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__label__wiki	0.636735	0.636735	Machinery - Pre-harvesting News VST Tillers Tractors inks MoU with Zetor Tractors a.s. Czech Republic VST Tillers Tractors Limited, a leading manufacturer of agricultural multipurpose power tillers and tractors in India signed a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with ZETOR TRACTORS a.s. from Czech Republic manufacturers of tractors, and other equipment. Zetor Tractors is a brand of tractors, tradem...Read more Kinze release its 4705 planter and narrow-transport Mach Till Beginning with the 2021 model year, Kinze will have a new series of enhanced planters available for growers — and they’ll be easy to spot as the 05 Series, meaning each model number will end in “05.” These planters — such as the 4705, a 24-row, 30-inch planter being introduced —...Read more Kubota to launch self-driving rice planting machine Kubota Corp. has recently announced that it will release a rice-planting machine with automated driving functions in October. The purpose of the first such machine in the industry is to reduce the burden on farmers by reducing the need for manpower in the process of planting rice. The rice planter first creates ...Read more VST Tillers Tractors launches GRO TECH Solution VST Tillers Tractors Limited, pioneers in manufacturing of tillers and compact tractors for over five decades, as part of its continued efforts to offer innovative solutions to agricultural sector has launched Gro Tech - a new line of solution which aligns with the ambitious government's vision of doubling...Read more Sonalika Tractors witness uprising growth, domestic sales increases by 20.7% Sonalika Tractors, one of the world's leading integrated tractor manufacturing com witnesses an uprising growth in its sales. The company's domestic sales grow 20.7% to 7,320 units in the month of December, 2019. The homegrown brand Sonalika tractors freighted 6,066 units in the same month last year. Raman ...Read more STA Impianti’s “green machines”: roasting machines dedicated to savings and sustainability STA Impianti also boasts a long experience in upholding sustainability standards. The Bologna based company has always been focused on energy savings and now it has reinvented itself with a portfolio of better performing, technologically advanced and energy-efficient roasting machines. When less is best STA Impi...Read more Mahindra & Mahindra showcases India's first 4WD tractor Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, the leading agri machinery manufacturer has recently showcased its wide range of Tractors and Farm Implements at KISAN 2019’, India’s largest Agri Show organized at Pune. The new age Mahindra Yuvo 575 DI 4WD, India's first 4WD tractor comes with 15 Speed op...Read more India Agricultural Tractor Market is projected to grow a CAGR of 6.9% till 2024 According to the latest report by www. marketinsightsreports.com, India agricultural tractors market was valued at USD 6.97 billion in the year 2018 and the market is projected to witness a CAGR of 6.9% over the forecast period (2019-2024). In terms of units, India is one of the largest tractor markets in the worl...Read more Sonalika launches Chhatrapati Tractor in Maharashtra The company also launched tractors from its outperforming Sikander Series, Rx 55 Sikander powered by a heavy-duty mileage engine of 4087cc with 230nm of torque& Rx 47 Sikander in 4WD. The Sikander Series is equipped with modern features like CCS Workspace (Cool Comfortable and Spacious), SD Hyd...Read more ADAMA & RiceTec Launches Herbicide-Tolerant Technology The Max-Ace technology takes gives the rice enhanced tolerance to HighCard herbicide. HighCard is a unique and safe proprietary product made by ADAMA, which will be labelled for post emergence control of grassy weeds in rice, including red and weedy rice. HighCard will need to be applied sequentially befor...Read more NSAI suggests changes in proposed Seed Bill 2019 The National Seed Association of India (NSAI) has suggested some changes in the proposed Seed Bill 2019 which includes more scientific definition of transgenic variety, enhanced more farmer rights on seeds and enlisting the services of private firms for evaluating new varieties before seed regist...Read more Development of Agricultural Mechanization in India and Future Prospects The first tractor to India was brought in 1914.There were only about 8,000 tractors in 1950 and these increased to 39,000 units in 1960. Engines (petrol, kerosene, and diesel) were being used for post-harvest processing like floor making, rice milling, grinding, etc. India passed through severe food crisis ...Read more	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line3
__label__wiki	0.840087	0.840087	There appears to be more than one Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab On 20 July 2009, we are told that the Mumbai suspect has admitted his guilt According to the BBC, 20 July 2009, little is known of the background of the alleged Mumbai 'terrorist' Mohammed Ajmal Amir Qasab. According to the BBC, "Indian officials originally portrayed him as a middle-class boy who spoke good English. "But subsequent reports suggested he came from a remote village called Faridkot, where his father sold food. "He had received little education, the reports said, and had spent his youth alternating between labouring and petty crime." Qasab reminds us of Lee Harvey Oswald who reportedly was sometimes in two places at once and had two different personalities. Apparently the CIA used two different Oswalds in its work. Two Oswalds Theories in the JFK Assassination Qasab reminds us of Mohammad Atta who reportedly had a double. The Qasab case reminds us of the case involving the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001. In 2008, in The Guardian, we read: "It was after the 2001 parliament attack that the first serious questions began to be raised. A campaign by a group of lawyers and activists exposed how innocent people had been framed by the police and the press, how evidence was fabricated, how witnesses lied, how due process had been criminally violated at every stage of the investigation." Arundhati Roy: Mumbai . A Pakistani lawyer C M Farooque has claimed that Ajmal Kasab was arrested in Nepal by the Indian security services before 2006. Ajmal Kasab Was Kidnapped Before 2006 From Nepal By Indian ... What was the purpose of the Mumbai attacks? Here is a clue. On 20 July 2009, India and the United States agreed a defence deal. This is expected to boost US arms sales. India also approved sites for two US nuclear reactors. India, US agree on defence deal, nuclear reactor sites The Indian authorities claim that they have in custody one of the Mumbai gunmen responsible for the November 2008 attacks. This 21 year old 'gunman' is Mohammad Ajmal Amir Iman, also known as Kasav, Qasab, Kamal, Kasab, Qasab, Qasam, Kasab, Kasar, and Kamaal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajmal_Amir) Ajmal Amir seems to be being used to disguise the false-flag nature of the Mumbai Attacks. The reports about Ajmal Amir are contradictory and confusing. 1. One moment we are told he stayed for several days at the Taj Hotel; the next moment we are told he got straight off a boat and started a killing spree. (NDTV.com: Terrorists stayed in room 630, had many visitors) 2. There are reports that he had bullet wounds and reports that he did not have bullet wounds. (No bullet hit Kasab, no active treatment on, says hospital's dean) 3. There are reports that one of his fellow gunmen was arrested at Cana Hospital and reports suggesting that nobody was arrested there. (According to the BBC: "2120-2200: Gunmen raid the Cama and Albless Hospital ... One attacker is captured here." - (BBC NEWS South Asia Timeline: Mumbai under attack) 4. There are reports that Ajmal Amir speaks fluent English and reports that he is a rather illiterate and poorly educated criminal. 5. We are told that 8 gunmen were arrested and then we are told that only Ajmal Amir was arrested. (“The Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh told Associated Press that two British-born Pakistanis were among the eight gunmen arrested by Indian authorities.” - Four Mumbai terrorists ‘had links with Britain’) 6. We are told that the gunmen at the railway station and elsewhere were white men and yet Ajmal Amir is reportedly from Pakistan. (BBC NEWS Mumbai attackers create 'killing zone' / Mumbai Attackers were 'Hindus' and 'White Men' ) 7. We are told that the gunmen who shot Karkare spoke Marathi and then we are told that it was Ajmal Amir and his Pakistani friend who shot Karkare. (The Marathi daily 'Maharashtra Times' said the terrorists who targeted Anti Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare were speaking Marathi fluently. (i.e. they were not from Pakistan) Reportedly, traditional Jews from Mumbai, who have migrated to Israel, speak fluent Marathi and are known to have been recruited by Mossad.) There is doubt, therefore, that Ajmal Amir did the shooting that he is supposed to have done. At what point may Ajmal Amir have been recruited by people from some group, such as Lashkar-e Taiba, who work for the CIA or Mossad or RAW or ISI or MI6? Lashkar-e Taiba (LeT) took part in the Bosnian War against Serbia. (http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/lashkar_e_toiba.htm) LeT is the Moslem group, operating in Jammu and Kashmir, that has been blamed for the Mumbai Attacks. LeT reportedly has links to the Pakistan and UK intelligence services. (US and UK links to the terrorists in India and Pakistan) Reportedly: Ajmal Amir is from a poor family in a poor village called Faridkot in Pakistan. He went to school until age 13. He left home after a fight with his father in 2005. He then became involved in petty crime with his friend Muzaffar Lal Khan, soon moving on to armed robbery. Reportedly, the security services like to employ criminals to do their dirty work. In 2007, in Rawalpindi, Ajmal Amir and his friend decided to sign up for training with Lashkar-e-Taiba, ending up at their base camp, Markaz Taiba. Initial reports suggested Ajmal Amir was fluent in English, and from a middle class background. (Father of gunman, Amir, 'paid by terrorists to hand him over') Some sources said his father asked him to join Lashkar-e-Taiba so that he could use the money they gave him to run the family (Kasab says his father sent him to LeT ) Ajmal Amir is alleged to be among a group of 24 men who received training in marine warfare at a remote camp in mountainous Muzaffarabad in Pakistani-controlled Azad Kashmir. Part of the training is reported to have taken place on the Mangla Dam reservoir. (Rumours abound as inquiry begins its search for truth") Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a senior commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, reportedly offered to pay his family Rs.150,000 for his participation in the attacks. (Pakistan now holds the key to probe: investigators) Another report said the 21-year old man was recruited from his Punjab, Pakistan home in part based on a pledge by recruiters to pay USD $1,250 US (Rs. 62,412.50) to his family when he became a martyr. Other sources put the reward to USD $4,000. (Bombs found in Mumbai train station a week later, National Public Radio, Mumbai Terrorist Wanted to 'Kill and Die' and Become Famous ) According to a media report citing an unnamed former Defence Department Official of the US, the intelligence agencies of the US had determined that the former officers from Pakistan’s Army and its powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency assisted actively and continuously in training. Reportedly Ajmal Amir said to his Indian captors: "We were told that our big brother India is so rich and we are dying of poverty and hunger. My father sells dahi wada on a stall in Lahore and we did not even get enough food to eat from his earnings. I was promised that once they knew that I was successful in my operation, they would give Rs 150,000 [almost USD 4,000] to my family)," said Qasab. (Mumbai Terrorist Wanted to Kill and Die and Become Famous, ABC News, 03-Dec-2008) Reportedly Ajmal continued: "If you give me regular meals and money I will do the same for you that I did for them." "When we asked whether he knew any verses from the Quran that described jihad, Ajmal Amir said he did not," police said. "In fact he did not know much about Islam or its tenets," according to a police source. (Mumbai Terrorist Wanted to Kill and Die and Become Famous, ABC News, 03-Dec-2008 ) "Please do not tell anyone that I am caught alive otherwise they will kill me. They had told us that they would shoot us if we ever returned to Pakistan", he said, according to the Asian Age, as quoted by ABC (USA). (Mumbai Terrorist Wanted to Kill and Die and Become Famous, ABC News, 03-Dec-2008 ) Reportedly, Ajmal Amir was captured on CCTV during his attacks at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus along with another terrorist, Ismail Khan. Ajmal Amir reportedly told the police that they wanted to replicate the attack on Islamabad's Marriott hotel attack, and reduce the Taj Hotel to rubble, replicating the 9/11 attacks in India. (PLANNED 9/11 AT TAJ: CAUGHT TERRORIST) Ajmal Amir and his accomplice Abu Dera Ismail Khan, age 25, attacked the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Victoria Terminus) railway station. They then moved on to attack a police vehicle at Cama Hospital, in which Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad Chief Hemant Karkare, was traveling. Azam and Ismail Khan then drove towards Metro cinema and then towards Vidhan Bhavan. Their vehicle had a tire puncture, so they stole a silver Škoda Laura and drove towards Girgaum Chowpatty. They met a police barricade on Marine Drive. Abu Ismail was killed and Ajmal Amir was captured. Some reports said that Ajmal Amir was shot and had bullet wounds in his hand or both hands. (Sole Captured Suspect Offers Grim Insights Into Massacre ) There are other reports by doctors who treated him that he had no bullet wounds. (No bullet hit Kasab, no active treatment on, says hospital's dean) Ajmal Amir disclosed the location of a fishing trawler, MV Kuber, that the gunmen reportedly used to enter Mumbai's coastal waters. He also told investigators where they would find the ship captain's body, a satellite phone and a global-positioning device. (Sole captured suspect offers grim insights into massacre, 2008) It is reported that Ajmal Amir told the police that he and his associate, Ismail Khan, were the ones who shot Anti-Terror Squad chief Hemant Karkare, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and Additional Commissioner Ashok Kamte. Reportedly, Ajmal Amir told the police he entered the Taj Hotel posing as a student from Mauritius and stored explosives in a room. (Arrested terrorist reveals all to police) Ajmal Amir reportedly revealed that he and his associate stayed in Room 630 in the Taj Mahal Palace hotel and had many visitors. They had booked the room for four days using fake Mauritian identities. (NDTV.com: Terrorists stayed in room 630, had many visitors) On November 29, Ajmal Amir named his colleagues as Abu Ali, Fahad, Omar, Shoaib, Umer, Abu Akasha, Abu Ismail Dera Ismail Khan, Abdul Rahman (Bara), and Abdul Rahman. Reportedly Ajmal Amir has told his interrogators that their plan was to get off the dinghy near the fishing village at Badhwar Park, Cuffe Parade, at dusk and strike all targets except Nariman House between 19:00 and 20:00. However, the landing was delayed and they arrived at 20.45. (We wanted to hit CST at peak hour, says arrested terrorist) Labels: Bombay, Kasab, Mumbai, Qasab NASTY 'CHINESE EMPIRE'? UK's Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal; time to bo... 'DISINFORMATION' ON MANCHESTER UNITED AND THE JAKA... 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__label__cc	0.705804	0.294196	« Hit Piece on Fred? \| Main \| Obama "Ghettoized" As "The Black Candidate"? » A Little Unsolicited Campaign Advice For Mitt Romney A lot of former fred supporters, and possible Romney supporters generally, acknowledge that Romney says mostly the right things. The trouble is, he seems to offer these glibly as crowd-pleasing platitudes, and they're not sure if he actually believes them. Fred, I think, had a lot of enthusiasm because he didn't just say the right thing, he gave the right reason for believing the right thing (and the right subsidiary reason for believing the right reason). His conservatism, to many, was deeper. He didn't just have the conservative answer, but the underlying conservative assumptions supporting that answer. If Mitt wants to seal the deal with a lot of conservatives out there, he'll offer a "What I Believe" type internet address, maybe 15 or even 20 minutes long, explaining his thinking. Not just the surface conservative conclusions, but the underlying conservative thinking. Heartfelt and inartful (not so much smiling, few applause lines, generally stodgy and somewhat wonky (at least in broad principles, not techno-wonky) and designed to appeal to conservative political geeks, not a general audience) would be the right tone. It would also be helpful to address the three most frequent knocks on Romney: He's a flip-flopper on abortion; his health care plan in Massachusetts was socialistic; and he's anti-gun. And, for me, I'd sure the hell like to hear more about his basic foreign policy. This is an area in which it's hard as hell not to descend into gauzy generalities, but I personally would like some reassurance that Romney isn't just a domestic policy wonk but has thought hard about the war we're in and is ready to make the terrible decisions of war and peace. PS: Offer a five-year moratorium on any legislation designed to grant amnesty or a "path to citizenship." The five years moratorium would be designed to ensure that border security has been achieved before moving on to any sort of "comprehensive" solution. The point of this, of course, is to make McCain choke, as he will not offer such a guarantee himself. So Mitt Romney should offer it. And so should Giuliani. And so should Huckabee, too. Let the Maverick prove his Maverick stripes and refuse to take any sort of vow to not introduce his piece of shit bill until the public is actually reassured the feds are serious about enforcing the borders. PS... Before we go jumping on the McCain Electability Bandwagon, let's reflect on why he's so damned electable, supposedly. Because he attacks us with delight at every turn. As he did during the Amnesty fight. And... wow: Laura Ingraham tears McCain on not just McCain-Feingold, but in filing an amicus brief attempting to shut up Wisconsin Right to Life. Neither of these are my big issues but Jesus, Laura gets fiery here and convinces me. Hm: Seems Kaus already thought of this idea of a moratorium on amnesty, though he proposes it as a guarantee McCain can offer and thus guarantee his nomination. Hey, I thought of this myself. Only it was two days later. Haven't checked Kaus in weeks. At any rate, he's wrong, McCain, Mr. Straight Shot, won't make that guarantee. So other candidates should begin doing so. posted by Ace at 01:59 AM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line11
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__label__cc	0.54649	0.45351	Latest Issue Archives A weekly newsletter with all the weird and wonderful tech news. No spam, ever. We'll never share your email address and you can opt out at any time. 🎮 Where To Find Great Ad-Free Games And Why You Shouldn't Trust Your Cat 21st January 2020 Heya, It seems the New Year optimism has passed, in record time too. This week's grab bag has a bunch of Evil stuff for you to consider. We've got everything dystopian, from the facial recognition app powering law enforcement (and scraping tonnes of collateral data) through a list of the most evil companies to research that proves your cat would eat you if given the opportunity. On the other hand, there is a website that generates haikus based on map data. So, not all bad. Bizarro Devs 📰 From the Newsroom Edging us closer to The Internet™ made and maintained by Google. 🎻 What's the deal? Microsoft spent a year Frankensteining Edge into a Chromium web browser. Using the open-source project behind Google Chrome should give Microsoft an opportunity to re-enter the browser market without using annoying pop-ups. Why did they do it? To improve compatibility and get a seat at the cool table with Samsung, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, and so on. The new engine will also make it more suitable for Mac users with Touch Bar features already available. Why would anyone switch? Microsoft is betting that enhanced privacy features will woo some users back to the fold. Google recently announced that they will end support for third-party tracking cookies, but not for two years. Edge will ship with anti-tracking prevention immediately to bridge the gap with Firefox and Safari. It also comes with some new productivity features, improved login workflows, 4k video, and PDF annotation. Muddying the privacy waters with Clearview AI. 🙈 Who or what is Clearview AI? The company is emerging as a leader in facial recognition...recognition(?). With a database of more than three billion images the app allows users to match images to people. Where did they get the database images? The images were scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and many, many more. Better yet (?), when an image is matched you also get a link to the site where it was found. Surely that's illegal? Dodgy? Yes. Illegal? No. While both Twitter and Facebook prohibit image scraping in their Terms and Conditions, LinkedIn lost a court battle over data scraping just a few months ago. Unfortunately, methods for image scraping are easily available but the EU is currently considering a temporary ban on facial recognition technology while the risks are being considered. Who's using it? Over six hundred law enforcement agencies have started using Clearview in the past year. The app has also been licensed to private companies for "security purposes". Buy now with 1-Slap: Amazon will soon allow you to connect your hand to your credit card. 🤲 What's happening? Microchipping has come a long way since they started using it to identify dogs. Now you can do more than open your office door. Amazon has started working with Visa to test terminals which approve purchases based on a palm scan. Who built it for them? It looks like Amazon built this one from the ground up. They patented an identification system that includes a hand scanner in December last year. What does it mean? My classic trick of forgetting my wallet will need to be upgraded. 🕸️ The Cool Side of the Web The Ten Must See Links Of The Week A website that writes haikus based on map locations (North America only it seems). The definitive list of evil companies. A database of words that can't be translated. Avoid meetings with Look Busy. This app will fill your calendar with fake, but realistic looking, events so you can work in peace. No-BS games has a list of ad-free, no in-app purchase games for Android and iOS. Does your business really need a new website in 2020? 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__label__wiki	0.681979	0.681979	Welfare and Housing Get Organised! ACI Conference Beyond the Fragments Another complex revolution Supporters Update – January 2014 Is there a new left reformist strategy today? What are the lessons from the Miners’ Strike 30 years on? Looking back in anger – The Miners’ Strike 30 years on We're a network of anticapitalist activists fighting for a better world Media, Opinion by Josh Davies in Media, Opinion Tagged: gaming, interview Tangiers: Stealth gameplay meets darker avant-garde A video game where words have physical power and the sun is your enemy. Drawing their influences from the dark side of the avant garde of 20th century artists, the two person team at Andalusian are struggling to bring their radical stealth gaming project into being, and could do with your support. Josh Davies interviews Alex Harvey and Michael Wright, the team behind Tangiers J: Could you introduce yourselves and tell us what you do? A: I’m Alex Harvey, lead on the project. I multi-task into just about everything here – the coding, the graphics, world design, managing everyone else… M: I’m Michael Wright. I cover most of the more straightforward roles while Alex gets stuck into the more technical pieces. Mostly texturing, general housekeeping on the game files (and the office) and making the coffee. J: For anyone who’s not come across it, tell us a bit about Tangiers… A: It’s a dark, atmospheric stealth game. Touching on the surreal but veering more in the absurdist/abstract direction. The design draws on the work of a lot of artists within a darker, more confrontational strain of 20th century avant-garde: William Burroughs, Dada, early Industrial music, David Lynch et al. So it’s base is a mixture of stealth and exploration. You’re normally either infiltrating your way through bleak, Ballardian cities or traversing expansive, broken landscapes. Layered on top of that is all sorts of weirdness. You can take hold of language, use that to spread disinformation or alter reality. That’s a reality that’s pretty disjointed: the world rebuilds itself based on your actions, creating a unique environment in each game. J: How did you come up with the ideas that you went with – the setting, the genre, the name, etc? A: The setting and genre both come from a need to focus. I’ve always wanted to work in the medium, and moving in to start on the project I originally started with making a very lite, streamlined action game. Very disposable. It touched on the artists I’ve always enjoyed but it never followed with what they were trying to do. It felt too shallow, a big waste of an opportunity. These artists found their way into the fabric of the design, and it was their concepts, their ethos that defined what the world was. Not entirely mind, it both follows them and serves as a love-letter to their work. Going into the stealth genre was a natural fit to this: the intimate focus, the inherent vulnerability, the necessity of environmental awareness. As for the name, that came about as a signpost to Burroughs. The city acted as an obvious influence to his writings, becoming the absurdist, grotesque interzone in Naked Lunch. It was originally conceived as a non-diagetic reference, something separate from the game entirely but as development matured it came to embody the world as a whole. J: We’ll come onto other influences later on but what are some of the gameplay influences? A: Those are pretty straightforward, and quite apparent in the design – Thief being the obvious one, but also looking at Ico and Shadow of the Colossus in setting a lot of the tone and narrative techniques. There’s also a lot of influence coming from the more recent flock of indie games – Hotline Miami, Binding of Isaac have added a slight casual slant, while Papo & Yo really showed me the potential games have in creating an emotional dialogue with the player. J: The stealth genre seems to have had a bit of a revival recently with games like Dishonoured and Deus Ex both coming out fairly recently. Can you think of any reasons for this? Shooter fatigue? What made the stealth genre attractive for you? A: Personally, I’ve always loved Stealth Games. Thief was the moment I saw games as something that could be admired rather than just a pastime. The revival, of sorts? I think that it comes from the fact that publishers have spent a lot of time of late pushing their games into the bigger, vastly more expensive blockbuster territory. This has left open a mid-ground that holds a far more exciting balance between production values and risk. The fact that games such as Dishonored have proven such a success shows how broken the AAA system is! A lot of opportunity and taste for the off-beat, but the bigger publishers and design houses have let themselves become so bloated that they have no choice but to work around the safest, most profit friendly parameters. Just look at Sim City or the Diablo 3 cash cow… they’ve gotten themselves in a corner. This is, of course brilliant for everyone else! It opens up so much room to breathe and operate in the midground. J: You’ve talked about how stealth enables you to create a hostile and alienating world and this is something that seems central to Tangiers – from the feel of the first trailer to the art design. An alienating and hostile world has obvious gameplay advantages and opportunities to play with, at the same time though Tangiers seems to be trying to communicate something to the player. If pinned down what would you say that something is and how does the world you’ve built help to do that? A:One of the things that we’re avoiding is writing any underlying message into Tangiers; we don’t want to make it into any sort of fable or conceptual piece. The emotive feelings of alienation, vulnerability and disconnection is the main line of communication here, and that’s a direction that permeates into every aspect of the design. From the oblique and contrasting player design and the lack of direct interactivity with other characters, to an overall aesthetic that often masks detail and leaves you to rely on form, we’re adopting a slightly confrontational stance throughout Tangiers. Everything you come across is both cold and particularly hostile towards the player. J: The screenshots and videos that have been released largely feature dark, threatening urban environments but there’s the occasional bright, open natural scene. This contrast between manmade and more natural reminded me of something like Flower or even Ico. What were you trying to do with it? A: First off is the purely practical basis around that – it allows us to better pace the game, gives us a good “hub” for the non-linear progression and provides a playground for us to experiment, to try out radically different ideas. On narrative terms, the duality plays a central role. It gives a slightly… conflicting slant. Emphasizes the oppressive, constricting persona of the urban areas but also leaves the player feeling equally uneasy, almost feeling exposed. It’s playing with two different types of freedom and exploration. One within a more pointed, rigid situation where you’re fighting just as much with the environment, and the other where the surroundings fall back and you’re left entirely in control, albeit with little direction. J: The natural and manmade theme together with the idea of the sun as a recurring enemy reminded me of Ballard’s The Drowned World, the words mechanic that has been talked about so much obviously connects to Burroughs and the cut up technique, and the influence of sampling in music has been mentioned elsewhere as being influential on the way that the landscape fractures. What connections do you see between these different influences and why are they important/relevant today? A:There’s a direct line, a lineage of artists and movements at the centre of our design. From Dada to Burroughs and then onto Early Industrial, it was a direct family tree – the idea of the cut-up technique was passed from generation to generation. It sounds very mythical, almost like a family heirloom but that’s actually what happened! Next to the tone and aesthetic influence, it’s the more anti-art, ant-establishment drive behind them that we’re following. That absurdist, aggressive disregard of commonplace memes and tropes. Less subversion, more sticking two fingers up. That is something that is sorely missing in a lot of media nowadays. Not fully going down that route ourselves just yet, but it’s a large part of what we’re trying to achieve. J: What kinds of things do you think videogames as a medium can do well in terms of art/communication? How have you taken advantage of them? A: Well, there’s the interaction that is missing in every other medium! When best used, that interaction – whether social or solitary – can create an incredibly powerful line of dialogue between the player and the developer. The immersion with that is unparalleled. All too often, games try to emulate other mediums. Be it film, television, literature… shoehorning them in to make for a “cinematic” experience or whatever, but doing it quite badly. Would the “cinematic” elements of AAA games stand alone as a film? With Tangiers, we made the decision to disregard everything that stands better in other mediums. No cut-scenes, no text-based exposition. Just a focus on gameplay, on creating that dialogue and on player freedom. M: Before I got on-board with the project, I was a bit sceptical about how viable it is. I mean years of reading Marx and Lenin means you realise how business is basically the big dogs crushing the little ones, and with video games the monopolies like EA and so forth seemed to have the whip hand, but Alex explained how the indies can carve themselves a niche. Obviously you aren’t going to get that much invention from the big studios because they’ll just keep marketing the bejaysus out of the same game with a slight facelift every Christmas, but there seems to be a big enough community to support some genuine creativity in games. Case-in-point: Viscera Cleanup Detail. It’s free, but based on the idea alone, I’d definitely pay for it if I weren’t abjectly poor. You play a cleaner on a spaceship cleaning up the gore after an alien attack. J: You guys are socialists, right? I first heard about the game through Socialist Meme Caucus of all places. In what way has your politics influenced what you’re trying to do? One of the things I like about the game is that it seems to get across a lot of the issues that socialists think and talk about but without being shallow and propagandistic (though I’m sure I’d still love Revolution: The Game). M: I am. Alex is a work-in-progress. Before this I was on the dole for about three years, so that’s basically three years handing out flyers and supporting strikes. The game design’s mostly Alex, with a few ideas I toss in, but there seems to be a definite fan overlap between Lenin and William S Burroughs (which is probably how it ties in with the issues socialists talk about). As for ‘Revolution: the Game,’ there’s a free pixel game where you shoot zombie Tories. A: Steering out of it with Tangiers, but there’s a lot of issues that are rising to the fore within the gaming community at the moment. Equality, acceptance, identity and gender issues et al. I’m enthusiastic about tackling those within a game, but not just yet… I think we’re not quite mature or diverse enough to enter into that debate from where we stand. J: I’d like to ask a bit about the videogame industry now. It seems like at the moment that there’s two very different trends going on in the industry, on the one hand you have things like the rise of the huge publisher and huge development budgets but on the other you have a revival in indie games through things like Kickstarter, where you’re trying to raise funds. What are your thoughts on the state of the videogames industry? M: Alex has mostly covered. I suppose I can only really say that the big companies offer a creative dead-end. I suppose you could really draw parallels with the music industry, where there’s always been a tension between the mainstream which churns out lowest-common-denominator crap in search of profit, and the underground which has to head down various alleyways. J: How has Kickstarter and the way it forces you to engage more with backers and fans affected the game’s development? A: Only in the positive. There’s a few things that initially struck me as being as being potential hurdles, such as working around a fairly tight budget. That turned out well – it gave the game a channelled focus that it would have lost otherwise, which in turn fostered a tight discipline in our working practice. Just as importantly, it’s given us a tight, enthusiastic group of supporters. A brilliant opportunity for feedback and bouncing ideas off of that we wouldn’t have working in isolation. J: Finally, what other games are you both interested in at the moment? Anything you’d recommend for fans of Tangiers? A: Dishonored is probably the best recent release that comes to mind… I’ve not had much time for playing games lately to be honest, Tangiers has been pretty time consuming! There’s a little curiosity called Kairo that I’m really looking forward to getting my hands on once we’re done with the Kickstarter. It seems to share some common ground with Tangiers, albeit in the form of a first-person puzzle game. Very intrigued by it! M: I have this tendency to get trapped in nostalgia, if I’m honest. My favourite games on the playstation were always Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Solid, Crash Bandicoot and the Abe series. A couple of years ago I was living with someone with an Xbox, and I noticed how all the biggest games just seemed to play exactly the same, and I thought ‘it wasn’t like that when I were a lad, was it?’ When I was living with Alex for a bit, I got to playing Mirror’s Edge, which really impressed me because it played differently, but sadly the disc was broken, so I didn’t get that far. You can donate to the Tangiers Kickstarter to help support this project (closes August 13th)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line49
__label__cc	0.560199	0.439801	Divorce of Glenn Close and David Shaw Glenn Close is famous for starring in The Guardians of the Galaxy and 101 Dalmatians. She also voiced Mona in The Simpsons. It was found out that the actress has quietly parted from David Shaw. He was her third husband and they were married for nine years. Page Six reports that they decided to end their relationship during summer. Besides, they have been “separated” for some period of time. Glen is said to be moving to NY in order to pay more attention to her acting career. Earlier they lived in Maine together with David. David will stay in Maine. Close’s spokesperson confirmed the couple’s divorce to the magazine. Besides, it was revealed that David and Glen have been telling pals about the divorce this summer. Things between David and Glen are said to be friendly. Glenn Close news About Celebs-Place fashion magazine Celebs-Place is collection of HD pics of famous people and celebrities. © Celebs Place 2015 \| disclaimer \| info@celebs-place.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line56
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__label__cc	0.687283	0.312717	THIS ELECTION IS FOR EVERY CHILD Broadcom Foundation Broadcom MASTERS Uncategorized by Paula Golden The American Dream needs a STEM Literacy Movement “Just think, your grandchildren are going to grow up knowing a black man and a woman as their presidents,” mused my daughter as we celebrated my grandson’s fifth birthday in a public park on a beautiful fall day, anywhere in America. Her words gave me pause as I prepare to make one last case for the importance of a STEM literacy movement in the United States during the 2016 election cycle. My image of President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on West Front of the Capitol next January stands in sharp relief to the yawning chasm of STEM literacy and workforce preparedness between children of privilege and underserved youth, young men and women, and children whose parents have deep roots in this country and those who perilously crossed oceans and borders to realize the American Dream. There is a dark undercurrent beneath partisan howls of ‘Make America Great Again’ and ‘Stronger Together.’ The American Dream is eluding many in this country. People feel under siege due in large measure to complex economic forces in a global economy that have dramatically shifted national demographics and diminished industrial manufacturing, extinguishing jobs or shipping them overseas. Make no mistake about it: Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness in the 21st century is completely reliant upon possessing not only reading literacy, but a conceptual understanding of math and science as well as amassing critical thinking skills. STEM literacy is essential for all jobs and careers that we aspire for our children, whether they are college bound, interested in 21st century trades, a service industry or starting a business. In his article STEM is for Everyone, MIT’s Dr. Richard C. Larson writes that a person has STEM literacy “if she can understand the world around her in a logical way guided by the principals of scientific thought. A STEM-literate person can think for herself. She asks critical questions. She can form hypotheses and seek data to confirm or deny them. She sees the beauty and complexity in nature and seeks to understand. She sees the modern world that mankind has created and hopes to use her STEM-related skills and knowledge to improve it.” But our nation’s STEM Report Card, which assesses how students are performing in fields considered essential to competing in a global economy, tells a grim tale: on April 27th it showed our kids lagging perilously behind other nations in math and on October 27th that two-thirds are not proficient in science. Underfunded and ill-equipped public classrooms in our country burgeon with kids struggling to learn from teachers who are desperately in need of both time and training to provide them with the vital tools that they need to succeed in our country’s ‘New Markets’ environment. In a recent White House blog, Jo Handelsman and Megan Smith wrote that despite President Obama’s inroads into closing the STEM literacy gap, there is much work to be done beyond 2016. “[T]o realize the vision of a highly diverse, creative, and sufficient STEM workforce and a STEM-literate citizenry, the Nation must engage all students.” The next president must lead an aggressive, comprehensive national STEM movement that empowers every child to succeed in a changing global economy, no matter what his or her calling. Ours is a country founded by scientists, engineers and critical thinkers. Creating a STEM literate society must be recognizedas the national birthright of every 21st century child if the United States is to continue its prodigious path forward as the most remarkable human experiment in the history of civilization. Our next president must bring both the bully pulpit and full authority of the Executive Branch to carry out the STEM literary campaign as one of the highest priorities for our national security. All Cabinet level departments, not just Education, but Labor, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Transportation, Health and Human Services as well as all science-mission agencies – the NSF, NASA, EPA and others – should be charged to coordinate a 360 degree, student-centric STEM literacy campaign that supports formal, informal, after school and parenting hours to achieve this national goal. Tax benefits to businesses who bring money and manpower to STEM education as well as incentives and awards for young and old who volunteer can do much to accelerate this national movement. President Obama’s White House Science Fair has brought enormous attention and prestige to student achievement in science, technology, engineering and math. To expand upon this, the next president should institute a lucrative national prize structure around science fair and STEM competitions that incentivizes all schools from K-12 to formally re-instate a project-based learning experience every year from 3rd to 12th grade. And our Congress must get behind enabling every child to be battled-tested and ready for the 21st century by heavily funding the national STEM literacy movement. This not only secures our national preeminence as an economic super power over the long haul, but positively impacts every child within their constituencies. Come January 20, 2017, there will be no red states or blue states: just the United States of America. “Greater” and “Stronger” can only be realized through a sustained national movement that guarantees STEM literary for every child. This movement will create a muscular, competitive workforce with 21st century skills required to drive forward American Ingenuity that, since our founding, has been our most powerful attribute, and of which our nation has no peer. UCI School of Engineering School Bestows ‘Ingenuity Award’ to President Paula Golden Broadcom MASTERS Alum Wins First Prize from EU	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line61
__label__cc	0.717009	0.282991	The Smartwatch For Every Apple, Samsung, and Google Phone User Get the smartwatch that fits your wrist and your life, whether it’s for sweaty habits, minimalist designs, or extravagant tastes. Gideon Grudo Commerce Editorial Strategist Updated Sep. 25, 2019 2:33PM ET / Published Feb. 16, 2019 11:00AM ET Smartwatches are everywhere, and sales figures back up their increasing spread across the US. In 2018, sales in that market had increased more than 60 percent over the year before, according to the Verge. And like some other tech, the smartwatch is happening whether we like it or not. If you’re considering getting into the space, find a smartwatch that fits your needs. Most smartwatches depend to some degree on integrating with our smartphones for the best functionality, whether it’s pilfering GPS from it, alerting you to incoming messages from it, or complementing your apps in a variety of other ways. And in that sense, the smartwatch universe largely splits into the iPhone and the Android, so we’re giving you options from both. EVERYDAY SMARTWATCH You’re a casual human being with everyday needs, like getting alerts, checking the time (and calendar), and looking good while doing so. Apple Watch Series 4, $379 on Amazon: If you own an iPhone, you only have one option, and it’s a good one. The iPhone-compatible Apple Watch flagship has all the goodies anyone could need (and more), like GPS and heart rate monitoring. For extra cash, you can equip it with cell service and use it like, well, a cellphone. Its last edition is a great option for many people’s needs and is selling right now for nearly half the price you’d pay for its successor. The Scouted Newsletter Product recommendations that'll make your life better and tips to help you shop smarter. By Clicking "Subscribe" you agree to have read the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Samsung Galaxy Watch, $299 on Amazon: In the non-iPhone realm, we have standouts like Samsung Galaxy Watch, which works with Android and iOS smartphones. Obviously, if you sport a Samsung smartphone, this is your smartest bet for seamless integration. FITNESS SMARTWATCH Fitness trackers are one thing — fitness smartwatches are another: They combine fitness necessities, from heart rate sensor to GPS tracking, into a smart wristwatch. You’re looking for something that can handle sweat, is rugged, and will report to you the data you need to improve your fitness. The best ones will allow you to work out without your phone. The Apple Watch Series 4 is another leader in this field for iPhone users. It’s got all the fitness features you need, and its heart rate monitoring has been enhanced for this latest edition. Garmin VivoActive 3, $214 on Amazon: GPS leader Garmin sells what many hardcore fitness enthusiasts consider a must. It runs its own operating system but will let you stream music through Bluetooth and track your run with GPS. Its apps cover preloaded workouts and it integrates with some third-party apps like Uber and AccuWeather. Samsung Gear S2, $140 on Amazon: The Gear S2 is compatible with your phone, whether iPhone or Android, but itself runs on Samsung’s proprietary operating system. You can get it in a very attractive blue or Midnight Black. STYLISH SMARTWATCH Most smartwatches are still on the bigger side but brands are doing their best to stylize these wrist computers to give you an aesthetically pleasing smart experience. Fossil Q Women's Gen 3 Venture Stainless Steel Smartwatch, $146 on Amazon: the Q Venture is a great example. It’s powered through Wear OS and includes Bluetooth and water resistance but isn’t equipped with GPS. And that’s okay. At $140, this watch is more for a party than a run. I like the simplicity and elegance of Fossil’s Explorist, too. It’s pricier than the Venture but gives you GPS for the added price. Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch in Rose Gold, $279 on Amazon: Another good example. It also promises days of on-time on a single charge so you won't be scrambling to find your next charging point. Get the smartwatch that fits your wrist and your needs, whether they’re sweaty, minimal, or extravagant — just be sure you don’t find yourself on the running trail without GPS. Scouted is internet shopping with a pulse. Follow us on Twitter and sign up for our newsletter for even more recommendations and exclusive content. Don’t forget to check out our coupon site to find more tech deals from Best Buy and Newegg. Please note that if you buy something featured in one of our posts, The Daily Beast may collect a share of sales.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line70
__label__wiki	0.669726	0.669726	Common Descent MUSH About Common Descent Credits & Resources NPC Use IC / OOC Etiquette Roleplaying & Consent MUSH Rating Chargen Guide Character Tag Directory Character Classifieds Restricted/Banned Concepts Plot Legwork Primer Game Advertisements Game Soundtrack Game Timeline IC Locations Faction Directory Character Census Roleplaying Logs IC News & Rumors For New Players Start-Up Guide One Year Anniversary Event! It smells like a THANKSGIVING DAY MONTAGE! Posted by Ursa on 05 Nov 2019 19:57. Or how Dani fleeced EVERYONE. Or really, how the team had a fun game of cards :) It Gets Everywhere There's so much to hate about sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating… and it's everywhere in this X-Men Danger Room run. Hungry Shadows Myrkr appears upon the grounds of the Mansion and are found by Warren and Dani Shadows of the Mind (A Cutscene) Myrkr struggling to deal with wounds of the past and newfound issues Latest IC News Buzz Around MDMW 2020 Conference Tech and medical internet outlets reporting on the annual MDMW conference, which features a wide variety of topics pertaining to the medical technology field. Worthington and Blaire NOT Dead Warren Worthington and Alison Blaire, thought to be dead, have resurfaced alive after what now appears to have been an targeted attack. Newest Plots A Knight's Quest Frank Castle and Merlin end up in the 6th Century after one of Merlin's greatest foes steals his staff. Back in this time, Barbara races to find a way to locate Frank and Merlin after she learns their magical trinket might not be able to bring them back. What does one do with a variety of someones who treated some telepaths badly? We Cross Our Hearts The unregistered heroics of the Titans place the youth team in government crosshairs, while an old enemy's plans come to fruition… Wikidot Quick Reference Join the CDMUSH Site Far Away, Not Long Ago Roleplaying Log: Far Away, Not Long Ago IC Details With Red Robin on the scene, Raven picks up another untimely telepathic pulse. Other Characters Referenced: Zatanna Zatara, Batman, The Titans IC Date: July 16, 2019 IC Location: New York OOC Notes & Details Posted On: 17 Jul 2019 02:28 Rating & Warnings: Scene Soundtrack: [* ] NPC & GM Credits: Associated Plots \| OOC: originally happened 06/19/19 \| Nighttime cover and a brief takedown of a few criminals with its now-normalized set of law-related complications somehow manages to work itself out into a loosely-framed routine. Not every night follows specific steps, but the changes in both the players and their environments help keep Raven on her toes when she isn't dabbling into the magical side of the reality scale. In fact, she should be grateful there hasn't been many magical mishaps of late. It means there is less to immediately tend to and take care of — less to fret about. Despite the granted benefits, her thoughts have been preoccupied, continuing to play underneath as she watches two police vehicles pull up to the alley she last visited. Red and blue lights flash, outside of a tuneless rhythm that washes over the surfaces of nearby buildings and cars — a cue Raven takes to slink back into the shadows of the rooftop opposite of the scene unfolding on the street. She knows there's still a huge risk involved, being outside and using abilities Registration is striving to suppress. She isn't one to run rampant without thinking ahead, nor has she gone off to make a public spectacle of herself. That just isn't her. Still, being outside gives her a different setting to work with. It lets her feel the pulse of a city that doesn't seem to sleep, its emotional discord erratic yet as normal as breathing. Each individual feeling prick at her, letting her hone in on the strongest out of the handful she picks up. "I was able to talk to her." She speaks the non-sequitur to the air, her voice a whisper amidst the nightly ambiance of the city below. She may even be talking to herself to see how she can piece everything together. "I tried to ease her mind, but there was a lot to go through." It's New York, there's always something. That's the way of it in any major city, really… Especially in those three crown jewels of the East Coast, though the character of that something is bound to fit the city in question. In Gotham, it would be something horrible most likely. In Metropolis, surely something strange, like a giant robot or an extradimensional imp. In New York, though, it could go either way. It could be almost anything. It wasn't as though the Titans were the only ones keeping an eye out. There were the Avengers, of course, and the less high-profile group of individuals who'd been so instrumental in keeping the devastation in Hell's Kitchen the year before from being worse than it already had been. But the group of young, defiantly unregistered heroes had both the wide-ranging resources of the former and the closer to the ground outlook of the latter, as well as a good motivation to be out there, fighting the good fight. Making sure people knew that someone was. The risks, well, there were always risks doing what they did. Maybe you get caught by the police, maybe a lunatic bashes your head in with a crowbar. Facing the risks was a big part of what made them 'heroes'. Red Robin's presence was a controlled one, as always. He needed to be calm, level-headed, to do what he did, where the others could afford to be more openly emotional. It wasn't just the leader thing - though the leader thing was for sure a part of it - but more, well, the Batman thing. It was probably hard to sneak up on an empath anyway, but superhuman senses hadn't always stopped him before. "'Her' who?" he asks, from those same shadows, his voice just as quiet. Of course, the vigilante is hooked into the police and emergency services communications: It was routed through the computers at the Titans' mall hideout, but naturally he had remote access to that through his suit. In red and black and yellow, the Red Knight crouches not far away from Raven, his eyes hidden as always behind those featureless white lenses. Though Raven has never seemed particularly concerned about who was behind the mask in the first place. The thread of practiced calm is distinct against the cacophonic atmosphere, one Raven finds comforting when all else is out of her control. That stillness is also where she and Red Robin share the burden of dealing with the emotions of their teammates while reining their own emotions in. "A telepath," she replies, not turning to face Red just yet. "I wasn't able to get a name, but I'm assuming she may be one of several teenagers who went missing in the passing weeks." A few beats pass before she lifts her violet gaze, glancing over at the Titans' leader and his masked features. She's used to seeing the mask. She isn't surprised, but she also knows that it's reasonable protocol while outside of the abandoned mall on vigilante duty. Although her tone is evenly paced, she sounds a little exhausted. With a slight tinge of concern. "And if I'm remembering it correctly, there were similar reports made about them…" Though several of the other Titans are already well aware of his 'real' identity, enough of the team still knows him as just Red Robin that the young man holds to it strictly, even around the mall that's become the Titans' headquarters in exile; even during the holiday party, his civilian clothes had been matched with a domino mask. Maybe it was silly - it was certain that, for example, Raven would be able to recognise him immediately if she met Tim Drake, thanks to her powers - but it was also something important. It wasn't like those secrets were his alone. And it wasn't like he was the only one on the team with secrets. "Those 'bursts of fear' you were talking about?" the Red Knight asks, though really he's pretty sure he already knows the answer. It was obvious that it was troubling Raven, which was a bad sign all on its own; the rather stoic young woman wasn't exactly known for letting it show when something was troubling her. So, he watches the Daughter of Darkness, his hidden dark blue eyes studying her carefully. "It's definitely something we should be looking into," he says, because it was the simple truth: They were supposed to be heroes, after all… And if young metahumans were being targeted, that put it all the more in the Titans' wheelhouse. "But before that, are you okay, Raven?" For what it's worth, she only thinks it's a little silly. Just a little bit. (Then again, everyone on the team was a little bit silly in their own way.) But she respects his choices. More importantly, Red is usually on top of the information swirling about each major city. That is how Raven and the other Titans have known Red Robin to be. Raven also knows he cares. She can tell, even if he doesn't always show it. It's the main reason why she's able to open up to him with the personal details of her particular background. She nods, the movement barely noticeable under the deep hood. "Yes." Her message from a while back, back to when it all first started. (It hasn't been that long ago, but it's beginning to feel that way.) "Us and whoever else may be delving into this. I wonder if anyone else has a better lead." A pause takes place, either out of thought for the case at hand or because Red is asking her if she is okay. The slightest tilt of her chin suggests averting her line of sight, her lips pressing together for less than a second before answering. "…Maybe. Maybe not." One shoulder half-heartedly shrugs. "My sleep schedule has been more or less wrecked within the past month due to how frequently the bursts of activity used to occur." Silly he can live with, as long as it works. He was at least partially raised by a guy who dresses up like a bat and has a long history of punching clowns, after all. "I can't imagine we're the only ones who noticed, yeah," Red Robin agrees, with a slow nod. Just because there were younger telepaths being targeted didn't mean that was the extent of it. Surely, there were other groups and individuals with an interest in psychic abilities - or who knew people who had such abilities - that would be paying close attention. The question then was who, and where? And how could they safely make contact with people who would probably be pretty agitated about getting random attention? The use of the deep hood answers a lot of the Red Knight's questions about Raven's wellbeing, without her even having to say a word - it's all in her body language too, clear as day for someone who knows how to read the signs. Perhaps it's because he's known her for the past year, or that he's such a keen observer of other people, or a mix of both, that the otherwise stoic sorceress gives away more than she might be anticipating. "You could try talking to Zatanna," he says, on the topic of her wrecked sleep schedule. "Maybe she's got some kind of magic potion that'll help you sleep better. Or, maybe you just need to work this case until you get some closure. Loose ends always keep me up at night." Actually, lots of things keep him up at night. It's fine, though, four hours of sleep is plenty! These questions, along with the loss of sleep, have been a repetitive tune in Raven's head. To be able to bring it up within a trusted circle is a step forward, but it also left her standing still. Even after a year, she has yet to open up even further not only among those she calls friends, but to anyone else she comes across. Basic social foundations, anyway — that was better than hiding away forever. Speaking of which, the Empath thinks about the suggestion. "Tempting." The brevity of her response comes with some padding only after she shows the young man a ghost of a smirk. Really now, she isn't the only one who needs the rest, but Red Robin does have the added benefit of lacking empathetic powers that lock onto the strongest emotional vibes. "Although I hate to admit it, you're probably right." Probably. (They both know he hit the nail on the head.) "I do want to see this through. Talking to Zatanna will be the backup plan— " The sentence is then left hanging. A hand lifts up from under the Daughter of Darkness' cloak, slipping into the shadow of her hood, her clawed fingertips barely grazing her temple as she shuts her eyes tight. Indeed, Red Robin is a perfectly normal human being… For certain definitions of 'perfectly normal', anyway. He isn't one to push too far on other people's willingness to open up, either; far better, he reasons, to give someone like Raven the room to feel safe, to let her hopefully come around to opening up to her new friends on her own. At the very least, now she knows that Zatanna isn't likely to try to kill her because of her demonic heritage, right? Though that knowledge, of who the Daughter of Darkness was and what it meant, had left something of a pall over things that hadn't wholly retreated even now, even after the Titans' witches had found a new understanding after the invasion of New York. Red Robin had, of course, tried to help. He even got them cool matching jackets! Although I hate to admit it, you're probably right. "Usually am," the vigilante replies, with a rueful slash of a grin. Most people might find the contrast with the unchanging white lenses over his eyes disconcerting; Raven, at least, could tell that he means it. But that amusement fades quickly, when the empathic girl is suddenly wracked by something. A pain only she's aware of, that probably isn't even her own. One of the Red Knight's gauntleted hands reaches for Raven's shoulder, a deeply human gesture of comfort rendered only slightly surreal by the costumes. "Something happen?" he asks, though honestly it's more rhetorical than anything else. "You're okay, I'm here." The real trick is how he makes that not sound like a boast. Red Robin does help in his own way. Strangely endearing ways, but it's fine. She still needs to find the time to wear the jacket… If not for the sudden emergence of a headache, Raven would have been fine to continue with the casual joking for a while longer. But to relax and forget she even has empathetic powers is beyond what she can hope for. Again, it's fear. A dull, throbbing pulse that offers many different interpretations of the same feelings, low and wavering, threatening to spike without making any noticeable change in its pacing. Her breathing is steady, yet her chest feels tight. The lightheadedness that comes with it could have easily set her off-balance, leaving her a pile of black cloth on a lonely rooftop. Instead, something grounds her — someone, thanks to Red being present and attentive and literally grounding her as she goes through this experience. You're okay, I'm here. She can take comfort in the words that lean on the border of boasting, in the way he holds onto her shoulder to keep her upright. Drawing in another breath, she holds onto it, expelling it slowly as she finds the words to tell him. "The same feeling…but it's coming from another person," Raven rasps, keeping the same hand near her temple as her other arm wraps around her middle. "They're afraid. Except…the pain is even greater. "And there's another difference," she adds, suddenly lifting her head to look at the young vigilante. Or perhaps she's looking through him, into the distance. "It feels like they're far away." One of the core lessons Red Robin was taught, from the very first day he started training with Batman, was this: Never let them see you sweat. Even if you don't really feel confident, act like you do. Act with complete certainty, even if you're making it up as you go along. When it comes to the dangerous life of a costumed crimefighter, 'fake it 'til you make it' is an unfortunate necessity. So, he projects that confidence, that absolute certainty that yes, Raven is okay because he's there. He provides support both in a literal physical sense, using that hand on the Daughter of Darkness' cloaked shoulder to keep her from collapsing like a marionette with her strings cut, and in a more esoteric sense as he keeps whatever doubts or uncertainty he might have locked up safely in a tiny box in the deepest recesses of his mind, where even an empath might have trouble finding them. And then he waits. Patience was another important part of what he did, which is sort of funny since so many of his friends are very deeply impatient, in one way or another. But they have superpowers and he doesn't. It makes quite the difference. He waits, rather than pressing Raven for more answers. Lets her find her words on her own, instead. His head tilts slightly to one side - the expression might even be called 'birdlike', if you were feeling cheeky - as Raven looks at him, through him, towards something only she can sense. "Could you find them?" Red Robin asks, simply. The offer that goes with the question is unspoken, but pretty obvious: They could go round up the rest of the Titans and get to work. "For as long as I can hold onto their distress." This is Raven's answer, delayed between the pauses used to actively seek out the source. Not exactly a 'yes,' but not a hard 'no.' Her eyes flicker at the headtilt, offering a quick glance at Red Robin despite their renewed absence of color. The hand she previously held over her middle now finds Red's arm, hovering for a moment before she grasps onto the gauntlet, shifting her stance in a nonverbal way. Although grateful for the vigilante's help (and his intent to seal off any internal emotional turmoil he deals with on a regular basis so that it doesn't interfere with Titan and non-Titan-related work), she's recomposed enough to stand on her own. "…It's weakening." Which means their chance to find this person is slipping away. They both know the longer they stay where they are, the more time they waste. The Daughter of Darkness' brow creases while the lower half of her face continues to express nothing, but the subtle urgency in her tone clearly agrees to calling the rest of the Titans. "We better hurry," she adds, stepping back while letting go of Red Robin so that she can at least take the lead to where they are supposed to go. "There isn't any telling when the broadcast will cease to exist." Because she isn't sure when it will just shut off. Every pulse at every hour prior was one thing, but this is a different strain, an exception to previous experiences concerning the missing telepaths. _2019_july_nyc_pennyravenred-robin	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line74
__label__cc	0.743562	0.256438	Mustagata - The Mountain Cris Coban talks about Mustagata and the Kashgar Province Mustagata belongs to the highest and most massive conglomerate of mountain ranges in the world, that includes the Himalayas, Pamir and the Kunlun Mountains. Geologists still argue that Mustagata "really" belongs to the Pamir group while "technically" belonging to the Kunlun range. There are multiple correct spellings for the mountain. Although we have adopted the "Mustagata" spelling (for convenience), the mountain is also spelled: Muztagh Ata, Muztagata, Mustagh Ata, Muztag Ata, Muztaghata, Muztagh-Ata, Muztag-Ata, Mustagh-ata. The mountain is pretty isolated but can be reached from several different spots: from Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan (via the Turugart Pass) from Pakistan (via a difficult and lengthy trip over the Karakoram Highway to Tashkergan) by train from Beijing (4 days!) from Urumqi (also known as Urumchi - 23 hours) by flying into Kashgar. All these approaches are small adventures in themselves and are worth trying. I decided to fly directly into Kashgar (also known as Kashi) because I wanted to maximize my chances of making it to base camp while still in possession of all my mountaineering and video gear. Why did Cris Choose Mustagata? In the last few years every climb Cris undertake was a planned stepping stone on the way to Everest, the 7 Summits and the 14 8,000ers. Mt. Mustagata 24,757 ft (7,546 m) in Himalaya, China fit his climbing goals on multiple levels, here's what Cris' said: Style of Expedition. This was not a fully-catered expedition. A great emphasis is placed on self-reliance at high altitude. That is exactly what I wanted to work on: becoming self-reliant in a high altitude glaciated, not very dangerous environment. Load Carrying at High Altitude. I had never carried very heavy packs (50-60-70 lbs.) at high altitude (20,000+ ft) on snow and ice for many consecutive days. As unpleasant as it is to carry heavy loads, it is a pre-requisite for expedition style mountaineering (which covers just about all high altitude peaks in the world). Mustagata was an excellent testing and training ground. Now I have the needed confidence in knowing that I will complete and survive long, heavy carries at high altitude, over snow and ice. Snowshoes. I never used snowshoes before. Not a hard to learn skill, but Mustagata offered an excellent opportunity to add another skill to my toolbox. Also, navigating around crevasses and working on other ice and snow skills in a relatively non-threatening environment was something I was looking for. Mustagata was a perfect training ground! High Altitude Testing. Mustagata, at 24,757 ft (7,546 m) is a nice high altitude test on the way to the 8,000 m peaks. I passed the test, but not without experiencing "High Altitude Hypoxia on my first summit bid. This not only gave me the necessary confidence in knowing that I will be capable of functioning at 8,000+ m, but it also taught me important lessons in recognizing the symptoms of, and preventing hypoxia. Adventure. Going to a remote corner of China, visited by very few Westerners had its own exotic appeal. And what a nice place it was to visit! Unique peak. I didn't know that when I chose Mustagata, but what a nice surprise! There aren't many mountains in the world like Mustagata: a massive rock, creating its own wicked weather, surrounded by desert. At the higher camps you are freezing at minus 30 degrees (or it's snowing) while you look down at the baking hot desert below. Cris spent about 5 days in Kashgar Not knowing what Kashgar was like, he thought the 5 days would allow him to get over jetlag and rest after a long, complicated two-day trip. Kashgar turned out to be much more than a rest stop: it was one of the most charming, relaxing, culturally rich areas imaginable. Although a Chinese Autonomous Region, ethnically the area is Uyghur. The Uyghurs are a proud Central Asian Turkic-speaking people, who preserve unspoiled their ancient Moslem culture. Going to Kashgar is as close as one can get to a trip in the Time Machine: erase from awareness the internal combustion engines (everywhere, noisy and smelly) and cell phones (less smelly but also everywhere) and you'll be treated to a world that thrusts you back 1,000 years. Take time to smell the Na'an bread baked in sidewalk ovens and the shish-kebabs grilled at every street corner; listen to the banging of the blacksmiths shaping metal in sidewalk workshops; listen to the calls of the peddlers selling everything from carpets to sheep; visit the mosques, artfully decorated and vibrant with worshipers; and make friends with the Uyghur people, always smiling, always warm towards strangers, proud of their culture and inquisitive about foreigners. Must visit spots: Kashgar Main Square with the Id Kah Mosque; adjacent streets lined with shops, small restaurants, blacksmiths, coppersmiths and crafts makers of all kinds; Abakh Hoja Tomb; the Sunday Market (merchants + buyers + "just looking" = 100,000). the Shipton Arch (largest natural arch in the world). Climbing Mustagata: Home • The Mountain • The Climber • The Route • The Expedition • The Gear • The Sponsor © 2008 ClimbingMustagata.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line78
__label__wiki	0.675476	0.675476	Pacific Rim Uprising Spoiler Review In the sequel to Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim we get jaegers, drones, and Kaiju and things in between. Kate and Adrian bring you through the movie and talk about their likes and dislikes in Pacific Rim Uprising, how Jon Boyega needs to be in more things, and how mechs should move given the laws of anime. Episode 58: Iron Man Matters...But Why Tho? In honor of Avengers: Infinity War coming out next month, we talk about a hero has risen from the B-list to the foundation Marvel Cinematic Universe and one of the most recognizable heroes of our time: Iron Man. Matt brings us through his comic book history, appearances in video games and television and tops it off with... Tomb Raider Spoiler Review We saw Tomb Raider, the adaptation of the 2013 reboot franchise focused around a new and different Lara Croft. Directed by Roar Uthaug and staring Alicia Vikander as our adventurer and tomb raider, Lara Croft. We a synopsis, our thoughts, and talk about this movie, and game, differ from the classic Lara that Angelina... Episode 57: Godzilla Matters...But Why Tho? This week's episode was supposed to be about the Kaiju genre, but through our research one thing was clear: Godzilla is the one that matters. the longest running film franchise ever and over 60 years old, this giant nuclear mutated sea monster is pop culture heavy weight. Episode 56: Shrek Matters...But Why Tho? This week, Adrian wanted to get on the lighter side of things so we talked about Shrek and how it kicked off Dreamworks animation. It may seem like a small kids movie, but the numbers and spin-offs solidly put Shrek as a memorable pop culture moment...but why tho?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line79
__label__wiki	0.888309	0.888309	BZU PAGES: Find Presentations, Reports, Student's Assignments and Daily Discussion; Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan Welcome to all the Students Daily News And halat-e-hazra Sports/Games Sports/Games Forum for Cricket, Footballs, Hockey about any kind of game Thread Tools Search this Thread Rating: Display Modes .BZU. Location: near Govt College of Science Multan Pakistan Contact Number: Removed Program / Discipline: BSIT Class Roll Number: 07-15 Aleem Dar wins the David Shepherd Trophy for ICC Umpire of the Year 2011 (3rd consecutive year) Aleem Dar wins the David Shepherd Trophy for ICC Umpire of the Year 2011 Aleem Dar has won the ICC Umpire of the Year award for the 3rd consecutive year ICC Awards 2011 Result Umpire Aleem Dar has won the David Shepherd Trophy for third time after being named ICC Umpire of the Year at the LG ICC Awards in London tonight. Dar, who is 43 and from Pakistan, was voted to this award by the 10 Full Member captains as well as the eight-man Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees, based on his decision statistics and officiating skills over the past 12 months. It is the third year in a row that he has received the ICC award which was renamed last year after the late England umpire David Shepherd. Dar accepted his award from ICC Hall of Fame 2011 inductee Alan Davidson and said: "It's a great honour and I'm thankful to everyone at the ICC and also my colleagues on the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires along with the Pakistan Cricket Board. I'd like to also thank all my family for all their support since I'm away nearly eight months of the year umpiring." Dar beat off strong competition from his colleagues on the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires Steve Davis, Ian Gould and five-time ICC Umpire of the Year Simon Taufel. Dar, who made his international debut as an umpire in 2000, joined the Emirates Elite Panel in 2004. In the voting period of these awards, Dar stood in five Tests and 13 ODIs. He stood in the ICC Cricket World Cup in the India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, where he was an on-field umpire in eight of the matches, including the final between India and Sri Lanka. Based on the period between 11 August 2010 and 3 August 2011, the LG ICC Awards 2011 – presented in association with FICA – take into account performances by players and officials in a remarkable period for the game. For all the individual awards (with the exceptions of the Women's Cricketer of the Year and the Umpire of the Year), a long-list compiled by the selection panel was forwarded to a 25-person Voting Academy made up of former players, respected members of the media, an elite umpire and an elite match referee. They voted on a three, two, one basis (with three being the highest value) and the winners emerged. That period includes such high-profile events as the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, the ICC Intercontinental Cup final, several ICC World Cricket Leagues as well as several bilateral Test and ODI series. `.¸.` ¸.´¸.´¨) ¸.´¨) (¸.*´ (¸.Bzu Forum Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened 2011, 3rd, aleem, consecutive, dar, david, icc, shepherd, trophy, umpire, wins, year Happy New Year 2011; bye bye 2010 usman_latif_ch Designed Pictures 6 31-12-2019 07:02 PM ICC ODI Team of the Year 2011, Players Pictures .BZU. BZU Graphics and Wallpapers 0 13-09-2011 03:18 AM Imran Khan has paid rich tribute to umpire Aleem Dar .BZU. Sports/Games 1 10-04-2011 03:09 PM Result Announced LLB 3-Year and 5-Year Nadeem Iqbal University News and Events 0 11-01-2010 05:04 PM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line80
__label__cc	0.740212	0.259788	New Cover, New Price The Memoir of Johnny Devine, under new management with WhiteFire Publishing, has been given a new face. What do you think of the new cover? AND the kindle version of my 3 novels are now 3.99. Such a deal! -Camille Labels: Camille Eide, The Memoir of Johnny Devine, WhiteFire Publishing $5 Dollar Books (While They Last) Friends, Readers, Librarians, Book Clubs, Bibliophiles, Bargain hunters, etc... I’ve acquired a small overstock of my books and they'd love real homes, so I’m shipping them out at my cost. Paperbacks are $5, plus $3 s/h (multi book rate varies). I also have one Hardcover Large Print of The Memoir of Johnny Devine for a little more. So, just comment below if you’d like books shipped. There’s a limited amount, so 1st come, 1st served, etc. I hear it’s never too early to start Christmas shopping. If you’re not familiar with my work, it’s been compared to Melissa Tagg, Becky Wade, Dale Cramer. I write love stories some call “more than a romance,” deep, poignant tales laced with grace, humor, and redemption. Like There’s No Tomorrow (2014): An amusing, tender love story about two kind, single caretakers, two quirky, old Scottish sisters bent on reuniting, and too many agendas. It’s a tale of family, falling in love, faith, and the gift of each new day. Excerpt – There were a number of things Ian had grown to appreciate about his co-correspondent over the last two years. A very natural bond had developed between them. A bond that, until now, he thought he shared with a stout, tenderhearted spinster on the downhill side of middle-age . . . His mind worked frantically to reconcile the Emily he knew from the letters with this one, and to accept the fact that this woman, this very lovely young woman, had been his pen pal for the past two years… Like a Love Song (2014, Genesis Winner & Romantic Times 4.5 Star Top Pick): A romantic, heart-tugging drama about a social worker turned surrogate mom to a bunch of cast-off teens, desperate to save the group home she’s worked hard to build in Oregon’s outback. She faces foreclosure and heartaches that won't stay buried. Her only hope lies with the last person she’d ever turn to—a brawny handyman with a guitar, a questionable past, and a God he keeps calling Father. “An oil rigger?” Sue hacked out a laugh. “A roughneck? With my kids? Great. Who are you going to send next, a lumberjack and a couple of bikers? Maybe they can pull night watch in the girls’ dorm.” Sue yanked open the driver’s door of her Suburban, climbed in, and cranked the key. A few feeble chugs, then nothing. Big surprise. “I’m serious, Sue. Joe is an all-around handyman and knows how to manage a crew.” “I’m sure he’s charming, Layne. On an oil rig. But I need someone with experience handling kids. Special needs kids. You know that.” “Yes, in the long run, in optimal circumstances, absolutely. But you’re going to give old Roberta a stroke if you don’t get some help. You have to hire someone.” Sue rested her aching head on the steering wheel. Pain and fatigue rolled over her in a cold fog… The Memoir of Johnny Devine (2015, Romantic Times 4½ GOLD Star Top Pick, Seal of Excellence, & Best Inspirational Romance; OCW Cascade Award Best Historical): In 1953, a young war widow hired to write an exclusive memoir lands on McCarthy’s hit list and must clear her name while trying not to fall in love with the born-again, ex-Hollywood heartthrob whose scandalous past keeps him too busy to notice her. Or does it? It’s a love story set at a time when post-war America seeks security in prosperity, Hollywood’s Golden Age is coming to an end, the Red Scare reaches new heights of paranoia, and unrest over civil rights continues to grow. It’s a story for those who enjoy a character-driven, inspirational drama, a strong-yet-tender romance, and a touch of intrigue. Excerpt- “I was topping all the charts, but even with so much fame, all I had to show for my life was a stack of films and a long line of women who wished I’d never been born. Even if I’d wanted honor, you couldn’t find a trace of it in me. If there was ever a time in my life I’d longed for true significance, it was long past.” Eliza’s pencil froze. True significance? The words echoed, taunting her. She had believed everything John said so far, but his last statement struck her as ludicrous. Could a Hollywood star with scores of fans truly have any concept of the quest for significance? Could a man whose name had emblazoned every marquee in the country understand the void that she—a penniless nobody—had so long struggled to fill? Don’t think, just write… Labels: Book Clubs, Camille Eide, Christian Fiction, Christian Romance, Large Print, Like a Love Song, Like There's No Tomorrow, paperback Passing the Baton & VOTE for a NEW Look for Johnny Devine! And no sooner did I announce that Ashberry Lane is closing its doors than another publisher has stepped in to keep the AL line alive! WhiteFire Publishing has acquired Ashberry Lane and will resume publishing AL titles under the same name, as an imprint. This means my full length AL novels will continue to be available! I'm not sure if they will be sold beyond Amazon, or if so, when, but I'll share more info when it comes. One of the first things WFP wants to do is give Johnny Devine a new face, and they want your help! Whether or not you've read the book, you can help WhiteFire decide which cover to use for my novel. Voting is super easy! Go to: https://goo.gl/forms/9fWaK7qqr4paxK9q2 Labels: Book cover, Christian Romance, Retro era, The Memoir of Johnny Devine, WhiteFire Publishing To Everything, A Season Ashberry Lane, the publisher who championed three of my novels, is closing its doors. When other small presses were floundering after biting off more than they could chew, AL sought out special stories and authors in whom they could believe. I'm grateful to AL for their help in bringing Like There's No Tomorrow, Like a Love Song, and The Memoir of Johnny Devine to print. But the publishing industry is a rapidly changing place, and sadly, is becoming a difficult place for the small press to stay afloat. So this forced transition is the end of a particular publishing season for me, but perhaps, Lord willing, the beginning of another. Since AL is closing, all of their 24 titles (including my 3 novels), now found only at Amazon, will no longer be available. It is my hope to relaunch these three books under my own indie brand one day. But, until then, these titles will no longer be available in any format after April 30. So if you've been thinking of getting one of my books for yourself, or for an upcoming gift, or a few for your church library or book club, be sure to get the copies you want before the end of this month (HERE). I don't have a relaunch date yet, but if and when these stories become available again, YOU will certainly be the first to know. Until then, please be sure to get the copies you may have been meaning to get. (AND for those of you who belong to Kindle Unlimited, they are now available FREE under that program - but only until the end of April.) And in the meantime, keep an eye out for my next novels, currently under construction, which will be published one way or another... Lord willing. Thank you, my reading friends, for your support. Labels: Ashberry Lane Publishing, Camille Eide, Christian Fiction, eBook, Like a Love Song, Like There's No Tomorrow, The Memoir of Johnny Devine The Birth of A Novelist I don't know how many of my novelist friends can pin down the day they became a novelist. I can. March 7, 2007. My friend Lisbet and I had been all dreamy-eyed, discussing the cross-continental romance between her sister (in Norway) and my brother (in America) and we decided someone ought to write a story about two people continents apart who fall in love over correspondence. That giddy musing turned into me going home, jotting a couple of notes (HAHAHA!), firing up the old computer in the kids' upstairs den, and sitting down to write. I planned to contact a publisher located in my state, because, after all, we were neighbors, and they would want to publish my book, right? I went to work, excited about what just might be the next best-seller. Cough Gasp Cough Pardon me. About 100 pages into the story, I realized my story, the one I'd been staying up until nearly dawn each night writing and was now irrevocably invested in, was in serious trouble. I had no clue how to proceed and figured it was time to seek out help. I searched online and found writing sites (www.AdvancedFictionWriting.com) and writer's organizations (www.ACFW.com, www.OregonChristianWriters.org), and from there, soaked up all the coaching, craft books, and critique I could get my hands on. (A word to the wise: not all critiques are beneficial, but ought to be considered for value and weighed against the instinct you must train into your writing gut with an obscene amount of high quality reading.) In short, eleven years later, I have 3 full length published books (thanks to Rachelle Gardner and Ashberry Lane Publishing) and a Christmas novella (ebook), and a couple of novels in the works. That first story went through the proverbial ringer numerous times, and then came my agent's 10 page revision letter... but that first one did eventually become a book. The title went through several changes, as well as the opening, the storyline, and much more. My writing skill as well as my understanding of the publishing industry had to grow. A LOT. So, since today marks the anniversary of the day I turned into a novelist, I thought it would be fun to pull out the first page (below) of that very first draft of what is now the book, Like There's No Tomorrow. (For those who know the story, Megan was later renamed Claire.) Thank you, Gary & Merethe, for inspiring me to become something I didn't know was in there. Here's the opening of that first draft, started 11 years ago today. :) ~CHAPTER 1~ Megan Kendal sat speechless in the backseat of her own car. Anyone acquainted with the formidable little Scotswoman, especially those traveling with her now, knew she usually had no trouble unleashing her probing questions and fiery opinions on anyone within reach. But today, she was speechless. As the station wagon containing her whole family, including her brother Ian, headed toward Glasgow, she was still in shock. And not just Megan, but her teenage sons as well, who couldn’t remember their father ever coming to church with them. Ian and David had spent today the way they had spent many recent days: fishing at Loch Blane; and now Megan’s mind was churning with questions: What had happened? What did they talk about? How had Ian managed to get David to come to church with the rest of the family? Without thinking, she leaned forward to take a sniff of her husband who sat in front of her in the driver’s seat. No smell of whiskey. She sat back, ashamed of her suspicions. Did she really think David would have to be drunk to go to church? She glanced over at 15-year-old Jack and understood the look on his face; he’d had the same thought. Posted by Camille Eide at 8:32 AM No comments: Links to this post Labels: ACFW, Ashberry Lane Publishing, Fiction, novel writing, novelist, OCW, Randy Ingermanson, writing, writing craft Johnny Devine, Living Large (Print, that is) I'm pleased to share the ENORMOUS news that The Memoir of Johnny Devine is now available in Large Print! These glossy lovelies arrived in the mail today, compliments of Center Point Publishing. It's a hefty 415 page hardcover edition and weighing in at a whopping 1.3 lbs, according to Amazon. (Whose job is it to weigh books? So, what do you do? Uh, I'm a book weigher. But I'm really discreet about it. You don't want the bigger ones to feel self-conscious, so I try to be sensitive and avoid weighing the heavy ones right after the skinny ones...) So you get a book you can finally see without straining your eyes, but it's heavy enough to pull a hamstring. (?) Seriously, I love large print. Not only do these books make reading easier, but when I go to reserve a popular title through the library, the large print versions are often available when the regular ones have 187 holds. Win-win! The Memoir of Johnny Devine (Large Print) is available at Amazon for a hefty price ($36.95), but my guess is those who typically buy large print are prepared for that. Hopefully you've won the lottery or inherited a fortune from book addict. (Oh wait... that's a good one...) The Memoir of Johnny Devine, a Novel, is a dramatic story-within-a-story of a Hollywood bad boy reformed and a good girl in need of reform. Set in the 1950s, it’s a powerful tale of love, redemption, intrigue, and the miracle of grace. Recipient of RT Book Reviews rare 5-star Top Pick, Seal of Excellence, Best Inspirational Romance 2015, and OCW Cascade Award for Historical Fiction. I was pleased to find that the Cincinnati Library website includes a feature called Why This Title Appeals to Readers. They took the time to scan the 99 Goodreads reviews and pull the most frequently or commonly used terms people use to describe the "feel" of the Johnny Devine. According to CL, this book appeals in Tone: Moving, Strong sense of place, and in Writing Style: Engaging. I'm delighted to know readers are able to take away some of the things authors work so hard to include in our stories. I'm happy with the way this edition turned out. If you get a chance to read one of these, let me know how you liked the larger print. I almost expected to see a center section of film stills, autographed photos of Johnny, and his Hollywood Boulevard star. Labels: Ashberry Lane Publishing, books, Center Point Publishing, Christian Fiction, Christian Romance, Large Print, Romance, The Memoir of Johnny Devine Passing the Baton & VOTE for a NEW Look for Johnny...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line81
__label__cc	0.68354	0.31646	Pyrite Nominations Are Open! November 2, 2012 by Someday 48 Comments Your fearless leaders have special socks! With crowns! To celebrate the Pyrite and because we are just that cheesy. Also, feet shots are trendy and we do like being on trend. We are at roughly the 50% point for covering the contenda list, and most of the year’s books are available to readers, so we’ve determined that the time has come (the walrus said) to launch our Pyrite Printz! The Pyrite is intended to be fun, maybe even raucous, but it’s not just for fun. Part of the RealCommittee’s process is culling the initial “list” (created through conversations and personal reading lists) down to a formal nomination list, and then, through in-depth discussion, further shrinking that nomination list to the shortlist. We could just create a shortlist on our own. Certainly we all have a few books we think are the top contendas. But one of our major goals all along has been to make the RealCommittee process more transparent by emulating it as much as is possible via blog, so we need your nominations! Nominations are open to all 2012 YA books, whether it’s a title we’ve already covered, an upcoming book from the contenda list, or one we haven’t even mentioned. Note: we are artificially limiting nominations to one per person for the time being, so think carefully about what you want to nominate and read through the list before nominating. This is not at all in line with the RealCommittee process, but we also have a lot more than 9 people likely to submit nominations. A few other technical details: We might vote the list down at some point, much as the RealCommittee uses straw polling, with the goal of a tight list of 10 or so nominations to be revisited in early January (after all the contendas have been covered). We are hoping that everyone who chooses to go the distance with the Pyrite will read all the titles on the shortlist for those January discussions, which is part of why we wanted to get this going now. And then we’ll vote shortly before MidWinter, and see how our process compared to the RealCommittee’s. We will ask that you don’t vote unless you have read all of the shortlist titles, although we may also run an open vote, as we did last year, because it’s always interesting to see those results as well. So (we say, finally getting to the good stuff) submit your nominations using the comments here! Click through for the original contenda list, organized by reason for contenda-ness. If you prefer organized lists, this version is alphabetical by author and subdivided by publishing date. The second version also is frequently updated with links as we write up books and is basically a table of contents for our 2012 posts. In your comment/nomination, please include title, author, a 1-2 sentence annotation that generally describes the book, and a statement which references or draws on the official criteria to explain why the book you are nominating deserves to win the Printz. (This is effectively the same as the process required to nominate a book for the RealPrintz for both committee members and field nominators, although we’ve cut out the bibliographic data fields to make life easier.) If you nominate a title we haven’t covered yet and would be willing to write far more than a paragraph or so in defense of that title, we are interested in running some guest posts, especially for those titles none of us strongly support. Just mention your interest in your nomination and we’ll be in touch. (If we’ve already covered your nomination but you have a LOT more to say, we can run guest posts that counter or expand on what we’ve said in the January discussion period.) Finally, please recognize that we are totally making this up as we go along, doing our best to find a way to create something that captures at least a little of the RealPrintz experience. This may or may not be exactly the right construction for the Pyrite, so let us know if you have any ideas on how we can improve this, especially as regards emulating RealCommittee experiences. Filed Under: Housekeeping, Process, Pyrite Tagged With: changes, Mock Printz, Nominations You all know my heart has been with Code Name Verity for months now, and I’ll be posting my reasons within the next week or so. But now there is a potential rival! I’m 3/4 of the way through Railsea by China Mieville, and it’s brilliant. So I am going to save my nomination for a few days. Or call blogger privilege and end up nominating both. I am going to be bold! And nominate: Title: Chopsticks Author: Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral I had a lot to say in my post , so I’ll let that stand for the annotation/statement. Sophie Brookover says: Ugh, I can only choose ONE. ONE! And I’m well behind on reading, so like Bjork, I miss them, but I haven’t met them yet (nobody can tell me that Carly Rae Jepsen did not steal and then refine this concept for her immortal line, “before you came into my life / I missed you so bad.”). Also, this must be brief, as I need to go pick up my daughter from school for trick-or-treating, in BOLD DEFIANCE of Governor Christie’s order to move Halloween to Monday (we are super-fortunate — my county was not hard-hit by the storm this week). Ok, ok, enough with the stalling: I’m going to go with DODGER, by Terry Pratchett, for the following reasons: Plot: is he not the master of plot? He never outlines! He just goes with the flow! And yet all the elements of this story click into place so beautifully but not in a forced way. Nothing is jammed in, just beautifully woven. Fantastic. Characters: real historical personages rub elbows with memorable, well-developed characters invented from whole cloth. But it’s not exactly historical fiction, either. It’s more alt-history, in the vein of Joan Aiken’s peerless WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE series, but way less loopy. Themes: Ok, not as deep as Pratchett’s Honor-winning NATION, but still: history, truth/lies, community, identity, love. I will probably write more in a post later, but I think this is a good start for a nomination! Keep ’em coming, friends. Can’t wait to see what you come up with! Karyn, I’ll take care of the Code Name Verity nomination (did not dig Railsea myself, however…) Code Name Verity. Story: This isn’t really a plot book, but what plot there is is fantastically developed, particularly developed in terms of all the pieces pulling together–sometimes a couple times, in a couple different ways. And oh, the development of “Kiss me, Hardy!” Characters: Both main characters are expertly developed through their own first-person narratives and through Verity’s third-person narrative–and these three views provide compelling, complimentary, never contradictory, but distinct portraits of the characters. And the French boy, and the German woman who assists the interrogation–we see them twice, in such different contexts and directions, in ways that build to a believable, fully-fledged character, even though we (appropriately) never see them as whole people–neither do either of the girls. Themes: One of the most beautiful presentations of the themes of friendship and trust I’ve seen. I’d also like to point out the theme of our public selves, and our public relationships. I’ll go there: who WASN’T shipping/slashing the two of them? But it doesn’t matter if they were banging, or wanting to bang because this is a book about what they show of their friendship to the world, and if they were banging, they kept it under wraps. Which makes such sense! And the themes of truth and honesty and persepective were all masterfully created with the brilliant unreliable narrator. Voice: Again, this goes back to the beautifully written, entirely believable, absolutely unbelievable Verity, and the three narratives–two first-person and the internal third-person, all balanced and beautiful. Setting: Bleak and minimal and exactly as much detail as was needed. Not the most organized nomination ever, but I think I got my major points said. =) (Also, Sophie, I’m glad you’re okay!) Beth Saxton says: Sarah covered my quirky one and so I’ll take another obvious one. Title: The Diviners by Libba Bray Summary: Evie’s modern ways are too much for her parents and she gets sent to stay with her Uncle Will in New York City. She gets drawn into a creepy murder mystery with an odd mix of friends who have secrets just like Evie’s. Printzy-ness: The Diviners excels particularly in setting, voice ,and plot. Bray succeeds in developing both the time and place to nearly be characters in the story themselves. Each of the sections of different characters has a distinct feel, and I think over the last few years we’ve seen how hard that is to do. At its base the book is a mystery, and it doesn’t suffer for the other elements, instead it’s well constructed. Bray’s descriptions often had me reading out loud at the language and style. There are SOOOO many books I want to nominate, but I’ll absolutely kick myself if this one isn’t in the mix: THE BRIDES OF ROLLROCK ISLAND by Margo Lanagan Synopsis: a young girl finds that she has the power to create selkies–humans out of the bodies of seals–and soon begins to use this power to sell wives to the men on her island. Over the course of several decades, we see the terrible implications through the eyes of many residents of Rollrock. Printz qualities: Voice and Style are as always Lanagan’s strongest suit. She almost writes in a language of her own, which she is able to manipulate with extraordinary ease. But really, this novel abounds in absolutely every Printz category: its Themes about sexuality, obsession, oppression, family, and more are deep and rich; the Rollrock Setting is incredibly detailed; the Characters are varied, flawed, and fascinating; and the Story is intricately woven through various character POVs. The results seem to be mixed on this one, but I really would like to see: THE DISENCHANTMENTS by NINA LACOUR Synopsis: Colby is shocked when his best friend Bev abandons their long-term plans, and as he goes on a road trip with Bev’s band, he examines what he wants from life and his future. Voice and style really stood out to me. No book I’ve read this year was better able to capture what it is like to be young, and the first-person voice was vivid and real. I also think it excels in story, setting, characters, and themes. Kristin Casale says: Synopsis: Verity is an English spy writing out a confession to the Nazis following her capture in Occupied France. Is she really a traitor or is something else going on? The story is particularly gripping, but the style of the narrative and how it unfolds make this story really stand out. The characterization is great, as well, with Wein portraying a friendship that stands the test of a lot of things. The plot (you might say there isn’t one) is actually shown in how the narrative is strung together and how it unfolds. The theme was brilliant in its portrayal of female friendship, with chilling but also evocative setting on top of that. Seriously… the best YA I’ve read this year. I’m going to be boringly obvious here and nominate THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green. Synopsis: Hazel Grace Lancaster, a girl with terminal cancer, meets Augustus Waters, in remission from osteosarcoma, at a support group for teenagers with cancer. The two of them fall in love. Printz-iness: So, so beautifully written. Every line is perfectly formed, every part of TFiOS is funny or heartbreaking or both. Hazel’s voice (sarcastic, melancholy, empathetic) is strong. The themes of love, individual worth and significance, and male and female ideas of strength are rich and well-integrated into the plot. The Amsterdam section struck some as unrealistic, but TFiOS isn’t supposed to be entirely realistic – the descriptions of Amsterdam come thisclose to magical realism, making what comes after it even more crushing. A lovely and unique book. Thank you, Tess! I called Sarah this morning and said, “It’s been 12 hours and no one has nominated TFiOS! How is that possible??” She basically said patience, grasshopper. So you have proved her right! Kalen says: I’ll nominate Keeping the Castle by Patricia Kindl. Synopsis: Althea is desperately trying to find the money to save her family home, the crumbling Crawley Castle, even if it means marrying into it. When her young, attractive, and most importantly wealthy neighbor Lord Boring returns to town from London, her plan launches into action. I loved the flavor of this book, as it perfectly captures the style of Regency-era romances. The characterizations of Althea, her step-sisters, and Mr. Fredericks in particular are fantastic and hilarious. The plot seems to evolve naturally, while also incorporating many of the staples of the genre. And it’s fun and light-hearted, which can be a rarity in award books! There are several titles nominated that I certainly second but am going with The Raven Boys because I think it should be included in the discussion. The “magical realism” that infuses the story is one of the book’s strengths. Characters are textured in such interesting ways. and the names! Who names a bird Chainsaw? The plot pieces fit together in surprising, yet totally logical ways. That said, this is just one of many titles that I feel could be a contenda. – just want to ensure in stays in the mix. So my nomination goes to Gansey & Blue and the remarkable interweaving of reality, legend, characters- both living & dead, and brilliant language that Stiefvater delivers. Oops, got so carried away, neglected submission rulles TITLE The Raven Boys AUTHOR Maggie Siiefvater SYNOPSIS. The lives of Blue, a girl whose kiss will kill her true love, and prep schoolmates, searchinf for a dead king, intersect and set in motion a series of potentially life-changing events. See above for my comments Just crossing fingers that the other titles that I would love to nominate will find a champion. Going with one we haven’t discussed here. TITLE: Personal Effects AUTHOR: E. M. Kokie SYNOPSIS: Matt is still struggling to come to terms with his idolized brother TJ’s death when the army sends home his belongings. Letters and objects make it clear that TJ had some secrets and Matt is determined to understand his brother–even if what he learns makes him question everything he thought he knew. STRENGTHS: Voice and theme. Matt’s voice grabs you right from the first page and never lets go. He makes some bad decisions but you always understand where he is coming from. Themes of loyalty, acceptance, personal responsibility and courage are all part of Matt’s journey and I think the author communicates them in a way that is believable, rather than didactic. In a year with many books that touch on issues of coming out and the acceptance of family and friends (such as The Difference Between You and Me, Ask the Passengers and The Miseducation of Cameron Post) I think this one really stands out. Nancy Werlin says: No one has mentioned this tour-de-force debut. TITLE: Various Positions AUTHOR: Martha Schabas PUB: FSG SYNOPSIS: 14 year old Georgia begins attending professional ballet school — a dangerous, body-obsessed place to begin with. Add to this her witnessing the sad dynamics of her parents’ marriage, wanting to please her ballet teachers, wanting to fit in with the other girls, wanting to be a “good girl” (while her body has other ideas), and her ambition — and the result is disaster. Georgia hasn’t the maturity and experience to keep on the right side of the line between fantasy and reality. As a result, she does great, irreversible damage to someone else, and maybe to herself. AWARD WORTHY: Various Positions will divide readers, because it doesn’t give the reader a main character to adore or cheer on . . . just one who is real. Reading is like being forced to watch the proverbial train-wreck. This will never be a popular book; it is too emotionally difficult and challenging, likely even distasteful for many. Nonetheless it is is superbly written and imagined; engrossing and heartbreaking. This is realistic girl-fiction at its best; more, this is a book that needs award notice; it will be overlooked without it. Here is my nomination! TITLE: Every Day AUTHOR: David Levithan SYNOPSIS: A wakes up in a different body every day. His life has always been this. He doesn’t know why but he tries to live each person’s life respectfully for one day and then return it the way it was before. First do no harm is his motto. But then he meets Rhiannon and he starts breaking all of his rules, trying to find a way to be with her when every day he is in a different body. AWARD WORTHY: The themes of identity, body image and love is done extremely well. The characters were very, very strong. Levithan has A in the body of people from all walks of life, but these characters are not tropes or stereotypes. He makes each of them come to life and we feel along with A what it is like to walk a mile in their shoes. The plot is also very well crafted and the conclustion leaves you feeling it couldn’t have ended any other way. Kelly Jensen says: May I be so bold as to talk about one you have yet to talk about yet? Oh yes. Yes I will be. TITLE: Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone AUTHOR: Kat Rosenfield SYNOPSIS: Becca is ready to escape her small town, but when the body of an unidentified girl is found on the side of the road, the town — and Becca — are thrown for a loop. Who is she? How did she end up here? While the investigation looms, Becca questions whether or not she’s ready to make the leap from the place she’s always wanted to leave and risk it on her own elsewhere. AWARD WORTHINESS: This is a lyrical, voice-driven, and literary story that delves into what it means to pursue your dreams (or give them up for something else entirely). The setting is lush, and the mystery itself unfolds in a way that mimics Becca’s growth intellectually and emotionally as she considers staying in town or leaving for something Bigger and Better. Rosenfield doesn’t waste a word or description, and she masterfully handles telling the story not only through Becca’s perspective, but also through Amelia Anne’s before she is dead on the side of the road. This is a thoughtfully-crafted novel about choices and about life and death, as well as how life choices can impact whether you’re living or you’re dying. The book successfully twists reader perceptions when it comes to characters, too: there aren’t clear cut villains or victims (aside from Amelia) but rather, everyone in the story comes to be who they are through the choices they make. Maureen E says: Since Miriam took Code Name Verity, I’ll nominate another favorite from this year. It hasn’t been discussed here yet, but I loooove it. TITLE: Seraphina AUTHOR: Rachel Hartman SYNOPSIS: Seraphina, a court musician, must navigate the tricky worlds of human and dragon politics in the kingdom of Goredd, while also keeping her own secrets and discovering who she really is. AWARD WORTHY: SERAPHINA has all the hallmarks of classic coming-of-age fantasy, but is presented in a fresh way, with plenty of room for discussion about issues like body image, multi-cultural (in this case mult-species) identity, and the use of power. The world of Goredd is beautifully formed, with a lot of attention paid to specific details which render it far more real than the usual pseudo-medieval fantasy setting. Seraphina herself is a wonderful narrator with a clear and vivid voice which makes the story seem contemporary and readable. Her journey is largely an internal one, but her decisions and actions have wider consequences. Without being presented in a heavy-handed manner, the themes of identity, place in the world and in a family, and personal responsibility certainly resonate with many of the concerns today’s teens face. Since Maureen took SERAPHINA, I’ll nominate: TITLE: Ask the Passengers AUTHOR: A.S. King SYNOPSIS: Astrid gives way her love (“because if I give it all away, no one can control it”) to the passengers in the planes flying 30,000 feet overhead. Her family seems to be falling apart, and everyone in her small town seems to have an opinion about who she should be. With help from her imaginary mentor, “Frank” Socrates, Astrid is trying as hard as she can to be who she is, and not who other people think she is. PRINTZ-NESS: Astrid’s voice is strong, consistent, and deep. She is a questioning teen in the truest sense of the word, not wanting what others think of her sexuality or her family or anything else to determine who she is. The small town setting is wonderfully depicted, as Astrid knows so much about it, even as she yearns to leave it. The bits of magical realism (Socrates, the airplane passengers) fit flawlessly into the story, helping the reader see Astrid from other angles. Beautifully written, funny, touching, and real. Are all of these books going to be on the final list? Or are we going to narrow them down further? I just really need to get reading!! 🙂 In reply to @TeenReader;s Q, I think we will narrow them down, because we want a list everyone can hopefully make it through! I’m thinking we’ll leave it open though Thanksgiving weekend, then close it out and vote down as needed. That said, you might want to just start reading anyway! So Kristin Casale and I both nominated CNV (though I forgot a summary, whoops)–does that mean one of us gets another nomination? Because no one’s nominated DAYS OF BLOOD AND STARLIGHT yet… Miriam, I think that’s only fair, so go for it! Alrighty, then! Karou and Akiva were star-crossed lovers dreaming of peace long ago–another lifetime, literally, for Karou. Now Akiva has killed Karou’s family and is once again fighting in the generations-long war of Seraphim versus Chimaera and Karou is doing what she can to keep the Chimaera alive and fighting. The war keeps getting more and more vicious. Style and Design: Everything about it is delicious, from the book design to the the epigraphs to the snarkily-written bits that made me burst out laughing and the beautifully-written bits that made me bit my lip in awe. It dredges into the deepest level of unstoppable, horrific war, without ever becoming truly hopeless. Many middle books in trilogies try this (think THE ASK AND THE ANSWER), but few succeed this well (only KESTREL succeeds better). No too-magical Prague to bring this into question! Two worlds, three lands with the suggestion of a fourth, all developed to exactly the extent that need to be developed. I admit Akiva’s still a but weak, but oh, Karou. And the secondary characters are equally lusciously drawn. And Zuze. Oh, Zuze. I want to give her all of the hugs and listen to all of her words and she is amazing. Love, war, friendship, inevitability, trust… it’s a rich theme stew, and the flavors are developed and balanced and nuanced. Apparently, based on all the food-words I used, I think this book is a feast. Miriam, I just finally got my hands on this yesterday, and it’s two books down in my queue (based purely on annoying deadline-driven reading needs), but you just compared it to Kestrel. Which — oh goodness, my excitement for Days just went off the charts. AND I want to reread the Westmark trilogy. Florian! I love Florian. Damn deadlines! I mean, Kestrel does it better because it’s Kestrel and OMG KESTREL. But… yeah. Other people who love KESTREL?? HEART YOU BOTH. Miss Print says: I’m going to go with GRAFITTI MOON by Cath Crowley and fervently hope someone else will nominate GRAVE MERCY as I think both really are worth being featured. Title: Grafitti Moon Author: Cath Crowley Synopsis: On the night of her high school graduation Lucy hopes to find a street artist named Shadow, even if she has to get help from the last boy she wants to talk to. Ever. But as Ed walks Lucy through Shadow’s art, the night that promised to be a disaster turns into something else. In a city filled with missed connections and opportunity, Ed and Lucy are right where they’re supposed to be. Print-ness: Crowley’s writing is always so beautiful. I also think it’s a great coming of age story with nods to lots of artists and authors that add a smart dimension to an already great story. Hope Baugh says: I confess that Seraphina is still my fav for the Printz, with The Diviners and The Brides of Rollrock Island as my two definite honor choices, but since those have already been nominated I would like to nominate Long Lanking by Lindsey Barraclough as another title that is worth re-reading and discussing. It has all kinds of potential in terms of readers’ advisory because it is creepy historical fiction that you can suggest to anyone (anyone that already likes to read) without worrying about gore, sex, cursing or other potential red flags. There’s a creepy old mansion, a creepy old church, and all kinds of creepy old atmosphere (shivering again, remembering!) and the story about an ancient evil could have been a mere melodrama, but I think the writing is sophisticated enough to be Printz-worthy: It is set in England in 1958. You get a strong sense of time and place without being hit over the head with it. There is actually a lot of “cursing” without any actual curse words, which is just one of many things that help to make the characters round and believable. It is told in three voices: Cora is a girl who has been sent with her little sister, Mimi, to stay with their great-aunt in the country while their father and mother figure out some problems in London. Roger is a boy that the girls meet when they arrive at Aunt Ida’s house, which is surrounded by a kind of moat. He and his little brother Peter become their friends as they go exploring. Ida Eastfield does not want want the girls here, can’t have the girls here, can’t have it all starting up again… The storytelling switches back and forth between the three voices in a way that contributes to the breath-holding pacing. There is lovely red herring or two, too. I’ll try to explain my reasons better if this makes it to our list of ten contenders. I hope it does! Well, drat. I just realized that I put an unnecessary “g” in the title above. The title of the book I nominated is actually Long Lankin. ‘Sorry! Hi Jenn, thanks for your nomination! We are asking for an annotation and a statement of why the book deserves to be in the running (with reference to the Printz criteria — the link is included in our original post) so please take a moment to write a comment addressing those! (Otherwise the nomination doesn’t make it into the poll.) Hannah Mermelstein says: Title: Bitterblue Author: Kristin Cashore Synopsis: 18-yr-old Queen Bitterblue, bogged down with meaningless papers and court proceedings, starts to wonder if there is more to her kingdom than she is being told. As the novel unfolds, Bitterblue befriends criminals and uncovers the depth of pain caused by her father’s regime as she tries to make things right. Printz-worthiness: Cashore is an amazing world-builder with the ability to write about heavy topics of power, torture, justice and injustice using humor and creativity. Engaging and completely unique. Favorite character: Death the librarian (rhymes with “teeth”). This book is a sequel (taking place 8 years later) to Graceling and a companion novel (more than 40 years later) to Fire. Title: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Author: Benjamin Alire Saenz What’s masterful and literary about this book is how keenly Saenz conveys the emotions of someone who’s deeply in denial about those emotions; how he takes two Mexican-American boys and explores the ways in which they’re different, as well as the ways in which they’re the same, touching on class identity, ethnic identity, and family; the gorgeous intensity of the Texas landscapes and storms; and how all of that is woven together into a book that’s about sexuality, responsibility, coming of age, and love. Jennifer Hubert Swan says: Thank goodness so many like minded folks already named many titles that I would have listed. So I’m going with the wonderful and woefully unstarred MONUMENT 14 by Emmy Laybourne. It’s about a group of kids and teens trapped in a Wal-Mart type store while the apocolypse happens outside in the form of extreme weather and escaped toxins from the local chemical weapons facility. I know what you’re thinking, but I believe that when it comes to awards, nonstop action is often dismissed in favor of deep and loving characterization, (and this book has both!) so I want to give it a shout out. And I would been torn between Monument 14 and the beautiful SAILOR TWAIN GN by Mark Siegel, but I wasn’t sure if First Second imprints were eligible as YA or if they were considered adult. While there are no teen characters in Sailor Twain, I think it has enormous teen appeal because of the romantic entanglements and well, there are also mermaids. Murderous mermaids. Love to know what the Printz gang thinks about the First Second imprint question. I have this book on the tantalizing “read after Jan 21” pile, because I assumed, based on price point, that it was intended as an “adult” publication (the YA price point on a hardcover is usually under $20). However, First Second is an all-ages imprint, so I’m not sure there is any clear guideline that would declare Sailor Twain eligible or not. Thoughts, all? Okay, now all of my Personal Top 6 have been nominated except THE GIRL WITH BORROWED WINGS and I’ve used my nomination so someone else has to. Yes? Gina W. says: AMERICAN BORN CHINESE was published by First Second. I’m looking at First Second’s Spring catalog and they have all the Juvenile/YA titles clearly marked with age ranges. I don’t have a copy of the catalog that had SAILOR TWAIN but we at Adult Books 4 Teens reviewed it, so I can only assume it was listed as adult, since that’s our primary criterion for review. I am quite convinced that SAILOR TWAIN is adult even if First Second doesn’t have age designations or, more vitally, there is teen appeal to it. Which I’m not wholly convinced of, even though appeal has nothing to do with Printz. In any case I found that it had adult sensibilities and characters and situations and perspective that didn’t seem teen to me at all. TK, I haven’t read it yet, but Jennifer has been VERY compelling in her arguments in real life! And she usually has quite the eye for these things (and pretty much called last year’s Printz winner, so we may all want to go read Monument 14 RIGHT NOW), so between that and the AB4T review, I’m convinced that there must be some YA appeal. But I haven’t read it yet, and as you pointed out, appeal doesn’t matter for the Printz anyway. Jen, I’m afraid the evidence is mounting that you were right not to spend your nomination on an ineligible book. The book: BOMB by Steve Sheinkin What it’s about: The Race to Build–and Steal–the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon. Why it should win: It’s rare that a nonfiction book can best novels at their own game, but this one does so. Plot, character, setting, style, and theme are excellent here–and, then, there’s the degree of difficulty: it’s all true. ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL (Jesse Andrews) The title pretty much sums it up: Greg Gaines begrudgingly befriends Rachel, who has leukemia, and is Greg’s only friend besides Earl, his foul-mouthed, movie-making partner. EARL deserves to be in the Printz conversation for a few reasons, but most importantly is voice. Andrews has a great ear for dialogue and toes the fine line between quirky/clever and twee/obnoxious. On top of that, the writing is highly stylized, yet packed with character development, all of which creates this familiar story–dying girl helps boy come of age–told in a fresh way. Overall, the story just rang true, the characters are authentic, and the plot development is flawed, but I still bought into it. So hard to pick just one! Jonathan covered Bomb for me (Taking one out of my consideration pile – thanks!) After much debate I’m leaving behind Monstrous Beauty (I fear I am too biased – plus I could never pick it apart the way we will have to for shortlist titles – looking for the tiniest of flaws in order to choose one excellent book over another) and Grave Mercy (Sigh. I loved this, but decided my nomination is better literarywise.) for: TITLE: The Drowned Cities AUTHOR: Paolo Bacigalupi SYNOPSIS: Climate change has turned what used to be Washington D.C. into a drowned city constantly fought over by rival militias mostly consisting of child/teenage soldiers. Mahlia and Mouse are orphans just trying to keep their heads down and survive until they encounter Tool – a killing machine on the run from the militia currently in charge. Setting: Utterly and frighteningly believable – Bacigalupi paints a future that seems possible and is based in logically brainstorming how people would react to cataclysmic climate change partly based on how people have reacted throughout history. The concept of miliatias populated almost entirely by teens would be far less horrifying if it hadn’t happened before and wasn’t currently happening in some places. Characters: Mahlia isn’t always likable but she is a fully realized person whose actions are driven by the motivations Bacigalupi builds from her past. In Mouse/Ghost and Ocho, Bacigalupi shows clearly how teens get brought into and caught up in the militia life – an important addition for the richness of the themes explored here. Tool is an amazing accomplishment; he doesn’t think like a human and isn’t motivated by the same things humans would be. Theme: This is the biggest strength here. Bacigalupi uses his speculative world to explore real human issues that face the world now. Sarah mentions several of these in her post: What does it mean to be human? How do humans come to commit atrocities and still consider themselves human? What is survival worth? What is power worth? Is it better to stick to your morals if it means you die or better to bend so that you can live to fight another day? What and who are the casualties of war? Bacigalupi explores all of this while telling a rip-roaringly good war/survival story that doesn’t flag or slow down one bit under the burden. I keep coming back to two words: amazing and horrifying. Bacigalupi does them both – I don’t like horrifying war stories, but I would read this again for the setting, the characters and theme. The Drowned Cities deserves a seat at the Printz Discussion table. Title: TEAM HUMAN Authors: Sarah Rees Brennan and Justine Larbalestier Description: The world of Team Human has the same fascination with vampires as our own, but the vampires are real. Mel, however, is not a fan, and thinks her best friend’s obsession with vampires is ridiculous. Then a vampire decides to start attending her high school, and she meets a human boy who was raised by a vampire family, and begins to realize that life is a lot more complicated than she had thought. Voice: Each author has a distinctive voice in her own right, but they have managed to create a new, unique voice that has a bit of each and feels unified and compelling. Setting: The world is fully-realized and believable. There is a lot of vampire history and background that is explained when necessary but not annoyingly info-dumped. Characters: The best part! I really grew to know and care about the characters. Mel is flawed in a realistic way, but still extremely likeable, and she manages to grow believable throughout the novel. Theme: This book is about growing to understand other people and their motivations, even when those people are in opposition–and the execution of that theme is subtle and well-done. That doesn’t really explain why the book is so great, but I really like both authors and found that I liked their collaboration even better than their individual works. Title: TITANIC: VOICES FROM THE DISASTER Author: Deborah Hopkinson What it’s about: The story of the Titanic, from before it sails to after it founders, from the point of view of people who were there. Why it’s Printz-Worthy: Beautifully organized so that the facts fall into place without distracting from the narrative arc. Compelling characters, with a particular emphasis on young people. Fluidly written so that a fairly long book reads very quickly. Lots of helpful tables (now that errors in one have been corrected from the first edition) and well-selected photographs. This is a solid piece of scholarship that seems to be making the case for the Titanic’s value as an interesting narrative subject and a historically significant event to Titanic-skeptics. Leave a Reply to Jenn Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line86
__label__cc	0.716144	0.283856	Comment on Chang & Bushman (2019): Effects of outlier exclusion Recent research by Chang & Bushman (2019) reports how video games may cause children to be more likely to play with a real handgun. In this experiment, children participate in the study in pairs. They play one of three versions of Minecraft for 20 minutes. One version has no violence (control), another has monsters that they fight with swords (sword violence), and another has monsters that they fight with guns (gun violence). The children are then left to play in a room in which, hidden in a drawer, are two very real 9mm handguns. The handguns are disabled -- their firing mechanism has been taken out and replaced with a clicker that counts the number of trigger pulls. But these guns look and feel like the real thing, so one would hope that a child would not touch them or pull their triggers. The authors report four study outcomes: whether the kid touches the gun, how long they hold the gun, how many times they pull the trigger, and how many times they pull the trigger while the gun is pointed at somebody (themself or the other kid). I think it's an interesting paradigm. The scenario has a certain plausibility about it, and the outcome is certainly important. It must have been a lot of work to get the ethics board approval. However, the obtained results depend substantially on the authors' decision to exclude two participants from the control group for playing with the guns a lot. I feel that this is an inappropriate discarding of data. Without this discard, the results are not statistically significant. Overinterpretation of marginal significance The results section reports one significant and three marginally significant outcomes: "The difference [in handgun touching] across conditions was nonsignificant [...]" (p = .09) "The gun violence condition increased time spent holding a handgun, although the effect was nonsignificant [...]" (p = .080) "Participants in the gun violence condition pulled the trigger more times than participants in other conditions, although the effect was nonsignificant [...]" (p = .097) "Participants in the violent game conditions pulled the trigger at themselves or their partner more than participants in the nonviolent condition." (p = .007) These nonsignificant differences are overinterpreted in the discussion section, which begins: "In this study, playing a violent video game increased the likelihood that children would touch a real handgun, increased time spent holding a handgun, and increased pulling the trigger at oneself and others." I found this very confusing; I thought I had read the wrong results section. One has to dig into Supplement 2 to see the exact p values. Exclusion of outliers The distribution of the data is both zero-inflated and powerfully right skewed. About half of the kids did not touch the gun at all, much less pull its trigger. Among the minority of kids that did pull the trigger, they pulled it many times. This is a noisy outcome, and difficult to model: you would need a zero-inflated negative binomial regression with cluster-adjusted variances. The authors present a negative binomial regression with cluster-adjusted variances, ignoring the zero-inflation, which is fine enough by me since I can't figure out how to do all that at once either. Self-other trigger pulls outcome. The pair in red were excluded because the coders commented that they were acting unusually wild. The pair in green were excluded for having too high a score on the outcomes. Noisy data affords many opportunities for subjectivity. The authors report: "We eliminated 1 pair who was more than 5 SDs from the mean for both time spent holding a handgun and trigger pulls [green pair]. The coders also recommended eliminating another pair because of unusual and extremely aggressive behavior [red pair]." The CONSORT flow diagram reveals that these four excluded subjects with very high scores on the dependent variables were all from the nonviolent control condition, in which participants were expected to spend the least time holding the gun and pulling its trigger. The authors tell me that the pair eliminated because of unusual and extremely aggressive behavior was made on the coders' recommendation, blind to condition. That may be true, but the registration is generally rather vague and says nothing about excluding participants on coder recommendation. The authors also tell me that the pair eliminated because of high scores were eliminated without looking at the results. That may be true as well, but I feel as though one could predict how this exclusion might affect the results. This latter exclusion of the high-scoring pair is not acceptable to me. You can consider this decision in two ways: First, you can see that there are scores still more extreme in the other two conditions. With data this zero-inflated and skewed, it is no great feat to be more than 5 SDs from the mean. Second, you can look at the model diagnostics. The excluded outliers are not "outliers" in any model influence sense -- their Cook's distances are less than 0.2. (Thresholds of 0.5 or 1.0 are often suggested for Cook's distance.) Here are the nonzero values in log space, which is where the model fits the negative binomial. On a log scale, the discarded data points still do not look at all like outliers to me. Revised results If the high-scoring pair is retained for analysis, none of the results are statistically significant: Touching the gun: omnibus F(2, 79.5) = 1.04, p = .359; gun-vs-control contrast p = .148. Time holding gun: omnibus F(2, 79.5) = .688, p = .506; gun-vs-control contrast p = .278. Trigger pulls at self or other: omnibus F(2, 79.4) = 1.80, p = .172; gun-vs-control contrast p = .098. From here, adding the coder-suggested pair to the analysis moves the results further still from statistical significance. If you're worried about the influence of the zero inflation and the long tail, a simpler way to look at the data might be to ask "is the trigger pulled at all while the gun is pointed at somebody?" After all, the difference between not being shot and being shot once is a big deal; the difference between being shot four times and being shot five times less so. Think of this as winsorizing all the values in the tail to 1. Then you could just fit a logistic regression and not have to worry about influence. Analyzed this way, there are 6 events in the control group, 10 in the sword-game group, and 13 in the gun-game group. The authors excluded four of these six control-group events as outliers. With these exclusions, there is a statistically significant effect, p = .029. If you return either pair to the control group, the effect is not statistically significant, p = .098. If you return both pairs to the control group, the effect is not statistically significant, p = .221. I wish the authors and peer reviewers had considered the sensitivity of the results to the questionable exclusion of this pair. While these results are suggestive, they are much less decisive than the authors have presented them. Journal response I attempted to send JAMA Open a version of this comment, but their publication portal does not accept comment submissions. I asked to speak with an editor; the editor declined to discuss the article with me. The journal's stance is that, as an online-only journal, they don't consider letters to the editor. They invited me to post a comment in their Youtube-style comments field, which appears on a separate tab where it will likely go unread. I am disturbed by the ease with which peer reviewers would accept ad hoc outlier exclusion and frustrated that the article and press release do little to present the uncertainty. It seems like one could get up to a lot of mischief at JAMA Open by excluding hypothesis-threatening datapoints. Author response I discussed these criticisms intensely with the authors as I prepared my concerns for JAMA Open and for this blog post. Dr. Bushman replied: We believe that [the coder-suggested pair] was removed completely legitimately, although you are correct this was not documented ahead of time on the clinicaltrials.gov site. We believe [the high-scoring pair] should also have been excluded, but you do not. We acknowledge there may be honest differences of opinion regarding [the high-scoring pair]. As stated in our comment on JAMA Open, “Importantly, both pairs were eliminated before we knew how they would impact our analyses and whether their results would support our hypotheses.” Again, I disagree with the characterization of the removal of the high-scoring pair as a subjective decision. I don't see any justifiable criterion for throwing this data away, and one can anticipate how this removal would influence the analyses and results. I was successfully able to reproduce the results presented by Chang and Bushman (2019). However, those results seem to depend heavily on the exclusion of four of the six most aggressive participants in the nonviolent control group. The justification that these four participants are unusually aggressive does not seem tenable in light of the low influence of these datapoints and similarly aggressive participants retained in the other two conditions. While I admire the researchers for their passion and their creative setup, I am also frustrated. I believe that researchers have an obligation to quantify uncertainty to the best of their ability. I feel that the exclusion of high-scoring participants from the control group serves to understate the uncertainty and facilitate the anticipated headlines. The sensitivity of the results to this questionable exclusion should be made clearer. See my code at https://osf.io/8jgrp/. Analyses reproduced in R using MASS::glm.nb for negative binomial regression with log link and clubSandwich for cluster-robust variance estimation. Data available upon request from the authors. Thanks to James Pustejovsky for making clubSandwich. Thanks to Jeff Rouder for talking with me about all this when I needed to know I wasn't taking crazy pills. Nicely written Joe. I am not technically educated and was still able to get the gist of it. You last paragraph was restrained yet clear. One thing that strikes me is the effect of what the children were taught about firearms before the test. If you were to run an experiment with 8-12 year olds about crossing the street or dealing with snakes, what they had been taught about those things would have profound effects on the results. Firearms are ubiquitous in society, at least in the media, so I would expect it common that parents would have given the children at least some instruction as to how handle any weapons they may find. I didn't read the research article and don't know if that was accounted for but maybe it should have been. Joe July 21, 2019 at 10:09 AM Thanks for reading, Anonymous, and thanks for your kind words. I think these are valid questions that could help to contextualize the results. The authors do report that children from households that did own a gun were less likely to play with the study's guns. Maybe that speaks a little to your perspective. However, I don't think there's much point in contextualizing the results until the results are accurate. The phenomenon the authors report seems to be attributable to their data cleaning process, not randomization to condition. I don't see much value in discussing what the effect means when the data seems to indicate that there is no effect. Forgive me Joe, what does randomization to condition mean? You are right of course. What good is trying to figure why something is out there when there is nothing out there? From a layman's point of view, the problems with this study seem common in psychological research. It won't change easy if at all will it? Comment on Chang & Bushman (2019): Effects of outl...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line91
__label__cc	0.569119	0.430881	Planned Parenthood Fights Back IN THIS ISSUE: Lessons to be learned from a battle with Planned Parenthood in Indiana could have an impact on presidential politics, and pro-life victories continue across the country. Planned Parenthood Fights Back, Goes to Court Against Indiana Law Restricting Its Funding Gov. Mitch Daniels & Judge Tanya Walton Pratt In a week replete with news of presidential candidates entering and leaving the race, a story brewing in Indiana points the way toward greater political cooperation between pro-life and small government activists – cooperation that could be key for politicians working to build broad coalitions. In late April, the Hoosier state became the first in the nation to prohibit state officials from entering into contracts with or making grants to any entity (including, notably, Planned Parenthood) that performs abortions or that maintains or operates facilities where abortions are performed when Governor Mitch Daniels signed a law that also bans abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy. The effect of the new law is to deny Planned Parenthood about $3 million in public funds unless they decide that providing common preventive care for women (such as prenatal care, pap tests, and screening for sexually-transmitted diseases) is more important than providing abortions. Hours after the governor signed the bill into law, Planned Parenthood was in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis requesting a restraining order. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt refused to enter a temporary injunction. A full hearing on Planned Parenthood’s request for a permanent injunction against the law is expected in June. Despite the judge’s initial ruling, Planned Parenthood of Indiana continues to claim that the bill is unconstitutional. To read the legal analysis of the law from AUL’s premier pro-life legal team, click here. Media analysts have noted that the law defunding Planned Parenthood could improve Gov. Daniels standing among social conservatives as he considers a run for the presidency in 2012, but AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest observed that the cost-cutting bill is a roadmap to success for all politicians. “The most bi-partisan budget cuts available are those that get the American taxpayer out of the business of subsidizing abortion,” Dr. Yoest noted. “Socially conservative activists stand in agreement with budget hawks and independents in keeping tax money away from the abortion lobby. Politicians will find that the decision to cut such funding has broad support with voters of all kinds.” Victories at the State Level: AUL Praises Nebraska Legislature for Passing "Opt Out" of Abortion Mandate in Federal Health Care Law At left: Daniel McConchie of AUL, Dave Bydalek of Family First, Sen. Lydia Brasch, Former Gov. Kay Orr. Nebraska took steps to untangle insurance monies from the abortion industry when the state legislature passed LB22, the “Mandate Opt-out and Insurance Clarification Act,” prohibiting both private insurance coverage of abortion and the use of federal subsidies to purchase abortion coverage in the Nebraska Exchange. “The federal government should not be forcing Americans to pay for abortions or abortion coverage,” said Dr. Yoest. “During the health care debate we learned that more than 70 percent of Americans – pro-life and pro-abortion – do not want to see their tax dollars used to support abortions. This bill is a bipartisan effort to respect their wishes.” In January, Sen. Beau McCoy (District 39) introduced LB22, which is based on model language from Americans United for Life, to prohibit insurance plans that participate in the soon-to-be-implemented state insurance exchange from covering abortions. The bill also prohibits private insurance coverage of abortion except through the purchase of a separate rider. Oklahoma's Governor Signs Law Protecting Women and Girls from Dangerous, Off-Label Use of Abortion-Inducing Drugs Last week, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin (at right) signed another pro-life bill into law, HB 1970 — this time prohibiting dangerous, off-label use of the abortion-inducing drug RU 486, also known as mifepristone. The law was based on AUL’s model legislation and was sponsored by Rep. Randy Grau and Sen. Greg Treat. The new legislation requires that abortion-inducing drugs be distributed in accordance with the FDA-approved drug label and does not allow dangerous off-label use by abortion providers seeking to maximize their profits at the expense of women’s health. To read Dr. Yoest’s reaction to the good news, click here. Missourians Say "Thank You" to Last week, Care Net and Americans United for Life joined the Missouri legislature last in praising the work of pregnancy centers. The Missouri House of Representatives passed a “Resolution Honoring Pregnancy Care Centers,” thanking the non-profit organizations throughout the state for their tremendous service to women, children, and the community. Missouri is the sixth state this year to pass such a resolution, a model of which was drafted by Americans United for Life (AUL). Rep. Thomas Long introduced HR 1826 and led the efforts for its passage. UN Calls for Population Control as Global Birthrates Decline At left: William Saunders of AUL. "At a time when we are experiencing a worldwide decline in birthrates, and many countries find themselves in a demographic crisis that will leave their nations in economic and social ruin if something doesn’t change, the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) continues to call for more population control,” noted AUL’s Sr. Vice President for Legal Affairs William Saunders, in a blog post at Life News. To read the entire analysis of how population policies are hurting nations, click here. And from the Oklahoma Gazette AUL’s success at the state level is drawing the ire of pro-abortion activists. Click here to read about their reactions to AUL’s success in Oklahoma. 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__label__wiki	0.550292	0.550292	Fox’s Kimberly Guilfoyle: I Like Ben Carson Because He Views Immigration As “A Tumor Or A Disease” During Monday afternoon’s broadcast of The Five, co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle went absolutely gaga for the immigration reform plan that retired neurosurgeon and Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson outlined recently. While appearing on CBS’ Face the Nation this past Sunday, the surging White House hopeful explained that he will make sure that the United States borders would be sealed in his first year as President. He also stated that he’d allow undocumented immigrants six months to register to avoid deportation, but that only the ones with “pristine records” would remain and they wouldn’t be provided citizenship or any “goodies.” While discussing Carson’s suggestions, Guilfoyle said she really likes the way Carson thinks because he uses his doctor’s mind to recognize problems and solve them as he would in surgery. Therefore, he views immigrants in this country like they’re a disease and he’s discovered a way to remove them, as one would a cancerous tumor. “I like the way his mind works, the analysis that he goes through to identify a problem. And then he’s saying, of course I would seal the borders. He’s thinking of it almost like a surgeon goes in and deals with, you know, a tumor or a disease. And you try and then seal it off so it doesn’t become metastatic and spread all over, so you control the area. You control the spread. So I understand the philosophy there, because then you can kind of contain the problem.” Beyond admiring Carson for looking at human beings as medical problems, she also expressed happiness that the good doctor would keep immigrants away from receiving government assistance. While Carson has criticized GOP opponent Donald Trump’s batshit crazy immigration plan due to the impossibility of rounding up 11 million people for deportation, it doesn’t make his ideas any less insane. He’s claiming that he’ll fully seal the U.S. borders within a year and that he’ll commence rounding up illegal immigrants if they don’t register with the federal government within six months. In essence, he’s saying the same shit as The Donald, but in a sleepy warm tone that makes it appear far less harsh and inhumane. So, yeah, it makes sense why Fox News and conservatives love him. Below is video of the segment, courtesy of Fox News: Ben CarsonCable NewsFox Newsillegal immigrationimmigrationKimberly GuilfoyleThe FiveTicker	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line114
__label__wiki	0.599303	0.599303	Top NBA Draft Prospects in the ACC (Part Four: #16-20) Rodger Bohn Kyle Nelson @KNelsonDX Joseph Treutlein Joey Whelan We finish up the ACC with part four of our analysis of the top NBA draft prospects in the conference. Brandon Costner of N.C. State leads off, followed by Duke's Nolan Smith, North Carolina's Marcus Ginyard, Virginia Tech's A.D. Vassallo, and North Carolina's Deon Thompson. -Top Prospects in the ACC: Part One, Part Two, Part Three -Top Prospects in the Pac-10: Part One, Part Two, Part Three -Top NBA Draft Prospects in the SEC: Part One, Part Two, Part Three -Top NBA Draft Prospects in the Big 10: Part One, Part Two -Top NBA Draft Prospects in the Big 12: Part One, Part Two, Part Three #16 Brandon Costner, 69, SF/PF, Junior, NC State After a promising freshman season, Brandon Costner really disappointed as a sophomore, with his numbers going down across the board, and significantly so in many categories. A reduction in minutes and touches can account for some of his issues, as he deferred to freshman J.J. Hickson, who came in and was the instant focal point of their offense, but theres no excuse for his FG% dropping over 10 points when his usage actually decreased as well. According to reports, Costner is ready to put last season behind him and move forward, as hes convinced hes still the player he was as a freshman, and is intent on proving such. He said hes hit the gym hard this offseason, trying to improving his athleticism, while losing a reported 11 pounds already. This should help his game out significantly, and hell have every chance to show it, as his minutes and touches should return to what they were two seasons ago. In analyzing last season, its tough to really explain what went wrong for Costner. Many have pointed to Hickson and how he changed the dynamic of NC States team, but its tough to blame Hickson for Costners woes when Hickson was less turnover prone and far more efficient and productive than Costner, while doing it on higher usage to boot. Costners inability to adjust to a supporting role when he was put out of his comfort zone is a considerable red flag in projecting him to the next level, because hes not going to be an offensive focal point if he makes it in the NBA. Looking at Costners game, there still is a lot to like, starting with his strong frame and versatility on the offensive end. While his consistency was terrible last season, he showed flashes of the things he excelled with a season earlier, taking defenders off the dribble from the perimeter for one. He seems to have improved his handle with his right hand a bit (hes a lefty), and is dangerous attacking in either direction from the perimeter, though he still isnt a great finisher with his right. Hes not very quick with the ball, but he has excellent fluidity and coordination for his size, and is able to take advantage of mismatches with a lot of bigs at this level. Its questionable how this segment of his game will translate to the next level at either the 3 or the 4. In the post, Costners game fell off this season, with his efficiency going down noticeably. He has a nice assortment of moves along with good footwork, mixing in turnaround jumpers and pivot moves to get the job done. He has nice touch around the rim, but his lack of explosiveness leaves him prone to having his shot blocked. His reported work in the gym this offseason should help here. The area where Costners game fell off the most last season was with his jump shot, as his 3PT% fell from 38% to 31%, with his mid-range shot falling off as well. According to Synergy Sports Technology, Costner scored 1.17 points per possession on catch and shoot situations in 2006-07, but fell sharply to 0.75 in 07-08. Seeing Costner miss wide open threes by a few feet is something that happened on quite a few occasions this season, leading you to believe that many of his problems had more to do with the mental side of things rather than any talent deficiencies. Defensively, hes still a major question mark projecting to the next level, as he doesnt have great height or explosiveness to guard power forwards, while his lateral quickness will be a big problem for him guarding small forwards. Again, it will be interesting to see how his improvements to his body in the offseason affect this area of his game. This is likely always going to be a huge factor holding him back. Looking at the NBA, Costner is a real question mark for a lot of reasons, ranging from questions about his size to his athleticism to his conditioning to his position to his drastic decline in proficiency this past season. Theres no denying that hes still a quite skilled player, though, and he definitely has potential, though hes going to need to come back strong this season. A year older than most players his class, hes not the type who can just rely on his upside to get him attention from scouts. Hes going to need to be convincing on the court, producing and winning games, to get himself back into draft discussions. #17 Nolan Smith, 6-3, Sophomore, PG/SG, Duke Six points in fifteen minutes per game is hardly the stuff legends are made out of, but considering his versatile skill-set, the program he played for, and his reputation out of high school, we figured it wouldnt hurt to put Nolan Smith towards the very bottom of this list in order to take a preliminary in-depth look. Ranked as high as the sixth best prospect in his class according to analysts such as ESPNs Bob Gibbonsshockingly ahead of players like Michael Beasley and Jerryd BaylessSmith obviously came into Duke with some extremely lofty expectations. Clearly he wasnt able to live up to them in his first season of college hoopscompared to some of his peers at least (he was rumored to be contemplating transferring this summer)but he was always considered more of a three or four year prospect to begin with, even though he is a year older than his class. Solidly built at 6-3, with a great frame and good, but not amazing athleticism, Smith fills the bill for the most part as far as physical attributes are concerned. He spent minutes at both guard spots for Duke last season, but his future clearly appears to be at the point, which will give him a definite size advantage against most of his matchups. Smiths bread and butter right now revolve around his slashing game, as he has decent ball-handling skills, a solid first step, and a very aggressive mentality stepping into the lane. He appears to be somewhat out of control at times with his forays to the rim, and is excessively turnover prone at this stage, but its nice to see that insistence upon taking the ball strong to the basket early on. As a perimeter shooter, Smith saw fairly good results as a freshman, knocking down just under 39% of his attempts from beyond the arc, but his shooting mechanics leave a lot to be desired, as he sports a very awkward and deliberate wind-up before flicking the ball at the rim. He has nice touch on his jumper, and clearly is capable of knocking down shots with his feet set, but he leaves himself very little margin for error due to his unorthodox mechanics, which will become much more of a problem if he doesnt correct these issues once he goes up against bigger and more athletic defenders in the NBA, particularly with his pull-up jumper. The coaching staff at Duke never saw a reason to correct DeMarcus Nelsons poor shooting mechanics over the course of four years, and hes had to take the long road to making the NBA for that reason. It will be interesting to see if they care enough about Smiths pro potential to sacrifice somewhat in the short-term and help him in this regard over the long-term. As far as his point guard skills are concerned, we find mostly a mixed bag at this point. Smith looks like a smart, disciplined and unselfish player who is very much capable of executing an offense and showed nice flashes of playmaking ability at times. Too often though those moments were mixed in with mental lapses and out of control play, which resulted in Smith turning the ball over on exactly a quarter of the possessions he used, and left him with a negative assist to turnover ratio. Defensively is where Smith is obviously at his best at the moment. Intense, fundamentally sound, with a good wingspan, excellent strength, nice lateral quickness and the aggressive mentality needed to want to contest every single shot, Smith was just about all you can ask for from a freshman on the defensive end of the ball, minus some occasional mental lapses at times. He puts good pressure on the ball and has the versatility to guard both guard positions, which is a nice option for a coach to have. Not showing an incredible amount of upside, Smith regardless has all the makings of a very nice role player down the road, particularly if he can improve his shooting mechanics. Playing at a program like Duke, hell get all the attention he could ever ask for from NBA types, which could be either a blessing or a curse. There should be plenty of time to evaluate him and see how he continues to develop. #18 Marcus Ginyard, 65, SG/SF, Senior, North Carolina After starting every game last season for the Tar Heels, Ginyard will find himself on the bench for the first few weeks of the season after undergoing surgery a little over a week ago. The surgery was to repair a stress fracture in his left foot that plagued the senior last season, even forcing Ginyard to wear a boot on that foot at times. Despite the pain, though, the swingman proved to be invaluable to UNC, seeing time at every position except for center and proving to be the teams top on ball defender. At first glance, Ginyard appears to be a tad undersized for the wing position, but he makes up for it with excellent length and a solid 220 pound frame. He is a great athlete, but still a very raw basketball player, tending to rely on his physical attributes to get by on the offensive end. Ginyard has both very good open floor speed as well as a great first step when in the half court set. The only concern with his athleticism is a lack of explosive leaping from a standstill, he seems to need a full head of steam before he can really elevate; this shows up in his perimeter shooting. Offensively, Ginyard reminds of Houston Rocket D.J. Strawberry in that he is most dangerous in transition when he can get out and run. He is fast enough to beat most defenders up the floor with or without the ball, and while his body control is good enough that he can finish most of his shot attempts, he sometimes makes poor decisions when he doesnt have numbers in his favor. Ginyards ball-handling skills are adequate at best, he doesnt try to do that much offensively, so the majority of his turnovers last season came from trying to force tough passes on the break. In the half court set, Ginyard becomes more limited and predictable in his scoring abilities. He isnt much of a threat to shoot from the perimeter, having attempted just 30 three-pointers last season, and his shot is too flat footed at this point to be consistent. His form overall is pretty strong, but when he is forced to shoot off the dribble his mechanics deteriorate considerably. As one would expect of a player with a limited skill-set like Ginyard, he is fairly restricted in what he is able to do offensivelysince he cannot shot off the dribble he is almost always going to go straight to the rack when he puts the ball on the floor. Ginyard does a lot of the little things that make him an appealing player regardless of his shooting prowess, or lack thereof. He moves very well off the ball, often winding up with easy looks around the rim thanks to his ability to read defenses and make the necessary cuts to get himself open. He is also an excellent offensive rebounder for a perimeter player, averaging nearly two per game last season thanks to his length and hustle inside. Defense is where Ginyard really earns his keep with North Carolina, proving to be their top on ball defender. He has good lateral quickness and instincts, often drawing the opposing teams top perimeter player as an assignment. His length certainly helps him on this end, as do his quick hands. While Ginyard may have only averaged one steal per game last season, he was responsible for deflecting countless more passes that resulted in turnovers. At this point, Ginyard is a long shot at best to make it to the NBA. He has the second worst scoring rate of anyone in our database that will be playing this season; he just simply isnt a major scoring threat. In addition, he needs to improve his turnover ratio, as last season he turned the ball over roughly once every four possessions. Improving his perimeter shooting would go a long way to helping Ginyards stock, as being a lock-down defender will probably not be enough to get him a job in the NBA (just ask Jackie Manuel). With North Carolina sporting so many weapons though, dont expect to see him getting too many more touches this season than he did last year. #19 A.D. Vasallo, 66, Shooting Guard, Senior, Virginia Tech Vassallo enters the year as one of the most prolific shooters that the collegiate game has to offer. Awfully productive last season, the senior will have the opportunity to bolster his numbers even more given the graduation of Deron Washington on a very young Hokie team. The biggest asset that Vassallo brings to the table is easily his ability to shoot the ball from beyond the three point arc. Ranking 11th in DraftExpress percentage of team three pointers made and 22nd in DraftExpress overall three pointers made, he places himself statistically amongst the top 7 or 8 players returning to the collegiate game this season in those categories. His size, ability to get his shot off quickly, and high release point make his shot extremely difficult to block for even more athletic defenders. Improving over the last year was Vassallos game off of the bounce, although it is still subpar for a shooting guard prospect. He has proven capable of putting the ball on the deck one or two times and knocking down a jumper from midrange, although he rarely opts to take the ball all the way to the rim. Ball handling still remains a concern on the offensive end, especially when combined with his below average first step. On the bright side though, A.D. has shown off some nifty court vision in terms of finding the open man when he isnt able to score himself. He turns the ball over too much considering how heavily he relies on his jump-shot, though, sporting a negative assist to turnover ratio. The Puerto Rico native uses his height and burly build to do a decent job of rebounding the ball for a swingman, caroming boards to the tune of 4.6 per game. His size doesnt especially help him on the defensive end though, where he struggles to guard even small forwards at the collegiate level. Vassallos poor lateral quickness hurts him especially when trying to contain players with strong dribble drive arsenals. There will certainly be interest amongst NBA personnel for Vassallo simply due to his ability to shoot the ball from deep and put points on the board. He will have the chance to increase his scoring output this year while getting plenty of exposure in the ACC. Vassallo should have the opportunity to strut his stuff at Portsmouth and then possibly the NBA Pre-Draft camp, and strong showings at either should give him the opportunity to at least receive a training camp invite. #20 Deon Thompson, 68, Junior, PF/C, North Carolina Near the bottom of the ACCs list of top prospects is Deon Thompson, who arrived in Chapel Hill with high expectations following a solid U-19 World Championships. Needless to say, after a promising freshman campaign, last season was quite a disappointment. Not only did his per-40 production stagnate despite seeing twice as many minutes, but he also failed to show scouts that he diversified his game. With Ed Davis and Luke Zeller arriving on campus, in addition to one final run with Hansbrough, minutes and possessions likely will become few and far between for the UNC junior in what is a crucial season for his professional hopes. Physically, as we have said before, Thompson does not bring that much to the table. At 68 and swapping between power forward and center positions, he does not possess optimal size for NBA post. It looks like he got stronger since his freshman, but last year he did not carry himself as well, often looking flat footed in the open court, and doing nothing to refute the claims that he is a less than spectacular athlete. Offensively, little has changed since we last wrote about Thompson. He showed an increased willingness to expand his game outside of five feet last season, albeit to mixed results. Outside of put-backs, dunks, and lay-ups, he still possesses two moves: the turnaround jumpshot and a kiss off the glass from about ten feet in. He has a very nice touch, which is promising considering his size and the fact that Tyler Hansbrough and Ed Davis will eat minutes in the low post. His willingness to use the backboard on his jumpshots is very nice, but it only helps him around the basket, as he tends to throw the ball at the glass instead of relying on his shooting mechanics from farther away. He shows a high release point on his jumpshot, but his form is slow, which does not bode well for his ability to get his shot off at the next level. In terms of footwork, the only things that Thompson looks good doing at this stage are a nice looking jumphook, which he tends to launch from his left shoulder (he drives right a remarkable 77% of the time) and a very good looking turnaround jumpshot. The problem is that he does not know how to do much else based on film; he struggled late in the season to find his offense. Defensively, Thompson showed that he could be a solid collegiate defender, but that he has a long way to go before thinking about playing at the next level. The biggest problem seems to be his below average lateral quickness. He looked slow-footed around the perimeter and had a lot of trouble staying with perimeter-oriented power forwards last season. He does possess a nice wingspan, however, and in the post, is solid, using his body to alter shots around the rim as his 2.4 blocks per 40 minutes represents. Consistency is the key here, however, as for stretches of the game, he was a matador in the post. Developing a mean streak would do wonders for his game on this end of the floor as he simply has to prove himself in any way that he can this coming season. Deon Thompson is a four-year player, but this season he will have to show scouts that he deserves to remain in the draft conversation. Minutes will be even harder to come in a stacked frontcourt rotation, but if he can thrive in his role and can set himself up for a solid senior campaign, we might be writing about Thompson again next year. He simply has to get better offensively and more consistent on both ends of the floor. Its a tall order for a player who did not take advantage of his increased minutes last season, but Thompson has surprised us before. Its not out of the question that he could surprise us again. Marcus Ginyard SG/SF A.D. Vassallo SG/SF Deon Thompson PF J.J. Hickson PF DeMarcus Nelson SG D.J. Strawberry SG Jackie Manuel SG/SF Deron Washington SF Ed Davis PF	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line115
__label__wiki	0.581327	0.581327	RADICAL MEDIA BULLETIN BOARD AN INTERNAL NEWSLETTER FOR ALL LNS SUBSCRIBERS DECEMBER I, 1973 from: Vocations for Social Change, 4911 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, Calif. 94609. (435) 653~6535. Vocations for Social Change is a work collective oriented toward organizing people in their workplaces for social change. At present the collective is composed of 2 men and 3 women (two of whom are part-time). Our major project is the bi-monthly publication of Workforce, an organizational tool and resource directory which focuses on a special area of organizing each issue. We are now looking for two women who are into radical and feminist poli tî es. The work involves answering mail, keeping up with files and a mailing list, writing, editing, layout, and everything else involved in the production of a magazine. We would prefer people with experience in political or media projects, but part of working collectively involves learning and sharing skills. We can offer a subsistence salary and some help in finding a place. GO GSB Gay Activists Alliance Gay Switchboard PO Box 2554 1724 20th St. NW Washington 20013 Washington 20009 Stonewall Nation Media Collective GR Earth Works from: Paredon Records, Box 889, Brooklyn, NY 11202 Paredon's fall» 1973 record catalogue is now available. Their latest releases include Barbara Dane's "I Hate The Capitalist System," and "Che Guervara Speaks." "A Grain of Sand is the first record album of songs by and about Asians in America, Altogether there are 19 records available plus The Vietnam Songbook. And order blank is included with the catalogue. from: Stonewall Nation Media Collective St., N.W., Washington DC 20009. Stonewall Nation Media Collective of gay men involved in producing weekly on gay culture and gay lifestyles. Thro ture of music, poetry and news, we seek listeners a feeling for the variety of peri ence. We would like contact with other s throughout the country with a view towa tapes and information. We are also look singers, and musicians to perform, via on our shows. , 1724 20th is ä group radio shows ugh a mix- to give our the gay ex- uch groups rd exchanging ing for gay from: LNS We've discovered our first wrong address on the 10th edition of the "Radical Publications and Organizations" list. Please note that "For The People" is located at 637 So. Main St., Fall River, Mass. Because there have already been some misunderstandings, we want to emphasize that this list is made up of Liberation News Service subscribers only. We limit it to that simply because we couldn't possibly be up on all the papers and groups that should be included and we don't want to disappoint anyone by accidentially leaving them off the list. If you know of anyone who is not an LNS subscriber but would like other people to know of their existence, tell them to send their name, address and a short description to us and we'll print it in the RMBB. The following is a list of gay groups in the Washington DC area which a friend sent in to us. Washington Area Gay Community Council P0 Box 40552 Palisades Station Washington DC 20016 from: Cambridge-Goddard Graduate School, c/o Faculty Hiring Committee, 5 Upland Rd., Cambridge, Mass. 02140 Cambridge-Goddard is now accepting applications for faculty appointments for 1974-5. Faculty conduct year-long intensive programs of combined study and political action in a unique school; one year appointment on a part-time basis. Write for job description and other information. from: The Rest of the News, 306 East State St., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850, (607) 273-4139. The Rest of the News has just completed a special report on the Nixon administration and the impeachment crisis« The 15-minute tape analyzes M Nixon's system of justice--wîretaps, "no-knock" searches, and preventative detention; his economic program of freezing wages in a period of runaway inflation and rising corporate profits; and his foreign policy of intervention in PortugueserAfrica, the Chilean coup, and Indochina« Actualities obtained at factories, campuses, and streetcorners around the country are included. There are also selections from two songs distributed by Radio Free People in madrigal-bluegrass and ballad style. The two songs are given in full after the report (8 minutes) and there is also an imaginative 1 minute cut from KPFA, Berkeley, that shows what can be done with Nixon's speeches and a razor blade. This 25 minute program is available for $10 The Rest of the News' expanded subscription service includes a weekly 10 minute tape on a national issue; phone feeds on subjects of current interest; and occasional 10, 15, and 30 minute programs. For more information, get in touch. END OF RMBB FOR TODAY LIBERATION News Service December 1 , 1973 Full text RADICAL MEDIA BULLETIN BOARD AN INTERNAL NEWSLETTER FOR ALL LNS SUBSCRIBERS DECEMBER I, 1973 from: Vocations for Social Change, 4911 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, Calif. 94609. (435) 653~6535. Vocations for Social Change is a work collective oriented toward organizing people in their workplaces for social change. At present the collective is composed of 2 men and 3 women (two of whom are part-time). Our major project is the bi-monthly publication of Workforce, an organizational tool and resource directory which focuses on a special area of organizing each issue. We are now looking for two women who are into radical and feminist poli tî es. The work involves answering mail, keeping up with files and a mailing list, writing, editing, layout, and everything else involved in the production of a magazine. We would prefer people with experience in political or media projects, but part of working collectively involves learning and sharing skills. We can offer a subsistence salary and some help in finding a place. GO GSB Gay Activists Alliance Gay Switchboard PO Box 2554 1724 20th St. NW Washington 20013 Washington 20009 Stonewall Nation Media Collective GR 1724 20th St NW Washington 20009 Earth Works 1724 20th St NW Washington 20009 GBS from: Paredon Records, Box 889, Brooklyn, NY 11202 Paredon's fall» 1973 record catalogue is now available. Their latest releases include Barbara Dane's "I Hate The Capitalist System" and "Che Guervara Speaks." "A Grain of Sand is the first record album of songs by and about Asians in America, Altogether there are 19 records available plus The Vietnam Songbook. And order blank is included with the catalogue. from: Stonewall Nation Media Collective St., N.W., Washington DC 20009. Stonewall Nation Media Collective of gay men involved in producing weekly on gay culture and gay lifestyles. Thro ture of music, poetry and news, we seek listeners a feeling for the variety of peri ence. We would like contact with other s throughout the country with a view towa tapes and information. We are also look singers, and musicians to perform, via on our shows. , 1724 20th is ä group radio shows ugh a mix- to give our the gay ex- uch groups rd exchanging ing for gay record, from: LNS We've discovered our first wrong address on the 10th edition of the "Radical Publications and Organizations" list. Please note that "For The People" is located at 637 So. Main St., Fall River, Mass. 02721. Because there have already been some misunderstandings, we want to emphasize that this list is made up of Liberation News Service subscribers only. We limit it to that simply because we couldn't possibly be up on all the papers and groups that should be included and we don't want to disappoint anyone by accidentially leaving them off the list. If you know of anyone who is not an LNS subscriber but would like other people to know of their existence, tell them to send their name, address and a short description to us and we'll print it in the RMBB. The following is a list of gay groups in the Washington DC area which a friend sent in to us. Washington Area Gay Community Council P0 Box 40552 Palisades Station Washington DC 20016 GO from: Cambridge-Goddard Graduate School, c/o Faculty Hiring Committee, 5 Upland Rd., Cambridge, Mass. 02140 Cambridge-Goddard is now accepting applications for faculty appointments for 1974-5. Faculty conduct year-long intensive programs of combined study and political action in a unique school; one year appointment on a part-time basis. Write for job description and other information. from: The Rest of the News, 306 East State St., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850, (607) 273-4139. The Rest of the News has just completed a special report on the Nixon administration and the impeachment crisis« The 15-minute tape analyzes M Nixon's system of justice--wîretaps, "no-knock" searches, and preventative detention; his economic program of freezing wages in a period of runaway inflation and rising corporate profits; and his foreign policy of intervention in PortugueserAfrica, the Chilean coup, and Indochina« Actualities obtained at factories, campuses, and streetcorners around the country are included. There are also selections from two songs distributed by Radio Free People in madrigal-bluegrass and ballad style. The two songs are given in full after the report (8 minutes) and there is also an imaginative 1 minute cut from KPFA, Berkeley, that shows what can be done with Nixon's speeches and a razor blade. This 25 minute program is available for $10 The Rest of the News' expanded subscription service includes a weekly 10 minute tape on a national issue; phone feeds on subjects of current interest; and occasional 10, 15, and 30 minute programs. For more information, get in touch. END OF RMBB FOR TODAY PAGE 5 LIBERATION News Service (#572) December 1 , 1973 more,	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line117
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__label__cc	0.59115	0.40885	History of the Fitchburg Airport In April of 1924, motivated by urging by the military to develop training fields in case of future wars, Wesley Haynes started looking for land for an airport to service the Fitchburg-Leominster Area. Being a hilly area, there were not many large, flat areas suitable for this use. The area known as pigeon swamp and the Crawford Street farm were the first parcels purchased for the airport. S. Wesley Haynes, Bartow Crocker, Edward Hall, C.T.Crocker III, Joseph Lowe, Winthrop Mayo, and Judson C. Richardson started development of the airport on May 6, 1928. On June 10, 1929, Crocker Snow, Director of the Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission made the first landing. Founder S. Wesley Haynes Read about the history of Fitchburg Airport (PDF) as written by one of its founders, S. Wesley Haynes. View a photo gallery of historic photographs. Seeking Contributions We would like to create a historical archive compiling facts, stories and photos about the Fitchburg Airport. If you would like to contribute, please email .jpeg photographs, info, credits and release information to Michael Coulombe or leave material at the Airport Managers office for digitizing and return. Pictures of the airport, personnel, pilots, airshows etc. would make for a nice information source.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line129
__label__wiki	0.632737	0.632737	Book review: Olympic housing: a critical review of London 2012’s legacy by Penny Bernstock Allen, William (2014) Book review: Olympic housing: a critical review of London 2012’s legacy by Penny Bernstock. LSE Review of Books (12 Jun 2014). Website. With chapters on London’s housing legacy, regeneration along Stratford High Street, and the experiences of those who were moved out to make way for the Olympic Park, Penny Bernstock’s Olympic Housing is a rich resource for those interested in understanding how housing decisions are made, implemented, governed, and ultimately experienced within the context of a major sporting mega-event, writes William Allen. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/ © 2014 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 2.0; Online Collections > LSE Review of Books	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line133
__label__cc	0.604529	0.395471	Home Comics Here’s A First Look At Set Photos From Avengers 4: Flashback Sequences... Here’s A First Look At Set Photos From Avengers 4: Flashback Sequences Revealed Avengers has seen Earth’s mightiest heroes fight against Loki and Chitauri as they tried to invade Earth. Avengers 2 saw Ultron, the Artificial Intelligence that was extracted from the Mind Infinity Stone. He rose up in arms against Tony Stark and the Avengers and almost destroyed them. Then comes Avengers 3. And Avengers 4 will see a culmination of all the events that are planned in MCU. Thanos and his Black Order will be setting foot into Earth to find the mythical stones. So, what happens after Thanos is defeated? What is the next iteration of Avengers? And how will this story move forward? Avengers 4 has been rumored to be based off Marvel’s Secret Invasion arc. There are rumors of Avengers: Infinity war being a 2 -part storyline – Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4. But this story is not yet confirmed. This synopsis might be an enigma as of now, but we have news to brighten all Marvel fans. Sebastian Stan plays Bucky Barnes and Winter Soldier. A former assassin, he is a good guy after the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Civil War. He is a crucial part of the MCU. Sebastian Stan had taken to Instagram and shared a set photo for Avengers 4 that opens old wounds for Tony Stark and Captain America. The post seemed to be an attempt to make a pass at events of Captain America: Civil War and helped start the rumor mill. The post was supposed to be a take at the Captain America: Civil War’s ‘December 16, 1991’ reference and has a background location that will make a comeback to MCU. The photo shows what has not been in the Marvel movies. The last time we had seen the armors was in Iron Man 3 as they were picked off as the Mandarin’s forces tore the mansion. But these photos show Stan in front of an Armor Gallery with Tony’s Iron Man suits. A logical conclusion is that this may be a Flashback Sequence. This photo and background reveal that Bucky Barnes has a huge role in Tony’s life. There were rumors that a certain Avengers 4 scene was set in World War 2. Yet another scene had shown The Wasp featuring a haircut which was similar to the one she had in the first Ant-Man movie. So, maybe the Avengers may travel back in time, physically or metaphorically. We will only know when the movie hits the big screen next year.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line153
__label__cc	0.641712	0.358288	George Rousseau Nostalgia Narratives Posts By: George Rousseau How much do we need to know about a composer’s life? by George Rousseau, April 23, 2015 In Rachmaninoff’s Cape I repeatedly raise this question: how much do we need to know? The answer is a great deal. For example, you cannot understand why Rachmaninoff compulsively repeats the Dies Irae theme – the death chant – unless you understand his childhood and extraordinary tie to ‘the old Russia’. Rachmaninoff’s Cape: a nostalgia memoir published on March 26 by George Rousseau, March 19, 2015 My new book will be published just two days before the 72nd anniversary of Rachmaninoff’s death on March 28 2015, and a few days before his birthday on April 1, so I have been thinking about his 142nd birthday. What would he have thought of my book if he could have read it? I don’t Nostalgia in the musical language of the late Russian Romantics by George Rousseau, February 26, 2015 Colleagues and friends in Oxford attended, with me, the recent Met Opera performance of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. The opera opens with its heroine and her nurse in their secluded cottage deep in the Russian forest. Iolanta laments her condition – what condition? She sees nothing and knows nothing except that eyes are for crying. Yet she First expert appraisal appears on Rachmaninoff’s Cape: a nostalgia memoir Rachmaninoff’s Cape has had its first expert comment, which I print here: ‘If biography means the writing of a life, then the facts pertaining to the life of Sergei Rachmaninoff are clear and well-established. Yet how is a biographer to sound the mysterious inner life of Rachmaninoff as a creative artist? And how can facts Rachmaninoff’s Cape: a nostalgia memoir soon to appear on March 26 2015 GEORGE ROUSSEAU wrote academic books for four decades until something happened. His best boyhood friend’s mother died and left him a large trunk filled with her diaries and papers enabling him to chronicle her fascination with the great Russian pianist-composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. He was so gripped he felt he had to tell her story, and Archives Select Month April 2015 (1) March 2015 (1) February 2015 (3) February 2012 (1) December 2011 (1) November 2011 (1) October 2011 (1) May 2011 (1) April 2011 (2) March 2011 (2) February 2011 (1) December 2010 (1) November 2010 (1) October 2010 (2) September 2010 (5) July 2010 (5) June 2010 (1) © 2020 George Rousseau. theme: Serena, by Kay Belardinelli	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line159
__label__cc	0.592483	0.407517	Mail Us : info@gladtours.in Graceful India The Essence of India brings to you the quintessence of India through the journey covering the diverse tourist destinations. We provide you with the various facets of India, the urban (Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), the rural (Orchha), the religious (Varanasi, Madurai), the heritage and cultural (Jaipur, Aurangabad, Mahabalipuram), the acceptance of foreign cultures (Kolkata, Pondicherry), the Taj Mahal at Agra and you have the choice of finishing this tour on the palm-fringed beaches of Goa. Come with an open mind and take back an experience of a lifetime. Arrive Delhi Traditional welcome on arrival at Delhi international airport by Travel Pals executive to transfer to hotel for immediate checking. After breakfast, guided tour of historic city of Delhi. The city where one can experience the influence of the many rulers who ruled this region, a city built and destroyed and re-built over seven times. The tour includes the magnificent Red Fort, the Jama Masjid, on of Asia's largest mosque, Rajghat . Red Fort- Delhi - Jaipur, India (260kms / 5 hrs) After breakfast, drive in air-conditioned tourist car to Jaipur - the Pink City of Rajasthan. A guided half-day city tour of Jaipur covering Hawa Mahal, City Palace, Jantar Mantar. Evening at leisure for enjoying the real charm of this royal city to stroll in the local bazaars to see some handicrafts and artisans. Hawa Mahal - Jaipur – Agra, India (232 kms / 4.5 hrs) Enjoy a royal breakfast at hotel. Then guided excursion to the majestic Amber Fort - the erstwhile capital of the Kachwahas Rajputs. This is the only fort where one can still go by the elephant back even today like a Maharaja. Afternoon drive to Agra via Fatepur Sikri; a World Heritage Site. Taj Mahal Agra – Orchha,India (240 kms / 6 hrs) After breakfast, visited the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort. The Taj Mahal of Agra is a monument built by emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of her wife Mumtaz Mahal while the Agra Fort was built by Emperor Akbar. After Lunch proceed to Orchha. Check into hotel. Overnight at hotel. Orchha - Khajuraho, India (175 kms / 3.5 hrs) After breakfast, a half-day guided programme of Orchha. Orchha was the erstwhile capital city of the Bundela rulers. The town is steeped in history and is famous for its palaces and temples built in the 16th and 17th centuries. Visit Jahangir Mahal, Rajmahal and Phool Bagh. In the afternoon, drive to Khajuraho. Breakfast followed by a guided tour of Chandela dynasty temples famous for their spectacular sculptures and carvings. Visit the Northern, Eastern and Southern group of temples. Evening for leisure. Overnight at hotel. Varanasi-Khajuraho – Varanasi, India (air) Breakfast. In the afternoon transfer to the airport to catch a flight to Varanasi. On arrival, check into hotel. Spend the evening on the ghats of the Ganges. Overnight at hotel. Varanasi – Patna, India (rail) Breakfast. Transfer to the railway station to catch a train to Patna. Arrive Patna in the evening, check into hotel. Evening free. Overnight at hotel. Day 10 () After breakfast take a guided excursion to Vaishali where Lord Buddha preached his last sermon announcing his approaching Nirvana. Visit stupas holding urns containing ashes of Buddha and Ashok pillar erected by Emperor Ashoka to mark places sanctified by Buddha. Patna – Kolkata (air) Breakfast. In the afternoon transfer to the airport to catch a flight to Kolkata. On arrival, check into hotel. In the evening, drive around this once colonial city built in the 18th century. Like Mumbai and Chennai, which we later visit, Kolkata originated largely due to the expansionist ambitions of the European powers. Kolkata – Chennai, India (air) Breakfast followed by a full-day guided tour of Kolkata visiting the Victoria Memorial, Indian Museum, Fort William, Kali Mandir and Belur Math, in the evening transfer to the airport to catch a flight to Chennai. On arrival, check into hotel. Overnight at hotel. Breakfast at hotel. Then a full day guided visit to Fort St. George, War memorial, St. Mary's Church, the Basilica of Saint Thomas, believed to have been built by St. Thomas, the apostle, Snake Park ending the day on Marina Beach. Overnight at hotel. Chennai - Kanchipuram – Mahabalipuram, India (175 kms) After breakfast, drive to Kanchipuram (1 hr.) the erstwhile capital of the Pallavas and Cholas. Visit the temples dedicated to various gods and goddesses. Also visit the shopping area, as it is also home of weavers of the famed Kanchipuram silks. Lunch at Kanchipuram. Evening drive to Mahabalipuram (Mamallapuram). Mahabalipuram - Pondicherry, India (134 kms / 3.5 hrs) Breakfast at hotel. Mahabalipuam, too was part of the Pallavas dynasty and exhibits some of the most outstanding examples of the Dravidian style of art and architecture. A full day guided tour of Arjuna’s Penance, the rock cut caves, the Krishna Mandapam, the famous rathas and the Shore Temple. Breakfast at hotel. Proceed for a half-day sightseeing tour visiting Auroville and Aurobindo Ashram. Overnight at hotel. Pondicherry – Madurai, India (324 kms / 7 hrs) Breakfast at hotel. Drive to Madurai. On arrival, check into hotel. Overnight at hotel. Madurai – Trivandrum, India (265 kms / 5 hrs) Breakfast followed by a half day guided programme of Meenakshi temple built in the Dravidian style and Teppa Kulu, a tank with an island temple and Tirumalai Nayak Palace. Afternoon, drive to Trivandrum. Check into a beach resort. Overnight at resort. Trivandrum – Mumbai (air) – Aurangabad (air) Breakfast. Morning free to spend time on the beach. Afternoon transfer to the airport to catch a flight to Mumbai and an evening flight to Aurangabad. Overnight at hotel. Aurangabad, India Breakfast. Followed by a full day guided excursion of the ancient Ajanta and Ellora Caves, a world heritage site. The 30 odd Buddhist caves at Ajanta are full of sculptures and frescoes of life of Lord Buddha. The Ellora Caves, is where one can see Buddhist, Jain and Hindu shrines dating back to 4th to 9th century A.D. Aurangabad – Mumbai, India (flight) Early breakfast. Catch a flight back to Mumbai. On arrival, check into hotel for wash-n-change followed by a full-day guided sightseeing of Mumbai covering Hanging Garden, Marine Drive, Dhobi Ghat, Vidhan Sabha, Malabar Hill and Prince of Wales Museum. Evening free. Overnight at hotel. Mumbai – onward destination Breakfast. Transfer to the airport to catch a flight to connecting destination. 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__label__cc	0.738192	0.261808	And, now meet the other 'Father Z' - who achieved astonishing success evangelizing Muslims - click for link Patrick Madrid on his blog has a post about Coptic priest, Fr Zakaria Botros who converted large numbers of Muslims with astonishing effectiveness through his popular TV program - please pray for this courageous priest! QUEEN OF ALL SAINTS - PRAY FOR US! My abode is in the full assembly of the Saints - Ecclus 24 In the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and shall be admired in the holy assembly. And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed, saying: I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God. His inheritance and my abode is in the full assembly of saints. I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and like a cypress tree on Mount Sion. I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho: as a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the waters was I exalted...as the vine I have brought a pleasant odour: and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches. (Ecclus 24: 3, 4, 16-19, 23) With reason is Mary styled Queen of All Saints. We have seen that she excelled the angels in purity, the patriarchs in faith, the prophets in knowledge, the apostles in zeal, the martyrs in courage, the confessors in longanimity, the virgins in whole-hearted devotedness to our Lord. Thus surpassing them all in their distinguishing characteristics she was able to sing: "So was I established in Sion, and in the hole city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem. And I took root in an honourable people, and in the saints. I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree in Mount Sion". (Ecclus 24). "The full assembly of saints". How at home our Lady must have felt from the first moment she entered heaven, where she found every one enamoured of God, as she had ever been, but hitherto with few to sympathize with the inner fire which consumed her! There all is love - love pure and without alloy. See her amazement at being exalted above even Cherubim and Seraphim, as the cedars of Libanus overtop all the other trees of the mountain, and how her imagery is drawn from the mount which St Jerome says derives its name from its stainless, glistening whiteness. "I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus." "I took root in an honourable people." How delightful must be the society in heaven! All that is beautiful, true, noble and intellectual in human nature is to be found there perfected in the highest degree, and without any admixture of littleness, meaness, weakness or other imperfections that mar in some measure even the grandest character in this world. 'This an important point to know There' no perfection here below, but there, in our heavenly home, it exists in all its plenitude, and as our Lady had surpassed all the saints on earth by her humility - for it has been said that it was her humility even more than her purity that drew down to her heart the Son of God - so now she would exceed them all in her spirit of praise. We can imagine her singing joyfully the words: "Turn, O my soul, unto thy rest, for the Lord hath been bountiful to thee. For He hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling." (Ps 64) "I will praise Thee, O Lord, with my whole heart...I will give praise to Thee in the sight of Thy angels." How lovingly and unassumingly our Lady would take her place amongst all the saints and angels that throng the heavenly court, and how they would welcome her as their Queen, as the Mother of their Most High Creator! How they would praise her, and yet feel, as Dante says, that only the Creator can rightly estimate the beauty of His creature! May we not end fittingly with a quotation from the great St John Chrysostom: "Truly, dearly beloved brethren, the blessed Virgin Mary was a great wonder. What thing greater or more famous than she hath ever at any time been found, or can be found? She alone is greater than heaven and earth. What thing holier than she hath been, or can be found? Neither prophets, nor apostles, nor martyrs, nor partriarchs, nor angels, nor thrones, nor dominations, nor Seraphim, nor Cherubim, nor any other creature, visible, or invisible, can be found that is greater or more excellent than she. She is at once the handmaid and the parent of God, at once Virgin and Mother." O Mary, truly thou a marvel of holiness. Well might Dante excclaim: "In te magnificenza, in the s'aduna quantunaue in creatura e di bontate." (Paradiso, 33:20,21) - In thee is magnificence, in thee is united whatever of good iss to be found in creatures! QUENN OF ALL SAINTS, PRAY FOR US! Labels: All Saints, Devotion to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary November devotions to the Holy Souls in Purgaory - click for link Labels: devotions to Holy Souls First Sunday in Advent - click for link Labels: Advent Jesus living in Mary, Handbook of the Spirituality of St. Louis De Montfort. The Oxford Movement - click to read Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham and not long ago His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, made generous provision for Anglicans to join Catholic Church in his Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus. We may remember then the Oxford Movement, "the name given to the actions and endeavors of a group of clergymen at Oxford University in the 1830s who sought to restore Catholic faith and practice within the Anglican Church. Its leaders were the professor of poetry, John Keble (1792-1866); the Regius Professor of Hebrew, Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-1892); and the vicar of St. Mary’s and fellow of Oriel, John Henry Newman (1801-1890). Keble’s sermon on "National Apostasy" on July 14, 1833, is generally regarded as the movement’s beginning, and Newman’s reception into the Roman Catholic Church on October 9, 1845, as the end of its first phase.....Newman’s conversion was a "parting of friends," the leaving, for the sake of the truth, of almost every person and thing humanly dear to him. On February 22, 1846, he said goodbye to Littlemore, the retreat of his final Anglican years; to Oxford, in which he had hoped for a "perpetual residence"; and to Dr. Pusey, his once close comrade and friend. The two men were not to meet again for another twenty years. When they did, it would be in a tense atmosphere of controversy, and the name of Louis de Montfort would figure in the debate." On September 12, 1865, Newman visited Kolbe for dinner and was "taken aback to discover that Pusey was also paying a visit.....At dinner Pusey was "full" of a new book, which would soon provoke a masterly rejoinder from Newman. It was a work of high polemic with the surprising title An Eirenicon. Pusey argued that the reunion of Canterbury and Rome was impeded by the excesses of Catholic piety, not least in relation to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Newman was astonished by the title of Pusey’s book. In a letter to Kelbe, he says that if Pusey "is writing to hinder his own people from joining us, well and good, he had a right to write as he has done—but how can he fancy that to exaggerate, instead of smoothing contrarieties, is the way to make us listen to him?" Pusey offers the bread of peace but delivers the stone of polemic. In the fragments below is the example of Newman's Marian apologetics: "The Fathers made me a Catholic, and I am not going to kick down the ladder by which I ascended into the Church." In similar fashion, St. Louis Marie regularly quotes from the Fathers and claims that his theses on devotion to Our Lady can be supported from their writings. ... "If I were speaking to the great minds of our day, I should prove at greater length from Sacred Scripture and the holy Fathers, from whom I should quote passages in Latin, all that I am saying simply. . . . But I am speaking mainly to the poor and simple, who, being of good will and having more faith than the average scholar, believe with more simplicity and more merit..." (True Devotion 26). In his Letter to Pusey, and in several other places, Newman confirms the truth of St. Louis Marie’s central doctrine by referring to religious history: "True devotion to the Mother is the ‘easiest,’ ‘shortest,’ and ‘surest’ way to union with the Son, and when devotion to Mary grows cold or dies, faith in Jesus as Lord, God, and Saviour is certain to wither away" (TD 152). "If we look through Europe, we shall find, on the whole, that just those nations and countries have lost their faith in the divinity of Christ who have given up devotion to His Mother and that those, on the other hand, who had been foremost in her honor have retained their orthodoxy. In the Catholic Church Mary has shown herself, not the rival, but the minister of her Son; she has protected Him, as in His infancy, so in the whole history of the Religion. There is then a plain historical truth in Dr. Faber’s words [in the preface to his translation of TD], which you quote to condemn, ‘Jesus is obscured, because Mary is kept in the background.’" Newman suggests that the hesitations of some Protestants about Our Lady’s role, under Christ, as intercessor and advocate betray a woefully inadequate Christology. If we take from the Blessed Virgin her intercessory mission and transfer it to Christ, we shall be diminishing, not enhancing, his glory. "If we placed Our Lord in that center, we should only be dragging Him from His throne and making Him an Arian kind of a God; that is, no God at all. He who charges us with making Mary a divinity is thereby denying the divinity of Jesus. Such a man does not know what divinity is. ....To her belongs, as being a creature, a natural claim on our sympathy and familiarity in that she is nothing else than our fellow. She is our pride—in the poet’s words, ‘Our tainted nature’s solitary boast.’ We look to her without any fear, any remorse, any consciousness that she is able to read us, judge us, punish us. Our heart yearns towards that pure Virgin, that gentle Mother, and our congratulations follow her, as she rises from Nazareth and Ephesus, through the choirs of angels, to her throne on high, so weak, yet so strong, so delicate, yet so glorious, so modest and yet so mighty." Labels: Marian devotion Breathtaking pictures from Eucharistic procession in Kansas City with over 22,000 young people participating! - click for link to see more pics Last Sunday after Pentecost - click for link Last Judgment by William Blake Labels: Devotion to Our Lord Feast of Presentation of Our Lady in the Temple ...In 1372, Gregory XI permitted the Feast of Presentation tobe kept for the first time by the Roman court at Avignon. Mary in return broke the chains of captivity that had bound the Papacy for seventy years; and soon the successor of St Peter returned to Rome. The feast of the Visitation, celebrated on July 2, was in like manner inserted in teh Western calendar to commemorate the re-establishment of unity after the schism which followed the exile.... ....Mary, brought to the Temple to prepare herself - through a retreat, through humility and love - for her incomparable destiny, also received the mission to perfect, at the foot of figurative altars, the prayer of mankind, which was too weak to rain the Savior from the heavens. She was, says Saint Bernardine of Sienna, the blessed crowning of all expectations and demands of the advent of the Son of God; in her, as in a summit, all the desires of the saints who preceded her found their end and consummation. By her admirable intelligence of the Scriptures, by her daily and hourly conformity to the smallest teachings and prescriptions of the Mosaic rituals, Mary discovered and adored the Messiah under the letter everywhere; she united herself to him, immolated herself to him in each one of the victims immolated before her eyes; and thus she was paying the God of Sinai the homage - never rendered Him before - of a Law duly understood, obeyed, and as fruitful as the Legislator had planned for it to be. Then Jehovah was able to say in complete truth: As the rain comes down from heaven and doesn't return to it, but inebriates the earth and causes it to produce its fruits; so will my word be: it will not come back to me barren, but it will have all the happy effects that I willed.... After Dom Gueranguer 'The Liturgical Year' Labels: Devotion to Our Lady Feast of Our Lady of Ostra Brama - click for link .....Early in the fifteenth century, the new city walls of Vilnius were built. Above each of the gates the people of the town placed an image of the Blessed Virgin. About a century later, the Carmelite Order took over one of the parish churches in the vicinity of the southeastern gate of the town. In the Lithuanian language this gate was commonly known as 'Auros Vartai' (the gate of dawn). The Polish speaking population knew it as 'Ostra Brama' (the sharp gate). The Carmelites are known for their special dedication to the Mother of Jesus. They took special care of the image that was placed above the gate near their church (according to new research, the painting was created in Vilnius between 1620 and 1630 by an unknown artist. It was part of a folding diptych, a two-part painting, showing Christ the Savior on the inside and the Mother of God on the outside.... Labels: Carmelite Devotion to Our Lady Dark Night and Living Flame of Love - the stages of spiritual journey to God in Poetry of St John of the Cross St John of the Cross is not only mystical Doctor of the Church but also a poet who describes the steps followed by the soul on the way to reach God through classical purgative, illuminative and unitive way. In the first, purgative stage, the soul escapes from the dark night of the senses, annihilating the self through denials and practice of detachments. The next stage allows the soul to see and feel the presence of God and grow in the knowledge and love of the Creator. In the final stage, the soul is consumed in love of God which culminates in mystical union (esposo) when soul becomes one with God and experiences perfect peace and beatitude. The steps of spiritual growth are not easy but full of pain, darkness, aridity and annihilation of self. To get through this journey the seed of love of God must be planted and nourished in the heart of man from the beginning and this is absolutely vital to endure pains of spiritual development. St John describes the experiences of purgative way, or passive night of the soul, and gives the advice to those who are called to make this journey in his books, 'Dark Night of the Soul' and 'Ascend to Mt Carmel'. However, in his poetry, in particular in two poems, "Dark Night" and "Living Flame of Love", we find beautiful, nutshell-description of mystical experiences of the soul reaching to God: DARK NIGHT - (Songs of the soul delighted at having reached the high state of perfection, the union with God, by way of spiritual negation.) On a darkened night, Anxious, by love inflamed, -- O happy chance! -- Unnoticed, I took flight, My house at last at peace and quiet. Safe, disguised by the night, By the secret ladder I took flight, Cloaked by darkness, I scaled the height, On that blessed night, In secret, and seen by none, None in sight, I saw with no other guide or light, But the one burning in my heart bright. This guide, this light, Brighter than the midday sun, Led me to the waiting One I knew so well -- my delight! To a place with none in sight. O night! O guide! O night more loving than the dawn! O night that joined The lover with the Beloved; Transformed, the lover into the Beloved drawn! Upon my flowered breast, For him alone kept fair, There he slept There I caressed, There the cedars gave us air. I drank the turret's cool air Spreading playfully his hair. And his hand, so serene, Cut my throat. Drained Of senses, I dropped unaware. Lost to myself and yet remaining, Inclined so only the Beloved I spy. All has ceased, all rests, Even my cares, even I; Lost among the lilies, there I die. THE LIVING FLAME OF LOVE - (Songs that the soul sings in her intimate union with God, her beloved Bridegroom.) O Love's living flame, Tenderly you wound My soul's deepest center! Since you no longer evade me, Will you, please, at last conclude: Rend the veil of this sweet encounter! O cautery so tender! O pampered wound! O soft hand! O touch so delicately strange, Tasting of eternal life And canceling all debts! Killing, death into life you change! O lamps of fiery lure, In whose shining transparence The deep cavern of the senses, Blind and obscure, Warmth and light, with strange flares, Gives with the lover's caresses! How tame and loving Your memory rises in my breast, Where secretly only you live, And in your fragrant breathing, Full of goodness and grace, How delicately in love you make me feel! Labels: St John of the Cross Twenty Third Sunday after Pentecost - click to read Montligeon Sanctuary - prayer for the Holy Souls in Purgatory - click to visit The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Montligeon is a pilgrimage-shrine and world center of prayer for the dear departed Our Lady of Poor Souls Mary loves the Poor Souls in Purgatory because she has also gone through a kind of purgatory of tribulation - not indeed, in punishment of her sins, for she had none - but that she might have more compassion on us, and be more fully entitled to the name by which she is so well know, "Comforter of the Afflicted. For this reason she descended into a sea of sorrow, into the depths of tribulation, into the furnace of poverty, exile, persecution. For this reason she suffered those pains of mind and soul, which were caused by the loss of her Son, and by His absence during the years she lived after His death. All those sufferings were a real purgatory to her. Its flames but increased her love for the poor souls, and made her more truly the Mother of the Poor Souls in Purgatory. While we still sojourn in this valley of tears, let us beg Mary to increase daily our ardour, and give us perseverance in good works, to obtain for us a happy death and assure us of her advocacy at the judgment-seat of God. Saint Alphonsus tells us that if we truly venerate Mary and faithfully serve her during life, we can certainly hope, when we die, to be led by her at once into Heaven without having to undergo the pains of purgatory. One of the best means to find God's favor is to imitate Mary's love for the Poor Souls. Pray often to the Mother of Mercy for these suffering souls; those of parents, relatives, friends, acquaintances gone before. Above all, say the Rosary for these holy souls. Our compassion will be most pleasing to the Mother of Mercy, and when our hour shall come, she will remember us and show herself a true mother. That which was but vain conceit among the ancients, is truth and reality among Christians; for the spiritual rose of the Rosary can and do help the souls of the departed. In the Revelations of Saint Bridget we read that Mary said, "I am the Mother of all those who are in the place of expiation... My prayers wipe away the punishments inflicted on them for their faults." Saint Peter Damien tells us that each year, on the day of the Assumption, Mary delivers several thousand souls from Purgatory. The more we place ourselves in Mary's care, the more quickly will she lead us to God. Let us call on Mary constantly for our suffering ones; we can feel confident that her tender, loving heart will reach out to those poor, afflicted, helpless ones, free them from their place of exile and lead them to their eternal destiny, the face to face vision of Heaven. (After 'A Moment with Mary) To visit the shrine and learn more about history of the shrine, the founder, Fr Paul Bouget click HERE Montligeon Sanctuary air-view Please, visit the Sisters of New Alliance affiliated with Montligeon Sanctuary via their BLOG Upon the image of death - A Poem by English Jesuit priest and martyr, St Robert Southwell, SJ BEFORE my face the picture hangs That daily should me put in mind Of those cold names and bitter pangs That shortly I am like to find: But yet, alas ! full little I Do think hereon that I must die. I often look upon a face, Most ugly, grisly, bare and thin ; I often view the hollow place Where eyes and nose had sometime been ; I see the bones across that lie, Yet little think that I must die. My ancestors are turned to clay, And many of my mates are gone ; My youngers daily drop away, And can I think to 'scape alone ? No, no, I know that I must die, And yet my life amend not I. If none can 'scape Death's dreadful dart, If rich and poor his beck obey ; If strong, if wise, if all do smart, Then I to 'scape shall have no way. Oh ! grant me grace, O God, that I My life may mend, sith I must die. St. Robert Southwell, S.J. (1561-1595) was English Jesuit priest and poet, who was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn for preaching the Catholic Faith under the reign of Queen Bess. He belongs to the number of English Catholic priests who were determined not to abandon the Catholic laity during persecution of Catholics from 1535 to 1713, but to be with them and for the ultimate price of their own life to provide for them as long as possible the consolation of Catholic Sacraments. Robert joined the Jesuits in 1578 and after ordination left Rome for England with Henry Garnet. Both were arrested almost immediately upon landing but escaped capture and went on to work with the Catholics in London. Robert's writings were extremely popular with his contemporaries and the best known of his poems are The Burning Babe and Saint Peter's Complaint (1595), in which he made experiments with verse that were further developed by other poets, including Shakespeare. Robert spent six years in zealous and successful missionary work and moved under various disguises traveling from one Catholic house to another. Finally he was betrayed in 1592. Robert never gave any information about other priests or Catholics, even though for three years he was interrogated ten times under atrocious torture. He was transferred to Newgate prison where he was confined in a dungeon swarming with vermin and frequently chained in such a way that he could neither stand, sit nor lie down. His jailers were exasperated at his answers. When asked his age he would reply: "near that of our Blessed Savior." He was martyred at Tyburn on February 21, 1595. He was beatified in 1929 and canonized by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales on 25 October 1970. ..."Though the resistance of the English as a people to the Reformation compares badly with the resistance offered by several other nations, the example given by those who did stand firm is remarkably instructive. (1)They suffered the extreme penalty for maintaining the unity of the Church and the Supremacy of the Apostolic See, the doctrines most impugned by the reformation in all lands, and at all times. (2) They maintained their faith almost entirely by the most modern methods, and they were the first to so maintain it, i.e., by education of the clergy in the seminaries, and of Catholic youth in colleges, at the risk, and often at the cost of life. (3) The tyranny they had to withstand was, as a rule, not the sudden violence of a tyrant, but the continuous oppression of laws sanctioned by the people in Parliament, passed on the specious plea of political and national necessity, and operating for centuries with an almost irresistible force which the law acquires when acting for generations in conservative and law-abiding counties. (4) The study of their causes and their acts is easy. The number of martyrs are many; their trials are spread over a long time. We have in many cases the papers of the prosecution as well as those of the defense, and the voice of Rome is frequently heard pronouncing on the questions of the debate, and declaring that this or that matter is essential, on which no compromise can be permitted; or by her silence she lets it be understood that some other formula may pass"....(after Catholic Encyclopedia). More about English Martyrs and Confessors in Penal times (1534-1729) HERE Labels: English and Irish Martyrs of Penal times Thoughts from St Teresa on Saints: 'O blessed heavenly souls! Help our misery and be our intercessors before the divine mercy that we may be given some of your joy and a share in this clear knowledge you posses' 'I say, daughters, that we should set our eyes on Christ, our Good, and on His saints. There we shall learn true humility, the intellect will be enhanced, as I have said, and self-knowledge will not make one base and cowardly' 'Look at the multitude of souls God draws to Himself by means of one. He is to be greatly praised for the thousands converted by the martyrs: for a young girl like St Ursula; for those the devil must have lost through St Dominic, St Francis, and other founders of religious orders' Why has the Church appointed this feast? To honor God in His saints, in whom He has shown Himself so wonderful, and to thank Him, as the author of all sanctity, for the benefits He has bestowed upon them. To put us in lively remembrance of the communion of saints; that is, of all true children of the Church, whether they belong to the Church militant on earth, to the Church suffering in purgatory, or to the Church triumphant in heaven; but more particularly to cause us to consider, with earnestness, the communion of the saints in heaven with us, who are yet combating on earth. To encourage us to strive for the like sanctity with them, and to teach us that it is by no means impossible; for if thousands of men could become saints, why should not we, who can do all things through Him Who strengthens us, and has sent the Holy Ghost for our sanctification? To pay honor to those saints to whom no particular day in the year is dedicated. That, in consideration of so many intercessors, God may grant us perfect reconciliation, may give us a share in their merits, and may grant us the grace of one day sharing in their joy in heaven. By whom was this feast instituted? By Pope Boniface IV, who, in the year 610, appropriated the Pantheon (that is, the temple of all gods) to the divine service of Christians, dedicated it to the Blessed Virgin and saints, and commanded this feast in honor of all saints to be celebrated at Rome every year. Gregory IV, in the year 840, extended this feast to the whole Church, and transferred it to the 1st of November. Gospel: Matthew 5:1-12 At that time: Jesus seeing the multitudes, went up into a mountain, and when He was set down, His disciples came unto Him. And opening His mouth, He taught them, saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the land. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice, for they shall have their fill. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for My sake; be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in heaven. This gospel is read to-day because it is by practising what it contains that the saints have gained the eternal kingdom. Explanation of the Eight Beatitudes which are the 'law of entrance' into Heaven: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." The poor in spirit are: Those who, like the apostles, readily forsake all earthly things, and for Christ's sake become poor. Those who, happening to lose their property by misfortune or in justice, suffer the loss patiently, in resignation to the will of God. Those who, like Jesus (Matthew 8:20), are content with their poor and humble position, seek no higher or happier one, and would rather suffer want than enrich themselves by unlawful acts, by fraud or theft. The rich and noble who set not their hearts upon the riches and greatness of the world (Psalm 61:11; 1Corinthians 7:30), but who use their riches and influence to relieve the misery of the needy and oppressed. Finally, the truly humble, who, convinced of their weakness, their helplessness and misery, think lowly of themselves, and regard themselves but as beggars, who are always in need of the grace of God. To all these, therefore, in whose hearts the world has no place, there is assured, as their inheritance, the kingdom of heaven; here the kingdom of grace, there the kingdom of glory. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the land." That man is meek who does not murmur against God for sending afflictions upon him, who is not angry at men who do him injury, but who rather suppresses impatience, anger, envy, and revenge, nay, who seeks to recompense the evil done him by his neighbor with good. Such a one is greater than he who takes by storm fortified cities (Proverbs 16:32); he possesses an unfailing fountain of peace, quiet, and cheerfulness; by his meekness prevails over the most hostile minds, is by such means truly a ruler upon earth, and will one day, for his portion, obtain heaven, the land of the living, there to enjoy eternal peace. "Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted." By them that mourn we are not to understand such as grieve and lament over a death, a misfortune, a loss of worldly goods, or the like; but those who are grieved that God should be in so many ways offended by themselves and by others that His Church should be so heavily oppressed, and thereby so many souls lost that have been redeemed with the precious blood of Christ. The only evil really to be grieved for is sin, and the tears shed on account of sin are the only tears that are profitable, for they shall be recompensed with everlasting joy. "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice, for they shall have their fill." Hunger and thirst denote the most ardent longing after those virtues which constitute Christian perfection; such as humility, meekness, the love of God and of our neighbor, penance. Whoever longs for these virtues as the hungry man does for food and drink, and prays to God for them with perseverance and earnestness, shall have his fill; that is, he shall be enriched with them, and one day shall be satisfied with eternal happiness. "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy." The merciful here spoken of are: 1. Those who willingly forgive the injuries done to them. 2. Those who have compassion on their poor neighbors, and, according to their ability, sustain them by alms. These shall obtain mercy; that is, God will forgive them their sins and endow them abundantly with the goods of this world and of the world to come. Thus God deals with us as we deal with others. (Matthew 7:2) "Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God." The clean of heart are those who preserve with care the innocence with which they are invested at holy Baptism, or seek to regain it, when lost, by penance; those who keep their hearts and consciences unspotted from all sinful thoughts, particularly from all unchaste thoughts, desires, words, and acts, and who endeavor in all things to have a pure intention directed to God alone. They shall see God, that is, they shall know Him even here upon earth, for as the eye that is to see must be clean, so only souls that are pure and unstained can behold God. But further, our knowledge is like our hearts; the purer the heart the clearer and greater is the knowledge of God. But in the world above they shall see, know, and possess Him as He is. What blessedness! Strive, therefore, to keep your heart clean. "Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God." By peace-makers we are to understand those who have peace with themselves, that is, a quiet conscience, and who endeavor to maintain peace among others, or to restore it when broken. Such are called the children of God, because they follow God, Who is a God of peace (Romans 15:33), and Who even gave His only Son to reconcile the world with Him (Romans 5:10), and to bring down upon earth that peace which the world itself could not give (Luke 2:14; John 14:27). "Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Hereby all those are declared blessed who, on account of the true faith, of virtue, of the fear of God, of purity, are persecuted, calumniated, and even put to death, and who bear all this with Christian patience and constancy, nay, with joy. Thus have the saints done, and thereby they have gained the heavenly crown. Do we desire to be crowned with them, we must also suffer with them. And in truth, if we would apply ourselves zealously to virtue, occasions will not be wanting to us, for all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. (2Timothy 3:12) after Goffine's Devout Instructions Top of the post painting is 'All Saints' by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). Labels: re-posting “After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.... [One of the elders] said to me, ‘These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb’” (Revelation 7:9,14). Labels: All Saints, Devotion And, now meet the other 'Father Z' - who achieved ... November devotions to the Holy Souls in Purgaory -... Jesus living in Mary, Handbook of the Spiritualit... Breathtaking pictures from Eucharistic procession ... 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__label__cc	0.729777	0.270223	Growing up on the Kankakee River banks, Laborers Local 751 member Curt Ralston grew to love and know the river. As a union retiree, he actively works on river restoration, an effort that won him this year’s Illinois AFL-CIO Robert G. Gibson Community Service Award. Annually the state labor federation gives one award to a rank and file, community-oriented union member. From age ten on, Curt grew up on the river and lives by it today. His father was a union bricklayer and in 1972 Curt joined Laborers 751, working on a crew where his father was the brick foreman. In 2008 Curt retired. Two passions have fueled his retirement - the Kankakee River and music. Currently he is active with the Kankakee River Roundtable, the Kankakee River Conservancy and the Momence Anchor Club. After years of diversion and industrial use, river advocates are working to restore the river. With his construction background, Curt is able to complete hands on tasks. This might include clearing logs and river debris. As part of a wetlands restoration effort, he recently collected, at his own expense, 35 different buckets of sand from various locations. That sand is now being tested as a growing ground for aquatic and wetland plants. Curt has served as the secretary of the Conservancy since 2009 and seven years as the Anchor Club’s secretary. “The river is where you go if you want to go slow and relax,” Curt says. “The river is the place to go where you can have fun and relax whether it be on a pontoon, jet boat, or jet ski.” Boating and fishing activity has given him intimate knowledge of the river and its ways. “You can’t do something for the river unless you know the river,” Curt adds. During winter months he weekly reports river ice thickness to the National Weather Service. An upcoming project he is working on is restoration of a 1920s steel bridge on State Line Road. Not only is the bridge historic, Curt notes that this is a vital path for rescue services. After retirement, Curt took up a side business as a music DJ. “I can entertain people and do something different than construction work,” he noted. At the same time, he is a regular volunteer DJ for fund-raisers, union functions and community events. On Sundays he works the sound board at his church, Freedom Life Center in Manteno. He also volunteers with the Illinois Department of Transportation highway work exposure project at Kankakee Community College. “Curt is one of our best,” said Laborers 751 business manager Mike Smith. “Quiet, unassuming, but incredibly generous with his time and his talents.” Michael Van Mill, co-convener of the Kankakee River Roundtable, said, “I have been quite impressed with Curt Ralston’s active commitment to the mission of conserving and enhancing our community’s greatest natural resource, the Kankakee River. Curt has advanced our cause with an action-oriented approach involving; hosting public river tours, undertaking sand and sediment extraction, and serving on the Kankakee River Conservancy District Board. Curt Ralston is an exceptional volunteer who certainly deserves this honor.” A river defines a community, as towns grew from the river banks and return again to the river for relaxation, sustenance and enjoyment. Thanks to Local 751’s Curt Ralston, the Kankakee River is again a rich and refreshed environment for all.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line171
__label__wiki	0.642887	0.642887	Journal's Council CHILDREN AND THE "DARK SIDE" OF THE INTERNET Romano Prodi 3.0 The third (and best) phase of Prodi’s political life The world's largest wildfires - 2019 Alexander Kramarenko Andrey Davydenko Sergey Filatov Alexander Moiseev Vladislav Gulevich Igor Pellicciari MFA Russia News The main foreign policy news Afghanistan Africa Arctic Argentina art ASEAN Australia Balkans China EU Europe European Union exhibition festival France Germany India Iran Israel Italy Japan JCPOA Kosovo Libya museum nationalism NATO Nord Stream 2 oil Poland Russia sanctions Serbia Syria Trump Turkey Ukraine UN US USA Archive material Events, Facts, Comments De-evolution of Europe. The equation of Communism with Nazism (First Part) Author: Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarević It was indeed cynical and out-of-touch for the EU (Parliament) to suddenly blame, after 80 years, the Soviet Union for triggering WWII. It is unwise (to say least) to resurrect the arguments surrounding the circumstances of the start of World War II. The historians have agreed, the history has been written and well documented, and is in our books already for many decades. There is no point in modern politicians of eastern flank of the EU (with a sticking but complicate silence from the central flank of the EU) resurrecting the arguments regarding who was to blame. There are neither mandated, nor qualified or even expected to do so. Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Italy and its satellites (helped by the ring of useful Idiots, then called Quislings) were the culprits and that is universally accepted with no exception. It is now all in the past. Let us leave it there and not in the 21st century which has severe multiplying challenges, especially for the EU, that still wait to be tackled. Enveloped in its own myopia of economic egoism and überfremdung phobia, Europeans are in fact digging and perpetuating defensive self-isolation. While falling short to constructively engage its neighborhood (but not conveniently protected by oceans for it like some other emigrant-receiving countries), Europeans constantly attract unskilled migrants from that way destabilized near abroad. The US, GCC, Far East, Australia, Singapore, lately even Brazil, India, or Angola – all have enormously profited from the skilled newcomers. Europe is unable to preserve, protect and promote its skilled migrants. Simply, European history of tolerance of otherness is far too short for it, while the legacies of residual fears are deep, lasting and wide. Destructive efforts towards neighbors and accelatered hatreds for at home are perpetually reinforcing themselves. That turns Europe into a cluster of sharply polarized and fragmented societies, seemingly over history and identity, but essentially over the generational and technological gap. One of the latest episodes comes from the recent political and highly ahistorical initiative to make an equation of communism with Nazism. Driven by the obsessive Russophobe notion, this myopic short-term calculi move may bring disastrous long-term consequences – most and first of all to the Slavic Eastern Europe, and to the absent-minded Scandinavian Europe. The EU-led Europe is in a serious moral and political crisis of rapid de-evolution. Let’s have a closer look. Una hysteria importante History of Europe is the story of small hysteric/xenophobic nations, traditionally sensitive to the issue of ethnic, linguistic, religious, and behavioristic otherness. If this statement holds the truth, then we refer to events before and after the Thirty Years’ War in general and to the post-Napoleonic Europe in particular. Political landscape of today’s Europe had been actually conceived in the late 14th century, gradually evolving to its present shape. At first, the unquestioned and unchallenged pre-Westphalian order of Catholicism enabled the consolidation and standardization of the feudal socio-economic and politico-military system all over the Europe. However at its matured stage, such a universalistic world of Holy Roman Empire and Papacy (Caesaropapism) is steadily contested by the explicitly confrontational or implicitly dismissive political entities, be it ideologically (the Thirty Years’ War culminating with the Peace of Westphalia) or geopolitically (Grand Discoveries and the shift of the gravity center westwards). The early round of colonizers, the two Iberian empires of Spain and Portugal, are the first entities that emerged, followed by France, Holland, England and Denmark. (Belgium too, although it appeared as a buffer zone at first – being a strategic depth, a continental prolongation of England for containment of Central Europeans, of Dutch and Scandinavians from the open sea, while later on also becoming a strategic depth of France for balancing Britain and containment of Denmark and Prussia.) Engulfed with the quest of the brewing French revolution for the creation of a nation state, these colonizers, all of them situated on the Atlantic flank of Europe, have successfully adjusted to the nation-state concept. Importantly, the very process of creation/formation of the nation-state has been conducted primarily on linguistic grounds since religious grounds were historically defeated once and for all by the Westphalia.[1] All peoples talking the Portugophone dialects in one state, all Hispanophone dialects in another state, all Francophone dialects in the third state, etc.[2] This was an easy cut for peripheral Europe, the so-called old colonizers on the Atlantic flank of Europe, notably for Portugal, Spain, France, England, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Although geopolitically defeated at home, in France, and ideologically contained by the Vienna Congress and its instrument – the Holy Alliance of Eastern Conservative Courts, the very idea of a nation-state remained appealing. Both of that-time federations of theocracies (the non-territorial principle-based Habsburg and the Ottoman empires) were inevitably corroding by two ‘chemical’ precursors: secularism (enlightenment) and territoriality. Once the revolutionary 1848 ousted the principal guardian of feudalism and Rimo-Christian orthodoxy in Europe, Metternich, the suppressed concept got further impetus. And, the revolutionary romance went on… Interestingly, the very creation of Central Europe’s nation-states was actually enhanced by Napoleon III. The unification of Italophones was his, nearly obsessive, intentional deed (as he grew up in Nice with Italian Carbonari revolutionaries who were fighting papal and Habsburg’s control over the northern portions of today’s Italy). Conversely, the very unification of Germanophones under the Greater Prussia was his non-intentional mis-chief, with the two subsequently emerging ‘by-products’; modern Austria (German-speaking core assembled on the ruins of mighty multinational and multi-lingual empire) and modern Turkey (Turkophone core on the ruins of mighty multiracial and multi-linguistic empire). Despite being geographically in the heart of Europe, Switzerland remained a remarkably stable buffer zone: Highly militarized but defensive and obsessively neutral, economically omnipresent yet financially secretive, it represents one confederated state of two confronting versions of western Christianity, of three ethnicities and of four languages. Absent from most of the modern European politico-military events – Switzerland, in short – is terra incognita. Historically speaking, the process of Christianization of Europe that was used as the justification tool to (either intimidate or corrupt, so to say to) pacify the invading tribes, which demolished the Roman Empire and brought to an end the Antique age, was running parallel on two tracks. The Roman Curia/Vatican conducted one of them by its hammer: the Holy Roman Empire. The second was run by the cluster of Rusophone Slavic Kaganates, who receiving (the orthodox or true/authentic, so-called Eastern version of) Christianity from Byzantium, and past its collapse, have taken over a mission of Christianization, while forming its first state of Kiev Russia (and thereafter, its first historic empire). Thus, to the eastern edge of Europe, Russophones have lived in an intact, nearly a hermetic world of universalism for centuries: one empire, one Tsar, one religion and one language.[3] Everything in between Central Europe and Russia is Eastern Europe, rather a historic novelty on the political map of Europe. Very formation of the Atlantic Europe’s present shape dates back to 14th–15th century, of Central Europe to the mid-late 19th century, while a contemporary Eastern Europe only started emerging between the end of WWI and the collapse of the Soviet Union – meaning, less than 100 years at best, slightly over two decades in the most cases. No wonder that the dominant political culture of the Eastern Europeans resonates residual fears and reflects deeply insecure small nations. Captive and restive, they are short in territorial depth, in demographic projection, in natural resources and in a direct access to open (warm) seas. After all, these are short in historio-cultural verticals, and in the bigger picture-driven long-term policies. Eastern Europeans are exercising the nationhood and sovereignty from quite a recently, thus, too often uncertain over the side and page of history. Therefore, they are often dismissive, hectic and suspectful, nearly neuralgic and xenophobic, with frequent overtones. The creation of a nation-state (on linguistic grounds) in the peripheral, Atlantic and Scandinavian, as well as Central Europe was relatively a success-story. However, in Eastern Europe it repeatedly suffered setbacks, culminating in the Balkans, Caucasus and the Middle East. The same calamity also remained in the central or Baltic part of Eastern Europe.[4] Keeping the center soft Ever since Westphalia, Europe maintained the inner balance of powers by keeping its core section soft. Peripheral powers like England, France, Denmark, (early Sweden and Poland to be later replaced by) Prussia and Habsburgs, and finally the Ottomans and Russia have pressed on and preserved the center of continental Europe as their own playground. At the same time, they kept extending their possessions overseas or, like Russia and the Ottomans, over the land corridors deeper into Asian and MENA proper.[5] Once Royal Italy and Imperial Germany had appeared, the geographic core ‘hardened’ and for the first time started to politico-militarily press onto peripheries. This new geopolitical reality caused a big security dilemma. That dilemma lasted from the 1814 Vienna congress up to Potsdam conference of 1945, being re-actualized again with the Berlin Wall destruction: How many Germanies and Italies should Europe have to preserve its inner balance and peace?[6] As the latecomers, the Central Europeans have faced the overseas world out of their reach, as clearly divided into spheres of influence solely among the Atlantic Europeans (and Russians). In rather simplified terms, one can say that from the perspective of European belligerent parties, both world wars were fought between the forces of status quo and the challengers to this status quo. The final epilogue in both wars was that Atlantic Europe has managed to divert the attention of Central Europeans from itself and its vast overseas possessions onto Eastern Europe, and finally towards Russia.[7] Just to give the most illustrative of many examples; the Imperial post-Bismarck Germany has carefully planned and ambitiously grouped its troops on the border with France. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke in Sarajevo (28 June 1914), Europe was technically having a casus belli - as the subsequent mutually declared war between all parties quickly followed this assassination episode and the immediate Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. However, the first armed engagement was not taking place on the southeastern front, as expected – between the Eastern belligerent parties such as Austria, Serbia, Russia, the Ottomans, Greece, Bulgaria, etc. The first military operations of WWI were actually taking place in the opposite, northwest corner of Europe – something that came only two months past the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. It was German penetration of Belgian Ardennes. Still, the very epilogue of la Grande Guerra was such that a single significant territorial gain of Germany was achieved only in Eastern Europe. Despite a colossal 4-years long military effort, the German western border remained nearly unchanged. The end of WWI did not bring much of a difference. The accords de paix – Versailles treaty was an Anglo-French triumph. These principal Treaty powers, meaning: Atlantic Europe, invited Germany to finally join the League of Nations in 1926, based on the 1925 Treaty of Locarno. By the letter of this treaty, Germany obliged itself to fully respect its frontiers with Belgium and France (plus demilitarized zone along Rhine) with the unspecified promise to arbitrate before pursuing any change of its borders with Czechoslovakia and Poland. The same modus operandi applied to the Austrian borders with Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The Locarno accord actually instrumentalized two sorts of boundaries around Central Europe (Germany–Austria): strict, inviolable ones towards Atlantic Europe; but semipermeable and soft towards Eastern Europe.[8] That is how the predominant player from Central Europe, Germany, was accepted to the League, a collective system which the Soviet Russia (meaning: Rusophone Europe) was admitted to only a decade later (1934). Soon after, this double standard sealed-off a faith of many in Europe and beyond. (End of the 1st Part) Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarević Vienna, 04 JAN 2020 anis@corpsdiplomatique.cd Author is professor in international law and global political studies, based in Vienna, Austria. His 7th book From WWI to www. 1918-2018 is published by the New York’s Addleton Academic Publishers last winter. [1] To be more accurate: Westphalia went beyond pure truce, peace and reconciliation. It re-confirmed existence of western Christianity’s Ummah. Simply, it only outlawed meddling into the intra-western religious affairs by restricting that-time absolute Papal (interpretative) powers. From that point of view, Westphalia was not the first international instrument on religious freedoms, but a triumph of western evangelic unity. This very unity later led to the strengthening of western Christianity and its supremacy intercontinentally. [2] All modern European languages that are taught in schools today, were once upon a time, actually a political and geographic compromise of the leading linguists, who – through adopted conventions – created a standard language by compiling different dialects, spoken on the territory of particular emerging nation-state. [3] Early Russian state has ever since expanded north/northeast and eastward, reaching the physical limits of its outreach by crossing the Bering straits (and the sale of Russian Alaska to the USA in 1867). By the late 17th and early 18th century, Russia had begun to draw systematically into European politico-military theatre. (…) In the meantime, Europe’s universalistic empire dissolved. It was contested by the challengers (like the Richelieu’s France and others–geopolitical, or the Lutheran/Protestant – ideological challengers), and fragmented into the cluster of confronted monarchies, desperately trying to achieve an equilibrium through dynamic balancing. Similar political process will affect Russian universal empire only by late 20th century, following the Soviet dissolution. (…) Not fully accepted into the European collective system before the Metternich’s Holy Alliance, even had its access into the post-Versailles system denied, Russia was still not ignored like other peripheral European power. The Ottomans, conversely, were negated from all of the security systems until the very creation of the NATO (Republic of Turkey). Through the pre-emptive partition of Poland in the eve of WWII, and successful campaigns elsewhere in Eastern Europe, Bolshevik Russia expanded both its territory and its influence westwards. (…) An early Soviet period of Russia was characterized by isolated bilateral security arrangements, e.g. with Germans, Fins, Japanese, etc. The post WWII days have brought the regional collective system of Warsaw Pact into existence, as to maintain the communist gains in Europe and to effectively oppose geopolitically and ideologically the similar, earlier formed, US-led block. Besides Nixon’s rapprochement towards China, the collapse of the Soviet Union was the final stage in the progressive fragmentation of the vast Sino-Soviet Communist block (that dominated the Eurasian land mass with its massive size and centrality), letting Russia emerge as the successor. The sudden ideological and territorial Soviet break-up, however, was followed by the cultural shock and civil disorder, painful economic and demographic crisis and rapidly widening disparities. All this coupled with the humiliating wars in Caucasus and elsewhere, since the centripetal and centrifugal forces of integration or fragmentations came into the oscillatory play. Between 1989 and 1991, communist rule ended in country after country and the Warsaw Pact officially dissolved. Subsequently, the Gorbachev-Jeltsin Russia experienced the greatest geopolitical contraction of any major power in the modern era and one of the fastest ever in history. Still, Gorbachev-Jeltsin tandem managed to (re-)brand themselves domestically and internationally – each got its own label of vodka. [4] Many would say that, past the peak Ottoman times, the aggressive intrusion of Atlantic Europe with its nation-state concept, coupled with Central Europe’s obsessive control and lebensraum quest, has turned lands of a mild and tolerant people, these pivotal intellectual exchange-corridors of southeastern Europe and the Near East into a modern day Balkan powder keg. Miroslav Krleza famously remarked: “It was us humans who transformed our good swine to a filthy pig.” [5] In its counterrevolutionary days a Spanish speaking Mexico was ruled by the Maximilian Habsburg led royalists. Yet, serves as another curios fact that the first border agreement ever signed by Mexico with any of its neighbors was with Tsarist Russia (delimitation of proper stretching over today’s western coast of Canada and the US state of Washington). [6] At the time of Vienna Congress, there were nearly a dozen of Italophone states and over three dozens of Germanophone entities – 34 western German states + 4 free cities (Kleinstaaterei), Austria and Prussia. Potsdam conference concludes with only three Germanophone (+ Lichtenstein + Switzerland) and two Italophone states (+ Vatican). [7] Why did the US join up Atlantic Europe against Central Europe in both WWs? Simply, siding up with Central Europe would have meant politico-military elimination of Atlantic Europe once and for all. In such an event, the US would have faced a single European, confrontation-potent, block of a formidable strategic-depth to engage with sooner or later. Eventually, Americans would have lost an interfering possibility of remaining the perfect balancer. The very same balancer role, the US inherited from the declining Britain. [8] Farce or not, history of 1914 nearly repeated itself to its last detail in early 1990s. And, it was not for the first time. 25 and again 75 years after 1914 – meaning that 1939. was nearly copied by the events of 9/11 in 1989. Hence, November 1989 was the third time that the western frontiers of Central Europe remained intact, while the dramatic change took place to its East. 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__label__wiki	0.89646	0.89646	Main Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Breaking, News 16.05.2018 Holy month of Ramadan begins tomorrow in UAE The holy month of Ramadan will begin on May 17 (Thursday) in UAE, wam announced today. In a tweet on Tuesday night, wam announced that… Prince Hamdan launches his LinkedIn page Crown Prince of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum launched today his official LinkedIn page during the opening of the… Prince Hamdan opens “City Makers” headquarters – Photos Dubai Crown Prince and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has inaugurated today the permanent headquarters of… Sheikh Hamdan pilots chopper over Dubai – Video His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, recently took to the skies for an inspection flight in a helicopter… Prince Hamdan launches Smart Dubai 2021 and “Dubai Pulse” – Photos “The Dubai Government will issue its last paper transaction in 2021,” asserted Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council His Highness… Prince Hamdan’s Instagram followers reaches 5 million Shaikh Hamdan bin Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, is fast rising as a major social media influencer, with his Instagram followers… Dubai’s crown prince wants people to help name this baby giraffe Dubai’s Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed never fails to show us his love for animals … and this time his attempt went a step further. On… Dubai’s crown prince Hamdan just released an app … about himself – Photo Ever wondered what your favorite Crown Price of Dubai is doing at all moments of the day, in a totally non-stalkerish way? Well, do we… Prince Hamdan just ate a 24k gold burger – Photos People have been talking about UK-based food truck operator The Roadery’s gold-plated since early February … ever since the company announced it was bringing the… UAE’s obstacle race: Prince Hamdan leads Sandstorm – Video The UAE’s largest obstacle race, Sandstorm thrilled people today. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, known for his fearless…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line176
__label__wiki	0.525822	0.525822	Home / Shane Swanson, M.D. I grew up in West Central Minnesota about two hours west of Minneapolis, where I was active in sports, mainly football and track. I went to the University of North Dakota and also the University of Minnesota Duluth for college obtaining a B.S. degree in Biology and minors in German and Chemistry. I attended medical school at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine in Duluth concentrating on Family Medicine. For the last two years, our class transferred down to the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis. After medical school, I moved to Redding for the residency program at Mercy Medical Center. I graduated in the summer of 2005. I started moonlighting at Hilltop Medical Clinic in September of 2004 during my residency program. I continued my work there while I practiced Primary Care/Family Practice Medicine in Red Bluff for a little over a year. In November of 2006 I joined the Hilltop Medical Clinic group, and I am glad to be part of such a positive team. My six year old son and I enjoy going for bicycle rides, BMX races and camping. I also ride and race mountain bikes in my free time and go to the gym. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 1992-1993 University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN 1993-1997 University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth 2002 UC Davis/Mercy Redding Family Practice Residency 2005 Certificates, Licenses and Awards: California Physician and Surgeons License DEA Certification Diplomat, American Board of Family Practice 2005 Chester and Charlotte Johnson Scholarship 2000 Overman Scholarship 1998 & 1999 UMD Transfer Scholarship 1993 UND Robert Campbell Scholarship 1992 Mountain biking and racing	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line180
__label__wiki	0.648669	0.648669	I Am Drums by Mike Grosso A middle grade debut about dreams, dilemmas, and drums that will resonate with readers trying to keep their ambitions alive during tough times. Grade Level: 5,6,7 Age Range: 10,11,12 Paperback - $7.99 “This book is the song of my middle-school heart.”—Michelle Schusterman, author of the I Heart Band! series Sam knows she wants to be a drummer. But she doesn’t know how to afford a drum kit, or why budget cuts end her school’s music program, or why her parents argue so much, or even how to explain her dream to other people. But drums sound all the time in Sam’s head, and she’d do just about anything to play them out loud—even lie to her family if she has to. Will the cost of chasing her dream be too high? An exciting new voice in contemporary middle grade, Mike Grosso creates a determined heroine readers will identify with and cheer for. Performing Arts/Music Family/Marriage & Divorce Additional Assets Mike Grosso Mike Grosso is a musician and a schoolteacher who keeps a guitar in his classroom. He lives with his wife and son in Oak Park, Illinois. www.mikegrossoauthor.com. Twitter: @mgrossoauthor Instagram: @mikegrossoauthor If I had one wish, I’d ask for a headphone jack in my head. Not a pony, or a crazy-fast car, or a big pile of money to waste on ponies and crazy-fast cars. That kind of stuff is predictable. With a headphone jack in your head, you could let anyone plug right in and listen to your thoughts, especially the complicated stuff, like the hisses and hums in your brain. I want people to understand me when I can’t say what’s on my mind. That happens to me a lot. Most days I say a ton of things that don’t make sense because I don’t know how to say things that do. With a headphone jack, I wouldn’t have to find words to explain myself. I’d just let people plug in and listen. One of those moments happened today, right after I hit Danny Lenix with my marimba mallet and right before the lunch lady hauled me into the principal’s office. “Have you lost your mind?” she shouted, and grabbed the mallet out of my hand. I thought it was a rhetorical question until she said, “Say something, Sam! Explain yourself!” All I could think to say was “I’m not sure I had my mind to begin with.” Like I said, a headphone jack would be pretty handy. “Of all the?—” she said, before shaking her head and escorting me out of the lunchroom. She brought me to the person I’m staring at now?—?Dr. Pullman, the tall-and-deep-voiced-to-the-point-it’s-scary principal of Kennedy Middle School. Dr. Pullman is one of those adults who shaved his head because he was too impatient to go bald. One day his head started to get a little shinier, and then . . . POW! No hair at all! The pitch-black suit he wears makes him all the more eerie. He looks at me and says, “Take your hat off in school.” I pull the baseball cap off my head. I wear it so often, I can never remember to take it off when I enter the building. “Can you tell me why you’re here?” Dr. Pullman asks. I know what he wants me to say. He wants me to admit that I hit Danny and I’m really sorry for doing such an awful thing and I’ll never do it again. But there’s more to it than that. It’s like I said?—?if only I had that headphone jack. “A lunch supervisor says you hit Danny with a drumstick,” Dr. Pullman says. “That’s not true,” I say. “I hit Danny with a mallet.” Dr. Pullman’s entire head gets seriously red. The bottom of his chin to the top of his head is a cherry tomato. I don’t know if he’s mad or trying not to laugh. “Is that supposed to be funny?” he finally says. “Do you think you’re still in elementary school?” “Danny said girls look stupid playing drums,” I say, looking down at the floor. “He said girls have no rhythm and I sound like I’m playing on a garbage can because that’s all my family can afford. People thought that was pretty funny.” Dr. Pullman sighs. “Well, he shouldn’t have said that. But, Samantha?—” “Sam,” I say, correcting him. I hate it when people call me Samantha. There’s nothing wrong with the name Sam that can be fixed with an extra two syllables. “Sam,” he says with emphasis. “I was minding my own business, practicing with my mallets, and he started saying my rhythm sucks and I ruin every song in band class.” “I already said he shouldn’t have said that, but you have to learn that there are other ways to solve problems that won’t land you in trouble. You chose to solve your problem by hitting Danny with your mallet, and as a result, it is you in my office instead of him.” “Danny’s been making fun of me all year. He acts like there’s something wrong with me for playing drums.” “Plenty of girls play drums. Why would you even let that bother you?” That’s easy for Dr. Pullman to say. There are plenty of men who work at Kennedy, but I’m the only girl in the percussion section in band. “I’m sick of him saying I stink at drums when he doesn’t know anything about them.” “That still doesn’t mean we solve our problems by hitting people or picking fights. You’re in a bigger school now, with bigger consequences.” I nod, imagining a rubber band stretched from the top of my forehead to my chin, forcing me to bob my head in agreement. “You’ll have to serve lunch detention with me,” he says, “and I’ll be handing these over to Ms. Rinalli”?—?he holds up the mallets?—?“until I can trust that you will only use them for playing the timpani.” “They’re not for the timpani,” I say. “They’re marimba mallets.” “Whatever they are, I’ll make sure?—” “It’s just that they’re really not the same thing. Two different materials, two different sounds, and they?—” “I get the point!” he says, louder this time. There goes my mouth, getting me into even more trouble. Why can’t I ever shut up? “I’m sorry,” I say. “Are you going to talk to Danny? Is he in trouble too?” “That’s between me and him. It’s none of your business.” Well, then, I guess that’s that. No point in saying anything else. “As for you,” he says, “you’ll be coming down to my office for the next few lunch periods. And don’t plan on seeing those drumsticks again until you’re at band.” “Mallets,” I say. “Marimba mallets.” “Whatever they are, they stay with Ms. Rinalli until further notice.” Dr. Pullman writes a few notes and gives me a hall pass to get back to class. I guess our conversation was supposed to mean something, but I’m still in trouble and Danny still made fun of me for playing drums and people still laughed. Serving a few lunch detentions with the principal won’t change any of those things. I dread going back to class. Almost everybody saw what I did, and those who didn’t have probably heard about it by now. Every... "Readers will cheer for spunky Sam..." "An appealing, goodhearted story for all young people yearning to march to the beat of their own drums. 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__label__wiki	0.699616	0.699616	Articles Archive for June 2019 Chicago’s One-Woman Electro-Industrial Act I YA TOYAH Releases “FLASHBACK (Rhys Fulber Remix)” Video [27 Jun 2019 \| No Comment \| ] June 25, 2019 – Chicago’s one-woman electro-industrial army, I YA TOYAH is very proud to announce the new video release for “Flashback (Rhys Fulber Remix).” “FLASHBACK” was remixed by Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly, Delerium) and the music video was filmed by Lumbra Records. Original mix appears on I YA TOYAH’s full-length album CODE BLUE. “FLASHBACK (Rhys Fulber Remix)” is available digitally NOW on all major outlets and can be heard on SPOTIFY. Rhys Fulber called this version of Flashback “a sadness on the dancefloor.” “I envisioned Berlin at 4 am,” … Who's Hot! » AFTERMATH Release Lyric Video for “Gaslight” Chicago based Progressive Thrash Metal Band AFTERMATHhas released the lyric video for “Gaslight,” off of their recently released LP, There is Something Wrong. 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__label__cc	0.666704	0.333296	Ramza is so cute Thread: Ramza is so cute The Slum Drunk "You okay?" Huh? Flower?! What the hell?! Administrator Ramza is the legit best protagonist. Fight me. Wolf Kanno Memento Mori Site Contributor Nowhere and Everywhere Originally Posted by Psychotic You're not going to hear any arguments out of me. True beauty exists in things that last only for a moment. Current Mood: こぎたない　そこのランプをぴかぴかに　してご覧に入れましょう。Shining For You I Scrub FOR YOU Radical Dreamer A'nutoh Tia (Sargatanas) The call to write knows where I live - visit my writing blog for stories. Updated every Saturday! Here's my tumblr - besides writing, I also post some drawings and reblog random stuff. Feel free to follow me! Earth, approximately Ramza is without a doubt, one of the worst protagonists in the series. My friend Delzethin is currently running a GoFundMe account to pay for some extended medical troubles he's had. He's had chronic issues and lifetime troubles that have really crippled his career opportunities, and he's trying to get enough funding to get back to a stable medical situation. If you like his content, please support his GoFundMe, or even just contribute to his Patreon. He can really use a hand with this, and any support you can offer is appreciated. no u Originally Posted by Skyblade I shall have to summon the EoFF Secret Police to whisk you away in the dead of night to a Ramza Reducation Centre where you shall drink milk and naught more until your views align with the truth. I mean, Ramza spent the entire game enabling Delita, and that sounds like exactly the sort of policy he'd enforce. So, sure. Sounds right. I find your total lack of empathy for and absolute vilification of Delita incredibly disturbing, considering the broad shades of gray the game is painted in. Ramza did far more. There isn’t much “enabling” to speak of as Ramza simply had nothing to do with Delita’s rise to power as he dealt with far worse stuff in the meantime, disregarding the fact that his name got sullied in the process. He is the only truly selfless FF protagonist, embodying kindness and virtue in a world of backstabbing and manipulation for one’s profit. How you can twist that into “worst protagonist” is just beyond me. Originally Posted by Fynn No, I’m not empathetic towards Delita. Just like he has no empathy for anyone else. He’s a self obsessed sociopath who didn’t give a damn about anyone except himself and his sister. When she died he went on a massive revenge trip in which he didn’t care who got hurt, or who died, as long as he got to punish those who opposed him. He even wound up letting the evil cultists stay in power as long as they supported him. Ramza is the only protagonist who decided to give up and let a villain win. “Screw it, I killed this demon, I don’t have to give a damn about what happens to the country.” He didn’t do anything to stop any of the harmful political groups. He didn’t even shut down the psychotic, demon worshipping church of Glabadabados. He got into one fight, then ran off on his Chocobo while a malignant narcissist who shouldn’t have survived the first five chapters conquers the country, murders innocents, and rules with an iron fist. “Oh, but he’s my friend.” Ramza is the only FF protagonist who’s not a hero. Every other main character tries. Ramza gives up. And don’t give me that “shades of grey” malarky. That’s just an excuse. Or maybe Ultima was just misunderstood as well? Maybe he shouldn’t have done anything, since there apparently is no right path and it’s all just shades of grey. Yes, every side in this story had its issues. Ramza could have tried to fix them. But he didn’t. It wasn’t his problem. He had a chocobo to ride, after all. Can’t let helping people interfere with his leisure time. I am so triggered right now. I honestly cannot agree with anything you said, Sky EDIT: I’ll just copy and paste what I said in Discord because I feel it merits discussion here as well As for the Ramza thing, it’s like saying “if I were there and had a gun nobody would have died”. Like, when you look at it from the game’s perspective, Ramza had zero reason to kill Delita. Whenever they met, they just talked. And his machinations were so complex that Ramza couldn’t know what to think of them, and there were far more important things for him to focus on. And up until he stabs Ovelia (which was done in self-defense, since she stabbed him first and he probably bled to death right after that anyway), the only people he kills are corrupt church officials and politicians who were much worse for Ivalice than him. Was it because you grew attached to Ovelia that you make out Delita to be a much bigger bastard than he actually was? Or is it a need for a clear human villain in a story where there is none and the only pure evil comes in the form of demons, because the story’s conflicts parallel real life issues where there never are clear good guys and bad guys and just killing what you consider a bad guy never really solves anything? I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: Delita’s methods were manipulative and backstabbing, but how he got to that point was understandable and tragic. Though he dirties his hands a lot, aside from making himself king, he did make Ivalice a better place by disposing of the most corrupt individuals (and yes, by Vagrant Story the Glabados Church has weakened in power significantly). FFT is not a tale of a hero disregarding the real villain. It’s a tragic tale of two friends drifting far apart from each other due to clashing ideologies and different reactions to trauma. I think nothing is more telling of that than the very end where Delita sits there, wondering if Ramza got all he wanted. Because Delita did. And he still feels hollow. So reducing such a complex, nuanced, human character into a sociopathic villain is completely missing the point of the whole story. And while I’m at it, so is framing Marche as the villain Last edited by Fynn; 03-13-2018 at 08:18 AM. https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/...h-difference#1 "Both lack empathy, the ability to stand in someone else’s shoes and understand how they feel. But a psychopath has less regard for others, says Aaron Kipnis, PhD, author of The Midas Complex. Someone with this personality type sees others as objects he can use for his own benefit." Okay, so he's a psychopath, not a sociopath. The entire game, Delita only cares about two people. Himself, and his sister. No one else exists for him. Or at least, not as people. They're objects, tools. Nothing more. Things to be used and discarded. And, once discarded, they are worthy of no further thought. He stabs Olivia, and she's there bleeding out before him, probably still alive, gasping for air, choking on her own blood. Not a thought. Not a concern. Not even a twitch. He just goes back and thinks about himself. There's something to be said that in Chapter 1, Delita and his sister are truly meager. Tietra (or Teta, if that's you thing) is regularly harassed by the nobles at the academy her and Alma attend. Delita's common blood means that the lives of his ilk are of no concern to the aristocracy, but the privileges he has from serving them means that the revolutionaries see him as a class traitor, and thus he can't appeal to them for sympathy. Tietra's death is the result of a society that not only doesn't want the Heiral's to succeed, but one that's actively rooting against them; his options are to be subservient or starve. He sees other people as tools because HE'S treated as a tool. Furthermore, Ovelia stabbing him came as a complete shock to him, and the time it takes between her death and his final line of dialogue (22 seconds, 12 of which are spent on him glancing down at her, the rest are him turning to leave before collapsing, yes I counted) can mean anything. Anger, grief, disgust, shock, pity; it's hard to tell; Jun Akiyama is an amazing Event planner/director, but he is still working with sprites in this game. His expression seems sad, but that could just be a result of it being a "critical condition" sprite. Delita and Ovelia.png Regardless, the point I'm trying to make is that her death DOES affect him. In theater, long pauses usually denote a character's reaction to events on stage. He doesn't just stab her and think "well, there goes another puppet". The point of my post isn't to defend Delita though; it's to defend Ramza. He admittedly lets Delita get away with a lot of things, but I can't really fault him for it. Ramza is just as disgusted with the system that failed Delita and his sister (unfortunately he doesn't really use his nobility to change things for the better, and by the time he's labeled a heretic, it's too late), so it's not like he's actually opposed to Delita's endgame. Furthermore, turning a blind eye to Delita just means having one less obstacle to worry about. Regardless of what you or he may think of Delita's actions (which are abhorrent, I can't really argue against that, nor do I want to), Ramza's only concerns are rescuing Alma and stopping the Church, and making an enemy of Delita would only hurt his chances of doing either. Anyway, all this to say that yes, Ramza ordering milk at a bar is the goshdarn cutest thing in the entire Ivalice universe. Returners Represent! Quick Navigation Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age Top	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line185
__label__cc	0.723254	0.276746	Posted by Pat Robinson on August 22, 2010 at 12:00pm Blood Pressure? I do not supplement Vit D3. risks of statin drugs for cholesterol Fish oil vs. Flax Seed Oil Healthy Fats? GERD? Digestion 101 Thyroid 101 Brittle Bones? Where do I begin...? Did they check for the MTHFR gene C677? Basically, there are nutritional deficiencies (folate specifically) which are implicated in many cancers: lung, breast, ovarian, pancreas, bowel, liver. And do some reading about research regarding Nigella sativa, black seed oil and cancers. Do you have a source of breastmilk? I'd start that, green juice, and raw coconut water kefir immediately. Basically, the gut is 70-80% of the immune system. It all starts with nutrient-dense foods, effective digestion (with adequate stomach acid), absorption of nutrients (in the gut with balanced microbials), and detoxification of the chemical byproducts of foods and environmental toxins by the liver, with adequate bio-available nutrients to support the detox pathways. I would do whole food probiotics, cod liver oil, magnesium, vit. C, zinc, coconut oil, bone broths, green juices. Support the immune system. "It has been known for almost 15 years that deregulated expression of the EGF receptor and ErbB2 contribute to the development and malignancy of breast cancer." http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/2/3/154 Overview of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in clinical breast cancer http://erc.endocrinology-journals.org/cgi/content/full/12/Supplemen... Goal: tyrosine kinase inhibition. Thymoquinone inhibited cell proliferation and suppressed the activation of AKT and extracellular signal-regulated kinase. http://mct.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/7/7/1789 Nigella sativa (lay overview) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigella_sativa *****Glycine max** Glycine max "acting as a tyrosine kinase inhibitor " Isoflavones (such as genistein & daidzein) and saponins isolated from Glycine max inhibit growth & spread of various cancers such as cancers of the breast, uterus, cervix, ovary, lung, stomach, colon, pancreas, liver, kidney, urinary bladder, prostate, testis, oral cavity, larynx, and thyroid. Glycine max (seeds) is also effective in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, skin cancer, malignant lymphoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, neuroblastoma, malignant brain tumours and leukaemia. Isoflavones & saponins isolated from Glycine max possess wide ranging anticancer properties such as inhibition of cancer cell proliferation, promotion of cell differentiation and induction of apoptosis. Genistein works by blocking angiogenesis (formation of new blood vessel), acting as a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (the mechanism of action of many new cancer drugs) and inducing apoptosis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genistein (lay overview) Insulin stimulates the tyrosine kinase activity of its receptor resulting in the tyrosine phosphorylation of pp185, http://www.mombu.com/medicine/diet-and-general-alimentation/t-all-t... http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/ydrup/article/PI... Nigella sativa (black seed oil) Thymoquinone inhibited vascular endothelial growth factor–induced extracellular signal-regulated kinase activation but showed no inhibitory effects on vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 activation. Overall, our results indicate that thymoquinone inhibits tumor angiogenesis and tumor growth and could be used as a potential drug candidate for cancer therapy. [Mol Cancer Ther 2008;7(7):1789–96] http://mct.aacrjournals.org/content/7/7/1789.abstract The pharmacological investigations of the seed extracts reveal a broad spectrum of activities including immunopotentiation (5) and antihistaminic (6), antidiabetic (7), anti-hypertensive (8), anti-inflammatory (9), and antimicrobial activities (10). Many of these activities have been attributed to the quinone constituents of the seed (11,12). Furthermore, blackseed preparations may have a cancer chemopreventive potential and may reduce the toxicity of standard antineoplastic drugs (13) These results demonstrate either that the essential oil has an anti-metastatic activity in mice or that it inhibits or delays metastasis by rapid reduction of primary tumor volume at the site of induction. On the other hand, to evaluate the side effects of these extracts, we tested their cytotoxicity toward normal human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Interestingly, only minimal cytotoxicity was observed for all extracts. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W7N-... http://www.kitchendoctor.com/articles/blackcumin.html http://www.globinmed.com/IMRContent/safetyDetail.aspx?id=SAF00025 http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-87... http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/69141.cfm http://www.feelgoodfood.com/feel-good-food-resources-black-nigella-... http://www.ayubmed.edu.pk/JAMC/PAST/20-2/Randhawa.pdf Nigella is considered a BRM because studies show extracts from the seeds are toxic to cancer cells and, in mice, prevent blood cell toxicity caused by the anti-cancer drug cisplatin.1 The active components of nigella seeds are the volatile oils thymoquinoline and dithymoquinone, both of which inhibit tumor cells in laboratory experiments—even tumor cells resistant to anti-cancer drugs.2 N. sativa was tested in volunteers with a low helper T-cell to suppressor T-cell ratio. The results indicated an increase in the helper T-cell population in the experimental group. Further, the helper T-cell to suppressor T-cell ratio increased while the ratio within the control groups remain the same. Nair et al. (1991) investigated the effects of N. sativa as potential protective agents against cisplatin-induced toxicity in mice. Some protective effects were shown by the use of N. sativa extracts. http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5653981/fulltext.html N. sativa has been found to be most effective when administered at a dosage of 30 g per day, with an effective range of 20-40 g per day. Nigella also stimulates the immune system, as shown in an experiment conducted with human lymphocytic white blood cells. Cells treated with nigella-seed proteins produced greater amounts of cytokines, specifically interleukin-1-beta and tumor necrosis factor alpha.4 How and if this is important to treating cancer is not yet established. http://www.newhope.com/nutritionsciencenews/NSN_backs/Mar_00/cancer... http://www.angelfire.com/ns2/nigella-sativa/ http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a790249221~db=all http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WWR-... http://www.medindia.net/news/Traditional-Herbal-Medicine-may-Help-F... http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5653981/claims.html glutathione is increased with black seed, inhibits tumors basically The anti-oxidant glutathione is composed of the amino acids glycine, glutamic acid, and cysteine. Foods that increase glutathione levels in the body include cruciferous vegetables (Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, kale, bok choy, cress, mustard, horseradish, turnips, rutabagas, kohlrabi), avocados, ripe seeds of green beans, red beets, the herb rosemary, grape seed extract, bilberry extract, curcumin found in turmeric, whey protein powder, and Pycnogenol from pine bark. A food that is particularly high in glutathione precursers is whey made from milk. http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/longevity.htm Vitamin C elevates red blood cell glutathione in healthy adults. Fresh fruits and vegetables provide excellent levels of glutathione. Per serving, asparagus, avocadoes, asparagus, squash, okra, cauliflower, broccoli, potatoes, spinach, walnuts, garlic, and raw tomatoes have the highest glutathione content compared to other vegetables and are particularly rich dietary sources of glutathione. The authors of this study concluded "it is not feasible to increase circulating glutathione to a clinically beneficial extent by the oral administrating of a single dose of 3 g of glutathione [supplement]." http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Dietary_Sources_of_Glutathione.html Natural Foods That Boost Glutathione Levels: Asparagus is a leading source of glutathione. Foods like broccoli, avocado and spinach are also known to boost glutathione levels. Raw eggs, garlic and fresh unprocessed meats contain high levels of sulphur-containing amino acids and help to maintain optimal glutathione levels. Undenatured Whey Protein has been shown in numerous scientific studies and clinical trials to optimize glutathione levels. Curcumin (Turmeric) has been found to increase expression of the glutathione S-transferase and protect neurons exposed to oxidant stress. Balloon Flower Root Changkil saponins (CKS) isolated from the roots of the Chinese herbal medicine, Platycodon grandiflorum. Balloon Flower Root or Jie Geng, have been found to increase intracellular glutathione (GSH) content and significantly reduce oxidative injury to liver cells, minimize cell death and lipid peroxidation. Selenium is a co-factor for the enzyme glutathione peroxidase. (brazil nuts) http://www.naturalhealthweb.com/articles/shah5.html Milk Thistle is a Food Sources That Boost Glutathione Naturally! glutathione levels cannot be increased to a clinically beneficial extent by orally ingesting a single dose of (supplemental) glutathione. (1) This is because glutathione is manufactured inside the cell, from its precursor amino acids, glycine, glutamate and cystine. Hence food sources or supplements that increase glutathione must either provide the precursors of glutathione, or enhance its production by some other means. The manufacture of glutathione in cells is limited by the levels of its sulphur-containing precursor amino acid, cysteine. Food sources for cysteine include poultry, yogurt, oats, wheat germ, egg yolks, red peppers, garlic, onions, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts. http://ezinearticles.com/?Food-Sourc...urally&id=1177 Foods to help Phase 1 Detox: Brown Ricehttp://www.gmhc.org/images/liver/carrot.gif Melons and peppers Tomatillos, papaya, plantains, carambola and guava Foods to Help Phase Two Detoxification: Papaya and Avocado Foods for the General Health of the Liver Soy Beans contain lecithin which helps the liver break down fats and helps reduce high cholesterol levels; lecithin also helps maintain healthy membranes around liver cells. long list of nigella sativa research http://www.bio-asli.com/nil/e_nil/e_rujhs.asp Nutritional value, functional properties and nutraceutical applications of black cumin (nigella sativa) (need full text) http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117989030/abstract Thymoquinone, a component derived from the medial plant Nigella sativa, has been used for medical purposes for more than 2,000 years. Recent studies reported that thymoquinone exhibited inhibitory effects on cell proliferation of many cancer cell lines. http://mct.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/7/7/1789 http://www.biomedexperts.com/Abstract.bme/18644991/Thymoquinone_inh... low toxicity: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-93210558.html The pharmacological actions of the crude extracts of the seeds (and some of its active constituents, e.g. volatile oil and thymoquinone) that have been reported include protection against nephrotoxicity and hepatotoxicity induced by either disease or chemicals. The seeds/oil have antiinflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic, antimicrobial and antineoplastic activity. The oil decreases blood pressure and increases respiration. Treatment of rats with the seed extract for up to 12 weeks has been reported to induce changes in the haemogram that include an increase in both the packed cell volume (PCV) and haemoglobin (Hb), and a decrease in plasma concentrations of cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose. The seeds are characterized by a very low degree of toxicity. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/104525344/abstract http://www.naturelegacy.com/black_seed/index.php?view=article&i... Restriction of tyrosine (Tyr) and phenylalanine (Phe) inhibited growth and metastasis of B16BL6 murine melanoma and arrested these cells in the G0-G1 phase of the cell cycle. http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/59/3/758 The natural tyrosine kinase inhibitor Genistein produces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in Jurkat T-leukemia cells. http://www.scientistlive.com/European-Science-News/Pharmacology/Can... http://www.naturalpath.com/middle-eastern-herb-effective-against-pa... http://www.jeffersonhospital.org/news/2007/article16250.html http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/traditional-herbal-med... http://www.turntoislam.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28827 http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=234935 http://www.nzhealth.net.nz/herbs/kalongi.shtml http://dailystrength.org/c/Morgellons_Disease/forum/2229878-nigella... http://www.scialert.net/qredirect.php?doi=pjbs.2004.441.451&lin... I researched anti-oxidants and chemotherapy at the hospital library. I found a bunch of research which supports the use of anti-oxidants alongside chemotherapy. Including the admonition to include anti-oxidants. Genistein, a natural isoflavonoid phytoestrogen, is a strong inhibitor of protein tyrosine kinases. "Our results indicate that the natural isoflavone genistein antagonizes tumor cell growth through both cell-cycle arrest and induction of apoptosis and suggest that it could be a promising new agent in cancer therapy. " "Dietary means were employed to reduce the intake of phenylalanine and tyrosine in patients with advanced malignant melanoma. The limitation of substrate, i.e., tyrosine, might, therefore, result in selective energy deprivation with consequent inhibition of tumor growth. In 3 of the 5 patients studied there was a clear relationship between the institution of the dietary regimen and the onset of regressive changes in the metastatic disease. There was a further direct correlation between the serum phenylalanine and tyrosine levels and the progression of the disease. This regimen, although beneficial with respect to some of the metastases and probably nutritionally sound, is cumbersome, complex and unpalatable, making its application difficult." http://books.google.com/books?id=NEf3B4AVM9YC&pg=PA253&lpg=... See top of "page 7": http://jem.rupress.org/cgi/reprint/137/1/1.pdf Current medical research is focused on finding a patentable way to harness the benefits of Thymoquinone separate from the nigella sativa seeds. It is cheap to purchase Black seeds (nigella sativa) any middle eastern or Indian store. (maybe call first). It will be called either black seed or habbat-ul-baraka or kalonji (indian stores). They look similar to sesame seeds but black and they taste cumin(ish), or you could see if they have the oil. NOT black sesame seeds though. Must be nigella sativa (latin name). I found them locally, easily. About $5 for a month supply. You could order from www.sweetsunnah.com so if you can wait it's better to do that. They're stuff is cold pressed, pure and you can get caps as well if you don't want to do oil/seeds. Additionally, there is a lot of new information about the role of the MTHFR genetic alteration and folic acid supplemented associated cancers. The supplemented folic acid "fills up" the folate receptor sites so that folate can not be utilized by the body properly. While googling everything cancer@ every medical research study on the net for my mom's pancreatic cancer, I found this research dated June 2007: "The researchers also say that they uncovered another interesting trend that some people who received these nutrients from multivitamin pills had an increased risk of developing the disease. According to the researchers, individuals who said they used multivitamins, and whose blood showed traces of these nutrients, had a 139 percent increased relative risk of developing pancreatic cancer. " http://www.huliq.com/23341/dietary-v...ic-cancer-risk http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cg...act/67/11/5553 Another separate study of 81,922 women and men, specific to folate from food sources. CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that increased intake of folate from food sources, but not from supplements, may be associated with a reduced risk of pancreatic cancer. It appears to be: "The methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) 677CT polymorphism is associated with a reduced risk of some forms of cancer. The protective effect of this folate-related polymorphism is dependent on adequate folate status. Cancer risk may be increased in individuals with the homozygous genotype for the MTHFR 677CT polymorphism who have low status of methyl-related nutrients including folate. Intake recommendations to potentially reduce cancer risk include substitution of low folate foods with folate-dense fruits and vegetables." http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/...t/133/11/3748S And, "Compared with 677CC individuals with high folate intake, elevation of breast cancer risk was most pronounced among 677TT women who consumed the lowest levels of dietary folate (OR, 1.83; 95% CI, 1.13-2.96) or total folate intake." http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cg...full/65/4/1606 "In this study we investigated how one particular form of the MTHFR gene polymorphism, 1298A>C, effects cancer risk and how it may convey its effect through either the coexistence of the second known polymorphism, 677C>T, or from a different mechanism." "Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) balances the pool of folate co-enzymes in one-carbon metabolism for DNA synthesis and methylation, both implicated in carcinogenesis." http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/pub..._no_115=176365 "The associations between dietary intakes of folate, vitamin B12, vitamin B6, or methionine and risk of adenomas showed consistent patterns dependent upon MTHFR genotype. These trends were more pronounced among individuals over age 60, resulting in a 3–6-fold increase for low intakes of folate, B12, and B6. In conclusion, nutrients involved in the MTHFR metabolic pathway may modify the relationship between the MTHFR C677T polymorphism and colorectal adenomas. Low intakes of folate, vitamin B12, and vitamin B6 increase risk among those (particularly the elderly) with the MTHFR TT genotype." http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/cgi/con...stract/8/8/659 Our findings indicated that the MTHFR and MTRR polymorphisms were associated with individual susceptibility to breast cancer among postmenopausal women. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18174236?ordinalpos=25&itool... CONCLUSION: The present study indicates the significance of multiple low-penetrance alleles of functionally-related folate-metabolizing genes interactive with an estrogenic environment in breast tumorigenesis. SO, EAT YOUR B-VITAMINS. Interestingly, "We show that historically, the seasonal cycle of abundance of folate-rich foods may have regulated embryo viability by acting as a selection factor for a significant polymorphism within a gene encoding 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (677CT-MTHFR)." http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB...oduktNr=232009 "Over the past two decades evidence has been mounting for folate being an important nutrient in the prevention of cancer. Methyl-deplete diet and status, in particular, low folate intake and status has been positively associated with a number of cancers, including that colorectal, esophageal, breast, stomach, and cervical with colorectal cancer being the most extensively studied. " "Inadequate availability of nutrients involved in one-carbon metabolism may contribute to carcinogenesis via imbalances in the methylation and uracil incorporation in DNA that may manifest as aberrant gene expression and diminished chromosomal integrity." "We have observed protective associations for pancreatic cancer with greater dietary folate intake and serum folate and vitamin B6" "Our results support the hypothesis that folate and vitamin B12, cofactors for their respective enzyme products, may play a role in the carcinogenesis of these cancers." http://dceg.cancer.gov/about/staff-bios/stolzenberg-solomon-rachael http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/133/11/3748S http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/13/12/2071 http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/13/2/190 http://www.pamelaegan.com/articles/folic-acid-deficiency_0001.htm Multivitamin Supplement Use and Risk of Breast Cancer: In addition, past use (of multivitamin supplement) for 5 or more years was significantly associated with risk of developing ER–PR– breast cancer and breast tumors without lymph node metastasis. The associations between multivitamin use and breast cancer risk differed according to tumor size; a reduced risk was observed for ≤2-cm tumors but an increased risk for >2-cm tumors. In several large, prospective cohort and case-control studies,[25] high intakes or blood levels of folate have been associated with reduced risk of breast cancer, especially among women who regularly consume alcohol. In the Nurses' Health Study, plasma vitamin B6 levels were also inversely associated with risk of breast cancer.[9] In epidemiologic studies, including the Women's Health Study,[26] alcohol intake has been consistently associated with increased risk of breast cancer. Alcohol is known to antagonize folate and increases an individual's requirement for folate.[27] Alcohol is also suggested to be associated with an increased requirement for vitamin B6.[24] It has been suggested that folate may have a dual effect on carcinogenesis: folate may prevent tumor initiation when administrated early in carcinogenesis but promote tumor development when administrated later in carcinogenesis.[28-30] http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/578426_3 In the Nurses' Health Study, an inverse association between intake of total folate, which includes folate from multivitamin supplements, and risk of breast cancer was present for mainly ER– breast cancer; such findings are consistent with the biologic data that folate plays an important role in the maintenance of normal DNA methylation, and aberrant methylation of the ER gene may be associated with the loss of ER expression in breast tumors. Total vitamin D intake and vitamin D supplements were associated with reduced risk of breast cancer, but primarily among premenopausal women in the Women's Health Study and the Nurses' Health Study. http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/kwn027v1?maxtoshow=&... http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/578426 Folacin (NOT folic acid) is a concurrent therapeutic agent with chemotherapy. http://www.innvista.com/health/nutrition/vitamins/bfolacin.htm http://ww5.komen.org/ExternalNewsArticle.aspx?newsID=38845 Some great sources of folate, include: - Legumes (black beans, kidney beans, black-eyed peas) - Fruits - Vegetables - Leafy green veggies (spinach, broccoli) - Whole grains - Liver Take care when cooking and storing these items though, heat and oxidation can destroy as much as half of the folate in foods. http://stanford.wellsphere.com/weight-loss-article/folate-for-breas... http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-174596896.html Antacids and birth control pills inhibit folate bio-availability. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/patient-folate.... L-methyl folate is the most biologically active and usable form of supplemental folate. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/200184-overview#section~workup http://www.mombu.com/medicine/skin-conditions/t-folic-acid-suppleme... Folate metabolism plays an important role in carcinogenesis. Compared with other cancer types, the role of polymorphic variants of the folate metabolism genes as risk factors for PBT has received comparatively little attention, and to our knowledge, only two studies have evaluated previously the role of variation in this pathway in development of glioma and meningioma. http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/full/17/5/1195 Causes and prevention of cancer. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1470059 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=41674&blo... some things that I have under my favorites - http://web.archive.org/web/19960101000000-20080721232346/http://www... B 17 is also found in Apple seeds. http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/ More resources: http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=1094315&h... Nigella sativa (Black seed) helps slow or prevent many cancers: 1. lung: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20594324 2. colon: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16817633 3. breast: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12724920 4. pancreatic: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12724920 5. prostate: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20511679 6. leukemia: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20807569 7. Dalton's lymphoma: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez 8. liver: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17581684 Pat Robinson, Wellness Educator For more information about healing naturally, keep updated on Facebook Heal Thyself! Overwhelmed? Where to start? ~Become your own Gut Guru! P.S. 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Comment by Pat Robinson on April 5, 2012 at 10:57pm ALKALIZE Green juice, Green veggies, Laetril (B17) Hallelujah Acres Dr. Burzynski Kris Carr (vegan, she might do raw vegan) IV vit C food grade hydrogen peroxide Alkalizing food chart: http://www.perque.com/HSC_AcidAlkChart_7-07FINAL.pdf (they all differ slightly) Foods to focus on including: Grapes, both red and white Olives and olive oil Tea, especially Green Tea Mushrooms (many varieties with benefits) Soybeans, especially fermented soy and "vegetables, fruits and especially berries" are listed repeatedly. repeatedly mentioned as retarding cancer are the chemical components of the following foods: citrus (including peel) Food chemicals which accelerate cancer growth: Copper (BAD) Get a good water filter! High Fructose Corn Syrup (BAD) - Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds Oyster Sauce (BAD) http://heal-thyself.ning.com/forum/topics/cancer-is-dead I'd also focus on SUNSHINE ON THE SKIN for vit D. MAGNESIUM for detoxification (and 300+ other biological processes) Black seed oil (nigella sativa): http://heal-thyself.ning.com/profiles/blogs/nigella-sativa-black-seed Curcumin (turmeric) Soy (fermented only) Vitamin D (sunshine) Isoflavones (soy - fermented!) Resveratrol (red grapes, peanuts, cocoa, mulberries, blueberries) Vegetables: All (broccoli, cabbage, onions) Genistein (soy - fermented!) Cholesterol (liver, pasture-raised eggs) Sulforaphane (broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage) Fruit: All Flavonoids (berries, tree fruits, nuts, beans, veggies, spices, tea, grapes) Vitamin E (spinach, turnip greens, chard, cayenne, sunflower seeds, almonds, bell peppers, asparagus) Omega-3 Fatty Acids (cod liver oil, chia seeds, pastured-eggs) Lycopene (tomatoes, watermelon, grapefruit, parsley, basil, persimmon, asparagus, liver, chili powder, red cabbage) Folic Acid (food folate: greens, beans, liver, legumes) Turkey Tail Mushroom http://www.greenmedinfo.com/disease/cancers-all	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line187
__label__wiki	0.633474	0.633474	http://hig.diva-portal.org/smash/resultList.jsf?query=&language=en&searchType=SIMPLE&noOfRows=50&sortOrder=author_sort_asc&sortOrder2=title_sort_asc&onlyFullText=false&sf=all&aq=%5B%5B%7B%22journalId%22%3A%225744%22%7D%5D%5D&aqe=%5B%5D&aq2=%5B%5B%5D%5D&af=%5B%5D University of Gävle, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, Department of Occupational and Public Health Sciences, Occupational health science. University of Gävle, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research. Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Ciliary muscle contraction force and trapezius muscle activity during manual tracking of a moving visual target2016In: Journal of Electromyography & Kinesiology, ISSN 1050-6411, E-ISSN 1873-5711, Vol. 28, p. 193-198Article in journal (Refereed) Hansson, Gert-Åke Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. Arvidsson, Inger Ohlsson, Kerstina Nordander, Catarina University of Gävle, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research. University of Gävle, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, Department of Occupational and Public Health Sciences, Occupational health science. Skerfving, Staffan Balogh, Istvan Precision of measurements of physical workload during standardised manual handling: Part II : Inclinometry of head, upper back, neck and upper arms2006In: Journal of Electromyography & Kinesiology, ISSN 1050-6411, E-ISSN 1873-5711, Vol. 16, no 2, p. 125-136Article in journal (Refereed) For measuring the physical exposure/workload in studies of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, direct measurements are valuable. However, the between-days and between-subjects variability, as well as the precision of the method per se, are not well known. In a laboratory, six women performed three standardised assembly tasks, all of them repeated on three different days. Triaxial inclinometers were applied to the head, upper back and upper arms. Between-days (within subjects) and between-subjects (within tasks) variance components were derived for the 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles of the angular and the angular velocity distributions, and for the proportion of time spent in predefined angular sectors. For percentiles of the angular distributions, the average between-days variability was 3.4 degrees , and the between-subjects variability 4.0 degrees . For proportion of time spent in angular sectors, the variability depended on the percentage of time spent in the sector; the relative variability was scattered and large, on average 103% between days and 56% between subjects. For the angular velocity percentiles, the average between-days variability was 7.9%, and the average between-subjects variability was 22%. The contribution of the measurement procedure per se to the between-days variability, i.e., the imprecision of the method, was small: less than 2 degrees for angles and 3% for angular velocity. Jackson, Jennie A. Callaghan, Jack Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Dempsey, Patrick National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh, USA. Precision based guidelines for sub-maximal normalisation task selection for trunk extensor EMG2017In: Journal of Electromyography & Kinesiology, ISSN 1050-6411, E-ISSN 1873-5711, Vol. 37, p. 41-51Article in journal (Refereed) Aim: The object of this study was to quantify the contribution of sub-maximal normalisation to the overall variance of exposure parameters describing erector spinae (ES) activity, and to provide guidelines for task selection which minimize methodological variance. Methods: ES EMG was measured from three locations (T9, L1 and L5 levels) on fifteen men performing a manual materials handling task in the laboratory on three separate days. Four repeats of each of eleven sub-maximal normalisation tasks (eight static, three dynamic) were collected, work data were normalised to each task and repeat, and exposure parameters calculated. The unique contribution of normalisation to the overall variance was determined for each task and exposure parameter using variance component analyses. Normalisation tasks were scored according to their relative contributions to the overall variance and coefficients of variation. Results: A prone task, similar to the Biering-Sørensen test posture, was the most repeatable for all electrode locations and across all exposure parameters. Thoracic level normalisation typically showed poorer repeatability than lumbar normalisation. Discussion: We recommend that future ES EMG studies employing sub-maximal normalisation utilise said prone task. An alternate normalisation task specific to thoracic level ES muscles may be warranted. Jackson, Jennie A University of Gävle, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research. Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada ; Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, USA. University of Gävle, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research. Dempsey, Patrick G. Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, USA. Methodological variance associated with normalization of occupational upper trapezius EMG using submaximal reference contractions2009In: Journal of Electromyography & Kinesiology, ISSN 1050-6411, E-ISSN 1873-5711, Vol. 19, no 3, p. 416-427Article in journal (Refereed) Objectives: To quantify the variance introduced to trapezius electromyography (EMG) through normalization by submaximal reference voluntary exertions (RVE), and to investigate the effect of increased normalization efforts as compared to other changes in data collection strategy on the precision of occupational EMG estimates. Methods: Women performed four RVE contractions followed by 30 minutes of light, cyclic assembly work on each of two days. Work cycle EMG was normalized to each of the RVE trials and seven exposure parameters calculated. The proportions of exposure variance attributable to subject, day within subject, and cycle and normalization trial within day were determined. Using this data, the effect on the precision of the exposure mean of altering the number of subjects, days, cycles and RVEs during data collection was simulated. Results: For all exposure parameters a unique component of variance due to normalization was present, yet small: less than 4.4% of the total variance. The resource allocation simulations indicated that marginal improvements in the precision of a group exposure mean would occur above three RVE repeats for EMG collected on one day, or beyond two RVEs for EMG collected on two or more days. Samani, Afshin Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction (SMI), Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. Srinivasan, Divya Madeleine, Pascal Nonlinear metrics assessing motor variability in a standardized pipetting task: Between- and within-subject variance components2015In: Journal of Electromyography & Kinesiology, ISSN 1050-6411, E-ISSN 1873-5711, Vol. 25, no 3, p. 557-564Article in journal (Refereed) The aim of this study was to estimate the between days test-retest reliability of nonlinear metrics used to quantify motor variability in a repetitive precision task. On three separate days, 14 healthy subjects performed pipetting as a general model of repetitive precision tasks. The task consisted of transferring liquid 20 times with a cycle time of 2.8 s from a pickup tube to eight target tubes placed on a table in front of the subjects. The motion of hand, arm and the pipet tip was tracked in 3D and the shoulder elevation and elbow flexion angle were obtained. Motor variability was assessed using nonlinear metrics based on information theory and recurrence quantification analysis. Between- and within- (between-days) subject variance components were computed using a one-way random effect model, and intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC) were calculated from the variance components as standardized measures of reliability. Most of the metrics displayed a considerable between-days variance component and therefore the ICC showed a slight to moderate reliability. The reported data on between- and within-subject variability can be used to design future studies using non-linear motor variability metrics on kinematics data. Rudolfsson, Thomas University of Gävle, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, Department of Occupational and Public Health Sciences, Occupational health science. University of Gävle, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research. Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. Between- and within-subject variance of motor variability metrics in females performing repetitive upper-extremity precision work2015In: Journal of Electromyography & Kinesiology, ISSN 1050-6411, E-ISSN 1873-5711, Vol. 25, no 1, p. 121-129Article in journal (Refereed) Kinematic motor variability is extensively studied in occupational, clinical and sports biomechanics, but the consistency of most motor variability metrics have never been reported. In this study, fourteen subjects performed a repetitive pipetting task on three separate days. Movements of hand, arm and pipette tip were recorded in 3D and used to compute shoulder elevation, elbow flexion and shoulder-arm coordination angles, as well as pipette-tip endpoint precision. Cycle-to-cycle motor variability was quantified using linear dispersion measures of standard kinematics properties such as peak velocity, range of motion, and inter-segmental relative phase. Between- and within-subject consistencies of these variability metrics were quantified by variance components estimated using a nested random effects model. For most metrics, the variance between subjects was larger than that between days and cycles. Entering the variance components in statistical power equations showed that for most metrics, a total of 80-100 subjects will be required to detect a 20% difference between two groups with sufficient power, while this difference can typically be detected in repeated-measures (paired) designs using 25 subjects. The reported between- and within-subject variance components can be used as a data base to facilitate efficient designs of future studies of kinematic motor variability. Veiersted, Kaj Bo National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo. Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University. Assessment of time patterns of activity and rest in full-shift recordings of trapezius muscle activity - effects of the data processing procedure2013In: Journal of Electromyography & Kinesiology, ISSN 1050-6411, E-ISSN 1873-5711, Vol. 23, no 3, p. 540-547Article in journal (Refereed) The purpose of this paper was to compare the effects of different data reduction procedures on the values of variables characterizing the time pattern of trapezius muscle activity during full work shifts. Surface electromyography (EMG) of the right and left upper trapezius muscles were obtained from 40 young subjects in different occupations, mainly electricians, hairdressers and students. The target EMG variables were gap frequency, muscle rest, and the number and duration of episodes with sustained muscle activity (from 0.13 s to 30 min as minimum duration). These variables were derived from the EMG recordings using different Root Mean Square (RMS) windows (from 0.13 to 6.38 s), and discrimination levels between "activity" and "rest" (0.5, 1 and 2 % of maximal EMG). The results give basis for practical suggestions for EMG analyses of full work shifts. For most variables, a discrimination level of 0.5% EMGmax showed to be preferable. The time proportion of muscle rest and sustained muscle activity should, in general, be preferred over the corresponding frequency measures. Sustained muscle activity should be calculated using a RMS window between 1 and 3 s, and preferably be stated in terms of variables describing time proportions of activity. Uninterrupted activity episodes longer than 10 min proved not to be a useful variable due to limited occurrence in many work shifts. Zetterberg, Camilla University of Gävle, Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies, Department of Occupational and Public Health Sciences, Occupational health science. University of Gävle, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research. Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Effects of visually demanding near work on trapezius muscle activity2013In: Journal of Electromyography & Kinesiology, ISSN 1050-6411, E-ISSN 1873-5711, Vol. 23, no 5, p. 1190-1198Article in journal (Refereed) Poor visual ergonomics is associated with visual and neck/shoulder discomfort, but the relation between visual demands and neck/shoulder muscle activity is unclear. The aims of this study were to investigate whether trapezius muscle activity was affected by: (i) eye-lens accommodation; (ii) incongruence between accommodation and convergence; and (iii) presence of neck/shoulder discomfort. Sixty-six participants (33 controls and 33 with neck pain) performed visually demanding near work under four different trial-lens conditions. Results showed that eye-lens accommodation per se did not affect trapezius muscle activity significantly. However, when incongruence between accommodation and convergence was present, a significant positive relationship between eye-lens accommodation and trapezius muscle activity was found. There were no significant group-differences. It was concluded that incongruence between accommodation and convergence is an important factor in the relation between visually demanding near work and trapezius muscle activity. The relatively low demands on accommodation and convergence in the present study imply that visually demanding near work may contribute to increased muscle activity, and over time to the development of near work related neck/shoulder discomfort.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line191
__label__wiki	0.825725	0.825725	Tamar Braxton Performs At Itunes Festival In London 26-Sep-2013 Write a comment US Reality Star Tamar Braxton performs at ‘iTunes Festival’ this evening supporting John Legend. Following the release of her US #1 album ‘Love & War’, TV star Tamar Braxton is in London, promoting new material lifted from her debut album project released via Sony/Epic. The “Hot Sugar.” Songstress will be performing cuts of the album including iTunes #1 single ‘Love & War’ and is scheduled to perform as the opening act when she embarks on the sold out ‘Made To Love Tour’ alongside ‘All of Me’ performer John Legend. Get into the visuals for Tamar Braxton’s sassy new single “The One.” in full below. Share On: Tweet Share	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line193
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Please chose a taxon lower in the tree Genus Amansites Brongniart, 1828 † Genus Flabellaria Lamarck, 1813 Genus Ilonchilites Kim, 2006 † Genus Helminthonema Kützing, 1841 (nomen dubium) Genus Acadina Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Acrodis Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Actonyx Rafinesque, 1818 (nomen nudum) Genus Aeginaria Haeckel, 1879 (nomen nudum) Genus Agerochus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Alacomenia Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Alexirhoe Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Amplexicaninia Vaughan, 1906 † (nomen nudum) Genus Amplexi-Caninia Vaughan, 1906 † accepted as Amplexicaninia Vaughan, 1906 † (nomen nudum) Genus Anaurus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Anguipora Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Apliphus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Aplopora Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Aplora Rafinesque, 1818 (nomen nudum) Genus Aplostepha Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Apseudesia Pergens, 1887 (nomen nudum) Genus Archephyra Haeckel, 1880 (nomen nudum) Genus Asia Pergens, 1887 (nomen nudum) Genus Aspreum Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Astephia Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Astephiu Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Aulopium Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Axophylloides Yabe & Hayasaka, 1915 † (nomen nudum) Genus Blothromissum Grabau, 1917 † (nomen nudum) Genus Bryoclonia Haeckel, 1880 (nomen nudum) Genus Callichore Dujardin, 1845 (nomen nudum) Genus Calophyllum Dana, 1846 † (nomen nudum) Genus Calvinastraea Grabau, 1917 † (nomen nudum) Genus Calycotubus Kozlowski, 1938 † (nomen nudum) Genus Canathus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Catablemium Haeckel, 1879 (nomen nudum) Genus Cavipora Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Celistoma Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Ceriocaenia Alloiteau, 1953 † (nomen nudum) Genus Cherkesia Moisseev, 1939 (nomen nudum) Genus Circella Haeckel, 1879 (nomen nudum) Genus Circetta Haeckel, 1879 (nomen nudum) Genus Cladocerus Rafinesque, 1816 (nomen nudum) Genus Codiplus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Codostepha Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Coelogyra de Fromentel, 1877 † (nomen nudum) Genus Coiloon Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Cyanantha Haeckel, 1880 (nomen nudum) Genus Cyanora Haeckel, 1880 (nomen nudum) Genus Cyclopora Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Cymodoce Gray, 1840 (nomen nudum) Genus Cyphomus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Cysticamara Kozlowski, 1938 † (nomen nudum) Genus Cytaeidium Haeckel, 1879 (nomen nudum) Genus Dendridium Nardo, 1844 (nomen nudum) Genus Dendrotubus Kozlowski, 1938 † (nomen nudum) Genus Dermopsia Rafinesque, 1820 (nomen nudum) Genus Diclostoma Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Diplectona Haeckel, 1879 (nomen nudum) Genus Diplopsis Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Diplurus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Diplusa Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Discodus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Distoma Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Ditremia Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Dotho Pergens, 1887 (nomen nudum) Genus Duncania Koninck, 1871 (nomen nudum) Genus Dyomea Vogt, 1851 (nomen nudum) Genus Ellipsoidastrea Alloiteau in Cornet, Galmier & Lucas, 1953 † (nomen nudum) Genus Endostoma Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Endurus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Exos Nardo, 1844 (nomen nudum) Genus Explanipora Agassiz, 1845 (nomen nudum) Genus Fissipora Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Flexicollicamara Kozlowski, 1938 † (nomen nudum) Genus Floscularia Cuvier, 1800 (nomen nudum) Genus Globeola Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Graptoblastoides Kozlowski, 1938 † (nomen nudum) Genus Graptoblastus Kozlowski, 1938 (nomen nudum) Genus Graptocamara Kozlowski, 1938 † (nomen nudum) Genus Graptovermis Kozlowski, 1938 † (nomen nudum) Genus Habereris Maas, 1905 (nomen nudum) Genus Haliana Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Hydraria Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Hypurus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Idasius Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Idiotubus Kozlowski, 1938 † (nomen nudum) Genus Ismenus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Lobipora Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Megustoma Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Mennerina Voinovskii-Kriger, 1962 † (nomen nudum) Genus Merophyllum Grabau, 1917 † (nomen nudum) Genus Metisa Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Michelinella Yü & Shu, 1929 † (nomen nudum) Genus Myctinia Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Nisea Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Oaxus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Octogonia Müller, 1852 (nomen nudum) Genus Odiphus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Oligodus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Olindora Haeckel, 1879 (nomen nudum) Genus Ossiculum Bigsby, 1868 (nomen nudum) Genus Oxiphus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Palamedus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Partimeandra Bendukidze, 1948 † (nomen nudum) Genus Pelliculites Bigsby, 1868 (nomen nudum) Genus Perigodus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Phaola Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Phemonoe Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Phemonoë Rafinesque, 1815 accepted as Phemonoe Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Phryganophyllum Koninck, 1871 † (nomen nudum) Genus Phrygianus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Phyllograpta Angelin, 1854 † (nomen nudum) Genus Physonema Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Pinnatophyllum Grabau, 1917 † (nomen nudum) Genus Platostoma Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Pneumalias Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Podosomus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Polypellus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Procharis Haeckel, 1880 (nomen nudum) Genus Prothaumantias Haeckel, 1879 (nomen nudum) Genus Psammopora Greene, 1861 (nomen nudum) Genus Pseudocorallium Deslongchamps, 1827 (nomen nudum) Genus Ratoria Eschscholtz, 1829 (nomen nudum) Genus Reticulina Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Rhizopora Koninck, 1871 † (nomen nudum) Genus Rosenellina Radughin, 1936 † (nomen nudum) Genus Sandalium Philipsson, 1788 (nomen nudum) Genus Sapheris Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Scabripora Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Sertulina Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Siderophyllia Michelin, 1847 (nomen nudum) Genus Sigaritis Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Stalmus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Stenogryptus Gurley, 1896 † (nomen nudum) Genus Stephaptera Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Stephogus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Stereopora Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Stomanthus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Strenuastraea Alloiteau, 1953 † (nomen nudum) Genus Stromatactis Dupont, 1881 (nomen nudum) Genus Stromatocus Dupont, 1883 (nomen nudum) Genus Stromatophis Dupont, 1883 (nomen nudum) Genus Strophogorgia Wright, 1885 (nomen nudum) Genus Symphopora Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Syphonophyllia Griffith, 1842 † (nomen nudum) Genus Tarasus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Telxina Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Terambus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Tillophyllum Wedekind, 1922 (nomen nudum) Genus Umbellula Cuvier, 1800 (nomen nudum) Genus Uragus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Xaniscns Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Xaniscus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Xanthosea Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Yabeella Yü, 1931 † (nomen nudum) Genus Zenia Gray, 1840 (nomen nudum) Genus Zoodesmus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Zoonemus Rafinesque, 1815 (nomen nudum) Genus Abylopsoides Sears, 1953 accepted as Abylopsis Chun, 1888 (based on four abberrant pathological anterior nectophores never found again) Genus Acanthochladium Lendenfeld, 1885 (Misspelling) Genus Acanthocladus Carus, 1883 (Misspelling) Genus Acanthocoenium Duncan, 1884 † (Misspelling) Genus Acrocordium de Blainville, 1837 (Misspelling) Genus Acsaspedites † accepted as Acraspedites Haeckel, 1869 Genus Actinoceris d'Orbigny, 1852 † accepted as Actinoseris d'Orbigny, 1849 † Genus Actinorhiza Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Actinorhysa de Blainville, 1834 (Misspelling) Genus Actinorrhyza Ehrenberg, 1834 (Misspelling) Genus Aeginodarus Maas, 1904 (Misspelling) Genus Agathiphyllia † accepted as Agathyphyllia Reuss, 1864 Genus Aglaja Eschscholtz, 1825 accepted as Abylopsis Chun, 1888 Genus Aglaura Oken, 1816 (Published in a rejected work (ICZN)) Genus Alcynia Nardo, 1844 (Misspelling) Genus Alcynoe Chiaje, 1829 (Misspelling) Genus Alcyonidia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1850 † (Misspelling) Genus Allotropiophyllum † accepted as Allotrophiophyllum Grabau, 1928 † Genus Ammocella Klunzinger, 1877 (Misspelling) Genus Amphotrocha Nutting, 1904 (Misspelling) Genus Anisicalyx Nutting, 1900 (Misspelling) Genus Anisicola Fowler in Lankester, 1900 (Misspelling) Genus Anisocalix Pieper, 1884 (Misspelling) Genus Anisoscalyx Heller, 1868 (Misspelling) Genus Archhydra Mereschkowsky, 1878 (Misspelling) Genus Asphaea Agassiz, 1844 (Misspelling) Genus Aspidophyllum Thomson & Nicholson, 1876 (Misspelling) Genus Astroides Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Aullpio Agassiz, 1844 (Misspelling) Genus Barothrobius Carus, 1887 (Misspelling) Genus Branchastrea de Blainville, 1837 (Misspelling) Genus Bucephalum Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Calatophora Kirchenpauer, 1876 (Misspelling) Genus Callichroma Agassiz, 1862 (Misspelling) Genus Callirhoë Péron & Lesueur, 1810 accepted as Callirhoe Péron & Lesueur, 1810 Genus Callirhole Eschscholtz, 1829 accepted as Callirhoe Péron & Lesueur, 1810 Genus Callirrhoe Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Callirhoe Péron & Lesueur, 1810 Genus Calyptothujaria Levinsen, 1893 (Misspelling) Genus Carycoides Sollas, 1877 † (Misspelling) Genus Cavolinia Schweigger, 1819 Genus Centrophyllum Thomson, 1883 (Misspelling) Genus Ceratinella Soshkina, 1941 † accepted as Schlueteria Wedekind, 1922 Genus Ceratophytes Schlotheim, 1816 (Misspelling) Genus Ceratophytum Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Chetetes Dana, 1849 † (Misspelling) Genus Choetetes d'Orbigny, 1850 † (Misspelling) Genus Chunia Mayer, 1900 accepted as Abylopsis Chun, 1888 Genus Cirripates Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Clisiaxophyllum Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Corallioides Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Corallodus Rafinesque, 1815 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Cordyllophora Kogevnikov, 1892 (Misspelling) Genus Cortificera Brandt, 1835 (Misspelling) Genus Corythamnion Allman, 1872 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Craspedites Allman, 1872 (Misspelling) Genus Crystallophanes Wright & Studer, 1889 (Misspelling) Genus Cyanea Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Cyathothäläa Ludwig, 1865 † accepted as Cyathothalaa Ludwig, 1865 † Genus Cyclogaster Böhm, 1878 (Misspelling) Genus Cyclorites Rafinesque, 1831 (Misspelling) Genus Cylindrophasma Wentzel, 1889 † (Misspelling) Genus Cylindropora Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Cylindropora Yabe & Hayasaka, 1915 † (Misspelling) Genus Cymatiophyllum Thomson, 1883 (Misspelling) Genus Cymodoce Gray, 1848 (Misspelling) Genus Cymodocia Fleming, 1828 (Misspelling) Genus Cystactis Vosmaer, 1885 (Misspelling) Genus Cysteophyllum Agassiz, 1846 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Cystiophyllum Dana in Wilkes, 1848 † (Misspelling) Genus Cystiphorastraea Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Cystistylus Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Dinamatella Nutting, 1901 (Misspelling) Genus Diplocraspedum Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Dubenia Koren & Danielssen, 1877 accepted as Duebenia Koren & Danielssen, 1877 Genus Dübenia Koren & Danielssen, 1877 accepted as Duebenia Koren & Danielssen, 1877 Genus Elephantopus Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Entacmæea Duchassaing, 1850 accepted as Entacmaeea Duchassaing, 1850 Genus Ephysa Templeton, 1836 (Misspelling) Genus Epicorallium Agassiz, 1844 (Misspelling) Genus Erismatholithus Bronn, 1848 † (Misspelling) Genus Eucoryna Beneden, 1867 (Misspelling) Genus Eulimena Fleming, 1823 (Misspelling) Genus Eulimene Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Eulymene de Blainville, 1830 (Misspelling) Genus Eulymenes Agassiz, 1842 (Misspelling) Genus Eunomya d'Orbigny, 1850 † (Misspelling) Genus Eunonia Verany, 1846 † (Misspelling) Genus Eurhopala Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Favastraea Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Faviphyllum Hall in Stansbury, 1852 (Suppressed name (ICZN)) Genus Fistella Rafinesque, 1815 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Ganinema Lendenfeld, 1884 (Misspelling) Genus Gemmastraea M'Coy, 1848 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Gladiolite Gurley, 1896 † (Misspelling) Genus Gladiolites Barrande, 1850 † (Suppressed name (ICZN)) Genus Gondul Koren & Danielssen, 1883 accepted as Goendul Koren & Danielssen, 1883 Genus Göndul Koren & Danielssen, 1883 accepted as Goendul Koren & Danielssen, 1883 Genus Gonomaeandrus Maas, 1904 (Misspelling) Genus Graptholitus Tornquist, 1890 (Misspelling) Genus Graptofora Hall, 1859 † (Misspelling) Genus Graptolithes Geinitz, 1852 (Misspelling) Genus Graptolithus Linnaeus, 1758 (Suppressed name (ICZN)) Genus Graptolitus Nicholson, 1872 (Misspelling) Genus Guntherella Weill, 1934 accepted as Guentherella Weill, 1934 accepted as Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856 Genus Güntherella Weill, 1934 accepted as Guentherella Weill, 1934 accepted as Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856 Genus Halcyonidia Agassiz, 1846 † (Misspelling) Genus Halcyonites Agassiz, 1846 accepted as Alcyonites Schlotheim, 1820 Genus Halomanthes Gistl, 1848 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Holaraea Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1849 (Suppressed name (ICZN)) Genus Holarvea Fromentel, 1861 (Misspelling) Genus Hughuea Gistl, 1848 (Misspelling) Genus Hyperetes Rafinesque, 1815 (Misspelling) Genus Isicola Nutting, 1900 (Misspelling) Genus Keratophytes Schlotheim, 1816 (Misspelling) Genus Kühnophyllia Wells, 1937 † accepted as Kuhnophyllia Wells, 1937 † Genus Latimaeandraraea Duncan, 1885 (Misspelling) Genus Latipora Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Leptocyphus Crawford, 1895 (Misspelling) Genus Lichostrotion Lamarck, 1836 (Misspelling) Genus Linopora Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Lioploeocyathus Ludwig, 1866 † (Misspelling) Genus Lithostrocion d'Orbigny, 1850 † (Misspelling) Genus Lithostroha Bronn, 1848 † (Misspelling) Genus Loepophyllum Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Lomatoceras Bronn, 1834 (Suppressed name (ICZN)) Genus Lophoclenium Richter, 1853 † (Misspelling) Genus Lophoktenium Richter, 1850 † (Misspelling) Genus Lousdalia d'Orbigny, 1850 † (Misspelling) Genus Lycocystiphyllum Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Lycophyllum Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Lymnocodium Carus, 1881 (Misspelling) Genus Maeandrites Bruguière, 1789 (Misspelling) Genus Marmema Bigelow, 1909 (Misspelling) Genus Mccradia Brooks & Rittenhouse, 1907 (Misspelling) Genus Medusina Walcott, 1898 † (Misspelling) Genus Melicerta Tilesius, 1831 Genus Mesomena Kölliker, 1853 accepted as accepted as Mesonema Eschscholtz, 1829 accepted as Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 Genus Mesonemia Lesson, 1837 accepted as accepted as Mesonema Eschscholtz, 1829 accepted as Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 Genus Mnenia Eschscholtz, 1829 (Misspelling) Genus Monocaulis Lütken in Jones, 1875 (Misspelling) Genus Monocera Meneghini in Renier, 1847 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Monocraspedum Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Monoprion Barrande, 1850 (Suppressed name (ICZN)) Genus Monopysis Nardo, 1847 (Misspelling) Genus Monosclera Hartlaub, 1904 (Misspelling) Genus Moscata Renier, 1847 (Misspelling) Genus Nettunia Renier, 1847 (Misspelling) Genus Oceana Gray, 1848 (Misspelling) Genus Oceanea Graeffe, 1860 (Misspelling) Genus Oceanica Mayer, 1894 (Misspelling) Genus Ombellaria Rafinesque, 1815 (Misspelling) Genus Ombellularia Rafinesque, 1815 (Misspelling) Genus Pachyrynchia Delage in Delage & Hérouard, 1902 (Misspelling) Genus Paralithophyllum Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Parhypha Delage & Hérouard, 1902 (Misspelling) Genus Paripha Agassiz, 1865 (Misspelling) Genus Petzia Fomichev, 1931 † (Misspelling) Genus Phialum Fowler in Lankester, 1900 (Misspelling) Genus Phisophora Scopoli, 1777 (Misspelling) Genus Pholadophyllum Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Physophora Péron & Lesueur, 1807 (Misspelling) Genus Piloscelotus Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Pinnacopora Koch, 1880 (Misspelling) Genus Placoïs Agassiz, 1862 accepted as Placois Agassiz, 1862 Genus Platypixis Hargitt, 1905 (Misspelling) Genus Plethosoma Lesson & Garnot, 1826 accepted as Abylopsis Chun, 1888 Genus Plocoïs Agassiz, 1862 accepted as Plocois Agassiz, 1862 Genus Pluriseriatia Schydlowsky, 1902 (Misspelling) Genus Polybostrycha Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Polybrachiona Agassiz, 1845 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Polyxena Blainville, 1834 (Misspelling) Genus Potyserias Kirchenpauer, 1884 (Misspelling) Genus Prismatostylus Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Protaraeopoma Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Protolonsdaleia Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Pseliophyllum Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Pseudabyla Sears, 1953 accepted as Abyla Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 (based on two aberrant anterior nectophores that might come from an Abyla specimen, or might not, but whichever is the case, they have never been found again) Genus Racemides Agassiz, 1842 (Misspelling) Genus Rathkea Haeckel, 1879 (Misspelling) Genus Rhapidophyllum † accepted as Rhaphidophyllum Lindström, 1882 Genus Rhizophysa Oken, 1815 (Misspelling) Genus Rhodophyllum Thomson, 1875 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Rhyzocorallium Fuchs, 1895 (Misspelling) Genus Sarcospinanthus Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Scarithodes Duncan, 1884 † (Misspelling) Genus Schistotoechelasma Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Schizoladium Billard, 1904 (Misspelling) Genus Schluteria Wedekind, 1922 † accepted as Schlueteria Wedekind, 1922 Genus Schlüteria Wedekind, 1922 † accepted as Schlueteria Wedekind, 1922 Genus Semaeophyllum Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Siphonophora Fischer, 1823 (Suppressed name (ICZN)) Genus Siphonopsis Agassiz, 1846 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Sphenoides Huxley, 1859 accepted as Bassia L. Agassiz, 1862 Genus Sthényo Dujardin, 1845 accepted as Sthenyo Dujardin, 1845 Genus Stomabrachium Brandt, 1838 (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Strobilelasma Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Stromatolophus Gürich, 1906 (Misspelling) Genus Sublonsdaleia Lang, Smith & Thomas, 1940 † (Unjustified (?) emendation) Genus Sylindropora Yabe & Hayasaka, 1915 † (Misspelling) Genus Syndictyum Maas, 1893 (Misspelling) Genus Syndyction Wagner, 1880 (Misspelling) Genus Syndyctyon Hargitt, 1905 (Misspelling) Genus Syphonorhynchus Metschnikoff, 1870 (Misspelling) Genus Syringosphaeria Duncan, 1879 (Misspelling) Genus Thalamina Waagen & Wentzel, 1886 † (Misspelling) Genus Thalia Agassiz, 1862 (Misspelling) Genus Thiarella Jickeli, 1883 (Misspelling) Genus Thosanea Rafinesque, 1815 (Misspelling) Genus Tintinnabalum Böhm, 1878 (Misspelling) Genus Umbellaria Gray, 1840 (Misspelling) Genus Veletta Lendenfeld, 1884 (Misspelling) Genus Abacella Stechow, 1920 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Acanthobrachia Wright, 1867 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Acanthochonium Ludwig, 1865 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Acanthocladium Allman, 1883 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Acanthodes Dybowski, 1873 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Acanthomuricea Thomson & Henderson, 1906 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Acervularia Lonsdale in Murchison, 1839 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Acetabulum Lamarck, 1816 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Achelais Oken, 1815 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Achilleum Münster, 1834 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Acosmetira Cockerell, 1911 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Acraspedites Haeckel, 1869 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Acrochira Gistl, 1847 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Acrophyllia d'Orbigny, 1852 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Acroporites Krueger, 1823 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Acropsammia Gerth, 1933 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Actinantha Lesson in Duperry, 1831 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Actinaroea d'Orbigny, 1850 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Actinocystis Lindström, 1882 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Actinophora Berthold in Latreille, 1827 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Actinorhyza de Blainville, 1830 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Actinoseris d'Orbigny, 1849 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Actinosmilia d'Orbigny, 1849 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Actinotus Gravenhorst, 1831 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Adarces Rafinesque, 1819 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aeginella Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aeginodorus Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aeginorhodus Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aequoranna Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aequoraria Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aequorella Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aequorissa Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aequoroma Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Agalmoides Fewkes, 1886 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Agarikophyllum Fomitchev, 1953 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Agathyphyllia Reuss, 1864 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aglaurella Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Agonophyllum Simpson, 1900 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Alcinia Nardo, 1844 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Alcyonide Milne-Edwards, 1835 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Alcyonites Schlotheim, 1820 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Alexella Gray, 1869 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Alloporina Ehrenberg, 1834 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Allotrophiophyllum Grabau, 1928 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Alophota Brandt, 1835 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Amaranthus Müller in Knorr, 1766 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Ambiguastraea Alloiteau in Piveteau, 1952 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Amblophyllia d'Orbigny, 1849 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Amicella Gray, 1869 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Ammolpaea Schweigger, 1820 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Amocella Gray, 1869 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Amphitrocha Agassiz, 1862 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Anais Lesson, 1843 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Anaxarete Gistl, 1847 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Andenipora Jaworski, 1926 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Anga Stechow, 1921 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Angeastraea Bronn, 1859 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Angelacyathus Duncan, 1876 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Anicella Gray, 1868 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Anisocalyx Costa, 1842 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Anisocola Kirchenpauer, 1876 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Anomophyllum Roemer, 1835 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Anorygmaphyllina Ludwig, 1865 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Anorygmaphyllum Ludwig, 1865 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Anthipora Link, 1807 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Anthocanephora Strand, 1943 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Anthozoanthus Deshayes, 1845-48 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Antillastraea Duncan, 1884 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Antinedia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aphragmastraea Solomko, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aphyllacis Reuss, 1872 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aphyllostylus Whiteaves, 1904 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aplocoenia Milne-Edwards, 1857 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aploconus Debrenne & Gangloff in Debrenne, Gandin & Gangloff, 1990 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aplora Rafinesque, 1819 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aplosastrea d'Orbigny, 1849 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Apolemiopsis Brandt, 1835 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Apolythophyllum Walther, 1928 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Apostasis Lendenfeld, 1885 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aproctomus Rafinesque, 1814 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aprutinopora Parona in Parona, Crema & Prever, 1909 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Arachnium Keyserling, 1846 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Arachnopora Tenison-Woods, 1878 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Araiocaenia Alloiteau, 1949 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Archactis Verrill, 1899 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Archaeocyathellus Ford, 1873 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Archaeoseris Gregory, 1900 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Archicoenopsammia Kolosváry, 1949 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Archihydrocorallina Moseley, 1881 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Archistylaster Moseley, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Archydra Haeckel, 1866 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Areocella Gray, 1869 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Arethusa Oken, 1815 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Arethusa Haeckel, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Argentella Gray, 1870 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Armenistarus Dana, 1766 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Armillifera Fedonkin, 1980 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Arrowipora Fuller & Jenkins, 1995 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Arumberia Glaessner & Walter, 1975 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Asenathia Annandale, 1918 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aspidiophyllum Thomson, 1875 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Asteriophyllum Porfiriev, 1937 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Asterocerium Hall, 1852 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Asterocyclus Vanuxem, 1842 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Asteroides Agassiz, 1844 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Asteroseris de Fromentel in d'Orbigny, 1867 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astoma Voigt in Cuvier, 1843 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astroblastodiscus Ludwig, 1866 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astroblastothylacus Ludwig, 1866 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astrocalamocyathus Ludwig, 1866 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astrochartodiscus Ludwig, 1866 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astrocyathus Ludwig, 1866 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astrocyclus Ludwig, 1866 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astrodendrocyathus Ludwig, 1866 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astrodiscus Ludwig, 1866 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astroidea Oken, 1828 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astroita Milne-Edwards, 1860 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astroites Guettard, 1770 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astrolopas Ludwig, 1866 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astrophloeocyathus Ludwig, 1866 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astrophloeocyclus Ludwig, 1866 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astrophloeothylacus Ludwig, 1869 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astrophyllum Wedekind, 1924 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astroplacocyathus Ludwig, 1866 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astropolia Zborzewski, 1834 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Astrothylacus Ludwig, 1866 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Athoralia Haeckel, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Athoria Haeckel, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Atlante Verany, 1841 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Atollites Maas, 1902 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aulophyllia d'Orbigny † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aulopsammia Reuss, 1854 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Auralia Haeckel, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aureletta Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aurelissa Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Auricoma Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Aurophysa Haeckel, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Axiphyllum Quenstedt, 1880 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Axocyathus Alloiteau in Piveteau, 1952 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Axophyllia d'Orbigny, 1849 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Axoseris Oppenheim, 1901 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bacillastrea Quenstedt, 1880 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Baeophyllum Hill, 1940 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bainbridgia Ball & Grove, 1940 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Baphonulina Zborzewski, 1843 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Barathrobius Danielssen, 1886 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Barycora Alloiteau in Piveteau, 1952 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bassaenia Renz, 1926 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Batea Koren & Danielssen, 1874 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bathyactis Durègne, 1886 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bathyactodes Strand, 1928 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bathyanthus Andres, 1883 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bathygorgia Wright, 1885 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bathyluca Mayer, 1900 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bathypenna Marion, 1906 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Batolites Oken, 1815 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bavarosmilia Kuhn, 1942 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bekhmeia Hudson, 1954 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Berenicanna Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Berenicetta Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bergaueria Prantl, 1946 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Beroides Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1830 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Berosoma Lesson in Duperry, 1838 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bessarabia Gureev in Ryabenko, 1988 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Biblis Lesson, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Billingsia Koninck, 1877 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Biphora Bory, 1804 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Birastrites Geinitz, 1866 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Birotulata Nutting, 1911 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bithecocamara Kozlowski, 1938 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Blanfordia Duncan, 1880 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Blanfordiola Strand, 1928 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Blastogaster Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Blepharogorgia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Boarella Gray, 1870 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bolactites Rafinesque, 1831 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bonata Fedonkin, 1980 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Boreaster Lambe in Low, 1906 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Borelis Oken, 1815 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Boscia Schweigger, 1819 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bosciellaria Reichenbach, 1828 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bosnopsammia Oppenheim, 1908 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Boswellia Sokolov, 1939 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bothwellia Preobrazhinskij, 1981 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bovella Gray, 1870 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Brachiolophus Haeckel, 1880 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Brachionus Blumenbach, 1790 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Brachymaeandrina Duncan, 1884 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Brachysoma Brandt, 1835 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bradyzoum Kühn in Schinde-wolf, 1939 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Branchastraea de Blainville, 1830 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Brevismilia Boelsche, 1866 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Brignus de Gregorio, 1930 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Brochiphyllum Wedekind, 1923 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bucephalon Lesson, 1836 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Bursarius Lesson, 1836 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Busella Gray, 1870 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Buthotrepis Fitch, 1849 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Caementascus Haeckel, 1884 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Caementissa Haeckel, 1884 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Caementoncus Haeckel, 1884 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Caementura Haeckel, 1884 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Caenophyllum Clark, 1926 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Calamella Oken, 1817 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Calamites Guettard, 1770 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Calamosmilia Koby in Koby & Choffat, 1904 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Calathophora Kirchenpauer, 1872 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Callapora Nicholson, 1874 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Calliagalma Fewkes, 1882 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Callichora Dujardin, 1845 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Callirhoe Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Callisis Verrill, 1883 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Callithamnites Göppert, 1859 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Calophyllum King, 1850 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Calophyllum Wilkes, 1848 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Calvinia Savage, 1913 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Campalaria Hartlaub, 1897 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Campanella Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1834 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Campanella Lesson, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Campodocis Dietrich, 1926 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Campolithus Lindström, 1899 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Campsactis Rafinesque & Clifford, 1820 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Canavaria Oppenheim, 1899 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Canavarium Strand, 1943 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cancellites Rafinesque, 1831 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Canephora König, 1825 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Caniella Hadži, 1915 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Carantoseris Alloiteau in Piveteau, 1952 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Caravella Haeckel, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Carelozoon Metzger, 1924 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Caricoides Guettard, 1770 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Carolia Gray, 1867 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Carpolites Link, 1807 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Carpopsis Rafinesque, 1818 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Caryophylloides Guettard, 1770 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Catenaria König, 1825 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Catenularia Link, 1807 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cavella Stechow, 1922 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Celechopora Pradácová, 1939 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Celleporites Schlotheim, 1820 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cenomanosmilia Alloiteau, 1949 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Centastrea d'Orbigny, 1849 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Centrastraea d'Orbigny, 1850 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Centrephyllum Thomson, 1880 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Centrocoenia Bronn, 1859 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Ceramianthema Agassiz, 1844 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cereopsida Strand, 1928 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Ceriolina Zborzewski, 1834 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cetophyllum Wedekind, 1927 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Chaetetiporella Sokolov, 1939 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Chalmersia Delage & Hérouard, 1901 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Charisastraea Fromentel, 1861 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Charybdella Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Charybdusa Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cheilosporum Zanardini, 1844 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Chelybs Oken, 1815 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Chirobelemnon Pfeffer, 1887 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Chirocampta Brandt, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Chiromedusa Thiel, 1928 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Chlorozoa Gray, 1869 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Chonemblema Say in Keating, 1824 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Chorisastraea Fromentel, 1861 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Chorisastrea Frech, 1896 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cionophyllum Chi, 1931 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Circalia Haeckel, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Circolia Haeckel, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cirrhipates de Blainville, 1834 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cispusella Gregorio, 1930 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cladocanna Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cladocerus Rafinesque, 1819 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cladocyclites Rafinesque, 1831 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cladoporium Gregorio, 1930 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cladostoma Brandt, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Claruscyathus Vologdin, 1932 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Clathrophysema Haeckel, 1884 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Claustra Lesson, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Clavella Gray, 1870 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Clavismilia Alloiteau in Piveteau, 1952 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Clemactis Agassiz (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Clisaxophyllum Grabau in Chi, 1931 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Clisiophyllites Loeweneck, 1932 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Clisiophylloides Dybowski, 1873 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cnide Forster, 1844 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Coclocoenia Gerth, 1923 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Coelographula Pomel, 1868 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Coelophyllum Roemer, 1883 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Coenastrea Etallon, 1862 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Coilites Rafinesque, 1840 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Columellastraea d'Orbigny, 1852 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Columellastrea d'Orbigny, 1850 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Columnocaenia Alloiteau in Piveteau, 1952 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Columnopora Nicholson, 1874 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Comalia Wells, 1932 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Comastraea Fromentel, 1862 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Concomedusites Glaessner & Wade, 1966 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Conitubus Kozlowski, 1938 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Conocoenia d'Orbigny, 1849 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Conophyllum Hall, 1851 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Corallinites Guettard, 1770 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Coralliolites Schlotheim, 1813 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Coralliolithes Bronn, 1848 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Coralliopsis Filhol, 1885 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Corallium Lamarck, 1801 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Coralloides Guettard, 1770 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Corallum Ehrenberg, 1834 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cordilites Pocta, 1888 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cordylonema Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Corofolius Gregorio, 1930 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Corticanthus Andres, 1883 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Corticithoa Andres, 1883 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Corymbogonium Allman, 1861 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Corythamnium Allman, 1859 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cosinaraea Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cosmophyllum Vollbrecht, 1922 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cosmopolites Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cosmoseris d'Orbigny, 1850 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cotulina Agassiz, 1862 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Couthouyia Agassiz, 1862 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cramborhiza Haeckel, 1880 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Craspedonites Haeckel, 1865 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Craspedophyllum Dybowski, 1873 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Crassiphyllum Grove, 1935 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Craterophyllum Tolmatchoff, 1931 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Crematostoma A. Agassiz in L. Agassiz, 1862 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Crematostoma Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Crepidophyllum Nicholson & Thomson, 1876 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cretastraea Kuehn & Andrusov, 1930 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cricogorgia Milne-Edwards, 1857 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Crinillum Harting, Miquel & Van der Hoeven, 1861 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Crinophyllum Jones, 1932 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Crinopora d'Orbigny, 1849 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Crispella Gray, 1870 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Crockettius Lament, 1978 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Crossostoma Agassiz, 1862 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Crystallodes Haeckel, 1869 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Crystallophanes Brandt, 1834 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cucubalus Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1830 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cucullus Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1830 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cuculus Lesson, 1843 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cunantha Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cuneolaria Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cunnolites Alloiteau in Piveteau, 1952 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyanaea Cuvier, 1817 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyaneopsis Brandt, 1835 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyanthana Haeckel, 1880 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyathocoenia Fromentel, 1884 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyathocoenia Volz, 1896 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyathodactylia Ludwig, 1865 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyathophoropsis Alloiteau, 1948 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyathopodinum Verrill, 1868 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyathopora Owen, 1844 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyathopsis d'Orbigny, 1849 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyathopsis Thomson, 1883 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyathosmilia Fromentel, 1865 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyathothalaa Ludwig, 1865 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyatophyllum Morren in Galeotti, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cybogaster Haeckel, 1864 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyclactinia Vinassa de Regny, 1901 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyclepites Rafinesque, 1831 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cycloceros Rafinesque, 1818 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyclocoenia d'Orbigny, 1849 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cycloconus Da Rio, 1836 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cycloconus Hombres-Firmas, 1842 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyclocyathus Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1850 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyclogorgia Gordon, 1927 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyclolithus König, 1825 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyclophylla Brandt, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyclorytes Rafinesque, 1819 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyclosites Rafinesque, 1811 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyclosmilia d'Orbigny, 1849 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyclotrema Rafinesque, 1818 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cylicopora Steininger, 1849 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cylicosmilia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cylindripora Eichwald, 1829 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cylindrocyathus Alloiteau in Piveteau, 1952 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cylindrohelium Grabau, 1910 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cylindrohyphasma Steinmann, 1878 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cylindropora Tenison- Woods, 1880 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cymbonectes Haeckel, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cymodocea Lamouroux, 1816 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cymosaria Lamarck, 1816 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cynicus Gistl, 1848 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cypellophyllum Tolmatchoff, 1933 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cyphophyllum Wedekind, 1927 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cystalia Haeckel, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cystidendron Schindewolf, 1927 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cystiphyllum Lonsdale in Murchison, 1839 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cystiplasma Taylor, 1951 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cystistrotion Schindewolf, 1927 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cystophorastraea Dobroljubova, 1935 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cystostylus Whitfield, 1882 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Cytaendra Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dactylacis d'Orbigny, 1849 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dactylastrea d'Orbigny, 1849 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dactylodiscus Slaczka, 1971 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dactylonephthya Thomson & Simpson, 1909 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Daliania Liu & Yang in Hong, Huang, Yang, Lan, Xian, Yang & Liu, 1988 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Danaea d'Orbigny, 1839 & 1846 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Danella Gray, 1869 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dania Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1849 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Danielssenia Grieg, 1887 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dawsonia Nicholson, 1873 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Decacoenia d'Orbigny, 1850 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Delphinastraea Alloiteau in Piveteau, 1952 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dendrocoenia d'Orbigny, 1849 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dendrocora Duncan, 1876 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dendrogorgia Duchassaing, 1870 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dendrohelia Étallon, 1860 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dendrophysema Haeckel, 1884 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dendroseris Gregory, 1929 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dendrostroma Lecompte, 1952 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dermorites Rafinesque, 1831 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Desmalia Haeckel, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Desmastraea Fromentel, 1865 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Desmia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Desmidophora Nicholson, 1886 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Desmopsammia Reis, 1889 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Desmostoma Vanhöffen, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Deutocaulon Marshall & Fowler, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dianthea Busch, 1851 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dibunophylloides Fomitchev, 1953 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dictioastraea Michelotti (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dictyopora Gerth, 1921 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dicyemopsis van Beneden, 1876 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dicymba Haeckel, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diechoraea Tenison-Woods, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Digitium Gregorio, 1930 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dinematella Fewkes, 1881 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diphyomorpha Brandt, 1835 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diphysa Blainville, 1830 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diphystrotion Smith & Lang, 1930 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diplastraea Eichwald, 1854 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diplerium Rafinesque, 1819 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diploastraea Matthai, 1914 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diplocoenia Duncan, 1867 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diplocoeniastraea D'Achiardi, 1880 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diplocraspedon Brandt, 1835 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diplophysa Gegenbaur, 1853 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diplopilus Agassiz, 1862 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diplopora Link, 1807 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diplopora Gümbel, 1866 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diplorybia Fewkes, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diplostemma Brandt, 1835 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diplostephanus Brandt, 1835 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Diplothecastraea Duncan, 1884 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Discomuricea Gordon, 1926 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Discopora Rafinesque, 1814 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Discopsammia d'Orbigny, 1849 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Discoseris Gümbel, 1861 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Discus Lesson, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Disertasia Neppi, 1917 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dobrolyubovia Fomitchev, 1953 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dodecabostrycha Brandt, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Dogielia Pedaschenko, 1906 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Donacostoma Agassiz, 1862 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Donia Soshkina, 1951 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Drillaetis Verrill, 1922 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Drymopora Davis, 1885 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Duebenia Koren & Danielssen, 1877 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Duncania Pourtalès in Agassiz & Pourtalès, 1874 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Duodecimedusina King, 1955 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Echinastraea de Blainville, 1830 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Ecmesus Philippi, 1841 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Elaphantopes Lesson, 1843 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Elasma Wright & Studer in Studer, 1887 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Ellisia Forbes & Goodsir, 1839 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Enallastraea Fromentel, 1861 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Enallophyllum Greene, 1901 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Endeithoa Andres, 1883 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Enneagonoides Huxley, 1859 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Entacmaeea Duchassaing, 1850 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Enteleiophyllum Walther, 1928 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eolithostrotionella Zhizhina in Fomitchev, 1953 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eomontipora Gregory, 1931 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Ephyra Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Ephyropsites Ammon, 1908 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Epicorallum Lamouroux, 1824 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Epidactyla Brandt, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Epigyra Ferry, 1870 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Epihalcampa Carlgren, 1920 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Episeris Fromentel, 1861 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Epistromatopora Yabe & Sugiyama, 1930 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Equisetella Gray, 1870 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Equorea Risso, 1826 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eriska Risso, 1826 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Erismolithus Martin, 1809 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Escharites Guettard, 1770 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Euantipathes Van Pesch, 1914 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eubathypathes Van Pesch, 1914 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eucampanularia Broch, 1909 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eucampanulina Broch, 1909 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eucharina Agassiz, 1860 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eucoparia Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eucrambessa Haeckel, 1880 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eudiphasia Broch, 1905 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eudora Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eudoxon Haeckel, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eufavosites Rukhin, 1936 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eugenia Iljin, 1930 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eulimenes Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eulymena Lesson in Duperry, 1838 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eumichalinia Yabe & Hayasaka, 1915 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eunicensis Dubrowsky, 1934 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eunoella Gray, 1869 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eunomia Lamouroux, 1821 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eupoma Stechow, 1920 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eurialia Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Europala Ehrenberg, 1833 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Euryale Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eurybia Eschscholtz, 1829 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eurybiopsis Gegenbaur, 1856 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eurymaeandra Bronn, 1859 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eurystoma Kölliker, 1853 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eusclerides Gray & Carter, 1869 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eusertularia Broch, 1910 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eusertularia Haeckel, 1899 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eutubularia Haeckel, 1896 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eutubularia Broch, 1909 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eutylopathes Roule, 1905 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Exechestoma Brandt, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Eximia Hartlaub, 1907 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Exossia Nardo, 1847 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Fabera Brandt, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Favastraea d'Orbigny, 1850 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Favastrea d'Orbigny, 1850 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Favoidea Reuss, 1866 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Favositipora Kent, 1870 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Feddenia Duncan, 1880 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Fibrillites Rafinesque, 1831 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Fistulosa Schweigger, 1820 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Flexulites Rafinesque, 1832 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Floscula Haeckel, 1880 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Floscularia Eichwald, 1829 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Forskaliopsis Haeckel, 1888 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Foveolia Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Fraasia Blanckenhorn, 1890 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Fungina Ehrenberg, 1834 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Funginellastraea Alloiteau in Piveteau, 1952 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Fungus Müller, 1766 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Fusticularia Simpson, 1905 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gakarasia Haughton, 1962 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Galanthula Hartlaub, 1899 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gasteripus Rafinesque, 1819 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gastraea Haeckel, 1872 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gastrica Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gastroblastus Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gastrophysema Haeckel, 1877 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gemellaria Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gemmaria Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gemmastrea Blainville, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gemminella Allman, 1874 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gemmithoa Andres, 1883 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gemmulatrochus Duncan, 1878 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Geoporites d'Orbigny, 1850 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gersemiopsis Danielssen, 1886 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Glyphastraea Duncan, 1887 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Glyphephyllia Fromentel in d'Orbigny, 1887 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Godeffroyia Kölliker, 1869 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Goendul Koren & Danielssen, 1883 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gonigoria Gray, 1853 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Goniocoenia d'Orbigny, 1849 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gonocladium Allman, 1872 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gonomeandrus Kirkpatrick, 1903 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gonopera Rafinesque, 1819 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gorgonites Bronn, 1848 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gorskyia Fomitchev, 1953 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Graptolites Emmons, 1842 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Graptopora Salter, 1858 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Graptospongia Ruedemann, 1908 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Graptotheca Bigsby, 1868 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Graptotrichus Pocta, 1908 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Greeneia Allman, 1883 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gunneria Danielssen & Koren, 1884 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gymnocraspedon Brandt, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gymnosarca Kent, 1870 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gymnosolen Stienmann, 1911 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Gyroseris Reuss, 1854 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Haimeophyllum Billings, 1859 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Haldemana Leidy, 1885 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Halecina Gray, 1848 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Halia Hincks, 1855 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Halipetasus Schultze, 1898 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Haloikema Bourne, 1890 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Halysiastraea Michelotti (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hapalia Eschscholtz, 1825 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Haplogyra Michelin † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Haplotella Stechow, 1919 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Haptotheca Lendenfeld, 1885 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Harmodita Eichwald, 1830 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Harmodites Fischer de Waldheim, 1828 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Heccaedecabostrycha Brandt, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Heccaedecomma Brandt, 1838 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hedstromophyllum Wedekind, 1927 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Helenterophyllum Grabau, 1910 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Helicella Gray, 1856 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Helicopodes Tullberg, 1883 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Helioalcyon Termier & Termier, 1945 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Helladastraea Avnimelech, 1948 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hemicyathus Seguenza, 1864 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hemicystiphyllum Wedekind, 1925 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hemiphyllum Tomes, 1887 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hemispheria Quatrefages, 1841 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Heptaphyllum Clark, 1924 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Heptastylopsis Frech, 1890 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Herklotsia Gray, 1860 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Herophile Steenstrup, 1860 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Heterobrachia Brandt, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Heterocaeniopsis Alloiteau in Piveteau, 1952 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Heterodiphyes Lesson, 1843 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Heteropyxis Kirchenpauer, 1876 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Heteropyxis Heller, 1868 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Heterozoanthus Verrill, 1870 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hettonia Hudson & Anderson, 1928 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hexagoniella Gürich, 1896 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hexagoniophyllum Gürich, 1909 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hexastephanus Brandt, 1835 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hexastraea Volz, 1896 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hexastraea Sismonda, 1871 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hexeterus Rafinesque, 1814 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hexorygmaphyllina Ludwig, 1865 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hexorygmaphyllum Ludwig, 1865 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hidroticus Agassiz, 1862 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hiemalora Fedonkin, 1982 † (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Himantostoma Agassiz, 1862 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hippopus Chiaje, 1830 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Hippurium Oken, 1815 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Histiodactyla Brandt, 1837 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Histiophyllum Thomson, 1879 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Holangia Reuss, 1874 (uncertain, unassessed) Genus Holaroea d'Orbigny, 1850 † (uncertain, unassessed) recent + fossil IRMNG (2018). Cnidaria (awaiting allocation). Accessed at: http://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108317 on 2020-01-29 Rees, Tony [taxonomic tree] [list species] basis of record Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) [details] extant flag source Aphia2006, PaleoDB [details] habitat flag source Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. [details] Classification Eukaryota (Superkingdom) > Animalia (Kingdom) > Eumetazoa (Subkingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Cnidaria (awaiting allocation) (Class) > Cnidaria (awaiting allocation) (Order) > Cnidaria (awaiting allocation) (Family) [details] Descriptive info Includes marine + a few freshwater genera [details] Habitat Marine and nonmarine [details] Website and databases developed and hosted by VLIZ · Page generated 2020-01-29 · contact: info@irmng.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line204
__label__wiki	0.640722	0.640722	The Next Kavli Prize laureates will be announced on May 27, 2020 www.kavliprize.org About The Prize Prize Committees The Kavli Foundation and Fred Kavli The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Prizes & Laureates 2018 Laureates Science of the Brain One of the strangest and most wondrous things in the universe is the human brain. Weighing about three pounds for the average adult, within the brain are 100 billion neurons that give us the ability to see, smell and move, as well as think, weep, talk and read. Furthermore, all we experience and remember – in essence, every little thing that makes us who we are – is rooted in the neocortex, the seat of the "thinking" brain. Understanding how such a miracle is possible is the vast mission of the relatively young field of neuroscience. In the past few decades, researchers have learned much about the fundamental workings of the brain, with tremendous gains in knowledge about the molecules that make it run. Now armed with the human genome and a combination of cutting-edge genetic methods and brain imaging techniques, lab scientists are now exploring the neural circuitry of living animals in ways they could likely have never dreamed of even just 20 years ago. neuroscience09.11.18 2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience: A Conversation with Robert Fettiplace, James Hudspeth and Christine Petit neuroscience · carnegie lectures09.28.17 James Rothman: How Vesicles in Our Cells Allow Communication in the Body and the Brain 2016 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience: A Discussion with Eve Marder, Michael Merzenich and Carla Shatz Kavli Prize Laureate Lecture at The Carnegie Institution for Science Marcus Raichle: The Restless Brain See Past Stories Kavli Prize Week Laureate Lectures Laureate Banquet Popular Science Lectures Prize Fields Recent Scientific Topics Carnegie Lectures The Kavli Prize recognizes scientists for their seminal advances in three research areas: astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. The Kavli Prize consists of USD $1,000,000 in each of the scientific fields. In addition to the prize money, the laureates receive a scroll and a gold medal. Want to learn more About The Prize?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line208
__label__cc	0.601629	0.398371	Now displaying: July, 2017 Episode 44 - Killing Ground / What We Do In the Shadows (2014) 0 Christian and Ian will never go camping in Australia. Don't even ask. We are back and ready to show some respect to the southern hemisphere. Our new movie review is for a brutal Australian film, KILLING GROUND. (Note: we do give warning on the episode but we recommend you see the movie beforehand because we do get into spoilers). We continue the Summer Funhouse with our Movie from the Crypt pick this episode, the vampire mockumentary, WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS. We also discuss french fries, our favorite things about Australia, and merlot. Overkill: Survival of the Dead (2009) and remembering George A. Romero 0 Christian and Ian know that the masters can still make terrible movies. We continue our Overkill series in which we will be discussing the movies in George Romero's "Dead" franchise. During each episode we will answer the question- are we still in on this franchise or is it overkill? We discuss Romero's final film shortly after hearing the news of his passing. We do try to discuss the movie, but mostly grapple with Romero's place in American horror cinema and what his legacy is. We discuss some weird choices in this movie regarding Irish people and masturbation, but land on the idea that perhaps Romero's filmography is special because of its flaws rather than in spite of those flaws. Episode 43 - Wish Upon / Young Frankenstein (1974) 0 Christian and Ian never put their ponytails in the garbage disposal. We are back on yet another hot summer night to discuss horror movies new and old. Our new movie review is for the polarizing teen horror flick, WISH UPON. We continue the Summer Funhouse with our Movie from the Crypt pick for this episode, Mel Brooks' seminal horror parody, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. We also discuss deodorant, "knockers" meaning boobs, and Ryan Phillippe playing the saxophone. Overkill: George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2007) 0 Christian and Ian have spent so much time talking about zombies that it's time they look around, look around at how lucky they are to be alive right now. We continue our Overkill series in which we will be discussing the movies in George Romero's "Dead" franchise. During each episode we will answer the question- are we still in on this franchise or is it overkill? For this episode we stumble into the recording studio and attempt to break down Romero's found footage debut, DIARY OF THE DEAD. There are tangents-a-plenty so we also discuss hiding in Ikea furniture, the cancer reducing effects of blueberries, and reading other people's diaries. We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, or any requests you have. You can contact us at: ItsOnlyFeedback@gmail.com and Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd. Episode 42 - The Babadook (2014) / Dead Alive AKA Braindead (1992) 0 Christian and Ian are raising funds for endangered Sumatran Rat-Monkeys. A long holiday weekend is here, but we're still celebrating Pride month in our own way. Our first review is of THE BABADOOK in response to the unusual way in which the titular character became an LGBT icon. We continue the Summer Funhouse with our Movie from the Crypt pick for this episode, the outrageously gory Peter Jackson film, DEAD ALIVE. We also discuss cockroaches, an anus that falls in love with itself, and the music video for the song Candy by Mandy Moore.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line212
__label__cc	0.721263	0.278737	Annual Education Report 2014 NEEDS ASSESSMENT REPORT 2013 Annual Reports HABITAT. TERRITORIAL AND LETHAL AGGRESSION MIGRATION/DISPERSION LOCOMOTION/NEST BUILDING REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR. TOOL USE AND TOOL MAKING. SLEEP GROOMING AND SOCIAL INTERACTION. INTER-SPECIES. BEHAVIOURAL PATTERNS IN CHIMPANZEES. CONSERVATION ISSUES IN UGANDA. ROOTS& SHOOTS PROGRAM OUR EDUCATION CENTERS USAID/BIODIVERSITY PROGRAM COMMUNITY CENTERED CONSERVATION PROJECT FOREST CORRIDOR PROJECT KIGAAGA ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROJECT GIS/LANDUSE PLANNING PROGRAME SNARE REMOVAL PROGRAME REDD PROJECT TOURISM FOR BIODIVERSITY PROGRAM SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS PROJECT BULINDI PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN International Volunteer Program. Like us on Social Media HomeAbout Us - Our Personnel - Annual Reports2014 Annual ReportAnnual Education Report 2014NEEDS ASSESSMENT REPORT2013 Annual ReportsChimpanzeesHABITAT.COMMUNICATIONFEEDING BEHAVIORTERRITORIAL AND LETHAL AGGRESSIONMIGRATION/DISPERSIONLOCOMOTION/NEST BUILDINGREPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR.TOOL USE AND TOOL MAKING.SLEEP GROOMING AND SOCIAL INTERACTION.INTER-SPECIES.BEHAVIOURAL PATTERNS IN CHIMPANZEES.CONSERVATION ISSUES IN UGANDA.News Letters - News LettersProjectsOngoing ProjectsEducation ProgramMOBILE EDUCATIONPEER EDUCATIONROOTS& SHOOTS PROGRAMOUR EDUCATION CENTERSUSAID/BIODIVERSITY PROGRAMCOMMUNITY CENTERED CONSERVATION PROJECTFOREST CORRIDOR PROJECTKIGAAGA ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROJECTGIS/LANDUSE PLANNING PROGRAMESNARE REMOVAL PROGRAMEPast ProjectsREDD PROJECTTOURISM FOR BIODIVERSITY PROGRAMSUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS PROJECTBULINDI PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGNInternational Volunteer Program.SupportMake a DonationLike us on Social MediaFacebookTweeterYoutubeContact Us MOTHER-INFANT BEHAVIOUR. Mother chimpanzees care for their offspring for several years with infants totally dependant on their mothers for 6-8 years and sometimes even longer as they mature and become independent. This extremely close physical and emotional relationship is very similar to humans and, when broken, leads to severe trauma and grief. A mother chimpanzee will fight to the death to protect her baby from other chimpanzees, wildlife or humans. Infant and juvenile chimpanzees spend much of their time playing each day with other young ones as well as with adults in the group. Chimpanzees make play faces and body language similar to that of humans and even laugh out loud. Play includes tickling, wrestling, chasing and other games and sometimes incorporates objects such as leafy twigs, sticks, stones and fruit. REPRODUCTION. Reproduction in chimpanzees is similar to humans although the average number of infants a female produces in a lifetime is not clear. Chimpanzees are considered a K-strategist species, having a delayed onset of reproduction and producing few young in which the parents invest heavily. K-Strategists are often unable to rebuild their populations rapidly enough to avoid extinction following a major decline in population numbers. Copulation can occur at any point in a female’s estrous cycle. Males may guard females from mating with other males, causing tension amongst males and, in some cases, courtship behavior will be observed. Males entice females to leave the core area and travel with them away from other community members until their cycles have finished. Menstrual cycles last on average 40 days for young females who have given birth and 35 days for older females who have given birth at least twice. Females exhibit their first sexual swellings at around 10-11 years, with an average swelling of 12-13 days and a gestation period of between 200 to 235 days. Mating is generally promiscuous although courtship involving just one male and one female has been recorded. Inter-birth intervals range from 3-7 years. Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania has the longest running field study of chimpanzees. Researchers have been continuously observing the same community of wild chimpanzees for 50 years. Some of the females born during the start of Gombe’s research site are still alive and reproducing, suggesting that wild living chimpanzees may go through menopause at a much later age than initially thought. Informing Collective Management of Private Forests in Uganda using GFW and Mobile Mapping Technologies. Founded by renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, the Jane Goodall Institute Uganda is a global Non-Profit Organization that empowers people to make a difference for all living things. Our work builds on Dr.Goodall’s scientific work and her humanitarian vision. MAKE A DONATION NOW From Flickr VIEW CAUSE Human Wildlife Conflict Resilience Fund. the Jane Goodall Institute Uganda in partnership with Eco-Trust and Chimp Trust is implementing an 18 months project in Uganda’s Albertine region in specific Masindi district. Project Goal. The project aims to enhance community resilience to losses from wildlife incursions through the development of local and regional compensation schemes that is anchored on a community-driven […] MORE DETAILS or MAKE A DONATION The Green Lung of Uganda Forest Restoration Project. The Green Lung Forest Restoration (GLF) Project was a six (6) months project from July 2016 to January 2017. The GLF project was implemented in six parishes within Hoima District in Western Uganda with the purpose of enhancing the resilience of forest adjacent communities and protective ecosystems through community-led adaptation interventions focusing on riparian forest afforestation […] USAID/ABCG Fresh Water (FW)-Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) PROJECT. BACKGROUND. ABCG is a consortium of seven U.S.-based international conservation non-governmental organizations (NGOs): African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), Conservation International (CI), the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), World Resources Institute (WRI) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF). ABCG’s overarching goals of a) mainstreaming biodiversity in human well-being and development agendas; [...] JGI focuses its main education programs around Kibale, Budongo, Bugoma and the Kalinzu/Kasyoha- Kitomi forests areas, where awareness of chimpanzees and the environment can best help protect viable chimpanzee populations. Within these areas, JGI Uganda has established an effective Environmental Education (EE) programme at the primary school level. The various elements of this programme focus […] Disney Conservation Fund Project. The project is providing an opportunity for community members in Masindi and Bushenyi districts through teachers and pupils to learn more about the forest environment, its importance and what people can do to help protect it. Specific Goals of the Project. • To equip at least 30 teachers from 30 schools in two districts with […] FOREST CORRIDOR PROJECT. The project was implemented by the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) – Uganda with funding from JGI – Austria in Cooperation with the Austrian Public Campaign “Mother Earth” Project Lifespan. The Forest Corridor Project (FCP) was implemented for one-year (January – December, 2015) and it targeted over 3,500 community members in seven (7) villages in Buseruka [...] Our Forest Education Centers In Uganda JGI is running four(4)Forest Education Centers in Hoima district, Bugoma and Wambabya forests (Kigaaga Forest Education Center), Bushenyi district, Kalinzu and Kashyoha-Kitomi forests (Kalinzu Forest Education Center) and Masindi district, Budongo forest (Busingiro & Kanyo Pabidi Forest Education Centers). The purpose of the Forest Education Centers is to provide Environmental Education facilities that […] ROOTS AND SHOOTS YOUTH PROGRAM. Our Philosophy: Is based on the belief that “every individual matters, every individual has a role to play and every individual makes a difference.” Dr. Jane Goodall founded Roots & Shoots in 1991 an environmental and humanitarian programme of the Jane Goodall Institute. The program’s mission to foster respect and compassion for all living things, [...]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line214
__label__wiki	0.521052	0.521052	Kris Johnson's Blog…sort of. Game Night: Outbreak! August 31, 2008 Kris Johnson 17 Comments It seemed like any other Game Night: Chris was running us through another session of his homebrew campaign (based heavily on the world of Amber, created by Roger Zelazny), we were spending about as much time on conversational tangents as actual roleplaying, and there was cake. A Tuesday night like many before it, until the deep, concussive sound of an explosion rattled the windows of the International House of Johnson. “Holy—!” “Was that—?” Dave, Chris and I ran for the front door. Laura turned on the television and tuned to the local news on Channel 5. Rachel sent a message to Twitter from her cell phone; 140 characters announcing to the Internet that something nearby had exploded. We scanned the treeline and saw it: a large mushroom cloud—too small to be nuclear; besides which we’d already be dead if it was—to the northeast, somewhere near the junction of Route 2 and SOM Center Road. No sooner had we registered the cloud than we heard the screaming. People all through the cul-de-sac had come out of their homes and the sounds of agony surrounded us. We watched in horror as across the street Rick fell to his knees, his face a mass of hideous, black blisters that burst and sprayed a tar-like substance over the pristine concrete pad of his driveway. Something in the house next door exploded, a soft whump followed by the shattering of windows…then flames licking toward the early evening sky from inside. The idea that I should attempt to extinguish the fire was pushed to the back of my mind by more screaming, this time from right behind me. I turned to find Dave in the grip of some unseen agony. Unseen, that is, until his shirt split at the seams and I caught a glimpse of green scales. I took a step back and nearly tripped over whatever it was that now occupied Chris’ t-shirt and khaki shorts. The thing—gelatinous and translucent, seemed to melt, oozing out of—no…no absorbing—the clothes and coalescing into an amorphous blob that slid down the gentle slope of my lawn toward the street, leaving a wide scar of burned grass in its wake. Dave was on the ground now, writhing and twisting as his body expanded well beyond the capacity of his clothes. I took another look…and ran. Ran away from the horrors that used to be my friends and back toward the house. There was no question about what had just happened: somehow, somewhere nearby the wild card virus had been released in the eastern suburbs of Cleveland. Rick—and most of my other neighbors, it seemed—had drawn the Black Queen: a mutation that meant death, usually a very, very painful death. The same appeared to be true of Chris, while Dave had probably drawn a Joker as the virus invaded his body. A Joker meant that Dave would live, though whether that made him better off than those who didn’t might be a matter of perspective; the virus didn’t kill him, but it was mutating him into something that probably wouldn’t resemble a human being for much longer. I dreaded what I would find inside. There was no screaming from, but that could mean that Laura had drawn the Black Queen, too. No, there she was, very much alive and looking very much like Laura. She was kneeling over a prone figure on the floor. Rachel, like Dave, had drawn a Joker. A spiral horn had erupted from her forehead, and I couldn’t help but think of unicorns…and faeries—a pair of gossamer wings spread from between her shoulderblades. Her hair was longer, too, at least waist-length and a rich red in hue. Laura saw me then, and we quickly reassured one another that we were fine, though Laura said she felt “weird”. (I chalked it up to the fact that something had blown up near our neighborhood and our friends were mutating into bizarre conglomerations from J.R.R. Tolkien’s nightmares.) “We have to get Rachel to a hospital,” Laura said. My mind raced in a hundred different directions at once, but I couldn’t focus on a clear course of action. I nodded, glad to have the decision made for me. I half-lifted, half-dragged the unconscious Rachel to the front door. “Where’s Chris?” Laura asked. “His van is blocking the driveway, we’ll have to take it to the hospital.” “I…I think Chris is dead,” I said. “He…he melted.” “Take…my…Humvee.” I whirled toward the source of the pained, gutteral words. Dave was on all fours, doubled over in pain. Scaly protrusions outlined the ridge of his spine and a thick, green tail jutted from just below the small of his back. Dave’s gas-guzzling, military-inspired monstrosity was parked on the curb. The keys were in the shredded remains of his pants and Laura, when she recovered from seeing the ex-Navy SEAL transformed into a human-lizard hybrid, retrieved them with trembling fingers. I shouldered Rachel into the back seat, then went back to help Dave. He was impossibly heavy; there was no way I’d be able to even drag him across the lawn, much less lift him into the vehicle. He fought through the pain, staggering to his feet and stumbling toward the Humvee. “Drive!” he muttered, climbing into the back seat next to Rachel. The Humvee listed as Dave managed to somehow cram himself—tail and all—into the back seat. Laura climbed into the front passenger seat as I pulled the driver’s door closed. I hadn’t driven a standard transmission in at least ten years, but necessity trumped nerves and seconds later the Humvee was swinging around the cul-de-sac and roaring toward Euclid Avenue. I uttered a curse—probably several—and slammed on the brakes. Euclid was a snarled mess of cars and trucks, some trying to maneuver toward East 305th Street, others stalled or crashed and now blocking traffic, their drivers either dead at the wheel or having abandoned the vehicle in the street. As bad as it had been in the cul-de-sac, it was a thousand times worse on the most traveled surface street in Lake County. Horns honked, people shouted (or screamed, as the Black Queen took her sweet time finishing a few of the unlucky ones off) and a logjam of steel and fiberglass stretched out in both directions. It took me a moment to free myself from my usual minivan mindset and realize that I was driving a Humvee. I shifted into four-wheel drive and pushed the big truck into the fray. Metal shrieked, glass broke and rubber stuttered on concrete as I pushed cars out of my way, not caring whether their occupants were alive or not. Ploughing toward the opposite side of Euclid Avenue, I finally encountered an obstacle that the seemingly-irresistable Humvee would not move: a large black SUV. I uttered another curse and felt the Humvee rock on its suspension as Dave hauled his bulk out of the back door. Slack-jawed, I watched as Dave—at least eight feet tall now—gripped the rear bumper of the Escalade and lifted. The SUV rocked and I recovered my wits enough to let my foot off the Humvee’s brake. With Dave’s help, I pushed the Escalade onto its side and we were able to squeeze past it. We ploughed along, parallel to Euclid Avenue, cutting through the parking lots of a lawn tractor dealership, a bar and grill, a convenient store. Dave added his power to that of the Humvee when our forward progress was arrested and we rolled through—and in one case, over—the dozens of parked cars between us and East 305th Street. It took us an hour to reach Route 2, the freeway I hoped would whisk us to downtown Cleveland and The Cleveland Clinic, but the sight we found when we finally crossed the railroad tracks made my heart sink: a virtual lake of vehicles, none of them moving, many of them sporting familiar red-and-blue flashing lights. Route 2, and by extension The Cleveland Clinic, was simply out of reach; we were going nowhere. With apologies to Chris Miller. We didn’t mean to kill you, really. The Game: Wild Cards, a Mutants & Masterminds sourcebook from Green Ronin Publishing. Written by John Joseph Miller and designed by Steve Kenson. Wild Cards is based on the series of novels by the same name, edited by George R.R. Martin and featuring stories by Melinda Snodgrass, Roger Zelazny, Walter Jon Williams, John Joseph Miller and many more. On September 15, 1946, the alien xenovirus known as Takis-A was released over an unsuspecting New York City. The virus killed most it infected instantly, while a lucky few were granted superhuman abilities and others were horribly mutated. On August 26, 2008, a new outbreak of Takis-A occurred in the east suburbs of Cleveland. How the virus was released is not yet known, but northeast Ohio will never be the same… GM: Gus “I don’t exist in this reality” Gosselin Players: Dave “Scales” Berg, Kris “I Feel Fine” Johnson, Laura “I Feel Funny” Johnson and Rachel “@TheInternet OMG, Something Just Exploded!” Ross. Up Next: Aces! (Session 1, Part 2) Chris MillerGame NightMutants & MastermindsRachel RossThe Bearded GooseWild Cards Previous PostNon Sequitur: More Wrong NumbersNext PostInterlude: The Wedding 17 thoughts on “Game Night: Outbreak!” Entertaining just to read… @Greg — Thanks. I hope to have part two posted later this week. Chris Miller says: Glorp. Rachel “@TheInternet OMG, Something Just Exploded!” Ross says: I was secretly glad to be unconscious during the whole “which way do we turn on Euclid?” “No wait the traffic is too bad that way…” snarl. @Rachel — You can admit it: you were feigning unconsciousness from the second you were loaded into the Humvee. 😉 Jahnoth says: I’m so bummed that the recording didn’t work out. This would’ve been fun to listen to. @Jahnoth True. Even Minitotoro wanted to hear of Chris Miller’s demise. 😉 Miscellaneous G says: Gee, guess I dodged a bullet! For now… Sorry about you going out Senator Kelly style, Chris. @Miscellaneous G — I think Gus has a very special card up his sleeve for you. I’m not sure it’s an Ace. @Rachel “@TheInternet OMG, Something Just Exploded!” Ross — Please! A little respect for the acidic and oozing! @Jahnoth — In the future, I think I’ll make recording Game Night standard operating procedure, whether such recordings are ultimately destined for release or not. @Chris Miller — Indeed. And also splortch. Actually, Gus wasn’t heavy on the sound effects so I had to imagine my own ooey, gooey aural goodness. Rachel "long nickname" Ross says: @Kris Oh, er, I’m sure she just wanted to MOURN. Respectfully. @Kris – I’ll keep bringing that H2 I borrowed from work, now that I know how to use it, thankyouverymuch. Ready for Part II of the demise… er, adventures of the International House of Johnson. @Jahnoth — Yep. Working on Part II as we speak. Should be in the queue for release right after the second part of the write-up for our Marvel Heroes game. Yup. @Kris – COMMENT DELETED @Kris – knock knock knock Hello? Anyone here? Leave a Reply to Jahnoth Cancel reply What the what? 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__label__wiki	0.681443	0.681443	VERITAS - Melinda Leslie \| Abductions and Covert Ops Labels Abduction, Mel Fabregas, Melinda Leslie, Ufo, Veritas Show / Source: veritasshow.com Researcher/experiencer Melinda Leslie discussed her recent work on abductees who claim to have been interrogated, and sometimes re-abducted by covert/military operatives, after their initial alien encounter. The phenomenon, often referred to as MILABS (military mind control and abduction), can occur in several stages. Starting off on a low level with hearing noises like someone is listening in on phone calls, it can graduate to being watched and followed, confronted and told not to speak out, and harassed by low-flying black helicopters, she detailed. Some abductees encounter a "minders scenario" in which an operative wins their trust with insider information about their alien interactions, but then can become controlling and manipulative, she said. Melinda Leslie has been public with her own abduction experiences for 20 years, researched covert-ops involvement in abductions for 17 years, and interviewed over 50 abductees with this involvement. For 9 years Melinda was the Director of a UFO lecture series hosting the most prominent names in ufology. In addition to her abduction work, Melinda has been a paranormal researcher for over 25 years and a founding member of the Orange County Paranormal Researchers, a group which has conducted formal investigations for 9 years. Melinda has been able to recall many of her experiences consciously, without the aid of hypnosis. She is what UFO researchers call a conscious abductee. While she has had virtually the entire range of UFO experiences, one of her most dramatic occurred in July 1991 while driving with two friends through the Los Angeles forest. All three experienced a two-hour-long abduction into a metallic craft piloted by grey-type ETs. The Day Before Disclosure Official Teaser Labels documentary, NewParadigmFilms, The Day Before Disclosure / NewParadigmFilms — 16. April 2010 — This is the official teaser for the documentary The Day Before Disclosure by New Paradigm Films. The feature film will shed new light on the UFO phenomena and the ET presence and premieres in May 2010. See www.newparadigm.no for further information. Alex Collier Earth Transformation Conference January 2010 Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Alex Collier, Andromeda, Earth Transformation Conference / Alex Collier at the Earth Transformation Conference Hawaii January 7-10, 2010. UFO BRIGHT LIGHTS filmed over Sortavala, Russia, March 16th, 2010 Labels Russia, Sortavala, Ufo / Very strange lights filmed in the Russian Federation, Republic of Karelia March 16th 2010 over Sortavala. John Searl \| New Energy Science Labels Bradley Lockerman, Free Energy, John Searl, New Energy Science / Source: coasttocoastam.com 13 April 2010—Filmmaker Bradley Lockerman and the “Godfather of Free Energy” Professor John Searl discussed Searl’s invention of a magnetic generator and how he believes the device could save our planet from economic and environmental disaster. “Scientists are ‘yesterday people’,” Searl declared, “but inventors are a special group of people who see the future and they bring the future out into reality.” Lockerman, who has been investigating Searl’s research since 1994, called the inventor's tale “the wildest story I've ever heard in my life.” Recounting his remarkable story, Searl detailed how he first conceived of the device via a series of recurring dreams. Years later, he assembled the early prototypes of the invention and saw that it mysteriously floated, non-stop, upwards. Eventually, Searl managed to develop a means of controlling the device. It was during this time that sightings of his experiments in England were dubbed ‘UFOs’ by an unsuspecting public as well as the newspapers who knew of his work but desired to keep it under wraps. Should the technology ultimately be used to create a vehicle, he claimed that it could travel from London to New York in 15 minutes and a trip to the moon or the ISS would be the equivalent of “a bus ride.” Klaus Dona \| The Hidden History of the Human Race Labels Artifacts, Bill Ryan, Klaus Dona, project avalon / Source: projectavalon.net Bill Ryan: I first met Klaus Dona, an Austrian artifacts researcher, in July 2009. His Project Camelot interview was extremely well received, and many people wrote asking for a follow-up. So I'm delighted to bring you more. This video is a 45 minute slideshow, with a personal commentary from Klaus. It's data-rich, detailed, intensive, absorbing, and may contain more startling information about the history of the human race in one place than any other video you've ever seen. The journey we embark on covers Atlantis, reptilian humanoids, the Anunnaki, ancient symbolism, ancient science, an ancient global language, and much more. This is astonishing material, which has my highest recommendation. Enjoy. Jim Humble \| MMS in Africa: treating HIV and Cancer Labels Bill Ryan, Jim Humble, MMS, project avalon / For those who are unaware of Jim's work, he is the inventor of MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution) which, according to Jim, two million people worldwide have used to successfully and rapidly treat a range of serious illnesses and other viral conditions - with very little cost and with comparatively little difficulty. I have personally received many testimonies of the apparent benefits of MMS - and witnessed several apparent miracles first-hand. I had the pleasure of interviewing him again at Thomas Kirschner's house in Southern Germany in January [2010] after Jim had flown to Europe from Africa for a week. Thomas is the editor of the German NEXUS Magazine and has done a huge amount to support and assist Jim. He is also a longstanding friend of Camelot and Avalon. As you'll see in the video, Jim has been getting some quite remarkable results. He has been very successfully treating hundreds of patients with AIDS and cancer and has collected reports of patients with AIDS being restored to full health within three weeks using a particular protocol which he has developed. He describes what he calls 'MMS 2', which he says works particularly effectively in conjunction with MMS 1 for treating cancer. Of interest so some of you may be one project (added as an outtake - nothing to do with MMS, and which he's not devoted any time to recently) which is so off-the-wall that it's barely believable, and which I would not believe myself if Jim had not given his word to me that he was reporting his experiences accurately. That project is an accidental discovery of a chemical - again, chemical - way of transmuting radioactive materials to (a) eliminate all traces of radioactivity within three days and (b) create as a by-product a residue of precious metals that produces a profit of about $1000 (over costs) per ton of radioactive material processed. The process features slow, high-temperature burning using particular chemical agents. I include that here as a teaser. Anyone with any understanding of mainstream physics or chemistry will of course know that this is [supposed to be] quite impossible. You can hear the anecdote at the end of the video. A lovely soundbite, also added as an outtake, was my asking Jim what had happened to his hat. He said he had stopped wearing it in Africa because it made him "too easy to recognize", and that not wearing it might give him an extra few seconds to escape someone wanting to shoot him. We then had a very funny conversation about whether or not I should follow his example. Besides presenting some information that might be extremely valuble for anyone who is seriously ill, the video is also great fun for anyone who loves and respects Jim and his remarkable work. Enjoy :) Daniel Estulin - 12 Apr 2010 - The Global Elite's Plan Labels Bilderberg Group, Daniel Estulin / Retired Air Force Capt. Robert Collins \| ET & UFO Secrets Labels Capt.Robert Collins, MJ-12, Ufo / Retired Air Force Capt. Robert Collins spoke with George Knapp (email) about his investigations into UFOs, ETs, MJ-12 and government knowledge. Collins detailed his involvement with a secretive group with ties to intelligence and the military, known as the "Aviary." They used bird names in order to protect their identities while communicating with each other about UFO-related subjects,he explained (a list of members compiled by Richard Boylan is posted here). Collins was the "Condor," and appeared in silhouette under that name on a 1988 TV special UFO COVERUP LIVE, along with the "Falcon" (Richard Doty), revealing information about ETs. # Three different ETs lived in secret facilities in the United States at various times, Collins reported: 'EBE 1' was recovered in 1947 and taken to a containment area in Los Alamos. A voice box was put in its throat so it could communicate. # 'EBE 2' (1964-1984) came as part of an exchange program from the third planet of Zeta 1, and resided in a Los Alamos safe house. Reagan supposedly had meetings with EBE 1 & 2. # 'EBE 3' was a female that arrived in 1978 and left in either '89 or '93. Collins also discussed an incident known as "Gate 3" in which a "cloned biological entity" escaped a containment area in Area 51 and was subsequently shot, after the entity "pulverized" a guard. American weatherman Confirms Chemtrails Labels Chemtrails, Kevin Lollis / The daily weather chat weatherman Kevin Lollis KTVL took the news on Friday, April 9 very surprising. During the broadcast, he points viewers to the plane streaks on the radar images show and tell plain that we are facing. Lollis explains that these lines on the images will not rain or snow, but aluminum, plastic and paper particles that have a metallic coating. This according to him by the army scattered to the radar influence in military, but keep that quiet. In addition he indicates this to be well informed because he has been employed for years in the Marine Corps. From 1 minutes begins his explanation of the phenomenon that most of you by now better known as Chemtrails. Transcript: "We got a bit of a unusual situation. Now, this first portion of the radar cycle fairly blend and typical, but then you see these bands of very distinct cloud cover moving into the region." "That is not rain, that is not snow. Believe it or not, military aircraft flying through the region and dropping 'Chaff'. Small bits of aluminum, sometimes it's made of plastic or even metallised paper products. It's used as an anti radar issue and obviously they're practicing." "Now they won't confirm that, but I was in the marine corps for many years and I tell you right now... that's what it is." Anamophosis - Hidden in plain sight Labels Conspiracy, Rothschild / Posted by Phatman Mon Apr 12, 2010 1:57 pm The 13 stars which make up the 13 points in a 2D perspective tetrahedron at the top of the eagle is the item of interest. The fact that it is "Illuminated" tells us that there is more to it than meats the eye. This is why I mentioned Anamorphosis. The changing of perspective. The sacred geometry is revealed in the 3 dimensions. The number 13 in Hebrew makes up the word "ONE". It is only used in the bible where it is state "The Lord is ONE". In this number 13 we see the use of sacred geometry. It's anamophosis being the ONE GOD of the Tetrahedron. This is the key to everything. The Illuminati shove it in your face as if they and they alone are the masters of space and time. Now you know this bombshell is what they couldn't afford to be leaked out. It is what I promised to release if they did not stop pestering me. Now I have have put my cards on the table. E Pluibus Unum.. Out of many ONE. Now look at the biblical context "The Lord is ONE". Is this not a contradiction ? Now you are just seeing the beginnings of what is hidden. Who are the many ? Which one do they call the one ? Who are those they call the many ? The 13 Stars make up the "Red Shield" or Rothschild's symbol. Now I have said more than I should. Here is a link to understanding the 13 steps of the pyramid. The 14th step the builders "Rejected" and placed instead the Eye of Horus, the eye of their god. In this link you will see those who call themselves Lord and Master. vigilantcitizen.com They believe they own us and that we are property to be bought and sold. We in fact are bought and sold. Our social security numbers are bought and sold on the stock exchange. Their symbol of the Pyramid and the Red Star are symbols are where they claim to be from. The red dwarf star is why they they claim they left. Putting their mark on the US dollar tell us that they "Own the US Currency". This deal was struck by Haym Solomon by our founding fathers who did not have the money to finance the war. So they borrowed it from the Rothchild Banks. The Rothchild family knows of the technology they sit on. It should be given out freely. It is not. It is kept in secret so they can keep us in slavery. Expanding the Effort to Achieve Nuclear Security Labels Barack Obama, Nuclear Security / Posted by Jesse Lee on April 12, 2010 at 12:13 PM EDT Last week saw marked progress on one of the President's key long-term foreign policy objectives to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, and to secure vulnerable nuclear materials. On April 8th, President Obama signed the New START Treaty which will require the United States and Russia to reduce -- by 30 percent below the levels in a treaty signed in 2002 -- the number of nuclear warheads they have deployed on intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-based ballistic missiles, and bombers. A year in the making, this treaty marked an important step towards the goal of eliminating the threat of nuclear weapons to humanity, a goal the President recognizes may not be reached in his lifetime but which will never happen if we do not strive for it. The New Start Treaty was signed two days after the Department of Defense released the new Nuclear Posture Review, which establishes as a goal of America's foreign policy "to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy and focus on reducing the nuclear dangers of the 21st century, while sustaining a safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent for the United States and our allies and partners as long as nuclear weapons exist," as the President put it in his statement. This morning the President arrived at the Nuclear Security Summit with leaders from around the world to pursue a comprehensive nuclear security agenda to secure all vulnerable nuclear materials around the world within four years. As Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes explained in previewing the summit, "Obviously no one nation is capable of taking the actions necessary to secure vulnerable nuclear materials that are in many different countries and in many different regions of the world. Similarly, no one nation is capable of pursuing the kind of nuclear security measures that can prevent the transit, illicit transit, of those types of materials." The summit will focus on collective action to achieve these goals, and as the largest gathering of countries by an American President dedicated to a specific issue in decades, it represents a recognition by the President and so many other leaders of the seriousness of the threat posed by nuclear terrorism. President Barack Obama meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan at the Nuclear Security Summit at the Washington Convention Center April 12, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) The work of the summit began yesterday with a number of bilateral meetings, with more scheduled today with King Abdullah of Jordan, Prime Minister Mohamed Najib Abdul Razak of Malaysia, President Serzh Sargsian of Armenia, and President Hu Jintao of China. The President will welcome each head of delegation late this afternoon, and the summit will begin in earnest with a working dinner tonight to be followed with much more tomorrow. 2010 International UFO Congress Videos Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Mel Fabregas, Phyllis Schlemmer, Veritas Show / Mel Fabreas from VERITAS talk swith Phyllis Schlemmer about a message from above and beyond 2012 at the 2010 International UFO Congress. Phyllis is the author of "The Only Planet of Choice: Essential Briefings from Deep Space and The Spirit Planes". Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Dr. UFO, Mel Fabregas, Pat Marcattilio, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from VERITAS talks Pat "Dr. UFO" Marcattilio at the 2010 International UFO Congress about about medical records and abductees. Dr. UFO has been a UFO researcher since the 1950s and has found many medical patterns with abductees. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Mel Fabregas, Mexico, Santiago Yturria Garza, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from VERITAS talks with Santiago Yturria Garza about UFOs in Mexico. Santiago shares some of the most incredible UFO cases in Mexico in the past few years. Santiago is the co-presenter with Jaime Maussan at many of the International UFO Congress events. Esta es la primera entrevista efectuada por Mel Fabregas en espanol. Mel Fabregas del programa VERITAS entrevista a Santiago Yturria Garza en el Congreso Internactional del Fenomeno OVNI en Laughlin, Nevada. Santiago es co-presentador con Jaime Maussan en este congreso y discutio los casos mas importantes de Mexico Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Denis Roger Denocla, Mel Fabregas, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from VERITAS talks with Denis Roger Denocla - PRESENCE: UFOs, Crop Circles & Exocivilizations at the 2010 International UFO Congress. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Ed Grimsley, Mel Fabregas, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from VERITAS talk swith Ed Grimsley about infrared vision glasses and UFO watching at the 2010 International UFO Congress. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Abduction, Mel Fabregas, MILABS, Niara Isley, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from VERITAS talks with Niara Isley about her military abduction experience and healing at the 2010 International UFO Congress. Niara will be on VERITAS very soon. Many people are not aware of the concept of MILABS (military abductions) and, according to researchers, this is happening more than real alien abductions. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Bob Dean, Mel Fabregas, Paola Harris, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from VERITAS talks with Paola Harris and Robert "Bob" Dean at the 2010 International UFO Congress. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Dr. Roger Leir, Implants, Mel Fabregas, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from VERITAS talks with Dr. Roger Leir about Alien Implants at the 2010 International UFO Congress. Dr. Leir is the pioneer on the surgical removal of alleged alien implants. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Bob Dean, Marc D'Antonio, Mel Fabregas, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas of VERITAS interviews Bob Dean and Marc D'Antonio at the 2010 International UFO Congress. Mel received some images that he cannot disclose and was asked to show them to photographic expert Marc D'Antonio for his opinion. As Marc and I were heading to an area where he could look at the images, Bob Dean was walking by. I asked Bob Dean to witness Marc's reaction to the images. The interview continues with Bob Dean reacting to many other topics. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Capt. Robert Salas, Malmstrom AFB UFO Incident, Mel Fabregas, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from VERITAS talks with Capt. Robert Salas at the 2010 International UFO Congress about the Malmstrom AFB UFO Incident, in which Capt. Salas was in charge of 10 nuclear warheads. The warheads were shut down after a UFO stood and hovered above the base in 1967. Capt. Salas was one of Dr. Steven Greer's 2001 Disclosure Project. A full VERITAS interview is in the works for the near future. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, David Sereda, Mel Fabregas, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from VERITAS talks with David Sereda at the 2010 International UFO Congress about his plans to build a flying saucer. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Jordan Maxwell, Mel Fabregas, Veritas Show / This is a brief conversation with Jordan Maxwell about his new work and projections for 2010. There is a 3-hour interview available at VERITAS. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Jim Nichols, Mel Fabregas, Ted Loman, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from VERITAS talks with Ted Loman and Jim Nichols at the 2010 International UFO Congress. Ted and Jim discussed why Disclosure may never originate from the government, as well as other topics. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Mel Fabregas, Richard Dolan, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from Veritas talks with Richard Dolan at the 2010 International UFO Congress. Richard has been on Veritas twice and both shows are superb. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Gary Heseltine, Larry Warren, Mel Fabregas, Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from Veritas talks with Larry Warren and Gary Heseltine - Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident at the 2010 International UFO Congress. Larry was a military guard at the base when the incident occurred. Gary Heseltine is a U.K. police detective who has been investigating this case and is now working on the screenplay for an upcoming movie. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Alejandro Rojas, Mel Fabregas, Open Minds Production, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from Veritas talks with Alejandro Rojas from Open Minds Production at the 2010 International UFO Congress. Open Minds has now taken over the International UFO Congress and will continue next year in Phoenix, Arizona. Open Minds will feature a magazine, radio and television shows, marketing and more. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Now That's Weird, Ross Hemsworth, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from Veritas talks with Ross Hemsworth from Now That's Weird. Ross is the founder and presenter of the popular British Show "Now That's Weird". Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Mel Fabregas, Stan Romanek, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from Veritas talks with Stan Romanek at the 2010 International UFO Congress. Stan Romanek's abduction case is one of the most documented cases of all time...and he continues to be abducted and more evidence coming forward. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Dolores Cannon, Mel Fabregas, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from Veritas talks to Dolores Cannon at the 2010 International UFO Congress. Dolores will be on Veritas in the 2nd Quarter of 2010. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Abduction, Mel Fabregas, Melinda Leslie, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from Veritas interviews Melinda Leslie about military abductions; although Melinda prefers to call it "covert abductions", as they could be conducted by other entities (i.e., intelligence). This is a preview of an upcoming full show Melinda will be doing on Veritas. Labels 2010 International UFO Congress, Chuck Wade, Mel Fabregas, Ufo, Veritas Show / At the 2010 International UFO Congress I met Chuck Wade who claims he has debris from a New Mexico UFO crash. The crash is from 1947 but it is not Roswell. Currently, Chuck is expecting laboratory results to prove that this material cannot be manufactured on this planet. In addition, a dowser used her dowsing tool to measure the energy emanating from the pieces. This is part 1 of 3. Labels Kerry Cassidy, Mel Fabregas, Veritas Show / Mel Fabregas from Veritas talks with Kerry Cassidy from Project Camelot at the 2010 International UFO Congress. Kerry comments about the latest Veritas interview she and Bill Ryan did with Mel Fabregas. Graham Hancock \| Entangled, Supernatural, Shamanism & The Origins of Consciousness Labels Graham Hancock, Shamanism, Supernatural / April 10, 2010—Graham Hancock discusses his latest book Entangled, a novel, and why he's chosen to go into the field of fiction, considering his past non-fiction works, how his earlier books and research have influenced the writing of Entangled Amazing UFOS caught by Skywatchers in Mexico Labels Mexico, Ufo / Mexican Skywatchers presented by Carlos Clemente from the Tercer Milenio UFO TV program. UFO, - Berlin, Germany 2010 Labels Berlin, Germany, Ufo / UFO filmed over Berlin, Germany 2010 Strange UFO's Filmed in Japan Labels Japan, Orb, Ufo / Amazing footage of a UFO that released multiple orbs into clouds above Hikone (Shiga Prefecture, Japan). This video shows three of the orbs before they disappeared into the cloud cover. What do you think they are? Take a look at the existing evidence and make your own decision.. Amazing yellow UFO with high flow of energy Recording: Arturo Robles Gil. Dec. 30, 2006. Mexican UFO congress 2010 Labels Brasil, Mexico, Ufo / Event that will be presented in Mexico City in the auditorium of the World Trade Center on 19, 20 and 21 March 2010. The best sightings recorded in Mexico City. UFO Shoots Laser! October 10, 2009 Murrysville, PA Nightvision UFO Spotting. Transforming Triangle UFO Shoots a Laser Beam. October 10, 2009. Murrysville, PA Michael Tellinger \| African Ruins & the Annunaki Labels African Ruins, Annunaki, Michael Tellinger / 6 April 2010—Michael Tellinger discussed his study of ancient ruins at the southern tip of Africa, which he believes were associated with a vanished civilization that ET visitors, the Annunaki, brought together over 200,000 years ago, when they came here to mine gold. The ruins, which he's investigated along with Johan Heine, consist of thousands of stone structures over a large area. The structures show evidence of their extreme antiquity through erosion and patina growth, he detailed. One of the most important ruins he referred to as “Adam’s Calendar,” a monolithic stone calendar that could mark time out by the day. William K. Black - CSI Bailout Labels CSI Bailout, William K. Black / 3 April 2009—William K. Black suspects that it was more than greed and incompetence that brought down the U.S. financial sector and plunged the economy in recession—it was fraud. And he would know. When it comes to financial shenanigans, William K. Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, has seen pretty much everything. British Fighter jets chase UFO down the M5 Labels Ufo / A mystery cameraman took footage of the military aircraft chasing the shiny orb. The 30-second clip is believed to have been taken from a West Midlands service station car park. Expert Nick Pope, who probed UFO sightings for the MoD, said: "This is one of the best videos I've seen. It could be a new drone - that might explain the military jets. "But you don't normally test-fly secret projects in daylight. Alternatively, this could be the real thing - a UFO in our airspace and military aircraft scrambled to intercept, probably due to it being tracked on radar." The MoD refused to comment on the alleged sighting, but confirmed it would scramble jets to meet an air threat. West Midlands Police said: "We are not aware of any reports of unidentified aircraft near the M5." Robster wrote: Well i hate to be the bearer of bad news but the above mentioned video is totally 100% a 3d rendering(CG) movie. Not a real world event. I laughed because i also do 3d work and have been in the motion graphics business for 15 years, and i knew i had seen that purple truck somewhere before. So i went to my favorite 3d model online service to see if it was there. And LOL there it is http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/...k-model/405385 With the same ugly purple color i remembered. All they did was take out the sing on the back of it. Also the movement of the planes is not correct.And the lighting is off very cartoonish lighting. And at the end when the camera looks down by the car wheel (last frames) the ground is white (they forgot to add texture to it). Nice attempt but no cigar!. The program used is called 3Dmax Man why do i feel like i just crashed a party? Anyway i hope this helps in the truth search. Keep searching the sky! VERITAS - Richard Sauder \| Underground Bases & The Black Budget Labels Black Budget, Richard Sauder, Underground Base, Veritas Show / Dr. Richard Sauder, the world's premier investigator of underground bases and tunnels discusses his latest and most in-depth publication. This show will discuss the following questions: Where are the secret underground bases? How far down do they go? What leaks are coming from the classified world? What has the U.S. Navy planned for beneath the ocean floor? Are there bases beneath the ocean? What's going on beneath Washington, D.C.? Are there high-speed, underground maglev systems? What is the connection with UFOs and the alien question? Dr. Sauder goes where no other researcher has gone before. This show is a must for any and all who are seeking to understand the full magnitude of the Matrix-like reality of our civilization. He discusses the black budget world of super-secret projects and clandestine underground, and undersea, bases and tunnels, and the vast sums of money siphoned off from the economy to build them. Barbara Threecrow - Journey of Indigenous People in the Heart of the World Labels Barbara Threecrow / 28 December 2009—Four tribes—The Kogi, Arhuaco, Wiwa and Kankuamo— live in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, the highest coastal mountain range in the world. They are its care takers and call it “The Heart of the World”. Their knowledge and connection to the entire ecosystem of the Sierra with its relation to all of life on earth, has alerted them to the escalating planetary climate changes. In August of 2009 Rick Harlow and Barbara Threecrow met several Mamo (elders) in Pasto, Colombia. Together they formed “The Elders Project”. The Grand Sewkukuy, (shaman) 94 year old Norberto Torres, an Arhuaco elder, is recognized as the “Spiritual Geographer” of the Sierra. In 2010 he will lead a small group in ceremonies at the 54 sacred sights at the base of the Sierra’s inorder to activate and energize the the area and the the rest of the planet. John Lear - The Living Moon Labels John Lear, Moon / 26 March 2010—Anthea Appel interviews John Lear. Mary Rodwell \| The New Human Labels Abduction, Mary Rodwell / Hypnotherapist, Mary Rodwell has worked with over 1500 individuals with abduction experiences. Her work bridges the gaps between the works of abductee specialists Budd Hopkins and Dr David Jacobs. In the video above, Mary talks about ordinary people, Doctors and Lawyers who have experienced being on board Spaceships. Even children report seeing their families interacting with extraterrestrials on more craft. Mary put this into perspective as she explains life's work with experiencers and how she believes that the ETs are upgrading humans into a new species—Homo Noeticus. John Hall \| Satellite Terrorism, Surveillance Technology, Implantable Microchips & Biometric ID Cards Labels John Hall / April 1,2010-John Hall, author of A New Breed; Satellite Terrorism in America, and his research partner Don Raumaker join Red Ice to talk about electronic harassment, snooping and stalking technology, mind control and how CIA & NSA technology is being used to track, intimidate and even read the thoughts of people. Part 1 download mp3 Japan’s First Lady Describes Her Travel to Another Planet Labels Japan’s First Lady, Ufo / Imagine what would happen if Michelle Obama boasted that she'd been abducted by aliens. Miyuki Hatoyama, 66, was thrust into the spotlight after the election of her husband, Yukio Hatoyama, as prime minister of Japan. In her recent memoir, Very Strange Things I´ve Encountered, she says she was taken from her bedroom one night 20 years ago by space aliens. “While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus.” Ross Hemsworth interviews Mel Fabregas Labels Mel Fabregas, Veritas Show / Ross Hemsworth interviews Mel Fabregasfrom the Veritas Show. UFO sends objects to Earths surface, caught on video. Could this be alien activity? Are we being invaded by something from the unknown? What is going on that was captured on video from the Philippines? The following footage could not go by without sending it to our readers. We have posted wild and strange occurrences that just seem to be getting more bizarre as time marches on. Today is no exception. On March 26th approximately 9:30 PM a strange object was filmed in the act of dropping or sending additional objects to a designated area on the surface of this planet. The incident took place in the Philippines and was witnessed by more then one individual while being captured on video tape. What are these objects and are they extraterrestrial in nature? If so then what are they up to initiating such an act in the middle of the night? If this is yet another hoax then lets bring it out in the open. We present this video record found on the Above Top Secret web site for your analysis and opinion. Was this another wild attempt to fool an audience or a prelude to an invasion of some kind. Perhaps it was no more then a military operation of sorts. In any case people are asking questions as the UFO phenomena evolves. Check out the footage below posted to You Tube. There are three vidoes in all. Have at it and leave your comments. What is this activity? EM field, behind right ear, suspends morality Labels EM field, Sci-Tech Heretic / Morally impaired? Photo: Eddie Van 3000/Flickr CC This new finding, from MIT, should cause scientists to more closely examine the risks to human health posed by mobile phones and other wireless, personal technologies. — M.B. MIT neuroscientists believe they have isolated the brain region — just behind the right ear — where moral judgements take place. And they can suspend someone’s ability to judge right from wrong, simply by generating a magnetic field near the same spot where many of us hold our cellular phones and wireless, Bluetooth, headsets. The researchers’ findings, announced today: “In both experiments, the researchers found that when the right TPJ (right temporo-parietal junction) was disrupted, subjects were more likely to judge failed attempts to harm as morally permissible.” The technique used by the MIT scientists, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), has been described as one that creates “virtual lesions” on the brain. Neurostar makes a device that affects mood and behavior, from outside the head. Photo: Neuronetics And although TMS’s long term effects on health are not well understood (similar amounts of electromagnetic radiation have been linked to increased cancer risk), the treatment is becoming increasingly popular for everything from tinnitus to depression. The US military also hopes to use TMS to keep soldiers fighting, without the need to stop for sleep. via Moral judgments can be altered. See what else Hub scientists getting up to, by following my Boston Globe column. Sci-Tech Heretic Retired Colonel Robert B. Willingham Labels Colonel Robert B. Willingham, Ufo / Retired Colonel Robert B. Willingham says he visited the site of a crashed UFO in 1955 near Del Rio, Texas, where he saw the bodies of three non-human entities inside the ruptured hull of the ship. In this segment from a radio interview with Jeff Rense from March 8, 2010, the 84-year old explains what he saw at the crash site and what the bodies looked like. Andrew Basiago \| The Pegasus Project Labels Andrew Basiago, Pegasus Project / 22 Jan 2010—Anthea Appel interviews Andrew Basiago about his experiences as an American schoolchild who participated in DARPA's Project Pegasus during the early 1970's, the special training he received, his father, the military, the different devices and technologies they had access to during Project Pegasus, teleportation, time travel, the chronovisor device. Andrew Basiago & Laura Eisenhower \| “Marsgate” secret Mars colony Labels Andrew Basiago, Laura Eisenhower, Mars / 24 Mar 2010—Independent Mars colony recruits Andrew Basiago and Laura Magdalene Eisenhower have confirmed the existence of a secret human survival colony on Mars in a joint appearance on Exopolitics Radio with Alfred Lambremont Webre. They described how the secret Mars colony is funded by black budget military and intelligence sources as a survival mechanism for the human genome in the event that solar flares, nuclear war, or some other cataclysm ends human life on Earth. In the three-hour interview, Mr. Basiago termed the cover-up of the Mars colony “Marsgate.” Ms. Eisenhower stated that “Alternative 3”—the notion that trillions of dollars of resources should be spent to protect human life by placing it on Mars—should give way to “Alternative 4,” a new public awakening to achieve a sustainable civilization on Earth. Their historic, interactive exposé of Marsgate was based on direct personal experience. For Mr. Basiago, this consisted of the two trips that he took to Mars in 1981, when, at age 19, he walked on the surface of the Martian terrain after teleporting there from a CIA facility in El Segundo, California. For Ms. Eisenhower, this consisted of clandestine efforts that were made in 2006, when she was 33, to infiltrate her personal life and recruit her as a member of the secret Mars colony. She was recruited for a mission that would travel to Mars and learned that a colony had been under development there for several decades. It wasn't until later that she found the connection between the mission and the colony, in very significant ways. Linda Moulton Howe \| UFOs, Cyber-Spying, Seeds, & Bats Labels Linda Moulton Howe, Ufo / 25 Mar 2010—Linda Moulton Howe discussed a UFO sighting, cyber-espionage, declining bat populations, and Monsanto's genetically modified seeds. In her first report, she interviewed “Steve,” a retired USAF security policeman, who described a 1969 incident at Vandenburg AFB, in which he witnessed an unidentified aerial object that hovered over a new military transport plane that contained “hot cargo”—two wooden crates. The UFO emitted a greenish-blue beam of light at the plane where the cargo was held, and then shot up vertically and disappeared, said Steve, who added that he was told the crew was flying the plane to Groom Lake (the site that would in later years become linked to Area 51 and tales of aliens). In her second report, she detailed how NASA and Houston oil companies have suffered cyber attacks especially from China. Read her full interview. Linda looked into the skyrocketing price of genetically modified seeds patented by Monsanto. She interviewed agricultural economist Charles Benbrook, who noted that farmers are paying the highest price they have ever paid for seeds. Stewart Swerdlow \| History of the Galaxy Labels Stewart Swerdlow / 28 February 2010—Stewart Swerdlow discusses our solar system and how civilizations from other worlds played a significant role in our world as we know it today. Stewart details how extraterrestrial influences have effected our past, present, and what their plans are for the future. Niara Isley \| Area 51 Labels Area 51, Niara Isley / 2010—International UFO Congress—Dreamland Abductee, and former Radar specialist, Niara Isley first went public via a British TV Docmenetary in the late 90s. She blew the whistle on events at Dreamland along with the late Bill Uhouse. She was badly abused by her military guards, in front of top military and ET witnesses. Interviewed by Miles Johnston for researchers with Undergroundvideouk. Lynne Kitei \| The Phoenix Lights Labels Dr. Lynne Kitei, Phoenix Lights, Ufo / 6 March 2010—Nearly 13 years since the largest mass UFO sighting known as The Phoenix Lights, researcher Dr. Lynne Kitei shared her astonishing eyewitness testimony of the incident, as well as talked about similar sightings leading up to the March 1997 event. One such encounter occurred in 1995, when Kitei says three amber-colored orbs in a triangle formation hovered above her community in the desert. Kitei recalled an eerie silence falling over the neighborhood, the topmost orb slowly fading from view, and the feeling that an intelligent presence was watching her. David Icke \| Scottish Elite Connections to World Wide Satanic Pedophile Network 23 March 2010—Red Ice follows up on the story of the Scottish establishment pedophilia ring and talks more about the case of Hollie Greig with David Icke who connects some of the dots surrounding this and similar cases around the world. We talk about the world wide satanic network and the connecting pedophile rings that have tentacles in elite, political and illuminati circles around the world. Carmen Boulter \| Egyptian Mysteries Labels Carmen Boulter, Egyptian Mysteries / 23 March 2010—Prof. Carmen Boulter discussed the history and mysteries of ancient Egypt, what's being hidden and what's being revealed. She was recently in Egypt for a press conference about the DNA results of King Tut's mummy, and found the announcement that the young pharaoh had various medical maladies to be slanted and contradictory to her “psychic archeology” view that the leaders from the 18th Dynasty were highly conscious and healthy beings. She cited evidence for ancient Egypt's advanced technology—they were very sophisticated in their sky/ground correlations and lined the Giza Pyramids up with stars in the Orion constellation. The pyramids, she said, were built with antigravity methods—“I envision large lifters and small nudgers,” and people acting as “human divining rods that were connecting the cosmic energy to the earth.” Message From Caziekel from James Gilliland 3/24/2010 Labels Caziekel, James Gilliland / Norio Hayakawa \| Secret Government, Ufology & Dulce 16 March 2010—Unorthodox ufologist Norio Hayakawa presented his views and research on UFOs, clandestine government activities, and the mysterious Dulce, New Mexico area, rumored to house an underground base. The state of New Mexico itself has been a hotbed of paranormal and UFO activity going back to 1947, he reported. He believes the Roswell crash was staged “by an unknown intelligence” in collusion with an elite part of the US government. UFOs are neither flying nor objects, but rather part of an intelligence that co-exists with us and has the ability to materialize, he explained. Giorgio Tsoukalos \| Ancient Astronauts Labels Ancient Civilisations, Giorgio Tsoukalos / 17 March 2010—Researcher Giorgio Tsoukalos discussed his research in the ancient astronaut field. The theory, first popularized by Erich Von Daniken, posits that Earth was visited by extraterrestrials in ancient times. Civilization was sparked by the ET's "targeted mutation of our genes in the remote past," said Tsoukalos. Many diverse cultures have similar creation myths that involve descriptions of something like a cosmic egg emerging from a faraway place, and then a heavenly ladder descending with beings who come to teach humankind, he noted. Tsoukalos suggested that ancient peoples didn't understand the ET aspect and misinterpreted their technology as something magical, spiritual, or God-like. Along those lines, ancient dragons in Chinese folklore and the huge Native American Thunderbirds may have been machines rather than animals, he said. For instance, an ancient Chinese wood carving depicted flying chariots drawn by dragons who bellowed out noise, and had iron feet. Angelia Joiner \| Stephenville TX Update Labels Angelia Joiner / 22 February 2010—Angelia Joiner gives an in-depth break down of the events of the Stephenville TX UFO event of 8 Jan 2008, the fallout of the UFO sighting including the media circus which erupted over the event, and never-before-heard details on Angelia’s departure from the Stephenville Empire Tribune and her reaction to the UFO community since entering it two years ago. Marshall Masters \| The Kolbrin Bible & Planet X Labels Kolibrin Bible, Marshall Masters, Planet X / 18 March 2010—Marshall Masters joins Red Ice to talk about the Kolbrin Bible which is compiled of manuscripts that were saved before the burning of Glastonbury Monastery in 1184 AD and was safeguarded by a group called “The Culdians”. These preserved ancient records of the Egyptians and the Druids seem to correlate information about catastrophe and passing by planetary bodies in the past. In Part 2 we begin talking about more modern research on Planet X, like our Binary star System, “the Nemesis” that NASA also is now talking about. We go back to 2003 and ask what happened then, when Planet X was supposed to. Will India reveal the existence of the UFO bases on the moon? Labels India, Ufo / The spacecraft, was launched on October 22, India is on its way to moon. But there is a major debate in process within Indian Government and Indian Space Research Organization. The debate is on telling the truth to the world about the existence of the UFO bases in the moon. The Indian spacecraft carrying 11 payloads (scientific instruments) weighs about 1,380 kg at the time of its launch. The spacecraft is shaped like a cuboid with a solar panel projecting from one of its sides. The state-of-the-art sub-systems of the spacecraft facilitate safe and efficient functioning of its 11 payloads. It is powered by a single solar panel generating a maximum power of 700W. A 36 Ampere-Hour (AH) Lithium ion battery supplies power when the sun does not illuminate the solar panel. "To make Chandrayaan-1 escape from orbiting the earth and to travel towards the moon, its Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) is used. Liquid propellants needed for LAM as well as thrusters are stored onboard the spacecraft. The craft's dual gimbaled antenna is transmitting scientific data gathered by its 11 payloads to earth. India may surprise the world. The surprise may come any time. The country must reveal the existence of the underground infrastructure of UFO bases. Lindsey Williams - The Elite Speak - FAST TRACK Labels Elite, Globalism, Lindsey Williams, Money / This is a speed up version of The Elite Speak by Lindsey Williams (January 2010). It boils everything down to about 45 minutes. It does this by taking the 60 minute audio summary cd and speeds it up. It also shows the video from the 3 dvds running speed up along with it. Lindsey spoke with his elitist friend again and was told secretive startling NEW information! Using charts, diagrams, and video-revelations, Lindsey explains his new conversation. Subjects include: 2010 economics and beyond; Dubai World - Derivatives; Food, but No Money; One World China; War; and 30 to 50% inflation. VERITAS - Melinda Leslie \| Abductions and Covert O... Alex Collier Earth Transformation Conference Janua... UFO BRIGHT LIGHTS filmed over Sortavala, Russia, M... Jim Humble \| MMS in Africa: treating HIV and Cance... Daniel Estulin - 12 Apr 2010 - The Global Elite's ... Retired Air Force Capt. Robert Collins \| ET & UFO ... Graham Hancock \| Entangled, Supernatural, Shamanis... UFO Shoots Laser! October 10, 2009 Murrysville, PA... VERITAS - Richard Sauder \| Underground Bases & The... Barbara Threecrow - Journey of Indigenous People i... John Hall \| Satellite Terrorism, Surveillance Tech... Japan’s First Lady Describes Her Travel to Another... UFO sends objects to Earths surface, caught on vid... Andrew Basiago & Laura Eisenhower \| “Marsgate” sec... Linda Moulton Howe \| UFOs, Cyber-Spying, Seeds, & ... David Icke \| Scottish Elite Connections to World W... Message From Caziekel from James Gilliland 3/24/20... Norio Hayakawa \| Secret Government, Ufology & Dulc... Will India reveal the existence of the UFO bases o...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line235
__label__wiki	0.587912	0.587912	The Corbett Report \| The IPCC Exposed, September 27, 2013 Labels Corbett Report Radio, IPCC, James Corbett / Source: corbettreport.com, judithcurry.com The IPCC has released its latest assessment of the state of climate science, and this time it's even more dire than their 2007 assessment. Global warming is "unequivocal" and humans are the "dominant cause" to a certainty of 95%. But how are these uncertainties calculated? And how does the IPCC process work anyway? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we dissect the latest IPCC hype and examine the organizations processes and conclusions. -corbettreport.com 'We should stop using language of force' - Sergey Lavrov to UN Assembly 2013 (Full Speech), September 27, 2013 Labels Sergey Lavrov, Syria / Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is taking his turn to address the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Darcy Weir on Veritas Radio \| The Mysterious Life and Death of Phil Schneider Labels NWO, Phil Schneider, Ufo, Underground Base / Phil Schneider died on January 17, 1996, reportedly strangled by a catheter/surgical tube found wrapped around his neck -- the bizarre death being dismissed by the authorities as suicide. If the circumstances of his death seem highly controversial, they are matched by the controversy over his public statements uttered shortly before his death. Phil Schneider was a self-taught geologist and explosives expert. Of the 129 deep underground facilities Schneider believed the US government had constructed since World War II, he claimed to have worked on 13. Two of these bases were major, including the much rumored bioengineering facility at Dulce, New Mexico. At Dulce, Schneider maintained, "gray" humanoid extraterrestrials worked side by side with American technicians. In 1979, a misunderstanding arose. In the ensuing shootout, 66 Secret Service, FBI and Black Berets were killed along with an unspecified nurnber of "grays". It was here he received a beam-weapon blast to the chest which caused his later cancer; many have confirmed that a large scar indeed existed. Schneider maintained that numerous previous attempts had been made on his life, including the removal of the nuts from one of the front wheels of his automobile. He had stated publicly he was a marked man and did not expect to live long. "If I ever 'commit suicide'," Schneider told a close friend, "I'll have been murdered." Finally, Phil Schneider lamented that the democracy he loved no longer existed: we had become instead a technocracy ruled by a shadow government intent on imposing their own view of things on all of us, whether we like it or not. He believed 11 of his best friends had been murdered in the last 22 years, eight of whose deaths had been officially explained as suicides. Whatever one might think of Phil Schneider's claims, it's clear that he was of particular interest to the FBI and CIA. His widow has stated that intelligence agents thoroughly searched the premises shortly after his death and made off with at least a third of the family photographs. -veritasradio.com The Underground - A Hidden Reality and The True Story of Phil Schneider Phil Schneider died in 1996. Previous to his death he had been on tour across the United States speaking out about various subjects including his involvement with building a secret underground base in Dulce, New Mexico for the military. During this time, he said to have had an encounter with a violent E.T race in the late 1970's which would change his whole world reality immediately after. This documentary explores some of the information Phil Schneider spoke about to the public in the 1990's by examining each claim in detail with expert opinions from Richard Dolan, Richard Sauder, Neil Gould and Cynthia Drayer (Phil's Ex-Wife). In this documentary you will find never before published photo's of Phil's Autopsy, documents about the Philadelphia Experiment from Oscar Schneider's files (Phil's father) and a very well explained background about Underground Bases. The Corbett Report \| Plamegate Revisited: Who Really Leaked Valerie Plame's Cover? September 26, 2013 We all know the official story of "Plamegate" by now: the Bush administration, angry at ex-Ambassador Joe Wilson's op-ed accusing the White House of "twisting the evidence" to lead the country into war with Iraq, leaked his wife's identity as a CIA agent to journalist Robert Novak, who then revealed it in the Washington Post. After a lengthy investigation, "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's Chief of Staff, was convicted for obstruction of justice and Richard Armitage took the fall for leaking the name in the first place. The very foundations of the official Plamegate narrative, however, were undermined by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, who told The Sunday Times in 2008 and reaffirmed in sworn testimony in 2009, that Brewster Jennings was in fact exposed by a high-ranking State Department official in 2001, two years before Plamegate... 'We chose democracy & human rights over banks' - Iceland president to RT, September 26, 2013 Labels All Wars Are Bankers Wars, Iceland / As Iceland's banking system went into meltdown at the start of the global financial crisis, it came under enormous pressure from the rest of Europe to accept crippling austerity measures that would have burdened its people for generations to come. And yet the tiny island nation stood up to the European Goliath, defiantly opting for democracy even as it stood on the brink of bankruptcy. What can Iceland teach the world about the power of the people and the rule of law? To discuss these issues, Oksana is joined by the President of Iceland, Olafur Grimsson. -RT.com North Korea and the Nuclear Threat - Michel Chossudovsky at Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan Labels Michel Chossudovsky, North Korea / Source: grtv.ca Speaking at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on August 1, 2013, Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the Centre for Research on Globalization describes how the United States presents the real threat of nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula. -grtv.ca Anthony Peake \| The Infinite Mindfield: The Mystery of Consciousness, September 23, 2013 Labels Anthony Peake, Consciousness, Henrik Palmgren, Non-Local Consciousness, Redicecreations / Source: redicecreations.com, anthonypeake.com September 23, 2013–Anthony Peake grew up near Liverpool, England. He studied sociology and history at the University of Warwick before attending the London School of Economics. 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The Guardian has continued releasing a series of exposés based on Snowden's leaks coloring in the details on how the NSA has managed to collect telephone records in bulk and information on nearly everything a user does on the Internet. The articles have ignited widespread debate about security agencies' covert activities, digital data protection and the nature of investigative journalism. The newspaper has been directly targeted as a result -- over the summer the British government forced the paper to destroy computer hard drives containing copies of Snowden's secret files, and later detained David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald. 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Is it natural or unnatural the way humans organize and strive for resources? Then, Frater X puts forth his view on how the US military was born and rose up to be. He'll also talk about how the war on human consciousness uses the compulsory schooling system and requires the homogenization of humanity. -redicecreations.com 'My ELF Weapon': More Proof Navy Yard Shooter Targeted with Mind Control Weapons, Truthstream Media, September 18, 2013 Labels Mind Control, Mindcontrol of Humanity / Source: truthstreammedia.com, thesleuthjournal.com The mainstream media is reporting that suspected Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis carved the phrases "My ELF Weapon" and "Better off this way" into his weapon before 12 people were reportedly killed with it in a mass shooting this week. ELF typically stands for extremely low frequency, the type of waves used in everything from weather weapons to mind control devices. Can you imagine having voices talk to you, directly inside your head, for weeks on end? What if you went to authorities only to find they thought you were insane? What if those voices wouldn't stop? What if they commanded you to do something you didn't want to, something unspeakable, over and over and over, even invading your sleep without reprieve? What if they finally promised you rest, finally promised you that you would be "Better off this way" if you just did what they asked? While we don't really know what happened that day, more and more it appears that Alexis had been a target of directed energy weapons. The Washington Post is even admitting that ELF is used in conjunction with 'weather efforts'! Discussion that would have been considered the talk of crazy conspiracy theorists even six months ago is apparently mainstream now... Truthstream Media article WP Story WT Story 3 Reasons Why Government Shouldn’t Be Run Like a Business Labels 3 Reasons Why Government Shouldn’t Be Run Like a Business / Source: onlinemba.com Created by OnlineMBA.com The difference between running a business and running a city boils down to this: Try closing a local, little used fire station to save a few bucks. Outraged neighbors of all political stripes would storm the city council in protest. Now compare that to the silence that typically follows a corporate decision to close an underperforming branch bank or a surplus warehouse. The reactions are different and for good reason. Although corporations and governments are organizations, that may be one of the few traits they have in common. The role of a business, any business, is to make money. Successful companies typically accomplish that by producing products that consumers want. In addition, they must continuously find ways to reduce costs to better meet the bottom line. 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__label__cc	0.554206	0.445794	USA Forum NY GAA 2016 Replying To Gerrard1888: "It's a silly weekend to have the finals. A lot of boys not going to stay local for a league final." Very silly weekend to have anything irelandscall123 (Roscommon) - Posts: 41 - 27/05/2016 19:52:57 1859443 Heading to New York for the weekend. Am told that Donegal and Monaghan may not field teams on Sunday. When asked why the games are on this Sunday the reply was that this was the clubs decision. They all opted for the July 4 weekend off and this was agreed upon. Kerry will have trouble fielding a team on June 4 as most players are going to a concert. Cavan will be having a picnic soon so that is another problem. It seems all the clubs have a reason for not fulfilling their obligations. The end is in sight in New York as in Philly and Chicago. This is a pity. Gaa Fan (USA) - Posts: 501 - 27/05/2016 20:37:51 1859458 It is so ridiculous having games on these long weekends. Everyone needs a break from work and football. Don't tell me that these games could not be scheduled during the week. The GAA is wasting time trying to force finals on Memorial weekend. The CCC should be held accountable. Crossgaa (Mayo) - Posts: 536 - 28/05/2016 17:54:14 1859586 See on the NYGAA website that the Junior B final ended in a draw, did they not play extra time?? And any word on Junior A final?? Agree with all that this was the wrong weekend to hold finals, loads of boys went away and were tuned out of football for the unofficial start of summer weekend. NarrowBack914 (USA) - Posts: 180 - 29/05/2016 13:53:25 1859699 Replying To NarrowBack914: "See on the NYGAA website that the Junior B final ended in a draw, did they not play extra time?? And any word on Junior A final?? Agree with all that this was the wrong weekend to hold finals, loads of boys went away and were tuned out of football for the unofficial start of summer weekend." Game ended in a Draw after extra time. Donegal refused to play Jr A final and did not appear in the park, St Raymonds declared the winners. Junior B B final to be played again(no date fixed yet0. So after all the Board has not really acomplished anything since the game needs a new date. ranger (None) - Posts: 166 - 29/05/2016 16:11:14 1859722 Replying To ranger: "Game ended in a Draw after extra time. Donegal refused to play Jr A final and did not appear in the park, St Raymonds declared the winners. Junior B B final to be played again(no date fixed yet0. So after all the Board has not really acomplished anything since the game needs a new date." Wow, thanks for the update Ranger. Yeah don't understand why matches were put on this weekend, especially for Juniors when most Junior teams are made up of American kids. 1 step forward, 3 steps back. Ah well, good luck in the replay. So Junior B final was played and ended in a draw. When is replay? What will happen to Donegal for not showing up? Raymond's got the cup but i'm sure they would have preferred a game to play. Again the powers that be should take a hit here aswell. What happened with all the fixtures this weekend in the park!! Donegal Juniors didn't show up in the park on Saturday night and then the seniors showed up on Sunday afternoon while the Monaghan boys were sunning themselves in the Hamptons. Good on ya Monaghan. on another note I see Larry McCarthy complaining in the Newspapers at home at counties coming here and fund raising. nothing wrong with it as far as I see. New York GAA talk about the things they're going to do>>>>>>> Then do nothing. hawkeye2002 (Tyrone) - Posts: 21 - 31/05/2016 16:19:46 1860322 Wow guys Sligo have some team this year. Could they be moved up to senior? NYfootiefan (USA) - Posts: 24 - 31/05/2016 18:29:57 1860355 Replying To hawkeye2002: "What happened with all the fixtures this weekend in the park!! Donegal Juniors didn't show up in the park on Saturday night and then the seniors showed up on Sunday afternoon while the Monaghan boys were sunning themselves in the Hamptons. Good on ya Monaghan. on another note I see Larry McCarthy complaining in the Newspapers at home at counties coming here and fund raising. nothing wrong with it as far as I see. New York GAA talk about the things they're going to do>>>>>>> Then do nothing." Time to face the hard facts, the GAA does not control the show any more, the power is firmly in the hands of the players who decide when they want to play, who they want to play with, who they want to be on their teams with an old but true adage very apt here.... a fool and his money are easily parted. Money has finished senior football in New York and now the nouveau rich are doing exactly the same with Intermediate football and hurling. Tail now firmly wagging the dog. Clubs had a schedule meeting at start of year and were given a choice of having the Park closed for Memorial weekend or July 4th weekend. Overwhelmingly voted in favor of closing July 4th. Yet now the clubs scheduled on Memorial weekend decide the rules don't apply to them and sadly a slap on the wrist is all their two fingered salute to the Board will result in including of course the clubs of the Senior Football and Junior Hurling Chairmen whose positions now make them feel untouchable. I actually feel sorry for the officers who at the end of the day are all volunteers and are trying to do their best. All honor and integrity and spirit of fair play is a distant memory and like Shylock demanding their pound of flesh the vultures have had their day out but what a horrific price has been paid!!!! GPlifer (USA) - Posts: 290 - 31/05/2016 20:29:09 1860381 Why did there have to be an option of which weekend to play? GP should be closed for both weekends. It would be easy to make up the couple games at another time. The gate receipts were far from enormous.. whistler (USA) - Posts: 103 - 31/05/2016 21:43:24 1860400 Replying To whistler: "Why did there have to be an option of which weekend to play? GP should be closed for both weekends. It would be easy to make up the couple games at another time. The gate receipts were far from enormous.." Crowds will start improving now that some good games are coming up. Replying To ranger: "Crowds will start improving now that some good games are coming up." Of course the matches can only get better Ranger, the J1ers and summer sanctions are out now so the matches couldn't be any worse. For the life of me, I'm baffled as to why when Sligo was given the push to go Senior this year, they turned it down. It appears they have a few $ backers now and have assembled a team that will win out Inters easy enough. Ah hopefully things will start to fall into place very soon because the early signs aren't good. NarrowBack I wouldn't even consider Sligo to be favorites to win intermediate... Longford have aaron cunningham and jamie clarke for the championship and add that to the longford county men they have in town this year they will have a team of at least 10 intercounty players. I would make Longford favorites and Sligo second favorites.... Westmeath have a very strong team aswell and are looking to win it and go senior.... Brooklyn dont have as strong a team as the aforementioned but they play as a team and their management will have these boys flying by mid July.... Add to that Cavan who have a mixture of their senior and intermediate team from last year.... And Rockland, Rangers, Mayo and Kerry who have been in intermediate for a long time means for a very very competitive championship. The winners of the senior and intermediate championships should play a one off game this year at the end to see who is the real kingpin of NY because whoever wins that intermediate championship will be top quality. Patsy1916 (USA) - Posts: 136 - 01/06/2016 19:20:35 1860646 given resources avaialble to many of these clubs, a complete overhaul of senior and intermediates needs to be done. the money being spent or rumoured to being spent is making a mockery of the competitions. clubs such as barnbas rockland raymonds rangers celtics, all teams who have spent decades preserving the culture to see their kids propser is being ripped out by any johnny come lately and his bags of cash. id rather no championship than this championship. the talks of an intermediate team having 10 intercounty lads is sickening and is only rivaled by the splash of the cash game of monaghan and donegal sligolifer (Sligo) - Posts: 959 - 01/06/2016 19:47:58 1860653 Long Island had a big win last night. They had a different team from knockout. From intermediate to junior B. I question that Replying To Crossgaa: "Long Island had a big win last night. They had a different team from knockout. From intermediate to junior B. I question that" Yes, Very interesting how ANY team/Club was allowed to drop two divisions. What was the basis for this drop? Replying To ranger: "Yes, Very interesting how ANY team/Club was allowed to drop two divisions. What was the basis for this drop?" Didn't get to see the LI match, but i hope they are not reverting back to their old ways. The basis for their drop from Inter to Junior B was they gave up all their Inter players and were starting from scratch with Shannon Gaels underage players. Junior B is for the American kids coming up through the minor board and also Irish guys that are well past their prime and just want to keep playing the game. By the scoreline that they put up against Rangers would appear they are using more then they say they are. Barnabas and Rangers are the teams to beat in junior B and unless Rangers just put out a team for the sake of it, questions need to be asked of players IDs… Believe me I was at both games last night and the Junior B game was most definitely a Junior B game....... The intermediate game was on a different level.....	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line255
__label__cc	0.543491	0.456509	/ Trichotillomania What Is Trichotillomania? What Causes Trichotillomania? How Do People Overcome It? Daria used to make up excuses for the bald spot on the back of her head, like saying the baseball caps she had to wear at her job were too tight. She knew people doubted her stories, especially family members. But she couldn't face telling them what was really happening: She'd been pulling her hair out since she was 12. Daria had no idea why she pulled her hair. She just knew that she couldn't stop. Trichotillomania (pronounced: trik-oh-till-oh-MAY-nee-uh) is a condition that gives some people strong urges to pull out their own hair. It can affect people of any age. People with trichotillomania pull hair out at the root from places like the scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes, or pubic area. Some people with the condition pull large handfuls of hair, which can leave bald patches on the scalp or eyebrows. Other people pull out their hair one strand at a time. They might inspect or play with the strand after pulling it out. About half of people with trichotillomania put the hair in their mouths after pulling it. Some people are very aware of their pulling. Others seem to do it in a very absent-minded way, without really noticing what they're doing. For people with trichotillomania, resisting the urge to pull out their hair feels as hard as resisting the urge to scratch a very itchy itch. Some people say that the urge to pull starts with a feeling in their scalp or skin, like an itch or a tingle. Pulling the hair seems like the only way to get relief. People might have a brief feeling of satisfaction for a moment after pulling out their hair. People with trichotillomania may feel embarrassed, frustrated, ashamed, or depressed about it. They may worry what others will think or say. They might feel nagged by people who don't understand that they're not doing this on purpose. People with trichotillomania usually try to hide the behavior from others — even their families. This can make it difficult to get help. Having trichotillomania can affect how people feel about themselves. Some are self-conscious about how hair pulling affects their appearance. They might feel less confident about making friends or dating. Others can feel powerless to control the urge to pull or blame themselves for not being able to stop. No one knows exactly why some people develop trichotillomania. Stress may play a part. So might a person's genes. People who have other compulsive habits or OCD may be more likely to develop trichotillomania. Experts think the urge to pull hair happens because the brain's chemical signals (called neurotransmitters) don't work properly. This creates the irresistible urges that lead people to pull their hair. Pulling the hair gives the person a feeling of relief or satisfaction. The more the person gives in to the urge by pulling and has the brief feeling of relief afterwards, the stronger the habit becomes. The longer this continues, the harder it is to resist the urge when it happens again. People with trichotillomania usually need help from medical and behavioral specialists in order to stop. With the right help, most people overcome their hair-pulling urges. When someone is able to stop pulling, hair usually grows back. Overcoming hair-pulling urges may involve a type of behavioral therapy called habit substitution, taking medicine, or a combination of therapy and medicine. In therapy, people with trichotillomania learn about urges. They learn how urges fade on their own when people don't give in to them, and how urges get stronger and happen more often when people do give in. They learn to identify situations, places, or times they usually have an urge to pull. Therapists teach people with trichotillomania how to plan a replacement habit they can do when they feel a strong urge to pull hair. Replacement habits might be things like squeezing a stress ball, handling textured objects, or drawing. The therapist guides the person on how to use the new habit to resist the urge to pull hair. With practice, a person gets better at resisting the urge to pull. The urge becomes weaker and easier to resist. Because the urges and habits that lead to hair pulling are so strong, resisting can be difficult at first. People may feel more tension or anxiety as they begin to resist urges to pull. A therapist can coach a person through these difficult parts and offer support and practical advice about how to reverse the powerful urges. Sometimes medicines can help the brain deal better with urges, making them easier to resist. A therapist may also help people with trichotillomania learn to manage stress, deal with perfectionism, or work out other compulsive habits they may have, like nail biting. If you're worried about hair pulling, talk to a parent, school counselor, or someone you trust about getting help overcoming the problem. Reviewed by: D'Arcy Lyness, PhD Date reviewed: March 2016 5 Ways to Deal With Anxiety How Can I Improve My Self-Esteem?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line256
__label__wiki	0.913697	0.913697	Welcome To Magic Carpet Records Magic Carpet band practising in 1971 Origins of Magic Carpet Way back in the seventies in London, three friends came together to play some unusual music: sitarist Clem Alford, guitarist Jim Moyes and tabla player Keshav Sathe formed a unique anglo / Indian musical fusion calling themselves Sargam (the name of a note in an Indian scale). They made one album under the band name ‘Sagram’, a mispelling by the Windmill record company which inappropriately entitled the album Pop Explosion Sitar Style! This album was released without the band’s permission, the garish cover photograph bearing no relation to any band members or anything about them. Featuring the sitar playing of Clem Alford and guitar playing of Jim Moyes, Pop Explosion Sitar Style! is a beautifully played and distinctive acoustic album that reflects many musical currents of the time – from Alexis Korner to the Bauls of Bengal to Ravi Shankar. The complex and sensitive tabla playing of virtuoso Keshav Sathe underpins all six instrumental tracks. We may at least be grateful to Windmill for recording the music for posterity. In 1971, soon after the release of 'Sagram', the Sargam trio were offered another recording contract by Mushroom Records, with the proviso that they find a singer. Having met her when they were both at Chelsea School of Art, Jim Moyes contacted the singer Alisha Sufit. At the time Alisha was living in Islington, London, singing and writing songs for acoustic guitar and Appalachian dulcimer. She busked in street markets and in the London Underground by day, and did gigs round the clubs and colleges at night. Jim Moyes invited her to play and the four musicians soon renamed themselves Magic Carpet, forming a unique Anglo-Indian musical collaboration, greatly facilitated by the fact that Alisha was writing songs mostly set in open modal tunings on the guitar (DADGAD etc.) making them instantly compatible with the tuning of the sitar. Alisha's comment: 'The odd thing was that a friend had asked me what sort of band I'd like to be in a short while before Jim's call. I said that I'd really like to play with sitar and tabla, and then, hey presto, a few months later Jim rang me!' The band recorded the Magic Carpet album in the winter of 1971–1972 on the Mushroom Records label (MR 20). The four stayed together for nearly a year, doing a few prestigious gigs – the 100 Club in London, Wavendon (Cleo Laine and John Dankworth's venue), several festivals, Sounds of the Seventies on BBC Radio, etc., but they finally parted company in 1972. They thought no more about the album until many years later. Some ten years after its first release, the original Magic Carpet album started to become highly sought after, changing hands for upwards of £120 UK sterling on the collectors' market, plus it was illegally bootlegged at least once. Magic Carpet Records officially re-released the album on CD and 1,000 limited edition vinyl LPs (MC1001CD & MC1001LP). Pressed from the original tapes on top quality EMI heavy-weight vinyl, the LP re-issue quickly sold out and has become collectable in its own right. A growing audience for Magic Carpet soon asked would they be getting back together? Was there any more Magic Carpet material hidden in the cupboard? After a considerable gap, the four met up again. Jim was no longer performing in public and Keshav had retired, but Clem and Alisha were still playing professionally and it was a natural step to do another album – the 'rush follow-up'! In 1996 they recorded the album Once Moor (subtitle Magic Carpet II) released on the Magic Carpet Records label (MC1004CD & MC1004LP). Once Moor consists mostly of songs written and sung by Alisha, plus some purely instrumental tracks, with Clem Alford on sitar and tamboura, Alisha on guitar, and Pandit Dinesh and Esmail Sheikh on tabla percussion. The album was issued on CD and top quality EMI heavy-weight vinyl, with a virtuoso full-length classical raga as the bonus track on the CD. Both CD booklet and LP sleeve contain all the lyrics plus original art work by Alisha Sufit. On the back cover is a photo of a real 'Magic Carpet' – an Afghan rug found by chance just before the album release – with the same half-horse / half-woman Baraq image first depicted on the original Magic Carpet LP cover, but this time with two similar figures, eerily apt for Magic Carpet II. Alisha Sufit Clem Alford Magic Carpet & Once Moor Magic Carpet lyrics Shop • buy CDs LPs Magic Carpet Facebook Visit Alisha's Secret Gallery	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line257
__label__wiki	0.637048	0.637048	Peg Someone is lying. This woman is a fake. What happened to th... Sarah Hodgins I believe she was murdered by Freemasons. Freemasons have be... Sarah Hodgins MHFM has some very good info on the Vatican 2 heresy. I don'... Sarah Hodgins Please do not give up on the Catholic Church. The so-called ... Niamh Excellent blog! Do you have any recommendations for aspiring... Sister Lucy Died in 1959 (15) Prayer of Saint John Eudes to Admirable Heart of Mary for Conversions (2) In the End My Immaculate Heart Will Triumph (1) Our Lady of Ransom, September 24 (1) October 11: Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1) Co-Redemptrix In the End My Immaculate Heart Will Triumph Mediatrix Sister Lucy Died in 1959 Posted by BrotherHermenegild on Sep 11, 2012 in Fatima \| 14 comments This may sound like an astounding statement, since the world believes she died on February 13, 2005. However, there is evidence that the Sister Lucy after 1959 that was presented tot he world is not the Sister Lucy of prior to 1959. Follow the links to the websites below The Two Sister Lucys Photos and Facts The Opinion of Experts on the Two Lucys The Imposter Sister Lucy From False Friends of Fatima, pages 32-3: “The Italian intellectual Antonio Socci, at first a skeptic of ‘Fatimist’ claims regarding the Third Secret but then a confirmed believer, had been quite unsparing in his criticism of the refusal of Pope John and Pope Paul to reveal the Secret. Speaking of John XXIII, he writes of Sister Lucy’s astonishing request for permission to speak to the world about the Message of Fatima, followed by Pope John’s silencing and isolation of the visionary: “We are in the first days of January 1959. It is not yet clear today how and why Sister Lucia, usually very reserved and submissive, would immediately after the election of John XXIII (on October 28, 1958) think of an initiative as sensation as a radio message to the world. The year 1960 had not yet arrived. What was she afraid of? What did she know? What urgency did she feel? It would never be known. Because in the firs days of January 1959 an alarmed summit met in the Vatican and, faced with the prospect that the visionary of Fatima would reveal to the world something the Madonna had said, by the will of the Pope there issued the prohibition on the sister, and her substantial isolation from the entire world.” In 1957 the real Sister Lucy gave an interview to Father Fuentes. On July 2, 1959, the fake Sister Lucy reported that she had not discussed anything apocalyptic with Father Fuentes. Considering that the Third Secret of Fatima is apocalyptic, possibly announcing the coming of Antichrist SOON after 1960 and the destruction of the Church by Vatican II and its perfidious spirit, we must believe that some time between her request to go live on the radio and July 2, 1959, Sister Lucy was silenced, and this most likely by a cruel martyrdom. And thus the promise of the Blessed Virgin Mary that all three seers would go to heaven is fulfilled. Why request to go on the radio? The reason is most likely that in the person of John XXIII she saw the fulfillment of the first part of the Third Secret of Fatima, the usurpation unopposed of the Papacy by an heretical antipope, who was most likely mentioned BY NAME at least of John in the Third Secret. Our dear sister wished to warn us, but was prevented from doing so. No, mankind must suffer the great chastissement of Vatican II and Antichrist, which chastisement is with us to today in the person of a successor of Antichrist, Joseph Ratzinger, Antipope Benedict XVI. 14 Responses to “Sister Lucy Died in 1959” fidelite says: It is very clear from the evidence presented that what you are saying is truth. Waymon says: With some of the things the Catholic Church has done in past centuries I am not surprised by anything the Pope does. Pope Francis is the Pope St. Malachy called Peter the Great, so, we will wait and see what lies he spews out of his mouth about Lucia and the Third Secret. According to St. Malachy Peter the Great will be a bad Pope and also the last Pope. I don’t go to Church anymore and its because of all the crooked things coming out of the Vatican. Its called the apostacy. The Faith is doomed. Sarah Hodgins says: Please do not give up on the Catholic Church. The so-called Catholic Church of “pope” Francis is false and has been since Vatican 2. But there are still traditional Catholics who stick to the “old ways” — see http://www.novusordowatch.org for more info Peter Wagner says: Are you familiar with this very excellent traditional Catholic YouTube channel? http://youtube.com/user/mhfm1 Lots of tremendous eye-openers there regarding the utmost importance of the traditional Catholic faith, the message of Fatima, the true and the false Sr. Lucia, the importance of the daily 15-decade Holy Rosary, the role of anti-pope Francis (Peter the “Bishop of Rome”) and the battle between the true Catholic Church vs. the counter “Catholic” Church in these last days of the Apocalypse. BrotherHermenegild says: Yes we are familiar with this channel. Although they have done some excellent research in some areas, they hold doctrines contrary to the Faith in regard to Baptism. MHFM has some very good info on the Vatican 2 heresy. I don’t subscribe to everything they teach, but their videos on What Francis Believes etc are excellent From everything I’ve read, I am inclined to believe that there was an imposter Sr. Lucia. How sad that no one knows of the whereabouts of the real Sr. Lucia’s remains, nor the details of her death. But why then wouldn’t the Blessed Virgin make that known to other visionaries so that they could warn the world? I believe she was murdered by Freemasons. Freemasons have been in the Vatican since at least 1958 when John 23 was illegally elected – he was a FM himself. MHFM had spoken to a lady whose relatives were FM and they bragged about killing “Sister Lucy” around that time — 1958 or 1959. It’s in their book What Happened At Vatican 2 And who would confirm any hypothetical visionary’ s message as authentic ? We must do our own detective work, collate the evidence of contradictory statements attributed to Sister Lucy that deviate from her statements prior to 1959, and draw our own conclusion. The more recent statements attributed to Sister Lucy are in stark contrast to previous statements, and in one later statement the nun who claimed to be the Fatima seer made a heretical statement when she said that the Jews are also God’s chosen while remaining outside the Catholic Church. darlene herman says: Dear Blessed Mother, what was the true happenings during 1959? Did the church do some covering up and hiding of the things you wanted your people to know? Who should we, your followers, believe? george ganssle says: There is no question in my mind that a phony Sr Lucia emerged in the early 60s. What convinces me even more than the physical differences is the contrasting demeanors of the two. Any study of Lucia’s first forty years reveals a retiring, humble peasant woman who avoids conspicuousness whenever possible. If you see the photos of the ‘new’ Lucia receiving communion from the Pope, you’ll note she reaches out to him to embrace him while he is still in the middle of distributing the Host. Very unLucia like. So many websites that I follow and respect fail to even mention the obvious substitution. You might want to take down the last link as it links to a bizarre heretical site that claims that the Blessed Virgin Mary is God and that the Rosary should be said without using the holy names of Jesus & Mary. It gets a LOT weirder and more diabolical in ways I don’t care to mention. Please take it down. That site is dangerous and satanic. PaxChriste Someone is lying. This woman is a fake. What happened to the real Sr. Lucy? Why is this being covered up? Why didn’t the Popes notice this? When will real secret be revealed as Sr. Lucy said, it should be revealed by 1960 and the Popes chose not to listen to Mary. The consecration was never done and Russia is not converted. False Friends of Fatima \| The Most Blessed Virgin Mary - [...] the Vatican in 2000 as being actually a true part of the Third Secret. However, this is not true.… October 11: Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Our Lady of Ransom, September 24 Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, September 15 Holy Name of Mary, Septmber 12th Tre Fontane (1947) Peg on Sister Lucy Died in 1959 Sarah Hodgins on Sister Lucy Died in 1959 Niamh on Our Lady of Ransom, September 24	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line259
__label__wiki	0.518551	0.518551	Natural-born PAIN KILLERS Pain-sensation NEUROSCIENTISTS ARE DISCOVERING AMAZING NEW WAYS YOUR BRAIN CAN OUTWIT YOUR PAIN OVER THE COURSE OF SEVERAL DAYS in 2005, Laura Tibbitts, a 33-year-old director of operations for a San Francisco nonprofit, slid into the tubular confines of an MRI machine for extensive brain scans. Her task: to increase and decrease her chronic pain by using her thoughts alone. Evidence of her success would be displayed on a monitor above her as the MRI trained its sights on an area deep in the brain that processes pain. Tibbitts desperately needed the cutting-edge therapy to work: Years before, she'd been thrown from a horse and severely fractured her upper arm and shoulder blade. Despite multiple surgeries that helped heal the breaks, the pain had never relented. Now, as a volunteer in a unique study at Stanford University School of Medicine's Pain Management Center, she was hoping to regain control. As the MRI machine clunked and clicked, she first tried to make her pain worse. "I'd relive the injury," she says, "or imagine being stabbed in the back." By her own subjective measurement, her pain shot up to 9 on a scale of 10. Then she was asked to think in ways that might reduce her discomfort. Because she was lying down and couldn't move, she pictured little men, like Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels, scooping pain out of her back and carting it away. Then she focused on her big toe--"someplace that didn't hurt"--to direct her mind toward neutral sensations. Or she repeated affirming phrases such as "This is going to get better" or "I'm going to be okay." To her great relief, she found that she could will her pain to plunge from a 9 to a 4--far below what it was when she started the mental exercises. The investigators had expected to see benefits, but even they were astonished by what the MRIs revealed: Using mental strategies, Tibbitts and other patients were able to reduce their pain by nearly two-thirds, reports study leader Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, director of the Stanford Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab. "It was really exciting to show for the first time that people could direct activity away from a specific region of the brain--in this case, the area that processes pain--and alter their perception of pain at will," he says. "It gave subjects a profound sense of empowerment and opened a window on pain in the brain that has huge implications." Thanks to state-of-the-art imaging technology, neuroscientists are gaining a new understanding of how pain works--and of new ways to tame it. They now know that pain causes sparks of activity in multiple areas of your brain, not just in a centralized "pain center." "Pain is both a sensation and an emotion," says Francis Keefe, PhD, associate director for research at the Pain and Palliative Care Program at Duke University Medical Center. "That means what you're thinking and feeling can modify your pain and make it better--and that's great news because it substantially expands our armament for relieving suffering." Among the most dramatic new findings about pain management: • You can intensify pain episodes by putting a negative spin on your pain-fearing it, dreading it, considering it the worst thing in your life. • Conversely, you can significantly reduce your pain by recognizing and blunting such noxious thinking. • You can actually shut down the signals that are responsible for pain by doing relaxation exercises such as meditation, guided imagery, and deep breathing. The relief you'll gain can enable you to reduce your use of pain medication; when combined with the exercises, the lower doses are particularly effective. • In the same way that Buddhist monks' meditative practices can physically rewire their brains, yours could develop on its own the capacity to resist pain. "We think the brain may be able to build ongoing pain tolerance," says Scott M. Fishman, MD, a professor and chief of the division of pain medicine at the University of California, Davis. "It's consistent with what the Buddhists teach: We have enormous power to control the sensations that affect us." But before you can start to exercise that control, you first need to identify the major mental pain magnifiers. PAIN BOOSTER: You dread what's coming Expectations about pain can be self-fulfilling: If you think it will be bad, it will be--and you might even feel worse than you should. When people in a Wake Forest University School of Medicine study were told they wouldn't feel much pain (in the form of nonharmful heat) but then were stimulated more severely than expected, they rated their discomfort 28% lower than they did when told it would hurt more. That's the palliative equivalent of getting a shot of morphine. "If you anticipate the worst, areas of the brain that process pain become more active even before you feel what causes it--and continue to be more active during the stimulus and after," says Keefe. "Your attitude affects how bad you'll feel." Fortunately, you can adjust it. BRAIN Rx: Outsmart your fear • Track your patterns Keep a detailed pain diary for 2 weeks, suggests Keefe. "People think they understand their pain and usually have the impression that it's always bad," he says. By monitoring how your pain changes, you'll find that it often follows a predictable pattern; knowing what that pattern is will help you feel more in control and you'll have an idea when it will ease up. Note where you are when pain strikes, what you're doing, whom you're with, how you feel emotionally--and when the discomfort recedes. "Many of my patients come back from this exercise with substantial insights about what triggers their worst pain--and their dread of it," Keefe says. The benefits of close monitoring can have big, often immediate, payoffs: Keeping a pain diary on any given day consistently helped rheumatoid arthritis patients cut their pain intensity the next day by an average of 28%, according to a recent study at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. • Study the phenomenon Just under standing the biomechanics of pain lessens its power, says Keefe. For example, people with chronic lower-back problems who made the effort to learn how the nervous system handles pain had better attitudes about it and gained more mobility than those in a control group who were taught only about back anatomy, found Australian researchers. Read articles and books about pain, go to your local library and study diagrams of the human body, or go to prevention.com/painrelief for more information on this topic. PAIN BOOSTER: You dwell on your pain The more attention you pay to pain, the more processing power your brain must devote to it, and the more you will hurt. Fortunately, even if you're an Einstein, your processing power is limited. Moreover, you can steal some of that energy from your pain. "The brain can handle only so many messages at once," says Robert Gatchel, PhD, a clinical professor of pain management at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. "If you switch on one part of the brain, activity in another part decreases." By encouraging the brain to pay attention and give priority to other signals, you can create a neurological traffic jam that will stop pain in its tracks--or at least make it take a detour. BRAIN RX: Cultivate distraction • Play a video game With their bright animation and mental challenges, electronic games are proven to provide the kind of diversion that can ease pain. Brain scramblers known as Stroop tests, which interfere with the reaction time of a task, decrease activity in pain-processing areas of the brain. One type of Stroop test, for example, might flash the word black on a screen in red letters, but instead of voicing the word, your task is to state the color--a simple but effective, and distracting, challenge. A series of Stroop tests can be found on Nintendo's handheld video game Brain Age. • Enjoy music Even listening closely to music you don't choose (such as the Muzak piped into malls and restaurants) eases pain, depression, and disability, according to a 2006 study at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. "Try to memorize lyrics of new songs, or just float with the sound," says Gatchel. Program an MP3 player with your favorite songs and play it whenever you feel pain coming on. If you play an instrument, learn a new tune. • Use your imagination In your mind's eye, watch pain floating out of your body; visualize yourself in a room where a healer lays soothing hands on you; picture a fire extinguisher dousing the pain's fire. These are all mental images that make the brain reinterpret pain and diminish its power. To take your mind off pain altogether, picture a favorite place (a beach, a mountain- top) and try to recall as many sensory details as possible, including colors, sounds, and smells. AIN BOOSTER You're a drama queen Maybe I have cancer. This pain will never get better. When statements like these repeatedly run through your head, you're showing signs of catastrophizing--jumping to the worst conclusions. Beaten down by pain, you persuade yourself that it's a sign of terminal illness or that it's unstoppable. That, in turn, magnifies your discomfort and leads to greater disability. The nastiest of all pain boosters, catastrophizing has been shown in studies to trigger the greatest responses in areas of the brain linked to anticipation of and attention to pain. It even activates motor areas responsible for reactions such as grimacing. BRAIN Rx: Shift your perspective • Refocus on right now When Jackie Gardner-Nix, MD, PhD, a chronic-pain consultant in the department of anesthesia at two teaching hospitals in Toronto, took a course on mindfulness meditation to ease her own stress, she quickly saw how its key component-focusing on the present moment--could help her patients. The results were even more dramatic than she expected. "After years of prescribing drugs for pain, I found this to be much more far-reaching," she says. "People who practice mindfulness meditation progress steadily toward wellness and improved quality of life--and if they use pain medication, it works better even as they take lower doses." • Talk yourself down Phrases like "I can't go on" have power. But so do counteractive ones like "Take a timeout." When you find your worries escalating, pause and objectively analyze whether things are as bleak as you say. They usually aren't. "Say to yourself, This is tough, but I can manage or I've been through this before and I know the pain will get better" says Keefe. Write those affirmations down and repeat them like mantras when you're in the throes of a painful flare-up. PAIN BOOSTER: You're stressed-out Pain does a dance with stress: Any tormenting twinge spurs the brain to release stress hormones that heighten awareness, followed by endorphins that dampen pain. This response has roots deep in our evolutionary history: With its eons of experience, your brain assumes that if you're hurt, you may need to focus on something more important than pain, like outrunning a hungry bear (stress hormones give you this energy). When pain drags on, however, the analgesic effect (powered by endorphins) wears off, and the stress just makes you tense--which can cause muscle spasms that produce more pain. "Muscle tension takes a bigger toll than people realize, especially on the back and jaw," says Gatchel. Stress also makes everything feel more overwhelming and out of control, leaving you both more sensitive to pain and less able to cope with it. BRAIN Rx: Calm yourself • Check tension regularly When you're caught up in a crazy day, you may not even notice you're tense--unless you make a conscious effort to stop and check. "I especially see this in women who focus so much on getting everything done for their families. They don't think they're stressed--they just think they're doing their job," says Gatchel. If necessary, place a visual cue someplace you'll see often--a dot sticker on your refrigerator or phone, for example--to remind you to stop and mentally review your body for tension. When you do, focus on different areas of your body one at a time, making each as relaxed as possible. • Practice relaxation Basic calming techniques such as focusing on slow, steady breathing have been shown to be as powerful as analgesics. Fishman once discovered that focusing on his breathing doubled or tripled the length of time he could tolerate the pain of an ice cube that had been placed on his hand. "Just paying attention to breathing is close to meditation," says Fish-man. "It's easy but can have profound effects on stress, anxiety, and pain." Try this: Inhale as deeply as you can with your mouth closed to a count of 6. (If it helps, place your hand on your stomach to feel it expand as your lungs fill.) Hold the air in your lungs for a count of 4 and then slowly exhale for a count of 6. Repeat the process three to five times. Steps like these can reverse the mindset behind every pain booster: the sense that your body--your pain-controls you, says Gatchel. "Once you realize that you're in control, dealing with pain will be much easier." PHOTO (COLOR) By Richard Laliberte "IT HELPS TO CONTROL MY THOUGHTS" REAL-LIFE SUCCESS Since college, Andrea Cooper, 51, of Phoenix, MD, has suffered from fibromyalgia, a chronic condition that produces intense, debilitating muscle pain and spasms: "My pain starts as a dull ache in my shoulder, then creeps up my neck. If it reaches my head, it's like a siren goes off and my whole body just screams. Knowing this pattern, I try to intervene. I'm a graphic artist and took an interest in the diagrams at my doctor's office showing muscles and nerves. When I'm feeling pain, I try to visualize its physiology and tell myself, It's just that nerve being annoying. It helps to be able to label and identify the area where it all starts." "I'VE LEARNED TO RELAX TENSE MUSCLES" When feeling tense while teaching energetic prekindergartners, Harriet Velevis, 56, of Dallas, would clench her teeth, leading to temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) disorder, a condition that causes chronic jaw and head pain: "In the classroom, I keep a postcard that I bought on a wonderful trip to wine country. It shows old, gnarly vines with hills in the background and a beautiful, blue, sunny sky. When I sense I'm getting stressed and am about to clench my jaw, which leads to my pain, I look at the picture. It has such relaxing associations for me, and it helps me center myself and prevents me from tensing those facial muscles. It sounds simple, but it's been life altering." "WITHOUT MEDITATION, I'D BE A ZOMBIE" Intense head pain that began 7 years ago was caused by a spine tumor, but even after Cheryl Simpson, 38, of Allis-ton, Ontario, had surgery to remove it, the pain mysteriously continued: "I'd been taking high doses of medication for chronic head pain since 2000. It was the only way I could get out of bed and function. I took a mindfulness meditation class, which included a CD with a guided body scan that has you progressively focus on relaxing different areas, from your toes to your head. After the first 12 weeks, I didn't have to increase my meds, so something seemed to be working. After a second course, my pain averaged 5 out of 10, instead of 7 or 8. That's a tremendous difference. By the end, I was able to dramatically reduce my drug dosage, and now I feel good enough to try and go back to work after 7 years of pain." The Best Place to FIGHT PAIN If your regular doctor can't provide relief, ask for a referral to a pain management clinic (whose costs are covered by most insurance plans); There, you'll get: • A better diagnosis Doctors will give you a complete physical exam and assess the severity of your pain. Prepare for your first appointment by keeping a pain diary for 2 weeks. Describe where you hurt, what you're doing when it comes on, how it feels (throbbing, shooting, or aching, for example), how intense it is, and when it changes--all of which help doctors determine the cause. • Physician support Your pain management squad may include a neurologist (who can trace pain pathways through the nervous system), an anesthesiologist (who can interrupt those pathways with drugs or steroidal injections), a rheumatologist (to handle arthritis issues), a psychiatrist (to counsel on stress and mood), and a psysiatrist (to design a comprehensive treatment). • A full menu of alternative strategies Pain centers are leading practitioners of integrative medicine. Your treatment may also involve mental coping techniques such as imagery, relaxation, and stress management as well as acupuncture, chiropractic, and message. To find a pain center, search by state at pain.com, an educational Web site for consumers and health care professionals.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line269
__label__wiki	0.901731	0.901731	Edgebrook / Jefferson Park / Mayfair / Miscellaneous / Neighborhoods / Norwood Park / Portage Park / Sauganash Long-gone animal returning to woods by nadignewspapers@aol.com · February 16, 2016 Restoration efforts at LaBagh Woods, at Cicero and Foster avenues, are believed to have attracted species of animals which are not normally seen in Chicago. Jeff Skrentny, who is part of the volunteer steward leadership team that is coordinating the restoration efforts at LaBagh, was the guest speaker at the Feb. 3 meeting of the North Mayfair Improvement Association at the Gompers Park fieldhouse, 4222 W. Foster Ave. "We don’t have great horned howls breeding in the city of Chicago, but here at LaBagh Woods we have a pair which is trying to set up here, and that’s one of the reasons we want to restore LaBagh Woods," Skrentny said. Skrentny showed slides of animals that have been seen at LaBagh Woods in recent months, including a silver-haired bat, an American mink, an eastern screech owl and a common map turtle. "The mink, this is as good as it gets," Skrentny said. In addition, the sighting of the turtle represents the first time there has been photo documentation of one in the Cook County Forest Preserve District in 30 years, Skrentny said. Uncommon plants that have been seen recently in the forest preserve include Michigan lily, blue flag iris and nodding ladies tresses, Skrentny said. LaBagh features a mix of habitats that is unusual for an urban area, including "a raised wet prairie" that those plants require, he said. The seeds of the plants have remained dormant for a long time, but the removal of leaf litter as part of the restoration has allowed enough sun and water to get through the soil, Skrentny said. "We have given them an opportunity to come out again," he said. The restoration includes controlled burns which are used to rid preserves of non-native plants. Some of the trees at LaBagh are missing lower branches because invasive species such buckthorn shaded them out, Skrentny said. LaBagh has two oak trees that are estimated to be between 250 and 400 years old, and one of them caught the attention of the namesake of LaBagh Woods in the early 1900s. "She’s the one who literally said you are not going to take down this oak," Skrentny said. Irving Park Woman’s Club member Ella LaBagh expressed concern about trees being cut and clay being dug which in the area, in large part for the brick industry, Skrentny said. Her efforts helped to establish the forest preserve district, which now covers 69,000 acres. "It’s a massive amount of forest preserve for an urban setting," Skrentny said. Habitat restoration in the county has been controversial at times, as some residents oppose the removal of trees, the use of herbicides and controlled burns to restore prairies, and a moratorium on restoration efforts was implemented in the mid-1990s. The forest preserve district later created a policy that requires that notices be posted before a burn starts. The Northwest Side was the last area where the moratorium was lifted. (Photo by Jeff Skrentny) Construction of Pace Pulse stations temporarily stopped due to permit problems cited by CDOT Residents oppose plans for Milwaukee Ave. liquor store Gardiner seeks input on stalled 6 Corners plan; affordable units may now be on-site Next story Forum scheduled for NW Side candidates Previous story Zoning for mosque, taxi parking on Elston discussed at Mayfair meeting	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line272
__label__wiki	0.672845	0.672845	On the other hand, most of the world hopes very much that Bush loses. Including our friends in most of the countries where we have....friends. A selection of anti-Bush posters. Which is YOUR favorite? Mine....has to be the global test. Cut + Run = Kerry Some Iraqis have tried to work with the U.S. Lots of them are already dead. In spite of that, many of those who remain hope Bush wins. Why might they prefer Bush? Oh, I dunno. Maybe....this? Why Let Duke Have All the Fun? Columbia gets on the board, on the freaky "love means hate" front. (thanks to janet, who knows things). Ray C. Fair's model is predicting Bush 57.7 to Kerry 42.3. ATSRTWT. Also, your tax dollars at work: Bush might win! K. Grease can't really complain, tho, since we just went and ate frozen yogurt outside. At least these people at Labor wrote a memo.... Finally: the theme song for Tuesday night may be .....Osama enchanted evening. (With apologies to Perry Como fans) Third Time, You Answer If someone asks a question three times, you have to try to answer it. My pal, The Dread Pirate Gryphon (his friends call him "The," for short) has asked this question in three very similar ways. I will use the most recent phrasing. Would the Chronicle have published an article entitled "The Blacks" that railed against their unfair over-representation in jazz music and professional sports? (And a corollary - would Prof. Munger have defended its publication on the same grounds?) Answer to primary question: Probably not. Hard to say, because the newspaper is independent, and run by students. The editor of the Chronicle, Karen Hauptman, is herself Jewish, and was (IMHO) bending over backwards to be fair to this view. She might not have done the same for an article (mutatis mutandis) on "The Blacks." She also might have. My speculation: no. Answer to corollary: Of course K. Grease's pussweiler friend, "Professor Munger," would have defended it on the same grounds. Yes. Absolutely. He already did that in the case of the Horowitz ad a few years ago. But so did Nan Keohane, bless her. In spite of abuse. Unsolicited Bonus Answer: (And the reason I think "The" is such a cutie...) The reaction, among the faculty, to the Kurian piece has been negative, but not outraged. The reaction among the faculty to the Horowitz ad was outraged, and organized. Protests, meetings, ass-whuppin. Mea culpas. What conclusion to draw? In my opinon, the Kurian piece was more of a personal assualt on Jewish people than the Horowitz ad was on African-Americans (this is obviously a subjective assessment, but I would defend it). Yet, the reaction to the Horowitz ad was much stronger than the reaction to the Kurian editorial. This means....that "The" has a point, much as I would like to deny it. His line, not mine. I can't take credit. But it did make me laugh. The Well Hung Chads In preparation for understanding chad categories, in anticipation of weeks of arguments about how and which votes count, K. Grease has some categories for you. (Pronounce this with a fake Brit accent: "Ca-TEG-er-ees") Ballots were categorized according to evidence of voter intent: * Blank (no mark seen); Also called virginal chads; * Dimpled chad, no sunlight; * Dimpled chad, sunlight; * Dimple with or without sunlight, off chad, within borders; * Dimple with or without sunlight, off chad, on border above; * one detached corner; * two detached corners; * three detached corners; * four detached corners. This is written so you can draw a line. Everything above the line, not a vote. Everything below the line, not a vote. Try it! It's fun.... A postscript: I was going to suggest that the Duke Poli Sci Men's Basketball Intramural team should be called the "Well Hung Chads." But having seen them play, perhaps the "Virginal Chads" would be a better name. Reason, Journalism, and Kurian-ism A terrific post from Dan Riehl. He published an overtly anti-semitic letter in the student newspaper he edited, in the early 1980s. Got vilified by the academic left. Journalism professors burning newspapers. Very nice. Very leftist, in favor of protecting all speech they agree with. ATSRTWT. This is why, IMHO, the Duke Chronicle did the right thing publishing the Kurian letter. In spite of what WEEKLY STANDARD said. Because, in fact, there are LOTS of faculty (not just students, I'm sayin'; FACULTY) on the left now that do believe, in more nuanced and camouflaged terms, exactly what young Phillip spurted. Here's the thing: Everyone is acting like Duke U is the only place this is true. Here's what Protein Wisdom had to say about what he calls "this little pleasantry from Duke (the University, not the former Klan leader—though, is there really a difference these days? You decide):" This is the point where the WEEKLY STANDARD loses the thread, and wanders off into the blackberry bushes. "Assuming Karen Hauptman is correct about this--that some significant body of Duke opinion shares Philip Kurian's disapproval of the "exorbitant Jewish privilege in the United States"--isn't that kind of a problem?" Well, yes, Mr. Scrapbook, that would be a problem. How would the problem have been solved by preventing this scabrous view from being expressed, and scrutinized? Now the FUCKING RIGHT is committing the sin of the left, and only allowing views they agree with? I expected better from you. Wake up, you dolts! Brown, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, Stanford: lots of faculty at all those places belive that Israel has no firm right to exist, and that oppression of the Palestinians is a new Holocaust, with the Israelis ("The Jews") playing the role of Hitler. What the editor of the Chronicle, Karen Hauptman, said is this: In retrospect, perhaps she should have taken time to "edit some of [Kurian's] language" or use "an alternate headline." Overall, she said, "I believe we were right in printing the column," Hauptman concludes. " To not print the column because the opinion presented is offensive would be to ignore a debate that is present around us. . . . [E]ven if the Chronicle had rejected the column, the ideas Kurian expressed would still exist." Don't blame Duke. The issue is out here in Durham, because of the Chronicle, and people who hold the views Kurian expressed so clearly now have to decide if they are really going to believe this crap, or change their minds. At all those other universities, the boil hasn't been lanced yet. But it's festering, and swelling, under the brittle skin of forced, censored civility. Karen Hauptman, Duke Chronicle Editor: K. Grease says--Good on ya! Use ATSRTWT: Because Otherwise People Can Still Understand You Help K. Grease in the crusade to reduce clutter by compressing one of the most trite phrases in the blogosphere to a single, unintelligible and unpronounceable acronym: ATSRTWT: "As they say, read the whole thing." Pronounced "ATS-ER-TWIT". ATSRTWT Users' Hall of Fame: Signifying Nothing Why do this? If you GOOGLE "as they say, read the whole thing", you will find nearly 500 exact instances. And that doesn't count all the time it appears in posts that have now been archived. End web clutter. And be truly obscure. Use ATSRTWT! Email K. Grease about other brave souls fighting for justice, opacity, and truth (JOT). Osama Votes for Bush, Absentee I like Al-Jazeera's English-language site. I do. But some of their columnists appear to use LSD as eyedrops. Consider this. An excerpt: ...[The] week after the Madrid attack [by Al Qaida], the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, which claims to act on behalf of al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the bombing and declared a truce in Spain to see if the new government would withdraw its troops from Iraq, but warned that it was gearing up for new attacks. This part of the declaration was widely reported. However, very few mentioned the more ominous part of that declaration, short of excerpts which were reported by the BBC and Reuters. "What is a cause for concern is that half the American people still wrongly believe that Iraq had links with al-Qaida and a hand in the 9/11 attacks" The declaration turned its attention to President Bush, saying: "A word for the foolish Bush. We are very keen that you do not lose in the forthcoming elections as we know very well that any big attack can bring down your government and this is what we do not want. "We cannot get anyone who is more foolish than you, who deals with matters with force instead of wisdom and diplomacy. "Your stupidity and religious extremism is what we want as our people will not awaken from their deep sleep except when there is an enemy. "Kerry will kill our nation while it sleeps because he and the Democrats have the cunning to embellish blasphemy and present it to the Arab and Muslim nation as civilisation. "Because of this we desire you [Bush] to be elected." A political tactic of this calibre should have perhaps appealed to pundits and political scientists in the media. However, al-Qaida gravely underestimates the likely political result of an attack against the US in the months leading up to the election. It would lead to a landslide victory for Bush as it would resonate with the American culture's "circle the wagons" mentality and take orders from John Wayne. Such an attack would play to Americans' deep inner insecurity and violent reaction to any threat has had disastrous effects, and not only to the American Indians. Of course, I may be quoting out of context. ATSRTWT! On the other hand, lots of journalists (and some soldiers) have started to refer to Baghdad's "Green Zone" as Fort Apache. Maybe the LSD has some clarifying effects... "As They Say, Read The Whole Thing." I'm trying to get it started as a new web word. Pronounced "Ats-er-twit". Spread the word. Atsrtwt. Card's Busch Stadium, Red Sox Bush League Quincy? Have you ever been to Quincy, Mass? Yikes. Nice accomodations, Red Sox. A question: has it been so long since the 'Sox won a World Series that they forgot that there would be an....OPPONENT? Home team is supposed to ensure accomodations. Here is an excerpt from an article in the St Loo Post-Dispatch. Hotel, transportation snafus rankle Cards By Joe Strauss Of the Post-Dispatch BOSTON - The Cardinals might license a fresh slogan for their three-day experience in Boston: "I went to the World Series, and all I got was this lousy bus ride." Relying on housing suggested by the host Red Sox, the Cardinals found themselves put up at the Quincy Marriott, about 15 miles and, depending on traffic patterns, as much as 45 minutes from Fenway Park. The inconvenience caused manager Tony La Russa to express his team's disappointment over its accommodations before Sunday night's Game 2. "I understand the home team has the responsibility for making the hotel accommodations," La Russa said. "It was a real bummer to the point where a lot of us were upset and embarrassed." The weekend included a lack of late-night room service, a lack of alternative transportation to team buses and a complicated exit from Saturday's four-hour, 11-9 loss. The hassle was enough that traveling secretary C.J. Cherre and general manager Walt Jocketty inquired at Boston hotels about availability, only to discover none could provide a large enough block of rooms. The Redbirds' travel party of about 100 includes owners, sponsors and family members in addition to team personnel. "For most of these guys, this is their first World Series experience, right?" La Russa said. "When the game is over ... if you're here, there are all kind of restaurants here. In Quincy, there wasn't anything except for the hotel that stayed open for us. We shouldn't have had this problem." The Quincy Marriott had never housed a major league baseball team until this weekend. Its room service shuts down at 11:30 p.m. La Russa lauded the facility for putting out food for the players but was equally disappointed the spread consisted of nothing more than bar fare. "I suggested they put Boston in a hotel in Jefferson City," La Russa said, mindful that the downtown Adam's Mark is the Red Sox's team headquarters in St. Louis. Hotel availability in The Hub was at a premium over the weekend because of the World Series and the annual Head of the Charles Regatta. Since the Cardinals did not play in Boston this season, they did not have a guarantee of October hotel space typical within league cities. The Red Sox at first denied any involvement in the Cardinals' predicament before director of public relations Glenn Geffner explained the club was prepared to make 100 rooms available at the downtown Hyatt until the hotel could not guarantee such a large bloc two weeks ago. Major League Baseball also lost a bloc of 250 rooms. Without another alternative, the Red Sox steered Cherre to the Quincy hotel. Saturday's problems were compounded before the club returned to its hotel when the last of four team buses - the one carrying La Russa, some coaches and several players - became separated from the first three and a police escort. The La Russa bus was forced to idle for more than 20 minutes until Boston police could locate the owner of an SUV blocking its way. The final bus pulled into the team hotel at 2 a.m. "I think our response should be the Red Sox buses, just because of major league security, have to get off at the Arch," La Russa said. "And they walk from the Arch to the ballpark." He added, "This is the World Series, the event of a lifetime. It's not what the World Series is supposed to be." Don't Challenge Him! From the Des Moines Register, via (in my case) Ed Cone: "Yes, Kerry is liberal. But what's to fear from a liberal president? That he would run big deficits? That he would increase federal spending? That he would expand the power of the federal government over individuals' lives? Nothing Kerry could do could top what President Bush has already done in those realms." Me, I say don't make it sound like a challenge. Kerry may be up to doing all those things and more. Nothing is more scary than a man who is convinced he knows the truth and wants to help other people based on that truth. Am I talking about Kerry, or Bush? Yes. As for the challenge, I bet that ten years ago, Kerry and some other guy were drinking in a bar, and Kerry got dared to go marry some incredibly rich crazy woman. And you see how THAT worked out. So don't challenge him to be a bigger putz than Bush: I think Kerry could do just that. Playing the Assassination Card Golly. From the Guardian. "On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?" If you are going to invoke assassination fantasies against a sitting American president, there ought to be certain standards. How "civilized" can you be if spell the word like some narrow-backed Brit bed-wetter? Use ATSRTWT: Because Otherwise People Can Still U...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line277
__label__cc	0.601956	0.398044	Good Music from Your PC: Vacuum Tube Version This NY Times article sings the praises of storing your tunes in a lossless format on a PC and then using a USB port DAC (digital-audio converter) instead of your computer's sound card to send the signal to an amplifier. This is actually a great way to get rid of CDs even for your main home stereo system (assuming anyone still has these. In Chez Angus, it takes up one whole wall of the living room). The article mentions Gordon Rankin, the owner and proprietor of Wavelength Audio, one of the main movers in the vacuum tube revival in the USA. Gordon makes a variety of DACs for PCs that incorporate a vacuum tube stage at the output. His products are well designed, great sounding and simply beautiful. His DAC in the article is called "The Brick" and it looks like one, but here is a lovely 2.5 watt stereo amplifier he made: Kudos to you Gordon Posted by Angus at 10/27/2007 10:55:00 AM 8 comments: Links to this post Labels: technology, The Arts Didn't Watson Get Fired for This? Betsy suggests, and I agree, that we need more Biden. Because EVERYBODY loves a train wreck. And the ghost stories, that litltle orphan Annie used to tell.... ">Article at CBS: Those things that go bump in the night? About one-third of people believe they could be ghosts. And nearly one out of four, 23 percent, say they've actually seen a ghost or felt its presence, finds a pre-Halloween poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos. One is Misty Conrad, who says she fled her rented home in Syracuse, Ind., after her daughter began talking to an unseen girl named Nicole and neighbors said children had been murdered in the house. That was after the TV and lights began flicking on at night. So, little girls who want to move, just invent a "friend" named Nicole. I have my own "ghost story." I very clearly remember this happening, and am equally certain it did not. Decide for yourself. Central Florida, about 1964. I'm 6 years old, sleeping out on the enclosed front porch, because we have out of town guests. It's cold, only about 45 outside, but the room is unheated. Dark. I wake up. Deep of night, after midnight. Corner of my eye I see a fast movement. Loud male voice, across the room: "Caramba!" I speak no Spanish, and was not then aware of having heard this word before. I freeze for a good five minutes, shivering. Then I get up and turn on the light. There's nothing. No door opened or closed in the meantime, and the windows are shut tight. Next morning, I asked my mother what "caramba" means. She wants to know where I heard it. I tell her. She laughs and said that I had a dream. I was convinced then I had "seen" a ghost. I am convinced now that I had a dream. Probably had heard "caramba" on TV or something, without realizing it. But it would make me feel special to think that I really did get a visit from ghost, a Spanish conquistador who got lost from St. Augustine in the 17th century, ended up way inland, stubbed his toe, and yelled "caramba." The people who "see" ghosts probably feel special in just that way. Senate Votes to Give Public Access to Public Property Our man Coturnix notes a little-noted senate bill is voted. If it's publicly funded, the data need to be publicly available. Market Failures in Everything: Baseball Edition A while ago an excellent book came out called "Moneyball". Despite Joe Morgan's fervent protestations, it was not written BY Billy Beane but rather ABOUT him and the basic economic idea of trying to find underpriced assets in the baseball talent pool. One of the most striking concepts in the book is that a lot of traditional baseball thinking, often summed up as "smallball" or "situational hitting" is wrong-headed. You only have 27 outs and it's generally not worth burning one to move a runner up a base, so bunting, the "hit and run to stay out of the double play", going the other way to move a runner are generally not winning maneuvers. Apparently Ozzie Guillen hasn't gotten the memo, as he appears to be blaming the White Sox's disastrous 2007 season on not playing enough small-ball and is promising to have everybody doing a lot more counterproductive stuff next year. You're going to see a lot of crazy stuff in spring training, regardless of the baserunning," Guillen said during a conference call. "You're going to see hit-and-run [plays] when it's not a hit-and-run situation. You're going to see people bunting when it's not a bunting situation. The full article is here, the awesome deconstruction by the talented Ken Tremendous on FJM is here. You Can't Handle the Truth, But Keith Poole Can Fantastic email rant from one of KPC's best friends, Keith "HILLARY'S WINNING, & MY GODDAMNED HOUSE IS ON FIRE!" Poole, in San Diego. The Republican Party is a smoking ruin much like many areas within 10 miles of my house. They threw away their brand name of low taxes and small government. My academic next door neighbor, Gary Jacobson, and I are at opposite ends of the spectrum but we read the tea leaves the same way. The R's are going to lose a handful of additional seats in the House and about 4 Senate seats (although we have a shot in LA). I do not see how the Clinton machine can be stopped. The George Soros (plus other billionaires like the two in CO who have single-handedly torpedoed the Republican party there) will spend at least a **billion** dollars through 527s for Hillary! Even though she has high negatives -- my wife, Jan, who many of you have met, is not political at all and she really dislikes her -- it is likelier that the R vote will be split than the D vote. It is not hopeless but I would bet on the Clinton machine. Look what we have to look forward to -- idiotic trade policy, high taxes, paid family leave, a pre-School entitlement, Union check-offs, nightmarish liberal judges who love a "living" (i.e., New York Times type Constitution), and all other types of horrors only the left can conjure up! Here I am 60 years old with the housing market crashing and Southern California burring down, I will never be able to retire!! We LOVE Keith Poole. He was a grouchy old man at age 7, and has only gotten grouchier and funnier with age. How Much is Tenure Worth? How much would YOU accept to give up tenure? An interesting debate. Has there been any research on this? What is the value of the contract provision "tenure" for a professor? What lump-sum cash payment would they accept to give it up? For me, I think I would give it up for $10,000. It is worth SOMETHING, but I am protected by market forces. Tenure protects those who are (1) lazy, (2) controversial, or (3) faced with cutbacks. I am clearly (2), and some days feel like (1) might be pretty fun. (Nod to El Zorno) Posted by Mungowitz at 10/25/2007 12:39:00 PM 13 comments: Links to this post Those who do not learn from History..... .....apparently live in Argentina! Argentina has a long and proud history of hyperinflation, and after the interlude of convertibility and the ensuing disaster and recovery when convertibility failed, it seems that things may be heating up again. KPC has reported on the political battle over the inflation number in Argentina here and here. Now the old school press is picking up on this issue with an article in the Economist and a front page story in the WSJ. The gist of the matter is that the ruling Kirchner family (current prez Nestor and future prez Christina) after overseeing a quite remarkable recovery from the end of convertibility crisis, dumped the finance minister who helped a lot during the recovery and have been ramping up the populist economics that has made Argentina justly famous throughout the world. Energy price controls are causing shortages, price controls on beef (Argentines consume 140 lbs of beef per person annually) are causing shortages, though beef is now cheaper than veggies in many cases as veggies, being mere incidentals, are not subject to controls! Government spending is up over 45% this year in nominal terms and independent estimates put the current inflation rate somewhere north of 20%, though the official number seems stuck at around 8%. Mugabenomics on the rise? Posted by Angus at 10/25/2007 10:46:00 AM 1 comment: Links to this post Labels: people and places, politics A fascinating moral dilemma We all think child molesters are evil. And, fair enough: an adult male sexually molesting a young child, against the active resistance of that child....there's nothing short of cold-blooded murder that could be worse, and you could even argue that. Child-sex predators are the worst people on earth. Except....here's a guy who...well, read it. Admirable, in a way. The guy couldn't help the fact that he has these urges. But he tried to control his response to these urges. And, i'm guessing that it worked. Poor guy, I seriously feel sorry for him. It's like a horrible game of CLUE: The child molester. With a filet knife. In the bathroom. (Nod to Mr. Overwater) Posted by Mungowitz at 10/25/2007 10:43:00 AM 3 comments: Links to this post Media Frenzy, or Mediocre Frency? Mediocracy Andrea Mattozzi & Antonio Merlo NBER Working Paper, February 2007 In this paper, we study the initial recruitment of individuals in the political sector. We propose an equilibrium model of political recruitment by a party who faces competition for political talent from the lobbying sector. We show that a political party may deliberately choose to recruit only mediocre politicians, in spite of the fact that it could afford to recruit better individuals who would like to become politicians. We argue that this finding may contribute to explain the observation that in many countries the political class is mostly composed of mediocre people. (Nod to KL, who is en fuego) Face Time! Predicting political elections from rapid and unreflective face judgments Charles Ballew & Alexander Todorov Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, forthcoming Here we show that rapid judgments of competence based solely on the facial appearance of candidates predicted the outcomes of gubernatorial elections, the most important elections in the United States next to the presidential elections. In all experiments, participants were presented with the faces of the winner and the runner-up and asked to decide who is more competent. To ensure that competence judgments were based solely on facial appearance and not on prior person knowledge, judgments for races in which the participant recognized any of the faces were excluded from all analyses. Predictions were as accurate after a 100-ms exposure to the faces of the winner and the runner-up as exposure after 250 ms and unlimited time exposure (Experiment 1). Asking participants to deliberate and make a good judgment dramatically increased the response times and reduced the predictive accuracy of judgments relative to both judgments made after 250 ms of exposure to the faces and judgments made within a response deadline of 2 s (Experiment 2). Finally, competence judgments collected before the elections in 2006 predicted 68.6% of the gubernatorial races and 72.4% of the Senate races (Experiment 3). These effects were independent of the incumbency status of the candidates. The findings suggest that rapid, unreflective judgments of competence from faces can affect voting decisions. GadZOOKS! Trying to get on the BALLOT! "Everybody is very cautious, not wanting to take this too seriously, or to say that campaign finance laws are going to stop satire, or what is clearly a joke. But he's trying to get on the ballot, and he could in fact affect the election." -- Lawrence Noble, former general counsel for the Federal Election Commission, on Stephen Colbert's ostensibly faux-campaign I just look at the pictures.... ....and when it comes to reading the NY times I urge you to do the same! Greg Mankiw links to a times article about cloud seeding to defer global warming, but I only had eyes for the fantastic illustration reproduced here: The artist is the awesomely named Henning Wagenbreth from Germany. Here he is in action: and here is his very entertaining website. Kudos to you sir, well done indeed Posted by Angus at 10/24/2007 12:35:00 PM 1 comment: Links to this post Bolivian "Decentralization" Update Perhaps emboldened by their recent success in re-taking the airport from Federal trooops, Unidentified Santa Cruzians followed up earlier this week with tossing sticks of dynamite at the Venezuelan Consulate building and Molotov cocktails at a house where a group of Cuban doctors reside. Not sure about their beef with Cuba, but this photo may shed light on the Venezuela thing. How They Gonna Wear Cashmere NOW? And the algae....ick From the Times: “We represent the entertainment community,” said Kelly Chapman Meyer, whose husband, Ron, is the president of Universal Studios Group. “We use our resources and our connections to push for environmental issues.” “We want a climate bill that’s not going to die,” said Colleen Bell, a philanthropist and writer whose husband, Bradley, is the executive producer and head writer of the soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful.” Ms. Meyer told Ms. Boxer, a Democrat who is one of her home senators, that warmer weather has intensified climate-related problems in the lapping waves near her house in Malibu. “I’m a surfer,” she said. “The algae bloom is insane.” Ms. Boxer said she was working to push climate legislation through the Senate, adding that she also worried about global warming. “We can see it happening, we can feel it happening,” she said. “The fashion industry is so upset because they can’t sell their cashmere sweaters.” Note that this last was actually said by a U.S. Senator, albeit one with an I.Q. (though not an appearance) that would make her well-suited for the role of trophy wife. But the warming isn't all bad, at least not when it comes to overheated rhetoric: “'You’ll be the hot grandma, I’ll be the kind-of-hot grandma,' Ms. Meyer said." Well, there you are, then. (Nod to Anonyman. He's hot, too) And, your little DOG, too! Scariest Democrat "poll." I guess scariness is the best revenge. KPC's 5 Rules for Changing Jobs Kenny Smith, in a column criticizing Kobe Bryant, posted his version of "Basketball's Trade Commandments". Lucky for us, academic departments can't trade us, but getting outside offers and changing jobs is a big issue in our bidness too. Thus, and with props to Kenny, KPC offers "5 Rules for Changing Jobs". 1. Do not complain about being underpaid or use that as the stated reason for looking to move. Sure we all know that money is the reason, but no one wants to hear it. As hard as it may be to believe, there are probably people in your own department who make less money than you. 2. Never let anyone know how much you want to go. Remember: he who cares the least wins! Also remember that you may end up staying put and facing the same people who you’ve told how miserable they make you. 3. Never bring an offer to the table that you are not prepared to accept. If you bring in an outside offer and your home department does nothing about it, it’s a gots to go situation (unless the offer you bring is actually worse than the one you already have (don’t laugh, that has happened more than once in this world)). 4. Don’t throw your current colleagues under the bus. There is nothing more off-putting than to be interviewing someone and have them constantly complaining about and belittling their current colleagues. It makes you wonder what they’ll be saying about you if you hire them. It's amazing how often people do this. 5. Don’t be a tease. Don’t generate offers from places you have no intention of going to and don’t hold on to an offer for an eternity while you bargain the last nickel from your current chair or dean. Rember, Karma can be a B#&*#&CH! Labels: academic politics Switch-Hitting Tila Tequila MTV’s A Shot At Love with Tila Tequila, features MySpace superstar Tila Tequila whose profile is touted as having the most friends in the history of MySpace. Follow Tequila as she whittles down a group of 32 suitors - 16 straight men and 16 gay women to pick just one to win her heart. The Apocalypse is upon us. The end is near. That Darned Fine Print: The Dollar-Loonie Exchange Rate Note from KPC friend, RL: Maybe economists like you can make sense of what is "normal" price appreciation and what is "abnormally quick" changes in exchange rates? The markets responded sharply in the first day of trading after these comments, but then traders realized that - whether or not the pace of the change was in line with historical norms - the equilibrium price was near where the dollar-looney traded at on Friday! I wonder whether the current stock market volatility is also "abnormal" since, from what I can tell, it also is not consistent with historical norms. Does the leader of the Bank of Canada not read the fine print that says that historical performance is not indicative of future returns? Markets in Everything Consider two commodities: A. The value of seeing the Red Sox in the World Series B. The value of seeing the Red Sox win their first world series since 1918. Since all tickets are sold, and there is a thick secondary market, we can be reasonably certain that the difference between B and A is the premium of novelty. An article from the Globe, with more info, and some prices. (Nod to Tofe, who never has to pay for it) (And, props to TC, for the "MiE" title. I have credited it before, and from now on will just assume everyone knows where it comes from) Drink Limits Useless, Made Up That number we made up? Well, you must OBEY! How are ya gonna hev eni pudding, if you don obey your arbitrary drink limits? (Nod to TtWBB) Cookies Affect Your Discount Rate? The Effects of Appetitive Stimuli on Out-of-Domain Consumption Impatience Xiuping Li Journal of Consumer Research, February 2008 Earlier work in consumer research has documented the effect of appetitive stimuli (e.g., chocolate cookies) on a related consumption domain (e.g., eating). We argue that appetitive stimuli can lead to a change in temporal orientation and affect subsequent consumption impatience across domains. In a series of experiments, we find that consumers exposed to appetitive stimuli are more present oriented, more likely to choose smaller-sooner rewards or vice options, and more likely to make unplanned purchase (Nod to KL, who loves cookies) If You Have a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Bureaucrat A heart-warming story of an old lady kicking a little tail. Closing the Barn door after all the cows are out again! No this is not from the Onion: Cycling chief warns the sport risks becoming a 'travesty' and 'fraud' By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) -- The head of cycling's governing body warns that the sport risks becoming a "travesty" and "fraud" unless it unites to fight doping. In a conference attended by the sport's divided leadership, International Cycling Union president Pat McQuaid urged colleagues Monday to move past their differences and recognize that the survival of cycling is at stake. "We are here because we share a common determination to stamp out doping in our sport," said McQuaid, who has been criticized by Tour de France and anti-doping officials. "There's been so much background noise in recent years, the fact that we all still agree on one major objective is a good start for this meeting." "Either we fix this beyond doubt or cycling as we have known it -- in all its glory -- will become a travesty of a sport, a fraud for the public, and a shame for us in this room." he added. the rest is here. Labels: sports, Woe Come Back Mary Anastasia, we miss you! One of the very weirdest things about the WSJ editorial pages is the surrealistic Latin America column by the redoubtable Mary Anastasia O'Grady. However, today, in her absence, a guest column by Manuel Ayau may well be the worst thing ever published on those pages (which is really saying something). The column has two points, viz. what Guatemala needs is less civilian government and more Army!! Guatemalans will vote in a presidential runoff election on Nov. 4 and as of now, center-right, retired military general, Otto Perez Molina appears to have a slight lead over the moderate, center-left candidate Alvaro Colom. At a time when Latin America is supposedly surging to the left, Mr. Perez Molina's strong campaign is instructive. So too is the fact that in the first-round vote Guatemalans widely rejected the four extreme left-wing candidates, giving them less than 6% of the vote. Candidate Rigoberta Menchu managed a mere 3.1%, suggesting that Guatemalans are not nearly as impressed with the Nobel Peace Prize winner as the international community is. Another interesting outcome of the first round was the substantial support for retired military candidates for congress, and for Mr. Perez Molina, in regions that were supposedly victimized by the army in the past. If the good news here is that socialists aren't all that popular, the bad news is that this reality is not reflected in our institutions, where socialist ideas remain deeply imbedded (Sic). Even though voters go to the polls every four or five years with hopes raised that an honest, capable person will come to power and preside over a more just society, they are always disappointed. Changing the managers without changing the institutional framework is like changing the driver when a car keeps breaking down. Even if the more market- oriented Mr. Perez Molina wins, Guatemala won't begin to make real progress until it amends crucial aspects of its 1985 constitution. Many Marxist ideas survive because it is hard to change the legal culture established in the heyday of socialism, when lawyers and politicians were trained that it is the government's task to solve all problems. Our constitution pays lip service to the rights of the citizens but regulates every aspect of daily life, including working hours, leisure time, social security and policies in education, banking and culture. Even sports must receive 3% of the budget. Using these constitutional mandates, legislators expand their power and further interfere in private, peaceful transactions. In fact, lawmakers are duty bound to do so....... Historically, when police have lost control of law and order, Guatemalans clamor for the army as the authority of last resort, much like Americans rely on the National Guard to control riots or widespread violence. Here, too, the country has been hamstrung by the remnants of socialism. Ever since the military defeated the subversive movements of the Cold War, left-wing international organizations and foreign governments have insisted on crippling the institution. Today the military is reluctant to take action and be subject to antimilitary international criticism. Guatemalans, however, know that before and during the years of subversive activities the armies were a civilizing force; this is evidenced by the popularity of ex-military candidates in elections. All of this is pretty amazing. "In regions that were supposedly victimized by the Army in the past" "Guatemalans clamor for the army as the authority of last resort, much like Americans rely on the National Guard to control riots or widespread violence." Wow. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the US national guard has wiped out villages and left mass graves behind (in the US at least). Nor do I think the word "supposedly" belongs in the first quote either. Here is an alternative perspective: In its final report, the Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH- Guatemalan Truth Commission) concluded that army massacres had destroyed 626 villages, more than 200,000 people were killed or disappeared, 1.5 million were displaced by the violence, and more than 150,000 were driven to seek refuge in Mexico. Further, the Commission found the state responsible for ninety-three percent of the acts of violence and the guerrillas (URNG-Guatemalan Revolutionary Union) responsible for three percent. Shame on Manuel Ayau and shame on the WSJ for printing this trash. All I can say is thank God the Guatemalan army is now "reluctant to take action" I also wonder what Ayau thinks governments do in other countries: "Our constitution pays lip service to the rights of the citizens but regulates every aspect of daily life, including working hours, leisure time, social security and policies in education, banking and culture." All these things may not be directly in constitutions, they are certainly in the purview of most governments today (note I am NOT saying that they should be). The US government certainly regulates working hours, leisure time (can't buy drugs, gamble wherever you want, consort with courtesans), social security, education, banking, and culture. LOL, I guess we are all "marxists" now. Posted by Angus at 10/22/2007 01:25:00 PM 2 comments: Links to this post Strange Days in Bolivia As cocalero-presidente Evo Morales appears on the Daily Show, his project to rewrite Bolivia's constitution (key feature: unlimited reelection for the president) is foundering badly and the country seems ever more likely to actually fracture. Last week in Santa Cruz, the least worse off of the Bolivian states and an anti-Morales hotbed, protesters clashed with federal troops and occupied and then reoccupied the international airport there. Locals retake Bolivia airport from army By HAROLD OLMOS, Associated Press Writer Fri Oct 19, 4:47 PM ET SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia - Armed with clubs and waving provincial flags, thousands of residents of Bolivia's wealthiest province seized control of the country's busiest airport Friday from troops sent in by President Evo Morales. The retaking of the airport was a victory for leaders of a province fighting for greater autonomy from the socialist central government. Soldiers and military police melted away before the protesters flooded into Santa Cruz's Viru Viru airport, avoiding clashes. It was not immediately clear if the troops had left the airport entirely or withdrawn to a distant part of the facility. Morales ordered 220 troops to take control of the airport Thursday after workers threatened to block flights that did not pay landing fees to local officials rather than the national airport authority. Among the carriers affected was American Airlines. The dispute quickly became a flashpoint between Bolivia's national government and a region seeking greater autonomy. At least two soldiers were wounded Thursday, one by gunfire, and local hospitals reported that about 20 other people were injured, some by tear gas fired by troops to repel protesters shouting, "The airport belongs to Santa Cruz!" Santa Cruz Gov. Ruben Costas called on residents Friday to retake the airport and thousands responded, marching past startled passengers into the terminal and waving clubs and green-and-white Santa Cruz flags. The soldiers left "with their tails between their legs," Costas said. Oh and in case you are wondering what these rebel elites of Bolivian society look like: A .500 average gets you in the Hall of Fame, right? I recently posted that two of my favorite bands from last year were putting out new products. Well said products have arrived, been listened to, and I have to say the results are mixed. First the good news: Spencer Krug's new Sunset Rubdown album is fantastic. Let me see if I can describe it by analogy: how about a mix up of Queen / Jonathan Richman / Velvet Underground / Igor Stravinsky / and the Fall? How's that grab you? This is totally out of control and totally wonderful. You should really own the whole Frog Eyes catalog (with and without Krug) along with the Sunset Rubdown stuff and the initial Wolf Parade record. Even if the above mashup and the idea of out of control pscho pop music doesn't sound appetizing, you should at least try Wolf Parade. Now the bad news, Band of Horses does not survive the departure of one of their founding members. It's just "dad rock" now. BOH was all about the rave up. That was their thing. That is now gone and what is left is plodding, boring, trivial. I am not giving up though. Since things are progressing poorly, I've decided to go back in time and try Carissa's Wierd (sic), the pre BOH band of the original BOH lineup. Details to follow. And the ghost stories, that litltle orphan Annie u... Senate Votes to Give Public Access to Public Prope... How They Gonna Wear Cashmere NOW? And the algae..... That Darned Fine Print: The Dollar-Loonie Exchang... If You Have a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Bure... Closing the Barn door after all the cows are out a... A .500 average gets you in the Hall of Fame, right...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line278
__label__cc	0.663523	0.336477	Babikova, Zdenka, Gilbert, Lucy, Randall, Kate C., Bruce, Toby J. A., Pickett, John A. and Johnson, David 2014. Increasing phosphorus supply is not the mechanism by which arbuscular mycorrhiza increase attractiveness of bean (Vicia faba) to aphids. Journal of Experimental Botany 65 (18) , pp. 5231-5241. 10.1093/jxb/eru283 Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eru283 Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, important plant mutualists, provide plants with nutrients such as phosphorus (P) in return for carbon. AM fungi also enhance the attractiveness of plants to aphids via effects on emissions of plant volatiles used in aphid host location. We tested whether increased P uptake by plants is the mechanism through which AM fungi alter the volatile profile of plants and aphid behavioural responses by manipulating the availability of P and AM fungi to broad beans (Vicia faba L.) in a multi-factorial design. If AM fungi affect plant volatiles only via increased P acquisition, we predicted that the emission of volatiles and the attractiveness of mycorrhizal beans to aphids would be similar to those of non-mycorrhizal beans supplied with additional P. AM fungi and P addition increased leaf P concentrations by 40 and 24%, respectively. The production of naphthalene was less in mycorrhizal plants, regardless of P addition. By contrast, production of (S)-linalool, (E)-caryophyllene and (R)-germacrene D was less in plants colonized by AM fungi but only in the absence of P additions. The attractiveness of plants to pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum Harris) was positively affected by AM fungi and correlated with the extent of root colonization; however, attractiveness was neither affected by P treatment nor correlated with leaf P concentration. These findings suggest that increased P uptake is not the main mechanism by which mycorrhiza increase the attractiveness of plants to aphids. Instead, the mechanism is likely to operate via AM fungi-induced plant systemic signalling. Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy B - Oxford Open Option A	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line279
__label__wiki	0.828475	0.828475	Results, Transfers and News of the best football team ever Nuri Sahin: Out for three or four weeks The new injury of Turkish midfielder Nuri Sahin, grade II sprain of lateral ligament in his left knee in the distal third, can leave him off the pitch three to four weeks more. The misfortune accompanies Sahin in his first steps as Real Madrid player. In July, after the North American leg of the summer preseason, suffered a concussion in training that left him with a knee sprain grade I. Now when he was on the verge of his debut with Real Madrid, has re-injured. Sahin, who has not played a game since April 15 when he went down injured with Borussia Dortmund against Freiburg in his right knee, continues his ordeal. He trained with his new teammates two days in the sports City of Valdebebas in the previous days of the Santiago Bernabeu Trophy where was planned by Jose Mourinho his debut in the final minutes, but again has suffered a sprain in the same area of his left knee. Mourinho (resigned) confirmed it at news conference: "The Sahin's injury is not a relapse. This injury is different", he unveiled. "Sahin is not to play, so I will not be much more specific. I leave it to the medical department. I did not expect him to play in Zaragoza, so for me is not important", he said. The month off that Sahin must take up anew, is a setback for Mourinho, that could not call Sami Khedira by muscle problems for the Zaragoza match and has ruled Esteban Granero by technical decision. So Fabio Coentrao holds the midfield starter position alongside Xabi Alonso and now the coach do not see as a problem that the club do not sell Lass Diarra. Nuri Sahin at the Bernabeu Stadium Tags: Mourinho, News 2011/12, Sahin Zaragoza vs Real Madrid: Broadcast close to suspension The television broadcast of the Zaragoza-Real Madrid match is close to suspension because the administration of the Zaragoza Club (judicial administration) has decided to bar the way to Mediapro (company responsible for distributing the images) to the La Romareda Stadium, because this audiovisual company has a debt to the home team. The match is scheduled to be broadcasted at 8:00 pm (local time) on Sunday, but Zaragoza has a court order dictated last June 22 authorizing the club to take the needed actions of pressure to collect debts. In the coming hours will be known if if the Zaragoza continues its actions or if instead reaches an agreement with Mediapro and the Zaragoza-Real Madrid can be broadcasted. TV camera at La Romareda Stadium Tags: News 2011/12 Champions League 2011-2012: The Draw The road in search of the Tenth European Cup is no stranger to Real Madrid, which will face to face with old 'friends' that already knows with the eyes closed. Lyon, always Lyon will be the greatest threat to Whites in a group stage that must pass without problems. Real Madrid will repeat duels against Ajax, with which already met last year, and will debut against Dinamo Zagreb, the only Croatian set this in the top continental tournament. UEFA Champions League 2011-2012: Group D Lyon is no longer a ghost Bad memories that the French brought to Real Madrid were forgotten. Last season, Mourinho killed two birds with one stone. Ended its curse in the last-16 round and also the ghosts of the Lyon team that had ruined the lives of whites in more than one occasion. Little or nothing has changed the French team in the field since that day, but yes on the bench, now owned by Remi Garde. Toulalan is not, but the military force maintains its essence. The driver is the intermittent Gourcuff and the shooters are Gomis, Lisandro and Bastos, using the long distance machine gun. Still offers doubts its rear, with the goal defended by Lloris, a cat. Benzema and Real Madrid will return to Lyon, where never before in history has won the white team. Ajax continues to reinvent itself Ajax, another year, will be rival of Real Madrid in the group stage of the Champions League. The arrival of Frank de Boer to the bench after the elimination of the continental showpiece, was a breath of fresh air for the Dutch, accustomed to reinvent itself due to obligations of the script. The Dutch team no longer misses Luis Suarez. Ajax thinks in future, in long-term with Van der Wiel, Alderweired, Eriksen, Sulejmani and Janssen, a killer from the Twente. The Amsterdam Arena will be where the Real Madrid will finish the group stage. Sammir's Dinamo Nobody takes seriously the Croatians, but the Balkan team has its hidden weapons. Has reached this stage after knocking Swedish Malmoe on the previous round. Sammir, cheeky Brazilian footballer is the greatest threat of a Dinamo that already shown last year against Villarreal in the Europa League that can break pools. Dinamo Zagreb will check what it feels like to play against Madrid, which has never done and will do in its debut. In Zagreb begins the road of Mourinho's team. The aim is Munich. (Note: Time is GMT +1) Link: UEFA Draw News Tags: Europe 2011/12 Bernabeu Trophy 2011: Real Madrid 2 - 1 Galatasaray The Santiago Bernabeu Trophy served Real Madrid to accumulate minutes before the start of the season, to Real Madrid fans to confirm their faith in the coach Mourinho, and to the Portuguese coach for both things: preparing the start of the competition and strengthen his position in the club. The white team left the tournament at home after the Galatasaray's early goal and the continued cheering to its coach. Sergio Ramos and Iker Casillas with the Bernabeu Trophy 2011 The white fans expected on Wednesday to see live Sahin and Varane, but in the case of the first, will have to wait few more weeks. The Turk was left out of the squad because someone did not see him fully recovered. And despite his absence, the former Borussia player was strengthened at the Bernabeu. Without him, they all want alongside Xabi Alonso. With Khedira in the stands with health problems, Coentrao was the companion of Xabi in the midfield. The same that all people saw in the Camp Nou. The Portuguese can be two hours running from one place to another without stopping, but not giving sense to the Real Madrid actions. At least not for his peers, happier when the ball comes from Xabi. The fans had not hung their last banner in support of Mourinho when Galatasaray went ahead on the scoreboard. After the ball stroll through the area of Adam, Eboue broke Sergio Ramos' waist and served the first goal of the game to Inan. In ten minutes, the Turks had already demonstrated in Madrid all their virtues. The locals gradually had more chances to score. Goalkeeper Muslera cleared a shot following a good combination between Xabi Alonso and Di Maria (16'), and the defence later cleared a shot by Kaka (19'). Sergio Ramos scored the equaliser from a header following a cross by Alonso on the 33-minute mark. This marked a turning point in the match, which the Whites started to control. Higuain came close to netting his team's second goal, but Muslera again saved the day for Galatasaray (41'). At the end of the first half, the crowd gave Real Madrid a standing ovation. Cristiano Ronaldo, Carvalho, Ozil, Benzema and Albiol came on for Callejon, Pepe, Higuain, Varane and Kaka after half-time. Benzema scored on the 49-minute mark, but the referee disallowed the goal due to a non-existent offside. No matter: one minute later, the Frenchman easily defeated Muslera in a one-on-one and gave his side the victory goal. Cristiano Ronaldo nearly scored the third in the 64th minute with a shot outside the box, but the goalkeeper strained himself to clear his shot. Jose Mourinho then decided to bring on youth teamer Alex Fernandez for an exhausted Di Maria (66'). Coentrao nearly sealed the game, but his shot went straight down the middle into the keeper's hands. The locals had more chances on goal, but converted none of their shots. Academy player Morata received a standing ovation when he substituted Coentrao on the 76-minute mark. Sadly, Marcelo was forced to leave the pitch due to twisting his ankle a few minutes later and had to be replaced by youth player Mendes. Mourinho gave two other academy players, Nacho and Mandi, a chance to play with the first team before the end of the match. Stadium: Santiago Bernabeu Goals: 0-1, m.10: Inan. 1-1, m.34: Sergio Ramos. 2-1, m.51: Benzema. Spanish Football strike ends The Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) has called off the strike scheduled for the second date of the season after reaching an agreement with representatives of clubs (LFP). After two weeks of negotiation, the championship will develop normally after the matches of the first date were suspended in the past weekend. LFP and AFE have reached an agreement so the Spanish League can begin. The parties have agreed to extend the dialogue the time needed to develop what they have signed. The parties have described the pact as "very satisfactory". They have also urged the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) to participate in improving the bankruptcy law and the development of future audiovisual law. The first day of the season, affected by the strike, becomes the last of the first round and will be held on 21-22 January. The first date of the second round will be played on May 2 and will be the penultimate of the season. Association of Spanish Footballers Preview: Real Madrid vs Galatasaray (Bernabeu Trophy) The 33rd edition of the Santiago Bernabeu Trophy will pit Real Madrid against Galatasaray today Wednesday 24 August. If Real Madrid wins against the Turkish team, will match its best streak with success. Real Madrid wins the trophy summer in a row since 2005. That summer, defeated a Major League Soccer team by 5-0. Since then, five more victories in 2006 against Anderlecht (2-1), in 2007 in front of Partizan (2-0), Sporting Portugal (5-3) in 2008, Rosenborg (4-0) in 2009 and against Peñarol last year (2-0). Defeating Galatasaray, Real will reach the record achieved between 1994 and 2000, when linked wins against Palmeiras, Ajax, Benfica, Portuguesa, Peñarol, Milan and Santos. Real Madrid decided to honour the memory of Santiago Bernabeu by the creation of a tournament with his name the year after his death. Ajax, AC Milan and Bayern Munich accepted the club's invitation in the Trophy's first edition and have accepted it other times since. The long and illustrious list of former participants also includes teams like Hamburg, Liverpool, Everton, Inter Milan and Benfica. South American football has also been represented in the tournament by Santos, Palmeiras, River Plate, and a side comprising MLS stars. Galatasaray will be the first Turkish side to participate. Varane is the main new in the Jose Mourinho's starting line up for tonight. The French center defender will partner with Pepe. Interestingly, the Portuguese and Varane have been those who have shared less minutes in the center of the defense during the preseason. They played together only 12 minutes, the last of the game against Leicester. Although in the preseason played more minutes together, because Pepe played a few matches as midfielder and Varane as right side defender. Sahin will be another new face to be seen today on the pitch at the Santiago Bernabeu. The Madrid fans will enjoy the first minutes of Turkish midfielder with Real Madrid shirt. The Ottoman International completed yesterday the training with the rest of the group for a second day and will not have problems to play the final minutes of the match against Galatasaray. On the other hand, Mourinho wants to keep Higuain focused in work hard and today will be starter against Galatasaray. The Argentina striker joined the preseason in the game against Leicester after the Copa America after enjoy two weeks of vacation, and has suffered the emergence of Benzema as a cyclone in the summer. French was the top scorer in the preparation white with nine goals, which moved 'Pipita' to the position of second striker. Santiago Bernabeu Trophy Real Madrid reports provocation and attacks in Barcelona From announcement to another. After the decision of the Competition Judge in the RFEF (Spanish Football Federation) opening an investigation after what happened in the second leg of the Super Cup of Spain, in a statement issued on its website, the Real Madrid reports provocation, insults and attacks in Barcelona. "Real Madrid CF wishes to say the following regarding the decision of the competition judge of the Spanish Football Federation to open an investigation following the incidents occurred in the return leg of the Spanish Super Cup: Real Madrid CF has from the beginning opted to show prudence and responsibility so as not to feed the tense atmosphere created by such events. Real Madrid CF wishes to express how surprised it is to see this investigation is being ordered five days after the match, curiously just a few hours after the President of FC Barcelona publicly demanded the Spanish Football Federation to take action. Real Madrid CF wishes said investigation absolutely clarifies what happened during and after the match. The club wishes it throws light onto the provocations, humilations, insults and aggressions that our first team squad and coaching staff were subjected to both on the pitch and inside the tunnel leading to the dressing rooms. These things regrettably gave way to the incidents that took place. Real Madrid CF will continue to defend this entity's inherent values and will always strive for the greatest collaboration possible between clubs and institutions throughout the world" Tags: News 2011/12, SuperCup Jose Mourinho's Letter Jose Mourinho wanted to step out of the information that emerged in recent hours about his possible departure from Real Madrid and, through an open letter published on the website of the white club, has wanted to deny categorically that is not well within the white team: There is no way I'm leaving. No way! Mourinho's picture at Real Madrid website The text appearing in the website is as follows: "Only those who don't know me can dream, make up or believe I may leave Real Madrid at this stage... I believe many people were surprised by the quality football showcased by Real Madrid during the preseason and it would be surprising news to them if I left the club now. Impossible! I have a fantastic President who is very intelligent and with whom I have a great friendship. I also have a Director General who works for the club 24 hours a day, so my motivation is enormous and my Madridismo is even greater than that of some pseudo-Madridistas... There is no way I'm leaving. No way! I also wish to apologise to Madridistas, and only to them, for my attitude in our last game. Some people are better adapted to the hypocrisy in football than I am, and they hide their faces and speak in whispers deep inside tunnels. I'm not learning to be a hypocrite, and I don't want to. Best wishes to all. We'll see each other tomorrow at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. Jose Mourinho" Tags: Mourinho, News 2011/12 Mourinho plans his Real Madrid with Neymar Guangzhou, China, August 4, 2011. Approximately 9:45 pm local time. Jose Mourinho, sweaty and satisfied, appears before an international legion of journalists, with an absolute majority of Chinese. His Real Madrid has just scored seven goals against the first rival of the tour. He evaluates the improvement of his players, score capacity, speed... but leaves a great headline: "We have a squad short... by choice". The sentence as so many of Mourinho is distorted, cut and gets on your nerves to the point that in his next public appearance, the coach repeats the phrase in English with a sarcasm: "I am going to explain in English better...". Portuguese coach insists that the squad is short because he asked it, but there is a trick around. He knows that the template -20 or 21 field players- will have a new member in January: Neymar. Mourinho knew then and knows now. Neymar will play for Real Madrid after the World Club Cup. In his book, when he comes to planning for the season, he looks for a balance of two players per position and the name of the Santos' star appears noted in red. The funny thing is that the coach does not point him in the strikers payroll along with Benzema and Higuain but in that of midfielders. "Neymar is no striker, is a player to play behind the '9' in any of the three midfield positions", Mourinho told to his assistants at Real Madrid when he was informed the deal was closed with the player. According to Mourinho, Neymar can play any of the three midfield positions in his usual 4-2-3-1 scheme. At first, the Brazilian would dispute a place in the right wing with Di Maria, but could play as playmaker in Özil's central position and even occupy the left side owned by the untouchable Cristiano Ronaldo. Neymar is on Mourinho's plans Tags: News 2011/12, Transfer Raphael Varane will debut at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium In the Santiago Bernabeu Trophy, Real Madrid fans will see two exciting pieces of this new Real Madrid 2011-12; Varane and Sahin. And tomorrow will be able to witness in action the French central defender against Turkish Galatasaray. The young defender, who has arrived from Lens in exchange for 10 million despite playing just 23 games in Ligue 1, played an important role in preseason (418 minutes), but did not participate in the Spanish Super Cup. Mourinho called him only for the first leg at the Bernabeu (leaving Albiol at the stands), but left him on the bench and did not play a minute. It is expected that tomorrow, Raphael Varane will play, in the starting line up, the Santiago Bernabeu Trophy and the fans are curious to see how moves the young signing (18 years) that comes with a guarantee like Zidane, who recommended his hiring: "He has a great future. Players with his temper, that reminds me Blanc, I saw very few". Raphael Varane. Real Madrid USA Tour 2011 Mourinho also stamped his mark on the recruitment and has shown it in preseason. Varane was the third player who played more, with 418 minutes, just behind Benzema (436') and Coentrao (422'). In the central defenders payroll, was the most used: Pepe played 351', Carvalho played 348' and Albiol, his direct competitor as the third central, played 331'. Who could not walk on the green in the preseason was Sahin. He would play the first minutes for Real Madrid tomorrow. The Turkish has 51 days under the command of Mourinho, but a lateral ligament sprained in his left knee keeps him out despite the comeback was scheduled in the China Tour. Yesterday, he rejoined the group in Valdebebas Sports City and if tomorrow he has green light, would play a few minutes to start his history in the white club. It is expected that he can play against Zaragoza if the next League day takes place. Tags: News 2011/12, Sahin, Varane Neymar: Real Madrid stops negotiations with Santos Real Madrid will change its policy on the signing of Neymar. The white institution wants to save the climate of tension which has surrounded the negotiations for Santos' star and will step aside. At the moment, has interrupted the dialogue with the Sao Paulo club until next December 2nd, Election Day for president of Santos. At the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium is understood that the preliminary agreement with Neymar is enough to dress him with the Real Madrid jersey. Therefore, the board of the club has adopted a strategy of restraint with Santos not to interfere in its electoral process. First, because if is not re-elected the current president, Luis Alvaro de Oliveira, the operation would take a new partner with whom to negotiate. Second, if the president renews his mandate, is expected he softens his speech once saved his image before the fans. Santo's president has put pressure on the last month. Since the Council of the Sao Paulo club rejected two offers from Real Madrid on August 1st, went on the attack. He threatened to report Real Madrid to FIFA by Article 17 and had an aggressive discourse ("Neymar will continue in Santos until age 80") and provocateur ("The Spanish believe that are still in the Treaty of Tordesillas..."). In both cases, with Luis Alvaro de Oliveira or another, Real Madrid hopes to revive the dialogue in December to close the signing either January or July 2012. Neymar will decide in early September. Neymar will decide his future in September Note: Real Madrid gave the Pope Benedict XVI a signed shirt Pope Benedict XVI Real Madrid jersey Real Madrid has wanted the Pope Benedict XVI had a memory of the club and has given him a white shirt with his name that has been signed by all players in the squad. White club gave it yesterday afternoon at the Nunciature in Madrid. Pope Benedict XVI has been four days in Madrid for the World Youth Days that were closed yesterday in the capital of Spain. Tags: Notes Casillas gets a picture with the best Zamora's saves Iker Casillas had a pleasant surprise before the work session on Sunday. Pilar Galdiano, widow of the legendary Real Madrid goalkeeper Ricardo Zamora, handed the captain of Real Madrid, a painting signed by former player which portrays his characteristic saves. "I feel very proud. It is an honor to receive this box. The Zamora family can rest easy because I will maintain with love and will occupy a special place in my house. It is a pleasure and an honor. You are very considerate to me", said Casillas thankful during delivery. Ricardo Zamora Martínez joined the Real Madrid in 1930 and was known as 'Divine'. The goalkeeper was one of the best Spanish players in history thanks to his good position covering the net, his great security and reflexes in all his actions and personality. Moreover, he was easily recognized by his dress, wearing dark clothing and a cap in every game. Daily Marca, in recognition of her figure, established the award that bears his name to the goalkeeping record of the season in the Spanish League. "My husband was the best in the world and Casillas is now. To me there is no other keeper like him. You are my favorite and I give you this picture with all the enthusiasm in the world. I cannot imagine a better place to stay that your hands", said Pilar giving the picture to Casillas. Iker Casillas with Pilar Galdiano Tags: Casillas, News 2011/12 The mysterious future of Kaka Kaka faces his third season at Real Madrid in a much more uncertain situation than the previous two. In the first, he was a luxury signing that did not work, and in the second a player injured. Now, it seems he is not an importante player for Jose Mourinho, as was seen in the Spanish Super Cup. Kaka's future is a mystery Kaka's future remains shrouded in mystery. It is difficult to understand how a player of 65 million euros, Golden Ball in 2007, has hardly left some loose details in two seasons. Also is difficult to explain the series of circumstances that forced him to undergo surgery after the World Cup in South Africa. Perhaps the simplest is to take over his current situation; After almost two seasons without playing a good standard, has been overcome through the ranks of the team not only by Mesut Özil, but even by newcomers Coentrao and Callejon. If Mourinho faced the Spanish Super Cup as a test for the season, the outlook is grim for Ricardo Kaka. In the first leg he did not play a minute and in the second the last 13 minutes, the final, with Real Madrid playing desperately. He left no trace in the Camp Nou. As in the rest of the preseason, except for a few good minutes in the game against the LA Galaxy, the first friendly. After that, did not shine nor in the U.S. nor in Europe nor in China. Too little for a player who spent his vacations denying his departure from the club and summoning the Real Madrid fans to his first 'usual' preseason after years of misfortune. By now, the future of Kaka is the main sports mystery of the Real Madrid. The Brazilian has four seasons in the contract with 10 million euros per year. A salary that does not correspond with his performance and also stifles any possibility of transfer. But a loan is possible. Wenger is pondering asking the Arsenal managing the loan of Real Madrid midfielder. The London club believes that Kaka is the only name that can ease the discontent of the fans following the departure of Cesc. A swollen that has started timidly to ask for dismissal of Wenger. To pay 10 million euros to the Brazilian would break the wage structure imposed by Wenger, but according the exceptional circumstances surrounding the club... Tags: Kaka, News 2011/12, Transfer Nuri Sahin has recovered and will play the Bernabeu Trophy Although Mourinho is delighted with his staff, the MourTeam II, still lacks a signing: Nuri Sahin. The Turkish midfielder, arrived this summer from Borussia Dortmund with the credentials of having been voted player of the Bundesliga in the last season, is the missing piece to Real Madrid to fit the entire Mourinho's puzzle. Sahin will debut with Real Madrid in the Bernabeu Trophy Sahin, who could debut dressed in white next Wednesday at the Santiago Bernabeu Trophy, will have gallons of starter since day one. Mourinho knows he will be a key in his game plan, to the point that the Portuguese coach is willing to vary his usual system 4-3-3 for a 4-2-3-1 system in lot of matches, similar to the Barcelona's, to allow coexistence in midfield from Xabi Alonso, Khedira and Sahin. In addition, Mourinho is convinced that in most games at the Bernabeu Stadium, Sahin and Xabi can seamlessly integrate the midfield pair, because almost all rivals come to the Real Madrid stadium to defend a tie and his team needs more speed and imagination, with less muscle the middle line. It is precisely, the displacement speed of the ball, the Sahin's feature that Mourinho likes more. The coach is confident that the Turkish international will become a top player at European level in a few months. Hence, in the preseason, Mourinho has insisted on the importance of Sahin in the workforce and did not want to force him at any time to join the group after the untimely knee injury suffered by the Turkish in the first training in the U.S.A. Real Madrid coach has personally overseen the day-to-day recovery. He has consulted doctors, physical therapists and the player himself to see first hand how would evolve Sahin. Mourinho wanted to care of him, knowing that his contribution to the team will be critical. Even Zinedine Zidane, first team football manager and confidant of Mourinho, has become the great defender and a kind of Sahin's elder brother in the dressing room. During these early months, Zizou is helping in the adaptation of the Turkish player in Madrid. With Nuri Sahin about to join the group and Neymar dressed in white from January (except monumental surprise) Mourinho will have available to a template that, as he himself acknowledges, is short "by choice", but also the best he has coached throughout his career. A template prepared to win it all. Tags: News 2011/12, Sahin Alonso (15) Casillas (30) Cristiano (118) Florentino (36) Higuain (33) Kaka (63) Mourinho (154) News 2012/13 (407) Özil (15) Varane (21) Zaragoza vs Real Madrid: Broadcast close to suspen... Bernabeu Trophy 2011: Real Madrid 2 - 1 Galatasara... Preview: Real Madrid vs Galatasaray (Bernabeu Trop... Real Madrid reports provocation and attacks in Bar... Raphael Varane will debut at the Santiago Bernabeu... Neymar: Real Madrid stops negotiations with Santos... Note: Real Madrid gave the Pope Benedict XVI a sig... Casillas gets a picture with the best Zamora's sav... Nuri Sahin has recovered and will play the Bernabe...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line284
__label__cc	0.69033	0.30967	Historical Advisory Committee Members: Penny Peed Barbara Martine John Thomsen, Sr. Marilyn Miller Anthony Fiorenza Joe Bruno Joan Valas Historical Advisory Committee The Historical Advisory Committee is a group of volunteers appointed by the Mayor and Council. Its primary goal is to raise awareness and generate interest in Park Ridge history, which extends back over 300 years. Through its projects and collaboration with other Park Ridge committees, the Park Ridge History Advisory Committee has worked on a variety of projects, including assistance with the adoption of the Historic Preservation Element to the Master Plan, history of the Golden Age Club, a walking tour of historic Park Ridge sites, and more. Recently, we received a Bergen County Historical Preservation grant to create a Park Ridge History exhibit in Borough Hall. The Committee welcomes new members. Contact June Bertini, Council Liaison for more information. In an effort to reduce spam, email addresses are accessible by clicking on the name or email button. Doing so will open the address in your default email client. If you would prefer to copy the email address, please right click on the name or button and select “Copy Email Address”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line287
__label__cc	0.661264	0.338736	(MacCormick, Chapter 9) FOLLOW ALONG: www.cis.ksu.edu/~schmidt/halting.html Computers calculate on numbers (represented as 1s and 0s), on text, sounds, images, voltages, etc. (all represented as numbers). Are there some calculation activities that are beyond the reach of computers, that they cannot do? The answer is yes. The Starting Law of the Universe You have to start somewhere. We start with this law: Something is different from nothing. That is, Something ≠ Nothing. Mathematicians use 1 for Something and 0 for Nothing. So, 1 ≠ 0 All mathematics starts from here. So does Western Thought. A sentence can be an imperative (e.g., "Do your homework!"), a question ("Are we there yet?"), or a declaration ("The sky is blue.") Here, we care about declarations. The declaration, "The earth is round" is a fact; it says something; it is True; it is 1. The declaration, "The moon is made of green cheese" is a falsehood; it says nothing; it is False; it is 0. Logicians say that True ≠ False No declaration can be a fact and a falsehood at the same time. A declaration like, "It is daytime." is a fact at some moments in the universe and a falsehood at others, but it is never both at the same moment. If we abuse English and write a declaration that is both a fact and a falsehood at the same moment, it is a paradox and must be discarded from the English language --- it is nonsensical; it cannot be. A paradox makes True = False, which violates the starting law of the universe. The oldest known example of a paradox is the sentence, "I am lying." --- the declaration is a fact exactly when it is a falsehood (since "lying" means "stating a falsehood"). This is the Liar's Paradox. The Liar's Paradox is nonsensical; it cannot be. Here is a little story called the Barber's Paradox, due to Bertrand Russell. It will be the centerpiece of the next section: There is a lone village on an island where the village barber cuts the hair of exactly all those people who do not cut their own hair. Now, is this declaration a fact or a falsehood? The barber cuts her own hair. Russell's Paradox Bertrand Russell was a 20th-century philosopher, mathematician, logician, and a Nobel-prize winner in literature. He found a famous paradox in mathematics, one that spread into computing. Declarations in mathematics are called predicates; here are examples: 3 > 2 (a fact) x = (x + 1) (a falsehood, regardless of x's value) (x + y) = 5 (a contingency --- sometimes a fact, sometimes a falsehood, depending on the values of x and y) Mathematics is the science of discovering predicates that are facts. Mathematicians has always worked with numbers, but in the nineteenth century, mathematicians started using predicates to define sets. (Recall that a "set" is a collection --- a "grocery sack" --- of elements. Examples: {4,5,6} is a set of three numbers. {} is a set of no numbers.) Here are examples of sets of numbers, defined with predicates. (Read the first one as, ''the set of elements, n, such that n > 0 is a fact.'') { n \| n > 0 } (the positive numbers) { m \| m + m = 0 } (there is only one element, 0) { m \| not(m + m = 0) } (all numbers except 0) { x \| x > 0 and x < 3 } (the numbers between 0 and 3) The whole point of defining a set is to ask what's in it. The predicate, e ∈ S, is a fact exactly when element e is contained in set S. (Read as "e is in S".) Here are examples: 5 ∈ {4,5,6} is a fact. 3 ∈ {n \| n > 0} is a fact because, when we replace n in n > 0 by 3, we find that 3 > 0 is a fact. 3 ∈ {m \| not(m + m = 0)} is a fact because not(3 + 3 = 0) is a fact. 3 ∈ {m \| m + m = 0} is a falsehood because 3 + 3 = 0 is a falsehood. Mathematicians use sets to hold sets, too. Here are examples: { S \| 4 ∈ S } (the sets containing 4) { S \| True } (the set of all sets --- call this the universal set, U.) { S \| S ∈ S } (those sets that contain themselves (!)) Some examples of membership predicates for the above sets: {4,5,6} ∈ {} is a falsehood {4,5,6} ∈ {S \| 4 ∈ S} is a fact {4,5,6} ∈ {S \| S ∈ S} is a falsehood {} ∈ U is a fact U ∈ U is a fact (!) U ∈ {S \| S ∈ S} is a fact The last two facts intrigued Bertrand Russell, and he defined this set, the Russell set: Let R be the name of the set, {S \| not(S ∈ S)} R is the collection of the sets that do not contain themselves. Clearly, {4,5,6} ∈ R is a fact, and U ∈ R is a falsehood. But what about R ∈ R? RUSSELL'S PARADOX: Let R be {S \| not(S ∈ S)} R ∈ R ↑ is a fact exactly when not(R ∈ R) is a fact, that is, exactly when R ∈ R is a falsehood R ∈ R is a paradox! Russell's Paradox is generated by the combination of S ∈ S (self-inspection) and not ("flipping" the answer) --- a real disaster! We have uncovered something that mathematics cannot do --- define a set of sets that don't hold themselves. Modern versions of set theory disallow self-inspection to remove this form of paradox. Computer programs can do self-inspection Russell's paradox follows us into computer science and causes Turing's halting problem, and we'll see why. First, we note that self-inspection is an important activity in computing. On Page 182, MacCormick shows a picture of MS Word inspecting itself: That is, a human loaded and started WIN-WORD.EXE on the computer's processor, and the human told the running program to load as the input, WIN-WORD.EXE. Editor programs, like MS Word, can inspect all programs, including themselves. Compiler/interpreter/IDE programs can inspect/compile/run most all programs, including themselves. Error-finding, performance-analyzing, and correctness-checking programs are can inspect/analyze a wide range of programs, including themselves. A key feature of computer programs, one that leads us into artificial-intelligence-like areas, is that they can inspect other programs, including themselves. How far can these inspections go? We will see that they can generate paradoxes! Alan Turing and the Universal Turing Machine Alan Turing was an English mathematician, employed by the British government to break the codes the Nazi armies used for communication. Turing and his team succeeded, and the Allies used the decoded Nazi communications to win World War II. Turing was interested in machines for calculating mathematics. His imaginary Turing machine was a controller with a read-write head that traversed the squares of an unbounded roll of toilet paper, where only a 0 or a 1 can be written in a square: Turing realized that the controller could be wired as a "processor" that understood these six instructions: * move Left/Right one square * erase the square (make it blank) * write 0/1 on the square * if square is blank/0/1, then goto Instruction #n * goto Instruction #n * stop Here is a sample program that scans a binary number from left to right and flips all 0s to 1s and all 1s to 0s: #1: if square is 0, then goto #4 #3: if square is blank, then goto #9 #4: write 1 #5: goto #7 #7: move Right #9: stop ... => ... The nine instructions have number codings, and the program can be copied onto a tape as one huge (Base-2) number to be read by the controller. The Universal Turing Machine was configured like this: The Universal Turing Machine is the origin of linear storage stored program binary machine language Turing wrote programs for the Universal Turing machine, and he believed that all facts/knowledge/problems that can be calculated/deduced/solved by a machine can be done by a Universal Turing Machine. This is now known as the Church-Turing thesis. (The "Church" part refers to Alonzo Church, a Princeton mathematician who developed a symbol system, the lambda-calculus, which has the same computational powers as Turing's machines.) Turing asked: Are there some problems whose solutions cannot be calculated by his machine? In particular, he wondered, Is there a program that can read the coding of any program and correctly predict whether the latter will halt when it runs? This question is called the Halting Problem. Its answer is no. (If the answer were yes, then the program would let us build Russell's paradox in the computer!) Requirements, implementations, convergence and divergence These definitions are crucial: A requirement is a statement of a job to do (e.g., ``compute square root!''). An algorithm is a sequence of instructions that implements (solves) the requirement. A program is the algorithm written in binary computer language (1s and 0s) --- a computer program is a long, huge nonnegative number. A computer processor runs a program by doing its instructions. A program requires an input (a number or a pair of numbers) to start its work. To keep it simple, the numbers are always nonnegative integers (0,1,2,...). The computer processor does the calculations stated in the program. If all goes well, the program converges (halts, terminates) and emits an output, a number. If something goes wrong and no output is emitted, the program diverges (loops, freezes, goes lost, runs forever, hangs). The above story is simplified, but text editors, web browsers, operating systems, etc., follow these principles. Here are two examples of requirements: A requirement for a program that squares an input number, n: n => ↓(n2) Read it as ''from input n, the program must converge with output n2.'' This algorithm implements the requirement: INPUT: a number, n OUTPUT: a number ALGORITHM: 1. read n 2. calculate answer = n * n 3. write answer Say that the program we write from the algorithm is named square. Then, run(square)(3)↓9 says that the computer ran the program with input 3 and converged with output 9. A requirement for a program that computes square root for some, not all, numbers (remember, our numbers are 0,1,2,3,...): n => ↓m iff m2 = n => ↑ iff there is no m such that m2 = n Read iff as "exactly when" and ↑ as ``diverges.'' This requirement might be implemented by a program that reads n and guesses possible answers (0,1,2, etc.) until an output, m is found, if ever. (If not, the program runs forever.) Say that sqrt is the name of the program we build. Here are two uses of it: run(sqrt)(25)↓5 run(sqrt)(7)↑ The examples show that convergence to an answer is some-answer, something; divergence is no-answer, nothing. That is, for every computer program, p, and datum, d, run(p)(d)↓answer ≠ run(p)(d)↑, which is the ``first law'' of the computing universe. Turing's Halting Problem Remember that a program is an algorithm written in a computer language of 1s and 0s --- a computer program is one long, huge nonnegative number. This means a computer program (number) can be input to another computer program, which can choose to run the input. Here is a requirement that demands this: p => ↓(a + 1) iff run(p)(0)↓a => ↑ iff run(p)(0)↑ The requirement demands we run input number/program p with datum 0 and add one to its answer, if there is one. There is an easy algorithm: INPUT: a program, p, coded as an integer OUTPUT: a number or ↑ 1. do run(p)(0) and wait.... 2. if run(p)(0)↓a, then produce output a+1 (if run(p)(0)↑, then we are still waiting, and there is nothing we can do) Not all such requirements can be implemented. In particular, Turing restated Russell's paradox as this requirement: p => ↓1 iff run(p)(p)↑ => ↑ iff run(p)(p)↓answer If some program, named Russell, implemented this requirement, then run(Russell)(Russell)↓answer iff run(Russell)(Russell)↑ which cannot be --- Russell would be a "paradox program"! The requirement uses self-inspection (run(p)(p)) and then "flips" the answer --- in particular, ↑ is flipped to ↓1, which goes against intuition. (How can a computer program detect that another computer program "has gone lost"?) It is not surprising that the above requirement can never become a program, but its consequences are many: There is an incredibly useful program that Turing proved is impossible to implement: TURING'S HALTING PROBLEM: Can we implement a program that analyzes another program and its input and predicts in advance whether the program-and-input will halt (converge to an answer)? p,d => ↓1 iff run(p)(d)↓answer => ↓0 iff run(p)(d)↑ The answer is no: If some program, named Turing, implemented the above requirement, then we could build the Russell program, like this: OUTPUT: ↓1 or ↑ 1. run(Turing)(p,p) and obtain the output answer, which must be 0 or 1 2. if answer = ↓1 then diverge: ↑ if answer = ↓0 then produce output ↓1 This generates an implementation of Russell's paradox, which cannot be. From the Halting Problem, researchers showed that many other important requirements are also impossible to implement: whether a program is free of all run-time errors whether two programs produce exactly the same outputs from the same inputs whether a program implements a requirement correctly Almost all important features of computer programs can never be checked by other computer programs! In practice, there are still text-editor, analyzer, and error-finding programs that can examine other programs, even themselves. But they cannot answer all the interesting questions about programs that we might like them to answer --- the best one can do is build a program that converges to a useful answer some of the time (like the sqrt program seen earlier does) and diverges lots of other times (because the program cannot discover an answer and "goes lost".) Computing is constructive mathematics, and since mathematics has its limitations, so does computing. The results stated here are the reason why people (and not machines) still design programs, write programs, analyze programs, test programs, and prove programs correct. They are the reason why you can get a job once you finish your training here and can have some hope of job security twenty years from now --- there are some activities computers will never be able to do. Postscript: Computational complexity theory Computers can implement lots of requirements, and there are lots of requirements that computers cannot implement. What if a requirement has an algorithm that is so slow that it takes a hundred years to compute an answer? How useful is that? For better or worse, there are many critical requirements that have poor algorithms, and there is no known way to improve them. Such requirements are ``practically impossible'' or intractible. Here are examples of intractible problems: You have a maze, and you want to calculate the shortest path of all the paths from the maze's entry to its exit. You have a deck of cards, and you want to print all the shuffles of the deck. You have a roadmap of cities, and you want to calculate the shortest tour that lets you visit each city. You have a collection of differently sized boxes, and you want to load a van with the largest quantity possible of them. You want to compute the inverse of a public key, calculated by RSA encryption, to eavesdrop on an internet transmission. For realistically sized mazes/card decks/roadmaps/vans/keys, the best-known solutions to these requirements will take years --- even centuries --- to solve with Turing-machine-like computers. Furthermore, if you can find a significantly better solution to any one of these problems, the solution can be applied to all the others. But no one knows how to do it! Computational complexity theory is the study of ``how fast'' algorithms are. Many requirements have fast (log-time and linear-time) algorithms, others have slow-but-tolerable (polynomial-time) algorithms, and others have intractible (exponential-time and worse) algorithms. Learning the details of computational complexity will help you become a computer scientist. This talk: http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~schmidt/115/halting.html Computability: http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~schmidt/115/ch9.html Computational complexity: http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~schmidt/115/complexity.html	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line289
__label__cc	0.581829	0.418171	newswire article reporting united states 29.Jun.2006 12:56 alternative media \| corporate dominance Senator Smith votes against internet freedom author: MoveOn.org Your senator, Gordon Smith, was the deciding vote AGAINST Internet freedom during a key vote yesterday in the Senate Commerce Committee. This after taking $36,250 in campaign contributions from big telecommunications companies. Your senator, Gordon Smith, was the deciding vote AGAINST Internet freedom during a key vote yesterday in the Senate Commerce Committee. The committee voted 11 to 11 on the Snowe/Dorgan proposal to preserve Net Neutralityone vote shy of passage. Your senator voted to let companies like AT&T put tollbooths on the Internet and gain more control over what you see and do online. The fight to preserve the free and open Internet now moves to the full Senate. Please call Sen. Smith today and say "shame on you" for opposing the Snowe-Dorgan Internet freedom proposal. Tell him to oppose any bill in the full Senate that doesn't protect Net Neutrality. Here is the number: Senator Gordon Smith If you get voicemail, you can leave a messagethey will get it. Senator Smith took $36,250 in contributions this election cycle from big telecommunications companies, according to www.opensecrets.org, and then sided with them in yesterday's vote. Senators who voted yesterday had a clear choice between siding with big money or siding with their constitutents. While 1 million everyday people petitioned Congress to save Net Neutrality, big telecommunications companies like AT&T gave nearly 1 million dollars in campaign contributions to members of the Senate Commerce Committee this election cycle. Politicians need to be held accountable for making the wrong choice. Thanks for keeping the pressure on Congress as we fight to save the Internet. -Eli Pariser, Adam Green, Noah T. Winer, and the MoveOn.org Civic Action team 1. Links pertaining to yesterday's vote: "'Net neutrality' battle may sink sweeping telecommunications reform bill," USA Today, July 29, 2006 link to www.moveon.org "Net Neutrality Issue Holding Back Broad Telecom Legislation," Investor's Business Daily, June 28, 2006 Video: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) threatens to "block" anti-Net Neutraity legislation on Senate floor, June 28, 2006 2. Articles about the Net Neutrality issue: 1. "Net Losses," New Yorker, March 20, 2006 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1646 ; 2. "Why You Should Care About Net Neutrality," SlateProf. Tim Wu Guest Column, May 1, 2006 http://www.slate.com/id/2140850/ ; 3. "Executive Wants to Charge for Web Speed," Washington Post, December 1, 2005 4. How Net Neutrality affects you http://www.savetheinternet.com/=threat	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line293
__label__cc	0.684105	0.315895	newswire article reporting united states 28.Jan.2007 17:19 corporate dominance \| forest defense Exploiting Kids' Nature Deprivation for Corporate Gain author: repost from Scott Silver From: ssilver@wildwilderness.org Subject: Youth - Outdoors - Technology Date: January 28, 2007 12:43:07 PM PST To: ssilver@wildwilderness.org The American Recreation Coalition has whipped the "Last Child in the Woods" public-relations frame into a stiff, self-serving, lather. They have done so with the full (though perhaps unwitting) support of the conservation community -- even though the outcome sought by the ARC's is antithetical to the interests of the conservation community which, no doubt, truly seeks the worthy objection of connecting children with nature. The Outdoor Industry Association has likewise brought it's non-motorized access groups into the fray, while The Nature Conservancy went so far as to pay two statisticians to point out a NON-causal, and thus possibly meaningless, correlation that many are now saying actually links increasing video gaming by kids to declining visitation to the Great Outdoors. The researchers never claimed a linkage. They clearly stated that their protocols were incapable of linking cause and affect -- and yet the spinners of this yarn spin on. THIS FRAME IS A RECREATION INDUSTRY-CREATED FRAUD. It is one great big put on -- one worthy of spinmeister Frank Luntz. The "We need to make public lands more relevant to youth" frame was created by and for anti-environmental, anti-wilderness, pro-industrial tourism forces. Its purpose is to RADICALLY TRANSFORM how public lands are managed and to refocus the emphasis of outdoor recreation from one set of traditional values to a replacement set created by industry for industry. Its purpose is to ESTABLISH THE NEED for public land managers to bring the recreation industry into the day to day management of public lands --- because only the private sector can provide recreational experiences that kids will find relevant (or so we are being told). For 25 years the ARC been working to replace wildness with mildness and nature with artifice. To accomplish their mission, they've used every trick in the book. They've even created a new toolbox for this purpose www.tools4outdoors.us , doing so in partnership with Ticketmaster Corporation and seven federal agencies. Please do not be fooled by the ARC's new "Youth - Outdoors - Technology" campaign described in the appended January 26, 2007 ARC News Release. Once you realize it's smoke and mirrors, the fraud becomes quite transparent. PS... Since 1999 I have been blowing the whistle upon this fraud. Learn more - www.wildwilderness.org/docs/relevance.htm ---- begin quoted ---- http://www.funoutdoors.com/files/01-07%20New%20Research.pdf #01-07 (January 26, 2007) American Recreation Coalition - NEWS Contact: Derrick Crandall, 202-682-9530 NEW RESEARCH EFFORT WILL EXAMINE YOUTH/OUTDOORS/TECHNOLOGY CONNECTION Washington, D.C. (January 26, 2007) - Candid comments by a panel of young people active in the outdoors at the January 2007 Partners Outdoors national conference have sparked a research effort to better understand the relationship of the outdoors to today's American youth and the possible roles for technology in attracting them to, and improving their experiences while in, the outdoors. The research will combine resources of the Forest Service, the Los Angeles City Department of Recreation and Parks and the American Recreation Coalition (ARC) and will be field tested in Los Angeles in mid March 2007. According to ARC President Derrick Crandall, the youth panelists at Partners Outdoors delivered two clear messages to the public and private recreation leaders gathered at Lake Arrowhead, California. First, parents should plan actions which increase young people's contact with the outdoors, even in the face of resistance and expressed preferences for time at malls and on computers. Second, federal, state, local and private recreation interests must assist by helping find ways for youth to enjoy time outdoors, whether pursuing traditional activities or utilizing new gadgets and technology. Forest Service researchers and engineering staff reacted promptly, designing a pilot research effort to look closely at the relationship between pre-teen children and the outdoors. The Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks will arrange for and host a diverse group of young people at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, an urban wilderness and recreation complex. Forest Service social science researchers out of the Pacific Southwest Research Station are developing research protocols and will be there to observe the activities. They believe that such observations, here and elsewhere, will have long-term national implications for providing outdoor recreation experiences that will make young visitors into lifelong outdoor recreationists. Debbie Chavez, lead researcher, said that these efforts build upon traditions of the Forest Service in the region, including the Children's Forest in the San Bernardino National Forest. The research is especially relevant in southern California, she noted, because of the multi-cultural nature of communities near the forests and the tradition of visitor interest monitoring for the four national forests ringing Los The Forest Service's San Dimas Technology and Development Center (SDTDC), a premier engineering cadre long assisting the Forest Service to develop emerging technology for natural resource management, fire fighting and other tasks, will play a central role in the research efforts. SDTDC Director John Fehr noted, "I've reviewed countless national forest plans and observed lengthy discussion of alternatives for habitat and natural resource management. I've never seen a discussion of alternative means to challenge the growing disconnection between youth and the outdoors." Fehr went on to say that if getting youth into the outdoors is a national priority, then forest plans need to address it and the SDTDC can assist in this effort by "exploring ways to reach kids with technology before and during their forest experiences and then provide practical guidance to forests on alternative approaches and new strategies, from podcasts to geocaching." Jon Kirk Mukri, General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, a participant and panelist at Partners Outdoors 2007, has enthusiastically embraced the efforts of the Forest Service and the American Recreation Coalition to move forward in Los Angeles with recommendations for action developed at the three-day conference. He hopes that the "March 17 pilot program will lead to a sustainable national research effort equipping both the public and private sectors to better understand how to develop a strong link between America's youth and the outdoors in the Twenty-First Century." The Partners Outdoors program was initiated in 1992 to draw together tomorrow's leaders from federal recreation-providing agencies and the recreation industry in order to accomplish two goals: (1) to reinforce an awareness of shared customers and interdependence of the public and private sectors and (2) to catalyze partnership-based actions to better serve recreation visitors to public lands. This year's conference theme, "Unlocking the Fun and Benefits of the Outdoors to Urban Americans, Especially Urban Youth", is especially relevant in light of recent national publicity about decreases in national park visitation, a childhood obesity epidemic and the 21st century's changing American demographic. And making visits to the outdoors enjoyable and memorable by providing appropriate, diverse opportunities for healthy fun and learning for children and families is now a major focus of federal land management agencies. Scott Silver 248 NW Wilmington Ave. e-mail: ssilver@wildwilderness.org Internet: http://www.wildwilderness.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line294
__label__wiki	0.980512	0.980512	FailedMessiah Sued By Marisa Trachtenberg Over Pedophile Claim A Queens woman says an Jewish Orthodox blog has falsely damned her as a pedophile — without being given a chance to state her innocence, according to a lawsuit. Preschool teacher Marisa Trachtenberg, 31, was charged on a sex-abuse charge in August with kissing a 15-year-old girl in 2006 — an allegation she vehemently denies. Although the charges were quickly dismissed, Trachtenberg claims “she lives in hell” because a Minnesota blogger who reported the arrest implied the victim was a young child and that there were “potentially many more victims,” according to a December Queens Supreme Court suit. Although a lawyer alerted Shmayra Rosenberg, who runs failedmessiah.typepad.com, that the statements were “false and defamatory,” Rosenberg refuses to remove the post. Rosenberg “did not check the source of his information” and “acted in reckless disregard for the truth,” according to court papers. “A simple visit to the court or phone call to Marisa Trachtenberg would have resulted in access to the pleadings.” Rosenberg claims it’s on Trachtenberg to provide proof of her innocence — although the blogger never requested such evidence when Trachtenberg’s lawyer asked that the post be removed. “I did not speak to Trachtenberg” before writing about the arrest, he told The Post. “I had a credible source who told me the child was very young and that they were afraid there were more victims,” he told The Post. Trachtenberg says she lost her job, has been unable to get another one, and has been “totally ostracized by the Orthodox community.” She’s asking a judge to force Rosenberg to take down the post, as well as for unspecified damages.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line298
__label__wiki	0.875174	0.875174	Professor J.B Goyal EMIMENT SCHOLAR AND PROLIFIC WRITER Home Page Professor Goyal Literary Works of Professor Goyal Landmark literary works of a legendary and Eminent Scholar and Prolific Writer of Haryana Dr. Goyal has explored and studied a large number of manuscripts on various subjects available in Sikh Reference library, ‘Guru Ramdas Library’, ‘Khalsa College Library’, Amritsar, ‘Public library’, ‘Motibagh library’ and ‘Panjabi Languages Dept. library’, Patiala, ‘National library’, Calcutta, ‘Anandpur Sahib Gurudwara library’ and several other libraries; Gurudwaras and Akharas. He has elaborately discussed almost all aspects relating to the theme and art of this rich poetic tradition and has highlighted its distinct features and its contribution to the poetic and cultural tradition of the country. He has in his works extensively dealt with the cultural, philosophical, social and religious contents of these compositions and has highlighted their contributions towards the composite Indian culture. He differentiated between heroic poetry and ‘War poetry’. Besides the compositions of Guru Nanak Dev Guru Arjun Dev, Guru Teg Bahadur, Dr. Goyal has done extensive work on the writings of Guru Gobind Singh and the literature produced under his patronage at Anandpur Sahib. While dealing with the contributions of Anandpur to literature by court poets of Guru Gobind Singh, Dr. Goyal has termed it as a specific ‘literary School’, which has an amalgam of devotion and heroism. Dr. Goyal has done in-depth studies of other Hindi epics poems, available in Gurumukhi script such as ‘Mahima Prakash’, ‘Gurushobha’, ‘Guru Bilas’, ‘Guru Nanak Vijay’, ‘Guru Nanak Prakash’, ‘Guru Pratap Suraj’, ‘Panth Prakash’ and several other compositions of that period. Dr. Goyal, for the first time rediscovered for the Hindi and Panjabi literary world a 19th century distinguished and celebrated poet, Bhai Santokh Singh. He was a Scholar poet who composed two monumental epics namely ‘Guru Nanak Prakash’ and ‘Guru Pratap Suraj’; wrote a commentary on ‘Japu Ji’ and translated ‘Valmiki Ramayana’ in Braj Bhasha verse. The script of all his works being Gurumukhi, he remained beyond the reach of Hindi Scholars. The two very voluminous epic poems, consisting of about sixty thousand verses, based on the life and teachings of the ten Gurus, present vividly the cultural, political and social history of the age and imbibed with the spirit of spiritualism and heroism Very little was done to explore the literary and cultural tenets of these epics. It was given to Dr. Goyal to accomplish this task and he did it with distinction. He initially had chosen it as the subject of his Ph.D. thesis. Since then he has published several books and research papers on this poet. It was at big instance that Punjab language Department published both the epics in Hindi in 10 volumes with lengthy and exhaustive introductions by Dr. Goyal. SGPC, Amritsar has also published four monographs in Hindi, Panjabi and English, written by Dr. Goyal on Bhai Santokh Singh. Over a lakh copies were printed for free distribution all over the world. All through his studies, Dr. Goyal has been making a constant Endeavour to highlight the cultural affinity of the country. With the background of literary tradition of Sanskrit, Apabhramsha, Hindi literature and cultural tradition of Indian thought, he unfolds the cultural, philosophical and social contents enshrined in this literature with profound scholarship. According to Dr. Goyal this literary tradition is very glorious, rich and valuable. It is imbibed with a high spirit of spiritualism, heroism, nationalism, humanism and a sense of social equality & social justice. It is enshrined with sublime ethical and human values, such as truth, self-control, contentment, compassion, service etc. He feels that the study of this literature can be a very useful media for fostering the cultural and emotional amity of various communities and can thereby strengthen National Integration. Based on his studies of hundreds of manuscripts and old publications, Dr. Goyal established the fact that Braj Bhasha Hindi has been the principal literary language of Hindu and Sikh writers of Punjab from 16th to 19th centuries; though the script used was Gurumukhi. Dr.Goyal also threw new light on the period and place of the original of ‘Hindi Khariboli’ prose on the basis of authentic and strong evidence from these manuscript and old publications. He traced a 400-500 old tradition of ‘Khari boli’ prose in Punjab, whereas all the writers of history of Hindi literature held the view, that it is about 150 years old and it had originated in Uttar Pradesh. Dr. Goyal travelled on uncharted territory and dogged out many precious gems. Armed with his findings of new literary trends and sensibilities in this literature, especially an amalgam of spirituality, humanism and heroism; not available else in the poetic compositions of that era, Dr. Goyal challenged the established concepts of the history of Hindi literature of the later medieval period, widened its horizon, propounded new concepts and that gave new dimensions, new vision, new perceptions and new interpretations to the literary history of that period. It is true that no history of Hindi literature of the neo classical (Ritikal) can be complete without taking into account his contributions. Dr. Goyal has published several critical books on Hindi Medieval literature and has also published research articles on ‘Heroism in Valmiki Ramayana’ and ‘ Mahabharata’ and other ‘Sanskrit epic Poems’, ‘Sufi poetry’, ‘Sant Sahitya’, ‘Historiology’, ‘Heroic poetry’, ‘Research Methodology’, ‘poetics’, ‘Hindi journalism’, ‘Folk lore of Haryana’ and several other topics relating to Medieval and modern Hindi literature. It was the merit of his work, the originality and authenticity, of his studies that his several books have been published by Punjab University, Panjabi University, Kurukshetra University, Guru Gobind Singh Foundation, Punjab Govt. Language department and SGPC, Amritsar. Some of his books were prescribed for M.A and M.Phill courses in several universities. His research papers and literary articles have been published in almost are top/leading Hindi and Panjabi Research Journals and Magazines of the country and some National dailies, which include ‘Pan jab University Research bulletin’, P.U. Research journal ‘Parishod’ (Hindi) and ‘Parakh’ (Punjabi), ‘Anushilan’ (M.D.Uni.), ‘Sambhavna’ ‘Sahitya marg’ (Panjabi Uni.); ‘Nagru Prachrni Patrika’ (Varanaasi)’ ; ‘Hindustani’; ‘Sammelan Patrika’ and ‘Saraswati’ (Allahabad); ‘Vishwabharti Patrika’ (Shanti Niketan), ‘Parishad Patrika’ (Patna), ‘Vishleshan’ (Kurukshetra); ‘Saraswati Samvad’ and ‘Sahitya Sandesh’ (Agra); ‘Dharamyug’ (Mumbai); ‘Saptahik Hindustan’ ( New Delhi); ‘Sapt Sindhu’ and ‘Jan Sahitya’ in Hindi and ‘Panjabi Duniya’; in Panjabi (Pb. Govt. Language Department, Patiala) ‘jagriti’ and ‘Pan jab Saurabh’ (Pb. Govt. Chandigarh); ‘Haryana Samvad’ (Haryana Govt. Chd.), ‘Hari Gandha’ (Haryana Sahitya Academy Chd); ‘Himprasth’ ( HP Govt. Shimla); ‘Uttar Pradesh Parika’; (U.P. Govt. Lucknow); ‘Aaj Kal’ (Centrak Govt. Delhi), ‘The Tribune’ and ‘Indian Experss’ (English); ‘Dainik Tribune’; ‘Pan jab Kesri’; ‘Navbharat Times’ and ‘Jan Satta’ (Hindi), ‘Alochana’ (Panjabi), ‘Sikh Sangat Patrika’ (Nanded) and a host of other journals. Dr. Goyal’s articles have also been included in about a dozen important books including ‘Encyclopedia of Sikhism’; ‘Punjabi Encyclopedia’; ‘Hindi’ Patra Karita’; ‘Vividh Aayam’ and also commemoration volumes on Guru Nanak Dev, Guru Teg Bahadur and Guru Gobind Singh, published by Panjabi University Patiala, GND University, Amritsar and SGPC Amritsar etc. It was on the basis of his meritorious and highly applauded research work, that the university grant commission awarded him its highest academic position of ‘Emeritus Fellow’. This fellowship is awarded to a few senior (Retd.) professors, selected from amongst all the faculties of all the universities, for their distinguished, highly reputed and recognized contributions in their field of specialization. Probably Dr. Goyal is the only professor in Haryana to get this coveted position. Besides, Dr. Goyal worked on three research projects of the UGC on subjects of National important. Amongst the main publications of Dr. Goyal are:- 1) ‘Gurumukhi lipi mein Hindi Sahitya’, 2) ‘Ritikal Ka Puner Mulyankan’, 3) ‘Madhya Yogin Kavya; naya mulyankan’, 4) ‘Guru Pratap Suraj Ke Kavya Paksh-Ka Adhiyayan’, 5) ‘Sant Sahita : Naya Mulyankan’, 6) ‘Sahitya Chintan’, 7) ‘Guru Kavya Chintan’, 8) ‘Sufi Darvesh “Baba Sheikh Farid’, 9) ‘Mahakavi Santokh Singh aur Unka Kavya (Hindi and Panjabi)’, 10) ‘Guru Gobind Singh Ka Veer Kavya’, 11) ‘Veer Kavi dashmesh’, 12) ‘Guru Gobind Singh Vichar aur Chintan’, 13) ‘Guru Nanak Prakash’ Vol. I & II (Ed.), 14) ‘Guru Pratap Suraj’ Vol.I (Ed.), 15) ‘var Amar Singh’ Ed., 16) ‘Guru Shobha’ (Ed.), 17) ‘Sanskhipt Guru Pratap Suraj’ (Hindi & Panjabi) Ed., 18) ‘Guru Bilas’ (Ed.), 19) ‘Jangnama Guru Gobind Singh’ (Ed.). Highly commendable reviews on the publications of Dr. Goyal have appeared in various journals and papers, such as ‘P.U. Souvenir’, ‘The Tribune’, ‘Dainik Tribune’, ‘Saptahik Hindustan’ (Delhi), ‘Nagri Prachrni Patrika’ (Kashi), ‘Sammelan Pratika’ and ‘Hindustani’ (Allahabad), ‘Parishad Patrika’ (Patna), ‘Dept. Sindhu’ (Patiala), ‘Jagriti’ (Chd), ‘Vishwa Bhrti Pratika’ (Shanti Niketan) and several other publications. Some extracts from these reviews of his books are reproduced below:- ‘The Tribune’ published reviews of some his book in various issues and it recorded that:- “It was given to Dr. Goyal to rediscover this literature of the Hindi world and bring out its chief characteristics. It is fervently hoped that the trail blazoned by Dr. Goyal will induce more research scholars to turn to Punjab’s medieval literature (Tribune 14.7.1966)”. “Dr. Goyal has analyzed the various aspects of the Guru’s ideology; Goyal’s profound knowledge of Indian religion and his unbiased approach make it a scholarly work” (Tribune 12.8.1967). “Dr. Goyal has rightly concluded that with these works, generally revolving round the sentiments of heroism and devotion, the theory that later medieval Hindi literature was dominated by love or egotism will have to be reconsidered. It must be admitted that Dr. Goyal’s contribution in this field is paramount (Tribune -1967). Dr.Goyal has scientific bent on mind and shown deep insight. His approach is unbiased and scholarly. The future historians of Hindi literature are bound to take due notice of works brought to light by Dr. Goyal (‘The Tribune’ 1969). Dr. Goyal’s publications have been highly commended and admired by leading scholars, stalwarts of Hindi and Punjabi literature, eminent intellectuals and public men from all over the country. “Dr. Goyal has broken Virgins soil by bringing into light the contribution of Punjab to the development and growth of Hindi literature. The subject matter has been methodically classified and critically assessed by the author. The treatment of the subject is mature and the conclusions drawn by the author authentic.” Another literary stalwart of Hindi, Padmashree Late Dr. Nagendra of Delhi University had said: “The tenacity and dedication with which Dr. Goyal has done original studies of literary and Cultural beauty of this Composition will be a torch bearer and trend setter for other scholars”. Commenting on one of his books a great Scholar on Sikhism, Padmabhushan Prof. Gurbachan Singh Talib had stated that: Dr. Goyal is highly qualified by virtue of his many sided mastery of Hindi literary and Sikh tradition to undertake this work. Along with vast scholarship, he brings to the study of Guru Gobind Singh all which should make his work most valuable contribution to Hindi critical literature and literature on Sikhism”. Commenting on another book a renowned critic of Punjabi literature, Padmashree Prof. Attar Singh had said: “Your contribution towards projecting his (Bhai Santokh Singh) achievements on the national level of cultural and literary consciousness is most commendable. Your extensive work in the field of Hindi writings in Gurumukhi script has gone a long way in demanding and begetting a through revision of the history of medieval Hindi literature, there by enlarging the historical prospective on the efflorescence of this rich literary heritage.” This is what Late Dr. Gurdial Singh Dhillon, Former Speaker Lok Sabha had to say about Dr. Goyal’s work:- “Dr. Goyal is a very prolific writer and a scholar…. Dr. Goyal deserves congratulations for writing a book on ‘Madhya Yugin Kavya’ a good piece of research. I will have it as a most valued piece of work in my person”. This is how Dr. Goyal’s contributions were appreciated by Justice Gurudev Singh of the Punjab & Haryana High Court and the former President ‘Guru Gobind Singh Foundation’ Chandigarh. “From what I have seen of Dr. Goyal’s work I have no hesitation in saying that it is a very high order and not only evinces keen interest in the various subjects that he has handled and made available to Hindi speaking public and best of old masters of Punjabi literature…. Dr. Goyal’s contribution to the cause of literature will receive due reception before long”. Similar Complementary sentiments have been expressed in other communication by prominent celebrities Public men with and intellectuals such as Honorable Giani Zail Singh, Former President of India, Shri B.D. jatti, former Vice President of India, Dr. Gurdial Singh Dhilon, former Speaker Lok Sabha, Sardar Buta Singh, former Union Home Minister, Sardar Harcharan Singh Brar, and Sardar Ujjal Singh former Governors of Haryana, Sardar Surjeet Singh Barnala, former Governor H.P. & U.P., Prof. Sher Singh, former Union Minister, Sh. Bhajan Lal and Shri Baranasi Das Gupta, former C.M. Himachal Shanta Kumar, fomer Union Minister, Shri Prem Kumar Dhumal, C.M. Himachal Pradesh, Sardar Tarlochan Singh MP & former Chairman Minority Commission, Dr. Ratnakar Pandey, Shri Krishan Lal Sharma, Sh. Vijay kumar Malhotra, all former Member parliament, Giani Lal Singh, former DG Punjab Language, Deptt. & Chairman Punjab Public Service Commission Shri Suraj Bhan V.C. Punjab University, Dr. Joginder Singh Puar, Patiala, Dr. jasbir Singh Ahluwalia V.C. Patiala, Dr. J.S. Grewal, V.C. G.N.D. University, Amritsar. Prof. Devinder Sharma V.C. Patna, Dr. Tribhuwan Singh V.C. Varanasi & others. Commendation from Eminent Hindi Scholars and Literatures of the country: – Late Shri Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Padmashree Dr. Malik Mohd. Calicut University, Professor, Prof. Hazari Pd. Dwivefi (BHU & PU), Padmashree Dr. Nagendra (Delhi), Dr. Savitri Sinha (Delhi), Dr. Brijeshwar Verma, Dr. Mata Prasad Gupta (Agra); Dr. Ram Kumar Verma & Dr. Laxmi Narayan Varhney (Allahabad); Dr. Romesh Kumar Sharma (Srinagar), Dr. Madan Gopal Gupta (Baroda), Dr. Shiv Kumar Mishra (Vallabh Vidhya Nagar), Prof. Ram Singh Tomar (Shanti Niketan), Dr.Prem Swaroop Gupta (Aligarh), Dr. Rajendra Sharma ( Jaipur), Dr. Ram Gopal Sharma (Udaipur), Dr. Harvashlal Sharma (Aligarh), Dr. Bhagirath Mishra (Saugar), Dr. Ram Murti Sharma (Ujjain), Dr. Kesri Narayan Shukla (Lucknow), Dr. Viney Mohan Sharma (K.U.) and others. Eminent Punjabi Scholars and Literatures Padam Bhushan Sh. K. S. Duggal, Padam Bhushan Prof. Gurubachan Singh, Tail, Padam Shri Dr. Attar Singh (Chd), Dr. Surinder Singh Kohli (P.U), Dr. Tara Singh, Dr. Prem Prakash Singh (Patiala), Giani Gudit Singh, President Kendriya Shri Guru Singh Sabha (Chd.), Prof. Pritam Singh (Amritsar), Prof. Harbans Singh, Chief Editor ‘Encyclopedia of Sikhism’ (Patiala), Prof. Satbir Singh & others. They are the top personalities of Hindi and Punjabi world of letters of the century. Dr. Goyal was invited to present papers at about four dozen all India Seminars and Conferences, besides two International Seminars, and he presided over several such seminars. He has delivered over a hundred lectures all over the country in various Universities & other cultural & literary organizations and has organized several All India Seminars. Besides, he has delivered a large number of Radio & T.V. talks. Dr. Goyal has had the reputation of a highly talented scholar all over the country. That is why he was invited by over 50 universities in the country from Srinagar to Calicut & Mubai to Guwahati, including almost all major universities like Punjab, Delhi, Jaipur, Aligarh, BHU Varanasi, Madras, Bangalore, Allahabad, Ranchi, Nainital etc. to deliver lectures or conduct viva voce for Ph.D. and D.Litt. or for selection of Faculty Professors as an expert. Also he was nominated to academic bodies, like Research Committee, faculty of arts/languages, Board of studies etc. in universities at Amritsar, Punjab, Punjabi, Delhi Udaipur, Saugar etc. He was also invited as an expert number for the selection of college teachers, by the Public Service Commission of several states and the UGC for fellowship etc. Though a scholar on medieval literature, Dr. Goyal has taken keen interest in Modern Hindi literature also and this has given his critic a modern outlook. He was a co-author of a book on Jai Shankar Prasad. He has been devoting himself to the study of modern literature and has already done some work in this field and has supervised doctoral research on Hindi Drama and Fiction. He was Chief Editor of the Editorial Board which produced a dozen University level text books. He also translated satirical essays of kanhiya Lal Kapoor from Urdu to Hindi which were published in some journals and in a book form ‘Khatta Mitha Karwa’. He has himself edited a collection of short stories for Kurukshetra University. “Ambua Ki dal pe Kuke Coyalya” is a Collection of his satirical, descriptive, narrative and other type of creative essays, memoirs, character sketches, reportage, and other literary forms. These creative literary pieces reflect his inner-self his personality, sensibility, emotions and sentiments, social and cultural concerns, his ideas and ideals. Dr. Goyal has published several articles on Haryanvi folk lore, Hindi literature and Hindi journalism of Haryana also. In fact it was he who initiated and patronized the study of Haryana Folk lore in the seventies. He had published an article‘Haryana folklore’ in ‘The Tribune’ in 1966 itself. Dr. Goyal’s three books (edited) namely – “Haryana : Puratarva, Itihas, Sanskriti, Sahitya and Lokvarta” ; “Haryana Kee Sahitya Sampda”; and “Haryanvi Lok Sahitya” present very valuable, authentic and elaborate account of various aspects and forms of rich historical, cultural, linguistic, literary and folklore tradition of Haryana. He also supervised dissertations on eminent folk-dramatists like Lakhmi Chand and Mange Ram; ‘Haryanvi folk tales’ and ‘Haryanvi proverbs’. He had edited the ‘Haryana writers Directory’ for the Haryana Language Department. In recognition of his distinguished work on Sikh literature, the SGPC, honored him twice, once in the seventies at a massive gathering at Golden Temple Amritsar, where the then Head Priest of the Golden Temple presented him a Saropa and later in Jan. 1992 at a seminar held in G.N. Engg. College, Ludhiana where the then president of SGPC Shri Gurcharan Singh Tohra honored him. The ‘Kendri Guru Singh Sabha’ an International leading Sikh organization honored him at Bangla Sahib Gurudwara, Delhi where representatives of the Sabha had gathered from all over the world in 1990 representatives of ‘Kendri Singh Sabha’, Delhi, SGPC Amritsar Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Committee, and U.P. Sikh Pratinidhi Board at a point meeting at Kurukshetra honored him and the then jathedar of Akal Takht Sardar Darshan Singh Ragi and Prof. Manjeet Singh presented him a Saropa. At this meet, a resolution was also adopted and it was sent to the then Prime Minister, urging him to confer Padmabhusan on Dr. Goyal for his ‘Commendable work for National integration and Unity’ through his literary books. For his achievements in Hindi literature he was honored by the ‘Haryana Pradeshik Hindi Sahitya Sammelan’ and ‘Punjab Hindi Academy’. His two books were awarded first prize by I laryana Sahitya Acedemy. Alongside his recognition at the National Level his contributions were recognized at the international forum as well. Reference about Dr. Goyal’s contributions have been made in reference books such as “Writers who is who” of Haryana Sahitya Academy’, ‘who is who of Indian writers’ (Sahitya Academy, Delhi), ‘Reference India’, biography International’, ‘Five hundred leaders of influence’ etc. He was given ‘Man of the year’ Award 1995 and “International Cultural Diploma of Honor” for his contribution to Profession and Community’, by American Biographical Institute, North Carolina, USA. In recognition of his eminence of Scholarship, several university professors dedicated their books to him with highly commendable attributes to his scholarship. As founder President of ‘Haryana Hindi Sahitya’ in 1966 he had boosted literary activities in the State of Haryana in the early years of its establishment as a separate state. After the creation of Haryana in 1966, it was with the strenuous efforts of Dr. Goyal that Hindi was given the status of official languages of the state; and it found its rightful place in Haryana Public Service Commission. He got it made mandatory to pass one course of Hindi to be eligible for a degree in Arts & Sciences in the Universities of Haryana. He also got ‘Haryana Folklore’ made a subject for study in M.A. & M.Phill Hindi courses. It was with efforts of Dr. Goyal that the “Haryana Sahitya Academy” was established in place of the Language Department, Haryana. He also received all round appreciation for his excellence in improving and streaming the functioning of the Board of School Education, Haryana, as its Chairman. Pioneering Scholar A rich treasure of Hindi literary works in Gurmukhi script- manuscripts on various subjects- languished in dark and dusty corners of some libraries, forgotten and unsung. No scholars worked to discover the literary genius of these works. Till Dr. J.B. Goyal discovered them that is. He uncovered this literary wealth and cultural heritage of the… In the past five decades Dr. Goyal has published 30 books and about 200 hundred research papers covering a vast range of manuscripts and old publications. Dr. Goyal has explored and studied a large number of manuscripts on various subjects available in Sikh Reference library, ‘Guru Ramdas Library’, ‘Khalsa College Library’, Amritsar, ‘Public library’, ‘Motibagh… Discovered a new literary school Besides the compositions of Guru Nanak Dev, Guru Arjun Dev, Guru Teg Bahadur, Dr. Goyal has done extensive work on the writings of Guru Gobind Singh and the literature produced under his patronage at Anandpur Sahib. While dealing with the contributions of Anandpur to literature by court poets of Guru Gobind Singh, Dr. Goyal has… Introduced a hidden poet to Hindi world Dr. Goyal, for the first time rediscovered for the Hindi and Punjabi literary world a 19th century distinguished and celebrated poet, Bhai Santokh Singh. He was a Scholar poet who composed two monumental epics namely ‘Guru Nanak Prakash’ and ‘Guru Pratap Suraj’; wrote a commentary on ‘Japu Ji’ and translated ‘Valmiki Ramayana’ in Braj Bhasha… Historical contributions As founder President of ‘Haryana Hindi Sahitya Parishad’ in 1966 he had boosted literary activities in the State of Haryana in the early years of its establishment as a separate state. After the creation of Haryana in 1966, it was with the strenuous efforts of Dr. Goyal that Hindi was given the status of official… A life dedicated to literature Born at Chhachhrauli in District Yamuna Nagar on 30th September 1931, he did his M.A. in Hindi from Punjab University in 1955 in First Division and got his doctoral degree from the same University in 1964. With experience of teaching and guiding research of more than of Hindi at Kurukshetra Universities, Professor and Chairman of… All Rights Reserved - Ajay Goyal @ 2018 An Illumiant Scholar & Distinguished Writer	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line301
__label__cc	0.743876	0.256124	Café LOUIE (Louisvillians Organized, United, Involved and Engaged) By Chandra Gordon, Executive Director, Library Foundation, Louisville (Ky.) Free Public Library Café LOUIE gives Louisville residents the opportunity to meet with state and local elected officials at their local library branches. Constituents, legislators and council members gather in each branch for a casual forum and moderated question-and-answer session. The primary goals of Café LOUIE include facilitating communication between constituents and their elected officials and situating the public library as a space for civic engagement. The 2017 series was planned to coincide with the state legislature’s session, so it started in late January and ran through the end of April. Contacting of the elected officials began in November 2016. A library programs coordinator contacted elected officials to invite them to participate in the Café LOUIE that was in or closest to their district. After the initial invitation to all officials, we focused on RSVPs for the upcoming programs on a rolling basis. We used phone calls and email to communicate with the officials and/or their staff. After the scheduling was done, Friends groups helped coordinate refreshments and set-up for the day of. Challenges included: some officials were difficult to reach and/or hesitant to commit to weekend morning programs. A few officials RSVP’d yes and did not show up, and a few did attend without having RSVP’d. Besides inconsistencies with the marketing materials, these instances caused little disturbance; the programs are meant to be flexible. Some sites drew large crowds that strained the time limit and the volunteer moderators’ abilities. Once the branches’ schedules were finalized, our library produced one flier listing all 18 Café LOUIE dates. We then produced individual fliers for each branch’s program as we secured RSVPs from the pertinent elected officials. The fliers included the program date and time, along with headshots of all participating elected officials and the logos of our partnering organizations. One interesting partnership is with a very popular local coffee shop, Heine Bros. Coffee. They provided coffee for all our events and we have included their logo on all materials. Since we've begun this relationship they have allowed our Friends of the Library organization to put book collection boxes in their stores, library staff have hosted pop-up libraries in their shops, they have become "Library Champions" (corporate donors) and they have advertised our Friends membership drive on their social media/website with a discount given to members of the Friends. We shared the fliers with our partnering organizations — both physical and electronic copies — and displayed them in the library and throughout the community. In email communications with the elected officials, we shared the fliers and requested that their office include them in email newsletters and on social media. Many of them did. (See sample fliers under Attachments at right.) At most branches, and for the program as a whole, attendance for the 2017 series of Café LOUIE increased from 2016. This could be attributed in part to growing familiarity with the program, but certainly also to improved outreach and communications efforts. Attendance ranged between fewer than 10 and up to more than 100, among the programs at our 18 branches. Our library did not spend money on this program. The local coffee shop chain donated coffee and coffee supplies. Friends of the Library groups purchased light breakfast and index cards, if cards were not already available at the branch. Providing breakfast refreshments was a draw, but they are not necessarily essential to the event. Day-of-event Activity The set-up for Café LOUIE included tables for refreshments, chairs for patrons and, if desired, chairs for the elected officials. (At some of the events the officials stood during the program.) Depending on the layout of each branch, some programs were held in meeting room spaces with rows of chairs; others were held in more public areas of the library with a few chairs but also room for patrons to stand and mingle with each other and the officials. We provided index cards and pens for patrons to write down and submit questions before and during the program, and the questions were read by a moderator (usually a Friends representative). Friends of the Library members and Library Foundation staff assisted with facilitating the program. With their help, two or three library staff members were generally required at each event. This usually included the branch manager, who provided a brief welcome to the program. One challenge was that, due to contested pieces of legislation being debated at the time, certain program dates saw unexpectedly large turnouts, media coverage and heated discussions between the constituents and certain elected officials. Charter schools were a huge issue this year. There was very intense discussion surrounding this topic. We had instances in which audience members very obviously filmed the entire conversations with representatives and discussion at times became emotional. No one was disruptive, but discussion was intense. At times this was an uncomfortable situation for our less experienced moderators. Thirty-eight total elected officials participated in the series, with 13 of them attending multiple Café LOUIE's (5 state senators, 12 state representatives, 19 metro council members, and 2 other city officials). Our most engaged sessions had close to 100 community participants. Café LOUIEs that were in less politically engaged areas typically had 20 to 30 attendees. I noticed that after the official state session ended we had less of a turnout for the sessions. The majority of feedback we received from patrons and elected officials was positive, with requests to continue the series next year. A recurring suggestion we received was to extend the program length. For next year, we will plan to keep the program itself one hour in length, but schedule additional mingling time afterward so that the elected officials may plan to spend more time at the branch and have more opportunities to converse with their constituents. We also plan to spread the events out throughout the year, instead of concentrating them during the state legislature’s session. With plans to continue this program on an ongoing basis, we are on the way to achieving our goals of increasing constituent engagement with elected officials and positioning the library as a civic engagement venue. There is no formal evaluation component in place at this time. Anecdotal feedback from participants and elected officials was overwhelmingly positive. As a result of the series' second year, we are in the process of establishing new relationships with several local civic-oriented organizations to improve and expand Cafe LOUIE for 2018. Some ideas we are considering include: Increased training for moderators and/or using professional moderators (This is an absolute!) Three formal panel discussions - Our state and city officials have differing areas of focus. Depending on the "hot" topic of the day, one or the other group could be perceived as left out of the discussion. This year we will focus the events at three of the largest libraries on the whole Jefferson County state delegation, with a more formal program and panel discussion. Our remaining 15 branch events will continue as general discussions with emphasis placed on an equal distribution of questions between city and state officials. This will be part of the training referenced in the first bullet point. Fall programming will focus on engagement with Metro Council, who's calendar is year-long, and enabling voters to communicate with state reps prior to session at the start of the calendar year. Communicate early and often with the elected officials, and be prepared for them to have last-minute schedule changes regardless of their RSVP. Arrange for or train moderators who will be able to effectively manage the flow of questions, answers and discussion. There is a bright side to small turnouts: those in attendance get more face time with the elected officials who attend. Reiterate to patrons that the program is meant to be a starting point for engagement between constituents and elected officials — in order to be effective, that communication should continue after the program ends. Some ways to encourage ongoing engagement include: providing a flier with information about how to contact elected officials (at the local, state and federal levels); book displays that illustrate library resources related to civic participation, US history, etc.; and scheduling related programs in conjunction with the elected officials program. (In 2017, we hosted sessions on the electoral college and media literacy/how to identify fake news.) Submitted by soakley on Thu, 2017-09-21 16:29 Café LOUIE Library Name Louisville Free Public Library Ky. Library Description The 18 branches of Louisville Free Public Library serve the residents of Louisville and Jefferson County, a population of approximately 650,000. Yes; The Library Foundation, Friends of the Library, and Leadership Louisville's Bingham Fellows action group 2017cafelouie.pdf cafelouie2017_stats.pdf knowyournews.pdf electoralcollege_flier.pdf cafelouie2017_flier.pdf American Muslims in Indiana: A Community Discussion Truth & Reconciliation in Our Community dialogue and deliberation Program Date Bon Air Cafe Attendees Fairdale Cafe Louie Attendees Portland Cafe Louie Attendees Louisville Free Public Library fosters civic engagement with a program that brings local and state officials to the library. Programming Librarian Forum About This Library Have a great program idea from your library? Share it with us.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line302
__label__wiki	0.544512	0.544512	Press & Newsfeed HOME \| ABOUT \| CAST \| WATCH \| SPONSORS \| CONTACT THE BAY The Series: Making Things Happen - An interview with Bay City’s unflappable bad guy What’s become of Steve Jensen – Bay City’s resident bad guy who we last saw kidnapping his beloved Sara – in the time between chapters 10 and 11? Where did Steve take her? Inquiring minds want to know. We spoke with the show’s multi-talented Matthew Ashford hoping to find out. “It’s been a while since the last time we did this, and sometimes you look away and then turn back and wow…things have changed,” said Ashford about the upcoming chapter 11. As for what the fans might expect to see from his character, Ashford is pleased to say Steve has made some progress. “He’s moved from being this total outsider, to being an upstanding citizen,” he says with a hint of mischief. “He’s contributing to the community and providing services. I guess you could say he’s found his niche.” Don’t let these words fool you, Bay Watchers. Jensen is still the bad boy we all love to hate. No stranger to playing dark characters, Ashford has found delight in portraying a more classic villain. “I enjoy the fact that he’s able to make things happen. He does what he wants to do – he’s sort of unflappable.” So what has this debonair scoundrel done to Sara? Unfortunately, Ashford wasn't spilling the beans, leaving fans no choice but to tune in to find out. A long-time supporter and champion of the web series format, Ashford is excited about the role THE BAY is playing in the ever-changing landscape. “This industry keeps growing and changing, and it’s good to be in on something that is a part of that,” shared Ashford. Elaborating on the show’s growth, Ashford discussed how the show’s new four-camera format made for a more fun and exciting shoot. “This chapter was really fun and different. They had these tiny handheld cameras and one of them was inside the shoot with us, capturing some great moments.” As for Ashford’s work outside of THE BAY, he’s been busy “auditioning and working on a number of different projects,” reveals Ashford. “I’m not sure how much we’re ready to say, but I’ve been working on some other projects with Gregori and that’s been exciting.” To see what havoc Steve Jensen is causing in Bay City now, tune in to THE BAY on Dec. 5. Previous episodes of THE BAY can be viewed on BLIPTV at or by visiting THE BAY's official website. Labels: Casting, News 2017 - Daytime Emmy® Award Winner - "Outstanding Digital Drama Series" 2017 - Daytime Emmy® Award Winner - “Outstanding Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series" - Kristos Andrews (Pete Garrett) 2017 - Daytime Emmy® Award Winner - “Outstanding Actress in a Digital Daytime Drama Series" - Mary Beth Evans (Sara Garrett) 2017 - Daytime Emmy® Award Winner - “Outstanding Supporting or Guest Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series" - Nicolas Coster (Mayor Jack Madison) 2017 - Daytime Emmy® Award Winner - “Outstanding Supporting or Guest Actress in a Digital Daytime Drama Series" - Carolyn Hennesy (Karen Blackwell) 2017 - 10 Daytime Emmy® Nominations 2017 - Winner ISA8 - "Best Web Series - Drama" 2017 - Winner ISA8 - "Best Guest Actress - Drama" for Carolyn Hennesy (Karen Blackwell) 2017 - Winner ISA8 - "Best Ensemble - Drama" 2017 - Winner ISA8 - "Best Makeup" - Ren Bray 2017 - Winner ISA8 - "Best Production Design" - Sarah Asaly 2017 - 21 ISA8 Nominations 2016 - Daytime Emmy® Winner - "Outstanding Digital Drama Series" 2016 - Daytime Emmy® Winner - Mary Beth Evans (Sara Garrett) for “Outstanding Actress in a Digital Daytime Drama Series," 2016 - Daytime Emmy® Winner - Kristos Andrews (Pete Garrett) for “Outstanding Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series." 2016 - 5 Daytime Emmy® Nominations 2016 - Winner ISA7 - “Best Lead Actress – Drama” for Lilly Melgar (Janice Ramos) 2016 - Winner ISA7 - “Best Guest Actress – Drama” for Kym Whitley (Big Candi) 2016 - Winner "Best Online Soap" Hollyweb Festival 2015 Daytime Emmy® Award Winner for "Outstanding New Approaches Drama Series" 2012 Daytime Emmy® Award nominee for "Outstanding Special Class Short Format" One of "The 4 best soap operas on the web" - Entertainment Weekly One of the "Top 10 Shows Worth Watching" - TV Guide Magazine Consecutive winner of the Indie Series Awards for FANS CHOICE THE BAY The Series: A Woman of Substance: Sofia’s... THE BAY The Series: Derrell Whitt talks of love an... THE BAY The Series: No Shrinking Violet - Darkside... THE BAY The Series: Making Things Happen - An int... THE BAY The Series: Living and breathing THE BAY -... THE BAY The Series: Love, loss and what remains t... THE BAY The Series: Jade Harlow dishes about a se... THE BAY The Series: Tristan Rogers talks about ch... MICHAEL FAIRMAN ON AIR \| ON SOAPS: THE BAY Returns... DAYTIME CONFIDENTIAL: Next Chapter of The Bay to T...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line305
__label__wiki	0.56396	0.56396	Shaban 15, 1432/July 17, 2011 # 30 From Shamsuddin Amjad: Pakistan Mass Rally Condemns US Intervention: Hasan Denounces Drone Attacks Woman's Outcry Brings up Case of "disappeared" victim of Paki regime On July 15, Jamaate Islami Pakistan held a mass rally and dharna [sit in] in Gujranwala. Syed Munawar Hasan, top JI leader, addressed thousands of men, women and children and condemned US intervention in Pakistan. He said the US "war on terror" was not Pakistan's war. The crowd roared with approval when he denounced the US drone attacks on Pakistani villages. Earlier in LAHORE, : The Jamaat e Islami chief, Syed Munawar expressed deep concern over the continued disappearance of Masood Janjua, husband of A'mina Masood Janjua, chairperson, Defense of Human Rights, Pakistan, and demanded his immediate release. In a statement here he said that Masood Janjua had been abducted years ago and had been in the custody of the agencies. But now it had been stated in the court that Masood Janjua had been killed by the Al-Qaida! The question, he said, was that a man had been picked up by the intelligence agencies and had been in their custody, so how could be killed by the Al-Qaida? The JI chief said that A'mina Masood Janjua and her family believed that Masood Janjua was alive and they had evidence to this effect which had been produced in the court. He therefore urged the government and the Supreme Court to ensure immediate release of Masood Janjua. Please scroll to end for an unusual report on resistance to pork conumption in African American communities. Detroit, Michigan [500 miles north west of Baltimore] Confronting Repression of Human Rights and civil liberties in USA: Political prisoners: Role of Informants and CAIR On July 16, 2011 the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms, NCPCF, held an important hearing at a Black institution known as the Shrine of the Black Madonna in Detroit, Michigan. Although it was mostly about Muslim political prisoners, most local mosque people did not turn up. Michigan's Muslims seem to be the most mentally subjugated Muslims in America. However, owing to non-Muslim activism, the room was full and the presentations were of good quality. Political prisoner Tarek Mehanna's brother Dr. Tamer Mehanna had come all the way from Boston. Political prisoner Ehsanul Shifa Sadequee's sister Sharmin spoke of the trauma of this pious Bangladeshi family. Shifa is in the notorious Marion, Illinois prison. Political prisoner Dr. Kifah Jayyousi's wife brought up his case at the tail end of the program. His mother died recently but he was not permitted to attend the funeral. The family, once well to do, is in serious financial straits. [There are fears that a GTMO for Muslim women is to be set up starting with Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.] Later the terrible suffering of Lynne Stewart, the Blind Shaikh's attorney, was also brought up. Political prisoner Dr. Sami al-Arian's plight was highlighted in a power point presentation by Dr. Mel Underbakke. The major charges against him were dismissed but after so many years, he has still not been released. Tom Burke, a labor unionist, made a powerful presentation about the expanding government program against dissidents. Owing to his work for people in Columbia, he launched a successful boycott of Coca Cola.He is the spokesman of the National Committee to Stop FBI Repression. Abayomi Azikiwe presented a scholarly paper on the struggle of African Americans all the way from slavery days till today. He is widely read and a prolific writer with contributions on both Haiti and Gaza. Dr. Siddique Challenges CAIR's betrayal of Five US Muslims: The hearing focused on the role of informants in the entrappment of Muslims in this country. In that context, Dr. Kaukab Siddique brought up the role of Muslim organizations acting as informants. He pointed out that CAIR put five American Muslims in the hands of of the FBI. They were then arrested in Pakistan, tortured and sentenced by a court which met INSIDE the prison. CAIR's representative Dawud Walid who had made a rambling speech earlier went ballistic on hearing Dr. Siddique's criticism. He grabbed the microphone and started praising CAIR. Dr. Siddique insisted that Walid answer the issue of CAIR's betrayal of 5 young American Muslims who were denied due process. Finally Walid fell back on his patriotism. He insisted that ONE of the youths had a jihad video and he, Walid, and CAIR would report anyone who posed a threat to even one US soldier. A number of people came to Dr. Siddique after his uncovering of CAIR and assured him that CAIR is known as a lackey group. The scene in the hearing room exposed CAIR's reality ion front of a room full of activists from across the country. [During his confused speech earlier, CAIR rep. Walid claimed that those who bring up Israel as a problem are agents provocateurs.] Canton, Michigan. Good Hunting for the ISNA types From the diary of Kaukab Siddique, editor of New Trend: July 15, 2011. Today I was in Canton, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Juma' at a large, beautiful, mosque. Hundreds of worshippers. Affluent community. Could be good pickings for the likes of ISNA's Siraj Wahhaj. Is that a sense I have? Right at the mosque door an announcement of a coming visit by "imam" Siraj! He never misses a chance to make the rich, richer, with a nice cut for himself too. Very subservient community. Whole khutba was about the blessings of Sha'aban. All made up of weak and/or fabricated narrations. Imam dressed like a salafi, turban and all, admitted that the narrations were daif and/or munkar but still narrated them. Looks like the imam either has never heard of any problems the Muslims are facing or is in the business of putting Muslims to sleep. Announcements by the mosque admin that there are a couple of Christians near the entrance. Warnings to several hundred Muslims not to talk to the three Christians. What's wrong with these Muslims? Three hundreds scared of Three? I "disobeyed" the announcements and talked to the Christians. They were very happy and gave me a segment of the New Testament. I thanked them. Are we Muslims so scared of ordinary Americans while at the leadership level, ISNA types are fraternizing with Zionist Rabbis and reps of the Pope! Dumbing down of the Ummah? Enrichment of the sell outs? So many Siraj Wahhajs and Zaid Shakirs now, living off the ummah while our people starve in Bangladesh, Africa and India and our prisoners mistreated by the US of A.. Amazing: Before I heard the juma khutba in Canton, MI, I received a superb article from a scholarly sister in Houston, Texas, which debunks the superstitions and miracle stories narrated by the "salafi" imam in Canton. Here is an example of a woman who is better than a man. Please scroll down to Sha'aban article. An Invitation to Think From Imam Badi Ali, National Shoora, Jamaat al-Muslimeen, NC Spotlight #1: Those who say they love liberty but follow temporary desires do not really love liberty. Freedom grows from control of earthly desires. Spotlight #2: Don't seek advice on marriage from a wife beater. Why do Muslims seek advice on freedom from dictators. Spotlight #3: Turn CREED into DEED. Spotlight #4: Learn that family violence teaches children to be violent. Learn to stand for truth and goodness at home. Spotlight #5: Re-think the raising of children. Muslims talk of TRUTH and FAITH but do they stand for these values at home in their daily lives? Spotlight #6: Open your hearts and minds. A closed fist cannot shake hands. Spotlight #7: There is misleading talk nowadays coming from "Islamic movements." They say dialogue requires "concessions." How have "concessions" helped us? One third of SUDAN has been given away. It is weird that some Muslims are celebrating! Spotlight #8: At one time the western powers used Sharif Hussain to undermine the Caliphate. Today the West is using scholars who know FIQH but do not understand our world and the way 24 hour TV is dividing Muslims. Spotlight #9: Fake leaders lack character. Leadership requires both oxygen and hydrogen, You can't take out an essential element and still have water, Cole, ACLU, Sue CIA, FBI seeking Bloggergate Documents www.juancole.com Spencer Ackerman at Wired reports on the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit launched on my behalf by the American Civil Liberties Union against the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence. See also this report in the Detroit News. Real History: The Uprising of the Oppressed The Prosser Slave Rebellion occurred in Richmond in 1800. I attended high school (partially) in Northern Virgina, about 60 miles from where this brotha took dramatic and incredibly courageous action in freeing himself and others from the shackles of slavery. He gave his life. Yet, the event was not mentioned in a single N. Va. high school history class then, and I doubt very much it is discussed now. Historical Background of the Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt chss.montclair.edu from Herbert Aptheker, American Negro Slave Revolts, new edition, New York: International Publishers, 1974, pages 219-226 (original edition: Columbia University Press, 1943). - Nadrat Siddique Emperor Akbar type religion rejected. Killing Muslims will not Stop the Qur'an: Victory is Assured by Allah Oppressors See Islam as a threat: For Humanity, it is a blessing by Sis. Sofia [New York City] The Qur'an is a spiritual, moral and ethical guide for all of humanity. It is the only Divine Scripture whose text has survived intact through the centuries in its original form, beyond human tampering. All other past revealed scriptures did not survive in their original form. Human individual and racial pride, intellectual arrogance, a desire for worldly power and ignorance led to tampering, distortion and destruction. Men attempted to rewrite, re-make and translate the divine laws of Lord Almighty to suit their own purpose. There are countless examples in history of mankind's tampering the Word of the Creator. Some of them defied the prophets and messengers of the Creator. Others put forth competing false and pseudo-messengers thus fragmenting both the revelations and the religion. All those who turn to "saints" "sufis" as their guide or who claim that the Message from Lord Almighty is being continued by their self- proclaimed "guides" or who falsely call their groups as linked to Islam in any way are recent examples in religious history. Some of these groups use parts of the Qur'an and reject the rest and continue to call their belief system as a "religion." One example from Indian history is the Moghul king Akbar and his new-fangled religion that he called "Deen-e-Ilahi" that died with him. Islam and the Qur'an have lasted through centuries as the only exception. Not only that, even if all Muslims were killed in the current assault on their Faith and their civilization, the Qur'an will continue as the Eternal Message of the Creator. Any attack on it comes back to haunt those who attack it. The wheels of Time are a-turning now to prove the Majesty and Power of Almighty God. And those who believe they can are merely displaying the arrogance of Iblis, the fallen angel of yore. In recent times, Muslims have experienced similar vain and fruitless attempts by non-Muslims, atheists and hypocritical self-proclaiming "Muslims" to tamper with the Qur'an by ridiculing it's message, tainting the personality of its most revered Prophet Prophet Mohammad -- may Peace and Blessing of Allah Almighty be upon him. Why has there been such a vicious backlash against only Islam? Because the Message of the Qur'an is a threat to all those who are morally and spiritually corrupt and whose actions cause grief, suffering and destruction of innocent human beings in society. Here is just one verse from the Qur'an as illustration of the Eternal and relevant message of Allah Almighty: Surah # 4 (an-Nisa), verses # 74 through 76 (Translation of the Meaning of the Qur'an by M. Pickthall) Verse number 74 mentions: (a) those who fight in the way of Allah, (b) who sell the life of the world for the other, (c) whose fights in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward. So, it's a win-win situation for those Muslims who fight in the way of Allah Almighty. They are winners when they win their battles. They are winners even when they die for the cause of the Lord. This is most infuriating for the enemies of Muslims! For when these enemies of islam / the non-Muslims think they have won the battles, they have in actuality lost them! And when they find that they have lost their battles against Muslims, they have lost it also! That is a lose-lose situation---infuriating to people with such arrogance and pride in their "fire- power." Even if there is not a single surviving Muslim-- a believer in the one and only true Lord and Creation -- on the the face of this earth, Allah Almighty's Message / the Sublime Qur'an will survive. As the Qur'an states: "Let there be no compulsion in Religion." Allah Almighty's Power is sufficient! [Superstitions and Misleading Beliefs of many Muslims clarified here - editor] Sha'baan: Misconceptions and Realities by Asma bint Shameem [Houston, Texas] Growing up in Pakistan, the month of Sha'baan would bring in a lot of excitement and celebration. And that was because celebrating the night of the fifteenth of Sha'baan was a big thing and considered a very virtuous act, indeed. Men would gather in the masjid while the women prepared 'Halwas' and sweets, preparations were made for all night vigils or "Shabeenas" as they were called, buses were made available to take the men to visit the graveyards and flyers were distributed to everyone containing a long list of 'special prayers' so that they could stay up all night praying. But, Alhamdulillaah, how Allaah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala protects His Deen. When Allaah enabled me to study this beautiful religion of ours, all that changed. I realized that all those 'special prayers', all those night vigils, all those Halwas and all those graveyard visits were really not the way of the Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alayhi wa Sallam). In fact all that was far...far away from his Sunnah and the Sharee'ah that he brought. And so I thought I would bring to attention some of the misconceptions and wrong ideas attached to this month as this ignorance and innovation has become so rampant, that it has become a sort of an epidemic, not only in Pakistan but in practically every Muslim community that exists. Misconception # 1: The night of the 15th of Sha'baan should be singled out for worship, prayer, etc. Clarification: Our best example and role model is the Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alayhi wa Sallam) and he never, ever singled out this night for worship or qiyaam nor did his Sahaba. Shaykh Ibn Baaz said:"There is no saheeh hadeeth concerning the night of the fifteenth of Sha'baan. All the ahaadeeth that have been narrated concerning that are mawdoo' (fabricated) and da'eef (weak), and have no basis. There is nothing special about this night, and no recitation of Qur'aan or prayer, whether alone or in congregation, is specified for this night. What some of the scholars have said about it being special is a weak opinion. It is not permissible to single it out for any special actions. This is the correct view. And Allaah is the Source of strength." (Fataawa Islamiyyah, 4/511) Misconception # 2: There are specificl prayers to be offered on this night. Clarification: The truth of the matter is that there are NO special prayers to be offered on this night specifically. And all those 'ahaadeeth' giving you long lists of special 'formulas' that are "supposed to guarantee you Allaah's forgiveness and Jannah" are all fabricated, false and innovations in our Deen. If there were such prayers, the Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alayhi wa Sallam) would have told us about them and we would have had evidence of him and the Sahaba doing it. Misconception # 3: Allaah descends to the first heavens on this night to forgive us. Clarification: Allaah's descending to the first heaven does not only happen on the night of the fifteenth of Sha'baan. Rather it happens every single night of the year. The Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alayhi wa Sallam) said: "Every night when it is the last third of the night, our Lord, the Superior, the Blessed, descends to the nearest heaven and says: Is there anyone to invoke Me that I may respond to his invocation? Is there anyone to ask Me so that I may grant him his request? Is there anyone asking My forgiveness so that I may forgive him?. " (Bukhaari) Thus, when 'Abd-Allaah ibn al-Mubaarak was asked about the descent of Allaah on the night of the fifteenth of Sha'baan, he said to the one who asked him: "O weak one! The night of the fifteenth?! He descends every night!" Misconception # 4: This is the night when our fate, lifespan, and provisions are decreed. Clarification: Some people think that the "blessed night" (laylatim-mubarakah) mentioned in Surah ad-Dukhaan (44): 3, refers to the night of 15th Shabaan, when Allah decrees our lifespan, provisions and fate. In fact, they even pray 6 rakahs, 2 for each of these things. However, all that is fabricated and far, far away from the Sunnah. And, in reality, the "blessed night" mentioned in Surah ad-Dukhaan, actually is referring to Laylatul Qadr that comes in Ramadhaan. (Tafseer Ibn Kathir of Surah al-Qadr) Misconception # 5: One should fast on the day of the fifteenth. Clarification: Here again, there is no saheeh reports that tell us that the Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alayhi wa Sallam) or his Sahaabah ever picked this day specifically to fast. The Sunnah of the Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alayhi wa Sallam) was to fast most of this month and not just the 15th. However, if the fifteenth of Sha'baan coincides with a Monday or Thursday, or with the three white days or if a person is generally fasting, without associating seeking extra rewards to fasting this specific day, then it is allowed. (Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid) Misconception # 6: This is the night when the souls of departed ones return to their families. Clarification: Here again, some people misunderstand the ayaat in Surah al-Qadr and think that the 'sending down of the Ruh' as mentioned in this Surah refers to the souls of dead people returning to see their families, even though it refers to Jibreel (Tafseer Ibn Kathir). And that is why we see women preparing the sweets, the Halwas and other 'goodies' for the souls of their loved ones. Not only is that in itself an erroneous, deviant belief and bid'ah, but to believe that the souls of the dead can return back to the world and meet with their relatives is also totally incorrect and false. The teachings of the Qur'aan and the Sunnah clearly state that the souls of the dead do not return back to the world. Besides, they don't even eat the Halwas. It is actually you who eats it! Misconception # 7: Visiting graveyards especially this night is something good. Clarification: Although the Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alayhi wa Sallam) encouraged visiting graves, he forbade singling out any day or night for any kinds of good deeds if it is not prescribed in the Sharee'ah. And he did not specifically visit the graveyard on the night of the 15th of Sha'aan. The hadeeth of Aisha that mentions that the Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alayhi wa Sallam) visited the graveyard this night is not authentic and thus does not have any proof for visiting graves specifically on this night of Shabaan. Misconception # 8: Even if the ahaadeeth about worship on this night are weak, one can still do it. Clarification: The correct scholarly view is that weak ahaadeeth should not be followed at all, even if they speak of righteous deeds or of targheeb and tarheeb (promises and warnings). The saheeh reports are sufficient and the Muslim has no need to follow the da'eef reports. Shaykh Ahmad Shaakir said: "There is no difference between rulings or righteous deeds; we do not take any of them from da'eef reports, rather no one has the right to use any report as evidence unless it is proven to be soundly narrated from the Messenger of Allaah (Sal Allaahu Alayhi wa Sallam) in a saheeh or hasan hadeeth." Misconception # 9: Look at all those people doing it. How can they all be wrong? Clarification: The Muslim is supposed to refer to Allaah and His Messenger (Sal Allaahu Alayhi wa Sallam)'s Sunnah, if there is any confusion or dispute about matters and NOT what the rest of the world is doing. "O you who believe! Obey Allaah and obey the Messenger and those of you who are in authority. (And) if you differ in anything amongst yourselves, refer it to Allaah and His Messenger, if you believe in Allaah and in the Last Day. That is better and more suitable for final determination [al-Nisaa' 4:59] Shaykh Ibn Jibreen said: "These reports (about worship and fasting an the 15th of Sha'baan) became very well known in some countries which were overwhelmed by ignorance; One should not be deceived by the large numbers of ignorant people who do these things." The REAL Sunnah regarding Sha'baan: If you truly and sincerely want to please Allaah and do deeds that will be acceptable to Him, then follow the REAL Sunnah of the Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alayhi wa Sallam). Here is what is proven in the authentic sunnah: 1. Fast most of this month as much as you can. Aa'ishah RA said: "I never saw the Messenger of Allaah fasting for an entire month except in Ramadaan, and I never saw him fast more than he did in Sha'baan." (Bukhaari, Muslim). 2. However, if you are weak or do not fast habitually and feel that this nafil fasting may be a hindrance to your obligatory fasting in the month of Ramadhaan, then the person may stop the nafil fasting in the last few days of this month. And for that person, the Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alayhi wa Sallam) said: "When Sha'baan is half over, do not fast." (saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Tirmidhi). 3. If you have fasts left over from last Ramadhaan to make up, then hurry up and do so in this month of Sha'baan before the next Ramadhaan comes. It is not permissible to delay missed fasts until after the following Ramadhaan, except in cases of necessity (such as a valid excuse that continues between the two Ramadaans). Aa'ishah RA said: 'It used to be that I had days to make up for Ramadhaan and I would not be able to do so except in Sha'baan." [Bukhaari] US is mistaken in Opposing Qaddafi: Islamic forces are overthrowing him. [One of the few who understood that Qaddafi was right when he said: "It is al-Qaida, al-Qaida...] fundamentalism, rather than liberal democracy. by Andy Stone (centrist) As the commitment of French, British, Danish, Canadian and US military assets to Libya draws near, the fundamental question of the rebels' identity has not yet been seriously addressed. The international face of the revolt are former Qaddafi officials such as Abdul Jalil. It is, however, also clear that the conflict has been started and sustained by a mass uprising. (It is not a coup d'etat and most of the state apparatus has remained loyal.) Behind it all, who are the people on the ground, and what motivated them to revolt? The facts are well documented, and at odds with wishful thinking. This is no Solidarnosc movement. The revolt was started in Benghazi on February 15-17th by the group called the National Conference of the Libyan Opposition. The protests had a clear fundamentalist religious motivation, and were convened to commemorate the 2006 Danish cartoons protests, which had been particularly violent in Benghazi. The NCLO web site (Arabic) carries a document (Arabic; Google Cache; legible in automatic translation) dated February 15th (the day the protests began), which clearly spells out NCLO's objections to Qaddafi's rule. The main points of "Qaddafi: Islam's no. 1 enemy" are as follows: Qaddafi has closed an Islamic university and a seminary, has forbidden some Islamist publications, and has thrown thousands of Islamist activists into jail. Qaddafi has urged to put the Qur'an on the shelf, as no longer appropriate for this age. Qaddafi has made fun of the Islamic veil, calling it a "rag" and a "tent". Qaddafi has dared to say that Christians and Jews should be allowed to visit Mecca. Qaddafi has rejected the Hadith and Sunnah, and said he follows the Qur'an alone. (The last claim involves a curious episode. At one point, Qaddafi declared himself a follower of the "Qur'an alone" movement, which rejects orthodox Muslim punishments, like stoning for adultery, death penalty for homosexuals etc. This got him into some serious trouble. An international committee of scholars went to discuss the issue with Qaddafi. After being told that "if he did not repent and take back his statement, he would fall under the law of renegades and infidels [...] which would force true Muslims to kill him", Qaddafi "repented and took back his statement".) None of this is surprising. The leaked State Department memos describe Eastern Libya (2008) as an area of fervent Islamic sentiment, where "a number of Libyans who had fought and in some cases undergone 'religious and ideological training' in Afghanistan, Lebanon and the West Bank in the late 1970's and early 1980's had returned [...] in the mid to late 1980's". There they engaged into "a deliberate, coordinated campaign to propagate more conservative iterations of Islam, in part to prepare the ground for the eventual overthrow by the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) of Muammar Qadhafi's regime, which is 'hated' by conservative Islamists". While Qaddafi's position was perceived to be strong, the East Libyans sent jihadis to Iraq, where "fighting against U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq represented a way for frustrated young radicals to strike a blow against both Qadhafi and against his perceived American backers". It is these same religiously and ideologically trained East Libyans who are now armed and arrayed against Qaddafi. Qaddafi's claim that all his opponents are members of Al Qaeda is overblown, but also not very far off, in regards to their sympathies. Anyone claiming that the Eastern Libyans are standing for secular, liberal values needs to overcome a huge burden of proof. First, what is the social basis of such a movement, when neutral observers have been characterizing East Libya as a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism? Second, if the revolt has started on religious grounds, when and how exactly has it radically changed its character? These hard facts are not counter-acted by Abdul Jalil's statements of liberal, democratic purpose. As head of the National Transitional Council, he is the West's favorite partner in dialogue (and recognized by France as Libya's legitimate head of state). His reliability and control are, however, questionable. As Qaddafi's Minister of Justice until last month, Abdul Jalil's democratic credentials are dubious; he has not participated in the initiation of the revolt, has latched onto it when it seemed likely to succeed, and his organization's control over the rebel forces is unproven. Overall, the participation of former Qaddafi officials is no reason to assume that the character and aims of a revolt that started on fundamentalist religious principles have changed to liberal, democratic ones. In conclusion, the Western leaders seem to be rushing to replace an already bad regime with one that is likely to be even worse. The French embarrassment with getting the Tunisian and Egyptian revolts wrong (and subsequent change of foreign ministers) and the British embarrassment with close ties to the Qaddafi regime (including the award of a PhD from the prestigious London School of Economics to Qaddafi's son) have caused these two countries to jump in, trying to remedy their perceived previous failings. However, lack of cool reasoning and ignorance of the facts on the ground are only likely to make the remedy (should it succeed) worse than the disease. More Reasons Why Not to Eat Pork Sublime Qur'an Subsumes Science By Nadrat Siddique As a Muslim and a marathoner, I eschew pork following Islamic guidelines on proscribed foods. This, like other Qur'anic injunctions, has helped me to avoid a plethora of health problems, to stay out of the doctor's office, and to maintain a rigorous athletic regimen free of injury. Recently, I participated in an exchange with friends (and some of their friends) on a social networking site. A young black (Afrocentric) Towson University student�not a Muslim�was recommending to all of his friends not to eat pork. This is an increasingly common phenomenon among activists of color�even those who do not claim the label of Muslim (or who do not claim it openly). Some of these are directly influenced by Qur'anic teachings, by their Muslim friends, or by the writings of Elijah Muhammad such as How to Eat to Live. Pork and pork products are a major source of health problems in the Black community. Historically, White slavers fed Black slaves chitterlings (or chitlins, for short) and other pork products. Chitterlings were the worse part of the pig--a reminder to the slave that he was lower than an animal, worthy of eating only the slave master's rubbish. I was proud of my Towson University friend who had thrown off his mental shackles and encouraged others to do the same. But immediately many of his friends assailed his position. Pork is no more deleterious than beef or chicken; some parts of it are white meat and quite lean�and therefore worthy of consumption�they said. Pork is intrinsic to Soul Food, said others; how can we possibly do away with it? I knew that the instinctive revulsion I felt for pork mightn't be shared by others, particularly those who were not Muslim, and so determined to find intellectual support for my feelings. Here are the initial findings of my inquiry, which I shared in the course of the online Pork takes longer than most foods to digest (4.5 hr, according to some reports). One of the reasons for this: It is rich in residues of the amino acid Proline. I'm guessing that the high incidence of Proline, which contains a hetercyclic ring, may be one reason for the difficulty in pork metabolization. Unfortunately, lengthy retention of food�in this case pork�in a digestive tract that is relatively short (compared to that of most carnivores) leads to elevated colorectal cancer risk. Additionally, prevalence of Staphyloccus aureus bacteria in pigs is relatively high (e.g., 25-30% in the Netherlands). In fact, locating swine populations not afflicted to some degree by the Staph species in question is highly unlikely. http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=first-por-invades-washington-then- As a result, very high dosages of antibiotics are administered to most pig populations. So, consumers of pork are partaking of a product, which has been doused with antibiotics. And� by supporting the administration of antibiotics to this animal population, they are inadvertently contributing to the rise of drug-resistant strains of bacteria. Staphylococcus aureus is thought to be carried by rats in a pig farm setting: Unfortunately, the bacterium may be conveyed between the pig and rat population to humans: So, the answer seems to be: Either administer massive dosages of antibiotics to pig populations (and then consume the antibiotic-laden pork products)--a strategy which may work in the short term, but has serious long-term implications for the production of drug-resistant strains of Staphyloccus aureus--or find other alternatives to pork products. While it's true that some cuts of pork contain a relatively low lipid content, comparable to those of beef or other meats, given all of the forgoing, as well as the dynamics of pork between White slavers and Black slave descendants, the choice, to me, is rather obvious. 2011-07-19 Tue 04:47:36 cdt	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line306
__label__wiki	0.599983	0.599983	Black and ethnic minority cancer patients patients encouraged to give feedback on their NHS care Black and ethnic minority cancer patients patients encouraged to give feedback on their NHS care Simon Stevens today issued an appeal for more black and ethnic minority (BME) patients to help improve cancer care by sharing their experiences. Speaking at the Economist’s War on Cancer event, Simon Stevens will point out that BME patients are less likely to give feedback about treatment, with only 50% of those from ethnic groups taking part in the most recent cancer survey, making it difficult for the NHS to identify areas where care can be improved. Cancer patients are reporting that they feel increasingly positive about their NHS care with 87.5 per cent of patients saying that they got their cancer tests at the right time and 90% of respondents said they were given the name of a Clinical Nurse Specialist who would support them through their treatment. However, the significant improvements may not be the full picture with BME communities less likely to participate in the feedback. NHS England Nutritional care tool report 2017 Nutritional care tool report 2017 The BAPEN nutritional care tool report provides organisational-level data on how nutritional care is organised and patient-level data on the quality of nutrition in hospitals, care homes and community organisations. Concordia overcharged NHS for thyroid drug, says watchdog Concordia overcharged NHS for thyroid drug, says watchdog Drug company Concordia overcharged the NHS by millions for a key thyroid treatment, the Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally found. The CMA said that last year the NHS spent £34m on its drug, liothyronine, up from about £600,000 in 2006. The amount the NHS paid per pack rose from around £4.46 in 2007 to £258.19 by July 2017, an increase of almost 6,000%. Concordia said it did "not believe that competition law has been infringed". The CMA said the price rise took place despite "broadly stable" production costs. BBC News District nurse numbers under pressure District nurse numbers under pressure District nurses play a vital role in keeping patients out of hospital by providing care in their own homes, but official figures show their numbers have nearly halved since 2010. BBC News The growing toll of our ever-expanding waistlines The growing toll of our ever-expanding waistlines I hope you’re not chomping on a bagel, or worse, a doughnut while you read about what is probably the most serious public health irony of the last half-century in this country. As one major killer – smoking – declined, another rose precipitously to take its place: obesity. Many cancer deaths were averted after millions quit lighting up, but they are now rising because even greater numbers are unable to keep their waistlines in check. Today, obesity and smoking remain the two leading causes of preventable deaths in this country. The Independent Budget boost for NHS to fall well short of management demands Budget boost for NHS to fall well short of management demands Philip Hammond is set to provide emergency funding but health service bosses say it does not go far enough Philip Hammond is to give the NHS an emergency cash injection in the budget, though the chancellor will disappoint health service bosses by increasing funding by far less than they believe is needed. Hammond is understood to be preparing to unveil a plan to give the NHS up to £6bn by 2022 for three different purposes. Continue reading... The Guardian ‘Take these children seriously’: NHS clinic in the eye of trans rights storm ‘Take these children seriously’: NHS clinic in the eye of trans rights storm A specialist NHS centre in London is helping thousands of young people who are having difficulties with gender identity At a time when transgender issues occupy the centreground of today’s culture wars, a clinic in an unpreposessing 1920s office block in north-west London has found itself on the frontline. The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS foundation trust, is the only NHS-run clinic that specialises in helping young people experiencing difficulties with their gender identity. It is a gender identity service, not a gender transition service. Many children will benefit from talking therapies Continue reading... The Guardian Common NHS shoulder surgery no better than placebo at relieving pain Common NHS shoulder surgery no better than placebo at relieving pain An increasingly popular form of shoulder surgery carried out on more than 21,000 people a year is almost entirely pointless, a major new study has found. Decompression surgery, a keyhole procedure designed to remove small areas of bone and tissue around the joint, proved no better at relieving pain than a placebo in a trial across 32 hospitals. Experts at Oxford University, who conducted the research, last night questioned why the operation had been allowed to become so commonplace despite no robust evidence supporting its use. Meanwhile the Royal College of Surgeons, which partly funded the study, suggested the procedure should no longer be offered routinely on the NHS. The Daily Telegraph Arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain (CSAW): a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel group, placebo-controlled, three-group, randomised surgical trial (open access) The Lancet NHS rolls out cancer screening trucks in supermarkets NHS rolls out cancer screening trucks in supermarkets Patients are being offered cancer scans in supermarket car parks to try to improve disease detection rates. The scheme is going nationwide after a trial led to a four-fold rise in the number of lung cancers diagnosed early. NHS chiefs judged it so successful they will pay for more trucks with scanners to be sited at branches of Tesco and Asda. The Daily Mail Black and ethnic minority cancer patients patients... Concordia overcharged NHS for thyroid drug, says w... Budget boost for NHS to fall well short of managem... ‘Take these children seriously’: NHS clinic in the... Common NHS shoulder surgery no better than placebo... 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__label__wiki	0.868912	0.868912	Majority of Northamptonshire patients have access to out of hours doctors' appointments Majority of Northamptonshire patients have access to out of hours doctors' appointments The vast majority of patients in Northamptonshire had some access to out of hours appointments with a doctor at the end of September, according to NHS figures. Data gathered from 61 practices in the NHS Nene CCG during the month showed that 11 per cent of patients, that’s some 67,194 people, could book an appointment on Saturday, Sunday or out of hours on a weekday. A further 71 percent or 450,556 people had access at some of those times. But 114,200 had no access to appointments outside usual hours. Daventry Express Briefing highlights 'pressing challenges facing NHS', says NHS Employers in response to report on staff shortages Briefing highlights 'pressing challenges facing NHS', says NHS Employers in response to report on staff shortages Responding to the report, titled The health care workforce in England: Make or break?, Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers, said: “This briefing clearly highlights the pressing challenges facing the NHS in relation to its workforce. “Employers are clear that there is much they need to do in their organisations to improve the experience of their people. National action is also required: we must secure more flexibility with the use of the apprenticeship levy, as well as reinstating funds to support CPD and workforce development. “We will also continue to campaign, alongside our colleagues in the Cavendish Coalition, for a post-Brexit migration system that supports the recruitment of both highly trained health professionals and much needed, and valued, lower-wage roles in social care.” Right treatment, right time Right treatment, right time This survey of over 1,600 people on their experiences of care and treatment shows that people severely affected by mental illness are often waiting the longest for treatment and receiving the worst care. It found: 28 per cent were not referred to an appropriate service by their GP, 56 per cent did not receive treatment in the appropriate time, and 51 per cent found they did not receive treatment for a sufficient and appropriate length of time. Rethink Mental Illness Letting local systems lead: how the long-term plan could deliver a more sustainable NHS Letting local systems lead: how the long-term plan could deliver a more sustainable NHS According to this report, the NHS long-term plan must help bring about a “breakthrough” in the development of local health and care systems by allowing them greater freedom and minimising central control. The report calls for a focus on tackling the barriers to local system working as NHS England prepares to publish its blueprint for the coming decade. NHS Confederation Medication for mental health: Call to 'end pill-shaming' Medication for mental health: Call to 'end pill-shaming' "You're weak for taking them." "Why do you need that?" "I wouldn't date someone taking medication." These are all examples of pill-shaming - where people criticise others and make them feel guilty for taking medication for their mental health. The Royal College of Psychiatrists is worried that people are being made to feel so ashamed that they're put off getting help for conditions such as anxiety and depression. BBC News Blackpool hospital medic held over poisoning claims Blackpool hospital medic held over poisoning claims A healthcare professional at a hospital has been arrested over the alleged administration of poison or a noxious substance to patients. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust raised concerns over care to some patients on 8 November, Lancashire Police said. The allegations related to the alleged mistreatment and neglect of some patients on the stroke unit in November, police said. BBC News Hospital noise levels growing worse, say researchers Hospital noise levels growing worse, say researchers Noise levels in hospitals are getting worse, research suggests. Anyone who has ever stayed overnight in a hospital will know how difficult it can be to sleep, surrounded by staff, machinery, trolleys and telephones. In the UK, 40% of hospital patients are bothered by noise at night, according to in-patient surveys. But it's not only the patients' wellbeing that may be affected - high noise levels can also have an impact on staff performance and burnout rates. Researchers from King's College London say noise levels in intensive care - where the most vulnerable patients are looked after - regularly exceed 100 decibels. BBC News Mental health patients have been thrown down the Brexit rabbit-hole \| Zoe Williams Mental health patients have been thrown down the Brexit rabbit-hole \| Zoe Williams Normal government has effectively ceased, leaving a crucial health review on hold The whole thing reads like a misprint: if you present at your GP’s with mild to moderate depression or anxiety, you will wait, on average, six weeks for treatment, which itself sounds like a significant amount of time. But if you arrive with a very severe mental illness – schizophrenia or bipolar disorder – you will wait much longer, 14 weeks, just for an assessment. The average wait for treatment to begin is 19 weeks. One in six people wait longer than six months. Parking the human beings for a second, it makes no sense as a system: physical and mental health are not equivalent, and having a psychotic episode is not the same as breaking your leg. But in the broadest possible terms, this is like fast-streaming people with arthritis while leaving cancer sufferers in a half-year limbo. It’s not a system anyone would design; it’s hard to fathom how it could simply evolve. Reading the report from the charity Rethink Mental Illness, though, you cannot park the human beings for very long. Heartbreaking testimonies leap off the page: “These answers were on behalf of my husband, who sadly took his own life six weeks ago … I truly believe that, if he had received therapy sooner, he would still be here.” “I was left for months at a time with no contact from my community psychiatric nurse. Following a suicide attempt, I did not hear from them for a month.” All the determination in the world cannot make more hours in the day, magic more staff on to community psychiatric teams The Guardian America’s opioid crisis is a warning to the NHS \| Chris McGreal America’s opioid crisis is a warning to the NHS \| Chris McGreal The US watchdog that is supposed to protect patients is in thrall to an industry profiting from addiction Years into America’s opioid epidemic, as the death toll climbed into the hundreds of thousands, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a hearing to consider a drug company application to approve a new high-strength painkiller. The FDA assembles advisory committees of doctors and scientists to weigh the arguments for and against new drugs. In 2012, an opioid 10 times more powerful than regular painkillers, Zohydro ER, was on the agenda. By then, no one was in any doubt about the ravages of the worst drug epidemic in US history. So far, it has claimed at least 350,000 lives. Around 150 people a day are dying in a crisis with roots in the push for the mass prescribing of opioid painkillers that took off two decades ago. If one company was making money from a dangerous drug then others were entitled to too The Guardian Elderly are being 'taken for a ride' by care homes charging thousands in hidden fees, health minister warns Elderly are being 'taken for a ride' by care homes charging thousands in hidden fees, health minister warns Vulnerable elderly people are being “taken for a ride” by unscrupulous care homes charging them thousands of pounds extra in hidden fees, a health minister has warned. Care homes have been found to be charging families for care for weeks after residents had died, selling dead residents’ possessions and keeping the cash, and demanding fees for services which were never provided. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today ordered care homes to provide the public with upfront and fair information, amid concern that families are falling victim to underhand tactics that cost them dearly. The Daily Telegraph Outsourcing firms could be banned from carrying out NHS cancer screening services Outsourcing firms could be banned from carrying out NHS cancer screening services Outsourcing companies could be banned from carrying out NHS cancer screening services following scandals where thousands of women were not invited for vital checks. Health chiefs will launch a major national overhaul of cancer screening programmes with aim of cutting the number of deaths of patients whose diseases could have been caught earlier. The announcement follows revelations that up to 48,500 women did not receive information regarding cervical cancer screening after a system error at Capita, which is contracted to provide support services across England. The Daily Telegraph Pensioners are THREE TIMES more likely to hide any mental health conditions Pensioners are THREE TIMES more likely to hide any mental health conditions YouGov surveyed 2,000 adults for the UK pensioner’s charity Independent Age - and found that 24% of them felt uncomfortable with people knowing they were depressed. The Daily Mail Majority of Northamptonshire patients have access ... Briefing highlights 'pressing challenges facing NH... Letting local systems lead: how the long-term plan... Medication for mental health: Call to 'end pill-sh... Blackpool hospital medic held over poisoning claim... Hospital noise levels growing worse, say researche... Mental health patients have been thrown down the B... America’s opioid crisis is a warning to the NHS \| ... Elderly are being 'taken for a ride' by care homes... Outsourcing firms could be banned from carrying ou... Pensioners are THREE TIMES more likely to hide any...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line310
__label__cc	0.600508	0.399492	RIVIERA THEATRERIVIERA THEATRE SET 1: Backwards Down the Number Line [1], Theme From the Bottom[1], Farmhouse[1], Gumbo[1], Kill Devil Falls[1], Halley's Comet[1], Dirt[1], Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan[1], The Wedge[1], Let Me Lie [2], Water in the Sky[2], Wading in the Velvet Sea [3], Heavy Things [4], Liquid Time[4], Hey Ya![4], Push On 'Til the Day SET 2: Gotta Jibboo, Ocelot, Valentine, My Problem Right There, Cayman Review, Burlap Sack and Pumps, Clint Eastwood, Money, Love and Change, Small Axe, The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Night Speaks to a Woman, Ether Sunday, First Tube ENCORE: Sultans of Swing [2] Trey acoustic with Jen and Natalie on vocals. [3] Trey acoustic with Jen and Natalie on vocals. Dedicated to Tom Marshall. [4] Trey acoustic with full TAB. The first set was Trey solo acoustic except “Let Me Lie” through “Wading” (Trey acoustic with Jen and Natalie) “Heavy Things” through “Hey Ya! (Trey acoustic with full TAB), and “Push On” (electric TAB). “Wading” was dedicated to Tom Marshall. Billy Breathes 1 Trey Anastasio, Russell Remington, Jennifer Hartswick, Russ Lawton, Tony Markellis, Ray Paczkowski, Natalie Cressman LivePhish Download Feb 27, 2010: Trey Anastasio Band - Atlanta, GA Feb 27, 2001: Trey Anastasio Band - Blacksburg, VA Feb 27, 1993: Phish - Gainesville, FL Feb 27, 1991: Phish - Knoxville, TN This show was part of the "TAB - Winter 2011 Acoustic/Electric Tour" Review by willtt11 Whoa what a night. I came down from Milwaukee to visit some friends living in Chicago and had an awesome weekend, which peaked out with Sunday's TAB show at the Riviera. We got there about two and a half hours before the start of the show and endured a cold, rainy hour before we made it inside the doors. God bless Emily, who ran in ahead of us and secured an incredibly good spot in the second row, in the dead center of the stage. By far the closest I have ever been to any concert in my life. The wait was almost unbearable, but luckily we met this guy who had some great stories to tell. He had followed Phish from '94-'97, had met Trey, and was even good friends with the Dude of Life. When Trey finally came out, we were crazy excited. It just felt sort of surreal to be so close to him. His first set was almost entirely acoustic. Highlights for me were Backwards Down the Number Line, Theme from the Bottom, Halley's Comet, and Dirt. He got the crowd singing along the different parts and, as usual, seemed to be having a grand time up on stage. Then he invited the backup singers on stage for Let Me Lie, for sure one of my favorite TAB songs. Trey had his eyes closed and was really sincere, which seemed sort of funny given the kind of goofy lyrics the song had. We also got a really sincere Wading in the Velvet Sea, another beautiful number which seemed to give our last "soft satisfaction." For Heavy Things, the whole band came out, and I was jumping up and down like a mad man with my friend Tim. Trey covered Hey Ya!, which I had heard about earlier on the tour, but it was absolutely hilarious and awesome and energy building to experience it from about 7 feet away. Push On 'Til the Day, though, was unreal. Trey did such a great job of building crowd energy up throughout that first set, and went absolutely nuts with that final song of the set. I lost my mind jumping around, and Trey just seemed to be having the time of his life up there, too. It was an incredible end to a really solid set. Gotta Jibboo opened the second set, and the light show really exploded. Ocelot was kick-ass, with a nice touch of horns in the background. He continued with several TAB originals, all of which were great fun for us. And then, what? The girls who were in the front row decide to go to the bathroom, and the three of us get to move up to the front! And then, what? Trey whips out THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA! We were thrashing our heads, Trey absolutely nailed it, and was watching us dance for almost the entire song. He had that silly grin, with his top teeth sticking out, just jamming out of his mind. So that? That was insanely cool. He then did Night Speaks to a Woman, per request of "the guy in the front," who was right behind me. That song just kicked some butt. His eyes, once again, were on us for quite a bit of that tune, which was just the coolest feeling. And then, Ether Sunday, a slow-down jazzy tune that may have been my favorite of the second set. It was unbelievable, Trey would walk over and smile at the girl doing these slow trumpet solos, and then would creep back over toward the front row and would look to ME for approval. Here was one of my musical heroes, just playing a stellar show, and going back and forth between this nasty soloist and me, smiling at the beauty of the moment. I just nodded, gave him some thumbs up, smiled, and soaked it in. He followed with First Tube to close the set. He gave us a really nice jam with that one, and tore down the house. It was just crazy, I was actually front-center to see one of my favorite musicians of all time, and he was tearing down the house. The encore kicked some more ass, and left us all really satisfied. Having such a great time and watching Trey have so much fun on stage made this concert just an incredible experience. I had a big smile on my face as I cleared out of the auditorium on a cold February evening. Review by turquOiseMountain I literally blew my ear drums out for about four days standing in the front row, exactly in front of the stage right PA speaker. To hear Trey solo for the first time was amazing. Acoustic "Wedge" was the standout for me. There was much shredding, great horns, and back up vocals. Review by poolshocker This shows was exactly what I needed! I flew in from Minneapolis to see a friend as well as Trey. The venue was sweet, totally intimate and GA floor. We were real close on the Markellis side and were completely enveloped in the music. The accoustic set was fun. The crowd was involved and sang the non-Trey parts, he even commented on how awesome it sounded from his vantage point. The Heavy Things got the real booty shaking started during the breakdown. The first set finished with the best Push On I've ever heard. The horns were killin' it and the funk had officially started. The electric set started with a killer Gotta Jibboo and ripped into an Ocelot. I hadn't seen Ocelot and loved it! The rest of the electric set was so good and highlighted for me by Ether Sunday. This song got me through one of the worst times of my life and I personally dedicated it to you Eric, RIP. Sorry to those of you around me who got boogied into and had to deal with my frantic cheering. As I said it was exactly what I needed, a night of ripping funk and some killer dance moves on my part. Love you Trey! Come to Minne-Apple-is.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line311
__label__wiki	0.712995	0.712995	Film Review – Jupiter Ascending Jupiter Ascending is an epic sci-fi story written and directed by The Wachowskis (Matrix trilogy, Cloud Atlas) and stars Mila Kunis as Jupiter Jones, an earth-born genetic reincarnation of an ancient alien queen who, unbeknownst to her, has inherited a vast galactic real-estate portfolio that includes the planet earth (the whole thing). The ancient dynastic clan she was born into includes 3 siblings who each would love to get their hands on the inheritance for themselves, and ultimately “harvest” the human population and render their essence into a potion that gives them immortal life. Tracking her down on earth is genetic-mutant canine warrior Caine Wise (Channing Tatum), who protects her from the bounty hunters sent to kill her, reveals her “true destiny” and of course becomes her love interest. Jupiter Ascending is a very ambitious, special-effects laden, action-packed film that has the Wachowski fingerprints all over it. Familiar themes resonate throughout the film, such as humans being reduced to a commodity only except a battery (as in The Matrix), it is a youth potion. Elitism and anti-capitalism play prominently as well, and though saturated with a unique visual style and interesting technology, it makes the film seem a little less original. Visual effects, which no doubt account for the majority of the rumored $175 million budget, are pretty spectacular and successfully create a unique vision of alien worlds on an epic scale. Full of lavish, opulent settings, it’s clear no expense was spared in creating the vision sought by the filmmakers. As would be expected, there are some intense action sequences which include everything from land-bound fight sequences to some very fast-flying dogfight type sequences that are sometimes difficult to fallow and may even make some people dizzy. None of them are particularly groundbreaking, and one fight scene in particular that takes place in very close quarters in a doctors’ office is very reminiscent of the groundbreaking early scene in the Matrix where Trinity escapes after being cornered in a room. But, I did find the anti-gravity “surfing” boots worn by Caine to be fun and innovative. Unfortunately, where Jupiter Ascending excels in visual style, it falls short in substance. The plot is pretty predictable, and the lead character Jupiter Jones comes off like an annoyingly reluctant heroine, overshadowed by the much more interesting character of Caine. The “royal” Abrasax siblings seem too familiar to be an ancient alien race, and instead sound like a bunch of British snobs. But, I would highlight Eddie Redmayne’s as the standout performance- he really goes for it and elicits a significant creep factor. Overall, though it is an enjoyable film with some outstanding visual effects, lavish style and some unique elements, it could greatly benefit from a richer plot and a few more surprises. [youtube id=”bjBmwoweD78″ width=”620″ height=”360″] ::: Renowned For Sound Technical Director and Film Reviewer ::: Robert is an IT geek, movie fan and part-time movie reviewer/editor. Robert also looks after the ‘behind the scenes’ technical elements of Renowned For Sound. Tags: Channing Tatum Jupiter Ascending Mila Kunis Previous Film Review – X + Y Next DVD Review – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Film Review – Jackie Film Review – Assassin’s Creed Film Review – The Edge of Seventeen	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line318
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INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh Haldia Institute of Technology (HIT), Purba Medinipur , West Bengal Harayana Institute of Technology (HIT), Bahadurgarh, Haryana Harcourt Butler Technological Institute Kanpur (HBTI), Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh HCL EDUCATION, Bhubaneswar, Orissa Hemchand Mangilal Sharma College , Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Heritage Hospitals Ltd, , Uttar Pradesh Heritage Institute of Hotel and Tourism (HIHT), Agra, Uttar Pradesh Heritage Institute of Technology (HIT), Kolkata, West Bengal Himalayan Institute of Technology, Dehradun, Uttaranchal Hindu College, Sonepat, Haryana Hindustan College of Science & Technological, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh HL Center for Professional Education (HLCPE), Ahmedabad , Gujarat Ideal Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh IET Group of Institutions, Alwar, Rajasthan IILM Academy of Higher Learning, Greater Noida , Uttar Pradesh IILM Institute for Higher Education, Gurgaon, Haryana IILM School of Design, Gurgaon, Haryana 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__label__cc	0.733844	0.266156	The Fourth Estate The position of our national print and broadcast media on Brexit is telling. Here is my somewhat subjective snapshot Telegraph - The only pro-Brexit broadsheet left, indeed the only pro-Brexit print national left. But gamely features columns by arch Remainiacs Blair, Hague et al from time to time just to draw a thousand angry negative comments for each Daily Express - Was a staunch Leaver, but I suspect the advertisers have got to it. It can't afford to lose it's reader demographic so now punts for the Selmayr-Robbins Treaty Sun - Likewise, a soft Leaver with a shouty voice Daily Remain - Was a staunch Leaver until its owners changed editor from Dacre to Greggs. Remain Online maintains its success for an internet audience that will skip a Brexit story for a long page of photos of Megan. Actually a soft remainer that features just enough Leave columns to breathe - with comments filled with angry, betrayed Leavers All the Rest - Remain and always have been. Mirror, Times, Guardian, FT, i online and of course the broadcast media BBC and Sky. And the free lifestyle adsheet in London the 'Evening Standard' which used to be a newspaper and whose lifestyle wallpaper and chic nik-naks columns are now managed by failed Remain Chancellor George Osborne (Osborne and Little Paints and Papers Ltd). So. One paper and not a single national broadcaster. That's the power of the global corporates' stock market power and advertising budgets for you. Labels: betrayal, Brexit That's the power of the global corporates' stock market power and advertising budgets for you. So you're saying that Big Business -of the sort that can afford to advertise in the national print media- thinks that Brexit is a Bad Idea, infact the Baddest Idea since Franz said 'lets do Sarajevo this morning, Schatzi'? Who'd have thunk it. On the upside for Leavers, it does boost their 'Dolchstoss' myth and gives us Brits something to whinge about for at least the next century. It's to the credit of the British people that they are standing up to these corporate and media bullies and are demanding the real Brexit they voted for. So currently the only outlets for people like me, is people like you Raedwald. Never fear, don't get overexcited, Sorearse and chums will be after you, after facebook. Which is the only point where we disagree, I reckon that what we are seeing being done to the Alex Jones's, the PJ Watson's and yes even the yaxley-loathings, whatever one feels about them is the direction that the establishment would like to take all media... Out of the reach of ordinary folk! Just hoping that Bannon maintains interest long enough to keep the London centric Breitbart pages going. It's the last refuge for this democrat and patriot. Yes Jack, big business loves the EU. Who would have thunk it? Might be a reason so many of us are against it? Please give all this "Ooh look at me I know a few words of German, What a sophisticated "european" I am" bollocks a rest. It's not big and it's not clever and it certainly doesn't help your arguments. I think we all know the difference between a stab in the back and blatantly pissing in our faces. R-W I'd agree to a point - but it strikes me that the Yaxley-Lemons and their like are actually working on behalf of the global corporates; by deflecting public anger away from the elite 1%, the globalists, towards Muslim shopkeepers working 70 hpw, they're doing a great job of protecting the guilty. Oh I don't dispute a few hundred semi-literate primitives whose minds are back some fetid post-mediaval village in the 'stans have wreaked havoc in our liberal and open society, and that thousands of young innocents have suffered dreadfully, but against the globalists behind them, who have used them as much as they have abused us, their crimes are insignificant. Masochistic listening to BBC news programmes is bad enough without subjection to print editions. I can hardly bear to read the headlines, let alone the content. My saviour is the monthly light thud of Viz arriving through my letterbox. Without the normality of the Fat Slags, Gilbert Ratchet, Drunken Bakers and - returning this month - FELIX & his AMAZING UNDERPANTS I would be jumping a flight to Dignitas. That is not my point Raedwald... It is not what those types are saying, it is the fact that they are saying it and people can read what they have published. As per Simon Wiesenthal. Very soon, the only voice will be not Paul Joseph Watson cleverly ranting about whatever he rants about, it will be Josef Goebbels (or Tony Blair) telling us his facts. We already have this on LBC which just about pays lipservice to non-corporatist views, by allowing our Nige onto the air. Of course the rest of the time it is wall to wall James "1984" (evidence based) O'Brien, or Sheila whatever, spouting their best corporatist views and channelling Sorearse. Cedric Pugh said... It's what they did pre-2016 that matters. Of course they're shifting now, as it becomes clear that any kind of exit will make life materially worse for the UK and for Ireland's people. They should own their mess, as should the Leave voters. Cedric, I prefer my mess, to your order. The media has always been owned by the establishment. " it becomes clear that any kind of exit will make life materially worse for the UK " That isn't clear to me, but it would be worth suffering a bit of poverty to escape from the EU Empire. Anyway, the British economy is exceptionally prosperous at present, so we can stand a period of recession. A Marxist government would do far more damage than leaving the EU customs union. Raed - Disappointed to hear you quote " Muslim shopkeepers working 70 hpw" as targets for Yaxley-Pipewrench (and his followers?) when his actual target is far more widely known and appreciated. Such 70hr workers are precisely the people this country wants and needs (and are welcomed) but the others....? I've always lambasted the media for their targetted and biased content and recent events are being used heavily to progress the censorship that is 'required' to prevent the people learning the truth. The warning by r-w is apt, prominent and growing. and it certainly doesn't help your arguments. Mark But ad-homs do yours? No point in Leavers whinging about the Golden Shower, when they voted for it. @Jack ketch: those corporations were always very openly for Remain @Cedric: I voted presuming a harsh downturn but as per R-W happy to accept it as 'our mess' to be sorted by us. @Dave_G, agree 100%, anyone who calls TR/Yaxley/whatever a racist clearly doesn't know or care to know. Also he openly protects "Muslim shopkeepers working 70 hpw" and has many amongst his friends. @Billy Marlene: very glad to hear VIZ is still going: their 1989 Christmas album should be a treasure in all libraries: Roger Melly, Parky, Mrs Brady old Lady, the Snowman (oh no, not that fecking kid again), Finbar Saunders etc al. What May is doing is not what I voted for. Mark The Skint Sailor said... Cedric Pugh: As I ticked the leave box on the referendum, I did so with a clear conscience. Knowing full well there may be a short period of adjustment, it was still a small price to pay to give a country free from unelected rule and law makers to my children and grandchildren. The EU machine is not government, it's tyranny. Once so commanded by the people, it was the government's job to smooth out any bumps in the process of leaving. It was not their job to thwart leaving, nor to come up with a scheme to look like leaving but not actually leaving. Unfortunately it looks like the government and Parliament in general, did not get the message and go about their task with good intent. Sadly, it appears the people will have to send another message to Parliament at the next election, when it comes. Should one assume if one's posts aren't showing across multiple threads that you are persona non grata? Helps to know so one can get on with other things. Methinks the Lady doth protest overmuch. I don't know whom you voted for in the last GE but if Leavers voted for either May or Corbyn , they obviously wanted what they are now getting...or they were gullible enough to believe the promises of politicians who (for the most part) were passionate Remainers until the 24.06.16. Either 'you' (as in the collective, I try not to Adhom) were masochists of a sort that would have left De Sade shaking his head or so gullible that they should be accompanied at all times by a responsible adult. @Jack ketch: those corporations were always very openly for Remain-Span Ows Yep...probably following the dictates of their balance sheets, its a 'business thing' I'd assume. Committing financial Hari-Kiri tends to piss off share holders...strangely enough. Oh come on! Yes we knew that they establishment were remainers. Yes we knew that the referendum was only held as they expected a remain vote, but the referendum was held and the promise to respect the outcome was clearly stated. This isn't the usual bullshit about internal policies and promises. This is about the fundamental sovereignty of parliament and the country. They clearly weren't going to give up easily and delays and obfuscation were to be expected. But this? How many times has that woman and her grotesque herd of familiars blatantly lied? Not that it matters but I've never voted labour and haven't voted Tory since 1992. But even if I had, why should I, or anyone expect this? And why do you have such messianic belief in the unelected Brussels politburo if national elected politicians behave like this. What actually were remainers voting to stay in? How gullible do you have be to believe the pro EU bollocks? So shouldn't the referendum have been held at all (that clearly was the preferred option and Cameron only proposed it because he didn't think he would win a majority) or should it have been held with the options "remain" and "leave - put a cross here only if you're stupid enough to believe us" @Matt said, 13:36 Only very short time whilst posts are pre-moderated. It says under the comment box "Comment moderation has been enabled. All comments must be approved by the blog author." And why do you have such messianic belief in the unelected Brussels politburo I do? Perhaps you haven't had the misfortune of reading my comments here over the last couple of years. I am possibly even less enamoured with Brussels than most leavers. Perhaps so but you did appear rather vexed previously at the thought of losing EU "citizenship" and were less than complimentary in comparing leavers to the more historically rambunctious of our angular craniumed European brethren. And let's not forget all that BrexSShite business. Just extrapolating from the balance of insults. Just extrapolating from the balance of insults. -Mark And you are correct in so far that i AM still mightily pissed at being deprived of my EU ' Citizenship' by a stahlhelm (just to chuck in some Kraut to keep up appearances) wearing mob of brexsshiteurs (just so I don't get out of practice). I doubt that anger will ever fade. However that doesn't mean I am in any way nasally 'blind' to the stench of corruption wafting across the channel nor the manifold downsides to EU membership. This is not a facetious question. If the EU stinks of corruption (and this is the corruption of centuries for much of Europe) why do you think it's going to work politically? And remember what the end goal is, this having been clearly stated since 2016 (finally!) Never mind the zero sum economy (Germany wins everybody else loses) that is the politically inspired Eurozone disaster. Politics can be fudged, doomsday economonics can't. If you (before you kick off, the generic "you") want this country to be subsumed in the EU what will that look like? Not what you'd like it to look like. I don't know what Brexit will look like, good bad or indifferent. I would posit that there is rather more evidence of the coming EU implosion than any long term problems from us leaving. They've been trying to resurrect the Roman empire for something like 1200 years. Why is it going to succeed now? Committing financial Hari-Kiri tends to piss off share holders...strangely enough. Seriously? You expect big businesses to be losers in any No Deal Brexit? Instead of £gazillion they might make £gazillion - £10 but, as is much more likely, they will cream it in no matter which route we take - such is the way of big business, such is it ever will be. The No Deal situation has bugger all to do with trade and everything to do with the EU failing to achieve its monopolistic, totalitarian, dictatorial aims and instead being exposed as a high-cost, low-productivity, red-tape-infested environment that other member countries will likely seek to leave in droves. And that's aside from the imposed immigration crisis they're manufacturing. it's going to work politically?-Mark Short answer because at some point Raed is going to get pissed off with me taking this thread OT. Why its going to work politically? Because it already does, despite or maybe because of the corruption. Just take today's events alone. Tusk-a failed Polish politician hated at home to almost Blairian levels- has (I ASSUME) managed to get the democratically elected leaders of 27 other sovereign, independent states to agree on a 'line' to take regarding May's plea for an extension. 27 leaders who all have their own democratically, elected, sovereign parliaments, their own 'troublesome priests' to deal with. That's 27 European nations who wouldn't, left to their own devices, be able to agree on a common colour standard for Police Cars...let alone what sound the siren should make. You expect big businesses to be losers in any No Deal Brexit? Instead of £gazillion they might make £gazillion - £10 but, as is much more likely, they will cream it in no matter which route we take - such is the way of big business, such is it ever will be. Dave G I expect the Shareholders in any No Deal Brexit to be the losers, and the poor sods on the conveyor belt. The Big Biz themselves (ie the board/CEO) have been wargaming Brexit options since Farage first crawled out of Mordor whinging it was his birthday and he wanted a precious...or referendum. They will 'cut the bottom', 'trim', 'diversify', issue stock warnings and then accept a few paltry millions in bonuses for 'taking the tough decisions'. European nations "left to their own devices". Can't have that can we! MPs are 'Enemies of the People' - Betrayal latest People v. Parliament - the chasm widens Will no one rid us of this bloody woman? The Sanctimonious Dwarf It's official ... as long as the EU agree. Er, hav...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line321
__label__wiki	0.580892	0.580892	iTunes Store: Top Paid Books Point of Retreat - Colleen Hoover Point of Retreat Publish Date: August 10, 2012 Seller: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc. In the second book in the Slammed series by New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, Layken and Will's relationship has endured through hardships, heartache, and a cruel twist of fate, further solidifying the fact that they belong together. But the two lovers could not have expected that the things that brought them together may ultimately be the things that tear them apart. Their connection is on the brink of being destroyed forever and it will take an extraordinary amount of willpower to keep their love afloat. Layken is left questioning the very foundation on which her relationship with Will was built. Will is left questioning how he can prove his love for a girl who can't seem to stop "carving pumpkins." Upon finding the answers that may bring peace back into their relationship, the couple comes across an even greater challenge — one that could change not only their lives but the lives of everyone who depends on them. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell The Story of Success Genre: Psychology Publish Date: November 18, 2008 Seller: Hachette Digital, Inc. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"–the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate. Outlaw Platoon - Sean Parnell & John Bruning Outlaw Platoon Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan Sean Parnell & John Bruning Genre: Military Publish Date: February 28, 2012 Seller: HarperCollins In combat, men measure up. Or don't. There are no second chances. In this vivid account of the U.S. Army's legendary 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan, Captain Sean Parnell shares an action-packed and highly emotional true story of triumph, tragedy, and the extraordinary bonds forged in battle. At twenty-four years of age, U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell was named commander of a forty-man elite infantry platoona unit that came to be known as the Outlawsand was tasked with rooting out Pakistan-based insurgents from a mountain valley along Afghanistan's eastern frontier. Parnell and his men assumed they would be facing a ragtag bunch of civilians, but in May 2006 what started out as a routine patrol through the lower mountains of the Hindu Kush became a brutal ambush. Barely surviving the attack, Parnell's men now realized that they faced the most professional and seasoned force of light infantry the U.S. Army had encountered since the end of World War II. What followed was sixteen months of close combat, over the course of which the platoon became Parnell's family: from Staff Sergeant Greg Greeson, the wise, chain-smoking veteran who never lost his cool; to Specialist Robert Pinholt, a buttoned-down conservative with the heart of a warrior and the mind of an economist; to Staff Sergeant Phil Baldwin, the platoon's voice of calm and reason, a man who sacrificed everything following the events of 9/11career, home, financial stabilityto serve his country. But the cost of battle was high for these men: Over 80 percent were wounded in action, putting their casualty rate among the highest since Gettysburg, and not all of them made it home. A searing and unforgettable story of friendship in battle, Outlaw Platoon brings to life the intensity and raw emotion of those sixteen months, showing how the fight reshaped the lives of Parnell and his men and how the love and faith they found in one another ultimately kept them alive. Opposite Attraction - Bernadette Marie Opposite Attraction The Keller Family Series Bernadette Marie Publisher: 5 Prince Publishing Seller: Bernadette Soehner Curtis Keller is a lucky man. He has the love and support of a family like no other. But he'd never fallen in love with a woman. He liked to play the field, have a good time, and enjoyed friends with benefits. But when wild child Simone Pierpont comes into his life for the first time he considered settling down—that was until she stranded him. Simone Pierpont fell in love. She hadn't meant to, but her best friend's brother-in-law had treated the Parisian oil heiress with more compassion than she'd ever known. What was she to do? So she left him stranded on a yacht in the French Rivera. Now, cut off from her father's fortune, a pregnant, and desperate to win Curtis's hear; Simone must prove to everyone she can hold down a job and take care of herself. Curtis isn't sure the princess can change, but because of his caring nature he has a hard time turning her away. However, all efforts might be for not when he learns about her pregnancy and she is forced to run back to her father. But Curtis will eventually understand and come for her—or so she hopes. Odd Apocalypse - Dean Koontz Odd Apocalypse Publish Date: July 31, 2012 Seller: Random House Digital, Inc. (Books) The stallion reared over me, silently slashing the air with the hooves of its forelegs, a creature of such immense power that I stumbled backward even though I knew that it was as immaterial as a dream. . . .   The woman astride the ghostly mount reaches out desperately, the latest spirit to enlist the aid of Odd Thomas, the unassuming young fry cook whose gift—or curse—it is to see the shades of the restless dead, and to help them when he can. This mission of mercy will lead Odd through realms of darkness he has never before encountered, as he probes the long-held secrets of a sinister estate and those who inhabit it.   ODD APOCALYPSE   Once presided over by a flamboyant Hollywood mogul during the Roaring ’20s, the magnificent West Coast property known as Roseland is now home to a reclusive billionaire financier and his faithful servants. And, at least for the moment, it’s also a port in the storm for Odd Thomas and his traveling companion, the inscrutably charming Annamaria, the Lady of the Bell. In the wake of Odd’s most recent clash with lethal adversaries, the opulent manor’s comforts should be welcome. But there’s far more to Roseland than meets even the extraordinary eye of Odd, who soon suspects it may be more hell than haven.   A harrowing taste of Roseland’s terrors convinces Odd that it’s time to hit the road again. Still, the prescient Annamaria insists that they’ve been led there for a reason, and he’s promised to do his best for the ghost on horseback. Just how deep and dreadful are the mysteries Roseland and her masters have kept for nearly a century? And what consequences await whoever is brave, or mad, enough to confront the most profound breed of evil? Odd only knows. Like his acclaimed creator, the irresistible Odd Thomas is in top-notch form—as he takes on what may well be the most terrifying challenge yet in his curious career.   ACCLAIM FOR DEAN KOONTZ AND HIS ODD THOMAS NOVELS “This is Koontz working at his pinnacle, providing terrific entertainment that deals seriously with some of the deepest themes of human existence: the nature of evil, the grip of fate and the power of love.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Odd Thomas   “Supernatural thrills with a side of laughs.” —The Denver Post, on Brother Odd   “The nice young fry cook with the occult powers is Koontz’s most likable creation . . . candid, upright, amusing and sometimes withering.” —The New York Times Obama’s America - Dinesh D’Souza Obama’s America Unmaking the American Dream Genre: Politics & Current Events Publisher: Regnery Publishing Seller: The Perseus Books Group, LLC In his controversial New York Times bestseller, The Roots of Obama's Rage , Dinesh D'Souza answered the question on everyone's mind: why is President Obama hell-bent on seeing America fail? The reason, D'Souza explained, is Obama's fervent anti-colonial ideology. Now, in his blockbuster follow-up, Obama's America , D'Souza shows how President Obama is applying his anti-colonial ideology to unmake America and turn it into a country our Founders would hardly recognize. Obama came into office with an eight-year plan for America, argues D'Souza. In almost four years, he's crippled our economy, healthcare system, and global stature through invasive big-government policies. If he's re-elected in 2012, he will be able to finish the job, and destroy America's future. Making the case that Obama must be a one-term president, Obama's America reveals what unchecked power will do to this great nationand is a must-read for anyone who cares about America and her future. Not Planning On You - Sydney Landon Not Planning On You Danvers: Book Two Sydney Landon Publisher: Sydney Landon Seller: Gossamer Publishing, LLC REVIEW: Like the first in the Danver's series, Weekends Required, this book offers wonderful heart felt characters. The story may be familiar, but the writing is so completely well done with a witty heroine and a sensitive hero. Very sweet and sexy love story. Suzy Denton seems to have it all together. She loves her job as an event's planner for Danvers International, and she loves her high school sweetheart and fiance Jeff. Fast forward a month and it's all gone to hell in a hand-basket. She finds out Jeff's dentist has been doing more than drilling his teeth, and Danvers is in the process of merging with Mericom creating the largest communications company in the US and also bringing Gray Merimon, the CEO of Mericom into her life. Gray pursues her from almost their first meeting. Even though he looks like sex on a stick, Suzy is afraid of being hurt again, and she thinks Gray is just another stuffed shirt looking for a relationship. When he calls her bluff, Suzy agrees to one night of sex, hoping that he will be terrible in bed and she can finally get him out of her system. When circumstances throw them together for more than one night, can Gray convince Suzy that two complete opposites can be a perfect fit? No Easy Day - Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer No Easy Day The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer Expected Publish Date: September 4, 2012 Publisher: Penguin Group US Seller: Penguin Group (USA) Inc. For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group — commonly known as SEAL Team Six — has been a part of some of the most memorable special operations in history, as well as countless missions that never made headlines. No Easy Day puts readers alongside Owen and the other handpicked members of the twenty-four-man team as they train for the biggest mission of their lives. The blow-by-blow narrative of the assault, beginning with the helicopter crash that could have ended Owen’s life straight through to the radio call confirming Bin Laden’s death, is an essential piece of modern history. In N o Easy Day , Owen also takes readers onto the field of battle in America’s ongoing War on Terror and details the selection and training process for one of the most elite units in the military. Owen’s story draws on his youth in Alaska and describes the SEALs’ quest to challenge themselves at the highest levels of physical and mental endurance. With boots-on-the-ground detail, Owen describes numerous previously unreported missions that illustrate the life and work of a SEAL and the evolution of the team after the events of September 11. In telling the true story of the SEALs whose talents, skills, experiences, and exceptional sacrifices led to one of the greatest victories in the War on Terror, Mark Owen honors the men who risk everything for our country, and he leaves readers with a deep understanding of the warriors who keep America safe. Mobile Wave - Michael Saylor Mobile Wave How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything Michael Saylor Genre: Marketing & Sales Publish Date: June 26, 2012 Publisher: Vanguard Press In the tradition of international bestsellers, Future Shock and Megatrends, Michael J. Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, brings The Mobile Wave, a ground-breaking analysis of the impact of mobile intelligence—the fifth wave of computer technology. The Mobile Wave argues that the changes brought by mobile computing are so big and widespread that it’s impossible for us to see it all, even though we are all immersed in it. Saylor explains that the current generation of mobile smart phones and tablet computers has set the stage to become the universal computing platform for the world. In the hands of billions of people and accessible anywhere and anytime, mobile computers are poised to become an appendage of the human being and an essential tool for modern life. With the perspective of a historian, the precision of a technologist, and the pragmatism of a CEO, Saylor provides a panoramic view of the future mobile world. The Look of Love (A Contemporary Romance) - Bella Andre The Look of Love (A Contemporary Romance) The Sullivans Book 1 Publisher: Bella Andre Seller: Nyree Belleville With THE LOOK OF LOVE, bestselling author Bella Andre introduces you to the fun and emotional contemporary romance series about the Sullivan family. Because when a Sullivan bad boy falls…he falls hard. And it's forever. BOOK DESCRIPTION: Chloe Peterson is having a bad night. A really bad night. The large bruise on her cheek can attest to that. And when her car skids off the side of a wet country road straight into a ditch, she’s convinced even the gorgeous guy who rescues her in the middle of the rain storm must be too good to be true. Or is he? As a successful photographer who frequently travels around the world, Chase Sullivan has his pick of beautiful women, and whenever he’s home in San Francisco, one of his seven siblings is usually up for causing a little fun trouble. Chase thinks his life is great just as it is—until the night he finds Chloe and her totaled car on the side of the road in Napa Valley. Not only has he never met anyone so lovely, both inside and out, but he quickly realizes she has much bigger problems than her damaged car. Soon, he is willing to move mountains to love—and protect—her, but will she let him? Chloe vows never to make the mistake of trusting a man again. Only, with every loving look Chase gives her—and every sinfully sweet caress—as the attraction between them sparks and sizzles, she can’t help but wonder if she’s met the only exception. And although Chase didn’t realize his life was going to change forever in an instant, amazingly, he isn’t the least bit interested in fighting that change. Instead, he’s gearing up for a different fight altogether…for Chloe’s heart. REVIEWS… "The Look of Love is an emotionally compelling, thoroughly sexy, lovely read. I can't wait for more Sullivan brothers!" Carly Phillips, NY Times Bestselling Author "The Look of Love is the perfect combination of sexy heat and tender heart. This character driven romance has brains, brawn and the perfect bad boy to launch a whole family's worth of fun." Barbara Freethy, #1 NY Times Bestselling Author "Pure sensual fun! I couldn't read fast enough. I loved everything about Chase and Chloe's story. I'm hooked on the Sullivans!" Marie Force, Bestselling Author "No one does sexy like Bella Andre." 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__label__cc	0.721098	0.278902	Stabilizing Dipolar Interactions Drive Specific Molecular Structure at the Water Liquid-Vapor Interface Besford, Q, Liu, M and Christofferson, A 2018, 'Stabilizing Dipolar Interactions Drive Specific Molecular Structure at the Water Liquid-Vapor Interface', Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 122, no. 34, pp. 8309-8314. Besford, Q Liu, M Christofferson, A Journal of Physical Chemistry B Using molecular dynamics simulations we probe the structure and interactions at the water liquid-vapor (LV) interface. In the interfacial region, strong ordering of dipole moments is observed, where water molecules exhibit "frustrated" orientations. By selectively analyzing the dipolar potential of mean force between these frustrated molecules and other molecules, we find a significant enhancement of dipolar interactions across the interfacial region. This interaction is derived in terms of a component of the surface tension, with a temperature-dependent magnitude of Ôê=Ôê20 mN m-1, representing a stabilizing interaction at the interface. This stabilization has the same magnitude, but opposite sign, to the surface tension of alkanes and short-chain alcohols. Our results highlight a mechanism by which interfacial waters recover lost free energy from an absence of van der Waals interactions in the vapor region and likely explains the driving force for specific water structure at the LV interface. Theoretical and Computational Chemistry not elsewhere classified frequency vibrational spectroscopy air/water interface hydrophobic surfaces aqueous interfaces 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b06464 © 2018 American Chemical Society. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b06464 Link to Published Version	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line343
__label__wiki	0.765282	0.765282	[The Royal Society.] Four printed documents relating to the 289th Anniversary Dinner at the Dorchester Hotel, London: Copies of speeches by the President, Professor E. D. Adrian, and Viscount Portal of Hungerford; Menu; and 'Plan of Tables'. The Royal Society, London [289th Anniversary Dinner, Dorchester Hotel, London]; Professor Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Nobel Prize winner; Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford [The Royal Society, London.] Dinner held on St Andrew's Day [30 November] 1951, at the Dorchester Hotel, London. 'Plan of Tables' printed by Headley Brothers Ltd, 109 Kingsway, London, WC2, and Ashford, Kent. The four items in good condition, lightly-aged. ONE: 'The Royal Society \| Speech of the President, Professor E. D. Adrian, O.M., at the Anniversary Dinner, Dorchester Hotel, on 30 November 1951.' Duplicated typescript. 5pp., short 8vo. On five leaves stapled together. TWO: 'The Royal Society \| Speech by the Viscount Portal of Hungerford at the Anniversary Dinner on 30 November 1951'. 6pp., long 8vo. Duplicated typescript. On six leaves stapled together. THREE: Cover reads: 'The Royal Society \| Professor E. D. Adrian, O.M. \| President \| Anniversary Dinner \| Dorchester Hotel \| St. [The Army of Peru in the nineteenth century.] Printed handbill with tables and text, headed 'Cuadro Que manifiesta la organizacion del Ejército permanente, los cuerpos que lo forman, el número de sus companias y la fuerza efectiva de cada uno.' The Army of Peru [Ejército del Perú] [South American military history; nineteenth-century warfare] 'Núm. 2.' [Peru. 1860s?] Attractively printed on one side of a piece of 37 x 41 cm wove paper, with decorative rules and borders. 'Núm. 2.' in top right-hand corner. Four tables, on 'Artilleria' (600 men and 280 horses), 'Infanteria' (1860 men), 'Caballeria' (comprising 'Rejimiento Húzares de Junin', 'Idem Lanceros de Torata' and 'Idem Escolta del Gobierno') and 'Resumon por clases de todas armas' (3000 men and 1040 horses). Five lines of text in small type at foot. HANDBILL NINETEENTH On new tables of the moon's parallax, to be substituted for those of Burckhardt. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode. Without date, but docketed in pencil as an offprint 'From Nautical Almanac 1856'. English astronomer (1819-92) whose mathematical prediction of the existence of Neptune anticipated Le Verrier's discovery of that planet. Octavo. Unbound. Ten leaves and one blank. Paginated [35]-53. Very good. Five pages of text (35-9), four tables (pp.40-3) and a set of 'Tables containing the corrections to be applied to the values of the moon's equatorial horizontal parallax given in the nautical almanacs 1840-1855, in order to make them agree with those calculated from Mr. Adams' tables.' (pp.46-53). One small closed tear to antepenultimate leaf. Pamphlets and Books Science, Medicine and Technology NINETEENTH-CENTURY The causes of death among the assured in the Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society from 1874 to 1894 inclusive. Claud Muirhead, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, Limited. 1902. 4to. Pages: viii + 103. Appendix consisting of nine detailed actuarial tables. Tight copy, in grubby, stained and worn printed paper boards. From the library of the librarian of the Medical Society of London, Nehemiah Asherson, and with the Society's oval stamp on the verso of the title. Small circular label on front board. WIDOWS' Tables astronomiques publiées par le Bureau des Longitudes de France. Tables de la lune, par M. Burckhardt. Johann Karl Burckhardt [Bureau des Longitudes, Paris] Paris: Mme Ve Courcier, Imprimeur-Libraire pour les Mathématiques, Quai des Augustins, No. 57. Décembre 1812. Burckhardt (1773-1825) was a German astronomer, who first computed the orbits of a number of comets. First and only edition. Quarto. Pages: viii + 88. A rare survival, but in very poor condition: grubby, creased, stained and frayed at edges. In remains of makeshift wraps. Text perfectly legible throughout. Some scholarly annotations in pencil and pen. BURCKHARDT	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line345
__label__wiki	0.671866	0.671866	About Deborah Roffman In the News (2015- ) In the News (2010 – 2014) Vintage Roffman Deborah Roffman is the subject of in-depth profile in The Atlantic. As part of their project “On Teaching,” The Atlantic today published Sarah Carr’s profile of Deborah Roffman, “The Questions Sex-Ed Students Always Ask.”For 45 years, Deborah Roffman has let students’ curiosities guide her lessons on sexuality and relationships.” (Sarah Carr, The Atlantic, January 13, 2020.) “For 45 years, Deborah Roffman has let students’ curiosities guide her lessons on sexuality and relationships.” More excerpts … “Roffman’s title of human-sexuality educator has not changed since she arrived at the Park School in 1975, but the dimensions of her role there have steadily grown. So, too, has her outside work in consulting and teacher training: Over the years, she has advised at nearly 400 schools, most of them private. “Initially, Roffman taught elective classes in sexuality to the juniors and seniors at Park, but within two years, she had expanded to seventh and eighth graders. In the 1980s, she added fourth and fifth graders to her roster. She also meets annually with the parents of students as young as kindergartners, to coach them on how to talk with their children about sexuality, and she leads summer training for the Park’s elementary-school teachers on incorporating sexuality instruction into their classrooms. “There is this knowledge that we keep in a box about sexuality, waiting until kids are ‘old enough,’” Roffman told me. “My job is to change that.” “During the next several years, Roffman not only made sure the school remembered to talk to students about sex but steadily built up the curriculum. At Park, students learn about standard fare like birth control and sexually transmitted diseases but also delve into issues such as the history of abortion rights, changing conceptions of gender roles, and how to build respectful, intimate relationships.” Looking to train your PreK-Lower School faculty to teach sexuality education? Learn what Debbie can provide for schools and for national and regional associations. Get the Program Overview \| More Information about Presentations \| See a List of Schools where Debbie has Presented Debbie joins Third Space on VoicEd Radio with Jen Cort to discuss her insights on understanding gender, gender identity, gender expression, talking about sexuality with kids and more. (Original podcast May 13, 2019.) Listen to “Deborah Roffman – Talk Sexuality” on Spreaker. AMAZE LAUNCHES GROUNDBREAKING VIDEO SERIES TO HELP PARENTS TALK ABOUT SEXUALITY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN Click for the Complete Video Series About Debbie Roffman Named one of Time Magazine’s “Top Sixteen Parenting Experts for the 21st Century,” Debbie Roffman is a sexuality educator, consultant, and author based in Baltimore, Maryland, where she has taught sexuality education in grades 4-12 at the Park School for more than 35 years. Debbie’s most recent book, Talk to Me First: Everything You Need to Know to Become Your Kids’ “Go-To” Person About Sex, was published in 2013 by Perseus Books. In addition to her constant writing and teaching, she’s worked with parents, teachers, counselors, administrators, students, alumni, and trustees at more than 400 schools and organizations across the country, and she publishes widely throughout the national media. She’s referred to by her colleagues as the most articulate professional voice in the US on the need for broad-based human sexuality education. Her ability to find common ground by keeping the focus on young people and their universal needs around healthy sexual development is one of her gifts. More about Debbie Roffman The “THIRTEEN GOOD IDEAS TO LIVE BY” poster was developed as a learning and discussion tool to help everyday adults in children’s lives get ahead of the unhealthy, inaccurate, and misleading messages to which children inevitably will be exposed. The Thirteen Good Ideas Project was conceived under the auspices of the ADVOC8 PROGRAM at The Park School of Baltimore, a progressive, coeducational K-12 Independent School. ALL PROCEEDS from poster sales will directly support Park’s 8th grade Social Justice initiatives in and around Baltimore City. For information about ordering, write us at: ADVOC8@parkschool.net General Pricing for Flat Posters (bulk discounts and foam backing are also available): 13” X 17” = $10.00 ea. 24” X “32”= $15.00 ea. Place orders at: ADVOC8 @parkschool.net Holding-off Talking to Your Child About Sex? Talk Sooner, Not Later Debbie Roffman is quted extensively in a recent article by Kristin Shaw on AlphaMom. The article discusses the short videos from AMAZE, like “How Do You Talk to Young Kids about Sex?” which represent Debbie’s views and suggestions. An excerpt: 1. It is never too early to start having conversations, and it’s on you to start them. Remember, brief, more frequent talks are more effective than one big talk. 2. Kids just want the basics. Find out what they know and go from there. You can’t share too much. What they don’t understand goes over their heads. 3. You don’t need to know all the answers. Be honest and tell them you don’t know but you can research it and get back to them. Then follow-up. 4. There are no gender-based rules when it comes to conversations. Talk to your young kids about consent early on. It’s about body autonomy, not sex. Debbie Roffman is available for presentations, consulting. Go to Presentations to learn about the full range of Debbie’s activities and to request an engagement. And go to In the News for more news and writing by and about Debbie Roffman. AMAZE, the Sex Ed playlist for 10-14-year-olds featuring over 50 animated videos on the nuances of puberty and growing up, is launching the “AMAZE Parent Playlist” for parents of 4-9 year-olds. The Parent Playlist marks a new target audience for the AMAZE series and is designed specifically to help parents as they broach these complicated topics with even younger children in an informative and age-appropriate manner. “The earlier that parents can begin a dialogue with their children, the better – and while it may feel difficult to talk to very young children about sensitive topics, our kids will be healthier in the future,” said Deborah Roffman, sexuality educator and content expert for the AMAZE Parents Playlist. “For so many parents, the idea of talking to young children about sexuality sparks existential dread. But it doesn’t have to be that way – these videos will help parents ease their fears, leave embarrassment at the door, and find comfortable ways to lay the groundwork for a healthy outlook on everything from relationships, consent, body image, and much more.” With titles ranging from “How Do You Talk to Young Kids About ‘Sex’” to “Where Do Babies Come From” to “Is Playing Doctor OK?,” the first 10 animated videos in the AMAZE Parent Playlist will help parents continue building an open dialogue with their kids and lay the groundwork to lead safe and healthy lives. All 10 videos are available here. AMAZE, funded by the Westwind Foundation, is a collaboration between Advocates for Youth, Answer, and Youth Tech Health working to create an engaging, age appropriate, online sex education resource for young people aged 4-14. There’s help for parents and teachers too. Visit AMAZE.org for tools to help facilitate a healthy discussion with your kids and students about these essential but sensitive subjects. Supporting Healthy Relationships Amoung Youth Click image for a larger view. New York Times publishes Debbie Roffman’s Letter to the Editor Debbie Roffman’s letter to the editor of the New York Times was published on January 23, 2020, in reply to Peggy Orenstein’s January 12 feature, “Will We Ever Figure Out How to Talk to Boys About Sex?” Here is an excerpt: As Peggy Orenstein asserts, school-based programs and parental conversations that focus primarily on averting physical risk and danger — unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, sexual assault — indirectly encourage a sadly, even tragically, low bar for sexual decision-making and expectation: So long as people use “protection” and ensure mutual consent, many young people reason, then, duh, why not just do it? Missing from the discourse is an exploration of the human dimensions of sexual connection and its potential to create meaning, joy, mutual pleasure and unparalleled levels of physical and emotional intimacy. We tell young people what we want them to say no to, but not all the things we want them, eventually, to say yes to. It’s not about sex: Teaching young children where babies come from (and other stuff) It’s not about sex: Teaching young children where babies come from (and other stuff), The Hechinger Report (Lillian Mongeau, September 23, 2019). Same article in Lifestyle section of The Washington Post, September 23, 2019. Debbie Roffman contributed to an article in The Hechinger Report and The Washington Post on “Teaching Young Children Where Babies Come From.” An excerpt: … few grown-ups feel ready to talk about sex with kids younger than 10, said longtime sexual health educator Deborah Roffman. “As soon as adults think things have to do with sex, they lose their common sense,” she said. Here’s the thing though: “[Kids’] questions are not about sex,” Roffman said. “They don’t know anything about it. They are asking about their origins.” And since young children are the ultimate egoists, wanting to know everything they can about themselves and their surroundings, both parents and teachers should be prepared for lots of questions about who can touch who, what the body parts between our legs are called, why Sammy gets to have two mommies and, yes, where babies come from. Experts say offering age-appropriate answers to kids’ questions about humans as social and sexual beings lays the groundwork for those important (if still cringe-worthy) conversations about puberty and sex the kids will need when they’re teens. Yet, like everything about raising and educating children, it’s one thing to know how you intend to handle a situation and another to actually handle it. Permanent link to this article: http://sexandsensibility.net/ Join the conversation! Leave a Comment. Independent School Sexuality Education Consortium ISSEC Deborah Roffman's Resume Deborah Roffman's LinkedIn Page © 2020 Sex and Sensibility.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line358
__label__wiki	0.915029	0.915029	CJ betsa delisting nears 03/23/2010 CJ betsa delisting nears Senior Supreme Court (SC) Justices Antonio Carpio and Conchita Carpio Morales, two magistrates who had accepted the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC)’s nominations for the top judicial post on condition that the appointing power will not be President Arroyo but the next president, are in danger of being delisted as nominees for the position of chief justice, following the mandatory retirement of Chief Justice Reynato Puno on May 17, 2010. This was bared yesterday by Justice Secretary Alberto Agra, who is a member of the JBC by virtue of his position as Department of Justice Secretary. During a press conference yesterday, Agra said he plans to suggest to the other JBC members to get a clarification from Justices Carpio and Carpio-Morales, if they still stand by their position of accepting the nomination only if it is not Arroyo who will be appointing the next CJ..... MORE Villar accused of land grabbing in fight over sequestered property Erap reminds Noynoy on Cory pardons Aquino drops again, Villar up by 2%, Estrada a strong third WHO challenges RP bishops' advice on condoms AFP chief walks out of interview; GMA snubs PNP chief in Army event Erap reminds Noynoy on Cory pardons By Jason Faustino 03/23/2010 By Jason Faustino Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) standard bearer former President Joseph Estrada reminded Liberal Party presidential bet Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III that his mother, the late former President Corazon Aquino, freed Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison and other rebel leaders in reference to a statement of Aquino that he was not in favor of the pardon President Arroyo gave Estrada after he was convicted of plunder. In a short rebuttal to the alleged remark of Aquino, Estrada said former President Aquino also issued pardons to Sison, Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chairman Nur Misuari and New People’s Army (NPA) leader Bernabe Buscayno or Kumander Dante during her term. Estrada then criticized the prevailing problem with communist rebels in the country. MORE Junking the post-poll scenarios EDITORIAL 03/23/2010 Junking the post-poll scenarios Even if a new Senate president is elected before June 30, 2010, purportedly to stave off a junta by having a legitimate constitutional successor to vacancies created in the offices of the President and Vice President, due to a failure of elections, there really is nothing that a new Senate president, as the acting president, can do to stop the junta from being established. This was already proved in 1972, when then President Ferdinand Marcos staged a Palace-military coup and reinstalled himself as President under a martial law regime. The military, as well as the police force, can be called to action by Gloria, as their still Commander in Chief to prevent or suppress lawless violence, and this can come about should the automated polls fail. But to establish a junta is another thing altogether, mainly because even if elections fail, the fact remains that Gloria will still be the Malacañang occupant until June 30, 2010, Noli de Castro will still be the Vice President until June 30, 2010, Juan Ponce Enrile will still be Senate President and Prospero Nograles will still be the Speaker until June 30, 2010. Stated differently, there will be no leadership vacuum as far as constitutional succession goes, simply because all these constitutional successors will be in place — at least until June 30, 2010..... MORE Un-Islamic Heard on the grapevine: Uruguay is wine worldâ€™s rising star The greater sin When bipartisanship means surrender South Sudan independents rattle ex-rebels in poll campaign Un-Islamic FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/23/2010 Just as there is no solid Catholic vote, so too, is there no solid Muslim vote. But like the Catholic bishops who meddle in political affairs, so too do the Muslim religious leaders, or Immans, meddle in politics, with these leaders issuing a "fatwa" on former President Joseph Estrada, Sen. Mar Roxas and former Sen. Franklin Drilon. Yet that fatwa issued is clearly partisan, in the sense that these Muslim religious leaders issued such on account of (a) Erap’s 2000 all-out war against the Muslim secessionists, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and (b) Roxas and Drilon’s opposition to the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD) which, if it had not been struck down by the high court, would have carved up the Republic and handed over to the MILF a sizable chunk of the Philippines, including lands populated by Christian settlers, apart from giving in to the Moro rebels their move to establish an independent Islamic state, within the Philippine state. What these Muslim religious leaders are mouthing, in issuing the fatwa, is what the MILF is demanding, which make these Islamic leaders highly partisan toward the MILF, and not necessarily toward the entire Muslim community in the country..... MORE Heard on the grapevine: Uruguay is wine worldâ€™s rising star FEATURE 03/23/2010 Heard on the grapevine: Uruguay is wine world's rising star MONTEVIDEO — Argentina has its Malbec. Chile has its Carmenere. Now Uruguay, not to be out-muscled by its more famous wine-producing neighbors, is taking the world of viticulture by storm, with its distinctive Tannat wines. Uruguay, the fourth most important wine-producing country in South America, grows a variety of grapes, but none more celebrated than Tannat, which is fueling this tiny country’s rise to prominence in the wine world. Over the years Tannat has come to be seen as the quintessential Uruguayan grape and wine, representing about 40 percent of the country’s entire wine production. Now bold and full-bodied Tannat wines are putting upstart Uruguay on the map, and winning prizes against competition fronted by more established regional rivals..... MORE The greater sin NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 03/23/2010 On Facebook, just yesterday morning: A young boy, at most three years old, humps his mother frontally, and when she turns on her side, humps her again from behind, then stops but only long enough to follow an older female voice’s off-scene instruction for him to take out his penis and try inserting it. This, while adult laughter is heard in the background. The video has mercifully been stricken off the popular social networking site and YouTube "due to terms of use violation," a phrase I can’t really say I understand. But what I had seen stunned me, to say the least. The boy had either been allowed to watch his parents have sex or was taught by the adults around him to simulate sex, and then captured on video. Gross doesn’t define it well enough..... MORE When bipartisanship means surrender AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 03/23/2010 Paul Krugman had an interesting opinion piece in the New York Times last month ("The Bankruptcy Boys," Feb. 22) in which he argued that conservative Republicanism, while virulently opposed to "big government," lacks the courage to grasp the opportunity before it. This, says Krugman, is due to the fact that the big-spending government programs — Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — have, understandably, significant public support. The neocon strategy since the late 1970s has been one of "starving the beast" — pushing popular tax-cuts which create or contribute to a fiscal deficit and then arguing that spending-cuts were required to cure it. Now that "Bush-era tax cuts (and Bush-era unfunded wars)" have created a deficit that will outlive the current recession, the neocons have their opportunity. Indeed, that opportunity was handed to them by President Obama with his call for a bipartisan deficit commission..... MORE South Sudan independents rattle ex-rebels in poll campaign focus 03/23/2010 BENTIU — Shouting and dancing, thousands of supporters of south Sudan’s rebel turned ruling party waited two days in the blazing sun to see their presidential candidate Salva Kiir. "We want him to stay as president of the south," said former guerrilla fighter Peter Kwong, at the election rally for the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM) in Bentiu, the capital of Unity state. "He was a strong army leader who was never afraid of the fight against the north," said Kwong, referring to the 22-year long civil war that ended five years ago. But the flag-waving supporters in the crowded stadium left deeply disappointed... . MORE Hell hath no fury SILVER LINING Dean Ernest Maceda 03/23/2010 Resign. Dean Ernest Maceda Resign. GMA snubbed the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) graduation rites in Silang, Cavite on Wednesday. She sent DILG Secretary Ronnie Puno as her stand-in. One hundred ninety eight cadets graduated this year. GMA was reportedly upset by PNP Director General Jesus Verzosa’s statement that he would not support any move of AFP Chief of Staff, Gen. Delfin Bangit to extend her term. But why would she resent such a statement by General Verzosa if she has no plans to extend her term as she has insisted many times? Still, reports of "Oplan August Moon" to extend her term due to a failure of elections are "in the air." The PNPA is headed by Tingting Cojuangco, wife of Peping Cojuangco, Noynoy’s uncle, as president. With this snub, there is added reason for Tingting to now resign. q q q Erap in Bulacan. The Erap-Binay Caravan then visited Bustos, San Rafael, San Miguel, Calumpit, ending in a grand rally at Northville, Meycauayan with 8,000 hysterical supporters applauding Erap who also sang his song "Kahit" in a duet with Marissa Sanchez. At the motorcade in Calumpit, the route took Erap to parts of Apalit, Pampanga.... MORE Erap reminds Noynoy on Cory pardons By Jason Faus... Junking the post-poll scenarios EDITORIAL 03/23/... Un-Islamic FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/23/... Heard on the grapevine: Uruguay is wine worldâ€™s ... The greater sin NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Re... When bipartisanship means surrender AN OUTSIDERS ... South Sudan independents rattle ex-rebels in poll ... Hell hath no fury SILVER LINING Dean Ernest Maced... Global stocks gain on solid results, but virus keeps safe-havens alive - Global equity markets edged higher on Wednesday on strong results from Apple and others but concerns about the coronavirus outbreak in China kept a safe-ha...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line367
__label__wiki	0.953899	0.953899	Big mistake EDITORIAL 08/11/2011 Big mistake Noynoy Aquino is placing the Philippines in great peril by forging a peace accord with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels, and obviously on their terms and conditions, which are, among others, the creation of a Moro substate with awesome state powers and an expanded territory while granting the rebels a national identity of BangsaMoro nation, said to be composed of not just Muslims, but Lumads and Christians who reside in the substate. Christians and Lumads, neither of whom are Muslims, are to be known as BangsaMoro nationals under the rule of the MILF even in Christian settlements, such as Zamboanga Sibugay? The MILF claims that secession is out of the picture as its people will remain Filipinos, but demands a substate with state powers, including having a BangsaMoro police force under its control and command, and expects a peace accord to be finalized in two years time. Noynoy is apparently swallowing this MILF line, as already he is talking about the grant of greater autonomy for the MILF through a plebiscite, as though such a move would finally bring peace to Mindanao, assuming the high court will rule such an accord as constitutional..... MORE More than meets the eye FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/11/2011 There is more than meets the eye about the meeting between Noynoy and China’s foreign minister, accompanied by the Chinese ambassador to the Philippines in Malacañang. The Chinese officials were Ambassador Liu Jianchao and Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin, who went to the Palace to deliver a message from Chinese Premier Hu Jintao. Prior to the meeting, Noynoy told reporters he would be meeting with the Chinese officials who are handing him a letter from the Chinese premier. “They (Chinese officials) asked for the meeting. I understand there’s a message from Premier Hu Jintao. They did not tell me exactly what the message was. So, I’ll be meeting them around two o’clock,” Noynoy said prior to the meeting..... MORE Syria to snub international pressure — for now ANALYSIS 08/11/2011 Syria to snub international pressure — for now BEIRUT — Though its days are seen as numbered, Syria’s regime is likely to press on with its ferocious crackdown on dissent, despite fellow Arab states and allies joining international condemnation, analysts say. That was underscored when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, under growing pressure from abroad, stood his ground on Tuesday and said he would pursue a relentless war against the “terrorist groups” he says are behind the unrest. “We will not waver in our pursuit of terrorist groups,” Assad told visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Rami Khouri, head of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, said “the regime has been fiercely resistant to international pressure and the moves by the Saudis, the Gulf.... MORE Selling out the Philippines INSIDE CONGRESS Charlie Manalo 08/11/2011 Selling out the Philippines INSIDE CONGRESS Contrary to claims by militant fisherfolk group, Pamalakaya, that President Noynoy Aquino has no concrete plans to shield the country from another round of global recession and that he appears just as if he is waiting for the grand massacre of the Philippine economy as global markets collapsed due to the first ever US credit rating downgrade and falling European economies presided by festering debt woes, Noy indeed is making the necessary contingency plan. That is to prepare the Philippine economy for the “grand massacre” by selling the Philippines via amendments to the economic provisions. The other day, a staunch ally of Aquino, presented the administration’s grand design to sell the Philippines by opening up vital industries and natural resources to foreign investors and that include the education and media industry. With global economists warning that the US economy is heading back into recession which could be more painful compared to the December 2007 recession, Aquino is virtually inviting investors from that part of the world to invade our country and dump to the trash bins local capitalists. And that is not without basis as Pamalakaya, quoting international wires, claimed that the world stocks racked up more losses on Monday based on rising worries about a double-dip global recession, deep-rooted jitters over the current downgrading of US credit rating and the growing debt problems across Europe..... MORE Asia faces tougher battle in new world slowdown focus 08/11/2011 Asia faces tougher battle in new world slowdown SINGAPORE — Asian economies still scarred by the 2008 world recession are likely to have a harder time grappling with a new round of turmoil than they did three years ago, regional analysts said. Fears of a new global meltdown are growing after the United States received a credit downgrade for the first time and markets tumbled on expectations that Italy and Spain could join other European countries in seeking a bailout. “Back in 2008, rotten debt in the banks was the problem,” Singapore’s DBS Bank said in reference to global financial rescue measures that helped bring economic growth back on track. “Governments took the debt off the banks — and spent a lot of money propping up economies — and now they themselves are in trouble. That’s why the situation may be worse than before: there’s no one left to turn to.”.... MORE Sick and sickening VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 08/11/2011 Sick and sickening An image of Jesus Christ with an attached wooden replica of a male genital protruding directly over His face. The genital is draped with a Holy Rosary, hanging by the base and the tip of the replica. Is this art? A Crucifix and Cross draped with a pink stretched condom. Is this art? To a Crucifix is attached a red male organ. Is this art? “Yes, oh yes!” So says in substance a group of so-called “artists” exhibiting the above consummate sacrilege! So essentially implies nothing less than the “Pontifical” and “Royal” University of “Santo Tomas” indulging the group whose products they are and who engage in the big blasphemy! So basically claims the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) is displaying the radical vulgarity instead at nurturing and promoting Filipino positive cultural values as defined by its Mission Statement..... MORE Noy-MILF secret deal: Reframing MoA-AD By Mario J. Mallari 08/11/2011 UMBRA KATO, MURAD’S REBELS CLASH, LEAVE 8 DEAD Noy-MILF secret deal: Reframing MoA-AD There was a secret deal forged between President Aquino and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chieftain Al Haj Murad during the secret meeting held in Tokyo last Thursday, after all. MILF chief negotiator Mohagher Iqbal made a freudian slip yesterday when he let out that the agreement reached between the two parties was for the MILF to “reframe” the discredited Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD) which was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2008. Part of the deal involving the “reframed MoA-AD,” which Iqbal hinted to which Aquino during the secret meeting did not object, is that provinces under the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and adjacent areas of North Cotabato, Lanao del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur and Sultan Kudarat and the municipalities of Balabac and Batarasa in Palawan province, will be placed under the control of the Bangsamoro state which will be sharing powers with the national government..... MORE FM is a hero fit for burial in Libingan ng mga Bayani—Imelda By Gerry Baldo and Mario J. Mallari 08/11/2011 FM is a hero fit for burial in Libingan ng mga Bayani—Imelda By Gerry Baldo and Mario J. Mallari 08/11/2011 Former First Lady and incumbent Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Marcos yesterday said former President Ferdinand Marcos is a hero who deserves to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Mrs. Marcos, reacting to news reports that her family had agreed to bury the former President in Ilocos Norte, said she and Vice President Jejomar Binay have not agreed on the burial site of the former President. She said she and Binay, who went to Ilocos Norte a few days back, had talked about housing programs and not about the burial of the former President. Vice President Binay yesterday maintained there is nothing definite about the controversial burial of the late President, stressing that his job on the issue is purely recommendatory and that Malacañang has the final say on the matter..... MORE 2 missing in sea crash; oil slick unleashed 08/11/2011 2 missing in sea crash; oil slick unleashed Two cargo vessels have collided off the coast of the southern Philippines, leaving two persons missing and unleashing a small oil slick, the Coast Guard said yesterday. Two crew members of a locally-registered bulk carrier are missing after it was in collision late Tuesday with the Monrovia-registered container vessel HS Puccini off the southernmost tip of the southern island of Mindanao, it said. The much-larger Puccini rescued 16 crew from the smaller vessel while the another five swam to shore and safety, a coastguard statement said. The Puccini is sailing to the nearby port of General Santos as scheduled with the rescued crew members, it said, while the exact status of the other vessel was not specified..... MORE Gov’t has no moral ground to question NDF’s sincerity on peace talks — CPP By Mario J. Mallari 08/11/2011 Gov’t has no moral ground to question NDF’s sincerity on peace talks — CPP The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) scored President Aquino for questioning the sincerity of its political arm, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), in the ongoing peace negotiations. “The Philippine government does not have the moral high ground to question the sincerity of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in the peace talks,” the CPP said. “How can Aquino question the sincerity of the NDFP when it has been his government that has failed to show good faith in peace talks after carrying out the arrest earlier this year of at least two key NDFP peace consultants and failing to fulfill its obligations to effect the release of at least 17 peace talks consultants of the NDFP,” CPP pointed out. The CPP-NDFP is clamoring for the release of the consultants, including New People’s Army (NPA) leader Tirso “Ka Bart” Alcantara and CPP Central Committee member Alan Jazmines..... MORE Noy won’t sack CCP board over ‘Kulo’ row By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 08/11/2011 Noy won’t sack CCP board over ‘Kulo’ row Despite their bad artistic taste, President Aquino is not firing the members of the board of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). At a press briefing yesterday, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said that President Aquino is not inclined to heed growing clamor for the purging of the CCP board which allowed the “Kulo” exhibit and even publicly defending it, without due regard to religious sensitivities. “There is no action on our part, in the Palace, to do that,” Lacierda said when asked if the President would sack the CCP board, or ask for their resignation, for their oversight in allowing the exhibit of so-called art pieces which practically desecrated the image of Jesus Christ. Lacierda said that it is already enough that the CCP management has decided to finally close down the exhibit although the reason for doing so is about safety issues and not about impropriety of the “Kulo” exhibit. The CCP board even appeared remorseless and maintained that these so-called artworks were part of an artist’s freedom of expression..... MORE DoE chief warns oil firms: Roll back prices or face raps By Gerry Baldo 08/11/2011 DoE chief warns oil firms: Roll back prices or face raps The Department of Energy (DoE) yesterday warned oil companies they could be sued if they do not roll back their prices by at least P2 per liter. Secretary Jose Almendras, who was at the House of Representatives to defend the DoE’s P8.8-billion budget, said the roll back should be implemented between now and Monday next week. “We are expecting a P2 rollback on their oil products until Monday. If not, we will ask them to explain and the Department of Justice will take over for investigation for possible action,” Almendras said yesterday in answer to Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño’s query on whether the people could expect a price rollback given the huge drop in the world market price. Oil prices dropped from $120 last month to only $77 this month..... MORE DoH hit for allowing hospital to engage in ‘pawnshop operations’ 08/11/2011 DoH hit for allowing hospital to engage in ‘pawnshop operations’ Lawmakers yesterday lambasted the Department of Health (DoH) for allowing the Philippine Children’s Medical Center (PCMC) to collect personal items from their patients in exchange for discharge slips. According to Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño, the practice at the PCMC has been going on since 2009 as shown by a memorandum number 45 issued by PCMC Director Dr. Julius Lecciones. Casino said he will file a resolution to investigate the hospital and the DoH for allowing such practice even as he showed Health Secretary Enrique Ona copies of the memorandum circulars issued by Lecciones during yesterday budget hearing on the DoH. Lecciones is an appointee of former President Arroyo. “This practice of public hospitals engaging in pawnshop operations is very deplorable and we expect Secretary Ona to immediately stop this. He should know what is happening in government hospitals and the desperate practices they engage in just to shore up their budgets. One way to stop this is to restore the budgets of our public hospitals as contained in their original proposals. This means raising the DoH budget by at least P20 billion,” Casiño said..... MORE More than meets the eye FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Oliv... Syria to snub international pressure — for now ANA... Selling out the Philippines INSIDE CONGRESS Charli... Asia faces tougher battle in new world slowdown fo... Sick and sickening VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. ... Noy-MILF secret deal: Reframing MoA-AD By Mario J.... FM is a hero fit for burial in Libingan ng mga Bay... 2 missing in sea crash; oil slick unleashed 08/11... Gov’t has no moral ground to question NDF’s sincer... Noy won’t sack CCP board over ‘Kulo’ row By Virgil... DoE chief warns oil firms: Roll back prices or fac... 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__label__cc	0.506521	0.493479	Sudha Menon Devi, Diva or She Devil Creative Writing Consultation Communications Workshop and Consultation Manuscript Consultation Speaking Assignment Author, journalist, columnist, fiction, non-fiction writer, Creative writing coach, Motivational speaker and Manuscript consultant. Founder - Get Writing! and Writing With Women, speaker on diversity & inclusion, leadership and communication. Sudha Menon is the author of four best-selling non-fiction books. A former news journalist, she is currently a columnist, writing coach and speaker on diversity & inclusion and women’s leadership at corporate and educational campuses. Sudha Menon is the author of four best-selling non-fiction books, Leading Ladies: Women Who Inspire India, Legacy, a compilation of letters from inspirational Indian men and women to their daughters, Gifted, a book she co-authored with V.R.Ferose, on the inspirational stories of people with disability and Devi, Diva or She-Devil, the smart career woman’s survival guide. She is also a columnist and a creative writing coach. Sudha has been a TEDx and TiECON speaker and is the founder of Get Writing!, a writing workshop that helps people kick-start their writing journey and Writing In the Park, an initiative that she started to get people to spend time in the outdoors, writing in public parks and gardens. Deeply interested in the journeys of women, she has recently launched Writing With Women, a writing workshop series that aims to get women from diverse backgrounds together, to share their experiences and write down their stories. Sudha worked for 23 years as a Journalist with reputed publications including The Independent, The Hindu Business Line and Mint before she decided to follow her long- cherished dream of writing a book. “I draw inspiration from the most ordinary people and their extraordinary courage in the face of life’s knocks”, she says. “I am a chronicler of people and their journeys.” Sudha has written four best-selling non-fiction books and also writes commissioned biographies. Commissioned Author and Biographer Creative Writing Consultation Communications Workshop Tuesday March 7, 2017 Cybage, Kalyaninagar, Pune. Event: Women's Day celebrations at Cybage, Pune Thursday February 23, 2017, Lit 0 Fest Mumbai 2017 Location:Grant Medical College Gymkhana, Marine Drive, Mumbai. Time: 02.45 - 03.45 pm Author Sudha Menon in conversation with Rohini Iyer and Zaara Khader on her book Devi, Diva Or She Devil. sudhamenon2006@gmail.com Sudha Menon \| 2016	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line376
__label__cc	0.742963	0.257037	What is an expat? Expat, Short for Expatriate (v): To withdraw (oneself) from residence in or allegiance to one's native country. Merriam-Webster online To some the term expatriate and its abbreviation expat, verb and noun, has the connotation of exile; someone who has been thrown out of his native country, has left in protest, or has felt the need to leave because of factors in the native country. An un-choosing of the native country. In business circles an expat is often defined as a professional whose contract with the company is on the terms of the country he is coming from rather than on the terms of the country where he works. The company holds the employee free of any expenses that may be related to the transfer (differences caused by different tax rules, housing allowances, education allowances for accompanying children, appliances running on different electric systems etc.). In this context a transfer is an employee who is sent to another country but who works under the same type of contract as employees in the that country. In the community of people who have “withdraw (themselves) from residence in their native countries” the term is applied to any person to whom any of these categories can be applied: 1. Immigrant 2. Sojourner 3. Permanent resident 4. Diplomatic transfer 5. Business transfer 6. Asylum seeker 7. Person in exile 8. Accompanying family of any of the above 9. Au pair 10. Refugee 11. Exchange student Expat will normally not be used for soldiers at war, although it does apply to for example US soldiers stationed on US bases in Germany. The difference between an immigrant and a sojourner is in the intention to stay. People from categories 4,5,9,11 – and accompanying family – can be described as sojourners. People described as immigrants or permanent residents normally don’t plan to return at a time known at arrival - or at all. Refugees, exiles and asylum seekers fall in between. They often hope to return but don’t know when it will be possible. (I failed to mention Resident Alien. I confess, I am a resident alien. I won't blame you if your associations go towards ET or Aliens vs. Predators but I am a normal Homo Sapiens. Isn't it wonderful with terms that only the immigration authorities would ever use?) As a general rule, unless you live in a veritable expat community, it is conductive to your integration to behave as if you intent to live there forever. Why would the locals invest themselves in building friendships with you if you have already signaled that you are leaving in a year - or are not sure if you even like the place? ‹ Theories about Culture up Learning › Theories about Culture Cultural Adaptation Prejudice and Stereotypes What is Culture?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line381
__label__wiki	0.689201	0.689201	Home » Features » Theory of a Deadman Drop Hits And A New Tune In Live Return Theory of a Deadman Drop Hits And A New Tune In Live Return By Matt Bishop September 30, 2019 October 9, 2019 Features Theory of a Deadman [Matt Bishop Photo] (TRR) – Theory of a Deadman brought their fall headlining run to the Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg, PA last night. Very special guests Spirit Animal are joining them on the trek, and kicked off the evening’s festivities with a fantastic set. The two acts prove to be a solid combo, with Spirit Animal serving up a very alternative appetizer for the tour. Their infectious grooves and unpredictable sound got the crowd going early. Spirit Animal’s single “Painkiller” impacts rock and alternative radio tomorrow. Spirit Animal [Matt Bishop Photo] Theory kicked off their set with “Straight Jacket,” a single from their last outing Wake Up Call. A slower way to start, fans got to see frontman Tyler Connolly perform intimately behind a piano. The band also debuted “History of Violence,” the first single from their forthcoming LP. The band churned out past hits fan favorites like “Lowlife,” “So Happy,” “All or Nothing,” “Hate My Life,” and others. One particular highlight was their seminal “Santa Monica.” A cover of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” was stunning. It put the band’s talent on display and truly showed their range. They closed out the set with their banger “Bad Girlfriend,” which saw the crowd pumping fists and singing along. Theory recently announced their new studio album Say Nothing. The LP is set for release on January 31, 2020 via Atlantic/604 Records. The band premiered the record’s lead single “History of Violence” today, which can be streamed below. Fans can pre-order the album now HERE at a special price. “This record allowed us to say all of the things that have been on our minds, but too afraid to say,” the band said in a statement. “With so many outlets for people to be nasty to one another, Say Nothing represents how maybe we should just shut up and listen.” Theory of a Deadman kicked off their fall headlining world tour on September 27 at The Tarheel in Jacksonville, NC. Tickets are on sale now HERE. VIP Experiences are available for the tour, which include a Meet & Greet, Photo Opportunity, Commemorative Laminate, Fan’s Choice of a Merch Item or Hat, plus early entry into the venue. About Matt Bishop View all posts by Matt Bishop → Tagged live photos, review, Spirit Animal, Theory of a Deadman. « Huey Lewis & The News Return With New Song Billy Corgan Announces 2019 Solo Tour Dates »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line388
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__label__wiki	0.576924	0.576924	Lost Ten Tribes This Lost Ten Tribes site seeks to add to the treasure trove of information about the Israelite origins of the West, prophesied to greatly increase and culminate in the reconcilation and restoration of Judah with Israel, becoming "One Nation Under God," a truly United Kingdom! Almost complete South Africa slideshows! After reading James Michener's book, The Covenant, I wanted to visit South Africa and while serving as a kibbutz volunteer in Israel I met plenty of white South Africans, some of British descent, others of Dutch, and a few colored girls. The one colored girl (mulatto), Celeste, was roommate of my best British girlfriend Donna at Kibbutz Sdot Yam and said, "You must visit South Africa" and invited me to stay with her family in Athlone, Cape Town. My German roommates' girlfriend at Kibbutz Reshafim was Debbie, a white girl from South Africa. When I was staying at Kibbutz Ha'On and seriously thinking about visiting South Africa, I received a letter from Debbie saying I must visit South Africa and not to worry about where to stay and such, so I wrote and told them all I was on my way and was there for 7 weeks, three with Celeste's lovely family. Both gracious families took me around and showed me the sites! I say almost complete SA slideshows because I misplaced a few of my favorite pictures that I remember but can't find. Such is life, eh? Suid Africa! (South Africa) photo album 1 Suid Afrika! (South Africa & Zimbabwe) #3 Suid Africa (South Africa) 4 Suid Afrika (South Africa) 5 Posted by David Ben-Ariel at 11:00 PM No comments: Links to this post THE GERMANS ARE COMING! (ImageShack.us) Posted by David Ben-Ariel at 1:19 PM No comments: Links to this post Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall by David Ben-Ariel Mr. Ben-Ariel clearly has a God-given love for the Jews and the nation of Israel. His Israeli lawyer has stated that David's "future is linked with that of the Jews," and Gershon Salomon, chairman of the Temple Mount Faithful says, "God has some special task" for him. His sacred bond with the land and people of Israel has been strengthened over the years by his service as a volunteer on eight kibbutzim (collective farms) throughout the Holy Land, including during Operation Desert Storm. As a firm believer in the Israelite roots and responsibilities of the Anglo-Saxons and Northwestern European peoples, David works towards the ultimate reconciliation and restoration of Joseph with Judah. As a student of biblical prophecy, he is alarmed about Germany and the Vatican's increasing control of the European continent, remodeling it after the Holy Roman Empire. As the outspoken author of Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall, he is determined to do all he can to help wake up the world to the clear and present danger Germany poses to world peace, with a special emphasis on the Middle East. East Toledoan calls his book, Beyond Babylon, God’s final warning Beyond Babylon (free to read online) Beyond Babylon Posted by David Ben-Ariel at 10:08 AM No comments: Links to this post Labels: beyond babylon, david ben ariel Thank Israeli Soldiers Watch This: May the Israelis thank their soldiers by voting for Ketzaleh! May Hashem bless the lands and lives of British Israelites and Jews and Israelis with repentance, peace and righteousness, and spare us from furthering suffering due to our sins (2 Chronicles 7:14, Daniel 9:11, Malachi 4:4). www.davidbenariel.org Posted by David Ben-Ariel at 9:12 AM No comments: Links to this post The Kingdom of God offered to Israelites & Gentiles! Comment received re:"President Barack Obama sound good to you?": I am dissapointed in your views about Obama regarding him as a "gentile" with a white mother and a Black father. He is partly white and partly black. Does not the Jewish community recognize all those who comes out a Jewish mother's womb as Jewish? Does that not count for white mother's womb also? Which apart of Obama is to be sent to Africa? His white part inwardly or his black part outwardly? As a religious person admirer of H.W. Armstrong you should have known what apostle Paul stated in Col 3:11 "Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond [nor] free: but Christ [is] all, and in all." Is this not also inspired by same God of the Old Testament? So Obama born from a white mother and being a Christian, what is he a black African? Time to update your views. Socram Selasor You should be disappointed that you have trouble with the Word of God that reveals since Obama's father is a Gentile, he is a Gentile. Why insist he must be an Israelite? Are you a racist? ;-) Abraham was a Gentile! And he is the father of the faithful! I'm a Christian-Zionist, not a follower of Judaism, although I know they go by the mother's side to determine RELIGION - not race. Peter spoke of those who would twist Paul's words, and at best you've simply misunderstood them. The same Paul who said "we're all equal now" (in so many words), forbid women preachers! He also acknowledged he is a Jew, from the Tribe of Benjamin, an Israelite. Was Paul being hypocritical? NO! What Paul was teaching is that all of us - regardless of sex or race - share the same ultimate potential to be born again into the Kingdom-Family of God! When we become Spirit-filled Christians, it is meant to change our hearts and minds in preparation for the Kingdom of God, not alter our sex or affect our race! I encourage you to update your information so that it computes with the way God thinks (Isaiah 55:7-9). David Ben-Ariel Obama's African Coup Obama's African Coup in America How will the president usurper act when they come to take him away? When the Constitution is again upheld and the laws of this land he has shown contempt for enforced? The fraud and foreigner, the African Obama, aided and abetted by treacherous politicians, justices, and conservative cowards, has led a coup against the Constitution of the United States. Usurper Obama's coup is a dark episode in our American history, a black day in America, but it will soon be history, as justice demands. If acting president Barack Hussein Obama is not a fraud and a foreigner, a usurper, let him prove he is a natural born citizen and settle this case once and for all. Otherwise he remains illegitimate and none of his decisions binding, but rendered null and void as unconstitutional. Imagine the first presidential library where they refuse to show an original birth certificate but present a dubious copy or cheap certification! Obama's records in the United States and Kenya are SEALED. What's Obama hiding? The Obama emperor has no clothes - and some of us won't let folks forget it! No justice, no peace. We'll cry aloud and spare not until the might of right prevails, so help us God. http://www.davidbenariel.org/ A natural born citizen? The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge-- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers." -- John Adams (1735-1826) If Obama is the usurper he appears to be, America has a BIG PROBLEM - regardless of whether or not those who have been Obamatized grasp the seriousness of the situation or others (who amount to conservative cowards) are afraid to state the emperor has no clothes. Either Obama is a legitimate natural born citizen or he is a president usurper who needs to be dealt with swiftly, as the law of the land demands. Every legitimate American must write and/or call their representatives and demand proof Obama is a natural born citizen. "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803) Click here to contact your elected officials Obama and Rush Limbaugh Obama: unconscionable and unconstitutional? Re: Obama Warns Republicans, Quit Listening To Rush Limbaugh If You Want To Get Things Done Rush Limbaugh is one of those conservative cowards who FAILED to demand Obama prove he is a natural born citizen. It may come back to haunt such hypocrites if that fraud and foreigner, that president usurper, knocks them off the air. After all, the same Constitution that guarantees freedoms of speech and religion requires our president to be a natural born citizen. We have seen no proof that Obama fulfills this Constitutional qualification of being a natural born citizen, and unconscionable Obama has failed to provide it, refuses to be open and honest - his records remain sealed - and therefore he rightly remains under a dark cloud of suspicion. Illegitimate Obama appears to be an affirmative action president, plain and simple and unconstitutional. Joseph at the Jerusalem Conference? The German-EU threat to Israel Re: 'Bogey' Ya'alon to Address 6th Jerusalem Conference Monday 1) Will the Jerusalem Conference address the threat the German-dominated EU poses to Israeli security? Will they beware Europe's NEW CRUSADE for peace in the Middle East, as driven by the bloody Vatican? Jerusalem Under Siege! 2) Will the Jerusalem Conference demand the religious rights of Jews and Christians to worship upon the Temple Mount must be respected and protected? Jews Must Demand Rights to Temple Mount 3) Will the Jerusalem Conference recognize and embrace British Israelites as Joseph, hastening the process of redemption? Joseph isn't Jewish! 4) Will the Jerusalem Conference hear the cries of Yitzhak Rabin's blood for justice and reopen the incriminating Rabin files, acknowledging Shimon Peres came to power over Rabin's dead body? Shimon Peres Came to Power Over Rabin's Dead Body 5) Will the Jerusalem Conference demand an end to the ethnic cleansing of Jews and call for Israel to remove the Arab threat? Don't Expel Jews From Gaza! 6) Will the Jerusalem Conference expose how corrupt and influential the Israeli oligarchy remains, slaves to their German-Jesuit EU masters? EU to Conquer Anglo-Saxons and Jews 7) Will the Jerusalem Conference lift the unjust ban against David Ben-Ariel who yearns to return to Zion? Israel's Unjust Deportation of David Ben-Ariel Send Lowery packing to Africa Off color inaugural prayer Inaugural prayer slam prompts Obama smile Give them an inch, and they'll demand a mile! The racist Joseph Lowery, who polluted the inaugural prayer with his racism against people of white color, just goes to show that "angry black men" are never satisfied, indulge in their depravity of discontent, and shouldn't be given the time of day! Lowery, how low can you go? Are you senile? Don't you realize you were at the shameful inauguration of a black man in America? Where you can go is back to Africa where you belong and see how long they'll tolerate your outspoken racism against whites that should result in no more aid to Africa. If the white people embraced what is right they would seek immediate repatriation, not reparations, for every black person and they would have never elected that usurper Obama - a fraud and a foreigner - a Black Marxist, to pollute our WHITE House. This temporary insanity the United States suffers from, will be healed when White Israelites remember our Hebrew roots and biblical responsibilities. When we get back to where we belong with God, we'll reverse the curse and make sure others are put back into their proper place, since race matters and diversity demands: segregate now! Obama is a Gentile President Usurper Obama, Have you no fear of God? Do you consider yourself greater than Nimrod? Don't you know the Tower of Babel fell? That Satan was cast down from Heaven as a reject after lifting himself up so high? Don't you know that according to the ethnocentric Bible (with its focus on the family of Jacob) you are a fraud and a foreigner - a Gentile - who has no right to occupy the White House? Not only because you've been proud and stubborn and failed to respect the legitimate concerns of Americans who demand proof you are a natural born citizen, showing contempt for our Constitution and those who hold it dear, but because Manifest Destiny decrees this a White Israelite country (that has blessed every color and creed willing to submit to that fact). REPENT and resign, and return to Africa where you belong or be driven from office in God's good time with a plague upon your house. A Bible-believing Christian and legitimate American, BLACK DAY IN AMERICA: Obama Wins, America Loses Joes and Jews Recognizing my Hebrew roots, I've already returned to keeping the biblical Sabbath, biblical festivals, biblical dietary laws and recognize Yeshua as the Son of Man, and look up to Him as the Suffering Servant, our soon coming King who will liberate Jerusalem from the German-Jesuit EU, but I never demand others believe the same way, as many Torah-observant Jews can testify. Estranged Joseph and Judah will be reconciled! Napthali Tribal Identifications: Naphtali by Yair Davidiy THE TRIBE OF NAPHTALI See also Norway "And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shilem" Genesis 46; 24 THE NAPHTALI POPULATE NORWAY While still in the Land of Israel the Tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Menasseh (from whom emerged most of the Gothic nations) on the east banks of the Jordan had been bordered by DAN and Naphtali to the west. NAPHTALI was to re-emerge under the same name Naphtali(sometimes rendered as EPHTHALI) in Scythia who were described by the Chinese as of Gothic stock. The Naphtali were also known as Abdali, Ye-da, Ye-ta, Ephtha, Hua, Huones, White Huns, Thyssagetae, Little Goths, and other names. Some of the above names were actually those of subject peoples1 with whom the Naphtalites became confused or those of peoples who occupied areas2 associated with the Naphtalites shortly after the Naphtalites had moved out. Such confusion is frequent in Central Asian Histories. They are also often (wrongly) identified with the Kidarites3 who were a Central Asian people of part-Arab origin whom the Assyrians had exiled. The group identified with the Naphtalites by the Chinese are the same as the "Little-Guti"4 as distinct from the "Great-Goths" who were the Massagetae. -Gutiand Gothare different forms for the same name-. "Little-Guti" or "Little-Goth" would similarly have been rendered as "Thyssagetae"5. A people called Thyssagetae were located by Herodotus6 in the north of Scythia in the Urals region (in present-day northeast Russia) neighboring the Iyrcae. The IYRCAE (sometimes referred to as "Turcae") too became forefathers to part of the Scandinavians and Finns of Finland. East of this area (of the Iyrcae and Thyssagetae), much later, the Cartographer Ortellius7 recorded a tradition concerning the DANORUM and Naphthalitum (i.e. Danites and Naphtalites) whom he says were the White Huns described by the Byzantine historian, Procopius, as being entirely different from the Huns proper. "White Huns" is another name for the Naphtalites. East of the Caspian Sea Jewish traditions recalled the previous presence of Naphtalites and Danes. Ortellius placed other members of the Lost Tribes in the approximate region of Serica on Ptolemy's Map. These other Hebrew Tribes, said Ortellius, were named "GAUTHS". "GAUTH" is a recognized form of the name "Goth". The "GAUTHS" of Ortellius correspond to the Yueh-chi Goths of Chinese records and to the east Massagetae of Ptolemy. There were contemporary Roman Chroniclers who identified the Goths of the west with the Massagetae of the east8. One linguistic explanation of the name Massagetae is "Great Goths". Close to the Massagetae in the vicinity of Badakhshan and Tibet (where Chinese records present part of the Little-Guti as having been) local legends recorded the presence of the Israelite Tribes, Naphtali, Dan, Zebulon, and Asher. Chinese sources13 indicate that a portion of the Naphtali were in Serica (to the far east of Scythia) and these may possibly be the SIZYGES (Sigini) mentioned by Ptolemy who were in proximity to the Damnae (of Dan), the Chatae Scythae, and the Achassa. The "CHATAE SCYTHAE" and "ACHASSA" in Serica are reminiscent of the terms CHATTI and HESSE for a group in Western Europe. In Europe "CHATTI" and "HESSE" were considered different versions of the same name for the same people. A connection with Hushim (Hus-im) of Dan has been indicated: It should be remembered that Dan and Naphtali were full-brothers both sons of Israel from his concubine Bilhah and that the two brothers usually marched together. In England the Sycgs14 were a group amongst the Saxons and settled in Essex. The Anglo-Saxon peoples had emerged from different areas of Scythia, including Serica, and there seems to have been a connection between the SIZYGES, SYCGS, and SIGINS, and the Naphtalite Huns. The Chinese records say that that portion of the Naphtalites who had been to the north of them moved westward prior to 450 c.e. They also say that they had previously been north of the Altai Mountains and were part of the Massagetae15, blue eyed and fair-haired. Some of them had later come eastward towards the Great Wall of China where the Juan-juan (Avars? Huns?16) subjected them so they rebelled and also left for the west. A remnant of Naphtali numbering about 100,000 people or fielding 100,00017 soldiers (the Chronicle is unclear) conquered Bactria and established an Empire bordering on Persia, China, and India. They had subjugated the Hyoni18 and Kidarites and later history seems to confuse between the three groups. At all events a people called "Neptali" or "Eptali" established themselves in Herat (the capital of Hara), conquered Gandhara on the Indus in 465 c.e. and by 500 were the masters of central and northern India from which they were expelled afterwards. They partially re-established themselves in Kashmir in 542 and some of their descendants are believed to be found amongst the Rajput (warrior) clans of Rajputana, India and also in Kafirstan, Afghanistan, and amongst the Jats in the Punjab of India. In 490 c.e.19 they or their associated allies had defeated the Gaogu (Uigurs? Khazars?) in northwest Mongolia after which they are no longer heard of in that region. Some believe them to have become part of the Khazar federation20. At all events the bulk of the Naphtali had began previously to migrate westward before 450 c.e. and had disappeared from the Scythian area. Prior to the events described above, The original earlier NAPHTALITES and bulk of the Naphtalite nation had gone westward and were since unheard of. They became the Vikings of Scandinavia, especially of NORWAY: Scandinavia in the 500's and 600's c.e. received an influx of settlers from the east21. This was shortly after the bulk of Naphtalites had embarked on their westward trek. In Norway during this period there was a rapid clearance of forests and the establishment of new settlements22. Examination of graveyards23 revealed that the average height of the newcomers was taller than that of the previous inhabitants though culturally they may not have been much different. In Scythia, Naphtalites and Danites from DAN had been recorded together. Denmark likewise received a large-scale immigration, at about this same time, of people who had always regarded themselves as DANES, descendants of "DAN the Great"24, meaning Dan of Israel. In Scandinavia during this era of New Settlement25 the wealth in quantity and quality of iron products is outstanding, especially when compared to that known from the contemporary Franks and others in the south. Serica26, whence the Naphtalites had departed had been world-famous for its mineral resources and iron. Metal working in the eastern Scythian region was associated with the ruling classes and the Sacae conquering peoples of Scythia, such as the Naphtalites and Khazars prior to their moving westward. In East Scythia and Serica, the working of metal has been ascribed to clans derived from, or attached somehow to, the Saka and Goths27, with traits of shamanism reminiscent to the practices of Odin. Also names of products, such as "Solomon's swords"28 and other factors29 hint at Judaising tendencies such as are believed to have existed amongst the Naphtalites and which reached their logical conclusion in the conversion of the Khazars to whom the Nephtali were related. The metallurgical activity of Serica and east Siberia seems to have ended fairly rapidly and may be directly traceable to the exodus of Naphtalites. Its continuation is noticed almost without interruption in Scandinavia where legends of Odin and Thor repeat again the existence of kin and possessions in the east, in the lands of the "Turks", who have been identified as the Iyrcae neighbors of the Thyssagetae from Naphtali. Scandinavian legend recorded their ancestors having migrated from the plain of Yeda which Snorre placed with Asgard on the Don River but it may have been further to the east. "Yda" in east Scythia. "Yda" or "Yeda" was one of the names that had been applied to the Naphtalites as well as being the name of an area east of the Caspian in which they had settled. The art style of Scandinavia had always been similar to that of Scythia, especially the so called "Sarmatian" area east of the Caspian, but during the New Settlement era the impression is that "Sarmatian"30 type jewelry henceforth was to be produced in Scandinavia as if it was a local cultural development. At the same time this style had disappeared from the Sarmatian areas. The "Sarmatian" style had owed its origin and inherent dynamic development to the Sakae or Yeuchi-Goti (called "Tokharians" by Rostovtzieff31) of whom the Naphtalites were part. The migration of this style logically accompanied the movement of its originators. We have traced this style back to Phoenicians and ancient Israelites. The influx of population into Scandinavia seems to have been continuous and by the 700's c.e. Scandinavia appears to have become overpopulated. Consequently, the excess "Vikings" of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark began their oversea excursions which led to settlement in Ireland, England, Scotland, France, and elsewhere. Sons of Naphtali were (Genesis 46;24): Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. Jahzeel are recalled in Zealand of Denmark. Culturally, the region of Zealand in Denmark had contacts with Zeeland in Holland up to the first century b.c.e. after which the emphasis turned towards the Vandal Silingi area of Silesia32. In Danish Zealand itself are places known as Sjaelland, Silund, and Selund which names are cognate to that of the Vandal-Silingi in Silesia and possibly derive from Shillem (Silem) son of Naphtali. Chieftains' graves33 from the 200's c.e. in Silesia reveal pottery similar to that found in Danish Zealand, Fyne, Vendyssel (North Jutland) and from south Norway. Guni, son of Naphtali, may be recalled in the Gugerni of Batavian-Holland and in the Egan of Denmark. Jezer, son of Naphtali, is connected to the Vraesan of Denmark and from the Danish isle of Fyne, the Vraesi are believed to have migrated en-masse to Britain34. The symbol of Naphtali was "A hind let loose" (Genesis 49;21) and a deer or stag was used as a royal symbol by the Kings of Scandinavia. The stag also seems to have been a favourite motif amongst Phoenecian and Israelite craftsmen. The Israelite Tribe of Naphtali therefore became the Nephtali-Huns (or Hephtalitesas they are also called) who together with the Dani were once in east Scythia. From east Scythia the Naphtali migrated to Norway and the Danes to Denmark. This was proven by Scandinavian tradition, by tracing names, by demographic considerations, and by archaeological finds. The sons of Naphtali were Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem and these appellations are reminiscent of Scandinavian place and ethnic names such as Zealand, Egan, Vraesan, and Sillund. <<The river which since the end of World War-II marks the border between Norway and Russia is called Granse Jakobs elv which means Jacobs border river>>. Orjan Svennson NAPHTALI = NORWAY Norway was settled by groups (such as the Nephtalite Huns) who mainly descended from Naphtali. Elements from Benjamin, Gad, and other Tribes were also important. The Goths (from Gad) ruled over Norway for some time, as did the Swedes (who are also descended from Gad) after them. The symbol of Naphtali was a stag or deer and a deer was a symbol of Scandinavian (including Norwegian) royalty. The Norwegian coat of arms depicts a lion bearing an ax. A lion was one of the symbols of Gad (Deuteronomy 33; 20). Moses predicted that a blow from one of the weapons of Gad would be sufficient to sever arm with the head (Deuteronomy 33; 20) indicating the favored use of a striking ax-like weapon as compared with a thrusting pointed one. The ax or something like it was one of the major weapons of the ancient Cimmerians and of the Massagetae who were Goths east of the Caspian and with whom the Nephtalite Huns were affiliated. Norway: New Insights? We identified Norway as having been settled by Naphtali. Now we have some new points: [Genesis 49:21] NAPHTALI IS A HIND LET LOOSE: HE GIVETH GOODLY WORDS. Napthali we identified with the Naphtalite Huns who settled in Scandinavia especially in Norway. The deer we noticed was a major symbol of Scandinavian royalty and aristocracy. The following note from Lars Ims (on another forum) came to our attention: <<Odin has been around a lot longer ....but maybe not as a warrior god. Thor and Tyr seems to be older warrior gods than Odin, even though they also may have had different functions at earlier stages of Norse or Germanic religion. I think it would be more fruitful to follow what we may call the thul-connection to understand Odin's early life. The Greek traveler Pytheas from Massilia (Marseille) traveled along the coast of what is now known as Norway perhaps as far north as Bodo around 330 BC, and he called that land Thule, which a Norse scholars like Ottar Groenvik understands as "the land of the Thuls" or "the Thul land". If he is right, that would definitely connect Odin to an early stage of Norse religion, since Odin is both called "the old thul" and "the great thul" (Fimbulthul). The word means "speaker" in Old English, and Odin's pulpit or speaker's chair is referred to as "the chair of the thul" in Mnemonic lists of word synonyms are called thulur in Old Icelandic literature. From all this we might conclude that Odin as the thul is a cultic or religious speaker whose lore is knowledge such as runes and other intellectual skills. We may assume that in this early stage of his life, Odin is more a god of wisdom than anything else, and that he only later assumed the functions of other gods such as the martial aspect. Odin is after all not an active warrior in the myths. He himself only partakes in the first and last battles of the world, when he initiates the Aesir-Vanir war by throwing his spear over the opposing army, and when he fights the Fenrir wolf and dies during Ragnarok. Thor, on the other hand, is always off somewhere in the east to fight the giants. Odin's main interest seems to lie in procuring knowledge at any cost, and this may reflect his earlier and perhaps truer self. .>> Brit-Am Remarks: Odin was the mythical leader of people who migrated from the Black Sea shores and the Don River estuary to Scandinavia and the West. Various interpretations have been given for the name: In the Caucasus area the name could mean The Dan and later Odin in Scandinavian Danish tradition was identified with Dan the Great ancestor of the Danes. Odin was explained by Isaac Mozeson (The Word) to be a form of the Hebrew Adon meaning lord and one of the titles of Joseph. Sometimes one name can have several meanings, or it can have one original meaning but receives additional meanings when it is interpreted according to the different language areas its bearer finds himself among. This is actually quite common. According to the above we would suggest that the name is derived from the Hebrew Da or Yeda meaning knowledge, knowing, make know. This root in different dialects could be pronounced as donor Ydon. We see from above that the name and personality of Odon were associated with knowledge. Norway was known as Thule. P. Senstius (1931) once suggested that Thule is a shortened form of Nafthali. At all events we have located Naphthali in Norway. The above note says that not only Norway but also the people of Norway were called Thuls and that this word means Speaker. <<Odin is both called "the old thul" and "the great thul" (Fimbulthul). The word means "speaker" in Old English>> <<The Greek traveler Pytheas from Massilia (Marseille) traveled along the coast of what is now known as Norway perhaps as far north as Bodo around 330 BC, and he called that land Thule, which a Norse scholars like Ottar Groenvik understands as "the land of the Thuls" or "the Thul land".>> Are these the goodly words that Naphtali speaks. [Genesis 49:21] NAPHTALI IS A HIND LET LOOSE: HE GIVETH GOODLY WORDS. The people of Naphtali should repent. They were partly responsible for the Oslo agreements that caused the death of many in Judah and much suffering and threatened all Israel with a diminution of sovereignty or worse over the Promised Land. PEOPLES OF NAPHTALI Naphtalite-Huns (= Thyssagetae of east Scythia, =Sian Yueh-chi i.e. Little Goths.). Thule (Norway). Clans of Nephtali: Jahzeel = Zeeland (Holland), Zealand (Denmark), Yssel (Scandinavia). Guni = Egan (Norway), Gugerni (Holland), Chouni (Huni, Huns of Scandinavia Jezer = Jassar (Alans);. Vraesi (Denmark, emigrated en-masse to Britain). Shillem = Sillingae (amongst the Vandals, Holland, and Scandinavia). Tribal Identifications: Naphtali Continued This note should be added onto the previous Tribal Identifications: Naphtali but it also links up with our commentary on Joshua 20 that we have just sent out. After the Israelite Tribes were exiled by the Assyrians these Tribes were re-settled in different areas of the Assyrian Empire. Many groups from the Israelite Tribes retained their original Tribal Identity. They usually federated with other Israelite entities and are identifiable as part of the Scythian forces. Most of the Israelites were due to be pushed northwards as part of the Scythian hosts though some groups retained a presence for some time in the Iranian area. In Scythia one group identified by its neighbors as Israelite called itself Nephtali. The Nephtali were also referred to as Cadussi. This people had first been recorded close to Mannae southwest of the Caspian Sea. The area was one of the major regions to which Northern Israelites had been transported by the Assyrians. The Apocryphal Book of Tobias mentions Israelite exiles from the Tribe of Nephtali in Ecbatana and Rages of Media both of which adjoined the Cadussii area. "This is the story of Tobit, son of Tobiel, son of Hananiel, son of Aduel, son of Gabael, son of Raphael, son of Raguel, of the family of Asiel, of the tribe of Naphtali. He was taken captive in the time of Enemessaros [i.e. Shalmanessar] king of Assyria, from Thisbe which is south of Kedesh Naphtali in Upper Galilee above Hazor, behind the road to the west, north of Peor." (Tobit 1;1-2). "After the deportation to Assyria when I was taken captive and came to Nineveh..." (Tobit 1;10). "All my kinsmen grieved for me, and Ahikar looked after me for two years until he moved to Elymais" (Tobit 2;10). "Sarah, the daughter of Raguel who lived at Ecbatana in Media(Tobit 2;7). "I have often travelled into Media and used to lodge with Gabael our fellow countryman who lives there at Rages" (Tobit 5;6). The Book of Tobias (Tobit) thus testifies to the presence of Israelite Exiles from the Tribe of Naphtali in the Cadussi area. Later we have evidence of a people to the north in Scythia who were known as Naphtalites also being referred to as Cadussi or Kadussi. The very name Kadussimay be derived from a Hebrew word meaning Holy Ones(Kadoshi). The Nephtalites were called Cadussi by the Greeks, Romans, and Persians but Pliny reported that they termed themselves "Gaeli". ["Gaeli" is also one of the names that the Celtic Hiberi called themselves. They Gaeli had migrated to the British Isles from the Middle East via Spain.]. The term Cadussiderives from Kadesh (or Kades) which city was a major center in the Land of Israel and situated in the territory of Naphtali (Joshua 20:7). The Cadussi-Gaeli were related to the Sacae Scythians according to Xenophon. [We identify the Sacae as ancestors of the Angles and Saxons who invaded Britain]. The Cadussi (or Kadussi) later moved northwards into Scythia east of the Ural mountains where they were also referred to as Nephtalites or Nephtalite Huns though some sources still referred to them as "Kadassaye" i.e. Cadussi. Legends, their Tribal names, and additional factors link them to the Israelite Tribes of Nephtali, Dan, Judah, and other Israelite Tribes. After a series of wars and migrations the Cadussi-Nephtalites (also known as "White Huns", Thysagetae, Little Goths, and sundry other names) split up into several groups. The majority went westward and entered Scandinavia to form what later became the Danes and Norwegians. Another portion remained in Scythia to eventually merge with the Khazars who converted to Judaism. Some of the Naphtalites may have gone eastward (where they became interspersed amongst the Rajput Indian castes) as well as to Afghanistan. These last mentioned Indian and Afghan groups alternately may be derived from peoples who had once been subject to the Nephtalites, and so mistakenly are sometimes identified with them. This last explanation now seems the most probable and was a frequent occurrence in the history of that region. Still another small band of Nùphtalites went to the South Arabian kingdom of Kinda, became Jewish, and merged with the Jews of Yemen most of whom are now to be found in the State of Israel . At all events the majority entered Scandinavia and at one stage a portion moved to Ireland and Britain. 1. Altheim, "GDH" vol. i, ch.2 . 2. " 5. Rawlinson vol. 3, p.214. n.4 6. Herodotus 7. Ortellius, Map of Tartaria 8. Wolfram 9. Altheim, "GDH" vol.I p.54ff 10. Herodotus 5;9 , 11. Encyc. Britt. 1955 "Archaeology. Iron Age", quotes J.L.Myres also Meyer " Geschichte des Altums", vol. I, p.891 12. Caesar, "The Gallic Wars" 6;31 13. McGovern p.486ff 14. Moncrieff p.124 15. McGovern 16. McGovern p.405. 17. " 18. Altheim "GDH" vol. I, p.34 19. McGovern p.465 20. Altheim, "GDH" vol. I, p.86 21. Derby p.26 22. Derby p.26 . 24. Saxo Grammaticus 26. Lozinski p.33ff 27. de Rougemont p.32ff 28. Altheim, "GDH" vol. 2, p.91 29. Godbey p.382 30. Rostovtzeff (1973), P.104 31. 31 Rostovtzeff (1973), p.104 32. Starcke p.80ff. 34. Malone p.211 Wrosnan: Vraeson, Wrsy Tribes Index Posted by David Ben-Ariel at 7:15 AM 1 comment: Links to this post Labels: brit am, napthali, tribal, tribes, yair davidiy Chavez hates Israelites and Jews "President Chavez's Abuse of the Holocaust": Chavez hates the American, British and Jewish peoples, Israel and Judah, and his latest outrage proves he must hate the plain truth of the Bible and history too. David Ben-Ariel, Author, Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall Return to Shomron (Samaria) Watch this wonderful video of faithful Jews loving the Land and working in Shomron (Samaria). Open A window to the Shomron ANNE ELIZABETH (CREEGER) HOOVER My sister Sue said: I was doing some cleaning and found this picture in my china cabinet. On the back of it I wrote, mother of Russel DeRoy Hoover, grandmother of Arthur Hoover - owned china cabinet & spinning wheel. 1835-1925. I remember gramps telling me who she was when we went through some old photos./ I also remember Grandpa telling us after she died they found a lot of greenbacks hidden under the floor, she must have had from her oil wells. (Yes, Ohio had oil wells). She's my great great Grandma (the one Abraham Hoover ran out on with the maid, so we were told). Vivian Viola Elizabeth (Ort) Hoover My sister Sue wrote: Thought you might like this photo of grandma. You can tell she was really proud of her coat! Grandma Vivian Viola Elizabeth (Ort) Hoover (taken outside the farm house in Risingsun, Ohio) I mention Grandma in German-American Israelites? and Why I No Longer Celebrate Christmas Four Generations of Mervins On the back it says: 1. George Mervin (must be John's dad) 2. Johnnie Mervin (with the mustache) 3. Albert Mervin 4. Albert's son (doesn't list his name!) John Mervin is the father of Hattie Hoover, Grandpa Arthur Hoover's mother. He's the one who came from England and was a pioneer in Risingsun, Ohio. John Mervin: Risingsun, Ohio Pioneer Honor our father Joseph New Film for Rebuilding Joseph's Tomb to Premiere in Big Apple by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) The Samaria (Shomron) Regional Council is stepping up its effort to rebuild the Tomb of Joseph in Shechem, which was desecrated by Arabs in the year 2000, and is about to begin screenings of an original film about the recent rebuilding of the tomb. Americans for a Safe Israel will be sponsoring the premiere screening of the film Wednesday, January 21st at 7:30 p.m. at the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue (11 E. 63rd St. between 5th and Madison, NYC). David HaIvri of the Shomron Liaison Office will present the film. A preview of the film can be viewed here: On October 1, 2000, Arabs attacked an IDF force that had been stationed in the tomb and killed one soldier. They then ransacked the tomb and desecrated it. Since then, Jews have not been able to enter the tomb in daylight hours. The IDF has allowed a series of nighttime visits by Jews in the past year. It claims that daytime visits constitute a security risk. For information on additional screenings in the US contact info@yeshuv.org. Joseph isn't Jewish! Joseph is the son of Rachel, the forefather of the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples. Leah is the mother of the Jewish people, although Rachel is also the mother of Benjamin (Joseph's beloved brother) and some from the tribe of Benjamin went with Judah when the northern Ten Tribes went apostate and suffered defeat and deportation by the Assyrians (as Judah later fell to the Babylonians, failing to learn from history). Christian Zionists (like Orde Wingate) recognize that God has blessed our Jewish brethren to serve as His custodians of the Promised Land of Israel, to be the first to return to Zion, to clear the way as pioneers and hold the land in trust for all Twelve Tribes of Israel, and so many of them do (even though hampered by Hellenists and persecuted by UNJews). Today Israel is the Jewish homeland and our British Israelite nations should encourage our Jewish brethren to refuse to surrender an inch to our sworn enemies, to liberate those biblical territories still suffering under Arab occupation, and tend to the Holy Land of Israel with tender loving care, especially the Temple Mount. Look out Jerusalem! Tevet 10 is the fast day the Jews mourn King Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem that led to its desolation: the destruction of the Temple and the deportation of the Jews. (I was actually born on Tevet 10 - January 10, 1960). By the grace of God, there's a FULL PAGE AD in the Jewish Voice and Opinion (this month of Tevet) warning its Jewish audience that a German-led Europe will wage a New Crusade to enforce the Vatican's version of peace - that Babylon has begun its new siege against Jerusalem: THE GERMAN JESUIT JACKBOOT WILL STOMP JERUSALEM! The FULL PAGE AD (on page 17) proceeds to direct them to Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall where my beliefs are on public record. Download the January 2009 issue PDF here! The Jewish Voice and Opinion speaks out forcefully and unashamedly for the unique concerns of what we have termed "classical Judaism." As a politically conservative Jewish publication, we take as our mission to present news and feature articles not generally available elsewhere in the Jewish or secular media. Now in its 23th year, The Jewish Voice and Opinion has been influential in religious and political circles throughout the United States, Israel, and elsewhere. It is often quoted and reprinted. It has been admired, feared, often debated, but never ignored. THE PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE HEBREW PEOPLES My views have remained the same concerning the difference between Jews and Israelites, knowing we are of the same ethnic stock, Jacob-Israel, but separated into two distinct kingdoms and later the Israelites, conquered by the fierce Assyrians (whose descendants are primarily the Germans today), migrated as prophesied NORTH and WEST and into the Isles. Those who know the Bible and history, understand how our Anglo-Saxon-Celtic Semitic ancestors were fair skinned (like Laban - lavan means white), some undoubtedly blond, and how Sarah was so fair skinned it attracted undue attention, and how David was rosy-cheeked (not something you say about darker skinned peoples), etc. However, our great family of White Israelites and Jews enjoy hair of every shade and different eye colors. Joseph, the son of Israel, was described in a Midrash (Genesis Rabah 86;3), as looking like a GERMANI (i.e. like someone from the North, very white, fair, according to Maimonides) and in another passage (Talmud Sota 36) as having a face that was "pink like a rose". It follows that Joseph was considered as having been of Nordic appearance which was a known familial trait since Joseph is also said to have looked exactly like his father. [On the other hand it is implied that Joseph was exceptional in this regard]. Joseph (Ephraim and Menasseh) was the leading tribal group in the Northern Kingdom. - THE PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE HEBREW PEOPLES David Ben-Ariel Videos! "I don't hate all black people" (YouTube video by David Ben-Ariel) Drunks and Whores (David Ben-Ariel YouTube video) "A Household Word" (YouTube video by David Ben-Ariel) Pearly Gates (David Ben-Ariel YouTube Video) Dead & Buried (David Ben-Ariel YouTube video) Europe Nukes US! 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__label__cc	0.663307	0.336693	The Ruricolist Essays and Caprices nondefinitions (31) bagatelles (5) monologues (4) parodies (3) The Ruricolist is now available in print. Anything can be translated. How can languages differ in what they can express, in what kinds of thoughts they encourage or permit, if thoughts born and raised in one can live as well is another? But if translation is always possible it may still be hard. For simple phrases addressing familiar, everyday things, there may be only one correct translation. But as the subject moves to remoter things, things less common, translation becomes art and language becomes medium. This is not news. Anyone can feel how difficult it is to recreate the dictionary denotations, let alone the literary connotations, of one language in another. But this is only the beginning of the art of translation, its scales and studies. The real art is not in deciding how to repeat, but how to fill in. Abstraction is constructive omission; an abstract word is both a something that is named and the index of a number of somethings, themselves omitted, that together instantiate or imply it. Every language omits differently; and it is by this difference, I think, that language influences thought: the discrepancies of their abstractions mean that certain thoughts are harder to think in some languages than others, because in one they can be alluded to, and in another they must be constructed on the spot. The thoughts may be the same yet the attitude of the thinker towards them may be different. Compare computer languages: it is of little difference to the compiler whether a function is called by name, or defined on the spot anonymously, but it makes a difference to the programmer. Written languages have two genealogies: linguistic and literary. The linguist who pops up to declare that language has no effect on thought is right in respect of linguistic traits. I do not see that it makes any difference to thought whether the language is gendered or genderless, analytic or agglutinative, nominative-accusative or ergative-absolutive. Thinking is so hard in itself that the general difficulty eclipses the particular difficulties or conveniences of certain languages. But languages also have literary genealogies, and these do shape thought. It matters that English apprenticed to Latin and Greek, not Sanskrit or Chinese. Few languages have civilized – have literized – themselves. The Old World has Greek, Sanskrit, Chinese, Egyptian and Sumerian. (The New World has Nahuatl and Quechua, but alas, they have no disciples.) All other languages had to serve an apprenticeship. Afterwards some, like the Romance languages, inherit the family business; some, like English or Japanese, buy out the stock; some, like German or Arabic, steal the plans and build their own versions. To analyze this phenomenon as a form of domination, a side effect of economic and political power, is not wrong – witness Norman French and English, or Arabic and Persian – but it misses the point. The conquered reshape their languages by translation from their conquerors; but conquerors also reshape their languages by translation from the conquered. Greek came to Rome in the mouths of slaves. One generation of Mongols heard Arabic and Chinese only in cries for mercy; the next whispered them in their bedrooms and gardens. Translation is certainly a convenience, is certainly a political act, but it also a transmission, an inheritance, a maturation. The old language passes on to the young language something that it must work to contain – simply put, power: power to know, power to understand, power to think. Literary descent has two vectors: borrowing and poetry. Borrowing is the easier, the most common, and usually the first method. Poetry is the harder but better method, because borrowing always leaves something behind. When languages are young, fast, and hungry, they take words and ideas as they need them, in whichever sense comes easiest; often the wrong one. In studying classical philosophy, for example, the hardest step is to get rid of English definitions. Stoics were not stoic; Epicureans were not epicurean; apatheia isn’t apathy, a daimon isn’t a demon, kosmos isn’t the cosmos, and demokrateia isn’t democracy. The diction of poetry is remote and patient enough, far enough from application, that it can take the time to compass an idea. Still, the transfer is not always perfect; sometimes the idea retains an inappropriate exoticism. An Athenian might agree that beauty is truth, but he would not have learned the lesson from his kitchenware. Language’s limits are unresisting but real. No language is without limits, but the limits of my language are the limits of my world, not as a wall limits my movement, but as the horizon limits my vision: I cannot see past it, yet I can never run into it. — Paul M. Rodriguez For essays After Before Last ru·ríc·o·list The Ruricolist is an independent essay series. Something substantial is run here every week – essays, species of fiction, and other short pieces; mostly essays, and essays in the classical sense: personally tinged, but not confessional. I avoid the timely for the indicated, and the relevant for the applicable; otherwise, within the limits of general interest, I keep conscientiously eclectic. Consult Humanism, Specialization, Uncut pages, Reinvention, Solitude, Versatility, Audience. 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__label__wiki	0.795793	0.795793	Chicagoans go global on U.S. schoolchildren By TED PINCUS We Americans are big talkers about globalization, bringing freedom to the world, and using our renowned salesmanship to chop our record trade deficit of $688 billion. But how can we get to first base when 30 percent of our young adults don't know where the Pacific Ocean is? How can we hope to compete in world markets when our youth (age 18 to 24) ranked next to last among their counterparts of nine major nations in a Global Literacy Survey conducted by National Geographic and Roper? And how can we combat the swelling tide of anti-American sentiment being tallied by our Business for Diplomatic Action -- portraying us as ignorant snobs -- when only 17 percent of the same group of adults could find Afghanistan and, despite the headlines, only 13 percent could find either Iraq or Iran on the map, according to the same survey? Our geographic ignorance already is hurting. A number of restaurants in Germany will no longer serve Coca-Cola or sell Marlboros or accept American Express credit cards. And 36,000 people responded to a recent Boycott Brand America Web site in Vancouver. Climb out of the cocoon If we're going to finally climb out of the cocoon and get to know our world, many authorities say we must attack the problem beginning in kindergarten. It just so happens that this is precisely the quest of a remarkable Chicago duo that has launched a crusade to teach young Americans their least favored subject: geography. Founding their Girdwood Partners only four years ago in a North Side apartment, veteran Chicago advertising jingle wizard Steve Wiebe, 37, and former Towers Perrin management consultant Howard Soriano, 42, produced what might be the most innovative, effective educational aid series yet for teaching grammar schoolers about what's beyond our shores. In creating a series of videos called WeeBee Tunes Travel Adventures, the pair has blended highly styled cartoon entertainment with solid education that introduces students to culture, countries, ecosystems and history across seven continents. "As the millennium opened," Soriano said, "Steve and I could see that geography was the one stepchild of U.S. education. With the No Child Left Behind program, it received almost zero funding, support or attention." The first step was to develop seven distinctive "travel friends," hilarious cartoon characters that would escort viewers throughout the series. Each representing a continent, the little hosts include Mae Lin the Yak, who welcomes visitors to Asia, a fat wombat in Australia, a gawky crane in Africa, Alexander the Salamander in Europe, Sven the Penguin at Antarctica, Osvaldo the Otter in South America, and the Raccoon Twins for North America. After scripting, Wiebe called upon his vast Chicago talent pool of 80 musicians, singers and commercial broadcast voices to do the soundtrack, and the famed Atomic Cartoons of Canada to do the animation. The series was launched in a low-key, low-cost marketing effort, with videos available on DVD, CD and VHS. They were offered with a "class pack" that also contains "passports" in which kids can record their visits; a large classroom map featuring the seven characters, and a teachers' guide loaded with writing assignments, vocabulary words and map exercises. The goal goes far beyond merely teaching locations, Soriano said. It emphasizes cultures and history as well. Each of the 29 video travel episodes has an original Wiebe-composed score with words and lyrics easily picked up by kids. Soundtracks include a Maori haka chant in New Zealand, and indigenous instruments like a sitar in India and an Australian Outback didgeridoo. "The results have been amazing," said Pat Princehorn, a second-grade teacher in suburban Olympia Fields. "You don't just show it once. You keep revisiting. The kids would view it every day if they could. They know the songs by heart, and sing along. And we make it relevant to their lives through current events like Iraq and the tsunami tragedy. Every American school needs this." That same realization dawned on Chicago map mavens Rand McNally, which recently added the entire WeeBee line to its nationwide sales effort, joining Amazon, Borders and National Geographic. "While we're now in 900 schools in 35 states," Soriano said, "it's only a start. Our aim is to be in 5,000 schools soon, and eventually in all 90,000." Back to the news page	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line407
__label__wiki	0.943217	0.943217	Introduction \| British East India Company \| The Trial of Warren Hastings \| Sir William Jones \| Blood Sugar \| Mungo Park \| Missionaries \| Pantisocracy \| Southey and Ireland \| Oriental Tales \| Orientalism Romantic Politics The Governess Working-Class Children William Blake and the Child Wordsworth and the Child Animal Rights and Welfare Nature's Economy "Nutting" The Voice of the Earth Feminine Sensibility & Virtue British East India Company The Trial of Warren Hastings Sir William Jones Pantisocracy Southey and Ireland Oriental Tales A Woman's Power Ideas on Breastfeeding The Mother's Duty The "Dangerously Good" Mother The "Naturally Bad" Mother A Priestley Polemicist A Faithful Disbelief Mad Shelley Escaping the Infernal Abode Romanticism and Revolution Romantic Satire Censorship and the Print Culture Irish Uprising of 1798 The Storming of the Bastille Somerset Case The Zong Case Abolishing the Slave Trade Ending Slavery "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Blake's Plates for Stedman Wordsworth's "To Toussaint L'Ouverture" The Consumer-Based Economy New Forms of Art Radical Political Groups The changing dynamic of British imperial culture in the late Romantic period is succinctly expressed in Lord Byron's Oriental Tales. A world traveler, Byron met his end fighting for Greek independence from Turkey. While Byron was a connoisseur of cultures, his audience, in large part, was comprised of the citizens of European metropolitan centers where his work was available in print. Byron challenged this audience's preconceptions with his writing, referring often to foreign cultures in what he called "some samples of the finest Orientalism". The most appreciated of Byron's "samples" is his poem "The Giaour." Composed of fragments written from different perspectives, the poem tells of the Giaour (a Christian called by the local pejorative for "infidel" or "foreigner") fights against Hassan, an example of traditional Islamic culture. The subject of contention between the two is the affection of a young woman, who is unfortunately drowned by Hassan upon his discovery of her infidelity with the Giaour. Despite its obviously patriarchal and Eurocentric slant, "The Giaour" is notable in that it exposes British audiences to the values of a wildly different culture, and presents those values in a way in which the Giaour himself is a sort of interloper into an established system. Byron's other "Oriental Tales" include "The Bride of Abydos," and "The Corsair." Certain Cantos of Don Juan also specifically include the protagonist's embroilment in the politics of a Turkish harem. Most important to these "Oriental" tales, though, is that Byron's encounter with radical alterity was grounded in a desire to experience and faithfully represent the other, rather than judge its validity or worth. Jody Dunville Kelsall, Malcolm. "'Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee': Byron's Venice and Oriental Empire." in Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire 1780-1830. Tim Fulford and Peter J. Kitson, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Print. This site was made with the support of the University of Tennessee Department of English	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line416
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__label__cc	0.654912	0.345088	URI Preamble, Purpose and Principles URI's Preamble, Purpose and Principles are the foundational tenets of our Charter and our global network. We, people of diverse religions, spiritual expressions and indigenous traditions throughout the world, hereby establish the United Religions Initiative to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings. We respect the uniqueness of each tradition, and differences of practice or belief. We value voices that respect others, and believe that sharing our values and wisdom can lead us to act for the good of all. We believe that our religious, spiritual lives, rather than dividing us, guide us to build community and respect for one another. Therefore, as interdependent people rooted in our traditions, we now unite for the benefit of our Earth community. We unite to build cultures of peace and justice. We unite to heal and protect the Earth. We unite to build safe places for conflict resolution, healing and reconciliation. We unite to support freedom of religion and spiritual expression, and the rights of all individuals and peoples as set forth in international law. We unite in responsible cooperative action to bring the wisdom and values of our religions, spiritual expressions and indigenous traditions to bear on the economic, environmental, political and social challenges facing our Earth community. We unite to provide a global opportunity for participation by all people, especially by those whose voices are not often heard. We unite to celebrate the joy of blessings and the light of wisdom in both movement and stillness. We unite to use our combined resources only for nonviolent, compassionate action, to awaken to our deepest truths, and to manifest love and justice among all life in our Earth community. The purpose of the United Religions Initiative is to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings. The URI is a bridge-building organization, not a religion. We respect the sacred wisdom of each religion, spiritual expression and indigenous tradition. We respect the differences among religions, spiritual expressions and indigenous traditions. We encourage our members to deepen their roots in their own tradition. We listen and speak with respect to deepen mutual understanding and trust. We give and receive hospitality. We seek and welcome the gift of diversity and model practices that do not discriminate. We practice equitable participation of women and men in all aspects of the URI. We practice healing and reconciliation to resolve conflict without resorting to violence. We act from sound ecological practices to protect and preserve the Earth for both present and future generations. We seek and offer cooperation with other interfaith efforts. We welcome as members all individuals, organizations and associations who subscribe to the Preamble, Purpose and Principles. We have the authority to make decisions at the most local level that includes all the relevant and affected parties. We have the right to organize in any manner, at any scale, in any area, and around any issue or activity which is relevant to and consistent with the Preamble, Purpose and Principles. Our deliberations and decisions shall be made at every level by bodies and methods that fairly represent the diversity of affected interests and are not dominated by any. We (each part of the URI) shall relinquish only such autonomy and resources as are essential to the pursuit of the Preamble, Purpose and Principles. We have the responsibility to develop financial and other resources to meet the needs of our part, and to share financial and other resources to help meet the needs of other parts. We maintain the highest standards of integrity and ethical conduct, prudent use of resources, and fair and accurate disclosure of information. We are committed to organizational learning and adaptation. We honor the richness and diversity of all languages and the right and responsibility of participants to translate and interpret the Charter, Articles, Bylaws and related documents in accordance with the Preamble, Purpose and Principles, and the spirit of the United Religions Initiative. Members of the URI shall not be coerced to participate in any ritual or be proselytized.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line420
__label__wiki	0.56196	0.56196	Final call for nominations for WFDF Athletes` Commission elections 2016 The World Flying Disc Federation is proud to call for nominations for the 2016 WFDF Athletes` Commission elections to be held during the World Ultimate and Guts Championships 2016 in London. Please refer to the information linked here on tasks of the Commission and conditions for nominations. Nominations must be sent to WFDF under ed(at)wfdf.org no later than 8 June 2016 and include a disc sport related CV. The purpose of the WFDF Athletes Commission is to promote open communication with, and solicit feedback from, flying disc athletes, and give them a formal role in the decision-making process of WFDF. The WFDF Athletes Commission will have as its main focus the issues facing athletes in the sport of Ultimate, as this is our largest disc sport constituency and the one that is involved in the World Games. After elections for three (3) additional members at WUGC 2016, the Commission will consist of a maximum total of six (6) members going forward. To be eligible, a candidate must be a participant in the current World Championships or have participated in a World Championship within the previous four years. In each election, there must be at least one male and one female member elected. For further questions please contact Ryan Purcell, Athlete`s Commission Chair, under: purcell.ryan(at)wfdf.org .	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line421
__label__cc	0.715946	0.284054	Dark Side By Jonathan Green Wayne J. Harris Humanity 2.0, edited by Alex Shvartsman Book Reviews, Online Content, Science Fiction Humanity 2.0 is an anthology about what humanity could become, in their attempt to reach the furthest stars. From sentient pulses of energy to genetically modified ubermen to weird cases of cultural exchange with other species, this collection covers most of the more popular angles in new and surprising ways. While one could argue that Humanity 2.0 is worth purchasing based on its star-studded ToC alone (from Liu to Fulda to Silverberg), its real strength lies in the originality with which the authors approach the thorny subject of mankind modifying themselves to brave the universe. The variety of approaches in every story differs wildly, form hard scifi speculation all the way to more…rubbery scifi approaches to solving the same issue, each of them very cleverly dancing around the taboo matter of changing ourselves irrevocably. The anthology is impressive in and of itself, even if a little short, length-wise. While a lot of the stories are chunky and original, one cannot help but feel that the anthology could do with a few thousand more words, provided that they dealt with some more novel approaches to the idea. perhaps the editor never got those stories. As it stands, Humanity 2.0 makes for an excellent ebook purchase, with a lot of excellent work packed between its covers. If you’re aching for classic-quality sf by modern greats, then you can’t go wrong with this one. Humanity 2.0 is published by Phoenix Pick Misbegotten Issue 3, by Caesar Voghan Silent Screams Anthology, edited by Josh Strnad	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line423
__label__wiki	0.535127	0.535127	As frequent travellers many of us will always have one eye open for products that offer the latest in technology that can help us in our lives and on our travels. After all, we spend what seems to be half of our lives in airports of different qualities all attempting to lure us into spending our hard earned cash, and more often than not, new technology can help us to save on the amount of things that we need to carry. With this new section of the website we will be reviewing some of the latest products to hit the streets and some that are still to come. We will be looking at some of the best travel gear for you, some fashion ideas, the latest in hardware such as mobile phones, cameras etc., the latest in Duty Free sales and many other cool gear for the leisure and business traveller. Cycling Tech: Everysight's Raptor AR smartglasses have entered final development, and the company has opened registration for its exclusive Test Pilot Program. Read more. 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Histopathologic Description: Brain: Within the parenchyma and surrounding vessels around the ventricle, there are low to moderate numbers of lymphocytes, macrophages, plasma cells, neutrophils and few eosinophils.Â Low numbers of neutrophils, lymphocytes, plasma cells and macrophages infiltrate the ependymal layer, which is disorganized, as well as the underlying parenchyma.Â The parenchyma surrounding the ventricle is edematous, and blood vessels with perivascular cuffs are lined by plump endothelial cells.Â The leptomeninges multifocally contain few to low numbers of lymphocytes, fewer macrophages and rare eosinophils and neutrophils.Â The ventricular lumen contains aggregates of fibrin, moderate numbers of neutrophils and macrophages, few multinucleated giant cells and rare eosinophils.Â Occasionally admixed with inflammatory cells and fibrin are Gram-positive cocci that are multifocally arranged in short chains. Morphologic Diagnosis: Brain: Meningoencephalitis and ventriculitis, neutrophilic, lymphohistiocytic and eosinophilic to pyogranulomatous, subacute, multifocally extensive, moderate, with intralesional gram-positive cocci. Streptococcus suis Contributor Comment: The cause for the neurologic signs was a meningoencephalitis that was localized primarily around and within the ventricles and choroid plexus.Â Multifocally within the ventricles, there were occasional clusters of intralesional gram-positive cocci arranged in short chains.Â Aerobic bacterial culture of the brain yielded Streptococcus sues, confirming suspicion of a streptococcal infection.Â The distribution of the inflammation was similar to what is described in association with this bacterium,(13) although the presence of multinucleated giant cells and eosinophils has not been reported within cases of streptococcal meningoencephalitis.Â This may speculatively have been due to an unusual serotype of the bacterium or an unidentified co-infection.Â The lesions in the other piglet submitted from this group the following week were similar.Â Streptococcus suis is a gram-positive, facultative anaerobic, Î±-hemolytic streptococcus belonging to Lancefield group D.(3,11) More than 30 serotypes have been identified, and most infections in pigs in most countries are caused by serotype 2.(3) Disease is mainly seen in weanlings and growing pigs, with incidence peaking at weaning, and may include septicemia, serositis, meningitis, polyarthritis, pneumonia, abortions, abscesses and endocarditis.(3,11) Outbreaks of S.Â suis generally have low morbidity and mortality ranging from 0-20%, depending on treatment.(11) Carriers are significant factors in disease transmission, and outbreaks may occur in closed herds.(11) Stress can predispose to infection, and concurrent infections increase morbidity.(11) JPC Diagnosis: Cerebrum, lateral ventricle: Ventriculitis and paraventriculitis, fibrinosuppurative, granulomatous and eosinophilic, with mild to moderate meningitis and intra-ventricular and intra-neutrophilic gram-positive cocci. Conference Comment: Streptococcus species are catalase-negative, opportunistic pathogens affecting multiple organ systems in various species.Â They are generally categorized on the basis of their hemolytic pattern on blood agar as Î±, Î² or Î³ (non)-hemolytic.Â Î±- and Î³-hemolytic streptococci are often normal inhabitants of the upper respiratory and lower urinary tracts, as well as the skin and gastrointestinal tract, while pathogenic species are usually Î²-hemolytic.Â Streptococcus species can be further designated into Lancefield groups A-V (excluding I and J) based on their cell wall polysaccharides.(5) S.Â suis, considered one of the most important bacterial pathogens of swine, has several important virulence factors, including its capsular polysaccharide and virulence-related proteins such as muramidase-released protein, extracellular protein factor and hemolysin.Â Hemolysin (or suilysin), is thought to enhance bacterial invasion and lysis of host cells.Â Suilysin is expressed by many strains of S.Â suis and has been associated with high virulence.(14) There are several Streptococcus species of veterinary importance in addition to S.Â suis.Â S.Â canis infection in neonatal and adult dogs (and less commonly cats) has been associated with pneumonia, abortion, septicemia, endocarditis, necrotizing fasciitis, keratitis, lower urinary tract infections, cholangiohepatitis, prostatic abscesses, mastitis, arthritis and meningoencephalitis.(5) S.Â equi subsp.Â equi causes equine strangles, a contagious infection of the upper respiratory tract and local lymph nodes;(12) it has also been linked with immune mediated vasculitis and purpura hemorrhagic a.(7) S.Â equi subs.Â zooepidemicus and S.Â equisimilis are associated with equine reproductive disease, but have also been isolated from the lung, liver, brain, kidney and joints.(8,12) S.Â equi subs.Â zooepidemicus also causes bursitis or fistulous withers in horses,(7) and was implicated in an outbreak of acute hemorrhagic pneumonia in more than 1,000 shelter dogs in California.(2) S.Â agalactiae (and less commonly S.Â dysgalactiae and S.Â uberis) are important causes of bovine mastitis.(9) S.Â iniae is a significant aquatic pathogen of tilapia and other reef fish, which causes necrosis, inflammation and vasculitis.(4) Furthermore, several species of Streptococcus are zoonotic, including S.Â can is,(5) S.Â equip sub.Â zooepidemicus,(12) S.Â iniae(4) and S.Â suis.(11,14) Conference participants outlined several potential causes for the gross and histologic lesions associated with S.Â suis in swine.Â The fibrinous polyserositis often noted grossly at necropsy(11) could also occur secondary to Hemophilus parasuis or Mycoplasma hyorhinus infection.(1) Ruleouts for the microscopic lesions of meningoencephalitis and ventriculitis include salt toxicity, edema disease and postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS).Â Salt toxicity is characterized by cortical laminar necrosis/malacia with eosinophilic meningoencephalitis.(7) Shiga-toxin producing E.Â coli (STEC), the etiologic agent of porcine edema disease, induces fibrinoid vascular change and necrotizing vasculitis with subsequent edema in various tissues, including the brain.(6) Cerebellar spongiosis, necrotizing vasculitis, edema and hemorrhage are occasionally described in conjunction with porcine circovirus type 2 and PMWS.(10) However, as noted by the contributor, the ventricular localization and fibrinosuppurative character of the lesions in this case are fairly specific for S.Â suis.(11) 1.Â Brown CC, Baker DC, Barker IK.Â Alimentary system.Â In: Maxie MG, ed.Â Jubb, Kennedy, and Palmers Pathology of Domestic Animals. 5th ed.Â Vol.Â 2.Â Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2007:228, 288. 2.Â Erol E, Locke SJ, Donahe JK, Mackin MA, Carter CN.Â Beta-hemolytic Streptococcus spp.Â from horses: a retrospective study (2000-2010).Â J Vet Diagn Invest. 2012;24(1):142-147. 3.Â Kahn CM, ed.Â Streptococcus suis infection.Â In: The Merck Veterinary Manual, 9th ed.Â Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck & Co, Inc.; 2011.Â Retrieved from http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/54302.htm 4.Â Keirstead ND, Brake JW, Griffin MJ, Halliday-Simmonds I, Thrall MA, Soto E.Â Fatal septicemia caused by the zoonotic bacterium Streptococcus iniae during an outbreak in Caribbean reef fish.Â Vet Pathol.Â 2013 Sep 27.Â [Epub ahead of print].Â Accessed 19 October 2013. 5.Â Lamm CG, Ferguson AC, Lehenbauer TW, Love BC.Â Streptococcal infection in dogs: a retrospective study of 393 cases.Â Vet Pathol.Â 2010;47(3):387-395. 6.Â Matise I, Sirinarumitr T, Bosworth T, Moon HW.Â Vascular ultrastructure and DNA fragmentation in swine infected with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli.Â Vet Pathol. 2000;37(4):318-327. 7.Â Maxie MG, Youssef S.Â Nervous system.Â In: Maxie MG, ed.Â Jubb, Kennedy, and Palmers Pathology of Domestic Animals. 5th ed.Â Vol.Â 1.Â Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2007:173, 257, 358. 8.Â Pesavento PA, Hurley KF, Bannasch MJ, ARtiushin S, Timoney JF.Â A clonal outbreak of acute fatal hemorrhagic pneumonia in intensively housed (shelter) dogs caused by Streptococcus equi subsp.Â zooepidemicus.Â Vet Pathol. 2008;45(1):51-53. 9.Â Schlafer DH, Miller RB.Â Female Genital System.Â In: Maxie MG, ed.Â Jubb, Kennedy, and Palmers Pathology of Domestic Animals.Â 5th ed, Vol.Â 3.Â Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2007: 552-554. 10.Â Seelinger FA, Brugmann ML, Greiser-Wilke I, Verspohl J, Segales J, et al.Â Porcine circovirus type 2-associated cerebellar vasculitis in postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS)-affected pigs.Â Vet Pathol.Â 2007;44(5):621-634. 11.Â Staats JJ, Feder I, Okwumabua O, Chengappa MM. Streptococcus suis: past and present.Â Vet Res Comm.1997;21:381-407. 12.Â Timoney, JF.Â The pathogenic equine streptococci.Â Vet Res.Â 2004;35(4):397-409. 13.Â Vasconcelos D, Middleton DM, Chirino-Trejo JM.Â Lesions caused by natural infection with Streptococcus suis type 9 in weaned pigs.Â J Vet Diagn Invest. 1994;6:335-341. 14.Â Zheng P, Zhao YX, Zhang AD, Kang C, Chen HC, et al.Â Pathologic analysis of the brain from Streptococcus suis type 2 experimentally infected pigs.Â Vet Pathol. 2009;46(3):531-535. Click the slide to view. 1-1. Cerebrum 1-2. Cerebrum at level of lateral ventricle 1-3. Lateral ventricle \| Back \| VP Home \| Contact Us \|	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line434
__label__wiki	0.688554	0.688554	Exploration & Commercial Geography Network ALL WAVES LEAD TO "SAIL" AMSTERDAM Original Italian text here A new epic of exploration is putting wind in the Netherlands’ sails. The ninth edition of "Sail Amsterdam 2015", scheduled from August 19th to 23th, will not only offer a rare opportunity to see in action the international giants of the seas, but will also let immerse in the waters from which the country has sprung and soon will return to look at from sidereal distances. For if a so free and cosmopolitan land was home of immeasurable masters such as Erasmus of Rotterdam, Baruch Spinoza or Rembrandt - whose revolutionary painting is celebrated by the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam until next May 17th - it certainly concerns its sailing ships. Old or new they are. Born to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Amsterdam back in 1975, the show has been proposing every five years punctually, becoming the largest free nautical event in Europe, with more than 1.7 million participants in the last edition. Each of them ready to be astonished by the daring maneuvers of 600 vessels sailing to the waters of the North Sea and the historic port IJhaven: among them, inevitably, the "Tall ships", the most fascinating and exotic sailing ships in competition for the highest award bestowed by the Dutch crown. From the German "Alexander von Humboldt", a 24 sails of 1,360 square meters and capable of reaching 14 knots through the strength of the wind only, till the French "Belem", a cargo amazingly survived the eruption of the Caribbean Mount Pelée in 1902 and committed to transport sugar, coconut or coffee from Brazil, French Guyana and the city of Nantes, passing by the Spanish "Atyla", destined to circumnavigate the globe and fresh winner of the Friendship Trophy in the Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta 2014, sailors from all over the world foretaste amazing stories and gargantuan drinks. "The event is open to everybody - specify the organizers - because we have established programs suitable both for specialists and for newbies: you can choose, for example, between a solution " classic", which allows you to get on board the sailing ships and enjoy a five hours cruise in the channel, or "dock", participating to the sailor village’s life and savoring some of the international excellence specialties. For those who prefer the charm of the port, the formula "Salon" is definitely the most suitable one. But regardless of the initiatives on the ships, the entire city of Amsterdam is ready to rediscover its seafaring soul". Again they return to evoke the legendary mutiny of the "Batavia", sunk in 1628 near the coral island of Beacon and, after a first sighting in 1840, exhumed in Australian waters to be completely rebuilt in the Dutch port of Lelystad: first case of experimental archeology which, in collaboration with the Western Australian Maritime Museum, has given life again to the tradition of the renowned Dutch shipwrights, using the same techniques and the same materials in vogue in the seventeenth century; they will look back with a mixture of reverence and enthusiasm at the Oostindisch Huis of Amsterdam, original headquarters of the powerful Dutch East India Company that, in 1602, became the first financial center in the world and today hosts the sleepy University Department of Sociology in the capital; or it fills the mouths of wonder even the vastness of the National maritime museum, near the old port, where from 1656 are kept over 60 thousand volumes nautical and specimens of vessels in the original scale. Nor it can leave indifferent the splendor of today's Hotel Waldorf Astoria, actually an historic building on the main channel of the capital, whose interiors still speak of the merchant glories, as well as the many "free citizens" who found hospitality inside: last but not least, the painter Brentano. Testimonies of an era perhaps unrepeatable, that between the Golden Age and Postwar saw the Dutch borders extending from the coast of Brazil to the entire Indonesian archipelago. And now back to ask an even more ambitious goal: Mars. Within 2023 the Dutch company Interplanetary Media Group aims indeed to land on the Red Planet, thereby initiating the colonization project Mars One. Independent from public funds just as the forerunner Dutch East India Company - due to today’s times of crisis - the new society is preparing to launch agile rovers for the exploration of Mars, in order to build a base of six livable units for scientific researches: this should avoid, at least for the first time, the fact that the available trips are one-way only, not having yet sufficient technology to enable new explorers to return to Earth. Nothing to do with Viktor Pelevin’s Omon Ra missions, though. Volunteers abound: after a few months of the opening of the call, members already amounted to 78,000, given the fact that anyone who has completed 18 years of age and is willing to pay a proportionate share of the gross domestic product of his own country (therefore from 5 to $ 73) can now join it. Thanks to television rights, broadcasting the whole process of preparation and landing of the astronauts, the $ 6 million necessary to fully cover the costs do not represent a so difficult obstacle in the end. To compete with the bold Dutch, once again, is Britain tycoon Richard Branson, whose Virgin Galactic has already experienced some ways of tourism in orbital weightlessness. Yet the epic of the great commercial explorations was not born under auspices as well favorable. Penalized by Portuguese and Spanish hegemony, already harassed by the English entrepreneurship, Amsterdam’s merchants had tried to move quietly, aiming for economic efforts almost suicide, but ending however to surprise everyone. Their first overseas expedition "was planned with the utmost secrecy - reminds Giles Milton, in his sensational book “Nathaniel’s Nutmeg"-. For more than three years the people of Warmoestraat, an elegant district of Amsterdam near the main square of the center, had observed an unusual bustle in the house of Reynier Pauw. This merchant, of only twenty-eight years, had already made a fortune as head of an international company of timber. Now he seemed to have set his sights on a new and more ambitious trade, because two of the regular visitors of his house, Hendrik Jan and Carel Hudde, were among the richest merchants of the city”. It was just the bet of this less known trio that, in 1592, the history of the world took a turn forever, as the real ace proved to be "a hunchback bearded, whose accentuated skull gave him an even more gibbous look to his brow": Petrus Plancius, bizarre Calvinist theologian with a visceral passion for geography, on whose incredible and extremely precise maps Holland was preparing to build its own world hegemony, provoking a real culture shock in Europe. Porcelain, lacquer boxes, loads of ebony and ivory, as well as fine silk, have indeed started to flow on and on in Old Continent’s markets, exciting the fantasies of an imagination that, until then, had never seen anything like that. They were the first temptations, so irresistible as poisonous, of the global world; but will also be the fascinating theme that Rijks Museum will investigate again thanks to a rich exhibition scheduled between October 17th and January 17th, 2016. Through the use of the most advanced contemporary sources, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius and Gerard Mercator’s projections, Amsterdam’s merchants had in their hands the equivalent to the more sophisticated todays’ GPS. An scientific and technological advantage that would soon obviated even the inexperience of the men chosen for the first overseas enterprises, gaining the rich Spices Route to Holland and, ironically, the future New York to the English Crown. Someone would indeed be willing to bet that the American metropolis would had not a so glorious destiny if, instead of New Amsterdam, the Dutch merchants had not claimed a remote Indonesian island: Run, first coveted capital of nutmeg, able to heal any evil and awaken every human vice. But to let dumbfounded as the Dutch as the British, to the point to be cited as one of the most brilliant examples of mediation between civilizations today, was the enterprising Italian explorer Elio Modigliani. Thanks to its three expeditions in the Indonesian archipelago, the first towards the mysterious menhir on the island of Nias (1886), then among the Batak in Sumatra (1890) and finally to Engano and Mentowai islands (1894), he provided anthropological evidences on which much remains to meditate. Memories now preserved by the ethnographic museum of Florence and Natural History Museum of Genoa represent an anomalous page, and certain a forerunner one, as the experience of the field is capable of demolishing any form of racism, even when one of the scientific goals was to collect human skulls attesting the theories of a certain Cesare Lombroso. Modigliani succeeded, with surprising ease, where the Dutch colonizers had repeatedly failed for centuries: instead ending up in tatters, he became acquainted and even esteemed friend of the feared tribe of Nias Salatan, known for the beauty of their women (as well highlights the Italian report "The Island of Women"), but also for the practice of collecting heads of unwelcome guests. The same people who, unwisely, allowed themselves to be groped by the naked and sinuous shapes of women-bait, then finding themselves with their skull impaled on fiery husbands’ spears. Although Amsterdam had long since thrown in the towel, the Florentine explorer, together with four Javanese only, amazingly managed to establish a special relationship with the indigenous inhabitants, containing even the bellicosity of his main opponent: Siwa Sahilu, legendary commander of the village Hili Siwaetano. And if next August Italian visitors can peer into the sailing ships in the port of Amsterdam with a touch of pride, feeling members of that great family of intrepid that broadened the horizons of the whole humanity, and in 2016 will make the Dutch capital "international city of diversity", a special merit will also go to Elio Modigliani. The Florentine who won the fear of the Other through the praise of folly. 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__label__wiki	0.613781	0.613781	Donald Trump× > Production facilities× > ASSOCIATED PRESS× James Comey (3) Mary Barra (1) Julian Castro (1) Tom Wolf (1) Scott Pruitt (1) Sheila Jackson Lee (1) Brian Babin (1) David B. Cohen (1) Joaquin Castro (1) Filemon Vela (1) Government business and finance (12) Political organizations (1) State governments (1) ASSOCIATED PRESS (22) < Prev \|1\|2\|Next > 5f9c65f4d432d0aaafb4bcdffc234e92 US PA New Coal Mine (CR) New Coal Mine Touted By Trump Opens In PA A new coal mine that President Donald Trump mentioned in announcing plans to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord has officially opened in Pennsylvania. The Acosta Mine will supply coal used in making steel and is expected to generate up to 100 full-time jobs. It's located in Friedens, about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. A Thursday celebration marked its opening. Corsa Coal Corp. says it decided in August to open the mine after a steel industry boom drove up prices for metallurgical coal. Pennsylvania awarded a $3 million grant for the project. George Dethlefsen, Corsa CEO, says even though the mine is not for conventional coal, it still give the industry hope there is a bright future for coal. "The war on coal is over, creating a climate of pro-business and pro-steel, whether that's the trade tariffs, or whether that's just fostering economic growth through tax cuts or infrastructure spending, all of those things affect our future outlook for prices," said Dethlefsen. Neil Donahue, professor at Carnegie Mellon University, doesn't think the mine opening signals a big change for the industry. "The mine has to do with making steel, so it has some significance to the steel industry – it has nothing to do with the bigger questions about coal. Almost all coal – the enormous majority of coal – is burned for electricity," said Donahue. Donahue thinks that no matter how pro-coal the current administration is, the fact remains that coal is more expensive than some of the alternatives. "I think people should be extraordinarily skeptical that the president can snap his fingers and make King Coal, King Coal again. I think in the short term, allowing coal mines and coal power industries to pollute without paying us the due cost of that pollution – sure, that'll helped out. I'm suspicious that it'll help them out to the point where they suddenly become competitive against natural gas," said Donahue. No matter what the mine says about the broader future for coal in the U.S., the workers in the Acosta Mine say the opening makes them more optimistic about the future of their profession. "There was some doubt, I won't lie, we doubted if we were going to have jobs or if the company was going to make it, but they did," said Matt Owens, one of the mine's safety coordinators. Friedens, Pennsylvania – June 7, 2017 ++ SOUNDBITES PARTIALLY COVERED BY FOOTAGE OF MINE ++ 1. Wide of coal pit 2. Sequence of lifter moving concrete blocks 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Shawn Petree, new mine superintendent: "The industry stays on the up rise here, all the guys that work here appreciate having the opportunity to have a job, number one, and everybody's kind of excited to open a new one up." 4. Various of mine 5. Various of Dethlefsen 6. SOUNDBITE (English) George Dethlefsen, Corsa CEO: "The metallurgical coal industry that sells into the steel market is experiencing a period of very high prices, and has been over the last seven or eight months, so the decision for us to open this mine is an economic decision" 7. Shot of mine worker 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Pistorius, professor of steelmaking research at Carnegie Mellon: "The metallurgical coal, as it's called, is a particularly niche market which is really just mined for iron making, to make coke, so it really is a separate product entirely." 9. Dethlefsen in mine 10. SOUNDBITE (English), George Dethlefsen, Corsa CEO: "The war on coal is over, creating a climate of pro-business and pro-steel, whether that's the trade tariffs, or whether that's just fostering economic growth through tax cuts and infrastructure spending, all of those things impact our future outlook for prices" 11. Various of mine 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Neil Donahue, professor of chemistry, engineering, and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University: "The mine has to do with making steel, and so it has some significance to the steel industry – it has almost nothing to do with the bigger questions about coal. Almost all coal – the enormous majority of coal – is burned for electricity." ++WHITE FLASH++ "I think people should be extraordinarily skeptical that the president can snap his fingers and make king coal, king coal again. I think in the short term, reducing, essentially allowing coal mines and coal power industries to pollute without paying us the due share of the cost of that pollution – sure, that'll help them out. I'm suspicious that it won't help them out to the point that they suddenly become competitive against natural gas." 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Owens, mine safety coordinator: "There was some doubt, I won't lie, we doubted if we were going to have jobs or if the company was going to make it, but they did." "We're hoping to be here another 15 years, we're hoping it's a good coal mine, that we can load a lot of coal out of it, close for our homes so it's an easy commute, so yeah, we want to be here." Climate , Environment and nature , Science , Steel manufacturing , Base metals industry , Metals and minerals industry , Materials industry , Business , Production facilities , Corporate news , Economy , Coal mining , Coal mining , Energy industry , Pollution , Environmental concerns , Environment , Energy and the environment Friedens , Pennsylvania , United States ce1b1cb841711a885625bcacb086faa6 US New Coal Mine New coal mine touted By Trump opens A new coal mine that President Donald Trump mentioned in announcing plans to pull the US out of the Paris climate accord has officially opened in Pennsylvania. Friedens, Pennsylvania - June 7, 2017 1. Wide of coal pit, US flag draped over wall 2. Various of lifter moving concrete blocks "Hopefully the industry stays on the up rise here, all the guys that work here appreciate having the opportunity to have a job, number one, and everybody's kind of excited to open a new one (coal mine) up." 4. Petree getting onto a vehicle "The metallurgical industry that sells into the steel market is experiencing a period of very high prices, and has been over the last seven or eight months, so the decision for us to open this mine is an economic decision." 7. Tight of coal with Dethlefsen in background 8. Mine worker 10. Dethlefsen talking to worker 11. SOUNDBITE (English) George Dethlefsen, Corsa CEO: "The war on coal is over, creating a climate of pro-business and pro-steel, whether that's the trade tariffs, or whether that's just fostering economic growth through tax cuts or infrastructure spending, all of those things effect our future outlook for prices." 12. Various of mining equipment 13. Neil Donahue, professor of chemistry, engineering, and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University "The mine has to do with making steel, so it has some significance to the steel industry – it has nothing to do with the bigger questions about coal. Almost all coal – the enormous majority of coal – is burned for electricity." 15. Donahue speaking to man "I think people should be extraordinarily skeptical that the president can snap his fingers and make king coal, king coal again. I think in the short term, reducing, essentially allowing coal mines and coal power industries to pollute without paying us the due share of the cost of that pollution – sure, that'll help them out. I'm suspicious that it won't help them out to the point where they suddenly become competitive against natural gas." 17. Various of mine workers 19. Various of workers putting down concrete blocks Energy and the environment , Environment , Environment and nature , Climate , Steel manufacturing , Base metals industry , Metals and minerals industry , Materials industry , Business , Higher education , Education , Social affairs , Pollution , Environmental concerns , Economy , Coal mining , Coal mining , Energy industry , Production facilities , Corporate news , Science , Chemistry d707f839aa8a52d578d48bf67a7ce117 US PA New Coal Mine (Lon NR) "Hopefully the industry stays on the up rise here, all the guys that work here appreciate having the opportunity to have a job, number one, and everybody's kind of excited to open a new one up." 8. Dethlefsen talking to worker 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Pistorius, professor of steelmaking research at Carnegie Mellon: Economy , Business , Steel manufacturing , Base metals industry , Metals and minerals industry , Materials industry , Science , Pollution , Environmental concerns , Environment , Environment and nature , Higher education , Education , Social affairs , Production facilities , Corporate news , Climate , Energy and the environment , Coal mining , Coal mining , Energy industry , Chemistry 092d04bb6ac39746fb270ac49a290118 US Trump Foxconn Trump Announces Foxconn Plant in Wisconsin Donald Trump , Jared Kushner , Scott Walker President Donald Trump is announcing that electronics giant Foxconn plans to build a $10 billion factory in Wisconsin that will employ 3,000 workers and produce the liquid-crystal display panels used in televisions and computer screens. Wisconsin offered $3 billion in economic incentives over 15 years. The Trump administration heralded the announcement Wednesday about the Taiwan-based company as a victory in its campaign to bring high-paying manufacturing jobs back to the United States. Foxconn is perhaps best known for assembling Apple iPhones in China. Seven states had competed for the Foxconn plant. Other states vying for the plant were Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. The administration said it did not help steer Foxconn to Wisconsin in what would appear to be a victory for both Trump and the state's Republican governor, Scott Walker, who is up for re-election next year. Washington - July 26, 2017 1. Wide of event 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Terry Gou, CEO of Foxconn: "Why do it here? TV Was invented in America, yet America doesn't have a single LCD factory to produce a complete AK system. We are going to change that." 3. Cutaway of Gou "Governor Walker, I'd like to thank you and your leadership teams. I also would like to thank you Mr. Jared Kushner and the White House Office of American Innovation for your hard work to make this investment a reality." 5. Wide of Donald Trump at podium 6. SOUNDBITE (English) President Donald Trump: "This is a great day for American workers and manufacturing and for everyone who believes in the concept and the label 'Made in the USA'. Today I'm pleased to announce that Foxconn, a world leader in manufacturing for computers, communications and consumer electronics -- one of the truly great companies of the world will build a state of the art manufacturing facility for the production of LCD panel products in Wisconsin. Investing many, many billions of dollars right here in America and creating thousands of jobs and I mean American jobs - that's what we want." 7. Cutaway of Donald Trump 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Scott Walker, (R) Wisconsin: "This is a great day for America. It is a great day for Wisconsin, and it is a great day for Foxconn. Today, we're announcing the single largest economic development project in the history of the state of Wisconsin, and one of the largest in the history of this country. In fact - I'm going to go back and verify this - but this is going to be the largest greenfield-based company investment from a foreign-based company in US history as measured by jobs. So, this is literally, number one, so thank you, Terry." 9. Cutaway of Scott Walker Hiring and recruitment , Personnel , Business , Production facilities , Corporate news , New products and services , Products and services Wisconsin state government 89ae6cce2d6ab4660ad8bbc9f34c246a US Trump Foxconn (Lon NR) Donald Trump , Scott Walker , Jared Kushner 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Terry Gou, CEO of Foxconn "Governor Walker, I'd like to thank you and your leadership teams. I also would like to thank you with the Jared Kushner and the White House Office of American Innovation for your hard work to make this investment a reality." 6. SOUNDBITE (English) President Donald Trump "This is a great day for American workers and manufacturing and for everyone who believes in the concept and the label 'made in the USA.' Today I'm pleased to announce that Foxconn, a world leader in manufacturing for computers, communications and consumer electronics -- one of the truly great companies of the world will build a state of the art manufacturing facility for the production of LCD panel products in Wisconsin. Investing many, many billions of dollars right here in America and creating thousands of jobs and I mean American jobs -- that's what we want." 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Scott Walker, (R) Wisconsin "This is a great day for America. It is a great day for Wisconsin, and it is a great day for Foxconn. Today, we're announcing the single largest economic development project in the history of the state of Wisconsin, and one of the largest in the history of this country. In fact -- I'm going to go back and verify this -- but this is going to be the largest Greenfield-based company investment form a foreign-based company in US history as measured by jobs. So, this is literally, number one, so thank you, Terry." 89d9430e91af4a66ab083c54549eb4aa US MI Trump Trade Reax (CR) Analyst: Trade deal won't have big impact on autos Nancy Pelosi , Donald Trump ++SOUNDBITES PARTIALLY COVERED BY VIDEO++ ASSOCIATED PRESS – AP CLIENTS ONLY Detroit – 17 October 2018 1. Various of the area outside the International Welcome Center at the border, including flags representing the U.S., Michigan and Canada, as well as a sign pointing toward the Ambassador Bridge 2. Wide of trucks backed up on the Ambassador Bridge, which links the U.S. and Canada Troy, Michigan – 10 December 2019 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jeff Schuster, LMC Automotive: "The new agreement, which is the USMCA, replacing what was previously called the NAFTA agreement. It's been quite a long road. It's certainly been more than a year in process since it was first approved, or at least agreed upon between the three countries: U.S., Canada, Mexico." 4. The exterior of the duty-free shop at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel 5. Various of the tunnel's U.S. checkpoint area "So, today's announcement, we finally have an agreement between the House Democrats and the Trump administration on USMCA, which replaces NAFTA. The agreement that was made between the three countries several months ago, and we're now finally pushing it forward." Sterling Heights, Michigan – 26 August 2016 7. Various of workers operating a press at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' Sterling Stamping Plant "The unions, obviously, want the best for their work force here. Specifically, if we're talking about U.S. unions, the U.S. worker. And I think to an extent there's a little bit more protection than there was in the previous NAFTA agreement. So, USMCA is, again, a little bit more protective of the U.S. worker, so I suspect the unions certainly would like it more." 9. A worker on the job at the Sterling Stamping Plant Orion Township, Michigan – 4 November 2016 10. Various of production work being done at General Motors' Orion Assembly plant 11. Various of work being done at the stamping plant 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jeff Schuster, LMC Automotive: "As we look at auto sales and look at the impact on the auto industry, we don't anticipate any major impact. There could be some cost pressures as a result of some of these new stipulations that are put in place. I think the challenge is going to be the enforcement." "It looks like we have a piece of uncertainty removed from manufacturing, from business decision-making, from a worker's standpoint of view as well. So, I think, anytime you remove uncertainty, it's good for everyone." 14. A worker drives off with some car parts An analyst says the new North American trade pact will have no "major impact" on the auto industry. Jeff Schuster, an analyst with LMC Automotive in suburban Detroit, spoke Tuesday following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's announcement that Democrats had reached an agreement with the White House on the revamped U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The USMCA would replace the original North American Free Trade Agreement. "As we look at auto sales and look at the impact on the auto industry, we don't anticipate any major impact," said Schuster, who is LMC Automotive's president of Americas Operation & Global Vehicle Forecasting. Many Democrats, especially those from manufacturing areas hit hard by trade-related job losses, have been critical of the 25-year-old NAFTA accord. Pelosi has negotiated with President Donald Trump's administration extensively to win stronger enforcement provisions for workers. "To an extent there's a little bit more protection than there was in the previous NAFTA agreement," Schuster said. "So, USMCA is, again, a little bit more protective of the U.S. worker, so I suspect the unions certainly would like it more than the previous NAFTA, which obviously had some issues." The pact contains provisions designed to nudge manufacturing back to the United States. For example, it requires that 40% to 45% of cars eventually be made in countries that pay autoworkers at least $16 an hour, that is, in the United States and Canada and not in Mexico. Production facilities , Corporate news , Business , International trade , Economy , Regional trade , Trade agreements , Trade policy , Trade policy , Economic policy , Economic policy , Government business and finance , Government business and finance , Government and politics , Economic policy , Government policy , Trade agreements , International agreements , International relations , Free trade United States , North America , Troy , Michigan , Detroit , Mexico , Mexico , Central America , Latin America and Caribbean , Canada 6ef7cfb1c26d4e28acbf9f9f834f8487 US MI Trump Trade Reaction "As we look at auto sales and look at the impact on the auto industry, we don't anticipate any major impact," said Schuster, who is LMC Automotive's president of Americas Operation & Global Vehicle Forecasting. 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Schuster, LMC Automotive: "The unions, obviously, want the best for their work force here. Specifically, if we're talking about U.S. unions, the U.S. worker. And I think, to an extent, there's a little bit more protection than there was in the previous NAFTA agreement. So, USMCA is, again, a little bit more protective of the U.S. worker, so I suspect the unions certainly would like it more than the previous NAFTA, which obviously had some issues." 9. Close of a worker on the job at the Sterling Stamping Plant ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++ 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Schuster, LMC Automotive: "I think the biggest thing that happened today, and I think with what's been taking place in trade and in general over the last several months, is it looks like we have a piece of uncertainty removed from manufacturing, from business decision-making, from a worker's standpoint of view, as well. So, I think, anytime you remove uncertainty, it's good for everyone." Trade agreements , Trade policy , International trade , Economy , Business , Trade policy , Economic policy , Economic policy , Government business and finance , Government business and finance , Government and politics , Economic policy , Government policy , Trade agreements , International agreements , International relations , Regional trade , Free trade , Production facilities , Corporate news Comuna 23 August , Constanța , Romania c16de708d169a925977d9c999d3c57d6 US Trump GM (CR) Trump: 'I was very tough' on GM CEO Donald Trump , Mary Barra President Donald Trump says his administration and lawmakers are exerting "a lot of pressure" on General Motors in response to its decision to cut up to 14,000 workers in North America and possibly shutter up to five plants. Trump says he's being very tough on GM chief executive officer Mary Barra. He says he told the company that the U.S. has done a lot for GM and that if its cars aren't selling, the company needs to produce ones that will. The plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that makes the Chevrolet Cruze compact car is on the possible closure list. Trump says GM needs to "get a car that is selling well and put it back" into the Ohio plant. 1. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President: "We don't like it, I believe they wiil be opening up something else. Well. I was very tough. I spoke with her when I heard the word closing and I said you know this country has done a lot for General Motors, you better get back in there soon. That's Ohio. And you better get back in there soon. So we have a lot of pressure on them. You have senators you have a lot of other people a lot of pressure" ++SEPARATED BY WHITE FLASH++ "They say the ChevyCruze is not selling well. I say Well get somebody, get a car that is selling well and put it back in. So I think you're going to see something else happen there, but I'm not happy about it. Their car is not selling well. So they'll put something else, I have no doubt that in the not too distant future they'll put something else, they'd better put something else in." "Not tariffs, it has nothing to do with tariffs, she said the car was not selling." Production facilities , Corporate news , Business , Automobile manufacturing , Consumer product manufacturing , Consumer products and services c92dc1b4b5c1a147d790f1ed49935cd9 US Trump Trade (CR) Trump Imposes New Solar, Washing Machine Tariffs James Comey , Donald Trump , Jeff Sessions , Robert Mueller President Donald Trump says he is imposing new tariffs to "protect American jobs and American workers." Trump acted Tuesday to impose new tariffs on imported solar-energy components and large washing machines in a bid to help U.S. manufacturers. Trump says the move will "benefit our consumers and we're going to create a lot of jobs." The administration is imposing an immediate tariff of 30 percent on most imported solar modules, with the rate declining before phasing out after four years. For large residential washing machines, tariffs will start at up to 50 percent and phase out after three years. Meanwhile, Trump says he is not concerned about what Attorney General Jeff Sessions said during an interview for the special counsel's Russia investigation. Trump spoke in the Oval Office Tuesday. Asked if he had any concerns about what was said, he said "no, I'm not at all concerned." Trump also said he had not discussed the matter with Sessions. Trump was also asked whether he's concerned about the senior leadership at the FBI. He responded: "Let's see how it all works out." Sessions was interviewed for hours last week in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, The interview came as Mueller is investigating whether Trump's actions in office, including the firing of FBI Director James Comey, constituted obstruction of justice. Mueller is also investigating contacts between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia. Washington - 23 January 2018 1. Wide of US President Donald Trump in Oval Office 2. SOUNDBITE (English): US President Donald Trump: "Donald Trump: Based on the recommendation of the independent, bipartisan U.S. International Trade Commission, I am taking action to impose safeguard tariffs on imported residential washing machines and all solar products. My administration is committed to defending American companies and they've been very badly hurt from harmful import surges that threaten the livelihood of their workers, of jobs actually all over this country. Many different industries. Today I'm also directing (US Trade Representative) Ambassador (Robert) Lighthizer to continue supporting industry discussions to resolve duties on these and similar products in the United States and China. We support a resolution that is in the interest of American workers and also the American consumer. We're going to benefit our consumers and we're going to create a lot of jobs. Our action today helps to create jobs in America for Americans. It will provide a strong incentive for LG and Samsung to follow through on their recent promises to build major manufacturing plants for washing machines right here in the United States." 3. Trump signing washing machine order (UPSOUND) English: "It's a very big industry and you can have a lot of plants built in the United States that we're thinking of coming, but they would have never come unless we did this. Big industry, a lot bigger than people would understand." ++SOUNDBITES SEPARATED BY BLACK++ 4. Trump signing solar panel order (UPSOUND) English: "So this is panels and products generally, solar. Potentially great industry in this country, but now we'll be making it in the United States. A lot of workers. A lot of jobs." "As you know, negotiating a new deal with NAFTA. We're renegotiating our deal with South Korea which has turned out to be a disaster for this country. It was a deal that was going to create 200,000 jobs and we lost 200,000 jobs. We're renegotiating that. NATFA is moving along pretty well. I happen to be of the opinion that if it doesn't work out, we'll terminate it, but I think you're doing pretty well Bob from what I understand. So we'll see how it all works out. And we'll be doing other trade deals. We're in the process of negotiating with other countries on also. All of which have treated us very unfairly. We had very poor representation for many years and it's hurt our workers. It's hurt our factories. It's hurt our companies and that is stopping. And you're seeing what's happening with the stock market. People are appreciating what we're doing." "I've been called by at least 10 major executives and they're going to be announcing very shortly major investments in the country and major investments for the people of our country. Really almost more than anything else and jobs. So we're bringing business back to the United States for the first time in many, many years. Many, many decades really." "(Reporters shouting questions) No. I'm not at all concerned. (Reporters shouting questions) No. I didn't. But I'm not at all concerned. Thank you all very much. (Reporters shouting questions) No he didn't at all. Not even a little bit. And he's going to do a good job. (Reporters shouting questions). We'll look at it. We're looking at a lot of things. (Reporters shouting questions) Let's see how it all works out. Thank you all very much." International trade , Economy , Business , Production facilities , Corporate news , Trade barriers , Trade policy , Trade policy , Economic policy , Economic policy , Government business and finance , Government business and finance , Government and politics , Economic policy , Government policy , Hiring and recruitment , Personnel 31d3d95bf76bee1fe6e0d5ebb84d4c2d US Trump Trade Hiring and recruitment , Personnel , Business , Production facilities , Corporate news , Trade barriers , Trade policy , International trade , Economy , Trade policy , Economic policy , Economic policy , Government business and finance , Government business and finance , Government and politics , Economic policy , Government policy 30f2b61e988eb94e35a6f44f649f2330 US Trump Trade (Lon NR) Robert Mueller , Jeff Sessions , James Comey , Donald Trump Hiring and recruitment , Personnel , Business , International trade , Economy , Trade barriers , Trade policy , Trade policy , Economic policy , Economic policy , Government business and finance , Government business and finance , Government and politics , Economic policy , Government policy , Production facilities , Corporate news 0e8b7d716e9b2d5e642cafc69085e06a US OH Trump Preview (CR) Trump returns to key battleground state of Ohio ASSOCIATED PRESS , POOL David B. Cohen , Donald Trump President Donald Trump is returning to the state that foretold his 2016 victory and serves as the linchpin of his re-election effort. Trump's visit to Ohio on Wednesday marks his first trip to the state since last year's midterm election campaign, when the state was a rare bright spot for Republicans in the upper Midwest. But with Trump's path to another four years in the White House relying on a victory in the state, his campaign is mindful of warning signs that Ohio can hardly be taken for granted in 2020. Perhaps no state has better illustrated the re-aligning effects of Trump's candidacy and presidency than Ohio, where traditionally Democratic-leaning working-class voters have swung heavily toward the GOP, and moderate Republicans in populous suburban counties have shifted away from Trump. This week's visit marks Trump's 10th to the state since taking office. He is set to visit the Lima (LEYE'-muh) Army Tank Plant, which had been at risk for closure but is now benefiting from his administration's investments in defense spending. He'll also hold a fundraiser for his re-election campaign in Canton. Trump's visit comes days after he railed against the closure of a General Motors plant in Lordstown, a significant contributor to the economy in the eastern part of the state. The plant, which produced Chevy Cruze sedans, closed earlier this month despite bipartisan pressure on the automaker, which claims it is responding to consumer demand for larger vehicle types. On Sunday, Trump criticized a local union leader's handling of the closure. The president tweeted: "Democrat UAW Local 1112 President David Green ought to get his act together and produce." In response, Green told WFMJ-TV that he doesn't take the president's comments personally, nor does he hold Trump responsible for the plant's closure. "Donald Trump didn't close or un-allocate our location. General Motors did," Green said. "The union hasn't done this. General Motors has." The plant is a focal point despite it being one of a number of GM facilities that are scheduled to close. That's because of the president's pledge at a 2017 rally in nearby Youngstown, where he talked about going past big factories whose jobs "have left Ohio." "They're all coming back. They're all coming back. Coming back," Trump assured supporters. "Don't move. Don't sell your house." It was the kind of promise that endeared Trump to blue-collar workers in places like Youngstown and Lordstown, Democratic and labor bastions where Trump surprisingly won half the vote. But it's also one that could haunt him with people who crossed party lines two years ago, said David Cohen, a political science professor at the University of Akron. Tony Sarigianopoulos (SAR'-jehn-AH'-peh-lehs) put in a quarter-century at Lordstown. The 48-year-old from suburban Youngstown has two sons in elementary school and an ex-wife with whom he gets along. So, he is staying put and hoping the plant will get a new vehicle to build. As for the impending presidential visit, Sarigianopoulos says he'd prefer to see the commander-in-chief act, rather than talk. Or tweet. "That's why you're the president of the United States. Show us. I'm not asking you to come in and retool the plant yourself. I'm asking you to realize that this is an opportunity for you as the president of the United States to show the middle class that you truly want to see America great again. So show us. That's all," he said. ++CAPTION TEXT ON-SCREEN++ Lordstown, Ohio – 19 March 2019 1. Various of the exterior of General Motors' Lordstown assembly plant with an American flag in the foreground Akron, Ohio – 19 March 2019 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor David Cohen, University of Akron: "The big story in Ohio with regards to the economy is the announcement by GM that they are closing their Lordstown plant, which happened earlier this month." Campbell, Ohio – 19 March 2019 3. UPSOUND Tony Sarigianopoulos tells his two sons that they need to be ready to leave their house in 25 minutes Youngstown, Ohio – 25 July 2017 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Trump, US President: "And my wife, Melania, said, 'What happened?' I said, 'Those jobs have left Ohio.' They're all coming back. They're all coming back. Coming back. Don't move. Don't sell your house. Don't sell your house." 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Sarigianopoulos, Former General Motors Employee: "I don't understand why you say things like that. And then you have people that defend that and say, 'You have to understand: It's not his job.' Don't say it. And they say, 'Well, you're misinterpreting.' What's misinterpreted there?" 6. Trump pauses his remarks as the crowd cheers 7. University of Akron political science professor David Cohen types on a computer in a campus office "These four states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, are the key to his victory in 2016. If he doesn't carry these states, he loses re-election. And he understands that. His campaign understands that." 9. Sarigianopoulos checks his son's school backpack to see if he has any homework 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Sarigianopoulos, Former General Motors Employee: ++partially covered with b-roll++ "That's why you're the president of the United States. Show us. I'm not asking you to come in and retool the plant yourself. I'm asking you to realize that this is an opportunity for you as the president of the United States to show the middle class that you truly want to see America great again. So show us. That's all." 11. A truck passes by a homemade sign that reads, "Save The GM Plant" Government and politics , Home selling , Residential real estate , Lifestyle , Automobile manufacturing , Consumer product manufacturing , Consumer products and services , Business , State elections , Elections , Production facilities , Corporate news Akron , Ohio , United States , North America , Youngstown d9d3ec28cc68f087ab93ba3f589afa61 US Steel Tariffs Steel companies push for waiver from Trump's steel tariffs Kerry Washington , George Pataki , Hillary Clinton , Donald Trump , Wilbur L. Ross Jr. , Bernie Sanders , Brian Babin Steel companies in the US are worried that President Donald Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminium will ultimately affect American workers. Joel Johnson examines the shipping labels on 35-ton coils of American-made steel that will be unspooled, bent and welded into rounded sections of pipe. One's from Nucor, a mill in Arkansas. Another's from Steel Dynamics in Mississippi. But much harder to spot in the sprawling factory yard is the imported steel that's put his company in the crosshairs of Trump's bitter trade dispute with America's allies and adversaries. Trump says his tariffs on steel, aluminum and other goods will put US companies and workers on stronger footing by winding back the clock of globalisation with protectionist trade policies. But the steel tariff — essentially a 25 percent tax — may backfire on the very people the president is aiming to help. The Commerce Department has been deluged with requests from 20,000 companies seeking exemptions. Johnson is the CEO of Borusan Mannesmann Pipe US, a company with Turkish roots that manufactures the welded pipe used by energy companies to pull oil and natural gas out of the earth. He has been fighting an uphill battle to get a two-year exemption from Trump's tariff on steel imports. Without a waiver, Johnson said, Borusan faces levies of up to 30 million US dollars a year — a staggering sum for a business with plans to expand. "We don't have any proof we're being heard," Johnson said. Eighty miles southwest, in Bay City, global steel giant Tenaris also is seeking an exemption from the tariffs. The company churns out steel pipe in a 1.8 billion US dollar state-of-the-art facility that began operating late last year, using solid rods of steel called billets that are made in its mills in Mexico, Romania, Italy and Argentina. Of the four, only Argentina has agreed to limit steel shipments to the US in exchange for being spared the tariff. "The decision is out of our hands," said Luca Zanotti, president of Tenaris's US operations, while expressing confidence its request would be approved. If it's not? "We'll adapt," he said. Steelworkers, meanwhile, are cheering the tariff even as they remain sceptical of Trump's pledge to empower blue-collar Americans. They also worry about the possibility of too many exemptions. "You put these tariffs (in place) but now you're going to exclude everybody so they're kind of pointless," said Durwin Royal, president of United Steelworkers' Local 4134 in Lone Star, Texas. The diverse views illustrate the complexity, confusion and concern lurking behind Trump's "America First" pledge. Pipe mills are numerous in Texas, which leads the country in oil and natural gas production. Factories that use imported steel typically do so when they can't get the exact type or quantity they need from US producers. Many of them are among the thousands of companies that have filed exclusion requests to avoid being hit by the steel tariff. Most of them are in the dark, unsure if their applications will be approved as the Commerce Department struggles to process a dramatically higher number of requests than it expected to receive. A denial may torpedo plans to expand a factory. Or a company may have to lay off employees. The stakes are especially high in Texas: economists Joseph Francois and Laura Baughman have estimated the Trump steel tariff and separate 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum will trigger the loss of more than 40,000 jobs. There's no playbook to guide companies through an exemption process Johnson described as chaotic and unpredictable. He's hired a lobbyist, former New York Gov. George Pataki. He's fending off opposition from competitors, including a Tenaris-owned business, who want Borusan's request denied. On a sweltering afternoon earlier this month, Johnson assembled dozens of his employees in an air-conditioned room for what amounted to a Hail Mary pass. After lunching on sandwiches from Chick-fil-A, Borusan workers wrote personal messages on oversized postcards to be sent to Trump and other senior officials in Washington and Austin, the Texas capital, pleading for their help in securing the tariff exemption. "I don't know what motivates politicians besides votes," Johnson said. "That's why we're doing this crazy exercise." UNION BLUE Royal is in his third term as the president of Local 4134. He and the local's vice president, Trey Green, are union Democrats in the heart of Trump country. Lone Star is in Morris County, Texas, where Trump received nearly 70 percent of the vote in the 2016 presidential election. Royal and Green initially backed independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders before casting their votes for Democrat Hillary Clinton. Their union hall is a mile and a half from the US Steel factory that manufactures welded pipe made from metal produced in the company's mills in Indiana and Illinois. Like the union, US Steel backed Trump's tariff, declaring that his action would "level the playing field" by blocking other countries from dumping inexpensive steel in the United States. Much of it comes from China. Although Royal and Green were heartened by the steel tariff, they said they're under no illusion Trump is a friend to organised labour. Nor are they convinced his tough talk on trade will lead to a rebuilt US steel industry with more and better jobs. Echoing Sanders, they called for a broader strategy to prevent corporations from sending American jobs to low-wage countries. "I don't know that putting tariffs on just one or two particular items are going to be the mainstay that helps us in the future," Green said. Royal and Green said they're still waiting for Trump to follow through on his pledge to empower working-class Americans that he said were "forgotten" by Washington. The Tenaris factory is a massive, modern facility just off the highway leading into Bay City, 21 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. About 640 people work here, but only a handful come into direct contact with the 50,000 tons of pipe the 1.2 million-square-foot factory is able to manufacture each month. The process is almost entirely automated, watched over by employees huddled in front of computer screens. The company manufactures seam-free pipe typically used in offshore energy production or for transporting highly corrosive gas. Tenaris began construction of the Bay City plant five years ago, long before anyone anticipated an American president would slap a tariff on steel. Zanotti declined to say how much Tenaris may have to pay, but he downplayed the expense as a cost of doing business on a global scale. Tenaris operates in 16 countries, including Nigeria, which ranks 145 out of 190 countries on the World Bank's "ease of doing business" index. "Of course we don't like it," Zanotti said of the tariff. But, he added, "we're used to dealing with moving parts. This is another moving part." The company doesn't have a registered lobbyist in Washington, let alone an office. But Tenaris has deep pockets and is in the U.S. for the long haul. Zanotti said the company has spent 8 billion US dollars over the last decade to expand its foothold in America, a figure he doesn't think the Commerce Department should overlook. The investment includes the Bay City factory and the acquisition of the Maverick Tube Corporation, based in Houston. Like Borusan and U.S. Steel, Maverick makes pipe with a welded seam. "We're positive we're going to get a good conclusion," Zanotti said. Johnson said he has a proposition for a president who prides himself on being a master dealmaker. About 60 percent of Borusan's welded pipe is manufactured with American-made steel. The rest is shipped from Turkey already in tube form; it's heat-treated, threaded and inspected in Baytown. Johnson is proposing that Borusan be allowed to bring in 135,000 tons of Turkish pipe each year for the next two years, tariff-free. In return, the company will build a new factory, right next to its existing plant. That's a 75 million US dollar investment that will allow Borusan to hire 170 new employees, augmenting its existing workforce of 267, according to Johnson. The expanded capacity also will allow Borusan to wean itself from the Turkish imports. He said he's gotten no reply to his pitch. The company brought ex-Gov. Pataki, a Republican, on board in March and has paid him 75,000 US dollars to drum up support in Washington. But Johnson said he's unsure if Pataki's made a difference. "We're not politicians. We make pipe," he said. "We felt like that was a move we had to make because we are so far out of our element." Johnson said he had for weeks unsuccessfully sought support from GOP Rep. Brian Babin, whose district includes Baytown. Babin wrote to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Thursday, expressing his strong support for Borusan's request and urging Ross to give it "your highest consideration." "Finally," Johnson said. The Commerce Department has been posting the thousands of requests for tariff exemptions online to allow third parties to offer comments and objections — even competitors who have an interest in seeing a rival's request denied. Several of them, including U.S. Steel and Tenaris-owned Maverick Tube, objected to Borusan's bid, saying the Turkish pipe it imports is readily available from American suppliers. They added that Turkey has been cited by the Commerce Department for dumping steel pipe in the U.S. But Johnson said the objections are aimed at undercutting Borusan. He said no U.S. pipe mill is serious about selling to him because he'd want very detailed information about their products — such as the composition of the steel and a history of customer complaints. "They just don't want to see another factory go up here," Johnson said. "They don't want to see a competitor grow." Baytown, Texas – 5 June 2018 1. Various exteriors of steel pipe manufacturer Borusan Mannesmann 2. Borusan Mannesmann Pipe US CEO Joel Johnson speaking to employees, camera tilts down to postcard he's holding 3. Reverse shot of CEO before employees 4. Tight on postcard 5. UPSOUND (English) Joel Johnson, CEO Borusan Mannesmann Pipe US speaking about post card they are sending: "And basically it says 'President Trump, Baytown Texas needs your help." 6. Johnson speaking 7. Various of Borusan employees filling out postcards that will be mailed to president, senators, congressman and governor 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Joel Johnson, CEO of Borusan Mannesmann Pipe US: "We figure it's somewhere between 25 and 35 million (US) dollars a year, which is a huge increase in our costs." 9. Various of employees filling out postcards 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kerry Washington, Borusan Mannesmann Employee: "If it doesn't work we'll just try something else or try again. You know, I think the main focus is the expansion of getting another factory here." 11. Close of employee filling out post card 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Victor Rodriguez, Borusan Mannesmann Employee: "I'm hoping we that can get some sort of exemption from it, so." 13. Johnson leading AP on a factory floor tour 14. Pipe being fabricated 15. Various of pipe being curled and sealed in the fabricator 16. Tracking shot outside in the yard as the finished product awaits shipment, coils brought in from other producers to be made into piping 17. Johnson driving golf cart through inventory yard 18. Various of steel coils ready to be made into pipe 19. SOUNDBITE (English) Joel Johnson, CEO of Borusan Mannesmann Pipe US: (Johnson speaking through noisy two way radio) "That's the killer is uncertainty. There's enough uncertainly in everything else that we do, let alone just political macro uncertainty." Bay City, Texas – 6 June 2018 20. Various exteriors of the 1.8 billion US dollar Tenaris USA factory 21. Various of seamless pipe fired up until malleable and stretched to desired length 22. Various of solid steel billets, the precursor to finished pipe, awaiting firing and lengthening 23. Various of finished pipe getting treatment 24. SOUNDBITE (English) Luca Zanotti, Tenaris USA: "And so we are waiting for that to come to a conclusion and we're positive we're gonna get a good conclusion." 25. Various of Zanotti giving AP tour through Tenaris operations 26. Wide of factory floor, shows automation "In the end we'll adapt to what the administration is requiring." Lone Star, Texas – 4 June 2018 28. Exterior of US Steel Tubular Products factory, includes city limits sign 29. Various of idled part of factory viewable from public road 30. Trey Green and Currel Beatty Jr, United Steelworkers Local 4134 speaking 31. SOUNDBITE (English) Trey Green, Vice President, United Steelworkers Local 4134: "If we see something as far as labour from the president we'll count us blessed for it, I just don't know that that's his end game." 32. Various exteriors of US Steel plant 33. Reverse angle of plant viewable from the local reservoir Washington, DC – 29 June 2018 34. Senate hearing featuring testimony of US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, about tariffs 35. Camera pans toward the table at which Ross is sitting 36. SOUNDBITE (English) Wilbur Ross, US Secretary of Commerce: "Idled steel and aluminum capacity is being restarted as we sit here, in Illinois, Ohio, South Carolina, Missouri and Kentucky. Several other companies have also announced new investments in these industries in Oklahoma, Florida, Missouri and Texas." 37. Various of Tenaris plant, steel billets 38. Operations at Borusan plant 39. Wide of Durwin Royal, USW local president during interview 40. SOUNDBITE (English) Durwin Royal, President, United Steelworkers Local 4134: "That's one of my biggest fears. You put these tariffs, but now you're going to exclude everybody so they're kind of pointless." 41. Various of workers filling out postcards "This area needs more jobs and we're promising if we get this two year exemption to immediately start building a factory either on that green grass we got over there or right alongside here." 43. Various of pipe being fired 44. Various of workers on factory floor United States presidential election , Trade barriers , Trade policy , International trade , Economy , Business , Trade policy , Economic policy , Economic policy , Government business and finance , Government business and finance , Government and politics , Economic policy , Government policy , Steel manufacturing , Base metals industry , Metals and minerals industry , Materials industry , Production facilities , Corporate news , Oil and gas industry , Energy industry , Labor economy , Corporate management , Personnel , Corporate management , 2016 United States presidential election , Presidential elections , National elections , Elections United Steelworkers Texas , United States , North America , Turkey , Western Europe , Europe , Turkey , Middle East , Mexico , Missouri , District of Columbia , Baytown 395ac566909bd683c8f1e2461ecfbff9 US Trump Foxconn 2 Trump Says His Presidency Made Foxconn Invest Scott Walker , Paul Ryan , Donald Trump , Michael Pence President Donald Trump says a Taiwan-based electronic company's plan to build a factory in Wisconsin and employ thousands wouldn't have happened if he weren't president. Trump says the multibillion-dollar, "incredible investment" by Foxconn required its chairman to put his faith and confidence in the future of the U.S. economy. The company is best known for assembling Apple iPhones in China. Trump heralded the announcement during a White House ceremony where he was joined on stage by company representatives, Vice President Mike Pence, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and House Speaker Paul Ryan, also of Wisconsin. The new factory will build liquid-crystal display, or LCD, panels used in televisions and computers Trump says the announcement makes it a great day for everyone who believes in the concept and label: "Made in the USA." Washington DC - 26 July 2017 1. Cutaway of President Donald Trump at announcement of Electronics giant Foxconn new plant "Foxconn will invest in Southeast Wisconsin while a larger facility is constructed over the coming years and that facility is currently under negotiation. It will be about the biggest there is, anywhere. The company's initial investment of more than 10 billion dollars will create 3,000 jobs at a minimum with a potential of up to 13,000 jobs in the very near future." 3. Cutaway "The construction of this facility represents the return of LCD electronics and electronic manufacturing to the United States, the country that we love, that's where we want our jobs. To make such an incredible investment, Chairman Gou put his faith and confidence in the future of the American economy. In other words, if I didn't get elected, he definitely would not be spending 10 billion dollars." (CHEERING) "His great company has seen our, you know you see exactly what I'm saying, how administrations work to remove job killing regulations, he's been watching. To institute buy American and hire American, and all of those policies and to pursue the steps necessary to revitalize American industry, including repealing and replacing Obamacare, we better get that done fellas, please, Mike, we need that so badly." "Foxconn joins a growing list of industry leaders who understand that America's capabilities are limitless and that American workers are unmatched and that America's most prosperous days are just ahead. We are going to have some very, very magnificent decades." 9. Trump waves as he leaves room Hiring and recruitment , Personnel , Business , Corporate management , Corporate management , Corporate news , Production facilities 2043c2051c0a6139ea6fa8e71f107b7c US Trump Foxconn 2 (Lon NR) Paul Ryan , Scott Walker , Donald Trump , Michael Pence "Foxconn will invest in Southeast Wisconsin while a larger facility is constructed over the coming years and that facility is currently under negotiations. It will be about the biggest there is, anywhere. The company's initial investment of more than 10 billion dollars will create 3,000 jobs at a minimum with a potential of up to 13,000 jobs in the very near future." Corporate management , Personnel , Business , Corporate management , Corporate news , Production facilities , Hiring and recruitment e20bf5211dec047585848996100d71c4 US PA Coal Mine 2 (NR Lon) Trump: Pennsylvania Miners 'Digging Coal Again' Tom Wolf , Donald Trump , Scott Pruitt President Donald Trump hailed the opening Thursday of a new coal mine as proof deregulation is helping bring jobs to the industry, even though plans for the mine's opening were made well before Trump's election. Corsa Coal Corp. will supply coal used in making steel and is expected to generate up to 100 fulltime jobs. The company said it decided in August to open the Acosta mine 60 miles south of Pittsburgh after a steel industry boom drove up prices for metallurgical coal. Under a tent perched hundreds of feet above a freshly dug coal pit, about 200 miners, business leaders, and politicians celebrated amid the surge of enthusiasm for the industry. Mining headgear lay atop red, white, and blue table cloths labeled "Make Coal Great Again." Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf said the mine was part of an effort to bring back jobs and industry to the state. Pennsylvania awarded a $3 million grant for the project. "We have not always capitalized on our standing as one of the world's leaders in these resources, but we're changing that," Wolf said. Trump has made reversing the decades-long decline in coal mining the central tenet of his environmental policy, blaming federal regulations aimed at curbing planet-warming carbon emissions for job losses in the industry. Trump and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt have targeted laws that protected waterways from coal waste and required states to slash carbon emissions from power plants. About a dozen protesters chanted in opposition to the mine at the opening. Trump noted the impending opening of the mine last week during his speech announcing the nation's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord. He said then he had hoped to attend the event; he participated via recorded video message, taking partial credit for the opening. 1. Governor Wolf takes stage 2. SOUNDBITE (English), Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania (D) : "This mine will help support this community, and its workforce, and its families by providing jobs and opportunities to an area that desperately needs both." 3. Wolf getting into his car 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania (D) : "In the past, we have not always capitalized on our standing as one of the world's leaders in these resources, but we're changing that. My administration has worked hard to support projects that bring downstream benefits to Pennsylvania back to Pennsylvania, so that no longer do we pull our resources out of the ground and simply ship them off to support jobs and industries in other places in the world." 5. Tight of Wolf 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, President of the United States, via taped recording: "The miners of Pennsylvania are digging coal again. When I campaigned for president, I said that we would end the war on coal, and put our incredible miners – and that's what you are, you're incredible – back to work." 7. Wide of people watching Trump recording 8. SOUNDBITE (English), Donald Trump, President of the United States, via taped recording: "One by one we're eliminating the regulations that threaten your jobs, and that's one of the big reasons you're opening today: less regulation." 9. End of recording, pan of audience applauding 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, President of the United States, via taped recording: "We have withdrawn the United States from the horrendous Paris climate accord, something that would have put our country back decades and decades" 11. Wide of mine officials holding up banner reading "Trump digs coal" 12. SOUNDBITE (English) George Dethlefsen, CEO of Corsa coal: "On the strength of a strong steel market, government regulatory reforms, and a global scarcity of metallurgical coal, there's a renewed sense of economic optimism. Coal prices have risen to high levels not seen in several years." 13. Ribbon cutting 14. SOUNDBITE (English) George Dethlefsen, CEO of Corsa coal: "For all the pain and suffering we endured during the downturn – laying off employees, idling operations – it makes a day like today that much more rewarding." 15. Applause at end of Dethlefsen speech 16. Tight of miner hardhat with "Make coal great again" on front 17. Wide of mine viewing platform 18. Various of protest signs, protest site Emissions laws and regulations , Air pollution , Air quality , Environment , Environment and nature , Air pollution , Pollution , Environmental concerns , Emissions laws and regulations , Pollution laws and regulations , Pollution laws and regulations , Environmental laws and regulations , Government regulations , Government and politics , Environmental laws and regulations , Metals and minerals industry , Materials industry , Business , Coal mining , Coal mining , Energy industry , Energy and the environment , Emissions reduction , Production facilities , Corporate news , State governments Pennsylvania state government Friedens (historical) Township , Missouri , United States b444b9adacc31a0657ba83324269edfa US Foxconn Reaction Wisconsin reaction to Foxconn plant announcement President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Electronics giant Foxconn will build a $10 billion factory in Wisconsin that's expected to create 3,000 jobs. The announcement comes at a critical juncture for a Trump administration that pledged to generate manufacturing jobs but has struggled to deliver results as quickly as the president promised. Trump's plans for health care and tax cuts face an uncertain future in Congress, while his administration is bogged down by an investigation into Russia's possible ties with his presidential campaign. Foxconn is evaluating multiple sites in southeast Wisconsin. In one area mentioned in some media reports, Racine County, residents were happy about the announcement. Randy Ortloff is general manager of Charcoal Grill & Rotisserie in Mount Pleasant, which is in Racine County. He says the area is in need of jobs because other manufacturing jobs have gone. He thinks it’s a great thing for the community. Foxconn could eventually employ 13,000 workers at the factory, the official said. This would mark a substantial gain for a state that currently has 472,000 manufacturing jobs and is still recovering from factory layoffs. Taiwan-based Foxconn is perhaps best known for assembling Apple iPhones in China. Racine, Wisconsin – 26 July 2017 1. Wide of Jeff Lunde watching announcement 2. Wide of bar outside 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Lunde, Racine County resident: “I’m not going to end up working there, I’m just a flooring contractor, but I am going to put flooring in all those people’s homes. And it’s going to be great.” 4. People watching TV “I can’t picture him putting us in a deal where by getting a plant this large, we’re going to be at a loss. I can’t picture us losing on this plant.” 6. Holly Montano-Burns in bar 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Holly Montano-Burns, bartender and nurse: “I think it’s great. I think it’s going to provide a lot of jobs. We’re going to have some construction. We’re going to have a lot of jobs around the area and close for people.” 8. Wide of Holly Montano-Burns “Depending on where it’s going to be since we don’t really know yet, just around the area. People have to eat, people have to do a lot of different things. I think it might bring in business to around the area or close to see what we have down here.” Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin – 26 July 2017 10. Wide of restaurant 11. Wide of restaurant general manager 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Randy Ortloff, general manager of Charcoal Grill & Rotisserie: “This area is in need of it because it basically a lot of the manufacturing jobs that were here in the past a lot of them have gone. Some of the companies are still here but some of them have downsized." 13. Wide of Ortloff walking by “I think it’s a great thing for the community. The potential for creating so many jobs is there and it puts a lot of people to work.” Caledonia, Wisconsin – 26 July 2017 14. Various scenes from Caledonia in Racine County Construction contractors , Construction and engineering , Industrial products and services , Business , Hiring and recruitment , Personnel , Production facilities , Corporate news Racine , Wisconsin , United States , North America 0e7edecbee46ef454b69c04d15ed1c2e US WI Foxconn Reax (Lon NR) Wisc. Residents Happy About Foxconn Announcement 1. Wide with nat sound of Jeff Lunde watching announcement “I’m not going to end up working there, I’m just a flooring contractor but I am going to put flooring in all those people’s homes. And it’s going to be great.” 4. Medium of people watching TV 6. Medium of Holly Montano-Burns “This area is in need of it because it basically a lot of the manufacturing jobs that were here in the past a lot of them have gone. Some of the companies are still here but some of them have downsized. d4344075e476a99207fb796092d6cd39 US WI Foxconn Reax (CR) Production facilities , Corporate news , Business , Construction contractors , Construction and engineering , Industrial products and services , Hiring and recruitment , Personnel 3d65016c202a2fda15db9acc6668c19e US Mexico Commerce Analysis (CR) Retailers fear border shutdown would be 'disaster' Although President Donald Trump has eased up on his threats to shut the southern border this week while his administration explores less drastic measures, the National Retail Association says the president's rhetoric is generating uncertainty, adding "the harm that could be done by a border shutdown would be immense." David French says the president's suggestion that the border could be closed "has a lot of people very concerned." "There's not a lot of time to react and it's not clear what timeframe would be available to make alternative plans," he said. Facing a surge of Central American migrants trying to enter the U.S., Trump last week threatened to seal the border this week if Mexico did not immediately halt all illegal immigration into the U.S. On Tuesday, Trump said he was pleased with steps Mexico had taken in recent days and renewed his calls for Congress to make changes he contends would solve the problem. French says retailers need clarity about what to expect along the border. "Some of the obvious effects would be perhaps avocados or other fresh produce coming from Mexico would not be available within a very short period of time," he said. "There would be manufacturing facilities factories in the United States that would likely be idled in a very short period of time." He said automobiles would be a prime example. Washington, DC - 2 April 2019 1. President Donald Trump talking in Oval Office about closing southern border 2. SOUNDBITE (English) David French, National Retail Federation: +++SOT PARTIALLY COVERED WITH BROLL+++ "The president's threat to shut down the southern border would be an economic disaster and we're hopeful that he reconsiders this before he follows through with it." 3. SOUNDBITE (English) David French, National Retail Federation: +++SOT PARTIALLY COVERED WITH STILLS+++ "Our understanding is that the White House is considering a number of different steps, including closing the border to foot traffic, or and probably keeping open trucking lanes, and things like that. Obviously two way trade between Mexico and the United States is very important. At the local level, a lot of retailers along the border rely on Mexican customers and in many border towns about half of the customers walking into a typical retail store are very likely crossing the border from Mexico to go shopping in the United States." El Paso, Texas - 29 March 2019 4. Cars and trucks lined up to enter Mexico from U.S. Mexico City, Mexico - 9 August 2016 5. STILL of workers in Mexico handling avocados El Paso, Texas - 10 November 2006 6. FILE: STILL of two women shopping for shoes "Some of the obvious effects would be perhaps avocados or other fresh produce coming from Mexico would not be available within a very short period of time. There would be manufacturing facilities factories in the United States that would likely be idled in a very short period of time. Automotive for example a lot of electronics are components come across the border as well." 8. FILE: STILL of workers in Mexico handling avocados Celaya, Mexico - 21 February 2014 9. FILE: STILL of employees working at Honda car plant in Mexico 10. SOUNDBITE (English) David French, National Retail Federation: "Really this is about uncertainty. The president's suggestion that the border could be closed has a lot of people very concerned. But there's not a lot of time to react and it's not clear what timeframe would be available to make alternative plans." Production facility outages , Production facilities , Corporate news , Business , Retail industry , Retail and wholesale , Consumer services , Consumer products and services National Retail Federation United States , North America , District of Columbia , Mexico City , Mexico , Mexico , Central America , Latin America and Caribbean , Texas , El Paso	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line447
__label__wiki	0.653763	0.653763	Stories related to: amgen toc 2016 Amgen Women's Tour: At What Speed Progress? May 23, 2016 \| Bob Moffitt The Amgen Tour of California has come and gone, with most of the attention being directed at the men’s race. But, the women's race is making progress, though too slowly for some. Changing Of The Guard At Amgen Begins With NorCal Riders Cycling's youngest riders made their presence felt at this year's Amgen Tour of California. Amgen Leaderboard Changes After Folsom Time Trial Australian Rohan Dennis (BMC) used the day to rocket around the 12.6 mile course in 24:16 and narrow the gap between him and the leader to just 16 seconds. Local Boys Make Their Marks At 2016 Amgen Tour No matter who wins the 2016 Amgen Tour of California cycling race, two Sacramento-area riders have made a name for themselves. Capital Public Radio's Bob Moffitt talked to both of them prior to stage six in Folsom. Three Riders In Early Breakaway Successful On Day Five At Amgen Frenchman Julian Alaphillipe (Etixx-Quickstep) didn't win the fifth stage of the Amgen Tour of California, but he didn't lose any time to his closest pursuers either. Amgen Tour Of California Cyclists Head To Lodi, Lake Tahoe Residents in Lodi and the Lake Tahoe area are preparing for bicyclists in the Amgen Tour Of California to race through Thursday morning. U.S. Riders First, Second, Fifth After Two Days At Amgen Ben King is king for a day at least at the 2016 Amgen Tour of California bicycle race and will wear the yellow jersey on Tuesday. Evan Huffman of Elk Grove is in second and will wear the polka-dotted King of the Mountain jersey on day three. Sagan Starts 2016 Amgen Just Like He Finished 2015 Peter Sagan's 2015 was the closest in Amgen Tour history. The conclusion to stage one of the 2016 race on Sunday wasn't much different. Amgen Announces Routes For Sacramento And Folsom Stages January 29, 2016 \| Bob Moffitt The Amgen Tour of California bicycle race has announced the routes for this year's men's and women's races.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0127.json.gz/line453

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