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__label__wiki	0.661939	0.661939	Sack Neil Lennon. His team are bottlers ? TCN Survey Followers of this site and our Twitter account will know that Neil Lennon has our full support and considering this is his first managerial post we think he is doing the job well. Considering the size of the club he is managing winning 2 trophies appearing in 3 finals and loosing the league by 1pt last season we would say he is doing a remarkable job. Unfortunately it seems after every defeat their are calls for his head and a lot of negative comments made on social network. These range from calling his/ our team bottlers to moaning about his behaviour track side especially when he feels officials have not done their jobs correctly. So we have decided to run some polls to get an overall feeling from the support. POLL NOW CLOSED THANK YOU FOR VOTING Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment. Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment. Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment. Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment. Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment. Can we ask you now to use the comments box to give your overall opinion on Neil Lennon celtic football club fc Lennon Neil team The man has been hounded and demonised since he arrived in Scotland. Maybe if the Celtic board had taken a more assertive stance in the past the man would not be persecuted in this way. As for sacking him… Ridiculous suggestion! Neil should say hid piece after reflecting. Running onto pitch was embarrassing John Thomson says: I said it when we were 3-0 down to Kilmarnock and I’m sticking by it.neil Lennon could easily have walked for a quieter life but he has stuck by us and we should be paying him the same honour.and not because he’s a true Celtic man although it helps but he’s a great manager and one of the bravest wel ever have. Hh Neil lennon Ghod only knows how he puts up with hassle day in day out! Of course fans get frustrated I’m guilty myself. Lennon will want to improve and both he and team will! He needs to stop giving them ammunition as yesterday by running on to park. Was always going to back fire. That said he’s only human! Mans doing a great job considering the stuff Him and his family went/are going through..this country just ain’t used to Someone who won’t just sit back and accept truly shocking decisions and why should he?? We all have opinions on the game, the team, the tactics we pays our money and we believe we have knowledge on the players capabilities… thus most of us are not football team coaches… but 3 finals 1 win 1 semi final lost, dropping 5 points in the critical last month of the league run in last season …. not beating them at Ibroke to win the league recently…. For me we lack the same energy and purpose going forward as our opposition… the back four are never commanding and we allow teams to run with the ball to almost 18 yard line before a tackle is made and then a fould is given away… Had the ball not been burst with the manky mob going into admin would the league be won at this moment am not sure … the two recent results at Hampden have me doubting it. Stephen McCallum says: Neil will learn to be more subtle given time and to pick his time and place to make his feelings known, but he still a 2nd yr apprentice, going it alone with no teacher, winning the title after just missing out last year! And his players will learn how to be the bullys in these big games now that they have the taste for winning championships and european football can only help further their carreers 1888steven says: Overall, I’m amazed he’s still at Celtic Park. With the constant abuse and grief the guy gets, most would have left a while ago. Hats off to Neil. I feel he has fight, tooth and nail, these corrupt, vile, rancid, disgusting cheats that the SFA are employing. My only criticism is that he should maybe do so in a less aggressive manner or put an official club statement out every time we have a gripe with officials and their “honest mistakes”. If yesterdays ref couldn’t see Black tackle on Ledley along with the various other things, the guy shouldn’t be working as a ref. If he did see it, then he’s a cheat and shouldn’t be a ref. john fegan says: I will back Lenny ALL the way. He wears his heart on his sleeve and that mirrors the vast majority of the Celtic support. Given all he has had to sustain, any wee indiscretions are forgivable. Keep at it Bhoy. Bhoy Fett says: I support Neil but I also criticise him, just like I have any other Celtic manager. It doesn’t matter if you are experienced or new at the job, fans do not wish to see defeat. This is a young team and Lennon is a rookie – we know all this – but I don’t want us to heap all our excuses on these facts any more than I do wish to blame it on referees. This leads us down a path of victimisation, which we can still address it must be said, but lets look at ourselves as much as these other facts. Wanting Neil Lennon to leave is absurd and would gain nothing only put us back again. He must learn as much as his players have to. Losing the plot and getting himself in hot water is not the most diplomatic approach even if it is his character. He will only play into the hands of his detractors. There is not doubt that decisions against Celtic (not all) are staggering and must be scrutinised. However, the battle with the SFA and playing officials in Scotland must be dealt with calmly. This is the only way to tackle these issues. Mike Carvill says: Early days for Neil, he will, in time, become a top manager …….. hopefully with Celtic. I can’t think of anyone else who could have taken this job as his first managerial job and did it so well. I hope he never loses his passion abrahamtoast says: Much as I often agree with what he says, Neil must learn to keep his mouth shut. He is an energetic, inspirational manager, but he may be of little use to the team if he is stuck up in the stand for half the season. He MUST be aware that, as RFC are having a bit of a bad time just now, the powers that be will be desperate to do all they can to even things up, so he shouldn’t give them the opportunity. Regarding on-the-pitch performances, I believe there IS a problem in the big games. Two trophies in two full years when your main rivals are in meltdown is simply not good enough for Celtic. Despite some dodgy refereeing performances, Celtic didn’t play well against Killie or Hearts this season, and that’s why they failed to win a cup. Better (and some worse) Celtic teams have won trophies because they played well enough to outweigh dodgy refffing. This team needs to learn that and step up to the plate. I’d like Neil to stay, but I don’t really want to go through another year blowing big games against obviously inferior opposition. If Neil can’t sort out this obvious failing, it may unfortunately be time for him to accept that the job is just too big for him. Next season will be the test – he won’t be a “rookie” any more, and he must show that he’s got what it takes. john carson says: Neil young+learning. Seems to be a great man manager+IMHO improving tactician. Do think he should rise above bad calls in public though. Full support from most I know + will continue to excel. Tony Mowbray took these decisions on the chin. Look where it got him. As a club, we need to raise awareness about the number of honest mistakes in high profile matches. Neil needs support from higher up the chain as the treatment he suffers is unacceptable. Sadly I do think there are people out there to get him and he will not have it. Good to see he has the passion. Mc Fitzpatrick says: I bet the people who voted he should be sacked are the same people who acted like his biggest fans last week… Band wagon supporters! Iv supported Lenny from the start, I supported him during Celtic playing great footy last season, supported him thru his ordeals, supported him after ICT, supported him at half time during the 3-3 killie game, I knew in the bottom of my heart he would get us our title back, Iv supported him sticking up for our club, for speaking out against the blatant cheating… Anyone who says ‘the ref should have no bearing on a game if we play well’ obviously knows jack shit about football…. Titles are won and lost on ref decisions so they play a crucial part in the game of footy! Don’t get me wrong sometimes I question lennys tactics or sub choices, I sometimes think he uses twitter the wrong way and I absol hate him chewing tabacco but one thing I love about him is he isn’t doing any of this for the money, he’s doing it for the love he has for Celtic fc and it’s fans… He’s one of us and I’d hate to think in someone’s time of need that we would turn our backs on him….. How many of us could say we would walk into work the same day we received a nail bomb? Or continued leading our team seconds after bein attacked??? Those calling for lennys head need to wise up Celtic88 says: Neil is a young manager with a young staff and players he is learning all the time. He wears his heart on his sleeve I love that about him he also tells it as it is, he is a very honest man. Would we rather have him act like Tony Mowbray and take it on the chin.Neil goes mad at a decision against our tean no matter the score not just when we get beat. People suggesting he gets sacked is ridiculous. The glory hunters should take a good look at themselves in Lenny we trust Hail Hail. Dougie Wilson says: He has a long way to go as manager. Team under perform at key times. He over reacts when things don’t go his way instead of seriously addressing his shortcomings and those of his team. One more season and then assess then Jim McLaughlin says: The big issue is the rank-rottenness of the SFA. How can you really judge Lennon or his team? The SFA’s modus operandi is STOP CELTIC, and the most obvious vehicle for keeping the club down is refereeing patronage: sort that and the SFA is 99% sorted. Then consider Lennon’s performance on merit. Jack Harvey says: This is a man who has suffered more than most from attacks (sadly at times literally) by anti- Celtic, and by association, anti -Catholic bigots who still plague Scottish society. In the face of these attacks the Celtic manager has been unwavering in his courage. For this courage alone most people without a biased agenda would admire Neil Lennon. In addition he has shown further fortitude in challenging apparent institutional bias epitomised by the SFA. I am sure that most unbiased observers would applaud Neil’s willingness to challenge perceived abuses of power. Further to this he displays, as manager of Celtic, a passion for his team that fans of many clubs must envy. That he is sometimes too quick to offer opinion is not in doubt. That he makes mistakes is not in doubt either. But those statements would be true of most great football managers in the history of the sport. Neil Lennon is not yet a great manager. Althetim says: We should stand by Neil Lennon and his team. They are young and will improve but right at this present time, in my opinion, they don’t have the bottle for the big “one of” games. Results like yesterdays happen too often for it to be coincidence. Anyway, the “bottle” will develope along with the team and there’s no need to panic or become hysterical. Keep the faith. We will be around for a long time to come. I suspect there are others who wish they could say the same. matthew leonard says: well said the team will grow 2 b stronger in the one of games Steel-River Bhoy says: Sack NL? You’re havin’ a laugh, aren’t you?. I’d rather divorce my wife..and I love her dearly! Earlier in the season many fickle fans were callin’ for his head (and Georgios..Big Sammy..Samarass’ too). Why? Can’t they see we have first class management..and a first class team, too? Neil has done NOTHING wrong in my eyes, He speaks his mind, YES!..He won us the league, YES!, He won us the Scottish Cup last season, YES!. Sorry, we only sack FAILURES..Mowbray (I’d spit on his grave), but Neil Lennon. NEVER! Yours in Celtic. Markie. N Maciver says: Neil Lennon is the rite man at this time 4 the job. Majority of signings hav been spot on. He talks well, has backing of players and defends his club well when needed, and in this country is needed frequently. Kraljski says: Those commenting they want Lennon sacked need to have a stern look at themselves. For a first job, after all the issues he’s had to deal with I believe this shows disrespect to a TRUE Legend. Aye okay, some games (Not all, check his overall record) have been disappointing but thats why I choose to put this down to inexperience both within the coaching team and the squad. We all praise the team and manager when things go well ie. Such a young squad etc so we can’t have it both ways. Negative side I wish could be changed, just the way in which he deals with officials and the SFA. Reasons are, he can still his point across without having to storm the field as he did yesterday, okay there is occasions where he has been dragged through the SFA coals for feck all but reactions like yesterday will do no good for this. In Lenny I TRUST as with the VAST majority of the #CelticFamily. Katie Brown says: Good post Jas highlighting all the part time supporters and glory hunters out there. Neil has done a fantastic job particularly in the light of what he has had to deal with over the past year. He will only go on to be the stronger for it. GBNL. Andrew crielly says: All in all i think lennon is doing a good job but i feel he gripes at too much so when he complains about the big decisions the media pass it off as another lennon rant. I just feel he should try and contain his frustration (must be hard thing to do). He’s making it easy for the media to paint a bad picture of him and the club. He’s went through a lot and we should stand by him. Hail hail In Lennon we trust ,Celtic are more together as a support because of Neil ,we win our first league in four years.god bless Neil Lennon Mick G says: For his first job, Neil is doing well and is still learning. Some people don’t realise the task of managing this great club and considering all the off field “extras” that he had to put up with last year he has been amazing. The man is Celtic through and through and loves his players and supporters for that we should be grateful and proud. Now here comes the “but”…. he needs to learn to bite his tongue and walk away a bit more. The bias against Celtic is not new, Jock had it, King Billy had it, as did Hay, O’Neill and Strachan but they managed to rise above it with perhaps the occasional reaction but Lenny reacts after every defeat and it looks bad. I think someone like McNeill upstairs as an elder statesman ( no input in the running of the club or team affairs, that is Lennys job) would be an asset . Hes been there and done it and would help him settle a bit. That is my only criticism other than that GBNL. Hail Hail He shouts about every wrong decision that when (as in yesterday’s case) he genuinely has a point, it is drowned out by his constant protests over the course of the season. He surely must remember that Hearts scored a perfectly legitimate goal at Tyncastle a few weeks back and it wasn’t counted, before we went on to win 4-0?. The boy who cried wolf if you will. He lacks the dignity of a real Celtic manager, his twitter account where he responds to idiot Rangers fans (and some Celtic fans) in a similar moronic manner is wrong and should notbe the conduct of a manager of one of the globe’s biggest clubs. I like the fact he sticks up for his players and agree his passion is vital for the job. However, continually calling his players ‘world class’ when they score a 20-yard shot against Dundee Utd or have a half decent game against St Mirren, shows that he values his players way above their station. Hence, when we play these ‘big’ games and lose more often than not we are labelled bottlers. A term that grows credence after every failure, especially against teams that cost a fraction of ours. Tactically he also leaves a lot to be desired too. Yes we’ve won the league, but somehow there’s more questions than answers about this team anne curran says: In Lennon we trust . george glen says: he is oor boss he is celtic i stand by him all the way ( win lose or draw ) paultic73 says: once again winning the league is not enough for some,, well it is for me,, im not lennys biggest fan but think hes doing a great job champions,!!!!! thomas cochrane says: i think its time the board started to make noises about the regularity,and timing,not to mention strange,decisions awarded against celtic………can they all be honest mistakes.the history of the sfa,s dealings with the club as far back as Farry,before him tiny warton,dallas and the furore of that time,the refs strike,,,,,,,the resignations of refs ……whats that all about…….we have a ref resineing and criticising the establishment then the media having a go at him for rocking the boat………most of the thinking fans dont use the word .conspiricy(a meeja!!!generated tool to goad the fans with)but it does seem that certain refs,with a tacit nod from the powers that be, make to many …….unforced errors shall we say…….lenny must not be left to take that mob on himself…….the men at the top must get involved in these issues ……yours in celtic….gbnl+stan..hh..mon the hoops……….TC Tim C says: I can only reiterate…with what that man, Neil Lennon, has had to endure in this country, he’s done a very very good job. The shameful acts of aggression through bigotry, corruption & intolerance has been nothing short of absolutely shocking, TOTALLY shameful. The ‘indifference’ from the MSM & those who deem themselves to be ‘neutral’ has been equally appalling. GOD BLESS NEIL LENNON chestevie says: What we need to remember is lennon is a Celtic fan like the rest of us. he lives and breathes green & white and is as angry as the rest of us with the pathetic ref performances. Maybe as manager people will say he has to learn to walk away but i would rather see his emotion shown instead of hiding. seatownman says: 100% LENNON hail,hail, he knows when its wrong and he knows when its right and yesterday it was wrong how he could give a penalty for that is shocking ,DISGUSTED He’s been doing a great job under horrendous circumstances and I think it’s great how he publicly stands up for his players. I do hope privately he kicks them up the backside though when they turn in bad performances and that is 2 very lacklustre matches I’ve seen at Hampden that blew the treble. Neil Lennon is doing a good job when you see what he is up against with the ref’s and sfa and the crap he has had to put up with from Scotland’s shame across the city celtic need a new Q.C. To take over from the late mr Mcbride On top of historical bias NL will no doubt be targeted by refs after he and the late PMCBride managed to score victory over them for the first time in history. However i that has been short lived and has only made the stuation worse – it is a game we cannot win without someone blowing the whistele so to speak. Our only option is to get out of this league or do what Jock did and get a team on the park so good they can over come a few dodgy decisions. I hope NL and celtic Fc are up to this challenge. Pat gow says: Lennny is doing a great job. People that are on his back are not true fans. Faithful thru and thru Kathleen Kelly says: As a fan of Lennon, I felt disappointed by his reaction at the end of the semi-final. Normally I would be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt but on this occasion I feel he has let himself and the fans down. I still want Lennon to be in charge of Celtic until he’s taken us as far as he can. I don’t see the merit in knee jerk reactions calling for him to quit. I would, however, love it if he would take a deep breath and count to ten during games. I don’t want Lenny without the passion and ‘thunder’ but I would like him in the dugout managing the team where I feel he has earnt his place. I’m somewhat surprised that Mr Lennon has lasted so long in Scotland, he was singled out as a player (I however saw a guy who gave 100% in EVERY match he played in) then takes the reigns when Tony Mowbray left the club in a quite miserable state, then has to endure a sustained hate campaign that was launched against him from every angle in Scotland, while at the sae time trying to run one of the largest clubs in Europe – bear in mind the average age in our squad is 23 (broonie being the granda) the guy is building a team, unlike Villas Boas who inherited a team, give him time, I do admit we need a couple of older heads to blend in with the growing mantle of what we have now, Congratulations Mr Lennon on your league win, I’m already looking forward to next season & I hope it brings you even more success.. HAIL HAIL 😉 I think considering what he has had to put up with he has done well. However I wish he would take a step back and count to 10 or 1000000000 in his case why? because it gives those who loath Celtic the chance to put the boot in and there are plenty doing that already without are fellow Tims doing likewise. I was gutted yesterday and was shouting abuse at the TV so I like many others know and feel like our manager, we can get away with it he can’t. I will support Management and players no matter what. Remember we are the Champions that for me is first and foremost. Mysalsa says: Neil needs to stop blaming refs because if he wants to walk alongside Jock Stein he should listen to what he said about refs. If you are good enough they dont matter. Its as simple as that john docherty says: Sacking Neil Lennon would be a stupid mistake as he should now have the experience to carry us forward next season. Two or three experienced players are a definate for this to happen as we do lack experience and leadership in big must win games. As for his outbursts these must not stop but do need to be carried out in a more appropriate manner. Shouting swearing and screaming leaves him wide open to S.F.A and S.P.L rules. This then leads to bans and the team suffering when hes not on the touchline. Wul says: Neil is the voice of the fans, he’s an inspiration to us all, never let the shut you up or hound you out Neil…… Ubergezza says: NL is doing fine. Like the team he is young and still has much to learn both on and off the park! On the park he still has to settle on first and best 11 and then strengthen the squad from there. Off the park NL has been superb but recently pressure has told and some reactions would be best avoided! Thommo and Big Dolph could help here more and NL might be better using them more on his behalf! Away from these few incidents anyone who has listened and watched NL punditry knows he has great knowledge and character with great personality! Keep going NL, learn and grow! therr is nuthin wrang wi neil lennon hes a man doing a job get aff his f**kin back n let him get on wi his job shower of idiots HH ILWT I think Lennon is doing a good job and just has to learn how to impact the game with his substitutions. The only thing I would add is I would prefer him to control his temper when dealing with officials as he is playing right into their hands with his recent behaviour. eddie graham says: I have nothing but admiration for the man, he has put up with more SHT than any other manager has ever had to deal with, as well as building a team that on their day have played some excellent football and brought the title home, so i’m prepared to forgive him for not delivering the double/treble and hope he takes something from it to make us stronger for next year. ScottyBhoy says: Neil Lennon for me stands up when he needs to be counted for his team, he is no different from any other manager, who stands up for his team. Well done neil. Dont let the bastards grind you down hail hail. Neil must stay! He is passionate about Celtic and the injustice he sees in the refereeing decisions. Someone has to speak out! We have a great young team and with Neil as manager we can only get better. Would be good if the board spoke out more about some of the decisions that go against us. Jpm says: GBNL…. he is passionate about Celtic ( as we ALL are!!) I honestly think we ALL would act in the same way if we were being persecuted as mush as Neil. HH. I’m sorry to say it but I think it’s tome for Neill to go. I cringe when I watch his antics after a poor performance by the team. I really think the job is too much for him and worry about his mental health. When he ran onto the pitch yesterday I and others I’ve spoken to really thought he might hit the ref. He’s become an embarressment…and you can’t say it’s an isolated incident. He needs to go. “show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser” – Vince Lombardi. Neil Lennon has been called many things but never a loser. He has dragged us from mediocrity to being league champions with the prospect of dominating for a long time to come. Let us celebrate the joy that he has brought and not be divided by the agendas of people who are not Celtic fans. Ross County, Rangers, Kilmarnock and Hearts. All at Hampden and all huge games. Got the feeling if we’d played home or even away we could (should) have won these but we NEED to win big games that win us cups. This has to be addressed. Neil Lennon has been a revelation in his first managerial position. No one lives Celtic more than he does, he has put up with more in 18 months than any person should in a life time. God bless you Lenny. I think he just needs to cool it a bit! He needs guidance here – he is too volatile for his own good. I don’t get how he hasn’t got the message that he will simply get himself into trouble. Presumably the sports psychologists and his boss, Peter Lawell, are I’m a big fan of Neil Lennon for what he has done to bring a bit of pride and passion back – he’s not perfect but I think there’s better to come if he can channel his energy more positively at times! We are Champions and I doubt if we would be here without him. Fazzer says: Although I understand that Lennon should stand up for his players, he needs to be reminded that he is now the manager of a large business with a responsibility to represent it in such a way as befits its stature. He stands as the custodian of my club, those who came before and those who will continue to support it in years to come. The truly great managers understood this, and funnily enough so did the crap ones. The club need to publicly make him aware of this now before it gets out of hand. But they should also make it clear that the sfa and referees need to start cleaning house. Neil Page says: Lennon has the passion but I don’t think he is right for the job. I would like to see a foreign manager come in who can handle the big games,the squad and the media better. Honest question. Do you not think winning the two major Scottish Trophies in his first 2 years as a manager is good enough considering what he has had to put up with away from his work and the squad he inherited ? Leave a Reply to Stephen McCallum Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line409
__label__cc	0.715611	0.284389	The concept of Guru Granth-Guru Panth should be revived Sharomani Gurdawawara Parbandhik Committee (SGPC) has asked the central Govt.to amend Sikh Gurdawaras act to enable it to co-opt few persons from foreign countries.There is no likelihood for the acceptance of such a request.Moreover such co-option of a few persons of its choice by the party in power in SGPC, who so ever it might be can not make it a representative party of Sikhs world over. The need today is the formation of world Sikh representative body who should take the decisions of Sikh panth issues,to be binding on all the Sikhs world over.sgpc should play the leading role for the formation of such a panthic representative body in co ordination of the other Sikh organisations, which can also deal with the Sikh problems world over as united Sikh force. SGPC is an elected committee under the Sikh Gurdawaras act 1925 and only the Sikhs residing in punjab can be its voters.It has to function under that law to manage the historical Gurdawaras in punjab.Merely co-opting some members from out side punjab and even from out side India if allowed,of its own choice,it can not become a representative body of the Sikhs world over.It should discharge its own functions with honesty of purpose and to preach Sikh religion in punjab,wherein the Sikhs and particularly younger Sikh generation including the children of some Sikh leaders are openly drifting away from Sikh code of conduct and this trend is increasing day by day. If it succeeds to restore Sikh code of conduct in Sikhs in punjab,then certainly it can further make efforts to preach Sikh religion out side.Punjab,which is mentioned as homeland of Sikhs must be given first priority by sgpc,being in the dangerous zone to day.For this purpose SGPC must have honest,capable with commitment to Sikh religion,its members and office holders beyond any political pressure and party factionalism.The present set up has failed so far to show good results. In fact Sikh concept of Guru Granth and Guru Panth needs to be revived,so that Sikhs world over can take the decision on Sikh issues through their representatives.Though it is a difficult task to select or elect the representatives of Sikhs world over,but not impossible.A Sikh commission may be set up for this purpose consisting of suitable and capable Sikhs. Guru Gobind Singh,tenth Sikh Guru completed the final phase of Sikh religion,which had been founded by Guru Nanak Dev and developed by the second to ninth Sikh Gurus.All the Sikh Gurus had the same Divine Spirit and their Divine teachings are to be obeyed by the Sikhs without any reservations. Three very important injunctions were issued by the tenth Sikh Guru to complete the final phase of Sikh religion,which made Sikh religion to be an independent world religion, to be so soon included in the list of the first five religions of the world and the Sikhs to be a separate nation,by setting up its own Sikh empire through out north India,with whom Britishers had to come in to agreement,after establishing their rule in rest of India,not to interfere in the territories of each other. The first was to prescribe the Sikh initiation of Amrit-khande de pahul and Sikh emblems and the Sikh code of conduct in that respect,on Baisakhi of 1699,which provided the separate Sikh identity and the procedure to become and act as Sikhs.The tenth Sikh Guru prepared the Amrit himself and administered it to panj piaras-five beloved ones,with five Sikh emblems,and their names sufixed with Singhs,who were prepared for the supreme sacrifices and who were made the Sikh leaders.Then the Guru himself took the Amtit from them in that very manner and gave the authority to five such Sikhs to administer it to other Sikhs.History records that over twenty thousand Sikhs took the Amrit on that day,which is more than sufficient to establish that it was made mandatory for all the Sikhs to become and act as Sikhs. The second was to make Guru Granth Sahib as the eternal Sikh Guru in perpetuity,being the Divine Spirit of Sikh Gurus and to always remain under its Divine guidance.The tenth Guru just before his heavenly abode made Guru Granth Sahib as his successor,instead of any other living Guru,and commanded the Sikhs that Sikh panth was established as directed by Akal purakh and they should accept Guru Granth Sahib as their Guru and take its Divine guidance with purity of heart. The third was the concept of Guru Granth and Guru panth,that all the Sikhs having taken the Sikh initiation and observing the uniform Sikh code of conduct as prescribed by him, called Guru panth,should take the Sikh panth decisions themselves through their own representatives in the presence of and under the guidance of Guru Granth Sahib,which should be acceptable to all the Sikhs and binding upon them.This was the only way to keep the entire Sikh panth united. In the post ten Sikh Guru's period,the Sikhs remained in struggle against the mughal empire and Afgan invadors, for their sovereignty and freedom of religion,for about a century and they followed the Sikh concept of Guru Granth and Guru Panth.They took Sikh initiation and observed Sikh emblems and code of conduct as prescribed.They took the Sikh panth decisions through their representatives acting as Guru Panth,in the presence of and under the Divine guidanance of Guru Granth Sahib,mostly at Akal Takhat Sahib,which remained acceptable to them and binding upon them.They established their Sikh empire by ousting the mighty mughals and Afgans. Even in Singh Sabha movement and Akali movement Sikhs had been taking some decisions on Sikh panthic issues through their representatives.The decision to set up Sharomani Gurdawawara Parbandhik Committee in 1920 for the management of Sikh Gurdawaras was taken at Akal Takhat by the representatives of the Sikhs as Guru Panth,for whom the pre-requisite was the Sikh initiation and strict observance of Sikh code of conduct.They were successful to get the enactment of Sikh Gurdawaras act 1925 from British administration. However this concept of Guru Granth and Guru Panth stands over looked for several decades,which has incapacitated the Sikh to take decisions over the Sikh panth issues.which needs to be revived without any further delay.Sikhs are now spread over through out the world and their representative body to act as Guru Panth needs to be formed, so as to involve them all for such decisions on Sikh issues. Some persons hold the views that SGPC should be elected by the Sikhs world over.It can not be so done under law relating to it. SGPC is elected under the provisions of Sikh Gurdawaras act 1925 and only those Sikhs who reside in punjab can contest the elections to be its members and become the voters as well to elect them.It is for the management of historical Sikh Gurdawaras in punjab.In 1947 west punjab went to pakistan and so its jurisdiction was curtailed to east punjab which is in India.The Sikhs world over have to form their representative organization, being the need of the day, which should consist of the Sikhs of high standared of commitment and of honesty ,integrity,capability and dedication to Sikh religion and Sikh cause. The concept of Guru Granth-Guru panth, as ordained by Guru Gobind Singh, be revived, the over looking, of which for a long time has incapacitated the Sikhs to take the correct and the collective decisions as to the Sikh panthic affairs.It has been reiterated in Sikh rehat maryada as well, that all the decisions affecting the Sikh panth should be taken by the panthic committee and the accredited representatives of the panth, form a meeting of the panth, and their decision is called Gurmatta, to be taken in the presence and Divine guidance of Guru Granth Sahib, on the subjects which are calculated to clarify and support the fundamental principles of Sikh religion, such as safeguarding the position of Sikh Gurus and the holy Guru Granth Sahib, the purity of the ritual and the panthic organization. The decisions of the panth are to be invoiable and binding on all Sikhs. These should not violate the Divine teachings of Sikh Gurus and the Divine thought of Guru Granth Sahib and the established Sikh traditions of Sikh religion, which are binding upon Sikhs. The Sikh panthic decisions were taken in this manner at Akal Takhat by the Sikhs during the Sikh struggle in 18th century and they became victorious to wipe out the mughals and Afgan invaders and to establish Sikh empire. Sikhs are now spread world over and there is now the need of a world Sikh representation of Sikhs, may be named as, Sharomani Sikh Panthic Council, as the Sikh interests are the same every where. It can effectively solve the problems of the Sikhs world over. It can preach Sikh religion in the world, with the co-ordination of all the Sikhs and Sikh organizations, for which Sikhs are being accused not to have discharged their duty to bring the message of Sikh religion, of love and peace, to the notice of the world, needed today. It can make the Sikhs to live in Sikh code of conduct and Sikh way of life, from which they are now drifting away, particularly the Sikh younger generation. It can take the decisions on Sikh affairs unitedly as the involvement of all the Sikh is a must to make the decisions to be acceptable to all Sikhs, in accordance with the Sikh concept of Guru Granth-Guru panth, which are being brought under disputes, day by day. SGPC, is the creation of Sikh Gurdawaras act 1925, to manage historical Sikh Gurdawaras in punjab, and to preach Sikh religion. It has to function under the provisions of that law. No one can contest its election, who is not a resident of punjab, under the act. Its representation in the world panthic council will be very effective, being the main Sikh representative body, to do the constructive work for the solution of the Sikh problems and to preach Sikh religion in Sikhs and in the world. Akali Dal, which was the exclusive punjab Sikh political party, has now virtually become the punjab regional political party, with the Hindus and muslims, as its members, to give it a secular out look, to meet the requirements of election laws, to contest the assembly and parliamentary elections. It may do so with the Sikh support, as the political Sikh power is only concerned with punjab, where the Sikhs are in majority and that too with the tinge of secularism, as the election laws demand. Thus there has to be a World Sikh Representative Panthic Council ,which will be of great help also to the political Sikh power in punjab, to deal with their issues with the needed courage, capability and honesty of purpose, to achieve Sikh religious and political aims. Delhi Gurdawaras management committee is for historical Gurdawaras at Delhi. Similarly ,are the management committees of Takhats, Hazur Sahib and patna Sahib for those Takhts. These Sikh organizations should take active part in setting up of the world Sikh panth council, without any fear psychosis, which will be of no interference in their functions. The blue print of the world Sikh panth council, at present, may be, to take the representatives of the organizations, elected by the Sikhs, just as SGPC, management committees of, Delhi Sikh Gurdawaras, Sikh Takhats at Hazoor Sahib, Patna Sahib, other traditional Sikh organizations, world Sikh Gurdawaras management committees, to be divided in, 6 or 7 zones, world over, to represent on the basis of population and any other such Sikh organization elected by the Sikhs. The number of representatives of these organizations may be fixed according to the number of Sikhs, they represent. These representatives may co-opt the distinguished Sikhs known for their services to Sikh panth as fixed, world over, to make it truly representative. This panthic representative council of the Sikhs world over should hold its, periodic meetings, Sikh congregations and other functions at Akal Takhat , Amritsar and have its secretariate in that complex,while some sub offices in sother coutries as deemed proper. The Akal Takhat Jathedar, should be its spokesman and to ensure the compliance of its decisions, to be nominated by it. The authority of Akal Takhat, which is now being eroded, will be restored and its sanctity maintained. It may make the rules and regulations for the appointment, qualifications and powers of jathedar Akal Takhat and of the jathedars of other Sikh Takhats for their smooth working without any overlapping of their functions interse without any dispute between them,which surfaced in the recent past,being not in Sikh interests. A commission may be set up to sort out the procedural matters and to select this panthic council,which may consist of retired Sikh judges,and Sikh scholars,which may take the views of the Sikhs and Sikh organisations world over to make it acceptable to them. Mewa Singh (U.S.A.) Labels: Sikh Affairs Remembering Munir Niazi Munir Ahmad, better known as Munir Niazi, SI (1928–2006) was one of the best-known and admired Urdu poets from Pakistan who also produced good poetry in the Punjabi language. Courtesy:Urdu Pages Niazi was born in Khanpuron 19 April 1928, a village near Hoshiarpur, India. He hails from the famous Niazi tribe. He was initially educated at Khanpur and after the partition of India he migrated to newly independent Pakistan and settled in Sahiwal, where he passed his matriculation. He earned an intermediate degree from S.E. College, Bahawalpur and a B.A. fromDiyal Singh College in Lahore, Pakistan. Munir Niazi launched a weekly, Saat Rang, fromSahiwal in 1949. He wrote numerous songs for films and made his name as the foremost movie song writer of Pakistan. He also wrote for newspapers, magazines and radio. In 1960 he established a publication institute, Al-Misal. Lately he was associated with Lahore Television and lived in Lahore till his death. Taiz Hawa Aur Tanha Phool, Jungle mein Dhanak, Dushmanoon Kai Darmiyan Sham and Mah-e-Munirare his popular Urdu publications. In Punjabi he has published Safar di Raat, Char Chup Cheezan and Rasta Dasan Walay Tarey. His effective imagery conveys pictures in few words. He has experimented with poetic forms and has tried to create a new style, rhythm and diction in Urdu poetry. Innocence, mythology, nostalgia, dreams, eroticism, and romance are some of his most common themes. Courtesy:Pakistan Film Magazine Munir Niazi died of respiratory illness on 26 December 2006 inLahore. I have written about him and his poetry earlier (wondering whether it was him in the wonderful re-making of Mehdi Hasan’s ‘yeh watan tumhara hai‘; in thinking about song and poetry; and in terms of his literary rivalry with Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi, who died just a few months before him). We will, no doubt, write about it again later. His ‘mohabbat abb nahiN ho gi, yeh kuch din baad meiN ho gi’ and ‘humaisha dair kar daita houN meiN’ are especially poignant and I find his following Punjabi qata so often relevant to my own travails: kujh unj we raawaN aukhiaN sann kujh gall icch gham da tauq ve see kujh shehr dey louk ve zalim sann kujh sanouN marran da souq ve see Yes, the path I chose was hard Yes, there was the noose of grief around my neck Yes, the citizenry was also so cruel But, ultimately, we too wanted to get killed (coloquial for the last line: ‘we were suckers for punishment’; this is NOT a translation, just conveying the essential meaning) Another favorite of mine is the following: Kisee ko apnay amal ka jawab kiya daytay, Swal saray ghalat thay jawab kiya daytay -By Iftikhar Chaudri of Lovers of Fine/ performing Arts,Poetry,Literature& Music of Sub-Continent Labels: Friends Posts POWER OF LONG AND UNCUT HAIR Sardar Hargunpreet Singh shared an informative research work on facebook. We are sharing this article here with all readers of Seven Seas, The Eagle Eye News, The Spis News and Punjab Screen etc. and hope you all will gain from it...Rector Kathuria GREAT PHILOSOPHERS, ARTISTS, INTELLECTUALS & SAINTS BELONGING TO DIFFERENT RELIGIONS KEPT THEIR HAIR LONG & UNCUT It is clear that in modern society most people cut their hair because they feel that to be the norm and no one questions this very wide-spread custom. However, read the following and find out the significance of hair of the human body, mind and spirit: Historical significance: The history of hair goes back to the times of the Bible and beyond. The Bible talks of a man called Samson who obtained supernatural powers through his long hair. His hair was later cut and consequently he lost his powers. G.A. Gaskell writes,‘Hair of the head is a symbol of faith, intuition of truth, or the highest qualities of the mind.’ Dictionary of all Scriptures Bhagwan Shiv also had long hair and Hindus bathing in sacred Ganga is produced through these long hairs. Even Brahma, Vishnu and other deities also have long hairs. Prophet Mohammad and other prophets in Muslims also have long hairs and beard also. Zorothustra of Zorrostrians also have long hair and beard also. Even Jesus Christ had long hair and a beard. Hargunpreet Singh The 10 Gurus of Sikhism all kept their hair uncut . Even Sidhs and Jogis in Hindism keep hair uncut. You can see qazis and peers in Islam who also wear long hair. Everybody believe God to be a perfect creator. It therefore follows that whatever He creates is perfect. The keeping of uncut hair is therefore, recognition of God’s perfection and the submission of a Sikh to the Will of God. (Hukam)Function: Most Sikhs regard hair as a gift from God. But what does this gift actually do for us? Well, the functions of hair can be divided into 5 sub categories. These include an ornamental function, physical function, psychological function, Sikh specific function and a spiritual function. Ornamental function: Nature has decorated a man with a beard and a moustache to differentiate between a male and a female. A good example from the animal kingdom is a lion with its majestic mane. Physical function:Just like the skin, the hair helps to synthesize vitamin D from sunlight. It also helps to supply the pituitary gland (located in the head) with phosphorous. Phosphorous is an element which is used in meditation by the aforesaid gland. The hair on our body regulates body temperature and our eye lashes, nostril hairs and ear hairs help to keep out fine dust particles. Psychological function: This is by far, is one of the most important functions of hair. People cut their hair to look good for other people, and although everyone wants to look sexy and cool, a Sikh is encouraged to impress God and not bother so much about the opinions of everyone else. Keeping hair therefore encourages us to become less vain and more God orientated. Sikh specific function:Uncut hair is a mark of Sikh identity. The 10th Sikh Guru instructed all his Sikhs to come before him with long hair and weapons. Long hair also represents sacrifice, because there have been many Sikhs like Bhai Taru Singh, who preferred to have their scalp removed instead of their hair cut. Spiritual function Hair enhances the ability of a human being to experience God. This can be explained by understanding the workings of electromagnets. An electromagnet consists of an iron rod with a coil of wire wrapped around it. The strength of an electromagnet can be increased by increasing the number of coils. Now in a human being, there are nine visible inlets/outlets (2 nostrils, 2 ear holes, 1 mouth, 2 eyes, 2 below the waistline). And the 10th inlet is located in the head and is invisible. It is called the Dasam Dawar. This is where we experience the reality of God and we can consider this to be the iron rod. Hairs are like coils of wire which amplify spiritual energy at the 10th inlet. A greater quantity of head hair will lead to more coils in the (Joora) knot and therefore a higher concentration of spiritual energy. Of course, it is possible to experience God without any head hair like Buddhists. However anything that helps us to experience God more easily should be welcomed. Hair is essentially a spiritual technology that makes it easier to connect with God. In the religious literature of the world there is much evidence which suggest that God has created humans with great interest. The earthly material used for this purpose was kept kneaded for two centuries. (It is just an assumption and has no relevance with modern calendar system) and then another hypothetical period of 280 years was spent on giving shape to this creation so that the humans thus created should look the most lovable in all respects. Everything was done with much enthusiasm and conscious efforts. The Jewish and Christian churches also contain evidence to this effect that God created man in His own image and put His own particle as soul within him. On the basis of all this, it can be easily presumed that God did not add anything, including hair, to human body which could be termed as superfluous. Thus, trimming the hair amounts not only declining the gift given by God but also disfiguring the shape given to man by Akal Purakh i.e. Lord God. In other words, it can also be taken to mean that by so doing man takes pleasure in finding faults in the blue print prepared by God and thus showing off himself as better qualified and more competent than the creator Lord. to sum up, this amount to endeavours equalling Him and even excelling Him by trying to improve upon His work. Ironically, the creation is getting zealous to override the Creator, thereby allowing ungratefulness to predominate. The only point of consolation in this regard is that this blunder of cutting and disowning hair has not been made by man since the times of Adam, but the same is in practice only since the last few centuries. Scientific Research on the Hair The Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries in the West provided increased avenues of employment, but at the same time lack of security measures in the factories led to several fatal accidents caused by long hair. To avoid such accidents, the workers started, though unwillingly and with a heavy heart trimming their long hair. Consequently, the number of people with long hair like that of Shakespeare decreased and with the passage of time such a breed became almost extinct. But inspire of all this one positive development that had taken place there, was a lot of good and deep research on the hair. They wanted to ascertain the benefits of keeping hair and also to find out the changes they effect in human body and temperament. The research carried out with this end in view has highlighted the fact that the hair serves as a factory providing Vitamin D for the body. Vitamin D protects a person against the fatal disease like Tuberculosis and is an essential element for bones, teeth and the nervous system. This is an item that is becoming scarce today. The reason behind its scarcity is that Vitamin D in vegetables is missing to a great extent as a result of the insecticides being sprayed for the protection of vegetable crops from certain diseases. Consequently, the lackness of Vitamin D is being felt throughout the world. The developed countries have realized this and keeping in view the grave scarcity of Vitamin D, have started producing synthetic Vitamin D. They add this vitamin to the food of the children so that they must not grow up physically weak and mentally tense persons. As against these developed and affluent nations, the poor countries can easily get precious Vitamin D for their children free from the open Sun through their long hair. The significant research has also revealed that longer the hair the more will be the production of Vitamin D through the interaction of Sun heat with the oil in the hair. Thus all this shows that keeping hair is very important for one's physical as well as mental well-being. It has also been proved on the basis of experiments that the hair tied in the form of a knot on the top of the head are capable of attracting the maximum heat energy of Sun just as the television antenna has the capacity to hold photo waves from the atmosphere. (According to Tessitas, the ancient Germans also used to tie their long hair into a knot on the top of their heads. May be, they did so with a view to obtaining the above mentioned benefits). If the rare of Vitamin D can be obtained free from Nature only by keeping long hair, health wise also it becomes imperative for human beings to keep long hair. Harms of Trimming Hair: If the hair are not trimmed, their length, growth stops automatically after reaching a certain length. In this situation, hardly 0.5% of the protein that we take in with our daily diet, is spent on their upkeep. On the other hand, the trimmed hair consumes much more protein because this has to be spent on the re-growth of the hair. Had the hair stopped re-growing after having been trimmed once, there would have been no extra expense of protein. However, keeping in view the multidimensional usefulness of the hair for human body, Nature has created within the human body an interesting mechanism to help continuous growth of the hair. This mechanism continues being operational till one breaths one's last. Thus, this mechanism goes on spending more protein on the re-growth of the hair after a person shaves them off or trims them. Nature does this so as not to deny a person the varied benefits of hair. It seems modern man is busy in shaving off the hair under a sort of atheistic culture whereas God is ever involved in their growth. God is quite serious about the hair, whereas man is equally careless. Let us wait and watch the final outcome. Meanwhile, we can only say there is a sort of deadlock as under: He won't change His habits,Why should we change ours? Unfortunately, God's Will shall prevail on the long run because He knows the mystery and significance of the hair, whereas modern fashionable man on the other hand knowing the importance of hair tends to be careless, But we must at least think in the light of this fact that hand, foot or any other organ of the body if once get chopped off, does not sprout again, but on the contrary if we trim or shave off the hair, they grow up again soon except in very old age. It must be presumed from this fact that importance of the hair can be more, and certainly not less than hands, feet or other organs of human body. It is generally observed that the Hindus perform the first mundane (shaving off hair of the head) of their children at the age of 2 or 3 years. On this occasion, the head is completely shaved off. On this shaven head, the hair grows up to half centimeter within one month. The hair grows more rapidly in the case of youth vis-à-vis the small children. In the case of the former, the hair grows 1/8th of an inch in just three days. Nevertheless let us make the case of 2-3 year old child the basis of our contention: his hair grows half centimeter in one month. On average, every person has 85,000 to 1,25,000 hairs on his head. If we take the child to have one lac (hundred thousand) hair on his head, we shall find that such a child spends energy from his body to grow one hair up to the length of 50,000 centimeters or 500 meters if his total growth is computed on a one single hair. If he is in the habit of getting his hair regularly trimmed throughout his life, we can well imagine the amount of energy he might use to grow up the hair again and again. Thus valuable energy and minerals are wasted just for nothing. There should be limit to one's ignorance, but as Ghalib has said 'Who can instruct the already learned.' Man by trimming his hair, is harming himself in many ways. Another harm that trimming of hair causes is, that The hair have been the means of receiving energy for brain from the sun, but by trimming then we destroy to great extent that system and there by render the mechanism almost inert. It does not imply that social classes prone to trimming hair, lack intellectual level even without keeping full hair, they could have accomplished much better had they kept hair intact. Thus we do feel sad that they unwittingly make those means inoperative, which has to supply large quantity of energy to human organism. If we take into account the cumulative loss suffered generations after generations, it seems certain that trimming of hair is certainly an impediment in the way of realizing the aim of perfect human intellect. It thus is certainly a great disadvantage for entire mankind. Who will consider it wise to continue the trade causing continuous loss? Think and be watchful. This is the need and the expectation of time. Nature of the Hair: After their comprehensive research, the scientists have reached the conclusion that the hair stop growing having achieved the level of optimum growth. They remain alive for two to six years. They play their active role during this period and then getting weak, fall off as we comb them. This is called the death of the hair. There is no use keeping the dead hair. However, keeping in view the utmost importance of hair for human being, Nature is ever ready to replenish these dead hair by sprouting new ones in their place. The importance of the hair can also be gauged from the fact that the operation of replacing the dead hair with the new ones gets started immediately and forcefully so that body does not suffer because of their lack. This also shows that new and healthy hair on the head is needed throughout life. That is why God has created such a wonderful mechanism as a result of which person continues to be bestowed with healthy hair for long years of his/her life. The fact that the hair grows rapidly even after their regular trimming, also implies that God does not approve of the human action of shaving off or trimming their hair. In spite of that, God has not yet got annoyed with him. As a proof of this, we find that the new born baby in any family or tradition in the world is blessed with beautiful hair. These hairs are the gift, which God bestows upon him while sending him on to this earth. It is another matter that except Sikhs nobody else endeavors to learn and abide by this will of Almighty. They also do not seem to be in a mood to value this precious Divine gift as much as they ought to. Man considers himself highly cultured. A follower of the Sikh faith does realize that God has blessed him with the sacred hair from his very birth, and these remain with him till his death. Thus, a true Sikh of the Guru neither comes nor goes naked from this world as all parts of this body are covered with the precious gift of hair. Thus, belief in the sanctity of hair saves him from the sense of duality. If we look from the point of view of the naturalists we see that they believe the existence of two ways to live life. One is to live in conformity with nature and the other is to live in conflict with it. The first is the way of harmony and the second is the way of a conqueror who wishes to subjugate and dominate leading to personal and public nuisances. The Gurmat or the Sikh way is one which accepts no dichotomy between man and nature as is enjoined upon Sikhs by Guru Nanak in Bara Maha and Guru Gobind Singh in Akal Ustat and both these Banis serve as the foundation of the Sikh oral and orational practices. 'Hair Power' is the out come of the first attitude and as such is ever charged energizing battery for the human machine. (SikhiWiki).......... Labels: Science Amnesty International USA Welcomes Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Calling the Law “Wrong-headed and Discriminatory” Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:29 PM Washington, D.C.: Cristina Finch, government relations director for Amnesty International USA, issued the following comments today welcoming the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”: “The repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law is long overdue – it was wrong-headed and discriminatory. Laws that discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation clearly violate human rights principles. The U.S. Government should never have put this law into effect and should have abolished it long ago. "Since “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” went into effect, more than 14,000 men and women who were trained and serving in the U.S. military were fired because of their sexual orientation. And at the same time, thousands more lesbian, gay and bisexual service members were forced to hide the core of who they are as human beings. Repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” will ensure that all service members, regardless of their sexual orientation, are treated with the dignity and respect that all human beings deserve." Note: Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with more than 2.8 million supporters, activists and volunteers in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. The organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. Labels: Amnesty International Photo Courtesy:Troop Reunion Christmas Celebrations are Continued at CMC Hospital of Ludhiana also. A musical camp fire celebrated at children’s park on Saturday night. Camp fire is a known happy event of Christmas days. Peoples enjoyed the rise of winter together and made it a part of their happy memories. A campfire is a fire lit at a campsite, giving light, warmth and allowing cooking. In established campgrounds they are usually in a fire ring for safety. Campfires are a popular feature of camping, particularly among organized campers such as Scouts or Guides. In some regions it is called a bonfire, especially when it is of a very large size. Co-ordinated by Rev. Stanley Thomas and his team in the Fellowship Department, CMC & Hospital organized the C.M.C Christmas Camp 2010 in the evening at the children’s park CMC. There was an array of cultural items and prayer. The programme attended by a huge gathering of about 3,000 people including C.M.C staff along with their families and friends of the hospital. Representatives from local churches also graced the program. Photo courtesy:Thwink Org. The entire gathering sang the Christmas Hymn. “Oho Masih Aya Zamin Par Khushi.” Rev.JN.Noel in his Opening Prayer asked for world peace along with happiness for the CMC&H staff and their families. He wished that the year ahead be one of professional contentment with the spirit of service worthy of the Healing Ministry of Christ. The welcome note was delivered by the Director, Dr.A.G Thomas. He reminded all the Significance of Christmas- of love, peace, tolerance, care of the poor and upliftmen of society while welcoming the congregation to commit themselves to be christ like. Photo Courtesy:Metblogs Several Group songs were presented by participants from Maintence Staff, Combined Paramedicals, Clerical Staff, Nursing Deptt and Campus Staff children. The Ancillary Staff presented a Quawwali. With a warm campfire to keep the audience warm on a chilly December night, Gospel Singer, Mr.Gopal Masih was the guest speaker. The camp-fire programme concluded with a prayer. Associate Director, Dr.Kim Mammen, Dr.SM Bhatti, Principal Medical College, Mrs.Triza Jewan Principal College of Nursing, Principal Dental College Dr.Abhi.M Thomas, Medical Superintendent Dr.Kanwal Masih, Deputy Medical Superintendent Dr.Nitin and Dr Valsa were also present on the occasion. Rector Kathuria Exercise daily for around 45 minutes to prevent your heart Dr Bedi examing a camp patient at Hambran Rural Punjab reports a very high incidence of diabetes, high blood cholesterol level and obesity. These, in turn, manifest as cardiac problems. This was stated by Dr Harinder Singh Bedi – Head of Cardio Vascular & Thoracic Surgery at the Christian Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana. He made this observation at the free cardio vascular counseling, detection and prevention camp organized jointly by the Christian Medical College & Hospital and the Mata Kaushalya Devi Pahwa Charitable Hospital in Village Hambran in Ludhiana. A very high incidence of heart and vascular disease was noted in this rural area. This was no surprise - Dr Bedi said - as about 35% of his heart patients needing surgery are from the villages. The camp was held to try and look at the reasons for this apparent discrepancy. While it is true that villages have a clean non polluted atmosphere and the pace of life is generally relaxed – but at the same time there has been a gradual change in lifestyle. The hard manual labour is now being done mostly by migrant workers while the cholesterol rich diet remains as before. Consequently the body is unable to metabolise all the calories consumed leading to deposits in the arteries. Also urbanization of rural areas is taking place, and so the urban-rural difference is decreasing and more and more rural people are getting this disease. India in 2010 accounts for nearly 60 per cent of the global heart ailments as per WHO statistics. It is also seen that Indians had more common involvement at younger age with smaller coronary arteries; diffuse distal disease, multi-vessel disease and higher incidence in women. This could be due to the rising incidence of drug addiction in rural youth. Also focusing on poor medical care in rural and remote areas, the camp study recognised that people with heart disease in rural Punjab received slower care than people in the cities and were more likely to die before reaching a hospital. Heart attack rural patients head to hospitals in buses or tractors rather than ambulances, and pay for the treatments out of their own pockets because of ignorance regarding health insurance. Dr Bedi stressed on the benefits of addressing the root cause of heart disease in Punjab. Punjabi diet is very rich compared to that of the population living in southern part of the country. It is for this reason that we are witnessing people at young age getting heart attacks. One can easily do three things for preventing heart diseases Dr Bedi told the gathering in the village. Eat less fried food, less butter and ghee. Second, exercise daily for around 45 minutes. And third, reduce stress in life. Because of the nature of the work, we have become over stressed. So things like yoga, meditation &entertainment help a person to relax. A special dietary counseling and individualized yoga therapy was an intergral part of the camp. The team included Dr A Gupta, Dr Prashant, Dr Meenu, Dietitians Dt D Dhillon and Dt Nitya, Yoga Acharya Nirmal Singh, Staff nurses headed by Sister Balwinder Kaur, Mr Emmanuel and Mr William. Dr Abraham G Thomas – Director of CMC & H – said that the outreach programmes were an integral and important part of the basic philosophy of CMC so that medical care could reach one and all in this region.Onkar Singh Pahwa – MD of Avon Cycles and Pahwa Hospital said that they were ready to bring the latest technology to the rural masses so that they can avail of the best medical facilities. , MLA Darshan Singh Shivalik and Sarpanch Sukhdev Singh Toor also activel participated in the camp. Dr Bedi may be contacted at 98140-60480 for any clarification....: Rector Kathuria Labels: Health World The concept of Guru Granth-Guru Panth should be re... Amnesty International USA Welcomes Repeal of “Don’... Exercise daily for around 45 minutes to prevent yo...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line410
__label__wiki	0.829367	0.829367	Lemon Bucket Orkestra / Boogát / Polky Village Band Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, November 4 Photo: Matt Forsythe By Peter Ellman Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Toronto's most beloved global-folk party punks, brought their raucous and hot-blooded live show to the Danforth Music Hall last night (November 4) to celebrate the release of their new album, If I Had The Strength. Polky Village Band opened with an unplugged set while the audience trickled into the cavernous hall. Partly because of the chatty audience, it was difficult to hear the un-amplified voice of the lead singer on her own, but the harmonies of the second vocalist helped. The large Lemon Bucket Orkestra poster hanging at the back of the stage loomed over the proceedings (and seemingly everyone's thoughts), but Polky Village Band gave a valiant and cheerful effort as openers, and again later as filler between Boogát and Lemon Bucket Orkestra. Michael Louis Johnson of LBO then came out to introduce Boogát, with an endearing anecdote about sharing "delicious" grasshoppers at a Winnipeg Folk Festival workshop. Boogát's excellent band livened up the stage with drums, electronics, guitar, trombone and a particularly virtuosic percussionist on timbales and cowbells. They drew from cumbia, reggaeton and other genres, laying a vibrant foundation for Boogát's Spanish-language hip-hop vocals. Beyond energetic emcee-ing, he waved and encouraged solos from his bandmates, getting the increasingly larger audience dancing and clapping along. For the penultimate song of the set, six LBO members came onstage to thicken the sound and share in the musical camaraderie. It was an engaging and enjoyable set. Following another earnest set from Polky Village Band, Johnson came back out to introduce his own band and all 14 members walked out to cheers and hoots from an adoring crowd. After a moment settling in and casually joking with each other, Mark Marczyk shouted a count-in and they exploded into their signature brand of bombastic global-folk-punk, trading solos, smiling, dancing and egging each other on. In one of the first few songs, Marczyk translated the folk lyrics: "Come on, Janice, lets dance in a circle / Come on Janice lets sell our horse." At another point, they had the whole crowd crouching down to the floor. After a few older songs got the party started, Marczyk introduced the band's new album, If I Had The Strength, as one slavic prison ballad smashed into 45 minutes of music (in contrast to their usual collections of individual folk songs). They played the album front to back, with the danceable Romanian funk of "Soldat" and Boogát's charming guest spot on "Palinka" standing out as highlights. Marichka Marczyk did a great job singing the haunting middle section of "Heroes," which was only topped by the majestic group singalong of "Peace," the album's closing track. Mark's delicately sung first verse was most startling compared to his usual raspy shouts. After the epic choral build of that song subsided, Mark announced in conclusion: "If I had the strength, I would run out in the street and scream 'Peace! Peace! Peace!' Thanks for singing 'peace' with us at the Danforth Music Hall." They kept the party raging into an encore that features a few more older tracks, and even one written post-If I Had the Strength. It was a majestic slow-burner, again featuring lead vocals from Marichka. For their grand finale, the band filed offstage into the middle of the clapping-along crowd, Mark with a megaphone, and the band playing generously loud. They concluded by hoisting their instruments up in the air victoriously; more than winning over the crowd, it felt like a collective triumph for everyone in the room. A post shared by Exclaim! (@exclaimdotca) on Nov 5, 2017 at 10:09am PST More Boogat More Lemon Bucket Orkestra More Polky Village Band Check Out Our The Danforth Music Hall Venue Profile Boogat Victoria Ska & Reggae Festival Reveals 2019 Lineup with Ky-Mani Marley, Less Than Jake British Columbia's long-running Victoria Ska & Reggae Festival is celebrating 20 years of music-making in 2019, and organizers have now lift... Boogàt San Cristóbal Baile Inn Boogàt is a Canadian-Mexican artist working out of Montreal, Quebec. The rapper has previously drawn from multiple genres such as hip-hop, r... Boogat Neo-Reconquista The last project from Montreal-based artist Boogat, 2013's El Dorado Sunset, was a mash-up of Spanish language lyrics and electronic, danceh... 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Lemon Bucket Orkestra Offer Five Signs of Hope in Bleak Times Lemon Bucket Orkestra's latest record, If I Had The Strength, is based on one Slavic prison ballad and covers a wide range of emotion. Howev... Lemon Bucket Orkestra If I Had the Strength Self-described "guerrilla-folk party-punks imprisoned and liberated by Eastern European folklore" Lemon Bucket Orkestra return with If I Had... Lemon Bucket Orkestra "Freedom" (video) Theatrical Toronto folk ensemble Lemon Bucket Orkestra will deliver their latest LP If I Had the Strength next month, and they're teasing it...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line416
__label__wiki	0.780018	0.780018	Background: Disney Hires MT Carney as Marketing President in April 2010 March 30, 2012 Michael Sellers Other Stuff For the research file: This is the LA Times article announcing the hiring of MT Carney as head of marketing in April 2010, 6 months after Rich Ross took over as head of marketing for Disney Studios http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/22/business/la-fi-ct-disney-20100422 Quotes of note: Carney, a co-founder of communications planning firm Naked Communications, helped create global strategies for some of the world’s biggest brands, among them Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Google, Microsoft and Nokia. Before helping launch Naked’s New York office in 2006, Carney was worldwide planning director at Ogilvy & Mather, overseeing such accounts as American Express. The question is whether she can apply lessons learned from helping promote sugary soft drinks and cellphones to selling celluloid. Unlike a can of Coke, each movie is unique. Ross and Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Bob Iger have made it clear that Disney, in its latest incarnation, is a steward for powerful Hollywood brands Disney, Marvel Entertainment and Pixar Animation Studios, whose movies can be exploited beyond the cinema into television shows, theme park attractions, video games, online virtual worlds and clothing lines. Background: Oct 2009 Announcement of Rich Ross taking over Disney National Review: Go See a land war on Mars	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line417
__label__cc	0.531297	0.468703	The Sandpiper PDFs Whitney Grummon Memorial For its seniors, Carmel-by-the-Sea considered ideal location to retire BY KYLIE YEATMAN Surrounded by a serene landscape, a tight-knit community and a slew of easily accessible corner shops, the aspects of Carmel that are often taken for granted by its youngest residents are ones that make it ideal for those settling down—a point proven by the town’s demographics. Of the 3,722 citizens of Carmel-by-the-Sea accounted for in the 2010 United States Census, 35.7 percent represented the age demographic of 65 and above. By comparison, only 15.5 percent of Monterey residents were reported in the 65 and above age group, along with only 10 percent of the county overall. Sitting in her home, noting the picturesque view of Carmel Beach and the sunsets, longtime Carmel resident Carrol Galanti reflects on what makes Carmel the ideal place to settle. “It’s a lovely village to walk around in, and it’s a relaxed atmosphere,” Galanti says. “You can walk around. Everything is in walking distance. It’s easy to be active.” Making a note of the accessibility of the town, Galanti cites Carmel’s beauty and friendliness as reasons why it is an ideal place to settle. This beauty makes it commonplace for older residents to take walks around town. “I like being a part of a community where I can walk to a good restaurant, to the post office or to Bruno’s,” Carmel resident Judy Furlan reflects. Furlan also considers the ways in which Carmel residents can settle and give back to their communities after years of work. “Carmel may be small, but it is also sophisticated and full of interesting people who have led great lives,” Furlan cites. “It is full of non-profit organizations where a retiree can rechannel their work energy and give back to the community.” Resident Donna Jett, who moved into Carmel in 1996, believes that Carmel has a refreshing energy, making it an ideal spot to retire. “You have to create the style of life that works best for you,” Jett says. The Monterey Herald has reported that Monterey County is the third best among California’s retirement communities. The study, taken by a financial company based in New York, cites access to medical care, tax burden and social mobility among seniors. This social mobility is something noted by many employed in downtown Carmel, many of whom see their customers daily, therefore establishing personal relationships with their customers. Yet as Carmel-by-the-sea has increasingly seen itself as a tourist destination, many of the town’s local conveniences—including Knapp Hardware—have been closed, which resident Karyl Hall speculates is in part due to high taxes placed on shops. “Rents are so high that few ‘regular’ stores can survive,” Hall says. But Hall also expresses that tourists and residents can co-exist in the space and mutually benefit from one another’s experiences. “Both sides in the end acknowledge that they need each other,” Hall adds. “Tourists don’t come to Carmel to see a bunch of t-shirt shops. They come for the charm, ambiance and beauty of a village that is unique in the U.S.” In essence, the attraction of tourists to the city comes from the same sources that make it an ideal retirement community. 1 thought on “For its seniors, Carmel-by-the-Sea considered ideal location to retire” Very nice article. Well written. Great job, Ms. Yeatman. A Twitter List by cytochromec James on For its seniors, Carmel-by-the-Sea considered ideal location to retire Anonymous on Jonathan Lyons selected as new Carmel High principal Brian congleton on Kiwanis food trailer serves history and mystery Psmith on Paranormal activity on the Haunterey Peninsula Maddie Tomlin on Remembering Annabelle Vandenbroucke ©2020 THE SANDPIPER \| WordPress Theme by Superb Themes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line422
__label__wiki	0.516143	0.516143	The Summit League Reach The Summit Purdue Fort Wayne Commissioner's List of Academic Excellence Scholar-Athletes of the Year Composite Championship Schedule Indoor Track and Field Men's and Women's Tennis Outdoor Track and Field All-Time Olympians Branding/Style Guide #BeatType1 Headquarters' Construction Project #SummitFoodFight The First 30 Years Years-In-Review Summit League Store Basketball Media Day Basketball Championships Credential Application Summit League Usage Guide Watch Live/OnDemand From Now On Fan Apps The Summit League Basketball Championships NCAA Sport Page Video \| Live stats \| Box Score North Dakota State at Denver @ Denver, Colo. (Hamilton Gymnasium) 10/10/2014 at 7 p.m. 2 Denver North Dakota State (7-12 (2-4 Summit)) 21 25 21 25 13 2 Denver (16-3 (5-0 Summit)_) 25 18 25 19 15 3 1 Jessica Jorgensen 2 1 0 3 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 3 Emily Minnick * 5 7 5 27 .074 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 9.5 4 Brianna Rasmusson * 5 0 2 6 -.333 16 2 0 0 11 0 5 0 1 4.5 7 Jackie Lee 5 1 2 11 -.091 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1.0 9 Monica Claxton * 5 0 1 2 -.500 23 0 1 0 10 0 0 0 0 0.0 10 Hadley Steffen * 5 6 6 25 .000 0 0 0 2 4 0 1 0 1 6.5 11 Hannah Jessen 5 0 0 1 .000 1 1 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 1.0 12 Emily Miron * 5 13 2 29 .379 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 0 0 17.5 13 Jenni Fassbender * 5 19 9 53 .189 1 4 2 0 3 1 0 0 0 24.0 15 Morgan Samec 5 0 1 1 -1.000 0 5 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 5.0 17 Emily Milligan 5 0 0 0 .000 3 0 0 2 26 0 0 0 0 0.0 Totals 47 28 158 .120 44 12 5 5 65 5 12 0 2 70.0 1 Bailey Karst * 5 5 1 7 .571 45 1 0 0 16 0 2 0 1 7.0 2 Cassie Baird 5 7 8 22 -.045 1 0 2 1 5 0 0 0 0 7.0 3 Sarah Schmid * 5 8 3 24 .208 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 10.5 4 Cassidy Rooke 5 0 0 0 .000 2 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 1.0 5 Kate Acker 5 0 0 0 .000 6 1 1 4 28 0 0 0 0 1.0 6 Monique Domme 5 0 0 0 .000 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1.0 7 Nola Basey * 2 7 2 25 .200 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 7.0 8 Erica Denney * 5 4 1 11 .273 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 4.5 10 Moni Corrujedo * 5 15 5 38 .263 1 1 4 7 7 1 1 0 0 17.5 11 Piyusha Boteju 1 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 13 Ruth Okoye * 5 13 6 28 .250 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 13.5 14 Kayla Principato 1 0 1 1 -1.000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 Totals 59 27 156 .205 55 5 10 12 73 2 8 0 1 70.0 Arena: Hamilton Gymnasium 1st Referee: Ryan MacDowell 2nd Referee: Pii Aiu Scorer: Chad LeRoy 4000 N. Hercules Ave., Suite 200	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line425
__label__wiki	0.585953	0.585953	Home Indie Game Reviews Bush Hockey League Review (Xbox One) December 1, 2017Jordan Phipps0 Comments CategoriesIndie Game Reviews Reviews As it pertains to arcade-style sports games, hockey typically gets the short end of the stick (har har). While NBA Jam, NFL Blitz and Fifa Street have seen many iterations over the years, it can be difficult to name any memorable arcade hockey games. The one I did get excited about, NHL Arcade 3 on 3, turned out to be a huge disappointment (In this reviewer’s opinion). The lack of titles alone was enough to get me excited about Bush Hockey League (formerly known as Old Time Hockey), because when it comes to arcade sports games, you don’t always need the official license. For the reasons I will detail below, Bush Hockey League is the most enjoyable Hockey arcade game I’ve played since NHL 94 on Sega Genesis. Taking place in the 1975-76 season, Bush Hockey League’s story mode revolves around the Schuylkill Hinto Brews, a fledgling team suffering from a losing record and a lack of attendance. With no option to simulate games, the player must participate in dozens of games against a variety of teams with hopes of making the playoffs and winning the championship. Before each game there are a few (mostly optional) objectives that players can complete to help increase their team stats. Some are simple such as: win 50% or more faceoffs or score 4 or more goals. Others can be harder to trigger like winning a perfect stick fight or hold a team under a certain number of goals. What I like about the objectives is that it makes the season, which is incredible basic, a bit more exciting and varied. Every team is ranked based on three stats: offense, defense and fighting skill. While the Hinto Brews start off with meager stats, with a little effort in completing objectives, they can be fully maxed out by the playoffs. During story mode you can also complete specific objectives to unlock player cards, the game’s collectables. There are leaderboards and a bevvy of stats to check out should they interest you. Throughout the story, the team will endure some problems, usually revealed by funny newspaper headlines. You might hear that a player was arrested for drinking on the ice or the team traded their beer cooler for a new player. It’s all in jest and along with the game objectives, helped keep the story mode interesting. These twists in the story are not intrusive as you get to learn of them during the loading screens, which is a smart move. When you have completed the story you can play again on a harder difficulty and there are four separate save slots available. Bush Hockey League has a few different control styles, and even a beer mode scheme that lets you play with only one hand. Using the modern control scheme, I was able to easily hook, bash, pass and shoot the puck with relative ease. The character movement is fluid and feels as it should, given the fact that players are skating on ice. I don’t expect them to be able to stop on a dime or hit maximum speed right away, and they don’t. Players will automatically substitute in and out and there was a genuine difference felt when playing great teams as opposed to poor teams. There are multiple difficulty settings to choose from as well, I decided to play my story mode on easy and I didn’t completely dominate my opponents every time, I even lost games. While story mode is a single player experience, up to 4 players can play exhibition mode locally. Sadly, there is no online, and it’s a shame since Bush Hockey League could really benefit from it. Thankfully, the game runs in 1080p and 60 frames per second. Graphically, Bush Hockey League has a distinct cel shaded style that does give it personality, at the cost of detail. Player faces look eerily similar to Nintendo 64 games like Goldeneye 007, and don’t expect them to talk or have facial movements. Overall, the action is smooth and fast, you must always pay attention on defense as the A.I. can score goals quick. While your goalie is quite serviceable, he can’t block every shot. Score enough knockdowns and your puck will catch fire, leading to increased movement and faster shots. Fighting is another major aspect of Bush Hockey League, but not its finest. Controls are simple with one button mapped to punching and another for dodging your head. It really doesn’t work well if you try to be precise, which means I just mash the punch button and hope for the best. Despite the issue with fighting, gameplay as a whole is very enjoyable, and I found myself playing multiple games in a season without getting bored. Arcade sports games can be successful with any theme, if the core gameplay is fun. Whether it be Mutant Football League, Mario Baseball or Bush Hockey League, gameplay is and will always be king. The theme of 1970s minor league team is a good fit that is both original and entertaining. I have not had this much fun playing an arcade game in over 20 years, and that’s saying something. Bush Hockey League does have its share of faults; namely poor combat, no online play and a story mode that can feel repetitive at times. Thankfully, the hockey gameplay covers up a lot of these issues and I continue to find myself going back for more. If you are looking for a fun sports party game (with an M rating), Bush Hockey League provides solid gameplay and some good laughs. Bush Hockey League Solid hockey gameplay Endless replay value Unique art style runs smoothly Imprecise fighting No online play Story mode can drag Buy Bush Hockey League on the Xbox Store You can catch me all over the ID@XBOX community on Twitter, Twitch and Mixer with the handle Jordan650.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line427
__label__wiki	0.696716	0.696716	Facing political pressure, charter schools seek to shed stereotypes Avi Wolfman-Arent - February 18, 2014 March 10, 2014 - Feb. 14, National Politics HOST INTRO: During the 2013 New York City mayoral campaign, Bill DeBlasio said he’d charge rent to some charter schools that use space in district school buildings. That proposal prompted school choice advocates to stage a massive protest last October. Now that De Blasio is mayor, as Avi Wolfman-Arent reports, some charter schools are trying to make peace. The conflict between Bill DeBlasio and the city’s charter schools begins with that most precious of New York resources: real estate. Of course there’s never quite enough of it, as Brooklyn College education professor David Bloomfield explains. BLOOMFIELD: There was always tension between the De Blasio campaign and charter interests because of De Blasio’s opposition to what’s called co-location, placing charter schools inside New York City public school buildings. [0:20]. Co-locations aren’t exclusive to charter schools. However, charter school co-locations have been among the most contentions, particularly when fast-expanding charter networks have been involved. DeBlasio has clearly taken note. In his short time as mayor, he’s has already placed a moratorium on future co-locations. He’s also cut $210 million in charter school funding from the district’s capital budget. And while DeBlasio hasn’t offered any specifics on his rent proposal, he hasn’t backed off it either. Now, after 12 years under the charter-friendly policies of Michael Bloomberg, school choice proponents find themselves in an unfamiliar position. BLOOMFIELD: In some ways, they’re on the defense now. [0:02] And there is quite a bit of defending to do. BLOOMFIELD: They’ve all been stung by the repeated assertions, which have proven accurate, that charter schools don’t take a proportional number of special education students and English language learners. [0:16] That’s not all. Charter critics also say the schools are preoccupied with student test scores and heavy-handed when it comes to school discipline. But some charters are trying to change that narrative. Rebekah Oakes of Renaissance Charter School in Queens says her school doesn’t fit the charter stereotype. And in this tense political climate, she says the public needs to hear from schools like hers. OAKES: Our job is to promote our school and to make sure our message is out there. [0:06] Renaissance is in many ways the perfect school to help rebrand the charter movement. The school didn’t participate in the October protest. Renaissance doesn’t focus on standardized tests and doesn’t have a strict disciplinary code. When the New York City Charter School Center launched a recent promotional campaign profiling schools that don’t fit the typical charter narrative, Renaissance was an obvious choice. OAKES: The message they wanted to get out there is that there are all different kinds of charter schools that have all different kinds of messages and missions. [0:07] In late January, Renaissance principal Stacey Gauthier joined five other charter leaders in issuing a statement entitled “Framework for a Progressive Charter School Sector”. The memo calls for charter schools to serve more English Language Learners and Special Education Students. The authors also pledge support for De Blasio’s efforts to fund universal Pre-K. The one area where they didn’t compromise? Co-location. That concerns Leonie Haimson, a prominent charter critic who says co-locations are hurting public school students. HAIMSON: The co-location issue has been extremely damaging to our system as a whole, created more overcrowding, created larger class sizes, led to the loss of classrooms, music rooms, science rooms. [0:15] Oakes says Renaissance needs its public space, and can’t afford to pay rent. OAKES: I’ll be completely frank, rent would kills us. That’s all there is to it. [0:05] Oakes is hopeful that by dialoging with city hall, the progressive charter sector will change the mayor’s position on co-location—the very issue that first sparked tensions. And if that tactic doesn’t work? Well, Oakes says she won’t sit out the next rally. Avi Wolfman-Arent, Columbia Radio News. Previous PostPrevious Stumbling blocks remain in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Next PostNext New DA stirs debate on marijuana prosecution	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line430
__label__cc	0.578957	0.421043	Tag: Americana UCR Interview- M Horton Smith of The Lower Lights Continue reading “UCR Interview- M Horton Smith of The Lower Lights” Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit September 19, 2019, Red But Garden Photo Credit: Erica Fasoli Do you ever hear your friends or peers mention a band or solo artist with such reverence and admiration that you start to wonder, even though you feel like you love music more than anyone ever, “How have I not heard of this person/band”? That was me some years ago with Jason Isbell. His name would come up in social circles or I’d be at a concert waiting for a band to come on and I’d hear people mention how they’d seen Jason Isbell live and how any fan of live music needs to see him. When people had asked me, “Have you been to a Jason Isbell concert?” and I’d say that I hadn’t the look of shame and embarrassment for me meant only one thing, I’d better see Jason Isbell live or lose all credibility. Continue reading “Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit September 19, 2019, Red But Garden” Branson Anderson September 20, 2019, Kilby Court By: Katie Barber Photo Credit: Alex Wardell The crowd was forced to part as a casket was brought into the room. Its pallbearers strained under the weight before laying it down next to Kilby Court’s stage. The wildly unexpected sound of an industrial saw ripped through idle chatter—something was breaking free from within the casket. Emerged a figure with dark hair, a blue bandana around his neck, and a face painted ghostly white. Branson Anderson was back from the dead. Continue reading “Branson Anderson September 20, 2019, Kilby Court” UCR Interview- Branson Anderson Branson Anderson is an Americana singer-songwriter based in Ogden, Utah. It’s been said that he’s a mix between Devendra Banhart meets Shakey Graves meets Bob Dylan meets Jack White. As I did my own studying up on Branson leading up to this interview I found his lyrics and vocals to be infectious. The longer I listened, the more I was hooked. Continue reading “UCR Interview- Branson Anderson” The Wood Brothers August 28, 2019, Red Butte Garden On Wednesday night, a unique combination of Americana, folk, and country music filled the air in the foothills of Salt Lake City. I walked into Red Butte Garden Amphitheater at quarter to 7:00 pm and already the place was full. People had claimed their space with chairs and blankets and were enjoying the surprisingly cool weather. One thing that I love about this outdoor venue is the atmosphere. There’s always been such a positive vibe – people sitting around enjoying each other’s company over a beer and some laughs. Thursday night was no different. Everyone was there to have a good time. Continue reading “The Wood Brothers August 28, 2019, Red Butte Garden” Shakey Graves August 13, 2019, Red Butte Garden This World Needs More Appalachian Murder Ballads Photo By: Tiffany Mull Southern Gothic is one of my favorite literary genres. I’d argue that certain musicians fit into this genre as well, Shakey Graves among them. Never mind his playfully macabre alias, the themes of his songs touch on death and decay, murder, alcoholism, drug abuse, execution by electric chair, and the way ex-lovers haunt one another. All this, though, is presented with good humor and a (wholesomely) wicked Texas grin, side-by-side with themes of shirking the predictable life and embracing the shiftless, devil-may-care habits of a tramp. Shakey’s musical style is tricky to pin down. Clearly influenced by bluegrass, hobo folk, blues, rock, and country, it might be safest to simply say, “Americana.” Continue reading “Shakey Graves August 13, 2019, Red Butte Garden” SLC Twilight w/ Blind Pilot, Foxwarren & The Hollering Pines By: Evelyn Salazar Photo By: Evelyn Salazar Whenever you think of a concert or live music what comes to mind? Loud music? A crowd going nuts and dancing around? The frontman running around the stage and getting the crowd going? Those aren’t wrong answers. But sometimes a great concert can be the opposite of all of those things. Such was the case at Last Thursday’s SLC Twilight with Blind Pilots. If you wanted to spend a summer evening sitting outside kicking back and relaxing while listening to some great music then this was the show for you. Continue reading “SLC Twilight w/ Blind Pilot, Foxwarren & The Hollering Pines” UCR Interview- Daniel Young of The Hollering Pines Photo By: Ryan Tanner Note from Kev: I feel like I’ve been circling around The Hollering Pines for a few years. The first time I saw Marie Bradshaw, Kiki Jane Sieger, Dylan Schorer, Daniel Young and M. Horton Smith perform was at The State Room for a Bruce Springsteen tribute show where a variety of local artists performed Born in the USA in its entirety. A few nights later I saw many of these artists perform with Americana super group The Lower Lights at their annual Christmas concert. It was only after that show I realized that these five members were their own band. I quickly jumped onboard the Hollering Pines train and don’t plan on getting off any time soon. This Friday (June 7) The Hollering Pines will be releasing their third album, Moments in Between. Concurrently they will be performing an album release show at Commonwealth Studios. I had the opportunity to visit with Hollering Pines drummer, Daniel Young leading up to the show and album release. Hope you enjoy our conversation! Continue reading “UCR Interview- Daniel Young of The Hollering Pines” The Head and The Heart March 14, 2019, Park City Live By: Justin Hicken Photo By: UCR When it was announced that The Head and The Heart would be playing a show at Park City Live in Park City I think many of their fans were surprised yet excited that they would be playing a much smaller venue than they might normally play here in Utah. For example, The Head and The Heart’s last two shows in Utah were at The Union Events Center and Red Butte Garden which hold thirty five hundred and three thousand respectfully. Park City Live holds under 900. So it there was some real excitement knowing that we were getting a very intimate show from one of the best live bands out there today. Continue reading “The Head and The Heart March 14, 2019, Park City Live” Posted on March 10, 2019 August 20, 2019 Joshua James, March 9th, 2019, Urban Lounge By Tiffany Mull Joshua James live is a thing to behold. The man never lost focus and wasted no time with banter. Music poured from his veins from the second he took the stage to the second he left. His ardent, impassioned folk was the perfect counterpoint to a damp March evening. Continue reading “Joshua James, March 9th, 2019, Urban Lounge”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line433
__label__cc	0.721964	0.278036	Chinese Foreign Ministry Iran and China discuss JCPOA 2 Dec 2019 in 14:30 Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held talks in Beijing with China's Deputy Foreign Ministry Ma Zhaoxu about the latest developments with regard to the JCPOA. 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__label__cc	0.530144	0.469856	Break the Chains / U.S. History The Khazarian Mafia by We the One People · October 30, 2015 This is a great article written a few months ago but still worth reading for those that are still waking up to the crimes inflicted against us, the people of this planet. It is also to take into account that this mafia is the one that own the BAR association that is composed of all the so call “lawyers” that are the ones responsible for infringing the free will of all beings and or abrogating the lives of everyone, including putting citizens on the streets by claiming a loan that they and or any bank never loaned. And this mafia includes as well the public courts, that along with the “supposed judges “ that are nothing but members of the mafia that works in unison with county clerks, the local sheriff and its team of brain washed policemen, and the many others that call themselves “government of the people” when in truths they are just what they are: a mafia controlling freaks that until now we let them get away with all kinds of crimes against us in order for them to feel superiors with their inflated ego that we know for a fact is being deflated as we speak due to the fact that we, the people are waking up to the lies and frauds; and we are going to put an end to this matter once since for all, even if some of us has to die defending our god giving rights and freedom. Let us remind to these thugs that they are NOT the power that is but instead the power that were (TPW), as for a fact all corporations, public courts, all BAR licenses, the federal government, police force; alleged United States of America Inc, and or United States Inc, and or any entity (s) that are using the people as commodities to commandeering lawful value with unlawful representation thereof and or the alleged slavery system is/are dissolved since 2012 by the OPPT, UCC #201212 7914; UCC# 2012114776; UCC # 2012113593 and UCC# 2013032035 of universal law. IT IS TIME FOR TPW to shift consciousness or pay the price of their crimes committed against the people. HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE INCREDIBLY EVIL KHAZARIAN MAFIA The curtain is now being pulled back to fully expose the Khazarian Mafia and its evil plan to infiltrate, tyrannize the whole World and eradicate all Abrahamic Religions and allow only their Babylonian Talmudism also known as Luciferianism, Satanism or ancient Baal worship. by Preston James and Mike Harris Note: The history of the Khazarians, specifically the Khazarian Mafia (KM), the World’s largest Organized Crime Syndicate that the Khazarian oligarchy morphed into by their deployment of Babylonian Money-Magick, has been nearly completely excised from the history books. The present day KM knows that it cannot operate or exist without abject secrecy, and therefore has spent a lot of money having its history excised from the history books in order to prevent citizens of the World from learning about its “Evil beyond imagination”, that empowers this World’s largest Organized Crime Cabal. The authors of this article have done their best to resurrect this lost, secret history of the Khazarians and their large International Organized Crime Syndicate, best referred to as the Khazarian Mafia (KM) and make this history available to the World via the Internet, which is the new Gutenberg Press. It has been exceedingly difficult to reconstruct this hidden secret history of the KM, so please excuse any minor inaccuracies or errors which are unintentional and are due to the difficulty in digging out the true history of Khazaria and its mafia. We have done the best we can to reconstruct it. It was Mike Harris that connected the dots and made the actual discovery of the presence of the Khazarian Mafia’s secret history and blood oath to take revenge on Russia for helping Americans win the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, and their blood oath of revenge against America and Americans for winning these wars and sustaining the Union. At the Syrian Conference on Combating Terrorism and Religious Extremism December 1, 2014 — in his Keynote address, Veterans Today Senior Editor and Director Gordon Duff disclosed publicly for the first time ever that World Terrorism is actually due to a large International Organized Crime Syndicate associated with Israel. This disclosure sent shock-waves at the Conference and almost instantly around the world, as almost every world leader received reports of Gordon Duff’s historical disclosure that same day, some within minutes. And the shock-waves from his historic speech in Damascus continue to reverberate around the world even to this very day. And now Gordon Duff has asked President Putin to release Russian Intel which will expose about 300 traitors in Congress for their serious serial felonies and statutory espionage on behalf of the Khazarian Mafia (KM) against America and many Middle East nations. We now know that the Khazarian Mafia (KM) is waging a secret war against America and Americans by the use of False-flag Gladio-style terrorism, and via the illegal and Unconstitutional Federal Reserve System, the IRS, the FBI, FEMA, Homeland Security and the TSA. We know for certain that the KM was responsible for deploying an inside-job, Gladio-style False-flag attack on America on 9-11-01, as well as the Murrah Building Bombing on April 19, 1995. The Hidden History of the Incredibly Evil Khazarian Mafia 100-800 AD – an incredibly Evil Society Emerges in Khazaria: Khazarians develop into a nation ruled by an evil king, who had ancient Babylonian black arts, occult oligarchs serving as his court. During this time, Khazarians become known to surrounding countries as thieves, murderers, road bandits, and for assuming the identities of those travelers they murdered as a normal occupational practice and way of life. 800 AD – The Ultimatum is delivered by Russia and other surrounding nations: The leaders of the surrounding nations, especially Russia, have had so many years of complaints by their citizens that, as a group, they deliver an ultimatum to the Khazarian king. They send a communique to the Khazarian king that he must choose one of the three Abrahamic religions for his people, and make it his official state religion and require all Khazarian citizens to practice it, and socialize all Khazarian children to practice that faith. The Khazarian king was given a choice between Islam, Christianity and Judaism. The Khazarian king chose Judaism, and promised to stay within the requirements laid out by the surrounding confederacy of nations led by the Russian czar. Despite his agreement and promise, the Khazarian king and his inner circle of oligarchs kept practicing ancient Babylonian black-magic, also known as Secret Satanism. This Secret Satanism involved occult ceremonies featuring child sacrifice, after “bleeding them out”, drinking their blood and eating their hearts. The deep dark secret of the occult ceremonies was that they were all based on ancient Baal Worship, also known as worship of the Owl. In order to fool the confederacy of nations led by Russia that were watching Khazaria, the Khazarian king melded these Luciferian black-magick practices with Judaism and created a secret Satanic-hybrid religion, known as Babylonian Talmudism. This was made the national religion of Khazaria, and nurtured the same evil that Khazaria was known for before. Sadly, the Khazarians continued their evil ways, robbing and murdering those from surrounding countries who traveled through Khazaria. Khazarian robbers often attempted to assume their identities after they murdered these visitors, and became masters of disguises and false identities — a practice they have continued even to this very day, along with their child-sacrifice occult ceremonies, which are actually ancient Baal Worship. 1,200 AD – Russia and the surrounding nations have had enough and take action: About 1,200 AD, the Russians led a group of nations surrounding Khazaria and invaded it, in order to stop the Khazarian crimes against their people, which included kidnapping of their young children and infants for their blood sacrifice ceremonies to Baal. The Khazarian king and his inner court of criminals and murderers came to be known as the Khazarian Mafia (KM) by neighboring countries. The Khazarian leaders had a well-developed spy network through which they obtained prior warning and escaped from Khazaria to European nations to the west, taking their vast fortune with them in gold and silver. They laid low and regrouped, while assuming new identities. In secret, they continued their Satanic child blood and sacrifice rituals, and trusted Baal to give them the whole world and all its riches, as they claimed he had promised them, as long as they kept bleeding out and sacrificing children and infants for him. The Khazarian king and his court Mafia plotted eternal revenge against the Russians and the surrounding nations that invaded Khazaria and drove them from power. The Khazarian Mafia invades England after being expelled for hundreds of years: To accomplish their invasion, they hired Oliver Cromwell to murder King Charles 1, and make England safe for banking again. This began the English Civil Wars which raged for nearly a decade, resulting in regicide of the royal family and hundreds of the genuine English nobility. This is how the City of London was set up as the banking capital of Europe and launched the beginning of the British Empire. From David Icke’s website http://www.davidicke.com. David Icke was the first ever to courageously expose the Rothschilds publicly in front of hundreds. This of course makes him an international hero and we need more with his kind of courage to break open the coverup hiding the Khazarian Mafia and bring an end to their worldwide illegitimate power. The Khazarian Mafia (KM) decides to infiltrate and hijack all World Banking using Babylonian Black-Magick, also known as Babylonian Money-Magick or the secret art of making money from nothing also using the power of pernicious usury to accumulate interest: The KM used their vast fortune to enter into a new system of banking, based on secret Babylonian black-magic money-magic that they claimed to have learned from the evil spirits of Baal, in return for their many child sacrifices to him. This Babylonian money-magick involved the substation of paper credit certificates for gold and silver deposits, which allowed travelers to travel with their money in a form that offered easy replacement should they lose the certificates or have them stolen. Interesting how the very problem that was started by the Khazarians also had a solution provided by them. Eventually the Khazarian king and his small surrounding court infiltrated Germany with a group that chose the name “the Bauers” of Germany to represent them and carry on their Baal-powered system of evil. The Bauers of the Red Shield, which represented their secret blood-based child sacrifices, changed their name to Rothschild (aka “child of the rock, Satan”). The Rothschilds as the front Men for the Khazarian Mafia (KM) infiltrate and Hijack British Banking and then hijack the whole nation of England: Bauer/Rothschild had five sons who infiltrated and took over European banking and the City of London Central Banking System through various crafty covert operations, including a false report of Napoleon winning against the British, when actually he lost. This allowed the Rothschilds to use fraud and deception to steal the wealth of the English nobility and the landed gentry, who had made business investments with the City of London Banking institutions. The Rothschilds set up a private Fiat banking system that specialized in making counterfeit money from nothing — charging pernicious usury for the British people, using what should have been their own money. This was the black art of Babylonian money-magick; they claimed to insiders that such technology and secret money power was provided to them by Baal, because of their frequent child bleeding-out and sacrifices rituals to Baal. Once they had infiltrated and hijacked the British banking system, they interbred with the British Royals and infiltrated and completely hijacked all of England and all its major institutions. Some experts believe that the Rothschilds genocided the Royal Family members by staging secretly-managed illicit and adulterous breedings with their own Khazarian men in order to replace the Royals with their own pretenders to the throne. The Khazarian Mafia (KM) wages an international effort to eradicate Kings who rule by the Divine Right of God Almighty: Because the KM claims to have a personal partnership with Baal (aka the Devil, Lucifer, Satan) because of their sacrifices to him. They detest any kings who rule under the authority of God Almighty because most feel a responsibility to make sure their own people are protected from infiltrators and treasonous “Enemies within the Gates.” In the 1600’s, the KM murder the British Royals and substitute their own fakes. In the 1700’s, they murder the French Royals. Right before WWI they murder, Austrian Archduke Ferdinand to start WW1. In 1917 they assembled their KM army, the Bolsheviks, and infiltrate and hijack Russia, murder the Czar and his family in cold blood, bayonet his favorite daughter through the chest and steal all the Russian gold, silver and art treasures. Right before WW2, they murder the Austrian and German Royals. Then they get rid of the Chinese Royals and disempower the Japanese ruler. The Khazarian Mafia’s intense hatred of anyone who professed faith in any God but their god Baal has motivated them to murder kings and royalty, and make sure they can never rule. They have done the same with American presidents — running sophisticated covert operations to disempower them. If that doesn’t work the KM assassinates them, like they did to McKinley, Lincoln and JFK. The KM wants to eliminate any strong rulers or elected officials who dare to resist their Babylonian money-magick power or their covert power gained from their deployment of their human compromise network. The Rothschilds create international narcotics trafficking on behalf of the KM: The Rothschilds then covertly ran the British Empire and crafted an evil plan to recover the vast amounts of gold and silver the British had been paying to China for its high-quality silk and spices that were unavailable anywhere else. The Rothschilds, through their international spy network, had heard of Turkish opium and its habit-forming characteristics. They deployed a covert operation to buy Turkish opium and sell it in China, infecting millions with a bad opium habit that brought back gold and silver into the Rothschild coffers, but not to the British People. The opium addictions created by Rothschild opium sales to China harmed China so much that China went to war on two occasions to stop it. These wars were known as the Boxer Rebellions or the Opium Wars. The money the Rothschilds gained from the sale of opium was so vast that they became even more addicted to the easy money than the opiate addicts were to the opium. The Rothschilds were the funding source behind the establishment of the American Colonies, by incorporating the Hudson Bay Company and other trading companies to exploit the New World of the Americas. It was the Rothschild’s who ordered the mass extermination and genocide of the indigenous people of North America to allow for exploitation of the vast natural resources of the continent. The Rothschild’s also followed the same business template in the Caribbean and in the Asian sub-continent of India, resulting in the murder of millions of innocent people. The Rothschilds start the international slave trade, an enterprise that viewed these kidnapped humans as mere animals — a view that the Khazarians would impose on all the people of the world who were not part of their evil circle, which some called the “Old Black Nobility”: The Rothschild’s next big project was to start the worldwide slave trade, buying slaves from crooked tribal chiefs in Africa who worked with them to kidnap members of competing tribes for sale as slaves. The Rothschild slave traders then took these kidnapped slaves on their ships in cramped cells to America and the Caribbean where they were sold. Many died at sea due to bad conditions. The Rothschild bankers learned early on that war was a great way to double their money in a short time by lending money to both warring sides. But in order to be guaranteed collections, they had to get taxation laws passed, which could be used to force payment. The KM Rothschild private Fiat Counterfeit Banksters plot eternal revenge against the American Colonists and Russia who assisted them for losing the Revolutionary War: When the Rothschilds lost the American Revolution, they blamed the Russian czar and the Russians for assisting the colonists by blockading British Ships. They swore eternal revenge on the American colonists, just as they had when the Russians and their allies crushed Khazaria in 1,000 AD. The Rothschilds and their English oligarchy that surrounded them plotted ways to retake America, and this became their main obsession. Their favored plan is to set up an American central bank, featuring Babylonian money magic and secret counterfeiting. The Rothschild KM attempts to retake America in 1812 on behalf of the Khazarian Mafia but fails, once again because of Russian interference: This failure enraged the Rothschild KM, and they once again plot eternal revenge against both the Russians and the American colonists and plan to infiltrate and hijack both nations and asset strip, tyrannize and then mass-murder both nations and their populace. The KM’s attempts to set up a private American central bank are blocked by President Andrew Jackson, who called them Satanic and vowed to route them out by the grace and power of Almighty God. The Rothschild banksters regroup and continue their covert attempts to install their own Babylonian money-magick bank inside America. Finally in 1913, the Rothschild KM succeeds in establishing a major beachhead inside America — and an evil enemy of all American enter the gates of America: In 1913, the Rothschild KM was able to establish a beachhead by bribing crooked, treasonous members of Congress to pass the illegal, Unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act on Christmas Eve without a required quorum. The Act was then signed by a crooked, bought off President, who was a traitor to America, like the members of Congress who voted for it. The Rothschild KM then create an illegal taxation System in America: The KM put an illegal, Unconstitutional tax system in place, in order to make sure that Americans would have to pay for high-level USG spending, approved by a bought-off, crooked Congress and Presidential puppets, put in place by corrupt KM campaign finance. It is easy for the KM to garner enough money to elect anyone they want, because when you control a bank that is a secret major counterfeiter, you have all the money made for you that you desire. At about the same time that they created their illegal tax system in America, they also bribed members of Congress to approve the Internal Revenue Service, which is their private collection agency incorporated in Puerto Rico. Soon afterwards, they set up the Federal Bureau of Investigation to protect their banksters, to serve their cover-up needs and prevent them from ever being prosecuted for their child sacrifice rituals, pedophile networks; and to also serve as a covert Intel operation on their behalf. Note that the FBI has no official charter, according to the Library of Congress, and has no right to exist or issue paychecks. The Rothschild KM deployed the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia to extract incredibly savage, bloody revenge on innocent Russians, which they had plotted for many years, ever since Khazaria was destroyed: The Rothschild KM pre-staged and engineered the Russian Revolution by using its central banks to pay for the Bolshevik infiltration of Russia and their Revolution on behalf of the Khazarian Mafia (KM). The Bolsheviks were actually created and deployed by the Khazarian Mafia (KM) as the essential part of their long planned revenge on the Russian Czar and the innocent Russian people for breaking up Khazaria in about 1,000 AD for its repeated robbery, murder and identity theft of travelers from countries surrounding Khazaria. This little known fact explains the extreme violence taken out on Russia as long standing revenge by the Rothschild controlled Khazarian Mafia (KM). In an well-planned savage and inhuman bloodletting that stunned the world, the Bolsheviks were unleashed in full fury on behalf of the KM to gain revenge on the Russians. This had been planned since the destruction of Khazaria. The Bolsheviks, at the direction of the Rothschild KM, raped, tortured and mass-murdered approximately 100 million Russians, including women, children and infants. Some of the torture and bloodletting was so extreme, we are not going to mention it here in this article. But readers who want to know can do some in depth internet research on the “Red Terror” or the “Bolshevik Cheka” or watch the classic movie “The Checkist” which is available on http://www.youtube.com. The Rothschild Khazarian Mafia (KM) once again decided to sheep-dip themselves and infiltrated and hijacked all Judaism: The Rothschild KM created a master plan to control all of Judaism and mind-kontrol Judaics. The Rothschild KM has hijacked Judaism, patterned it off of Babylonian Talmudism (Luciferianism or Satanism), and gained control over the banking and Wall Street professions in general, Congress, the major mass media; along with most wealth and economic means of success. Thus, the Rothschild KM could pass out wealth and success to those Judaics who drank their Kool-aide and use them as cutouts, assets and Sayanims. In this manner, the Rothschilds hijacked Judaism. Their financing of the Israeli Knesset and construction of it using Freemason occult architecture displayed their commitment to the occult and Babylonian Talmudism and all the evil accompanying it, including child sacrifice to their secret god Baal. They set up a NWO system called World Zionism which taught and inculcated susceptible Judaics with a paranoid group delusion of racial superiority, which assumed that all Gentiles were intent on mass-murdering all Judaics. Freemasonry architecture was used in the building of the Knesset and the Israeli Supreme Court, viewed through windows. They called this racially-paranoid mass Judaic delusion of world conquest, “World Zionism”, which is really a form of covert Babylonian Talmudism or Luciferianism that had been unknown to mainstream Judaics. The system was designed to use Judaics as cover, but also to anoint them with Babylonian money-power, in order to use them as cutouts, and to later be sacrificed to Lucifer in two stages. The first stage would be a their planned WWII in Nazi work camps, cut off from supplies, resulting in the deaths of about 200,000 Judaics from starvation and disease, along with about 90,000 non-Judaic inmates from the same causes, according to respected Red Cross official figures. This number is 5% of what the Khazarian Mafia (aka the World Zionists) claim. The second great sacrifice would be a final one, when their New World Order Luciferian King would be placed into power, and when all three Abrahamic religions would be eradicated — especially Judaism, which would be blamed for all the wars and destruction of the world. By then, the Rothschilds would once again morph themselves into a complete new identity not associated with Judaism in any form, not even World Zionism. It is important to realize that the Rothschild KM took Germany down to nothing after WWI, created a vacuum for Fascism, and then rebuilt it, creating Naziism and installing Hitler as a counter-force to their Russian Bolshevism. Hitler became a problem for the KM when he broke free and begin acting in the interests of the German people and the free people of the world, and developed his own banking system free of the Rothschilds. Hitler introduced a financial system that was free of usury and beneficial to the working class. This mandated the utter destruction of Germany and the German people, because the Rothschilds and the Khazarians could never allow an economic system that did not depend upon usury to exist. We see the same thing today with the Khazarian war against Islam, because Islam forbids usury. That is why Israel is so vocal and aggressive about destroying the Islamic people of the world. The KM expected this to be a large WWII and when they supported both sides, this could be used to industrialize the whole world and maximize their bankster money-power. The Rothschild KM then bribed and induced Members of Congress to send American Soldiers to their pre-stage and engineered WWI: As a continuance of their well-proven pattern of financing both sides in any war to maximize profits, the acquisition of more federal tax monies and increased international power, the Rothschild Khazarians once again bribed, blackmailed and induced members of Congress to declare war against Germany in 1917. This was facilitated by a KM false-flag attack with the sinking of the Lusitania. The Rothschild KM has since developed the usual pattern of covertly staging false-flag attacks as a standard operating procedure for inducing Americans to fighting wars for the Khazarian Mafia. After WWII was finished, the Rothschild KM deployed the Cold War, and used this as an excuse to bring Nazi scientists and mind-kontrol experts to America under Operation Paperclip. This allowed them to set up a worldwide spying and espionage system that far exceeded any of their prior efforts. Under this new system, they continue to infiltrate and hijack all American institutions, including the various American church systems, Freemasonry (especially the Scottish Rite and York Rite), the US military, US Intel, and most private defense contractors, the Judiciary and most agencies of the USG, including most State governments, and both major political parties as well. The Rothschild KM sets up Nazi Work Camps as a pretext to later manipulate the Allies into granting them their own private colony in Palestine, using land stolen from the Palestinians: The Rothschild KM was able to use their self mis-labelled, so-called “holocaust” to serve as a mind-kontrol trigger to thwart and resist any criticism of their Zionist ways. The truth of the matter was that the Rothschild KM set up the Nazi work camps to make huge profits for their corporations that ran their work camps and supplied their Nazi war machine. Once the Rothschild KM gained their own private homeland in Israel in 1947 through their covert political manipulations, they began to secretly view all of Palestine as their New Khazaria, and began plotting how to genocide all the Palestinians and steal all of Palestine for themselves. Their plans include their fantasy of constructing a “greater Israel” by taking over the whole Middle East and manipulating dumb American Goyim to fight and die on their behalf, taking all the Arab lands for Israel and the Khazarian Mafia (KM), so they can asset strip their wealth and natural resources, especially their crude oil. Recent peer-reviewed Johns Hopkins genetic research by a respected Judaic MD shows that 97.5% of Judaics living in Israel have absolutely no ancient Hebrew DNA, are therefore not Semites, and have no ancient blood ties to the land of Palestine at all. By contrast, 80% of Palestinians carry ancient Hebrew DNA and thus are real Semites, and have ancient blood ties to Palestinian Land. This means that the real anti-Semites are the Israelis who are stealing Palestinian lands in order to build Israeli settlements, and it is the Israelis who are the ones tyrannizing and mass-murdering innocent Palestinians. The Rothschild KM decides to morph again and expand their ranks: In the meantime the Rothschild KM realized that they could not stay hidden much longer from the public unless they morphed again and expanded their secret leadership. So they worked hard to further infiltrate and hijack Freemasonry and its secret offshoots, and inducted top members into their pedophile network and child sacrifice rituals. Also, key members of Congress were inducted into their secret satanic network by giving them special power, high USG, military and Intel positions, accompanied by great monetary rewards and high status. Massive KM espionage fronts using Israeli-Americam “Israeli-first” dual citizens as cutouts were set up inside America to funnel the Khazarian banksters’ counterfeit money to politicians for their election campaigns, in order to own and control them when elected. The Rothschild KM decides to Mind-kontrol the American masses to make it much easier to manipulate them into approving their illegal, Unconstitutional unprovoked, undeclared, unwinnable, perpetual wars needed to make huge profits and gain more world power: The Rothschild KM decided to gain complete control over all public education by setting up the Department of Education and creating globalist and socialist curriculums based on political correctness, diversity and “perversion is normal” teachings. Fluoride is added to the public water and toothpaste, and dentists are mind-kontrolled to believe that fluoride prevents cavities, and is not harmful to brain function or thyroid function, which it is. The addition of fluoride to the public water supply and to toothpaste is to dumb-down Americans by on average lowering the operational IQ and making folks much more docile than they would normally be. Programs to develop and deploy vaccinations to dumb-down children and create huge numbers of future chronic health problems were initiated. Doctors have been mind-kontrolled and misled by biased research that was cherry-picked, ignoring any studies that were negative — and that included most of them. All vaccine cell lines are contaminated with SV-40, a known carcinogenic slow-acting virus. The KM used its monetary power to gain control over all of the allopathic medical schools, and set up and controlled the American Medical Association and other medical societies, in order to make sure their agenda based on lies and deceit was continued. Part of this massive plan to dumb-down and mind-kontrol the American masses was the KM’s buying up and consolidating all the American mass media into six controlled major mass media (CMMM), owned and controlled by their cutouts on their behalf. The CMMM functions as an illegal news cartel, and it should be broken up under antitrust laws and for inflicting espionage and illegal propaganda as a weapon of war against the American people. The Rothschild KM Chieftains decide that it is time to use America to complete their final take-down and occupation of the Whole World by instituting a major False-Flag attack inside America to blame on the Islamics whom they want America to wrongly attack on their behalf: So the KM Chieftains use their top Israeli-American “Israeli-first” dual citizens living in America (aka, the PNACers and top NeoCon Cutouts) to plan a major nuclear attack on America on 9-11-01. Bibi Netanyahu, the operational head of the KM, deployed the Mossad and these Dual Citizens to set up and institute this attack on America which was to be blamed by the CMMM on Muslims. They informed their top Rabbis and “Friends of World Zionism” not to fly on that day and to stay out of NYC, as did “Larry Silverfish”, one of the primary men involved in the operation. They used their main cutout in the DOD to lure the Able Danger investigators to the Pentagon Naval Intel meeting room, where they would be assassinated by a Tomahawk cruise missile that was fired from an Israeli Dolphin class Diesel submarine bought from Germany. Thirty-five of the Able Danger investigators who were investigating and tracking the Israeli theft of 350 decommissioned W-54 Davy Crockett nuclear pits out of the backdoor at Pantex in Texas were murdered by this Tomahawk hit, which was timed with the detonation of bombs pre-planted in the Naval Intel wing, which was newly hardened to no avail. The Israeli Mossad front company, Urban Moving Systems, was used to transport the mini-nukes made from the stolen W-54 nuclear pits from Pantex (and originally made at the Hanford processing plant), where they were stored in the Israeli Embassy in NYC and transported to the Twin Towers for detonation on 9-11-01. The Rothschild KM planted 25 nukes in major American cities and other major cities in Europe in order to blackmail them. This is referred to as their Samson Option, and was first discovered and disclosed by Seymour Hersh: The Rothschild KM also gained some S-19 and S-20 Warheads from a corrupt Member of Congress assigned the task to buy up Ukrainian Mirvs on behalf of the USG in order to decommission them. Instead, he sold them to the Israelis and split the money with other key Congressmen involved. This is high treason and a capital offense punishable by execution. Right after their attack on America, the Rothschild KM told the US Administration that they would detonate city-buster sized nukes in some American cities, including DC, if the Administration refused to allow Israel to create their own large police state occupation force inside America, based on the consolidation of all American Law Enforcement and alphabets under one central Israeli control. This new Israeli occupation force called Homeland Security (DHS) was initially run by dual citizens and perverts. Former DHS Director Janet Napolitano is being sued for sexual harassment of men working at DHS whom she ordered to move their offices into the men’s lavatory. Dual Citizen traitor Michael Chertoff, (a name translated from Russian as “son of the devil”), was the criminal mastermind that set up DHS, along with former head of the East German Stasi, Marcus Wolfe, who was hired as a special consultant and died mysteriously as soon as his mission was completed. The Rothschild KM never thought they would get exposed for their nuclear attack on America on 9-11-11, but they made one of the biggest tactical mistakes in history and overplayed their hand from excess hubris, based on too much easy success due to their extreme money power in the past. Soon mainstream America will know that Bibi Netanyahu and his Likudist Party deployed the attack on America on 9-11-01 on behalf of the Rothschild KM: They thought that they had complete control over the CMMM and could prevent any of the secret IAEA and Sandia Labs investigation from ever being released to the American public. They made a serious tactical error, because now the truth about their role in the 9-11-01 attack on America is being published on the worldwide Internet, the world’s new Gutenberg Press. What the Rothschild KM did not understand was the power of the Internet and how truth-nuggets published and broadcast on it resonate with the people of the world and spread like wildfire, at the speed of light. Truth is being diffused to the masses everywhere. This incredible tactical error by the KM is so great that it will actually doom them to the complete exposure and eventual complete destruction they deserve. Bibi Netanyahu’s order to proceed and deliver the nuclear attack on America on 9-11-01 will go down in history as one of the KM’s biggest mistakes, and the one that will be blamed for their exposure and destruction by the world that is now ganging up against them. The Russians have now leaked the IAEA and Sandia Labs and Able Danger files given to them by Edward Snowden. Soon all of these files will be provided to all Americans and the world via the Internet, and this cannot be stopped. A number of Russians in the High Military Command in Russia, and in the highest positions of leadership in the Russian government realize that it was the same Organized Crime Cabal that organized the Khazarians into Bolsheviks to mass-murder 100 million innocent Russians — and these men want payback. That is why they are making sure that the Rothschild banksters will be put out of business, which will decapitate the Khazarian Mafia from its endless, elastic counterfeit money supply. This is why the BRICS Development Bank was created — to replace the US Petro Dollar as the world’s reserve currency, but this one, unlike the US Petro Dollar is backed by gold, silver and real commodities, with NO counterfeiting allowed. The CMMM is failing, and most Americans no longer believe any of their prime-time national stories, especially the under-thirty crowd, who cherry pick facts from the Internet and construct their own beliefs. So many Internet users now reject the CMMM that the truth about the Israelis attacking America on 9-11-01 is becoming easier each day to believe. Soon all of mainstream America will know that Bibi Netanyahu and his Mossad and dual citizens did the 9-11-01 attack on America. The American Military High Command knows that Bibi Netanyahu ordered his Mossad and stateside Dual Citizens to attack America using nukes on 9-11-01 on behalf of the Rothschild Khazarian Mafia (KM): Various deep cover covert operations are now being deployed globally to expose and decapitate the Rothschild KM from their endless, elastic money supply. Their days of anti-human power are now limited. The secret, incredibly well-trained US team called the “Nuclear Snake-Eaters” is now hard at work searching all incoming Israeli diplomatic pouches and shipments; driving by and flying over synagogues and Israeli embassies and Mossad safe-houses with high tech gamma ray and helium-3 neutron detectors; and using ultra high-tech custom-tuned and -focused satellites to search for any stored nuclear pits, as well as working hard to recover all stolen nuclear pits by the Israelis anywhere in the world outside of Israel. This super-elite team was alerted by Michael Shrimpton’s phone call to MI-6 notifying them that an Israeli “City Buster” was planted near the Olympic stadium. This call wrongly has landed him in jail. The City Buster was recovered by the “Nuclear Snake-eaters”, who entered England and recovered and disarmed a large city buster. Sadly MI-6, wanted this nuke detonated in order to gain more power for the Khazarian Mafia in England — their home base inside the City of London Financial District — since it has been losing power fast. A secret name for these KM Chieftains which run much of the world out of the City of London is Gog and Magog, despite what so many historians believe is the secret name of Russia which it is not. It is the secret name of the top KM, and apparently represents where they originally came from. The secret team of super-elite “Nuclear Snake-eaters” is ready to be deployed to Israel anytime, should the nation collapse after most European corporations divest from Israel, and the US cuts off all aid, in order to comply with American law. It is illegal to give aid to a nation that has nukes, and which has not signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Agreement. Israel has nukes detectable from satellite-based Helium-3 sensors and has never admitted it, nor has it signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Agreement. We must all demand that our Congress and Administration obey the law and immediately cut off all aid monetary and military aid to Israel, and arrest all Israeli espionage front directors of AIPAC, JINSA, the Defense Policy Board, the “Joint” in NYC, and the ADL, etc. It is unknown but suspected that a significant number of these stolen nukes have been already recovered. It has been reported by insiders that a very solemn message was communicated to Bibi Netanyahu and his Likudists, as well as all top members of Israeli espionage fronts in America, like AIPAC, JINSA, the Defense Policy Board, the ADL and the like. What was this serious warning? If insider reports are accurate, these folks were told that if there is one more Israeli based false-flag attack, those who ordered it or were involved will be hunted down under American National Security and eliminated, and the Israeli defense structures associated with such will be turned to dust. The rest of Rothschild KM history will likely be determined by YOU: The future of the Rothschild KM will likely be determined by Veterans Today readers and We The People who learn the secret, forbidden history of the Khazarian Mafia that was excised from the history books and libraries by the KM to protect their evil history that no one would accept if it was known. So share this story with your family, friends and associates and take it viral. Be clear about this — unless the KM is able to operate in abject secrecy, it will be attacked from all sides and destroyed forever. So take away their secrecy by exposing their hidden history for all Americans to know and understand. That is why they have worked so hard to buy up and control the CMMM and public mass education including colleges and universities, to make sure the people of the world would never find out about their secret evil, which is so inhuman, so homicidal that the whole world would gang up on them and attack them from all sides at every level they exist at. The big question remains: Was the true cause of leaders of the Khazarian Mafia’s incredible evil and savagery toward the human race a byproduct or nature or nurture? Some believe that this gross parasitism and inclination to mass-murder, engage in pedophilia and child bloodletting and child sacrifice is due to a toxic culture, best described as malignant Tribalism, characterized by a paranoid group racial superiority delusion. Others think the leaders of the KM are the bloodline of Cain, that is, “children of Cain”, that are the Devil’s own and have absolutely no soul or human conscience, but are pure predators like a wild beast — while at the same time being incredibly two-faced, that is able to put on a good con and a nice face on the outside. Perhaps it could be both factors. In any case, it is time to expose this evil, the greatest evil the world has ever experienced. It is time for the world to work together to eradicate this problem now and forever, by whatever means necessary. Mike Harris is the Financial Editor of Veterans Today, a radio host, a former GOP Finance Chairman, Gubernatorial Candidate for Arizona, and a Senior Vice President of Adamus Defense Group, Switzerland. Mike is an expert in full-contact mixed martial arts. His long term expertise in such has gained him a lot of respect and the nickname “Iron Mike”. 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__label__wiki	0.728236	0.728236	Title: Rotifera Subject: Invertebrate, List of Latin words with English derivatives, Plankton, Nemertea, Bilateria, Meiobenthos, Lake Vida, Lophotrochozoa, Alexander Henry Haliday, Nephridium Temporal range: Eocene–Recent Rotaria sp. Classes and orders The rotifers (Rotifera, commonly called wheel animals) make up a phylum of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals. They were first described by Rev. John Harris in 1696, and other forms were described by Anton van Leeuwenhoek in 1703.[1] Most rotifers are around 0.1–0.5 mm long (although their size can range from 50 μm to over 2 millimeters),[2] and are common in freshwater environments throughout the world with a few saltwater species; for example, those of genus Synchaeta. Some rotifers are free swimming and truly planktonic, others move by inchworming along a substrate, and some are sessile, living inside tubes or gelatinous holdfasts that are attached to a substrate. About 25 species are colonial (e.g., Sinantherina semibullata), either sessile or planktonic. Rotifers are an important part of the freshwater zooplankton, being a major foodsource and with many species also contributing to the decomposition of soil organic matter.[3] Most species of the rotifers are cosmopolitan, but there are also some endemic species, like Cephalodella vittata to Lake Baikal.[4] Recent barcoding evidence, however, suggests that some 'cosmopolitan' species, such as Brachionus plicatilis, B. calyciflorus, Lecane bulla, among others, are actually species complexes.[5] In some recent treatments, rotifers are placed with acanthocephalans in a larger clade called Syndermata. 1 Taxonomy and naming 2 Anatomy 2.1 Digestive system 2.2 Nervous system 2.3 Biology 3 Feeding 4 Reproduction and life cycle 4.1 Loss of sexual reproduction 4.2 Resting eggs 4.3 Anhydrobiosis 5 Predators Taxonomy and naming Individual rotifers A bdelloid rotifer Ptygura pilula Brachionus quadridentatus Rev. John Harris first described the rotifers (in particular a bdelloid rotifer) in 1696 as "an animal like a large maggot which could contract itself into a spherical figure and then stretch itself out again; the end of its tail appeared with a forceps like that of an earwig".[1] In 1702, Anton van Leeuwenhoek gave a detailed description of Rotifer vulgaris and subsequently described Melicerta ringens and other species.[6] He was also the first to publish observations of the revivification of certain species after drying. Other forms were described by other observers, but it wasn't until the publication of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg's Die Infusionsthierchen als vollkommene Organismen in 1838 that the rotifers were recognized as being multicellular animals.[6] About 2200 species of rotifers have been described. Their taxonomy is currently in a state of flux. One treatment places them in the phylum Rotifera, with three classes: Seisonidea, Bdelloidea and Monogononta.[7] The largest group is the Monogononta, with about 1500 species, followed by the Bdelloidea, with about 350 species. There are only two known genera with three species of Seisonidea.[8] The Acanthocephala, previously considered to be a separate phylum, have been demonstrated to be modified rotifers. The exact relationship to other members of the phylum has not yet been resolved.[9] One possibility is that the Acanthocephala are closer to the Bdelloidea and Monogononta than to the Seisonidea; the corresponding names and relationships are shown in the cladogram below. Syndermata Seisonida Bdelloidea Monogonata The Rotifera, strictly speaking, are confined to the Bdelloidea and the Monogonata. Rotifera, Acanthocephala and Seisonida make up a clade called Syndermata.[10] The word "rotifer" is derived from a Latin word meaning "wheel-bearer",[11] due to the corona around the mouth that in concerted sequential motion resembles a wheel (though the organ does not actually rotate). Rotifer colonies Colonial rotifers, tentatively identified as Conochilius from Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana: the colony is somewhat less than 1 mm in diameter, but visible to the naked eye. A colony of Sinantheria socialis on an Elodea densa leaf from North German Lake. Note heart-shaped corona of individuals. Rotifers have bilateral symmetry and a variety of different shapes. The body of a rotifer is divided into a head, trunk, and foot, and is typically somewhat cylindrical. There is a well-developed cuticle, which may be thick and rigid, giving the animal a box-like shape, or flexible, giving the animal a worm-like shape; such rotifers are respectively called loricate and illoricate. Rigid cuticles are often composed of multiple plates, and may bear spines, ridges, or other ornamentation. Their cuticle is nonchitinous and is formed from sclerotized proteins. The most distinctive feature of rotifers is the presence of a ciliated structure, called the corona, on the head. In the more primitive species, this forms a simple ring of cilia around the mouth from which an additional band of cilia stretches over the back of the head. In the great majority of rotifers, however, this has evolved into a more complex structure. Modifications to the basic plan of the corona include alteration of the cilia into bristles or large tufts, and either expansion or loss of the ciliated band around the head. In genera such as Collotheca, the corona is modified to form a funnel surrounding the mouth. In many species, such as Testudinella, the cilia around the mouth have disappeared, leaving just two small circular bands on the head. In the bdelloids, this plan is further modified, with the upper band splitting into two rotating wheels, raised up on a pedestal projecting from the upper surface of the head.[12] The trunk forms the major part of the body, and encloses most of the internal organs. The foot projects from the rear of the trunk, and is usually much narrower, giving the appearance of a tail. The cuticle over the foot often forms rings, making it appear segmented, although the internal structure is uniform. Many rotifers can retract the foot partially or wholly into the trunk. The foot ends in from one to four toes, which, in sessile and crawling species, contain adhesive glands to attach the animal to the substratum. In many free-swimming species, the foot as a whole is reduced in size, and may even be absent.[12] The coronal cilia create a current that sweeps food into the mouth. The mouth opens into a characteristic chewing pharynx (called the mastax), sometimes via a ciliated tube, and sometimes directly. The pharynx has a powerful muscular wall and contains tiny, calcified, jaw-like structures called trophi, which are the only fossilizable parts of a rotifer. The shape of the trophi varies between different species, depending partly on the nature of their diet. In suspension feeders, the trophi are covered in grinding ridges, while in more actively carnivorous species, they may be shaped like forceps to help bite into prey. In some ectoparasitic rotifers, the mastax is adapted to grip onto the host, although, in others, the foot performs this function instead.[12] Behind the mastax lies an oesophagus, which opens into a stomach where most of the digestion and absorption occurs. The stomach opens into a short intestine that terminates in a cloaca on the posterior dorsal surface of the animal. Up to seven salivary glands are present in some species, emptying to the mouth in front of the oesophagus, while the stomach is associated with two gastric glands that produce digestive enzymes.[12] A pair of protonephridia open into a bladder that drains into the cloaca. These organs expel water from the body, helping to maintain osmotic balance.[12] Rotifers have a small brain, located just above the mastax, from which a number of nerves extend throughout the body. The number of nerves varies between species, although the nervous system usually has a simple layout. Close to the brain lies a retrocerebral organ, consisting of two glands either side of a medial sac. The sac drains into a duct that divides into two before opening through pores on the uppermost part of the head. Its function is unclear.[12] Rotifers typically possess one or two pairs of short antennae and up to five eyes. The eyes are simple in structure, sometimes with just a single photoreceptor cell. In addition, the bristles of the corona are sensitive to touch, and there are also a pair of tiny sensory pits lined by cilia in the head region.[12] The coronal cilia pull the animal, when unattached, through the water. Like many other microscopic animals, adult rotifers frequently exhibit eutely—they have a fixed number of cells within a species, usually on the order of 1,000. Bdelloid rotifer genomes contain two or more divergent copies of each gene, suggesting a long-term asexual evolutionary history.[13] For example, four copies of hsp82 are found. Each is different and found on a different chromosome excluding the possibility of homozygous sexual reproduction. Its thin lamellae resemble cabbage leaves, and are composed from their creases of the receptor membrane.[14] File:Movie of Rotifer, feeding (probably of the genus Cephalodella).theora.ogv File:Feeding rotifer.ogv Rotifers eat particulate organic detritus, dead bacteria, algae, and protozoans. They eat particles up to 10 micrometres in size. Like crustaceans, rotifers contribute to nutrient recycling. For this reason, they are used in fish tanks to help clean the water, to prevent clouds of waste matter. Rotifers affect the species composition of algae in ecosystems through their choice in grazing. Rotifers may be in competition with cladocera and copepods for phytoplanktonic food sources. Reproduction and life cycle Rotifers are dioecious and reproduce sexually or parthenogenetically. They are sexually dimorphic, with the females always being larger than the males. In some species, this is relatively mild, but in others the female may be up to ten times the size of the male. In parthenogenetic species, males may be present only at certain times of the year, or absent altogether.[12] The female reproductive system consists of one or two ovaries, each with a vitellarium gland that supplies the eggs with yolk. Together, each ovary and vitellarium form a single syncitial structure in the anterior part of the animal, opening through an oviduct into the cloaca.[12] Males do not usually have a functional digestive system, and are therefore short-lived, often being sexually fertile at birth. They have a single testicle and sperm duct, associated with a pair of glandular structures referred to as "prostates" (unrelated to the vertebrate prostate). The sperm duct opens into a gonopore at the posterior end of the animal, which is usually modified to form a penis. The gonopore is homologous to the cloaca of females, but in most species has no connection to the vestigial digestive system, which lacks an anus.[12] Fertilization is internal. The male either inserts his penis into the female's cloaca or uses it to penetrate her skin, injecting the sperm into the body cavity. The egg secretes a shell, and is attached either to the substratum, nearby plants, or the female's own body. A few species, such as Rotaria, are ovoviviparous, retaining the eggs inside their body until they hatch.[12] Most species hatch as miniature versions of the adult. Sessile species, however, are born as free-swimming larvae, which closely resemble the adults of related free-swimming species. Females grow rapidly, reaching their adult size within a few days, while males typically do not grow in size at all.[12] The life span of monogonont females varies from two days to about three weeks. Loss of sexual reproduction ‘Ancient asexuals’: Bdelloid rotifers are assumed to have reproduced without sex for many millions of years. Males are absent within the species, and females reproduce only by parthenogenesis. Recent transitions: Loss of sexual reproduction can be inherited in a simple Mendelian fashion in the monogonont rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus: This species can normally switch between sexual and asexual reproduction (cyclical parthenogenesis), but occasionally gives rise to purely asexual lineages (obligate parthenogens). These lineages are unable to reproduce sexually due to being homozygous for a recessive allele.[15] Resting eggs Males in the class Monogononta may be either present or absent depending on the species and environmental conditions. In the absence of males, reproduction is by parthenogenesis and results in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent. Individuals of some species form two distinct types of parthenogenetic eggs; one type develops into a normal parthenogenetic female, while the other occurs in response to a changed environment and develops into a degenerate male without a digestive system, but with a complete male reproductive system used to inseminate females thereby producing fertilized 'resting eggs' (also termed diapausing eggs). Resting eggs develop into zygotes that can survive extreme environmental conditions such as may happen during winter or when the pond dries up. These eggs resume development and produce a new female generation when conditions improve again. Anhydrobiosis Bdelloid rotifer females cannot produce resting eggs, but many can survive prolonged periods of adverse conditions after desiccation. This facility is termed anhydrobiosis, and organisms with these capabilities are termed anhydrobionts. Under drought conditions, bdelloid rotifers contract into an inert form and lose almost all body water; when rehydrated they resume activity within a few hours. Bdelloids can survive the dry state for long periods, with the longest well-documented dormancy being nine years. While in other anhydrobionts, such as the brine shrimp, this desiccation tolerance is thought to be linked to the production of trehalose, a non-reducing disaccharide (sugar), bdelloids apparently cannot synthesise trehalose. Rotifers fall prey to many animals, such as copepods, fish (e.g. herring, salmon), bryozoa, comb jellies, jellyfish, and starfish.[16] Commons has media related to Rotifera. 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__label__wiki	0.763816	0.763816	revisionism for the zulu war ? Subject: revisionism for the zulu war ? Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:05 pm As you know, revisionism is the way history and it is good for some subjects ... In the film, there are so many revisionist westerns ... For the Zulu war, you know something, that would be revisionist. Subject: Re: revisionism for the zulu war ? Fri Nov 09, 2012 9:25 pm No answers for that ? Secrets of the dead. ( Ian Knight) And what is the secret of the dead? Subject: Revisionism for the zulu war Fri Nov 09, 2012 9:50 pm Secrets Of The Dead is a DVD Documentary on Isandlwana / zulu war . Cheers 90th. It's OK pascal we will look for yer... Subject: Re: revisionism for the zulu war ? Fri Nov 09, 2012 10:03 pm The British Army in South Africa on campaign against the Zulu Nation in 1879 was beset with a series of problems beginning significantly with the catastrophe at Isandlwana on 22 January. This was followed by further defeats or losses and other difficulties involving intelligence, supply, transport, a protracted siege, medical issues and unfavourable weather conditions. In the midst of all these headaches, the issue of desertion became an unexpected and serious concern to many serving in the campaign. Desertion is defined as the act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend or a post of duty; the quitting of one’s duties willfully and without right. An act of desertion during the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879 was a chargeable offence under Article 42 of War according to British army regulations. This problem did not simply restrict itself to the common soldier but more embarrassingly, it very much affected the officer classes both commissioned and noncommissioned (NCO). Incidents involving commissioned officer desertion or abscondment whether directly in the face of the enemy or not, became unpredictable, unacceptable and too numerous. Officers in the British Army in the nineteenth century were recruited almost entirely from the upper and middle classes of society. They were considered to have the right character and credentials to lead men whether or not they were in fact truly competent enough to do so. The Cardwell Reforms had effectively abolished the system of commission purchase in 1871 to give the opportunity for officers to be selected based on merit rather than heritage or social background. Therefore as most officers in 1879 had been commissioned before the changes had taken place, the calibre and attitudes of these men had not changed. However, privilege of the right breeding and rank came at a price as it carried responsibilities which governed conduct especially during a conflict. British officers were never expected to desert as they were not only considered braver than their men but braver than any officer in any other army. The code of honour as gentlemen forbade them from committing an act that would be considered desertion or dereliction of duty. It was an unforgivable sin to dishonour one’s family name and regiment. All officers knew what was expected of them especially since the class system dominated Victorian society. Often, in battle, casualty figures clearly showed a disproportionate number of officers killed and wounded. Such were the expectations of officers that Lord Wolseley summarized attitudes and beliefs well when he wrote: I do not know, I cannot tell from experience, whether courage or cowardice is the more quickly contagious. But this I do know, that of all the horrible sights, that of a man in action who exhibits a want of nerve and daring is the worst. Thank heaven, it is a disease from the effects of which the British gentleman does not require a thought of inoculation. Whether or not in the heat of battle, desertion or cowardice can have a profound adverse effect on individuals and units, morale may easily be shaken and such conduct may negatively influence the outcome of an engagement. Lives and battles are easily lost when men lose their nerve and run to save themselves or simply quit their post. The common soldier in the British Army was not taught to use initiative or question his superior. His job was to obey orders and respect authority. Desertion among common soldiers has been a bane in all armies since ancient times and it was considered very often as a capital offence. The problem of unit desertion in the 1879 campaign became a reality when native units literally ran away en masse at Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift. Unfortunately, officers and NCOs were also involved in these incidents. Flogging for such conduct was a common punishment for both white and native troops. During the war this was meted out at an alarming rate, enough to cause concern by many observers and public opinion in Britain upon hearing of such reports expressed well founded consternation. With Chelmsford’s army on almost constant high alert in the months following the defeat at Isandlwana, any dereliction of duty was considered serious with the result that there were five hundred and forty-five flogging cases during the war. However, this liberal use of the punishment caused enough consternation and protests in the British press that it was banned by the end of 1879. (1) Corporal punishment sentences did not apply to officers though NCOs would be treated in the same fashion as the privates and native volunteers. Because officers were supposed to be a cut above the rest owing to their social background, they were punished by being forced to resign from the service and the stigma attached to their dishonourable conduct would carry over to society back home. Those guilty individuals not courtmartialled and convicted as deserters could find themselves treated as pariahs and ostracized by their fellow officers in the regiment. Life would likely become intolerable and eventually they would be encouraged to resign. While the number of incidents involving officer desertions in South Africa was a predicament for the British Army, there were other cases where officer conduct was questionable and controversy would ensue with much debate in the years after the end of the war. The preparations for the invasion of Zululand in January 1879 involved the organization of a strong and versatile army to engage Cetshwayo’s impis. The British were limited by the number of regular British regiments available in South Africa and many irregular units were formed from the pool of white colonial volunteers available in the colony. In addition, many local natives were recruited to fight against the Zulus despite the questionable quality of a significant number of the units raised and this would prove significant early in the war. The officers available for the campaign not only consisted those imperial officers already serving with their regiments in South Africa, but also included a significant number who had obtained leave from their own units in Britain. These volunteer or special duty regular officers offered their services in order to take part after news of a planned invasion was made known by Lord Chelmsford who issued a request for assistance. The Anglo-Zulu War was no exception in so far as having officers volunteer to take part. An ambitious imperial officer would seek permission from his regiment for a leave of absence often accepting a reduction in rank to take part in the action. Each officer had his reasons for volunteering and some saw the opportunity as a chance for advancement or even an award. Such was their enthusiasm that they would accept any position that was available. Major Redvers Buller, Lieutenants Horace SmithDorrien, Henry Harford and Edward Essex all volunteered upon learning that Lord Chelmsford had appealed for officers to fill special duty posts in the preparation for the forthcoming invasion of Zululand. They obtained permission to leave their regular regiments temporarily and made their way to South Africa. Other officers were recruited within the colonies in South Africa from the colonists; some had held commissions in the British Army while others had skills such as knowledge of the Zulu language or the ability to raise small mounted units. The Natal Native Contingent (NNC) was officered by both imperial and colonial volunteers. Experience in campaign or the army was an asset but as there was a shortage of preferred volunteers, many officers in the colonial units were recruited from the settler gentry and so called adventurers from the Eastern Cape Frontier. Captain William Stephenson together with Lieutenants Gert Ardendorff, Walter Higginson and Alfred Henderson were all classified as colonial volunteers. A problem lay in recruiting NCOs where the number of available volunteers was also less than expected. On the whole, they were a mixed lot ranging from redundant irregular troops to unemployed labourers. Quality was generally poor and this was obviously reflected in events throughout the campaign. Strictly speaking, regular army officers were governed by a different set of rules compared to their colonial counterparts. The latter group was supposed to be gentlemen but could not be court martialled for desertion or conduct unbecoming of an officer. In dealing with the issue of the numerous desertions amongst all ranks, those in command during the Anglo-Zulu War were aware of the potential repercussions from the press, public and politicians back in Britain should this problem continue to affect the results of the campaign. The newspapers were in need of information and so a horde of reporters quickly descended on Natal soon after the battle at Isandlwana. Very significantly, not only was this campaign the largest since the Crimean War, but never during the sixty-four year reign of Queen Victoria, of all the conflicts, it was the fight against the Zulus that seized the attention and imagination of the British Public. Chelmsford resented the presence of numerous correspondents attached to the army in South Africa. However, by the 1879 war they had become a fact of life during campaigns. One must consider the motive for desertion or leaving one’s post without permission whether in battle or during a period of inactivity. Poor morale, stress and a hopeless position are usually the reasons for desertion, especially in the face of the enemy. There are three basic human reactions to stress: fight, flight or fright. In battle every man experiences the stress of combat. His actions and decisions are influenced by how he is able to handle that stress. The common soldier is expected to follow orders but he is also sensitive to the manner in which his superior is able to handle himself. In battle the bond between officers and disciplined men, especially experienced soldiers, becomes strong and this attachment is the very fibre that holds a unit together. Comradeship results in men seeking the protection of one another in times of danger. However, in contrast, poorly integrated soldiers such as volunteer colonial troops including officers during the Zulu War, were more likely to desert or become absent without leave and too often when success in battle seemed very less likely. Colonial officers were not quite bound by the rules and regulations that regular army officers were obliged to adhere to. Most officers in the British Army knew what their duty was and proudly fought to the bitter end with the comfort that they would die with their men. Although many officers in the British Army were optimistic and considered the forthcoming campaign as a relatively simple task with a set piece battle as the climax, it was well known how the Zulu military system worked. Within days of invading Zululand, Chelmsford’s Central or 3rd Column was decisively defeated at Isandlwana. Chelmsford had divided his force, and based on inaccurate intelligence, sought to catch the Zulu army to deal a quick and decisive blow. He was outclassed and quickly outmaneuvered with the exposed position of the British at Isandlwana subject to a surprise attack even though the assault was not planned for that day. The classic Zulu tactic of envelopment quickly resulted in the greatest defeat of the British Army at the hands of a native force. It was that day on 22nd day of January 1879 that noted desertions first occurred. In reality, a group of colonial soldiers had left their post the previous day after they had enough of their scouting mission and disobeyed orders from Major Dartnell who commanded the colonial troops in No 3 Column. Lieutenants Avery and Holcroft together with NCOs and natives under their command, deserted as they simply lost enthusiasm and motivation to follow orders and made their way back to the camp at Isandlwana. The next day these two officers met the same fate as most of the men in camp. Of course they were never held to account for their desertion and had they performed their duty as ordered, fate would have dealt them a different hand at least for the time being. At the battle of Isandlwana the natives in the 3rd Regiment, NNC lost their nerve and attempted to run away as soon as the Zulu warriors seemed to be closing in. They were followed by officers and NCOs. The entire front line fell fighting the Zulus; anyone wearing a red jacket stood little chance of surviving the battle. Of the fifty-five survivors, there was a disproportionately high number of officers made up of colonials together with special duty or volunteer regular army officers who were able to flee on horses. Only one officer from the frontline, Lieutenant Curling, escaped the massacre. The fugitives managed to slip through a gap along a rough trail as the horns of the Zulu impi met but before they securely closed off any escape route for what was left of the troops in the camp. The scene was chaotic since it was every man for himself as the disorganized troops made their way towards Fugitives Drift. In the midst of the confusion and desperation that day there were many accounts of bravery and clear acts of desertion. Controversy would also result from the actions of some officers as it has become unclear whether or not they intentionally left their post and fled with the rest of the survivors. Much has been written about the flight of Lieutenants Teignmouth Melvill and Neville Coghill who managed to reach the Buffalo River before being killed. Melvill was adjutant of the 1st Battalion, 24th Foot and Coghill was staff officer to Colonel Glyn, Commander of No 3 Centre Column. The issue raised regarding their actions on the 22 January centers around their respective orders. It is clear that both officers departed from the battlefield separately and finally linked up at the Buffalo River. Coghill’s injured knee had held him back at Isandlwana when Glyn left with Chelmsford to seek out the Zulu Army early on 22 January. It is unknown why Coghill actually took flight from the battlefield but it was during a scene of chaos in the headquarters area that he took leave and departed on a horse not belonging to him. It has been speculated that he intended to make contact with expected reserve troops close to Rorke’s Drift. It is not known whether Colonel Pulleine actually ordered Melvill to take the Queen’s Colour and ride from Isandlwana to safety and it is supposed that he initially thought to attempt the impossible task of rallying the British troops and restore some semblance of order. This hopeless situation may have prompted Melvill to make a dash and save the Colour. His departure took place just before the camp was overrun by Zulus. Both officers independently reached the Buffalo River which was high and moving too fast to be crossed with ease. They linked up only after Coghill had crossed the swollen river and reached the relative safety of Natal only to go back to assist his fellow officers, Melvill and Lieutenant Higginson of the 3rd Regiment, NNC who were clinging to a rock in midstream. During the struggle to extricate themselves from their predicament the Colour was lost and Coghill’s horse was shot dead during the rescue attempt but, finally, all three exhausted men reached the bank. Coghill was incapacitated by his knee and could not move much further without a horse. Melvill remained with him while Higginson sought to find horses. With hostile local natives seeking out any Isandlwana survivors, the two tired officers were killed in the ensuing struggle that followed. Chelmsford cautiously demonstrated his concern in his comments when he wrote to the War Office on 14 May 1879. However, Chelmsford’s successor, Sir Garnet Wolseley made his feelings on the issue more strongly felt when he wrote: I am sorry that both of these officers were not killed with their men at Isandlwana instead of where they were. I don’t like the idea of officers escaping on horseback when their men on foot are killed. Heroes have been made of men like Melvill and Coghill, who, taking advantage of their having horses, bolted from the scene of the action to save their lives, it is monstrous making heroes of those who saved or attempted to save their lives by bolting or of those who, shut up in buildings at Rorke’s Drift, could not bolt, and fought like rats for their lives which they could not otherwise save. While there was no clear act of desertion committed by either officer, Wolseley felt that both men should have stayed with their men to the bitter end as was the case with all the other frontline imperial infantry officers at Isandlwana. That would have been the most honourable and acceptable conduct. The British press made much of the gallant bid to save the Queen’s Colour that both Melvill and Coghill were indeed lauded as heroes and finally, on 15 January 1907 The London Gazette published the award of posthumous Victoria Crosses to the two officers. In his 1879 letter to the War Office, Chelmsford The question, therefore remains had he (Melvill) succeeded in saving the colours and his own life, would he have been considered to deserve the Victoria Cross? As a witness to the actions by Melvill and Coghill, Lieutenant Higginson certainly merited recognition and his actions may even have landed him with an award for his efforts that day at the Buffalo River. However, his reputation was soured by his conduct during events immediately after the demise of his regular army colleagues. During Higginson’s escape, he was assisted by a trooper of the Natal Carbineers by the name of Barker. Under the covering fire from the Natal bank by Lieutenants Raw and Henderson together with their mounted native troops, Barker and a fellow trooper by the name of Tarboton had managed to successfully negotiate the flooded Buffalo River. They made their way up the steep Natal side of the river gorge and while Tarboton proceeded to join Raw’s group, Barker turned back after it became obvious that a soldier was in need of help while scrambling up the hill on foot. It was then that Barker came across an exhausted Higginson who was willing to accept the assistance. He surrendered his horse to the Lieutenant but requested that Higginson wait for Barker at the top of the hill. Even on the Natal side of the Buffalo River the Zulus were determined to hunt fugitives down and with the warriors getting too close, Barker made a determined effort to reach the summit alone completing his task in an exhausted condition. Upon reaching this point he discovered that he had been deserted by the very man he had assisted and therefore saving the officer’s life. Barker made a dash for two miles pursued by Zulus who finally gave up the chase. In fact Barker had been expected to join Lieutenants Raw and Henderson together with Tarboton and some Basuto scouts who had waited on the Helpmekaar track. Instead of meeting Barker, it was Higginson who appeared. Tarboton recognized the horse as Barker’s and upon questioning, Higginson firmly stated that he had found the horse at the Buffalo River. He was forced to give up his mount in exchange for a spare Basuto pony. While Higginson made his way to Helpmekaar to make his report, the group headed by Raw decided to check the ground they had just covered towards the escarpment overlooking the river. Fortunately, they came across Barker who despite his obvious exhaustion was still running from his pursuers. Higginson’s official account of his actions stated that he had left Coghill and Melvill after the three of them had reached the Natal bank and then sought to find horses for the exhausted officers as he had the most strength to do so. From a vantage point he witnessed the Zulus surrounding the bodies of the two officers and as further assistance was hopeless so he decided to ride off to Helpmekaar. Higginson’s detailed after the battle report described the circumstances concerning his departure from the Isandlwana battlefield. He wrote: The Zulus extended all round the front of the camp and drove back the few men that opposed them, when my company saw them coming on nothing could stop them, they all jumped up and ran, and though I knocked one man down with my rifle it was no use, I then saw the men of the 2nd Batt. NNC running and looking for the 24th men, I saw that they were retreating also, but very slowly, all the mounted men were riding past as fast as they could, and I then thought it time to go too, so, firing one last shot, I mounted my horse…and rode off. As a volunteer he felt no compulsion to stay with the regular troops and decided to leave the battlefield. As for his conduct concerning Trooper Barker, Higginson’s lack of proper duty to his fellow soldier was a clear demonstration of abandonment and this dereliction of duty was met with the contempt it deserved. On 23 January orders were given for his arrest and while Higginson received nothing for his endeavours concerning Coghill and Melvill’s plight, Trooper Barker was later recommended for a Victoria Cross by Brigadier Wood who became aware of the incident with Higginson. While on a visit to Pietermaritzburg to distribute campaign medals to Barker’s regiment on 17 December 1881, Wood spoke to the troops after the ceremony in the town’s market square and concluded his speech with the following words: I have only now heard of a gallant act performed by a straggler (Barker) whose late arrival (at Helpmekaar) is well explained by his having, during the retreat, given up his horse to an officer who was exhausted. Into this matter it will be my pleasure to enquire more. Wood’s response from the War Office regarding Barker’s recommendation for the Victoria Cross was disappointing. The War Office replied on 10 March 1882: Major General Sir Evelyn Wood VC I am directed by the Field Marshal Commanding in Chief to acknowledge your letter of 6th instant, and to acquaint you in reply, that statements re Trooper Barker, Natal Carbineers, at the battle of Isandhlwana, on 22nd January, 1879, have carefully been considered. His Royal Highness desires me to state that while trooper Barker’s conduct on the occasion referred to is deserving of every commendation, there does not appear to be sufficient ground, according to the terms of the statute, for recommending him for the distinction of the Victoria Cross. Of fifty five European survivors from Isandlwana at least sixteen were officers which in effect represented a truly uncomfortably high proportion inconsistent with what would be expected by any commander particularly in this case Chelmsford and Wolseley. All officers managed to escape by horse as the four mile run through the Zulu gauntlet to the Natal border was practically impossible by foot. As the fugitives from Isandlwana fled to safety in Natal, Captains Gardner and Essex, Lieutenants Cochrane, Curling and Smith- Dorrien safely made their way to Helpmekaar and avoided involvement in any further conflict that day. Of the colonial officers, Lieutenants Henderson, Adendorff, Vane, Raw and Vause escaped by making their way towards the camp at Rorke’s Drift mission station guarded by B Company 2/24th (2nd Warwickshire Regiment) where another battle was yet to take place. The commanding officer at Rorke’s Drift, Major Spalding, left for Helpmekaar early that afternoon leaving Lieutenant Chard of the Royal Engineers in charge of the camp though Lieutenant Bromhead was the senior officer of the fighting troops present. Chard had seen Zulus earlier while he was at Isandlwana and once it became obvious that an attack at Rorke’s Drift by a sizeable Zulu force was very likely despite orders by King Cetshwayo that his warriors were not cross onto Natal, preparations were made for a fighting stand. At 3.30pm Chard met Lieutenants Vane and Adendorff of the Natal Native Horse who had survived the disaster at Isandlwana. At about the same time a native horseman of the Edendale Contingent had just delivered a note to Bromhead from Captain Essex, warning Company B of the disaster at the British camp. Vane and Adendorff were dispatched by Chard to confer with Bromhead who was discussing the situation with Commissary Dalton. The colonial officers’ advice was for a quick withdrawal to Helpmakaar as the best option. Bromhead ordered Vane to ride to Helpmekaar and warn the garrison there. Although Bromhead was indecisive as to the preferred course of action, it was Dalton who made a strong case for the defence of Rorke’s Drift and immediately began supervising the construction of the defences and supply of ammunition. His quick thinking and efficient use of the abundant supply of labor consisting of approximately 100 regular troops and 300 natives from Captain Stevenson’s NNC present at the camp effectively made the mission station ready for the defence and just in time. A mystery has shrouded the actual activities of Adendorff since 1879 with conflicting and confusing accounts as to his whereabouts on the 22-23 January. The controversy has lasted for well over a century and it is likely that we will never truly know whether he was a deserter or hero. Adendorff was attached to Captain Krohn’s No 6 Company of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Regiment; NNC commanded by Commandant Lonsdale and was present at the Battle of Isandlwana. It was claimed that he deserted from both Isandlwana while on vedette duty before the main battle was underway, and later at Rorke’s Drift during the preparation of the defences by quietly slipping away. However, a totally conflicting view actually places Adendorff at Rorke’s Drift during the entire defence and if so, this would make the lieutenant the only soldier to have fought at both battles on the 22 January. This feat alone would have given him great distinction and honour. It has been suggested that Adendorff was among the officers headed by Avery and Holcroft who simply left their post during the evening of 21 January when Lonsdale made his way to join Dartnell after the detection of a Zulu impi. At Isandlwana, the next morning he was sent out on vedette duty and is confirmed as having brought a report from the piquet on the iNyoni escarpment regarding Zulu movements on the plateau. Lt Higginson was sent to confirm the oral report as the details were somewhat confusing possibly due to Adendorff’s poor command of English, being of German descent. After he was sent back to his unit, Krohn’s company played no significant role in the battle at Isandlwana as it was held back from the actual fight. Before the Zulus could rush into the camp once the British line collapsed, Krohn’s native troops broke and fled, obviously attempting to leave the battlefield early before any avenue of escape was closed by the Zulu encirclement of the camp. It is assumed by some writers that Adendorff made his way to Fugitives’ Drift several miles from Rorke’s Drift and crossed the Buffalo River at this point. However, an account written in 1939 by another survivor, Captain Stafford of E Company, 1st Battalion 1st NNC, states that his group of three including Adendorff and an unnamed soldier who can be assumed to be Lt Vane, made their way up to Rorke’s Drift by hugging the Buffalo river and crossed by ferry. To add further confusion, upon encountering Lieutenant Chard at Rorke’s Drift after crossing the Buffalo River, Adendorff stated that he had escaped by making his way along the Rorke’s Drift road which in effect was not possible as the Zulus had completely blocked it before the attack on the camp at Isandlwana took place. The real mystery begins with confirming Adendorff’s participation in the defence of Rorke’s Drift. As he left Chard to give Bromhead the news of the British defeat, Adendorff called back to the officer that he would remain at the mission and fight. Despite this, it is believed by many that he quietly slipped away unnoticed. His motive for doing so may lie in the fact that as a survivor of the earlier engagement, he felt no real compulsion to participate in another fight against the same enemy. Even so, Chard believed that Adendorff actually remained at Rorke’s Drift throughout the entire defence and this was affirmed by the two official reports that he wrote after the battle. Although Chard was not certain of Adendorff’s role, he presumed his position had been in the defence of the hospital. It is believed that the solution of the misidentification is in Chard’s own report and nominal roll of the survivors; both of which were presented to Queen Victoria. He described certain actions during the battle in his report involving Adendorff by writing: As far as I know, but one of the fugitives remained with us- Lieut Adendorff, whom I have before mentioned. He remained to assist in the defence, and from a loophole in the store building, flanking the wall and Hospital, his rifle did good In a case of straightforward mistaken identity, Adendorff was erroneously taken for another man whose actions and conduct were well known by many present at the mission. One of the five soldiers who received the Distinguished Conduct Medal at Rorke’s Drift for bravery was Corporal Francis Attwood of the Army Service Corps who received his award at Pietermaritzburg on 15 November 1879. Soon after Isandlwana, news circulated in Natal of Adendorff’s arrest at Pietermaritzburg along with that of Vane for desertion and although both officers were to face a Board of Enquiry no such trial took place. Perhaps this was on account of Chard’s reports that would have been submitted as evidence of Adendorff’s participation in the defence at Rorke’s Drift throughout the action and the possibility of Chard’s own retraction in court. In any case his reports had already been submitted to his superiors. Conversely, there are a growing number of historians that clearly believe Adendorff did stay at Rorke’s Drift and fight until relieved by Chelmsford’s relief force on the morning of 23 January. It is plausible to assume that both Attwood and Adendorff did defend the building together and that Chard was correct in his report without becoming confused with identities. It is thought that because Adendorff was an unfamiliar figure among the soldiers and at Rorkes Drift, he largely went unnoticed during the heat of the action. Furthermore, since he had arrived at the last moment during a time of confusion and activity, it would have been easy to be obscure especially to the officers. In addition, being stationed in the storehouse would add credence to his isolation and the lack of notice by those fighting outside the building. Stafford’s 1939 account in which details of their escape from Isandlwana was described related some details that Adendorff had recounted to him during a meeting. He wrote: I met Odendorff in 1883 and he told me that Rorke’s Drift was saved through two Godsends. The first was that the Zulus retired in the middle of the night, apparently to hold a little consultation and that gave the garrison time to strengthen the weak parts of the little fort, and the Martini Henry carbines time to cool off. The other was the Zulus setting fire to the thatch building which gave a bright light round the little fort and when the Zulus came volley after volley was poured into them. He also told me that Rev. W. Smith was a great help. You will always find that in a tight corner there is a hard case and that there was one at Rorke’s Drift. This man was cussing all the time. The Rev. Smith went up to him and said “Please, my good man stop that cussing. We may shortly have to answer for our sins”. The reply he got was “All right Mister, you do the praying and I will send the black B’s to Hell as fast as I can”. In addition to Stafford’s account, a member of Chelmsford’s force, Trooper Fred Symons of the Natal Carbineers confirms the presence of Adendorff at Rorke’s Drift on the morning of the 23rd. Lieutenant Charles Harford’s almanac also records that Adendorff was in fact present. In weighing the evidence, a case for both sides of the argument can be made. Adendorff has evoked much attention amongst writers beginning with Donald Morris in his book The Washing of the Spears in which the author contends that Adendorff did indeed desert and had not been part of the action at Rorke’s Drift. He alluded to some available evidence to support his position but which was not forthcoming at the time. Such is the interest in Adendorff that other modern writers have taken totally opposite views to one another. Moreover however, one would think it unusual for such controversy to revolve around an unassuming volunteer junior colonial officer of the NNC who for the most part did not influence events nor contribute significantly to any extent and certainly played a very minor role during the Zulu War. Somehow, he has been picked out for special consideration from among the fugitives fleeing the battlefield at Isandlwana notwithstanding the fact that a number of regular army officers fled too and contributed very little else after crossing into Natal. His treatment has been unfair especially in light of the fact that the conduct of those other officers has not been shown much attention except for the disdain shown by Chelmsford and Wolseley who felt that they should have stayed with their men since it was their duty to do so. Adendorff did in fact make his way to Rorke’s Drift and with others, raised the alarm. For this he must be given some credit. Adendorff gave up military service when the 3rd NNC was disbanded on account of their very poor performance on 22 January when they deserted both at Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift. Due to the lingering debate on the officer’s conduct amongst leading historians on the subject, the question still remains, was Adendorff a coward or a hero? Another fugitive from Isandlwana, Lieutenant Henderson of the Natal Native Horse fled from Rorke’s Drift with his mounted natives after delivering a few volleys of fire and expending the last of their ammunition once the Zulu vanguard was close to the mission. His conduct was never in question and his actions were viewed sympathetically. Henderson saw action with Durnford’s men at Isandlwana and afterwards sought to alert the garrison at Rorke’s Drift and it is believed that he joined a relief force on its way to the mission sometime during the night. By doing so he did not arrive in Helpmekaar until the following day. Henderson saw further action during the war performing his duties well and was present at the Battle of Ulundi. It was at about the same time as Henderson’s departure with his mounted troops that a mass desertion from Rorke’s Drift occurred which could have had catastrophic results for the remaining defenders. Captain Stephenson of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment NNC commanded a sizeable company of native troops with only three corporals to assist him instead of the usual two lieutenants and six NCOs. These men were stationed at the mission and several sources conflict as to their strength ranging from 100 to as much as 2000 though a figure of 200 to 300 is more likely. This confusion probably arises from the fact that the regular troops really paid little attention to the native auxiliaries even though that they had been present at Rorke’s Drift since arriving on 14 January. Although they were part of the 3rd Regiment NNC, these men had received little of the training the rest of the natives were given which in effect influenced their subsequent conduct in the face of the enemy. Without proper basic training and the apparent hasty formation of the unit from the Klip River County near Ladysmith problems might easily arise. The general order authorizing the raising of the NNC was issued on 23 November 1878 which in effect only allowed six weeks to raise, organize officer, equip and train the Contingent. Despite the fact that Stephenson spoke their language well, his unit along with the rest of the NNC, were given little time to familiarize themselves with their officers who in many cases failed to gain their trust. The NCOs failed to show respect to the native representatives or headmen, gave orders that were difficult to understand and used force to enforce discipline. Only a few officers saw the need to capitalize on traditional African fighting skills and develop proper tactics which would have definitely benefited the British. Also, the natives were not properly supplied with uniforms and the only way to distinguish them was by a red rag worn around their head. Furthermore, for reasons of economy, only one in ten black troops were issued with firearms and these were the designated NCOs with the rest of the men carrying traditional weapons. The result was little camaraderie with questionable morale and military effectiveness should the test be given. When the news reached Rorke’s Drift that there had been a disaster at Isandlwana and an impending attack on the mission was anticipated, the natives reacted with a jovial but traditional manner singing and preparing themselves for battle. Their assistance was needed in building the wall of mealie bags as a defensive structure. A post-battle report recorded that Stephenson did “good service in getting his men to work” At about 3.30, a group of survivors from Isandlwana, including mounted black auxiliaries of the Natal Native Horse commanded by Lieutenant Henderson arrived. They had been part of Colonel Durnford’s command consisting mostly followers of the Basuto Chief, Hlubi. Chard asked Henderson to deploy his men beyond Shiyane hill, in the direction of the Zulu advance, to delay the enemy attack for as long as possible. They positioned themselves and waited for the Zulus to appear and after firing off the rest of the ammunition, turned and retreated in the direction of Helpmekaar. The men of Stephenson’s company were clearly alarmed at the sight of the retreating mounted troops and immediately reacted with consternation and in showing no stomach for a fight, they deserted. The men threw down the mealie bags, biscuit boxes together with any weapons they had and simply fled the scene by jumping over the barricades and headed in the direction of Helpmekaar. Stephenson himself and his NCOs disgraced themselves by fleeing too which was not expected at all. Colour-Sergeant Bourne commented by writing: The desertion of these detachments of 200 men appeared to be a great loss, with only a hundred of us left, but the feeling afterwards was that we could not have trusted them, and also our defences were too small to accommodate them anyhow. As the NNC auxiliaries and officers fled the remaining defenders were not impressed and shots were fired at the deserters with the result that an NCO by the name of Corporal Anderson was shot in the back while running away and dropped dead. No questions were asked and anyway the men were preparing to fight for their survival. The desertion obviously reduced the number of defenders available at the mission so a second line of defence was constructed within the perimeter using biscuit boxes should the need arise to fall back and make a final stand. This would prove crucial for Chard and his men later that evening. The disappointing performance by the NNC caused Chelmsford concern, enough to order that the 3rd Regiment be disbanded within days of Isandlwana. The unit’s officers and NCOs were found other posts but certain individuals were not treated lightly. Orders were promptly given for the arrest of Lieutenants Higginson and Stephenson on the charge of desertion. They were placed in the custody of Lieutenant Harford who felt uncomfortable with his new responsibility and wrote a dispatch: NNC Rorke’s Drift From the Officer Comd. 3rd Regt To the Officer Comd. Troops I have the honour to state that two officers viz Captain Stephenson and Lieutenant Higginson lately reported missing after a fight at Isandlwana, and supposed to have escaped to PM Berg (Pietermaritzberg) have rejoined their Corps, and having been place under arrest in accordance with orders from Commandant Lonsdale, for absenting themselves since 22nd inst from their Corps without cause and permission. I have the honour to request that in the absence of Com Lonsdale that I may be informed of what steps to take in the matter. H.C.H Neither officer could be court martialled as they were colonial volunteers. However, the only action that was taken by way of General Order no. 37 of 19 February 1879 which stated that the services of Captain Stephenson of 2/3rd NNC were no longer required with immediate dismissal from the service. Lieutenant Higginson was not dismissed but was given the opportunity to continue serving in another unit after the 3rd Regiment NNC was disbanded. Although not present at Rorke’s Drift during the Zulu attack, questions have been raised as to the conduct of the commanding officer, Major Spalding, who was expected back on the 22nd after leaving the mission to seek out an overdue supply column and reinforcements. Notwithstanding the fact that he was aware of Zulus in the area and that a junior officer could easily have been delegated the task, Spalding chose to go anyway. Close to Helpmekaar he met up with two companies of the 24th on their way to Rorke’s Drift and together they headed in that direction. He soon encountered survivors from Isandlwana all telling the same story and expecting the imminent demise of the troops at the mission station. Unsure of the best course of action, the officer rode on with Mr Dickson of the Buffalo Border Guard and witnessed that there were flames at the mission. However, their route to Rorke’s Drift was blocked by a large group of Zulus who were threatening to attack by attempting to encircle the two horsemen. Spalding turned back and upon reaching the column a mile away, ordered a retreat back to Helpmekaar reaching the settlement at about 9.00 p.m. There, the troops set about organizing a defence against an expected Zulu attack that never happened. Although not a deserter in the normal sense of the word, it was generally believed that Spalding could have easily pressed on to relieve if not assist the desperate defenders at Rorke’s Drift, having reached a point less than three miles from the engagement. Had he remained at his post instead of riding off to Helpmekaar, Spalding would have likely received a Victoria Cross. However, his actions caused concern enough for some of his fellow officers to comment privately as there was no official statement made. Major Cleary stating in a letter home after the action that ‘Spalding is utterly worthless’ reflecting the contempt felt. In one day, Chelmsford’s Central Column had been severely mauled rendering the planned strategy to conclude the war quickly as inconceivable. Added to this was the embarrassment of the mass desertion of troops in the NNC together with too many officers either deserting their positions or failing to assist their fellow soldiers where desperately needed. A poorly planned defence at Isandlwana set the stage for the Zulus to easily break through the British line and envelop the camp. Chaos and confusion reigned in the camp as the frontline collapsed but many acts of bravery by Chelmsford’s men were witnessed and recorded by accounts given by the Zulus. Among the clusters of redcoats and last stands, even though there was no option, officers clearly did their duty and stayed with their men. The regulars at Rorke’s Drift stayed, fought and did not flinch with their successful defence hailed as a great victory. Accordingly, they received an unusually high number of awards partly as a way to deflect attention from the Isandlwana disaster. Chelmsford himself would have to account for his decisions and actions so he set about protecting himself by making sure blame was placed where it was convenient. He retreated across the Buffalo River and back into Natal to deal with the matters at hand and to plan a reinvasion of Zululand. To make matters worse, news of Pearson’s 1st or Coastal Columns problems reached Chelmsford. An easy victory at Nyezane on 22 January was followed an advance to the objective at Eshowe where a drawn-out siege quickly commenced. Added to this problem, the weather conditions caused difficulties and morale among the troops began to sink. Worse still was news of further tragedies and questionable officer conduct where the issue of desertion would once again torment those in command. Early in the morning of 12 March a surprise Zulu attack on a sleeping company of the 80th Regiment at Intombe River resulted in the loss of most of the troops. Acts of bravery were marred by the desertion of Lieutenant Henry Harward leaving a small unit of survivors to fight their way to safety. The seed was sown days before when on 1 March, Captain W.T. Anderson and men of ‘D’ Company marched out from Lunenburg to meet a twenty strong wagon train carrying supplies. Continuous rain caused difficulties making progress painfully slow. On 5 March Anderson left the struggling convoy without an escort and headed back to Lunenburg after he had received a vague message which he misinterpreted. The commanding officer of the 80th Regiment, Major Charles Tucker was horrified to see Anderson return without the wagons and immediately ordered a fresh company of 106 men under the command of Captain David Moriarty to complete the task. When he reached the Ntombe River at Meyers Drift, he found that not only had just two wagons been brought up to the river by the wagoners, but an attack by a small force of Mblini’s warriors had resulted in the loss of some supplies and oxen. A camp had to be set up on the Lunenburg side of the river which was swollen by the rain. After constructing an improvised raft, Moriarty took most of his men across the river to recover the remaining wagons leaving 35 soldiers in the camp. By the early afternoon of 11 March, Moriarty’s men managed to finally bring the looted wagons to Meyer’s Drift and with a temporary lowering of the river, Lieutenant Lindop’s men succeeded in pulling two wagons across the river to the Lunenburg side. Moriarty decided to stay where he was and construct a V shaped laager with the remaining wagons. Major Tucker eventually arrived on the scene accompanied by Lieutenant Harward and Sergeant Booth together with thirty two men. Tucker did not order the proper laagering of the wagons to reduce the gap created by the receding water as the men had laboured under difficult conditions for four days and were too tired. As the convoy was only four miles from its objective, he probably did not think that a Zulu attack was likely. He returned to Lunenburg with Lindop after having ordered Harward to relieve the Lieutenant and his That night Moriarty and Harward slept on opposite sides of the river. At about 4.00am Harward was awakened by a distant shot and ordered Booth to alert the men on the other bank which he did with difficulty as there was no response initially. Meanwhile, a force of one thousand Zulus led by Mbelini was preparing to attack the camp. Another shot rang out at about 4.45 a.m. and within seconds Moriarty’s group was overwhelmed by the Zulus who set about killing the soldiers including their commander. Some British troops managed to escape and swim across the river where Booth and his men were firing at the Zulus. Harward appeared from his tent, saw that the Zulus were crossing the river upstream and was heard to say, ‘ Fire away, lads, I’ll be ready in a minute” before he mounted his unsaddled pony and rode off towards Lunenburg followed by most of his men and a few escapees from the opposite bank. Booth was left with only eight men and was joined by some soldiers who had crossed the river. As his position was hopeless, the sergeant organized a square and began a retreat. Booth’s quick thinking and composure saved his men, though some broke away and made a run to safety but were cut down by Zulus. Each time they felt threatened by the natives, Booth’s men fired a volley thereby allowing the small group to make their way to a deserted farmhouse a mile from Lunenburg. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Harward had galloped to Lunenburg arriving there 6.30 a.m. He reported to Major Tucker and told him that the camp was in the hands of the enemy following the slaughter of all the soldiers and that he had galloped for his life. Tucker organized a relief force which marched out and came across Booth with his men. Following the tragedy which cost the lives of seventy nine men, Tucker and Harward covered up the truth with a falsified account of the events which became the basis of Chelmsford’s report to the War Office which was not received in London until 21 April. The truth would be kept in the regiment as NCOs were not required to make official submissions. By the middle of December while stationed at Pretoria, the truth about Harward’s escape became known following months of harboured resentment by many serving in the regiment. Three survivors of the Intombe incident wrote to Wolseley on 20 December to set the record straight and ‘to be of service to Colour Sergeant Booth’. The result of the General’s enquiry was that the newly appointed Lieutenant Colonel Tucker made a belated recommendation for the Distinguished Conduct Medal to be awarded to Booth. Inquisitively, Wolseley asked Tucker why the Colour Sergeant had not previously been given proper recognition for his conduct. The response given was that to do so would have brought to light the ‘far different conduct of Lieutenant Harward’. On 26 December Booth was honoured by Wolseley who forwarded his personal recommendation for the award of a Victoria Cross. Lieutenant Harward was arrested and taken to Pietermaritzberg where he was charged with: 1. Having misbehaved before the enemy, in shamefully abandoning a party under his command when attacked by the enemy, and in riding off at speed from his men. 2. Conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline in having at the place and time mentioned in the first charge, neglected to take proper precautions for the safety of a party of a Regiment under his command when attacked. At the court-martial held at Fort Napier, Pietermaritzberg held between 20-27 February 1880, Harward’s defence was that he had only joined the convoy escort the night before and that proper laagering with only two wagons was impossible. When his command began to crumble, he had decided to ride for help. Much to the surprise of many especially Wolseley, Wood and Buller, Harward was acquitted of all charges and was allowed to return to his regiment. Although Wolseley could not alter the verdict, he refused to confirm the Court’s findings, adding his own view: Had I released this officer without making any remarks upon the verdict in question, it would have been a tacit acknowledgement that I had concurred in what appears to me a monstrous theory, viz. that a Regimental officer who is the only Officer present with a party of men actually and seriously engaged with the enemy, can, under any pretext whatever, be justified in deserting them, and by doing so, abandoning them to their fate. The more helpless a position in which an officer finds his men, the more it is his bounden duty to stay and share their fortune, whether good or ill. It is because the British Officer has always done so that he possesses the influence he does in the ranks of our army. The soldier has learned to feel, that come what may, he can in the direst movement of danger look with implicit faith to his officer, knowing he will never desert him under any possible circumstances. In London, the Duke of Cambridge, Commander in Chief of the British Army, upon receipt of the findings and Wolseley’s comments, instructed them to be read out as a General Order to every regiment. A disgraced Harward had little option but to resign his commission, which he did so on arriving at Kings Town on 11 May 1880. For his gallant conduct, Colour Sergeant Booth was presented by the Queen with a Victoria Cross at Windsor Castle on 26 June 1880. Tucker’s lack of insistence regarding the need to properly laager the wagons at Meyers Drift together with his attempt to cover up Harward’s cowardice at the expense of acknowledging Booth’s role caused resentment within the regiment. Even when he admitted the truth to Wolseley, he was economical with his admission that he had concealed the facts in order to protect Harward and the reputation of the Regiment. As for Harward, had he acted as would be expected of an officer, morale would have been maintained and more men would have rallied with a better chance of a stronger defensive retreat probably resulting in more lives saved. However, once again, his conduct was typical of the increasing number of incidents of officers deserting their men especially when they were needed most. Chelmsford’s renewed effort to conquer Zululand began with a second invasion on 31 May 1879. Two days later another tragedy occurred which stunned Chelmsford and sent shockwaves throughout the colony due to the embarrassment it caused. The incident which caused so much distress was the death of an important figure by the name of Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial of France who was killed while out with a sketching party headed by Lieutenant Jahleel Carey of the 98th Regiment, whose own conduct would result in a much publicised court-martial. Louis Napoleon arrived in South Africa after the disaster at Isandlwana and in his eagerness to take part in the action was finally allowed on 1 June to accompany the small sketching party sent on a routine mission to roughly map out the territory ahead of Chelmsford’s further advance into Zulu territory. Carey had specifically requested to accompany the patrol and although no proper command structure was appointed for the mission, he should have taken control instead of allowing the Prince Imperial to dominate since he was being treated as an officer. In any case the risks were considered very minimal as the territory to be mapped was reported as not occupied by hostile Zulus. The group failed to meet another patrol in the area in order to increase the strength as Carey’s party consisted of a total of only eight men. They pushed on towards the Itshotshosi River and finally halted at an apparently abandoned homestead but which showed evidence of recent occupation, at the bottom of a slope which overlooked the river. After a rest and a brew up at this spot, at about 3.30 p.m. Carey proposed that the group should immediately prepare to return to Chelmsford’s headquarters though he relented when the Prince replied that there was no hurry to leave. Within minutes, a Zulu guide with the party reported seeing a Zulu on the shoulder of the hill and upon hearing this news, Louis in his role as token commander gave the order to saddle up which took a few minutes to organize. At the moment that he gave the order to prepare to mount, a volley of fire burst from the mealies a few yards away and was immediately followed by a group of thirty to forty charging Zulus. They had earlier seen the patrol dismount and made their way towards the party undetected along a donga. The surprise attack startled the men and their horses resulting in confusion and desperation with the Zulus able to quickly kill two troopers along with the Zulu guide. The panicstricken group managed to escape and reach a relatively safe point about a half mile from the homestead where they halted as the Zulus had given up the chase. They immediately discovered that the Prince was not present. Louis Napoleon lay dead back at the Zulu homestead. He was trying to mount his horse when the Zulus opened fire on the patrol but failed to complete the task as the beast reared up. It galloped in the direction of the other horses with the Prince desperately hanging on to the flimsy holster strap attached to the saddle which finally gave way under the strain. He fell and injured himself though he quickly managed to turn to face the Zulus with a revolver in his left hand. Shots rang out before the Prince was overwhelmed and stabbed repeatedly. Carey and his patrol had been caught by surprise and everyone attempted to simply run in the face of overwhelming numbers. From his position Carey assumed the worst as he could see Zulus running in the vicinity of the donga. So he made his way back to Chelmsford to report the tragedy and on the way encountered Buller who was stunned at the news. The Prince Imperial’s death was a shock which was felt heavily in Britain and France as the news ended up overshadowing the defeat at Isandlwana. Chelmsford and his commanders had had enough of officers abandoning their men which had been a common occurrence during the first invasion of Zululand and someone had to take responsibility for this most unfortunate event. The blame would be placed squarely on Lieutenant Carey’s shoulders as he was aware of the muted accusations of cowardice from among his fellow officers especially those in Wood’s Flying Column. A Court of Inquiry was assembled on 4 June at Carey’s request in the hope that it would clear him of any misconduct but it recommended a trial by court-martial on a charge of deserting the Prince in the face of the enemy. The court convened on 12 June with Carey defending himself and calling the survivors as witnesses. In his defence he pointed out that it was the Prince who had issued the orders. Although this was corroborated by the survivors who also asserted that nothing could be done to save the Prince, the problem was that Louis Napoleon did not hold an official rank and this counted against the Lieutenant. Another dilemma for Carey was that the man he deserted was a member of the French monarchy. He was found guilty and sent home to await the decision by his superiors there as neither the Court nor Chelmsford would decide on a suitable punishment. Upon arrival in England, the newly promoted Captain Carey discovered that his fortunes changed as the press felt that he had been unfairly treated by being made a scapegoat. The blame was aimed at Carey’s commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Harrison for his failure to organize the patrol properly. Also, Chelmsford was accused of unnecessarily allowing the Prince too close to the front. Following a request by Louis Napoleon’s mother, the Empress Eugenie to Queen Victoria to intervene, the findings of the Court were overturned. The Judge Advocate General made it known that the proceedings had been rushed and the officers of the court-martial had not been sworn in properly and accordingly could not ratify the verdict. Carey was free to return to his regiment and assume his normal duties. However, for the Captain the matter did not end there as he eagerly sought an audience with Eugenie who was not receptive to the idea as she blamed him for the death of her son. Finally the Queen intervened and Carey’s requests were denied. His actions did not help his promising career which was all but ruined. Too many officers and other ranks deserted their fellow soldiers during the Anglo- Zulu War thereby disgracing themselves and embarrassing the British commanders. Even before the Battle of Isandlwana, officers intentionally left their post hailing the first of a long list of desertions or questionable conduct. Among the European survivors from the catastrophe on 22 January, almost thirty per cent were officers having the advantage of escaping on horseback. At the Buffalo River and Rorke’s Drift Mission Station further desertions occurred and it appeared that the Central Column was plagued with such incidents. These were followed by later desertions involving other tragic events during the campaign. To those in command in the British army on campaign in 1879, it did not matter why desertions took place among officers. More importantly it was the very act of this conduct and the consequences of such action that caused concern in addition to the high occurrence rate. Very early on during the Zululand campaign Chelmsford expressed his dissatisfaction at the display of desertion among officers who abandoned their men to the enemy. His successor, Lord Wolseley felt the need to comment publicly regarding court martial verdicts involving officer desertion. He was clearly appalled by the conduct of too many of his subordinates and it seemed that some officers were treated too lightly in his opinion. Without a doubt, these men of rank deserted to save themselves in situations where other soldiers remained at their posts to fight bravely with many dying for their Queen and country. 1. Editor’s note. But not in the British army in India where Capt. Charles Harford witnessed a number of officially sanctioned floggings in the 1880s. Barfield, Doreen, “For Valour” At Fugitives Drift. 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__label__wiki	0.508008	0.508008	Archive for the 'Gardner' Category Marriage schmarriage BY BUD GARDNER Maybe I’m too jaded from all my years of work in the negative end of the proposition to be a really fair commentator on the hallowed institution of marriage. I’ve done pretty well in my own two attempts, one sailing along for more than twelve years before breaking up on the shoals, and the second still running briskly on a long fetch against pretty steady winds after nearly thirty. But that divorce, way back in the Seventies, left its scars on my psyche, and on hers and the kids’. We all got our ration of sadness out of that, and one of life’s hardest lessons about the fragility of hallowed institutions and the emptiness of human expectations. But all of life is risk of some order, and there’s something in our tribal nature that craves relationship. It’s worked out better for me this time, much better. But the divorce work I do, maybe thirty percent of my law practice, continues to exact its toll. Category: All Marriage Issue, Gardner \| Link to this Entry Family dog: take three Finding our dog Rusty at the Animal Shelter in Wenatchee turned out to be a lucky event for us as well as him. When our twelve-year-old black lab, Babe, had to be put down the year before, both Connie and I were uncertain whether or not we wanted another dog. Babe was dearly loved, and a truly beautiful pure-bred with highfaluting papers confirming a grand, prize-winning ancestry, but she was a terribly neurotic and anxious animal, who for god-knows-what reason was always wary of me, no matter what I did to show my honorable intentions and affections, and afraid of all men in general. That was particularly hard on me, as I’d had dogs around all my life and had great relationships with them. Category: Gardner \| Link to this Entry My TV and me I’ve had a fascination with TV about as far back as I can remember. As a young child in the late Forties, I first saw those tiny flickering human figures in small, usually round, glowing picture tubes in bulky wooden furniture pieces in appliance stores, arousing a curiosity and excitement that has never much abated over all these years. Despite endless yearning and pleading from my brothers and me, my folks were hardasses; we didn’t actually get our own TV set until 1954, so until I was about eleven, what TV my younger brothers and I got to see was mooched off neighbors and friends. Category: All Television Issue, Gardner \| Link to this Entry A really big deal Christmas was almost always a really big deal when I was a kid, back in the early Fifties. My dad was a chemical engineer, happily making metal alloys and rolling out thousands of miles of aluminum sheet to help Henry Kaiser make more millions, and we were definitely comfortable middle class in a poor rural area, slowly morphing into the suburbs of the growing city of Spokane, Washington. I was very conscious growing up that my Christmas was much more remunerative than many of my grade school classmates’ at Veradale Elementary. The year I got a three-speed Schwinn, in the fifth grade, I went to school after the Christmas break eager to tell everybody about my great new bike. The first guy I ran into, going up the steps, was Stan Goehner. I knew he got beat up at home, because he came to school with bruises, and one time with a black eye that hung on for weeks. Broken thumb, broken wrist, he always had excuses, but all the boys knew his dad was a drunk and he beat up Stan’s mom, and Stan, too. But the bike year he hadn’t been beat up, and, beaming, he said, “Look at the gloves I got!” as he produced a pair of roughout leather work gloves from the back pocket of his jeans and thrust them forward for me to see. “Nice,” I said. I knew that was it for Stan. In the fifth grade you always start at the top, right? Who starts with the knitted winter socks from aunt Elsie? Well, I told him about the books I got, from my Grampa; I didn’t feel comfortable telling him about the bike. Lordy, middle-class guilt in rural Spokane valley in 1953. Category: All Christmas Issue, Gardner \| Link to this Entry The lawyer as hero It’s not as if I go down to my office on Monday morning, sit down at my desk and try to transform myself into Atticus Finch, but I suppose, like most lawyers, I’d sure like to be seen as that wonderful, patient, and wise lawyer-dad character Gregory Peck made famous in To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus, with his solitary and principled stand against ignorance and bigotry, with his commitment to a process intended to protect the individual against those very forces, but which are perverted into a vehicle for prejudice and injustice. The attentive and patient single parent, giving his young children their first life lessons in morality and social conscience. Category: All Movie Issue, Gardner \| Link to this Entry Hope for the indolent The book was a birthday gift from a friend, as I recall, and I believe it had been intended as a joke. The Lazy Man’s Guide To Enlightenment by Thaddeus Golas was a narrow and very thin paperback, and I’m sure I shrugged it off at the time with a “Thanks, I really need this,” stated with self-deprecating irony but with no idea of just how potent this little book really was. Category: All Book Issue, Books and Authors, Gardner \| Link to this Entry Bud Gardner was born in 1943 and raised in arid, rural, eastern Washington state. In 1961 he went to the wet, west side of the state for college at U Dub in Seattle, where he earned his BA in English comp and political science, and a law degree. After seven years of criminal defense work in Seattle, and a divorce, he took a “vacation” from the law, bummed around in Mexico, managed a Pioneer Square bar, worked for a while as a private eye, did construction carpentry and some field surveying, and, observing that most folks work too hard for miserable pay, reasonably concluded that it might be appropriate to reconsider the legal profession, in a revised context. Returning to eastern Washington in 1980, he remarried, and he has maintained a general law practice in Okanogan since. He and his wife Connie enjoy their quiet home life in a (remodeled) hundred-year-old farm house surrounded by orchards. Bud likes to fly fish, raises prize-winning dahlias, and dabbles in country music and writing. His Black Lamb column is called Country Lawyer. 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__label__wiki	0.674344	0.674344	Yonok Foundation Teach Thailand Corps Life Before & After TTC Meet Current and Past TTC Volunteers Life in Thailand Short-Term Volunteer Program For Thai Volunteers Special support from and for Oregon Stanford Concert Tours Voices from TTC Teachers Foundation Fellowships Stanford Concert Tour Since 2004, American-Thai Foundation and Yonok Foundation have had the pleasure and honor of hosting and organizing several Thailand concert tours of outstanding student ensembles from Stanford University. In 2015, we hosted the outstanding Lagunita String Quartet, and we most recently hosted the 2017 Thailand Tour with the Stanford Chamber Chorale and Stanford Taiko -- click here to view videos from the tour. In the summer of 2013, we hosted and organized the Thailand tour of the renowned Stanford Chamber Chorale and Stanford Taiko, led by Stephen M. Sano, Chair of the Music Department at Stanford University. The tour was presented as a tribute to His Majesty the King and as a celebration of 180 years of Thai-U.S. relations (the longest in Asia) and the 25th anniversary of Yonok Foundation. This marked Stanford Taiko's fourth tour of Thailand and Chamber Chorale's first. Featured in the tour repertoire was a specially commissioned song, "Hav Gengr Hrioum" (The Storm Driven Sea) to pay tribute to His Majesty the King, by multiple Grammy Award-winning composer and Stanford Taiko alumnus Christopher Tin. Also included were beautiful renditions of The Royal Anthem and the royal composition Sai Fon, specially arranged for the tour by Chamber Chorale member Eric Tuan. The tour premiered in Bangkok, with concerts at the Siam Society Under Royal Patronage, Aksra Theatre, and Central World, and also included a visit to Sirirat Hospital to sing the royal composition "Sai Fon" in honor of the king and queen. The ensembles then traveled to Pattaya, Sukhothai, Lampang, Chiang Mai, and Chiang Rai, delighting audiences with their beautiful songs, rousing drum music, and stunning choreography. In between performances, the ensembles had rich opportunities to experience Thailand, visiting historic and cultural sites, sampling various regional cuisines of the country, meeting and exchanging culture with locals, and of course partaking in some shopping and Thai massage--a few students even learned to speak, read, and write Thai! The performances and activities in between were covered extensively by the Thai media, including television, print, radio, and social media. We were also delighted to have our newly arrived Teach Thailand Corps 2013-14 teachers, volunteers, and fellows join us for portions of the tour. We would like to thank Stephen Sano and his team, Stanford Taiko, and Stanford Chamber Chorale for allowing audiences in Thailand to experience the joy of their music. We thank Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and Khun Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda, former Minister of Finance, for their patronage as guests of honor of our tour. We thank United States Ambassador Kristie Kenney and her staff for their enthusiastic support of the tour and for inviting the ensembles to perform at the Independence Day reception at the Consulate General in Chiang Mai. Generous support was provided by our sponsors: Siam Cement Group; Siam Commercial Bank; Bangkok Hospital; PTT Group; TrueVisions and TNN24; Bangkok Post; Central Pattana; Dusit International; Bangkok Airways; and Nation University. We are grateful to the the Yonok Foundation staff, who worked tirelessly to bring together the tour's complex logistics. We thank audience members throughout Thailand who came out to be a part of this most memorable and meaningful tour. Below are selected photographs from the tour. In addition, videos of performances from the tour can be viewed via this link. Site Map \| Visit us on Facebook \| Write us at contact@americanthaifoundation.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line485
__label__cc	0.695533	0.304467	Contact Professional Voice Over Talent Anthony Reece Find and Follow Anthony Socially & Online Contact Voice Actor Anthony Reece Reach Anthony by telephone in the USA at 970-223-3659 or 844-812-8871. Anthony does offer free voice over auditions for prospects serious about using his voice over services. Use the form below to request a free voice over audition. Please keep in mind, your project should proceed within 10-days to receive a free audition due to his weekly studio workload. Supply details and a desired budget for the voice over work. Anthony does try to work within realistic budgets, yet if it is too low, he will offer a quote with his audition. Fill Out the ENTIRE Form Below to Reach Anthony Reece. (will not be shared) Time Zone EasternCentralMountainWestern Service or Reason for Contact * Radio / TVNarrationCharacterImagingTelephoneAudio BookOther (general reason for inquiry) Watch Gen Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wccVNdZcn3o Character Demo http://www.anthonyreece.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/areece_characters1.mp3 Watch Clear Door https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=D_3Fv-I9NnQ Narration Demo http://www.anthonyreece.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/areece_industrials_09.mp3 Watch Funki Punki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B247PBfOKCY	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line488
__label__wiki	0.953302	0.953302	Pradip Rodrigues Sabrina Almeida Praneet Akilla fulfills his dream Community 621 0 Mississauga wants province to punish 9-1-1 misusers Fund for fatal crash victims’ families in Punjab 50% of Canadians on the verge of insolvency: Survey Toronto releases 2019 employment survey results Did 63 “Canadians” die in the downing of the Ukrainian airline? EDITORIAL 457 0 Canada’s infrastructure is unprepared for massive population growth Exploitation of international students and workers is a scandal EDITORIAL 1950 1 Why changing the name of streets and buildings is a bad idea Are you feeling the winter blues? No, we’re not “giddy” about Harry and Meghan living in Canada! Let’s dedicate 2020 to decluttering life! Give debt a break this holiday season Kipruto aims to break Bekele’s course record in Kolkata 25 km race Author: CanIndia New Wire Service Kolkata, Dec 14 (IANS) Kenyan Amos Kipruto, who won silver at the Berlin marathon three months back, is confident of breaking Bekele’s course record in the Tata Steel Kolkata 25 km race here on Sunday. Ethiopian legend Kenenisa Bekele had set the course record of one hour 13 minutes 48 seconds in the unique 25 km event in 2017. Talking to reporters on Friday, the 26-year-old said he’s perfectly in shape to better Bekele’s record here. “After Berlin, I had some injury problems but I’m fully fit now and feel ready to break the record,” Kipruto said. Kipruto has the best timing of 1:00:24 in the half-marathon in Sweden. “I believe running fast in 25 km is achievable,” he said, adding that he’s targeting to break the world record of 58:18 in 21K. “I think that next year I can break the world half marathon record (58:18 by Kenya’s Abraham Kiptum, set last month in Valencia),” he said. At the Berlin marathon in September, Kipruto was pipped by fellow mate Eliud Kipchoge with a world record timing of 2:01:39. Kipchoge happens to be his neighbour and Kipruto said he’s inspired by him. “It has inspired me, he lives just 800 metres away from my house.” Running his first race after the Berlin marathon, he said “I was not looked at because all the focus was on Kipchoge (Eliud). But I put in a strong race. I have prepared well and I know I will be on the podium on Sunday,” he added. The Kenyan won’t have a field day as a stiff challenge from Ethiopian Birhanu Legese, a two-time Delhi Half Marathon winner who most recently ran in India in May this year, awaits. “I like racing in India a lot as it’s often warm races and I seem to do well in them,” Legese said. The 25 km race, which is an IAAF Bronze label road race, has attracted strong fields. Ethiopia’s defending women’s champion Degitu Azimeraw, who surprised everyone in 2017 by taking the honours in a course record of 1:26.01 in her first international race, sounded confident that she can go even faster in this year’s race. ‘I have ambitions to win this race again and I am in very good shape,” the 19-year-old said. “Last year’s race changed my life and I am happy to return here.” She will be alongside Kenya’s two-time world champion Florence Kiplagat on the start line. India’s challenge will be led by Services runner Avinash Sable who recently broke a 37-year-old world record in steeple chase. “Steeplechase is my favourite event but events such as this help in developing endurance. This year I am prepared better than the previous year,” he said. dm/gau/bg Tags: bekele break course kipruto kolkata record ARTWORK SUBMISSION © 2017 Can-India News a division of World Media Corp (Canada) Inc. All rights reserved. Can-India News I Privacy Policy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line489
__label__cc	0.724651	0.275349	Obamacare enrollments decline as GOP ponders next move Seven years ago next month was the passage of the Affordable Care Act. With President Trump and the Republicans in Congress vowing to repeal President Obama’s trademark legislation, there is some doubt as to whether Obamacare will see its seventh birthday. With signups for the program falling and insurance companies leaving its marketplaces, Obamacare seems to be dying a slow death even without a formal repeal. According to CNN, federal Obamacare enrollments were down from last year by 400,000. Only 9.2 million people signed up at healthcare.gov which handles Obamacare registrations for 39 states. Last year, 9.6 million people signed up at the site. Eleven states and the District of Columbia run their own exchanges so figures for the entire country are not yet available. A total of 13.8 million people were expected to sign up nationally. CNN reported last month that 11.5 million people had signed up as of Dec. 24, an increase over the previous year at that point. Backers of the health law blamed a decision by the Trump Administration to end advertising for the Obamacare enrollment for the uninspiring finish. The Trump Administration placed the blame on a 25 percent premium increase and a 28 percent decrease in the number of participating insurance companies. Last August, Aetna announced that it was withdrawing from the Obamacare exchanges while Humana and United Healthcare sharply reduced their presence. A Washington Times report found that almost a third of counties would have only one Obamacare insurance company available. The lack of options for many consumers would mean restrictions on networks and choice of doctors. For example, Molina Healthcare excludes Cedars-Sinai Hospital, a prestigious Los Angeles facility, from its networks to cut costs. Only about a quarter of Obamacare insurers were profitable last year. “Obamacare has failed the American people, with one broken promise after another,” Matt Lloyd, spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, told CNN. “We look forward to providing relief to those who are being harmed by the status quo and pursuing patient-centered solutions that will work for the American people.” Obamacare has not lived up to its promises. President Obama touted the Affordable Care Act as “universal coverage for all Americans” and said that it would reduce health insurance costs for American families. The law failed on both counts. While the US uninsured rate did decline under Obamacare, it remains at almost 11 percent according to Gallup survey. CNN noted that the average health insurance premium has increased by about 50 percent over the past eight years. Additionally, higher deductibles on current plans mean that consumers pay even more out of pocket. With the uncertainty of a possible repeal or reform, many large insurers are weighing their options for next year. Politico reports that the Trump Administration is considering proposals to limit enrollment outside the open enrollment period and increase costs for older Americans. A major factor in rising premiums and falling profits has been adverse selection as Obamacare enrollees have turned out to be both older and sicker than predicted. “We saw very little of the young and healthy,” Sherri Huff, a consultant and former health care coop official, told Modern Healthcare. Ironically, recent polling has shown an increase in Obamacare’s popularity. A CNN poll from January showed a small lead (49-47 percent) for those who favor the law for the first time since its passage. Even this poll shows that 55 percent would support repeal if a replacement can be enacted simultaneously. Polls by Rasmussen and Fox News confirm that Americans want a replacement for Obamacare before a repeal. 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__label__cc	0.626411	0.373589	Salma and Yasmin join the Super Muslim Comedy Tour! September 23, 2018 September 23, 2018 by Admin For the very first time American comediennes Salma Hindy and Yasmin Elhady are showcasing their very own brand of humour at this year’s Super Muslim Comedy Tour, presented by international humanitarian charity, Penny Appeal. In addition to the two incredibly talented comediennes, the tour’s hilarious line up also includes the UK’s very own Guz Khans from the BBC 3 series Man Like Mobeen, Citizen Khan’s Abdullah Afzal, Azeem M, British stand-up comedian Jeff Mirza, and American film and comedy star, Omar Regan. Now in its third year, and following the resounding success of 2017’s tour, this year brings a new league of comedy to 11 cities, all starting in October. All proceeds from the comedy tour will go towards Penny Appeal’s Education First programme, which helps to open new schools in countries around the world, giving children access to education and allowing them to build brighter futures. The schools are all fully equipped with the relevant facilities, textbooks, stationary, libraries, desks and chairs, play equipment, and high quality, well-trained teachers. The schools particularly benefit young girls, by equipping them with the skills and knowledge they need for independence within their communities. This allows them to develop into strong, empowered young women with a voice within society. Yasmin Elhady says: Finally, an Egyptian-born Muslim woman who was raised in Kentucky gets to crack her jokes in Europe about Kenexit! This tour comes at a great time for the UK. With Islamophobia on the rise, it’s nice to be part of a positive message. Penny Appeal does some incredible work, and it’s amazing to think that we can have fun together while being there for children who so desperately need our help. Penny Appeal CEO, Aamer Naeem, adds: This year is expected to be even better than last year, with performances in 11 cities, and two amazingly funny women headlining the show alongside some very talented and funny men. It will be a unique opportunity for families and communities to come together and have a hilarious evening whilst helping launch a new campaign to help forgotten children who desperately need interventions. The support we have received from the general public and all of the artists involved has been overwhelming. Tickets have only recently gone on sale and some venues are already 50% sold out! It’s sure to be the highlight of the year! Running from the 24th October to 4th November, the tour will be going to Dundee, Glasgow, Blackburn, Manchester, Bradford, Bolton, Leicester, Coventry, Slough, Birmingham, and London for two dates. Tickets start at just £10 each with Early Bird tickets sold before September 23rd at £5 and with premium seating available for £20 per ticket. For more information about the Super Muslim Comedy Tour, to buy tickets, or to donate to Penny Appeal, call 03000 11 11 11 or visit pennyappeal.org. 24/10/18 – West Park (Hotel), 319 Perth Rd, Dundee, DD2 1NN 25/10/18 – River Palace, Tradeston Street, Glagow G5 8BH 26/10/18 – King Georges Hall, Northgate, Blackburn BB2 1AA 27/10/18 – Usmania Banqueting Hall 39 Varley Street Manchester M40 8EE 28/10/18 – The Bradford Hotel, Hall Ings, Bradford, BD1 5SH 29/10/18 – Bolton Excellency, 8 Carlton St. Bolton LS2 1BT 30/10/18 – Sapphire Suite, 88 Surrey St, Leicester LE4 6FG 31/10/18 – Royal Mint, 11-12 king William Street CV15JD Coventry, 01/11/18 – Copthorne Hotel, Slough, Cippenham Lane, SL1 2YE 02/11/18 – Crown Banqueting, 7 Upper Trinity St, Birmingham B9 4EG 03/11/18 – The Atrium London, 124-126 Cheshire Street, E2 6EJ 04/11/18 – Porchester Hall, Porchester Road, London W2 5HS Tagged birmingham, bolton, coventry, leicester, london, penny appeal, slough High-profile Muslims are winners at the 18th Asian Achievers Awards 2018 Features History & Heritage The craftsmen with magic fingers Tagged avanos, british muslim magazine, cappadocia, craftsman, huma baig, The craftsmen with magic fingers, travel and culture Features History & Heritage INTERNATIONAL The History of Süleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul Tagged Istanbul, mosque, The History of Süleymaniye Mosque Features INTERNATIONAL LONDON Travel UK Top 5 travel photography tips Tagged cultural images, Top 5 travel photography tips, top tips, travel photographers 24 Hours in Sharjah Tagged 24 Hours in Sharjah, family friendly, halal holidays, halal travel, harjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation, muslim friendly	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line499
__label__wiki	0.944802	0.944802	Beaver Nation Newsletter Choices Program BSU Cheer BSU Dance Team Hockey Season Tickets Archtics Account Manager Hockey Single-Game Tickets Hockey Flex Packs Division II Programs Sanford Center Box Office Composite Composite BRN Kids Club Beaver Dam Fan Club Beaver Pride Beaver Pride Rewards Card BSUBeavers Blog Jam Downloadable Digital Schedule Text Message Updates DIGITAL MEDIA DIGITAL MEDIA BSU Gameday Live VISITING BEMIDJI VISITING BEMIDJI Bemidji State Virtual Tour BSU SPIRIT BSU SPIRIT Shop BSU Video & Audio Library StatCrew Roster Library Watch live on WCHA.tv Media Guide Vault Support BSU BSU Alumni and Foundation High School Meet Info Stride Into Spring Results Indoor Records Outdoor Records Buerkle sprints her way to All-America honors HOUSTON -- Bemidji State University track and field athlete Kristi Buerkle (So., Stacy, Minn) earned All-America honors for her efforts at the 2009 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships Saturday afternoon. The sophomore needed to finish in the top eight to earn the honor, and she did just that by finishing seventh in the 400-meter dash. This was Buerkle’s first appearance in the national meet, and she also earned her first career All-American award. “I am still in shock right now,” Buerkle said. "It feels like a really good way to end the indoor season. My goal coming into today was to stay in ninth and maybe even just run a personal best." "I knew going into the race I had to beat one person (to earn All-American status). I just ran and stayed strong to stay in front of one person, and as soon as I finshed the race I knew I earned All-America.” Buerkle crossed the finish line in 57.06 seconds, giving her seventh place among nine other runners. “It was a nice release when I crossed the line, it gave me an accomplished feeling,” she said. Buerkle finished just shy of her school-record time (57.03) in the 400-meter dash. Pinar Saka of Nebraska-Omaha won the event with a time of 55.58 seconds. On the men’s side of the competition, Zac Preble (Jr., Coleraine, Minn.) finished tenth in the heptathlon with 4,384 points. Preble came into the day in the fifth spot, but dropped to tenth after failing to record any points in the pole vault. He was 171 points behind the ninth-place finisher, and 402 points shy of All-America honors. Preble had a strong showing once again in 2009 after not finishing the event in 2008. The 2009 championships will conclude this evening. Buerkle and Preble have completed competition in their respective events. This wrap up the 2009 indoor campaign for BSU. Look for the Beavers to hit the track again on April 4, as the 2009 Outdoor Track and Field season gets underway. PROUD SPONSORS OF BEAVER ATHLETICS © 2020 Bemidji State University. All Rights Reserved. Bemidji State University is a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line502
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__label__wiki	0.758704	0.758704	Home Cricket Article Highest 2nd Wicket Partnership in Test Match Highest 2nd Wicket Partnership in Test Match A team always keeps its best batsmen in the opening slot, but statistically speaking, partnerships for the second wicket have comparatively been better than the first one is test matches. There is no doubt that test cricket has produced some of the world’s most consistent number three batsmen over the last few decades such as Rahul Dravid, Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis and others. They have immensely contributed for their teams in their illustrious career. The world record for highest run partnership for the 2nd wicket in test has been recorded by Sri Lanka in 1997 when the explosive Sanath Jayasuriya and crafty Roshan Mahanama piled a huge 576-run-stand for the 2nd wicket in Colombo. Highest Second Wicket Partnership in Test Match Batsmen (Team) Sanath Jayasuriya and Roshan Mahanama (Sri Lanka) Donald Bradman and WH Ponsford Conrad Hunte and Gary Sobers (West Indies) Marvan Atapattu and Kumar Sangakkara Leonard Hutton and Maurice Leyland Chateshwar Pujara and Murali Vijay (India) Ken Barrington and John Edrich David Warner and Marnus Labuschagne Graham Gooch and David Gower Sunil Gavaskar and D Vengsarkar Chris Gayle & Ramnaresh Sarwan Historically speaking, India’s performance for the 2nd wicket partnership had never been so illustrious barring one or two innings. In fact, the first ever plus 300 run partnership for the 2nd wicket came in the year 1978 when the legendary Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar built a huge 344-run stand for this wicket against West Indies in Kolkata. But in the next 30 years India couldn’t register a single triple century partnership for 2nd wicket. It was in 2008 that Gambhir and Dravid forged a patient 314-run stand against England in Mohali but they couldn’t break Gavaskar-Vengsarkar record. However, Pujara and Vijay finally broke the 35 year old record adding 370-run stand for this wicket against Australia in Mohali. Nonetheless, this is still counted amongst the sixth highest & India’s best partnership ever recorded between an opener and number three batsman at test matches. Highest 1st Wicket Partnership in Test Match Highest 3rd Wicket Partnership in Test Match Highest 1st Wicket Partnership in Test Match Highest 3rd Wicket Partnership in Test Match Most View Articles T20 World Cup 2020 India Team Squad and Performance Asia Cup - History & Overview of Asia Cup [1984-2014] T20 World Cup - History & Overview of ICC World Twenty20 IPL T20 History - Overview of Indian Premier League [2008-2015] T20 World Cup 2020 Pakistan Team Squad and Performance	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line521
__label__cc	0.696429	0.303571	Barratry Definition: An intentional wrongful act committed by the crew or master of a ship to the prejudice of the owner or the charterer. Barratry has meaning in (1) maritime law as well as being (2) an ancient common law criminal offence. • In maritime law, as set out within the British Marine Insurance Act of 1906, which also refers to "barratrous conduct": "The term barratry includes every wrongful act willfully committed by the master or crew to the prejudice of the owner, or, as the case may be, the charterer." Bouvier's Law Dictionary described the maritime law term as: "An unlawful or fraudulent act, or very gross and culpable negligence of the master or the mariners of a vessel in violation of their duty as such, and directly prejudicial to the owner and without his consent. "It is said that the term implies an intentional injury; is does not embrace cases of negligence." Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law gives the following examples of barratrous conduct: "... running away with the ship, sinking her, deserting her or stealing the cargo ... but in English law, no mere negligence or default, no mater what loss may be caused thereby, will constitute barratry." • Historically, barratry was a common law criminal offence which, in Bouvier's Law Dictionary, is defined as: "... the offence of frequently exciting and stirring up quarrels and suits, either at law or otherwise." William Blackstone, in Volume 4 of his Commentaries on the Laws of England, page 134, noted that the offence was similar to maintenance and champerty. Blackstone aded that: "If the offender (as is too frequently the case) belongs to the profession of law, a barretor who is thus able as well as willing to do mischief ought also to be disabled from practising for the future. An English law, at 12 George I, Chapter 29 , provided that any lawyer convicted of barratry was subject to being "transported for seven years" (sent to a colony such as Australia). Marine Insurance Act 1906, 1906 Chapter 41 (6 Edward 7), published at www.bailii.org/uk/legis/num_act/1906/1067660.html Duhaime & Williams Maritime & Waterways Law Dictionary If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft. Don Feder, Boston Herald, writing about the execution of Timothy McVeigh in 2001.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line539
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__label__wiki	0.926918	0.926918	Article from Christian Today: http://www.christiantoday.co.in/article/world.vision.launches.major.drive.to.find.new.sponsors.for.1000.girls.in.poverty/18695.htm World Vision launches major drive to find new sponsors for 1,000 girls in poverty Wednesday, August 7, 2019, 0:22 (IST) World Vision has launched a major drive to find sponsors for 1,000 girls in developing countries as part of its ongoing work to tackle gender inequality. The #1000Girls campaign has the ambitious goal of seeing 1,000 more girls in poverty sponsored by the time of the International Day of the Girl on October 11. The Christian development charity said it was a "critical time" for girls around the world, with many fighting "terrible odds" to secure a positive future. According to Unicef, 12 million girls worldwide will enter into forced marriages this year alone, while figures from Unesco reveal that 31 million girls will not be able to attend school. Tim Pilkington, chief executive of World Vision UK, said: "Too often, girls suffer unfair treatment every day in their communities and homes. "Gender inequality wreaks havoc with a girl's self-belief, contracts her horizons and narrows her ambitions. Such injustices are a scourge on the world's conscience." He continued: "Motivated by our faith, we stand with these girls. World Vision does not accept that they are second class citizens. "We believe every girl has a God-given right to reach her full potential. Girls everywhere are standing up for their rights. "They are breaking through barriers, raising their voices against violence, and setting themselves free." The campaign is part of World Vision's wider work addressing gender discrimination in 60 countries, focusing on marginalised girls living within areas affected by poverty. Its work involves helping to keep girls in school and out of forced marriages, while other projects are addressing sexual violence and the stigma around periods. It also mentors girls and has been fitting schools out with girl-friendly toilets. Much of its work with young girls is funded with the help of child sponsorship. Mr Pilkington appealed for more sponsors to support the #1000Girls campaign. "We now have 1000 more girls waiting for a sponsor. Please visit our child sponsorship page, find a girl and stand with her," he said. "When you sponsor a girl, you don't just support and protect her. You do something far bigger. You empower that girl to achieve more in her life for herself and for others. You change the attitudes of whole communities. You join a global movement." Find out more about #1000Girls here	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line551
__label__wiki	0.769887	0.769887	Posts Tagged ‘Valleys’ While I was out… featuring The Darcys and things of a Canadian nature Zach SlootskyConsidering how much of the narrative around The Darcys’ first two records were focused squarely on the past – the band’s self-title inexorably tied to the band’s own turbulent history and their Aja cover album to their affection for Steely Dan’s work – it’s understandable that the promotional lead-up to the September 17 release of their new record Warring would be so eyes forward, full steam ahead. Since its initial announcement at the end of July, they’ve released streams of two new songs and crowdsourced remixes, and last week they premiered a first video at Esquire followed yesterday by another new stream via Tumblr. A full album stream should surface next week sometime, but it’s already a sure thing that Warring is a dark and dramatic work that balances the progressive and accessible. Further, they’ve announced a first batch of live dates in support of Warring and it includes a hometown record release show at the Adelaide Music Hall on October 11. Tickets for that are $20 and some are bundled with early release LPs available at stores around Toronto now – details here. Stream: The Darcys – “Hunting” Video: The Darcys – “The River” Panic Manual conducts an exit interview with Ohbijou, who go on indefinite hiatus following a farewell show at The Great Hall on September 7. NPR has an advance stream of The Weeknd’s new album Kiss Land, which is officially out on September 10. He plays three nights at Massey Hall on October 17, 19, and 20. Stream: The Weeknd / Kiss Land Southern Souls has a video session with Austra. They play The Phoenix on September 26. Flare gets fashion spread-y with Carmen Elle of Diana and Basia Bulat, amongst other Toronto musicians. The former plays The Great Hall on September 26, the latter releases Tall Tall Shadow on October 1 and plays The Polish Combatants Hall on October 10 and 11. Dears frontman Murray Lightburn will bring his just-released solo record Mass:Light to the stage at Adelaide Hall on October 12, tickets $15 in advance with a number of 2-for-1 packages improving the value proposition. The Take has an interview with Lightburn about the new record. MP3: Murray Lightburn – “Motherfuckers” Shad has released a new video from his forthcoming Flying Colours, which you can watch below and read (the lyrics) over at Rap Genius. The album is out October 15 and he plays The Opera House on October 19. Video: Shad – “Fam Jam (Fe Sum Immigrins)” Maritime singer-songwriter Rose Cousins has announced a North American tour behind last year’s still-wonderful We Have Made A Spark; she’s at The Dakota Tavern on October 17. MP3: Rose Cousins – “The Darkness” Exclaim reports that The Elwins are aiming to have their second album out by the middle of next year, but in the meantime are doing what they do second-best – the best being writing super-poppy tunes – and that’s touring their butts off. Amidst dates in Europe, the US, and the rest of Canada, they’ll play a hometown show at The Horseshoe on October 19. Video: The Elwins – “Helpful Assistance” Pitchfork talks to Yamantaka//Sonic Titan about their new album Uzu, coming out October 29. Spencer Krug will release a new album as Moonface on October 29; the first song from Julia with Blue Jeans On is now available to stream. Stream: Moonface – “Everyone Is Noah, Everyone Is The Ark” Arcade Fire has posted a trailer for their next album Reflektor, which people are assuming they’ll hear a first and proper sample from on September 9 at 9PM, as per their marketing campaign. Pitchfork has specifics on what is known thus far. The album is out proper on October 29. Update: Consequence Of Sound has the dirt – “Reflektor” is the first single, the video is directed by Anton Corbijn, and the 12″ single of it will go on sale on September 9 at 9PM if you can find a record store that is open then. Trailer: Arcade Fire / Reflektor Having had to cancel his June 30 show at The Hoxton, Mac DeMarco has announced the make-up date for that show at the same venue on November 24. The Music has an interview with DeMarco. MP3: Mac DeMarco – “Freaking Out The Neighbourhood” After way too long, The Balconies have gotten their second album Fast Motions together and will have it out later this Fall; Ion Magazine has premiered the first video from it. Video: The Balconies – “The Slo” Evening Hymns have premiered a new video from last year’s Spectral Dusk at Clash. Video: Evening Hymns – “Arrows” Baeble Music has a videos session with Stars. Noisey talks to Valleys. Tags: Arcade Fire, Austra, Balconies, Basia Bulat, Darcys, Diana, Elwins, Evening Hymns, Mac DeMarco, Moonface, Murray Lightburn, Ohbijou, Rose Cousins, Shad, Stars, Valleys, Weeknd, Yamantaka//Sonic Titan “Wir fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn”, or, “I’m going to Germany, bye bye.” Emil SchultWhy yes, it is another deck-clearing, pre-vacation post. Bit of a Euro theme to this one because I am headed over to the Old World tonight, spending the next week and a bit in Berlin and Stockholm – so no, I won’t be anywhere near the autobahn, but I may fly over them en route and anyways as part of my cultural preparation for the trip, I’ve discovered the wonder of Kraftwerk. Anyways, let’s get to it – I still have to pack. Video: Kraftwerk – “Autobahn” (live) The Guardian are advance streaming the Belle & Sebastian b-sides compilation The Third Eye Centre ahead of its release next week, and to go along with the listening Under The Radar has a track-by-track commentary from the band. Stream: Belle & Sebastian / The Third Eye Centre Spin talks to Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand. Their new record Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action is out next week and they’re at The Kool Haus on October 24. Stereogum sets up a Turntable Interview with Empire Of The Sun. They play The Danforth Music Hall on September 9. Drowned In Sound talks to Emiliana Torrini about her new record Tookah, due out September 10. Gorilla Vs Bear is streaming a new track from London Grammar’s debut album If You Wait. It’s out September 10 and their October 4 show at BLK BOX has been moved upstairs to The Great Hall. Stream: London Grammar – “Interlude” Frightened Rabbit will release a different, North American version of their Late March, Death March EP on September 10 with a different track listing from the European version which came out back in June; Stereogum has a stream of one of the new songs and Paste an acoustic performance video of the same tune. Frightened Rabbit play The Kool Haus on October 17. Stream: Frightened Rabbit – “Radio Silence” Savages have announced their third local show in six months, coming back to town for a date at The Opera House on September 12 – tickets for that are $20. Video: Savages – “Shut Up” The Darcys list off five of the albums that influenced their studio time in making their new record Warring for CBC Music. It’s out September 17. The resuscitated The Dismemberment Plan are streaming another tune from their new record Uncanney Valley, due out October 15. Stream: The Dismemberment Plan – “Invisible” Emotive Irish newcomers Kodaline – one of the longlisted bands for the BBC’s Sound of 2013 list way back in January – are staging a North American tour around a CMJ appearance and behind their debut album In A Perfect World; they’ll be at The Garrison on October 20. Video: Kodaline – “All I Want” Los Angeles synth-rock trio Sir Sly have made a date at The Horseshoe for October 21. MP3: Sir Sly – “Ghost” The Dumbing Of America talks to Mark Van Hoen, one of Neil Halstead’s collaborators in Black Hearted Brother. Their debut Stars Are Our Home is out October 22. The National Post interviews Raphaelle Standell-Preston of Braids. They play The Great Hall on November 10. Spin has got the latest video from English psych-rock newcomers Temples as well as confirmation that their debut album won’t be out until 2014, not that that’s stopping them from being here to play The Horseshoe on November 20. Video: Temples – “Keep It In The Dark” Under The Radar talks to former Ride frontman Mark Gardener about a new collaborative project he’s working on with former Cocteau Twin guitarist Robin Guthrie. The swirly swirly fruits of that project could see the light of day before the year is out. Tim Burgess of The Charlatans remembers their late drummer Jon Brookes in a blog post at NME. Montreal’s Valleys have released a new video from their debut Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night?. Video: Valleys – “Absolutely Everything All The Time” Toronto’s shoegazing Breeze, whose live show helped kick off this week, have a new video. Video: Breeze – “Dolls” Phoenix drop in on NPR to record a World Cafe session, while Pitchfork talks to both Thomas Mars and R. Kelly about their unlikely collaborations. NPR has a World Cafe session with Shout Out Louds. Beatroute talks to Icona Pop. Billboard examines Annie’s impact on Norwegian pop. Okay, bye for now. Tags: Annie, Belle & Sebastian, Black Hearted Brother, Braids, Breeze, Charlatans, Darcys, Dismemberment Plan, Emiliana Torrini, Franz Ferdinand, frightened rabbit, Icona Pop, Kodaline, London Grammar, Mark Gardener, Phoenix, Robin Guthrie, Savages, Shout Out Louds, Sir Sly, Temples, Valleys NXNE 2013 Day One Mikal Cronin, Diana, Moon King, and more at NXNE Frank YangI acknowledge that most coverage of NXNE referencing “night one” would be referring to the actual first night of the festival – that being last Wednesday night – but since instead of being out at the clubs, I spent that evening dealing with plumbing issues and catching up on Game Of Thrones, “night one” hereabouts will refer to the first night I got out of the house, which is to say Thursday, which is most others’ “night two”. None of which really matters to anyone; this I also acknowledge. So let’s move on. To The Horseshoe. I’d flagged Moon King as one of the most interesting new acts in the city since seeing them open up for Niki & The Dove last Fall, a judgement confirmed by the first two thirds of their Obsession EP trilogy. The band is generally flagged as psych-pop – which is accurate – but the way they blend melody, texture, and innocence reminds me a lot of the early shoegaze bands and I’d rate them closer in spirit and execution than most because it’s clear they’re not even trying to be. And so I was pretty happy to start the festival by seeing how far they’d come in the past nine months. Not that they were a green outfit by any means – band principals Maddy Wilde and Daniel Woodhead cut their teeth years ago as half of Spiral Beach – but Moon King still provided a new dynamic, with Woodhead moving from drums to frontman and Wilde putting the keyboards away to focus on guitar. Still, there was a perceptible difference in their performance this time out – they sounded heavier, yet more assured; their playful side now augmented by a sense of danger, which was a good look, at least in theory. The tail end of the show got a bit too literal with that as the shop lights – you know, the yellow ones with the “DANGER EXTREMELY HOT” warning stickers on them – they were using as stage lights got knocked over during an attempted stage dive, and those of us in the front row spent the remainder of the show trying to ensure that the various things that came in contact with them and started smoking – ie, mic cables and the Horseshoe stage carpeting – didn’t erupt into flame and Great White us all. Because that would have sucked and definitely would have garnered a more negative review. Photos: Moon King @ The Horseshoe – June 13, 2013 MP3: Moon King – “Appel” MP3: Moon King – “Only Child” Video: Moon King – “Only Child” Video: Moon King – “Sleeping In My Car” Having just seen Diana back in March, I didn’t expect too much of a different show than last time, but considering in the interim they’d signed to Paper Bag at home and Jagjaguwar in the US for the August 20 release of their debut Perpetual Surrender, the attention they’ve been garnering has certainly increased. But if anyone was worried that their ascent has gotten to their heads, fear not – they may have started late, but it was because they were scrambling looking for a MIDI cable rather than trying to keep anyone waiting. And so while the set might have started a bit discombobulated, it was nice watching it all quickly fall into place and the band get their feet under them. And assuming a couple months didn’t make that big a difference in the live show proved to be wrong – Diana demonstrated some legitimate funk and disco moves to go with their smooth synth-pop soul stylings, and Carmen Elle seems much more at ease fronting the band and now more convincingly inhabits the character of the songs – not that that precludes her dropping to her knees and ripping an impressive guitar solo. Good to see you can take the girl out of the Army, but you can’t take the army out of the girl. Photos: Diana @ The Horseshoe – June 13, 2013 MP3: Diana – “Born Again” Video: Diana – “Born Again” At this point I abandoned the sure-thing-ness offered by The Horseshoe, both room and lineup, and trekked up to Kensington to inspect a new venue called Handlebar and a new band called Valleys. Okay, not that new as I’ve commented on the solidity of their debut album Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night?, but still. Sadly, both were some degree of disappointment. Handlebar for being basically being pitch-black by photographic standards, and Valleys for just being a generally lacklustre live show. I appreciate that the difference in being a studio project and live band can be immense, but the disservice that Valleys did their really quite good debut was unfortunate. With Marc St. Louis on guitar and Matilda Perks on keys playing of backing tracks, it was the least interesting path from recording to stage one could take and both seemed decidedly disinterested in making even that sound compelling. Tempos were off, pitch was off, the mix was off… perhaps it was an off night, perhaps the problems with the venue extended to the sound and not just the light, but based on this showing, I’d still recommend hearing Talk Weird and its synthetically cinematic charms, but skipping the show. Photos: Valleys @ Handlebar – June 13, 2013 Video: Valleys – “Undream A Year” A list-minute decision to see if I could get into The Silver Dollar to see Californian Mikal Cronin start his three-night stand – it turned out I could – would still allow me to close the night on an up note -a VERY up note. I’d only just gotten around to hearing Cronin’s second album MCII a couple weeks ago, and its Big Muff-drenched power-pop was impossible not to fall for immediately. Not just for me, but for many – I was glad I’d gotten there just a little early, because by show time the Dollar was jammed with garage rock fans looking to blow off a little steam. And indeed, Cronin and his crew provided the perfect soundtrack for their mosh-pitting, beer-tossing, crowd-surfing tomfoolery. It did get rowdy, but stayed good-natured, just like Cronin’s music – plenty of fuzzy edges but warm and chewy inside. Loud, energetic, and fun, it was exactly the way to close out the night and Cronin’s promises of Limp Bizkit and Smash Mouth covers on the following nights was almost enough to get me to go back. Photos: Mikal Cronin @ The Silver Dollar – June 13, 2013 MP3: Mikal Cronin – “Apathy” MP3: Mikal Cronin – “Get Along” Video: Mikal Cronin – “Change” BlogTO has an interview with Japandroids, who inaugurate the new Adelaide Music Hall with a show tonight. And if you wanted to know more about Toronto’s newest venue – which is Opera House-sized, if you were wondering – The Grid is on it. DIY, The Line Of Best Fit, and Spin have features on Sigur Rós in advance of the release of their new album Kveikur on June 18. Exclaim has details on Smilewound, the new album from múm; it’s out September 17 and there’s a new video from it. Video: múm – “Toothwheels” Ólafur Arnalds has released a new video from his latest album For Now I Am Winter. Video: Ólafur Arnalds – “Only The Winds” Beatroute and Creative Loafing talk to Copenhagen’s Iceage. The Guardian gets to know the ladies of Icona Pop, coming to town to play The Grove Fest at Garrison Common on August 3. Interview gets to know Nick Cave. Tags: Diana, Iceage, Icona Pop, Japandroids, Mikal Cronin, Moon King, Mum, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Olafur Arnalds, Sigur Ros, Valleys Walking On The Streets Live every day of NXNE like it’s Beach Day Scott WitterOh hey, it’s that time of year again where I realize it’s NXNE week and I try to throw together some sort of list of recommendations of acts to go see starting next Wednesday and through the weekend at Toronto’s many clubs and club-like venues. And probably because I’m just not as good at keeping up with what’s new and interesting as perhaps I once was, it’s not escaped my notice that a lot of the recommendations are pretty familiar names hereabouts. Sorry about that. But maybe Beach Day will be a new name to you; they certainly have been to me. Their sound is kind of old – the surf/girl-group/garage sounds they mine are pretty vintage and even the indie rock revival of said genres probably peaked a few years ago – but the Florida trio justifies themselves quite well with sharp, concise songwriting and s/punky attitude. Their debut album Trip Trap Attack comes out next Tuesday, June 18, and they’ll be spending the weekend leading up to it gigging all around Toronto. In addition to their official showcase at Handlebar on Saturday, June 15 at 11PM, they’re also playing an afternoon in-store at Urban Outfitters on Yonge St. on Friday, June 14, at 2PM and another the Sunday evening of June 16 at Kops Records on Queen St West at 6:30PM. Austin Town Hall, Donkey Jaw, and The G-Man have interviews with the band. MP3: Beach Day – “Love Is Strange” Video: Beach Day – “Beach Day” Video: Beach Day – “Boys” And now, the day-by-day recommends: Bernice @ The Piston, 8PM – Dreamy, jazzy pop from Toronto singer Robin Dann with assistance from Owen Pallett collaborator Thom Gill. Not often mentioned as part of the new wave of R&B, but really should be. Stream: Bernice / When I Know How To Climb Calexico @ The Mod Club, 10PM – One of the gimmes of the fest, Tejano-infused desert-rockers Calexico never put on a bad show. This will mark their first Toronto visit in support of last year’s Algeirs and first time back in town since 2010. MP3: Calexico – “Para” Golden Bloom @ The Painted Lady, 11PM – For times when only singalong melodies and fuzzy guitars will do, there are bands like Golden Bloom. Their latest No Day Like Today is classic power-pop at its finest. MP3: Golden Bloom – “Flying Mountain” KASHKA @ Wrongbar, 9PM – New electronic and all-caps incarnation of former Forest City Lovers frontwoman Kat Burns. Guitars may have been traded in for synths, but the songwriting remains as strong as ever. Video: KASHKA – “Winter Light” Moon King @ The Horseshoe, 9PM – One of Toronto’s most exciting new acts, the Spiral Beach alumnus are releasing their psych-pop debut Obsession as a series of three EPs, with two out and the third still to come. They also play Wrongbar on Friday at 9PM and Yonge-Dundas Square on Saturday at 5PM. William Tyler @ The Garrison, 9PM – Solo instrumental guitarist whose new album Impossible Truth remembers that it’s about songs and feeling over virtuosity, though there’s plenty of the latter as well. Stream: William Tyler – “Cadillac Desert” Camera @ The Drake Underground, 10PM – Big, emotive Brit-rock out of Wales that should push all the right buttons for those partial to big, emotive Brit-rock. Their second album is For When You Wake. Video: Camera – “Happiness” Diana @ The Horseshoe, 11PM – Ascendant synth-pop outfit assembled from pieces of Destroyer, Army Girls, Bonjay, and a dozen other Toronto stalwarts. Their debut Perpetual Surrender will be coming out on August 20. Cœur de pirate @ The Great Hall, 11PM – Having taken some time off since last Fall to focus on motherhood, Beatrice Martin is back on the road with songs from 2011’s Blonde and perhaps some new material as well. Video: Coeur de Pirate – “Place de la République” Valleys @ Handlebar, 11PM – Montreal duo whose debut Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? is a solid and occasionally sublime piece of cinematic synth-pop. May as well put them on your radar now because they’re going to get there eventually. They’re also playing The Garrison on Friday night at 10. Olenka & The Autumn Lovers @ The Great Hall, 12AM – London folk-pop collective who’ve yet to properly follow-up 2010’s And Now We Sing, but whose two recent EPs Hard Times and It’s Alright make fine stopgaps until it comes. As do their shows. They also play an acoustic set that afternoon in Bellwoods at 4PM. Stream: Olenka & The Autumn Lovers / It’s Alright Mikal Cronin @ The Silver Dollar, 12AM – This year’s rock’n’roll residency goes to San the Francisco-based singer-songwriter who accents his gleaming pop compositions with just the right amount of garage-harvested fuzz, as evidenced by his second album MCII. He also plays June 14 at 12AM and June 15 at 1AM. Catch one or all; you won’t regret it. Missoulian, SF Weekly, and Red Eye have features. No Joy @ BLK BOX, 12AM – Montreal trio who infuse their shoegaze roots with a healthy dose of punk rock aggression; be glad they’re looking at their shoes because eye contact probably means they’re gonna fight you. Their second album Wait To Pleasure came out a couple months ago. Video: No Joy – “Hare Tarot Lies” Del Bel @ The Great Hall, 1AM – Local film noir-inspired collective who should have some new material to show off; they’ve been working on the follow-up to 2011’s Oneiric for a while now. Stream: Del Bel / Oneiric Decades @ Urban Outfitters, 12PM – Toronto glam/New Wave newcomers who’ve got a really solid self-titled debut to show off will kick off a great day show lineup ahead of their set at The Silver Dollar that night at 11PM. Video: Decades – “In Sequins” Still Corners @ Urban Outfitters, 3PM – English dreampop outfit who’ve recast their band lineup and sound between 2011’s Creatures Of An Hour and this year’s Strange Pleasures and somehow come out out just as good, if not better. Their official showcase goes later this night at The Horseshoe at 10PM. MP3: Still Corners – “Berlin Lovers” Hayden @ Yonge-Dundas Square, 8:30PM – Announced as the opener for The National during his set at Field Trip this past Saturday, it looks like NXNE is doubling down on gravel-voiced melancholy as what the fans are after. MP3: Hayden – “Old Dreams” The National @ Yonge-Dundas Square, 9:30PM – Oh yeah, these guys. They’re alright. May as well see them – it’s free, after all. MP3: The National – “Fake Empire” July Talk @ The Mod Club, 10PM – Torontonians whose country-punk with a dash of New Wave formula makes for a great live show and, as their self-titled debut proves, a great record as well. Video: July Talk – “Guns & Ammunition” Always @ The Silver Dollar, 10PM – It’s not entirely clear whether these transplanted Maritimers are going by Always or Alwaayz or Alvvays, but that question is less important than when we’ll finally get an official release from these relative newcomers. Some of the finest indie-pop to come out of the 416 in some time. Stream: Always – “Next Of Kin” The Magic @ BLK BOX, 11PM – Whether it’s because they took so long to finally release their debut Ragged Gold or the general un-searchability of their name, it is a damn shame that more people are not hot to this Guelph outfit’s smooth and sexy disco-pop. ‘Cause it’s smooth and sexy. MP3: The Magic – “Door To Door” The Super Friendz @ The Great Hall, 11PM – Sloan’s Peppermint recital set might be the big draw at the Murderrecords showcase, but miss seeing these intermittently-reunited power-pop mavens at your peril. Matt Murphy is still a hell of a frontman and the songs oh so hold up. Video: The Super Friendz – “10 Lbs” The Soft Moon @ The Garrison, 12AM – Bay Area band whose brand of icy post-punk comes with the “darkwave” hashtag. This show’s mandatory for those seeking some gloomy quarters in the warm, June night. MP3: The Soft Moon – “Breathe The Fire” Brazos @ Sneaky Dee’s, 12AM – Elegant and melodic indie pop hailing from and named for a street in Austin, Texas; they just released their second album Saltwater. Also playing at the St. James Gazebo on Saturday at 6PM and supporting Villagers at The Great Hall that night at 11PM. MP3: Brazos – “How The Ranks Was Won” Gold & Youth @ BLK BOX, 1AM – Vancouver synth-pop band whose debut Beyond Wilderness delivers on a lot of promise and still promises more. This show offers solid, “I saw them when” bragging rights potential. Video: Gold & Youth – “Jewel” Odonis Odonis @ The Garrison, 1AM – The growth of these Torontonians from curiousity to compelling has been pretty remarkable to see. I’m still not entirely sure how to describe their particular post-punk niche, but it is definitely getting more and more interesting. Video: Odonis Odonis – “New World” Villagers @ Side Door, 8PM – Irish Mercury Prize nominees who’ve got a fresh new album out in {Awayland}. This showcase is an acoustic set; if you want the full band experience, be sure to catch their Great Hall show that same night at midnight. Video: Villagers – “Passing A Message” Data Romance @ Supermarket, 10PM – West coast duo that likes to inject a little sexy somethin’ somethin’ into their electro-pop, with sexy results. MP3: Data Romance – “Spark” The Sour Notes @ Sneaky Dee’s, 12AM – I’d not heard of this Austin band until a friend said that their co-ed harmonies overtop richly-arranged, yet effortlessly light pop tunes was exactly the sort of thing I’d like. And it was, and so maybe it is for you as well. They’ve also got a NXNE warm-up show at the Horseshoe tomorrow night; it’s free and they’re on at 12:20AM. MP3: The Sour Notes – “Two Hands Wait” Majical Cloudz @ The Great Hall, 12AM – On the strength of the confessional electronica of Impersonator, the Montreal duo of Devon Welsh and Matthew Otto have become one of Canada’s most talked-about new acts. So of course this showcase will be hard to get into and yet worth trying anyways. MP3: Majical Cloudz – “Childhood’s End” Iceage @ The Horseshoe, 12AM – These Danes barely out of their teens will be declaring their propensity for taut, angular post-punk and inciting sweaty, rowdy, and occasionally violent live shows at customs. And I have no information that they will be the Special Guest at The Garrison on Sunday night at midnight, but… MP3: Iceage – “New Brigade” Fresh Snow @ Creatures Creating, 1AM – This show kicks off the Wavelength Road Show which takes Toronto’s new krautrock hopes, as well as Del Bel and Most People, around Ontario and Quebec. Video: Fresh Snow – “Saturation Complete” Fucked Up @ The Horseshoe, 1AM – It’s Fucked Up in the Horseshoe. What else do you need to know? MP3: Fucked Up – “Queen Of Hearts” Lower @ Cherry Cola’s, 2AM – Iceage’s countrymen and tourmates also do the Scandi-post-punk thing, but are less fury, more menace. They also play The Garrison on Sunday night, June 16, at 11PM. Stream: Lower – “Someone’s Got It In For Me” Mickey Avalon @ Yonge-Dundas Square, 3PM – Alls I know is that I couldn’t stop laughing at the scene in Harold & Kumar Go To Guantanamo Bay soundtracked by this song, and the prospect that it might be blasting out of the YDS PA at all the Eaton Centre shoppers is kind of great. Video: Mickey Avalon – “My Dick” And as befits a proper citywide festival, there’s a number of day shows and whatnot happening this week: The Arts & Crafts pop-up shop at Queen and Dovercourt which coincided with this past weekend’s Field Trip fest will remain popped up with shows and DJ sets every night; there’s the aforementioned Urban Outfitters day show on the 14th; the now-annual Bruise Cruise which takes you, a bunch of other festival-goers and a few choice bands on a tour around the islands; they’ve not yet announced details but it seems implausible that Sonic Boom won’t have at least a day of in-stores. And if you like records and buying records and watching other people buy records, do hit up the Independent Label Market going on at the Ryerson campus all day Saturday. Tags: Always, Beach Day, Bernice, Brazos, Calexico, Camera, Coeur De Pirate, Data Romance, Decades, Del Bel, Diana, Fresh Snow, Fucked Up, Gold & Youth, Golden Bloom, Hayden, Iceage, July Talk, Kashka, Magic, Majical Cloudz, Mickey Avalon, Mikal Cronin, Moon King, National, Odonis Odonis, Olenka & The Autumn Lovers, Soft Moon, Sour Notes, Still Corners, Valleys, Villagers, William Tyler Among The Sef Colin Stetson has made some movies to show you what his music looks like Robert NetheryAnd the theme of today’s post is videos. Domestic videos if you’re Canadian, and exotic foreign ones if you’re not. And led off by Mr. Colin Stetson – who is in fact American by birth but Canadian by immigration – because he will be releasing his new album New History Warfare Vol 3: To See More Light next week on April 30, and because the man has a big horn. He’s actually rolled out a few clips over the past few weeks – one doing double-duty for a couple More Light songs debuted at Pitchfork, and another clip surfaced this week at Interview, so if you were wondering what sort of visuals go with intense, experimental jazz performed on bass saxophone, now you know. The Skinny also has a feature interview with Stetson, who will be at The Great Hall in Toronto on May 19. Video: Colin Stetson – “Among The Sef” Video: Colin Stetson – “In Mirrors”/”And In Truth” The Wilderness Of Manitoba have released a new video from their second full-length Island Of Echoes, while Baeble Music has premiered the performance video for one of the tracks from their new Leslieville Sessions EP. Their next local show comes this weekend, on April 28 at The Campbell House Museum. Video: The Wilderness Of Manitoba – “Echoes” Toronto’s Hooded Fang have put out a clip for the sort-of title track of their new album Gravez, coming out May 28. They play a hometown release show for it at The Horseshoe on May 31. Video: Hooded Fang – “Graves” Young Galaxy have put out the first video from their just-released new record Ultramarine and discuss the new record with The Fly, Exclaim, Toro, The Montreal Gazette, and CBC Music. They bring it to Lee’s Palace on May 31. Video: Young Galaxy – “Pretty Boy” Hayden has made a new video taken from Us Alone, coinciding with the announcement of a handful more Canadian tour dates which you can find at Exclaim. However, the only Toronto date remains his appearance at the Field Trip festival at Garrison Commons on June 8. Video: Hayden – “Oh Memory” This video from Montreal’s Valleys isn’t technically very new – it debuted in early March – but seeing as how I haven’t talked about the band before and their debut Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? comes out next week and is available to stream in whole at Exclaim… I figured I’d post both. Because it’s a good record that does the icy/moody/emotive cinematic electro-pop thing a la Chromatics quite well. So yeah, you haven’t heard about them hereabouts before now, but henceforth you most certainly will. Stream: Valleys / Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? The Good Family don’t have a new video – though you can bet that home movie footage of Dallas and Travis as toddlers wouldn’t go viral – they are streaming The Good Family Album at Exclaim ahead of its release next week on April 30. The family reunion show runs two nights at The Dakota on May 9 and 10. Stream: The Good Family / The Good Family Album Beatroute has words with METZ, coming home to Lee’s Palace on May 17. DIY talks with No Joy about their just-released Wait To Pleasure. Spinner talks to Metric about being three-time winners at this year’s Juno Awards. Grimes has taken to her Tumblr to post a pretty strong statement against the sexism in the music industry that she and many others still have to deal with in 2013. Tags: Colin Stetson, Good Family, Grimes, Hayden, Hooded Fang, Metric, Metz, No Joy, Valleys, Wilderness Of Manitoba, Young Galaxy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line552
__label__cc	0.743095	0.256905	THE FLOOW IN GERMANY The famous Dutch violinist Radboud Oomens (www.radboudoomens.de), first violinist in the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg, has accepted his new FlooW. This FlooW is the first FlooW that will drive in Germany. In Hamburg he will regularly be seen, in the vicinity of the Musikhalle. There is already a lot of positive interest. Also we are traffic has shown her interest. Also on this site the FlooW will soon be seen! OPENING BIKE-ROAD IN EINDHOVEN On Friday, June 29, 2012 opened the alderman of Eindhoven town, Joost Helms, along with his colleague Nicole Ramaekers the Hovenring in Eindhoven. The Hovering is a pending cycle road. This artwork is an important element in the bicycle connection between Eindhoven and Veldhoven. PRODUCTION IS IN FULL FLOW!!!! Work is in progress on the production of the much improved FlooW! The first of this new series of FlooWs is currently being fine-tuned and checked. It will soon be ready for the customer! In addition to a heavier 250 W motor with a considerably greater torque, the FlooW will also be provided as standard with a starting system that allows the FlooW to reach a speed of 6 km/h without pedalling! This new version saw 50 changes compared to the previous one, including a complete upgrade of the steering system and the drive mechanism. A weatherproof hood will be introduced later in 2012 THE MUCH IMPROVED FLOOW IS ON ITS WAY!!!! The blueprints for the improved FlooW were recently handed over to the board. In addition to a heavier 250 W motor with a considerably greater torque, the FlooW will also be provided as standard with a starting system that allows the FlooW to reach a speed of 6 km/h without pedalling! A weatherproof hood will be introduced later in 2012. THE FLOOW AT THE E-BIKEXPERIENCE SHOW E-BikeXperience is a new trade fair dedicated entirely to electric bicycles (E-bikes) where you can find all the newest models and trends in electric two-, three- and four-wheelers and their accessories and spare parts. The trade fair was held in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht from 14 - 16 October 2011. The FlooW was, of course, also on show! MOBILITY MARKET COMBINED WITH A KID’S DAY A mobility market will be held in Veldhoven on Saturday 17 September 2011. This will be an opportunity for you to try out an electric bicycle/scooter/car. You will also be able to take lessons in "the new driving style". The following have also been organised for kids: a kid’s quiz, jazzing up your bicycle, mountain bike trial shows and lots of dance shows. The market will be held from 12pm – 5pm on the Meiveld in Veldhoven. The FlooW will also be on show. TIME TO SWITCH Too far, too early or the weather too bad to use the bike? Can’t be bothered with the bus? Too busy? A lot of workers use their car on a daily basis even though they live only a short distance from their work or could easily take the bus or train. Most people do this purely out of habit and are unaware of the consequences of their actions for the environment and their own health. Why not leave the car at home for week and make a contribution towards reducing CO2 emissions and improving the environment? During European Mobility Week local authorities will be encouraging people to try out alternative means of transport to their car. As part of this ‘Time To Switch’ effort we will be encouraging workers to use more environment-friendly means of transport. Time To Switch! Leave your car at home for a week and take the electric bike, scooter or bus and let us know how you get on by contributing to the blog on www.eindhoven.nl/mobiliteitsweek. Owing to the extremely high level of interest it is no longer possible to register for this event. The FlooW will once again be participating this year with three bicycles! GO WITH THE FLOOW AT TIC On a sun-splashed day at TIC (Tilburg Innovation Center) thirty participants had the chance to try out the FlooW. Sixty demo versions of the bike were tested and the fun factor varied from taking corners at speed to travelling at high speed without any over-exertion. Watch the video here! AUTUMN IN PRAGUE! In Prague, electric bicycles are uncommon, there are almost no bicycle lanes and the city is blessed with an almost perfect public transport network. Weaving between the strollers on the promenades in the city, Stephan Bult was our guide on a bicycle tour of Prague. Ekolo and Jakub Dietrich from AGOGS accompanied the Floow with each an electrical bike and so a trio of Dutch cyclists caught the attention of the city’s residents. The fun factor of ‘being seen’ was multiplied fourfold in this beautiful city: In 2011, it will be possible to hire the FlooW for a day out at several locations in the Netherlands! Say hello to recreation. Prague was our inspiration. The FlooW is here to stay! ASTEN LOCAL AUTHORITY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE FLOOW The councillors Theo Martens and Peter Greyn are enthusiastic promoters of alternative means of local transport and, as such, decided to demonstrate the FlooW to their colleagues and onlookers in Asten in the first two weeks in November. Watch the video here! COUNCILLOR HOPPEZAK FROM GEMERT-BAKEL TESTS THE FLOOW! Watch this 5-minute video to get a first impression of the councillor and his colleague travelling from Gemert to Erp to meet the locals. How much more fun could it be?!? See them arrive at their destination fit and refreshed. Terrific images of two FlooW bikers: Watch it here! SEMINAR AND TEST DRIVE SMARTER TRAVEL IN GRONINGEN Noorderlink has invited the FlooW for a test drive as part of its efforts to encourage alternative means of transport and smarter travel. Many alternatives will be on show. The seminar is aimed at advisers and policy makers working for HRM and technical support services who are responsible for matters relating to mobility and/or parking. www.gowiththefloow.nl Webdesign: RKD-Graphics	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line560
__label__cc	0.739094	0.260906	Labour Union Now Docile Under President Mahama-Tema East MP. August 15, 2016 Isaac J Bediako 0 Comment Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus Glover, New Patriotic Party’s Member of Parliament for Tema East, Trades Union Congress (TUC) The New Patriotic Party’s Member of Parliament for Tema East in the Greater Accra Region, Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus Glover, has accused the leadership of Labour Unions in the Country essentially the Trades Union Congress (TUC) for being docile despite what he describes as gross mismanagement of the economy, under the watch of President MahamaAdding that, their extreme quietness has brought about an untold hardship to the Ghanaian worker, whose salary cannot take care of the home. According to the Labour Expert cum Politician, he feels saddened by the fact that, the spirit of courage and boldness that is characterised with Labour Union, is dying gradually. He lamented that, the menace has arisen due to parochial stance taken by some of the leaders. “Today, the labour unions are so docile. They can’t bite. They can’t bite because the leaders are thinking about what will go into their stomach,” He asserted. His comments, come on the back of calls by the Trade Union Congress asking President Mahama to abandon the three year programme with International Monetary Fund (IMF), which they claimed has brought an untold economic hardships to The Ghanaian worker. The New Patriotic Party’s law maker envisaged that, if all Labour Unions were wide awake, Government would have been more cautious about some of its steps hence the economy would not have taken a nose dive. He argued that The NDC Government under the auspices of President John Dramani Mahama, has messed up with lives of workers of this Country. Speaking on an Accra based FM Station, The former Industrial Relations Officer Of The Industrial And Commercial Union (ICU), however, argued that, The Labour Unions can still restore their agility in their operations and mounts the needed pressure on Government to sit up. “It is high time they rise up from their slumber. And I believe whoever will succeed Dr. Kofi Asamoah (referring to TUC secretary General) must not keep his gun dry,” he stressed. Titus Glover commended the General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) Solomon Kotey, and The Chairman of The Tema District Council of Labour (TDCL) Wilson Agana, for continuously, holding Government to task. He further commended the striking members of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) for defying threats by the Minister of Employment and Labour, Haruna Iddrisu, that, they would not paid their August salary if they fail to return to work. Story By : Ibrahim Obeng-Mensah /Tema ← Moslem Youth Advised Against Being Used By Politicians Afoko Has No Case; Suspension Remains-Human Right Court →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line564
__label__wiki	0.694818	0.694818	GoldmanSachs666 Message Board Fraud* According to the Collins English Dictionary 10th Edition fraud can be defined as: "deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage".[1] In the broadest sense, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation. Defrauding people or entities of money or valuables is a common purpose of fraud, but there have also been fraudulent "discoveries", e.g. in science, to gain prestige rather than immediate monetary gain *As defined in Wikipedia Goldman Sachs and Litton Loan Servicing Goldman Sachs's opportunistic moves do not always pan out. Take Litton Loan Servicing which Goldman bought in 2007 when it was trying to obtain as many sub-prime mortgages as it could in order to concoct those CDOs that it foisted on unsuspecting buyers before the financial meltdown in 2008. Goldman Sachs is now considering selling this company. I do not wonder why they are selling it: Litton serviced $9.7 billion in mortgages and had a delinquency rate of 43% in 2009. Goldman Sachs halted 23,000 foreclosures in order "to sort out affidavits that were signed without a review of the documentation." Goldman Sachs's actions surrounding Litton lie at the heart of the fraud that Goldman Sachs perpetrated, not only on the homeowners of the US but also on the pensions and savings funds that bought the highly rated CDOs that Goldman Sachs touted. Goldman Sachs had to buy a less-than-sterling company in the hopes of keeping its CDOs rolling along and raking in the money but Litton proved to be a horror show for hundreds of the homeowners who were caught in its snare. Customers who were unfortunate enough to buy their mortgages through Litton have a great deal to complain about. See the hundreds of complaints against Litton listed here. It would be too bad if Goldman Sachs was allowed to sell this big loser of an investment before it settled all its underlying foreclosures and delinquencies that have contributed to The Great Recession. I wonder if anyone at Goldman Sachs even gives a damn about the pain of any homeowner who used Litton Servicing! Goldman Puts Mortgage-Servicing Unit Up for Sale by Michael J. De La Merced - DealBook Goldman Sachs has put its mortgage-servicing subsidiary, Litton Loan Servicing, up for sale amid continued concern over whether borrowers were improperly evicted from their homes. “Goldman Sachs is exploring strategic options for Litton Loan Servicing, which include a possible sale,” a firm spokesman, Michael DuVally, told DealBook in a statement. The process is at an early stage, and Goldman has begun contacting potential buyers, according to a person briefed on the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because a deal may not materialize. The firm bought Litton in 2007 from C-BASS, a subprime mortgage investment firm, with the hopes of buying up portfolios of mortgages that the business could then service. The move was part of Goldman’s effort to buy up distressed assets at attractive price. But those opportunities largely did not surface. Litton halted foreclosures in October amid criticism over how the loan-servicing industry processed those documents. Lenders have been criticized for their rush to evict delinquent borrowers, amid reports that many such foreclosures were based on incomplete or shoddy paperwork. In recent weeks, however, Litton has resumed its foreclosure operations. Read the article here Posted by Joyce @.."I wonder if anyone at Goldman Sachs even gives a damn about the pain of any homeowner who used Litton Servicing!" Watch both videos but the second gives you your answer! Jeffrey Sachs: The New Robber Barons http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/03/jeffrey-sachs-the-new-robber-barons/ Litton is regulated by the Federal Reserve, at least for their efforts in NC. 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__label__cc	0.558031	0.441969	UP TO DATE LIST: http://www.fringfrang.com/projects Les chmonnes sont clares Les chmonnes sont clares is a game about the history of the roads in my hometown. The game, only available in French, was commissioned by the FRAP. Click here for the game's page. fade is a game I helped create for a UNB research project. We presented the game at Different Games 2016 in Brooklyn, New York City. Meteghan Frenchy's User Experience Simulation This was a one-day project. There are no goals other than to explore Meteghan Frenchy's, modeled after the iconic store, and interact with people and the environment to hear their stories. La vie d’Arcade La vie d’Arcade is the first video game about Acadian culture. This interactive story makes the player reflect on the linguistic and ideological conflicts in the Acadian setting. Click here for the game's page. Since most of the in-game text is in French, you need to be able to understand both French and English to play. You can also read about the game's launch in English. Pokémon Dusk Pokémon Dusk is a short Pokémon spoof built with Pokémon Essentials. Fans or ex-fans of Pokémon may get a kick out of it. Click here for the game's page! Crime is Sexy Inspired by the Jalloo 2015 Game Jam theme, "Is this legal?" our team's game submission satirically questions and challenges several official and unofficial laws within games, the games industry and the game jam itself. I had a blast collaborating on this project! Stutter is an interactive fiction story that puts the player in the shoes of someone who stutters. This is a work in progress. Click here for the announcement post! Job Quest Job Quest is an interactive story about work that expresses how I felt during a certain time of my life. It's also the first game that I publicly released. Click here to check out the game’s page! 50 is a short introspective game I made for the RPG Maker Game Jam. Click here for more info on the jam. Click here for the itch.io page to download! Mystères du campus de Moncton Mystères du campus de Moncton is a Twine story I made with my girlfriend over the course of a weekend. The story is about the adventures of three friends who are stuck on the Université de Moncton campus during a snowstorm. This one is in French only. La République de la ploye La République de la ploye is a collaborative Twine story made during a creation night at the Université de Moncton's Edmundston campus. This one is also in French only. Useful information! Get discounts on gaming chairs & accessories by using DXRacer Coupon Travis Smith 11 September 2017 at 23:43 Good post. I absolutely love this site. Continue the good work! paypal login my account Very good post! Need to say you did a great job and i really appreciate it! biggest casinos Your blog is very nice and information you provided really cool. id Indie Games of 2016	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line566
__label__cc	0.546866	0.453134	Home News Malware Android Devices Malware Android Devices By Hacker News - Saving your cell phone devices from viruses and harmful content must be first on your priorities list. Almost all of us do our best to protect our cell phones after buying them from the market. What if I tell you the damage has already been done before that, the fault is in its manufacturing process. According to a famous security support company called “Check Point”, these Android devices have been infected at the time of their making. According to one of their surveys, 36 Android phones belonging to different builds and categories have been found to be infected in order to support incoming malware. These phones are being used by big names in the mobile manufacturing industry at the moment. These android products have been reported to inherit these malware android devices issues from their supply chain steps. The security of devices has said to be at risk since the time of its creation. The cell phone malware detection team of Check Point has said in its official statement that “The malicious apps were not part of the official ROM supplied by the vendor”. The security firm highly doubts the supply chain processes involved in making of these devices. According to the surveys and test runs done by check point teams, the following list of devices have been observed to contain highly harmful content: Samsung Galaxy Note 2,3,4,5 and 8, Asus Zenfone 2, LG G4, Nexus 5 and 5X, and Xiaomi Mi 4i alongside Redmi. If we talk about the back-end details of these malicious containments, these malware items are considered to be pretty famous in the world of mobile phone hacking. Being powered by a malware spreading automated bot called Loki and Slocker, which is utilized in extracting important data without the user’s notice, the situation sounds to be very critical with these mobile phone models. It isn’t the user’s fault that devices come out of the box with these issues. The fault can be tracked back to its manufacturing firm but this lapse of security has unfortunately become a trend now. Previous articleEverything about Wikileaks CIA Leak Next articleHow was a Viral Social App Wishbone Hacked? Read here! We provide the latest breaking news about the Hackers World! Three Hacking Groups You Definitely Need to Know About Why the Cyber Criminals at Synack need $25 Million to Track... Mysql create user Special Reports310 Safety Tips161 Anonymous Headlines116 Website Hacked97 NSA PRISM95 © Copyright HackersNewsBulletin - 2017	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line569
__label__wiki	0.660774	0.660774	Business Card for Kristen Ray: Manager Human Resources Baltimore, MD area University of Maryland School of Medicine 620 West Lexington St , MD 21201-1627 www.umaryland.edu About Kristen Ray: Kristen Ray works as an Manager Human Resources for University of Maryland School of Medicine at Baltimore, MD. The company's webpage is http://www.umaryland.edu. For email, phone number and executive profiles for Manager Human Resources and other executives of University of Maryland School of Medicine at Baltimore, MD, check University of Maryland School of Medicine at Joesdata.com. Not the Kristen Ray you are looking for? Do a quick search in our website and find other people named Kristen Ray. Kristen Ray's Work History: Kristen Ray's Education: Kristen Ray's Co-workers: As of January 29, 2020, Kristen Ray has 94 co-workers under the company name University of Maryland School of Medicine at Joesdata.com. About University of Maryland School of Medicine: University of Maryland School of Medicine is located at 620 West Lexington St, , MD 21201-1627. It has around 5K - 10K employees. Its revenue is around $500M - 1B. Harold Eickhoff Janeene Culver Robert Gannon Robert Wear Kathleen Simon Lurline Stewart	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line580
__label__cc	0.698308	0.301692	Home Page > Asia > Japan www.darngooddigs.net hotels near pala casino Contact – Official Blog of Cartan Tours Inc. koolred.como travel information Otres Beach and Koh Ta Kiev about Japan , East of the Orient, Japan. Beyond the hi-tech city sprawl along the Pacific coast, Japan conceals an astonishingly beautiful volcanic hinterland. Japan offers a very wide range of attractions, from historical and cultural treasures to modern and futuristic sights and mountains and sea coasts. Japan is situated in northeastern Asia between the North Pacific and the Sea of Japan. The area of Japan is 377,873 square kilometers. Japan consists of four major islands, surrounded by more than 4,000 smaller islands. Japan's topographical features include coastlines with varied scenery, towering mountains, which are very often volcanic and twisted valleys that invite visitors into the mysterious world of nature. Japan abounds in accommodations, both western-style and Japanese. Types of accommodation vary widely in terms of style and price. You can easy choose to stay in the familiar comforts of a western-style hotel and personal attention of a traditional Japanese inn. Traditional cultural pursuits such as sado and ikebana are much more than simple pursuits in skills. They embody spiritual ways seeking the traditional values of wabi and sabi . Facilities abound which offer you the hands-on experience of the Japanese tea ceremony, flower arrangement and other cultural pursuits. places worth seeing, The best time to see Japan is when the cherry blossoms are out- springtime . Spring (March to May), with its clear skies and cherry blossoms, is probably the most celebrated Japanese season, but the Golden Week period, which is 29 April to 7 May, is a holiday period for the Japanese and many of the more popular travel destinations tend to be flooded with domestic tourists. Autumn is a pleasant to to go. Autumn (September to November) is a great time to travel: the temperatures are pleasant, and the autumn colours in the countryside are fantastic. Mid-winter (December to February) can be very cold . Avoid the summer months of July and August as it can get very humid, also be aware of typhoon season when visiting certain regions, while the sticky summer months (June to August) can turn even the briefest excursion out of the air conditioning into a soup bath; on the plus side, major tourist attractions will generally be quieter at these times of the year. It's also worth considering peak holiday seasons when you plan your trip. Moving around and finding accommodation during New Year, Golden Week and the midsummer O-Bon festival can be a real headache Mount Fuiji and the Fuiji Five lakes are in Central Honshu. Japan's best known natural landmark, Mnt Fuiji's famous shape has been the insipation of artists for hundreds of years. The beautiful skirt of lakes at the bottom are popular for their watersports and amusement parks. Also for the picturesque artistic views of the mountain. Kume Island is in Okinawa archipelago. Immerse yourself in the Okinawan culture, pay a visit to this quiet and most beautiful of the islands, a world away from the bustle of commercial Japan. A haven of peace, shrines, and pure blue water with villagers going about their daily tasks as they have done for 1000's of years. Horyu ji Temple is in Western Honshu. The famous five story Pagoda is said to represent the five elements. A fragment of Buddha's bone is set in a shrine here and rare artworks are also on view. A must visit for those interested in the origins of Buddhism in Japan. Nagasaki Peace Park and Atomic Bomb Museum are in Nagasaki was bombed 3 days after Hiroshima, killing 75 000 people. The museum houses numerous displays which objectively depict this event and the history of the development of nuclear weapons There are also many traditional festivals, called matsuri, which are a celebration of natural seasons and religious beliefs. Hamamatsu Matsuri is the kite flying festival in Hamamatsu Shizuoka during 3rd - 5th May Gion Matsuri Kyoto is inJuly 17. Spectacular procession of floats, a tradition since before 10th century of requesting protection from a ravaging disease at that time. how to get Japan , Japan's most important international airport is Tokyo's Narita international airport, followed by Osaka's Kansai Airport and Nagoya's Central Japan Airport. Japan's fourth largest international airport is Fukuoka Airport, which links the city with several Asian destinations. Many other Japanese airports have a small numbers of international flights, mainly to Korea and China. It's also possible to arrive in Japan by sea from a number of nearby countries, particularly South Korea. places worth seeing from Japan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line585
__label__cc	0.519544	0.480456	Howls - The Headache Select... £11.99 — Vinyl (can be either colour) £11.99 — Frosted Clear vinyl (Unavailable) £11.99 — Agent Orange vinyl (Unavailable) £7.99 — Digipak CD (Unavailable) The Headache by Howls Brighton based trio Howls let loose with their frantic blend of punk and hardcore on their debut album, ‘The Headache‘, out this April on Truthseeker Music. ‘The Headache’ is the sound of a band challenging itself to evolve; eager to take a step away from familiar surroundings in order to create something true to their influences whilst also embracing more experimental and melodic sounds. This LP is Howls newest material since their 2015 EP, 'No Living', which was released on the now defunct Wolf At Your Door Records (Lower Than Atlantis, Deaf Havana). Since then, Howls have played up and down the UK, sharing stages with the likes of Bastions, Palm Reader, and Employed To Serve. ‘The Headache’ was recorded by Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse Studios (Palehorse, Yards, USA Nails) during the summer of 2016. Cover artwork by Mercedes Bellido. Memory Eraser Two Snakes Church Coffee No Paradise 100 x Agent Orange vinyl 150 x Frosted Clear vinyl 50 x Digipak CDs Looking for something that's out of stock? Click here to get notified if it becomes available again. More in CDs	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line586
__label__wiki	0.887878	0.887878	A Former Kingston Bakery Celebrates Immigrant Culture The new museum honors local history and the Hudson Valley's international roots. By Joan Vos MacDonald Geoffrey Miller and Sarah Litvin with a cutout of Sadie Reher. Photos by Joan Vos MacDonald The Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History is a museum in the making. The process of transformation began in 2002 when Ulster County historian Geoffrey Miller was researching Jewish history in Kingston’s Rondout neighborhood. Looking at the abandoned Reher Bakery on Lower Broadway, Miller had a vision of what the building might be. The dusty store with its yellowing newspapers was a time capsule, untouched since it was shuttered in 1980, a victim of the urban renewal that demolished much of the neighborhood. “I thought, 'I would love to get my hands on that building and turn it into a museum.'” At the time the building was home to Hymie Reher, one of the six children of Frank and Ada Reher, East European immigrants, who opened the bakery in 1908. The building was due to be auctioned for back taxes before Miller convinced Reher to donate it to the Jewish Federation of Ulster County, which paid the taxes. At first Miller envisioned it as a Jewish museum, with offices and perhaps a rental space, but after visiting New York City’s Tenement Museum, he broadened his focus. “I saw that the potential for this museum was bigger than the experience of the Rehers and that this museum should stand for all the immigrant groups that came here.” Outside the Reher Center The bakery fed a community, which at the time included Irish, Italian, German, and Polish immigrants. “This is an important part of the story of the Rondout,” says Sarah Litvin, the center’s director. “This is where people lived and where they shopped for their daily bread.” Two generations of the Reher family worked in the bakery, braiding challah dough, forming round hard rolls, baking fragrant loaves of pumpernickel and rye bread, neatly packaging rolls in brown paper bags for pick-up, or delivering bread directly to the dinner tables of families out attending Sunday services. The days when the Rehers fed the Rondout community were not completely forgotten. Examining store artifacts, Litvin found a fading list, which noted the families that would pick up rolls on Sunday. After posting a photo of the list on social media, Kingston residents shared memories of the bakery or deliveries by Hymie’s brother, Willie. “It would be like the ice cream truck coming around,” says Litvin. “Willie would be driving through the neighborhood and you could flag him down for fresh bread. Many people remember leaving money on their table and their door unlatched.” Plans for the shop include recapturing some 50s nostalgia. Eventually the currently forlorn and tarnished shop walls will be refurbished and the shelves stocked with staples carried there in the 50s, as seen in old photographs. “This is not the state it was in when people were shopping here,” says Litvin. “We don’t want to make it brand spanking new but evocative and reflective of the type of business that it was, a family-run business that didn't get updated too frequently.” For over a decade, most funds raised for the project went to repair the building’s structural problems, caused mostly by water damage. Progress was almost invisible. This July the museum finally gave its first tours and hosted an exhibit in the new gallery space above the store. Visitors can tour the the shop, which is still a work in progress, and the actual bakery, with its vintage dough mixers and oven trays patterned with trace images of long ago rolls. The bakery also contains a massive coal-fired oven, purchased in 1916, an oven Litvin says never got cold. “On Friday the Jewish community would bring pots of uncooked stew and use the communal oven as a crock pot overnight, then come on Saturday to retrieve it for their lunch. The Christian community came Sundays; the Jewish community came on Saturdays.” The center’s gallery currently showcases Rondout history and “The Story Continues: Portraits of Today’s Immigrant Businesses,” focusing on contemporary immigrant business owners who live and work in the Rondout. After walking up Broadway and visiting shops, visitors can learn the history of all the buildings they visited. “It gives them a sense of place, they had no idea of,” says Litvin. “When they walk down the hill they see it in a whole different light.” In September the gallery will host an exhibit by Phil Mansfield, staff photographer for the Culinary Institute of America, focusing on the bakery’s third floor rental apartment, untouched since the 1950s. “It will be all about living above the store,” says Litvin. The center is open to various uses, depending on what the community wants or needs it to be. “It’s about creating a place in the community where people feel comfortable and it’s safe to have discussions, to be comfortable breaking bread together, regardless of their backgrounds,” says Miller. Since the museum is a work in progress check the site for opening hours. When funding permits, Litvin says hours will expand to meet community need. A photo of Sadie Reher / courtesy photo Related: George Washington Slept at This Bed & Breakfast, and Now You Can, Too This Proposed Museum Wants to Bring the Spirit of Catskills Resorts Back to Life How to Be a Mushroom Farmer: This Outdoor Expert Forages for Fungi in the Hudson Valley These Were the Biggest Weekends for Hudson Valley Airbnbs in 2019 These Awesome Valentine's Day Gift Ideas Are Affordable AF Why (and Where) You Should Try Meditation Going Vegetarian? Here’s How to Eat Enough Protein (Without Sacrificing Taste) Discovery the History of the Irish Alps Out & About: Featured Events in May 2016	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line592
__label__cc	0.714094	0.285906	by Michelle Howard Vin Michaels gave up a lot when he “volunteered” for Project Genesis: a career, a normal life and a budding romance with the career-minded Helen Scott. But what else was he supposed to do when the government offered him no other option? When a surprise attack on Earth brings Helen back into Vin’s life, he realizes he has a bigger fight on his hands than just getting rid of aliens, because his connection to her couldn’t be denied or brushed aside. But after Vin dumped her without explanation, Helen’s guarding her heart against the Alpha Squad team leader. With a battle brewing on both fronts, Vin wonders if he’ll ever win either of them. Michelle Howard enjoys a crazy life that involves wild kids, a loud dog, and a husband who tolerates the madness. Like many authors, she’s dreamed of writing since reading her first romance novel many years ago. She loves paranormal and contemporary romances and is a fan of the classic romances, such as Judith McNaught and Julie Garwood. I love to hear from fans so please reach out to me if you like the book and if you feel like it, leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads. Email: michellehowardwrites@gmail.com Twitter: @mhowardwrites Website: www.michellehowardwrites.com Thanks Michelle for letting me share your book! Now what are you waiting for hurry go get it.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line594
__label__wiki	0.961435	0.961435	A Washington journal Using an Antarctic film to highlight climate change without National Science Foundation Click to view the privacy policy. 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Country A lasting impressionThe finale the next afternoon combined the depth and breadth of the two previous panels. It was held in an ornate Senate hearing room on Capitol Hill, space available by invitation only from a member of that body. Accordingly, the speakers included two Democratic senators from oceanic states, Bill Nelson of Florida and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. (No Republican legislators participated, although organizers say they invited Senator Lisa Murkowski [R–AK], who in March teamed with Senator Angus King [I–ME] to form a Senate Arctic caucus. King and Senator Harry Reid [D–NV], the former majority leader, attended a private reception after the event.)The program was entitled Living at the Extremes: Geoscience Research at the Coolest Places on Earth. And whereas the other speakers stuck to that neutral theme, Whitehouse used the setting to attack what he disparagingly calls “parallel science”—information that purports to refute the reams of peer-reviewed scientific evidence showing the negative effects of climate change on a warming planet. Any attempt to hold a dialogue with its purveyors, he warned the generally supportive audience, is a waste of time.“The last thing they are interested in is more education,” he told ScienceInsider after his speech. “They have zero interest in the truth. But they are very good at communicating their position, better than most scientists, because they are trained to do it.”NSF’s Davies, a former staffer in the agency’s government affairs shop, knows better than to comment publicly on such a political diatribe. But she readily admits getting a warm feeling from an exchange between senators Nelson and Toomey shortly after Toomey told the audience about witnessing a massive “Grand Canyon” on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast during a dive last year in the research vessel Alvin.“Did you see Nelson go over to Jim after his speech?” Davies asked this reporter a few days after the event. (Toomey says Nelson asked him how far off the coast the canyon was located; the answer, Toomey says, is roughly 240 kilometers.) “He really had the senator’s attention. That image is something Nelson will carry around with him because it’s new information.”“Toomey told the story [of his 8-hour dive] in such a way that it captivated the audience,” Davies continued. “It’s the ‘wow’ factor. And that was the whole point.”Raksany agrees that the goal of the climate lollapalooza was to get people hooked on Antarctica and the wonders of exploration. What happens next, she says, is out of her control. “It’s a destination film more than a science film,” she explains. “It’s pretty landscapes and adventure. It’s a place that most people will never get to experience except through giant screen and 3D. The science comes in when you start thinking about what’s happening in Antarctica, and why you should care.”Graphic design by Juan David Romero; (Video credit: The Last Reef 3D, Courtesy of Giant Screen Films and Yes/No Productions)*Correction, 1 July, 2:12 p.m.: Deborah Raksany is vice president for development and partnerships at Giant Screen Films. Her position was described incorrectly in an earlier version of the story. Courtesy of Giant Screen Films and Oceans 8 Productions Touching the publicTerry Davies doesn’t care whether the movie makes money. But as a senior associate in NSF’s geosciences directorate, she cares a great deal about finding better ways to explain the value of the science that NSF funds. That includes the agency’s $500-million-a-year investment in Antarctic research and logistics. So when Raksany told her she wanted to bring Bowermaster’s new film to Washington, Davies saw it as a chance to expose NSF program managers to new ways of interacting with the public.Giant Screen Films is no stranger to NSF. The agency had helped to fund two of its earlier films, Dinosaurs Alive and Tornado Alley, and in 2011 the two women arranged to have the film about tornado chasers screened as part of a program for policymakers entitled Hazards on the Hill.NSF didn’t spend a dime on Antarctica, Davies says. But the film shows the work that NSF-funded scientists are doing in Antarctica and the three research stations the agency operates on the continent. Davies also knew that film can be a powerful medium. So she and Raksany decided to put together a panel, entitled Communicating Science through Art, Film, and Music, as the first event of the climate trilogy.The panel, held on 15 June, included cartoonist Jim Toomey, who draws the comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon, and musician Luke Cresswell, creator of the Broadway hit Stomp and, more recently, director of three documentaries with environmental themes. Both men urged NSF scientists to find more compelling ways to present research findings to the public than the typical lecture and PowerPoint format.“If you can engage the crowd, you can bring in a lot more money,” Cresswell said, referring to his days as a street performer in London. The success of Stomp, he noted, demonstrates the power of “speaking through rhythm, which is a universal language.” He says he works hard to integrate the visual and aural aspects of his films (see clip of The Last Reef), creating what he calls “an immersive experience. You want the film to fill your soul, so that you are inspired to change something. That’s the point.” But that doesn’t mean the sponsors, which included the American Geophysical Union, didn’t have a clear agenda. Although none of the events crossed the line into direct advocacy, each one found a way to link up with the film’s not-too-subtle message: Researchers keep adding to the growing body of scientific evidence that human-induced climate change is happening, and the world needs to act on that knowledge.It’s a message aimed at achieving much more than luring people into science museums and theaters to be wowed by a film. How did Raksany pull it off? And what does her success mean for selling science in a time of political polarization and tight budgets?An homage to AntarcticaThe 60-year-old Bowermaster first went to Antarctica in 1988, for National Geographic, to chronicle a 7-month dash by adventurer Will Steger across the continent using dog sleds. Since then he’s made several more trips as a writer, tour guide, and documentary filmmaker, most recently using sea kayaks and a 23-meter sailboat to document changes along Antarctica’s 1450-kilometer-long western peninsula. Email The breathtakingly beautiful images in a new documentary, Antarctica: On the Edge, are meant to appeal to anyone curious about this fragile, frozen continent. But Deborah Raksany, head of development for the Chicago-based company that is distributing the 40-minute film by Jon Bowermaster, thought that some of it might also resonate with scientists and policymakers.So Raksany reached out to a few professional friends in Washington, D.C., who know the political landscape much better than she does. After months of complicated logistics, Raksany and her colleagues got their wish: a 36-hour climate tripleheader in the nation’s capital. The three events, hosted by the National Science Foundation (NSF), AAAS (which publishes ScienceInsider) and a group of Democratic senators, played to capacity crowds earlier this month.The climate lollapalooza was not your normal science lobbying fly-in, a venerable political strategy in which advocates for a particular cause descend on the nation’s capital for a day to lobby Washington’s movers and shakers. One big difference was that the organizers added artists and entertainers to the usual lineup of scientists, legislators, federal employees, and lobbyists. There also was no “ask”—their support for a particular bill or change in federal policy. Toomey, who is trained as a mechanical engineer, says his many years as a cartoonist have taught him that a formula of “90% entertainment and 10% education” works best for weaving such esoteric topics as ocean acidification and the Census of Marine Life into his comic strip. Unfortunately, he says, most scientists reverse those percentages when they present their research to a general audience.“I think you underestimate the impact of a wonderful story that gets the audience to the point where it can sympathize with the characters and then, boom, you insert this little message,” Toomey told his NSF audience. “It can be 30 seconds in an hour-long movie, or one panel in a cartoon, that says, ‘Look at this disturbed world,’ but that’s enough to make the point if you already have everybody listening to you.” Panel discussion with NSF geosciences head Roger Wakimoto (top) and (from left) Rush Holt, Representative Jerry McNerney (D–CA), Luke Cresswell, artist Amy Lamb, Jim Toomey, and Jon Bowermaster. Looking for common groundBowermaster spoke at all three events, and at NSF he started with an apology. “To quote my friend Luke and many Republican politicians, I am not a scientist, I’m a storyteller. So the only thing I’ll say today about the big C—climate change—is that it’s happening. The climate along the peninsula is changing rapidly. And it’s really easy to see its impacts if you come back year after year.”Although current attempts by the Republican majority in Congress to reduce funding for climate science at NSF and other federal agencies was on the minds of the audience, none of the speakers mentioned it directly. In fact, Representative Jerry McNerney (D–CA), the only Ph.D. mathematician in Congress, actually defended his colleagues across the aisle and scolded President Barack Obama for the way in which he’s lobbied Congress on the issue.“If you say somebody is a member of the Flat Earth Society, that’s an insult,” McNerney said, referring to speeches in which Obama uses the phrase to describe opponents of his climate policies. “I think the president has made that mistake. And if you insult somebody, they close the shutters and the conversation is over.”Maintaining a dialogue is crucial, McNerney said, because he thinks some Republican legislators are inching toward a possible compromise. “A few years ago they were arguing that there’s only a tiny fraction of carbon in the atmosphere and that adding a teensy weensy bit more won’t make a difference,” said McNerney, citing members of the House of Representatives commerce and energy committee on which he serves. “Now they are saying, well, there is something happening and we know the climate is changing. They are not ready to reduce consumption of fossil fuels or invest in carbon sequestration. But I think they’re turning a corner.”His was a solitary view among the panelists, however. AAAS CEO Rush Holt, who retired last year after serving 16 years as a Democratic congressman from New Jersey, made perhaps the most politically provocative statement of the forum when he answered a question about ways to appeal to legislators who have criticized NSF’s support for an off-Broadway play about climate change. “I would like to suggest that some of the opposition to gripping, moving art sponsored by NSF is not so much because it’s inappropriate but because it’s too effective,” Holt said.That evening, an event at AAAS offered the most traditional form of Washington political entertainment—a screening of the entire film, followed by presentations from polar researchers Robin Bell of Columbia University and Brendan Kelly, chief scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in northern California. The public was invited, although the audience was heavily weighted toward scientists and science policy watchers. Toomey also had some advice for scientists who find it difficult to explain their work to a lay audience. “Everybody has a camera in their pocket,” he says, referring to a smartphone. “So take a picture of what you’re doing, and send it to us. We’ll take it from there.”After the talk, Toomey expanded on his suggestion. “I’m doing a video on the deep ocean, and looking for pictures of deep-sea animals,” he explained. “If scientists would just post, license-free on Wikimedia, what they have already taken, it would make my life much easier.” The new film, which took him 5 years to make and posed numerous logistical challenges, is an homage to the changes that he’s seen over the years. But Bowermaster, who has spoken at all three events, says it isn’t preachy. “I’ve been a journalist all my life, and I think I know where the line is,” he says.He readily admits he crossed that line into advocacy in 2012 when he teamed up with his live-in partner, musician Natalie Merchant, to film a rally/concert by those opposed to hydraulic fracture drilling, or fracking, in New York state, where they both live. (Merchant was a last-minute cancellation to the recent festivities, because of what Bowermaster called “exhaustion” from the strain of making a documentary about her reworking of a 20-year-old hit album, Tigerlily.)“But the Antarctica film is apolitical,” he says. “I put up half of the money,” he says about his joint venture with Raksany’s company, Giant Screen Films, “and we hope that it will be a profitable venture.” Courtesy of Giant Screen Films and Oceans 8 Productions bwzuwcqy上海419龙凤ZH, 上海后花园CY, 上海后花园DF, 上海夜网DM, 上海夜网EJ, 上海水磨会所SX, 南京夜网XY, 娱乐地图RU, 杭州桑拿UQ, 爱上海IS Previous Previous post: Tiny black holes could trigger collapse of universe—except that they dont Next Next post: Podcast Blue whale deaths a cancer paradox and the latest on the	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line596
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Journal allows immediate open access to content in HTML + PDF Vasopressors and tight control of maternal blood pressure during cesarean delivery: A rocky alliance p. 1 Sunanda Gupta [HTML Full text] [PDF] [Mobile Full text] [EPub] [Citations (4) ] [PubMed] [Sword Plugin for Repository]Beta Bigger and bigger challenges: Evidence-based or expert-opinion based practice? p. 4 Ashish C Sinha, Basavana G Goudra Opioid and chronic non-cancer pain p. 6 Sameer Gupta, Robert Atcheson Although, opioids are advocated in various guidelines their use for chronic non-cancer pain is controversial because evidence of long term benefit is weak. The potential for serious adverse effects and local regulations promote caution in both the prescribers and users. However, opioids have a place in the management of chronic non-cancer pain in carefully selected patients with regular monitoring and as a part of the multimodal therapy. It is important for the treating physician to be up-to-date with this form of therapy, in order to have the necessary confidence to prescribe opioids and manage adverse effects. The common adverse effects should be treated promptly to improve patient compliance. We believe that opioid therapy in low doses is beneficial to some patients. It should not be denied but carefully considered on case by case basis. [ABSTRACT] [HTML Full text] [PDF] [Mobile Full text] [EPub] [Citations (10) ] [PubMed] [Sword Plugin for Repository]Beta Pediatric cuffed endotracheal tubes p. 13 Neerja Bhardwaj Endotracheal intubation in children is usually performed utilizing uncuffed endotracheal tubes for conduct of anesthesia as well as for prolonged ventilation in critical care units. However, uncuffed tubes may require multiple changes to avoid excessive air leak, with subsequent environmental pollution making the technique uneconomical. In addition, monitoring of ventilatory parameters, exhaled volumes, and end-expiratory gases may be unreliable. All these problems can be avoided by use of cuffed endotracheal tubes. Besides, cuffed endotracheal tubes may be of advantage in special situations like laparoscopic surgery and in surgical conditions at risk of aspiration. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans in children have found the narrowest portion of larynx at rima glottides. Cuffed endotracheal tubes, therefore, will form a complete seal with low cuff pressure of <15 cm H 2 O without any increase in airway complications. Till recently, the use of cuffed endotracheal tubes was limited by variations in the tube design marketed by different manufacturers. The introduction of a new cuffed endotracheal tube in the market with improved tracheal sealing characteristics may encourage increased safe use of these tubes in clinical practice. A literature search using search words "cuffed endotracheal tube" and "children" from 1980 to January 2012 in PUBMED was conducted. Based on the search, the advantages and potential benefits of cuffed ETT are reviewed in this article. A philatelic history of anesthesiology p. 19 KC Sekhar Thematic or topical philately deals with stamp collection based on a particular topic or theme. This article deals with a thematic depiction of the history of anesthesia from ancient to modern times using stamps, postal stationery and cancellations. A comparison of three vasopressors for tight control of maternal blood pressure during cesarean section under spinal anesthesia: Effect on maternal and fetal outcome p. 26 Neerja Bhardwaj, Kajal Jain, Suman Arora, Neerja Bharti Purpose: Maintaining systolic blood pressure (SBP) at 100% of baseline is best for fetal and maternal outcome. We hypothesized that irrespective of the vasopressor used, maintaining SBP at 100% of baseline with phenylephrine (P), metaraminol (M), or ephedrine (E) will produce the best fetal pH after cesarean section (LSCS) under subarachnoid block (SAB). Materials and Methods: Ninety ASA 1 women scheduled for elective LSCS were randomly allocated to receive P, M, or E. SAB was established with patient in left lateral position using 2.5 cc of 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine. Immediately following SAB, patients received a bolus of the study drug (E = 5 mg, M = 0.5 mg, P = 30 mcg) followed by infusion (E = 2.5 mg/min, M = 0.25 mg/min, P = 15 mcg/min) to maintain SBP at 100% baseline. Umbilical blood gases, maternal hemodynamic parameters, and complications were recorded. Results: The umbilical pH was comparable in all the three groups (P > 0.05). The mean SBP from spinal block until delivery was similar over time for all the three groups. The incidence of reactive hypertension was more in group M (P < 0.05) than in group E and group P. Total drug consumption to meet target blood pressure till delivery was 39.3 ± 14.6 mg in group E, 1.7 ± 0.9 mg in group M, and 283.6 ± 99.8 mcg in group P. The incidence of nausea and vomiting was comparable in the three groups. Conclusion: All the three vasopressors were equally effective in maintaining maternal blood pressure as well as umbilical pH during spinal anesthesia for cesarean section without any detrimental effects on fetal and maternal outcome. Oxytocin administration during cesarean delivery: Randomized controlled trial to compare intravenous bolus with intravenous infusion regimen p. 32 Susmita Bhattacharya, Sarmila Ghosh, Debanjali Ray, Suchismita Mallik, Arpita Laha Background: Oxytocin is routinely administered during cesarean delivery for uterine contraction. Adverse effects are known to occur after intravenous oxytocin administration, notably tachycardia, hypotension, and electrokardiogram (EKG) changes, which can be deleterious in high-risk patients. Aims and Objectives: To compare the hemodynamic changes and uterotonic effect of equivalent dose of oxytocin administered as an intravenous bolus versus intravenous infusion. Study Design: Randomized, double-blind, active controlled trial. Materials and Methods: Eighty parturients undergoing elective cesarean delivery, under spinal anesthesia, were randomly allocated to receive 3 IU of oxytocin either as a bolus intravenous injection over 15 seconds (group B, n = 40) or as an intravenous infusion over 5 minutes (group I, n = 40). Uterine tone was assessed as adequate or inadequate by an obstetrician. Intraoperative heart rate, non-invasive blood pressure, and EKG changes were recorded. These data were compared between the groups. Any other adverse events like chest pain, nausea, vomiting, and flushing were noted. Results: There was significant rise in heart rate and significant decrease in mean arterial pressure in bolus group compared to infusion group. Three patients in bolus group had EKG changes in the form of ST-T depression and 5 patients complained of chest pain. No such complications were found in infusion group. Conclusion: Bolus oxytocin (at a dose of 3 IU over 15 seconds) and infusion of oxytocin (at a dose of 3 IU over 5 minutes) have comparable uterotonic effect. However, the bolus regime shows significantly more adverse cardiovascular events. Hemodynamics and early recovery characteristics of desflurane versus sevoflurane in bariatric surgery p. 36 Amandeep Kaur, Anil Kumar Jain, Raminder Sehgal, Jayashree Sood Context: Morbidly obese patients are prone for intraoperative hemodynamic disturbances and postoperative airway complications. Aim: Comparison of intraoperative hemodynamics and postoperative recovery characteristics of desflurane versus sevoflurane in morbidly obese patients undergoing laparoscopic bariatric surgery. Settings and Design: Randomized controlled trial Materials and Methods: After institutional ethics committee approval and written informed consent, 40 morbidly obese patients (BMI > 35 kg/m 2 ) were randomized to receive desflurane or sevoflurane as part of a standardized general anesthesia technique. Volatile anesthetic concentration was titrated to maintain electroencephalographic bispectral index score (BIS) in the range of 40-60. Mean arterial pressure (MAP) and heart rate (HR) were recorded preoperatively, at induction and intubation, then at regular intervals. After extubation, early recovery was recorded by time to emergence and orientation to time and place. In post anesthesia care unit, intermediate recovery was assessed by modified Aldrete Score and Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST). Results: Intraoperative MAP and HR did not differ between the two groups ( P > 0.05). The time to response to painful stimuli, obeying verbal commands and spontaneous eye opening was shorter ( P = 0.001) and modified Aldrete Score was higher after desflurane anesthesia than after sevoflurane anesthesia ( P = 0.049). DSST also returned towards normal faster after desflurane (28.50 ± 6.30 min vs. 35.0 ± 5.62 min, P = 0.03). Conclusions: Both desflurane and sevoflurane produce similar hemodynamic changes but the immediate and intermediate recovery was significantly faster after desflurane thus contributing to fast tracking and early discharge of patients. Intraoperative management of patients with incidental catecholamine producing tumors: A literature review and analysis p. 41 Stefan Hariskov, Roman Schumann Context: Present knowledge about intraoperative management, morbidity, and mortality of patients with undiagnosed catecholamine-producing tumors is mostly based on published case reports and anecdotal evidence. Aims: The aim was to summarize the management and outcomes of reported cases and analyze for practice patterns, deduct useful management recommendations as applicable. Settings and Design: The Medline database was searched with specific keywords for the period of 1988-2010 for cases of incidental pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas. Materials and Methods: Case reports in the English language with a postoperative diagnosis of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma by histopathology were included. Systematic data extraction from case reports was done. Statistical analysis used: Descriptive statistics were applied. Results: Of 823 retrieved records, 62 case reports met inclusion criteria. Hemodynamic instability occurred primarily during mass manipulation/intraoperatively (52%, n = 32) and induction/laryngoscopy (18%, n = 11). In cases reporting specific antihypertensive treatments, nitrates (67%, n = 30) represented the majority of medications used, followed by beta-blockers (47%, n = 21). Alpha receptor blockers were administered in 33% (n = 15). The perioperative mortality was 8% (n = 5), and none of these patients received intraoperative alpha blockade. A catecholamine-secreting tumor was suspected intraoperatively in 26% of cases. Conclusions: The perioperative mortality based on the reviewed cases of incidental catecholamine producing tumors was less than would traditionally be expected. Intraoperative alpha receptor blockade to treat hypertension was reported in 33% of cases, and none of the patients with a fatal outcome had received it. A higher intraoperative index of suspicion and a lower threshold to consider alpha blocking medications for severe intraoperative hypertension may improve outcomes. ProSeal TM laryngeal mask airway cuff pressure changes with and without use of nitrous oxide during laparoscopic surgery p. 47 Bimla Sharma, Rajat Gupta, Raminder Sehgal, Archna Koul, Jayashree Sood Background: The ProSeal TM laryngeal mask (PLMA) is increasingly being used as an airway device for laparoscopic surgery. Its silicone cuff allows diffusion of nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and other gases with resultant rise in its intracuff pressure during anesthesia. The present study was designed to investigate the intracuff pressure changes during anesthesia with and without nitrous oxide in patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery lasting up to two hours. Materials and Methods: One hundred patients, American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status 2 and 3, undergoing general anesthesia with muscle paralysis, were randomized into two groups of 50 patients each to receive an anesthetic gas mixture containing either oxygen and nitrous oxide (group N) or oxygen and air (group A). Following insertion of an appropriate size PLMA, its cuff was inflated with air to an intracuff pressure of 45 mm Hg. The cuff pressure was measured every 10 minutes for the entire course of anesthesia. The position of the device was also assessed fiberoptically and postoperative airway complications were recorded. Results: The maximum intracuff pressure recorded in group N was 103 ± 4.7 mm Hg vs. 45.5 ± 1.5 mm Hg in group A. The percentage rise in cuff pressure every 10 minutes was also highly significant ( P < 0.001) being maximum in first 10 min in group N. The incidence of postoperative airway complications was comparable between the two groups. Conclusion: The results of this study demonstrate that the intracuff pressure of the PLMA increases progressively over time when the breathing gas mixture contains nitrous oxide. Comparison of oral fiberoptic intubation via a modified guedel airway or a laryngeal mask airway in infants and children p. 52 Elsa Varghese, R Nagaraj, R Shwethapriya Background: Though fiberoptic intubation (FOI) is considered the gold standard for securing a difficult airway in a child, it may be technically difficult in an anesthetized child. The hypothesis for this study was that it would be easier to perform FOI via a laryngeal mask airway (LMA) than a modified oropharyngeal airway with the advantage of maintaining anesthesia and oxygenation during the process. Materials and Methods: 30 children aged 6 months to 5 years undergoing elective surgery under general anesthesia were randomized to two groups to have fiberoptic bronchoscope (FOB) guided intubation either via a modified Guedel airway (FOB-ORAL) or a classic LMA (FOB-LMA). In the FOB-LMA group, the LMA was removed when a second smaller endotracheal tube was anchored to the proximal end of the tracheal tube in place. Results: Oral fiberoptic intubation was successful in all children. The first attempt success rate was 11/15 (73.33%) in the FOB-LMA group and 3/15 (20%) in the FOB-ORAL group ( P = 0.012). Subsequent attempts at intubation were successful after 90° anticlockwise rotation of the endotracheal tube over the FOB. The time taken for fiberoptic bronchoscopy was significantly less in FOB-LMA group (59.20 ± 42.85 sec vs 108.66 ± 52.43 sec). The incidence of desaturation was higher in the FOB-ORAL group (6/15 vs 0/15). Conclusion: In children, fiberoptic bronchoscopy and intubation via an LMA has the advantage of being easier, with shorter intubation time and continuous oxygenation and ventilation throughout the procedure. Removal of the LMA following intubation requires particular care. Comparison of clinical performance of the I-gel with LMA proseal p. 56 Gaurav Chauhan, Pavan Nayar, Anita Seth, Kapil Gupta, Mamta Panwar, Nidhi Agrawal Aim: To compare insertion characteristics of 2 different supraglottic devices [I-gel and Proseal laryngeal mask airway (PLMA)] and to observe any associated complications. Study Design: This prospective, randomized study was conducted in 80 patients [Group I - I-gel insertion (n = 40) and Group P - LMA Proseal insertion (n =40)] of ASA grades I/II, of either sex in the age group 18-65 years. Both groups were compared with respect to ease of insertion, insertion attempts, fiberoptic assessment, airway sealing pressure, ease of gastric tube placement, and other complications. Materials and Methods: All patients were asked to fast overnight. Patients were given alprazolam 0.25 mg orally at 10 p.m. the night before surgery and again 2 hours prior to surgery with 1-2 sips of water. Glycopyrrolate 0.2 mg, metoclopramide 10 mg, and ranitidine 50 mg were administered intravenously to the patients 45 minutes prior to the surgery. Once adequate depth of anesthesia was achieved either of the 2 devices, selected using a random computerized table, was inserted by an experienced anesthesiologist. In group I, I-gel was inserted and in patients of group P, PLMA was inserted. Statistical Analysis: Student t-test and Mann-Whitney test were employed to compare the means; for categorical variables, Chi-square test was used. Result: Mean insertion time for the I-gel (11.12 ± 1.814 sec) was significantly lower than that of the PLMA (15.13 ± 2.91 sec) (P = 0.001). I-gel was easier to insert with a better anatomic fit. Mean airway sealing pressure in the PLMA group (29.55 ± 3.53 cm H 2 O) was significantly higher than in the I-gel group (26.73 ± 2.52 cm H 2 O; P = 0.001). Ease of gastric tube insertion was significantly higher in the I-gel group (P = 0.001). Incidence of blood staining of the device, sore throat and dysphagia were observed more in PLMA group. No other complications were observed in either of the groups. A prospective, randomized, double blind and placebo-control study comparing the additive effect of oral midazolam and clonidine for postoperative nausea and vomiting prophylaxis in granisetron premedicated patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystecomy p. 61 Ghanshyam Yadav, Biranchi Narayan Pratihary, Gaurav Jain, Anil Kumar Paswan, Lal Dhar Mishra Background: Reduction of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) continues to be a major challenge in perioperative care in spite of introduction of newer antiemetics with better efficacy and safety profiles. Therefore, we evaluated the additive effect of oral midazolam and clonidine for PONV prophylaxis in granisetron premedicated patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Materials and Methods: In a prospective, randomized fashion, 120 selected cases were randomized into three groups: I, II or III to receive a tablet of midazolam (15 mg, n = 36), clonidine (150 mcg, n = 40), or glucose as placebo (5 g, n = 44) orally, 1 h before anesthesia. Occurrence of PONV along with need for rescue antiemetic during the first postoperative day was compared between groups as a primary outcome. Results: Episodes of PONV reduced significantly in Group II (15%) as compared to group I and III (22.2%, 59%) at various time points during the period of observation (P = 0.002). Need for rescue antiemetic was significantly lower in group I (13.88%) and II (5%) as compared to group III (52.27%, P < 0.001). Conclusion: Oral clonidine is better adjuvant for PONV prophylaxis, as compared to midazolam, in granisetron premedicated patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Intrathecal clonidine as an adjuvant to hyperbaric bupivacaine in patients undergoing inguinal herniorrhaphy: A randomized double-blinded study p. 66 Anil Thakur, Mamta Bhardwaj, Kiranpreet Kaur, Jagdish Dureja, Sarla Hooda, Susheela Taxak Background: Clonidine is added to intrathecal local anesthetics to improve intraoperative analgesia and to increase the duration of sensory and motor block. Aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the effects of addition of two different doses of clonidine (15 and 30 mcg) to 11 mg hyperbaric bupivacaine in patients undergoing inguinal herniorrhaphy surgery under spinal anesthesia. Materials and Methods: Seventy-five patients enrolled in the study were randomly divided into three groups of 25 each. Group I patients received 11 mg hyperbaric bupivacaine, whereas groups II and III received 15 mcg and 30 mcg clonidine, respectively, as an adjuvant to 11 mg hyperbaric bupivacaine. The volume of solution was kept constant to 2.4 ml by adding saline wherever needed. Results: Highest level of sensory block, time to achieve this level, and highest Bromage scale recorded were comparable among the groups. The mean time to two-segment regression, regression of sensory block to L3 dermatome, and mean duration of motor block were the greatest in group III followed by group II and group I. There was significant fall in mean arterial pressure (MAP) in groups II and III as compared to group I (P = 0.04). Episodes of hypotension were more in group III than in group II. Conclusion: 30 mcg clonidine was associated with more incidence and duration of hypotension than 15 μg of clonidine. 15 mcg clonidine added to 11 mg hyperbaric bupivacaine provides better sensory and motor blockade for inguinal herniorrhaphy. Comparison of analgesic efficacy of transversus abdominis plane block with direct infiltration of local anesthetic into surgical incision in lower abdominal gynecological surgeries p. 71 Vijayalakshmi Sivapurapu, Arumugam Vasudevan, Sumanlata Gupta, Ashok S Badhe Background: Transversus abdominis plane block is a safe, simple and effective technique of providing analgesia for lower abdominal surgeries with easily identifiable landmarks. Aims: To compare the analgesic efficacy of transversus abdominis plane block with that of direct infiltration of local anesthetic into surgical incision in lower abdominal procedures. Settings and Design: Prospective randomized controlled trial in lower abdominal surgeries done under general anesthesia. Materials and Methods: 52 ASA I-II patients undergoing lower abdominal gynecological procedures under general anesthesia were divided randomly into two groups each after written informed consent. A bilateral TAP block was performed on Group T with 0.25% bupivacaine 0.6 ml/kg with half the volume on either side intra-operatively after skin closure before extubation using a short bevelled needle, whereas Group I received local infiltration intra-operatively after skin closure with the same amount of drug. The time taken for the first rescue analgesic and visual analog score (VAS) was noted, following which, the patient was administered intravenous morphine 0.1 mg/kg and connected to an intravenous patient controlled analgesia system with morphine for 24 hrs from the time of block administration. 24 h morphine requirement was noted. VAS and sedation scores were noted at 2, 4, 6 and 24 h postoperatively. Statistical Analysis Used: The results were analyzed with SPSS 16. A P value < 0.05 was considered significant. Duration of analgesia and 24 h morphine requirement was analysed by Student's t-test. VAS scores, with paired comparisons at each time interval, were performed using the t-test or Mann-Whitney U-test, as appropriate. Categorical data were analyzed using Chi square or Fisher's exact test. Results: In Group T, the time to rescue analgesic was significantly more and the VAS scores were lower ( P = 0.001 and 0.003 respectively). The 24 hr morphine requirement and VAS at 2, 4, 6 and 24 h were less in the Group T ( P = 0.001). Incidence of PONV was significant in Group I ( P = 0.043), whereas Group T were less sedated at 2 and 4 h ( P = 0.001 and 0.014). Conclusions: Transversus abdominis plane block proved to be an effective means of analgesia for lower abdominal surgeries with minimal side-effects. Measurement of prevalence of 'major depressive syndrome' among Indian patients attending pain clinic with chronic pain using PHQ-9 scale p. 76 Debjyoti Dutta, Saswata Bharati, Chinmoy Roy, Gautam Das Background: Presence of major depressive syndrome (MDS) in chronic pain patients (CPPs) requires more attention from the clinicians because of its clinical nature, association of suicidal thoughts and their actual completion, and treatment difficulties. The prevalence of MDS among Indian CPPs is not well studied. Aim: To determine the prevalence of MDS among Indian CPPs visiting pain clinic. Materials and Methods: In this prospective study, 476 patients who attended a pain clinic in a metropolitan city of India for chronic pain (pain more than six months) were included. They were assessed by 'PHQ-9 depression scale' for presence of MDS. Intensity of pain was assessed by 'Visual analogue scale' (VAS). Patient details (viz. age, sex), duration and site of pain, and scores of PHQ-9 depression scale and VAS, were noted and statistically analyzed. Results: 146 out of 476 CPPs (30.67%) were found to suffer from MDS. Women were more prone (F: M =3:2) to develop MDS while suffering from chronic pain. Among 146 CPPs who were suffering from MDS, 108 (73.97%) patients also had suicidal thought. The prevalence of suicidal thought among all CPPs was found to be 22.69%. The depression severity was found to be strongly associated with intensity of pain ( P = 0.005 < 0.05) but not associated with the duration of pain ( P = 0.159 > 0.05) and age of the patient ( P = 0.24 > 0.05). Conclusion: We found a high prevalence of MDS among CPPs from India and majority of them also harbored suicidal thought. Therefore, for successful outcome in chronic pain management routine psychological assessment in CPPs should be done to exclude the presence of MDS and suicidal thought. Effects of repeat exposure to inhalation anesthetics on liver and renal function p. 83 Tomoki Nishiyama Background: Cross hypersensitivity to inhalation anesthetics has not been studied. The aim of this study was to investigate it by comparing liver and renal function after repeated anesthesia with sevoflurane and isoflurane retrospectively. Materials and Methods: The adult patients who received general anesthesia twice within the interval of 14 days to 1 year were retrospectively analyzed. Those who received sevoflurane anesthesia twice (SS group, 53 cases), isoflurane anesthesia twice (II group, 31 cases), sevoflurane followed by isoflurane anesthesia (SI group, 29 cases), isoflurane followed by sevoflurane anesthesia (IS group, 35 cases), and propofol-fentanyl anesthesia twice (PP group, 58 cases) were enrolled. Serum concentrations of aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), total bilirubin (Bil), gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (γ-GTP), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), and creatinine (Cr) measured 1-3, 5-8, and 12-16 days after surgery were investigated. Results: In the IS group, the number of the patients with abnormal values of ALT and γ-GTP 5-8 days after surgery were significantly smaller at second anesthesia compared to the first anesthesia. The number of the patients with abnormal values of AST, ALT, and γ-GTP were significantly larger in the II group than the SS and PP groups. The number of patients who had higher values in each parameter at second anesthesia compared to the first anesthesia was not different among the groups. Conclusions: Sevoflurane and isoflurane might have no cross hypersensitivity. Both anesthetics might not have any additional risks to increase liver and renal damage by second anesthesia. Preoperative fasting in children: An audit and its implications in a tertiary care hospital p. 88 BG Arun, Grace Korula Background: Prolonged preoperative fasting in children is a common problem, especially in highvolume centers. All international professional society guidelines for preoperative fasting recommend 2 h for clear fluids, 4 h for breast milk and 6 h for solids, nonhuman and formula milk in children. These guidelines are rarely adhered to in practice. Aims: An audit was undertaken to determine the length of preoperative fasting time in children and its causes. Settings and Design: Cross-sectional study of 50 children below 15 years posted for elective surgeries. Materials and Methods: An initial audit was performed at our institution on preoperative fasting time in 50 children below 15 years of age for elective surgeries. The mean preoperative fasting times were found to be much longer than the recommended times. Ward nurses were then educated about internationally recommended preoperative fasting guidelines in children. Anesthesiologists started coordinating with surgeons and ward nurses to prescribe water for children waiting for more than 2 h based on changes in surgery schedule by instructing ward nurses through telephone on the day of surgery. A reaudit was done 6 months after the initial audit. Statistical Analysis Used: SPSS 16 software. Results: The initial audit revealed a mean preoperative fasting time of 11.25 h and 9.25 h for solids and water, respectively. Incorrect orders by ward nurses (74%) and change in the surgical schedule (32%) were important causes. After changing the preoperative system, mean preoperative fasting times in children decreased to 9 h and 4 h for solids and water, respectively in reaudit. Change in surgical schedule (30%) was the major cause for prolonged preoperative fasting in reaudit. Conclusions: Simple steps such as education of ward nurses and better coordination among the anesthesiologists, surgeons and nurses can greatly reduce unnecessary preoperative starvation in children. Phenobarbital use in an infant requiring extracorporeal membrane life support p. 92 Brian Schloss, Don Hayes, Joseph D Tobias Over the past two decades, there has been an increased use of extracorporeal membrane life support (ECLS) for critically ill neonates and infants. Approximately 20% of these children will experience seizures as a complication of ECLS or the comorbid condition which necessitated extracorporeal support. While phenobarbital is one of the most common drugs used to treat seizures in children, little is known about its dosing while on ECLS. We present a 3-month-old girl who required ECLS after cardiac arrest in the postoperative period following surgery for complex congenital heart disease. The patient subsequently developed seizure activity, which was treated with phenobarbital. Following an initial loading dose of 30 mg/kg, the serum concentration was 47.9 mcg/ml. A supplementary loading dose of 10 mg/kg was administered 8 h later with an increase of the maintenance dose to 8 mg/kg/day. The phenobarbital serum concentrations were 65.9 and 72.8 mcg/ml on the subsequent days. Despite therapeutic levels of phenobarbital, the patient continued to exhibit clinical and electroencephalographic evidence of seizure activity and a midazolam infusion was started at 0.3 mg/kg/h. Because of continued seizure activity, the patient ultimately required titration of midazolam to 1.2 mg/kg/h by day 7 of ECLS to control seizure activity. Due to severe intracerebral bleeding on day 9, ECLS was withdrawn and the patient expired. Our experience demonstrates some of the challenges of medication titration during ECLS. Previous reports of phenobarbital dosing during ECLS are reviewed and considerations for the dosing of anticonvulsant medications during extracorporeal support are discussed. Combined Bentall and modified Ravitch procedures in a patient with Marfan syndrome p. 95 Bhuvnesh Kansara, Ajmer Singh, Samir Girotra, KS Iyer Marfan syndrome is an inherited, connective-tissue disorder transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait. Cardinal features of the disorder include tall stature, ectopia lentis, mitral valve prolapse, aortic root dilatation, and aortic dissection. Pectus excavatum may exist as an isolated lesion or in association with a genetic syndrome such as Marfan syndrome. We report the successful management of a simultaneous correction of pectus excavatum and the underlying cardiovascular diseases. Safe removal of an epidural catheter 72 hours after clopidogrel and aspirin administrations guided by platelet function analysis and thromboelastography p. 99 Eric Glenn, Judson Mehl, Francis A Rosinia, Henry Liu Management of neuraxial anesthesia/analgesia in anticoagulated patient can be challenging. The shortest safe time to remove epidural catheter, after a patient receives long-acting dual antiplatelet agents (clopidogrel and aspirin), is unclear. American Society of Regional Anesthesiology (ASRA) guidelines recommend seven days interval for the epidural placement after clopidogrel administration. However ASRA Guideline did not specify the time for epidural catheter removal, and did not specify how much time elapse necessary after dual antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel and aspirin. We report a case of safe removal of epidural catheter 72 hours after oral dose of clopidogrel and aspirin with a normal platelet function analysis and normal thromboelastography before removal. Elective cesarean delivery in non-dialyzed parturient with chronic renal failure p. 102 Saravanan P Ankichetty, Caitriona Murphy, Pamela Angle, Stephen Halpern Chronic renal failure is rare in pregnancy and often results in significant maternal and neonatal morbidity. When possible, preoperative dialysis is useful to optimize fluid and electrolyte balance. We describe the perioperative management of a parturient who persistently refused dialysis, had an uneventful cesarean delivery under graded epidural anesthesia. Anesthetic management of a patient with Montgomery t-tube in-situ for direct laryngoscopy p. 105 Sukhyanti Kerai, Richa Gupta, Sonia Wadhawan, Poonam Bhadoria The Montgomery silicone t-tube used for post-procedural tracheal stenosis has advantage of acting as both stent and tracheostomy tube. The anesthetic management of patient with t-tube in situ poses a challenge. Safe management of such patients requires careful planning. We describe anesthetic management for direct laryngoscopy of a patient with t-tube in situ. Carbon dioxide rebreathing caused by deformed silicon leaflet in the expiratory unidirectional valve p. 108 Arumugam Vasudevan, Satyen Parida, Lenin Babu Elakkumanan, Sandeep Mishra Rebreathing of carbon dioxide caused by incompetent 'cage and disc' unidirectional valves has been reported earlier. Some manufacturers have changed the design of unidirectional valves to 'flexible leaflets'. We report a series of cases where a deformed membrane leaflet in expiratory unidirectional valves led to rebreathing of carbon dioxide. Intraoperative endobronchial rupture of pulmonary hydatid cyst: An airway catastrophe p. 111 Richa Gupta, Sonia Wadhawan, Poonam Bhadoria Hydatid cyst disease of lungs may not be symptomatic. It may present as spontaneous rupture in pleura or a bronchus. During spontaneous breathing, cyst content of endobronchially ruptured pulmonary hydatid cyst is mostly evacuated by coughing. However, during positive pressure ventilation such extruded fragments may lodge into smaller airway leading to an airway catastrophe. We present such accidental endobronchial rupture of pulmonary hydatid cyst during surgery, its prompt detection, and management by rigid bronchoscopy. Ocular surgery in a child with Coffin Lowry syndrome: Anesthetic concerns p. 114 PM Singh, Dalim K Baidya, Srinivasa Govindarajan, Anjan Trikha Coffin Lowry syndrome is a rare disease involving multiple organ systems. From the anesthesiologists point of view it involves mental retardation, seizures, difficult airway, cardiac abnormalities (pediatric dilated cardiomyopathy) and skeletal deformities. We share our experience of management of a child with Coffin Lowry syndrome and also discuss the problems faced during perioperative period. Anesthetic management of a patient with hemophilia A with spontaneous acute subdural hematoma p. 117 Prakhar Gyanesh, Sanjay Dhiraaj Intracranial hemorrhage in patients with hemophilia is associated with high mortality and sequelae. We report the case of 50-year-old man with Hemophilia A, who presented with spontaneous acute subdural hematoma and underwent craniotomy for clot evacuation. The patient received Factor VIII infusions perioperatively along with other measures to decrease blood loss. The patient presented with signs of high intracranial tension and received 3% saline intraoperatively and postoperatively to prevent brain edema. Recommendations for perioperative preparation and management of hemophilia, especially in the setting of emergency major surgery are reviewed. Prallethrin poisoning: A diagnostic dilemma p. 121 Alka Chandra, Madhu B Dixit, Jayant N Banavaliker Pyrethroid insecticides are very widely used in agriculture and household due to their high effectiveness and low toxicity in humans. Despite their extensive worldwide use, there are a few reports of human pyrethroid poisoning. The poisoning has a varied presentation and its symptoms overlap with those of other compounds, which can lead to misdiagnosis. We present a case of poisoning with prallethrin, a pyrethroid compound, commonly available as All-Out. Efficacy and safety of thoracic epidural analgesia after major abdominal surgery for acute post-operative pain p. 123 Anirban Hom Choudhuri, Aastha Dhingra, Rajeev Uppal Using stylet in airtraq optical laryngoscope for armored tube intubation: A new experience p. 124 Qazi E Ali, Obaid A Siddiqui, Syed H Amir, Tariq R Chaudhri Extubation aid in double lumen tube exchange in difficult airway cases operated for thoracic surgeries p. 125 Manpreet Singh, Dheeraj Kapoor, Jasveer Singh Clinical implication of "blind area" of laryngoscopes in pediatric patients p. 125 Geetanjali Chilkoti, Medha Mohta, Ashim Banerjee, Mahendra Kumar Anesthetic management in removal of neglected tracheobronchial foreign body p. 127 S Rangalakshmi, Nischala Dixit Reverse technique for I-gel supraglottic airway insertion p. 128 Indu Sen, Neerja Bhardwaj, YS Latha Use of a laryngoscope, held sideways, as an aid in perforsming an intraoral glossopharyngeal nerve block p. 129 Glen Atlas, Anthony Sifonios, José Otero Successful placement of double lumen endotracheal tube using fluoroscopy p. 130 Ankit Maheshwari, Nidhi Sharma, Piyush Mathur Malfunctioning pilot balloon assembly p. 131 Neha Baduni, Maitree Pandey, Manoj Kumar Sanwal Hyperthyroidism due to hyperfuctioning lingual thyroid presenting for emergency laparotomy p. 132 Anuj Jain, Surendra Singh, Amit Rastogi Anesthetic management of a patient with Rosai-Dorfman Disease and atrial septal defect for orbital surgery p. 134 Virender K Mohan, Amit Rai Intramyometrial vasopressin: Anesthesiologists' nightmare p. 135 Lakshmi Jayaraman, Aparna Sinha, Dinesh Punhani Acute abdomen in a young girl with factor XIII deficiency: Perianesthetic issues p. 136 Jyotsna Punj, Chandrashish Chakravarthy, P Sivakumar Perioperative eye protection under general anesthesia p. 138 Smita Prakash ICU management of Methemoglobinemia due to unknown compound poisoning p. 139 CA Tejesh, Shivakumar Shivanna, AC Manjunath, PT Prathima Fire in the operating room due to equipment failure p. 141 Rajesh K Lalla, Chethan M Koteswara © Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology \| Published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow Online since 20 January, 2011	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line597
__label__wiki	0.769752	0.769752	Current Issue Blog About Submissions Login Literature History Philosophy Opinion Law & Justice All Topics - Call for Submissions - Political Science International Affairs Business & Communications Psychology Economics Education Sociology Anthropology Women's & Gender Studies Criminology & Criminal Justice African-American Studies Linguistics Literature History Philosophy Opinion Law & Justice Theology Book Reviews Film & Media Visual Arts Music Architecture Theatre Environmental Studies Health Science Biology Neuroscience Computer Science Fascism Nazism World War II Nationalism Extremism Political Theory Fascism: A Political Ideology of the Past By Katharine A. Mackel 2010, Vol. 2 No. 11 \| pg. 1/1 Cite References Print What is Fascism? Some Enabling Conditions for Fascism Enabling Conditions Applied to Italy and Germany Extreme Right Parties and Fascism Radical Islam and Fascism Keywords:Fascism Nazism World War II Nationalism Extremism Political Theory Fascism cannot adapt to, and exist under, certain prominent, contemporary conditions. Specifically, it cannot adapt to the strong democracies in which extreme right parties operate, nor to the ideology of radical Islamic groups. This paper begins by defining fascism. It then notes a few conditions that enable fascism to exist, and applies these conditions to post-World War I Italy and Germany to demonstrate how fascism rose in those countries. The paper then discusses extreme right parties in Europe and whether they are fascist. In doing so, it compares the parties’ ideologies to fascist ideology. It also applies the conditions in which fascism arose in Italy and Germany to the conditions within which the extreme right parties currently operate. The paper determines that these parties are not fascist. The paper then analyzes radical Islamic groups. In the absence of comparable conditions, the paper focuses on the radical Islamic groups’ ideology to determine whether they are fascist. Like the extreme right parties, the radical Islamic groups are not fascist. The paper concludes with some reflections on the possibility of future fascist movements. Fascism believes in the superiority of the nation. “The nation” refers to a collection of people bound together by race, ethnicity, or culture. Germans and Italians are examples of nations. The way to achieve national superiority is through the state.1 The ultimate goal of the major fascist regimes that have existed, like the regimes of the Italian Fascist Party and the German Nazi Party, was to pursue national greatness. Mussolini intended to “guide the material and moral progress of the [Italian] community.”2 Hitler planned to return the German nation to its position as “the culture-founder of this earth.”3 Hitler and Mussolini wanted to place the nation above all other bases of loyalty, including class relations and religion.4 Poster from 1936 referendum. Reads: “Check the war-mongers of the world. Every vote for the Führer!” The type of state needed to fulfill this goal is anti-democratic and totalitarian. Such a state is anti-democratic because it eliminates democratic institutions, like the electoral, parliamentary, and multiparty systems, that frustrate this goal of national greatness. Democratic elections are problematic because the masses elect candidates who appeal to the masses’ self-interest. This does not guarantee that the candidates have the nation’s interest in mind. This weakens the state and, ultimately, the nation.5 Parliament is problematic because the parties in it spend more time arguing than implementing policies. Indeed, Hitler referred to Parliament as a “twaddling shop” for this reason. 6 Other parties are problematic because, by competing with fascist parties to gain power, they prevent fascist parties from pursuing the ultranationalist goal. The state is totalitarian because it controls aspects of citizens’ lives, such as their leisure time, education, and political activity, to ensure that the citizens support the regime’s goal.7 Fascism, as defined in this paper, is the ideology of nationalism upheld by an anti-democratic and totalitarian state. Fascism generally flourishes in countries with strong nationalism and weak democracies. Strong nationalism attracts people to fascism’s ultranationalist goals.8 “Weak democracy” has two meanings, both of which enable fascism to flourish. A democracy is weak in that it is incompetent and unresponsive. Consequently, citizens become disenchanted with it and are willing to abandon it for another regime type. A weak democracy also refers to a democratic tradition that is fairly new and not strongly entrenched.9 This also enables fascism to flourish because it is easier to replace this type of democracy with another regime. All these conditions apply to the political and social situations in post- World War One Germany and Italy. Nationalism, in the form of national resentment, was potent. Italians and Germans believed that their national pride had been humiliated. Italians felt this way because they believed their country had not been awarded the amount of territory it should have been awarded after World War One ended.10 Germans felt this way because their government had accepted the Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty required Germany to accept the blame for starting World War One and imposed harsh reparations, as well as substantial territorial concessions, on Germany.11 The Fascist and Nazi parties were appealing because they promised to restore the national greatness that citizens felt was lacking. Italian and German democracies, and democratic traditions, were weak. Both countries had unified and become democracies relatively late. Italy unified between 1860 and 1870, and Germany unified around 1870.12 Their parliaments were rather unresponsive to citizens’ needs. For example, neither the German nor Italian parliament was able to stem the post-World War One economic crises, and rises in unemployment, in their countries.13 As a consequence of all these factors, Italian and German citizens were willing to support fascism. Extreme right parties in Europe share ideological aspects with fascism. For this reason, they are sometimes considered neofascist parties: parties that are the contemporary incarnation of fascism.14 For instance, the extreme right parties desire to advance the nation by getting rid of all immigrants.15 The parties believe that immigration ruins the nation. The parties contend that immigrants cause citizens of the host country to become unemployed. As Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the FN (Front National) in France, once said, “1 million unemployed- this means 1 million foreigners too many.”16 Immigrants also allegedly ruin national culture by preserving their own customs instead of adopting those of their host country.17 Ridding the country of immigrants will stop these problems and ultimately benefit the nation. Immigration engenders a condition that enables fascism to arise: national resentment. The extreme right parties’ unfavorable views regarding immigrants reflect the citizens’. In addition, many citizens believe that immigrants appropriate welfare benefits that should go to citizens instead. Immigrants are also commonly believed to commit crimes against citizens. 18 Indeed, the national resentment directed towards immigrants is a combination of indignation and fear. It should be noted, however, that the condition of national resentment by itself is not sufficient to engender fascism. The combination of national resentment and weak democracy offer a better opportunity for fascism to rise. The democratic conditions within which these parties operate ultimately do not allow fascism to flourish. Democracy is more deeply entrenched during the contemporary era than it was in the post-World War One era. While Nazis and Fascists managed to overthrow the democratic regimes in their countries, there are now supranational and national barriers that discourage this from happening. Many extreme right parties operate in countries that are part of the European Union: the FN of France, the AN (Alleanza Nationale) of Italy, the BNP (British National Party) of the United Kingdom, and the FPO (Austrian Freedom Party) of Austria (among others).19 As members of the European Union, these countries are required to have, and maintain, a democratic regime.20 Moreover, the general mindset within many of these countries is democratically predisposed. Indeed, the extreme right has “sought to render [itself] acceptable in an age assumed to be democratic.”21 The extreme right parties have had to conform to citizens’ expectations of their governments in order to gain electoral support. Democracy prevents fascism. In order to implement fascism, a state needs to be anti-democratic. However, given supranational and national conditions, the state in European countries is democratic. If fascism were to adapt to these democratic conditions, it would cease to exist. Indeed, it would become a new ideology: national-populism. National-populism results from “a conscious effort to update fascism and render it viable in changed [democratic] conditions.”22 The AN exemplifies this transformation. Before it became the AN, this party was called the MSI (Movimento Sociale Italiano). The MSI was considered neofascist because it was a descendant of an earlier, quasi-fascist party.23 However, once the MSI “accepted democracy as a system of values,” it morphed into the AN, a national-populist party.24 The extreme right parties, which are often called neofascist, are actually national-populist. Moreover, democracy changes the nature of the goal that national-populist parties and fascism share in common. According to fascism, the way to advance the nation is to have a leader who embodies the will of the people. This person, not the people themselves, knows best what is in the nation’s interest.25 National-populist parties do not take this approach. Instead, they advocate direct democracy initiatives, such as the referendum, because such initiatives enable citizens’ preferences to be heard.26 However, from a fascist perspective, these preferences only take into account the citizens’ individual interests, not the collective interests of the nation. Individual interests are different from the national interest. 27 So national-populists are not advancing the nation when they advocate direct democracy. Ultimately, then, they are not fascist in practice or in theory. The conditions within which the extreme right/national-populist parties operate are not identical to those in which the Fascist and Nazi parties operated. However, the conditions are at least comparable. This is not the case for radical Islamic movements and the Fascist and Nazi parties. Religion was not a significantly important issue during the time the Fascist and Nazi parties of Italy and Germany were active. Although the Nazi Party’s extermination of Jewish people appears to be religious persecution, being Jewish was considered a racial, rather than a religious, trait. To determine whether radical Islam is a manifestation of fascism, one must analyze its ideology. Radical Islam is similar to fascism in terms of the type of state it envisions. The radical Islamic state is anti-democratic.28 The state imposes sharia, or Islamic law, rather than democratic laws. Theoretically, the two sets of laws can overlap, in that sharia principles are also democratic principles. For example, “the Qur’an insists on mutual consultation in deciding communal affairs which includes choosing leaders to represent and govern on the community’s behalf.” 29 This is consistent with the notion of democratic elections. However, in practice these shared principles are usually violated. In an extreme example, the Taliban of Afghanistan claimed to adhere to sharia. Yet the Taliban regime refused to allow democratic elections to take place while it was in power and still tries to stop them, even after being deposed.30 The radical Islamic state is also totalitarian. The state is holistic and has control over every facet of life. 31 Hezbollah, for example, wants to establish an Islamic regime in Lebanon. It believes that all aspects of people’s lives, such as the social, cultural, economic, and political aspects, should serve this end.32 Hezbollah also believes that the state should be used to ensure that these aspects of life fulfill Hezbollah’s vision.33 Yet the goal of radical Islam differs from the goal of fascism. Whereas fascism strives to advance the nation, radical Islam wants to spread Islamic belief and establish Islamic societies.34 Moreover, while fascism endeavors to place the nation above all else, radical Islam endeavors to place Islam above all else. For example, Hamas’ slogan is: “Allah is [Hamas’] target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran is its constitution, Jihad is its path, and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.”35 Islam is so important that it even takes priority over life. In contrast, Hitler states that a German “willingly subordinates his own ego to the life of the [national] community and, if the hour demands, even sacrifices it.”36 The sense of importance in Hitler’s and Hamas’ statements is the same, but the object of importance is different. Another way to understand fascism and radical Islam’s beliefs on what takes ultimate precedence is to look at what they think is the most important quality in an individual or group. Since the nation takes ultimate precedence for fascists, national origin is the defining quality of an individual. Fascism led people to believe that their job position or social rank was not fundamentally important. Whether or not they were German or Italian, however, was crucial.37 The same pattern applies to radical Islamic groups. Since Islam is paramount, Muslim identity is the defining quality. Hamas, for example, claims to welcome “every Muslim who embraces its faith, ideology, [and] follows its program.”38 The Muslim Brotherhood works “to achieve unification among the Islamic countries and states.”39 The fact that the nationality of Muslims who can join Hamas, or of the countries the Muslim Brotherhood wants to unite, is not specified suggests that it is not as important as the religion. Given the goal of the radical Islamic movements, as well as the relative unimportance of national origin, radical Islamic movements are not fascist. However, there is a subset of fascism called clerical fascism. Clerical fascist movements are as religious as they are nationalistic. The Hungarian Arrow Cross, which was active during the 1930’s, can be considered a clerical fascist group, in that it believed religion and nationalism were equally important. Indeed, the Arrow Cross believed that religion was a pillar of the nation. Ferencz Szalasi, the leader of the Arrow Cross, explained that “when the Army sees that in the nation the three pillars of Religion, Patriotism, and Discipline have been shaken, then it is the duty of the Army to force the nation back on to these pillars.”40 The Iron Guard, a Romanian group that operated around the 1930’s, is also thought to be clerical fascist. The Iron Guard “saw the Romanian Orthodox religion as coterminous with Romanian nationality….”41 Although these groups gave equal priority to both nationalism and religion, they are still generally considered fascist. Are radical Islamic movements examples of clerical fascism? A balance between nation and religion in radical Islamic movements is difficult to discern. Religion is paramount for the radical Islamic movements. For example, although the Muslim Brotherhood operates in Egypt, its mission statement hardly ever refers to Egyptians. When it does implicate Egyptians, it refers to them as Muslims, not as Egyptians. The mission statement says, “Indeed, the present atmosphere of suppression, instability, and anxiety has forced many of the young men of [Egypt] to commit acts of terrorism….we request all Muslims to abandon such actions and return to the right way.”42 Moreover, some radical Islamic movements operate in different states simultaneously. Al Qaeda, for example, is active in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.43 It is difficult for such a widespread movement to claim that its religion, like the Romanian Orthodox religion, is uniquely coterminous with a particular nationality. Ultimately, then, these radical Islamic movements are neither fascist nor clerical fascist. Neither extreme right parties, nor radical Islamic groups, are fascist. Indeed, in regards to the extreme right, or nation-populist, parties, democracy appears to be an effective antidote to fascism. However, just because democracy has proven to be successful against fascism in this particular situation, it does not guarantee that democracy will always be successful. One cannot predict with certainty what democratic conditions will be like in the future or what types of political parties will exist. Similarly, while the ideology of radical Islamic groups is not currently compatible with fascism, or even clerical fascism, there is always a possibility that the radical Islamic paradigm will evolve so that it does become fascist in some way. Ultimately, just because fascism does not presently exist in these scenarios does not mean it never will. Walter Laqueur, Fascism Past Present Future, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, 25. 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Larry Goodson, “Bullets, Ballots, and Poppies in Afghanistan,” Journal of Democracy, 16.1 (2005): 24-38. Tony Badran, “Hezbollah’s Agenda in Lebanon,” Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, 8 (2009), 64. Laqueur, 148; 153. “The Hamas Charter,” MidEast Web, www.mideastweb.org, 13 Dec. 2009. Hitler, 297. “The Hamas Charter.” “The Principles of the Muslim Brotherhood,” The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website, www.ikhwanweb.com, 13 Dec. 2009. Carsten, 176. “Our Testimony,” The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website, www.ikhwanweb.com, 13 Dec. 2009. “Al-Qaeda Terrorist Group: Global Cells,” United States Action www.unitedstatesaction.com, 13 Dec. 2009. Save Citation » (Works with EndNote, ProCite, & Reference Manager) APA 6th Mackel, K. A. (2010). "Fascism: A Political Ideology of the Past." Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse, 2(11). Retrieved from http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=317 Mackel, Katharine A. "Fascism: A Political Ideology of the Past." Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse 2.11 (2010). <http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=317> Chicago 16th Mackel, Katharine A. 2010. Fascism: A Political Ideology of the Past. Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse 2 (11), http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=317 MACKEL, K. A. 2010. Fascism: A Political Ideology of the Past. Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse [Online], 2. Available: http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=317 Katharine A. Mackel graduated in 2011 with a concentration in Government from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. 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__label__wiki	0.946491	0.946491	Home Enterprise VMware Wants vSphere to Run on OpenStack VMware Wants vSphere to Run on OpenStack By Sean Michael Kerner \| October 18, 2012 At the core of VMware's closed-source business is the company's ubiquitous vSphere ESX hypervisor . Herrod noted that vSphere is used today by 400,000 companies. He estimated that there are more than 25 million virtual machines and a new VMware VM is born every 6 seconds. "Today 60 percent of all applications are now running virutalized," Herrod said. "So more apps than not don't talk to the bare metal." VMware and OpenStack Herrod candidly admitted that there are some areas of OpenStack that are competitive with VMware's existing proprietary business. That said, he stressed that there are a lot of areas of alignment as well. Herrod noted that VMware's new Nicira division is a core part of the OpenStack community. Nicira was one of the leading drivers behind the OpenStack Quantum networking project, and VMware acquired Nicira earlier this year. "The real reason we acquired Nicira is because of the work they have been doing [with] OpenStack," Herrod said. "We're 100 percent committed to continuing to work on Quantum." The big question, though, is what about vSphere. It's a question that Herrod today answered in a definitive way for the first time publicly. "If a customer is using OpenStack, we want them to be using vSphere," Herrod stated. "We are now working on enhancing VMware vSphere for the OpenStack Nova compute stack Read the full story at ServerWatch: VMware vSphere Embraces OpenStack Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line602
__label__wiki	0.559117	0.559117	Editor’s Choice March 2017 By Joseph Schafer April 7, 2017 10:00 AM Do you believe in love at first sight? What about first listen? My favorite album is Metallica’s Master of Puppets. I first heard it when I was just about to be a teenager. I don’t see anything toppling it from its pedestal and maybe nothing will. When researching for a write up on last week’s Life of Agony premiere, I dug up a huge cross-section of articles explaining the stranglehold that music from our teenagers has on our brain, some more scientific, some less. These pieces of literature all agree that the human brain is in a sense primed to receive music between the ages of about 12 to 22. In my life that window coincided with what people may remember as the golden age of music piracy, roughly between the time the RIAA sued Napster in 1999 and The Pirate Bay trial in 2009. One legal proceeding made music piracy a global, normal idea. The other began the process of dismantling torrent networks so that piracy was no longer the single easiest way to acquire music. Spotify’s U.S. launch in 2011 finished that process. These are general signposts, not definitive starting guns and finish lines, but they coincide very closely with the time I began high school and finished undergraduate college. Why am I imposing myself onto this sort-of rough recent history lesson? For two reasons. First, because most of the 20 somethings working in the music industry now, as bands, lower level employees, PR reps and grunts, probably rode into the industry on that same wave of free music culture, and so the experience of living in the thick of Bittorrent and its ilk may have a big impact on the way people booking shows and signing bands think of music. Second, because in that time frame I adopted a quirk which, I think, illustrates a facet of the way we, as metalheads, imagine the bodies of an artist’s work. For most of that time, I listened to discographies backward. I’ve been doing things backward since childhood. In school, I would read the last chapters of my textbooks first and then work backward. In catechism as a young Catholic, I read the bible backward. I already knew how the bible started. “Let there be light” bored me to tears. As it turns out, opening your understanding of Christianity with the book of Revelations will make most of the rest of the text similarly boring. Schooling mostly consisted of a book, which contained the whole of the information I was expected to know, and an accompanying lecture which contained basically the same information. By knowing where the lecture was going by the end, I could read whatever I wanted in class at my own pace and still answer questions correctly. At least that was the idea. It didn’t always work in practice, but it got me through catechism and junior high. Not long after that, I got into Metallica and absorbed Master of Puppets early on, which left the rest of their discography sort-of disappointing with the exception of Load, which I purchased in the middle of their acclaimed 80’s albums. Load was so unlike the other material that it was still exciting, but if I had heard The Black Album first, I imagined that I would not have appreciated it. After all, the Amazon reviews page tore it to shreds. As a result, when I would download a discography, I tended to listen to the newest album first, and then work my way back to the earliest. My first Amorphis album was Skyforger. My last Opeth album was Orchid until Watershed was released. I fully digested South of Heaven before I heard Reign in Blood (this many explain some of why it sounds so boring to me). I suspect this is why some of my favorite records come in the middle of a band’s discography (Domination) while their early fan favorites can leave me a little bored (Altars of Madness). I have no proof, of course, but this train of thought did lead me to begin working on another data project involving average review scores, which will hopefully be out there soon. At my most cynical, I think about the relative degrees to which masses of people revere a single work of art, metal album or otherwise, and wonder if all that reverence isn’t mostly fueled by nostalgia and memory, and shaped by the mechanisms through which we experience music, not the compositions themselves. The current era of free streaming replacing torrents might be over soon too. Spotify just inked a deal with Universal that will keep that label’s new releases exclusively available to paying users for a window of time. The next generation of metalheads will be influenced not just by what they listened to when they were most sensitive to music, but how they listened to it. How will the Free Spotify era define them? Questions without answers, for the moment. In the meantime. Music? Speaking of nostalgia. I love you but I prefer Sunlight Studios in 1991, and so do The Netherlands’ Entrapment, who do that most sacred of buzzsaw tones the justice it deserves. Most bands like this are content to ground and pound, but the riffs on Through Realms Unseen often carry strong melodies. Someone smuggle them over the border and into my living room, please. Through Realms Unseen by ENTRAPMENT When Chicago’s War Gods of the Deep emailed me, they listed Metallica and Kiss as their influences. These are high hurdles to clear, pretty much insurmountable for most. The three songs on Monsters, Magic & Mayhem go for deep early 90’s metal grooves, but marry them to the king of high Beatles-inspired harmonies that Paul Stanley was so fond of. The bones are bare, but their marrow tastes sweet. Monsters, Magic & Mayhem by War Gods of the Deep I very much enjoyed Hello Black Hole, the post-Beastmilk project by that band’s guitarist Goatspeed Snell, but judging by the comment threads here and on Facebook, IO readers wanted a little more from that band vocally. Maybe Lock Howl will scratch that itch. The solo project of James McBain, the band evokes similar vicious and reverb-soaked lo fi post punk. McBain’s voice jumps between Peter Steele crooning and vicious black metal shrieks, much to his project’s benefit. Pareidolia by Lock Howl Continuing the goth vein, Madison WI’s V A N I S H I N G K I D S, whose name I will never type ever again, also sound like they keep one stick of black lipstick in the dashboard just in case of a party. As one might expect from a band featuring ex members of Jex Thoth, there’s more than a little 60’s psychedelia in their guitar work. Goth rock always had a hard on for Haight Ashbury, after all. The crisp synthesizers and super-steady drumming, though, come as surprises. Imagine if King Woman had Trent Reznor produce one of their albums. Untitled by V A N I S H I N G K I D S Enough slow shit. We need speed. We need adrenaline. For that, we must consult Glasgow’s Man Must Die. This sort of precise and slightly melodic brutal death metal always hits the spot (must be all that Carcass nostalgia) but Man Must Die in particular have a great grasp of the genre, though their peers in aborted and Benighted achieve greater visibility. If you’ve ever blasted “Kill It Skin It Wear It”, please do yourself the favor. Their latest track, “Silent Authority” eschews some of their earlier freneticism in favor of more melody and never quite whips itself into a froth, but still has me excited for their as-yet untitled upcoming album. Subscribe to Invisible Oranges on As a second, more extreme example of that style, Emeth will do. The Belgian outfit sweep-picks the style toward a more frenetic extreme than some of their peers on Aethyr. Comparisons to Aborted seem inescapable, not in the least because founding guitarist Matty Dupont played with that band for a year, but his earliest recordings were with insane and storied grind outfit Agathocles. Some of that band’s brief attention span can be seen on Aethyr as well. Aethyr by EMETH Emeth share a label with Slovenia’s Eruption, who are about to drop one of the best thrash albums of the year. That may sound like faint praise, but there’s nothing tired or hackneyed about Cloaks of Oblivion, which takes the technical sonic palate of Megadeth’s seminal Rust in Peace, and roughs it up a little crossover in the same arena as Cyclone Temple. The songs could be shorter, but otherwise it’s a triumph. Cloaks of Oblivion by ERUPTION Last, not enough credit goes to Finland’s Tuomas Saukkonen, who for the better part of a decade has been a prolific and consistent songwriter. Neither of those things are good talking points. Consistency leaves no room for the peaks and valleys of a press narrative, and prolific releases means it’s hard for anyone to digest them all, especially when those songs were spread out between bands like Before the Dawn and Black Sun Aeon. Saukkonen has more focus now. He’s disbanded all of his projects except Wolfheart, a band I’ve been meaning to cover on this site for years but just never quite found the space to do so. I never find the space because there’s not much to observe in his work besides it’s quality. No other songwriter in melodic death metal is so consistent. I can listen to any of his records and just enjoy them. I can’t honestly say that about anyone else except Nile and Bolt Thrower. 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__label__wiki	0.884366	0.884366	Published: 0332 GMT November 16, 2019 Trump 'intimidating' to ex-envoy as new call details revealed A US ambassador ousted by Donald Trump told a riveting impeachment hearing Friday she felt intimidated by the president, after he launched an extraordinary real-time attack midway through her testimony to Congress. Testifying under oath before a national television audience, Marie Yovanovitch cut a resolute figure as she was grilled for five hours on her fraught dealings with Trump allies she accuses of undermining US foreign policy in Ukraine, AFP wrote. The 33-year diplomatic veteran earned a standing ovation from the public at the conclusion of her marathon testimony, during which she spoke in personal terms about how she was subjected to a "painful" smear campaign before being abruptly pulled from Kiev. Setting the scene less than an hour into the hearing, the president erupted spectacularly on Twitter with an attack on the highly-regarded former envoy. "Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad," he wrote. Asked what effect Trump's tweet might have on her and other witnesses, Yovanovitch appeared unnerved. "It's very intimidating," she told the panel. "I can't speak to what the president is trying to do but I think the effect is to be intimidating." On a momentous day on Capitol Hill, another official provided damning closed-door testimony to impeachment investigators, reportedly outlining how he overheard a phone call on which Trump asked about "investigations" he had requested from Ukraine into domestic political rivals. Trump's Twitter outburst highlighted the intensity of the public hearings that seek to establish whether the president abused the power of his office for personal political gain. The impeachment hearings kicked off Wednesday with testimony by two senior diplomats including the current top envoy to Ukraine, William Taylor. Friday's testimony proved richer in drama, with the president leveling attacks from afar as Yovanovitch explained to lawmakers how "dangerous" it was for US diplomats not to have the backing of their own administration. House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, who presides over the impeachment inquiry, hit out at "witness intimidation in real-time by the president." Witness tampering including intimidation is a crime, but Schiff would not say whether it was an impeachable offense, or if Democrats would make it the subject of an article of impeachment. Trump defended his tweet, telling reporters: "I have the right to speak. I have freedom of speech just like other people do." The ongoing inquiry in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives centers on accusations that Trump froze US military aid in an effort to get Ukraine to launch political investigations against potential 2020 election rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The investigation threatens to make Trump the third US president to be impeached, although the Republican-controlled Senate would need to convict him to remove him from office. 'Kneecapped' Prior to her May ouster, Yovanovitch claims she was targeted by a smear campaign orchestrated in part by Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who is accused of helping to coordinate the president's effort to pressure Kiev. Yovanovitch told lawmakers her inexplicable removal plunged America's Ukraine policy into "disarray" and damaged Washington's global standing. And when she read the memorandum of Trump's July 25 call with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky – in which the US leader called her "bad news" and said she was "going to go through some things" – she said "it sounded like a threat." Yovanovitch was "shocked" and "devastated" to learn how Trump had personally disparaged her, she added. But above all Yovanovitch expressed alarm that envoys could be so easily "kneecapped" by false accusations and corrupt foreign influences. "Our Ukraine policy has been thrown into disarray, and shady interests the world over have learned how little it takes to remove an American ambassador who does not give them what they want," she said. Yovanovitch leveled criticism at State Department leadership, and by extension Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, for failing to push back against forces that "apparently hijacked our Ukraine policy," or to support her in the face of "dangerously wrong" attacks against her. Anything you ask Pushing back, Republicans grilled Yovanovitch on Hunter Biden's association with Ukrainian energy company Burisma while his father was vice president – leading her to acknowledge it "could raise the appearance of a conflict of interest." No evidence of Biden wrongdoing related to Ukraine has emerged. Yovanovitch's testimony came amid more bad news for Trump. His longtime aide Roger Stone was convicted Friday for lying to Congress and witness tampering related to the probe into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election. Taylor's aide David Holmes meanwhile testified in closed session that he overheard a previously unreported call between Trump and US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, in which Trump asked about the status of the "investigations." That July 26 call was just one day after the Trump-Zelensky conversation in which Trump asked his counterpart to investigate the Bidens. Sondland told Trump that Zelensky "loves your ass" and "will do 'anything you ask him to,'" according to a copy of Holmes's opening statement obtained by CNN. Trump trial opens with fiery clashes over witnesses Trump seeks rapid exoneration in Senate after impeachment US panel sets deadline for Trump to decide participation in impeachment hearings US court orders White House to comply with impeachment subpoenas Top Democrat: more testimony, hearings possible in Trump impeachment Ousted US envoy testifies at Trump impeachment hearing Trump promises new transcript amid new phase of impeachment probe US House formalizes Trump impeachment probe in landmark vote	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line604
__label__wiki	0.903337	0.903337	Submit your PR AVERY DENNISON EXPANDS PRIME FILM PORTFOLIO Avery Dennison Corporation has added four new facestocks with a Bleached Glassine (BG) liner to its Prime Film Portfolio of BOPP films. The Prime Film Portfolio is an engineered family of films purpose-built for the specific marketing and containers needs of the home and personal care, food and beverage market segments. All of the film constructions in the portfolio are anchored with the company’s proprietary S7000 adhesive, which delivers excellent clarity, conformability and productivity for high-speed converting. “Our S7000 adhesive has shown customers the increased productivity and performance it delivers through hundreds of print runs and billions of square inches,” said Paul Purdef, Films Product Manager, North America. “By adding a BG liner, we are able to offer customers more options while still delivering operational improvements.” The complete portfolio has been designed with S7000 to offer excellent performance in both converting and dispensing. The S7000 adhesive delivers 50 percent less ooze, reducing adhesive contamination and clean-up. Available in white, clear and metalized options, the new BOPP film constructions are ideal for rigid containers. The films feature a balance of properties that eliminate darts and wrinkles in high-speed dispensing environments and challenging packaging formats which helps deliver greater shelf and brand appeal. About Avery Dennison Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) is a global leader in labeling and packaging materials and solutions. The company’s applications and technologies are an integral part of products used in every major market and industry. With operations in more than 50 countries and 30,000 employees worldwide, Avery Dennison serves customers with insights and innovations that help make brands more inspiring and the world more intelligent. Headquartered in Pasadena, California, the company reported sales from continuing operations of $6 billion in 2011. Learn more at www.averydennison.com Published by Will Farrel on Thursday, June 13, 2013 Category: # Film Facestock # More about Avery Dennison Straubinger Tagblatt / Landshuter Zeitung automates prepress and boosts capacity with two KODAK GENERATION NEWS Systems Wolfgang Heitzer, Production Manager (left), and his assistant Sven Lahrssen, who helped implement the CTP workflow. German newspaper... NEW VIDEOJET® 8510 INKJET PRINTER DESIGNED TO MEET INDUSTRIAL CODING APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS Videojet Technologies Inc., a world-leading manufacturer of coding, printing and laser marking products, fluids and accessories for the prod... DiMS! organizing print upgrades their CIP4 membership to top level DiMS! organizing print, the world leader in MIS/ERP systems for the printing and packaging industries, announced their new commitment as Par... ROTOCONTROL now supplying label finishing machines for CCL Industries Inc Marco Aengenvoort, Managing Director, today announced the signed supplier contract with CCL Industries Inc. to purchase ROTOCONTROL finishin... Schreiner Group honors suppliers For the third time, the Schreiner Group has selected a "Supplier of the Year." This year, the "Supplier of the Year" awa... Film Facestock In mold labeling Labeling Machinery Blog Archive September (37) May (2) September (7) August (16) July (2) April (4) December (16) October (4) September (60) August (9) November (1) December (24) November (10) October (61) September (10) August (27) July (27) June (43) May (24) April (31) March (38) February (34) January (31) December (31) November (54) October (53) September (70) August (27) July (54) June (45) May (47) April (46) March (45) February (42) January (45) December (51) November (53) October (67) September (107) August (44) July (73) June (60) May (69) April (62) March (58) February (63) January (65) December (44) November (61) October (72) September (108) August (55) July (44) June (70) May (120) April (93) March (82) February (59) January (42) December (42) November (68) October (68) September (119) August (53) July (49) June (67) May (73) April (59) March (77) February (66) January (58) December (70) November (93) October (102) September (77) August (56) July (49) June (77) May (92) April (64) March (59) February (30) January (32) December (6) November (22) October (20) September (29) August (29) July (26) June (29) May (28) April (21) March (23) February (27) January (27) December (15) November (34) October (14) September (25) August (14) July (2) June (1) April (4) March (1) February (1) December (1) October (3) September (3) May (1) February (2) Copyright © 2015 Labelling Blog	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line609
__label__wiki	0.532677	0.532677	STOP THAT! NOW GO BACK AND SIT DOWN! The Desilu Lot Public Domain Lucy By Luvsbway, October 2, 2019 in STOP THAT! NOW GO BACK AND SIT DOWN! Luvsbway 2,170 LocationPA I have a question regarding those Good Times VHS tapes many of is bought back in the 90s. My understanding is that the stuff on those tapes was pulled from what was public domain. First, is this correct? Second, much of the stuff I’ve been able to find over the years either in newer bargain bin DVDs, YouTube or as extras on Lucy DVDs. There are a few exceptions that I just can’t come across. One thing I’m looking for is the first episode of Steve Lawrence’s 1965 show. I have bits and pieces from those Good Times tapes but really would love to find the whole episode. I found one random site that was selling a DVD of it for $15. So if I’m looking for footage that is public domain material, shouldn’t it be easier to locate those individual clips, episodes, talk shows, etc that are on those VHS tapes? Neil 1,451 The $15 disc is no doubt the same copy that's been circulating for years: poorly copied from a kinescope on to VHS, then copied and copied before being transferred somewhere along the way to DVD. Subsequent Steve Lawrence Shows were done in color but unfortunately this one is in b/w. It's Lucy at her absolute finest. The show starts out with Lucy and Steve singing "Together Wherever We Go" (riding an elephant!). Lucy sounds so good, at first I didn't think it was her. I've been able to see bits of the original videotape in pristine quality but as far as I know it has not been released in any professional form, which is too bad. This is a great variety hour (mainly due to Lucy's glamorous presence). I don't know about the subsequent SL shows but the series fared so poorly in the ratings despite being part of the CBS Monday line-up, it was cancelled after 13 weeks. I don't know who owns the rights now. Maybe Lawrence will put it out one day. One of the very last variety shows (if not THE last) to originate from New York. Also one of the last that concentrated on music, rather than comedy. There was an art to these musical-variety shows, missing from later variety series that concentrated on comedy. Lawrence later showed great comic flair when he appeared on Carol Burnett. Lucy's SL episode has no skits. Mot Morenzi 1,648 I'd love to see the full show as well. Those clips are so tantalising. Speaking of public domain, Tubi has the two part "Funny World of Lucy" documentary, at least the Australian version does. Unfortunately, it was encoded in the wrong frame rate and jutters and jerks constantly. I'll have to have my folks dig out my DVD copy if I want to see it properly again. I transferred some of my Goodtimes VHS to DVD, the rare stuff I didn't have anywhere else better on DVD. It plays fine on a DVD player but unfortunately I can't pull the clips onto my computer the way I transferred them. Thanks for the heads about the Steve Lawrence disk that was floating around. I was wondering about quality. I'll stay away until I can find something clearer. I might have to dig out the Goodtimes stuff again but does anyone know if this clip is from the opening of Steve Lawrence? A marching band comes into the studio and Lucy appears at the top of a platform in a glamours dress. She then falls off the platform and is caught by a group below. I remember her swinging on a giant chandelier. Wasn't that the same show where she shared the Marineland bloopers? 16 minutes ago, Mot Morenzi said: I think that was it, the chandelier. It had to be the same show as she was talking to Steve Lawrence about those porpoises. I remember that segment really well as I just loved as a teenager talk about behind the scenes. I watched that part a lot. HarryCarter 1,135 Yes, the “We Love You, Lucy” cheerleader and matching band opening was from The Steve Lawrence Show. What I would love most of all to see in its entirety from these collections is the Desi and Lucie Mike Douglas Show. 45 minutes ago, HarryCarter said: YES!!! That fortunately my computer let me pull that from the DVD but it's so short. That's a rare bit of interview there. Did Lucie and her dad show up on any other interview shows post 1960? 1 hour ago, Luvsbway said: I think that was it other than little interviews for their 1982 Miami carnival show. I have seen one other bit of this show: Lucie did a smashing medley of “Thanks for the Memories,” “They Can’t That Away From,” and “You’re the Top” with special lyrics for her father, which had Desi in tears. Desi was co-host that whole week and Vivian and Desi Jr. were also guests, as were Eddie Bracken and former Desi band singer Jane Harvey. So back to my original question. If that bit of the Douglas interview was on the GT tape, was all the stuff on that tape public domain>? And if so, why can't we find stuff like more of this week of Mike you mention. Because it sounds FANTASTIC!! Will 58 I would love to see Steve Lawrence Show. It looks great and I love musical Lucy (wish she did Mame in 1966 her voice started to chang around 1968). I would love to see that Mike Douglas Show and the 1968 one where Vivian surprised Lucy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line615
__label__cc	0.540237	0.459763	The Antique Mall Is Back and Better Feb 13, 2012 \| Fashion & Shopping BY PAMELA KEECH Yep, the Bloomington Antique Mall is back. When it closed three years ago it broke the hearts of collectors and dealers alike. The building sat vacant until last October when it was bought by Gregory and Denise Pence of Columbus, who also own Exit 76 Antique Mall in Edinburgh. Cheers were heard along West 7th Street when the doors reopened just two weeks after the sale was finalized. The mall looks even better than before. Antique furniture and decorator items cluster near the front counter and an area of glass display cases has been added. Many familiar dealers were able to reclaim their former spots. The bookseller is back, as is the purveyor of the snowshoes and bear traps. So is the duchess of rhinestones, top floor rear. By accident (not by design) several sellers of retro goods occupy a sizeable chunk of the lower level, now referred to as “the fun floor” by the staff. A wonderland of midcentury furnishings, vintage clothing, feathers, and glitz awaits the curious shopper. A spiffy new freight/passenger elevator (some will remember the former creaky cage) and ramps to both the front door and loading dock make the space fully accessible. The 24,000-square-foot building is located in the Near West Side Historic District that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Originally the John R. Figg Wholesale Grocery Company, it was built circa 1900 adjacent to the Monon railway (now the B-Line Trail) as a distribution center for foodstuffs. It first became an antique mall in 1987. Inveterate antique dealer Will Rosena manages the mall and makes sure that the retail philosophy—to rent space and showcases in a well-lit, clean, and friendly environment—is observed. Multitudes of windows, well-kept merchandise, and efficient customer service help fulfill the promise. What’s hot now? “Midcentury modern,” say Rosena. “If you listen to what’s going on at auctions, as soon as midcentury modern comes up the number of bidders and prices paid just skyrockets.” The mall’s address is 311 W. 7th St.; its telephone number is 323-7676. The mall is open seven days a week from 10 am to 6 pm. It is closed just three days a year—Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving. Pamela Keech is Bloom’s style editor. PreviousMiddle Way House Wins Awards For Preservation and Revitalization NextCactus Flower : The Little Shop That Could Lee Loves Wristwatches Still Popular In the Modern Digital Age Himalayan Handicrafts: From Pakistan to Downtown Bloomington (Photo Gallery) Artistic Aquatics: Need to Chill? Rent Fish! Pat Lynch on July 21, 2015 at 10:52 am We are excited about visiting this store. We just heard about it from the store at exit 76 in Edinburg. We plan to stop by next week.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line620
__label__cc	0.73344	0.26656	Highlights from our January 2018 SCI Effort We are back home after completing our first field effort of 2018 on the Navy SOAR range off San Clemente Island in SoCal. This field effort was slightly longer than our typical projects in order to maximize the time we had on range while Navy activities were on a hiatus. We had a mixed bag of weather during this trip. We were plagued with thick fog for a number of days and endured a strong storm that forced us off the water for two days, but we also scored a couple of what we consider “good beaked whale weather” days with light winds, visibility and minimal swell which balanced out the productivity. A strong storm kept us off the water for two days. Stormy skies at sunset. PC: Brenda Rone When the weather was nice, it was REALLY nice! We snapped this at sunrise while heading around the north end of San Clemente Island out to the Navy range. PC: Brenda Rone You would think fog would be problematic when locating animals. It definitely provides an element of complication to an already difficult task and when winds decide to join in, it makes locating beaked whales next to impossible (unless we get lucky). Not only do we lose sight, we lose sound. Listening for animals to exhale when they surface from a dive, particularly with beaked whales, is one of the most effective ways to locate them. So, while we were visually impaired for a number of days, when we had light winds, we were still successful in locating Cuvier’s beaked whales due in big part to the expert “ears” we had from M3R (Marine Mammal Monitoring on Navy Ranges) who listened for beaked whale clicks on the hydrophones and provided us the best position to wait for the animals to surface after their long dives. During this project we had 12 days on the water totaling 106 hours of effort, covered 925 nautical miles, documented 9 species (Cuvier’s beaked, minke, fin, gray, and humpback whales, common, Northern right whale, Pacific white-sided, and Risso’s dolphins) for a total of 69 sightings of 2,356 individuals (Figure 1). We also collected genetic samples from two fin whales and one Northern right whale dolphin which will contribute to a number of studies including stock structure, stress hormones, and sex determination. Figure 1. Sighting and effort from our January 2018 survey. We had a grand total of 13 encounters totaling 36 individuals (with some repeat sightings) of Cuvier’s beaked whales on 8 of the 9 days we had focused effort on the range, including a surprising sighting of 3 individuals just north of the island in 700 m of water (Figure 1). They are typically encountered in depths greater than 1000 m. We were able to photograph nearly all animals and deployed a medium-duration archival tag on one individual. This was a very successful trip for beaked whale sightings especially when you compare it to our last effort in November of 2017 when we had one brief sighting of one animal. On our first day on the range, we had beaked whales from sunrise to sunset! PC: Greg Schorr Additional highlights included several sightings of Pacific white-sided dolphins and a very large group of Northern right whale dolphins estimated at 500 individuals. The unique looking finless Northern right whale dolphin leaps through the air. PC: Brenda Rone A curious young Pacific white-sided dolphin came over to check out our boat. PC: Brenda Rone In addition, we deployed a drifting acoustic buoy in several locations on range in collaboration with Dr. Jay Barlow of Southwest Fisheries Science Center. We were fortunate to have him out with us for three of the days, as he was of tremendous help and also provided some luck. We deployed a tag on the first day he arrived (Thanks Jay!). He will be looking for beaked whale vocalizations in the form of clicks which commence on foraging dives (they use sound to echolocate on prey including squid and fish) and can derive a density estimate based on the number of individual animal clicks identified within that area. We will be back down on San Clemente Island in February to continue our research in support of several projects. MarEcoTel would like to thank Living Marine Resources, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Southern California Offshore Range, San Clemente Island personnel, and Frank and Jane Falcone for support, assistance, and collaboration. Great photos, especially the sunset. Back to rainy reality tomorrow Love, MOM https://bestwritingclues.com/reviews/bestessays-review/ link It is so good to see that your mom takes the time to comment on your blog posts and leave lovely comments on your blog. My mom is not really great at showing emotions. She always gets ashamed whenever she would express how much she loves my siblings and I. Personally, I would have wanted her to be more open so she could show us that she supports us because she was never present at any of our school events. Despite that, I know that deep down inside, she loves us and it is just harder for her to express her feelings.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line622
__label__cc	0.71581	0.28419	Top 10 beauty products under £10 As 2014 draws to a close, I wanted to highlight some of the best budget buys I've been using during the year. Some are new, some are old and trusted favourites - but all are fantastic value for money. I've by no means captured them all - but these have been my top ten products this year that cost less than £10. Enjoy. You can't argue with a decent foundation for under a tenner - and that's exactly what Bourjois Healthy Mix is. Yes, it's been around a while - but there's a reason it's still a best seller. Given that Bourjois and Chanel are owned by the same company, perhaps it shouldn't be a surprise that it's such good quality - and good value. It's £9.99 - but it compares well with much more expensive foundations. The coverage is good, the range of colours is pretty good and it's staying power is more than good. Highly pigmented, and staying power of around 4-6 hours, the Bourjois Rouge Edition Velvet lipstick deserves a mention. Initially launched in six colours, there are now eight to choose from. Initially, it feels quite wet when you first apply it, but it dries to a matte finish. It does still transfer to mugs or glasses - so be careful with that - but overall, a good addition to any make-up bag. £8.99 each. Revlon ColorBurst Matte Balm comes in a massive range of colours and there are also gloss versions if that's more your style. They feel like a lip balm - they feature a triple butter complex of shea, mango and coconut butters - and are quite pigmented. The staying power isn't comparable to more expensive versions (at least on my lips) but for £7.99 you can't really moan. If you're looking for a decent eye shadow with good pigmentation and staying power, then look no further than Max Factor's Excess Shimmer pots. Don't be put off by the name - yes, they are shimmery, but I wouldn't say it's excessive. The staying power is very good - you'll need a decent eye make-up remover to get this off - and my colour of choice is bronze. It does sell out pretty quickly so can be difficult to get hold of - but when you can find it, it's £7.99. To be honest, there are lots of 'drug store' mascaras out there that do a very good job - I definitely wouldn't opt for a high end version, - I'd spend the cash on skincare or foundation first. The new SEVENTEEN Falsifeye HD mascara is well worth a look - it's £6.99 and really does give length and volume. What more could you want? The Body Shop Body Butters aren't technically under £10 - the normal retail price is £13 - but there's usually an offer that makes them around £6. My personal favourite is the Brazil Nut one, but I've used a few at different times and they're all good. I use them after a bath before going to bed - they are quite heavy and need some time to sink in - but it really hydrates my skin and they smell amazing. The whole Neutrogena Visibly Clear range in pink grapefruit is great value for money (and as a sneaky 11th product, I'd also check out the facial wash - £4.49) but the moisturiser smells fantastic and is really light and hydrating. It's £4.99 but currently on offer - so definitely worth picking up when you're out and about. (Not pictured) Rimmel Stay Matte Pressed Powder - a bargain at just £3.99 - does exactly what the name suggests: it stays matte. Most of the pressed powders at this price point are a bit too 'talcum powder' like for me - but this one has been a staple in my make-up bag this year. (Not pictured) Love multi-tasking products? Then check out Nivea Daily Essentials 2 in 1 Cleanser and Toner. For oily and combination skins, this little beauty cleanses and tones in one easy step. Just pop on your serum and moisturiser and you're good to go. £3.59 definitely isn't going to break the bank. COLAB dry shampoo is wonderous. Created by Ruth Crilly - blogger extraordinaire - it claims to be a breakthrough in dry shampoo couture, and it doesn't disappoint. Perhaps the best thing about this is the total lack of white powder that is so often associated with dry shampoo. It comes in a range of fragrances, each named after different world cities - my personal favourite is London, obviously - but to be honest, they're all pretty good. Snap one up in your local Superdrug - the 200ml size is just £2.32. (Not pictured) Labels: beauty, budget, Shopping	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line623
__label__cc	0.698352	0.301648	Mommy Modern Yes, I Live In La La Land. And I Like It. Before anyone starts lecturing me, yes, I do know that denial is not your friend. I know it keeps you away from confronting your problems, issues and demons -- blah, blah, blah. However, quite honestly, sometimes I prefer to live in my la-la land and just shut the entire world out for a few moments of uninterrupted bliss. I think this began back in my elementary years. I blame it wholely on New Kids on the Block. From the time I can remember, I was OBSESSED --- no I don't think you understand -- OBSESSED with New Kids on the Block like most other teeny-boppers out there. I had every cassette, every blanket, every big button and anything my mom would let me stuff into my shrine in my bedroom. I remember laying in bed with my walkman -- oh yeah, the cassette walkman -- singing along with Joey to "Please Don't Go Girl" while planning our upcoming nuptials. My poor mother had to wait in endless lines for hours on end to secure tickets to the mayhem that would ensue months later when they arrived in concert. I remember one of the New Kids concerts she took me to (she took me to at least six, poor lady) we had to drive for nearly three hours in the worst blizzard Michigan had seen in decades. I sat very quietly in the front seat after she threatened to turn the car around and go home if I uttered one more word. Clearly she was a tad stressed. Anyhow, during that concert Joey had an asthma attack and was taken by ambulance to a local hospital and we were told he would not return. Crushed. Literally -- MY. WORLD. ENDED. But not for long because that incident birthed my new found love in Jordan. Please, he'd never let an asthma attack come between us!! Besides, I was getting older and needed a more "mature" New Kid. By the way -- what's up with this NKOTB crap? It's the New Kids. It always will be. When New Kids announced they were taking a "break" -- I was once again heartbroken. No more mapping out or color scheme for our wedding flowers or deciding how I will break it to Mom that I'm moving out of her house to tour with the band. My la-la land was gone. I lived in reality from 1994 - 1996 and that wasn't pretty. Luckily I just so happened to be watching the Ru Paul show late in 1996 when Backstreet Boys made their first United States appearance. So...do you think Nick Carter would prefer teal and pink or tan and peach? HELLO LA-LA LAND, boy have I missed you! I must say even as an adult today I prefer to escape to la-la land every now and again. Time won't allow it to become a regular occurrence but on the rare occasions it does -- I become Joey, Jordan and Nick's love all over again. I plug in my headphones, open the music app, scroll to "My Happy Place" playlist and hit shuffle. Tuck that phone in my back pocket, throw in the headphones and away I go!!! I hope you all have the chance to visit your personal la-la lands occasionally too. Just keep your paws away from my Joey, Jordan and Nick and we'll be good. Otherwise -- I will hurt a bitch. Mommy Modern is a blog dedicated to helping it's followers find comfort and humor in the ups and downs of the modern day family, amazing deals, product reviews, great recipes and educational resources for your family. We're glad you've stopped by and feel free to stay a while! Let's Be Real... Lifestyle Managment Motherhood Mayhem Reader Question Sponsors...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line632
__label__cc	0.605646	0.394354	Traffic Stop on Highway 60 Results in Drug Arrests While patrolling on Highway 60, Washington Parish Patrol Sergeant Jay Dupre observed a vehicle being driven in an erratic manner. Sgt. Dupre initiated a traffic stop and encountered two female occupants. The driver, Kasey E. Woodard age 27 and a resident of Highway 21 south of Bogalusa, had a suspended Louisiana driver’s license. After obtaining permission to search the vehicle, Sgt. Dupre discovered a quantity of methamphetamine and Suboxone. Patrol Deputy James Gregorio arrived to assist and both the driver and passenger, Melissa Lee Miller Thomas (40), a resident of Willa Villa in Bogalusa, were placed under arrest and transported to the Washington Parish Jail. Woodard was booked on the charges of Improper Lane Usage, Driving Under Suspension, Expired MVI, Possession of Schedule 1 Drugs, and Possession of Schedule II Drugs. Thomas was booked on the charges of Possession of Schedule 1 Drugs, Possession of Schedule II Drugs, and Possession of Schedule III Drugs. Both remain in jail with their bond set at $10,000. Each woman has been in the Washington Parish Jail several times. Woodard’s arrest record dates to 2009 and includes five arrests for various charges including forgery, drug offenses and burglary. Thomas has been in the jail at least eight times since 2006 on charges including numerous drug offenses, auto theft, burglary, firearm theft, and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. “The future doesn’t look bright for these women,” stated Sheriff Randy Seal, “unless they can make a dramatic change in their lifestyles. Their choices thus far have produced nothing positive. Let’s hope they make positive future choices. Thanks, Sgt. Dupre, Deputy Gregorio and all of our officers, for all you do.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line636
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__label__wiki	0.603832	0.603832	Home › Core Labs › Biomedical Research Informatics › Links Bioinformatics Links University of Delaware Morris Library Main Page E-Journal Links Thomas Jefferson Library Access for Nemours via Nemours 'InfoLink': Resources tab, OVID library icon, Your journal @OVID link via Volunteer Faculty Page Gene Annotation Web site Comments NCBI Home page for the National Center for Biotechnology Information of the NIH. Site has links to the databases and tools of NCBI, including, but is not limited to, PubMed, BLAST, OMIM, and Books. GenAtlas This is a comprehensive database of human genes maintained at the Universite Rene Descartes - Paris. See the help page for more information about the database. GeneCards GeneCards is maintained by the Weizmann Institute of Science. This database contains human genes and their products, functions and involvement in disease. Ensembl Ensembl is a joint project between EMBL-EBI and the Sanger Institute. This site currently has information on genes from 39 species, including rat and mouse. DAVID The Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery (DAVID) is a bioinformatics resource that resides on the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), NIH. This resource provides several useful functional annotation tools, including identification of enriched biological themes and grouping of genes into functionally-related clusters. Databases with Microarray Data GEO The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) is maintained by NCBI. Geo is a searchable repository for gene expression microarray data. ArrayExpress ArrayExpress is maintained by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). This is a public repository for microarray data. GXD Gene Expression Database (GXD) contains gene expression information from the laboratory mouse. This is part of Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) which also includes databases with genes, genome features, genome maps, phenotypes, alleles, disease models, recombinase (cre) specificiy, functional annotation (GO), biochemical pathways, strains, SNPs, polymorphisms, mammalian orthology and tumor biology. MGI is supported by The Jackson Laboratory. PUMAdb Princeton University Microarray Database has raw and normalized microarray data. Results from published studies are available here. Microarray and Bioinformatics Facilities Microarray Database Site links to databases, software, publications and other resources. Penn Genomic Frontiers Institute Core Facilities Site links to the microarray, bioinformatics and proteomics facilities at the University of Pennsylvania. Affymetrix, Inc. Biotechnology company that provides designs and manufactures short oligo microarrays, called GeneChips. Expression Analysis, Inc. Biotechnology company that provides several services including microarray processing of Affymetrix GeneChips. Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Departments Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory This lab is headed by John Quackenbush, PhD in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health. Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology Home page for the Hartwell Center of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. University of Penn Bioinformatics The Center for Bioinformatics at the University of Pennsylvania. Site links to CBIL and other resources. Bioinformatics at NIH This site contains information about biomedical computing at NIH, including news and events, a calendar, symposia, and funding opportunities. MIAME MIAME-Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment. Guidelines and nomenclature for standardizing reports and databases of microarray data. UD-TJU Joint Program The Daniel Baugh Institute for functional genomics and computation biology supports a joint program between the University of Delaware and Thomas Jefferson University.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line645
__label__cc	0.731067	0.268933	Grimmfest 2019 Frightfest London 2019 Fantasia Fest 2019 Manchester Int. Film Festival 2019 Glasgow Frightfest 2019 Horror-On-Sea 2019 Frightfest 2018 Fantasia 2018 Frightfest 2017 in Review(s) Fantasia Film Festival 2017 PLAY Expo Blackpool 2017 PLAY Expo Leeds 2017 Features/Fun Stuff 365 Flicks History of Bad Ideas Pop Addled Comic Concierge The Filmmakers Podcast Dean Fuller Rupert Harvey Britt Roberts Matthew Smail Alain Elliott Jak-Luke Sharp Nathan Favel Matthew Turner Xenia Grounds Chris Thomas Kevin Haldon Jason Brigger 25th Feb2016 ‘Batman: Bad Blood’ Review by ApolloXL5 Stars: Jason O’Mara, Yvonne Strahovski, Stuart Allan, Sean Maher, Morena Baccarin, Steve Blum, Gaius Charles, John DiMaggio, Robin Atkin Downes, James Garrett, Ernie Hudson, Christine Lakin, Vanessa Marshall \| Written by J.M. DeMatteis \| Directed by Jay Oliva After Batman goes missing, Dick Grayson takes up his mantle as He and Damian Wayne have to protect Gotham City, while also trying to find the original Batman. Two new allies, Batwoman and Batwing arrive to help investigate Batman’s disappearance. So here we are with another ‘Original’ movie from DC, who were once a Juggernaut when it came to releasing a constant stream of excellent animated movies that eclipsed the majority of DC’s live-action catalogue. But it does appear (apart from a few films like JL: Gods and Monsters and Batman: Assault on Arkham) that things are not going to change any time soon (especially with how Justice League vs. Teen Titans looks from it’s trailer, but a little more on that later). I mean everything about this film, from the voice acting to the animation is just…okay. It is serviceable, it gets the job done. And after watching all of these adaptations of DC’s ’New-52’ stories, I just get the feeling that DC are doing the bare minimum (going through the motions), while saving the real effort for films such as the ones I mentioned above (and hopefully future films like The Killing Joke as well). But I remember a time when they used put in 100% for each and every release, and it really annoys me to see the quality of their films drop to the same standard as most of Marvel’s animated efforts. But anyway, let’s talk about the film. Now this is a continuation of the plot-lines from both Son of Batman and Batman vs. Robin, which is something I like (I love continuity and having previous actions and events have consequences on all that follows, therefore allowing the characters to learn from mistakes/or be haunted by them and overall grow as characters, which is great for drama/the story). But unfortunately character growth is something that appears to be an alien concept for the ones that inhabit this ‘New-52 animated Universe’, since every character that appears in this film is exactly the same by the time the end-credits roll from how they were at the Movie’s start. I am not kidding, nobody learns anything or shows any kind of growth during this film and I can put that up to two reasons. The large cast of characters (there are just too many. Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Batwoman, Batwing, Heretic, Talia, Mad-Hatter, Fire-Fly, Killer-Moth, Tusk, Onyx, Alfred…just to name a few). The run-time of 72 minutes (which is barely enough time to finish the story, let alone give any of the characters their moments in the spotlight). Now don’t get me wrong, there are some good themes and ideas in Batman: Bad Blood (like Batwoman’s back-story or Nightwing living in Batman’s shadow to name just a few). But after originally delving into these with either flash-backs or one of the few exposition scenes, they end up going absolutely nowhere as they are simply dropped in favour of by ‘the numbers’ action sequences (which I guess is because we needed keep the pace as fast as possible….only 72 minutes to fill it all in, after all). Now as I said, the characters barely get any time for us to get emotionally invested with them (which is harder if they are just two dimensional versions of the characters they are based on), but it is even worse when one of the characters was built up to be the main villain. And by that I mean…the Heretic, who (like everyone else) we barely get any time with or explanation behind his motivations (which looked interesting from the tiny bits of information we were given) before he is suddenly killed off by Talia Al-Ghul. And I have to ask, is Talia bipolar? I mean (as I said previously) this is a continuation of the story from Son of Batman, but Talia here could not be any further apart from the woman she was in that previous film (with her willing to do and sacrifice anything for either Bruce or Damian). As here she is simply a cold-hearted and calculating manic driven by the need for World domination, which makes for a very boring ‘been there, done that’ experience. And Iron-Bat…sorry, I mean Batwing feels like a discount version of Iron Man (and here I thought the Atom in Arrow’s third season was that, but here we get an almost shot for shot copy of the suit assembly scene from the first Iron Man film, complete with a similar-sounding soundtrack) and just like the other new characters, gets little to no time to really delve into who he is. It’s rumoured that Batman: Bad Blood is being used to show off new characters like Batwoman and Batwing, giving them the spotlight over the rest (aka Batman, Nightwing, Robin etc), but they were not given enough time for us to get to know them. So in the end you just end up not caring, which is a real shame. And what is with all the villain deaths in this film, I mean anyone who doesn’t sport a Bat-emblem (or closest thing to it) ends up getting killed off. Now I mentioned Heretic getting taken out by Talia, but so does everyone else. And the Bat-Family doesn’t even blink at that either, except for Damian (who ironically, is the only character out of them who usually doesn’t mind killing if need be) as he tries to save Tusk, only to fail (at least he tried, which is more than I can say for the rest, like Fire-Fly). I know that the majority of the enemies are not actually killed by the heroes, but the latter are indirectly involved and could have done something to save them (yes, I know Batman has killed before, but the modern-day Batman and his Allies do their best to ensure that no one dies). Now as I said at the start of this review, the voice-acting again is fine, but no one really stands out from them. The story itself isn’t just a loose adaptation of an existing comic this time (like Batman vs. Robin or Throne of Atlantis), but is instead made up of aspects of most of the ‘Batman and Robin’ and ‘Batman Incorporated’ series by Grant Morrison, which makes a nice change (I have to go on record and say that I have not read any of those stories, so I went into this film with a fresh pair of eyes). The Humor in this film was not very good though, with all the jokes falling flat (the Nunjas…). The animation though is okay, but still doesn’t hold a candle to what we are used to getting from any of the DC animated films pre-New-52 (not including Gods and Monsters), but all the characters designs are pretty much spot on. Overall Batman: Bad Blood is a ‘by the numbers’ animated movie. One that is dull and predictable and has little time to do much with it’s overly large cast of characters. I mean it is not as bad as Batman vs. Robin, but that isn’t really saying much. And I have to say, after seeing the trailer for Justice League vs. Teen Titans I am getting the feeling of Déjà vu, because this film had Batman being brainwashed by Talia and turning him on his friends, and the next film has Trigon brainwashing the League and turning them on the Titans. Can‘t say I am looking forward to that film (unlike The Killing Joke), but I do hope that DC manages to get their groove back and give us films of the quality that they used to bring us year in and year out, back in the day. *½ 1.5/5 Batman: Bad Blood is released on VOD on March 18th and DVD/Blu-ray on March 21st. Category : Movies, Reviews Tags : Batman: Bad Blood, Christine Lakin, DC Comics, DVD, Ernie Hudson, Gaius Charles, J.M. DeMatteis, James Garrett, Jason O'Mara, Jay Oliva, John DiMaggio, Morena Baccarin, Review, Robin Atkin Downes, Sean Maher, Steve Blum, Stuart Allan, Vanessa Marshall, Warner Bros., Yvonne Strahovski Writers Wanted! Watch us on Twitch Cinehouse Pissed Off Geek The People's Movies Travelling Man Weekly Essay - get professional help with your writing tasks. Thesis doesn't have to be hard.Thesis Rush will prove it. 123 Term Paper company can create a superb research paper. www.collegepaperworld.com Get a high-quality essay written at Writers Per Hour. 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__label__cc	0.503686	0.496314	Dandpat SK Tripathi M Varshney N Batish A Mohindra S Not a refugee, nasogastric tube in the brain: Modes of prevention and controversies in management Saswat K Dandpat1, Manjul Tripathi1, Nagesh Varshney2, Aman Batish1, Sandeep Mohindra1 1 Department of Neurosurgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India 2 Asha Brain and Spine Centre, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India Date of Web Publication 15-Mar-2018 Dr. Manjul Tripathi Department of Neurosurgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh - 160 012 Dandpat SK, Tripathi M, Varshney N, Batish A, Mohindra S. Not a refugee, nasogastric tube in the brain: Modes of prevention and controversies in management. Neurol India 2018;66:523-4 Dandpat SK, Tripathi M, Varshney N, Batish A, Mohindra S. Not a refugee, nasogastric tube in the brain: Modes of prevention and controversies in management. Neurol India [serial online] 2018 [cited 2020 Jan 29];66:523-4. Available from: http://www.neurologyindia.com/text.asp?2018/66/2/523/227265 Nasogastric tube (NGT) intubation is one of the most commonly performed bedside procedures for enteral feeding and for emptying gastric contents. Though considered an innocuous procedure, vigorous forceful attempts at NGT insertion may lead to various life-threatening complications, viz. esophageal perforation, bronchopleural fistula, pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, and pulmonary hemorrhage.[1] Among these complications, iatrogenic insertion into the brain is the one most lethal. Martinelle et al., first reported this complication in 1974 in a patient of head injury.[1] A 45-year old male patient was referred in an unconscious status (the Glasgow Coma Scale Score [GCS]: Eye opening 2; Verbal response: 2; Motor response: 5) following an explosive blast injury. The patient was primarily managed at a health care centre, where endotracheal intubation and NGT insertion were performed. After his initial stabilization, a noncontrast computed tomography (CT) scan head was performed to evaluate for associated injuries. The CT scan of the head revealed a right frontal bone depressed fracture and anterior skull base fracture with bilateral occipital lobe contusions [Figure 1]a. Sagittal and coronal CT images showed that the NGT had crossed the fractured cribriform plate and had reached the vertex, traversing through the brain parenchyma, masquerading as an acute subdural hematoma or a foreign body [Figure 1]b and [Figure 1]c. After hemodynamic stabilization, the NGT was gently pulled out from the nose without any complication. There was no cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea or herniating brain matter from the nose. The patient was kept on prophylactic intravenous antibiotic for 1 week. At a 1-month follow-up, the patient had regained consciousness without having any added neurological deficits. Figure 1: (a) NCCT axial image showing the nasogastric tube traversing the cribriform plate (arrow head), with its the distal end near the occipital area (arrow); (b) sagittal image, showing the distal end of the tube along the calvaria, masquerading as an acute subdural hematoma (arrow); and, (c) the coronal image, showing the tube in the brain, visualized as a foreign body. (NCCT; noncontrast computed tomography) NGT misplacements usually occur in patients with a traumatic head injury following an anterior skull base fracture or after complex craniofacial injuries. Such accidents are secondary to lack of adequate radiological investigations at peripheral primary health centers, and also due to the lack of knowledge on the part of the caregivers. The 'red flag' signs of anterior skull base fractures are cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea, herniating brain matter, pneumocephalus, or the presence of internal compound fractures. Aspirating gastric contents or auscultating the “pseudo-confirmation gurgle,” (which may often yield a false positive result) can clinically evaluate the proper placement of an NGT. Other confirmatory measures might be an oral intubation, a nasogastric intubation under fluoroscopic or under direct vision.[4] There can be four possible corridors by which the NGT can enter intracranially – a skull base fracture extending across the cribriform plate, a comminuted fracture involving the floor of the anterior cranial fossa, the cribriform plate being thinned out by previous infections, and/or raised intracranial pressure that may cause bony erosion of the anterior cranial fossa.[1],[2] The presence of a deviated nasal septum or pneumatized air sinuses, and overzealous attempts in an uncooperative patient may favor the false passage of the NGT to remote locations in the brain. Such events can be avoided by establishing a proper clinicoradiological diagnosis of the existence of an anterior skull base fracture. The radiological markers of an anterior skull base fracture have been classified as: type 1, cribriform plate fractures, which occur linearly through the cribriform plate; type 2, fronto-ethmoid fractures, which are fractures of the ethmoid and medial frontal sinus walls; type 3, lateral frontal fractures which are fractures that occur through the lateral frontal sinus to the superomedial wall of the orbit; and, type 4, mixed fractures, which are a combination of any of the fractures from the above categories.[5] Radiological confirmation of the correct placement of the NGT is mandatory before starting enteral feeding. In our case, the underlying etiology responsible for the improper positioning of the NGT was the fracture of cribriform plate. Optimal management following the intracranial placement of the NGT is controversial. Case reports have mentioned a manual retrieval performed through the nose; or, a segmental removal has been carried out after a craniotomy [Figure 2].[1] A craniotomy with anterior skull base repair may occasionally be required in view of the skull base defect. Apart from introducing infection, intracranial insertion of the NGT might be associated with severe debilitating complications such as the occurrence of an intracranial hematoma, motor or sensory deficits, meningitis, or even death in up to 64% of the cases.[3] Whether a prophylactic antibiotic should be administered remains controversial as there is no literature support for the same; however, as the inserted object is traversing through the nasal cavity in a setting of acute injury, there are chances for the development of an ascending infection alongside the tube. It is practically impossible to get an answer for this query in the near future due to the rarity of this complication. Our case highlights the need to be vigilant during NGT intubation in patients who have suffered from a skull base fracture as a result of traumatic brain injury. Figure 2: Literature based algorithm for the management of inadvertent nasogastric tube insertion in the brain (ACF, anterior cranial fossa; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; NCCT; noncontrast computed tomography) Roka Y, Shrestha M, Puri P, Aryal S. Fatal inadvertent intracranial insertion of a nasogastric tube. Neurol India 2010;58:802. Chandra R, Kumar P. Intracranial introduction of a nasogastric tube in a patient with severe craniofacial trauma. Neurol India 2010;58:804-5. Genú PR, de Oliveira DM, Vasconcellos RJ de H, Nogueira RVB, Vasconcelos BC do E. Inadvertent intracranial placement of a nasogastric tube in a patient with severe craniofacial trauma: A case report. J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2004;62:1435-8. Pandey AK, Sharma AK, Diyora BD, Sayal PP, Ingale HA, Radhakrishnan M. Inadvertent insertion of nasogastric tube into the brain. J Assoc Physicians India 2004;52:322-3. Sakas DE, Beale DJ, Ameen AA, Whitwell HL, Whittaker KW, Krebs AJ, et al. Compound anterior cranial base fractures: classification using computerized tomography scanning as a basis for selection of patients for dural repair. J Neurosurg 1998;88:471-7.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line647
__label__cc	0.612292	0.387708	Make it a Supa Christmas with SupaBoy Handheld Video Game Console December 18, 2011, 1:27 pm PST Supa Sweet Handheld Console Shaped Like a SNES Controller With 3.5 Inch Screen that Plays SNES Cartridges. Hyperkin will launch the highly anticipated SupaBoy Handheld Video Game Console December 1st, 2011 in time for the holiday shopping season. Equipped with a 3.5” screen, the SupaBoy is designed to look like an original SNES controller with a top loading port that plays original 16-bit SNES and Super Famicom cartridges. The SupaBoy will play original SNES cartridges on a built-in 3.5” LCD screen and is designed to emulate an original SNES controller including a D-pad, face buttons, as well as right and left shoulder buttons. The SupaBoy also includes two front loading ports that are compatible with full-size SNES controllers and video/audio out, allowing up to two players to play the SupaBoy on a regular TV screen. “There is definitely a nostalgia factor for the SupaBoy for the older generation of gamers who grew up with the Super Nintendo,” stated Leo Liang, Hyperkin’s National Sales Director. “Yet, at the same time, it introduces and exposes the new generation of gamers to this beloved console. Not only is it compatible with original SNES and Super Famicom cartridges, you can also run it through your television, plug two controllers in, and play with another person. The SupaBoy is a very cool, very fun product, and is a perfect Christmas gift for anyone who loves video games.” SupaBoy will be compatible with multiple SNES titles including: Super Mario™ World, Starfox™, Donkey Kong™ Country, The Legend of Zelda™ A Link To The Past, Super Mario™ Kart, Chrono Trigger™ and others. - Original SNES controller design - Screen size (diagonal): 3.5 inches - 2.5 Hours battery life - Measures: 8.5 x 4 x 1.5 inches -Weight: 11.5 ounces - Includes 2 Ports for wired controllers - Stereo sound - AV Out - Headphone jack> - Adjustable volume control - Launch Date: December 1st - SRP: $79.99 - Available at Amazon.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line659
__label__wiki	0.909599	0.909599	Big Sky Blues And Roots 2015 Festival Cancelled The Big Sky Blues and Roots Festival for Deniliquin next Easter has been cancelled for 2015. Modest Mouse To Release First Album In Eight Years Modest Mouse last released the album ‘We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank’ in 2007. The new album Strangers To Ourselves will be released in February. The Who Cancel London Show Due To Daltrey Illness The Who Hit 50 this year but they might have to rename their tour The Who Hits 51 by the time they get to play their shows in London. Rob Potts Reappointed To CMA Board For 13th Year Rob Potts, CEO of Rob Potts Entertainment and the man behind events such as the CMC Rocks Qld festival and tours by Zac Brown Band and Big & Rich, has been reappointed the CMA board for the 13th year. Van Morrison Moves To RCA Records Van Morrison has a new record label. The Irish icon has signed with RCA to release his next album, the 35th of his career. 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The Decemberists Finish 2014 With The Wrong Year Lyric Video The Decemberists have a new song The Wrong Year to preview their 2015 album ‘What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World’. Pond Reveal Sitting Up On Our Crane Video Perth’s Pond have released a video for ‘Sitting Up On Our Crane’ as a preview to their 2015 album ‘Man It Feels Like Space Age’. Green Day, Stevie Ray Vaughan To Be Inducted Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame have announced their inductees for 2015 with Green Day and Stevie Ray Vaughan making the cut. KC and the Sunshine Band Remake The 60s On Feeling You KC and the Sunshine Band will release an album of 60s covers fresh for 2015. Marilyn Manson Works With Film Composer Tyler Bates For New Album Marilyn Manson’s next album ‘The Pale Emperor’ is a collaboration with film composer and producer Tyler Bates. David Byrne To Be Honored At Music Of Concert for Music Education David Byrne will be honored to benefit music education. 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Damon Albarn Sydney Show Postponed Damon Albarn has postponed his appearance at the Sydney Opera House after gunmen took a number of patrons hostage at the Lindt Cafe in Martin Place. Judas Priest 30th Anniversary Defenders of the Faith Coming in 2015 Judas Priest will mark the 30th anniversary of the Defenders of the Faith album with a deluxe edition in March. Angus & Julia Stone Add Hobart, Geelong and Darwin Dates Angus & Julia Stone have expanded their 2015 tour to include Geelong and Hobart and have added a second Darwin date. Triple J Opens Hottest 100 Voting Voting is now open for Triple J’s Hottest 100 of 2014. Macy Gray Joins Blues Mountains Music Festival Macy Gray will perform at the first Blues Mountains Music Festival in March. Engelbert Humperdinck Takes On Iron Maiden For UK Chart Battle The UK is facing one of its biggest chart showdowns of all-time with music legend Engelbert Humperdinck in battle again metal icons Iron Maiden for the number one spot on the English chart next week. The Waifs, Paul Dempsey To Play First Peninsula Picnic The Waifs and Paul Dempsey will headline the first Peninsula Picnic at Mornington in Victoria in March. Kylie And Jason Especially For You Passes One Million Sales In UK Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan’s 80s pop classic ‘Especially For You’ has just sold over one million copies in the UK, 26 years after its release.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line660
__label__wiki	0.528182	0.528182	Norfolk County Agricultural High School » ABOUT AGGIE » Directions and Location Walpole, MA 02081 FROM BOSTON AND POINTS NORTH 1. Route 95 South 2. Exit Route 109 to Westwood 3. Stay on Route 109 for approximately 3.8 miles 4. Left onto North Street. (At Bubbling Brook Ice Cream Stand) 5. Continue to the “T” in the road (Small pond on right) 6. Right onto Main Street (Route 1A) 7. Right at first driveway (It’s a little more than 100 yards down the road on Route1A) FROM THE WEST 1. Mass Pike to Route 495 South 2. Exit at Route 1A in Wrentham (Wrentham Outlet exit) 3. Follow Route 1A into and through Wrentham Center 4. Continue on Route 1A through Walpole Center (There are three sets of lights in the center of town) 5. From the lights at Walpole Center at the intersection of Routes 1 and 27 continue up the hill (still on Route 1A). 6. Pass through a yellow flashing light and a set of full lights at the Stop and Shop Plaza. 7. After the Stop and Shop Plaza, as you go up the hill, you will see a flashing yellow light on the left. We are the third driveway on the left after the yellow flashing light, immediately after the white board fence. FROM RHODE ISLAND AND POINTS SOUTH 1. Route 95 North 2. Take Exit 9, and follow the signs for Route 1 to Walpole 3. Take a left on Route 27 at the intersection at the first set of lights 4. Follow Route 27 (quite windy and twisty, three sets of lights, a stop sign and another set of lights before you come to Route 1A) 5. Right onto Route 1A (Main Street) in the center of Walpole 6. From Walpole Center (the intersection of Routes 1 and 27), pass through a yellow flashing light and a set of full lights at the Stop and Shop Plaza. 7. After the Stop and Shop Plaza, as you go up the hill, you will see a flashing yellow light on the left. We are the third driveway on the left after the yellow flashing light, right after the white board fence. FROM THE EAST 1. From Route 128, exit onto Route 95 South 2. Exit at Coney Street (Exit 10) 3. Right at the end of the Ramp 4. Left at Route 1 Intersection (first set of lights) 5. Right at Route 27 Intersection (first set of lights 7. Right onto Route 1A (Main St.) in the center of Walpole 8. From Walpole Center (the intersection of Routes 1 and 27), pass through a yellow flashing light and a full set of lights at the Stop and Shop Plaza. 9. After the Stop and Shop Plaza, as you go up the hill, you will see a flashing yellow light on the left. We are the third driveway on the left after the yellow flashing light, right after the white board fence	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line661
__label__cc	0.69711	0.30289	The History and Future of Amp Modeling by Jason \| Jan 28, 2016 \| Music Production \| 3 comments An oldie, but a goodie…. I was discussing this post with a friend this morning and realized I had wiped it from the internet. I found it on Wayback so I could repost it. Enjoy! Recently I have been involved in a lively debate on the future of digital amp simulations on gearslutz.com’s forums. I use the term debate lightly because the conversation was more like, “they aren’t real so they suck,” than something useful. I’d like to spell out what I feel is the current reality and future of computer modeling analog audio gear. I say analog audio gear generically because this technology is not limited to guitar amplifiers. In today’s professional studios it’s incredibly common to use simulations of amplifiers, but also compressors, equalizers, reverb and delay units, tape and tube simulation, and pretty much any piece of analog gear that’s ever had a reputation for anything useful. Most people credit Line6’s POD device with truly igniting the popularity of amp simulations. Building on the AxSys 212, Line6 exploded in the early 2000s with the success of the original POD digital amp modeler. While platinum selling artists have access to million dollar recording facilities and can draw from hundreds of thousands of either studio owned or rented amplifiers to record their albums, home and project studio owners traditionally had one or two amplifiers to use when making music. In addition to the small amount of options, the outlook of making a great guitar recording grew worse when you consider in microphone and microphone preamp quality and room acoustics. A professional recording studio is going to have dozens of microphone options, some costing well north of $3,000. A professional studio is also going to have specially designed and acoustically treated rooms that not only capture the guitar amp’s sound accurately, but often enhance it with a natural ambiance that could not possibly be reproduced in a home studio environment. With the original Line6 POD, a home studio enthusiast now had 16 amp options. With classic and rare amps going for sometimes north of $30,000, it’s very easy to see why someone might want to outfit their home studio with tens of thousands of dollars worth of amp options that remove pesky things like microphones and rooms from the equation. Let’s be totally clear and transparent, although the technology has improved dramatically, this little magic red box was not going to give you an exact replication of the sounds of those amps. It’s clearly more along the “inspired by the sound of” route and there were some aspects to the sound that weren’t incredibly pleasant to a guitar tone enthusiast; myself included. I owned the original Line6 POD and while it was a blast to jam around on, the amp tones themselves where definitely a little flat and two dimensional. That being said, if my other option was a Crate solid state half-stack being recorded with a Radio Shack microphone, I’d be taking the POD thank you very much. Believe it or not, the original POD did find some success in professional studios. It was by no means a standard, but it’s not too difficult to find articles mentioning it’s use on professional recordings. Add in the POD’s solid collection of studio effects, and it was a clear sign of the future. The Growth, Competition and The War In the past decade, nearly every manufacturer has toyed with modeling in some way or another. Marshall has the JMD line of amplifiers that uses tube power to amplify digitally modeled preamps. Vox introduced the Valvetronix series that has a hybrid of tube and modeling to reproduce dozens of non-Vox styled tones. Fender has a G-series modeling amp. The list goes on and when you consider non-hardware modelers also, several manufacturers obviously bet their company’s future on modeling. Digitech, Johnson, Korg, Boss, and others have extensive lines of modeling products. The proliferation of these devices and software simulations have not been limited to bedroom musicians. The real “debate” began when respected professional musicians began admitting to using them in live and/or studio situations. The Line6 Amp Farm product for TDM versions of ProTools was likely the first amp modeling software to get significant professional studio use. With it, along came a host of high end amp modeling solutions like Digidesign’s own Eleven. The quality of the simulations improved dramatically and the debate was further fueled by shootouts that left professionals having trouble always determining which was real and which wasn’t. Waves released the promotional video above (switch to HD for the best sound) for the making of GTR3 that has the legendary Paul Reed Smith praising the quality of the simulations. This is where detractors will cite the authenticity of the quotes because there is an endorsement involved. Apparently it’s not possible to get paid for something and be honest about it at the same time. In the video Paul brings in some of his favorite personally owned amplifiers and works with the engineer to get it mic’d up and sounding the way he likes it. After that, they model his amp and bring him back to compare the actual amp and Waves’ model back to back. If you are a reasonably objective person, you can listen to him play both back to back and you would have to seriously analyze the results to determine a difference. I can’t imagine not being able to use these tones on a CD, it’s just gorgeous. They sound the same, in some ways better than the amp because there’s no noise, which is really cool. – Paul Reed Smith Personally I agree with him, but a war wouldn’t be very interesting without the other side of the argument. Let’s quickly enumerate reasons commonly given to argue against digital amp simulations: Don’t feel like real amps Don’t sound like real amps Latency throws the player off Sound ok solo, but don’t sit in the mix well Don’t “inspire” the player like a real amp And then of course there are a few dogmatic arguments that are worth mentioning, but of little real impact on the argument: Engineers are going to grow up not knowing how to record real amps Modelers looks amateur If they could afford the real amp they would Using modeled amps is lazy, the easy way out or will result in a mediocre song There is an interesting lack of objective reasoning in this particular argument that often plays out in very humorous circular logic. I’ve actually had someone respond to a thread and in the same post make these two arguments for tube amps and against simulations: For Tube Amps: People use modelers because getting a good sound out of a tube amplifier takes work. You have to tweak it to get it to sound good in the room, get the mic position just right, put it in the right place in the room, select the right mic, the right preamp, and make sure the player is using the right guitar and pickups to bring the best out of the amp. It’s not plug and play, it takes effort to get a really great guitar sound from a tube amp. Against Models: The problem with amp models is that they just don’t sound that great. You have to do too much tweaking with the settings to get it to sound like the real amp. If I have to tweak all of the settings like crazy to get a good sound, why not just use a real amp? Did you catch that? It’s ok to put a lot of tedious effort into getting a great guitar tone with a real amp, but any effort required to optimize a model is a waste of your time. I thought that was pretty funny, but also interesting. Have you ever gone to Best Buy to look at televisions? Manufacturers regularly use a vibrant setting by default so their TVs have a ton of punch and really grab the consumer’s attention when they see them on display. Amp modeler’s are no different. The presets that come included on these devices are designed to give you instant gratification. Who would reasonably expect that the single selection used to demonstrate the sound of a particular amplifier would exactly resonate with every individual’s memory of that particular amp’s sound? If a real amplifier has literally millions of combinations of settings that all produce different results, compounded exponentially by factors like room, mic, position of the amp, position of the listener, stomp boxes, guitar choice, cable brand, pickup type… well, how could one preset possibly be designed to replicate what everyone expects to hear? The reality is that it can’t. In any situation, with any piece of gear, you’ll need to do some futzing with he controls to get a sound you like. Latency is another very interesting issue. In a neutral environment, sound travels 3 feet in 2.66 milliseconds. According to Fractal Audio, the processing latency of the AxeFX II is 1ms. That means that if I am standing in my control room playing through an AxeFX II, and I am 5’ from my studio monitors, the latency I hear is roughly equivalent to me sticking my ear against the grill of a real amplifier. I’d say given today’s stage environments and large studio live rooms 1ms is an insignificant amount of latency when combined with the environment. But the really interesting thing about latency is that all too often musicians are having to deal with latency at much more drastic levels. ProTools HD can have latency of 5ms or more depending on the situation and even in “low-latency mode” only drops to 1.6ms. Many engineers do not use software monitoring making these figures a non-factor, but software monitoring is becoming more and more common. Is 1ms going to be enough to distract a guitar player from his or her performance? Let’s step away from the guitar for a moment to answer that question. I haven’t seen a band put a piano on stage very often. It’s much more convenient and flexible to use a synthesizer. Today’s high end workstations carry from 1.5 to nearly 4ms of latency. I am sure there will be a distracting argument about how latency is different on a keyboard than a guitar, but scientifically speaking, the time it takes to hear a sound when pressing a key takes twice as long on a Roland Fantom-SR than pluck to sound on an AxeFX II. I’ve learned one thing in this journey of understanding. That is that posting audio samples comparing one sound to another will get you nowhere. Just like the human brain will allow someone to find meaning that did not exist in the lyricists intent, many people cannot objectively compare sounds and put aside personal opinions. To debate this side of the story, let’s talk about the words good, bad, different, equal, close and similar. These words strike really interesting chords in people. I propose that it is possible that sounding different does not equal sounding bad. I am a big fan of metaphors, so try this one on for size: I’m a huge fan of Pixar. It’s ridiculous success is a great example of this particular phenomenon. Disney has been pumping out hand drawn animation for decades. We all grew up with a collection of beloved Disney characters. When digital animation first surfaced, the common consensus was that it was sterile, lifeless, lacked charm, etc. Sound familiar? When a few guys were allowed to truly explore their passions and the limits of the technology, guided by Steve Jobs of course, they were able to turn the wave of sentiment dramatically. When initially used, the public compared these two images: In the above example, if duplicating hand drawn animation is what they were going for, it’s different and bad. I mean, for computer animation it’s good, but compared to something like the Lion King, it’s really bad. with the passing of time, technology moved on, and of course improved: What about this example? The technology has obviously improved drastically. It’s absolutely different, but bad? Hardly! The similarity I see is that if you compare a Dumble to the original POD’s simulation of a Dumble, it’s going to be like the first set of images. If you compare a Rectifier to the AxeFX II’s simulation of a Rectifier it’s probably going to be closer to the second set. Much less noise, no need to reach for stomp boxes to get rid of the flubby low end. You can create what you think a Rectifier should sound like. Being of course aware of the significant impact of taste, some will still prefer the Disney classic animation style and animatedly vilify the Pixar example with a number of derisions, but one speaks to me more than any other in this debate. There is a strong nostalgic contingent that are upset that the craft and job market of hand animators has suffered at the hands of digital animation. There’s no debating that. I wouldn’t exactly call it a unique phenomenon though. Hurry, go find me someone who hand knits socks. Bring me a cobbler to make me some shoes. I think that trend started with the beginning of the industrial revolution and will continue long after we’re all dead. Technology begins to crudely replicate things that we’ve learned to craft with skill and experience and eventually, and I stress eventually, is able to achieve a level of quality and consistency that no hand can achieve. It absolutely applies to audio gear, even in the world of high end boutique gear you’ll regularly hear “I got a good one” or “I got a bad one.” If that’s the laws of the land, are we saying that a bad tube amp is still better than a great modeler? If Waves modeled a Marshall amp that Paul Reed Smith spent his lifetime finding and they are able to model it to a reasonable accuracy, is that still worse than an average one? We’re in some muddy waters here. Let’s talk more about consistency. These days it’s incredibly common for artists to be forced by schedules to record in different studios. It’s entirely possible that they might not be able to carry an amp with them everywhere they go. If not all amps are the same, and of course the rooms, mics and positions are not exactly the same, is consistency not a benefit to using a high quality model? I’d suggest that a single consistent guitar track will sound better than a patchwork of rooms, amps and mics. It’s not as uncommon as you think. The Art Itself This last section is the one that I have the most passion for. I’ve made this statement before and am constantly surprised at the response: If I traveled back to 1973 and stole all of Jimmy Paige’s gear, but left him with an AxeFX II, Led Zeppelin III would still be Led Zeppelin III. I’ve had a engineer flat out tell me I was crazy. These are responses to some of my points in a thread: Originally Posted by philoking Are you suggesting that David Gilmour could not have made a great Pink Floyd record with an AxeFX? Yes. I am. I have not heard a Pink Floyd type sound from a modeler that comes close to that sound. IMHO. Unless this guy entirely missed the point, I was not saying that an AxeFX can exactly replicate David Gilmour’s classic tone. I’m saying that David Gilmour could find an amazing tone with an AxeFX. He could create amazing music with one. It truly pains me that some people will give the gear more credit than the artist. I like to think that the players we respect are respected for their skill and creativity. So many classic albums we love were recorded with whatever they had around at the time. It’s just difficult for me to imagine that anyone could believe so completely that the ability to create compelling music is so entirely dependent on an amplifier. Joe Bonamassa’s Live at the Royal Hall DVD has a special feature where they are interviewing him on a bus. On stage he uses a monstrous guitar rig with 4 tube heads, several guitar cabinets and literally dozens of pedals. On the bus he was plugged directly into a $400 Marshall Class 5 5w amp with no effects. It sounded just like Joe Bonamassa. The artist, the talent and most importantly, the song is not intrinsically tethered to the technology that was used to create it. The premise that the artist could not have created something as compelling with different gear is as un-provable as it is unrealistic. The artists we seem to draw inspiration from our past were themselves pushing the limits of the technology they had at the time. I am willing to bet that if a forum had existed in the 60s they would have been slamming using a small box of transistors to get distortion instead of taking a razor blade to your speakers. A Better Mousetrap I know this is now by far the longest blog post ever written, but there is one last logical point to consider. We’ve seen computer simulation in animation. We’ve discussed it’s use in audio at length. It’s also been able to simulate incredibly complex quantum physics experiments, simulate nuclear explosions, the impact of time and stress on bridges and buildings, the result of car accidents, space travel, DNA sequence mutation and even some of the complex workings of our own brain. It’s past improbable to think that a computer will never be able to accurately simulate something as simple as the physics of electrons in a vacuum tube. The most sought after amp you can imagine is still only a collection of some of the most simple electrical components in existence: transistors, vacuum tubes, capacitors, transformers, potentiometers, resistors and some copper wire. If we can all agree that the technology exists to accurately simulate these components, even if not to acceptable standards in devices currently available to consumers, then we are still agreeing that the future of guitar tone is amp simulation. That’s where the rubber meets the road. A collection of individuals involved in this debate on Gearslutz.com, truly believe that the lack of the technology’s ability to accurately reproduce their favorite tube amp’s sound to a degree of accuracy that they cannot discern (even if it’s emotional and not logical) is the final word on this technology and that a great amplifier sound should only be reserved for those who can afford to buy that amp. The technology will continue to improve in both sound quality and performance. The scientists who are developing the formulas that allow software to model real world physics are not finished. The product managers who are developing these products are not deaf to the concerns of potential customers. Whatever your gripe with amp modeling technology is, I can guarantee you that it’s being worked on as we speak. A whole new group of musicians who are inspired by classic tube amp sounds will grow up with the ability to reproduce the core tones and take them into wild new directions that were not remotely possible with hardware. With technology like the AxeFX, they’ll make decisions like “I want to put the preamp from my Mesa in front of the power amp from a Plexi.” They’ll be able to change capacitors with the flick of a mouse in an editor. They’ll be able to eventually improve on everything they don’t like about these revered amplifiers. If you think about it in that way, amplifiers are incredibly limited devices. You spend thousands of dollars on an amplifier that can really only sound like that one amplifier. Why should a musician need thousands of dollars to have access to a sound that they hear in their head? Not to go into hyperbole, but that amounts to class warfare. It ends up being a circular problem: If you aren’t successful you can’t afford great gear, if you can’t afford great gear you can’t be successful. I don’t believe either of those arguments for a single second. The pretense that all of the classic guitar tones that we covet could not have been improved on in the eyes of the creator at the time if the technology was available is ridiculous. David Gilmour would have went absolutely nuts with an AxeFX in the 70s. It’s not even debatable. The guy is a tone chaser and not afraid of technology. He had a massive rack before anyone had massive racks. He used digital devices and was on the bleeding edge of guitar technology. I’ll leave you with the final word on this argument which I think is the true problem. I got an email from one of the people on the thread that sparked this tome of a blog post. It started with a paragraph that sums up the whole problem. There are many studios that have hundreds of thousands to millions in gear that are going out of business because of products like axefx, plugs that “immolate” real pieces of hardware, and the lack of musicians taking pride in what they do. Today vs. 20-30 years ago people move more and more towards the “cheaper easy way out”. Things today sound so digital its a joke. Bands like animals as leaders will literally record in a bedroom studio, and when they do so, the bands that look up to them end up wanting to do they same thing that they do. This gives any kid the option of becoming an engineer or producer with almost no investment, and almost no knowledge. Real studios lose work every day and go bankrupt everyday because of this. The only thing that us studio owners can do is fight it the best we can. You have to understand, THOUSANDS of people read that thread that we were just posting in and will actually utilize the information that was posted. The line that sticks out to me the most is “The only thing us studio owners can do is fight it the best way we can.” If you step away from the guitar and think about music generally, people are protecting their jobs and their investments. If you had a half a million dollars worth of amplifiers in storage for your clients to use, would you be comfortable with the idea that a $2,600 box could reduce the value of that investment? So that’s the real question I leave you with. Do musicians have the right to be able to create their own music? Is the job of the engineer sacred? If the technology existed for a musician to allow the listener to hear what they hear in their head without the involvement and influence of the engineer, does it make it less valid? That’s the part I get from most of the conversation I read on that thread. One poster went as far as to say “I don’t mind modelers as long as you aren’t using them to get a sound from an amp you don’t have, get the amp.” Music is about the artist, music is about the end result. I’ll get a ridiculous amount of hate mail for this statement, but the consumer of music does not care about how you made the music. The consumer of music does not care what you used. The consumer of music is not bothered by what they cannot hear. As important as the producer and engineer are to the creation of music, if technology ever provided a way to remove the knowledge and experience from recording, mixing, mastering…at least the truly technical aspects of them, then then what is left is a matter of taste. Show me one artist that loves their latest album and I’ll show you one that thinks the mixer ruined it. What does that mean? That means that if the artist creating the music loves the guitar tone he or she is getting from whatever modeling devices that they have decided to use for whatever reason, it’s perceived quality compared to whatever amp it’s attempting to simulate is rendered irrelevant. In the end music is all about taste and the point of it all is not to achieve a duplicate of any sound but the one that sounds good to whomever is making it. Thanks for reading, this was a lot of fun to write and think about. Vic on May 21, 2016 at 10:15 am Go to the Axe FX page now…..as usual its out of stock. Not because of demand either, heck Line6 is the #1 seller in the world by far and they’re never out. So bad example. A business model before an amp model..ha Jason on September 30, 2016 at 10:11 pm No reality in this comment. I know many people with them personally that use it successfully. Many major touring acts in all genres. You are just wrong, sorry. Robert Bloch on October 25, 2016 at 5:29 pm Great article. Many people do become attached to the investment in their choices and also put way too much stock into “doing it right.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line679
__label__wiki	0.671281	0.671281	World Championship Qualifying 2012: Doherty Edges Thriller, Chinese Duo Progress April 15, 2012 April 15, 2012 matt2745 Qualifiers, snooker, World Championship Saturday evening saw the first six players book their places at the Crucible, with a further ten to follow this Sunday. Click below for a round-up of the day’s action with quotes from three of the qualifiers… Click here to view the latest tour survival updates Click here to view the latest drawsheet Click here to view the latest projected seedings Having missed out on a return to the Crucible during two of the past three years, a delighted Ken Doherty booked his place there in 2012 with a dramatic 10-9 victory against Anthony Hamilton. In what was by all accounts a high-quality match in which Ken made three century breaks, it was the Irishman who led 6-3 after the opening session, only for Anthony to win the first two frames of the evening session and stay close thereafter. In the decider it was Hamilton who made the stronger start, capitalising on a loose break-off from which Ken caught the green with the cue ball, only to break down with a lead of around 50 points. Doherty then closed the gap, aided by a fluke into the green pocket, before running into problems himself. The key moment however came when Hamilton won the ensuing safety battle, potting a good red cueing from under the side-cushion before seeing the cue ball come up and finish close to the baulk cushion. From there he attempted to roll up behind the brown only to crucially leave the cue ball agonisingly short, leaving himself in a horrible position. Ultimately his escape would prove to be his last shot as Ken produced a brilliant pressure clearance of 62, notably containing an excellent final red down the cushion under the circumstances, to get over the line. Ken told us afterwards: “He played so well tonight, he was like a bad cold that I couldn’t shake and so tough, he played really, really well. Every time I have played him it has always been a tough game. I knew from the draw it was like the toughest match, he was [ranked] 33 or 34, I’m 32, so I couldn’t have asked for a tougher match, but at least I knew what I was up against.” “In the last frame I had more or less resigned myself to losing because he was on that break after he had knocked in the long red and I thought that he was going to win the frame at that visit. He played superbly well. Even when he was under pressure he was cueing really well and hitting big breaks but you are always going to miss one or two, but overall I think that the match was of a really high quality.” “I’ve made some good clearances in my time but that is up there with the top ones. It was all to do, I ran out of position a couple of times. The last red I just had to go for it full-blooded, if it goes in it goes in, if it doesn’t, it might be over but thankfully it went in. I potted a black that I missed for the 147, it was exactly the same shot and I’m thinking I’m not going to miss this please!” “It was a real pressure clearance because there is so much at stake, to be in the mix up at the Crucible. For the qualifiers this is the biggest match in the year so to come through with a great clearance against a really great player in a high-quality match is fantastic and I’m over the moon.” “It was very difficult last year, I was in the same situation, 6-3 up and Jimmy Robertson came out and played probably the best he has ever played. But that can happen, you can get on a roll. There were so many highs and lows during that match, during the last few frames I thought that it was just not going to be but I got my chance in the last and thought keep your head down, cue straight, this is your last chance saloon.” Joining Ken at the Crucible will be Chinese duo Liu Chuang and Cao Yupeng, who both impressed in their respective victories against their higher ranked opponents Jamie Cope and Tom Ford Liu began the session 5-4 down against Cope but from the off produced some fabulous snooker highlighted by a total clearance of 138 on his way to moving 8-5 ahead before eventually getting over the line a 10-7 winner. While he had impressed me two days previously with a display of stunning long potting to defeat Jimmy White on the livestream, his performance last night was even better and in truth there was little more that Cope could have done. While Liu has played there before, Cao Yupeng will be making his debut following a last-gasp win over Tom Ford. It was a close match throughout, but Cao was always in control of the decider, earning the first couple of scoring chances with long pots and all but shutting his opponent out of the frame. The talking point from the match however will be the frame that Tom was docked following the mid-session interval for arriving late. While I do not know what happened in this case, I understand that generally the players are given a 15 minute break, however they must be at a particular meeting point after 12 minutes to allow three minutes to walk back to the table. Whatever happened here, Tom reportedly left the arena for a good seven minutes following the subsequent frame and in the outcome of the match, that one frame proved to be the difference. Elsewhere, a second Crucible debutant will be Welshman Jamie Jones, who completed a stunning 10-2 victory against Ricky Walden to progress. Against an opponent provisionally ranked inside the top 16 as well as having reached the semi-finals of the UK Championship earlier in the year, victory alone would have been impressive, but to come through by that margin, having led 8-1 after the opening session, is some achievement. Following the match a remarkably composed Jones told us: “I knew I was playing Ricky and that I was going to have such a tough game, but even after this morning’s session I couldn’t believe I was 8-1 up. I played well enough to be 8-1 up but just flattering really and I knew then that it was mine to lose in the evening session. I was a little nervous and shaky going into it but I managed to scrape some frames which was all I needed really.” “I’m just over the moon now, it will sink in now over the week when the draw comes out. I went to watch in the Crucible about 10 year ago and I remember sitting there and I was looking at the games but I don’t think I was actually watching them, I was just dreaming about playing there and now all of a sudden I am actually going to be doing that. It’s just crazy really, I can’t get my head around it!” “I’ve got plenty of momentum, I lost over in China but I qualified for this event and I qualified for the last event, I did pretty well in the PTC Finals, I’ve got a lot of momentum going into the World Championship so hopefully I can just keep playing as confidently as I am and see what happens.” “[The win against Higgins in Galway] has really helped me to be honest, playing against him over there, it was a packed crowd and I had never experienced anything like that. I remember playing here in the Badminton Hall with a crowd it was a big thing for me but now coming here with that experience and going to China I feel a lot more at home and can settle down a lot more easier in the matches. I’m not so nervous and I feel like I’m going to play well wherever I am playing.” “I wouldn’t mind getting Ronnie to be honest because I know it’s going to be absolutely packed at the Crucible. I’ve nothing to lose now, I’ve got my ranking points, nobody will be expecting me to do a great deal there so I can just go out there and enjoy it.” “I looked on the blog and I was 33 coming into this so I was thinking if I can win this one I will have half a chance of getting into the top 32 which is fantastic.” Elsewhere, joining his fellow Welshman in the Crucible draw was Ryan Day, who recovered from a poor run of results and 6-3 down yesterday to defeat Gerard Greene 10-8 to progress. The result also keeps Ryan in contention to retain his place in the top 32 at the end of the season, depending on the outcome of other results. The final man to progress was Mark Davis who defeated fellow On Q Promotions player Robert Milkins to book a place at the Crucible for the first time since 2010. By all accounts however the match was a closer one than it had appeared on paper, Milkins particularly unfortunate to suffer a kick at a crucial stage in the second frame, however Davis also produced some important breaks when he needed to. Mark told us: “I started off really nervy the first couple of frames, he won the first fairly easily and he’s got a kick on the red on a break in the second. I managed to clear from there and felt a lot better because I should have been 2-0 down really, he was a bit unlucky Rob. I wasn’t feeling that great either but I felt alright after that.” “I felt similar to last year to be honest, unfortunately things didn’t turn last year and before I knew it I was 7-0 down and couldn’t settle. But I learned a bit from last year and Rob was unfortunate to get the kick and I felt a lot better after that frame.” “Rob is a very tough draw to start with the way he can reel off frames, but I’m over the moon. I had a fair bit of run in the match it has got to be said and it makes a difference, but I played pretty good as well.” “I know what I can do, it’s just doing it consistently but I’m in a better frame of mind than I used to be. I’ve been working with Terry and that has helped unbelievably. It has only been a short period of time at the moment so it is still working, before that I always lacked self-belief and didn’t fancy beating anyone really!” “A couple of years ago I beat Ryan and then Mark Allen played unbelievably well but we’ll see what happens. If I can play as well as I can, I fancy beating anyone and I’ll give it a go.” In the afternoon sessions, Stephen Hendry finished well with back-to-back century breaks to lead Yu Delu 6-3 overnight, though the socreline could have been closer had Yu been more clinical in both frames either side of the interval. Liang Wenbo secured a commanding 7-2 lead over Marcus Campbell with a dominant performance, while Marco Fu also leads Joe Jogia 6-3 overnight. In the final match, Mark King leads Belgian youngster Luca Brecel 5-4 as the 17-year-old looks to become the youngest player ever to play at the Crucible. Those matches will resume at 2:30pm Sunday. Cao Yupeng Jamie Jones Ken Doherty Liu Chuang Mark Davis Ryan Day roy142857 Good article and great insight from the players – really get a sense of how much it means to them … robh Interesting that two players (Brecel & Yupeng) have qualified who could well not be on the tour next year because they haven’t got the ranking points to stay on. Also will be four Chinese players in the last 32 at the Crucible, I presume this is a first. Perhaps signalling the start of the long-predicted Chinese breakthrough of the sport. @robh: yeah I was paying close attention to the Chinese qualifiers. Five if you include Marco Fu! My Crucible A-Z World Championship Qualifiers 2012: Brilliant Brecel Creates History	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line683
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__label__wiki	0.944456	0.944456	SalafiTalk Forums > Main Discussion Forums > Issues of Manhaj (Methodology) > How does a person recant from a mistake he committed in an affair of knowledge (in the religion) after it has been made known to him? by Shaikh Muhammad Ibn Haadee al-Madkhalee View Full Version : How does a person recant from a mistake he committed in an affair of knowledge (in the religion) after it has been made known to him? by Shaikh Muhammad Ibn Haadee al-Madkhalee Maher.ibn.Ahmad.Attiyeh Bismillaah Al-Hamdulillaah wa salatu wa salaamu 'ala rasulullaah Amma-ba'd How does a person recant from a mistake he committed in an affair of knowledge (in the religion) after it has been made known to him? by Shaikh Muhammad Ibn Haadee al-Madkhalee (hafidhahullaah) He recants from the mistake by way of speech, just as he did when he uttered the mistake. He says: "I committed a mistake." If the mistake is made in the presence of a gathering of people, he informs them in the same gathering that he made a mistake. If the mistake was made in writing, he writes and corrects the mistakes just as he did when he committed the mistake. If the mistake was transmitted through recorded speech in the form of audio, he corrects the mistake in a like manner. This will not harm the person who committed the mistake. By Allaah, this will make the people have more trust in you because you have not feared them; rather you fear Allaah (The Mighty and Majestic). That is because if you leave the people to carry your mistakes, they will be misguided due to you, and you will carry your sins. We ask Allaah for pardon and forgiveness. You know how, when and where you made the mistake; therefore rectify it in a like manner. If the mistake was committed in a gathering similar to this one, then come tomorrow and say: "I made a mistake in such and such." If it was in a lesson, you say: "I made a mistake in such and such."If the mistake was recorded by way audio, then rectify it in a like manner. If the mistake was publicized, then rectify it in a like manner. This will absolve you from blame, and the people will recognize your truthfulness. In-Shaa`Allaah this will raise your status with Allaah, and then Allaah will raise your status in the sight of the people. We ask Allaah to grant us and all of you success in this matter. Note: Abridged and paraphrased from a statement of Shaikh Muhammad Bin Haadee (may Allaah preserve him). Source: http://www.sahab.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=142219, via http://salaficentre.com/2014/02/how-to-recant-from-a-mistake-after-it-has-been-made-known-to-you/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line689
__label__wiki	0.902042	0.902042	Dangerous: Fake drugs seized by Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) AFP Lome (AFP) After he was struck down by malaria and typhoid, Togolese tailor Ayawo Hievi thought he was set to recover when he started taking drugs prescribed by his doctor. But far from curing him, the medication he was given at the neighbourhood clinic made him far worse -- eventually costing him one of his kidneys. The drugs were fake. "After four days of care, there was no improvement, but I started to feel pain in my belly," Hievi, 52, told AFP. After two weeks of suffering he became unable to walk and was rushed into the university hospital in the West African nation's capital Lome. "The doctors told me that my kidneys had been damaged... the quinine and the antibiotics used to treat me in the medical office were fake drugs." Now, over four years later, he remains crippled by chronic kidney failure and has to go to hospital for dialysis regularly. Hievi's horror story is far from unique in a continent awash with counterfeit medicines. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that every year some 100,000 people across Africa die from taking "falsified or substandard" medication. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene estimated in 2015 that 122,000 children under five died due to taking poor quality anti-malaria drugs in sub-Saharan Africa. Weak legislation, poor healthcare systems and widespread poverty have encouraged the growth of this parallel -- and deadly -- market. Since 2013, Africa has made up 42 percent of the fake medicine seized worldwide. The two drugs most likely to be out-of-date or poor, ineffective copies are antibiotics and anti-malarials, say experts. And bogus drugs not only pose a risk to the patient -- they also play a worrying part in building resistance to vital frontline medications. - 'Difficult to trace' - In a bid to tackle the scourge, presidents from seven countries -- the Republic of Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Niger, Senegal, Togo and Uganda -- meet Friday in Lome to sign an agreement for criminalising trafficking in fake drugs. The goal is to bolster cooperation between governments and encourage other African nations to join the initiative. But even if leaders put pen to paper, the task of stamping out the flows of counterfeit medication is huge. Medicines spread out on plastic sheets or offered at ramshackle stalls are for sale at markets across West Africa. Those hawked on the streets are often a fraction of the price of what's available in more reputable pharmacies where controls are stricter and supplies often have to come through official channels. "It is very difficult to trace where the fake medicines come from," said Dr Innocent Kounde Kpeto, the president of Togo's pharmacist association. "The countries which are mentioned on the boxes are often not the countries of origin or manufacture of these drugs. The manufacturers cover their tracks so as not to be identified". It is estimated that between 30 and 60 percent of medicine sold in Africa is fake and Kpeto said most of it comes from China or India. Efforts to staunch the deadly torrents of counterfeits have made some headway. Some trafficking hubs have been dismantled, such as Adjegounle market in Cotonou that served as a key gateway for fakes heading to giant neighbour Nigeria. In mid-November, the police in Ivory Coast made a record seizure of 200 tonnes in Abidjan and arrested four suspects including a Chinese national. Togo is one of the pioneer countries trying to stop the flow. It changed the law in 2015 and now traffickers can face 20 years in jail and a fine of some $85,000 (75,000 euros). In a show of force in July the authorities burnt over 67 tonnes of counterfeit pharmaceuticals discovered between But even given these recent successes, those in the industry like Dr Kpeto insist that the threat is still grave and involves "highly organised criminal networks". "The phenomenon remains major," he said. Traffickers can turn an investment of just $1,000 (900 euros) into a profit of $500,000, he claimed. The fake medicines are smuggled in the same way as guns or narcotics and often bring higher returns. - 'Die for nothing' - Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with a market of 200 million people, is the number one destination on the continent for fake drugs and a showcase of difficulties being faced. In September 2016 the World Customs Organization seized tens of millions of fake pills and medicines at 16 ports around Africa: 35 percent were intended for Nigeria. Across the vast nation there are tens of thousands of vendors selling the counterfeits. Competition between traffickers is fierce and the official agency meant to combat the problem is overwhelmed. In a bid to improve the situation, Vivian Nwakah founded in 2017 start-up Medsaf and raised $1.4 million to help Nigerians track their medication from producer to user. "The country doesn't have a reliable and centralised distribution network," she said. "A hospital sometimes has to deal with 30 or 40 distributors for all the medications it needs. How can you have quality control with so many suppliers?" As a result, fake or faulty medicine has not just flooded markets but also pharmacies and hospitals -- both state and private. Sometimes, without hospital administrators even being aware, that means the drugs that reach the patients can be expired, poorly stored or the wrong doses. Medsaf works to ensure the quality control of thousands of products at over 130 hospitals and pharmacies in Nigeria. It looks forward to expanding deeper into Nigeria as well as Ivory Coast and Senegal. The company uses technology, database management and analytics to monitor the movement of medications and verifies their official registration number, the expiry dates and storage conditions. "Technology we use can help to solve most of the issues related to fake drugs," Nwakah said. "People die for nothing. We can change that."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line696
__label__wiki	0.504892	0.504892	Spring Cloud Function: Write Once, Run Anywhere (For Real!) Information about Spring Cloud Function: Write Once, Run Anywhere (For Real!) slides oleg zhurakousky Author: SpringCentral Source: slideshare.net 1. Spring Cloud Function Write once run anywhere Oleg Zhurakousky @z_oleg 1 2. Unless otherwise indicated, these slides are © 2013-2017 Pivotal Software, Inc. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Spring Cloud Function 2 • Why functions and why Spring Cloud Function? • What is Spring Cloud Function? • How do we use Spring Cloud Function? 3. Unless otherwise indicated, these slides are © 2013-2017 Pivotal Software, Inc. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Why functions? 3 • Simplicity yet the power of the three core strategies • Supplier<O> • Function<I, O> • Consumer<I> What requirement can NOT be expressed with functions? 4. Unless otherwise indicated, these slides are © 2013-2017 Pivotal Software, Inc. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Spring Cloud Function 4 Why Spring Cloud Function? 5. Unless otherwise indicated, these slides are © 2013-2017 Pivotal Software, Inc. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ What is Spring Cloud Function? 5 • Promotes implementation of business logic as functions • Supplier, • Function, • Consumer • Uniformed programming model • Transparent type conversion • Function Composition 6. Unless otherwise indicated, these slides are © 2013-2017 Pivotal Software, Inc. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ What is Spring Cloud Function? (cont…) 6 • POJO functions (if it looks/smells like a function it must be a function) • Reactive support • Arity - functions with multiple inputs/outputs • Deployment of packaged functions (JARs or exploded archives) • Boot configuration • Simple Spring configurations • Simple non-Spring packages • Integration with serverless platforms • AWS • Azure All within spring-boot scope and features 7. Unless otherwise indicated, these slides are © 2013-2017 Pivotal Software, Inc. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ What is Spring Cloud Function? (cont…) 7 • Function Catalog • Acts as a function registry • Wraps functions to add additional features • Composition • Type conversion • Function Registration • Encapsulates required information about functions • Input/Output types • Used for manual function registration 8. Demo 9. Unless otherwise indicated, these slides are © 2013-2017 Pivotal Software, Inc. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Summary 9 10. Learn More. Stay Connected. Thank you! @z_oleg 10 #springone@s1p These presentations are classified and categorized, so you will always find everything clearly laid out and in context. You are watching Spring Cloud Function: Write Once, Run Anywhere (For Real!) presentation right now. We are staying up to date! 2014 SlideSearchEngine.com Contact	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line702
__label__wiki	0.89108	0.89108	Universally Speaking, Earthlings Share a Nice Neighborhood Press Release From: National Science Foundation New computer simulations put solar system in universal perspective. Jupiter may act as our solar system's "junk yard dog," protecting the Earth from comets. View a video interview with theoretical astrophysicist Ed Thommes of the University of Guelph. We don't have spacecraft to take us outside our solar system--not yet, at least. Still, astronomers thought they had a pretty good understanding of how our solar system formed and in turn, how others formed. In the last dozen years, nearly 300 exoplanets have been discovered. Are the solar systems in which they reside indeed like our own? Without knowledge or observations to the contrary, conventional knowledge said yes. Three Northwestern University researchers questioned that assumption and explored this question. What they learned is that the solar system in which the Earth orbits our sun is actually uncommon. Edward Thommes, Soko Matsumura and Frederic Rasio were the first to develop large-scale, sophisticated computer simulations to model the formation of planetary systems from beginning to end. Because of computing limitations, earlier models provided only brief glimpses of the process. The surprising findings of their study titled, "Gas Disks to Gas Giants: Simulating the Birth of Planetary Systems," are detailed in the August 8, 2008 issue of Science magazine. The researchers used a range of computer simulations to explore the formation of extra-solar planetary systems. They were able to show the action of a planet-forming circumstellar disk in three different starting condition scenarios at different intervals from the beginning of the universe to 500 million years of evolution. They found that our solar system represents the rare case in which big gas giants form, but do not migrate to the inner planetary system, and the orbits of all of the planets in the system are circular and stable. "We now know that these other planetary systems don't look like the solar system at all," said Frederic A. Rasio, senior author of the Science paper, and a theoretical astrophysicist and professor of physics and astronomy in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. "We now better understand the process of planet formation and can explain the properties of the strange exoplanets we've observed. We also know that the solar system is special and understand at some level what makes it special." -NSF- Lisa-Joy Zgorski, NSF (703) 292-8311 lisajoy@nsf.gov Megan Fellman, Northwestern University (847) 491-3115 fellman@northwestern.edu Edward Thommes, University of Guelph ethommes@physics.uoguelph.ca Frederic Rasio, Northwestern University 847-467-3419 rasio@northwestern.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line708
__label__wiki	0.794223	0.794223	C.J.: Rusty Gatenby and KSTP-TV have severed ties February 3, 2014 — 8:01pm C.J. @DishCentral Rusty Gatenby is no longer with KSTP-TV, after more than 30 years. KSTP-TV news director Lindsay Radford confirmed to me Monday that Gatenby was no longer with the station but declined to answer my questions, citing this as a personnel matter. In November when I broke the story about anchor Brad Sattin and meteorologist Patrick Hammer being given six months to find other jobs, Gatenby, the traffic and entertainment reporter, was on solid ground. It is believed that he had one of the highest Q Scores — "a measurement of the familiarity and appeal of a brand, company, celebrity or television show used in the United States," according to Wikipedia — of all Twin Cities traffic reporters. So all I know for sure is that something happened, because I am fairly confident that there was no intention to dump Gatenby in November when big changes were being made to "5 Eyewitness News Morning" show. When the February sweeps started and he was not on the morning show, sources told me they thought Gatenby was dealing with a sick family member. I started asking questions about Gatenby's whereabouts after a Jan. 30 e-mail from reader "Annie in Minnesota" who wrote: "Just found your article on him. I was sick for a few days and didn't watch TV and when I started again, the weatherman who worked with him had been replaced and Rusty was not there. Because I have GATENBY in my family tree his name is easy to remember, but my intermittent problems are getting in the way of remembering the name of the weatherman. Now it seems that maybe Rusty has ben replaced, too? Can you tell me where each of them went?" At Mark Albert's going-away party, following his August announcement that he was leaving KSTP, I hung with Gatenby and his very young, but computer savvy, date. Rusty was chortling about how in, I believe it was, 2012 he had gotten into trouble at KSTP (I even think he told me what happened but I didn't retain the info) and that it had escaped my attention. That kind of taunting should surely inspire me to see what I can find out about this rascal's exit. C.J. can be reached at cj@startribune.com and seen on Fox 9's "Buzz." E-mailers, please state a subject; "Hello" does not count. Attachments are not opened. cj@startribune.com 612-332-TIPS @DishCentral More From C.J. C.J.: Married former TV co-anchors are starting a parenting podcast for WCCO-AM Camille Williams and Cory Hepola shouldn’t have any problems coming up with material for their new podcast, “Hey, They Grow Up… C.J.: Veteran sports writer John Feinstein says football is never safe In the final installment of my interview with Washington Post sports columnist John Feinstein, the author of 35 books, we talk about an… C.J.: Fancy Ray McCloney promotes marriage, though not his own If you’ve spent any time with Fancy Ray McCloney, the self-proclaimed “Best Looking Man in Comedy,” you can empathize with the suffering of his… C.J.: Jerry O'Connell gets support from Wendy Williams for talk show "Jerry O' " show began a three-week test run Monday on Fox. C.J.: 34 years of Gittelson Jewelers customer service, including a 3 a.m. Prince appointment For the past eight years, Gene and his son Michael Gittelson have been sharing the 297-square-foot space with Molly Braun, the general manager, who sometimes witnesses familial squabbling. Joyce Sidman casts spells with poetry • Books Stealing skulls from the grave, with science in mind • Books Jan. 21: '3 Cups of Tea' author acknowledges shortcomings, vows to do better • Books Here's the long and short on speaker wires • TV & Media Minneapolis-born 'Gunsmoke' star James Arness dies • TV & Media	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line712
__label__wiki	0.543872	0.543872	Democrats for Citizens United photo of Chelsea Clinton (Ali Shaker/VOA) One of the democratic platform issues is the repeal of the Citizen’s United verdict which allows for uncontrolled campaign spending by super PACs. In other words those with bucks continue to have undo influence. But shouldn’t we be thankful for the super PACs which have produced all these exemplary children. No one likes the candidates in this election, but everyone is talking about the children. And it’s apparent that one great way to produce wonderful children is to be a presidential hopeful. Even though it’s clear Trump, who has been using his own dough, is not dependent on super PACs, he's one of many candidates notable for his great kids. You have the two Obama girls, Chelsea, Ivanka, Tiffany, the Trump boys and going further back Ron Reagan and Caroline Kennedy. Even Dr. Spock, a noted liberal, who’s Babyand Child Care is still a bible of child raising and a noted liberal, might have given his blessing to Citizen’s United. Let’s imagine that we expand rather than diminish the power of the super PACs. The result will be that more and more people will run for president. The problems of dysfunctional families, which include but are not limited to divorce and drug and alcohol addiction, will all disappear. A family with a parent running for president is more likely to produce focused and well-adjusted kids, who thrive in school and later in the workplace. Labels: Chelsea Clinton, Ivanka Trump Sardinia Journal VII: Atlantis watercolor of Nuraghe from the inside by Hallie Cohen Plato said there were l0,000 towers in Atlantis and there are at least l0,000 Nuraghes ancient structures, dating from approximately1500 BC—whose provenance and actual process of construction is a mystery. One argument would have it that Sardinia was in fact the lost civilization of Atlantis, which became buried by water when the Mediterranean rose. In any case Sardinia had many occupants including the Phoenicians, the Romans and the Spanish until becoming part of Italy in 1861 under Victor Emmanuel II. Interestingly though a version of Catalan is spoken in Alghero, the indigenous Sardinian language which has survived generations of occupation is a tongue that is remarkably close to Latin. One thing is certain, of all the parts of Italy, Sardinia is the one which shows the least mixture of cultures when you look at the varying complexions of native Sardinians. For instance in Sicily you may see dark swarthy skinned southerners along with blond and blue eyed Nordic types while despite the waves of conquest the average Sardinian’s DNA seems to have remained fairly homogenous and free of evidence of intermarriage with the invader. Thus if it is true that Sardinia was once Atlantis then the average Sardinian is a true ancestor of the Atlantans, and not the kind you find in Georgia or even the Sardinian version of neurotic, neuraghic. Sardinia Journal VI: Tuerredda Beach photograph of Sardinian coast by Hallie Cohen Sardinians seek quaint alcoves, little oases of sand that are a respite along the rocky shores of the island. Often these beaches take some doing in accessing. One, Tuerredda Beach, is not far from the town of Pula on the southwest coast, a classic summer resort with town square and band playing into the night, that’s about thirty five minutes from Cagliari—the largest city on the island. To arrive at Tuerredda you have to negotiate perilous winding roads with set backs that overlook breathtaking vistas, such as a narrow peninsula running out in the sea, really an oversized jetty, at the end of which is one of the islands many round shaped Spanish towers. The sun is brilliantly reflected across the crystal clear waters and once the climbing and descending is all over and you realize you’re arrived sound in body and mind the pay off seems even more worth it due to the perils you’ve withstood. The beach which is itself modest in size is packed on a Saturday afternoon in August and as you walk onto the sand you pass merchants who sell colorful beach cloths with mandalas and other shapes whose provenance might actually be China for all you know. Globalism raises its convenient and ugly head even in far off places, coveted by tourists from England, France, Germany and America who are seeking to get away from it all. As you buy your gelato after a swim, you hear that Beach Boys “Don’t Worry Baby,” emanating from a radio behind the counter followed by the banter of a Sardinian radio announcer. You go in for one last swim, revisiting the childhood oceanic feeling of not wanting to come out. Sardinia Journal V: Mont 'e Prama watercolor of ancient Sardinian statue by Hallie Cohen Cabras is a village on the Western coast of Sardinia which dates from the seventh century AD. One of the more creative accommodations is Aquae Sinis, an “Albergo Diffuso,” meaning that unlike a normal hotel, its rooms are spread out across a campus of 17th century structures. But in the late afternoon during siesta, when the streets are deserted, the town has the look of a de Chirico painting, characterized as it is by wide open classic spaces that create a haunting feeling of emptiness. The old and the new exist in a stately counterpoint in Cabras. The landscape is dotted with ancient Spanish towers counterbalanced with huge modern granary silos, that look like airport control towers. If you go to the Il Museo Civico di Cabras you can see the results of one of the most important excavations in modern archeological history and something that rivals Stonehenge in its significance—a necropolis from the 9th century BC discovered in the Mont ‘e Prama area outside of town. Over 5000 fragments which had once been part of 30 enormous statues of archers, warriors and boxers, known as "the Giants of Mont 'e Prama," were discovered above graves in which crouched figures were buried. And when it comes to desecration it turns out the Islamic State is just the new boy on the block. All of these figures show evidence of having been plundered by an invading army, probably Phoenicians. Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose. ISIS definitely did a job on Palmyra and at the Mont 'e Prama site, archeologists are demonstrating how history repeats itself. Sardinia Journal IV: Shepherding Photograph of Sardinian Ricotta Dessert by Hallie Cohen If you want to meet a shepherd who also likes Edward Hopper because of his light, you will have to journey to Sardinia. At one point the Mediterranean was a smaller, though not less turbulent world, and the tradition of shepherding comes from ancient Palestine, amongst other places. The Adoration of the Shepherds of course derives from the Nativity. Talking about art and shepherding Giotto was a shepherd. Shepherds not only herd goats and sheep, but some like Salvatore Porcu, the shepherd from Bosa with the interest in Hopper, turn their spiritual leanings into the art of making cheese. For instance Pecorino is made from sheep’s milk. The process of making such cheeses is an ancient skill. Ricotta means twice cooked. Antonio Gramsci the Marxist philosopher who was born on Sardinia would probably have admired shepherd’s work since it’s one in which the worker experiences little of the alienation that results from division of labor and economy of scale, two principal tenets of capitalism that Marx indicted in his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of l844. Come to Sardinia if you want a brief respite from the industrial revolution and the world of processed cheese. Sardinia Journal III: The Life Force the results of Sardinian tweeting (photograph by Hallie Cohen) A sponsored article in The Guardian, "Does Sardinia hold the secret of a long life?"asks and goes on to point out that "According to records, the small Italian island of Sardinia has the highest percentage of people to live 100 years or beyond." The article tries to figure out reasons and concludes that it may be a glass a day of the local wine that's responsible for the longevity, but certainly it isn't the names of towns on the Western coast, tongue twisters like Magomadas and Tresnuraghes that add to life expectancy. Another thing that may account for Sardinian longevity may be the esprit of the populace. Sardinia is naturally still a part of Italy, but it exudes the kind of pride in place that you find amongst the Basques, though Sardinian "nationalism" appears to be harnessed to a more peaceful end. For instance, take the wine that's produced from Malvasian grapes and for which Sardinians are justly proud; its uniqueness is the result of the mistral and the salt sea, which prevents the kind of fungus that results from humid conditions in other places. Sardinian tourism is growing, but Sardinia itself is still far enough from the madding crowd to preserve its own integrity and the pleasures the island has to offer are enhanced by the ethos of moderation. It's not that the culture is lacking in its own aspiration. Rather the ambition is inward turning in such a way that cultivates a peaceful form of pride, a self-love that's manifested in the pleasure the inhabitants take in their way of life. The chorus of birds tweeting outside the church in Tresnuraghes gives Handel's Hallelujuh Chorus a run for the money, which may be another testament to the Shavian life force that seems to underlie the Sardinian sensibility. However, watch out if you are interested in the kind of tweets that come from the internet, hooking up to which can be a chancy prospect on this wind swept island. 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__label__wiki	0.583986	0.583986	The People Behind STTA Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) is a National Sports Association affiliated to the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) and Sport Singapore (SportSG). On the international front, STTA is a member of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), Commonwealth Table Tennis Federation (COMTAB), Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU) and the South East Asia Table Tennis Association (SEATTA). Under the Sports Excellence 2000 scheme, table tennis was selected as one of the 7 core sports in Singapore. With the support from SportSG, STTA had made tremendous progress over the years. The STTA provides the athletes with the best possible facilities, amenities and environment for developing the sports and to reach their maximum sporting potential. Highly qualified coaches are employed to raise the standard of the athletes from the national squad and youth development programmes. Professional sparring partners are also recruited to spar with the national paddlers. These efforts coupled with the systematic training programmes, enables our national paddlers to deliver exceptional results. The STTA is committed to its mission: To develop world class table tennis players by identifying, nurturing and motivating aspiring table-tennis talents to become the best that they could be. The emphasis on youth development at the STTA has never been greater and a key goal for STTA is to identify and groom talented athletes from a very young age. Our youth development programmes are as follow: Pre-School Table Tennis Programme (4 to 6 years old) In 2009, The STTA collaborated with PAP Community Foundation (PCF) Kindergartens to introduce table tennis lessons to Kindergarten 1 & 2 children. The objective of the pre-school table tennis programme is to introduce table tennis to pre-school children with the aim of arousing their interest and teaching them the basic skills of the sport. If your Kindergarten/pre-school is interested in our pre-school table tennis programme, please contact us at Tel: 63541014. Zone Training Centres (5 – 11 Years Old) Talented and promising players from the pre-school table tennis programme are invited to join the association’s zone training centres located island wide for intensive training. The zone training centres are instrumental in strengthening the process of discovering and nurturing young and potential players in a more structured and sustainable manner. Registration Form for Zone Training Centre Junior Development Squad (9-13 yrs old) High potential athletes from our zone training centres and top athletes from our STTA co-organised tournaments will be invited to selection trials for progression into the Junior Development Squad. For more details, please refer to the Junior Development Squad selection policy Youth Training Squad (18 years old & below) The objective of the Youth Training Squad is to develop top youth athletes for progression into the Intermediate Squad. Athletes who have achieved Top 8 placing in the under-15 singles category and under-18 singles category in the STTA co-organised tournaments: SAFRA-STTA Table Tennis Championships, Dr. Ng Eng Hen – STTA Table Tennis Championships and Dr. Lee Bee Wah Cup – STTA Table Tennis Championships will be invited for the Youth Training Squad selection trials. For more details, please refer to the Youth Training Squad selection policy. School within School Programme at Singapore Sports School The Singapore Sports School, in collaboration with STTA started the“school within school” (SWS) programme. The student-athletes in the SWS programme undergo extended duration of training during the day and attend academic classes in the late evening — quite a different concept from what students in mainstream schools do. The longer training sessions are aimed at optimising training and eventually narrowing the gap with the international playing standards. In addition, SWS offers a greater customisation of academic support for its student-athletes so that they can travel and compete more frequently. The yearly and daily academic schedules of SWS are worked around the student-athletes’ training and competition plans. Classes may also be conducted during the scheduled school holidays. For more details, please refer to: Singapore Sports School Intermediate Squad (17 years old and above) The objective of the Intermediate Squad is to develop top youth athletes for progression into National Team. For more details, please refer to the Intermediate Squad selection policy Learn to play table tennis? “Learn to Play” is basic table tennis course (10 lessons) for beginners. The course is conducted at the Toa Payoh, Hougang, Pasir Ris and Clementi training hall. I want to improve my table tennis game If you wish to advance your table tennis game, please join our “Continue to Play”programme. The programme is conducted at the Toa Payoh, Hougang, Pasir Ris and Clementi training hall. School Holidays Camp The STTA organised table tennis training camps during the school holidays. Table Tennis Interest Clubs The People’s Association and STTA have jointly set up the National Network of table tennis interest groups to widen outreach and deepen engagement with residents through table tennis at the Community Clubs, Residents’ Committees Centres and Neighbourhood Committees. The table tennis interest groups are to engage and to promote community and family bonding amongst residents. It will also provide opportunities for residents, regardless of gender, race and age, to learn to play table tennis and improve their skills. The table tennis interest groups are led by volunteer peer leaders and practices are conducted at Community Clubs (CCs) or areas outside the Residents Committee(RC) Centres. We welcome as many residents to come forward and join the club. Residents may join to learn and play leisurely or competitively, and even volunteer to be table tennis volunteer peer leaders. STTA organised table tennis tournaments throughout the year. The local tournaments are as follow: Toa Payoh East Novena/STTA Veteran Table Tennis Championship Dr Ng Eng Hen Cup/ STTA Table Tennis Championships Dr Lee Bee Wah Cup/ STTA Table Tennis Championships Char Yong Cup National Youth Top 10 Table Tennis Tournament National Table Tennis Grand Finale Singapore Junior & Hopes Invitational Table Tennis Tournament STTA Business League 297C Lorong 6 Toa Payoh Date of Establishment: 1965 ROS/RCB Registration No: 733/47 SPO IPC Status Renewal till 19/02/2021 Unique Entity Number (UEN) S65SS0005E Effective date of registration	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line718
__label__cc	0.724312	0.275688	Car sellers coning women for sex! Literary series by Dr. Ashraf Ssimwogerere This is Martha’s story: I went to Pine Yard and met one of my friends who is stationed there to get more information about this story. This is what Magezi my source told me: This is Martha’s story: I went to Pine Yard and met one of my friends who is stationed there to get more information about this story. This is what Magezi told me: “Hajji Ashraf, we have so many people here; some like me are in formal business: of buying and selling used cars and others just come here to con people. Here, guys are very well-dressed. A guy may come here in the morning without a coin in his pocket and leaves this place in the evening with over two million shillings. “But this happens occasionally. They bring girls here always, and for a Ugandan woman, when you talk about a car, she will do anything for you. For example, in Martha’s case the two million Jimmy paid Kizito was for Kizito himself. “Jimmy had paid Kizito some money before, may be like 100, 000 shillings, for him to act until the mission is accomplished. In other words, Jimmy was just giving Kizito his money that he used to play the game. “And they do it in the evenings, so as to claim that the banks are closed and on late Saturdays to get you the whole of Sunday before the banks are opened on Monday for the girl to be suspicious. “It was unbelievable.” What I got at Pyne Yard was that Jimmy had unceremoniously disappeared from the scene and cutting off all his contacts. Kizito, the Pine yard guy who received the deposit money for the car Jimmy was buying for Martha was looking at her as a stranger. All this time Jimmy had enjoyed the fruits of Martha who was a virgin to his satisfaction. Three weeks later Martha found herself pregnant. Let’s proceed; “Hajj Ashraf, at first when the man told me that ‘Muwala, baakufera’ (Girl, you were coned), I thought he was joking; maybe because he was laughing. “Another one added: ‘Girl, dayo osome bitabo byo Jimmy mwerabire. Gwe wawedde.’ (Girl, go back, forget Jimmy and read your books. For you are finished.) All of the men who were there in a group of ten, or more, taking tea and porridge in mugs just laughed at me uncontrollably. I felt very very small. Another one shouted calling a Kaggwa to tell me the truth. “To my surprise, Kaggwa was the one I knew as Kizito. I got completely confused and decided to leave and go back to the hostel. I thought I would get Jimmy in church and report him to the pastor, but he never appeared again. “When three weeks later I realized that I was pregnant, I thought of abortion, but I had no money and our final exams were in a month’s time. I imagined meeting my Dad, Lyagoba of Kiwani and my step-mother with my pregnancy, and cried the whole week. I decided to meet my pastor and tell him the whole story. “It is thru this Muzungu pastor that God saved me. Hajj Ashraf “obulamu bwali bunsinye. Nga nyenda kufa bufi” (I only wanted to die”). He counselled me and advised me to keep the baby. He promised to cater for my upkeep.” “Hajj Ashraf, I settled and concentrated in books. I made sure no body in the hostel and at campus suspected me. I finished my course with a second upper degree. I worked at the church after my exams and kept my pregnancy away from Dad and Mom until after I delivered I stayed in a church house around Kampala suburbs. “Hajj Ashraf you can’t believe a girl from Kiwani delivered her baby from Kololo hospital. The bill was 1.7million. Pastor cleared everything. That is how God works. Amen. Mom and Dad saw my son on the graduation day. Because l was not doing bad they didn’t bother the father first. But they were happy for their grand. The graduation was organized by the pastors wife. I was her darling among the church members. After two years the Pastor and his wife sent me out to UK for my masters.” “Today after 14yrs since I met Jimmy in church, his son is a member of that church choir that has traveled the world. He is in S2 in a very good school. For me I’m a civil servant, a commissioner in this ministry of … .” I’ve met Jimmy on the streets of Kampala several times and he pretends not to know me. I inquired a lot about him. He is ever in police and prison cells. I once saw his pic in a paper wanted for car robbery Its good for me that he doesn’t know that I have his child. I’m happily married but a bit sad that I told my son that yo dad is dead when he is alive. And I don’t expect ever to change my mind to forgive that goon never. My kid is a son of the Church. 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__label__cc	0.722145	0.277855	Thas a rummun, bor Somewhere between Norwich and the East Coast This conductive upbringing, thas a rummun – as we say in Norfolk I mean that it is a bit odd now and then. Sometimes I wonder what I am doing when I work for years with children through to their adulthood, teaching and guiding and watching all that they achieve. With what they achieve they can often at last join in with the games and sports that their non-disabled siblings and friends take part in. Sometimes this is very dangerous, but what do we do? We have encouraged them to be active, taught them how to ride a bike, motivated them to ride a horse, encouraged them to go out in the big wide world and take part. Do we suddenly say ‘Hey, stop, that it is too dangerous’? No, of course we do not. Yes, we make sure that safety precautions are taken but we are not there all the time to keep an eye on things. Sometimes when our clients are out there alone in the big wide world, where we have encouraged them to be, something happens. Sometimes eyes get blackened – Jolly Prof. had one of them last week and Little Princess piped up with ‘I had one of them too, I ran into a post’. She did too, rushing around in the playground. At other times heads get knocked, teeth get broken, and arms and legs get covered in bruises. Rarely in my experience, however, has a client worn a plaster cast because of an accident, only after an operation. Laddo’s news I got news of Laddo yesterday. Laddo has always been a bit of a tearaway and even though he will be 23 years old next week he still is likely to get up to all kinds of mischief. This time he got out the big go-kart that he received for a birthday at least ten years ago and drove at full speed down a hill. I have no idea where he was as there are no hills in his garden so I assume that he was out and about in the village where he lives. Needless to say he crashed. Now this is nothing new, he is always crashing something. He sat in a car and took off the hand brake once and crashed that! This time it was different, this time that he crashed he hurt himself. Over the years there have been broken teeth and stitches in his forehead where his glasses have cut him during a fall, but there has not been anything really bad since as a youngster he ran himself a bath as he had seen his brother and sisters do and then got in to it, burning himself. There will be no conductive upbringing at home this summer for Laddo as he is off sick for several weeks with a plaster cast on his arm and stitches in a head wound. There are no broken bones, just torn ligaments but these often take longer to heal than a bone. Laddo has athetoid cerebral palsy. He has learnt over the years to use his hands well, well enough to drive a go-kart! His left hand cooperates and does what he wants it to do more willingly than his right hand and, thank goodness, it is his right hand that is in plaster, but even so he cannot do much at all independently without his right hand to help him, except eat and drink! Fortunately he learnt at an early age to climb the stairs to his second-floor home without holding on. At that time he could not easily grasp anything and there was nothing there anyway to hold on to, so he learnt to do it without! Dangerously inclusive When I receive news like this of Laddo’s plaster cast and just a superficial bump on the head, I wonder about my work and I think what a rummun this conductive upbringing is. I would not change it for the world and it was lovely to exchange emails with Laddo’s Mum yesterday and know that she thinks the same. It was just another crazy action from Laddo, when his learnt skills and increasing abilities lead to dangerous, inclusive activity with the occasional accident that the family just takes it in its stride. Mum described the accident, the operation and the plaster cast to me, and then she wrote – ‚Es war wieder eine typische Steffen Aktion‘. It was once again a typical Steffen event. I remember when Little Princess had learnt enough to go home alone with her rolator or on her bike. Oh what a worry that was, but I have long forgotten that worry and the care that we took to keep her safe – the wave at the door, the peering out of the window, a phone call to Mum that she was on her way, and then waiting till she was in Mum’s sight! Her bike has tipped over a couple of times she has had her fair share of bruises from ice hockey and football games. There have been no accidents on the roads or on the paths, only when she has been racing around in the park with her brother. She has called and called for help when she got stuck in the drain cover and eventually her brother came looking for her. She has had a couple of black eyes, a stitched tongue and that’s about all. She has probably had far less injuries than I had by the time that I was ten-years old. The joy of life But that is what we are teaching these children to achieve, their independence. To be able at a certain point in their development to go out and about in the world alone, just like the other children in their schools. I remember when Laddo first went home on the bus alone, with me following two hours later on the next one. I remember the first time that Jolly Prof went to the baker’s to get the Sunday-breakfast rolls and how soon after he found he was able to travel to school on his bike alone. I remember many occasions when I have realised that children and adults have learnt enough to go out in the world on their own. I do not often think about the occasions when Jolly Prof’s bike tipped up, when Laddo slipped over on the ice, or when Little Princess’s rolator got stuck in a drain grate. They all managed and got up and carried on another day. They are all participating in lives to the full, now and then with a plaster cast, a black eye a few stitches and bruises but on the whole getting through unscathed. I do not think about the accidents, I think of the joy that they have taking part in life. It is hot! PS to Frankfurt job Trains return to UK? Frankfurt calling Along Budapest's number 2 tram route Spotty, Stripy and Retro I think it must have rained on St. Swithan’s day!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line722
__label__cc	0.645804	0.354196	Four Great MG & YA Graphic Novels This almost feels like a cop-out post, highlighting four graphic novels instead of giving them each their own post. But I'm woefully behind on covering my reading, and hey, graphic novels are like potatoes chips. You can never have just one. You should always have at least four ready to go, right? Right. So here are four graphic novels I've read recently (ish). Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson I love, love, love this book. It's about twelve-year-old Astrid who, after seeing a roller derby match, decides that she and her best friend Nicole need to enroll in roller derby summer camp. But Nicole isn't as into roller derby as Astrid, and she decides to go to dance camp instead. Astrid feels betrayed, but she's stuck with roller derby--and roller derby is hard. And unfortunately, Astrid isn't anywhere near as good as she hoped she would be. But she hangs in there, with some encouragement from a new friend and her roller derby hero, Rainbow Bite, and learns a few things about honesty and being a good friend. What makes this story really stand out for me is that it's about a girl who has to learn to deal with the consequences of reality not living up to her expectations, and how to face disappointment. Astrid has a lot of obstacles--her friend "abandoning" her, roller derby is much more difficult than she thought it'd be, and other people succeed much more quickly than she does. There are times when she wants to give up, but she has to learn the hard way that the only way to achieve her dreams is through a lot of hard work--and that failure isn't the end of the journey. Plus, the roller derby came setting is SO MUCH FUN. Overall, this is a really charming and funny story with strong characters and an even stronger voice. Sunny Side Up by Jennifer and Matthew Holm When Sunny is sent to live with her grandpa in Florida for the summer, she's excited--Florida is where Disney World is! But Grandpa lives in a retirement community, where Sunny is the only kid. Until she meets Buzz, and they stumble into a lucrative business finding missing cats and golf balls and spending their reward money on comic books. But the whole summer, everyone is avoiding talking about the real reason Sunny is in Florida for the summer. Sunny Side Up is a funny and mostly upbeat graphic novel that dances around the troubles Sunny has at home, before the start of the novel. The characters are what make this book compelling--Sunny, her grandfather, Buzz, the eclectic older ladies in the retirement community, and Sunny's troubled older brother. Because the major thrust of the story comes through flashbacks to the previous year, the present story is pretty light and the action feels a bit distant, but the message about dealing with secrets and uncertainty is something that younger readers will definitely be able to relate to. Nimona by Noelle Stevenson Nimona, longlisted for the National Book Award, has certainly gotten lots of great attention. I'm not sure what else I can add to the discussion, except to say that I enjoyed it a great deal. It's about a villain, Lord Ballister Blackheart who has a vendetta against Sir Ambrosias Goldenloin and is committed to proving that Ambrosia and the kingdom are not heroic and perfect. When a shapeshifter named Nimona comes to town, determined to help Ballister, Ballister finds his hands full diffusing the tension caused by Nimona's mischief--especially when it escalates dramatically. Who is she, really? And what does she want? The best part about Nimona is perhaps the world that Stevenson very skillfully creates, a fun mash-up of medieval fantasy and mad science. The characters and the situations are delightfully over the top, but not without compelling emotional stories. This is an excellent story about friendship and learning to trust, with epic stakes and confrontations. The story genuinely surprised and excited me with its twists, and it manages to be laugh-outloud funny and unexpectedly touching at the same time. Definitely a winner. Mercury by Hope Larson Set in Nova Scotia, this graphic novel offers a compelling split narrative united by setting and family. In 1859, Josey's family welcomes a stranger into their home who shows them that their homestead contains gold and promises them riches. In present day, Tara's old house has burned down and her family has split up. Rumors of gold will spell out tragedy for one girl, and perhaps offer salvation for another. The contrasts between the stories, and the question of gold, gives Mercury a good amount of tension. The historical story is taut with hints of supernatural and tinged with superstition--ghosts, visions, curses. Josey is hopeful and willfully ignores the subtle warnings. Meanwhile, Tara's story plays out against a very normal, almost banal modern backdrop. She's already lost a lot of hope for the future, but she is continually drawn to the rumors of her family's past and what happened in 1859, and the necklace that unites the two stories. Larson doesn't answer all of the readers' questions about the story, but the climax certainly delivers on all that it promises. Mercury is subtly creepy and memorable. Labels: Featured Books, Graphic Novels, Middle Grade LinWash said... Ooo. Love me a good graphic novel. Will search these out. When I saw the National Book Award finalists, I noticed Nimona. Sadly, I'd never heard of it. So I'm glad you featured it. October 14, 2015 at 10:56:00 AM EDT Half Wild by Sally Green Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner Cover Reveal: Two Summers by Aimee Friedman 25 Random Things About Sherri L. Smith, Author of ... Walk On Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson Books That Will Send a Shiver Down Your Spine The Emperor of Any Place by Tim Wynne-Jones Illuminae Giveaway	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line727
__label__cc	0.587378	0.412622	You are here: Home 2016 February 22 The Bloomberg global TMT brief #5 The Bloomberg global TMT brief #5 Posted on February 22, 2016 by Richard Wallace \| Companies and topics in this issue of the Bloomberg global TMT brief from Chris Lowe include MindMaze and its electronic headsets for stroke patients, IBM’s latest health tech acquisition, Snapdeal, Apple and its challenge to the FBI, Airbnb in Japan, OpenText in Brazil, startups & convertible debt, wellness and Harvard’s project to build brain-inspired artificial intelligence. MINDMAZE: a Swiss virtual reality startup, has raised $100m at a valuation of $1.1bn. The round was led by Hinduja. MindMaze makes an electronic headset it sells to hospitals for rehabilitating patients who have undergone a stroke. The devices use virtual and augmented reality combined with sensors that track the user’s motion and display interactive digital environments through the goggles. “We’re building the software and hardware across sensory elements to eventually build up an interface that’s intuitive – that doesn’t use mice, keyboards – and is more true to what it should be.” MindMaze is exploring headsets to help with other injuries, such as amputations. SNAPDEAL: Increasingly we may be looking east this year for mega-raises, with Snapdeal at the top of this list as it raises $200M more to fuel up for India’s ongoing e-commerce battle. “We see these investments as a continuing endorsement of Snapdeal’s strategy to build India’s most reliable and frictionless commerce ecosystem.” APPLE: has been ordered by a court to help the FBI break into a smartphone, but it is refusing, saying it would set a dangerous precedent. AIRBNB: is up against pressure in Japan as PM Abe released guidelines for home sharing that could make most Airbnb rentals in Japan illegal. Ota, one of 23 districts within Tokyo, became the first municipality to fully adopt Abe’s proposal last week. Osaka, the country’s third-largest city, will begin implementing the laws in April. More authorities plan to follow. IBM: has agreed to buy Truven Health Analytics for $2.6bn, its fourth health tech acquisition in a year. More than 8,500 hospitals, insurers and government agencies use Truven to manage and analyze the reams of data generated by the health industry. After integrating Truven’s data from about 215m individuals, IBM will have amassed various kinds of health-related information from 300m patients, the company said. IBM intends to use the data from Truven, Merge Healthcare, Explorys and Phytel to focus on creating insights into value-based care, which the US has been shifting toward and allows patients to pay for health-care based on outcomes. OPENTEXT: announces a good contract win in Brazil, where Coca-Cola Refrescos Bandeirantes, the exclusive distributor of Coca-Cola products in Brazil, has selected OpenText to manage its digital supply chain. Using OpenText B2B managed services, Refrescos Bandeirantes easily connects its retailers through the OpenText Trading Grid, a cloud-based B2B integration network, to increase its supply chain visibility and grow its business network. Trends in focus START UPS & CONVERTIBLE DEBT A Bloomberg note highlights: As venture capital reaches a high not seen since the dot-com boom, more technology startups are becoming addicted to quick, cheap loans. The percentage of US venture rounds involving convertible debt has doubled since 2012, according to data from research firm Pitchbook Data. For young startups, debt has become standard because it allows them to raise small amounts of capital more frequently. WELLNESS UPDATE: Runkeeper has been acquired by ASICS. Running shoes will now collate more data on you – click here. AI UPDATE: Humans side by side against computers: the strengths and weaknesses of each. Harvard has awarded $28m to build brain-inspired artificial intelligence – see the Wired UK article. “”The project is not only pushing the boundaries of brain science, it is also pushing the boundaries of what is possible in computer science. We will reconstruct neural circuits at an unprecedented level from petabytes of structural and functional data. It requires us to make new advances in data management, high-performance computing, computer vision and network analysis”. If you would like to subscribe to Chris Lowe’s Bloomberg TMT daily briefs, get in touch with us via our contact page. Filed in: Uncategorized Tags: Bloomberg, TMT	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line734
__label__cc	0.582481	0.417519	Christine Hanefalk Commentary October 27, 2012 Did Foggy cross the line? If you haven’t read the last 3-4 issues of Daredevil, you probably don’t know what I’m getting at. Then again, if that describes you, stop reading right now, there will be spoilers ahead for Daredevil issues #16-19. Okay, so did you read Daredevil #19 and are you still reading this? Then you may be ready to yell “Yes, of course Foggy crossed the line! What kind of stupid question is that?” In Daredevil #19, Foggy makes the poor – and inebriated – decision to reveal to Kirsten McDuffie, an assistant District Attorney, that his best friend is in fact the vigilante she always assumed he was. Not only that, he also tells her that he believes that Matt may be a danger to himself and others, prompting what most likely will turn into a full-scale manhunt by next issue. So, if possibly sending your best friend back to jail is crossing a line, then Foggy most certainly crossed it. The more interesting question, though, isn’t really whether Foggy broke some kind of bro code, it’s wether he “broke character.” I’ve seen a couple of comics reviewers admit to struggling with Foggy’s behavior over the last few issues. One of them even described Daredevil #19 as the straw that broke the camel’s back. I, too, have reacted to the magnitude of Foggy’s ill feelings toward Matt. As I mentioned in my review of Daredevil #18: “If there is one thing I would change about this issue, it’s Foggy’s too austere attitude in the face of even more evidence (from his perspective, at least) that Matt might be seriously ill. It’s one thing to realize you’re being lied to and quite another to discover that your best friend might have had a psychotic break of some kind.” However, I will say that Foggy’s actions in the most recent issue make a whole lot more sense to me than the stone-cold façade he’d been putting up for the previous three issues. It is because Foggy cares about Matt that he 1) gets drunk and 2) actually sends Kirsten (and the people at her disposal) after him. This seems more “in character” to me, than his just cutting Matt out of his life. If you genuinely believe that someone close to you is psychotic, seeking to have that person checked into a psychiatric facility is a much more compassionate thing to do than to tell that person to “lose my number.” Am I willing to let Foggy completely off the hook? No. Given his supposed concern for his friend, he should have taken him to a doctor and not just kicked him out. I would personally like to get even more insight into Foggy’s reasoning in upcoming issues before I can be perfectly comfortable with how the character is handled currently. I do think some perspective is needed though. First, there is the massive amount of bullshit (pardon my French) that Foggy has had to deal with from Matt over the years. I’ve covered some of their former conflicts in “Matt and Foggy’s roller-coaster relationship” parts 1 and 2 (there’s a third part coming…). Aside from the events of Shadowland, we also need to remember that Matt’s former wife Milla actually killed someone after losing her mind. This means that Foggy’s fear that Matt might injure someone else is a result of personal experience. Then again, we’re still left wondering why he cut his friend loose to begin with… Chris Samnee Daredevil vol 3 Mark Waid Meandering musings Zombie Matt Murdock Review of Daredevil #3 Okay, the Daredevil onslaught has begun! Today saw the release of Daredevil #3 and New Avengers #16 (an issue devoted almost entirely to Daredevil) and as Relaunch Rumor: Is that Michele Gonzales? First off, I’ll readily admit that I didn’t figure this one out myself, but I almost feel like I should have because it seems to so Review of Avenging Spider-Man #6 Avenging Spider-Man #6, the first issue of the Omega Effect cross-over, came out today and my overall impression is that it was a gorgeous and exciting When fanboys pout I’m interrupting my regularly scheduled Daredevil posting to offer a complaint. Ironically, I’m complaining about people complaining. I know that makes me a hypocrite, but bear Bee Clayton I think his recent behaviour is more in line with ‘last straw’ mentality. As you’ve mentioned, Foggy’s dealt with a lot of stressful situations from Matt over the years. At the start of this run, Matt seems to have turned a corner but Foggy isn’t sure. He finds evidence that, in time, confirms his fear and concern for Matt. But then the anger kicks in. Anger is strong, powerful, we are capable of saying and doing things in the heat of anger that, in hindsight, we shouldn’t have done. I think Foggy’s anger and aggravation with Matt got the better of him in those moments, why he kicked Matt to the curb. The bar scene is Foggy coming back to his senses. He realizes he needs to help his best friend, not abandon him (although part of that ongoing stress is having to continually do this for Matt. I think Foggy just wants Matt be well and whole.) Telling the ADA might not have been the best move, but at this point, any help is better than none from Foggy’s point of view. I feel frustrated by Foggy’s recent behaviour and actions, but I can also see where those actions may be coming from and why. So, I’m not ready to given up on Franklin, not yet. 😉 mrfriendly Also there was the Bendis/Maleev run. Foggy was convinced Matt had lost it back then, so this isn’t even the FIRST psychotic break from Matt he’s sure he’s dealing with. Hell, with comic time being what it is it’s not the first psychotic break of the year. Breaking contact was unreasonable, but drunken confession seems to be the next step rather than a recanting; he freaked out and told Matt to go away, but he was always going to try to help him again once the dust settled. Between The Devil in Cellblock D and S********d Foggy has been stabbed because of Matt and nearly stabbed BY Matt, so a mini-freakout when he thinks Matt has gone over the edge again isn’t unreasonable. Obviously it was a stupid thing to do if you consider the wider universe; calling Black Widow, Cage or Doctor Strange would have been a more obvious move. But if characters did the common sense stuff there’d be no stories. Also compared to other superheroes Matt gets off lightly. Peter Parker’s best friend is a legacy villain, Foggy just gets cross when he’s drunk. Ste. G. Pehaps FOggy has crossed a line, but we’ll forgive him won’t we? Lets face it being Best Buddy with DD/MM could be kinda freaky. At least Foggys’ reaction is realistic ,probably in character and does set up future plots… What I want to know is how will Matt take to the idea that Foggy is having rendezvous’ with his latest squeeze??	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line736
__label__cc	0.543454	0.456546	Search Still On For Missing White House Emails By TChris, Section Other Politics Posted on Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 05:30:41 PM EST Tags: (all tags) Share This: Digg! Tweet Remember all those missing emails that the Bush administration claims an inability to find -- even though their preservation is required by the Presidential Records Act? Bush and his cronies were hoping to slink quietly out of the White House, leaving the emails in a state of permanent deletion. A ruling today in a lawsuit filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics and the National Security Archives might make that more difficult for the departing regime. U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy today denied the administration's request to dismiss the lawsuit. Meredith Fuchs, the National Security Archive's general counsel, said that because of the ruling, a court order directing the White House to preserve 65,000 computer backup tapes remains in place. [more ...] Fuchs said that when the Bush administration surrenders its records to the government on Jan. 20, the incoming administration of Barack Obama can "do the right thing here and clean up this mess by ensuring that any missing e-mails are restored from computer backup tapes." ... Sheila Shadmand, a Washington lawyer representing the National Security Archive, said the ruling enables protection of records "before they get carted off or destroyed as the current administration packs its bags to leave." < The GOP "Night of The Long Knives" \| Obama Clarifies Position on Guantanamo Trials > The Online Magazine with Liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news Home \| About \| RSS E-Mail \| Comment Policy \| DMCA/ Infringement Notice Policy Make a new account Creator and Principal Author Jeralyn E. Merritt TL Alumni Armando Llorens T. 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TalkLeft's DMCA Infringement Notice Policy "The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handles" © 1965 Bob Dylan Display: Threaded Minimal Nested Flat Flat Unthreaded Sort: Unrated, then Highest Highest Rated First Lowest Rated First Ignore Ratings Newest First Oldest First Search Still On For Missing White House Emails \| 12 comments (12 topical) Readers Must Login or Create an Account to Comment They have a lot to answer for (5.00 / 2) (#2) by imhotep on Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 07:49:45 PM EST but if Pelosi wouldn't go for impeachment, she will say there's too much else to do than to take the time to hold Bushco accountable. What about Meiers' and Rove's subpoenas? Nothing came of that. Why oh why are we still carping about impeachment (none / 0) (#8) by HenryFTP on Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 04:24:11 AM EST when the new Administration can commence criminal investigations at 12:01 pm on January 20, 2009? Impeachment is a political process that would have generated far more heat than light. Given the immensity and breadth of the crimes that have been committed in our name, we need real investigations that reveal exactly what has occurred and that can lead to prosecutions that would bring real accountability (as opposed to a Capitol Hill Washington Media Circus). We will never begin to cleanse the stain on our Nation's honor of the past eight years unless we take the care to bring all of these dark deeds into the light. There is even a clear choice of an individual to organize and lead the investigations -- Patrick Fitzgerald, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, who will be tendering his resignation (he is of course a Republican appointee). So, do you think they'll happen? (none / 0) (#12) by sj on Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 05:14:47 PM EST The investigations, I mean. I don't think so. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so. And if you don't think so, then you'll understand why people keep "carping" about impeachment. Prediction (5.00 / 1) (#10) by mmc9431 on Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 02:26:39 PM EST I predict that we'll find Jimmy Hoffa before we find the e-mails! I also predict that no one in this administration will ever be held accountable for any of their criminal acts. Obama will want to shut it all down in his bipartisan schick. But (none / 0) (#11) by squeaky on Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 02:29:59 PM EST We know where j hoffa is. End zone in the meadowlands is what I heard. NO SHAME ! is this the value Repubicans (none / 0) (#1) by thereyougo on Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 06:09:46 PM EST teach their kids? I wish they were gone already. It's the value (none / 0) (#4) by cal1942 on Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 10:41:37 PM EST system at least some Repuiblicans teach their kids. The rule of law is fine when it applies to someone else, especially those poor unwashed masses. After all, they have to be kept in line. When it applies to thee; there must be a way around the law. Speaking from personal observation. Prediction: (none / 0) (#9) by Wile ECoyote on Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 08:57:18 AM EST the billing records will be found in the private quarters area....never mind, wrong administration. I don't trust George W. (none / 0) (#3) by arguewithmydad com on Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 09:33:14 PM EST to protect those files. If he doesn't protect the records, can the Judge hold Bush in contempt? That would be sweet. I wonder (none / 0) (#5) if they burned the tapes as so many GOPers suggested to Nixon. now wait just one darn minute! (none / 0) (#6) by cpinva on Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 11:28:25 PM EST this administration most certainly does have values, as does the republican party as a whole. they are, after all, the "values voters" party. they happen to be "sopranos family" values, but values nonetheless. remember the infamous "18 minutes" of missing conversation, from the nixon tapes? if you find that, you'll find those missing emails. What are you thinking? (none / 0) (#7) by JeriKoll on Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 02:02:35 AM EST Does anyone here really believe that if anyone at the White House knew where any of those records still remained, that they wouldn't have been "flushed" (metaphorically) long, long ago. Too much wishful thinking as been spent on some magical tapes somewhere.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line744
__label__cc	0.724159	0.275841	February 15, 2009 August 27, 2008 by admin0 Penny Brohn Cancer Care will auction an artist’s proof of a watercolour painting by The Prince of Wales during an exhibition scheduled for October 3-5th, 2008, along with works by other artists. The exhibition will take place at the new Penny Brohn Cancer Care facility in Pill, just outside of Bristol. Penny Brohn Cancer Care, formerly known as the Bristol Cancer Help Centre, is the first and leading holistic cancer charity in the UK. The exhibition is certain to be impressive, as it will also feature artists from Bristol Savages arts club and The Royal West of England Academy. Over 100 artists will participate in the exhibition, permitting visitors to see new talent and purchase pieces from the artists. His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales’ artwork that will be auctioned is a painting of his renowned organic herb garden at his Highgrove Estate. The signed artist’s proof titled ‘The Thyme Walk, Highgrove House’ is a fitting piece for the for Penny Brohn Cancer Care art auction. The Highgrove Estate uses a holistic system of organic gardening and Penny Brohn Cancer Care pioneered the holistic Bristol Approach to cancer treatment. A photograph of the Thyme Walk garden adorns the back cover of The Elements of Organic Gardening book by HRH Prince Charles and co-author Stephanie Donaldson. The charity art auction is expected to have sales of £50,000 from the auction of over 400 pieces. Fundraising manager Julian Withers stated, “we are privileged to have His Royal Highness as our Patron and delighted that he has made this most generous donation. All profits raised will help us with our life-changing work caring for people with cancer and their families and friends.” The exhibition is October 3rd through the 5th, with the auction scheduled for Sunday October 5th. For additional information about the charity and the exhibition visit: www.pennybrohncancercare.org or telephone: 01275 370073 Categories Other Auction Houses, Paintings Tags art, artist, artists, auction, auctions, charity, exhibition, painting, photograph, Watercolour Painting July 18, 2008 July 18, 2008 by admin0 A look at the life and painting techniques of Johannes Vermeer, painter of "Girl with a Pearl Earring." By Alina Bradford (Originally Published by Suite 101) Johannes Vermeer or Jan Vermeer (1632-1675), best known for his painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” was a Dutch painter who loved to paint domestic interiors, portraits and city views. Possibly trained by Leonaert Bramer or Carel Fabritius, Vermeer was a Master in the Delft painters' guild from 1653, and was considered a very fine painter in his lifetime, though his skill was nearly forgotten until 1866 when art critic Thoré Burger published an essay attributing 66 pictures to him. It came to light that only 34 paintings were actually by Vermeer, but it still brought the painter back into the spotlight. Read moreJohannes Vermeer: The techniques of the Dutch painter Categories Paintings Tags art, auction, auctions, Buy Painting, Buy Paintings, canvas, old masters, painting, Paintings, Vermeer	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line750
__label__wiki	0.66143	0.66143	vBoogieman Rock and Metal News Rock, Heavy Metal and Musician News Posts Tagged “Mike Elizondo” AVENGED SEVENFOLD Members Talk About Making Of ‘Hail To The King’ (Video) Posted by vBoogieMan in Blabbermouth, tags: Arena Tour, Arin, Avenged Sevenfold, Award Winning Design, Chicago Illinois, Deftones, Drummer, Ghost, Hail To The King, Hollywood, Hollywood Palladium, Las Vegas, Members, Mike Elizondo, Nightmare, October 26, Special Guests, Tour Dates, Vegas Nevada A five-minute video in which the members of AVENGED SEVENFOLD talk about the making of their sixth studio album, “Hail To The King”, can be seen below. “Hail To The King” will be released on August 27. The long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s “Nightmare” was once again produced by Mike Elizondo and is the first to be wholly written without drummer and key songwriter James “The Rev” Sullivan, who died in December 2009. Sullivan has since been replaced by Arin Ilejay, a former member of CONFIDE. AVENGED SEVENFOLD has announced the “Hail To The King” tour — a massive headlining U.S. arena tour to take place this October and the band’s first full scale American tour since 2011. The run of dates will kick off in Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, October 3 and wrap up on October 26 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Supporting the band on all dates will be special guests DEFTONES and GHOST B.C. AVENGED SEVENFOLD will celebrate the album release by playing a free show at the Hollywood Palladium on August 26. AVENGED SEVENFOLD‘s video for the song “Hail To The King” was directed by Syndrome, an award-winning design and live-action directing studio. AVENGED SEVENFOLD Guitarist Talks To New Mexico’s 94 ROCK About ‘Hail To The King’ (Audio) Posted by vBoogieMan in Blabbermouth, tags: Arena Tour, Arin, August 21, Avenged Sevenfold, Award Winning Design, Chicago Illinois, Deftones, Drummer, Guitarist, Hail To The King, Hollywood Palladium, Kzrr 94 Rock, Mike Elizondo, Morning Show, October 26, Show Host, Special Guests, Swami, Vegas Nevada, Vengeance On August 21, KZRR 94 Rock morning show host Swami Rob conducted an interview with AVENGED SEVENFOLD guitarist Zacky Vengeance. You can now listen to the chat below. AVENGED SEVENFOLD will release its sixth studio album, “Hail To The King”, on August 27. The long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s “Nightmare” was once again produced by Mike Elizondo and is the first to be wholly written without drummer and key songwriter James “The Rev” Sullivan, who died in December 2009. Sullivan has since been replaced by Arin Ilejay, a former member of CONFIDE. AVENGED SEVENFOLD‘s video for the song “Hail To The King” can be seen below. The clip was directed by Syndrome, an award-winning design and live-action directing studio. AVENGED SEVENFOLD: Entire ‘Hail To The King’ Album Available For Streaming Posted by vBoogieMan in Blabbermouth, tags: Acid Rain, Arena Tour, Arin, Avenged Sevenfold, Award Winning Design, Chicago Illinois, Deftones, Doing Time, Hail To The King, Headphones, Heretic, Itunes, Means War, Mike Elizondo, New Album, Nine Months, October 26, Requiem, Special Guests, Vegas Nevada AVENGED SEVENFOLD‘s new album, “Hail To The King”, is available for streaming in its entirety via iTunes. Says AVENGED SEVENFOLD singer M. Shadows: “We have been waiting to show you all our brand new album, ‘Hail To The King’, for far too long. It took us nine months of writing, recording and preparation so that we could put out an album we are all proud of from start to finish. “Well, I’m excited to announce that the wait is over. We have teamed up with our friends at iTunes to start streaming the full album right now until it’s released. The stream is high quality and you can listen to the whole album as many times as you’d like. “So plug in your best set of headphones and turn it up to 10. Head over there now to listen and preorder. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. See you all on the road!” “Hail To The King” track listing: 01. Shepherd Of Fire 03. Doing Time 04. This Means War 05. Requiem 06. Crimson Day 07. Heretic 08. Coming Home 10. Acid Rain “Hail To The King” lyrics: Watch your tongue or have it cut from your head Save your life by keeping whispers unsaid Children roam the streets now orphans of war Bodies hanging in the streets to adore Royal flames will carve a path in chaos, bringing daylight to the night Death is riding into town with armor, they’ve come to take all your rights Hail to the One Kneel to the crown Stand in the sun Hail, Hail, Hail the King Blood is spilt while holding keys to the throne. Born again but it’s too late to atone. No mercy — from the edge of the blade Dare escape and learn the price to be paid Let the water flow with shades of red now, Arrows black out all the light Death is riding into town with armor, they’ve come to grant you your rights There’s a taste of fear When the henchmen call Iron fist to tame the land Iron fist to claim it all AVENGED SEVENFOLD: Entire ‘Hail To The King’ Album Avaiable For Streaming Posted by vBoogieMan in Blabbermouth, tags: Acid Rain, Arena Tour, Arin, Avaiable, Avenged Sevenfold, Award Winning Design, Chicago Illinois, Deftones, Doing Time, Hail To The King, Heretic, Itunes, Means War, Mike Elizondo, New Album, Nine Months, October 26, Requiem, Special Guests, Vegas Nevada AVENGED SEVENFOLD: ‘Hail To The King’ Video Released Posted by vBoogieMan in Blabbermouth, tags: Acid Rain, Arena Tour, Arin, Avenged Sevenfold, Award Winning Design, Deftones, Doing Time, Edge Of The Blade, Hail Hail, Hail The King, Hail To The King, Hollywood Palladium, King Blood, Means War, Mike Elizondo, Night Death, No Mercy, Special Guests, Stand In The Sun, Water Flow “Hail To The King” is the title track of AVENGED SEVENFOLD‘s new album, which will be released on August 27. The long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s “Nightmare” was once again produced by Mike Elizondo and is the first to be wholly written without drummer and key songwriter James “The Rev” Sullivan, who died in December 2009. Sullivan has since been replaced by Arin Ilejay, a former member of CONFIDE. MASTODON: New Album Title Revealed Posted by vBoogieMan in Blabbermouth, tags: Doppler, Mastodon, Mike Elizondo, New Album, Progressive Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON have set “The Hunter” as the title of their new album, which the band recently finished recording at Doppler Studios in Atlanta with producer Mike Elizondo. You are currently browsing the vBoogieman Rock and Metal News weblog archives for posts tagged 'Mike Elizondo'. 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__label__wiki	0.849475	0.849475	POSTED 11th March 2017 CIRCUIT The Pink PA-nther Returns To ITCC PA Hudson, from Naas Co. Kildare returns to the ITCC grid in 2017. Following on from his first season in 2016, finishing third in the production championship, Hudson has his sights firmly focused on the top prize. Hudson started his motorsport career with grass track racing. This nurtured an underlying talent, which he brought to the circuit last year. From the onset Hudson was competitive, however, after teaming up with Phil Wright Motors he was a front runner in every race. At the end of last season Hudson was awarded the ‘Motul Rising Star of 2016’ award. “My aim this year is not only to race for the championship title, but to be the youngest ITCC driver to do so” Hudson said. That’s an ambitious statement however, if Hudson returns to the ITCC this year with the momentum he finished with last season, he certainly is a serious contender. The distinctive colour scheme of his Honda Integra will be easily recognised on the circuit. “Following winter preparation with Phil Wright, the car is in great shape. I plan to be competitive out of the blocks”, explained Hudson. The ITCC season kicks off in Mondello Park on the 9th of April. This season is shaping up to be the most competitive in recent years, with new drivers entered and past drivers returning to the growing class. CIRCUIT #itcc, #pink	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line756
__label__wiki	0.58672	0.58672	thinkinc@successcorners.com Vijay Batra Think Grow Think View Think Wise Think Reflection Think Events `Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.`Thomas Alva Edison Thomas Alva Edison (February 11 1847 - October 18 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Does anyone know that Thomas Alva Edison created more than eight hundred light globes before he made one that finally worked` By a small carbonized filament and an improved vacuum inside the globe, he was finally able to produce a reliable, long-lasting source of light on lower current electricity. When Edison was seven years old, he has already developed a fascination for anything involve mechanically and chemical experiments. At the local schoolhouse, after enduring his persistent questioning and self-centered behavior, his short-tempered teacher eventually declared that his brains were either addled or scrambled. His furious mother quickly took him home and began to tutor him herself. She was convinced that her son unusual demeanor and hyperactive behavior were just signs of his remarkable intelligence.Although Edison had only three months of formal schooling, it did not deter him from finding ways via independent self-instruction to appease his ever huge appetite for knowledge in contemporary mathematics, physics and engineering. Before he began his career as an inventor, he sold newspaper and candy on trains running from station to station. He became a skillful telegrapher after being trained for only three months. Telegraphy related inventions were some of his earliest master pieces. Armed with an immeasurable patience and a kaleidoscopic mind teamed with photographic memory, his highly individualistic style of acquiring knowledge led him to scores of experiments and eventually his own related theories. By the turn of the 20th century, Thomas Alva Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history.He had developed hundreds of devices and gadgets that improved lives around the world. In addition, he was often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory which was build in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Among Edison's most famous inventions is the first practical and long-lasting light bulb. He also refined and developed other gadgets such as the phonograph, typewriter and the motion picture projector/ camera. All these happened despite being partially deaf. In fact, his handicap did not hinder him from pursuing his dreams to invent. Instead, his deafness allegedly aided him because it blocked out noises that disturbed him and his work. How often are we faced with difficulties and problems in our daily life` And how often did they slow us down in our progress` Did we treat them as challenges and play them to our advantage like the way Edison has done` Or did we stop what we are doing and give up trying` Categories Think View Vijay Batra’s Motivational Speech Creativity breaks patterns. An Article By Vijay Michihito Batra 9 Best ways to promote employee engagement Think View – Shantanu Narayen Raising An Only Child ‘Forgiveness Is Not An Occasional Act; It Is A Permanent Attitude.’ - Martin Luther King Think Inc © 2018 THINK LINK. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED \| DESIGNED BY REVANT WEB SOLUTION	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line760
__label__wiki	0.796306	0.796306	توهو תוהו Support Tohu Visual Essay A single artwork Whose Land is It? In her on-going multidisciplinary project, "The Road to Ein Harod," Efrat Galnoor tracks the journey undertaken by Raffi, the protagonist of Amos Kenan's novel with the same title. In a series of exhibitions and events, she raises political questions about borders and freedom of movement, and looks reflexively at the way space is constructed by way of stains – an act that questions not only what you look at, but how. / Hagai Ulrich Memory pictures # 5 Her daughter had painted the view that was hanging outside the window Of the house that was not her original one. / Hadeel Abu Johar The Book as Agora How should art institutions respond to the current political climate? Michal B. Ron reviews Paper Monument’s recent book, in which various art professionals offer their propositions to six perceptive questions. / Michal B. Ron Nuances of Belonging #13 The 13th video of this column is the final chapter in the series, which Hamody Gannam started more than 3 years ago. During these years, he has been spotting different nuances in the lives that unfolded in the village of Iqrith, as expelled residents and their family members and friends continued to maintain different forms of dwelling and community life in this allegedly vacant village. / Hamody Gannam Available in Audio Tohu Podcast: A Conversation with Hakim Bishara From researching and re-imagining a 1943 exhibition of modern Lebanese art in Jerusalem to writing for a leading independent arts magazine, to being part of an artist-run gallery in Brooklyn, Hakim Bishara has been experimenting with various practices in the past few years. David Duvshani recently met the Palestinian writer, curator, and artist in New York for a conversation about these multiple ventures and about the New York cultural scene in the Trump era. / David Duvshani Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on “How to Reappear” Art and Creative Acts That Were Censored in 2019 hyperallergic.com prtcls.com Learning With Palestine thefunambulist.net Local Photography Why wasn't the work of local photographers being taught at Bezalel Academy's photography department, in its various iterations over the years? Did local photography, dealing with the connection between people and place, exist? Hagai Ulrich examines the history of local photography following the publication of Noa Sadka's book, Photographic Truth is a Natural Truth – a Chronicle of a Photography Department. tohumagazine@Instagram Ammar al-Beik’s The Sun’s Incubator: Images of Time and Memory Ammar al-Beik’s film The Sun’s Incubator offers a destabilizing, non-linear view of the Arab revolutions from a domestic setting. Margherita Foresti analyses the film’s complex temporality, manifested mainly through the motif of the TV screen. / Margherita Foresti Drawing Reaction #16 From the life of animals in Japanese art to the gradations of slow release: Revital Lessick creates a series of drawing reactions to her gallery tour in Washington and Berlin / Revital Lessick Tohu Podcast: A Conversation with Mierle Laderman Ukeles In this Tohu Podcast, David Duvshani meets performance and social practice art pioneer Mierle Laderman Ukeles in Jerusalem for a conversation following her move to Jerusalem and her latest retrospective exhibition at the Queens Museum in New York. They talk about manifestos, authenticity, collaboration, art education, women artists, labor organization, life in Jerusalem, and the state of the political Left in the US and in Israel/Palestine. A Conversation With Jonas Mekas “If you live in the past, if you can’t escape, then you cannot build a new house, a new future.” Christos Paridis talks with Jonas Mekas about memory, trauma, and the afterlife, about the war years in Lithuania and the 1960’s in New York, and about cinema. / Christos Paridis The Art of Art Writing “What it Means to Write About Art features conversations with writers who average three decades of experience turning phrases that go to press with a bold, uninhibited passion for art.” Matt Hanson reviews Jarrett Earnest’s recent book, a collection of interviews with prominent art writers such as Jerry Saltz, Roberta Smith, Lucy Lippard, Rosalind Krauss, and Yve Alain Bois. / Matt Hanson Apple Juice from the Tap: a Conversation with Martine Bedin David Duvshani interviews Martine Bedin, one of the founders of the radical Italian design group Memphis, in Paris. Bedin outlines the practices of the legendary group, its impact on her work today, and the relevance of its positions to the current political, social, and economic arenas. Resurrection After All: Russian Cosmism as an Intellectual History Project Russian Cosmism is the subject of the widely-exhibited film trilogy by Anton Vidokle, which traces, or better, resurrects the presence of Cosmist ideas in post-Soviet art, engineering, and architecture. Alma Mikulinsky reviews the films' installment in an artist-run space in Toronto, as well as the theoretical corpus that has been developed around the subject in the last four years. / Alma Mikulinsky Memory Pictures #4 The colors jostled on the clothes line, and she was glad she had taken down the black. Gvul (Border) Gallery in Kibbutz Hanita, Hansen House in Jerusalem, Art Gallery at the Memorial Center Tivon, and Beit Hankin Museum in Kfar Yehushua: Revital Lessick in another round of drawing reactions. The Need for a New Revolution The 6th Athens Biennale expressed the need for an urgent new self-identification of the confused contemporary community, either in local or in international terms - an urgent need of a new “revolution” that would define the 21st century. Christos Paridis writes about the exhibition, which he describes as an adult playground for those who are seeking questions or answers to present and future nightmares. Freeing the Child Soldiers of Salva Kiir Among many tragic examples, the murder of South Sudanese national, Lost Boy and Canadian citizen Richard Lokeya, and the abduction of journalist Clement Lochio Lomornana (whose whereabouts are still unknown) by state actors, testify to the life-threatening risks implied in refugee justice work in South Sudan today. How to Explain Hare Hunting to a Dead German Artist Joseph Sassoon Semah, a Baghdad-born artist who now lives and works in Amsterdam, is about to embark on an extensive multi-site project, in Amsterdam, Jerusalem, and Baghdad. Berlin-based poet and author Mati Shemoelof talks with him about his years living as an artist in Israel versus being a Babylonian Jew and an artist in Europe. They discuss Judaism, diaspora, exclusion, and acts of concealment and building. / Mati Shemoelof Photography Column #19 / Shai Ignatz Other than Whom? “There is no curatorial passivism, any more than there is a passivist war.” Michal B. Ron reviews Maura Reilly’s book Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating and adds a note about the heroless politeness of the recent Berlin Biennial. AnArchic Archive: Phenomenal Photographs and Multiple Exposures In what ways can an archive be regarded as an anarchic practice of collection and circulation? Following his visit to the exhibition Unboxing Photographs: Arbeiten im Fotoarchiv, Saadi Nikro raises some thoughts about the way interventionist archivists, artists, and photographic practitioners work with photographic archives. / Saadi Nikro A concrete beach at Gate 3 gallery in Haifa, Code vs. Code and Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Tel Aviv Museum, and Jonathan Hirschfeld at Givon Galley. Revital Lessick returns from another gallery tour with a new series of reaction drawings. Salma would never tell me about her connection to water. I don't recall ever asking her if she could swim. Klipot Nogah #1 A new podcast from Tohu (in Hebrew). Listen to Eitan Ben Moshe conversing in each installment with a different interesting personality on matters spiritual and cultural. “Life is a reflection of a very unruly creator” - in the first installment’ Eitan ben Moshe talks with Shai Tubali - writer, thinker, spiritual teacher, lecturer, and director. His teachings and his books combine popular psychology with Eastern and Western philosophies. Since 2012 he has been living and teaching in Berlin, where he founded a learning and treatment center dedicated to his methods. / Eitan Ben Moseh Since the winter of 2012 Hamody Gannam has been visiting the village of Iqrith once a month, sometime staying for a few days, capturing the place and the people living there on video and still photography. The Middle East Film Initiative: A Conversation with Ruth Priscilla Kirstein “It’s often Terrorist 1, Terrorist 2, Terrorist 3, and for women it’s even worse.” Matt Hanson talks to Dr. Ruth Priscilla Kirstein, the founder of The Middle East Film Initiative in NYC, about discriminatory practices towards and lack of representation of Middle Eastern cultural practitioners, and about some new community-based methods offered by MEFI for addressing them. This Story is Far from Over “In Esperia, a portrait of a forgotten artist and a former secret service agent is interlaced with a personal narrative depicting the filmmaker’s relationship with her fading grandfather.” Hakim Bishara reviews Haidi Motola’s new film revealing her grandfather Jacques Motola’s double identity as an Israeli painter and secret service agent in Egypt. / Hakim Bishara Chapter VII: The Gape and the Creation In the seventh segment of his travels, Mendelovitch climbs to the top of Mount Tabor. At midnight, he encounters a growling bird that opens for him a new chapter in his search for the Queen. / David Duvshani, Shahar Fineberg A carpet made of concrete, a ripped duvet, and toy soldiers scattered across a single bed. East of Elsewhere's “While You Were Sleeping” housed a collection of domestic furnishings distorted and deconstructed to reflect the consequences of conflict seeping into everyday life. / Marianne Abbott On Magic, Illusions, and Tabletop Tricks Karam Natour's solo show "Repeat After Me," on view now at the Umm el-Fahem Gallery, is a sort of birthday song for a newly-born magician. Bar Yerushalmi has viewed the show, and he brings back thoughts on the difference between trickery and true magic. / Bar Yerushalmi Returning to Accra: Between Nina Simone, Ama Ata Aidoo, Fassbinder, and the Cockettes Moving across New York and San Francisco, Paris and Munich, Accra and Lagos, artist and scholar Malik Gaines’s Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible offers a lively and affirmative account of stage, dress, film and television, and music performance. Saadi Nikro reviews Gaines’s recently published book, discussing its many intersections of race, theatricality, subjectivity, and sexuality. That Man in That Box Can we talk about gentrification in the context of colonialism and deprived lands? What does it mean to own the land? Rana Asali raises questions after visiting “That Man in That Box”, a performance piece by Palestinian artist Rabia Salfiti. / Rana Asali Hadeel Abu Johar follows Salma's transition from childhood to loss… and from one bed to another. The Spontaneous Show Hagai Ulrich converses with Nadav Bin-Nun about music and art, improvisation, violence, and narcissism, following the release of his Spiritual Album. From North America to the north of Israel, Revital Lessick presents another series of reaction drawings following a gallery tour in New York, Toronto and Haifa. How Testo Junkie Transforms You “An author who had taken testosterone as a drug in a philosophical self-experiment that she documented in a book - it shook me up so much that it wouldn't leave my mind." Michal B. Ron and Hannah M. Bruckmüller discuss naming, sexuality, fables, giving birth and giving death, in response to Paul B. Preciado’s Testo Junkie. / Michal B. Ron, Hannah M. Bruckmüller The show "Stolen Arab Art" that recently opened in Tel Aviv is tainted by exploitation, ignorance, incoherence, and impersonation. The organizers blatantly disregard the will of the chosen artists not to show their work in Israel. The members of Tohu's editorial board object to the patronizing act perpetrated under the guise of enlightenment and dialogue. / Tohu Editorial Board Emergency Takeoff: on Halil Altindere’s Köfte Airlines "Köfte Airlines retraced a trail uncannily similar to that of its subject, from Germany to Turkey and back along a zigzag of uprooted expectations." Matt Hanson writes about Halil Altindere's work in the context of the refugee crisis, as well as the effects of the current oppressive political climate in Turkey on artists and cultural practitioners. Memory Pictures Hadeel Abu Johar travels roads and lanes of near memory, hinting at what is beyond, asking questions about the tension between the image and the event and about the human search for a place and its meaning. Relinquishing Freedom (Willingly) to the White Man A mother screams as her baby is wrenched from her arms; a sex fest featuring Canada's founding fathers and various forest animals; and Miss Chief – a powerful, sexy, transgender indigenous figure in traditional attire, beads, and feathers. Liora Belford visits "Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience," the travelling exhibition of the work of artist Kent Monkman, who wonders where are the painters who have documented the hunger, the poverty, the pain, and the annihilation of a whole culture. / Liora Belford Avner Ben Gal at Givon Gallery, Ron Arad at Gordon Gallery and Neta Cohen at Artspace Tel-Aviv. Revital Lessick presents another series of reaction drawings following a gallery tour in Tel Aviv Chapter VI: The Mountain and the Egg In the sixth episode of his travels, Mendelovitch lands in the besieged city of Asscre. He escapes the battle and ends up at the foot of Mount Tabor. / Shahar Fineberg, David Duvshani First Daughter of the Confederacy Efrat Vital's show, Winnie (Real Daughter), presented recently at the Herzliya Artists' Residence, brings to the fore the denial and suppression of the problematic history of racism, slavery, and Colonialism in the southern part of the United States. Hagai Ulrich has visited the show, and he suggests thinking about it from a local point of view as well. Obvious Artifice "Pre-Israeli Orientalism: A Photographic Portrait", written by Dor Guez, focuses on a photographic genre from the early decades of the twentieth century as a local, unique, and complex case of visual Orientalism. Hagai Ulrich reviews the book and suggests broadening the conversation through the values and characteristics of performance art. "Hēliotropion" - Shattering or Healing In anticipation of "Hēliotropion," Tamar Getter's exhibition recently on display at the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, H.S.L.R. talked with her about horses and other matters that preoccupy her in her work: painting stoppages, idealization, and painting as a "machine," immobile. / H.S.L.R. The Mendelovitch Festivities Launching the first scroll of the Travels of Schneur Zalman Mendelovitch, by David Duvshani and Shahar Feinberg, published by Tohu Magazine and Barhash. Saturday, March 24, 2018, at 20:30 Zimmer, 12 Franzois St, Tel Aviv-Yafo Organized Choreographies Dana Yahalomi talks with Elinor Salomon about the work of Public Movement in the public sphere, about the political role of the museum and its collections, and about the technology of knowledge transfer. This is a second conversation in the framework of cooperation between Tohu and Kadist. / Elinor Salomon Gender and Senses: The Art of Anisa Ashkar Anisa Ashkar's work uses the different senses to problematize the intersection of categories that compose together her multi-layered identity. Tal Dekel visits her recent solo show and writes about Ashkar's use of the whole sensorium to blend categories, destabilize and dismantle them. / Tal Dekel Kings of Arabia Visiting the Ameen Rihani Museum in Freike, Lebanon has started Matt Hanson on a path to trace the Hebrew translation of the well-known author’s Kings of Arabia, which came out only two years after the first Arabic edition. What were the motivations behind this translation and how did its impact evolve over the years? Looking for Neighbors "From a local perspective, 'A Good Neighbour' brought hope to an art scene wrapped in a dark curtain." Hou Rf reviews the 15th Istanbul Biennial, curated by artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset. / Huo Rf Nuances of Belonging #9 The current column was shot using a DIY drone, built in Iqrith by Ghassan Toumie. Chapter V: The Sea and the Split In the fifth chapter, Reb Mendelovitch, the Soldier, and Gvir Sassoon leave India and sail through the Sea of Stench toward the besieged port of Asscre. אמנים/אמניות נגד הגירוש \| Artists Against Deportation \| فنّانون ضد الطرد Artists, curators, members of the arts community - join this petition: The arts community calls for an immediate cessation of the expulsion of asylum seekers! Curating Your Way to Survival: Bar Yerushalmi talks to Adrian George "The future of curatorial practice has to be shared, democratic, and incorporating many voices." Bar Yerushalmi interviews Adrian George, Director of Exhibitions at ArtScience Museum in Singapore, former Deputy Director of the UK Government Art Collection, and author of The Curator's Handbook Ido Bar-El in Kibbutz Baram, Israel Kabala in Tel Aviv, Niv Tishbi in Jaffa, and Tamar Sheaffer in Haifa. Revital Lessick wanders and reacts through drawings A House is not a Home In an age of great geopolitical stress, heightened nationalist sentiments and ethnic strife, and forced migrations, Christos Paridis visits the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art and returns with thoughts about the search for a new home. Fricative Consonants Bar Yerushalmi visits the exhibition of the artists' collective Slavs and Tatars at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius and joins them on a magic carpet ride through the demographic, linguistic, religious, and social realms of the kingdom of Eurasia. A Cloud of Philosophy Can it be that Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is not a book, but a restless musical album? Michal Sapir outlines a path for reading and interpreting the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein that meanders through music, literature, wooly clouds, crossroads, sea horses and ethics. / Michal Sapir Stories in Reverse Following his current solo exhibition, “Stories in Reverse”, at Piartworks in Istanbul, Huo Rf talks with Merve Akar Akgün about memories, commonality, queer culture, and artist’s privacy. / Merve Akar Akgün Metaphoric Sites In the midst of the general lack of commitment of the central exhibition of the Venice Biennale this year, Avi Lubin visits three significant and interesting projects that offer metaphoric sites and spaces for experimentation and cooperation. / Avi Lubin Portrait of an Artist as an Old-Young Man As the art schools' graduation exhibition season is winding down, Tali Tamir revisits the work of two veteran artists – Dov Or-Ner and Dov Heller – and wonders why the radicalism that has bound the avant-garde to social values, crossed various lines, and melted away conceptual and geographical borders found no place in the major museums. / Tali Tamir Revital Lessick visits Pinchas Cohen Gan’s studio, Avital Geva’s Ecological Greenhouse in Kibbutz Ein-Shemer and the exhibitions of Louise Bourgeois and Atalia Shachar in Tel Aviv An Illusion about Understanding In Richard Deacon's comprehensive solo show at the Prague Municipal Gallery, to see the large-scale sculptures viewers must get close, bend down, crane their necks upward, focus on the small details, and then again step back and look at the whole work. These exploratory actions that the viewers perform with their bodies and their movement through space have led Hagai Ulrich to try to understand how Deacon manages to physically express ideas, symbols, and signs that cannot be realized in time and space. Blood Spatter Crop Marks, Sharif Waked’s latest work, is a life-size photographic self-portrait of the artist with his head cut off. Alma Mikulinsky writes about this beheading drama and tries to understand our fascination with images of head amputations, such as Henri Regnault’s painting of the brutal execution in Granada and Ned Stark’s decapitation in Game of Thrones. Chapter IV: The Rinsing and the Ejection In the fourth chapter of Mendelovitch's travels, after being ejected from the Beast's belly, he and his companion bathe and dine with the Luvioubi faithful and the Gvir Sassoon. Absence, Speculation, Text "I must build a 20-meter-long bridge, made of words, to the mystery works by Amos Groswagel, assuming they are where they should be." Shai-lee Horodi writes from a distance about Amos Groswagel's show at Livluv 24 Gallery in Tel Aviv. / Shai-Lee Horodi The Bone Stuck in the Hunger Artist's Throat, or Redemption by Refusing the Apple Michal Na'aman writes for Tohu about fasting and abstinence, about anorexia, and about the Original Sin, guilt, and redemption in Kafka's writings / Michal Na'aman Drawing Reaction #9 Dreamers Awake, Giacometti, The Trickle-Down Syndrome and The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! Revital Lessick offers quick drawings in reaction to a gallery tour in London. In Search of Critical Curating In light of the recent criticism of documenta 14 and the Venice Biennial, Noah Simblist returns to the book/magazine issue “Curating Critique,” to comment on whether and where curating and criticality might meet today. / Noah Simblist The Problem of Nostalgia: Learning from Athens in documenta 14 A depressing human condition resolved with grand gestures of politics, sentimentality, fashion, and merchandise. Michal B. Ron writes about documenta 14 in Kassel. Beloved Country Orit Ishay's comprehensive show at the Prague City Gallery includes images of bomb shelters, military uniforms, mourning rituals, woman soldiers, and a scrapbook of local dried flowers that had been given to General Allenby. It seems that the entirety of activities Ishay engages in creates an interesting critical course in which information loses its content and reality sheds its substance. Present Progressive: Speculations On Cultural Imagination In The Middle East What do recent accounts of institutional cultural practice in the Middle East offer to further the understanding and the development of contemporary cultural production in the region, and what do they fail to address? Lama Suleiman reviews the latest volume in the ongoing Ibraaz publication series on visual culture in the Middle East and North Africa / Lama Suleiman The current column was shot using a DIY drone, built in Ikrit by Ghassan Toumie. A Memory Gap As part of a new joint initiative of Kadist and Tohu Magazine to publish video interviews, Elinor Salomon talks with Elham Rokni about reconstruction and memory, biography and history, Orientalism and men with a Middle Eastern appearance. The Art of Struggle The exhibition "The Color Line: African-American Artists and Segregation" has gone a long way to illustrate the struggle for the civil rights of blacks in the USA, but at the same time, it traps the art on display in a conceptual prison. Revital Madar writes about the recent exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. / Revital Madar Revital Lessick offers quick drawings in reaction to exhibitions, specific works, and art events Chapter III: The Tunnel and the Light After escaping the Doubters into the maw of the elephant, Reb Schneur Zalman Mendelovitch meets Jonah and a former soldier in the belly of the beast. Panel Discussion: Ethno-futurism in the Middle East - Critical Afterthoughts Tohu Magazine conference — Space is the Place: Afrofuturism, Arabfuturism and the Search for New Dimensions / Editors Between Nostalgic Utopia and Present Returns Yael Messer's lecture from Tohu Magazine conference - Space is the Place: Afrofuturism, Arabfuturism and the Search for New Dimensions / Yael Messer Speculative Queerness: How Science Fiction Ruined my Relationship with the Gender Binary Arrate Hidalgo's lecture from Tohu Magazine conference - Space is the Place: Afrofuturism, Arabfuturism and the Search for New Dimensions / Arrate Hidalgo Aliens: Beyond Western Christendom Mohammad Jabali's lecture from Tohu Magazine conference - Space is the Place: Afrofuturism, Arabfuturism and the Search for New Dimensions / Mohammad Jabali Dark Speculative Futurity and the Rise of Neo-Nationalism Dr Reynaldo Anderson's lecture from Tohu Magazine conference - Space is the Place: Afrofuturism, Arabfuturism and the Search for New Dimensions / Reynaldo Anderson Athens before Kassel A message from Europe’s past that resonates in Europe’s present makes a powerful opening political statement of documenta 14. Christos Paridis visits the world-famous exhibition and finds the decision to open it this year in Athens before Kassel more than just a colonial project of the German art scene. Black Swan, White Swan "Slowland," Bianca Eshel Gershuni's and Oree Holban's joint exhibition, opened at Barbur Gallery in Jerusalem in the wake of the highly visible dispute between the gallery and the municipality, and the latter's attempts at censorship. Hagai Ulrich visited the show and returned with some thoughts about the political prospects suggested by the space the two have built. Space is the Place: Afrofuturism, Arabfuturism and the Search for New Dimensions by Leah Abir, Avi Lubin, Lama Suleiman Coded Information Over the past thirty years, Miki Kratsman has been active as an artist, photojournalist, investigator, and archivist. Hagai Ulrich reviews his new book, the result of collaboration with curator and scholar Ariella Azoulay. The book examines the way in which photography can turn individuals into ultimate suspects. Security Check for Heaven With a rich display of over 200 artifacts, the Metropolitan Museum exhibition “Jerusalem, 1000-1400,” subtitled “Every People Under Heaven,” intended to introduce the viewers to a peaceful, spiritual, culturally and religiously diverse place, which they imagine the city of Jerusalem to be. Rula Khoury visited the exhibition and came back with some thought-provoking questions. / Rula Khoury Mobilizing Stills “The work of the photojournalists’ collective Activestills does not settle for reflecting the grim reality by providing representations of it, but offers a more active mode of photography that joins the protests of the struggling communities being photographed.” Nadeem Karkabi reviews the recently published book that covers a decade of Activestills’ collective photo-activism. / Nadeem Karkabi Since the winter of 2012 Hamody Gannam has been visiting the village of Iqrith once a month, sometime staying for a few days, capturing the place and the people living there on video and still photography How to (or not to) Write about Contemporary Art? An Interview with Gilda Williams Gilda Williams, author of How to Write about Contemporary Art, talks to Bar Yerushalmi about the problems, dilemmas, and possibilities of writing about art today. Do the works of Michal Makaresco represent cheap fetishism and dubious situations? Were they made casually, easily, or on a whim? Hagai Ulrich visited the show at Hamidrasha Gallery in Tel Aviv and came back with thoughts about good taste, honesty, as well as questions about weight and scale. Chapter II: The Rising and the Trembling In the second chapter of the comics column about the travels of the Hassid and illustrator, Reb Schneur Zalman Mendelovitch, we find him in India during the Uprising of the Doubters, headed by their leader, Doubting Thomas. Revital Lessick offers quick drawings in reaction to exhibitions, specific works, and art events. Playing Spirits Between 1918 and 1924, the German missionary and anthropologist Martin Gusinde traveled to Tierra del Fuego and West Patagonia, the southernmost point in Chile and therefore the globe. Alma Mikulinsky writes about the traveling exhibition of Gusinde’s photographs, documenting his encounter with the indigenous people of the Selk’nam, the Yamanas and the Kawésquar. General Land of Vision Thirty-eight technologically complex projects, a century of experiences of the moving image, 18,000-square-foot of installations, drawings, 3-D environments, sculptures, performances, paintings, and online spaces: an immersive experiment or sensory overload? Rula Khoury visits the impressive exhibition Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016 at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Internal Interactions Contemporary painting as the wreckage pile of Modernism or genuine Modernist painting? Focusing on composition or the subjects? Hagai Ulrich writes for Tohu on "Take Painting," showing at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art. Chapter I: The Dream and the Fire Reb Schneur Zalman Mendelovitch was a member of HABAD, an illustrator and miniaturist, who lived in Hebron in the middle of the 19th century; he has traveled all over the world. He is also associated with many surreal and anarchistic Hassidic stories. We follow his imaginary travels from chapter to chapter in the comics strip, as he wanders through countries and ages, from the Great Indian Rebellion to Akre during Napoleon’s siege and Victorian London. In the first chapter, Reb Mendelovitch leaves his home after seeing a vision, and ventures out into the world. Two Point Perspective (part III): Forms of Refusal The third and final part of the essay by Noah Simblist focuses on Akram Zaatari’s use of dialogical exchange as an artistic strategy. While completely different in their dynamics and outcomes, Zaatari’s conversations with both Hagai Tamir and Avi Mograbi, he argues, reveal different degrees of both personal and political engagement and, at the same time, various forms of antagonism and refusal. Temporary Structures Many emotionally and politically charged places appear in Nir Evron's work, among them Rawabi, the new Palestinian city, the Seven Arches Hotel on Mount Olive, in Jerusalem, and the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, USA. What happens to the concreteness of the locations and the specific political stories when the works separate content and form? Hagai Ulrich reviews Evron's show, "Masad (Foundation)." Haus Atlantis Following Karen Russo’s recent video work “Haus Atlantis,” which blends the genres of documentary, historical essay, and science fiction, the artist readdresses her work’s visual and textual elements in the form of a visual essay. Built in 1931, Haus Atlantis in Bremen is a combination of patron Ludwig Roselius’ vision to restore the German racial identity by resuming the glory of ancient times, and Bernhard Hoetger’s expressionist, symbolist, and monumental architecture. / Karen Russo In Tlilli, in Tlapalli Writing about Josh T. Franco’s work “In Tlilli, In Tlapalli: Three Tejanos in Red and Black,” Rotem Rozental follows the migration and reincarnation of individuals, colors, ideas, and legacies between New York City and Marfa, TX. / Rotem Rozental Two Point Perspective (part II): the Dialogical Exchange In the second part of his essay analysing Akram Zaatari’s 2013 work “Letter to a Refusing Pilot,” Noah Simblist addresses a previous work by the artist that involved a conversation with filmmaker Avi Mograbi. Simblist is reading this work through the prism of dialogical exchange, referencing Grant Kester’s definition of “dialogical art,” as well as Ella Shohat’s observations on the identity politics of Mizrachi or Arab Jews. Pleasures of the other flesh A painter who has internalized the Western Orientalist gaze, a minor artist given recognition as lip service to the British Indian community, or one who offers a sharp, complex, subversive outlook on identity, society, and sexuality? Bar Yerushalmi writes for Tohu about Indian-born painter Bhupen Khakhar's retrospective at the Tate Modern. Revital Lessick offers quick drawings in reaction to exhibitions, specific works, and art events. A new column at Tohu. Hagai Ulrich on the homonyms in Yossi Breger's last show, on the relations between single words and the continuum, and on the idea of the abstract whole. Two Point Perspective (part I): Letter to a Refusing Pilot In the summer of 1982, during Israel’s incursion into Southern Lebanon, a story swirled around the port town of Saida that acquired mythological flourishes: One of the Israeli fighter jets that were sent to the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El-Helweh, aborted its mission to bomb a school building, its pilot dropping the bombs into the sea instead. In a text for Tohu Magazine, that will be published in 3 parts, Noah Simblist dives into Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari’s work, Letter to a Refusing Pilot, instigated by this true story. Photography Column #9 Merhav Yeshoron writes about the words in Yossi Breger's last solo show, and those absent from it. / Merhav Yeshoron The Censored Chapter What is it about a book that makes it a metaphor for the subject? Why do we want to identify with a book, to become a book? Liran Razinsky writes for Tohu about the fetishistic aspect of books and the relationship of books to the subject and the human body, as represented in “Bi-bli-o-logia: The Book as Body,” an exhibition at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art. / Liran Razinsky You are not Nervous, but You Should Be In a tale full of suspense, surveillence, interrogation, secret meetings, and covert conversations, artist Tea Tupajić describes the 2-year process of devising a new performance work in Tel Aviv, which involved Mossad and Shin Bet officers. A new essay in Tohu Magazine: we recommend reading it in one sitting. / Tea Tupajić The Present in Drag and Drop: On the 9th Berlin Biennale “Welcome to the post-contemporary,” say the DIS collective, curators of the 9th Berlin Biennale, with the hospitality of border control. Michal B. Ron shares her impressions of the biennial in a new critique for Tohu Magazine. Upon Emergent Occasions Using 21st Century representational technologies, Brooklyn-based artist Carla Gannis tells stories through a “digital looking glass”, where reflections on power, sexuality, marginalization, and agency emerge. She is fascinated by digital semiotics and the situation of identity in the blurring contexts of the real and the virtual. / Carla Gannis Afrofuturism and Arabfuturism: Reflections of a Present-day Diasporic Reader Writing a review of a recent publication on Afrofuturism for Tohu Magazine has led Lama Suleiman to explore the still-nascent concept of Arabfuturism and its potential relevance to the discourse on Arab and Palestinian cultural production. Drawing Reaction The Presence of Works Michal B. Ron looks for eggs and feathers in Marcel Broodthaers's retrospective at MoMA Deviations from The Script: on Michael Portnoy’s "Relational Stalinism – The Musical" “If, as William Burroughs has written, language is a virus from outer space, then Portnoy might come from a planet where dyspraxia is the common, acceptable mode of being.” Noam Toran attended Michael Portnoy’s performance at the Witte de With, and spoke with WdW’s director, Defne Ayas. He shares his insights on Tohu Magazine. / Noam Toran Bio-Bibliography Can one bypass the fact that Roee Rosen, through his writing, manufactures his art as a closed system? Can one approach his art from different perspectives? Alma Mikulinsky writes about Rosen’s mid-career retrospective at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Con-Temporary Art What does the "con" in con-temporary art suggest? Saadi Nikro discusses the theme of con-temporaneity through the works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, MUVART and Walid Raad An Expert Testimony In Eyal Weizman’s new book, the reader joins the author as he hovers over contested territories in the Middle East, follows him as he traces the histories, ideologies, slippery borders, technologies, and narratives involved in the State-inflicted marginalization and displacement of the Bedouin inhabitants of the Negev desert, in Southern Israel. Rotem Rozental reviews “The Conflict Shoreline,” as well as Weizman’s methodology of forensic visual culture research. “The ability to study the world through empirical observations and to reach conclusions regarding the nature of reality has completely changed the way we experience the world around us.” Bar Yerushalmi on art and the science of consciousness at the exhibition “States of mind: Tracing the edge of consciousness,” showing now at the Wellcome Collection in London. Conversation Piece #2 - Rabia Salfiti Michel Nassar in conversation with Rabia Salfiti on travelling, meditation, propaganda and martyrdom / Michel Nassar When the Angel of History Plays with Fire Producing some of the wittiest artistic pranks in sculptures, installations, photography, and video works, in an ever more pompous art world, Fischli/Weiss have always advocated wild thinking. Michal B. Ron writes about the duo's major retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim. Apocalypse Yesterday The Dome of the Rock – that golden, volatile rock of contention – is at the center of an exhibition at the Bezalel Photography Gallery. Noa Hazan writes for Tohu about the exhibition and about the visual research that has preceded it, which involved studying hundreds of photographs of the site from the last 150 years, and suggested new terms for looking at its visual representations. / Noa Hazan Capitalist Realism: Then and Now? In the current post-Occupy disillusionment, where the art world is dominated by commercial interests, could the term “Capitalist Realism” offer new strategy for change? Alma Mikulinsky reviews ARTMargins’s special issue on Capitalist Realism. The Artist’s Gesture and Long Live the Messiah How different can two painting exhibitions be? Danny Yahav Brown on shows by Amir Nave and Yitzhak Livneh at Sommer Contemporary Art. / Danny Yahav Brown A Particular Shade of Red A play of accuracy and doubt, Walid Raad’s MoMA retrospective manifests the artist’s distinctive way of relating the affects of war. Naomi Lev visited and took the walkthrough / Naomi Lev How should the Athens Biennale be shaped when everything in Greece is in flux? Christos Paridis on the fifth and the sixth Athens Biennales - a 2-year artistic-political-social project. Conversation Piece #1 - Haitham (Charles) Haddad Michel Nassar in conversation with Haitham (Charles) Haddad on his work process and his take on gender, fashion, religion and technology. Glimpses of an Interview Having found out that the renowned art historian and philosopher, Georges Didi-Huberman, was coming to Tel Aviv University to give a keynote lecture, we asked Michal Sapir, the translator of his recently published book in Hebrew, to invite him to give an interview for Tohu Magazine. Kazymir Malewicz: The Black Square is 100 Years Old How many artists today set a goal for themselves to live by their ideal of Art in the face of eternity rather than the community? Tamar Getter returns to Malewicz's Black Square / Tamar Getter Stealing from a Thief What did Michal BarOr do with the Pandora’s Box A. has left on her doorstep? Yair Barak describes the circles of guilt engendered by BarOr’s work, A Non-Private Collection, about a stolen suitcase full of photographs, with hope at the bottom. / Yair Barak Ferry, terminal, the beach, a hotel room, a border crossing – each one of these bureaucratic instances is exposed as an illusion. Danny Yahav reviews Ohad Meromi’s show, Resort. The Chosen People - a Small Guide to a Big Revolution "The resolution of the occupation is obviously not going to happen right now, but there are a lot of things that might happen very soon. The question is where to start.” The Yes Men’s Jacques Servin (aka Andy Bichlbaum) in conversation with Maayan Sheleff, following his recent visit to Jerusalem. / Maayan Sheleff No Tricks, No Scams. Marcel Broodthaers at the Fridericianum, Kassel Did this year’s posthumous attempts at exhibiting Marcel Broodthaers's work rise to the challenge? Would his future retrospective at MoMA? Michal B. Ron is tackling these questions and their inherent paradox. Inside and outside, secular and sacred, blindness and sight; ideas which emerge from analytical, non-seductive painting. Danny Yahav Brown writes about windows and stained-glass in Maya Gold’s show. Jossef Krispel: Istanbul A sneak peek into Jossef Krispel's drawing book, made during the artist's two month stay in Istanbul last summer / Jossef Krispel The Metabolic Age, or How Federico Manuel Peralta Ramos Predicted the Internet with an Egg Could an egg-shaped artwork have predicted the internet? Alma Mikulinsky on “The Metabolic Age,” curated by Chus Martínez at Museo del Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires ManApparatus* How does the tool, the instrument, change from an object to a work of art? How does it cancel itself (as an industrial object) and acquire new identity and meaning? Aim Deuelle Luski on the idea of ManApparatus and on the digi-image, following Matan Mittwoch’s show at the Dvir Gallery. / Aïm Deüelle Lüski Photography Column#2 Tales of the Dead Emily Jacir’s and Jumana Manna’s shows, both now on view in London, invite viewers to an encounter with opposing strategies for dealing with the limitations of archived memory. Bar Yerushalmi on the two shows. What I learned from the Gramsci Monument Thomas Hirschhorn with afterthoughts on the “Gramsci Monument”, an installation at a city housing project in the South Bronx from 2013. This was the fourth and last in Hirschhorn’s series of “monuments” dedicated to major writers and thinkers / Thomas Hirschhorn Large format, small text (for Hilla Becher) In a long overdue encounter with Hilla and Bernd Becher’s photographic grid Yair Barak discovered that his intellectual, rigorous experience as a viewer of the works has become spiritual experience. Why has that happened, and is the genomic map of Israeli typological photography indeed close to its German counterpart, or rather the American one? Reflections and insights following the departure of Hilla Becher. Great Crescent: Art and Agitation in the 1960s – Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan “We are art terrorists,” announced Katō Yasuhiro, who headed the Zero Dimension group in the 1960s. The declaration accurately represented the Zeitgeist and the volatile atmosphere opposite the political establishment, as well as the art establishment, which has pervaded Japan in the 1960s. Ayelet Zohar on an exhibition surveying the avant-garde in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan during that period. / Ayelet Zohar The Gardener, the Farmer, and the Urban Vegetable Grower The Agro-Art exhibition, curated by Tali Tamir at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art earlier this year, explored local agriculture’s representation in contemporary art. This essay expands the discussion on the difference between gardening and agriculture and focuses on the relationships between agriculture, territory, and biography. The Land of Widows Doris Salcedo addresses the collective trauma related to totalitarian regime in Colombia. Gabriela Vainsencher writes about the artist’s first American retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City / Gabriela Vainsencher Messages in Bottles: Impressions from the 14th Art Biennial in Istanbul The opening days of the 14th art biennial in Istanbul were haunted by a child’s ghost, three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, who had drowned during his fatal journey, fleeing Syria. Michal B. Ron on the Istanbul Biennial A Work within a Work: On Robert Irwin’s "Excursus: Homage to the Square3" at Dia Beacon Early in the summer of 2015, Robert Irwin returned to Dia:Beacon to erect an installation he has created in 1998, in a location where he himself designed both the building and its surroundings. However, the new reincarnation of his installation, Excursus, reveals more than Irwin’s long history of visual exploration. Boy with a Camera In 2008-2009 David Reeb documented Ni'lin's struggle against the construction of the Separation Fence. In this short text he focuses on one of his paintings that came out of this activity / David Reeb On Color and Other Spaces Color space is a specific way of organizing colors which facilitates the display and presentation of color through analog and digital media. This visual essay will not discuss color theory but rather how color is transformed into an object or, more precisely, into a form. / Assaf Evron In Conversation: Hilla Toony Navok, Eitan Ben Moshe, and Leah Abir In preparation for the exhibition "Releasing a Butterfly," at Alon Segev Gallery in Tel Aviv / Leah Abir Tohu is an independent online art magazine based in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and published in Hebrew, Arabic and English Subscribe Store This site content is licensed Under a license Creative Commons type Attribution / Attribution-NonCommercial Tohu is a non-profit registered in Israel (n. 580613073), whose mission is to promote writing and discourse on art and culture	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line764
__label__cc	0.52441	0.47559	Assembling Avengers Assemble! Baxter Building Ep. 31: “Remember… Remember… Remember…” http://theworkingdraft.com/media/podcasts2/BaxterBuildingEp31.mp3 Previously on Baxter Building: The Thing is gone! She-Hulk is here to stay, despite topless sunbathing on the Baxter Building roof! And the series has brought on Jerry Ordway to ink John Byrne’s pencils, and the comic looks better than it has done in some time as a result. Which is a good thing, because what’s to come is pretty ugly, when it comes down to it. 0:00:00-0:07:45 After a Skype-enabled false start, Jeff and I get down to work analyzing what’s to come in Fantastic Four #s 278-284 — issues in which John Byrne definitely intends to make one, if not more, Serious Points About Things. (Not Ben Grimm, he’s still out the book.) The problem being, the execution doesn’t exactly follow through on the ambition. As Jeff puts it, “It’s not so much like he gave up, but…” 0:07:46-0:25:50: We get started with Fantastic Four #278, in which Doctor Doom returns (Kind of), but we’re far more interested in the fact that John Byrne apparently lost a bet and had to use the word “Remember” as often as humanly possible, the rewriting of Doctor Doom canon and an epilogue that only hints at the troublesome to come. But before we’re done with the issue, there’s one thing I really wanted to talk about… 0:25:51-0:33:31: …and that’s an editorial note in the letter column for the issue that is, essentially, a pre-emptive apology for the racism in this issue and the next one. Jeff and I talk about why the attempt at an explanation and defense ring hollow, and the ways in which this storyline wants to have its sensationalism and eat some holier-than-thou-ness, too. 0:33:32-0:54:57: FF #279 brings with it some anti-nostalgia for me; despite this being the first actual Fantastic Four issue I bought way back when, I really hate it in large part because of its overlong opening sequence. Jeff is far more understanding, although he wishes there had been more Doom, which isn’t an unfair criticism. We also talk about where this larger plot is going (or, as the case may be, not going), tease the Steve Englehart era, and get into why the Hate Monger plot is quite so ugly. (We keep talking about an X-Men issue when discussing this subject; we don’t say it in the episode, but it’s Uncanny X-Men #196, for those wanting to go track it down.) 0:54:58-1:15:32: Face it, true believers, Fantastic Four #280 has it all, as long as your definition of “it all” includes a surprisingly shoddy cover and some questionable stereotypes popping up as John Byrne attempts to build his “Oh No Men Are Racist But Especially When Aliens Are Involved” storyline. Jeff and I talk about all of that, the failure of Byrne to fulfill his own aims, the surprising (but welcome?) cowardliness of the issue when it comes to hate speech when compared with the previous two issues, the return of Reed Richards Patriarch At Large and, of course, the first appearance of Malice. Don’t forget: comics aren’t even for kids anymore. 1:15:33-1:29:45: There’s a lot to dislike about FF #281, including a horrific conclusion — that boots the end of the Hate Monger thread over to another comic entirely — and Reed Richards saving the day through being a misogynist. There’s also the fact that neither Reed nor Johnny recognize Sue when she’s being Malice (including, as Jeff points out, Johnny pointing out how hot this new villain is), Jeff and I talking about whether or not I’m reading too much into this plot being the culmination of a thread that started back when Sue had a miscarriage, and whether or not this entire storyline is trash. (Spoilers: It is.) 1:29:46-1:47:54: Considering everything ended with a big cliffhanger in the last issue, Fantastic Four #282 has to start with excitement right out the gate, right? Or, you know, a multi-page, mostly silent dream sequence for Franklin that is basically an advertisement for Power Pack. That John Byrne! Always zigging when you expect him to zag, or perhaps provide a coherent reading experience that doesn’t ask you to read multiple other comic books! Jeff did his homework and explains what happened in Secret Wars II as it relates to this issue, while I come up with conspiracy theories and we discuss whether it’s easier to get to the Microverse in a hot water bottle or a hip flask. Oh, and the mullet. The mullet. 1:47:55-2:08:36: Talking about FF #s 283 and 284 somewhat run together, as we run out of both time and patience with the storyline when it hurtles towards its conclusion, but there’s still stuff to talk about here — including a dream sequence for Sue that might be the most interesting thing in this entire episode, and provide a key as to how Byrne sees the character, and also Byrne’s horrendous treatment of She-Hulk that pretty much undercuts whatever larger point he was trying to make around Sue in the first place. (One of the sad things about the fact that we were tired at this point is that neither Jeff nor I pointed out that Sue’s Nightmare Reed talks very much like the real Reed did when trying to break the Malice persona, interestingly enough.) Also, given that Byrne purposefully leaves out what Sue actually did to Psycho-Man, we come up with a couple of possible, if somewhat unlikely, alternatives. (Spoilers: the Malice costume comes into play more than might be expected here.) 2:08:37-end: So, how were these issues overall? According to Jeff, they make “for some really distressing reading,” which… doesn’t feel like that much of an overstatement, to be honest. We look ahead to the issues we’ll be covering in the next Baxter Building — #285-295, which finish off Byrne’s run — with some trepidation, while trying to work out why we both kind of enjoyed this episode’s reading despite knowing better. If you don’t want to join us on that particular emotional journey, perhaps you should check out our Twitter, Tumblr and Patreon instead, or simply tune back in next month for the end of another era. Until then, as always, thanks for listening and reading. Baxter Building Ep. 28: “Well, That Was Interesting” Baxter Building Ep. 30: “I Haven’t Bin Home More’n Three Seconds An’ The Whole Earth Goes Blooey!” Baxter Building Ep. 27: “This Is A Contingency I Had Not Calculated.” Baxter Building Ep. 25: “Only My Dreams Are Kinda… Embarrassin’!” Categories: Baxter Building, Episodes, #Fantastic Four #John Byrne Wait, What? Ep. 228: Borne on the Force of July → ← Wait, What? Ep. 229: San Diego State of Mind 16 comments on “Baxter Building Ep. 31: “Remember… Remember… Remember…”” Graeme McMillan Jul 10, 2017 And for those who’re looking for a direct download, kindly direct your attention to: http://theworkingdraft.com/media/podcasts2/BaxterBuildingEp31.mp3 Michael Hoskin Jul 10, 2017 I know exactly which one of Johnny’s haircuts you’re referring to – that was the best laugh I had this ep! You guys seem to forget Doom’s robots (the Servo-Guards) have always looked very mini-Sentinel like, especially back in Kirby’s “killer robots” story (#84-87). I was actually very intrigued by Jeff’s “Byrne is Sue Storm” analysis. Then I remembered his “Mr. Fantastic is my father” realization and laughed. One day I hope we learn who Johnny & Ben are. Jeff claimed Byrne didn’t have an axe to grin in #284, but he actually did. That issue basically exists for Byrne to lash out at Barry Dutter, who at that time was a fan who disliked She-Hulk and sent hate mail wherever she appeared – Savage She-Hulk, then Avengers, and then FF. Hence why the guard who abuses She-Hulk – and who is then told to “shut up” is named Dutta. I am, of course, the man who wrote a profile on Dutta so that everyone would know this fascinating tale: http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/duttaff.htm Holy crap, that Dutta thing is amazing. Jeff Lester Jul 11, 2017 Seconded! Thank you for some invaluable context, Michael! David M Jul 11, 2017 The differences between Kirby’s robot guards in those stories and this one are instructive though. Kirby’s have eyes permanently and sinisterly in shadow from the helmet overhang. They don’t have permanently open surprised robot mouths. They do not have the look of somewhat over-inflated balloon robots. One might say they are not as Muppet-y as Byrne’s. Perhaps the FF has just run into a troop Doom has created to be kid-friendly for primary school visits? Also Byrne made them more Sentinel-like by giving them Sentinel ‘boots’ and ‘gauntlets’. Ian Boothby Jul 11, 2017 When I was a kid I didn’t like this new Dr. Doom origin. His face was supposed to be the most worst thing imaginable, not just some bad burns. I thought the thing was he literally stuck his head into Hell and the Devil/Mephisto had some time to do some plastic surgery on him making him supernaturally horrific. That is totally awesome, Ian! I one thousand percent prefer this take. Mike Murdock Jul 11, 2017 Drinking game: Drink every time Jeff says “Psycho Pirate.” I like that you guys said you used to Byrne Steal Byrne books. Someone should tell him on a message board! BTW, Kitty Pryde didn’t just use racial slurs on one occasions, she did it in three! God Loves, Man Kills, Uncanny X-Men 196, and New Mutants 45. The final one is the one where she has a whole string of choice words. When Bendis wrote the X-Men, he had Kitty give a wonderful speech where she actually deliberately decides not to use a racial slur! An interesting Kirby drawing of minimally scarred Doom can be found here: https://tytempletonart.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/kirbydoom_sketch.jpg The comparison of Byrne’s re-telling of the Kirby/Lee origin of Doom is instructive. The major changes are he folds Valeria into the story, I think she was a Roy Thomas creation, and we lose Victor as a trickster/rogue. There’s the stuff with the face, but we already knew this, didn’t we? Doom’s face is canonically so horrific we’ve seen brave people and medical professionals flinch and cower when they see it. The monks he is taken in by and then dominate do none of this. The most significant and odd bit that Byrne changes in Doom destroying his face by having too hot metal placed on it is that Kirby/Lee Doom really means it when he says ‘Pain?? That is for lesser men!!’ and is impassive as he disfigures himself. He mastered himself first. Byrne’s Doom…emotes more. Oh, and thanks to you both, but especially Jeff for his mention of hot water bottles. That jogged loose the words ‘Walter Hottle Bottle’ and that resulted in some happy google searching and my looking at images from ‘Jack and Jill’ comic, which was my first regular weekly comic fix. Sweet. Dan Coyle Jul 13, 2017 I would be legitimately excited to listen to an episode dedicate solely to Graeme and Jeff reading Star Brand. I genuinely think it would be astounding. You snark, but I bought the Byrne Star Brand collection in that wacky Amazon sale and I could be talked into this AMAZINGLY easily. Jeff? The ball is in your court. I snark, but I am also serious. Marc Jul 14, 2017 Since Graeme so callously (and hilariously) cut off Jeff’s matryoshka-stack psychoanalysis, allow me to contribute my two cents: Byrne isn’t Doom. He’s Kristoff. Voord 99 Jul 16, 2017 It sounds like reading more of this run is exactly what you want to do – but shouldn’t you read Annual #19 as part of the next stretch? Matthew Jul 17, 2017 So there was a little bit of cognitive dissonance with me when you were discussing Byrne’s use of racial slurs while simultaneously repeatedly using the word “paddywagon”. “She-Hulk and Wyatt Wingfoot are put in the PADDY WAGON.” “They’re still in the PADDY WAGON.” You know “paddywagon” originated as a racial slur towards the Irish, right? Called that because of the idea it’s used to haul around the Irish (paddies) due to their presumed criminality. Matthew Murray Jul 22, 2017 Hey other Matthew! Thanks for saying this. It bothered me too. Follow us on Twitter and Tumblr for added goodness. 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__label__cc	0.520974	0.479026	Home Latest articles ENVIRONMENT The age of robots is coming The age of robots is coming By Vivek Wadhwa - While progress may currently seem slow, it won’t be long before robots are everywhere, writes renowned technology entrepreneur, author and academic Vivek Wadhwa. Growing up, I believed that very soon we would all have robots like Rosie, from “The Jetsons,” cleaning up after us. For those out there who are too young to remember “The Jetsons,” Rosie is the family’s domestically adroit robot maid. After all, why should anyone waste time doing dishes or folding clothes? I longed for a droid friend like C-3PO, Luke Skywalker’s robot buddy from Star Wars. But Rosie never came. All I got was a Roomba — an automated vacuum cleaner that goes round and round. And the closest thing to C-3PO on the mass market is Siri, who is cute, but not terribly clever, and, beyond superficial capabilities, conversationally challenged. Even in this exponential era, we seem far away from robots that can talk to us, help us keep our home clean, or perform unstructured tasks. If you watched the videos of the robots from the DARPA Robotics Challenge, you might believe that we may never see Rosie in real life. Slow and clumsy The robots were required to navigate an eight-task course simulating a disaster zone. Tasks included driving alone, walking through rubble, tripping circuit breakers, turning valves, and climbing stairs. Despite the best efforts of the world’s best roboticists, the robots were slow and clumsy. They kept falling over, and moved at the speed of molasses. In fact, no robots can quickly perform tasks we humans consider mundane. Picking a towel up from a laundry basket and neatly folding it is something robots still struggle to do. So it appears that these droids are not yet a threat to human jobs, let alone saviours for countries, such as Japan, that face significant demographic challenges due to their rapidly ageing populations. But after watching the DARPA Challenge and observing the rapid advances of computing, artificial intelligence, and sensor technologies, I see Rosie being very close to reality. These technologies are all advancing at exponential rates. And exponential technologies can be deceptive. Things move very slowly at first, but then disappointment turns into amazement. Amazing progress That is what I believe will happen with robotics over the next five to 10 years. Amazing progress is being made in the underlying hardware and software. In part, that’s because costs have plunged. The single-axis controller, a core part of most robots’ inner working, has plunged in price from $1,000 to $10. And according to Rob Nail, the chief executive of Singularity University, the price of critical sensors for navigation and obstacle avoidance has fallen from $5,000 to less than $100. It is notable, too, that three teams — and incidentally, three different designs — completed the DARPA Challenge course. That’s better than in the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2004, in which no self-driving car came close to finishing. Now, only 11 years later, self-driving cars are legal in eight states and a common sight on the streets of the Bay Area. A clue about how fast this can happen can be found in the world of drones. Less than a decade ago, drones with real capabilities were expensive, rather large, and very hard to fly. Today, consumer drones are starting to match the capabilities of the fancy Predators and other custom-made, expensive unmanned aerial vehicles flown by the US military. Companies such as Shenzhen-based DJI Innovations are selling drones with the same capability as the original military ones, for less than $1,000. These Chinese firms are, in turn, competing with even cheaper drones, created by amateurs around the world, who share their designs for free in communities online. It’s safe to say that drones are the first technology in history of which the toy industry and hobbyists are beating the military–industrial complex at its own game. These personal drones can do everything that military drones can, aside from blow up stuff. That drones have achieved autonomy and low cost before robots is not surprising. It takes serious coding to have a semi-autonomous bipedal robot stay on its feet, not to mention detect its surroundings. Moving around in a cluttered, ever-shifting environment is precisely the sort of task that humans learn to do from very young ages but robots struggle to replicate, because it is computationally expensive. (Folding clothes and doing dishes are two other examples of these types of tasks.) Walking and talking For voice recognition, we are already pretty close to C-3PO-like capabilities. Both Apple and Google use artificial intelligence to do a reasonably good job of translating speech to text, even in noisy environments. No bot has passed the Turing Test yet, but they are getting closer and closer. When it happens, your droid will be able to converse with you in complex, human-like interactions. The computational power necessary to enable these robots to perform these difficult tasks is still lacking. Consider, however, that in about seven or eight years, your iPhone will have the computational ability of a human brain, and you can understand where we are headed. Robots will be able to walk and talk like human beings. What are presently halting steps moving up stairs will, in the next DARPA challenge, become sure-footed ascents. The ability to merely open a door will become that of opening a door and holding a bag of groceries and making sure the dog doesn’t get out. Richer opportunities And, yes, Rosie will replace lots of human jobs, and that is reason to worry — and cheer. The good part is that Rosie will do all the things we used to have to do but do them faster and cheaper. Everyone will have more time to enjoy their lives or to focus on their creative passions. That sounds pat, but I sincerely believe that a world full of Rosies could translate into richer opportunities and less stress for us humanoids. And no one will ever have to fold laundry again. Vivek Wadhwa is an author, academic, researcher and entrepreneur. He’s fellow at Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University; director of research at the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and distinguished fellow at Singularity University. 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__label__wiki	0.909674	0.909674	Home / PS3 / Sonic Generations / Xbox 360 / Sega announce Sonic Generations Sega announce Sonic Generations Liban Ali April 18, 2011 PS3, Sonic Generations, Xbox 360 Today SEGA America, Inc. and SEGA Europe Ltd. announced details of Sonic Generations, the highly anticipated video game title in development to celebrate Sonic the Hedgehog’s 20th Anniversary. Delivering the definitive gaming experience for Sonic fans old and new, Sonic Generations sees Sonic the Hedgehog playable as both the much loved classic 1991 character, and the modern day video game hero he has become in this exciting new fast paced adventure. Sonic Generations will speed into stores for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation3 computer entertainment system for Holiday 2011. Set across three defining eras from 20 years of Sonic the Hedgehog video game history, the instantly recognizable environments of Sonic Generations have been re-built in stunning HD and are now playable in both classic side scrolling 2D from 1991, as well as modern 3D style found in Sonic’s most recent adventures. Each incarnation of Sonic in Sonic Generations comes complete with his trademark special move, Spin Dash and Spin Attack for Classic Sonic, and the Homing Attack and Sonic Boost for Modern Sonic. An innovative new interactive menu system allows for complete immersion in Sonic’s universe with favorite characters and hidden treasures gradually being revealed throughout the game. “Sonic Generations will certainly be a fitting celebration for Sonic’s 20th Anniversary,” commented David Corless, Global Brand Director for Sonic. “By having the classic 1991 Sonic that many fans know and love team up with his modern day incarnation, we are bringing back the nostalgia of the early days of Sonic and combining it with the innovation and stunning HD technology of the modern gaming era. Sonic Generations will bring to life the last twenty years of Sonic’s universe in a truly unique and imaginative way.” Sonic’s universe is thrown into chaos when a mysterious new power creates ‘time holes’ which pull him and his friends back through time. As a result, he encounters some surprises from his past history including Classic Sonic, Sonic as he was in 1991. Modern Sonic and Classic Sonic must defeat this strange new enemy, save their friends, and find out who really is behind this diabolical deed… The only part that worries me is the "save their friends" part... i hope they STAY captured and you rescue them at the ending... no friends ingame please... Liban Ali 18 April 2011 at 23:16 Yep, I agree with you!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line774
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__label__cc	0.692625	0.307375	Past ConferencesCurrently selected speakers http://www.zwc.ca/Banners/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=7&RootFolder=/Banners speakers Leigh Mapledoram Program Area Manager, Sustainable Textiles, WRAP UK http://www.zwc.ca/archive/2017/speakers/Leigh Mapledoram Program Area Manager, Sustainable Textiles, WRAP UK <div class="ExternalClass29C9AB0AEAEB4506B92E1FFAE003FF65"><p>Leigh is WRAP’s Programme Area Manager for Sustainable Textiles which incorporates the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan (SCAP) and the European Clothing Action Plan (ECAP). </p><p>Leigh joined WRAP in 2011 and has worked on a number of diverse areas such as resource efficiency in the Facilities Management sector and in the public sector, resource efficient business models, and the sustainable procurement of services. In August 2014, he became responsible for WRAP’s work on sustainable textiles which focusses on the reduction of carbon, water and waste footprints of clothing.</p><p>Since becoming involved in SCAP, he has seen the membership of SCAP grow to over 50% of the UK market by volume and value and has reported significant progress in moving towards the SCAP 2020 targets for carbon, water and waste footprint reductions. In addition, he is involved in the ECAP project, which is a significant step in being able to make environmental improvements in the European clothing sector.</p><p>Leigh holds an MA in Natural Sciences and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining WRAP, he worked for an environmental consultancy for 15 years working on a broad range of UK Government funded projects.</p></div> http://www.zwc.ca/archive/2017/speakers/SpeakerPhotos2017/LeighMapledoram.jpg, Leigh Mapledoram GP0\|#208e7052-ad84-4a0c-b707-d9ef6dece23b;L0\|#0208e7052-ad84-4a0c-b707-d9ef6dece23b\|Leigh Mapledoram;GTSet\|#c31bcefc-bba8-4775-8a91-82f54b19d6e1;GPP\|#60aa0f51-dfde-4d32-80ae-abcb14c61cdb Leigh Mapledoram	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line779
__label__cc	0.661536	0.338464	Gyutan: The Tasty Japanese Beef Tongue by YABAI Writers Food Foods History Recipe Gyutan Some people travel on purpose for the sake of not just getting new experiences or seeing more of what is out there. Rather, there are certain people who travel for new tastes. One great factor that attracts tourists from all over the world is the food. Every country has its own cuisine and specialties that a lot of people are just dying to try and get a taste of. Among the many countries all over the world that boast the best and must-try cuisines is Japan. While the country is more known for foods such as sushi, sashimi, and ramen to name a few, there are also other types of Japanese food worth trying. One of the more unusual ones on the list is Japanese beef tongue. This, of course, is not recommended for those who are weak in the stomach. On the other hand, this Japanese specialty is a must-try for people with an adventurous taste for extraordinary food. The History and Name/Word for Japanese Beef Tongue By Captain76 - 投稿者自身による作品, パブリック・ドメイン, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7620627 Also known as gyutan in Japanese, grilled beef tongue is one of the must-try foods when in Japan. The word “gyutan” is basically just a combination of two words: the Japanese word for “cow,” which is “gyu,” and the English word that is “tongue.” Literally translating to “cow tongue,” the word “gyutan” is the primary name for beef or cow tongues in Japan. The origin of cooking beef tongue dates back to the year 1948 in Sendai, wherein gyutan was traditionally served with barley rice, pickles, and tail soup. On the other hand, when other areas in the country started cooking beef tongues, they did so with serving gyutan in yakiniku restaurants. Initially cooked with salt flavoring, gyutan was originally called tanshio in various restaurants, which translates to “tongue salt” in English. At present, gyutan is now being served with tare sauce as well. The idea of cooking cow tongue was conceived by Sano Keishiro, an owner of a yakitori restaurant that was established in Sentai. It was his restaurant that first served gyutan. Called Tasuke, his restaurant is recognized as one of the best places in Sendai to order and eat gyutan up to this day. While gyutan was seen as an unusual dish at the time, its popularity grew throughout the country. It also helped that white collar workers that came from the Sendai area spread the good reputation of gyutan to neighboring cities. When the import quotes for beef in Japan was lifted in the year 1991, restaurants that served gyutan received a surmountable boost in their profits and customers. This is because there is now more supply to feed the demand of customers who are craving for gyutan. On the other hand, many gyutan restaurants suffered a major blow when the Japanese government banned beef imports from America in the year 2003 due to the mad cow disease. With about 90 percent of beef tongues in the Sendai area being imported from America, there was then no sufficient supply of beef tongues. Furthermore, there are also claims that U.S. beef is best used for gyutan dishes due to its ideal amount of fat, many refused to replace it with Australian beef. How to Make Beef Tongue Stew or Curry There are many ways to cook beef tongue. Probably one of the most popular dishes to make out of beef tongue is either beef tongue stew or curry. The only difference between the two is the sauce to be used. Other than that, the main procedure in making both dishes is similar. In this section, one would be focusing more on the beef tongue stew recipe. The first step in making beef tongue stew is to place two pounds of beef tongue into a tight-fitting pot. Cover the beef tongue with water by about an inch. Add a teaspoon of salt to taste and bring the beef tongue to a boil. After boiling, reduce heat to medium-low and let it simmer for around two hours just to let the meat cook until tender. After which, strain the beef tongue and set aside the liquid from the boil. Prepare the beef tongue by removing the skin from the tongue and shredding the tongue with only the use of two forks. Set aside the meat and discard the skin. Place a large pot over medium-high heat and put two tablespoons of vegetable oil in it. Stir in one large onion, one small leek, and 2 stalks of celery, all thinly sliced. Also, add in two shredded large carrots. Continue to stir and cook the vegetables until they soften, which would take around five minutes. After which, add six ounces of tomato paste into the mix and stir until there are no more lumps and cook the mix for one more minute. When all are cooked, add in the shredded meat into the pot, as well as the cooked liquid or reserved broth and one ounce of taco seasoning mix. Bring it all to a boil then reduce to medium-low heat. Let it simmer for about 20 to 30 minutes or until the vegetables are tender. The last step would be to season the dish with salt and pepper to taste and it is now ready to be served. This is best eaten when the weather is cold, which is in the months of January, February, and November to name a few. Plain and Simple: Grilled Beef Tongue Recipe As for the simplest and probably the easiest way to cook beef tongue, it would be to grill it. With a partially thawed 1 and a half pound of beef tongue, pull the tough skin with the use of a razor sharp knife as well as vice-grip pliers to make it much easier to pull. After all the skin has been removed, put the meat back into the freezer until it is again frozen solid. Once the meat is already frozen, take it out of the freezer and stat slicing the meat as thinly as possible. The goal is to slice the meat paper thin. After all the meat has been sliced to one’s preference, sprinkle a little bit of salt over the meat slices to give it some taste. Brush the tongue slices with sesame oil to also add a more distinct taste and aroma. The next step would be to mix together various ingredients to make green onion brushes. These ingredients include two tablespoons of rice vinegar, two teaspoons of white sugar, one tablespoon of sesame oil, half a teaspoon of red pepper or chili flakes, and a pinch of coarse of kosher salt. Toss the onion with this combination. After which, garnish the mixture with some toasted black sesame seeds. Place a cast iron skillet over high heat. Once the skillet seems hot, place the thinly sliced beef tongue on the pan in a single layer. Brush the meat with oil while it cooks for about 30 seconds or less. Turn the slices over quickly once the bottom part is cooked. After all the slices are cooked, transfer them to a plate while one cooks another batch. Repeat the process until all the tongue slices are cooked. After which, they are ready to be served with lemon or lime wedges, along with plain white rice and pickles. To give the dish a punch, one can also serve the grilled beef tongue with a dipping sauce. Just mix one teaspoon of miso paste, 2 teaspoons of sugar, 4 teaspoons of soy sauce, a half-teaspoon of sesame oil, and one grated small clove of garlic together and stir. Serve this dipping sauce along with the other dishes. This simple dish can be enjoyed no matter the season, with the months March, April, June, July as good options. Tangy to the Taste: BBQ Beef Tongue Recipe By Arnold Gatilao from Oakland, CA, USA [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons For people who would like a more tangy taste, then opt to try to make BBQ beef tongue instead. The steps needed to make this recipe are also just as simple as the plainly grilled beef tongue. The first step is to create the seasoning for the beef tongue slices. Simply mix together one tablespoon of yuzu kosho, one tablespoon of soy sauce, half a tablespoon of sake, half a tablespoon of sesame oil, half a teaspoon of yuzu juice or lemon juice, 1/8 of an onion though this is optional, and freshly ground black pepper to taste. Combine all of these ingredients together in a small bowl and whisk until they are all mixed well. Spread some of the seasonings on a container wherein the meat would be marinated. Place and spread a quarter-pound of beef tongue slices into the container and make sure that they do not overwrap each other. After which, pour the remaining seasoning on top of the beef tongue slices. An option would be to grate some onions on top of the meat slices. Let the meat marinade for at least 30 minutes to let the meat absorb the seasoning. After about 30 minutes or more, start the grill. It is preferable to grill the meat over charcoal as it gives a more distinct taste to the meat. Once the grill is already hot, start placing the meat on top of the grill and let it cook for about a minute or two. Then, turn over the meat to let the other side cook as well for another minute or two. Once cooked, serve the meat right away, along with a small size of yuzu kosho. This dish is best eaten with plain rice so one can get the full taste of the meat. With proper presentation, this dish would look good in food photos. Rich and Velvety: Braised Beef Tongue Recipe For a richer dish, one can just opt for braised beef tongue. While this may take a bit longer to make, the result is delicious nonetheless. The first step is to rinse 3 to 4 pounds of beef tongue and place it in a deep pot. Add water into the pot to cover the tongue by about two inches. Bring it to a boil over medium-high heat then let it simmer over medium-low heat for 20 minutes or until the tongue cooks. After which, remove the tongue from the pot and into a bowl of cold water to let it cool. Once the tongue is already cool enough to touch, remove it from the bowl and discard the liquid. Remove the skin of the tongue, as well as any black parts, with a razor-sharp knife. Then, preheat the oven to 375F. On the other hand, heat two tablespoons of rendered pork fat or oil in an over-safe pot over medium-high heat. Add one large yellow onion that is cut into quarter-inch thick slices into the pot and let the tongue snuggle between them. Reduce heat and let the tongue brown slightly, which would take about four minutes. Add two carrots cut into coins into the pot and stir. Pour in 1/8 cup of dry white wine into the pot and put the lid on top. Let it cook for about 6 to 8 minutes with 2-minute intervals of shaking the pot to avoid the onion and carrots from burning. After which, add another 1/8 cup of white wine, two bay leaves, 4 to 6 sprigs of fresh parsley, 4 to 6 sprigs of fresh thyme, three ripe Roma tomatoes that are cored and coarsely chopped, and a teaspoon of salt into the pot. Cover the pot and let it cook for around 5 minutes with occasional stirring or until the tomatoes have already softened enough that it is ready to disintegrate. Add 4 and a half cups of water into the pot and bring to a boil. After which, place the covered pot into the over and bake for about 45 minutes per pound. Turn the tongue every 30 minutes to let it cook evenly. After the tongue has been cooked, remove the pot from the oven and transfer the meat to another plate to be covered. This is to keep the tongue warm and to avoid drying. Strain the liquid and degrease it as well. Bring it to a boil and add salt and pepper to taste. Cook until the sauce becomes silky and a little bit thickened. Cover to keep the sauce warm. Slice the tongue and pour the sauce on top and it is now ready to be served. By putting garnishes, this dish would look great in pictures. There are still other ways to cook gyutan or Japanese beef tongue, but these recipes are definitely a must-try, especially for people who love gyutan. Do not miss out on this yummy goodness especially when one visits Japan. Aside the usual sushi, sashimi, and ramen, trying gyutan is most certainly a must. YABAI Writers Articles written by our staff, highlighting the vibrant, modern side of Japan. Featuring both fresh, fun discoveries as well as little-known treasures to help you see Japan through new eyes. 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__label__wiki	0.805463	0.805463	City Council Votes to Ban Pizza Dispensaries Written by Pepper Roni Monday, 23 May 2011 To combat what City Council called an "unexpected" amount of Steamboat Springs' citizens using pizza to combat chronic stomach pain, the council voted 4-3 to ban pizza dispensaries within town limits. Council members voting for the ban cited increased cases of lactose intolerance and sausage farts, which they felt did more harm than good in the community. Citing the dangers of accessible pizza to the citizens of Steamboat Springs, City Council enacted a permanent ban on pizza dispensaries. However, individuals with a legal license to consume pizza can still bake the circular food in their own homes. "No one on this council ever anticipated that we'd have so many dispensaries selling pizza in Steamboat," said City Council President Pro-Tem Quinnagin Beginnagin. "It's gone too far. There's a pizza dispensary on every block. Do we really need this much pizza in Steamboat Springs? It's not very healthy, you know. Have you seen what it does to a colon? Well ... neither have I, but I bet it's not good." Those members voting against the ban noted that pizza is legal in Colorado, whether people like it or not, and several owners of pizza dispensaries provide jobs and sales-tax revenue. "I just don't see how we can discriminate against pizza dispensaries," said Council President Ex-Tem Scari Helmetheadski. "Sure, it can make you a little gassy, and too much can induce food coma, but what's next? Should we ban taco dispensaries because they give people the runs? Or coffee dispensaries because they make some people terribly annoying? It's a slippery slope." The final vote caused an uproar among the pro-pizza citizens attending the meeting, who spoke vehemently about how they need pizza to combat the intense pain they sometimes feel in their stomach area. "If I don't eat pizza every day," testified John Papa, "I get this rumbling pain right around here," he added, pointing to his abdomen. "It happens about three times a day, starting right when I wake up, and the only thing that seems to make it go away is pizza. It's saved my life ... What the hell am I supposed to do now!!!" "I feel your pain," countered Beginnagin, "but there are other, safer alternatives to pizza treatment for stomach problems. We need to be better examples for the children of this community. You could try eating tofu, or a nice salad with a balsamic vinaigrette. Or have you considered steamed vegetables?" But the pro-pizza crowd was unconvinced. "That crap doesn't work!" shouted Papa. "You've taken away the one thing that makes my miserable life slightly bearable. I hope you're happy!" "And what am I supposed to do?" added Redd Saus, the owner of Sobe Creek, one of Steamboat's now-banned pizza dispensaries. "I obtained a legal license to sell pizza in this town. I put my life's savings into pepperoni and mozzarella. People with chronic stomach pains were happily ordering my product. And now I'm screwed. I, too, hope you're happy ..."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line792
__label__cc	0.634904	0.365096	←“What are we busy about?” Gratitude for Community→ Priorities & Projects Around this time last year we reflected upon how the life changes we’ve made since 2008 were motivated by more than just a desire to fulfill a dream of bicycling around the world together (although that was a pretty big motivator for us!). Simplifying our lives and ridding ourselves of unnecessary “stuff” would allow us the time and energy to devote to causes and issues we felt were important. So how are we doing on that front?. This is the 2nd of 3 posts in which we review the goals we set back in June 2012 and give an update of where we’re headed next: Post #1 = Goals of “Continued Travel Blogging” and “Writing a Tiny House Book“ Post #2 = Goal of “Planned Breaks from Cycling & Coverage of Projects Important to Us“ Post #3 = Goal of “Digital Dandies & Creating Community“ Goal :: Planned Breaks from Cycling & Coverage of Projects Important to Us We’ve been doing more than just cycling, writing our book and taking care of ourselves over the last year. Volunteering our time and energy to organizations we believe in and implementing what we call “Daily Activism” is important to us. Guided by Ghandi’s words, “Action expresses priorities”, we try to spend time on projects that truly reflect our values and support a healthy community. Here are some of the ways in which we’ve been working on that: We attended The People’s Summit (Cumbre de los Pueblos) in La Paz last summer to help protest the G20 Summit. Our video coverage of the event was distributed and published by the ‘Mexican Coalition against the G20’. The People’s Summit (Cumbre de los Pueblos) in La Paz. We honored our 350.org pledge, and had several other cyclists around the world join us, to dedicate 350 KM of our ride toward connecting the dots between climate change and humankind’s future. We Marched Against Monsanto with millions of others around the world on May 25th, 2013. Bicycling to the March Against Monsanto in Ajijic, Jalisco Mexico. We founded “Vermonters Against Toxic Sludge“, a community group opposing the land application or export of toxic sludge. The group actively works to promote safe & sustainable alternatives to our current reliance on unhealthy and prohibitively expensive sewage & septic systems. We focus on alternatives like the Ecological Sanitation model and other models that don’t rely on water, electricity and an extensive infrastructure. We’re also involved with many other campaigns that oppose various social or environmental injustices, like the Keystone XL pipeline, expansion of Canadian-owned mines in the sacred lands of indigenous people, and the F-35s being based in Vermont, and we’re always writing a letter to the editor, to our representatives, or to organizations that need to hear from the citizens that keep them in business. I’m very excited to have become a volunteer for Wiser.org, the social network for sustainability. Although I don’t have much time to devote to projects until we finish our book, Laura, the volunteer coordinator, has been kind enough to work around my limited availability. In honor of International Women’s Day I volunteered to redesign and update a website for a women’s health clinic in Ajijic. I’m also designing new pamphlets for the non-profit organization to use in school presentations on health and family planning, which will replace material that was last updated in 1997. I’ll share the website and more information once I complete this project. The women’s health clinic in Ajijic, Centro de Desarrollo Jocotopec. Although we like rolling our sleeves up and giving of our time and energy when we’re able, we also believe in sharing a portion of our income with neighbors and community organizations that are doing good work. We don’t have much to give but, in our opinion, every little bit helps. The list below includes some of those we’ve donated to over the past year. In an effort to spread the philanthropic spirit, we share information about organizations we give to on our Fundraising Page. If you’re moved to do so, consider sharing your wealth with these organizations as well. Microfinance Loans Kiva Loans – Make a $25 loan FOR FREE through our 2cycle2gether Kiva team today. By doing so, Kiva will also give us a bonus $25 to loan. This is a win-win people! National & International Non-Profit Organizations Project Unbreakable :: The mission of Project Unbreakable is to increase awareness of the issues surrounding sexual assault and encourage the act of healing through art. Founder Grace Brown works with survivors of sexual assault, photographing them holding a poster with a quote from their attacker. Secret Survivors :: Secret Survivors is an interview-based theater project by NYC-based theater company, Ping Chong & Company, featuring adult survivors of child sexual abuse telling their personal stories on stage. I watched a live streaming of the production and, as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, it was one of the most powerful things I’ve ever witnessed. International Labor Rights Forum :: ILRF serves a unique role among human rights organizations as advocates for and with working poor around the world and is committed to ending the problems of child labor, forced labor, and other abusive practices. Rich Earth Institute :: dedicated to advancing and promoting the use of human waste as a resource. Through research, demonstration, and education projects, REI strives to illustrate the positive effect of this approach in important areas including water quality, food security, energy use, soil health, economic sustainability, carbon footprint, public health, and emergency preparedness. DonorsChoose.org :: Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests and you can give any amount to the project that most inspires you. We gave to Literarcy Power & Help Us Grow as NonFiction Readers. Village Health Works :: whose mission is to provide quality, compassionate health care in a dignified environment, and in collaboration with those they serve, while treating the root causes and the social determinants of illness, disease, violence. League of American Bicyclists :: promoting bicycling for fun, fitness, transportation and work through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America. Re-Cycle :: mission is to collect unwanted bicycles and ship them to Africa. Village Bicycle Project :: supplies bikes, spare parts and tools to villages in Africa. They also train owners in basic bike maintenance and repair, work with bicycle mechanics in their villages to improve their tools and skills, and empower whole communities by including women and girls in bicycle education. New England Non-Profit Organizations (Our Home Base) Vermont Foodbank :: Gather. Share. Nuture. New England Coalition :: Originally the New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution, the Coalition was founded by several groups of citizens and scientists concerned about the nation’s growing civilian nuclear power program. VPIRG :: the largest nonprofit consumer and environmental advocacy organization in Vermont. Vermont Digger – Vermont Journalism Trust :: nonprofit organization whose sole mission is to stimulate and commission substantive news content from established journalists. Local Motion – The Big Fix :: to repair the Island Line Trail which was damaged by the Lake Champlain flood of 2011. CCTV Free Speech Fund :: CCTV Center for Media & Democracy expands the reach of organizations by providing the channels, tools and training to get their message across and make social change happen. Lake Champlain International :: To protect, restore, and revitalize Lake Champlain and its communities, LCI educates, advocates, and motivates to ensure that Lake Champlain is swimmable, drinkable, and fishable, understanding that healthy water resources are essential for a healthy economy and a healthy community. Green Mountain Club Winooski Bridge Fund :: Working to Establish a Safe, Appropriate and Permanent Route for the Long Trail through the Winooski River Valley Independent & Creative Projects NerdGirlHomes :: Kendall is a high school senior fulfilling a dream to build her own house. When she’s done building her Tiny House she’s donating it to someone who is homeless. Janapar: Love on a bike Kickstarter campaign :: To help Tom Allen, fellow touring cyclist, write a memoir about his cycling around the world. A truly engaging and universal message. Check out his book and the documentary. Edible City: Grow the Revolution :: feature-length documentary journey (click to watch the movie) through the local Good Food movement that’s taking root in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the nation and around the world. Also, we gave to support the open source distribution model that the movie’s fiscal sponsor, Bay Area Video Coalition, promotes. Grassroots Campaigns Tim DeChristopher Legal Defense Fund :: American climate activist and co-founder of the environmental group Peaceful Uprising. On December 19, 2008 he protested a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction of 116 parcels of public land in Utah’s redrock country by successfully bidding on 14 parcels of land (totaling 22,500 acres) for $1.8 million with no intention to pay for them. DeChristopher was removed from the auction by federal agents, taken into custody, and questioned. He served 21 months in prison, from July 2011 through April 2013, even though the government ended up ruling the entire auction was originally illegal. “I Stand with Brad”, Bradley Manning Courage to Resist Fund :: The information that Bradley gave to the public has been a catalyst for pro-democracy movements in the Arab world, exposed the unjust detainment of innocent people at Guantanamo Bay, shown us the true human cost of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and changed journalism forever. Tar Sands Blockade – Legal Defense Fund & Great Plain Tar Sands Legal Defense Fund:: Supporting climate justice organizers using peaceful and sustained civil disobedience to stop the construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline Coverage of Projects Over the last year, we’ve found inspiration everywhere. Listed below are some of the projects we’ve come upon in our travels, which we’ve either already blogged about or will blog about: Suitel 522 Ecological Hostel :: Sichem, forward-thinking owner of Suitel 522, helps to raise guest consciousness about nature and conservation through his on-site environmental programs. Guests are informed about food waste, conservation of resources, recycling and more, and invited to participate, voluntarily, in any of the programs during their stay. The goal is to give people the ability to take simple steps toward action, which will then, hopefully, spread beyond their stay to their personal homes, then on to others.. Kai & I in front of Suitel 522 Ecological Hostel in Mazatlan. We witnessed Mexico’s presidential electoral process and watched as thousands of Mexican activists took to the streets around the country to protest election fraud. Check out the the video I captured of one protest in Mazatlan. Protests in Mazatlan. We rode alongside hundreds of thousands of other cyclists in Guadalajara’s Ciclovía, the ViaRecreactiva. Our video ended up making a big impact on people and was distributed around the world by organizations such as TreeHugger, Adventure Cycling Association, Green Savers TV and The Pedal Collective. We plan to share other projects, organizations and inspiring people we’ve come in contact with but haven’t yet blogged about (one thing at a time!), like a young woman who started a seed-saving network in Jalisco, a group of people who after training with Maya Pedal have started a bike machines cooperative in Mexico, an Ajijic-native artist who has an amazing life story and who creates beautiful work that challenges us to think about life, politics and environmental destruction, and an ecovillage in Tala, Jalisco that sponsored an annual agro-ecological fiesta put together by a network of alternative, environmentally-minded organizations. ::::: So, that’s the summary of how we made time for projects and issues that were important to us over the last year. Next up :: Post #3, covering our “Digital Dandies & Creating Community” goal. Categories: Climate Change, Community, Environmental Justice, Fundraising, Mexico, Personal, Reflections, Social Justice, Transportation Tags: activism, Daily Activism, inspiration, reflection, volunteerism 1 comment to Priorities & Projects Thanks! Your Gandhi quote inspired me to up my monthly charitable donations by 25% BTW we met in Dec 2011 biking CA coast. We talked about Kai’s sweet rain coat, pressure cooker, and Rohloff Leave a Reply to Alan Smith Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line797
__label__wiki	0.793791	0.793791	Tree Riddle My obsessive love of rock didn't surface until later in life -- around the same time I began learning electric guitar and listening to artists like Jimi Hendrix. I spent the next decade learning everything I could about rock. Along the way I found myself gravitating towards against-the-grain bands like Pearl Jam, Modest Mouse and Queens of the Stone Age. I began pursuing a career in radio after realizing I would be able to talk about music all day and get free CDs and concert tix. After grinding it out on the intern circuit, I landed a job at the Banana! I later became a writer for Loudwire.com and I'm currently the Digital Managing Editor for Townsquare Media Flint. Salma Elbernoussi — Babe of the Day You won't find a lot of info on this Hawaii-based hottie online, but she's on a lot of hottest bikini model lists and that's all we needed to know. Mercy Beach Just Reinvented Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ [VIDEO] Flint's Mercy Beach gives Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' a completely new sound with their original arrangement of the beloved grunge anthem. 11 Things No One Wants to Remember About ‘Back to the Future’ While many of you are celebrating 'Back to the Future' day, you should take a hard look in the mirror and think about what it is that you're actually celebrating. Awesome Dave Grohl Headlines You’ll Likely See Before Foo Fighters’ Tour Ends Dave Grohl needs your love and we're guessing how far he's willing to go to earn it. Check out these "Dave Grohl is Awesome" headlines you'll probably see before Foo Fighters wrap their 2015 tour. Puddle of Mudd Deletes Facebook Page After Reportedly Being Booed Off Stage Puddle of Mudd canceled their Friday show at Flint's Machine Shop, was reportedly booed off the stage the next night in Ohio and now it appears that they've deleted their official Facebook page. That's one hell of a weekend! Woman Makes “Tangy” Yogurt Using Her Vaginal Secretions… Yuck-Tivia! In what has to be a recipe taken straight from the WTF cookbook, a woman has made yogurt using lady liquids that came from her wizard's sleeve. Guy Outs Pregnant Cheater to Her Boyfriend at Detroit Lions Game [PHOTO] What would you do if you saw a pregnant lady cuddling with a guy at a Lions game and romantically texting another guy when he walked away? Well, one man wasn't about to let her dirty little secret stay a secret anymore. Korn Guitarists Munky + Head Discuss New Album, ‘Secret’ Reunion + More Korn fans have had a lot to be thankful for lately with Brian 'Head' Welch's return to the band after an eight-year break and news that that their "best album ever" is completed. We discussed those things and more with the band's guitarists, Munky and Head, in o… Duff McKagan, Jason Newsted, Vince Neil + More Set for ‘Titans of Rock’ Tour Some of the biggest names in rock will converge on South America for the 'Titans of Rock' tour. Among those already confirmed as part of the all-star lineup are Duff McKagan, Jason Newsted and Vince Neil. Shinedown Tie Record With 15th No. 1 on Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs Cha… 21 hours ago Colorado Has 4th Lowest Retirement Age in the Nation 21 hours ago	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line802
__label__wiki	0.701245	0.701245	Apple Health Submit a Tip / Contact Us Feature Request: Add stereo-paired HomePods as a Mac sound output device Ben Lovejoy - Dec. 23rd 2019 7:37 am PT @benlovejoy I can’t believe I actually have to ask Apple to add stereo-paired HomePods as a Mac sound output device! It’s the most ridiculous Feature Request yet, because it’s absolutely nuts that this isn’t already built into macOS — especially that it isn’t baked into Catalina. Apple’s own audio apps will happily allow you to select stereo-paired HomePods as a single output device. You can see in the photo above that the Music app sees both my Office and Winter Garden HomePods as a single device. Not so the Mac itself, however… I can output Mac sound to Office Left or Office Right, but not to the stereo pair. So I have the utterly ridiculous situation of having a pair of HomePods on my desk but not being able to use them with my Mac unless it’s through an app that recognizes stereo pairs. iTunes, Music, Podcasts, and Apple TV apps are all good. Those each have their own sound output controls, and will recognize any AirPlay device, including stereo-paired HomePods. Spotify is slightly messier: Unless wireless speakers have explicit Spotify support, the Mac app won’t see them. However, the iPhone app does (under More Devices), and if I start playback there, I can then use the Mac app as a remote control for the iPhone app. But YouTube, Netflix, or any other website? Nope: All I can do is select one of the two speakers. We first noted this limitation shortly after AirPlay 2 was launched, in June of last year. Some 18 months and one major macOS version later, the position is unchanged. The reason for this is, unbelievably, because the macOS system doesn’t natively support AirPlay 2, only AirPlay 1. Yep, the latest version of Apple’s flagship OS doesn’t support the latest version of Apple’s own audio protocol. Apple has built the protocols into its audio apps, but not into macOS itself. This is, frankly, embarrassing. Apple, please sort it out. By the way, yes, stereo-paired HomePods are overkill as Mac speakers. The reason I have them is that my office is a rather multi-functional room. Office in the day, guest-room overnight (thanks to folding bed), and sometime dance-practice room. When we have friends round to practice, I want to play the same music in living room and office. There are other AirPlay 2 speakers, of course, but stereo-paired HomePods have impressed me enough to get a pair of refurbs for the office. Do you agree with me this is a ridiculous omission? Or is what I’m doing an edge case? Please take our poll and share your thoughts in the comments. Check out 9to5Mac on YouTube for more Apple news: You’re reading 9to5Mac — experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Don’t know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel Apple’s Mac lineup consists of MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, and Mac Mini. The Mac runs macOS for its operating system. HomePod is Apple’s effort to “reinvent home music" and features a 7 tweeter array, a 4-inch woofer and is powered by Apple’s A8 chip. The device acts as a standalone way for users to interact with Siri, Apple Music, and more. Feature Request AirPlay 2 Ben Lovejoy is a British technology writer and EU Editor for 9to5Mac. He’s known for his op-eds and diary pieces, exploring his experience of Apple products over time, for a more rounded review. He also writes fiction, with two technothriller novels, a couple of SF shorts and a rom-com! Ben Lovejoy's favorite gear FiLMiC multi-cam recording available as 'DoubleTake' iPhone 9, 13-inch MacBook update, (RED) Apple Watch? PSA: You can now clear your Facebook history Interview: Astronaut Reisman on ‘For All Mankind’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line803
__label__wiki	0.537627	0.537627	Winter, Spring, Summer and Falls Winter, Spring, Summer and Falls in NSW Ambulance NSW Ambulance FallsAcute CareEmergency Care Clinical Leadership Program 2 May 2018 Last updated: NSW Ambulance introduced a falls package to address the year-round problem of falls in people aged 65 and over in the community. It incorporated a new falls risk assessment, protocol, clinical pathway and screening tool for paramedics, as well as education materials for consumers and general practitioners (GPs). To ensure all people aged 65 and over who are not transported to hospital for ongoing care are assessed for falls risk, educated and appropriately referred by a paramedic. Reduces the risk of falls among older people in the community. Improves education and awareness of falls by older people. Reduces unnecessary transfers to hospital and hospital admissions. Increases appropriate referrals and falls education to GPs . Provides a clear screening tool, clinical pathway and protocol for falls. Falls are a major problem around the world, with approximately 35 per cent of people aged 65 and over falling each year1. This figure increases to over 40 per cent for those over 70 years of age.1 In NSW, people who injure themselves from a fall account for 44 per cent of all hospitalisations and more than 400 deaths per year, with older people accounting for 57 per cent of those hospitalisations.2 In NSW, there are more than 100,000 falls recorded by NSW Ambulance each year. Falls are the most common job paramedics are called to, with numbers increasing each year.3 People who have fallen and are not significantly injured are assessed and treated by paramedics, and may be left at home for self care. There are around 30,000 people each year who are left at home for self care, representing approximately 30 per cent of the non-transport rate by NSW Ambulance.3 Prior to the project, people left at home were not provided with a formal falls risk assessment, prevention education or a targeted referral. Having a single fall places a person at significant risk of having another fall, so without these prevention strategies, the risk of another fall is increased.4 As such, NSW Ambulance determined that a falls package was required, to address the year-round problem of falls, particularly in people aged 65 and over in the community. NSW Ambulance introduced a falls package, incorporating a falls risk assessment, education and appropriate referral of all patients seen by paramedics who were not transported to hospital. The package incorporated the following elements. Falls Education Package: an extensive document designed as a self-guided learning package for paramedics, which describes the problem of falls, common causes of falls, falls assessments and falls risk testing, falls prevention and how to use each component of the falls package. Falls Protocol: a clinical practice guideline for use by NSW Ambulance paramedics. Elderly at Risk Protocol: an existing NSW Ambulance clinical practice protocol for use with all patients aged 65 and over. ECP Falls Pathway: a clinical practice guideline for use by NSW Ambulance extended care paramedics. Falls Screening Tool: a screening tool based on the Falls Risk in Older People in the Community (FROP-Com) with associated scoring for falls risk. Falls FULL Assessment Tool: a comprehensive tool based on the Falls Risk in Older People in the Community (FROP-Com) with associated scoring for falls risk. Exercises: simple exercises for falls prevention, to enhance balance and lower limb strength. GP information sheet: a brief document describing the project and scoring system, based on the FROP-Com falls risk assessments and circulated via Primary Health Networks through the paramedic-initiated referral. Patient information brochure: developed to educate patients about how to reduce the risk of another fall. It is provided to patients following their risk assessment by paramedics. Following the evaluation of the pilot project, the components of the falls package deemed suitable for use by paramedics will be rolled out in June 2018 with the release of the NSW Ambulance clinical practice protocols. They will be incorporated into standard practice for all paramedics and extended care paramedics from June 2018. Project start: March 2017 Implementation: 1 June 2017 - 31 August 2017 Project evaluation: June 2018 Rollout across NSW Ambulance: June 2018 NSW Ambulance Blacktown Superstation NSW Ambulance Harden Station All stations with a dedicated extended care paramedic module Clinical Excellence Commision. Clinical Leadership Program GPs of pilot participants Primary Health Networks (Western Sydney, Murrumbidgee, Hunter New England and Central Coast, Nepean Blue Mountains, Central and Eastern Sydney, Northern Sydney) The following results were collected in April 2018. 32 consumers enrolled in the pilot. Of those 32, 90 per cent did not have a repeat fall. 91 per cent referred to the education materials provided and used it for ongoing falls prevention education. 100 per cent used the home safety check list, which allow them to assess their own home for falls risks and make adjustments where appropriate. 100 per cent attended a follow-up appointment with their GP for ongoing care after being assessed, educated and referred by the paramedic. A full evaluation will be undertaken in June 2018, measuring the following outcomes. Using the names and addresses in NSW Ambulance data, the number of repeat falls from program participants will be monitored. Using NSW Ambulance data and follow-up phone calls, the number of people who use the education materials provided by paramedics for falls prevention will be recorded. Using NSW Ambulance data and follow-up phone calls, the number of consumers who follow up with their GP for ongoing care will be recorded. Using NSW Ambulance data, the number of people who were assessed for falls risk, educated and referred will be compared to all people aged 65 or over seen by paramedics. Keep it simple when identifying problem and try not to make assumptions or jump straight to solutions. Consider multiple perspectives when developing solutions, as what seems simple may not be to others. Communication and listening to stakeholders is critical to the success of the project. It was challenging to balance the workload of the project and competing priorities. To maintain momentum, it is important to motivate others involved in the project and change the mindset of people whose role is affected. The leadership and management style of the project leader has a significant impact on the success of the project. World Health Organisation (WHO). WHO Global Report on Falls Prevention in Older Age. Geneva Switzerland: WHO; 2007. NSW Government. Acute and other services’ indicators: falls-related injury hospitalisation. Sydney NSW: Clinical Excellence Commission; 2013. NSW Government. Falls Report 2011. Rozelle NSW: NSW Ambulance; 2011. Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC). Safety and Quality Improvement Guide Standard 10: Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls. Sydney NSW: ACSQHC; 2012. Falls prevention health information, NeuRA Falls prevention, Clinical Excellence Commission Falls prevention, NSW Health Michelle Price Coordinator - Falls Strategy michelle.price2@health.nsw.gov.au	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line804
__label__cc	0.526415	0.473585	Industry Insights: Ad Age Collective This content has been created by a contributor of the Ad Age Collective, an invitation-only, fee-based membership organization of leaders shaping media and marketing. When the cookies crumble, the MAIDs clean it up By Gary Walter. Published on November 12, 2019. While the talk of the decline or death of cookies — that is, pieces of data sent from websites and stored on your computer — has been around for years, the realities are now beginning to take center stage for brands. Tech giants such as Apple, Google and Mozilla, have introduced browser-blocking, third-party cookie technologies with more consumer-controlled options on the horizon. With the rise of privacy regulations like the California Consumer Privacy Act and General Data Protection Regulation, the way marketers have historically tracked consumer behavior online will need to radically change. Although different solutions to consumer digital tracking have been bandied about, I believe the pervasiveness and stickiness of the Mobile Ad ID (MAID) is here to stay. As the CEO of a data solutions company that works directly with brands, agencies, marketing technology providers and publishers, I've heard a growing drumbeat on new mobile-focused solutions to overcome the challenges of cookie and privacy regulations. Back in the day when everyone relied on the PC and predominately searched on one browser, cookies were viewed as the holy grail of tracking a consumer’s journey. While cookies were an effective way to track activity on websites, consumers have become more privacy-aware and can opt out of cookie tracking. At the same time, consumers use multiple devices, including PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones, etc., which diminishes the returns of using cookies. This conflux of browser-blocking technologies, consumer privacy opt-outs and multiple device usage has resulted in a soaring cookie rejection rate of more than 60 percent, according to a report by Flashtalking. Serving as device-specific identifiers linked to a particular browser, cookies cannot map a customer’s journey across multiple devices and browsers. Cookies also are inherently flawed when more than one person shares devices, which can lead to inaccurate or mispresented data. Plus, cookies come with expiration dates — typically within a 30-day window. The unreliability of cookies is particularly bad for marketers pursuing personalization, as gaining an understanding and interacting with consumers throughout their buying journey is difficult to achieve. As cross-device and cross-channel usage grows, marketers desperately need a reliable, data-driven solution to reach potential and recurring customers with personalized messages. No Mistaking The Power Of Mobile It is no surprise that mobile dominates consumers’ lives today. According to eMarketer, U.S. adults spend 1 hour and 14 minutes more on their mobile devices than on their computers daily, and consumers spend 87 percent of the time on their smartphones in-app. Cookies, however, are unable to track mobile in-app usage, and as the mobile programmatic channel grows to support mobile targeting, marketers must be aware of the tracking and privacy-related challenges associated with this channel. Enter The MAID Although naysayers claim that MAIDs are merely the cookie for the mobile world, the difference here is that a MAID is a unique, anonymous identifier provided by the mobile device’s operating system. MAIDs help both marketers and publishers understand who is using their app and help identify and associate consumers. Just like hashed email addresses, MAIDs serve as anonymous identifiers that help combat privacy issues. And while cookies are not transferable among data onboarders, MAIDs are universal across applications, and no onboarding process is necessary to link MAIDs to an identity. Mobile now accounts for nearly three-fourths of all programmatic digital ad spend, and that number is expected to rise. Digital marketers are now investigating new solutions in order to optimize that spend by accurately identifying and linking attributes of these anonymous consumers to effectively retarget, segment their audiences and personalize communications in the growing mobile space. And this all must be done in a manner that continues to protect consumers’ personally identifiable information through safe harbor onboarding practices that enrich consumer data with demographic and lifestyle attributes anonymously. MAIDs are helpful in following a consumer's buying journey; however, unless they are attached to another piece of information, MAIDs can be limiting. For brands and marketers looking to tap into the power of MAIDs, consider these best practices: Tap into mobile location behavior data: MAIDs give marketers the ability to take advantage of privacy-compliant mobile location behavior data to improve personalization and targeting timing. As an example, location data can tell if a device is frequently at a sports venue, which indicates that person is likely a sports fan, and, depending on the venue, which type. Tie in offline deterministic data: While adding location-behavior data linked to MAIDs will provide insights for personalization, it’s important to enrich MAIDs with offline deterministic data to round out the insights and anonymously deliver critical qualifiers such as age, gender, income, wealth and lifestyle. In the example above, a marketer would have no way to know if the sports fan is male or female simply by using the location data tied to the MAID. Respect privacy: It is imperative to ensure the data-linking process is done through safe harbor privacy best practices to protect personally identifiable information. Also, be careful not to overpersonalize outreaches so your messaging doesn’t move into the creepy territory (e.g., “I saw you were recently at a local auto dealership”). Some brands also rely on innovative technologies to help enhance the data from MAIDs. For example, many now use an identity resolution platform to power a brand's own identity graph to link consumer data, such as names, addresses, phone numbers, etc., to help identify consumers and their profiles and attributes. If you use a third-party identity resolution provider, ensure it uses rigorous privacy processes and permissible content from reliable sources to comply with all federal and state data privacy laws. With each new customer interaction, a customer’s profile continues to evolve and grow, so critical identifiers, hashed emails and other anonymous identifiers enable marketers to recognize customers across all touch points in a singular view. This power enables marketers to track changing buying patterns, gain deeper insights into consumer interests and personalize the consumer experience in a privacy-compliant manner. The Ad Age collective is an invitation-only, fee-based membership organization of leaders shaping marketing and media who share their expertise and insights with the Ad Age audience. To be considered for the Ad Age collective, learn more here. Gary Walter As President and CEO of Infutor Data Solutions, Gary has been a key driver of company growth.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line806
__label__cc	0.52108	0.47892	The high and low moods of meth (methamphetamine) abusers can mimic the mania and depressive phases of manic depression (a bipolar disorder). The two conditions have features in common that may originate from their similar effects on neurotransmitters and nerve pathways in the brain. One disorder may also lead to an increased risk for the other. Similar Psychological Disturbances Drugs like methamphetamine can cause symptoms of psychological illness. An early paper in International Pharmacopsychiatry states, "Many features of manic-depressive illness can be mimicked in man by the use and withdrawal of amphetamines," to which meth (also called crystal meth, chalk, ice, and other nicknames) is related. Chronic abuse of meth might lead to a state of alternating moods of mania and depression, similar to the symptoms of a manic depression diagnosis. Short-Term Effects of Smoking Crystal Meth Meth Addiction Signs The Mood Disorder of Meth Based on a review by the National Institutes of Drug Abuse (NIDA), meth intake causes an initial high or euphoria. This can make a user feel alert, energetic, joyful, or reckless, (mania). These symptoms may persist for several hours because meth is slow to metabolize and be excreted from the body. After the mania wears off, a person can experience depression during the acute withdrawal from the drug. With chronic abuse of methamphetamines, during periods of abstinence, major depression and inability to experience joy in normal activities without the meth can set in. Many meth users might resort to frequent use of the drug (binges or "runs") to avoid the depression and sadness or to recreate the initial euphoria, according to NIDA. With high doses or repeated use of meth, a user can have symptoms of psychosis or schizophrenia, similar to that sometimes seen in people with manic depression. The Mood Disorder of Manic Depression Like meth abuse, the manic depression disorder creates cyclic states of hopelessness and elation. According to a Harvard Medical School Health Publications review, manic depression, or bipolar disorder, is characterized by long periods of major depression and deep sadness, alternating with episodes of high energy and activity, exuberance and joy (mania), and invincibility, with similarities to the euphoric episodes in meth users. If severe, the symptoms of mania can resemble the psychosis of schizophrenia. During the depression phase, the affected person, like the meth addict, is unable to experience joy in life (anhedonia). Other Disturbances In addition to the mood disturbances, the NIDA and Harvard articles review additional psychosocial problems meth abuse and manic depression have in common, including: Anxiety, irritability, and loss of appetite Delusions and an increased risk for psychosis and suicide Insomnia and other sleep disturbances Confusion and problems with learning and memory Lack of judgment, impulsive behavior, and risk taking, including hypersexual behavior People addicted to meth will also experience other symptoms and problems related to the drug abuse, such as its effect on the heart and blood vessels and the complications of drug addiction. Co-Occurrence of the Disorders While abuse of methamphetamine can cause a cycle of mania and depression, meth abusers can also have a separate diagnosis of an underlying bipolar disorder. Co-occurrence of drug use and psychological illnesses is common, according to another National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) report. People with a mood disorder are two times more likely to abuse drugs like meth, and the reverse is also true, states NIDA. Those with manic depression often abuse illicit substances like meth to try to deal with the extreme highs and lows of the disease or to recreate the manic high. According to the NIDA report, because co-occurrence is common, it is not always easy to tell which came first, the drug abuse or the mental illness. When meth abuse precedes the onset of the bipolar disorder, it might be difficult to know if the drug actions caused the mood dysfunction or whether it triggered an underlying, undiagnosed manic depression disorder. A history of manic depression in other family members may point to that as the primary diagnosis and meth abuse as a secondary problem. NIDA also writes that there is a higher prevalence of psychological dysfunctions in substance abusers (caused by the drug) than there is prevalence of substance abuse among people with mental illness. This suggests that when manic depressive symptoms occur in a meth user, they are more often a result of the drug abuse and less often because of an underlying bipolar disorder. Brain Disturbances of One May Increase Risk for the Other The cited NIDA report states that effects on brain structure and function caused by drug use may explain the risk of a psychological disorder and vice versa. For example, meth abuse may cause brain changes that trigger the onset of manic depression in a person with an underlying vulnerability (diathesis) for the mood disorder. In addition, substance use disorders and mental illnesses share common triggering risk factors, such as genetic susceptibility, stress, a history of trauma, and brain dysfunction, according to NIDA. The Brain and the Manic Depression-Meth Connection Meth abuse and manic -depressive disturbances are likely connected by similar effects on the brain. Changes occur in nerve cell structure and neurotransmitters, as well as their pathways in areas of the brain that control such factors as: Mood, pleasure, and reward Behavior, action, and self-control Memory, learning, and decision-making These defects make it difficult for a person with either condition to function as normal. Meth and the Brain Methamphetamine is a potent stimulant that gets into the brain quickly, especially if smoked or injected. Meth affects mood, behavior, and other factors by entering nerve cells in the brain. Its action in the cells causes an excess release of neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, out of the cells. The increased level of hormones between cells (synapses) overstimulates the central nervous system and causes the psychological symptoms of the meth use disorder. Meth also prevents reuptake of transmitters back into the cells, prolonging their action. Neurology Today notes the excess dopamine in the pleasure and reward areas of the brain is responsible for the initial high or euphoric pleasure and the manic state. Over time, meth is toxic to nerve cells' structure and function. Repeated use or high doses of meth causes the cells to produce fewer neurotransmitters and receptors in some areas of the brain, according to Behavioral Neurology. Lower levels of the hormones or the change in their function lead to depressed mood and other disturbances during abstinence, and the meth user needs the drug to improve these dysfunctions. A decrease in dopamine causes the diminished ability to feel pleasure to normal activities without the drug, according to the JHRBA article. Manic Depression and the Brain Less is known about the brain abnormalities in manic depression, but research indicates they may be similar to changes brought on by meth use and abuse. A review in World Psychiatry notes "disruptions in neurotransmitter systems and signalling pathways" in interconnected areas of the brain might underlie manic depression. As with meth abuse, defects in dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, and other neurotransmitter secretion and functions are thought to play a part in the disorder, although exact mechanisms are not yet certain. The disturbances in these hormones probably occur in areas of the brain similar to the effects of meth abuse. These areas include those involved in pleasure, reward, and other emotions and behavior. Treatment Challenges Both manic depression and meth abuse and addiction are difficult to treat. When the two disorders occur together, each may affect successful management of the other. For a person with manic depression, the added effects on the brain from meth abuse might make it hard to treat the bipolar disorder. For the best outcome, treatment must be directed to the meth abuse and the manic depression at the same time. Manic depression is not curable, but treatment can be effective. As noted by the National Institute of Mental Health, treatment includes medications and behavioral therapy. There are no specific drugs available in 2015 to treat meth addiction, unlike other drugs of abuse such as heroin, however other standard types of drug addiction treatment and antidepressants can be helpful. Seek Help Early Seek medical help early if you abuse meth and develop symptoms of mania and depression, or if you have a previous diagnosis of bipolar disorder and start to abuse meth. Both problems are connected by similar effects on the brain, mood and behavior. You are at a greater risk for severe psychosis and suicide if you have manic depression and abuse meth. Talk to your doctor or find a behavioral health or addiction specialist through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) website. Physical Effects of Crystal Meth Faces of Meth How Long Does Crack Cocaine Stay in Your System? By Kathleen Esposito Verbal Signs of Lying By Sheena R. Harris Is Chewing Tobacco Worse for You than Smoking By Gabrielle Applebury	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line807
__label__cc	0.740123	0.259877	MINI CREATES WORLD’S FIRST MINI LIVING BUILDING IN SHANGHAI. As urbanisation continues to gather pace, attractive living spaces in large cities are becoming increasingly sparse. Indeed, more people than ever are living within a shrinking footprint. With MINI LIVING, MINI is addressing these developments and creating the first co-living project in China. MINI is working with Chinese project developer Nova Property Investment Co. to transform an unused industrial complex in the Jing’An district of Shanghai into a multi-layered co-living initiative made up of apartments, working spaces and cultural/leisure offerings. The conversion work is slated to begin before the end of this year. Launched in 2016, MINI LIVING has explored new kinds of living concepts which seek to maximise quality of life within minimal spaces – all in keeping with the brand’s “Creative Use of Space” motto. The project in Shanghai sees MINI translating the concept idea encapsulated by its previous installations into an actual building project for the first time. A former paint factory will be transformed into an urban hotspot with generous space for working, interaction and living. Here, MINI LIVING will offer apartments, bookable workspaces and services such as vehicles for shared use as part of a concept enabling maximum personal flexibility and optimum use of space. The MINI LIVING idea that we get more when we share applies not only to the building’s residents but those of the city as a whole. Indeed, parts of the MINI LIVING complex will be accessible to the wider public. “MINI has always been an urban brand. It not only has its finger on the pulse of the city, it injects that pulse with extra energy,” explains Peter Schwarzenbauer, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, responsible for MINI, Rolls-Royce, BMW Motorrad, Customer Experience and Digital Business Innovation BMW Group. “At MINI we are also well versed in the intelligent use of space; back in 1959 the classic Mini was already maximising the experience available within a very small footprint. MINI LIVING brings this know-how from the vehicles we drive into the places where we live. We are rethinking the idea of living space in the city and developing attrctive, need-oriented living concepts. Our aim here is to offer an extremely high quality of life within an extremely small area.” Peter Schwarzenbauer signed the contract with Nova Property at the MINI Urban Matters brand event in Shanghai at the start of November. MINI LIVING is about more than where you live. The MINI LIVING project in Shanghai is based on an innovative co-living concept. In an up-and-coming area of the well developed Jing'An district in the centre of the city, a cluster of six buildings will be turned into a vibrant urban neighbourhood. MINI LIVING will become a home for singles, sharers and families on short, medium-term and extended tenancies. The design and therefore the character of the apartment interiors is international, modern and clean, and features references to the history of Shanghai. However, living in an apartment that occupies only a small surface area in no way means going without. Anything that doesn’t fit inside the apartments (activities or objects) can be accommodated in the adjacent spaces. MINI LIVING offers room to experience community as well. Generously sized lobbies provide an excellent place to just hang out, while exhibition areas and a food market invite a closer look. The available facilities also include gardens, play areas, shops and restaurants, which people living elsewhere in Shanghai will be welcome to access too. MINI LIVING is keen to promote social interaction, not only among the residents themselves but with people from other parts of the city. After all, one of the key aims of MINI LIVING is to bring people together and encourage shared experiences. In addition to the space itself, the project also comprises additional services that can be accessed digitally. For example, residents can make restaurant reservations, book room cleaning and service, order food and rent mobility options. So MINI LIVING not only demonstrates how space can be used in an intelligent way, it also offers scope for individualisation and a range of digital services. mini livinginvert architecture CREATING CURTIN HOUSE: ROOFTOP BAR AND CINEMA. A chance conversation over coffee led Frunch Nazzari to discover Curtin House’s now-famous rooftop. MINI LIVING URBAN CABIN EXHIBIT OPENS AT A/D/O. The exhibition aims to offer a solution to the modern challenges of urban living in the form of a micro-living, shared-housing concept. MINI LIVING - Architecture Architecture. In the lead-up we’ve decided to showcase all the wonderful architects involved in the exhibition though our MINI Profiles series. In this instalment, we’re looking at Architecture Architecture. Adelaide MINI Garage 31-40 West Terrace Adelaide SA 5000 © BMW 2020 Privacy and Legal Whistleblower policy CAREERS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line808
__label__wiki	0.883779	0.883779	RNLI Kirkwall Lifeboat to rescue of yacht entangled in fishing gear off N Ronald Yacht safely escorted in to Westray after she was caught up in fishing gear in the strong tides off the north of Orkney. Shetland Coastguards (SCG) paged Request Launch at 12:39 hrs and duty LA Ernie Moodie called for more information. He was informed that a 36 foot sailing yacht with 2 persons on board had become entangled in creel ropes in a strong tidal stream and had put out a distress call to the Coastguards. Launch ALB was paged at 12:41 hrs and the crew mustered at the station for briefing. Coxswain Dougie Bain and 6 more volunteer crew departed on Kirkwall Lifeboat (1713) at 12:55 hrs and proceeded to toward the casualty which was reported in a position to the north of the island of North Ronaldsay. The estimated time to reach the casualty was 2 hours. 1713 arrived on scene at 14:35 hrs to find that the vessel had got free of the fishing ropes but now had problems transmitting on her VHF. The casualty was escorted to the safety of Pierowall harbour in Westray by 18:00. Now that the yacht was safely in harbour the lifeboat was released to return to Kirkwall. 1713 returned to station where she was secured on her berth by 19:55 hrs and was refuelled, ready for service again by 20:10 hrs. This is the 14th service for Kirkwall lifeboat this year. Graeme Smith Deputy Lifeboat Press Officer, Kirkwall Lifeboat Station Kirkwall Lifeboat Station	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line809
__label__cc	0.698198	0.301802	The Power to Do More Every time I see this, I wonder if it shouldn't be the exact opposite. Nobody sells the dishwasher promising people that now, finally, they can do more dishes. The washing machine rumbling in my basement means me doing less laundry on a washboard by the river. The Nest thermostat promises I won't ever have to touch a thermostat again. Roomba takes doing out of vacuuming. Has there been an ad for the iPhone where people have a phone conversation? Since I got mine in 2007, my phone bill has been averaging about three voice minutes per day, for which I am forever grateful. Tweeting, Facebooking and messaging have replaced the hard stuff. I am struggling to think of a single thing I would want to do more of on a computer. I would like to be sending fewer emails. I also would like having to delete fewer of them. I would like for a computer to notice if I keep deleting something without reading. I like taking pictures, but I would like to spend less time organizing and retouching them. I don't want to do more Excel formulas. I want to type in "how likely are people who peel bananas from the handle end to have red hair and two kids", and get an answer without having to do more pivots, smart filters, regressions, or whatever. First I thought I would definitely like to play computer games more. Then I thought of all the games I quit in mid-level because of how inflexibly, frustratingly and randomly difficult for my inferior thumb reflexes they would eventually become. It would be nice if games could sense my frustration and lower their guard a bit and let me through. It would be nice if a game would just let me play it my way instead of insisting that I do what feels a lot like work. Hey, computer! It's your memory that doubles every two years while mine probably degrades at about the same rate. So I think you should be doing more. What I would like for myself is the power to do less. - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 0 comments	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line812
__label__wiki	0.992413	0.992413	Leagues & CupsLeagues & Cups LAFC signs ex-U.S. youth international Josh Perez 1yJeff Carlisle Sanchez will return, prove you all wrong - Ole Some 'easy' groups await Africa's giants, but they must beware overconfidence 6dEd Dove Nigeria 'careful but we are optimistic' after World Cup qualifying draw LAFC signs ex-United States youth international Josh Perez Jeff CarlisleU.S. soccer correspondent Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Former U.S. youth international Josh Perez has signed with LAFC from Fiorentina. American Soccer Now's Brian Sciaretta was first to report LAFC's pursuit of Perez. Perez, 20, spent parts of the last three seasons at Serie A side Fiorentina but made only one first-team appearance during that time. He spent last season on loan at then-Serie C side Livorno, making 23 appearances and helping the club achieve promotion to Serie B. Nicola Campo/LightRocket via Getty Images Prior to joining Fiorentina, Perez spent time in the academy of now-defunct MLS club Chivas USA. "Josh is a talented young forward with meaningful experience in Europe who will bolster our attacking options moving forward," said LAFC manager Bob Bradley. Perez is the nephew of former U.S. international Hugo Perez and has played with various U.S. youth national teams. He made three appearances for the U.S. at the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, a side that included current U.S. international Christian Pulisic. Perez was left off the roster that played at the 2017 U-20 World Cup because of injury as well as the refusal of Fiorentina to release Perez for various U.S. U-20 national team camps. The forward will join an LAFC side with plenty of attacking talent, including Mexico international Carlos Vela, Adama Diomande, Diego Rossi, and newly acquired striker Christian Ramirez.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line814
__label__wiki	0.863616	0.863616	India A vs West Indies A: Shubman Gill smashes double ton PTI \| Updated: Aug 10, 2019, 09:15 IST Shubman Gill hit a double century and combined with skipper Hanuma Vihari to put India A in the driver's seat against West Indies A in the third unofficial Test here. The 19-year-old Gill, being seen as the next big thing in Indian cricket, scored an unbeaten 204 off 250 deliveries. India A resumed at the overnight score of 23 for three, and Gill, starting at 2, reached his century just at the stroke of lunch. His overnight partner Shahbaz Nadeem fell for 13, after resuming on five, early in the day. Captain Vihari (118 not out) then joined Gill in the middle and the two resurrected the Indian innings after the top-order collapse. The duo notched up an unbeaten 315-run stand for the fifth wicket before India A declared on 365 for 4 soon after Gill scored his double ton. laced with 19 fours and two sixes. While Vihari, who had earlier bailed out India in the first innings with a half century, continued in the same vein, hitting 10 boundaries and a maximum. India have already pocketed the series by winning the first two games of the series. Pakistan skipper Azhar Ali hopes to mark the return of Test cricket w...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line817
__label__wiki	0.985706	0.985706	Posts Tagged ‘Edinburgh’ Virgin Atlantic unveils UK airline services: BBC News Posted: March 1, 2013 in Aberdeen Airport, Aviation & Airports (General News), Edinburgh Airport, Heathrow Tags: BBC News, British Airways, Edinburgh, Heathrow Airport, heathrow terminal 1, Little Red, London Heathrow Airport, Richard Branson, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Atlantic Airways [BBC News] Virgin Atlantic has unveiled details of its UK domestic service, including that the operation is called Little Red. Sir Richard promised that Little Red will have a “rock and roll spirit” Photo: Wikipedia t will launch on 31 March in Manchester, 5 April in Edinburgh and 9 April in Aberdeen, providing a total of 26 daily services to Heathrow airport. Virgin won key take-off and landing slots at Heathrow after the struggling carrier Bmi was taken over by British Airways’ parent company IAG. Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson said Little Red will go head-on with BA. BA operates around 52 daily flights between Heathrow and Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow. BA also runs services to Scotland from Gatwick and London City airports. Virgin Atlantic hopes that Little Red, which will use Heathrow Terminal 1, will help feed traffic onto its international service operating from Terminal 3. Sir Richard said on Friday that Little Red will “go head-to-head with BA to provide domestic flights that deliver Virgin Atlantic’s rock and roll spirit as well as real value for money.” Read the original story at BBC News….. 1st Mar, 2013 Virgin Atlantic unveils new boss (bbc.co.uk) BAA is changing its name to ‘Heathrow’: This is Money Posted: October 16, 2012 in Aviation & Airports (General News), Heathrow Tags: BAA, BAA Limited, british airports, colin matthews, Edinburgh, Gatwick Airport, Glasgow, london, London Heathrow Airport, rebranded [This is Money] BAA ditches name to be ‘Heathrow‘ after sell-off of stakes in Gatwick and Edinburgh. The company insisted there would be no changes to its management structure. Photo: Wikipedia BAA is changing its name to Heathrow. The Spanish-owned company that runs some of the UK’s airports said it will be known as after its largest airport because it no longer represents a large number of UK terminals. In 2009, competition authorities forced it to sell its stakes in Gatwick and Edinburgh, and it has also agreed to offload the London-serving airport Stansted. After the rebranding, the group’s other airports – Glasgow, Southampton and Aberdeen – will also become standalone brands. The company insisted there would be no changes to its management structure, and no redundancies as part of the process. But it warned there would be delays in removing its BAA-emblazoned signs from terminals, as well as issuing staff with uniforms free of its previous insignia. BAA could not put a time frame on completing re-branding. The company also said it does not have a figure for how much the move will cost. Chief executive Colin Matthews said: ‘The BAA name no longer fits. We do not represent all British airports. We are not a…… Read the full story at This is Money….. 16th Oct, 2012 Qatar buys 20% stake in BAA: Guardian (airportinformer.wordpress.com) Virgin Atlantic unveils second wave of domestic flights : Flightglobal Posted: September 14, 2012 in Aberdeen Airport, Aviation & Airports (General News), Edinburgh Airport, Europe, Heathrow Tags: Aberdeen, Bmi, British Airways, domestic expansion, Edinburgh, feeder service, International Airlines Group, London Heathrow Airport, Steve Ridgway, Virgin, Virgin Atlantic Airways [Flightglobal] Virgin Atlantic Airways has fleshed out further details of its upcoming entry into the UK domestic market, confirming plans to operate “multiple daily flights” from London Heathrow airport to two Scottish cities. Virgin will add new Heathrow services to Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Photo: Wikipedia The airline had previously announced that flights from Manchester to Heathrow will begin on 31 March 2013, becoming its first domestic feeder service. In the “second stage” of its domestic expansion, Virgin will add new Heathrow services to Edinburgh and Aberdeen. International Airlines Group (IAG), the parent company of rival British Airways, currently has a monopoly on both routes following its acquisition of BMI. “At least 1.8 million Scottish passengers, equivalent to a third of the population, have been left without a choice on these routes since IAG’s takeover of BMI,” says outgoing Virgin chief executive Steve Ridgway, who will leave the company next spring. “As a monopoly operator, BA has the opportunity, the incentive and the means to increase fares and reduce the number of flights available.” BA is reducing Heathrow-Aberdeen flights by almost one-third and Heathrow-Edinburgh flights by one-quarter when compared with the number of combined services previously operated by the flag carrier and its one-time rival BMI, Virgin claims. Ridgway had earlier acknowledged that Scottish routes will likely form the backbone of its upcoming domestic operations – to be served by leased Airbus A319s. IAG has been forced to relinquish 14 slot pairs at Heathrow in order to trim its market share at the hub following the BMI acquisition. Competition RX, the company monitoring the slot auction, says at least seven of those slots must be used for Edinburgh or Aberdeen flights. Virgin is bidding for 12 of the slots, with the remaining two earmarked for Transaero’s Moscow route. Tickets for Manchester went on sale last month and Virgin says the route will be operated irrespective of how many slots it ultimately secures. However, no such assurance has been given for flights to Edinburgh, Aberdeen or Moscow – also tentatively announced by Virgin – and with tickets yet to go on sale it appears that all three routes are predicated on its success in the slot auction. Read the original story at Flightglobal…… Story by Martin Rivers 14th Sept, 2012 Virgin Atlantic to fly between Heathrow and Manchester: BBC News (airportinformer.wordpress.com) Luton named UK’s ‘most unfriendly airport’: Metro Posted: August 25, 2012 in Aviation & Airports (General News), Edinburgh Airport, Glasgow, Heathrow, London City Airport, Manchester Airport, Stansted Tags: Edinburgh, Gatwick Airport, Istanbul, london, London Heathrow Airport, London Stansted Airport, Luton, Luton Airport, rudest airport, Skyscanner, unfriendly airport, unwelcoming [Metro] A recent poll from travel search site Skyscanner claims Luton was rated as the most unfriendly airport with only 5.76 points out of ten. Luton has been named the UK’s most unfriendly airport in a new survey. Photo: Wikipedia London airports Stansted, Heathrow and Gatwick also featured towards the bottom of the list. Meanwhile, the one airport which is getting things right is Edinburgh, earning a massive thumbs up from visitors. ith a score of 7.41 points out of ten for friendliness it was followed closely by Newcastle (7.34) and then Manchester (6.87). Around Europe, Paris was voted the rudest airport with a score of just 4.86 points, while Moscow received 5.03 points and Istanbul was awarded 5.91 points. The friendliest European airport, according to travellers, was shown to be Copenhagen (7.08 points). Commenting on the results, Victoria Bailie from Skyscanner said: ‘We like to have a good moan and grumble but overall, the average scores were positives for the UK’s airports. ‘Despite the summer rush, they’ve clearly been doing a good job to help kick start our holiday on a positive note.’ Read the original story at Metro….. 21st Aug, 2012 BAA told it can appeal Stansted Airport sale: SW Reporter Posted: May 28, 2012 in Aviation & Airports (General News), Stansted Tags: BAA, BAA Limited, Competition Appeal Tribunal, Competition Commission, Edinburgh, Gatwick Airport, Glasgow, London Stansted Airport, saffron walden reporter [Saffron Walden Reporter] Airports operator BAA has been granted a further reprieve against selling Stansted after the Court of Appeal ruled in the firm’s favour. The Competition Commission decided that BAA must sell Stansted. Photo: Wikipedia Today’s decision means the company can now appeal against the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s judgment on February 1 which had backed the Competition Commission’s decision that BAA must sell Stansted, Gatwick and one of its two Scottish airports, Edinburgh or Glasgow. Gatwick was auctioned off in 2009, while the sale of Edinburgh was announced in April this year. A BAA spokesman said: “We are pleased that permission to appeal has been granted and look forward to presenting our arguments before the Court of Appeal.” Read the original story at The Saffron Walden Reporter….. SW Reporter Stansted: Airport says it will be business as usual despite strikes – ITV News (airportinformer.wordpress.com) Long Stansted Immigration Queues Last Night, ‘Unacceptable’ Airport bosses say: BBC (airportinformer.wordpress.com) 200 passengers stuck four hours on a plane at Edinburgh Airport: Scotsman Posted: May 15, 2012 in Airlines, Aviation & Airports (General News), Edinburgh Airport Tags: airport passengers, Antalya, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Airport, Global Infrastructure Partners, Scotland, Thomas Cook, Turkey [Scotsman] Passengers spent nearly four hours on the Edinburgh Airport tarmac last night after a delayed departure caused by technical issues. 200 travellers spent nearly four hours on a plane parked on the tarmac at Edinburgh airport. Photo: Wikipedia ALMOST 200 travellers spent nearly four hours on a plane parked on the tarmac at Edinburgh Airport last night after it developed a technical fault before take-off. The Thomas Cook flight to Antalya in Turkey had been due to leave shortly after 6pm. Passengers complained of the “roasting heat” inside the plane and were still waiting to be put in hotels at midnight. Dave Findlay, 35, from East Lothian, said: “It was ridiculous. We got no information and I saw small children in real distress.” No-one from the travel company was available for comment. Read the original story at The Scotsman….. Published Tuesday 15 May 2012 The Scotsman.com Drop in airport passengers amid issues with carriers (scotsman.com) Pay your way, airport boss tells Ryanair Posted: April 13, 2012 in Airlines, Aviation & Airports (General News), Edinburgh Airport Tags: Airline, Airport, BAA, Edinburgh, Low Cost Airline, Michael O'Leary, Ryanair THE boss of Edinburgh Airport said Ryanair has “to pay its way” as he hit back in the row with the budget airline over its plans to axe eight routes from the Scottish capital. Michael O`Leary, chief executive of Ryanair. Picture: Reuters Jim O’Sullivan said he would not have the no-frills airline “flying here for free” as he dismissed suggestions from the Dublin-based firm that Edinburgh airport had failed to offer a competitive deal. The attack on Ryanair came after the airline’s deputy chief executive, Michael Cawley, flew into Edinburgh yesterday to announce “devastating reductions” to the carrier’s winter routes, with the scrapping of the destinations of Bratislava, Bremen, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Gothenburg, Kaunas, Lodz and Poznan. Mr Cawley issued a stark warning about “substantial further reductions” to Ryanair’s Edinburgh operations which he said would be “much smaller” unless airport bosses handed the Irish carrier a better deal. However, Mr O’Sullivan insisted that he was “not in a position to negotiate” an extension to Ryanair’s five-year base agreement, which expires in October 2012, due to the British Airports Authority (BAA) seeking a buyer for Edinburgh Airport. He also dismissed claims by Ryanair that 200 jobs had been shed during a previous round of cutbacks by the airline this year that saw the firm end its flight routes to Berlin, as well as scrapping plans for services to Malmo in Sweden, Murcia and Ibiza in Spain, and Tallinn in Estonia. Mr O’Sullivan said: “We’re not in a position to negotiate because of the sale process, but in the long term, we’re confident we’ll be able to go to them with a proposition. We can’t have them flying here for free and they’ve got to pay their way. We have 40 airlines and have to be fair and we can’t have 39 airlines subsidising the other.”….. Read the full story at The Scotsman…. The Scotsman – scotsman.com Reuters: GIP-JP Morgan ready final Edinburgh Airport bids – ‘sources’ Posted: April 2, 2012 in Aviation & Airports (General News), Edinburgh Airport Tags: 3i, Carlyle Group, Edinburgh, Gatwick, GIP, Incheon International Airport Corp, JP Morgan, transportation (Reuters) – Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), the owner of London’s Gatwick and City airports, and a JP Morgan-led consortium are to fight each other for control of Edinburgh Airport and are set to submit final bids next week, sources close to the process said. GIP & JP Morgan prepare for final Edninburgh bid round GIP is an investment fund founded by Credit Suisse and General Electric. JP Morgan recently added the Korean airport authority Incheon International Airport Corp and U.S. teachers pension fund TIAA-Cref to its consortium. Consortia led by Carlyle Group and 3i were knocked out of the bidding last month, the sources said. “GIP, with its experience running UK airports, maybe has the edge … JP Morgan has also seemingly added Incheon to its bid recently and TIAA-Cref not that long ago, so GIP looks a lot more settled in terms of what it wants to do,” one source close to the sale process told Reuters. “GIP is seen as steady, maybe because it is bidding alone, and as a safe pair of hands.” Full artile for Reuters here… By Rhys Jones and Sophie Sassard LONDON, April 2 \| Mon Apr 2, 2012 Edinburgh Airport to cut queues with ePassport gates Posted: March 29, 2012 in Aviation & Airports (General News), Edinburgh Airport Tags: Airport, BAA, Biometric, Edinburgh, eGates, passport photo, Security, security gates, transportation, UK Border Agency Jim O'Sullivan: The gates will significantly reduce queuing times. Picture: Phil Wilkinson ELECTRONIC security gates to cut passport queues by half are to be introduced at Scotland’s busiest airport, The Scotsman has learned. The move by Edinburgh airport and the UK Border Agency will see the automatic equipment used for the first time at a Scottish airport to increase the speed with which passengers clear immigration. The five gates will be installed in two weeks’ time as part of a package of measures to reduce delays and congestion at the airport, which handles 9.3 million passengers a year. The passenger total is growing at nearly 8 per cent a year, with last August the airport’s busiest month since civilian flights started in 1947. An extra two X-ray machines will be added to the hand-baggage search area in May, while airline check-in desks have been moved around to make the best use of space. UK and other European Union passengers will be able to use the “ePassport” gates rather than the traditional manual check by officials. They will insert their passports in the machines to allow an electronic chip containing details of facial dimensions – scanned from their passport photo – to be compared to an image of their face transmitted from a camera on the gate. The new gates will help ease specific crunch points, such as late on Thursday evenings when five flights arrive within 30 minutes and only three staffed gates are in operation. The UK Border Agency operates up to eight staffed passport gates at the airport. The new gates are in use at several major English airports, including Heathrow. The additional X-ray machines at Edinburgh, to be operational in late May, will boost the total to 12. Managing director Jim O’Sullivan said: “At peak times, the gates will significantly reduce queuing times, and even halve them. Everybody travelling through here should have a better time of it. Read the whole feature here……. By ALASTAIR DALTON Published on Wednesday 28 March 2012 by Scotsman.com Carlyle Group & 3i drop out of Edinburgh Airport contest Posted: March 24, 2012 in Edinburgh Airport Tags: 3i, Airport, BAA, BAA Limited, Carlyle Group, Competition Commission, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Airport, Gatwick Airport, GIP, Global Infrastructure Partners, Scotland [Financial Times] The ranks of bidders for Edinburgh Airport have halved this week, with two groups of investors dropping out of the contest for an asset expected to raise £400m-£600m for its owner, BAA. The sale of Scotland’s biggest airport attracted four indicative offers last month. But a consortium led by UK-listed 3i has withdrawn from the process, following close behind a group led by Carlyle, the US group ….. More on this story at the FT….. GIP to buy Edinburgh airport (independent.co.uk) Edinburgh airport to be sold (itv.com) Edinburgh airport bids deadline tomorrow (independent.co.uk) Gatwick owner launches bid for Edinburgh airport (guardian.co.uk) Edinburgh Airport sold to Global Infrastructure Partnership for £807m: BBC (airportinformer.wordpress.com)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line818

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