but loved him in the recent Guru. His role was comparatively smaller, but was beautifully played. memsaab Yes, THIS is what I’d call a B-grade film, much more so than Smuggler or CID 909 :-) So very bad. But I have to admire something that rejoices so much in its own stupidity. Southie Ranya… i just did what you did.. see my post below… Ha ha… So, is this worse than Disco Dancer? That’s my favorite “So Bad It’s Good” film. But now I see so much more potential for awfulness. Like a Snow White headboard in the hero’s bedroom. That’s fantastic. It’s not worse than DD, it’s just…different. It is certainly no better! :-) They each have their charms and their crosses to bear. I loved the Snow White headboard. Hilarious. I loved the Snow White headboard too (was this scene shot in the producer’s toddler’s bedroom? :D). And the yellow locusts!!! ROFL!! The evil headquarters of the riding-booted madman – LOL!!! I was highly entertained right through the review, and have to say that I’m glad it was made and memsaab reviewed it! :-D I can’t remember ever seeing a Mithun film. I think that’s because most 80s film were like this one, and I’ve hardly seen any from that time. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Basically I just wrote down everything that popped into my head as I was watching it and it was done. Easy! No need for any analysis or thoughtful processing at all. That was so funny…. I am at a meeting at Microsoft (Seattle) and laughing my head off…. “Will the Africans be offended by all the faux-tribal caricaturing” “Jambola has bigger problems than his deformed back.” haha, I think Memsaab should tag these reviews “NSFW” :P Heh :) Perhaps everyone you work with would enjoy an afternoon with Mithun too. BTW, watch Surakshaa… Mithun’s first hit.. it is the first part of the G-9 duo. Good songs and better dancing in big bell bottoms I don’t know…I knew if I watched Wardat it might make it impossible for me to ever see Surakksha if I could find it…and I think I might be done with Gun Master G-9. Although I have learned that I should never say never! squarecutatul Hahaha, finally someone has called Mithun da’s bluff. He was hailed for his “dance” (pronounced as “Dense” by him, viz I am a disco denser). Now you have told it for what it is. Rotating his pelvis in a slow rythmic way and thrustic his pelvis with a jerk were hailed as “densing” by his fans who had no pretentions of being classy. But it is surprising to note that erstwhile Soviet Union and present day Central Asian nations where Raj Kapoor was a big name in 1950s, Mithun da is regarded as a star based on movies like this. So there are whole lot of people in India and elsewhere who enjoy stuff “so bad that it is good”. And they actually regard it as good. Absence of a ticking brain that looks for logic and consistency is a prerequisite for enjoying Mithun da movies, and there were certainly a sizable numbr of people who fitted this bill. This review has to be one of the funniest that you have written in a long long time. And this review is much better fun that watching the movie, which for someone like me was sheer torture. Honestly, I think Mithun da’s movies like this were Z- movies. Calling it C grade movie would be doing big disservice to movies of Dara Singh, Sheikh Mukhtar etc, which were infinitely more classy and entertaining. And yes, Bappi Lahiri sings for Mithun da. Bappi Lahiri hoped to become another R D Burman who would sing songs on his own music direction. But R D did it in moderation, whereas Bappi Lahiri took it to extremes. Now I am rolling around on the floor laughing at “dense”… I can usually watch these if I set my expectations low enough and shut down the ticking in my brain. And this one certainly met those low expectations! I was truly horrified by Bappi Lahiri’s singing. It’s not bad enough that he wrote such abysmal songs (although I will say that some of his music in the pre-disco era was very nice) but he has to sing them too? His voice was so…wrong for Mithun’s character. So Wrong. Shalini Razdan Kishore once said that he was often late for his song recordings save for that of one music director – Bappi Lahiri. He quipped that he made sure he arrived on time for Bappi’s songs for fear that if he didn’t, Beeper Lady would sing them himself.:-D OMG!!!!!!! That by itself makes me completely ADORE Kishore! Beeper Lady!!! Ha ha hahahahahahahhaaaaa!!!!!! falls off chair laughing forlorn_rage Who is Beeper Lady? Mithun had no pretentions, he knew his movies wont find favor with urban audiences. He made these movies and released them in districts, where they were eagerly lapped up by the seeti crowd (crowd that whistles at every dramatic scene). Consequently, the movies made a lot of money. Mithun and the producer laughed all the way to the banks ! However, Mithun is a good actor and has worked in some great films as well. Mrigya, Gudiya, Titli Mrigyaa was one of the first Mithun films I remember seeing, although I saw it long after it had been made… a very stark and very good film. I think Mithun won an award for it, his acting was awesome. But I’m not a Mithun fan generally – and Wardat is definitely one film I’m going to steer clear of! I am determined to find a Mithun film I can like. DETERMINED. I don’t dislike him at all—but boy he has been in some craaaappy movies. I will look for Mrigya as an antidote to this :) Thanks for the recommendations (is his dancing any better in those? I somehow doubt it)… Now that dustedoff mentions ‘mrigaya’ I recall it as being a non commercial/art film. It’s far far from the ‘disco’ variety. I haven’t seen it, but perhaps this will change the view of those – like me – looking for a worthwhile film of Mithun C. Here is a link I found with some wonderful looking clips. http://mrinalsen.org/mrigaya.htm PS: mrigaya means ‘deer’. It’s all about deer hunt – that too the ‘royal’ kind. Oh no. The site has a photo of a deer which he says died right after the shoot, probably of shock. That’s what I fear the most watching films with animals in them—there were no organizations looking out for them back then… Hmmm. Mrigaya may not be for me! Mrigyaa isn’t an all-dancing, all-singing film, so no, he actually acts rather than does all those weird moves that they tried to pass off as dancing in films like Wardat. This one’s about a young tribal man whose wife is raped by a British officer during the days of the Raj… it’s a dark and gloomy sort of film, but even though I saw it when I was a kid, I’m getting gooseflesh just remembering it now. Have you watched ‘Prem Pratiggya’ (1989) in which he starred opposite Madhuri Dikshit? That is one Mithun movie that you will certainly like. Direction is by Bapu. Another movie you may like is Mujrim again released in the same year and with the same heroine. Directed by Umesh Mehra. bluelotus Mithun Chakravarthy and Biswajeet. Two men from Bengal…… cannot figure out why they were so popular…… Biswajeet of course had the backing of fabulous songs…… Poor Biswajeet! I still have some of his films lined up to watch, am hoping he can still redeem himself. At least he was IN good films even if he was the weakest link. Mithun though…well, as people have said—he is laughing all the way to the bank! As a honourable bong who grew up in the 80s, Mithunda and Bappida are what they are – happily sporting “I love Micheal Jackson” Tshirts and grooving to hindi disco. :) For those of us who grew up in that timeframe, there is no point to justify his popularity nor for that matter for those who were not there to try and understand WHY he was popular. :) I am honestly shocked you find him cute. :) Awww, look at those puppy-dog eyes! He is very cute in a shell-shocked kind of way—I mean, he always looks like he’s kind of surprised to find himself doing the things he’s doing in these movies. And who can blame him for that, really… Michael Barnum Oh Memsaab, you made my day! What a fun review, and a movie that looks to be a must see. Would you believe that I “love” Bappi! Yes, yes I do and I even bought the recent Bappi Lahiri song dvd :0 Do try to watch Mithun and that other 80s fave, Hemant Birje, in COMMANDO…it is out of this world! Argh. I cannot love Bappi’s music. Cannot. Commando? Sigh. You are evil. Rucha For that matter.. u should watch ‘adventures of Tarzan’ ring Hemant Birje in lead role along with Kimi Katkar… u wil def fall of ur chair hilarious review… cant stop laughin.. btw.. do u kno, Mithun C is a main judge of one of d dance shows in India??? bollyviewer The visuals are truly colorful – but I cant believe films like this were really hits! As to where Mithun got his rep for good dancing – probably from the same people who think Amitabh Bachchan is a great dancer. ;-) The 80s did not have the benefit of Hrithik or Shahid, unfortunately. Mithun does have some cute movies – most of them with Basu Chatterji so dont know if you’ll like them! There was Prem Vivah which is more about Bindiya Goswami trying to hook elder sis Asha Parekh with Utpal Dutt while romancing with Mithun on the side. There is Pasand Apni Apni which pretty much has the same basic plot as the Manoj-Asha Saajan except that PAA is a full on comedy. And there was a great thriller with Rakhee and Ranjeeta where Mithun played a villain who impersonates Rakhee’s dead brother-in-law and drives her insane (cant recall the name, though). Ha ha! I thought of the Amitabh thing too—there are people who think he’s a good dancer, and certainly in his limited way he can be graceful…but I wouldn’t call what he does dancing, generally. Hrithik and Shahid are obviously awesome dancers, but Mithun…not so much. Thanks for those other recommendations. I like Saajan, so maybe I’ll try PAA next :) And Rakhee being driven insane—that has a lot of comic possibilities although probably not of the intentional variety. martoufmarty How about… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvTfHM-UdYI Nahiiiiiiiiinnn!!!!!! covers eyes and weeps* Kartikey [smiles through the lines. hopes such movies are made again] hmm…don’t you think we have enough of them already? :-) Ha ha…this is such a funny review. From the first sentence to the last, I was in splits. From the “yellow locusts made of plastic” to Mithun’s bedroom decor to “Anand wearing chains in lieu of a shirt”, it is just one laugh after another. The 1980s had so many films of this type that it was easily a forgettable decade for Hindi cinema. Mithun da, Shakti Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, even Amitabh, Jeetendra and possibly Rishi Kapoor were part of this decadence. Bappi Lahiri of course ruled at that time with his loud music. Mithun’s career had different phases : – Started in the late 70s as a much-acclaimed actor from Bengali cinema, his role in Mrigaya in Hindi was very much appreciated. – Did a few more “normal” films in the late 70s. Suraksha types. Was reasonably successful. – Then his career really took off. Amitabh began going down, Mithun’s star began rising with Disco Dancer-like movies. – Had a big hit in 1984-85 with Pyar Jhukta Nahin opp Padmini K. Acted in a few more movies with her. – Also acted in many “family” movies. Typically with Jeetendra, Jayaprada types. – In the 90s, began producing his own movies. Low-budget. Using his own hotel in Ooty. Acting opposite unheard-of heroines, usually from South Indian cinema. I avoided his 1980s movies like the plague. I have seen a few of his 1990s movies (the low-budget ones) and even liked a few of them. When you start with very low expectations, you don’t feel too bad at the end of the movie. It is all just so bad. I left out a lot of hilarious things (although I glossed over much of the sheerly annoying as well). I will have to look for some 90s Mithun Da Productions I fear (ooh what a logo I might have designed for THAT had he asked me!). hahahahhahahaahha!!! This movie is like the Yeti of my movie-watching life. People keep reporting sightings but I refuse to believe it! But now you’ve got screencaps for proof so I suppose I must bow down and watch it. Sigh. No, no, my dear! I watch dreadful movies so you don’t have to! (although if you WANT to, I can’t—and wouldn’t—stop you…but you have been warned). I have a soft spot for Mithun singing “I am Krishnan Iyer MA” in Agneepath. Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki has been on my to-watch pile for quite a while, as the film Vivek’s character was obsessed with in Home Delivery. Must be a cultural touchstone of some sort, na? But after Disco Dancer, I’ve been searching for the right moment. And, thanks for watching, and gloriously screen capping these movies so we don’t have to. We all give you our blessings for that! Oh I have Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki too. Somewhere… What a way to improve my karma! :-D Anarchivist “How bad can it be?” has brought me down many strange roads… This one is DEFINITELY on my list! ajnabi That bedroom looks like a pedophile’s delight. I think I had way more fun reading your post about it than I would actually watching the movie. LOL I did try to pick out all the worst parts (best parts?—I’m so confused)…I cannot recommend it unless you are in the mood to be gleefully tortured :-) O-M-I-G-O-D….. Haven’t had a laugh like this for some time now. You rock..seriously!!! Mithun is just Mithun…He just does not care what others think.. That bedroom…those plastic locusts…the slinky vamp…and that villain..You definitely deserve an award ;) You know, I think that’s part of Mithun’s charm, that he doesn’t care what people think. I just remembered last evening that I also saw him in the abysmal Salman film “Lucky”—and he was one of the only bright spots in that. I will keep watching Mithun, there is something about him. I was going to mention, I think you’re beginning to get the hang of this So Bad It’s Good business. :) Oh, and believe it or not (okay, you will!), I bought a whole DVD called “Everybody Dance With Jimmy.” All Mithun songs, all the time! But I’ve been waiting to watch it so I don’t have to inflict it on my (hitherto) patient husband. Fortunately, it includes several songs from Wardat! I am completely unsurprised that you have an all Mithun, all disco, all the time DVD. Do not inflict it on your poor husband (perhaps though you can catalog all the ways in which Mithun/Jimmy DOES NOT DANCE). “Everybody dance with papapa..Everybody dance with mama”..O Boy..You are in for some great times …hahaha ;) Simplegal Memsaab – Your review was hilarious. But my fave part: mention of Sanjay Dutt’s puppy face. Very heartwarming! ;-) Such sleepy sad brown eyes they have :-) toonfactory Hahaha..damn funny review…I remember watching Suraksha…Waardaat I am not that sure…but its worth a watch only for plastic locusts I guess… I think I may be able to give Surakksha a miss now too :-P Vinayak Hilarious! You should next try watching his Aakhri Badla (1989) in which fights the Yakuza. If you survive you qualify to watch his ‘Ooty’ movies from the 1990s. If you still survive, you qualify for an honorary Indian citizenship…the bureaucracy will 100% overlook (even as some babu from U.P-Bihar will object ) the fact that you ever wrote, ‘if Mithun really can, in fact, dance.’ :) P.S. Don’t know if you have already seen it already but this Mithun fan can beat Mithun any day: LOL @ “the bureaucracy will 100% overlook…” I hope so :-) Even if I am right! And that video is hilarious. omsherryom Mithun a is a phenomenon…he has a huge fan following….people love or hate him in extreme….his movies may be baddd…but as a character he played he was spot-on. Why forget that he is an actor who have won 2 National Awards for his acting skills, he has given the masses a reason to dream cinema….Mithunda story from dust to the Top is inspiring to say the least… There is something about him! I can see why he has inspired such devotion despite making such abysmally bad movies :-) I got WarDat waiting, like Wanted and Boxer. But I totally loved Dance Dance, Disco Dancer and Commando… Mithun is my favourite indian actor. His movies never stop to amaze me and amuse me… even if often they’re cheap and bizarre. But that are good things in my book! Well then, enjoy!!!! :-) I won’t judge you for it, I promise! Oh, Mithun. I adore him, for absolutely no reason. I think it is the look in his eyes, as you put it so well, of “Why am I doing this?” combined with the astonishing things that he is doing. And the mullet. Laura mentioned “Agneepath” above– if you haven’t seen him in that, you’re missing out. Whooee. In fact that whole movie is craptacularly wonderful, with elderly AB striving for youth and a terrific evil gora henchman. But if you really want Mithun– and you do, don’t you?– I suggest you look up the absolutely horrendous “Jallaad.” It is Mithun in a double role– both the hero and the villain. As I recall, Shakti Kapoor provides broad and unwatchable comedy as a Mad-Max style petty criminal, named Shakti Jackson. Because he is from Texas, you see. It… it… just watch it. But drink while you do. Ha ha! My training in SBIG continues! I have been wanting to watch Agneepath, and I’m on an Amitabh roll right now, so maybe I’ll give it a whirl :-) Thanks for the…um, recommendations? Arup Kumar It wasn’t the fact that he could dance, it was more the fact he brought as much as he had to the performance along with great music. You see in India, outside music was NOT accessable. When Bappi Lahiri began copying the Disco tunes the Indian people had not ever heard the real versions, thus were taken aback and excited by it all at the same time. Hence, like other stars who got great songs to air band to, he was the dancing king. Olga from Russia Dear girls and boys! I am Olga from Russia. I’m 35. It’s true: the whole former Soviet Union just fell in love with Mithun and Disco Dancer in 1983. Since that time Mithun-mania began. In our country there is A LOT of Mithun fans nowadays and indian cinema in the whole. Russian people in general love indian cinema. We love your colorful dances, songs, we know all indian actors, from Raj Kapoor and Nargis to Shahid Kapoor and Karina Kapoor, we know your singers, from Hemant Kumar to Shreya Ghoshal, some of us know hindi, we collect pakistani and indian postcsrds with actors. Great amount of fans have really big and rare collections! In internet there are MANY our russian forums and sites, dedicated to indian actors of all decades! I am Mithun fan too and believe me: only in Russia, even not in India, there are the most devoted Mithunda fans!! http://mithun.forum24.ru/ http://indomania.borda.ru/?0-3 http://yasminochka.forum24.ru/ http://indiafm.forum24.ru/ why do u inflict torture on yourself watch the great gambler instead and freak out over indians playing italians,arabs,spanish people. Haha! Against my better judgment I have just ordered Surakksha. Gunmaster G9 may see these pages once more! Hi! I desperately am looking for the DVD / CD of this movie – you seem to have screen caps, which means the movie exists somewhere. HELP! You can find it on nehaflix.com, they ship worldwide. Shilpi Bose This is one of the most hilarious reviews that I have ever read. Hats off to you Memsaab, you really have the patience to sit through such a film. Well as you have rightly pointed out you watch dreadful movies so we don’t. Thank you very much. Well it’s dreadful but at least it doesn’t have long stretches of BORING thrown in there :D I logged on to this web page by chance and tried reading your review. Seriously,would like to know about films or actors whom you have liked or appreciate from the Hindi film industry. LOL, does that mean you tried but couldn’t get through the review? The list of actors and films who I like and appreciate is too long for me to list here, but if you really want to know you can look through more pages here. I never hold back on what I like or don’t like! :-) To vicky: psst…when you read thru you will see Memsaab has a soft crush for ShammiKapoor :) Great post !! It was fun. Hrithik or Shahid may be great dancers but they look like Hollywood extra’s. They do not look original !! Shahid Kapoor probably is 5 feet with his high heels on :-) Heroine jada ..Hero kum lagtha hai .. There is something called as a generation gap ..What looks cool today 20 -25 years from now will look very silly and stupid. I remember making fun of my uncle’s who were all great fans of Dev Anand when I was a teenager. Dev Anand with his side arm action !!! used to amuse me. I come from a remote town near Andhra Pradesh/Tamil Nadu border and I am 40 year old and an American Citizen now. I learnt Hindi watching Hindi movies. I grew up watching Mithun movies from 1982- 1989, when I was a teenager. I was/am one of his biggest fan. He was refreshingly different from other hero’s of his time. Right from his hair style to his dressing style he had great influence on lot of people like me. It is very embarrassing now but those days were like that. We did not have the luxury of satellite TV or Internet. Our exposure to modern civilization!!! was through movies. So was Bappi Da’s music. It was refreshingly different to us. We never heard synthetic sound/noise till he introduced it to us. He was a pioneer in multi-track recording. I just loved it. His songs used to sound so good on audio tapes those days. I used to enjoy listen to them on walkman (IPod Ka Baap .. In Mithun da’s Isstyle) Sharit Maybe a little late to reply, but still… AWESOME review, Memsaab!!! Just awfully funny and rib-tickling! I myself am a Mithun fan since I was a kid, and used to watch all his movies in 80-s and 90-s!! But of course, I am impartial enough to echo that this of course is not one of his good movies, even average movies! It should only be watched if you are in mood for a “SBIG” movie! I especially love the dance exhibits you produced, Mithun-da would himself be rolling on the floor if he read it! (BTW, Mithun-da, if you read it, please don’t worry… we love you! And nobody who has seen you act, doubts your capability or potential, not at least if they know that you have 3 national awards in your portfolio…. its just one of those zillion craptastic movies you did…!! And we are actually paying proper homage to it!!!) My favorite quote: “Standing motionless in a John Travolta pose ‡ dancing (neither does twitching uncontrollably, marching in place or writhing on the floor).” :)))))))) Mithun is awesome, there is no doubt about it :) i just want to tell all the film critics above that…it is a film of 1981…..when many of you people only used to drink serelac….ri88 !!!……….so now standing in 21 century dnt compare it with present senario and strand of our mumbai film industry…….because that will prove that u still drink serelac only…..because naturally technologies has much improved now in our bolywood film industry so from that point of view the filmm will look stupid only………….AND as far as dancing is concerned “he is the first dancing superdstar of bollywood” u people might be unaware of the fact……!!!!! So please stop comparing him lyk a fool with shahid kapoor’s or hritik roshan’s dancing.. .and if u hav to really compare dan compare his dancing with the dancing of the leading heroes of that time……..and i think he is much ahead of them in that case…AND lastly i want to request the critics above that please check on internet the sucess of WARDAT at that time…..its a blockbuster….and mithun is not a b grade actor ….he has acted only in the mainsteam hindi films in the 1970s and 1980s and partly in 1990s also..in his golden period that is 1980s he is just after mr. AMITABH BACHAN as a hero and also mithun is the 2nd highest paid actor after amitabh bachan at that time………so dnt dare to tell that he is a B GRADE aCTOR ………Noww personally i luved the movie very much…..and mithun’s screen preasence also,,keping in mind the situations and tecnologies used in that period in hindi films in bolywood….the concept of the film is also diffrent in taste from the films that normally used to happen at that time……. By the time Disco Dancer released, Mithun was already beginning to change his kinda’ dance. There wasn’t a dancer like him before. Whether one likes it or not after Surakksha, filmmakers would sign him on with a staple dance number in most movies. Sahas, Taqdeer ka Badshah, Patita, Unnees Bees, Wardat, Hum Se Badkar Kaun, Laparwah, Khwaab, . . . etc, all had one ore more dance numbers. And it wasn’t like one-to-the-left-and-one-to-the-right kind of dance. At the time it certainly appeared fresh, nifty and was never seen before till then. Today one may rewind and e-rewind any piece of video with the technology at his/her disposal but in those days his moves were quicksilver, you blinked-and-you-missed it. So you would have to watch his movies more than once if only to study his dance moves. Mithun, whether you love or hate his kinda’ dance, was a natural at this. Don’t know if he had any formal training in any kind of dance but he obviously tried to fuse many classical Indian dance moves to Western jig. That “stork like standing” exhibit is a case in point. There are frames before and after that shot. One simply cannot hold one frame up in isolation. He was no lesser dancer than Travolta in either Grease or Saturday Night Fever and certainly better than Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing. But the quality of those movies, their choreography, the intertwined script are far far superior to any Mithun movie. His movies, B, C or whatever grade, were made with a paltry amount of money with him as the USP. Producers banked their movies upon a dance sequence, some karate-inspired fight scenes and his presence. These movies had their own fan base and he didn’t disappoint. If a movie made money it was because the movie itself was made quite cheaply. He was sale-able to a certain extent and kept both the film makers and his fans happy. He was also called “the poor man’s Amitabh” at that point not because he imitated Amitabh but in the low budget movies he was as bankable as Amitabh was in the high budget ones. Around the time Disco Dancer came, I had read somewhere that he suffered from some abdominal problems or such. In all of Disco Dancer, only the opening steps of the Kishore Kumar song “Ae Oh Ah!” show glimpses of his dancing chops he had possessed during his prime dancing form, and that was, ironically, much before that eponymous Disco Dancer. After that his dance had lost much of its appeal with a few seconds of brilliant moves occasionally stitched into some otherwise forgetful dance item. And then came the God of Dance moonwalking to Billie Jean! Mithun tried to imitate MJ in his later movies and abandoned his own style totally. “Dance Dance” was absolutely pitiful. But it is not fair to compare him to Hrithik or Shahid Kapoor. It is hard to tell a Hrithik number from a Shahid Kapoor number whereas Mithun once had a style of his own. 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__label__wiki	0.786889	0.786889	news \| Aug 2, 2019 NAACP, ACLU Join Massive Effort to Push Congress to Legalize Weed A 100-member coalition is pressuring Congress to pass a cannabis legalization bill that specifically focuses on correcting the racially-biased damage caused by the War on Drugs. by Zach Harris \| news \| Aug 2, 2019 A group of likeminded social and political organizations has formed with the goal of pressuring the government to pass cannabis reform laws that directly address the lingering damage caused by prohibition. According to a Forbes report by Tom Angell, the 100 member coalition was spearheaded by the public policy think tank the Center for American Progress (CAP) and co-signed by the NAACP, ACLU, National Immigration Justice Network, Human Rights Watch, and more. Together, they sent a sternly-worded letter to House leadership supporting the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, a bill introduced in the House judiciary committee last month. “The MORE Act’s targeted programs will serve to empower historically underserved communities that bore this nation’s drug war," the letter reads. "It will also reduce racial disparities in the criminal justice system and protect people from unequal marijuana enforcement. Justice requires that marijuana reform policy in Congress first de-schedule and repair past harms." Authored by Democratic New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler, the MORE Act would legalize cannabis nationwide, set up a system to expunge existing marijuana charges, and create a five percent legal weed sales tax that would be directed, in part, to reinvest in communities most damaged by the War on Drugs. The sales tax revenue would go towards industry job training programs, legal aid, and small business loans. “Many of the communities served and represented by the NAACP have been among the hardest hit by our nation’s outdated and misguided marijuana laws," Hilary O. Shelton, director of the NAACP Washington Bureau, told Forbes. "From robbing us of the talent and promise of our young people, to the breaking-up of families, to reabsorbing returning citizens who cannot take full advantage of many of the federal services offered to other Americans, our communities feel the urgency of enacting this legislation. Thus, we have urged the Congress to act as quickly as possible to correct the flaws in the current law and move towards beginning to rectify decades of unnecessary harshness." Federal lawmakers have recently increased their focus on broad, overarching marijuana law reform. In addition to Nadler’s MORE Act, Democratic presidential hopeful Corey Booker has gained support for his similarly focused Marijuana Justice Act, while Senate Minority Leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies have introduced their own descheduling bill, the Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act. In their letter to Congress, the coalition described the MORE Act as the most comprehensive piece of cannabis legislation, and encouraged legislators to pass the bill as quickly as possible. As of press time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not yet responded to the letter. “Communities of color have been on the frontlines of this country’s drug war and should not have to continue waiting for a measure of justice,” Maritza Perez, senior policy analyst for Criminal Justice Reform at CAP, told Forbes. “Especially while others are generating extraordinary wealth for marijuana activity that sent Black and Latinx individuals to prison." You can read the letter sent to Congress in its entirety at Marijuana Moment. Follow Zach Harris on Twitter equitycriminal justice reformprohibitionwar on drugsracially-biased policingfederal reformsocial equitydrug reformracial equitycannabis equityfederal prohibitionaclunaacp Zach Harris is a writer based in Philadelphia whose work has appeared on Noisey, First We Feast, and Jenkem Magazine. You can find him on Twitter @10000youtubes complaining about NBA referees.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1484
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__label__cc	0.672397	0.327603	chavannichap.blogspot.com Posts Tagged ‘Vashu Bhagnani’ Kal Kisne Dekha ? And Vashu Bhagnani’s latest plan to save his son’s career! Posted: June 12, 2009 by moifightclub in bollywood, etc, gossipmongers, News, reviews Tags: filmfare, Jackky Bhagnani, Jacky Bhagnani, Kal Kisne Dekha, Kal Kissne Dekha, Kareena Kapoor, review, Vashu Bhagnani, Vivek Sharma Kal Kisne Dekha ? Going by the initial box office reports and reviews, it seems NOBODY. Not even the film’s director Vivek Sharma, because he had a fight with producer Vashu Bhagnani over non payment of fees. Vivek also claims that Vashu has re-edited the film and he hasn’t seen the new version All we can say, Vashuji, with a title like that, you are surely asking for it and more. But Vashu, the dearest daddy, tried every possible trick for his son. First the numerology. Kal Kisne Dekha is Kal KISSne Dekha and Jacky Bhagnani is JacKKy Bhagnani. According to gossipmongers, Kareena Kapoor was paid 3 crore, yes, three fucking crore to dance with beta Jackky at few stage shows in Ahmedabad for the pre-release buzz of the film. Vashu even paid 50 lakhs to Filmfare to showcase his son’s dancing skills at the award ceremony. Beta came and danced. But when the awards ceremoney was teleacsted, Sony smartly chopped out the performance of Jacky or Jackky from its tv telecast. Vashu had informed everyone in the world to watch out for his son’s performance at the Filmfare Awards. He waited and waited and waited. Now, if only money could drive anything, why would we need brains and dicks ? Finally, the film releases today. And Vashu has a new plan ready. He is calling up every journalist and reviewer, and is trying to convince them to atleast say some good things about his son Jacky. He can sing, he can jump, he can dance, he can kiss, he can fight, he can ride bikes and he can see the future!! Isn’t that enough. Acting ?? Now, whats that ? We can surely see his future!! Vashu can always put the blame of the film on the director. So, dont be surprised if some reviews actually praise Jacky Bhagnani’s multi-talented avtaar in the film. With such shitload of money, we think Vashu might be able to do more with the reviews. As for the review of the film on our blog, you must be kidding! BTW, here is Raja Sen’s review on Rediff, we could not agree more.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1501
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__label__cc	0.669809	0.330191	MOOCs in Business 1 About MOOCs 2 Initiatives 6 Certification 7 MOOCs & IPR 8 Business Models 9 MOOC & HRD 10 Regions developing 11 L2L MOOCs 12 Innovation MOOCs 13 Entrepreneurship MOOCs 14 LLL Competences Report Businesses Report HEIs Report Society Open Textbook Pilot MOOCs Workshop@EMOOCs2019 BizMOOC Project Home / Index / / Learn more / ByGiuliano Alviani The MOOC BOOK was developed under the umbrella of the EU-funded project “BizMOOC – Knowledge Alliance to enable a European-wide exploitation of the potential of MOOCs for the world of business” (Erasmus+ / Key Action 2 / Knowledge Alliance; 562286-EPP-1-2015-1-AT-EPPKA2-KA). This European-wide Knowledge Alliance was carried out between 2016 and 2018. The project tackled the European challenge of enabling businesses, labour force and universities to increase their activities and exploitation of the MOOC potential. It focusd on work force & HEI-training and the acquisition of labour market key competences through applying new methodologies for online teaching & learning. This was achieved by creating common standards & frameworks on MOOCs by integrating the experiences from Higher Education and the business world. The consortium consisted of 11 full partners and 3 associate partners out of 11 countries deriving from HEIs & Industry (large companies & SMEs), NGOs, networks, cluster. Jointly they establised a common body of knowledge on MOOCs, identified needs, gaps & reasons for businesses, labour force and HEIs to boost their MOOC activities which resulted in guidelines, recommendations & good practice published in an interactive, open access resource (the MOOC BOOK). Based on this, 3 Pilot MOOCs focusing on LLL and business key competences “Learning to learn (through MOOCs)”, “sense of initiative (entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship)” and “innovation, creativity & problem-solving” were developed to test different approaches to career-orientated learning. The findings were published in October 2018 and have been incorporated into an updated version of the MOOC BOOK. BizMOOC and the corresponding MOOC BOOK benefits a community consisting of businesses, HEIs, teachers, learners & policy-makers – the core results MOOC BOOK and the Pilot MOOCs stay available after project end. 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__label__cc	0.741325	0.258675	One letter at a time. One word at a time, One post at a time. MMJ Review List (A-Z) MMJ Trailer Analysis Specials/Lists The Strangers: Prey At Night Posted on March 10, 2018 September 23, 2018 by MovieManJackson Because you were home…again. A family of four—husband Mike (Martin Henderson), wife Cindy (Christina Hendricks), and their two children Luke (Lewis Pullman), and daughter Kinsey (Bailee Madison) are taking a road trip. But, this isn’t some road trip celebrating a life achievement or something good. Consider it a last hurrah of sorts. Mike and Cindy are sending Kinsey off to boarding school, as they feel it’s the only way they can curb her rebellious streak. On their way to the school, their trip brings about a rest stop at a trailer run by their relatives. A knock on the door brings about a mysterious young woman asking for a friend. Perplexed, the family turns her away, only to see her come back again asking for the same friend. Little does the family know, they’ve been targeted for some sadistic play of sorts by three masked assailants—all because someone was home. It has been almost 10 full years since The Strangers hit theaters in 2008. Some issues? Certainly, but that movie directed by Bryan Bertino has a way of lingering in the viewer’s mind in ways that many horror flicks do not, even years after watching. Finally after much development hell, the masked threesome returns in The Strangers: Prey at Night. The title sounds like something that came out of the 80’s, and Prey at Night does everything possible to pay homage to those genre movies of yesteryear. Bertino doesn’t return to direct, but he does return to pen the script for the “sequel,” which is more of a standalone film. Aside from the iconic “Is Tamara home?” and “Why are you doing this?” lines , there are no obvious connections to the original; most of the television marketing has done away with the Prey at Night part and went simply with The Strangers. Early on, this does come off as a direct rip of that 2008 movie in progression and set-up. As the brisk runtime continues, however, Bertino does carry a few surprises. Let’s only say things do not go as one may assume and that this batch of strangers is more forceful, which gives Prey at Night a little more unpredictability than anticipated. Still, the actual ending itself is a little cheap, and with no end credits to speak of, it just…ends. In place of directing for Bertino is Johannes Roberts, who showed his ability to bring scares in wide-release form in the average-but-fairly-atmospheric 47 Meters Down last year. He takes a blast-to-the-past approach here that works somewhat. With properties like the IT remake and Stranger Things, the 80’s are en vogue right now, and The Strangers: Prey at Night wears its 80’s beating—err, bleeding—heart on its sleeve from the get-go with the title graphics, Ramones T-shirt, synthesized score by Adrian Johnston, and notable 80’s power ballads. The score is good, while the soundtrack is hit or miss in the way it undercuts scenes that should possess more tension. As a whole, the soundtrack and 80’s nods come off as more of a needless inclusion than anything that adds to the story, as Prey at Night takes place in the modern day. Nowhere is the 80’s (and late 70’s for that matter) influence seen more than in the camerawork and lighting. Roberts uses steadicam, spatial set-pieces, and slow zooms not unlike the great John Carpenter or Tobe Hooper to generate some effective scares. It’s a good looking movie, with a pool scene serving as the pinnacle. The Strangers 2008 succeeded because of its realism, often uncommon for a horror movie, and the nihilistic slant drove home the terror that this could happen to anyone. It was shockingly believable, with everyday characters who made mostly correct choices. Whether a meta-statement on the intelligence of people in 80’s horror movies or a writing oversight, Prey at Night features characters who make mediocre-at-best decisions pertaining to their survival, even as they hold the cards at times to change the momentum. All of this is to say that this cast can do little with what is presented. At least they aren’t annoying! The Strangers: Prey at Night is standard genre fare. Expecting anything more? To quote a popular power ballad from back in the day, dream on. Photo credits go to bloody-disgusting.com, theplaylist.net, and metacritic.com. For additional detailed thoughts on films both small and large, games, and the key moments that comprise each, check out ThatMomentIn.com. Follow the Movie Man @MovieManJackson Tags: 2018, Bailee Madison, Bryan Bertino, Christina Hendricks, film reviews, Johannes Roberts, Lewis Pullman, Martin Henderson, Movie Man Jackson, movie reviews, Prey at Night, The Strangers: Prey at Night, The Strangers: Prey at Night reviewCategories: Horror, Movies/Film 2 thoughts on “The Strangers: Prey At Night” For some reason I’m not surprised yet I’m anxious to see this one. I find myself drawn to the intensity of the first film far more than I ever expected to. Sounds like this one falls a bit short. MovieManJackson says: You know Keith? I would still say watch. I don’t hate this, there is some good, I can see myself viewing again accepting that this is an 80’s slasher through and through. I don’t know what it is but I rewatched The Strangers and posted about it a week before this movie, and yeah, that one really sticks with you. I can think about it and get a little scared because of the realistic aspect lol. 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__label__wiki	0.833776	0.833776	Japan’s Foreign Aid Sanctions Policy after the End of Cold War Nikitina, Larisa and Furuoka, Fumitaka (2008): Japan’s Foreign Aid Sanctions Policy after the End of Cold War. MPRA_paper_6757.pdf During the Cold War, Japan seldom showed an interest in the political conditions in aid recipients. However, after the Cold War, Japan has been actively imposing negative aid sanctions (the suspension or a decrease in foreign aid) on recipient countries where undesirable policy changes occur, while positive aid sanctions (an increase in foreign aid) would be applied to aid recipients that conduct desirable polices in the light of Japan’s ODA Charter. Overall, from 1986 to 2002, two trends can be observed in Japan’s aid sanctions policy. First, the Japanese government refrained from taking strict measures against countries that maintain strong economic and diplomatic relations with Japan. Second, even if Tokyo did take punitive measure against those countries it softened its stance as soon as a convenient pretext could be found. All this indicates that policymakers in Tokyo still give priority to Japan’s economic interests. Japan, Aid Sanctions F - International Economics > F3 - International Finance > F35 - Foreign Aid Fumitaka Furuoka Arase, David (1993). “Japanese Policy Towards Democracy and Human Rights in Asia”. Asian Survey, 33(10), 935-952. Furuoka, Fumitaka (2005). “Human Rights Conditionality and Aid Allocation: Case Study of Japanese Foreign Aid Policy”. Perspectives on Global Development and Technology,4(2), 125-146. Furuoka, Fumitaka (2006). New Challenges for Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) Policy: Human Rights, Democracy and Aid Sanctions, (Kota Kinabalu, UMS Press). Furuoka, Fumitaka (2007a). "A Critical Assessment of Japan’s Foreign Aid Sanctions Policy: Case Studies of Latin American Countries", MPRA Paper, No.5990, University Library of Munich, Germany. Furuoka, Fumitaka (2007b). “Japan’s foreign aid sanctions policy toward African countries", MPRA Paper, No.5947, University Library of Munich, Germany. Furuoka, Fumitaka (2007c). “Japan’s Positive and Negative Aid Sanctions Policy Toward Asian Countries: Case Studies of Thailand and Indonesia", MPRA Paper, No.6218, University Library of Munich, Germany. Inada, Jun’ichi (1995). ”Jinken Minshuka to Enjo Seisaku (Human Rights, Democracy and Aid Policy)”. Kokusai Mondai, No. 422, 2-17. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) (1993). Japan’s ODA 1993. Tokyo: Association for Promotion of International Co-operation. Okuizumi, Kaoru (1995). “Implementing the ODA Charter”. New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, 27(2), 367-406. Orr, Robert M., Jr. (1993). Domestic Dimensions of Japanese Foreign Aid. Kuala Lumpur: Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia. Rix, Alan (1993). Japan’s Foreign Aid Challenge: Policy Reform and Aid Leadership. London: Routledge. https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/6757	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1512
__label__cc	0.590857	0.409143	← Vertigo miniseries tour Part 10: 2020 Visions Vertigo miniseries tour Part 12: Swamp Thing: Roots; Toxic Gumbo; Gangland; Tomahawk; Doctor 13 → Vertigo miniseries tour Part 11: Weird War Tales; Pride & Joy; Junk Culture; Uncle Sam; Menz Insana Posted on September 26, 2011 by marksullivan5 The anthology miniseries Weird War Tales is a mixed bag, as is true of most anthologies. The Morrison/Quitely story “New Toys” was the only one reprinted in the recent Vertigo Resurrected collection, and it is a standout. But it’s not the only one. The ones I especially liked on rereading: “The Survivor” by Simon Revelstroke & Richard Corben (a W.W. II story); “Tunnel Rats” by Gordon Rennie & Randy DuBurks (a truly creepy Vietnam story); David Lloyd’s “Looking Good, Feeling Great” (depicting the psychological collapse of a would-be soldier); “Sniper’s Alley” by Joel Rose & Eric Cherry (excellent Sarajevo story); and “War + Peas” by Peter Milligan & Duncan Fegredo (about a W.W. II vet – especially nice twist ending). You’ll notice that not all of these are marquee creators. There were several other stories that were striking, but didn’t completely work for me. Brian Azzarello & James Romberger turned in a story that tries too hard to be “street;” Eric Shanower did some beautiful drawings of ancient Chinese warriors; Joe R. Lansdale & Sam Glanzman contributed a gritty Civil War story; and there was striking artwork from Phil Winslade (Mongol warrior), Peter Kuper (wordless story), and Danijel Zezelj. Good enough overall that I look forward to the other anthologies that Vertigo published around this time, I believe all edited by Axel Alonso. Pride & Joy was a four issue miniseries by Garth Ennis & John Higgins that Vertigo published in 1997 (so Ennis was doing Preacher and Hitman monthly at the time). It’s an unusual entry in the Ennis catalog, a fairly realistic thriller about an ex-criminal whose past catches up with him. It is pretty violent, but not in the over the top fashion of Preacher. It must have sold reasonably well, because it did get a TPB collection (currently out of print). It’s really a story about fathers and sons, a focus that becomes clearer as the story progresses. The first issue opens with a dramatic foreshadowing splash page, then immediately shifts to a family scene with ex-criminal Jimmy Kavanagh (but we don’t know about his criminal past yet). By the end of the issue we’ve seen Jimmy’s relationship with his daughter (close) and teenaged son (difficult), as well as the illness that took his wife. Two old criminal associates show up, and the threat to Jimmy’s life and family is dramatically demonstrated by the brutal murder of a friend. As the entire group goes on the run, back stories are filled in. Jimmy’s criminal past explains why he is being hunted by the psychopath Stein. His relationship to his father has become so idealized in his mind that it seems to distance him from his own son, Patrick. But as the climax approaches we find that Jimmy and his father both harbored dark secrets. Patrick comes into his own at the end, and father and son finally come to terms. Ennis crams a lot into four issues, and the various story shifts are deftly done. My only criticism would be the quantity of dialog: it can get quite talky, something I would never normally accuse Ennis of. But I would certainly recommend this miniseries to Ennis fans, especially if you like Preacher and the war stories. Junk Culture is a two-issue miniseries by Ted McKeever, about a pair of teenage twin girls. The fact that they’re both bald is the first clue that something about them is unusual, but they go off to school like any teenagers. As they confront some bullies after school, things quickly go strange. Can’t be normal when one of the girls recovers from accidental electrocution and promptly rips a man’s arm off. Things then get even stranger, as the girls arm themselves and begin slaughtering the authorities. The final standoff features a woman in an egg costume and a kidnapped crooner named Tony Roma. Turns out the girls were an experiment in artificial intelligence and were based on battle robots (which explains the deadly accuracy with weapons). The story benefits from being so brief, I think: you get a concentrated dose of Ted McKeever craziness that way. U.S.: Uncle Sam by Steve Darnall & Alex Ross was a 1997 two part Prestige format miniseries. Darnall is credited as writer: his other main comics credit has been a series titled Empty Love Stories for Slave Labor Graphics. Ross is credited as co-plotter and illustrator. This is an unusual entry in his bibliography. It comes after his big splash on Marvels and Kingdom Come, and he had also started doing Astro City covers. So he had become well established for hyper-realistic super hero paintings. Uncle Sam is a dark voyage through U.S. history through the eyes of a homeless man in an Uncle Sam costume. As he goes through a series of incidents in the contemporary world–a hospital visit, an arrest for disrupting a political event–he finds himself going back in time to important historical events, going all the way back to the Revolutionary War. Sam is confused about what is happening, and it is unclear whether we are witnessing actual events, dreams, or hallucinations. Whatever they are, they all involve conflicts between the nation’s high ideals and actual behavior. Slavery and governmental treatment of Native Americans are two examples. In the end Sam confronts the contemporary version of himself, a smug champion of consumerism and “don’t bother me with facts” thinking. It’s amazing how current this critique seems: I could easily believe that it was written this year. The story can be rather shrill and preachy, but the visuals never fail to impress. It’s an unusual and effective use of Ross’s trademark style. Menz Insana was a whacky Prestige one-shot by Christopher Fowler & John Bolton. It’s about the realm of insanity, so of course it’s full of wild visuals and word salad dialog. Bolton uses a somewhat photo-realistic style, but chose to portray Menz (the male protagonist) in cartoon form, while Jaz (the female protagonist) is done realistically. Their story winds up having a point after all, as we finally learn what drove them insane and why they are together. The path there was so meandering that the shocking revelations didn’t have the impact they should have. This entry was posted in miniseries, Vertigo comics and tagged Alex Ross, Christopher Fowler, Garth Ennis, John Bolton, John Higgins, Steve Darnall, Ted McKeever. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Responses to Vertigo miniseries tour Part 11: Weird War Tales; Pride & Joy; Junk Culture; Uncle Sam; Menz Insana Jeff C says: I always wanted to read Menz Insana, but was never able to find it. Your review makes me want to track it down once and for all! Faisal J. says: Reblogged this on That Dark Alley: Your location for Sleepless Critics and Questing Through The Mediums.. Leave a Reply to Jeff C Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1513
__label__cc	0.672884	0.327116	The last World War Two soldier I was in a rush one day before Remembrance Day and quickly ducked into Quinton’s IGA in Warrandyte for some groceries. As I entered, I passed an elderly gentleman seated with this tray full of poppies fund-raising for the Returned Services League (RSL) of Australia. He had a baseball cap on and, like most men of a more respectable era, dress pants and an a jacket despite the warm weather. On his lapel were several badges and of course, a blood-red poppy. I back tracked, ignoring my urge to rush in and out of the shop as quick as I could, with my conscience telling me I needed to buy a poppy. As I passed over my donation to support veterans, I asked the old Digger when did he serve. He answered “World War Two, I’m the last one.” I paused for a moment, thinking about of his understated remarks, ladened with a magnitude of meaning that I could not ever really hope to comprehend. Firstly, this proud but frail man sitting in the grocery store had served in a battle so great it is titled a “World War.” How could anyone who had never served on a battlefield hope to understand what that meant? Secondly, I was caught off guard by simple but powerful words “I’m the last one.” I tried doing arithmetic about WWII, did he mean the last standing Digger in Australia or this local area or his battalion? I had to ask, but it did not matter if he was the last one in the country or the last one in the local area, anyone who says they are the “last one” of a group of friends, soldiers or a generation carries a heavy burden. He was the last WWII Digger of the Warrandyte RSL Club. The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) and the term “Diggers” became famous during the drawn out battles of WWI. The name Diggers has stuck to Aussie soldiers for over ninety years – not only known for their courage under fire, but their ability to dig in under the arduous circumstances. RSL Club’s once graced nearly every town in Australia and are familiar as the proverbial kangaroo to Australians of all ages. Once flooded with returned soldiers from both World Wars and later Korea and Vietnam, the Clubs have slowly emptied, some closing their doors, ‘consolidating’, as Diggers from the Great War, then the following wars, slowly thinned in their ranks with the passing of time. The rush of modern-day life then caught up with me, I had to move on: get the shopping done, get the kids and get moving. But that thirty-second conversation stayed with me, played on my mind…. “I’m the last one” and soon there would be none. I wondered if someone had captured his story, recorded his thoughts, this Last Digger of Warrandyte. The last of his generation. The last of his mates. Many weeks passed and I started a documentary photography course at Melbourne’s RMIT University under the direction of esteemed photographer Michael Coyne. We had to come up with subject ideas for our portfolio of photos and this Last Digger came to mind. My final project concept ended up being “Roundabout to Roundabout”, documenting life between Warrandyte’s two roundabouts, starting at the CFA Fire Station and ending at the Roundabout Cafe several kilometres away. By this stage Remembrance Day had passed and there was no sign of the Last Digger at the local IGA. I would have to do my project without the poppy seller in my portfolio of life between the roundabouts. As I spent too many hours stalking people and businesses along Warrandyte Road, I got used to the rhythm of the old township, got to know the shop keepers by day and even several by night as the project developed. And then on the last day of my portfolio shooting in Warrandyte, I saw in the distance a man in a baseball cap with a bit of a slow shuffle, making his way between the roundabouts. Despite the hot day, he was well dressed with a jacket and slacks and had his tray of RSL knickknacks in hand, still fundraising for current veterans and their families well passed Remembrance Day. In one of my next blogs I will tell the remarkable story of the Last Digger of Warrandyte. In the meantime, I encourage anyone who knows a WWII soldier to ask them about their service… before it is too late. Posted in Australia, History, WWII \| Leave a reply Australian Indigenous Response to World War One Book Review: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Volunteers for the AIF: The Indigenous Response to World War One (Second Edition 2012) Author: Philippa Scarlett Private Harry Avery with an unidentified Aboriginal soldier (previously thought to be Douglas Grant) and an unknown British soldier, c 1918, courtesy of Rebecca Lamb. I first came across Philippa Scarlett’s name as part of my research into World War One Australian Aboriginal soldier Douglas Grant. Philippa was a guest on an ABC Radio program with two other researchers, Garth O’Connell and David Huggonson. Garth and David had led the way some years earlier by documenting the neglected area of Australia’s Indigenous war service record. The radio program had the well known portrait of a WWI Aboriginal soldier, standing next to Private Harry Avery and an unknown British soldier, as a prominent image on it’s website for the interview. This photo, said to be of Aboriginal WWI soldier Douglas Grant, is a key element of my own research – as I do not believe it is Douglas Grant, but another unidentified Indigenous serviceman. About a year later, David Huggonson put me into contact with Philippa, who he said had just completed the most recent published book on the subject, had reviewed many photographs and was applying a solid analytical approach to her research. After several discussions and emails, Philippa agreed to take a more detailed look at the photo in question and became the first independent researcher in the area to agree with my hypothesis: the Aboriginal soldier standing next to Private Harry Avery in the WWI portrait is not Douglas Grant, 13th Battalion, Atherton Queensland. Unfortunately, this particular tale is yet to be resolved, the Aboriginal companion of Private Avery is still yet to be identified. While Philippa documents this question about the mis-identification of Douglas Grant (page 50 and page 155), this instance is only one in a multitude of issues, only one face and one name amoung hundreds of WWI Indigenous Diggers who served this nation. The Douglas Grant example is symbolic of the complexities involved in historical research in this area and demonstrates the importance of referenced rolls like that in “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Volunteers for the AIF”. Just ahead of the Centenary of ANZAC and WWI, Philippa’s work ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Volunteers of the AIF’ provides a wonderful resource for future generations of Australians. Adding newly discovered soliders to the honour roll, and refining the works of earlier historians, the book represents the most current and comprehensive referenced list of over 800 men of Indigenous heritage who volunteered for service in WWI. The accompanying notes include comments on locating Indigenous men in service records, reasons for volunteering and the growth of interest in Indigenous service since the 1930s. The discussion of Indigenous involvement in World War One uses the words of Aboriginal soldiers and community members, contemporary non-Indigenous commentators and newspaper reports. There are 84 illustrations, 79 of which are individual and group portraits of Indigenous servicemen. HOW TO OBTAIN COPIES Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander volunteers for the AIF: the Indigenous response to World War One is published by Indigenous Histories, price $30 plus $10 postage, $20 international postage (Australian Dollars). Indigenous Histories PO 686 Jamison Centre Macquarie ACT Australia 2614 Email: indigenous.histories@netspeed.com.au; Twitter: @ww1scarett National Library of Australia Trove: http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37036090 Other works by Philippa include How Soon They Forget Posted in Book Reviews \| Tagged Aboriginal, ANZAC, Diggers, Douglas Grant, Harry Avery, Indigenous, Islander, Philippa Scarlett, Torres Strait, WW1, WWI \| 9 Replies Welcome to museumandhistory.com, we hope you enjoy this site, curated by Andrew McIntosh CPA, Director of Optimize Business, Australia. 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__label__cc	0.725351	0.274649	The Best of Million Dollar Journey – 2014 Year in Review By FT \| December 22, 2014 \| 9 It’s been a while since I’ve written an update about my personal finances so lets dive into an annual update. What a year 2014 has been – we’ve achieved a major milestone, sold a significant private business asset, all while facing decreased household income and limping through a significant oil correction. I started this blog… Net Worth Update December 2014 – Karl the Real Estate Agent By Guest Blogger \| December 15, 2014 \| 35 Welcome to the Million Dollar Journey December 2014 Net Worth Update – Team MDJ edition. A select group of readers were selected to be part of Team MDJ which was conceived after the million dollar net worth milestone was achieved in June 2014. Karl the Real Estate Agent was selected as a team member and will…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1519
__label__wiki	0.500172	0.500172	A show about the backstories of people who changed the world. Each episode is a mini historical biography filled with life lessons and actionable insights. New episodes drop every Monday and Wednesday. SEASON 06 / EPISODE 04 This is the story… of a man with a brilliant mind who helped change the course of the world. Apple Podcasts / Google Podcasts / Spotify This is the story… of a man with a brilliant mind who helped change the course of the world. But he wasn’t driven by fame, status or wealth. The source of his ambition was a tattered five-cent postcard. Season 6 of The Story features 8 stories of trailblazers who underwent radical personal transformations to better serve themselves, their loved ones, and civilization. Subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Love this? Share it with your friends! Thank you again to our presenting sponsor Salesforce. Learn more about how they are creating a workplace where everyone can be their full, authentic selves by empowering employee resource groups to lead the way as Equality trailblazers. To get access to our world class email newsletter, and our monthly contests where we giveaway prizes valued at $5,000, subscribe now. – Our daily newsletter designed to increase your wealth, health, and wisdom. – Access to exclusive giveaways from The Mission full of awesome swag and prizes. Copyright © 2018 The Mission	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1521
__label__wiki	0.981273	0.981273	Native People of California Gallery The indigenous peoples of the area we now call California lived in this area for thousands of years. Their world and their way and life were threatened when the Spanish, English, and Russians explored the coastal areas of California. In 1769 the Spanish began a conquest and settlement of California. Their plan was to create communities of Indians who “converted” to the Catholic Faith, places called “missions.” This gallery presents a sample of Illustrations of the native people of California and their way of life. The first illustrations were done by expedition artists like Louis Choris and Jose Cardero. Most of the images we have of the native people of California, however, were drawn in the 19th century, After the United States victory in the Mexican American War, an extensive effort began to document the vast new territory our country acquired in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Feb. 2, 1848). Their stories and drawings were published in government reports and, particularly, the Illustrated Magazine of the era. The 36 illustrations shown in this gallery are grouped into four categories, with a primary emphasis on the daily lives and practices of the natives and portraits and other renditions of individuals. Please note that other galleries on this website contain mission-era events and personalities. California natives catching salmon By John Russell Bartlett, 1854. Indians (probably Pomo) surf fishing, 1861 Gathering acorns by Charles Nahl, 1858. Natives who joined a mission community continued to seek acorns whenever they could. A family preparing acorns By Seth Eastman, 1865. Native hunter in antelope disguise By C.A. Walker, 1870. Catching grasshoppers 1860 Anthony and Baker Spearing salmon By Charles Nahl, 1860. Hutchings’ California Magazine Preparing acorn meal By Alexander Harmer. This drawing shows two women cooking in front of their home. At Mission San Diego, the converted Indians continued to live in their villages Patwin Earth Lodges in the Sacramento Valley By Stephen Powers 1877. Tribes of California Indian village on the Feather River in Northern California By E.E. Chever, May 1870 Klamath River Lodge and Sweat house After a sketch by A.W. Chase. Acorn Granaries (Miwok) By Stephen Powers. Three Natives on the Russian River 1854 London Daily News Sweat and cold plunge (Miwok) Artist unknown. Miwok native making chemuck By J.D. Smiley. Yokut tule lodges From Stephen Powers, 1877. Indians in a tule boat crossing San Francisco Bay By Louis Choris. A panoramic view of a Chumash Indian village By Russell A. Ruiz. Ruiz was a very talented contemporary artist who painted well-researched scenes of life in the mission era. Indian village along the coast A display at the Ventura County Museum, 2015, photographed by David J. McLaughlin. Teaching Children A mural on display at the Museum of San Luis Obispo. Ceremonial Headdress of Indians By Louis Choris, 1816. Dancers in the Plaza of Mission Dolores Based on a watercolor by Louis Choris, 1816. Dancers at Mission San Jose, 1806 An engraving after a painting by Georg Heinrich von Landsdorff. A modern interpretation of the Indian Dance at San Jose By C.H.S. Indians playing a stick game at Mission San Francisco de Asís California Indians Gambling After a watercolor by W.H. Myers. Bechtel Collection at the Bancroft Library A Chumash Tomol By a team of artist led by Robert Thomas. Indian foot race By B.J. 1885. Harper’s Monthly A Costanoan Woman (Essalen or Rumsen) in Monterey By J. Cardero, circa 1791. The original print is at the Museo Naval in Madrid. Central California Natives A group of California Indians 1856 The individual with a cap and sword in front of him is a Chief. Ballou’s Pictorial Cahuilla Natives Thought to be by F.W. Egloffstein, 1856. A Yurok woman of Northwestern California By Stephen Powers, 1877. Coast Miwok family By the Russian Expedition artist Mikhail Tikanov. Diegueno Indians traveling By Arthur Schott, 1863. (Diegueno was the Spanish term used for neophytes from Mission San Diego). The native term most frequently used for San Diego Native Californians is Kumeyaay.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1522
__label__cc	0.58057	0.41943	Shortlist ({{ wishlist.item_count }}) Email Shortlist 5 & 6 Letter names Classic & Traditional names Clever & Corporate names Cutting-edge & Digital names Dynamic & Positive names Quirky & Creative names Stylish & Elegant names Technical & Logical names Catchy business names Premium domain names list Media & Social Media Software & Tech Browse all domain names About Novanym What makes a great brand name? Buying a name from Novanym How do I find a name with Novanym? About domain transfers About the logos What type of names will I find on Novanym? About trademarks and registered names What's so great about a .com domain? Guide to brandable domains Guide to domains Trademarking your business name - 11 key facts Everything you need to know about renewing your domain name Everything you need to know about expired domain names Why .com is the best domain extension for SEO How to master promoting your website online Guide to branding for start-ups Silversmyths.com A prestigious and timeless brand name with real character Taken literally, Silversmyths is a simple re-spelling of 'silversmiths'; craftspeople who make or sell silver objects. But it can also be seen as a metaphor for prestige, high quality, and skilled workmanship more broadly. And the fact that it gets its distinctiveness by using the alternative, historical 'Smyth' spelling only adds to the sense of heritage, and gives the name a very special, timeless quality and twist of personality. Choose your logo design Logo option 1 Logo option 2 Logo option 3 No logo required Logo option 1 Logo option 2 Logo option 3 No logo required Buy this name The Silversmyths.com domain name Complete ownership of the Silversmyths.com domain name. This means you can use the domain as your website address, and for email addresses (for example: hello@Silversmyths.com). Instructions for transferring the domain will be provided. One of the three logo designs shown Your chosen logo will be supplied in a Logo Pack which includes digital files in a range of formats and sizes. Logo design copyright We will supply a logo copyright certificate, which transfers ownership of the copyright from Novanym to you. Domain transfer support Transferring a domain can seem confusing, but don’t worry – we’re available to help you through the transfer process. After your purchase, Novanym unlocks the domain and prepares it for transfer We email you domain transfer instructions and your unique Authorisation Code We email you a secure download link for your Logo Pack The name and logos are removed from the Novanym website and Google search results About the domain transfer Novanym owns all the domains on our website, and we don't sell on behalf of third parties. So, as soon as you buy a domain name from us, it belongs to you. But there’s a short process involved in moving it from our domain name registrar to yours. This process is called a ‘domain transfer’. If you don’t already have one, you will need an account with a Domain Name Registrar, like Godaddy, Namecheap, Network Solutions, FastDomain, etc. You can then request to ‘Transfer-in’ your new domain to your account. 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Novanym owns all of the domains shown on our website - we’re not a marketplace selling on behalf of third parties. We’re branding led: our names are first and foremost great business names - but they're made even better because they come with a perfect .com domain. Our collection of names is carefully curated, with a consistently high quality. We offer a choice of logo designs. It’s a discreet service: your purchase is confidential. All names are removed from our website after purchase, and the link to Novanym will soon disappear from Google search results. We will never publicise any sale. What's so great about the .com domain? The .com domain is the only domain that really matters. A .com is the world’s default domain, but it’s not just easy to remember; it’s also a valuable business asset as it adds credibility and brand power. (Across the world there are thousands of businesses called Amazon, but there’s only one Amazon.com.) 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Trademark, registered name, copyright, brand - what's the difference? A trademark is a recognisable design or word which identifies a product or service of a particular business. So registering your business name as a trademark gives you exclusive rights to the use of your name, and can prevent anyone else from using it. Trademarks can only be registered by the business owner and cover specific countries and specific products or services - nobody can register a trademark in advance, so the names on Novanym’s website are not registered as trademarks. Registered company name Every business has a legal obligation to formally register their business name with a national or state authority. This registration allows you to trade legally, issue invoices ...and pay taxes. A registered name is often different from a ‘trading’ name or brand name. For example, in the UK, there are over 250 companies registered with variants of the name 'Amazon’. The online retail giant itself is registered as 'Amazon.com U.K. Limited', not 'Amazon Limited'. Similarly, McDonalds Restaurants Limited is the full registered name for McDonalds; but McDonalds is their brand name, and McDonalds.com is their domain name. When you have chosen your name, you will have to register it with the relevant authority. Copyright is a legal right that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine whether, and under what conditions, this original work may be used by others. It is a form of intellectual property (IP) that is granted without the need for formal registration. Copyright protects the original expression of ideas - like logo designs - not names. All of the logos on the Novanym website are protected by copyright. When you buy a logo from Novanym, we transfer the copyright to you. A brand name is simply the name by which your business is known. 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__label__wiki	0.891749	0.891749	Streets Of Rage 3 Game Ios Free Download May 20, 2016 \| iOS \| 0 \| Streets Of Rage 3 Game Ios Free Download By Null48.com Free Download Android & Ios Software And Games You Can Download Files Direct Link Download For Free. Streets of Rage 3, known in Japan as Bare Knuckle III (ベア・ナックルIII?), is a side-scrolling beat ’em up developed and published by Sega in 1994 for the Mega Drive/Genesis. It is the last part of the Streets of Rage series. It was later released for the Japanese version of Sonic Gems Collection for the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2, and for the Wii Virtual Console on September 24, 2007. The game also appeared in Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. the end of each stage to destroy its powerful tycoons, Streets of Rage games with three-dimensional graphics environment is designed, this game is suitable for all system iOS 4.3 is up, hope you enjoy downloading this game. Another Great Game Ios : Dirt Bike Racing Game Ios Free Download. The game features Streets Of Rage 3: – A stages – Can be used on all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch – Suitable for all systems iOS 4.3 and above Streets of Rage 3, known in Japan as Bare Knuckle III, is a side-scrolling beat ’em up developed and published by Sega in 1994 for the Mega Drive/Genesis. It is the last part of the Streets of Rage series. Wikipedia Initial release date: March 17, 1994 Series: Streets of Rage Designer: Noriyoshi Ohba Developers: Sega, Overworks, Sega Wow Platforms: Sega Genesis, Wii, Microsoft Windows, Game Gear, iOS, GameCube Play iPhone iPad and iPod Streets Of Rage 3 Rage 3 with a direct link to the download site American. Streets Of Rage 3 Game Ios Free Download click on the below for link wait just 5 second and click skip ads The Apps Or The Software it’s full and complete Version just download and start Work , We have provided direct link full setup of the game & Software. Game v2.0 For iOS Null48 ONE LINK PASS: CLICK HERE BY Null48 PreviousDirt Bike Racing Game Ios Free Download NextGun Zombie 2 Game Ios Free Download Zombocalypse Game Ios Free Download Total Recall Game Ios Free Download Hitman GO Ipa Game iOS Free Download Candy Crush Saga Game Ios Free Download PPSSPP Ipa App iOS Free Download Gran Turismo 5 Game Free Download Zombie Infection HD Ipa Game iOS Free Download	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1531
__label__cc	0.589626	0.410374	1869 $5 Liberty Half Eagle NGC Coin Denom: 04530 $5.00 Half Eagles Coin Composition: Gold Coin Graded By: NGC Christian Gobrecht's Coronet design is called the Liberty Head type. The obverse depicts a female head facing left, her hair tied in a bun secured by a string of beads, wearing a coronet inscribed LIBERTY, stars surrounding, with the date below. The reverse shows an eagle with a shield on its breast, perched on an olive branch and holding three arrows. The inscription UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FIVE D. surrounds. In 1866, the Liberty Half Eagle was modified by adding the motto IN GOD WE TRUST on a ribbon above the eagle on the reverse. Mintage of the with-motto style was continuous at the Philadelphia Mint, with additional coins being made at San Francisco, Carson City, New Orleans and in 1906 and 1907, at the new Denver Mint. Combined with the earlier no motto style, the Liberty Half eagle is the only coin to be struck at all seven of the traditional U.S. mints. $5.00 Liberty Head (1839-1908) Designer: Christian Gobrecht Composition: 90% Gold, 10% Copper Diameter: 21.6mm millimeters Mints: Philadelphia, Carson City, Denver, New Orleans, San Francisco Two different design variations Type 1, No Motto (1839-1866) Type 2, Motto Above Eagle (1866-1908)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1533
__label__cc	0.58259	0.41741	The National Motor Museum Trust Limited is a charitable organisation founded in 1972, which runs the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. Continuing the work of the flagship Montagu Motor Museum, the Trust has a world famous collection of vehicles and associated motoring items, which are on display in the National Motor Museum. The nearby Collections Centre houses and cares for a vast array of images, books and items all related to motoring. Read the NMM Trustees Annual Report The National Motor Museum Trust’s Vision: Engaging and inspiring people with the story of motoring through world class collections. Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (President) Christopher Macgowan OBE – Acting Chairman Caroline Marcus The Hon Mary Montagu-Scott Lord Strathcarron Helen Evenden Pierre Bonnet The National Motor Museum Trust staff work alongside a team of volunteers, who help with a wide variety of collections-based tasks. National Motor Museum Trust staff list	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1547
__label__cc	0.660933	0.339067	newsroom for the latest airline market intelligence Submit press © 2020 AVIATOR Liebherr-Aerospace to Overhaul Landing Gear Systems for Fuji Dream Airlines 24 September 2019 . 2 min read September2019 – Liebherr-Aerospace has signed a long-term service agreement in Japan: The Original Equipment Manufacturer will cover the overhaul of the landing gear systems of the 10 Embraer E170 family aircraft from Fuji Dream Airlines (FDA). Fuji Dream Airlines, with its main bases in Shizuoka and Nagoya, is an independent regional Japanese carrier who started their operations in July 2009. Today they are offering daily flights to 17 domestic destinations in Japan. In order to safeguard continuous operation of their Embraer E170 fleet, Fuji Dream and Liebherr-Aerospace have recently reached an agreement covering the overhaul of the main and nose landing gear systems of the airline’s Embraer E-Jet E170 family fleet. This new contract highlights the continuous momentum of progress in extending Liebherr-Aerospace’s support services in Asia-Pacific. “In order to define the most appropriate landing gear overhaul program, optimized to the unique requirements of Fuji Dream Airlines, a customized solution was successfully agreed following close collaboration between the teams. We are very grateful, honored and looking forward to further strengthening our partnership with Fuji Dream Airlines”, commented Ekkehard Pracht, General Manager Aerospace of Liebherr-Singapore. Takehiko Handa, General Manager Maintenance of Fuji Dream, emphasized: “We at Fuji Dream Airlines have been operating Liebherr’s E170 landing gears for a long time and are fully satisfied with the excellent quality of Liebherr’s products as well as their overhaul services.” The complete landing gear system for the E-Jet family (E170/175, E190/195) was developed and manufactured by Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH (Germany), Liebherr-Aerospace’s center of competence for flight control and landing gear systems. A leading supplier of systems for the aviation industry Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation SAS, Toulouse (France), is one of eleven divisional control companies within the Liebherr Group and coordinates all activities in the aerospace and transportation systems sectors. Liebherr-Aerospace is a leading supplier of systems for the aviation industry and has more than five decades of experience in this field. The range of aviation equipment produced by Liebherr for the civil and military sectors includes flight control and actuation systems, gears and gearboxes, landing gear and air management systems as well as electronics. These systems are deployed in wide-bodied aircraft, single aisle and regional aircraft, business jets, combat aircraft, military transporters, military training aircraft, civil helicopters and combat helicopters. Liebherr’s aerospace and transportation systems division employs around 5,800 people. It has four aviation equipment production plants at Lindenberg (Germany), Toulouse (France), Guaratinguetá (Brazil) and Nizhny Novgorod (Russia). These production sites offer a worldwide service with additional customer service centers in Saline (Michigan/USA), Seattle (Washington/USA), Montreal (Canada), Hamburg (Germany), Moscow (Russia), Dubai (UAE), Bangalore (India), Singapore and Shanghai (People’s Republic of China). Maintenance + SafetyAsia PacificEurope TJLX's Picture TJLX TJLX - 23 September 2019 Adria Airways temporarily, on Tuesday and Wednesday, ceases flight operations DHL-Ethiopian Airlines joint venture eyes further growth in Ethiopia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1555
__label__cc	0.687045	0.312955	Installation & ControlCenter 3ds Max job submission Maya job submission Cinema 4D job submission Maxwell & Indigo job submission Blender job submission Job cost estimation How to render with SketchUp How to render with Rhino Contractual Information Art Wanted! Featuring Oxygen Friday, December 14th, 2018 by Julian Karsunky Take a deep breath as we once again dive deep into the realm of architectural visualization! Our latest ArtWanted! feature explores the ethereal works of Oxygen, a boutique studio based in Braga, Portugal. Founded and managed by long-time friends and associates Leandro Silva and Pedro Silva, Oxygen provides visual support for architects, designers, real estate developers and marketing agencies around the world. Check out our interview with Leandro to learn more about the company’s history, the everlasting influence of LEGO bricks and the newest in bioclimatic window-technology! Hi Leandro, thank you so much for taking the time! To start things off, please introduce yourself to our readers. Hi everyone! My name is Leandro Silva, I’m 32 years old and I live and work in Braga, Portugal. Together with my partner Pedro Silva, I’m the co-founder of Oxygen, a creative studio that specializes in architectural visualization. Do you recall when and how you first consciously encountered CGI? Yes, I still remember. My first contact with the 3D world happened in 2005, while working towards my master’s degree in architecture at EAUM. During a class on Computer Aided Design, we students had the opportunity to experience some modeling, texturing and rendering tasks by digitally reproducing an architectural building in Maya. The results were peculiar, to say the least! When did you decide to pursuit a professional career as a 3D artist? Well, I probably made that choice unconsciously as a child. Back then, I played a lot with LEGO and was fascinated by the possibility of creating almost anything from scratch. As I grew up, I developed a keen interest in architecture, arts, photography and later in CGI, mainly influenced by the images of Alex Roman, Bertrand Benoit, DBOX and MIR. Becoming a 3D artist was something that happened organically along these years and, besides all the daily difficulties we have to deal with, I couldn’t be happier with how things turned out: When you do what you’re passionate about for a living, it never feels like a regular job. What training or education do you have? In those days, there were no designated training centers or even courses available in Portugal. If I recall correctly, the only accessible information was through a few blogs and some magazines, which were hard to come by at the time. So most of my current knowledge was self-taught and acquired through years of experience while working on personal projects and smaller projects commissioned by friends. Axis Viana Hotel represents one of the most significant works of LS.ROOM and an integral step towards Oxygen’s founding. Architecture developed by VHM, photographic reference by Nelson Garrido. Can you tell us more about Oxygen, the company’s history, its field of work and general philosophy? We established Oxygen in July 2015, when Portugal’s economy was struggling following a financial crisis. Pedro and I knew each other since university, so the launch of Oxygen was something that we both knew would happen eventually, especially considering we had already been working together under the umbrella of LS.ROOM for three years at that point. After this period, our imagery started getting more exposure and positive feedback, particularly after the publication of the ‘Axis Viana Hotel’ project in 2014. In 2015, we decided to rebrand LS.ROOM and find a new name and concept. ‘Oxygen’, which curiously came up in a conversation with my brother, seemed a suitable brand name: not only because it sounded really strong, but more so because of its meaning and the concept behind it. The name obviously stands for something that has existed in our world since the very beginning, the vital breath inherent in all of us, but it also refers to the production of something that could take your breath away. How many employers does Oxygen have currently? While most of our clients think we employ a bigger team, we are in fact a small boutique studio, composed of two lead artists (Pedro and myself) and three freelancers. We mostly produce images and animations for the real estate market. Occasionally, we are commissioned by architecture studios to collaborate in various competitions as well. As of late, we began including interior design proposals in a couple of projects. We also are trying our hand at different work strands by, for example, helping clients in the development and marketing of new products. Still in development, the ‘5th Avenue Tower’ is one of Oxygen’s most sophisticated designs and has been featured on the cover of 3D Artist magazine (issue 123, October 2018). Is there a specific design philosophy or architectural school of thought Oxygen adheres to? What inspires you and your team as 3D artists? Generally speaking, we’re inspired by the photorealistic side of the architectural visualization field, as in great exterior shots or even fine details in the interiors. We always try to both explore and express our unique identity as studio in each project, striving for a bigger, more sophisticated and more mature visual production. What does your usual workflow look like when working with a client? After receiving all the elements required to begin the project, we usually start by creating some clay renders, so the clients can evaluate the camera angles, lighting and composition stages. Then, we add the textures and start polishing edges based on the client’s feedback, usually along two rounds of comments before the final images. What is your main goal when doing architectural visualization scenes? What is your personal standard as a studio? Starting out, it’s next to impossible to produce outstanding visuals without going through a continuous learning process. There’s the technical side, where you explore different tools to find what works best for you, but more importantly, there’s the mindset. You not only have to train your brain and your eye to firmly internalize basic concepts about lighting, photography or composition, but then also develop a routine to the point that you’re able to artistically implement these concepts in your daily work. In my opinion, what really matters is our commitment and persistence as studio to build a good portfolio and make the best use of new opportunities as they arise. To showcase the versatile design of the bioclimatic ‘Lumicene’ window, Oxygen was tasked to create this cozy mountain lodge. Let’s talk about your work in more detail, namely your latest submission to our ArtWanted! campaign, the ‘Lumicene’ mountain lodge. Please tell us all about the project and the story behind it! Lumicene is a new window concept based in Lyon (France) that redefines the relationship between the inside and the outside, optimizing the use of space and sunlight. Made of curved glazed panels, it’s by default a convertible extension of the interior space, which can be turned into a balcony with a 180º panoramic view towards the exterior. It’s the first bioclimatic window on the market that brings light and comfort, allowing the creation of a new, “low-energy" habitat. The ‘Lumicene’ projects started in February 2017 when we were first introduced to Clément Salvaire, managing director of Lumicene. Since then, we have established and maintained a strong personal connection and fruitful work relationship, sharing ideas, concepts and different approaches during our numerous collaborations. For this particular project, the main concept was to integrate the Lumicene in a traditional mountain environment: “The snow continues to fall and a ski lodge can be the perfect hideaway to warm up and unwind after a strenuous day on the mountain. It’s time to close the Lumicene and snuggle up inside next to a roaring fire.” What software did you use to create this scene? The software used in this project was 3ds Max, Corona Renderer and Photoshop. What were some of the challenges you had to overcome? The ‘big’ challenge for this project was to build a classical ski lodge building based only on a few references that would be perfectly representative of this type of architectural archetype: wooden beams, inclined slopes, first floor in stone and so on. However, this rather challenging aspect was probably simplified significantly by the fact that we are both architects and thus can easily translate this demanding brief into drawings and 3D models. Once we had defined the building, the process became a lot more fluid. Overall, it took us around four to five weeks to complete this particular project. There is still more to come in terms of visuals for the breathtaking ‘5th Avenue Tower’. Please tell us about your overall experience with RebusFarm thus far. Is there anything you especially like about our service? Our overall experience has been overwhelmingly positive and we truly recommend it to everyone that is looking for a user-friendly, stable and reliable rendering platform. We found RebusFarm in 2015, and since then it has become an integral part of our studio workflow due to the excellent balance between price, rendering times and quality standards. In closing, is there anything else you want to say? Any present or upcoming projects you’d like to mention? While I can’t give away too much for now, we expect to publish new visual content of our skyscraper project ‘5th Avenue Tower’ in the upcoming months. Furthermore, we aim to make the other services and valences of our company more visible during the next year. That sounds intriguing! Once again, thank you so much for the interview and all the best in the future. Keep up with Oxygen here: How to join ArtWanted! You want to get featured in our ArtWanted! campaign and win 50 RenderPoints on top? Submit your work, rendered at RebusFarm, to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ! 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__label__cc	0.618553	0.381447	Ilocos Sur - Ilocos Norte Road Trip 2017 After 7 long years, my wife and I finally got a chance to revisit Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte last December 2017. What makes this trip special for me is that for this road trip, we already have a daughter along with us. Aside from that, this road trip is also my first with my wife's family. It was safe to say that it was a special yearender trip for me. Here's how our Ilocos Sur-Ilocos Norte Road Trip 2017 turned out: December 25 (Day 1) Our adventure started in the house of my brother-in-law in Cavite. Our two car convoy left at around 7AM. The trip was quite fast thanks to the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway or TPLEX. By 12 NN we were already having lunch at Casantaan Bulaluhan at Kambingan in the town of Sto. Tomas in La Union. After lunch we drove straight to Ilocos Sur and reached the Ilocos Sur Arch a few hours later. As expected, we had our compulsory group photo with it as our back drop. We also had some other compulsory group photos at the following places: We reache… Location: Ilocos Region, Philippines Ilocos Sur: Heritage Resort of Caoayan Located at Anonang Mayor corner Don Lorenzo Quirubin in the town of Caoayan, Ilocos Sur, Heritage Resort of Caoayan is a five hectare family resort which is perfectly located a few kilometers away from the historical city of Vigan. Heritage Resort of Caoayan offers visitors budget friendly accommodations and its geographical closeness to Vigan CIty. Aside from that, visitors with time to spare can also take a dip in its pools or just relax in its farm-like atmosphere. What I like about the resort are its large rooms. Apart from being wallet-friendly, it could also fit a family of 10 (given that four of them are children). Speaking of large space, the resort also has a large parking space suited for those family road trip convoys. In connection to that it is also good to know that the resort also has a large pavilion that can be used for weddings, debuts, or birthdays. However, there are also several things visitors might not like about the resort (which hopefully the management could i… Location: Caoayan, Ilocos Sur, Philippines Quezon: Luminous Cross of Grace Sanctuary Located in the town of Agdangan in Quezon province, the Luminous Cross of Grace Sanctuary is a Catholic tower and sanctuary built beside the town's parish church. Standing 120 feet tall, the Luminous Cross of Grace Sanctuary is the brainchild of Fr. Raul "Puti" Enriquez. The inspiration to build a sanctuary in Agdangan came to him sometime in 2003 during the time when jueteng (a local type of gambling)and excessive drinking plagued the small coastal town. Collective visions and dreams of several people about the sanctuary brought together important people who played a big role in the movement to build the sanctuary in 2004. Construction took a few years and was finished in 2007. According to our guide Ms. Yam Maglaqui, the sanctuary was built through the bayanihan spirit or collective effort of the locals who brought their own tools and helped with the construction of the sanctuary. The best part of it was those who were most active in the constructions were those who we… Location: Agdangan, Quezon, Philippines Zambales: Anawangin Cove Roadtrip: Ifugao - Mt. Province - Benguet Ilocos Sur: Vigan Empanadahan Batangas: National Shrine of St. Padre Pio	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1560
__label__cc	0.650838	0.349162	Local government: Results of the 2002/03 audits 1.1 Review of the 2002-03 Year Part 1: Issues from the 2002-03 Audits Part 2: Other Issues Arising During 2002-03 Part 3: Areas of Focus for 2003-04 Appendix 1: Details of Non-standard Audit Reports Issued 1.1 Review of the 2002-03 Year Local government: results of the 2002-03 audits. https://oag.govt.nz/2004/lg-2002-03/part1-01.htm https://oag.govt.nz/@@site-logo/logo.png Local government: results of the 2002-03 audits. Local authority annual reporting and audit engagements for 2002-03 were conducted against a background of significant change and some uncertainty: the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 came fully into effect for the 2003-04 rating year; a number of the provisions of the Local Government Act 2002 came into effect during this period and, in particular, nine local authorities elected to prepare a long-term council community plan (LTCCP) for 2003-13; and the likely significant future effect of the transition to standards based on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) began to emerge. Against this backdrop, the overall timeliness of local authority reporting did not show any overall improvement from the previous year (see pages 16-17). Other matters to affect the 2002-03 audit round were: new financial reporting standards dealing with subsidiaries and associates; continuing issues related to the requirements of Financial Reporting Standard No. 3: Accounting for Property, Plant and Equipment (FRS-3) that local authorities value and include heritage collections in their financial statements; and ongoing issues relating to valuation of property, plant and equipment, and the inclusion of land under roads as a requirement of FRS-3 (see page 22). PDF (691KB, 114 pages) Annual audit highlights	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1561
__label__wiki	0.919291	0.919291	Syrian jihadis in Trump-greenlit invasion just murdered a Kurdish women’s rights leader Foreign Policy, Politics Vinnie Longobardo Vinnie Longobardo is a 35-year veteran of the TV, mobile… White House insider: Trump would hand the phone to Ivanka during calls with foreign leaders The catastrophic consequences of Donald Trump’s sickening betrayal of America’s Kurdish allies in Syria are becoming clearer by the minute as Turkish forces invade the Kurdish-controlled areas in northern Syria. The danger to the long-time fighting partners of American forces in the Middle East is coming from more than just the invading Turks, however, as reports of atrocities by Turkish-backed Arab militias in the area raise fears of an ethnic cleansing campaign and a resurgence of ISIS and Al-Qaeda in a region where they had largely been contained by Kurdish forces. The most disturbing report today came from the news that a senior female Kurdish political leader —Hevrin Khalaf, the Secretary-General of the Kurdish Future Syria Party — was dragged from her car and executed by “Turkish backed mercenary factions” while traveling in a highway convoy on the road to the city of Qamishlo. Add your name to tell Congress to investigate Pence for his role in Trump’s Ukraine corruption. The VP is complicit! Her political party announced the news of her murder with the following statement: “With utmost grievance and sadness, the Syria Future Party mourns the martyrdom of engineer Hevrin Khalaf, the General Secretary of Syria Future Party, while she was performing her patriotic and political duties,” the Future Party said. The details of the killing filtered out slowly, with the Kurd news site Kurdistan 24 providing updates as new information trickled in. “A group of Turkish mercenaries tried to control the M4 road and killed many people, and Hevrin was one of them,” one senior official told the news site. “Nobahar Mustafa, the deputy of the co-head of the Future Party in Ain Issa, said the Kurdish politician was traveling from the Jazeera canton to Ain Issa and then to Raqqa before the mercenaries blocked the way at a checkpoint and killed all the people there. ‘All the passengers they captured were martyred,’ Mustafa told Kurdistan 24.” Later in the day, the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) revealed that Khalaf’s killing was a brutal and intentional execution rather than collateral damage from a ground skirmish, with the female leader dragged from her car and murdered on the spot. “She was taken out of her car during a Turkish-backed attack and executed by Turkish backed mercenary factions on the International Road between Qamishlo and Manbij, where her driver who was also martyred,” according to an SDC statement. “This is a clear evidence that the Turkish state is continuing its criminal policy towards unarmed civilians,” the SDC continued. Report was just updated with @SDCPress statement: “She was taken out of her car during a Turkish-backed attack and executed by Turkish backed mercenary factions on the International Road between Qamishlo and Manbij"https://t.co/lzFucrEynF — Wladimir (@vvanwilgenburg) October 12, 2019 Twitter was filled with posts documenting the atrocities that the Turkish invasion has led to since Trump gave the green-light to Erdogan to invade the neighboring Syrian territory. So these are the moderate groups who are supposed to bring safety & freedom to the Kurds from the SDF? pic.twitter.com/Il1LsTgSNb — Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) October 12, 2019 That is how the Turkish alterily bombed our cities and killed our civilians. #StopRacistTurkey #KurdishGenocide #NE_Syria pic.twitter.com/U45f5oHsqL — Coordination & Military Ops Center – SDF (@cmoc_sdf) October 12, 2019 According to NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, American military officials are deeply disturbed by the ongoing atrocities that President Trump’s impulsive unilateral policy reversal has engendered, not just because of the betrayal of the people who had been comrades-in-arms in the fight against ISIS and terrorism, but because of the implications the loss of a major ally in the fight against terrorism will have on the future security of the region and the world as a whole. Turkey’s conflict in Syria took a major turn today. First alleged atrocities by Turkish-backed Arab militias, executing Kurds. US military officials tell me it's true, and they are DEEPLY concerned it opens the door to BOTH ethnic cleansing of Kurds and return of ISIS/Al-Qaeda — Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) October 12, 2019 With even normally staunchly loyal Republican senators slamming Trump for his capitulation to Turkish President Erdogan’s scheme to eliminate restive ethnic group spread across Turkey, Syria, and Iraq as a potentially politically disruptive force in his country, one can only wonder if the president’s motivations were truly in the interest of national and global security or were rooted in his own self-interest. Khalaf’s death is just one piece of the bloodbath that will be staining Donald Trump’s hands as a result of his heavily-criticized decision to overturn years of loyalty to our Kurdish allies and just one more reason that he must be removed from the presidency before his actions lead to more damage to both America and the world at large. Follow Vinnie Longobardo on Twitter. Original reporting by Wladimir van Wilgenburg at Kurdistan24. Vinnie Longobardo is a 35-year veteran of the TV, mobile & internet industries, specializing in start-ups and the international media business. His passions are politics, music and art. Vinnie Longobardo October 12, 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1564
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__label__wiki	0.711053	0.711053	What I did last summer (2019): John Hendel by Erik Ramsey John spent the summer in Pittsfield, Massachusetts as the House Manager for Barrington Stage Company. He realized two things during this time: 1) he’s irrationally afraid of skunks and 2) he’s a big ol’ dork who’s grown to really like school. John Hendel is a playwright most recently from Los Angeles. His plays include Pulling Off Procreation (Or Is It Wrong to Keep Fucking if the Baby Starts Crying?) (2013 Cincinnati Fringe Festival, winner: Founders’ Pick of the Fringe), Wearhorse (2014 Hollywood Fringe Festival), Fame Confusions and The Greatest Play Ever (If You Don’t Think So, You’re a Basket of Farts) (NY Artists Unlimited International Cringe Fest, 2009 and 2010, respectively). He has twice been a PlayLab writer at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, AK. His work online includes his 64 Plays in 64 Days project, as well as writing about movies and television. He received his Playwriting BFA from Ohio University. Follow him on twitter @hendyhendel. What I did last summer (2019): Skye Robinson Hillis · Current Students · News · Productions · Reading For Skye, the summer of 2019 was spent working as the Box Office Manager at the Weston Playhouse in Vermont, which produces six shows over three months’ time in two venues. The highlight of her summer, however, was workshopping her full-length play Into Place as a part of the Headwaters New Festival at Creede Repertory Theatre in Colorado. Additionally, her play The Ordinariness of Everything was named a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award. Read any of her short plays and full-lengths here: https://newplayexchange.org/users/1125/skye-robinson-hillis 2018 Alums Cristina Luzárraga and Philana Imade Omorotionmwan Are Jerome Fellows · alumni · Athena Project · Awards · Br!nk New Works Festival · Jerome Fellowship · La MaMa · Many Voices Fellowship · News · P73 Fellowship · Playwrights' Center · Reading · ScreenCraft Stage Play Award Winner · TV Cristina Luzárraga (Jerome Fellow, 2019-20) and Philana Imade Omorotionmwan (Jerome Fellow, 2018-19), are two recent OHIO MFA Playwriting alums representing back-to-back years of the Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. The fellowship is often considered career-changing for early-career playwrights; as the PWC press release notes: Jerome and Many Voices Fellows spend a year in residency in the Twin Cities, working in an individualized and hands-on way with the Playwrights’ Center artistic staff—some of the most experienced and connected theater professionals in the country. In addition to an $18,000 stipend, fellows receive $2,000 in play development funds to workshop new plays with professional directors, dramaturgs, and actors. The Center also builds connections between the playwrights and producers of new work. Luzárraga (just beginning the Jerome), and Omorotionmwan (just finishing), were in the same graduating class (2018) and often politely competed for awards, fellowships and grants. As far as the Jerome Fellowship is concerned — the two continue to finish in a dead heat, always with very different voices and approaches to their work. Cristina Luzárraga grew up in New Jersey and still resides there, believe it or not. She’s an alum The Second City Conservatory in Chicago, the town where she once (foolishly?) dabbled in comedy performance of all kinds. Her work has been developed at Towne Street Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, The New Colony, and Tantrum Theater. Her full length plays include Critical Distance, Millennialville, and La Mujer Barbuda (Inaugural ScreenCraft Stage Play Award Winner; 2018 Princess Grace Award finalist). Her short plays have been published in anthologies by Smith and Kraus. She co-wrote and adaptation of Aphra Behn’s The Rover that was produced by Ohio University where she recently earned an MFA in playwriting… Then there’s this, of course, when you need a good laugh… Philana Imade Omorotionmwan (o-more-o-tune-wha) is currently based in Minneapolis, MN as a 2018-19 Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center. Her plays include Before Evening Comes, The Defiance of Dandelions, Fireflies, and Strong Face, or Misogynoir. Her work has been developed and/or presented at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Br!nk New Works Festival, La MaMa Experiments Series, and Athena Project Festival. She has been a semifinalist for the Relentless Award, P73 Fellowship, and Many Voices Fellowship, as well as a two-time Heideman finalist, and a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, the Theatre503 Award, and the Playwrights Realm’s Scratchpad Series. Her short plays have been produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre, Pillsbury House + Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Source, Stay Awake! Theatre, Little Black Dress Ink, 20% Theatre Company Chicago, and Ohlone College. Her poems have appeared in New Delta Review and African American Review. Philana earned a BA in English at Stanford University, where she began writing plays under the mentorship of Cherríe Moraga and also dabbled in spoken word. Philana completed an MFA in Playwriting in May 2018. She is at work on a television pilot about her experiences as a teacher in public charter schools. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild. philanaplays.weebly.com 2019 Festival Information · Festival · Mentors/Guest Artists · News · Seabury Quinn, Jr. 25th Annual Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights’ Festival Production Schedule and Mentor Bios Featured Thesis Productions Tickets for the Featured Productions are $5 general admission or FREE for OU Students (with valid student ID) through Arts for Ohio; available at the Templeton–Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium box office. by Katherine Varga, directed by Olivia Rocco 8:00 p.m. – April 20th, 24th & 25th, Elizabeth Evans Baker Theater Stage, Kantner Hall Life is looking sunny for 17-year-old Carly—well, except for the fights with her mom. Her BFF Mike E and his cool mom just moved in with them. The fandom website she made for her celebrity crush is blowing up. And the mysterious fan she’s been talking to online just might be the object of her affections. The one catch – her crush is a serial killer, and his murders are getting closer to her home. Sunny Days explores the gap between our online and offline selves, the cultural effects of toxic masculinity, and how far women will go to save the people they love. by Trip Venturella, directed by Alan Patrick Kenny 8:00 p.m. – April 18th & 26th, Elizabeth Evans Baker Theater, Kantner Hall 2:00 p.m. – April 27th, Elizabeth Evans Baker Theater Stage, Kantner Hall Two weeks ago, Sibyl, the love of Les’ life, disappeared, and today Les’ job is to interrogate the last person to have seen her alive. Lucky, Les has a Hepatoscope, a device that allows him to plumb the depths of another person’s mind. But minds are tricky places, and, as Les begins to discover, what we call reality can be trickier still. Sibyl is a dark comedy that blurs the lines between memory, fantasy, and truth. Stitched with a Sickle and a Hammer by Inna Tsyrlin, directed by Anne McAlexander 8:00 p.m. – April 19th & 27th, Elizabeth Baker Theater, Kantner Hall 2:00 p.m. – April 20th, Elizabeth Baker Theater, Kantner Hall Aleksandra, a political prisoner at a GULAG camp and part of the camp’s theatre troupe, is forced to aid Soviet authorities disguise the existence of the camp in front of a visiting American delegation. She prepares for two roles: the character on stage – Nina from Chekhov’s The Seagull – and the role of an actor who isn’t imprisoned. In the face of totalitarian power, inside and outside the camp, Aleksandra must decide whether to comply with the regime that has taken away her freedom or commit an act of counterrevolution. Staged readings are free and open to the public. Bury the Rest by Skye Robinson Hillis, directed by Rebecca Vernoy 1:00 p.m. – Thursday, April 25th, Forum Theater, RTV Building Following the death of their 17-year-old daughter Lucy in a mass high school shooting, friendly exes Margot and Colin find themselves at a moral impasse. Though deeply reliant on each other during the grieving process, Colin’s position as a Republican U.S. Senator makes it difficult for Margot and the rest of the family to reconcile the root of their grief with his continued support of the NRA. As they navigate the intimacies of their reforged relationship and rebuild themselves as a family, it may in fact be Lucy who decides their fate. Here Lies Vivienne Greene by Liv Matthews, directed by Jeanette L. Buck In 1956, recently certified mortician Vivienne Greene is next in line to inherit the Jackson and Sons Funeral Home from her Uncle Zeke. Before she can take over, Vivienne is presented with one more test mortuary school never prepared her for: after a young boy is brutally attacked, Vivienne must smuggle him out of their small Georgia town before he is found by a local mob. Fearful of losing the funeral home and her own life, Vivienne must look to her past to find that death may be a second chance at life. The Intermission by Devin Porter 1:30 p.m. – Friday, April 26th, Forum Theater, RTV Building What does it mean to be mute? When an African American teenager, Rocky Carter, protects the only thing God has left for him, he goes from almost graduating high school to Dunbar, a super-max. On his birthday, with the help of St. Peter, the oldest security guard in Dunbar, Rocky must earn his birthday present in order to see the love of his life again. Through the process of listening and taking action, Rocky learns that being mute doesn’t mean you’re silent. The Evolution of Rattlesnakes by Jean Egdorf, directed by Dusty Brown Rattlesnakes are evolving to lose their rattles. Man has spent so long wiping out the ones that make noise, it’s become a better defense mechanism to remain silent. Denni Erwine is arrested for the murder of the Drybrook County Sheriff. According to their statements, she only struck back against the Sheriff in defense of her neighbor, Louisa Trelawney, but there is more coiled up in the case than either woman is willing to say. To prevent it from striking more than once, is there only one way to deal with a venomous snake? The Christmas Special 1:00 p.m. – Saturday, April 27th, Forum Theater, RTV Building ‘Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the cabin, Barbara was asking, “What exactly will happen?” Her husband was giving his life up to Claus, But Barbara was left there without any cause Then what in her is’lated world did appear? The son she gave up in a moment of fear! He’s handsome and famous, and possibly could Whisk Babs away to old Hollywood But hubby is slavish to the plan that they made, “You must be devoted to Santa’s crusade!” Will Barbara decide that her son’s the solution Or will she stay true to the revolution? To Saints and Stars by Jordan Ramirez Puckett, directed by Shelley Delaney 4:00 p.m. – Saturday April 27th, Forum Theater, RTV Building 10-all astronauts prepare for launch… 9-months and Zoe will be a mother… 8-years old, a promise we never wanted to break… 7-months, my one way ticket to Mars… 6-million hours staring up at the stars… 5-seconds left until launch… 4- years old when we first met… 3- decades of friendship and love… 2-peas in a pod until… 1-mission liftoff In To Saints and Stars, Sofía’s life flashes before her eyes. In the face of almost certain death on the first manned mission to Mars, Sofía re-examines her lifelong friendship with Zoe and the age old conflict between science and faith. Guest Artists In Residence Each April, three nationally recognized, industry professional guest artists are invited to be in residence for the Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights’ Festival to respond to the MFA plays and work with the MFA playwrights. We are pleased to announce the guest artists joining us for the 2019 Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights’ Festival: Nan Barnett is a new play developer, producer, and advocate, and is the Executive Director of National New Play Network, an alliance of more than 120 professional theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays and model a robust, equitable, and inclusive new play ecosystem. During her previous tenures as a member of the Network’s Board, Executive Committee, and President she helped create and implement several of the organization’s revolutionary initiatives, including the acclaimed NNPN Rolling World Premiere, Residency, and National Directors Fellows programs, Nan has led the organization through the development and launch of its field-altering database, the New Play Exchange, now home to more than 25,000 plays by living writers, and its recent planning process which will dramatically evolve its governance structure to accelerate its diversification. Prior to joining NNPN full-time Nan was a founding company member and the long-time Managing Director of Florida Stage, the nation’s largest regional theater producing exclusively new and developing plays and musicals, where during 24 seasons she oversaw the development and production of hundreds of new plays and musicals for both emerging and veteran playwrights. She was a member of DC’s inaugural Helen Hayes Awards’ New Play Panel is on the Artistic Councils of O’Neill Theater Center and PlayPenn and was inducted into the National Theatre Conference in 2017. Nan was also the Coordinating Producer for the 2015 and 2018 iterations of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival in the nation’s capital region, where NNPN is based. Martine Kei Green-Rogers is an Assistant Professor at SUNY: New Paltz, a freelance dramaturg, and the President of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Her dramaturgical credits include: The Greatest with the Louisville Orchestra, Fences and One Man, Two Guvnors at Pioneer Theatre Company; Clearing Bombs and Nothing Personal at Plan-B Theatre; the Classical Theatre Company’s productions of Uncle Vanya, Antigone, Candida, Ghosts, Tartuffe, and Shylock, The Jew of Venice; Sweat at the Goodman; productions of Radio Golf, Five Guys Named Moe, Blues for An Alabama Sky, Gem of the Ocean, Waiting for Godot, Iphigenia at Aulis, Seven Guitars, The Mountaintop, Home, and Porgy and Bess at the Court Theatre; The Clean House at CATCO; Hairspray, The Book of Will, Shakespeare in Love, UniSon, Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, Comedy of Errors, To Kill A Mockingbird, The African Company Presents Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and Fences at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; 10 Perfect and The Curious Walk of the Salamander as part of the 2006 and 2007 Madison Repertory Theatre’s New Play Festival; and A Thousand Words as part of the 2008 WI Wrights New Play Festival. She also works with the Great Plains Theatre Conference and is affiliated with NNPN. Jacqueline E. Lawton is a playwright, dramaturg, producer, and advocate for Access, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the American Theatre. Her plays include: Among These Wild Things, Anna K; Blackbirds, Blood-bound and Tongue-tied; Deep Belly Beautiful; The Devil’s Sweet Water; The Hampton Years; The Inferior Sex, Intelligence; Love Brothers Serenade; Mad Breed; and Noms de Guerre. Lawton has worked as a dramaturg and research consultant at Active Cultures, Actors Theatre of Louisville – Humana Festival of New American Plays, the Arden Theater (Philadelphia, PA), Arena Stage, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Discovery Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater (New York, NY) Folger Shakespeare Library, the Ford’s Theatre, Horizons Theater (Atlanta, GA), Howard University, the Hub Theatre, Interact Theatre (Philadelphia, PA), Kennedy Center VSA Program, Morgan State University, Redshift Productions (New York, NY), Rorschach Theater Company, Round House Theatre, Theater Alliance, Theater of the First Amendment, Theater J, Tribute Productions, University of Maryland, Virginia Stage Company, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Currently, she is a Dramaturg at PlayMakers Repertory. Ms. Lawton received her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. She is a 2012 TCG Young Leaders of Color award recipient and an alum of National New Play Network (NNPN) Playwright Alum, Arena Stage’s Playwrights’ Arena, and Center Stage’s Playwrights Collective. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a dramaturg for PlayMakers Repertory Company. She is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild of America and is their NC Regional Rep. Spotlight on 1st Year Skye Robinson Hillis by ouplaywrights The 25th Annual Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights’ Festival kicked off this weekend and continues this week! The featured, Thesis Productions of our Third Year MFA Playwrights premiered this weekend, April 18th-20th, and run through next week, April 24th-27th in Kantner Hall on the Elizabeth Evans Baker Stage. To celebrate the opening of the featured productions, and leading up to the festival staged readings on the 25th, 26th, and 27th, we are featuring daily spotlights on Ohio University’s nine MFA Playwrights. Name: Skye Robinson Hillis Hometown: Chicago, Illinois by way of Boston, Massachusetts Undergrad: B.A. in Theatre Directing from Columbia, 2011 Favorite play, TV show, movie, album, book, etc: Play – The Goat or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee; TV Show – The West Wing; Movie – The Big Chill; Book – Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett; Album – Rumors by Fleetwood Mac “Fun fact” related to your play: This isn’t fun at all, but April 20th was the twentieth anniversary of the Columbine shooting. I’m grateful to be able to present this play this week of all weeks. Twitter/Instagram: @skyerobhill New Play Exchange: Skye Robinson Hillis See Skye’s reading of Bury the Rest: directed by Rebecca VerNooy #SQPlayfest25 Spotlight on 1st Year Devin Porter Name: Devin Porter Pronouns: He, Him Hometown: Long Island, New York Undergrad: University at Albany, B.A in English Favorite Album: Illmatic- Nas Fun Fact related to The Intermission: I love to learn especially about the unknown. After watching an ABC documentary on Rikers Island, I wondered what was the true purpose of the prison. To punish or To reform? Thus, the play was born. Social Media: Facebook New Play Exchange: Devin Porter See Devin’s reading of The Intermission Spotlight on 1st Year John Hendel · Festival · News · Seabury Quinn, Jr. Name: John Hendel Hometown: Rockville, MD Undergrad: Ohio University Favorite Movie: It’s a Wonderful Life “Fun fact” related to The Christmas Special: This play started as a story about a giant, authoritarian turtle. Every year, the turtle would bless the human citizens of their world by visiting one of them, and this person was expected to feed the turtle a giant tank full of raw fish, and this year, this person was his estranged mother. Alas, almost none of that remains. Twitter/Instagram: @hendyhendel New Play Exchange: John Hendel See John’s staged reading of The Christmas Special Directed by Corey Ragan Spotlight on 2nd Year Jordan Ramirez Puckett The 25th Annual Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights’ Festival has officially begun! The featured, Thesis Productions of our Third Year MFA Playwrights premier this weekend, April 18th-20th, and run through next week, April 24th-27th in Kantner Hall on the Elizabeth Evans Baker Stage. To celebrate the opening of the featured productions, and leading up to the festival staged readings on the 25th, 26th, and 27th, we will be featuring daily spotlights on Ohio University’s nine MFA Playwrights. Name: Jordan Ramirez Puckett Hometown: San Jose, California Undergrad: Northwestern University Favorite play, TV show, movie, album, book, etc: The play that made me want to be a playwright is Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel. My favorite video game is Transistor, I actually listened to the soundtrack as I wrote To Saints and Stars. “Fun fact” related to To Saints and Stars: The central relationship in the play is based on my real life long friendship. For Sofía’s journey to Mars I had to do a lot of research on space exploration. My favorite bit of research was listening to the Habitat, a podcast about six crew members who are locked up in a habitat in Hawaii for a year to mimic what life might be like on a mission on Mars. Twitter & Instagram: @puckettplays New Play Exchange: Jordan Ramirez Puckett See Jordan’s staged reading of To Saints and Stars Directed by Shelley Delaney #SQPlayfest #SQPlayfest25 Spotlight on 2nd Year Liv Matthews The 25th Annual Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights’ Festival is almost here! The featured, Thesis Productions of our Third Year MFA Playwrights debut tonight and run through this weekend, April 18th-20th, and next, April 24th-27th in Kantner Hall on the Elizabeth Evans Baker Stage. To celebrate the opening of the featured productions, and leading up to the festival staged readings on the 25th, 26th, and 27th, we will be featuring daily spotlights on Ohio University’s nine MFA Playwrights. Name: Liv Matthews Hometown: Clermont, Florida Undergrad: Rollins College (Winter Park, FL) Favorite Sports team: the 2018-2019 NBA Southeast Division Champions, the Orlando Magic ✨ “Fun fact” related to Here Lies Vivienne Greene: The first woman to operate a funeral home in the United States was Henrietta Bowers Duterte, an African-American woman from Philadelphia. She took over her husband’s business when he passed in 1858. Not only was she a funeral director, but she was an abolitionist whose her funeral home was a stop on the Underground Railroad. She hid runaway slaves either in coffins or disguised them as mourners in funeral processions. Twitter/Instagram: @Write2Liv New Play Exchange: Liv Matthews See Liv’s staged reading of Here Lies Vivienne Greene Directed by Jeanette L. Buck Spotlight on 2nd Year Jean Egdorf! The 25th Annual Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights’ Festival is almost here! The featured, Thesis Productions of our Third Year MFA Playwrights debut and run through this weekend, April 18th-20th, and next, April 24th-27th in Kantner Hall on the Elizabeth Evans Baker Stage. To celebrate the opening of the featured productions, and leading up to the festival staged readings on the 25th, 26th, and 27th, we will be featuring daily spotlights on Ohio University’s nine MFA Playwrights. Name: Jean Egdorf Hometown: Los Alamos, New Mexico Undergrad: BFA Applied Theatre Technology & Design, English Writing; Metropolitan State University of Denver Favorite TV Show: Twin Peaks (and I’ve got the tattoo to prove it) Favorite Play (or, that’s stuck with me the most): Franca Rame’s “A Woman Alone” “Fun fact” related to The Evolution of Rattlesnakes: When I was a teenager, I really wanted a pet snake (I had a friend who owned snakes, so this didn’t just come out of no where. If you ever get to hold a snake, do it, they’re incredible). I brought it up with my mom once, and she has never shot down an idea faster. Twitter: @oblondada New Play Exchange: Jean Egdorf See Jean’s staged reading of The Evolution of Rattlesnakes Directed by Dusty Brown	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1568
__label__wiki	0.540806	0.540806	Coffee Pot perks under new ownership Tom Hacker She knows she occupies one of the very bottom rungs of the Greeley coffee-culture ladder. Angie Noe is undaunted. As the new owner of The Coffee Pot in the downtown Bank One Plaza, Noe pays less attention to the Starbuck’s avalanche that has spread across Greeley than to the potential of a downtown market, segments of which don’t even know she exists. “We have a captive market here,” she said of the businesses that are tenants in Bank One. “I just want to expand it. I want to make sure the people at the courthouse know about us, and the people at the Rec Center.” On Monday, Noe begins her second week in the business, having bought out former owner Dean Fox. She said she has already found encouragement. On Day One, May 3, a customer asked if the Weld County Chess Club could hold a tournament on The Coffee Pot’s plaza patio space. The group will spend four hours on the evening of June 24 checking and check-mating. “That’s the sort of activity I want to build on,” Noe said. Noe and The Coffee Pot hold a minuscule share of a burgeoning national market for gourmet coffees. The most recent statistics from the Coffee Research Institute show that in 2003: n An estimated 108 million coffee consumers in the United States spent $9.2 billion for retail purchases, and another $8.7 billion for specialty shop drinks. n Fifty-four percent of the U.S. adult population drink coffee daily, and one in five of those purchase gourmet coffee in shops on a daily basis. A tiny slice of that will do, Noe knows. Her first step, on her first day of ownership, was to expand The Coffee Pot’s hours. Now open at 7:30 a.m., the time when most coffee drinkers are looking for the fix, Noe hopes to build early morning traffic even though office workers are still an hour away from their plaza arrivals. By expanding the breakfast menu to include sausage bagels, with pancakes-to-go in the plans, Noe said she hopes to give downtowners more reasons to come through the door. Noe also said she wants to wean the business of its dependence on big specialty food suppliers, and rely on local sources for baked goods, sandwich makings and other food offerings. “If I can do business locally, I’d rather,” she said. “There are lots of other small specialty businesses out there, and we’re all in this together.” The sandwich lineup that Fox initiated is still in place. The Plaza Melt, heaped with turkey, provolone, tomato and lettuce, toasted on a French roll, remains an office-worker lunch favorite. Without the 300-or-so Banner Health employees who work in Bank One Plaza, Noe’s business wouldn’t make it, she acknowledges. On a sweltering afternoon last week, Banner workers Pat Fankell and Julie Baner cooled off with iced Italian sodas at an umbrella table. “I hope she does well here,” Baner said. “It’s a great place for us to have, and it seems like she’s already got a lot more variety to offer.” The Coffee Pot, 822 7th St., Suite 3. Phone: 353-7171. Hours: 7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Trending In: Business Light-duty work can bring heavy questions for employers, employees Business Sampler: Order To Remittance keeps your business ticking Why some job-related training counts as taxable income to employees Arizona developer plans 256-acre Johnstown development Expert: Mineral rights owners often have more options than they think	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1573
__label__wiki	0.968191	0.968191	Snowboardcross Lindsey Jacobellis notches World Cup win No. 30 By OlympicTalkDec 21, 2018, 12:42 PM EST Lindsey Jacobellis extended a 15-year run of winning snowboard events on the top international level, capturing her 30th individual World Cup victory on Friday. The four-time Olympian led pretty much from start to finish of the snowboard cross final in Cervinia, Italy, with 2014 Olympic champion Eva Samkova taking runner-up. “It’s definitely years and years of riding to fine-tune all those little details,” Jacobellis said. “It gets harder and harder every time, but it’s still really fun.” PyeongChang gold medalist Michela Moioli of Italy was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the season opener. Jacobellis, 33, is one of the most decorated snowboarders in history with 10 X Games titles and five world championships. One of her World Cup wins came in halfpipe. In four Olympics, her one medal was a silver at the 2006 Torino Games, when she infamously gave up gold on the penultimate jump. She took fourth in PyeongChang. Jacobellis is now the second-oldest woman to win a World Cup snowboard cross after Canadian Dominique Maltais. She’s also the third-youngest winner from her maiden victory in 2004. Her 29 World Cup snowboard cross victories are seven more than any other man or woman. For women, only France’s Karine Ruby won more World Cups among all snowboard disciplines with 67 between Alpine snowboarding and snowboard cross events. MORE: Olympic snowboard champ suffers concussion in halfpipe comeback crash Lindsey Jacobellis 20th — 2001 X Games 21st — 2002 X Games Gold — 2003 X Games Gold — 2005 Worlds * Skipped 2006 X Games Silver — 2006 Olympics Silver — 2007 X Games * Skipped 2009 Worlds Fifth — 2010 Olympics *** Tore ACL/meniscus in 2012 X Games training run Seventh — 2014 Olympics Fourth — 2018 Olympics Tags: Lindsey Jacobellis, olympics, Snowboardcross, snowboarding, winter olympics, Lindsey Jacobellis Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics add seven new events By Nick ZaccardiJul 18, 2018, 1:32 PM EDT Seven new events were added to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic program: Women’s monobobsled Short track mixed team relay Ski jumping mixed team event Freestyle skiing big air (men and women) Aerials mixed team event Snowboard cross mixed team event The additions bring the Winter Olympic total number of events to 109, an all-time high and nearly double the amount of events at the 1992 Winter Games. The number of women’s hockey teams will increase from eight to 10 in 2022, but the overall number of athletes is expected to be fewer than the 2,933 in PyeongChang. The International Olympic Committee said athlete quotas will decrease in some sports, but no events have been contracted. Alpine skiing’s super combined events are still under review as to whether they will remain in the Olympic program. The IOC said the Winter Olympics will have its highest-ever gender balance in 2022, rising from 41 percent female athletes to more than 45 percent. The IOC had a “long discussion” about adding a women’s event in Nordic combined, the only sport without a women’s event in the Winter Games, IOC sports director Kit McConnell said. “Nordic combined, and women’s in particular, still need to be developed further in terms of universality [the number of countries with Olympic-level athletes], in terms of the level of the athletes,” McConnell said. The IOC also weighed whether to add a four-woman bobsled event rather than women’s monobobsled. The Games have two-man and two-woman events and a four-man event. McConnell said the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation was “very supportive” of monobob, in part because it is already on the Youth Olympic program. “Woman’s four-man bob costs three or four times of monobob,” McConnell said. “We felt there would be more universality in the women’s monobob. We really didn’t see more than a handful of countries really developing women’s four-man programs because of the costs involved.” Beijing will mark the third straight Winter Olympics to add mixed-gender events. In 2014, mixed relays in biathlon and luge debuted, as well as the figure skating team event. In PyeongChang, a mixed Alpine skiing team event and mixed doubles curling debuted. MORE: USOC names first permanent female CEO Tags: aerials, Beijing 2022, bobsled, Freestyle Skiing, olympics, Short Track Speedskating, Ski Big Air, ski jumping, Snowboardcross, snowboarding, winter olympics Olympic snowboarding schedule By OlympicTalkFeb 2, 2018, 9:00 AM EST More: Winter Olympics Dominik Paris, world champion skier, suffers season-ending injury It’s Nathan Chen’s time at nationals for a feat 32 years in the making Vincent Zhou put Ivy League classes on hold to return to figure skating NBCOlympics.com will live stream every event of the PyeongChang Winter Games. The snowboarding streaming schedule is here. The sport’s full, event-by-event schedule is here: Men’s slopestyle (qualifying) Feb. 9 8 p.m.-12:30 a.m. ET Men’s slopestyle (final) Feb. 10 8-9:45 p.m. ET Women’s slopestyle (qualifying) Feb. 10 11:30 p.m.-1:35 a.m. ET Women’s slopestyle (final) Women’s halfpipe (qualifying) Feb. 11 11:30 p.m.-1 a.m. ET Women’s halfpipe (final) Men’s halfpipe (qualifying) Feb. 12 11 p.m.-12:50 a.m. ET Men’s halfpipe (final) Feb. 13 8:30-10:10 p.m. ET Men’s snowboard cross Feb. 14 9 p.m.-1 a.m. ET Women’s snowboard cross Feb. 15 8-11:15 p.m. ET Women’s big air (qualifying) Men’s big air (qualifying) Women’s/men’s parallel giant slalom (qualifying) Feb. 21 10-11:50 p.m. ET Women’s big air (final) Feb. 22 7:30-9:15 p.m. ET Men’s big air (final) Men’s/women’s parallel giant slalom (finals) Olympic Schedules: Alpine Skiing \| Biathlon \| Bobsled \| Cross-Country Skiing \| Curling \| Figure Skating \| Freestyle Skiing \| Hockey \| Luge \| Nordic Combined \| Short Track Speed Skating \| Skeleton \| Ski Jumping \| Snowboarding \| Speed Skating Tags: Alpine Snowboarding, olympics, Snowboard Big Air, Snowboard Halfpipe, Snowboard Slopestyle, Snowboardcross, snowboarding, winter olympics Lindsey Jacobellis notches World Cup win No. 30 December 21, 2018 12:42 pm Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics add seven new events July 18, 2018 1:32 pm Olympic snowboarding schedule February 2, 2018 9:00 am White, Kim lead Olympic snowboard team; gold medalist left off January 23, 2018 7:14 pm Another snowboarder makes Olympic team as qualifying winds down December 22, 2017 9:22 am Lindsey Jacobellis essentially wraps up Olympic berth; Sochi champ hurt December 13, 2017 11:27 am Nate Holland still motivated by repeated Olympic heartbreak October 17, 2017 3:32 pm Racing toward the Olympics, in between plumbing gigs September 11, 2017 3:33 pm Lindsey Jacobellis wins fifth snowboard cross world title March 12, 2017 11:55 am Five U.S. Olympic hopefuls born in the 1970s February 8, 2017 7:53 am Lindsey Jacobellis wins 10th X Games title in photo finish January 31, 2016 3:28 pm Maelle Ricker, first Canadian woman to win home gold, retires from snowboard cross November 4, 2015 9:22 am Seth Wescott eyes return to snowboard cross September 17, 2015 9:15 am Lindsey Jacobellis wins ninth Winter X Games title January 23, 2015 3:12 pm Lindsey Jacobellis wins fourth World Championship in snowboard cross (video) January 16, 2015 8:40 am Lindsey Jacobellis ready to ‘start fresh’ this season October 14, 2014 8:59 am U.S. wants to add big air, team snowboard cross to Olympics May 29, 2014 2:15 pm Alex Deibold’s advice from Seth Wescott (video) March 4, 2014 2:39 pm What to watch on Day 11 of Sochi Olympics February 17, 2014 11:31 pm What to watch on Day 10 of Sochi Olympics February 16, 2014 11:05 pm Lindsey Jacobellis can’t catch an Olympics break — but ‘there are worse things in life’ February 16, 2014 7:45 pm After the crash: Lindsey Jacobellis (Photos) February 16, 2014 9:15 am WATCH LIVE: Lindsey Jacobellis seeks gold in women’s snowboard cross finals February 16, 2014 4:01 am What to watch on Day 9 of Sochi Olympics February 15, 2014 11:25 pm U.S. Olympic Snowboard Cross Team named January 25, 2014 12:05 pm Nick Baumgartner earns Olympic spot over Seth Wescott January 24, 2014 5:34 pm Lindsey Jacobellis ready for Sochi with X Games record January 24, 2014 1:56 pm Seth Wescott, Nick Baumgartner eliminated at X Games; Olympic picture unclear January 24, 2014 1:09 pm Seth Wescott, Nick Baumgartner up for one Olympic spot January 17, 2014 10:44 am Seth Wescott slow in final qualifier; Sochi status unknown January 12, 2014 10:43 am Trevor Jacob wins World Cup snowboardcross event; Wescott’s tricky Olympic hopes January 11, 2014 11:14 am Lindsey Jacobellis wins snowboardcross event, meets Olympic criteria December 21, 2013 8:15 pm Seth Wescott ‘getting close’ in return from knee injury (video) December 12, 2013 10:25 am Nate Holland breaks collarbone in snowboardcross training December 7, 2013 12:36 pm Olympic champion Seth Wescott’s van collides with moose August 30, 2013 10:32 am	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1575
__label__cc	0.642199	0.357801	Shazam! - Review Interview: Sang-il Lee Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Why Shaun of the Dead is Edgar Wright's Best Film Best Films Never Made #10: Terry Gilliam's Watchmen Scene Stealers: Rose Byrne In Spy A Beginner's Guide to... Alexander Payne Rachel Brook Tagged August: Osage County Can’t Get Out: The Rise of Single-Setting Cinema In theatre, the one- or two-person show can be an incredible crucible for claustrophobic action. It offers opportunities for showcasing intense chemistry, developing unrivalled suspense, or interrogating... What Makes A Great Stage to Screen Adaptation? Sian Brett Before it was possible to potter off to the cinema for some entertainment, stories were told on the stage. And with so many classic pieces of drama continuing to be reproduced over hundreds of years, when... August: Osage County – Review With an A-list cast as long as your arm, and adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, August: Osage County has all the potential but none (or at least, very few) of the results. Though pill-popping...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1579
__label__wiki	0.522986	0.522986	U.S. News and National Top Stories NPR coverage of national news, U.S. politics, elections, business, arts, culture, health and science, and technology. Subscribe to the NPR Nation RSS feed. The Impact Of War Wireless Auction to Change Cell Phone Pay Structure July 31, 2007 • The Federal Communications Commission has approved rules that will clear the way for the opening of the most important airwaves auction to date. The event will affect the pay structure on cell phones and other mobile devices. Army Answers to Family Problems from War July 31, 2007 • Dolores Johnson, director of Family Programs for the Army, says the Army is taking measures to help families better cope with the stresses of deployment and to prevent abuse. A new study shows an increase in the rate of child abuse when one parent is deployed. 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__label__cc	0.54566	0.45434	Martin Luther King Rhetorical Essay Suny Polytechnic Institute/English 101 Essay Braxton Evans-Murphy ENG 101 / Essay 2 Rhetorical Analysis Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. uses the rhetorical device ethos throughout his letter to support his views on his movement in response to the public statement by eight Alabama Clergymen. In terms of context Dr. King's’ setup to his letter is almost bullet-like. In the sense that he hit on every point one by one referring to the Public statement. He explains why he is doing it, and reasons why people should join in on his movement. With these few things in mind Dr. King present a powerful letter that not only justifies his non-violent protests but also persuades many white moderates to take action and join the movement for racial freedom. Throughout “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Dr. King gives much evidence in his reasoning for protesting in Birmingham. Dr. King emphasizes that he did not go to Birmingham to protest out of fun or to try and set an example for white people to not mess with African American rights. He simply put that he came because of his affiliation with a civil rights group in Birmingham and the mere fact that Birmingham was brewing with injustice. He justified his actions by referencing the prophet Apostle Paul saying “...just as Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town”. Because he is responding mainly to the eight Clergymen this use of biblical context makes for a persuading argument. Tagging along with the sense of injustice in Birmingham Dr. King believed that injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. In order for the civil rights movement to walk in the right direction injustice needed to diminish. His way of contributing to this would to be his involvement with nonviolent marches in order to try and open up Americans eyes to the overwhelming amount of injustice at the time. Lastly he went because Birmingham left him no other choice. Cities such as Birmingham with an immense amount of white power has subjugated negros living in those cities for too long. Time and time again negros have tried to bring up legislation and rules to solve there problems, however, the only way people of power start to listen is when civil unrest in created and the oppressed force a decision to be made. In response to the Clergymen saying that his protests were “untimely” Dr.King gives justifying evidence that his protest wasn’t untimely in the slightest. Dr. King stressed that African Americans did not make a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and non-violent pressure. He believed that the new administration still wasn't going to budge without action. For action pushes change. The overall purpose of these non-violent protests were to force the situation and get to negotiating. Dr. King put it plainly “Just as socrates felt it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that indivduals could rise from the bindage of... Other Essays On Martin Luther King Rhetorical Essay - Suny Polytechnic Institute/English 101 - Essay Martin Luther King in Response to Alabama Clergymen - Mesa Community College/ ENG101 - Essay 1006 words - 5 pages Sage Karacas ENG101 Herrera 16 April 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. in Response to Eight Alabama Clergymen Martin Luther King Jr.’s inspiration for writing this letter was to respond to the eight white clergymen’s unjust proposals against his actions of non violent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. With this letter, he is able to present a rebuttal that would live in on and still be taught in schools today. He effectively crafted his counter The Truth Of Martin Luther King 2947 words - 12 pages their real deeds were distorted to fit Communist ideology, and Communist killers and criminals were converted into official "saints." Holidays were declared in honor of the beasts who murdered countless nations.Did you know that much the same process has occurred right here in America?Every January, the media go into a kind of almost spastic frenzy of adulation for the so-called "Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr." King has even had a national Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X 541 words - 3 pages Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, being men of great figurative speech, had similar levels of integrity on segregation, voting ability, equal opportunity, opposition of violence, but differed in the involvement on sit-ins demonstration. 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As respected spokesmen they served as rebels against what they thought to be bad one's stopping at nothing. Not even jail.Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr. were both brilliant men. Thoreau's "Civil Obedience" and Dr. King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" are perfect examples of their Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King & Malcolm X 1682 words - 7 pages The perception of reporters, political leaders and the public was that Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were opponents in the Civil Rights Movement. They were portrayed that way in the media but in reality they were not rivals, they were both dedicated to the same goals. They differed in opinion on how to reach the goal, but even their opinions were not that far apart. Each had a strong opinion which was conditioned against the reality of An Essay On The Speech Of Martin Luther King, "I Have A Dream" And "The Ballot Or The Bullet" By Malcolm X. The Differences And Similiraties Of These Two Speeches 1734 words - 7 pages almighty."The speech is structured on high rhetorical level also high level of language; hence, the words that are used in the speech are words, which are not any "everyday" word. The reason Martin Luther King has chosen difficult words might be that he wanted to show the world that a black man could also be capable of using big words and be as good as a white. There has also been much imagery (metaphors) such as; "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst MArtin Luther King vs Malcolm X - wildwood middle, betz - research paper 659 words - 3 pages Both Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X made good points, but Martin Luther King made the most sense for Americans in the 1960’s. Martin Luther’s plan is to fight non-violently by boycotting and having marches, while Malcolm X’s plan is to fight if needed. Martin Luther King made the most sense because fighting will lead to destruction and even more segregation. 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The speech is very persuasive, as King uses very strong metaphors and repetition to reinforce his ideas, "In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration Compare/Contrast The Writing Styles And Technique Used By Thomas Jefferson And Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr 1055 words - 5 pages Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King, Jr. were brilliant men. The Declaration of Independence, written primarily by Jefferson, and the Letter From Birmingham Jail, written by King, are perfect examples of their intellect. Looking at these documents and observing the tactics they use while attempting to move their audience toward their ultimate goal, one can see the finesse that both Jefferson and King possessed. The Declaration of Against Odds: Martin Luther King Jr Sacramento State Essay 1559 words - 7 pages Education Institute, 28 Aug. 1963. 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In the past half- century itself a man by the name of Martin Luther King Jr. called for civil and economic rights to Martin Luther King Jr Essay 595 words - 3 pages On January 15,1929 Michael Luther King Jr., which was later changed to Martin,was born. His father Michael Luther King was a Baptist minister and his motherwas a school teacher named Alberta King. In 1948 King graduated fromMorehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. with a Bachelor of Arts. After King'ssuccessful campaign to achieve the desegregation of public facilities inBirmington, Alabama in 1965, he concentrated most of his time and efforts on Empathy Found In "The Jungle", "The Harvest Gypsies", And "Statement On The Assassination Of Martin Luther King Jr." English 1honors Essay 1121 words - 5 pages Harvest Gypsies” by John Steinbeck, “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair, and “Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Robert F. 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__label__cc	0.735013	0.264987	Retail In India Revolution Or Evolution Retailing in India came with evolutionary patterns from Kirana store to Super market. This sector was un-organized in the initial stage, and after that it carried forward by the textiles industries through the dealer model. Now it is growing as supermarket and hypermarket. The main drivers of the retail evolution in India are buying behavior of the customer, increase in disposable income of middle class, infrastructure development and changing customer choice. The target segments of retailers are the younger middle class earners which belong to more than 20% of total population.The growth in retail sector also comes through innovative ideas. As retailers are providing the innovative buying ...view middle of the document... e. Khadi, matchsticks, incense sticks, decorative items made from wood and earth, ahinsak (non-violent) honey, ahinsak leather items etc.The industries came in the retailing in 1980s through dealer network. In 1980s, the big group of textile industry i.e. Raymond, S.Kumar, Bombay dyeing and Grasim came with this concept of retailing. In the manufacturing sector, the pioneers were DCM group & Bata. Titan came with an organized retail concept and establishes number of showroom for premium watches.All the above effort for retailing came by the manufacturer. But the pure retailer approach came in the existence in 1999s with the establishment of "Ansal's Plaza" in Delhi and Crossroads in Mumbai. After the 2003, many other organizations either planning to come into the retail market through the retail store or initiated the establishment work. Currently some popular groups which are operating the organized retail in different formats are following.Drivers of Evolution:Accelerating Household Income in India:After the 1991, the income of the educated middle class houses is increasing at the rate of 3.6%. It is expected that this rate will be 5.3% in future. The rate of growth in the urban middle class is 4.6% as compare to the growth rate in the rural middle class households. It is also expected that average real household disposable income (income minus taxes, adjusted for inflation) will reach $6,977. Following graph is showing the estimated growth in disposable income of Indian middle class.Change in Population Structure and Choice:The Indian population structure is changing now. It consists more than 60% of people who are below the 30 years. The people (20-30 year age group) who affect the buying pattern of the family are more than 20% of whole population. After the 1991, the income of younger middle class is increase at higher rate because of open of Indian economy. The choice of this new young middle class earning people is also changing and they now shifted from local brand to global brand, Dhaba to Macdonald, bread to burger and most important is from money saving to money enjoying. This younger middle class is the main target segment of the retail industry.Infrastructure development:After 2003, India is recognized for all round development in the important infrastructure sectors. The government is investing hugely on the road, port, aviation and basic need. All these factors attract the foreign investor to invest in retail sector. Now, the reach of information has easier than previous years because of the development in infrastructure i.e. Telecommunication, IT, Internet and satellite TV. Now customer is more aware of the product and their features because of the Internet accessibility. 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__label__wiki	0.64787	0.64787	AboutTerms & PrivacyContactJoin Plant Science Research Weekly Plant Direct – Open Access Journal Pubs Pages Plantae Jobs Plantae Mentoring Center Plant Science Research Network Plantae Webinars The Taproot The Plant Cell: Editor Profiles Plant Cell Editor Profile: Joseph J. Kieber September 2, 2018 /in Blog, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: Editor Profiles /by Sonali Roy (Reprinted from The Plant Cell 10.1105/tpc.18.00110) At the crux of understanding plant biology lies the intricate hormone circuitry coordinating morphological and physiological changes as plants grow and adapt to their environment. As a curious middle school student in Locust, New Jersey, Professor Joseph Kieber, then a proud keeper of a personal vegetable garden, was first intrigued by the question: How are squash fruits so different in shape? Now a professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Kieber has spent his distinguished career, spanning almost 30 years, uncovering critical components of hormone networks controlling more than just fruit morphology. His work has furthered our knowledge of hormone signaling pathways, specifically cytokinin and ethylene in the model dicot Arabidopsis, and led to his election as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. “A FUN WAY TO GROW UP!” One of nine children born in a big catholic family, Kieber grew up close to a salt water estuary south of New York City. He recalls his childhood as being spent mostly outdoors and admits that it was a fun way to grow up, “for the children at least,” he adds. His interest in plants developed early, brought about by his love for gardening as he performed crosses on squash plants “just to see what would happen.” His biggest influence, however, was his father, a World War II veteran with a PhD in Bacteriology who later taught Physics and Biology at Kieber’s high school. He encouraged his children to follow their interests and to “do what you love and don’t pick a career based on monetary considerations.” Many of Kieber’s immediate family and several of their children chose to follow careers in academia. Inspired to learn, Kieber applied to two universities for his undergraduate studies: the State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, which all his brothers attended, and Cornell University. Ultimately drawn by his fascination with plants, Kieber chose to attend Cornell University in New York to pursue a degree in plant breeding. This sealed his interests in plant science and served as a stepping stone to a life spent studying plant biology. INTERACTIONS THAT SHAPED A CAREER The people we meet, the mentors we have, and the experiences that thus transpire all influence our choices. Indeed, Kieber ascribes a lot of his career decisions to fortuitous meetings with inspiring individuals, some of whom eventually became his scientific mentors. When he went back to Cornell to attend a charity Hockey game in 2015, Kieber was thrilled to recognize the goaltender as his undergraduate genetics teacher, Professor Tom Fox. “Attending his lectures on Introductory Genetics in my sophomore year completely changed what I wanted to do!” says Kieber when asked why he later pursued fundamental plant genetics rather than breeding at Cornell. His first tryst with laboratory research, however, began at the Boyce Thompson Institute studying cyanobacteria under the guidance of Dr. Aladar Szalay. Although fascinated by the organism, Kieber went on to pursue his doctoral studies with Dr. Ethan Signer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There he developed his skills in molecular biology and biochemistry by cloning and purifying DNA Topoisomerase I from Arabidopsis and broccoli, respectively (Kieber et al., 1992a, 1992b). During this time, a chance seminar at Harvard by Professor Chris Somerville introduced him to the new and upcoming tools being developed for the model plant Arabidopsis. Kieber was amazed by the rapid genetics that could be performed with the thale cress to answer basic questions in biology. Shortly after, while attending one of the early International Congress on Arabidopsis Research conferences, Kieber heard a talk by Professor Joseph Ecker who was to become his postdoctoral mentor. Two things struck him about this talk on ethylene signaling. First, that even a gaseous, simple alkene like ethylene could act as a hormone and, second, that cells could signal and communicate with each other through it! Within a week Kieber had applied to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Plant Biology to investigate signaling components involved in the ethylene response pathway. Kieber praises this NSF fellowship program that he believes provided opportunities to many of his colleagues who went on to make great scientific discoveries in plant biology but who might otherwise have chosen a different career. ETHYLENE AND THE BEGINNING OF AN INTEREST IN PHYTOHORMONES As an NSF postdoc, Kieber is credited with identifying one of the first kinases in plants with a definitive role in a signaling pathway. At the University of Pennsylvania, Kieber performed a forward genetic screen for mutant seedlings in Arabidopsis that constitutively displayed the ethylene “triple response” characterized by inhibition of root growth, swollen hypocotyl, and an exaggerated apical hook. The screen was elegant and the readout simple; even in the absence of ethylene, some mutant lines constitutively displayed the triple response. Kieber’s work, published in the journal Cell, describes the identification and cloning of CONSTITUTIVE TRIPLE RESPONSE1 (CTR1) a negative regulator of the ethylene response pathway (Kieber et al., 1993). But what does CTR1 encode and exactly how does it transmit the signal to its downstream components? A clue came close to midnight one evening. While performing a BLAST search, Kieber found that the locus to which CTR1 mapped had a gene encoding a protein with high homology to members of the Raf-1 kinase family, suggesting that it was a protein kinase. Immediately after his postdoc, Kieber accepted a position as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he continued studying hormone signaling including that of ethylene. While he was there, his group showed that the N-terminal region of CTR1 is required for interaction with the ethylene receptor ETR1 while the C-terminal possesses serine threonine kinase activity just like the Raf-1 protein kinases. In fact, purified CTR1 could phosphorylate both the artificial substrate myelin based protein (MBP) and the Arabidopsis MAP kinase kinase MEK1. However, the efficiency of phosphorylation of AtMEK1 was only 5% of MBP, suggesting that a yet unidentified protein acted as the physiological substrate for CTR1 (Huang et al., 2003). Almost a decade later, Dr. Caren Chang a professor at the University of Maryland, identified key phosphorylation sites on the central regulator of ethylene signaling, the NRAMP protein ETHYLENE INSENSITIVE2 (EIN2). She hypothesized that EIN2 was phosphorylated either directly or indirectly through a MAPK signaling pathway. Could CTR1 be the kinase that phosphorylated EIN2? To answer this, they required the notoriously difficult to purify protein CTR1. As luck would have it, Kieber still had a tube of CTR1 proteins that had been purified 14 years earlier. Amazingly, five different lab moves and two inopportune freezer breakdowns later, this tube of CTR1 still retained functional kinase activity! Together, their groups showed that, indeed, CTR1 directly phosphorylates the C-terminal cytosolic domain of EIN2 closing the gap to how CTR1 participated in signal relay downstream of ethylene (Ju et al., 2012). Screen for Arabidopsis mutants that constitutively display the triple response. Seedlings were grown for 3 d in the dark in air. A single ctr1 mutant seedling is evident among the taller, wild-type seedlings. (Courtesy of J.J. Kieber.) CYTOKININ AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A RESEARCH PROGRAM Wanting to challenge himself further, Kieber gradually turned towards another classic hormone, cytokinin, for which the underlying molecular signals were relatively unstudied even though the physiological responses were very well known. Moreover, to Kieber, cytokinin was exciting to work with because unlike ethylene, it plays a key role in many plant developmental pathways. Kieber recalls his first graduate student, John Vogel, with whom he initiated a screen for Arabidopsis mutants that were altered in ethylene-cytokinin crosstalk. They searched for mutants that failed to show an ethylene triple response upon treatment with low concentrations of the cytokinin benzyladenine due to their inability to increase ethylene biosynthesis (Vogel et al., 1998b). Together they identified ACC SYNTHASE5 (ACS5) as the causative ACS isoform almost exclusively responsible for cytokinin-induced ethylene biosynthesis (Vogel et al., 1998a). Kieber reveals that a lot of his early research was performed by outstanding graduate students. Another student-driven project in particular led to the identification of two primary cytokinin response genes that did not require de novo protein synthesis for their induction in response to cytokinin. These genes, first named INDUCED BY CYTOKININ6 (IBC6) and IBC7, showed high homology to bacterial two component response regulators. Kieber and his student, Ingrid Brandstatter, suggested that these proteins were involved in early cytokinin signal transduction (Brandstatter and Kieber, 1998); Kieber spent the next two decades investigating and proving this hypothesis correct. IBC6, now known as ARABIDOPSIS RESPONSE REGULATOR5, belongs to the 10-membered type-A response regulator family, most of which negatively control cytokinin action. Kieber considers his work elucidating molecular components of the cytokinin signaling network to be his most important contribution to plant science to date. His group played a key role in the identification and characterization of many of the key cytokinin signaling components such as the type-A response regulators and the histidine phosphotransfer proteins. By the fall of 1999, Kieber had moved to the Biology Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he remains to this date. Positive interactions with students helped develop Kieber’s current appreciation for teaching; he believes that research and teaching can form a “two-way street” if done correctly. Keeping up to date with current research makes for more exciting teaching content; conversely, teaching also forces one to read up on subjects that are out of one’s comfort zone. Kieber tries to keep abreast of literature on signal transduction in mammalian systems because he chooses to teach his students concepts that span the breadth of biology. THE SHORT- AND LONG-TERM FUTURE So what’s next? Kieber envisions developing a “computable plant” as an outcome of a thorough understanding of signaling pathways, allowing researchers to make predictions about how signaling components might interact within a cell. This might ultimately help answer how the same hormone signal can have different outcomes in different tissue or cell types. For example, how does cytokinin enhance cell proliferations in the shoot meristem but repress it in roots thereby inhibiting root growth? Understanding these controls has many real world applications, Kieber points out. Cytokinin has been shown to affect yield, drought resistance, nutrient uptake, and biotic and abiotic interactions underlining its importance to agriculture. However, genetic manipulation of a signaling pathway often leads to negative pleiotropic effects affecting other potentially desirable traits. A computable plant would allow one to analyze all possible outcomes in silico and only then attempt to manipulate specific branches of a hormone signaling pathway without affecting the others. Towards this goal, Kieber’s immediate aims include further elucidation of cell type-specific effects of cytokinin gene expression and chromatin modifications in Arabidopsis. He postulates that the reason the same cytokinin signal can perform a multitude of actions is because the cellular context in which the signal is perceived is different. Another priority for Kieber is to translate his research from Arabidopsis to model crops such as rice. He believes that although core signaling pathways may be conserved across dicots and monocots, there exist subtle differences that require further investigation. Finally, Kieber muses that the understanding of signal transduction pathways in plants still lags behind those known in animal systems. Kieber and his group are currently uncovering novel signaling components in cell wall synthesis that use the ethylene precursor 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid and not ethylene itself as a signal. Brandstatter, I., Kieber, J.J. (1998). Two genes with similarity to bacterial response regulators are rapidly and specifically induced by cytokinin in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 10: 1009–1019. Huang, Y.F., Li, H., Hutchison, C.E., Laskey, J., Kieber, J.J. (2003). Biochemical and functional analysis of CTR1, a protein kinase that negatively regulates ethylene signaling in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 33: 221–233. Ju, C.L., et al. (2012). CTR1 phosphorylates the central regulator EIN2 to control ethylene hormone signaling from the ER membrane to the nucleus in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109: 19486–19491. Kieber, J.J., Tissier, A.F., Signer, E.R. (1992a). Cloning and characterization of an Arabidopsis thaliana topoisomerase I gene. Plant Physiol. 99: 1493–1501. Kieber, J.J., Lopez, M.F., Tissier, A.F., Signer, E. (1992b). Purification and properties of DNA topoisomerase I from broccoli. Plant Mol. Biol. 18: 865–871. Kieber, J.J., Rothenberg, M., Roman, G., Feldmann, K.A., Ecker, J.R. (1993). CTR1, a negative regulator of the ethylene response pathway in Arabidopsis, encodes a member of the raf family of protein kinases. Cell 72: 427–441. Vogel, J.P., Woeste, K.E., Theologis, A., Kieber, J.J. (1998a). Recessive and dominant mutations in the ethylene biosynthetic gene ACS5 of Arabidopsis confer cytokinin insensitivity and ethylene overproduction, respectively. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 4766–4771. Vogel, J.P., Schuerman, P., Woeste, K., Brandstatter, I., Kieber, J.J. (1998b). Isolation and characterization of Arabidopsis mutants defective in the induction of ethylene biosynthesis by cytokinin. Genetics 149: 417–427. 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__label__cc	0.595785	0.404215	About this Press Nonprofit Info Donations to support the literary arts Book Club Discussion ?’s & Discount Historical-Fiction Short Stories / Essays Pleasure Boat Studio: A Nonprofit Literary Press is dedicated to enriching readers with eye-opening stories and poetry by incredible talent, with heart, originality, and love of language. How we got our name …from Pleasure Boat Studio, an essay written by Ouyang Xiu, Song Dynasty poet, essayist, and scholar, on the twelfth day of the twelfth month in the renwu year (January 25, 1043): “I have heard of men of antiquity who fled from the world to distant rivers and lakes and refused to their dying day to return. They must have found some source of pleasure there. If one is not anxious for profit, even at the risk of danger, or is not convicted of a crime and forced to embark; rather, if one has a favorable breeze and gentle seas and is able to rest comfortably on a pillow and mat, sailing several hundred miles in a single day, then is boat travel not enjoyable? Of course, I have no time for such diversions. But since ‘pleasure boat’ is the designation of boats used for such pastimes, I have now adopted it as the name of my studio. Is there anything wrong with that?” Translated by Ronald Egan Our press started in 1996 by Bill Slaughter and Jack Estes. Bill stepped aside three years later to focus his attention on Mudlark, the electronic journal of poetry and poetics. Jack continued with the press, moving it in 2002 from its initial home on Bainbridge Island, Washington, to the Upper West Side, NY. In 2006, with the publication of Homicide My Own, we started a new imprint – Caravel Mystery Books – specifically for mysteries. That same year, with the publication of Speak to the Mountain: The Tommie Waites Story, we started another imprint – Aequitas Books – for non-fiction. The following year, Mike O’Connor and some of his colleagues in Port Townsend, Washington, decided to resuscitate a dormant Empty Bowl Press, so they asked if Pleasure Boat Studio could help in some way. As a result, Empty Bowl was considered a Division of Pleasure Boat Studio. Empty Bowl is entirely independent now, but we still promote each other’s new work, along with occasional joint book readings. There are several people who work to keep Pleasure Boat Studios afloat on the greatly respected reputation Jack Estes built through his high standards of authors and books, and his excellent work editing, publishing and PR. Jack loved this work, the press, and especially the authors, which he always says is the best part. Jack still edits new work and advises me, offering suggestions for all of my questions or informing me of opportunities and resources available. Pleasure Boat Studio is grateful to him and his invaluable input. When Jack Estes wanted to retire, I was sorry to hear this. I had designed covers for him now and again for a few years and rather enjoyed it. I would miss it, and working with him, and worried about what would become of all of these amazing authors and their books. He asked if I would be interested in taking over the press, and after much deliberation, I thought I could test it out for a year and see. He taught me a lot over that year, and I was able to publish my first couple of books under his guidance. He had 12 manuscripts to choose from. I knew I really wanted to publish The Fabrications by Baret Magarian and then Isaac by Robert Karmon. I couldn’t see either of these not getting out into the world. They needed to be. I decided yes, to taking over the press, despite the financial risk, because it was rewarding, cool work, and more interesting than alternatives I could take. How could I say no to this incredible gift and opportunity? Very quickly, I applied to become a nonprofit, which Pleasure Boat Studio now carries the status of. I am still publishing authors who would have come to Jack, and gladly so, as he attracts exceptional writers. I am humbled and grateful. It has been a pleasure to work with all of them. They are all very intelligent, talented, kind, considerate, interesting, gracious, people. Sometimes their emails are too long, but I’ll take it! Thanks to all of Jack’s past help, and to so many more who have helped keep this press alive since I’ve been on board. Jeff Welker, my husband, is a creative writer I plan to publish someday, but in the meantime has been editing between Jack’s rounds. My friend Nancy Seewald, a once journalist in NY, had recently done a fine job helping to edit an upcoming book, Twilight in Danzig by Siegfried Kra. Hopefully she will continue to work with the press in the future. Ken Bodensteiner was a great help in volunteering to rebuild the website, making it stylish and user friendly. He has those needed and appreciated tech skills. While publishing, I am still designing the books, for the most part, as well as any marketing materials. In the future, PBS hopes to add a children’s book imprint, within the next couple of years. I hope to attract the caliber of writers that Jack has, and would also like to include some comedic writers, and short story writers. PBS has contracts for the next 2 years, and most likely will not be taking any more submissions. Unless, it’s out of this world and you can fund the project! We like quirky books, non-traditional books and unusual books. And we really like authors who will WORK to sell their books. 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__label__cc	0.587883	0.412117	January 1, 2020 January 1, 2020 Mr. Wapojif Pingu: Familial Anthropomorphic Penguin Activities Show Pingu! This adorable little series has peppered many a childhood with happy penguin memories. The eponymous character is iconic thanks to his catchphrase honk and disruptive antics. Today, we honour the show and its legacy. The handiwork of Otmar Gutmann (1937-1993), the German director and animator oversaw the show from 1986 through to his untimely death. Its first run went up to 2000, with 156 three-five minute episodes in total. Silvio Mazzola wrote each episode and Gutmann would create them at Trickfilmstudio in Switzerland. The show is about Pingu! He’s a young emperor penguin living with his family at the South Pole. There they get up to all manner of minor family life hijinks. Due to its universal appeal, headed by Pingu’s catchphrase of “Noot noot!”, it was a big success and remains popular to this day. As this is stop motion clay animation, the process was complex for the show’s creators. So each episode was, typically, only around three or so minutes long. Carlo Bonomi was the voice of Pingu for the first four series—that’s up until 2000. David Sant took over for the show’s run from 2003-2006. The interesting thing is the show wasn’t always cute and cuddly. There were genuine messages behind it all. As some YouTube users point out, such as Georg Rockall-Schmidt, Pingu is far from a saintly individual. He’s a precocious little git at times. And there are some points in the show that are pretty disturbing. That walrus thing has cropped up across various other YouTuber’s memories, such as with I Hate Everything. Clearly, it ruined many a childhood—along with Watership Down! But our abiding memories of it are nothing but great. Fantastic even. It was a fun little show with a bit of an occasionally petulant brat penguin, but Pingu is lovable and his antics ever entertaining. And those familial disruptions are so universa. The issues of growing up—nightmares, trips, falls, sibling rivalries, parental arguments etc. Yet through it all there was Pingu’s inquisitive nature. His desire to get out and experience the world. That and his naivety are something to marvel out. The joys of youth! There’s something every era can take from Pingu. Whether you’re a bumbling Adélie penguin or otherwise—noot noot. Pingu in the City Running from 2017 to 2019, ピングー in ザ・シティ (Pingū in za Shiti) is a computer animated version of the ’80s and ’90s classic. It was a merger between Japanese production companies Polygon Pictures, Dandelion Animation Studios, and Mattel Creations. It’s a bit unclear if there’s going to be a third series, but the show has come across to the UK, over to Brazil, and various other countries. So the Pingu concept lives on! And good, as it’s a great fun little creation for each new generation of kids to enjoy. Noot noot! hacking and retching cough Sorry, we’re getting too old for that. noot noot Previous Dating 2020: Women Seeking Men Special! Next Dating 2020: Men Seeking Men Special! I forgot the walrus! But Pingu, well, hats off! – may I say that ? Well, my answer is yes … It was a great serie ! Hats off to Pingu! There should have been a Skyrim-like video game to support the show!! Oh yes! We would have received a ridge in the fin, and that was it ! There would have been the son of the Walrus, and the legendary one, whose grunts would have made Blancherive tremble (Blancherive, for a land of penguins, it fits perfectly). I used to be an adventurer like Blancherive. Then I took an arrow in the Blancherive. So that’s where that penguin came from! I have seen him around the internet. Yes, Pingu. That’s this weekend sorted for you. Watch all 200+ episodes. That’s an order! Oh, man, and here I thought I was going to play some more Pokémon. =/ No chance, sir! I expect your Pingu disseration on my desk for Monday morning!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1611
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__label__cc	0.633735	0.366265	Photo Critique Look at This! Pictures of the Great Depression by Berenice Abbott and Dorothea Lange by Marie Gardiner 4 Feb 2016 Length:ShortLanguages: English Photo CritiqueArchitectural PhotographyEnvironmental PortraitBlack and WhiteLarge FormatFilm PhotographyPortrait This post is part of a series called Look at This! Great Photographs Revisited. Look at This! An Unusual Underwater Portrait Look at This! An Aerial Photographer's View of The World In this photograph we see some cobbled together huts and two men sitting outside. What can we glean from this? Are they just homeless or is there more to this than meets the eye? What Can We See in This Photograph? 'Huts and the Unemployed' by Berenice Abbott via The New York Public Library Makeshift huts and people are the focus of this photograph. The houses are put together incredibly well considering they’re clearly from found materials–so is the focus of this image architectural? Or is it a social commentary on the time? I’d say both. Our photographer, who we’ll learn a little more about shortly, had an interest in photographing buildings: ‘In 1932, her aesthetic shifted and, using a large-format camera, she began photographing the architecture of the city in greater detail, often from dramatic points of view. She famously shot the Flatiron Building from below and Manhattan at night from above – perched on top of the Empire State Building’–Source: The Guardian The photograph in our analysis was taken in 1935. The US began to recover from the Great Depression in 1933 but recovery was slow, and we know from the title that the people in our photograph are unemployed. Have they been hit hard by the Depression? It seems that these are people at a financial low but still showing how capable and resourceful they are; they’ve built huts, but more than that, they’ve decorated them with pictures–there is pride here and a feeling that these people will not be beaten and will not give up. A pram in the image highlights the severity of the situation; clearly there are babies or children here which raises questions: What kind of life are they living? Are they fed adequately? Yet, there is a broom pictured – someone is taking care of this makeshift home or street, there is a pile of dirt as if neatly swept up; they are not living in squalor. There is a subtle, yet powerful, drama at play here. How Does This Image Make Us Feel? Architecturally, this image is interesting; the idea of someone adding to a building in such a contrasting way from the original style can’t help but pique interest. The wood is distinct from the brick, particularly as many different pieces of wood have been used. This further contrasts from the uniform ‘brick pattern’ behind the huts, pulling them out of the image towards us. There is contrast between the texture of elements: the softness of the dirt, the organic-looking huts, the hard repetition of the brick. Our eyes look for contrasts like this, and in this composition the contrasting textures create a particularly strong sense of space. The pictures on the outside of the wall are fascinating too; usually pictures are inside of houses, so in a way we feel almost like we’re being pulled in to someone’s home–or maybe even like we’re intruding somewhere personal, that we are uninvited. The cat, the man reading the newspaper, the pose of the other against the wall, the pram, and the broom all reinforce this feeling of a private moment. So, on its face, this is might seem like an architectural image, but upon closer inspection it's actually something of a portrait. It's not a detached architectural or cool reportage image, either: this is a considered, sympathetic depiction of the circumstances of poor people. About the Photographer and Photograph Berenice Abbott originally pursued journalism, which might explain her flair for telling a story through photographs. After changing interests to sculpture and theatre, she studied in Paris and Berlin before becoming involved in photography as a darkroom assistant in 1923. After honing her darkroom skills, Man Ray, her employer, encouraged her to take her own photographs. Abbott worked on her Changing New York project, which our example is part of, for 6 years before finally getting the financial backing which allowed her to focus on the task and eventually produce 305 photographs, some of which were made into a book published in 1939. Your Turn! ‘Car and Homemade Trailer on U.S. 101’ by Dorothea Lange 'Car and Homemade Traileron U.S. 101' by Dorothea Lange via The New York Public Library This time, a photograph taken by another woman, Dorothea Lange, in 1936. Its full title is: ‘Car and Homemade Trailer on U.S. 101 near King City California. Man and wife middle-aged from Wisconsin. “Old Man Depression sent us out on the road… You don’t know anything about how many people are living in trailers till you ‘hit Florida”. Not the most succinct of titles, but a wealth of information. Already we know the photograph is telling another story of the Great Depression. This time though, our subjects have picked up and left town. How does that compare with our previous photograph’s reading? What is similar about the composition? What is different? If you're unsure of what to look for in a photograph, check out Dawn Oosterhoff's excellent article: How to Read a Photograph and let us know what you see in this image.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1615
__label__wiki	0.517639	0.517639	Studying magnetic space explosions with NASA missions by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center In this simulation, a reconnection even pushes a blob of plasma toward Earth. The jet blown in the opposite direction wobbles due to the unstable conditions. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Yi-Hsin Liu/Joy Ng, producer Every day, invisible magnetic explosions are happening around Earth, on the surface of the sun and across the universe. These explosions, known as magnetic reconnection, occur when magnetic field lines cross, releasing stored magnetic energy. Such explosions are a key way that clouds of charged particles—plasmas—are accelerated throughout the universe. In Earth's magnetosphere—the giant magnetic bubble surrounding our planet—these magnetic reconnections can fling charged particles toward Earth, triggering auroras. Magnetic reconnection, in addition to pushing around clouds of plasma, converts some magnetic energy into heat, which has an effect on just how much energy is left over to move the particles through space. A recent study used observations of magnetic reconnection from NASA's ARTEMIS—Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun—to show that in the long tail of the nighttime magnetosphere, extending away from Earth and the sun, most of the energy is converted into heat. This means that the exhaust flows—the jets of particles released by reconnection—have less energy available to accelerate charged particles than previously thought. When magnetic reconnection occurs between two clouds of plasma that have the same density, the exhaust flow is wildly unstable—flapping about like a garden hose with too much water pressure. However, the new results find that, in the event observed, if the plasmas have different densities, the exhaust is stable and will eject a constant, smooth jet. These differences in density are caused by the interplay of the solar wind—the constant stream of charged particles from the sun—and the interplanetary magnetic field that stretches across the solar system. These new results are key to understanding how magnetic reconnection can send particles zooming toward Earth, where they can initiate auroras and cause space weather. Such information also provides fundamental information about what drives movement in space throughout the universe, far beyond the near-Earth space we can observe more easily. The ARTEMIS spacecraft have now spent more than a decade investigating the invisible phenomena near Earth, working in tandem with other missions like Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms, and Magnetospheric Multiscale to form a complete picture of magnetic reconnection near Earth. Physicists uncover clues to mechanism behind magnetic reconnection Provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Citation: Studying magnetic space explosions with NASA missions (2017, March 9) retrieved 22 January 2020 from https://phys.org/news/2017-03-magnetic-space-explosions-nasa-missions.html Learning to use a Solar Scope with H alpha filter Question about Einstein rings Questions about the expansion of space on galactic scales How to calculate the wavelength of light coming from 1 light year away Where exactly is the Hertzsprung Gap? Betelgeuse unusual dimming, ready to supernova? More from Astronomy and Astrophysics The magnetosphere has a large intake of solar wind energy Japanese researchers find new classes of electron orbits The solar wind breaks through the Earth's magnetic field NASA to investigate magnetic explosions Image: NASA's MMS achieves closest-ever flying formation ESA opens oxygen plant, making air out of moondust SpaceX launches, destroys rocket in astronaut escape test Rough seas delay escape test for SpaceX crew capsule Scientists measure the evolving energy of a solar flare's explosive first minutes Here and gone: Outbound comets are likely of extra-solar origin Huygens landing spin mystery solved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1617
__label__wiki	0.892491	0.892491	Jason Roy is a definite Ashes option says England head coach Trevor Bayliss By : Plumbers Chislehurst Roy is averaging 68.20 runs at the Cricket World Cup England one-day specialist Jason Roy is a “definite option” to face Australia in the Ashes series later this summer, according to head coach Trevor Bayliss. Roy has never played Test cricket but has impressed opening the batting for England in one-day internationals. He has averaged […] Harlequins: Charlie Mulchrone signs short-term deal before joining coaching team Charlie Mulchrone joined Harlequins from Worcester in 2016 Harlequins scrum-half Charlie Mulchrone has signed a short-term contract with the Premiership club which will see him move into coaching in November. The 30-year-old will provide cover for Argentina’s Martin Landajo during the World Cup, while Danny Care could yet be part of England’s squad in Japan. 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__label__cc	0.523161	0.476839	Podcast UFO An Internet Live Stream Show & Podcast Related to UFOs Become a Guest Subscriber Membership Sign-Up Members Shows & Archives How to Use the RSS Link in Media Players & Support Canceling Subscriptions Post Your UFO Sighting Form Listen to the Full Show For Free Members Two-Hour Podcasts & Archives Mail Sign Up Betty Andreasson UFOS Over Massachusetts! by Charles Lear In last week’s blog a UFO park and marker designating the sight of an encounter in Sheffield, Massachusetts was spotlighted. Massachusetts holds a special place in UFO history as being the state where this country’s very first recorded encounter occurred. As of this writing, the state ranks in the top 34% for sightings reported to the National UFO Reporting Center, which is high for a state of its size. A classic 1952 UFO photo comes from the state and in March of this year an extraordinary close encounter case there was reported to the operators of the website UFO Giant. Massachusetts is also home to two paranormal hotspots where activity includes strange creatures and UFOs with one of them being just outside of Boston. Just about every UFO history review starts with the late 1890’s airship flap and then moves on to World War II foo fighters. What may surprise many UFOlogists is that there was a 1639 encounter that was recorded by John Winthrop who was Governor at the time. On page 294 of the 1908 Charles Scribner’s Sons edition of “Winthrop’s Journal: History of New England 1630-1649 Volume I”, there is this entry which reads very much like a modern case report: In this year one James Everell, a sober, discreet man, and two others, saw a great light in the night at Muddy River. When it stood still, it flamed up, and was about three yards square; when it ran, it was contracted into the figure of a swine: it ran as swift as an arrow towards Charlton, and so up and down about two or three hours. They were come down in their lighter about a mile, and, when it was over, they found themselves carried quite back against the tide to the place they came from. Divers other credible persons saw the same light, after, about the same place. Read more → Blog 1952, Betty Andreasson, bigfoot, Encounters with UFOs, Hockomock Swamp, James Everell, Leominster, Leomonster, Loren Coleman, Massachusetts, Massachusetts on July 16, Massachusetts triangle UFO, orange orbs, police sergeant, Ronny LeBlanc, Salem, Shel Alpert, South Ashburnham, The Bridgewater Triangle, Thomas Downey, UFOS Over Massachusetts Another Way To Become a Supporter & Listen Sign Up & Listen to Full Shows with Patreon’s RSS Feed for any media player Access the Full Show Sign Up for Full Shows! Sign Up For Weekly Guest Notices & Announcements Available Merchandise T-Shirts & More Now Available! Click Pic! Listen to our Free Shows on Stitcher Advertisements & More The Interactive Podcast Podcast UFO is an interactive weekly audio & video show/podcast pertaining to UFOs and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Shows are simulcast Live Streamed on KGRA Radio, plus on our home page through YouTube with a chat room and recorded live every Tuesday at 6:00PM to 8:00PM EST, (GMT-4) with free podcast episodes posted of the first hour on Wednesdays. Interview topics include various aspects of the UFO experience, such as sightings and cover-ups. Guests are noted personalities, scientists, sighting witnesses, ufology investigators, researchers, skeptics, authors and people involved in all facets of the phenomenology. We highly encourage your interaction with guests and your feedback is always welcome. Guest's opinions and claims do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions or positions of Podcast UFO or any of it's affiliates. Guest blogs are welcome, they are the creations of the authors alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions or positions of Podcast UFO or any of it's affiliates. Images on this site are often used from the open source of the Internet. Images posted are believed to be within our rights according to the U.S. Copyright Fair Use Act (title 17, U.S. Code.) If you believe there is an infringement of your image, please contact us on our contact page for removal. Copyright © 2011 - 2020 Podcast UFO All Rights Reserved Comments on Recent Shows Charles Lear on UFOs Spacemen, Ultraterrestrials, or What?: The Strange Case Of Woodrow Derenberger Martin S. Willis on UFOs Spacemen, Ultraterrestrials, or What?: The Strange Case Of Woodrow Derenberger Logan on UFOs Spacemen, Ultraterrestrials, or What?: The Strange Case Of Woodrow Derenberger admin on UFOs Spacemen, Ultraterrestrials, or What?: The Strange Case Of Woodrow Derenberger	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1624
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__label__cc	0.567231	0.432769	Obama supports Senate's nuclear option to end some filibusters CNN's Dana Bash and Ted Barrett and Tom Cohen Update 5:53 p.m. ET Washington (CNN) - Senate Democrats dropped the filibuster bomb Thursday, and now the question is what kind of fallout will result from the so-called nuclear option. By a 52-48 vote, the Senate ended the ability of minority Republicans to continue using filibusters to block some of President Barack Obama's judicial and executive nominations, despite the vehement objections of Republicans. Majority Democrats then quickly acted on the change by ending a filibuster against one of Obama's nominees for a federal appeals court. Obama later cited what he called "an unprecedented pattern of obstruction in Congress" during his presidency for the move led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. "A deliberate and determined effort to obstruct everything, no matter what the merits, just to refight the results of an election is not normal," Obama said of the change. "And for the sake of future generations, it cannot become normal." The man who coined the term 'nuclear option' regrets ever pursuing it Republicans warned the controversial move would worsen the already bitter partisan divide in Washington, complaining it took away a time-honored right for any member of the Senate minority party to filibuster. "This changes everything, this changes everything," veteran GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona told reporters. He blamed newer Democratic senators who never served as the minority party for pushing the issue, adding: "They succeeded and they will pay a very, very heavy price for it." Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky called Thursday's maneuvering a diversion from the problem-plagued Obamacare issue that has been giving the White House and Democrats political headaches. "You'll regret this and you may regret it a lot sooner than you think," McConnell warned, adding that "the Democratic playbook of broken promises, double standards and raw power - the same playbook that got us Obamacare - has to end. It may take the American people to end it, but it has to end." CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger said Democrats seem to believe that things couldn't get much worse, with judicial vacancies increasing and Republicans increasing their use of filibusters after an agreement earlier this year that cleared some presidential appointees. Opinion: 'Nuclear option' makes GOP do its job "I think there is probably a little bit of 'calling your bluff' going on here; that Harry Reid basically threw up his hands and said, enough of this, it's time to do it," Borger said. Now, she added, the question was whether angry Republicans would further harden their positions in the already bitter political climate which she said "will get worse." Thursday's change affected presidential executive nominations such as ambassadors and agency heads, along with judicial nominations except for Supreme Court appointees. It did not affect the ability of Republicans to filibuster legislation. Under the old rules, it took 60 votes to break a filibuster of presidential nominees. The change means a simple Senate majority of 51 now suffices in the chamber Democrats currently control with a 55-45 majority. The nuclear option deployed by Reid allowed a procedural vote that required a simple majority to change the threshold for approving presidential and judicial nominees, instead of a super majority typically required. Opinion: What's at stake in power struggle over judges "It's time to get the Senate working again," the Nevada Democrat said on the Senate floor. "Not for the good of the current Democratic majority or some future Republican majority, but for the good of the United States of America. It's time to change. It's time to change the Senate before this institution becomes obsolete." Reid followed through on threats dating back years after Republicans blocked three judicial nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, known as the highest court in the land after the Supreme Court. Both parties have been guilty of political hijinks involving filibusters. In 2005, Republicans who then held the majority threatened the nuclear option to prevent Democratic filibusters of President George W. Bush's judicial nominees. The confrontation was averted thanks to an agreement by a bipartisan group of 14 senators. Obama, then a senator, opposed the nuclear option at that time. "I urge my Republican colleagues not to go through with changing these rules," he said on the Senate floor in 2005. "In the long run it is not a good result for either party. One day Democrats will be in the majority again and this rule change will be no fairer to a Republican minority than it is to a Democratic minority." Explainer: What's the nuclear option? Asked about Obama's past stance compared to his support Thursday for Reid's move, White House spokesman Josh Earnest cited increased obstruction of Obama nominees for the need to get the Senate working again. "The circumstances have unfortunately changed for the worse since 2005," Earnest said, noting that there were 50 judicial vacancies when Obama took office compared to 93 today and that many of the President's nominees have bipartisan support but can't get an up-or-down Senate vote. Furious Republicans accused Reid of reneging on a pledge against using the nuclear option. "It is another partisan political maneuver to permit the Democratic majority to do whatever it wants to do, and in this case it is to advance the President's regulatory agenda and the only cure for it that I know is an election," said veteran GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. Until now, Reid hadn't necessarily had support from enough of his own Democratic caucus to pass a rules change. Some Democratic senators were reluctant to change the rules because of reverence for the institution and, more importantly, because they know Democrats will not always be in the majority. Veterans such as Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who had been opposed to the nuclear option to change the Senate rules, recently decided to back Reid's move. Feinstein and others, like fellow Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, said things were so broken in Washington that the nuclear option was the only way to fix it. Three Democrats voted with Republicans on Thursday in opposing the nuclear option - Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. However, Republicans argued Democrats were just trying to manufacture a crisis in order to create a distraction from the Obamacare rollout debacle. "Sounds to me like Harry Reid is trying to change the subject and if I were taking all the incoming fire that he is taking over Obamacare I'd try to change the subject too," House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday. CNN's Ashley Killough, Lisa Desjardins, Alan Silverleib and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report. Filed under: Congress • Harry Reid • Senate Bhawk Put a time limit on the filibuster rule suspension–2 yrs. November 21, 2013 12:49 pm at 12:49 pm \| I was hoping the Nuclear option involved putting everyone who currently works in the senate or the house into a nuclear Reactor or at least fired them all for their incompetence, but no it is just another power struggle between the worst corporations in the U.S. the republicants and democraps. I support this because the entire Congress is refusing to do their jobs. The Senate is a good place to start. We should do the same in the House. JokeofaPresident The funny thing is the folks that will hate this most is Democrats when they are not in majority. These people are insane and will bring this country down. DaveinIL One day the Democrats will be in the minority and rue the day they changed the filibuster rules. The American people have seen the results of purely partisan action in the train wreck that is Obamacare. The means are never justified by the end in politics. ShawnDH Lewis cried: "I can't wait till this comes back to bite them after 2014." Sure it will. Just like Republicans won in 2012. You sure were fake confident then, too. Will you ever learn? America hates Republicans and everything you stand for. How'd that whole government shut down work out for ya? i agree with Sue, the only way any of this debacle in government will change is to vote them all out. They just move the herd back and forth. Take away their job. All of them. They pushed through Obamacare, and many other bad decisions. but hey we can live with it... Lower your standards, and you can stomach anything... darknesscrown "Miguel Demos were pretty confident about Obamacrae. I suspect Reid is pretty confident about taking the gloves off. Always easy to throw the first punch Harry, be sure you can take a punch too, because the midterms are coming up." Actually, the Republicans took the gloves off when they found it completely unacceptable that a black Democrat kicked their teeth in at the polls in 2008 (then again in 2012). They've been doing absolutely everything out of spite since then. Everyone who is cheering this..... remember how happy you are and who is responsible when the Republicans get the majority in the Senate. Any complaints of heavy handedness, the need for bipartisanship and all of the other garbage that is whined about when Dems don't have their way will truely ring hollow. pourmonamijc We the people? Really? More like We the lobbies. I can't wait for republicans to take back the senate. only 1 more year. its going to be fun watching the democrats freak out when they can't filibuster. LOL thank you Reid. WV Gleeman Good. The Repubs should have done this back when the Dems were obstructing all the GWB nominations. There is a time for a fillibuster and a time to go about their real jobs. A 'nuclear tool' is going to silence portion of the population and is a step towards fascism. It's time to get rid of the filibuster altogether, along with the "hold" option. No more obstructionism by any senator of any party or no party, for any reason. Pete de Pete So it is ok for the House to follow the Hastert Rule ( Bills can only come to the floor for a vote if it supported by the majority in the majority conference) hence we have had stalled legislations in the house because the tealiban does not like it. Reed, you did the right thing. Going nuclear was the only option. Fight fire with fire. Why is it that dems have to always play nice and Repugs have to be aggressive? Enough with this double standard. You congress men and senators were sent to congress to solve problems not create them. Sorry low class dems at it again just like their daddy Obama. Change the rules to fit your perverted agenda!!!! This is the result of political impetence driven by shortsided utiliatrian idealism. In lay terms- It's my ball and I am going home. nuclear mike Goodbye Democrats as you go down in the bonfire of your own making!!! Concerned Educator, Mississippi Way to go, Reid! Maybe now we can get some nominees appointed. Figures that Harry has to change the rules when things aren't going his way. All I have to say is that Karma is a _______. AWESOME! Its about time! Ironically the Democrats blocked Bush's judicial appointments too. Short memory. Lynne Schendel OMG It is about time! These fool republicans in the house have been doing nothing but obstructing, blocking, and standing in the way of everything. Over 400 filibusters! Lyndon Johnson had ONE. Way to go, Harry. ConstAdvocate Gotta change the rules so that political appointees can get through, but can't bring the Upton Bill to the floor? Harry is getting ready to force another government shutdown. Probably wants to blame the Republicans again. But Obamacare is going to have a far greater impact on Americans and the Dems will be eating dirt in 2014.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0119.json.gz/line1626
__label__wiki	0.562576	0.562576	‘The View’ Hosts Make Fun of Melania’s Accent – Her Spokeswoman CRUSHES Them Skyla StoneSep 14, 2018 ‘The View’ is one of those shows that I not only don’t watch, I assiduously avoid watching it. I expect stupid crap from Joy Behar and over the years Whoopi Goldberg has shown herself to be someone I can’t respect either. It’s pretty obvious by the number of things these women get wrong that they don’t really follow politics closely. These liberal talking heads only have a tentative grasp on current events and politics. They don’t really understand Americans or what is going on in this country. They get their news from liberal Facebook headlines and MSNBC. I have never been impressed by what they take as humor and it is beyond me why people watch the show. It should have been canceled long ago. But that doesn’t stop them from hatin’ on First Lady Melania Trump. They have a serious case of jealousy over Melania and they show it constantly. They are mean, vicious and vindictive towards the first lady. These women will say the most horrible things about conservatives as long as it gets them a canned laugh and that is especially true when they set their wicked sights on Melania. The claws come out big time. If Joy, Whoopi and these other women of ‘The View’ were what they claimed to be, they would adore Melania. She is everything they give lip service to… she’s an immigrant, a powerful woman, highly educated, a self-made businesswoman and she’s one of the most beautiful women on the planet. But because she’s married to President Trump they have to shred her every time they get a chance. And their hypocrisy knows no bounds. They actually mock Melania for her accent. If a conservative did that to any liberal out there, they would be burned at the stake for it. Figuratively speaking that is and literally if they could get away with it. But Melania’s press secretary was not impressed with the attack and crushed the women of ‘The View’ over it. From the Conservative Tribune: “The mockery arose when “The View” panelists were discussing the anonymous commentary piece published last week by The New York Times that purported to be written by a senior member of the Trump administration. The discussion focused on “The View’s” typical liberal talking points until co-host Sunny Hostin mentioned she was “struck” by the first lady’s statement. “Hostin looked prepared to read the statement in an accent before saying, “Oh, I can’t do an accent” as Whoopi Goldberg warned her off. “Hostin proceeded to read Trump’s statement in a sarcastic tone that was certainly not her own, normal voice. It wasn’t an impersonation of Melania Trump’s accent, but given the context, her meaning — and mockery — was clear. “The first lady’s press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, fired back at “The View” in a tweet responding to an article published by Raw Story. “Raw Story, a left-leaning news outlet, described the segment with the headline: “The View destroys Melania for attacking anonymous NYT op-ed — after helping Trump push birther lies.” “Grisham responded to Raw Story in her tweet by pointing out how the panel on “The View” was “disrespectful” and “hypocritical” for mocking anyone’s accent. “As an example of their hypocrisy, “The View” hosts brought attention to a jacket the Melania Trump wore when visiting detained immigrant children at the border this summer, according to TheBlaze. “The jacket was inscribed with the words “I really don’t care, do you?” on the back. The left-wing media claimed the message was insensitive to immigrants, but President Donald Trump later cleared up the controversy in a Twitter post by saying the jacket was a message directed at “the Fake News Media.’” “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” written on the back of Melania’s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares! Just shameful. It’s okay to mock an immigrant like Melania because she’s married to President Trump and is a Republican, but don’t you dare mock illegal immigrants or their spark of divinity. What a hypocritical double standard. Americans love the first lady. Melania is adored by millions and that drives the left bug nuts. She is the most beautiful and fashionable lady since Jackie Kennedy. That’s why they constantly attack her. Pathetic. Grisham’s statement should be enough to embarrass the women at “The View,” if they have any shame. 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