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__label__cc	0.628299	0.371701	A Nation With No Memory Has No Future By Joseph Pearce\|2020-01-14T16:31:05-06:00January 18th, 2020\|Categories: Culture, Europe, Government, History, Joseph Pearce, Politics, Senior Contributors\| Since nations are first and foremost cultural realities, the long-term viability and sustainability of nation states depends on the existence of healthy and living national cultures. If the culture withers and decays, the nation state will wither and decay in the culture’s wake. There are good practical and pragmatic political reasons for retaining the presence of nation states in an increasingly globalized world. As a protective level of localized democracy, nations represent a democratic defence against the political and economic dominance of international and transnational bodies which have no real democratic mandate for the power they wield and which are beyond any realistic democratic control. Such transnational bodies could easily metamorphose into embryonic world government unless the presence of strong nation states can prevent them. It is for this reason that Brexit strikes a blow for freedom, not merely for Britain but for the world, and it is for this reason that the resistance within the European Union of nations, such as Hungary and Poland, represents a similar blow for freedom. The problem is that nations are not merely political constructs but are distinct cultural realities. At best, nation states are local expressions of a lived and living culture; insofar as this is so, the nation state represents a political expression and a political defence of a people’s way of life, a way of preserving and protecting a people’s shared and collective identity; insofar as this isn’t the case, the political state can be seen as an artificial construct, inimical to the people living within its jurisdiction. Examples of such artificial constructs, which run roughshod over local and living cultures, would be the late and lamentable Soviet Union or the current and equally lamentable European Union. Such entities are not nations but empires. Since nations are first and foremost cultural realities, the long-term viability and sustainability of nation states depends on the existence of healthy and living national cultures. If the culture withers and decays, the nation state will wither and decay in the culture’s wake. Once this happens, if it’s not averted and reversed by a life-giving cultural revival, all that will be left will be that other form of wake, which follows the death of a loved one. And keeping with the word-play, a nation must be awake if it’s going to avoid a somnambulating suicide. When we awaken from sleep, the first thing that happens is that we remember who we are and where we are. We situate ourselves in the consciousness of reality so that we can live fully in it. This is as true of nations as it is of individuals. The awakening of a nation is inseparable from the restoration of the collective memory of a people; such memory shows us who we are and where we are as a living culture in a wider world. This restoration of memory is essential. A living culture needs to be rooted in memory so that the past can be a living presence in the present. The loss of such memory, the amnesia which is a consequence of the ignorance of history, literature, and the arts, is deadly. A nation which loses touch with its cultural roots is depriving itself of the very nutrition it needs to survive. This somewhat perambulatory meditation was prompted by the news that the historic home of G.K. Chesterton in Beaconsfield is in danger of being demolished to make way for an apartment block.[] Such an act of cultural vandalism does not simply represent a dereliction of duty by those who have the power to prevent it, it is an example of the sort of rootless cynicism which is the very death knell of national culture and, in consequence, the knell of doom for the nation state also. We should remind ourselves, in this context, of Oscar Wilde’s quip that a cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. If cynicism prevails, nothing of lasting value survives. It could be argued of course that the destruction of one historic and culturally significant house in a small town north-west of London is hardly the straw that is destined to break the camel’s back. It is, however, symptomatic of a disease which, if unchecked, will prove fatal. If a people does not remember its heritage and is not willing to fight for it, it will have no heritage to fight for. It will have squandered its inheritance in favour of the inherent myopia of market forces, much as the heir to the family fortune squanders his inheritance in the casinos of Monte Carlo. Such a person, and such a nation, pays the price of living for today, heedless of yesterday, by a life of penury and misery tomorrow. Make no mistake about it, and this is as true of the United States as it is of Britain, a nation that is losing its memory is losing its future. The Imaginative Conservative applies the principle of appreciation to the discussion of culture and politics—we approach dialogue with magnanimity rather than with mere civility. Will you help us remain a refreshing oasis in the increasingly contentious arena of modern discourse? Please consider donating now. [] K.V. Turley, “G.K. Chesterton’s Historic Home in England Faces Demolition,” National Catholic Register, January 10, 2020. The featured image is “Allegory on the Memory of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, with the Portrait of His Widow Amalia of Solms-Braunfels” (1654) by Govert Flinck (1615-1660), courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. About the Author: Joseph Pearce Joseph Pearce is Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative. A native of England, Mr. Pearce is Director of Book Publishing at the Augustine Institute, editor of the St. Austin Review, and series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions. He is the author of numerous books, which include The Quest for Shakespeare, Tolkien: Man and Myth, The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis and The Catholic Church, Literary Converts, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile, Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc, and Further Up & Further In: Understanding Narnia. Visit his personal website at jpearce.co. Maria W Jan 18, 2020 at 10:17 pm - Reply Very true! But what is one to do when Western Civilization, or Christian Heritage is being attacked. For me since I put foot in this Country called the USA, and in needing to return to Europe every once in a while to keep my sanity ,or from the feeling of I am dying here. Only to find that it is happening there too now with the influx of refugees from all over and one’s way of life is being destroyed.. So much guilt talk toward Western Civilization or Christianity, when the past is always being thrown down your throat with pay up. In a way we give up and stop fighting, because forgiveness and learning from the past does not exist for the injured of past Generations. Only revenge and conquest. so what is one to do? Reason with angry people is impossible, so their trick is use emotionalism to drive the guilt further and Western Civilization or Christianity out of Culture.And we are not aloud to name the ideologies or groups that do so, without incurring the scolding of a swarm of heinous words. God help us! Bill Uzzle Jan 19, 2020 at 1:06 pm - Reply It probably takes some energy to be a cynic. The prevailing apathy looks more like nihilism. Lori Tischler Jan 19, 2020 at 1:34 pm - Reply And a world that loses its memory loses its future. After watching 1917, the movie, last night I was reminded that the cause of that hideous war was nationalism which naturally led to aggression and colonialization/imperialization. David Naas Jan 20, 2020 at 12:44 pm - Reply A small reminder – – – “He who controls the Present controls the Past; he who controls the Past controls the Future.” We have gone past “rectification” of Past events, we have no longer anything to be “corrected”. There is no Past. Hence, with no Past, no Future. As for the Present, oh my! I can imagine Eric Blair (George Orwell) penning much of the same essay as above. Bill Uzzle Jan 21, 2020 at 12:53 pm - Reply What caused World War I was not nationalism, but the (almost eternal) lack of wisdom in politicians. Peter Masri Jan 22, 2020 at 11:09 am - Reply It reminds me of that Father Abram Joseph Ryan poem about a land without ruins. Caryl Johnston Jan 25, 2020 at 5:23 pm - Reply Bravo Mr. Pearce–and by the way I was one of your authors–St Austin Review–we met at The IIC some years ago. Memory is the preservative of culture, and a nation that leaves nothing for future generations is doomed. The question of history and nature has to do with the resonance of place and the beauty of places. I am heartbroken to hear of the razing of GKC’s home. But it happens here — in Philadelphia — all the time. We are all serfs of the “free money” system. CHARLES AZZOPARDI Jan 26, 2020 at 12:12 pm - Reply The title of the article is the actual truth	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line764
__label__wiki	0.715602	0.715602	In the Wake of the Voyageurs by Glen Cowley It is a long way from the St. Lawrence to the Fraser River n’est pas? History is the foundation upon which the present exists and the future unfolds. Barely visible and little known are the roots of French Canada in the Province of British Columbia in general and the Vancouver Lower Mainland area in particular. Yet, they are here and they are deep. In May 1808 Simon Fraser, of the North West Fur Trade Company, departed Fort George, today’s Prince George, on the river destined to carry his name, in hopes it would prove a navigable route to the Pacific. With him were twenty four men, nineteen of whom were voyageurs. History records the names of ; La Chapelle, D’Alaire, La Certe, Jean Baptiste Boucher, Bourbone’, Gagnier, La Garde, Baptiste Proveau and clerk, Jules Maurice Quesnel. The journey, which proved the waterway ill suited to the fur trade at the time, made them the first white men to see the Fraser Valley. The Nor Westers would not return but the voyageurs would, one in particular. Sixteen years later, fearing the Oregon Territory would be ceded to the United States, the Hudson Bay Company (which took over the Nor Westers in 1821) sent an expedition north to check the Fraser Valley as a possible site for a post. Amongst them were Baptiste Proveau who had paddled with Simon Fraser those many years before, Micheal Laframbois and Francis Noel Annance. Three years later the construction of Fort Langley began. As at other posts, French Canadians provided the bulk of the population and the working language. Metis, Louis Langley, became the first child born at the post. In 1839 the fort was moved several miles upstream to present day Fort Langley. Here Etienne Pepin is said to have been the first man to plow the soil of Langley Prairie. The restored fort, a National Historic Park, reflects the 1850’s period complete with the only remaining original building, the storehouse, which was rebuilt after the fort burned down in 1840. Interpretive guides, in period costume, are spread about the various buildings including the blacksmith shop, cooperage, big house, and servants quarters offering detailed information about life and times at the fort. Theatre venues, a fur press, bateau, bake oven, bastions and interactive gold panning sites compliment the sense of realism. The modern visitor centre, provides further information and a theatre presentation on the history of the fort. The nearby town of Fort Langley, a destination in its own right, offers shopping, dining and relaxing at bistros and ice cream outlets. The cairn-marked original fort site may be accessed by road or by the riverside Fort to Fort Trail. From here in 1848 Jason Ovid Allard was dispatched upriver to found posts at Hope and Yale little knowing these communities would gain their fame in the 1858 gold rush which spelled the death knell of fur trade dominance and, eventually, Fort Langley. But the French influence was not to disappear. In Victoria, on Vancouver Island, Jesuit Bishop Demers began the first newspaper, Le Courier, and the Sisters of St. Anne from Quebec opened the first schools. The church was no less active in the Fraser Valley as St. Mary’s Mission arose under the hand of the Oblate Fathers, an order largely drawn from continental Francophones. And where the church went throughout B.C. it drew upon the legacy of the French Canadian voyageurs. The population tide moved relentlessly against the French influence, especially in the burgeoning lower Fraser Valley, but not without an important interruption. In 1909 prospering Fraser Mills sent night watchman Theodore Thereaux to Quebec with an Oblate Father to recruit experienced workers. Recruits were offered free passage by CPR, better wages, cheap accommodation in cottages which they could purchase, 1/2 acre lots and lumber to build their own homes. And, a church with a French speaking cure’. (priest). On Sept. 27, 1909, 250 French Canadians arrived. The following year the two agents returned with another 166. Maillardville, the largest French Canadian enclave in B.C., was born. For many years the community, huddled around its central church, Notre Dame de Lourdes, focused upon the mill and benefitted from its isolation in maintaining its unique French Canadian culture. It was not until the tidal swell of greater Vancouver pushed deeper inland that the culture integrity of the community began to be threatened. Yet the community persists and is experiencing a proud rebirth. The old homes and streets still converge around Notre Dame de Lourdes at Laval Carre’ where Mass continues to be offered in French, street names recall the French heritage and Foyer Maillardville, the seniors home, rises high above it all. And it is a dynamic community. Every year, in March, the two day Festival du Bois celebrates French Canadian culture and numerous associations and groups have banded together under the umbrella of the Societe Francophone de Maillardville to promote and maintain French language and culture in the community. Bright new Heritage Carre’ at Brunette and King Edward Streets houses Place Des Arts and the community Musee (museum) along with historical mementoes set in a pedestrian friendly environment. Bilingual interpretive signs dot the Maillardville area of Coquitlam and a colourful brochure, Maillardville Toujours,, complete with photos, provides for a self-guided walking tour of the old town. The National Historic Park of Fort Langley, lying next to the modern community, is easily reached by car off the 401 highway east of the Port Mann Bridge. Maillardville spreads north of Brunette Avenue east of Blue Mountain Road in Coquitlam just off the 401. Neither is far from the Fraser River which first met the voyageurs in song and regalia plying its waters in adventure almost 200 years ago. This week Traveling Tales welcomes freelance travel writer and author Glen Cowley, who lives in Chemainus, on Vancouver Island. 1: The whitewashed storehouse at the Fort. The only remaining original building. 2: Notre Dame de Lourdes in the centre of the old town of Maillardville.. 3: The Place des Arts, a focal point in the town. Fort Langley – www.pc.gc.ca/fortlangley Maillardville – Societe Francophone de Maillardville – www.maillardville.com Festival du Bois – www.festivaldubois.ca Mackin House Musee – www.mackinhouse.citysoup.ca	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line768
__label__cc	0.503211	0.496789	SEO Audit Tool Execution of SEO Truso > Blog > Social > Why Do We Keep Coming Back To Victim Blaming? Why Do We Keep Coming Back To Victim Blaming? I think what people fail to understand here is that women have been conditioned into remaining silent since they were kids. Posted by Truso June 3, 2020 Overconsumption Of Plastic, What Have We Done? Recently, a video surfaced of a cop trying to feel up a woman on Kalyan railway station. In the video, the cop is sitting next to a woman on a bench on the platform, and while acting ignorant, slyly touches her back constantly. An onlooker filmed this video with his phone. He eventually started screaming at the cop, and fellow passengers started beating him up. The cop ran away after denying all claims. Even though seeing those people call out the cop in this video made me happy, the online discussion surrounding it didn’t. A lot of people took issue with the fact that the woman in question did not do anything to stop the policeman. She didn’t move from her place nor did she raise an alarm to alert people around her. We are living in an era where women everywhere are coming forward with their sexual assault stories and people everywhere are standing in solidarity with them, and yet victim blaming is still rampant. Men and women equally are seen blaming victims for getting molested, assaulted or raped. I think what people fail to understand here is that women have been conditioned into remaining silent since they were kids. At a very young age, we are told not to wear a certain outfit or not visit a certain place because men might leer at us. We are told to keep mum if a man feels us up so as to save face in the society. We are told that going out after 7 pm will invite lewd advances from men. And we believed all this because we were kids. We grew up with these false notions, and they greatly affected our behaviour as adults. We didn’t drink in public as much as our male friends, because if we did, we might be seen as asking for it. We didn’t wear our favourite skirts or shorts outside because we lived in the fear of getting molested or eve-teased. We made it a point to return early from work because we didn’t want to get raped. We had to take proactive measures to ensure our safety. Some men will never understand the fear women live with, everyday. The term “blaming the victim” was coined by psychologist William Ryan in 1971. He described it as an ideology used to justify racism and social injustice against black people in the United States. But in popular culture, the term is used to trivialize and shame men and women who have been a victim of sexual harassment, assault and rape. Questions like what were you wearing or why were you out at that time or were you drunk are directed towards victims, and are not uncommon in these situations. Victim blaming is wrong- there is no doubt about that. But it is important to understand the deep-rooted reason behind this. Of course, in some cases victim blaming may occur as a result of societal rules, smugness and a sense of superiority. But psychologists believe that the tendency to blame the victims is deeply rooted in an individual’s belief that the world is a good and just place, and hence the perpetrators are pushed into doing something bad and not simply of their own accord. Think about it. Everyday we wake up to horrific news of school shootings, terrorism, rapes, lynchings and what not. But if I were to ask you if you think you are vulnerable to these just as much as say someone living in the US or someone who is a beef butcher, you would say no. You would think that these crimes are less likely to happen to you because you aren’t in certain specific situations. University of Massachusetts psychologist Ronnie Janoff-Bulman terms this as “positive assumptive worldview’. We tend to believe that only good things happen to good people, which is why nothing bad will happen to us. Most of us internalized these beliefs at an early age. Of course, as we mature we learn to become more sensitive towards victims of a crime and question the status quo. At a conscious level, we know that the victim is not at fault. But at a subconscious level, we always question if the victim could have done something differently to avoid the crime. This is our brain’s way of psychologically separating ourselves from the victim, essentially trying to maintain the belief that the world is fair and only good things will happen to us. But then again, this does not mean that you should feel good about yourself for blaming the victim. The challenge is to be empathetic despite this deep rooted need. The challenge is to rise above and be better. It is a dicey situation to be in. But try. Tags: feminism rape society victim blaming women Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on WhatsApp Share on WhatsApp Share on Linkedin Truso June 3, 2020 My Adventures in Learning the Ukulele And Why You Should Give It A Try! Here are 6 Bollywood Cult Classics Which Did Not Offend Us But Should Have Here’s How To Make Sure You Are Treating Your Pet Right. 5 Times Brooklyn Nine-Nine Addressed Taboo Topics in a Subtle Way 7 Books by Indian Authors That Are A Must Read! Our Wildlife is Reaching Its Extinction! ©2020 TRUSO made with Love.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line771
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__label__cc	0.696755	0.303245	Communist insurgents face lethal pushback. The time for LARPING is over Posted on August 26, 2020 by Eeyore — 27 Comments ↓ Here are some links and videos to what is said to be militiamen shooting back at attacking communist insurgents. Hopefully this will encourage authorities to reopen schools soon so students have something better to do. Kenosha pic.twitter.com/Oae6oNrPvy — special agent viti (@selfdeclaredref) August 26, 2020 #KenoshaRiots shootout pic.twitter.com/GRD1EU5yV6 — ????? ????????? #JusticeForCannon (@CommiesLmao) August 26, 2020 There are many more at the link embedded at the top of this post. Also: This appears to be the actual shooting of two communist insurgents masquerading under the false flag of concern over Black American history. No doubt there will will be much more on this as the day progresses. But we can thank them all for one thing. These students come communist insurgents are basically Trump voter mass production lines. We can all be deeply grateful for that. Even if the Democrats manage to get away with massive mail in cheating, the chances of President Trump winning a second term, and not just a win, but a mandate, are very high. Meanwhile, Portland City Hall is smashed up by communist insurgents. I don’t know what the Mayor and Council is hoping to be leader of after all this, but maybe they should listen to the words for Hurt. Meanwhile in #Portland tonight Protesters have smashed up City Hall and went inside #PortlandProtest @R3volutionDaddy pic.twitter.com/dNlQeY3dnd — Global News (@GlbBreakNews) August 26, 2020 This entry was posted in Communist insurgency, U.S.A., West fights back by Eeyore. Bookmark the permalink. 27 Replies to “Communist insurgents face lethal pushback. The time for LARPING is over” Richard on August 26, 2020 at 8:31 am said: The people who love freedom are starting to fight back and the rioters are discovering that other people can be violent. The leftist politicians have let the rioters dig a very deep hole for themselves, now the honest citizens are ready to bury the rioters in that hole. Eeyore on August 26, 2020 at 8:39 am said: And the rest of the world looks on at the second amendment with envy Richard on August 26, 2020 at 11:25 am said: By the time the civil wars are over all Western Nations will have their version of the Second Amendment. You are right, it is almost impossible for the Dems to cast enough illegal votes for Biden to win, Trump is going to win in an electoral landslide and possibly a popular vote landslide. johnnyu on August 26, 2020 at 9:00 am said: For the sake of the world he’d better. I’m not a historian like you, Richard, but I can’t imagine another time in history when so many human beings depended on the success of a single man, whether they knew it or not. The numbers are higher but the risk is the same as when Lincoln was running in 1864, back then it was an election to see if the Republic would stand or if it would split into many small nations. Now the risks are will the Republic survive or will the Communists take over, I don’t see the commies taking over but I do see a lot more people shooting rioters and possibly politicians who support the rioters. If Trump wins the left will go bananas become more violent with the Patriots resisting the left. If Biden wins the left will go bananas and try to seize control through massive violence. Once again the Patriots will resist, either way things are going to get nasty and the better armed and trained groups will end up winning. As to the crooked voting, thanks to the net and the alternative cable news networks most people have been exposed to what is happening i n the Dem run cities and are going to react to it the way the voters did in 68 to the Chicago Riots. Those riots sweep Richard Nixon into office and these are going to sweep Trump into a second term. In a lot of ways I think the Dems know that they can’t win in November but are stirring up trouble so they can continue their slow motion coup during the next 4 years. I personally think this is a loosing strategy but I don’t live in a liberal bubble where I only talk to people who believe as I do. The thing to watch for is what is going to happen around the world once the violence increases in the US. China will make one or more moves, they are already positioning personal and equipment in several locations where they will be available for a quick strike. Erdogan is positioning himself for an attempted take over of the Middle East and Putin is positioning his forces to resist Erdogan. Iran is trying to get ready for an opportunity to make a move but so far has been blocked by Drone Strikes and attacks by (probably) the Mossad. In Europe we are seeing Europeans in Belgium chase police out of a park when they tried to force masks and social distancing. In France we are seeing police tell the French to go vigilante. All of the above says that things are coming to a head and that a series of small wars will start, their combined effect will be WWIII and will force the Europeans to once again thing about defending themselves for all foes foreign and domestic. While this will put the final nails in the coffin of Western Civilization it is the only chance for freedom to survive. So far the US has survived every challenge at times we have been knocked down to our knees but we have always gotten back up stronger and more resolute. Given what I see here in the heartland/fly over country we will survive this challenge and become stronger. We will also do all we can to help our brother to the North and the two brothers in the Pacific. As always keep your musket clean, your powder dry, your bug out bag packed and your escape and evade routes (bug out routes) scouted and the paths from one to another scouted. Things are getting scary out here and no one knows where the next explosion will happen. yucki on August 26, 2020 at 10:43 pm said: China will step up proliferation of nukes in the Mideast. Yellowcake production facilities are already established in Saudi. Give all sorts of cheap but nasty weapons to Iran’s proxies. It’ll send PLA soldiers to “guard infrastructure” in Syria and elsewhere. Maybe try for a base in the East Med, under cover of Maritime Silk Road. Stroke the filthy Turk into ever-greater extremes of megalomania. Get a hot war going between India and Pakistan. Paki martyrs, Hindu nazis. Flay “brutal” India in MB-China media, incite Congress to distance the US from Modi-the-Fascist. Richard on August 26, 2020 at 11:49 pm said: They will be doing all of that and probably a lot more, I hope that Putin hasn’t been playing games when he presents himself as the protector of the Faith and of Europe. If Europe is to be saved from the Islamic Invaders we are going to have help from several nations, North America can’t do the job alone. Australia and New Zealand (if they remain free) will be tied up in the fight in the Far East. Yes China is going to start a shooting war between Pakistan and India and when India kicks Paki butt as they have done in all of the other wars it may turn nuclear. Or China may decide that enough of the Indian Army is tied up with Pakistan so they can move on one or more of their neighbors. The good news on that is that Japan is going to launch their first fleet carrier since WWII, another carrier group in that region will help. Especially since the changes in the Japanese Constitution letting them use military force beyond their own waters. I don’t know if you have heard about it but the Philippines has returned the Subic Bay Naval Base to the US and both US and Australian ships are now based there. yucki on August 27, 2020 at 12:10 am said: No, I hadn’t heard the good news about Philippines! Last I read: https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/philippines-snap-back-at-china-in-south-china-sea/ Duterte is a real nut, but there are good people around him and he’ll stfu. Some one probably pointed out that if we have a base in the Philippines it will be hard for any US President to refuse to support the Philippines. Malevolent Pixie on August 26, 2020 at 9:01 am said: “A Molotov cocktail appears to have been thrown at the shooter in Kenosha before he fired at the first victim.” https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1298596605952589824 EB on August 26, 2020 at 10:04 am said: Ordo Ab Chao: The War on Trump By Marty Robinson – August 22, 2020 https://stpaulresearch.com/2020/08/22/ordo-ab-chao-the-war-on-trump/ A Love Letter to America from a Russian Spy By Marty Robinson – November 14, 2019 https://stpaulresearch.com/2019/11/14/a-love-letter-to-america-from-a-russian-spy/ E T on August 26, 2020 at 11:33 am said: Good God what do people expect, after years of universities hiring left loons (90+ %) Professors, all touting the Soros “Open Society” and shutting down any debate in the range of normal. Education City funded by Qatar to the tune of 400 million+ pumping money into US universities………… George Soros once said, “Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad. In fact my Grandfather was actually paranoid. I have a lot of madness in my family. SO FAR I HAVE ESCAPED”. Doc Holiday on August 26, 2020 at 11:37 am said: Sending these kids to school will keep the out of the streets? That maybe true but, these kids learned this lawlessness in school. Vlad Tepes on August 26, 2020 at 12:49 pm said: Sassy on August 26, 2020 at 2:14 pm said: Excellent recap here with photos & videos. From the start, the 17-year old was in self-defense mode. The savages have doxxed his family’s address. Poor guy won’t be charged, I am certain, and with good reason. https://www.nationalistreview.net/2020/08/26/black-lives-matter-threatens-family-of-teen-who-killed-rioters-who-attempted-to-murder-him/ Martin on August 26, 2020 at 2:35 pm said: …. charged with 1st degree intentional murder: https://fr.scribd.com/document/473738125/People-v-Kyle-Rittenhouse Yes. Just listened to the press conference. My opinion: They are terrified of the protestors/rioters (aka Savages). The police official seems in favor of police reform, etc. “A 17-year-old has been arrested after two people were fatally shot and another injured in Kenosha, Wisc., on Tuesday night, during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. “Kyle Rittenhouse was arrested in Antioch, Ill., on Wednesday, Reuters reports. He was listed as a fugitive in local court records filed in Lake County. He was wanted for first-degree intentional homicide, according to a court filing obtained by The Daily Dot.” https://globalnews.ca/news/7298627/kyle-rittenhouse-arrested-protest-shot-jacob-blake/?utm_source=site_banner_persistant malca on August 26, 2020 at 9:24 pm said: it is a gambit. if the jury doesn’t convict on this charge, he walks out free That’ll be the cue for… …MORE PROTESTS !! Every thing that happens will be used as an excuse for more protests. Trump winning an electoral collage landslide will be used as an excuse for more protests. This is probably why the prosecutors overcharge in cases like this, they can’t prove First Degree and the defendant walks. Which causes more protests/riots and divides the nation to a greater degree. twitter @realDonaldTrump We will NOT stand for looting, arson, violence, and lawlessness on American streets. My team just got off the phone with Governor Evers who agreed to accept federal assistance (Portland should do the same!)… …TODAY, I will be sending federal law enforcement and the National Guard to Kenosha, WI to restore LAW and ORDER! https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1298671451030073344 EB on August 26, 2020 at 3:04 pm said: ‘Peaceful Protesters’ Destroy Wisconsin \| Ep 80 Slightly Offensive*ve – Live Wisconsin Governor Declares State Of Emergency Over Riots By Tristan Justice – August 25, 2020 https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/25/wisconsin-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-over-riots/ Twitter Link: SHOCKING: #BLM & Antifa rioters brutally assaulted a 70 year old man For trying to put out a fire in his mattress store He received a broken jaw, black eye, and multiple stitches The remains of the building he tried to save, now rubble, can be seen in the background #kenosha Elijah Riot – August 25, 2020 https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1298341569054023681 F Middleton on August 26, 2020 at 5:36 pm said: Now some ‘protesters’ have been shot, the media suddenly gets interested in the deaths. I commented about this on the Daily Mail, and all other commentators were saying ‘It was self-defence’. I agree. Yes it was self defense but the left doesn’t believe in self defense so they are going to put him and all self defense on trial so there can be more protests which will end with more people shot in self defense.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line773
__label__wiki	0.800113	0.800113	Arms Control 1 Gun Control, or the Lack of It, in the United States 4 years ago Manuel E. Yepearms control, US Society Given their frequency, the shootings that leave several or many civilians casualties are no longer news in the United States. They only have space in the news when they involve some very exceptional circumstances. Such were the circumstances on the morning of August 26 when TV reporter Alison Parker was interviewing –live for the local TV station WDBJ of Moneta, Virginia– a person who spoke about the importance of economic development for the community and, suddenly, there were shots and desperate screaming. Parker, 24, and the cameraman recording the interview, Adam Ward, 27, were shot. When captured by police a few hours later, the murderer, Vester Lee Flanagan, committed suicide and died in hospital. A while before the act, he had posted on his Facebook profile a video he took at the time of the crime. According to initial investigations, labor discrepancies with the TV station had been the cause of the multiple murders. It is extremely difficult to understand how in the United States weapon manufacturershave succeeded in imposing rules for the possession and use of firearms that keep alive the business of selling weapons to the population. It is one of the most lucrative businesses in the country despite the countless misfortunes that firearms bring to US society. The cult of firearms in the United States has gone to extremes that contradict common sense and the most elementary standards for citizen security. This is the result of a mixture of very contradictory interpretations of the Second Amendment of the Constitution manipulated by the powerful congressional lobby known as the National Rifle Association (NRA), the greed of entrepreneurs willing to sell to citizens more lethal weapons to make money, and the whims of politicians at the White House and Congress who succumb to the lavish money spread by such interests and support their ambitions. The .50 caliber rifle is a weapon of war capable of bringing down an airplane and piercing the defenses of armored vehicles. It has a high shooting accuracy at the distance of a mile. It has no use in sports, or hunting; but can be bought in forty of the fifty states of the Union (except in California) as an ordinary gun. The House of Representatives has approved the export of this deadly weapon and allowed its domestic legal sale. This has led activist groups and the few journalists who oppose the expansion of firearm sales to people to predict that before long these rifles will be used in acts of terrorism and against US troops deployed by the government throughout the world performing the “anti-terrorist” war, or promoting the version of democracy Washington imposes in its relations with other nations by means of government-induced changes. The harmful social effect of firearms extends as an epidemic across US borders to several neighboring countries. Mainly to Mexico, a nation where –although the origin of the problem is of its own making– the smuggling of lethal weapons that are legally sold in the United States has dramatically complicated the fight against mafias, and is deeply involved with illicit drug, human trafficking, and smuggling in general. We must not lose sight of the fact that the massive firearm possession among the US population to some extent explains the aggressiveness of the police, forced to defend from an unlimited number of potential armed assailants.Although the number of civilians killed by police officers each year in the United States is not known; it is known that in 2014 police have killed a number of people that doubles the number of US citizens killed in mass shootings since 1982 in the entire American nation. An ordinary US citizen is nine times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist. We can see a most unfortunate contradiction in the fact that a significant part of the more aware public favors the massive possession of weapons as a way to press against the abuses of the oligarchy; and the oligarchy –one of its most influential members being the group of congressional lobbying NRA– rows in the same direction. CONTROL O DESCONTROL DE ARMAS EN E.U.A. Pro- Evo Morales graffiti in Villazón, Bolivia (Flickr/ Randal Sheppard) On February 21, some 6.5 million Bolivian voters will decide whether to amend their Constitution to permit a third consecutive presidential term. A “Yes” vote will allow President Evo Morales and Vice-President Alvaro García Linera to run for reelection in 2019 for another 5 years. A “No” vote will require the ruling MAS (Movement Towards Socialism) party to select a new slate in 2019. Morales, Bolivia’s longest-serving president, has just completed his first decade in office (2005–2015)—a remarkable achievement in a country which has suffered close to 200 coups. He also has the longest tenure [4] of any incumbent Latin American president, with a current term extending to 2020. The proposed amendment would actually allow him a fourth consecutive term— 20 years in total— counting his first (2005) election, which predates the new Constitution. Morales wants 70% [5] of Bolivian voters to ratify the amendment—though only a plurality is required—to top the 54%, 64%. and 61% mandates he received, respectively, in the 2005, 2009, and 2014 elections. He also won a 2008 “recall” vote by a landslide (67%). The referendum has been propitiously timed, coming just a month after festivities held to commemorate Morales’s 10-year tenure, and while the economy is still relatively strong—ahead of the growing threat posed by the worldwide plunge in commodities prices. Still, recent opinion surveys suggest a close contest, with polls weighted towards the large cities [6] showing the “No” ahead by a narrow margin, and others [7]slightly favoring the “Yes.” (Rural voters, who constitute 30% of the Bolivian electorate, strongly support Morales and tend to be under-represented in official polls.) Overall, Bolivians appear to be split roughly 40%/40% between the “No” and the “Yes,” with 20% still undecided—despite Morales’s continuing high approval ratings (65%) [8]. For pro-government militants like Katu Arkonada, [9] the upcoming referendum represents the biggest challenge that Morales and the MAS have faced in the past 10 years. Mobilizing for the “Yes” vote are MAS party leaders, mayors, governors, and affiliated social movements, including peasant, labor, and indigenous sectors, with Morales and García Linera acting as head cheerleaders. “Yes” proponents argue that Morales needs an additional term to complete the work he was elected to accomplish, represented by the Patriotic Agenda 2025, [10] an ambitious plan to reduce poverty and ensure basic services for all Bolivians through massive investment in hydrocarbons, energy, agriculture, mining, science, and technology. Morales frequently recalls that the push to extend term limits originated with the social movements, who marched through the streets of La Paz last September to hand-deliver signed petitions to the Plurinational Legislative Assembly. “Workers and social organizations will not jeopardize this ‘process of change,’ and that is why we are supporting the reelection of President Morales,” said a workers’ representative [11] at the time. Also supporting the “Yes,” though mostly behind the scenes, are substantial portions of the eastern lowlands agribusiness elite and other entrepreneurs who have benefitted from the “Evo-boom,” and who view Morales’s leadership as key to Bolivia’s continued economic stability. “We should be thankful we have Evo,” one businessman [12] recently told the Financial Times. “The government may be controlling…but here we may need that to have stability.” The “No” campaign, too, is more diverse than might be expected. Among its proponents/ associates are familiar opposition figures like cement magnate Samuel Doria Medina, former conservative president Jorge (“Tuto”) Quiroga, and ex-Cochabamba governor and fugitive-from-justice Manfred Reyes Villa. Joining them is a broad coalition of MAS dissidents and former MAS allies, led by La Paz Mayor Luis Revilla and La Paz Governor Félix Patzi from the new center-left Sol.bo party. This group largely represents disaffected urban middle class voters who split with Morales over the TIPNIS conflict [13], but also includes other disgruntled popular sectors, such as Potosí civic groups who feel shortchanged by the Morales government. This opportunistic alliance represents the first time that diverse MAS critics—ranging from vehement opponents of Morales’s political project to leftists who hope to rehabilitate a stagnating “process of change”—have attempted to unite around a common goal. For progressive “No” supporters, extending presidential term limits violates the traditional Andean concept of leadership rotation, and will only serve to perpetuate autocratic tendencies within the MAS that preclude new leadership development. Changing the rules of the game for the benefit of incumbents, they note, could have unintended but lasting negative consequences for Bolivian democracy. Those more sympathetic to Morales, like ex-MAS prefect Rafael Puente, [14] argue that Morales himself would benefit from a political “time-out” to reconnect with his bases, in preparation for a future candidacy. In fact, while the trend in Latin America is towards unlimited presidential reelection, most countries do require incumbents to step aside [15] for periods ranging from one term (in Chile) to 10 years (in El Salvador) before they can run again. A recent constitutional amendment in Ecuador [16]follows this pattern, forcing the incumbent Correa to sit out the next (2017) election. Four countries (Guatemala, Paraguay, Colombia, and Mexico) limit presidents to a single term with no reelection. Only 3 countries (Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Honduras) have completely abolished term limits. As voting day approaches, the campaigns have intensified, with propaganda flooding the airwaves and social media—especially from the government side, which has not hesitated to exploit the advantages of incumbency. The Electoral Commission (TSE) has gone to some lengths to create a level playing field, especially by restricting air time for the delivery of public works. However, after a challenge by the government, this ruling was recently overturned [17]by Bolivia’s Constitutional Court (TCP). The campaigns have been enlivened by creative tactics geared especially to capture the critically important youth vote. The “Yes” launched a Star Wars parody [18] video commercial (“Bolivian Wars: The “Yes” Awakens!”) starring Evo Morales as protagonist, and has been staging “human mosaics” in public venues, in which thousands of “Generation Evo” members participate. Félix Patzi has led bicycle caravans, [19] dubbed “Patzicletazos,” in support of the “No.” The use of hyperbole, fear-mongering tactics, and “dirty tricks” has escalated on both sides. The Vice-President has assured Bolivians that a victory for the “No” will mean the end of the MAS project [20] and a return of U.S.-backed neoliberal regimes [21]. The “No” campaign, he and Morales allege, is part of a U.S.-financed strategy [22] to undermine and topple leftist governments in Latin America (while this could be true, the evidence to date is not convincing). Moreover, Bolivians risk losing their cash transfer benefits (for elderly, pregnant women, and schoolchildren) and even their homes [23], if the “Yes” is defeated. For their part, proponents of the “No” charge that a victory for the “Yes” will keep Morales in office indefinitely, creating a state of virtual dictatorship. A campaign seeking to defame Morales personally through allegations of nepotism, corruption, and misspending—e.g. for an alleged $200 haircut— has gained little traction. In effect, both the “Yes” and the “No” campaigns have turned the referendum into a plebiscite on the Morales government, its 10-year record, and its future promises—more like a presidential election than a consultation on constitutional reform. This works to Morales’s advantage, given his continuing high approval ratings. In the end, the “Yes” vote will likely prevail, but by a much narrower margin than Morales has enjoyed in previous elections. Bolivians do appear to be uneasy about the implications of extending term limits for future presidents, if not the current one, and the failure of MAS party to cultivate new leadership. Still, for most voters, these concerns are largely outweighed by material satisfaction as Bolivia’s economy remains among the strongest in Latin America, [24] powered by massive public investment. Foreign reserves, diligently built up by Morales and currently standing at 42% of GDP, are helping to cushion the blow of falling commodity prices, at least for now. Bolivians also strongly identify with Morales’s ambitious national-popular agenda, including his signature achievements like the La Paz teleférico[25](cable car system), the communications satellite Túpac Katari— which has brought the internet to schools in remote villages— and the bold campaign to regain Bolivia’s seacoast from Chile. In contrast, the precariously-united “No” campaign has not presented a coherent programmatic alternative to the MAS, and is tainted by over-identification with unpopular traditional opposition politicians. For better or worse, there appears to be a strong belief by many—Bolivian capitalists as well as indigenous and peasant voters—that Morales remains essential to moving the national-popular project forward. Still, as MAS deputy Manuel Canelas [26] has observed, a victory for the “Yes” in February far from guarantees Morales’s reelection in 2019. If people give Evo another chance, says Canelas, they will be impatient to see that pending challenges are addressed. These include reforming the judicial system, confronting institutional violence against women, and moving away from extractivism towards a more diversified, productive economy, while balancing diverse sectoral demands for improved living conditions, jobs, and services. With government revenues from gas exports slated to fall by 30% [12]this year alone, this is a tall order —even for a leader whose name (“evo”), notes columnist Pablo Stefanoni [27], means “duration of time without end” in the Royal Spanish Academy dictionary. (It’s true; look it up here [28].)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line774
__label__wiki	0.792462	0.792462	Previous: Licences Proprietary estoppel refers to a landowner being estopped from denying rights to a third party as a result of that third party relying on a belief in those rights where it would be unconscionable for the landowner to do so. The typical scenario might involve a landowner representing to a third party that their land will pass to the third party upon the landowner’s death if the third party works for the landowner. If, upon death, the third party discovers that the landowner’s land has passed to someone else, he may claim that the landowner was estopped from not passing his land to the third party. Creation of proprietary estoppel It is commonly assumed that for proprietary estoppel to operate in the prevention of a third party’s right to an interest in land, there must be: a mistake of a third party (the claimant); the landowner must know of this mistake and the landowner must either encourage the mistaken belief or acquiesce to it. This was said in Willmott v Barber (1880), by Fry J. This exhaustive criteria was simplified in Taylor Fashions v Liverpool Victoria Trustees [1982] to a single requirement of ‘underlying unconscionability’, in non-acquiescence cases, without a knowledge requirement on the part of the landlord. Gillett v Holt buy xanax romania [2001] also favoured a more relaxed approach, finding that unconscionability is required, but detriment and reliance are intertwined and cannot be compartmentalised. Perhaps the best summary can be found in Thorner v Major [2009], which said that there is no perfect formulation of proprietary estoppel’s requirements, but there is usually a representation from the landowner, and reliance and detriment by the third party. A representation by the landowner Firstly, although a representation may not be explicit, it must be clear enough, as was said in Thorner v Major [2009]. Secondly, it must relate to identified property. It was accepted in Thorner v Major [2009] that the size of the farmer’s farm on death was sufficient to satisfy this requirement, but in Re Basham [1986], ‘whatever property owned upon death’ was insufficient, but the ‘remainder’ of a person’s estate was sufficient. Thirdly, the representation must be unqualified, unlike in Uglow v Uglow [2004], where a claimant’s expected inheritance was impliedly dependent on the success of a related business partnership. It is not required that the represented interest is proprietary in nature: an expectation to reside was enough in Inwards v Baker [1965], and a home for life was sufficient in Southwell v Blackburn [2014]. It is acceptable that a claimant makes a mistake as to the interest he is entitled to, as occurred in: Crabb v Arun DC [1976], where the defendant believed that the local council was to build a right of way; Re Basham [1986] where the landowner’s daughter stayed in an area under the belief that she would inherit, and in Gillett v Holt [2001], where, as a result of 40 years of low wages, the claimant believed that he would inherit land. Finally, it is clear that mere hope of an interest in land will not constitute a valid representation. Making a will would not be enough, according to Gillett v Holt [2001], nor would a right ‘subject to contract’, according to Attorney-General of Hong Kong v Humphrey’s Estate [1987]. According to Yeoman’s Row Management v Cobbe [2008], it is easier to distinguish between a representation and claimant’s hope in residential situations – in commercial situations, the impact of a statement will be clearer. Where a claimant already has rights in land, but these rights are unenforceable, proprietary estoppel may not be used to make those right enforceable. For example, proprietary estoppel would not aid the claimant in Lloyd’s Bank v Carrick [1996], where there had been a failure to register an interest under the Land Charges Act 1972. Detrimental reliance According to Greasley v Cooke [1980], reliance will be assumed actions are induced by a landowner. But in any event, according to Thorner v Major [2009], reliance must be reasonable: it may not be reasonable to rely on a landowner who frequently changes their mind. The burden of proof is on the claimant to establish that they detrimentally relied on a landowner’s representation, and the common test utilised by the court is a ‘but for’ test, as illustrated in Wayling v Jones [1993]: but for the representation, would the claimant have acted in same way. Detriment need not be financial, as exemplified by Gillett v Holt [2001], and will be judged at the time of the revocation of the landowner’s promise. Building work is a common form of detriment, as illustrated by both Dillwyn v Llewelyn [1862] and ER Ives Investment v High [1967]. Detriment may be neither financial nor constitute building work: Crabb v Arun DC [1976] – landlocked land Greasley v Cooke [1980] – unpaid labour Jennings v Rice [2002] – full-time care and garden maintenance Southwell v Blackburn [2014] – giving up secure accommodation Wayling v Jones [1993] – improving another’s business Gillett v Holt [2001] – deprivation of self-improvement Davies v Davies [2014] – wage reduction Detriment need only be minimal, as illustrated by Pascoe v Turner [1979], where land was transferred as a result of proprietary estoppel based on £230 of decorations in reliance on being told that the land belonged to the claimant. It is arguable whether or not unconscionability is a separate requirement or not, yet in either event, it must exist. Southwell v Blackburn [2014] suggests balancing benefits expected with detriment suffered to decide whether a landowner acted unconscionably. This would follow Sledmore v Dalby [1996] in finding that estoppel can be exhausted. Yeoman’s Row Management v Cobbe [2008] confirmed that the test for unconscionability is an objective test. The landowner’s knowledge and role in creating the claimant’s mistaken belief is relevant in finding unconscionability. In Taylor Fashions v Liverpool Victoria Trustees [1982] and Ives Investment v High [1967], the landowner encouraged the mistaken belief, making the denial of rights seem more unconscionable. In Joyce v Epson & Ewell BC [2012] was enough to constitute unconscionability. According to Lord Hoffman in Thorner v Major [2009], if an assurance is to be taken seriously, the fact of a claimant’s reliance should be enough to generate proprietary estoppel without a landowner needing to foresee that reliance. Effect of proprietary estoppel Assuming that proprietary estoppel has been established, it is said that the claimant will obtain a proprietary equity from the moment of his reliance. Re Basham [1986] explained (inheritance based) proprietary estoppel in terms of a floating trust which attaches to the landowner’s estate at the moment of his death, for the benefit of the claimant. Assuming that the value of the trust has not been diminished, as it could have been if used to pay for care costs, as said in Thorner v Major [2009], the court, in accordance with Crabb v Arun [1976], will assess the extent of the ‘equity’ and decide how best to satisfy it. Satisfying the equity Courts have been inconsistent in how they satisfy the equity created by claimants’ reliance: Award of fee simple in Pascoe v Turner [1979] Award of a long, unassignable lease in Griffiths v Williams [1977] Refund of the exact amount spent in Dodsworth v Dodsworth [1973] Award of the value of a hotel (expectation) in Wayling v Jones [1993] Award of calculated damages in Jennings v Rice [2002] Award of property and damages in Gillett v Holt [2001] Award of an injunction in Inwards v Baker [1965] General approach Often arising is whether a claimant should be awarded the equivalent of his expectation, or of his detriment. It is clear from Jennings v Rice [2002] that the value of the claimant’s expectation will be the greatest value awarded and that a court will award an expectation-equivalent remedy only in cases with a nature not far short of an enforceable contract. In Sledmore v Dalby [1996], the claimant had already utilised free accommodation for 18 years, rendering any equity used up. Just as with licences, a court will not force parties to live together or have future dealings, according to Pascoe v Turner [1979]; unless the parties had already been sharing, as in Porntip Stallion v Albert Stallion Holdings [2009]. Generally, a court will strive to provide a clean break for parties, according to Gillett v Holt [2001]. providing an injunction, as in Inwards v Baker [1965] does not provide closure for parties. Once a remedy has been awarded, it will not be revoked by a claimant’s bad behaviour, according to Williams v Staite [1979]. One odd case is that of Suggitt v Suggit [2012], where the claimant’s expectation interest was fulfilled in an uncertain (non-akin to contract) case, with no reference to Jennings v Rice [2002]. It is submitted that this case should not be followed. Successors in proprietary estoppel Successors of the landowner In registered land, an equity generated by proprietary estoppel can bind a landowner’s successor subject to the rules of priority, according to s 116 LPA 1925. Birmingham Midshires Mortgage Services v Sabherwal [2000] suggested that equities may be capable of being overreached, however, it is submitted that this is likely the wrong approach. In unregistered land, equities can bind: personal representatives, according to Dodsworth v Dodsworth [1973]; beneficiaries, according to Greasley v Cooke [1980], and purchasers with actual or constructive notice, according to Ives Investment v High [1967]. Re Sharpe [1980] disagreed with the constructive notice point. Following non-clean break remedies, it is unknown whether equities will still exist. Successors of the claimant It is submitted as unknown whether claimants can pass their equity to their successors. Interests in land In National Provincial Bank v Ainsworth [1965], it was said that interests in land should be definable, identifiable by third parties, capable of assumption by third parties and have some degree of stability or permanence. According to National Provincial Bank v Hastings Car Mart [1964], licences are not proprietary in nature. It is submitted that equities generated through proprietary estoppel should not be classed as proprietary given their uncertainty. Although Smith disagrees. Next: Easements	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line776
__label__wiki	0.855147	0.855147	Meet Richard Coy The name of this family appears in the records variously spelled Coy, Coye, and sometimes Coe. The correct identification of the bearers of the name can usually be made by association with other facts. The ancestor of the brothers Coy who were to become the forefathers of the family in America is not known to us, but he was most likely of Boston, Lincolnshire, England and it is quite probable that this was the birth place of Mary, Matthew and Richard Coy. Mary was born about 1612, Matthew about 1623, and Richard about 1625. In relation to the story of Quaboag, we need only be concerned with the youngest of the trio, Richard, but in passing we will mention briefly something of the other two. Mary was a resident of Boston in New England, where she married John Lake and spent most of her life. Matthew was also a resident of Boston, where he married Elizabeth Roberts on August 29, 1654. He had four children, all born at Boston: Matthew born September 5, 1656; Richard born September 6, 1658; John born September 2, 1666; and Samuel born February 19, 1666/7. Richard the subject of our biography of Boston in Old England, who brought him over from that country in 1638. Beginning in 1645, and for a term of some years, he was a servant to a Mr. Hubbard of Ipswich. After completion of his time of service with the latter master, he likely removed to Boston and may have lived in the home of his brother or sister until 1650 when he removed to Salisbury. The following locates him precisely at the time: “Also at the same meeting it was ordered that all who’s names are here ;underwritten shall, be accompted townsmen and commoners, and none but them, to this present, that is to say.” This record is dated may 12, 1650 and contained the name of Richard Coy. The next mention of his name appears on an affidavit dated March 1651 at Ipswich, certifying that his future mother-in-law has an estate valued at 200 pounds in an alleged case of illegal wearing of silk or “excess in apparel” as it was legally called. Perhaps this put him in the good graces of Richard Haffield, but in any case, he married his daughter Martha, aged about 24 years, sometime before December 20, 1651. Martha was from Sudbury, Suffolk, and had come over with her father on the “Planter” which arrived at Boston on June 7, 1635. She was then listed at eight years of age. Apparently, Richard was well acquainted with legal procedure, although probably having no formal education in that field. That he was a resident of Ipswich at least for a short time, would seem to be a fair deduction from the following court proceedings. “Martha Coy witnessed power of attorney form Samuel Heyford of Ipswich December 20, 1651, to Richard Coy of Ipswich, who sold the house for a School House which was in possession of Ezekiel Cheever form 1652, as belonging to the School. Samuel Heyford went to England”. (Essex County court files; vol. 2; page 4; September tern, 1660). Further in the same case: “September 20, 1660, Richard Coy, attorney to Samuel Heifer brought a suit against Mr. Ezekiel Cheever, in an action of trespass upon the case, for taking and keeping possession of a house, which was left in his the said Richard’s possession by the said Samuel Heifer. This was the house that Robert Payne had given to the school. The jury found for the defendant and Coy appealed to the Court of Assistants”. The case must have been settled out of court since no further action appears in the record. Hammatt does not list him in “The Early Inhabitants of Ipswich.”, an authoritative treatise on the subject. He was very likely still in residence at Ipswich when his eldest on Richard Jr. was born in 1656, but was soon to remove from the place. By the time of the birth of his second son, John, in 1658, he is found at Wenham: “We find in a quarterly court record that in 1658 Richard Coy was licensed to keep an ordinary and draw wine and strong water in Wenham: and “Richard Coy was on the road to Manchester, near the pond which today bears his name.” On March 11, 1659/60 appears the following in the Wenham Town Records: “Richard Coye and Thomas Fiske are chosen to take an accompt of our neighbors what they will allow to our ministers maintenance and to collect his said maintenance for this year.” On March 24, 1659/60, he is appointed a fence viewer for the town. In 1660, his contribution to the maintenance of the minister amounted to two pounds and ten shillings, a relatively large sum. In November of the same year, “Richard Kimball and Richard Coye are chosen to join the selectmen to put out the new meetinghouse to the building and to make a rate for the said house.” To this purpose he gave ten shillings. On February 8, 1660/61, he was appointed to a committee to adjust a tax formerly voted and also to see that the minister received his just due. During their residence at Wenham, two more boys were born to Richard and Martha Coy, Jabez on June 15, 1660 and Haffield in 1663. Soon after this, the family removed to Boston, where was born Caleb on August 16, 1666. Their stay in that town must have been abbreviated, because before May 15, 1667, Richard Coy had moved his family to Quaboag, as indicated by his appointment on that date to the Prudential Committee to administer the affairs of the Plantation. The actual removal likely occurred before that since the following item appeared on December 7. 1666. It is found on the credit side of the account of John Younglove and reads as follows: “By money per Corporal Coy 00 10 00”. This certainly places him at Quaboag Plantation as of that date. His own account with John Pynchon begins in February 1666/7 with a reference to a previous balance in another book. On April 30, 1667, he received payment of one pound from Edward Bernard, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but unfortunately without specifics as to the reason for the fee. We could theorize that this represented recompense for some special service performed for the Colony. Although Richard Coy had earned his living as a Tavernier prior to his coming to Quaboag, it is known that that license was granted to John Ayres at Quaboag. He seems to have been engaged in farming as were all other planters, in addition to whatever special services they may have offered. The purchase price of his lot (3 Li 15s) indicated that his grant was triple that of the average grantee. With the help of his five sons, he no doubt conducted a profitable farm. On August 22, 1667, he made a contract with John Pynchon to break in and train a pair of steers. In May of 1669, he purchased a pair of sheep shears from Mr. Pynchon for three shillings and six pence. These, plus several other similar entries in the account books, would seen to indicate that Richard Coy was engaged in husbandry in addition to his multiple civic functions. On April 24, 1668, he was sworn in as Constable of Quaboag. On November 26, 1669, he is found in the role of messenger for Mr. Pynchon, delivering beaver pelts to Boston for him for which he received payment of 1 pound. Richard Coy was also instrumental in the establishment and erection of the grist mill at Quaboag. That he was investor in the project and a participant in its construction is shown by the following: “November 3, 1670. By work for me about the Quaboag Mill and your one-eight part of that mill, and all your share and interest in the land belonging to it, having bought him out both of the mill and his share of the land to it for 34-00-00.” The amount of the purchase price certainly indicated that Coy owned a substantial portion of the land and had performed a large portion of the work of erecting the mill. On December 8, 1670, he was paid 10 shillings by John Pynchon for measuring out more than 50 acres of land, probably the land about the mill above mentioned. There are other references to land measurements by Corporal Coy, surveying apparently being another of his talents. At the time of incorporation of Brookfield he was appointed Town Measurer to lay out grants. That he was also a good marksman is suggested by his having received bounty payments for having killed 14 wolves in 2 years. Construction of the “Hadley Path” was completed in 1674. one of the difficulties of this highway was the location of the crossing of “a brook that runs by Corporal Coy’s”. This problem was solved with the assistance of Coy, and he was reimbursed in the amount of 2 shillings and 9 pence on February 25, 1673/4, for his services to the county. In the last two years of his life, Richard Coy was to be active in the Hampshire County Court. At both the Northampton and Springfield sessions of the court in 1674, he appeared in court in a different capacity, this time as a witness for the prosecution in the presentment of Thomas Wilson of Quaboag for “reveling curfew”, and “reviling speeches to Samuel Kent.” He testified as to the latter crime, for which Wilson was convicted. On December 1, 1674, Richard Coy Jr. marred Sarah Kent of Brookfield. In the previous chapter, the inference has been made that this couple was likely the parents of one of the sets of twin boys born during the siege of Brookfield. Richard Coy, as Corporal of Militia in Brookfield was destined to be a member of the mediation party sent to treat with the Indians at the head of Wickaboag Pond on that infamous day of August 2, 1675. He fell in the line of duty along with First Sergeant John Ayres, and Second Sergeant William Prichard at the ambuscade in New Braintree. The remainder of the family survived the siege and remained at Brookfield for a short time after the cessation of the battle. On August 18, 1675, two weeks later, Richard Jr. paid a visit to Springfield where he purchased a quart of rum, and no doubt settled the account of his father with John Pynchon. Probably soon after this, he headed the journey back to Boston of Widow Martha Coy, her four younger sons, and his own wife Sarah and her newborn twin infants. Evidence would seem to indicate that these latter infants did not survive beyond their infancy. In 1682, Martha Coy received a bequest of 3 pounds from a benefactor in England, who had ordered a large sum of money to be distributed among the victims of the Indian Wars in the Colonies. The final transaction in the relationship of the Coys and Quaboag Plantation came in 1699, when: “John Coy of Wenham with wife Elizabeth sold to Thomas Barnes all his farm in Brookfield together with the rights granted to his father, Richard Coy, Sr.” None of the members of this family returned to settle at Brookfield. Richard Coy, Sr. was born about 1625, probably at Boston, Lincolnshire, England and died at Brookfield August 2, 1675. He married Martha Haffield of Ipswich, before December 20, 1651. She died at Boston on August 14, 1694.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line777
__label__wiki	0.892378	0.892378	UAE Widens Company Ownership To Foreigners Tom Burroughes, Group Editor , London, 27 November 2020 The move is an example of how IFCs compete for international capital, particularly at at time when the global financial landscape has been upended by COVID-19 and geopolitical developments. The United Arab Emirates has stepped up competition between international financial centres by scrapping a requirement that it acts as sponsor, allowing expat investors to have total ownership from 1 December this year. The change extends to how individual emirates in the region have allowed foreign national owned companies to acquire the remaining stakes on a case-by-case basis. “This is potentially a massively significant development that should enhance the country's attractiveness in doing business and positively impact the level of foreign direct investment in the UAE going forward,” law firm Stephenson Harwood said in a note. “However, until such time as the decree is published in the Official Gazette, the full scope or detail of the amendments remain unclear.” At a time of geopolitical uncertainties in certain parts of the world, and as the UAE tries to chart a future beyond hydrocarbon energy, such a move is designed to boost inward investment and sharpen the jurisdiction’s competitive edge. The law firm said that it wanted to see how existing companies with UAE shareholders would be affected. The UAE decree ends a previous requirement for commercial companies to have an Emirati national (or a company wholly owned by Emirati nationals) to own at least a majority stake (i.e. 51 per cent) in an onshore company. In addition, there may no longer be a requirement to have a UAE national or local company as its registered agent, the law firm said. The decree also supersedes the current Foreign Direct Investment Law which permits foreign nationals to own up to 100 per cent of “onshore” companies doing business in certain sectors that are on the “positive list.” As reported a few weeks ago, meanwhile, the UAE has announced the formal launch of new disclosure requirements for corporate entities in the jurisdiction and a new beneficial ownership register. The move is a sign of growing pressure on financial centres to become more transparent. Beneficial ownership information had to be filed with relevant authorities by 23 October.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line781
__label__wiki	0.88588	0.88588	529 Plans No Longer Just for College Savings The popular tax-free accounts can now be used to pay for private K-12 schools by Brittany Hackett, AARP, January 19, 2018 \| Comments: 0 The new tax law expands 529 savings accounts to include K-12 education costs. En español \| Under the new tax law, families and grandparents with children in private and religious schools will now be able to use savings plans that previously were reserved for college costs to help pay for the kids’ K-12 education. Created in 1996, 529 plans allow families to set aside money for college in a tax-free savings and investment account, similar to an IRA. Under the new tax law, families will now be able to use these accounts to pay for up to $10,000 per year per beneficiary in tuition for K-12-aged children. The withdrawals are not taxed federally. This new use of 529 plans “will encourage [families] to contribute more money earlier in a child’s life,” said Myra McGovern, vice president of media for the National Association of Independent Schools. Forty-nine states and the District of Columbia offer such plans, and 33 states give a state tax break to parents, grandparents or friends who contribute to one of these accounts. (Wyoming is the only state that does not offer a 529 plan.) Supporters of increased school choice urged Congress to expand the use of 529 plans as the tax overhaul legislation was being debated late last year. Many state laws governing 529 plans will now need to be rewritten to allow for K-12 use, as they were initially set up for higher education expenses, according to James DiUlio, a spokesperson for the College Savings Plans Network. While it is “kind of early in the game” to say what impact this change will have on saving for college, “by and large, I think it’s good because our business is educating kids,” DiUlio said. And business has been successful for 529 plans. According to the most recent data available from the College Savings Plans Network, total U.S. investment in 529 plans has reached $275.1 billion. By December 2016, the 12.9 million accounts averaged just over $21,000 per account. Contributions to 529 accounts hit nearly $27 billion that year. DiUlio said early 2017 projections show that total investment will be over $300 billion. When wil the new tax law affect my paycheck?	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line784
__label__cc	0.68736	0.31264	Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement Bail Out People, Not Banks! Black August and Black Liberation: “Study, Fast, Train, Fight.” – August 15 & 16, 2020 Webinar Posted on August 11, 2020 by wibailoutpeople https://bit.ly/3gP42Y7 Black August and Black Liberation: “Study, Fast, Train, Fight.” We owe it to our ancestors and our incarcerated comrades to escalate the struggle against the white settler state and its imperial capitalist order. “Some of our incarcerated comrades have moved into their fifth decade shackled as the longest serving political prisoners on the face of the Earth.” Each August since 1979, the surviving sectors of the Black Liberation Movement, our supporters, and the new entrants into the ranks of resistors to the ongoing oppression against the African/Black masses and colonized peoples of this territory now called the United States and its settler state, have paid homage to our fallen freedom fighters and those incarcerated for decades in the cages of this country. The struggle for African/Black freedom in the United States began with the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to this territory in 1619. The tradition of resistance to the settler state is different from the tradition celebrated by the elites of this country in response to the death of U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA). Our positionality, first as an enslaved people and after the formal period of slavery as a nationally oppressed people, had forged for us a different interpretation of U.S. history and our relationship to this state. For the Black Liberation Movement, reconciliation with the settler state toward a “more perfect union” was not only an impossibility because white-supremacist settler power has been crystalized into the state. It also would have been an unprincipled betrayal of our ancestors, who had resisted the assaults on our collective dignity and struggled to destroy the oppressive system—and had no plans to integrate with it. “Reconciliation with the settler state would have been an unprincipled betrayal of our ancestors.” That struggle intensified in the 1960s and ‘70s, resulting in a vicious counter attack from U.S. state authorities that involved murder, incarcerations, organizational disruption, and an ideological and cultural program to create an “American” out of the rebellious Africans who had earned global prestige for rising up in over 350 cities and creating a revolutionary movement. Black August was created to not only honor and commemorate those who fought for our human rights, national liberation and self-determination, such as Jonathan and George Jackson, W.L. Nolan, and William Christmas. It is meant to pay homage to all of our revolutionary ancestors and those still ensnared by the state. A central element of Black August is to call attention to our freedom fighters still held captive as political prisoners and Prisoners of War. Some have moved into their fifth decade shackled as the longest serving political prisoners on the face of the Earth. This past weekend, Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) members unanimously decided to commit to raising awareness about our imprisoned fighters. The theme of Black August is to “study, fast, train, fight.” That is what the members of BAP intend to do this month and every month until we rid the Earth of the malignant threat to all of humanity represented by the Pan-European, White-supremacist, colonial/capitalist patriarchy. This entry was posted in Uncategorized by wibailoutpeople. Bookmark the permalink.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line789
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__label__wiki	0.610646	0.610646	Episode 16: Kids and Social Media Danielle Williams - Rivera being a mom, Children, episode, kids, Mompreneur, new episode, new podcast, podcast, social media, women af podcast, women podcast, Women Podcasters, women who podcast This week we take on the topic of social media and kids. What is an invasion of their privacy, what are some best practices, and what is the best way to handle in-app chat features. It’s a big topic and changes with the ages of different kids, but we do our best to try to figure it out. Listen to the full episode: Or listen to our latest episode in your browser! Show Notes and Resources: Do you have any advice or ideas on how to best handle social media, kids, and best practices? We’d love to hear from you, shoot us an email at womenafpodcast@gmail.com or hit us up on the socials! Become a Patreon supporter for exclusive behind-the-scenes material, to vote on topic ideas, get a bunch of great freebies and more at www.patreon.com/womenafpodcast. Women AF is produced by Mortar Box Media and Engineered by Adam Rostad. Intro and Outro Music is SQZ by Shane Ivers. Check him out at silvermansound.com. Transcript for Episode 16: Kids and Social Media Please note: this transcript is for anyone who needs to or would prefer to use a transcript than listen to the episode. We do our best but please excuse errors in the transcript. This is a mortar box media podcast for more podcasts and to learn how we can help you create your own visit mortarboxmedia.com Danie 0:17 Hello, and welcome to Women AF podcast a podcast hosted by three quarantined friends who are just trying to remember what day of the week it is, or what time I don't really even know what's going on. I forgot I was hosting. How are you doing Carrie and Nicole Carrie 0:38 hanging in there? Nicole 0:40 Yeah. Same. very convincing. Yeah. How about you, Danie? Ah, it's been a real weird week. It's been a very Yeah. emotional roller coaster week. I'm a little bit all over the place. I feel the same way. Yeah, I hear you. Cool. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, we found out our furlough was extended, which we're not surprised. But not everyone was extended. Like 15% of the people are coming back and were deemed essential. Which means makes the non essential part. seem very, like a big slap in the face a little bit. Now, did they actually use the word essential? I think they called them critical. Ah, wow. That isn't very nice. Yeah, it didn't feel good. That is for sure. Bad Choice on their part. Yeah, I think I am not totally thrilled with the way everything is being handled or communicated. Yeah. And then obviously our shit show of a voting situation. And that what a disaster that was like, Oh, this is terrible. And then we have all over, you know, our friends from New York or like, what is even happening over there? And are you all okay? People not in Wisconsin help us we're not okay. What is even happening? So we also made the tough decision to keep the kids home starting next week. I mean, they were literally the only two kids left in their daycare. Oh my gosh, really? Yeah, but financially and just health wise, you know, especially since Phoenix had so many lung issues RSV, Collapsed lungs, blah Blah, blah. Well, yeah, just like we're gonna do it. So this afternoon we're trying to figure out like a preschool schedule, because I'm probably gonna be picking up some side gigs. You know, because since we don't know how long the furlough is gonna go, we need some money. But now we just have to figure out how you know how do we both work from home with a one and a three year old? Yes, I bet I bet Nicole has some thoughts on that. Yeah. What are your thoughts? Oh gosh, guys today was rough. I think I texted you guys like on the verge of tears because it was rough. it's different because I'm not doing side hustles like my side hustle is just, you know, I want to redesign shit around my house like I don't really not getting paid. I just want to do shit but like My youngest is going through a tantrum hitting, like screaming after every little thing and then they didn't nap. And then I cleaned up the damn room like five times and it still is a mess. But yet my husband is trying to work in I'm trying to keep it all quiet. And then it rained. It was just like a shit show. And then it rained and rained. We couldn't even go for a walk. And then my youngest cried when we tried to go for a walk just sorry, how many days have we been home with you know? This week? This is the first here we go. Okay, so it's fun. It's the first day everyone's gonna settle in. It's gonna be fine. Yeah. And it just it's like a confidence crusher because last week I had them a couple days. And it was like it was great. I was going off of a schedule, I was like, great. We'll do projects this day. I have some projects lined up and then going from confident to like today where I was almost crying like I can't. And I still have like we went on for a little longer to. So now I have another three weeks. I guess it's gonna be an up and down. Roller Coaster for sure. Yeah, we'll be fine. Yeah, I have to keep remembering like, yes, we're going through emotional shit right now. But then also our kids are feeding off of it too. And like they're trying to process stuff. So it's really true. It's really true hard. Yeah, my sister told me my my six year old niece has been having trouble and she'll storm off multiple times a day and slam her bedroom door and super emotional sensitive and it's you know, it's gotta be just her schedules all mixed up. She's not seeing her friends. It's, yeah, it's hard on everybody. Yes, it really is. Yeah. Carrie, how's the week for you? Um, it's going well, we have somewhat settled into our virtual learning this week. Yesterday was the first day that they did kind of have the real subjects like the math, the reading and the writing. And it was a little bit rocky but we combined forces last night and figured out ways we can make it better and got some stuff up today. And I think it did go better. I think we were on top of this for once. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah, I mean, who knows what every day could bring but today was okay. Feels good. Yeah, and I'm gonna take it Do it. Take it run with it. I'm running with it! Celebrate. Oh dear. Well, well, Danie, let's, let's work our a system When you're overloaded and need, like a Hey, I need a little bit of self reassurance let me know. I'll give you puppy videos or kitty videos. And then the same for me. We'll work it out. Okay, yes. I got puppy kitty videos too. Okay, all right, Carrie, you can be included. All right, cool. Other Videos ridiculous videos. Yeah, funny memes. and fun. Yeah. Yeah, yes. I like it plan. Okay, sorry, Danie. No, that's okay. So all that which leads me nicely into what our topic is today. So our topic today is we're going to talk about social media. And kids. And if you are a person who is on social media, you can find us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter at Women AF podcast. Uh, I think we're all spending probably a little bit extra time on social media lately. But maybe not. I mean, I think it's a combination of some people are a lot busier and some people have more time to kill So, but either way, we'll talk to you, cause we are a little bit desparate for some human connection. Yes. But before we get into the topic, but let's take a quick break. Safer at home has us all finding different ways to try to socialize and create a somewhat new normal. A big normal for us was happy hours and get togethers. Since we obviously aren't doing that in person, right? Now we found other ways of getting together virtually like zoom, Facebook Live, Facebook video chats, bunch, and virtual surprise parties. And a few weeks ago, we started doing virtual happy hours, which has been great. It's fun to see all your faces and when we get ready, and one way to get ready for these virtual happy hours is to have some wine on hand. An easy way to get the wine while staying safe at home is to visit winc. Winc takes the guesswork out of picking your wine. You start your profile by filling out a flavor profile quiz. And Winc will give you wine recommendations based on what you like. Cool, all right. Yeah. And listen to this. Right now. Winc is offering $20 off. To get $20 off and to get your free flavor profile quiz started. Visit WomenAFpodcast.com and click sponsors. Again visit WomenAFpodcast.com and click sponsors and get $20 off your first wine order with winc. Danie 10:09 And we are back. Hopefully everyone refilled their wine. So social media and kids. It's a hard topic. I know, Nicole, this was a topic that you had brought up wanting to do yet some questions. So why don't I pass the virtual mic over to you and you can kick us off. Nicole 10:39 Perfect. Well, I think I brought this topic up. Because one of my main reasons is we are kind of the generation that has popped on social media and try to get as much likes and comments and we have I don't know, I know No, I personally have five Instagram profiles for different ways. I have five Okay. Well, okay, anyway, so And my question is I read, I don't know what I read, but it made me start questioning like as a mom, a lot of my life revolves around my kids and a lot of my posts revolve around what they're doing and their life and personally I like to use that as memories for me to kind of chronologically go through and say, all right, your I remember this time. This date was when I don't know you got into a fight with your sister and I recorded it and it was hilarious, whatever. But it made me start thinking about that generation that's coming up like our kids in this is their life like is it is it right for us to post about it and I find myself sometimes like kind of making fun of her a little bit like trying to coax out some, you know, humor to make me feel less like a bad mom. But at the same time like this is their life and I have to respect that they deserve you know, the type of interactions and type of posts that honor them and not, you know, kind of make fun of them. So with my profiles like all my profiles, I debate whether or not it's my it's okay for me to post about it. Like situations and life situations is happening with my youngest or my oldest or whatever. Like today I posted three pictures as like a photo series and it's like one picture is my oldest looking over at my youngest, and she has this look in her eyes like I'm gonna take that ball. And then the second picture is her actually taking the ball away from my youngest. And the third picture is my youngest, like screaming running after her. Which is, it's all totally relatable, but it's also their lives. And I don't know, if it's, if I'm thinking about it too much, or if I'm not thinking about it enough in that we need to respect that it's their lives and not our so I want to get your guys's opinion on this. Am I just being crazy? Like, how do you guys feel about posting about your children and their lives on social media? Um, I don't think you're being crazy. I think that that's a legitimate concern because this is really the first time like, when we were kids, and we were growing up. There was like, such a thing didn't exist. So a lot of the stupid things that we Did are not like they're not documented? Yeah, right. I can imagine that if somebody had been documenting me in middle and high school, I mean, just going back and looking at my own journal entries and from my own memories, like it would be pretty mortifying. Yeah, I feel like the age that our kids are at Nicole is a little different. Like the toddler preschool, even elementary school age, because a lot of the stuff that they're doing now is like, it's it's like, cute, bad. You know what I mean? Like taking the ball from your sister. Like, that's, like, it's funny, and it's something that every toddler would do. I think once they get into like, in maybe carrie you can answer this better. Like in the older elementary, middle and high school, then I think it's a totally different ballgame, right? Because now the decisions they're making have larger impact on their lives and other people's lives and so and plus they're able to voice whether or not they want to be on social media, right like it. Right, let you know if they don't you know, but I know for me personally, like, I in no judgement here, right? I laugh a lot when I see the why my toddlers crying. But I have never been able to bring myself to post one. Because it feels like I'm making fun of something. Even if it seems trivial to me that's important to my kid. Enough to make them cry, you know? And so like, even if it's something so ridiculous, like my toddler wouldn't let me eat the crayon I don't feel like I can get that to me doesn't feel good. Personally, though, I don't judge other parents that post those in particular, you know what I mean? Right, right. Yep, I could see that how how I try and do it as I try and look at my post as if my, if it's about my oldest if my oldest was 20 years old had her own family, would she think this is okay for me to post or not? Like? I try and think about all of it. Yeah. Carrie, you have more you have kids that are able to express themselves a little bit better because they're a little older. What do you What's your opinion on that? Carrie 16:43 Yeah, I think they're at the age like I think you said the toddler things that are cute and funny and relatable are things generally that every toddler does. You know, every every toddler steals their younger siblings ball and runs away with it and It's cute and it's relatable and it's fun. Yeah, when my kids are six and nine and I do think they're definitely becoming much more unique as humans and doing things that I I'm sure they wouldn't want put out there are saying things that I think are funny and I might want to share but I also think they would be mortified if I put them out there for the world to see. So I think you naturally kind of adapt to that as your kids get older. If that makes any sense I don't really post things about my kids I I do have an Instagram one Instagram account, but I don't think I've ever even posted on it. So that's that I don't really post I'll post things on Facebook once in a while, but it's kind of just, you know, just silly things or cute things. I wouldn't want to share just everything they're doing and saying. Yeah, I do. I think they wouldn't like that and I would feel bad. Yeah, I do. I think that I post about my kids, somewhat on social media. Part of it, I think is just, it's fun to kind of document the big moments as they happen. The post spamming that I primarily do in general, though, is on Snapchat, and oftentimes I will just send them specifically to certain people, and then save them to my memories. You know, so that if I'm like I sent a video of Phoenix playing in the bathtub. Yesterday and I've seen lots of people posting with their kids in the bathtub. And like, I don't, I don't again, I'm not judging, I don't have an issue with it. But this was a situation where I was like, I don't know, maybe when he gets bigger, he wouldn't be comfortable with that. So I'm just gonna, like, send it in a format that will delete except for in my own memories and send it to just like my mom and my sister in laws and to Daniel, you know, because they've, Oh, that's so cute. But then, you know, they're not going to save it, obviously. You know, they can't save it on Snapchat. So I mean, I I think that kind of like you I'm just kind of picky about what I put out there on their behalf. Yeah, that's it. I guess that's another layer to have. When I post at least two, well, Facebook and Instagram so I have, like a personal page. That's very private. And I kind of conceal a lot of my stuff. But all my family is in Minnesota and we are in Wisconsin, so it's hard. It's hard for me. I like to post about my kids on Facebook, especially because it has helped keep my family that are in Minnesota kind of in the loop and kind of a part of our lives when they can. They don't have Snapchat, like my grandma doesn't have Snapchat. And she doesn't even have Instagram, but like, That, to me is really hard to decipher. But then my public pages that I have, like I have a photography page. And I A lot of my photography is just you know, taking pictures of my kids, and that's hard for me. I keep going back and forth. In that is it okay for me to post their, their likeness and their picture, even though it's maybe I'm biased, but it's a beautiful shot, but like, I don't know, I always think about I mean, we like True Crime right? So I always think about what if somebody is watching and somebody abducted my kid and all that stuff is just giving them ammo. So I think I'm just being really paranoid and too scared of life. Yeah, I actually know somebody, um, that she won't let anybody post pictures of her kids on any form of social media and she doesn't herself either. You know, and then I know people who are definitely more on the loose end like I would say, Daniel and I are pretty loose about the privacy protections of our posts. I mean, we don't like post like location stuff, you know, like, hey, look One thing I, you know, do is like if we post a picture, I always post it, you know, after we do something, so it's not like yeah, Hey everybody, we are at such and such museum right now. Rob our house around you. Okay? You guys are all in the, you know, marketing field. Have you guys looked ever at the Facebook marketplace? Like how you can pick ads and pick demographics for ads on Facebook? Oh, yes. Yeah. It's scary how specific you can get like you can get down to like, if this person visited Florida within six months and bought a car, then it needs this post. Like it's so specific. It's crazy. Yeah. I mean, from a marketing perspective, it's great from a personal perspective maybe not so great. Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And again, carrie maybe you can field this question a little bit. And I guess I'm going to start with a story that a friend of mine was telling me so a friend of mine son at the time was about 12. And he and I were both into a phone game called Clash of Clans, which I'm sure some people have heard of, maybe not everybody, but it's basically like, you, you build this clan and then you go fight people. Right? And you play you can join a clan, which is comprised of like, other people, and you can communicate with them and whatever. So my friend, um, being the good mom that she is, would check in on, you know, whatever he was doing on social media and whatever. And so, she was checking out this game with him, and she saw like all these strangers sending him messages because you can send messages in the game. And, you know, she became concerned because, you know, not everyone in the game was a 12 year old boy. I mean, obviously, I was in the game, and I at the time was like a 30 year old woman. So, right, like, there's a large variety of people that play this game. And, you know, maybe some of the messages were, you know, Hey, where are you from? Whatever, it could be harmless, but maybe it's not harmless. You know? Hey, you know, how old are you? You know, they started to get into like, the personal questions, which again, as somebody who grew up on AOL Instant Messenger, like the whole ASL thing, age, sex location, I don't know in the chat rooms like that was the beginning of all that but now it happens in kind of like these more concealed ways like a message portion inside of a game. So she ended up figuring out a way that he could still play the game but she could turn off the messages which obviously made her feel much better about it and like just generally monitored his time online. But is that something you guys think about it all like in terms of as kids grow older and there's all these apps and like all this stuff to keep track of? Absolutely. Because we we had kind of the same thing just last week, actually. Both the kids wanted to download the game Roblox to their tablets, which I mean, I've heard a lot about I've heard you know, the name Roblox, but I don't know what it is. And I think, you know, my husband knows a lot more about all this stuff. And he was like, Alright, yeah, we can download that. Let's check it out. And so the kids were playing and it was, was within the same day that my daughter was like, someone's calling me names. Someone's calling me, someone saying, I'm ugly and blah, blah, blah and all these like really mean things. I was terribly. I was like what is Roblox, like I need to do a little more research, I think. And you know, we kind of looked at it and she was upset, of course, and honestly, she has been bullied at school for a nine year old more than her share at this point. So we were immediately like, okay, we're gonna take that off. We're gonna we're gonna uninstalled that. And she was absolutely like, yeah, let's you know, she, she didn't want to deal with that. And so I kind of looked, I looked into it a little bit, and it's super common on roblox. It's a thing on Roblox bullying which is insane. I still don't really know what it is, it's a game, or a thing where you can create games and others can play them or something like that. And it does have that interact interactive feature. But I did read that you can, as a parent really control that interactive feature and actually, kind of introduce your child into the world of that sort of messaging situation, and it might be an actual good way to do that. So that's one thing to think about. But I think for us, she had already dealt with bullying and we just got rid of it. We're like done, you're done. Yeah. So yeah, it's really scary how fast it happened. Yeah, how easily it happened. You know? Yeah. I just like how prevalent is this? It's, it's absolutely horrifying. And honestly Another one that she's had trouble with is just messenger for kids. So they have kids and the parents have a lot of control there. Maya can send messages to me and request other kids that she knows that she wants and I can okay that and like contact their parent and say Is this okay? You know, all the parents are in on it and stuff, but like I said she's had trouble with bullying at school. And so that, of course, has extended into her messenger for kids life, which is really too bad. So she's already had to make the decision to block certain friends. Which even as an adult, you know, you you struggle with that a little you know, you have these friends or family that like post things that upset you and you're just like, this is garbage. Do I just block it? struggle and so she's already gone through that. That's an early age to learn that lesson. Yes. And it's really sad. But that is the world that you know, that's gonna be the world for the kids now. Yeah, I think the more you know, this social media and that these, the more people are able to communicate behind a computer. I feel like the bolder people are with their bullying because they don't have to see the consequences face to face. Like if you are bullying somebody in person and obviously that definitely happens. Like you were even saying, you know, at school, she's definitely getting bullied. But it's like, if you're in person, you see the emotional response to the things you're saying or doing and You know, yep. I feel like you're face to face then with the consequences of your action. Whereas when you're behind a screen like that, no, you know, nobody. There's no consequences. It doesn't seem real, and especially for a kid. Yeah. Even harder for a kid to imagine a real person on the other side of that, you know, feeling real feelings, right? Yeah. And it's real easy to pile on on social media. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, look at the way adults handle themselves on social media. I mean, I have been in the last few days, I've probably been on Facebook, you know more than I normally am obviously, because I am not working right now. And, you know, you never you should never read the comments section anymore. Right, but I mean, just looking at the comments sections on stuff, like some of the posts, it seems obvious that people are gonna, like, lose their shit on right like because they're, they're charged and you know politically or emotionally or whatever right and still not to say that that's okay but at least you can see the posts and you can anticipate, oh the comments sections gonna be nuts on this post but like some of the stuff I'm on I'm like, this post is not charged in any way. This is like some super benign posts about like nothing in particular and like people are losing it in the comments and I'm just like, what is happening? Like, this isn't even anything to be upset over. Yeah, people are charged at least right now for sure. Yeah, it's crazy. I have, I'm sorry, go ahead. I had a cause. And I think she's technically my cousin. She got married in February. She just got her pictures back. And so she posted them her wedding pictures that were in February and people are going crazy. Because they think that she got her wedding during this whole quarantine state. And so people are like yelling at her and like, why aren't you staying at home? All this stuff like, calm down. That's not just give it a second. Yeah, it was supposed to be such a fun thing for her to share your picture. Especially now like I feel like we all need to see on social media like happy times. Yeah. Where you don't need that shit. Like, yep, don't jump to conclusion people I was Facebook friends with my old English teacher from high school and so she had posted this thing and like a guy I went to school with commented on it. And I thought, like, his response was really insightful. And it was really along the lines of like, you know, in high school, we knew you to be like, you know, pro women pro people like, you really cared about people and like this, this that you're posting doesn't seem to jive with like, what you taught us, right like this doesn't seem to make sense. is, you know, propaganda, right? And I was and then they had like a nice conversation so I was like, Okay, so this seems like based on these comments like nobody's like losing it everyone seems to be calm or whatever. And so I responded thinking that Okay, we're all having a conversation. This is nice we can share you know, so sharing space, which clearly that was my first mistake, right to ever think that comment. Yeah, a place to be but you know, my, I'll take it on. Anyway. So I commented, and like her response was like, Why are you such a hateful person? You're clearly like being taken in by the mass media. You need to like pray about your hatred, because like how, how could you let yourself get to this point? Then she private messaged me. And like continued this. If you you know, if you let this hatred grow in your heart, it's gonna fester, blah, blah, blah, you should make sure your news sources are, you know, from both sides like make sure you check out Breitbart News because that's, you know, a good one and why should you be like to and I was like, all I remember I was like, I should not have responded in that moment because I was really angry but like I wrote probably six paragraphs in response, and the only thing I couldn't remember is like, don't come at me was how I said about what I read or what I believe like you're not even having a conversation with me. This is like all you're doing is accusing me of stuff. Like I wanted to have a conversation clearly I can't like don't come at me. So Well, I think. All right, good job. That's good Good for sticking up for yourself. thanks. Yeah, a conversation I really anticipated having. And had I anticipated it which I maybe I should have maybe given the context of the situation. And by maybe, I mean, I should have anticipated given the context and situation. Like I would have just probably unfollowed and avoided the situation all together, which is what I've done with some other people is like, they're people I like, as long as they don't see what they post on Facebook. Yes, yeah. Yep. My Okay, wait, so sorry. But I haven't another thing. What worries me about social media in that? I mean, when, when we were little, we knew all of the slang like we knew all of the key stuff. And now this day and age, I don't know the slang anymore. For instance, oh, I was teaching or I was doing like a, like a youth group, I was kind of leading a youth group. And they were telling me they told me about Netflix and chill and what it actually meant. I'm sitting there like, what you guys are, you know, freshman in high school and you know what? Netflix and chill means. And then I was I was pregnant with my first at the time and I had like a full on meltdown. Because if I didn't know that, and I wasn't that far out of the game of you know, youth that I was so worried that my kids are going to pull a fast one on me and talk about some shit that I'm not going to know the context of it. Like Yeah, I my kids started picking up lingo that I'm like, What are you? What is that word? Right. And it's like all the time they're calling each other pleb I don't know what that means. They're constantly constantly going uni. And I can't. One day in the early in the early quarantine days in the morning, one morning, I banned pleb for the whole day. Well, I mean, what I'm going to say about that is, I think that that happens in every generation, right? Like the younger generation. I know. But I did it to my parents, like he's the lingo, whatever. But also like, yeah, kids are dumb. I was dumb. Your parents know that. You're using lingo, right? Like you're being so clever, but it's like, No, you It's obvious And I mean, yeah, I even think about like my nieces and nephews when they're trying to be slick. And like, even if I don't specifically know what they're saying, I always know that they're saying something slick. I'm like, Okay, all right. True. Like you think you're getting away with that, but I know, you know, cuz they'll be, you know, we'll use your Netflix and chill, right? They'll say something like, Oh my goodness, I just called Okay, they probably wouldn't say oh my goodness, that's what I would say. But anyway. Like, I just called so and so and we're gonna get together to wink wink, Netflix and chill, you know, like they write to say it like a certain way that it's like, haha, that's true. They're not coy at all. Like they are all right. I, yeah, yeah, that's true. I mean, we can tell that they're lying most of the time. Yeah. And I want to stay in the loop. My 43 year old husband is usually who fills me in on what the quarter Things are that people are saying, oh good okay he writes me in the loop and I don't know how he knows I think he's got a middle school or that's an insider maybe our nieces filling him in, like, Hey, this is the latest word. Yeah. That is not a bad plan, I think. Yeah, I need to my my teenager neice and be like, Listen, you need to fill me in. I think she would. Tell me what's happening I can understand that language What's pleb? I want to know... that's crazy. I remember a little Okay, here's a little story and if my mom is listening, I'm sorry. But so when I was little, there was a radio show in Minnesota that coyly because you're on the radio You can't talk about sex. So they always use a codename. Like instead of saying like sex, they said, ice cream or hot fudge sundae. Everybody, everybody who's listening could know and understand like whenever they're talking about a hot fudge sundae like, oh yeah. Last night I had a really delicious hot fudge sundae. everybody listening was like, I know what this means. Well, I was driving with my mom one day, and it was me my brother and then radio was on and they started talking about like, how long does it take for you to finish a hot fudge sundae? And my mother, oh, God bless her soul. She. She turned to me and my brother and said, How long do you guys think it takes to finish a hot fudge sundae? And we both knew and we both like when bright red and we're like, I don't I don't know. I... along I don't know, it was like kept looking straight ahead. She must have been so confused like what is wrong with my children think eventually we filled her in and she's like, Oh my gosh, I can't believe that like, but it was it was so funny and that's what scares me is like I don't want I know I'm gonna be in a situation where I'm like my mom and I don't know what my kids are talking about, but it's gonna scare the shit out of me all the time. Stories for their podcasts later. That's true full circle. It'll be good. Before before we finish up today, speaking of social media, kind of we got an email and I wanted to read it. If somebody wants to talk to us, we got an email from Abby S about our discipline episode and I thought this was a great email that I wanted to share. So just before I share it, if anyone wants to email us, we will get super excited about it. We'll probably read it 20 times and we may even read it on air. Our email is WomenAFpodcast@gmail.com. But here's the email. So, Abby said, this is the first podcast I've ever responded to, which I find pretty exciting. So do we, Abby. So do we - full disclosure, I'm not a mom. I'm really close to one of my cousins and play a pretty active aunt to her two kids who are two, five and two, since she and her husband are only children. You may already use this tactic but I was really proud when I it actually worked with my five year old he like most kids, has a lot of emotion and doesn't usually know how to verbally express it and so that means stopping throwing, kicking full on hysterical meltdowns, you name it. He also like most kids reacts very big. So a small annoyance can build really quickly to a full on tantrum. There was one day where he was getting upset about something and he could just see the storm brewing. We were a few steps away from meltdown city. before it got there. I asked him what emotion he was feeling he either couldn't or didn't want to name it. So I started calmly listing some off angry, hurt, frustrated, sad. We landed on sad once we were able to name the emotion he was able to talk a little more about the why and then we could come up with a solution. I'm not saying this works every time. I think part of me got lucky in the timing and part of it was he was getting slightly more willing to verbalize his emotions. But I wonder if there's a way you could make this work for a little younger of a child maybe simpler emotions, happy, sad, angry or maybe it has to do with colors like red is boiling, mad green is happy and a few in between. I've been thinking about Making or printing off an emotions wheel because I can't list all the emotions, especially when I have a kid in front of me on the verge of freaking out. I would suggest the movie inside out for when there may be around four or five. Or maybe that would still be too young. I'll leave it up to you. My mom was a child psychologist and she loved that movie because of how it addresses emotions that aren't good or bad. I hope this helps. And thank you for giving me the opportunity to respond to my first podcast. I hope you all are surviving this pandemic with as much sanity as you can. And she actually sent us that feelings wheel the emotions wheel, so I think that it would be cool if we posted it on our Facebook page. Yeah, you got to post it. That's awesome. Yeah, that's great advice. That's really good advice. I agree. Make sense? Yeah. We should all try it. definitely gonna try it tomorrow. Cuz 100% chance my kids will flip out at some point tomorrow. So Perfect. Yeah. And my my kid totally has done the like emotion spirals where I can't get her out of it and then I don't know what to do. So that's that's a good you know just name. Name it. Yeah, hopefully that'll help talk about it. That's that's really good. Yeah. And help them to like for future reference understand what's going on inside them and maybe be able to verbalize it a little better. Right. Yeah. I will say we have watched inside out and my oldest watched it when she was three and she loves it. I don't think she fully understands what it all means and how it's like, this is legit emotions. But I do love that movie. Yeah, we just tried to watch it too. We got about halfway through and then she got distracted. Yeah. I will say there is a part in every Disney movie that I cry at. And that's what One of the worst parts that I cry at so see it I have not seen that one and now you've made me not want to see it at all. So, you it's like a bittersweet. It's like a every Disney movie. There's like that bittersweet cry. It's true and yeah, I totally even like I watch it every single day when she was like three. And I still cried every single day when it got to that part of it. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah, that's it. I'm a mess when I watch Toy Story and when I tried to organize the kids toys I I feel guilty for the toys I'm getting rid of. I'm pretty sure they judge me and They're devastated. It wrecked me for organizing toys. Yeah, yep. It made us become hoarders. Right? Yeah, I mean, it's really Disney's fault. Disney should send somebody to come clean my house. And give those toys a good home. That's right. But on that note, I think we should wrap up. Again you can find us on social media Instagram, Facebook and Twitter at WomenAFpodcast. And we're also on Patreon so if you are somebody who is still working right now, and you would like to help support people who are on furlough we are at patreon.com/WomenAFpodcast. But just communicating with us on social media sending us an email or rating and review those podcasts are also great ways to support us if you know a Patreon is not a thing you could do right now. And on that note, we are Women AF and we know you are too Women AF is produced by mortar box media and engineered by Adam Rostad. intro and outro music is SQZ by Shane Ivers, check them out at Silvermansound.com and don't forget to subscribe and leave a review Transcribed by https://otter.ai Check out some of our older episodes: EPISODE 15: TRUE CRIME OBSESSED EPISODE 14: QUARANTINE BLUES EPISODE 13: INVISIBLE ILLNESSES EPISODE 12: DISCIPLINE? EPISODE 11: #METOO, PART 2 EPISODE 10: #METOO AND THE MEDIA EPISODE 9: MAKING FRIENDS EPISODE 8: NOT JUST A MOM EPISODE 7: WE HEART YOU EPISODE 6: SCIENCE! EPISODE 5: BE BOSS EPISODE 4: WHO'S GOT THE TIME? EPISODE 3: BACK TO WORK EPISODE 2: BOUNCE BACK EPISODE 1: RESOLUTIONS	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line793
__label__wiki	0.92685	0.92685	Meigs Raid Meigs Raid (also known as the Battle of Sag Harbor) was a guerrilla raid by American forces on the British at Sag Harbor, New York on May 23, 1777 during the American Revolutionary War in which six British were killed and 90 captured while the Americans suffered no casualties. The battle marked the first American victory in New York after New York City and Long Island had fallen in the Battle of Long Island. American Lt. Col. Return Jonathan Meigs led the attack by rowing 130 men across Long Island Sound from Guilford, Connecticut. To avoid British patrol boats they ported their boats over a narrow section of North Fork, Suffolk County, New York in Southold, New York near what is now Hashamomuck Beach before entering Southold Bay to Shelter Island Sound about 6 p.m. before arriving in Sag Harbor at 2 a.m. where they burned 12 British boats in the harbor on the East Hampton (town), New York side and the storming the British earth works that the British had commandeered at the Old Burying Grounds on a hill on Southampton (town), New York side of Sag Harbor. The land attack was conducted in silence with fixed bayonets and only one shot was said to have been fired. A British schooner opened fire on the attackers as they burned the ships. The raiders took 53 prisoners at the earth works and another 37 at the wharf (and suffered no casualties). The prisoners were taken back to Connecticut. Source: Wikipedia Added by: Lindsay Johnson American Revolution - Revolutionary War View other events that happened on May 23 What Happened On (Day) What Happened In (Year) The History of Us ® ©2021 McHaBu The History of Us® is a registered trademark	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line800
__label__wiki	0.675147	0.675147	Muslims and Christians seek common ground in dialogue “Our theology is not the same,” Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan said to Christians, “but we are all in the same boat.” The prince was addressing an assembly of Christians and Muslims gathered in Geneva, Switzerland this week as part of a four-day international consultation on relations between the faiths. People of faith face the same problems and opportunities in the contemporary world, according to Prince Ghazi. Coming together to fulfill our shared commitment to love God and love one’s neighbour, he added, “is the right thing to do.” Prince Ghazi was one of two keynote speakers on the theme “Transforming Communities: Christians and Muslims Building a Common Future.” The prince serves as personal envoy and special advisor to King Abdullah II of Jordan and as chairperson of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought. The second keynote address was given by the Rt Rev Dr Anders Wejryd, archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden. He affirmed the two great commandments of love as common teachings of the religions descended from Abraham, although he suggested that people of different cultures could also find inspiration in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “a grand achievement and a piece of good theology.” Archbishop Wejryd observed that “there is no relevance for our religions without identity – but on the other hand, there is no identity without relevance. It is part of the identity both of the Prophet and of Jesus Christ that they were totally relevant for the people they met.” The “Transforming Communities” consultation has been organised under the leadership of the Consortium of A Common Word, the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute of Jordan, the World Islamic Call Society based in Libya and the World Council of Churches (WCC). The dialogue is taking place at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, site of the WCC central offices. Delegates to the conference and diplomats invited to the opening session were joined by representatives of Christian world communions who are meeting in Geneva this week. Church bodies and organisations represented on Monday included the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Protestant, Evangelical and Pentecostal traditions. At the start of the proceedings, a welcome was offered by the Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary of the WCC. He commented on the varying situations of the many societies from which participants have come. Dr Tveit remarked, “We are living in communities locally, nationally and globally that are changing rapidly. More than that: as religious leaders we are ourselves transforming communities. The question to all of us is not whether we have an influence in the transformation of communities, but what kind of influence do we have? We are here to talk to one another to discover the kind of influence that we want to have together.” Another welcoming statement was read from Dr Muhammad Ahmed Sharif, General Secretary of the World Islamic Call Society (WICS), whose arrival at the consultation had been delayed. The statement was read by Dr Ibrahim Ali Rabu, the WCIS director of conferences and institutions. Dr Sharif encouraged participants in the dialogue to express their concerns clearly and frankly: “Make sure that we understand each other.” Greetings also were offered to the consultation members by leaders of the Protestant and Muslim communities in Switzerland. Sheikh Yousef Ibram, imam of the Geneva mosque, and the Rev Dr Thomas Wipf, president of the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches as well as of the Swiss Council of Religions, welcomed participants and briefly described the current state of Muslim-Christian relations across Switzerland. On Thursday 4 November 2010, the Inter-religious Platform of Geneva will facilitate orientation sessions on local interfaith relations during group visits to St Pierre cathedral (Protestant Church of Geneva) and the Geneva mosque. The opening events were moderated by Metropolitan Mor Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim, archbishop of Aleppo in the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch. [Ekk/3]	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line802
__label__wiki	0.925839	0.925839	Championship Season Review – Hull, Ipswich, Leeds, Middlesbrough June 5, 2016 June 4, 2016 Stephen Donovan Hull City: 4th (promoted via play-offs) Manager Steve Bruce offered to resign after failing to keep Hull in the Premier League in 2015, but the club managed to convince him to stay on. That persuasion eventually paid off as the club returned to the top-flight at the first attempt by coming out on top in the play-offs. They were in the mix all season as a strong start immediately had them among the promotion contenders. The only early blemishes came in away defeats to Charlton Athletic and fellow pace setters Brighton & Hove Albion, before a brilliant succession of five victories without conceding a goal from mid-October sent them to the top of the league. The last of wins came convincingly at home to another one of their promotion rivals in Middlesbrough, but after the international break came a dip in form which lasted right up until the turn of year, including defeats to Derby County, Leeds United, Rotherham United and Preston North End. As such they began 2016 in third place having played a game more than the two sides above them, but January would be a perfect month as six straight wins were recorded in all competitions; among them a 6-0 thumping of Charlton where leading scorer Abel Hernandez netted a first half hat-trick. The following month was solid, but from the beginning of March onwards winning games became a major struggle as collectively the team lost their way. Away results were especially dire as they lost late on at Middlesbrough, were hammered by Derby and were also beaten at bottom club Bolton Wanderers. As a result they fell totally out of the race for automatic promotion and were resigned to a play-off place. A semi-final clash with Derby was on the cards for several weeks before they met in the first leg, and the Tigers produced a timely display of excellence to win 3-0 at the iPro Stadium, and although they diced with danger and lost 2-0 in the return match, a place in the final was secured. They faced a Sheffield Wednesday side that had ended the season in superb form, but had the better of them for long periods and deservedly found the winner through Mohamed Diame, sending them back to the Premier League. Ipswich Town: 7th A team that can always be relied upon to be competitive and determined to eke out results when the tide is against them, Ipswich now exist on the borderline between reaching the Championship play-offs and just narrowly missing out. This year it proved to be the latter, as they were made to pay for a poor second half to the season. They began strongly by winning three of their first four matches including an impressive success over Burnley, but then came a run of just one victory in 11 in all competitions, with goals proving difficult to come by as striker Daryl Murphy was proving unable to replicate his goalscoring exploits of last term while David McGoldrick was sidelined by injury. It took until November to them to rediscover their form as an excellent sequence of results which included a number of away wins meant that they entered 2016 in the top six, holding a four-point advantage over nearest challengers Sheffield Wednesday. But the Owls were about to go full steam ahead and propel themselves into a play-off place while Ipswich stalled, stuttering through an inconsistent patch which persisted pretty much until the end of the season. After victory over Blackburn Rovers on March 15 they were only one point off the pace, but an ensuing run of no wins in seven would prove fatal to their chances. Two straight victories to finish ensured seventh place, ensuring that the club’s spell outside the Premier League will be extended to a 15th season. There is some frustration around at that, but given the budget and resources he has to work with, Mick McCarthy has done an outstanding job to have lifted them this far up the standings. One wonders if he can take them any further. Leeds United: 13th One day all the talk and focus surrounding Leeds will be about the team again, rather than affairs at boardroom and management level, but with Massimo Cellino still in place as the owner and protests against him rife in the stands 2015-16 proved to be another year of torment. However, the collective effort of managers Uwe Rosler and Steve Evans helped them finish in a reasonably respectable mid-table position. Whenever a manager is appointed by Cellino he is immediately under pressure to pick up positive results, but as it turned out Rosler only lasted 11 games. He started with a succession of draws before they achieved their first win with a late Chris Wood goal at Derby County, but a run of four defeats from five saw the German lose his job with the club in 18th place. A divisive character throughout his career, Evans was soon appointed in recognition of the impressive job he had done at Rotherham United, and after a slow start results gradually began to pick up as they went unbeaten through a December that comprised wins over Hull City, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Preston North End. There was never any real chance of being dragged into a relegation battle as a result, but a top half finish was the best they could hope for. February was a dismal month which culminated in an awful night at Brighton & Hove Albion, but they fought back strongly with three successive wins and they repeated the trick in mid-April as the Whites reached 11th before taking two points from the final three games. Despite a decent record during his tenure, Evans was set to leave as Cellino had his mind set on changing the manager again. After failing in his public pursuit of two targets, he eventually opted for former Swansea City boss Garry Monk. Middlesbrough: 2nd (promoted) There was a steely determination about Aitor Karanka as he led his side into another season in the Championship nearly three months after watching his side flounder in the 2015 play-off final as they produced an insipid display against Norwich City. The squad remained largely the same, but there was more of an emphasis placed on goalscoring as defensively they were already the best team in the division. Striker David Nugent was signed from Leicester City with great Championship pedigree, while Boro looked slightly further afield to bring in Uruguay international Cristhian Stuani, who from midfield would go on to be their leading scorer. With the exception of a surprise home defeat to Bristol City, they made a near-perfect start as a run of five straight wins gave them a healthy cushion in the automatic promotion places. A short blip at the beginning of October was overcome as they powered through all the way until mid-January; a storming run that took in a four-match winning streak over fellow hopefuls Burnley, Brighton & Hove Albion, Sheffield Wednesday and Derby County, all without conceding a goal. It seemed like they already had one foot in the Premier League as with 55 points they held a sizeable gap over third place, but a sudden slump in form allowed rivals to close the gap. Amid all of that Jordam Rhodes was signed to add even more of a goal threat, but the uncertain form continued into March where the future of Karanka was cast into considerable doubt. A falling out with some members of the squad meant that he was not in the dugout for the defeat at Charlton Athletic, but eventually everything healed itself and Boro lifted themselves back up into a position of strength with six straight wins. With it now being a three-way battle for a place in the top two things became highly intense, as three draws meant that they went into the final day decider with Brighton level on points with their opponents but crucially with a superior goal difference. Stuani gave them the lead to settle the nerves, but chances for a second came and went as Brighton found a second half equaliser. The Riverside Stadium was anxious but they managed to hold out to provoke a pitch invasion fuelled by relief, as Middlesbrough moved back into the top-flight for the first time since 2009. 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__label__wiki	0.783783	0.783783	Grabbing viruses out of thin air by Advanced Science News \| Nov 26, 2020 Developments in pathogen-detecting materials could provide an easy means of detecting viruses within public places. Image credit: Davyn Ben on Unsplash The spread of COVID-19 has changed the lives of people around the world and has had a major impact on our daily lives. Other viruses have emerged suddenly from obscurity, such as Ebola, avian influenza, and SARS, all of which present a serious threat to human health and economies worldwide. The development of wearable sensors that can continuously monitor the environment for viruses has become imperative as it would enable us to better detect a source of infection and hopefully halt its spread. In a recent paper published in the journal Advanced Materials, researchers looked into the most recent endeavors made the development of functional biosensors for this purpose. “Research on improving the performance of virus sensors has not progressed much in recent years,” says Tohoku University materials engineer Fumio Narita. “Our review aims to help young researchers and graduate students understand the latest progress to guide their future work for improving virus sensor sensitivity.” Pathogen-detecting materials could identify viruses like SARS-CoV-2 in the air For years, scientists have been studying materials that can convert mechanical energy into electrical or magnetic energy, and vice versa. These materials are known as piezoelectric materials. When it comes to detecting viruses, they could play an important role. Antibodies that interact with a specific virus can be placed on an electrode incorporated onto a piezoelectric material. When the target virus interacts with the antibodies, it causes an increase in mass that decreases the frequency of the electric current moving through the material, signalling its presence. This type of sensor is currently being investigated for detecting several viruses, including the cervical-cancer-causing human papilloma virus, HIV, influenza A, Ebola, and hepatitis B. When it comes to sensing bacterial infections, magnetostrictive materials, which convert mechanical into magnetic energy and vice versa, have shown promise. In these materials, probing antibodies are fixed onto a biosensor chip placed on the magnetostrictive material and then a magnetic field is applied. If the targeted antigen interacts with the antibodies, it adds mass to the material, leading to a magnetic flux change that can be detected using a sensing “pick-up coil”. Narita says that developments in artificial intelligence and simulation studies can help find even more sensitive piezoelectric and magnetostrictive materials for detecting viruses and other pathogens. Future materials could be coilless, wireless, and soft, making it possible to incorporate them into fabrics and buildings. Scientists are now investigating how to use these and similar materials to detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in the air. This sort of sensor could be incorporated into underground transportation ventilation systems, for example, in order to monitor virus spread in real time. Wearable sensors could also direct people away from a virus-containing environment. “Scientists still need to develop more effective and reliable sensors for virus detection, with higher sensitivity and accuracy, smaller size and weight, and better affordability, before they can be used in home applications or smart clothing,” says Narita. “This sort of virus sensor will become a reality with further developments in materials science and technological progress in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics.” Reference: Fumio Narita, et al., A Review of Piezoelectric and Magnetostrictive Biosensor Materials for Detection of COVID‐19 and Other Viruses, Advanced Materials (2020). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202005448 Adapted from press release provided by Tohoku University Step-by-step guide on how to make new antibody test published Computational models: A new tool for cancer research Recruiting AI in the battle against SARS-CoV-2 and future pandemics Antiviral Molecules Inspired by Sea Gods and Mermaids	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line804
__label__wiki	0.687653	0.687653	AGG Summer Associates Make an Impact for ADL Twenty-seven summer associates at thirteen Atlanta law firms grappled with topics of social significance this summer as part of The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Charles Wittenstein Summer Associate Research Program. They presented their findings at a closing reception held at the law firm of Alston & Bird. “The pro bono research contributed by these firms and their summer associates is a tremendous help to The Anti-Defamation League Southeast Regional Office. They provide the leg-work to help us do our jobs better,” noted Shelley Rose, Associate Director, who coordinates the program. The summer associates were assigned issues that have recently been on the radar screen of the ADL. The ADL is one of the premier civil rights organizations in the country. The law students were asked to research and write memos on issues such as the constitutionality of clergy teaching classes in public schools; accommodation of religious clothing by private business or government entities; and issues related to anti-bullying legislation. John Marshall, Of Counsel, Bryan Cave Powell Goldstein, presented the keynote address at the closing reception where he talked about his early experiences with hate and learning to speak out against prejudice and bigotry. Summer associates then engaged in lively discussions about the issues they researched. Five of Arnall Golden Gregory’s ten summer associates participated in the program: Julie Adkins, Adam Balthrop, Shannon McNulty, Emily Rutledge and Raj Shah. Now in its eighth year, the program is named for Charles F. Wittenstein, who retired as ADL Southern Counsel and Southern Civil Rights Director after working for the ADL for 21 years. His career spanned over three decades of service to the Jewish community. Among Mr. Wittenstein’s numerous contributions of historical significance were his successful efforts to secure the posthumous pardon for Leo Frank, and his work to sustain the constitutionality of the Georgia anti-mask law. In tribute to their father, his children, David & Lee Wittenstein, Robert & Susan Wittenstein, and Gary & Ruth Musicante, established this program in their father’s name. To learn more about the program, please click here.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line807
__label__wiki	0.514951	0.514951	Preserved Property Owner Does Not Have Standing to Challenge Approved Use by Neighboring Preserved Lake with forest in the background (Photo by Edwin Remsberg). I have written a few times on how the legal idea of standing can impact your ability to bring a lawsuit. In many cases, standing can require showing an injury-in-fact, causation relationship between the injury and the action of the defendant, and likelihood that the injury can actually be solved by a favorable decision. In some cases, the legislature may limit who may have standing even further. With conservation easements, for example, a state legislature may limit those who may enforce the conservation easement to the holder of the easement (such as a land trust). The Maine Supreme Court recently found a landowner of conserved property did not have standing to enforce the easement on neighboring property (Estate of Robbins, 2017). In this case, Payson created a conservation easement by deed on 100 acres in 1997. The deed was granted to Cumberland Mainland and Islands Trust. The deed is currently held by Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust and the 100 acres is now held by three different owners (Estate of Robbins (the Estate), Town of Cumberland, and a developer). Tall trees and rocks on the side of a body of water (Photo by Edwin Remsberg). Problems arose when the town received approval to develop its portion of the 100 acres for a beach, a sixty-car parking lot, a bathhouse, and related amenities. The developer was looking at developing ten house lots on their portion of the 100 acres. The Land Trust reviewed the developer’s proposed plan and found it to be within the terms of the conservation easement. Then the Estate brought an action to enforce the conservation easement. The district court found that the Estate did not have standing to enforce the easement. In Maine, the legislature has limited who may bring an action to enforce the terms of a conservation easement. Standing is limited to: · An owner of an interest in the real property burdened by the easement; · A holder of the easement; · A person having a third-party right of enforcement; or · The Attorney General . . . Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 33, § 478(1)(A) – (D) (2017)). The district court concluded that the Estate was not an “owner of an interest in the real property burdened by the easement” under the terms of § 478. The Estate’s complaint was dismissed for lack of standing and the Estate appealed. On appeal, the main issue was how broadly to confer standing. “An owner of an interest in the real property burdened by the easement” could mean any real property owner burdened by the conservation easement or only the property owner burdened by the easement. The state’s Supreme Court looked at the legislative history of the statute to determine how broadly the legislature had intended to confer standing. The Supreme Court agreed with the district court that the legislature had intended to confer standing to enforce the easement only to the property owner burdened by the easement. The Supreme Court agreed that the legislature had rejected the broad view of standing in bringing actions to enforce a conservation easement. The legislature has also conferred the power to enforce the conservation easement to the Maine Attorney General. This allows the Attorney General to enforce the terms of a conservation easement as a representative of the public when the easement holder fails to enforce the easement’s terms. To the court, the view that the Attorney General can enforce the terms of an easement for the public supported the view the legislature rejected, broadly conferring the ability to enforce on the public. Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote. Two justices dissented in rejecting this view. To the dissent, the majority’s view made no sense; the Land Trust had signed off on plans that could potentially not conform with the easement’s terms. The majority’s view also did not take into account previous decisions by the Maine Supreme Court that conferred standing on any real property owner burdened by the conservation easement. The dissent would have found the Estate had standing. The Supreme Court reversed the district court on dismissing a breach of contract claim against the Land Trust. Because the case was dismissed before trial, little is in the record about the breach of contract claim. The court reversed to allow the Estate an opportunity to prove the breach of contract claim. So why should you care? Let me use an example to explain. Fred grants a conservation easement of 100 acres on Blackacre Farms to Farm Land Preservation. Fred later sells 20 acres to his son Tom. The remaining 80 acres eventually passes to his nephew Craig. Craig sells his 80 acres to the county. Should Tom or the county have the ability to enforce the terms of the conservation easement against the other? Should we just rely on Farm Land Preservation to enforce? What if similar to the case above, the land trust signs off on the plans — should one of the parties have the ability to enforce the easement? This decision limits who can bring enforcement actions in court, at least in Maine. In my example, neither Tom nor the county could enforce the terms of the same conservation easement against each other. The dissent would have allowed this type of challenge to take place. While this is a Maine court decision with little impact on Maryland, it is worth thinking about how a similar challenge here would be handled. In my example, Fred, Tom, and Craig could have worked with an attorney to ensure that either party preserved the right to enforce the conservation easement against the other. Estate of Robbins v. Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust, 2017 ME 17. #ALEI #conservationeasement #maine #standing Appeals Court Remands Enlist Duo Registration to EPA But Does Not Vacate Maryland Appellate Court Finds Party on Landowner’s Property Not Covered by Recreational Use Statute	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line810
__label__wiki	0.891289	0.891289	North Korea threatens to build more nukes, cites US hostility January 8, 2021 5:34 pm Associated Press Political, Political news from the Associated Press ????????????????????????????????????????? SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has threatened to expand his nuclear arsenal and develop more sophisticated atomic weapons systems in response to what he calls American hostile policy. Kim's comments made Friday during a key ruling party meeting was seen as an effort to apply pressure on the incoming government of President-elect Joe Biden. The Korean Central News Agency said Saturday that Kim says the "key to establishing new relations between (North Korea) and the United States is whether the United States withdraws its hostile policy" on North Korea. Kim says North Korea must further strengthen its military and nuclear capability as the danger of a U.S. invasion on North Korea increases. Biden says he’ll use Defense Production Act to ‘maximize manufacture’ of coronavirus vaccine, fulfilling campaign pledge Pence, in call to Harris, offers congratulations AP sources: Vice President Mike Pence calls Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to congratulate her, offer assistance	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line814
__label__wiki	0.789609	0.789609	Election 2004: As Debates Begin, Where the Candidates Stand on the Key Issues With the first debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry set for tonight, where they stand on the issues will further crystallize with voters. from WWD issue 09/30/2004 Download PDF WASHINGTON — Now it gets interesting. Ever since Vice President Richard Nixon’s sweaty encounter against the smooth-talking Sen. John F. Kennedy in the first televised presidential debates in 1960, the face-offs have proven crucial to who gets elected. Voters will get their first chance tonight to see President Bush square off with Democratic rival Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry in the first of three televised debates scheduled this heated election year, which is entering its final stretch with Bush holding a small lead in most polls. Seeing the candidates tangle over issues in the 90-minute debates is key to convincing the all-important undecideds and the so-called “persuadable” voters who are tentative about their candidate choice, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. However, it’s impossible to forecast whether Kerry, who on his feet is “strong on substance,” or Bush, who “is much stronger in making a personal connection,” has an edge, Sabato said. The narrow slice of voters who say they are undecided — accounting for less than 10 percent of the electorate in a dozen closely contested states, including the first debate’s location, Florida — is expected to decide the presidential race. “One thing we have to realize is these so-called swing voters haven’t yet really paid attention to the election,” said Paul Herrnson, director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship at the University of Maryland. “The issues are important. But just as important is how the candidates handle themselves, how they answer questions, and imagery and style.” The first televised debate, at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, will focus on foreign policy, including the war in Iraq and the fight against terrorism. The candidates will be seated, according to terms negotiated by the candidates’ camps. The next debate on Oct. 8 in St. Louis will be open to any topic and cast in a more informal town-hall format, where candidates may stand and walk about while answering questions. The last debate on Oct. 13 in Tempe, Ariz., returns to the seated format and will focus on the economy and domestic policy. A vice presidential debate between incumbent Dick Cheney and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards is set for Tuesday at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. This story first appeared in the September 30, 2004 issue of WWD. Subscribe Today. The differences between Bush and Kerry are quite stark on everything from the extent of hostilities in Iraq to the health of the economy. For officials in the greater fashion industry who’ve made their presidential preferences public, opinions on either side are also quite definite. For example, Peter Bragdon, vice president and general counsel of Columbia Sportswear, Portland, Ore., said earlier this month that “if we ran our company the way George Bush ran this country, we’d be out of a job. “If you want better and more affordable health care, more jobs, a cleaner environment, energy independence and restoring our respect in the world, then Kerry and Edwards are your choice,” Bragdon said, according to his prepared comments issued when 31 outdoor apparel and equipment company executives endorsed the Democratic ticket. By contrast, Hal Upbin, chairman and chief executive officer of global apparel maker Kellwood Co., who is a Bush backer, said, “The economy is sailing along, as much as a president can influence it,” and for which he credits the Bush tax cuts. “By and large he has set the environment for the economy to continue growing, albeit at a slower pace.” Although Upbin said his support of Bush’s policies in Iraq have dimmed since the increased hostilities there, “at this point I do think he is the better person to complete the task at hand….I don’t have enough confidence [Kerry] would do the right thing or do it any better.” Bush and Kerry present competing philosophies about how best to spur economic growth. “The theme that runs through President Bush’s proposals is all about letting markets work, getting government out of the way and letting consumers and business make the important choices,” said Retail Forward economist Frank Badillo, in an analysis of the candidates’ plans. Kerry “on the other hand, offers the prospect of a much more activist government that will give consumers and businesses incentives to make certain decisions, such as adding jobs or going to school.” Kerry argues the economy is lukewarm, given its slow creation of jobs to keep pace with new workers entering the market. He cites declines in consumer discretionary income and slowing of retail sales as among the lackluster economic barometers that demonstrate the punch of Bush’s almost $2 trillion in tax cuts were short-lived. The senator pokes at the administration’s trade and tax policies as favoring foreign imports and outsourcing of U.S. jobs, which Kerry blames on the loss of some 2.5 million U.S. manufacturing jobs, including some 350,000 in apparel and textile production, since Bush took office. In addition, Kerry has said the President’s unilateral decision to go to war in Iraq, which the 9/11 Commission said had no ties to the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., has wasted $200 billion in American taxpayer money with no plan to bring peace there. As a result, Kerry maintains the chaos in Iraq has unnecessarily created a new wave of terrorists hating the U.S., while draining military and financial resources away from the war on terror in Afghanistan and elsewhere. If elected, Kerry’s economic plan would include: Targeting double-digit annual increases in health care costs through a series of tax breaks. The government underwriting catastrophic health care expenses to lower premiums. Allowing individuals to buy into affordable federal employee health insurance. Negotiating lower drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. Other Kerry plans include repealing Bush’s tax cuts for households making more than $200,000. For the middle class, Kerry would continue the President’s middle-class tax cuts, set to expire by 2010. For his part, Bush’s outlook on the economy is one of recovery, an upbeat view based in part on job creation starting to pick up since August, productivity gains and GDP growth since the spring 2001 recession. Bush argues his tax cuts, with low interest rates and inflation, pulled the economy out of its doldrums, with the recession lasting just the third quarter of 2001, when GDP fell 1.4 percent. In addition, Bush argues his expansive policies to negotiate free-trade pacts and otherwise lower global trade barriers encourage U.S. export opportunities, furthering bolstering economic growth. While acknowledging some manufacturing job declines can be tied to low-cost import competition, Bush generally regards this transition as being part of a natural economic shift toward the creation of higher-paid jobs, in areas such as technology. “Jobs change in a changing world,” Bush said last week on the stump. In a second term, Bush said his economic policies would be focused on: Continuing with new trade-liberalizing pacts, including efforts to lower nontariff trade barriers. Lobbying Congress to make permanent almost $2 trillion in tax cuts he furthered in his first term, which range from accelerated depreciation of equipment to lower rates on investment income. Eliminating the estate tax by 2010, which has been gradually lowered since 2001. Reforming the federal tax code. On the trade front, Kerry would review all existing trade pacts to ensure fairness. He would lobby Congress to repeal tax-deferral breaks for U.S. companies producing abroad for sale to the U.S. market, a move designed to discourage outsourcing. Kerry, who considers himself an internationalist and not an economic isolationist as Bush contends, would also reward companies operating in the U.S. by lowering their tax rate to 33.25 percent from 35 percent. Kerry’s outsourcing plan, which could hit apparel producers abroad, has its critics who argue it would cause U.S. corporations to change their relationship with foreign affiliates to keep their tax status, among other avoidance mechanisms. As for the proposal’s effects on outsourcing, “If you could make it work, would it really make a difference?” Nigel Gault, an economist with Global Insight, asked rhetorically. “It probably would not make a huge difference.” Gary Hufbauer, a senior fellow with the Institute of International Economics, agrees with the potential tax-shifting scenario, but he said Kerry’s intentions to correct disadvantages for U.S. companies against American companies operating abroad aren’t misplaced. However, “tax differentials are not the main reason for offshore outsourcing, nor are they the main reason for the trade deficit,” Hufbauer concluded in an analysis of the Kerry plan. He said a better attack plan would involve changing World Trade Organization rules permitting countries to levy VAT and similar taxes on international commerce. On Iraq, Bush considers his policies to be working toward democracy there, despite escalations in violence and a dismal CIA assessment of conditions. The President argues that the toppling of Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein has made the world safer and opened a key front to fighting terror in the Middle East. On health care, Bush would ask Congress to create tax-free health care savings accounts. Under the plan, consumers would have lower health care premiums because of lower deductibles. The accounts would be used to pick up health expenses not covered by insurance, which Bush argues would stimulate wiser health care decisions and reduce unneeded treatments. The financial drag on business and the economy as a whole by escalating health care costs and the uninsured is a key issue cited by executives affecting bottom lines. Some 44 million Americans are uninsured and are expected this year to generate an estimated $41 billion in uncompensated treatment — 85 percent paid by federal, state and local governments — and accounting for about one-third of the total $125 billion in total U.S. health care costs, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. According to The Lewin Group, a nonpartisan health care consulting firm, the Kerry plan would reduce the number of uninsured by 51 percent to 24.3 million, while increasing the federal government’s costs by $1.25 trillion over 10 years. The Democrat contends that the increased federal share would be largely paid for by rolling back Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy and by efficiencies gained by trimming health care paperwork and lower drug prices negotiated with pharmaceutical companies. Bush’s health plan would cover 8.2 million new people, a 17 percent reduction of the uninsured, and increase federal costs by $227.5 billion, the Lewin group calculates. States would pay less health care under either plan, a reduction of $20 billion under Bush and $343.5 billion under Kerry. For employers, under the Kerry plan spending would decrease $52.1 billion over 10 years and with Bush would decline $4.7 billion, according to Lewin, which makes no judgment as to whose proposal is better. Just as in health care, Bush’s tax plans are focused on allowing taxpayers to keep more of their money. He argues this creates strong incentives for businesses and individuals to buy and invest. Retail Forward’s Badillo said this trickle-down philosophy was apparent in “the rebound at upscale retailers during the past two years” prompted by the reduction under Bush in the top tax rate to 35 percent from 39.6 percent for some 2.5 million households. These households accounted for more than half the benefits of Bush’s tax cuts. However, Bush’s outlook, as well as Kerry’s tax and governing plans, don’t adequately attack the ballooning federal deficit, now at $422 billion, according to several nonpartisan economists. They see the widening deficit as a millstone around the economy, which if not addressed will trigger high interest rates to keep pace with paying on what’s essentially a loan issued the government. Both Kerry and Bush said their plans would halve the deficit in five years — Kerry by urging Congress to follow pay-as-you-go budget rules used in the Nineties to eliminate the deficit and Bush by curbing government discretionary spending. Whether under Kerry’s or Bush’s plan, projected federal deficits “will be approximately equal,” concluded Mark Zandi, chief economist with economy.com, in an analysis of the candidates’ tax proposals. Global Insight’s Gault added, “Neither one of them is facing a widening budget gap.”	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line815
__label__wiki	0.921415	0.921415	Month-Long Bangladesh Blockade Continues Violence continues with the transport blockade called by the 20-party coalition led by the Bangladesh National Party. By Mayu Saini on February 5, 2015 A harder line appears to be emerging in Bangladesh, as violence continues with the transport blockade called by the 20-party coalition led by the Bangladesh National Party (BNP). The blockade started a month ago, protesting the first anniversary of the elections in Bangladesh on Jan. 5. So far, more than 50 people are dead and hundreds injured. Buses and trucks have been burned and economic losses continue to mount. Separately, BNP launched a three-day nationwide shut down on Sunday, which was subsequently extended to last until Thursday. Economists in Dhaka estimate that the transport sector has suffered heavy losses, and that the garment industry, which accounts for 80 percent of the country’s exports, has lost an estimated $60 million in the last two weeks. Bangladesh is the second-largest apparel exporter in the world, after China. The $24.5 billion export sector also provides employment to more than 4.4 million workers, mostly women. On Wednesday, police officials charged Khaleda Zia, chairwoman of the BNP, with instigating the firebombing of a bus in which seven people were killed on Tuesday. Earlier in the week, another complaint was filed in the metropolitan court alleging that Zia had “masterminded” the killing of 42 people, which her aides instigated. The incidents prompted a judge to order police to investigate. This adds to numerous other cases pending against the opposition leader, who had been prime minister three times. Amidst the confusing political situation, Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat, the new U.S. ambassador to Bangladesh, presented her credentials to President Mohammed Abdul Hamid at a ceremony in Dhaka on Wednesday. She succeeds former ambassador Dan Mozena. At the ceremony, she conveyed to the president her intention “to promote a Bangladesh that is secure and tolerant, moving toward its goal of middle-income status.” However, a statement issued by the BNP joint secretary on Wednesday indicated how difficult this might be in the immediate future, revealing the intention to keep the movement on until “the government quits and announces to arrange a free, fair and participatory election.” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government appears to have no such plans. She has stated her own intention to bring peace to the country, at any cost. “It’s a kind of low level war of attrition and patience and staying power of who will survive,” Ahsan Mansur, executive director of the Policy Research Institute (PRI), observed. Speaking about the impact of the protests on the business community, Mansur said: “Well, what else can they do? They have approached both the leaders but nothing of substance came out of it. They can get around the transport problems by paying for security, but on the global level, it is really a perception problem. Do the buyers want to take a chance with Bangladesh?” He said that if the buyers lost interest in Bangladesh, “it would be a hard war to fight.” “At this time it is more a fight against loss of potential orders — the real loss would be over the long term if the perception overtakes the situation,” he said. Yet it has been apparent, and proven, as Mansur noted, that the garment industry in Bangladesh has survived worse. In 2013, as pre-election violence resulted in almost 100 days of political agitation and shutdowns, the industry managed to hold its own. “The garment industry has been very resilient. They have shown that they can manage even in very difficult situations,” he said. After the collapse of Rana Plaza in April 2013, when 1,133 garment workers were killed as the eight-story building collapsed, world attention was drawn to the industry in Bangladesh. As European and American retailers and brands came together to establish safety measures in the factories over the last 20 months, the industry in Bangladesh found a different kind of reassurance — with investment and commitment of millions of dollars by international agencies as well as by global brands and retailers. In exchange, factory owners have been working to incorporate safety requirements for the factories as well as provide training on safety features for their workers. Despite this reassurance of continuing business from global brands and retailers, leaders of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association are concerned. Exports to the U.S., for example, were down last year, by 3.2 percent from January to November, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Apparel exports from Bangladesh to the U.S. were $4.64 billion in this time period. Referring to the loss in business over the last year, Atiqul Islam, president of the BGMEA, said that buyers have been cautious about placing orders with factories in shares buildings, resulting in the slowdown of exports from Bangladesh. “But it is the current political deadlock that will harm exports the most,” he said. “We continue to suffer losses in terms of transport — road transport and railroad transport are not safe anymore,” said Mohammad Hatem, vice-president of the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA). He said there was a need for a special law to protect the apparel industry. Leaders from both organizations joined hands with several other groups to protest the continuing violence last week, and have been calling on the leaders of the political parties to negotiate and arrive at an urgent consensus.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line816
__label__wiki	0.703702	0.703702	Sen. Gillibrand Comes to Brooklyn to Push Manufacturing Bill The measure would help grow fashion manufacturing in Brooklyn by designating local regions as Manufacturing Communities. By Arthur Friedman on August 9, 2016 U.S. Bans Xinjiang Cotton to Combat Slave Labor Woody Johnson Calls Storming of Capitol, a ‘Dark Day’ for the U.S. Fears of New Tariffs on Vietnam Loom in Washington NEW YORK — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) toured the Manufacture New York facility in Brooklyn on Tuesday and discussed the Made in America Manufacturing Communities Act, legislation she has introduced aimed at creating apparel and textile manufacturing jobs in the borough. The proposed measure would help grow the apparel, textile and wearable tech manufacturing industry in Brooklyn by creating a permanent program that designates local regions as “Manufacturing Communities.” The designation would put these areas in the front of the line to receive federal economic development funding specifically for the purpose of investing in manufacturing. “I know people outside of Brooklyn might not think of Brooklyn as a manufacturing hub, but in fact we have one of the most diverse and talented workforces in the country,” Gillibrand told a collected group of local dignitaries, business people and designers and manufacturers that are part of Manufacture New York. “So it’s perfectly suited for a manufacturing boom. This factory right here can be a model for businesses all across the country. This factory shows us that Brooklyn is an ideal place to open up a manufacturing business.” Gillibrand explained the Made in America Manufacturing Communities Act would be a continuation and expansion of a domestic manufacturing program that President Obama created that designated regions throughout the country as manufacturing hubs. “We all know that Brooklyn has the diversity and talent to earn this honor, and I’m going to work hard in Washington to make sure it gets that designation,” she said. “What this program does is unlock millions of dollars in federal funds for manufacturing initiatives for this region. It’s a great program, but right now it’s not permanent, so when President Obama leaves office, the program ends. We can’t let that happen, so we have to make sure we reauthorize this program for permanent authorization.” In an interview afterward, Gillibrand said she has bipartisan sponsorship in the House and Senate and hopes to have the legislation passed in the lame duck session of Congress that follows the presidential election. “Who wouldn’t support legislation that is a serious and meaningful investment, that creates jobs and allows us to revitalize communities?” she added. Bob Bland, founder and chief executive officer of Manufacture New York, said the manufacturing sector in the city has stabilized and is beginning to grow again after decades of decline. Bland said manufacturing jobs have fallen from nearly one million at their peak to 57,178 jobs in 2000 and 15,657 jobs in 2014, but still accounts for 30 percent of manufacturing jobs in the city. Bland said the mission of Manufacture New York is to reawaken and rebuild America’s fashion industry, foster the next wave of businesses and create a transparent, sustainable global supply chain. About two years ago, Manufacture New York moved to Liberty View Industrial Plaza in Sunset Park and partnered with the City of New York, the Mayor’s Office and New York City Economic Development Corp. through a $3.5 million grant to create the Manufacturing Innovation Center for Apparel, Textiles & Wearable Technology. “The Obama administration has worked diligently to establish a national network of manufacturing innovation institutes, one which we are proud to be a part of, the Revolutionary Fibers and Textiles Manufacturing Innovation Institute,” Bland said. “Manufacture New York would greatly benefit from the bill Sen. Gillibrand is proposing. Fashion design and manufacturing jobs are more than just jobs. They’re inclusive pathways to meaningful careers and potential for business ownership, regardless of previous educational background or socioeconomic status.” Gillibrand said her bill would help create apparel and textile manufacturing jobs in Brooklyn by creating a permanent program to competitively award regions with the “Manufacturing Community” designation. The designation would give those communities preferred consideration when applying for up to $1.3 billion in currently available federal economic development funding for manufacturing. The proposal would be coordinated by the Commerce Department and bring together the resources of multiple federal departments and agencies involved in economic development to better leverage federal programs and resources behind locally driven manufacturing strategies. The legislation awards a designated community preferential consideration across 11 federal agencies, reducing current burdens faced by communities and small manufacturers in navigating and accessing federal support. In order to earn the designation, communities have to demonstrate the significance of manufacturing already present in their region and develop strategies to use the designation in making investments in workforce training and retraining, advanced research, infrastructure and site development, supply chain support, trade and international investment and operational improvement and capital access.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line817
__label__wiki	0.574363	0.574363	Wallet-style Bags, Jeans Among Top Amazon-Bought Gifts Levi’s jeans, a Fossil wallet and a Kate Spade bag were the fashion winners, while the Amazon Echo won overall on Amazon.com this holiday. By Maghan McDowell on December 27, 2016 Wallet-style bags for women and jeans for men were among the top gifts given by Amazon shoppers this holiday shopping season. In its annual list of best-sellers on Amazon.com, the e-commerce behemoth reported that Levi’s men’s 501 Original Fit Jean, Fossil’s Emma large zip wallet and Kate Spade New York’s Cedar Street cami convertible cross-body bag were among the most popular. Both of the bags are small, wallet-style totes. The Fossil bag, in eight colors and ranging from $60 to $85, was on Oprah’s “favorite things” list, which for the second year in a row was featured in a separate web destination on Amazon.com. The bag is made with a lining that is designed to protect the radio frequency identification chips in credit and debit cards from being scanned by scammers. The Kate Spade bag is similar, albeit less tech-focused, and appears on Amazon.com for $107 to $148 in at least seven colors. Men’s jeans, and Levi’s, are consistently popular items on Amazon, as customers typically turn to the site for replenishment and basic items. The Levi’s 501 jeans on Amazon come in as many as 38 colors and cost $25 to $74. Also popular this year were “ugly” Christmas sweaters, running shoes, watches, diamonds and luggage. Among wearable tech items, the most popular were the Garmin Vivofit fitness band, the Garmin Vivoactive HR GPS smartwatch and Samsung Gear VR virtual reality headset. Beyond apparel and accessories, Amazon’s own devices won big this year. Amazon’s Echo and Echo Dot, which are smart speakers that enable the company’s virtual assistant, Alexa, topped the list at $180 and $50, in addition to the Fire TV Stick, a $40 streaming-media player, and a Fire tablet priced at $50. Amazon reports that sales of the Amazon Echo devices were more than nine times that of last year, which led to them being widely out of stock in the days leading up to Christmas. “Despite our best efforts and ramped-up production, we still had trouble keeping them in stock,” said Jeff Wilke, Amazon’s chief executive officer of worldwide consumer. Still, he said that he was “thrilled” that millions of customers would be introduced to Alexa. On the delivery front, Amazon reported that more people tried Prime worldwide this year than in any other year, with more than one billion items shipping worldwide using Prime — Amazon’s perks-filled membership service — and Fulfillment by Amazon, which lets businesses store products in Amazon’s fulfillment centers, with Amazon handling packing, shipping and customer service. Dec. 19 was the peak worldwide shipping day. And in what has become a key trend across retailers this holiday, more than 72 percent of Amazon customers worldwide shopped using a mobile device this season, with shopping on the Amazon app up 56 percent this year. Amazon e-commerce Fossil Holiday Kate Spade New York levi's Mobile commerce online shopping	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line818
__label__wiki	0.584034	0.584034	Exclusive: Giuseppe Zanotti to Unveil E-store in China The online shopping destination carrying women’s and men’s styles is slated to go live on June 1. By Martino Carrera on May 31, 2018 Giuseppe Zanotti "The Unfinished" sneaker MILAN — Giuseppe Zanotti is gearing up to enhance its online strategy by unveiling its e-store in China, slated to go live on June 1. The giuseppezanotti.cn online destination will carry the Italian footwear brand’s lineups of women’s and men’s shoes. Starting Friday, Chinese customers will be able to rely on an expedited delivery service and quick turnarounds since the brand has also inaugurated a fully stocked warehouse in Shanghai to manage the e-commerce operations. “Just like any endeavor in China, for the launch of e-commerce, we wanted to guarantee the utmost service,” said founder and designer Giuseppe Zanotti. This marks the first step of the company’s digital strategy in the country, as Zanotti is also planning to revamp its web site, which is set to launch with a renovated design in September. In order to strengthen its presence in the digitally oriented Chinese market, Giuseppe Zanotti will also launch dedicated corners on JD.com and Alibaba’s e-tailer Tmall. Aimed at enhancing its omnichannel strategy in the country, Zanotti plans to grow its network of physical stores accordingly, with openings expected by the end of the year in Changsha, Xian and Harbin. The brand operates around 20 stores in China, including units in key cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu, among others. Luxury goods companies are increasingly investing in their online platforms in China. For example, Prada, Gucci, Bally and Louis Vuitton also opened their e-stores in that region last year. China Chinese e-commerce e-commerce Giuseppe Zanotti	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line819
__label__wiki	0.93126	0.93126	COMPETITIVE KNOWLEDGE BIDS ADIEU Byline: Katherine Bowers LOS ANGELES -- Venture-capital funding is evaporating like water in the desert, leaving start-ups that had promising beginnings high and dry. Online business-to-business research firm Competitive Knowledge Inc.,... LOS ANGELES — Venture-capital funding is evaporating like water in the desert, leaving start-ups that had promising beginnings high and dry. Online business-to-business research firm Competitive Knowledge Inc., which shuttered its doors Dec. 15, was one such casualty. The company, which had counted Ann Taylor and Bebe Stores Inc. among its clients, cited unfavorable economic conditions and a “lack of funding opportunities” in a goodbye e-mail obtained by WWD. “Our board of directors has been forced to direct management to proceed with immediate termination of operations. Each of you played a significant role in our short-lived success. We sincerely thank you,” read an e-mail from Gary Narin, president of CKI’s apparel division. The year-old company had proposed to anonymously aggregate competitive data, such as sales per square foot, inventory turn time and accounts receivable, to provide industry benchmarks for retailers and manufacturers. Those standards would then be made available to subscribers on customized, secure Web sites. According to Narin, the start-up was on the cusp of announcing several partnerships with e-marketplace providers, such as New York-based The Thread. “We had projected [that the company would] reach a critical mass of 250 members in 2001,” Narin said in an interview. “It was never in our projections to reach profitability in the first year, but the market is demanding that.” Despite approaching more than 100 potential sources of capital, Narin said, the company could not secure funding to augment the $3 million it initially raised. It seemed likely — given that retailers and manufacturers are notoriously tight-lipped about sharing competitive data — that the company would have been stymied by market resistance. That wasn’t the case, Narin said. “That’s probably the most frustrating thing — we had great market acceptance,” he said.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line820
__label__wiki	0.880935	0.880935	Buccellati Taps Peter Lindbergh for New Ads Buccellati has tapped Peter Lindbergh to shoot its new advertising campaign. By Alessandra Turra on April 23, 2015 The Five Takeaways From the Ermenegildo Zegna Fall 2021 Show What the Characters of ‘Bridgerton’ Would Wear This Spring Top Five Looks From the Ermenegildo Zegna Fall 2021 Show LINDBERGH SHOOTS BUCCELLATI: Buccellati has tapped Peter Lindbergh to shoot its new advertising campaign. The German photographer portrayed model-actress Elisa Sednaoui in Milan, the city where the jewelry brand was founded in 1919. This campaign, the first in 20 years to present the brand’s products on a model rather than with still life images, is a further step in the re-positioning of Buccellati to appeal to a younger and more fashionable segment of the luxury jewelry market. The first picture, which will debut in the May issue of W Magazine, is a black and white shot of Sednaoui carrying her bicycle in the street and sporting Buccellati’s Hawaii collection, a range first introduced in 1930 and which includes pieces made forging little circles from a gold thread. Four additional images, all featuring Sednaoui caught in different moments of an imaginary everyday life in Milan, will be released later and will appear on a range of fashion publications, especially in the U.K., Italy, France and the U.S. _ Alessandra Turra. You're missing something!	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line821
__label__wiki	0.985557	0.985557	Whitney Eve Port Delivers a New Bundle The star of reboot "The Hills: New Beginnings," has some new creations of her own. By Sharon Edelson on December 19, 2018 Whitney Eve Port was named chief brand director of Bundle and is starring in the upcoming reboot of "The Hills." NEW PORT: Whitney Eve Port has sailed into a new gig. The former fashion designer and cast member of “The Hills” has been named chief brand director of Bundle Organics, a brand of products aimed at women in their childbearing years, which contain ingredients that claim to enhance fertility, fill cravings and promote fetal development in pregnant women. The former star of MTV reality series “The Hills,” which aired from 2006 to 2010, Port has publicly confirmed that she’s participating in the franchise’s reboot, “The Hills: New Beginnings,” which is launching in the spring. At the end of a phone interview on Wednesday, Port revealed that she was “headed to Santa Barbara for filming of the last day of “New Beginnings.” “Not everybody came back, but almost everyone came back. It’s been fun to reconnect,” she said, declining to confirm reports that Lauren Conrad is a no, but Heidi Montag, Kristin Cavallari and Spencer Pratt and Brody Jenner will all be seen in “The Hills” reboot. “A lot of us have kids now. It’s been really fun to connect on another level.” Asked about the story line of the reboot, Port demurred, saying, “You’ll have to just wait and see and tune in.” Port, who in 2008 designed and launched the Whitney Eve collection, which was sold at Nordstrom, among other retailers, has a knack for marketing herself. She referred to Bundle as “an active member of my family. The two are intertwined. I’m not just acting as a brand ambassador, strategist and marketer, I’m using it in my life, too. I probably spend a quarter of my work day on it, daily.” Port’s other projects take up her time, including a YouTube channel for which she tapes a new episode each week, and Instagram Stories, “A Day in the Life” and “I love my baby, but…” “I was brought on to rejigger Bundle and what it should look like,” Port said. “I developed 25 new products and all the packaging. The products are definitely things I needed during my pregnancy. In my first trimester, I was nauseous and wanted something fizzy and gingery. I developed a powder that mixes with water and really sparkles. “I don’t want Bundle to only be a great snack company for pregnant women who are constantly hungry. We’re going to be continually expanding and developing food products and products in other categories,” said Port, noting that Bundle is sold at select Buy, Buy Baby units and will be bow at Target in February. “We’re continuing to push it out. We definitely plan to grow it into a larger lifestyle brand.” instagram MTV Nordstrom	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line822
__label__cc	0.649956	0.350044	Home > Superman - Christopher Reeve... > Jimmy Olsen Superman - Christopher Reeve Soundboard Superman - Christopher Reeve Soundboard. Superman is a fictional superhero. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and first appeared in Action Comics #1, a comic book published on April 18, 1938.The character regularly appears in comic books published by DC Comics, and has been adapted to a number of radio serials, movies, and television shows. Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor who played DC comic book superhero Superman, beginning with the acclaimed Superman (1978), for which he won a BAFTA Award.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line824
__label__wiki	0.702905	0.702905	Charming Liars New Album Comes Out March 1st, Release New Single Charming Liars are ramping up for the release of their new, "Thought, Flesh and Bone" album on March 1st with their new single "Time To Start" Charming Liars are ramping up for the release of their new Thought, Flesh and Bone album on March 1st, 2019 with new single & video “Time To Start”. Frontman Kiliyan Maguire says: “While “Time to Start” ushers in our new LP “Thought, Flesh and Bone”, it also serves as the final installment to our video trilogy “Spoon” which was filmed on location in New Orleans. At its root “Time to Start” grows from the same strange water that feeds any new beginning. It’s a highway ghost story about the phantoms that follow when you refuse to bury your past or your past self”. The Spoon trilogy includes previously released videos “Like A Drug” and “Insomnia”. The short film that makes up all 3 videos, directed by critically acclaimed Phillip Lopez, has been submitted for Short form consideration at several high profile film festivals,including Sundance 2019. The band has previously released a couple EP’s. 2016 saw the release of their single “Soul” which reached number #40 on the Alternative Radio Charts and the video has over 600,000 views on Youtube. They have been endorsed by no less an icon than Sir Elton John, who has played the band’s music on his Apple Music “Rocket Hour” show. A cover of Sir Elton’s “I’m Still Standing” was released in the spring of 2017 in conjunction with the Grammy organization’s MusiCares arm. The band continued to make inroads @ Alternative radio in the fall of 2017 with “Insomnia” and the spring of 2018 with Like A Drug. The band continued to make inroads @ Alternative radio in the fall of 2017 with “Insomnia” and the spring of 2018 with “Like A Drug”. “Something Dark” continued building upon their foundation in September 2018 and is still playing at Alternative radio. They have built a following with constant touring, and have played across the entire U.S. as well as South America, Mexico, the U.K. and Brazil. Their touring resume includes recent stints with Dorothy and Welshly Arms. They have also played on the Uproar tour, as well as opening for Night Riots, Kings of Leon, Weezer, and Jack White. Thought, Flesh and Bone Track Listing 1). Alive 2). Like A Drug 3). Ocean 4). Something Dark 5). Insomnia 6). Soul 7). Running Away 8). Deeper 9). Spiral Out 10). Time To Start 11). Novacaine You can preorder the new Charming Liars album now on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/thought-flesh-and-bone/1450479138	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line826
__label__wiki	0.794154	0.794154	Foster The People’s Supermodel Mural Saved By Los Angeles Mayor A mural painted in Los Angeles by Foster The People in order to promote their latest album has been saved from destruction by mayor Eric Garcetti. A mural painted in Los Angeles by Foster The People in order to promote their latest album has been saved from destruction by mayor Eric Garcetti. The mural, entitled Supermodel	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line827
__label__wiki	0.979131	0.979131	Billy Corgan Launches Pro Wrestling Company Billy Corgan has been a lifelong fan of pro wrestling and now he has launched his own wrestling company called Resistance Pro. While speaking with Fox News in Chicago, Corgan explained how he got involved in the pro wrestling business. Billy Corgan has been a lifelong fan of pro wrestling and now he has launched his own wrestling company called Resistance Pro. While speaking with Fox News in Chicago, Corgan explained how he got involved in the pro wrestling business. “I’ve been involved sort of behind the scenes with pro wrestling for about a decade and made a lot of friends in the business. It’s a very insular business and it’s a long story, but I essentially got involved with some brothers who had a wrestling promotion. We decided to form our own promotion and we’re going to try to bring back the glory days,” he said. According to a report from NME.com, Corgan will serve as the “creative director” for the firm. In that role he will generate story lines for their wrestling events and will also serve as the public face of the company. Resistance Pro’s first event will take place on November 25 at Club Excalibur in Chicago. The Smashing Pumpkins are scheduled to release their new album Oceania in November. In addition to the new music being released, EMI will be releasing reissues of the band’s first two albums “Gish” and “Siamese Dream.” The two rereleases will be put out on CD, 2CD/DVD, Vinyl LP and digitally. The rereleases will feature bonus content curated by Billy Corgan and remasters from producer Rob Ludwig. Copyright(c) 2011 RTTNews.com. All Rights Reserved	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line828
__label__cc	0.739859	0.260141	Why Ascent The State of the Industry What is RegTech? ComplianceStories from the Lines of DefenseTechnology A former regulator’s take on AI, Big Tech, and RCM By Ascent TeamDecember 3, 2020 No Comments We recently sat down with Rick Bonhof, a managing consultant who leads the Amsterdam regulatory change and compliance practice within the business consulting arm of Synechron—a leading digital transformation consulting firm that accelerates digital initiatives for banks, asset managers, and insurance companies around the world. In his role, Bonhof oversees a team of experts who help clients build the regulatory framework that enables compliance. As an advisor for the digital-first firm, Bonhof is hyperfocused on making compliance more efficient through the use of technology, leveraging emerging tech such as machine learning and existing systems such as GRCs. Prior to Synechron, Bonhof served as a supervision officer for Dutch regulator Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM) at the height of the 2008 financial crisis. After spending seven years crafting and executing supervisory strategy for AFM, he decided to redirect his work from supervising firms to actually helping them become compliant with regulation. And so, after witnessing how Synechron helped a number of financial institutions get back on track with EMIR (the EU equivalent of Dodd Frank in the US), Bonhof transitioned to the firm. During our sit-down, Bonhof shared his blended supervisory-consultative perspective on a variety of topics—from the role of regulatory change management during the COVID-19 pandemic to how Big Tech will shape the future of financial services. Editor’s note: This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. Setting the Record Straight on Regulators Touching on his experience as a former regulator, Bonhof kicked off our conversation by sharing what he wished compliance professionals knew about regulators, and what he wished he had known as a regulator. When I made the switch from regulator to consultant, I realized that a lot of financial firms are afraid of regulators. But the reality is that regulators are people too and most are not out to fine you. What I think compliance professionals sometimes forget is that if you’re able to explain to regulators why you made certain decisions and how you implemented certain requirements, they’ll listen to you. “A lot of financial firms are afraid of regulators. But the reality is that regulators are people too and most are not out to fine you.” My advice to compliance professionals is to document their interpretation of the rule and why they applied the rule in a certain way according to their interpretation, so they have all of the information they need when it comes time to talk to regulators. On the flip side, what I wish I had known as a regulator was, no matter how simple a request for information may seem on paper, it doesn’t actually mean that there’s a clearcut way to gather requested information or to implement a new rule. Many financial institutions do not start out as multinational global-spending institutions—they grow through mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring. So there’s a whole collection of teams that suddenly need to contribute to this “one simple request,” making it not so simple after all. Managing Regulatory Change in the Time of COVID Bonhof has long emphasized the importance of having a well-documented regulatory change management (RCM) strategy, especially when it comes to major events such as financial crises, election years and of course — the COVID-19 pandemic. When it comes to regulatory change management, my mantra has been “take control, be in control, and demonstrate control.” “Take control” is about understanding what your obligations are, understanding the impact of them, and then implementing and enforcing a compliant process. “Be in control” is about understanding where your firm is in terms of compliance with the requirements, and revisiting both its requirements and compliance processes frequently. You should not only be control testing your processes to understand whether your firm is compliant with existing rules, but also monitoring whether there’s a change coming that could impact compliance with those rules. And, if there is a change on the horizon, then you need to go back to “take control” and proactively act on it. Lastly, “demonstrate control” is about being able to take the evidence that you have and explain both internally and externally to what extent you comply with those measures. How to Avoid Dropping the Ball on RCM In Bonhof’s view, the biggest mistake that firms can make when implementing RCM best practices, is to treat them as a one-time solution. Most regulatory change management processes are driven by a regulatory change implementation date. Let’s say that a firm has to comply with X, Y, and Z by January 1, 2021. What I’ve found (and even been guilty of myself) is that many firms focus solely on making that milestone without the end result in mind. So once the firm does reach it, everyone sort of drops the ball and says, “We’re done, we made it.” But that’s the wrong approach because 2021 does not mark the end of implementing that change, it actually marks the start of it. What I’ve found (and even been guilty of myself) is that many firms focus solely on making [a] milestone without the end result in mind. Firms are expected to be compliant with that new rule, and need to have a roadmap that accounts for what comes after that date. Firms often put makeshift technical solutions in place to meet the deadline, but then what happens is the technical solution silently becomes the structural solution. The result is that there’s no roadmap beyond that point to account for new data that needs to be tracked or changed, resulting in an issue of data quality and therefore explainability. COVID Response: Swings of the Regulatory Pendulum To Bonhof, regulatory change management has never been more important as the pandemic response continues to fold. While he and his team have seen the easing of certain regulatory requirements, they have also seen the mounting impact of others. On the one hand, the regulatory response to the pandemic has been to suspend certain requirements in order to alleviate the burden of regulation. However, at the same time, we’ve also seen an increase in requests for financial firms to implement certain risk measures from regulators such as the European Securities and Markets Authority. For example, we had an “intelligent lockdown” in the Netherlands that prohibited us from going to the shops or the cinema. As a result, this (like other lockdowns across the globe) had a large impact on service providers, as many businesses had outstanding loans with financial institutions and were suddenly not able to make good on those loans. This has led to a tipping of scales with regulators adding more capital reporting requirements, while continuing to suspend or delay implementation of other regulatory requirements. For example, ESMA deferred the final two phases of its bilateral margin requirements to provide additional operational capacity for counterparties to respond to the immediate impact of COVID-19. On the Importance of Innovation in IRM While regulators have been more forgiving during the pandemic, they have also become increasingly more aware of all of the possible gap—bringing the topic of Integrated Risk Management (IRM) to the fore. Here’s Bonhof’s take on IRM. Integrated Risk Management allows you to identify what risks exist within your firm, define a response to those risks, and then determine whether your firm is within that risk appetite. Ultimately, IRM combines all of those processes and rolls them up into a multi-level process chart where you can prioritize risks and pinpoint which ones are of the highest risk to your firm. IRM is such a hot concept right now because regulators are putting more emphasis on it. As part of Synechron’s FinLabs RegTech accelerator suite, I’ve actually had the opportunity to work on automating parts of IRM. Knowing how effective your controls are is a key part of integrated risk management, so we built an intelligent control testing environment that maps a firm’s individual control statements into a decision tree that automatically runs against a data set to help firms quickly pinpoint whether a control is effective or not. This advancement frees up compliance teams’ valuable resources so they can focus on remediating any deficiencies. These types of innovation are becoming more important as Integrated Risk Management continues to gain more traction. IRM is such a hot concept right now because regulators are putting more emphasis on it. For example, ESMA recently published a consultation paper that assessed the suitability of the management at financial institutions, which concluded that the highest levels of management (including at the board level) need to understand their firms’ requirements, how they are complying with them, and what the state of the firm’s risk management looks like. Clash of the Titans: Big Banking vs. Big Tech As an innovator in his own right, Bonhof is naturally drawn to industry disruptors. In particular, he has been following the rise of digital banks and believes that it’s only a matter of time until Big Tech enters into the banking industry as well. The rise in digital banks has served as a catalyst for digital transformation in the industry at large. In order to stay competitive with digital banks, traditional banks have worked to provide digital services to their customers. For customers, having a digital bank account becomes more of a commodity because it opens up a whole ecosystem of additional services around it. For digital banks, their competitive advantage is that they’re not burdened by a chain linked system of legacy tools or processes, so they can get it right immediately. Digital banks can be more nimble when it comes to things like digital client onboarding processes and company reporting. On the other hand, it’s difficult for digital banks to achieve the same scale as larger banks. Plus, they’re bound to face the same kind of regulatory requirements as incumbent banks and will need to comply with them, lessening some of their initial competitive edge. When Big Tech enters the market, it will drive a significant change that some incumbent banks will likely not be able to transition through and will lose traction within the market. What I’m really curious about is when Big Tech will officially enter into the banking space. Today, we have Apple Pay and Google Pay, but I think that it’s just a matter of time before they’re adding banking services to their offering. At that point the market will change. Digital banks just mark the beginning of the banking industry’s digital transformation. When Big Tech enters the market, it will drive a significant change that some incumbent banks will likely not be able to transition through and will lose traction within the market. Financial Firms and Regulators to Step Up Their AI Game With the high likelihood of Big Tech companies entering the market in addition to other innovations in financial services, Bonhof is encouraging the industry to direct its focus toward emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) now, before it’s too late. I think regulators really need to step up their digital game. They need to understand the tech component that goes into digital banking. AFM just compiled an insightful trend report where they spoke around their fears about Big Tech entering into the financial market. Today, Big Tech is predominantly supervised by privacy watchdogs. But, if Big Tech entered the financial market tomorrow, financial market regulators would not always be allowed to share information with those supervisory agencies, so that would make supervision really difficult. Regulators are just now issuing responses around the use of AI, which center around the concepts of explainability and trustworthiness. Together, they are two sides of the same coin because they help explain the decisions that come out of algorithms and apply fair principles that limit their biases. However, I still think that we have a ways to go and that regulation around the use of AI will only continue to increase in the future as the digital market matures. The Role of AI in Regulatory Compliance According to Bonhof, the role of AI is not just limited to the mechanics of digital banking. It applies to regulatory compliance too. We recognize that regulators are starting to provide guidelines around AI, so we are changing the way that we advise our clients about AI. AI was once the new and exciting thing to talk about. Now it’s the means to an end. We’re looking at where AI models can help firms improve explainability in their compliance processes. AI was once the new and exciting thing to talk about. Now it’s the means to an end. Using robotics (or AI) helps automate certain regulatory compliance processes such as horizon scanning, and makes the outcomes of those processes more predictable and reliable. AI allows teams to focus less time doing the monotonous work of running these processes and more time on investigating outliers. Instead, the “robot” leads the processes and identifies areas where there are inconsistencies that require the review of compliance experts. On Implementing RegTech: Final Advice So, what’s Bonhof’s advice to firms that are looking to implement new technologies in their compliance programs? “Be really clear about what you want to achieve in your compliance program and therefore what you want the technology to achieve.” First, you need to understand where you are and where you want to go. For instance, if your firm was just fined by a regulator, then you’ll likely need to find a solution that can help you become more compliant. On the other hand, if your organization is in a good place but needs to become more efficient, then it’s likely you’ll need a different tech stack than the firm that was recently fined. When you understand what you want to achieve by adding technology, then you can better pinpoint the right type of technology solution for your compliance program. 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__label__wiki	0.761098	0.761098	Ralph Strand Strand was convicted of child sex crimes After serving 22 months in prison he still performed religious functions Cardinal George allowed to him remain a priest, travel with children Allegations against Strand date back to the mid-1960s, but no action was taken until 1986, when a victim threatened to sue. At the time, Strand denied molesting the child—although he did admit to numerous homosexual relationships with adults. By 1993, there were mounting allegations against Strand from his time in both the United States and Rome. In response, Bishop Raymond Goedert said in a memo: “House Arrest is better than public disgrace.” The Review Board put Strand on leave in 1993 and two months later, the priest was indicted. Strand pled guilty to criminal sexual assault and served 22 months in prison. He was also put in the Illinois child sex offender database. Despite Strand’s incarceration and new allegations of abuse, Cardinal George decided in 1999 that Strand, now off parole, could wear his Roman collar and act as a priest. In 2001, Strand traveled with youths in Mexico, even though the state required that he not live within 500 feet of schools. The Review Board, fearing scandal, required that Strand bring a companion any time he traveled with kids in the future. When the press found out about Strand’s past in 2002, the Archdiocese said that Strand was living at Mundelein Seminary and working in the Vicar General’s office. TIMELINE OF DOCUMENTS – RALPH STRAND 4/30/64 Ordained 6/25/64 – Assistant Pastor, St. Eugene 1965 According to a 1999 report, Strand sexually abused a minor between 1965 and 1967. The abuse consisted of touching, grabbing the survivor’s genitals, and sodomy. (AOC 005482) 5/31/68 – Assistant Pastor, St. Simeon 1972 According to a 2004 report, Strand minor abused a survivor between approximately 1972 and 1974. The abuse consisted of fondling and groping. (AOC 005430) 1973 According to a 2004 report, Strand sexually abused a minor in 1973. The abuse consisted of touching, groping and other inappropriate acts. (AOC 005431) 6/11/75 – Associate Pastor, St. Thecla 6/8/81 – Associate Pastor, St. Francis Borgia 6/10/86 – Associate Pastor, St. Mary 3/28/86 Memo to Strand’s file detailing an allegation of abuse of an adult man (age 19-22) by Strand that occurred from about 1983-1985. (AOC 005498) 1986 According to a 1995 memo, a civil suit was threatened in 1986 and Strand admitted to sexual activity with a young adult male at this time. At the same time Strand admitted to two other homosexual relationships, but denied sexual contact with minors. (AOC 005489) 8/1/91 – Pastor, St. Francis Borgia 6/28/91 Memo from Bishop Goedert to Cardinal Bernardin telling Bernardin that there was “a problem” in Strand’s past, but he does not think it is necessary to withdraw Strand from his new assignment at St. Francis Borgia. (AOC 005496) 3/19/93 Summary of an allegation against Strand shows that the Board received an allegation of sexual abuse that occurred between 1990 and 1993. (AOC 005427- AOC 005428) 3/93 Notes from Bishop Goedert around this time note that the Archdiocese is aware of a charge while Strand was in Rome and another allegation of sexual abuse of a minor that took place in the last 5 years. Also details a meeting about the allegations that took place on March 26 at Strand’s parish. In the conclusion, Goedert worries about the safety of children but also about Strand and his reputation. He writes: “Is there not some other way to protect children and at the same time not destroy the accused, e.g. leave the accused in place but assign a monitor… ‘house arrest’ is better than public disgrace.” Remainder of memo questions the Archdiocese’s policies in reporting to the states attorney’s office and says “the church simply cannot win. We are damned no matter how we handle the issue.” (AOC 005446- AOC 005449) 3/20/93 Minutes from Review Board meeting. The Board determined that there is reasonable cause to suspect that Strand engaged in sexual abuse of a minor. (AOC 005460) 3/22/93 – Administrative Leave of Absence 5/11/93 Proposed draft of a letter for Strand to send to Cardinal Bernardin as prepared by Fr. Patrick O’Malley saying that his previous letter of resignation was not meant to indicate an admission of guilt in the allegations of sexual abuse against him. O’Malley says that if Strand had conferred with his attorney he would have been clearer in the previous letter that he was not incriminating himself. (AOC 005453) 5/26/93 Strand indicted on charges he sexually abused a minor. (AOC 005489) 5/19/95 Memo regarding Strand’s criminal accusations and upcoming trial. Says Strand will be given a copy of the protocols for the Archdiocese’s funding of attorney’s fees. Other considerations include that the trial will be public and the priesthood will come under heavy scrutiny. States that even if he is found innocent he will not be returned to ministry because the church’s standards for fitness for ministry must be higher than the state’s, “because of a reasonable suspicion that children are in danger and that these things did occur, the church will have to proceed with assessment, treatment, the whole process…” (AOC 005487- AOC 005488) 6/17/96 Letter from Cardinal Bernardin to Strand about his “situation” and saying that he will not seek a canonical penalty against Strand. He cannot guarantee any public ministry for Strand in the future. (AOC 005445) 5/11/98 Letter from a survivor of sexual abuse by Strand to Fr. Thomas Paprocki reporting his abuse by Strand. The abuse consisted of making the survivor perform sexual acts while Strand and a nun had sex, grabbing the survivors genitals, and other inappropriate sexual acts. The survivor says that Fr. Cerniglia tried to confront Strand about the sexual abuse. (AOC 005438- AOC 005444) 8/24/99 According to a 2007 memo, the Archdiocese received an allegation of abuse by Strand and the matter came before the Board in Sept. 1999 and it found the allegations credible. The 2007 memo states that the allegation was not clearly documented after the Board determined there was reasonable cause to suspect the abuse occurred. (AOC 005424- AOC 005425) 11/3/99 Letter from Cardinal George to the Professional Fitness Board Administrator allowing Strand, since he is no longer on parole, to wear a collar at religious gatherings and events and relaxing other restrictions on Strand. (AOC 005436) 1/10/01 Memo about Strand says a priest who was a chaperone to the seminarians who went to Mexico with Cardinal George talked to him about another priest, Strand, who was also on the trip and his close proximity to students and his “grooming behavior”. Sneig is also sexually abused minors. The memo questions Strand’s presence on the trip and says a member of the press was there, who could have recognized Strand to the detriment of the Archdiocese. (AOC 005501- AOC 005502) 1/20/01 Minutes from Review Board meeting note that Strand engaged in “inappropriate behavior” with a 17 year old while traveling in Mexico. Board recommends making Strand’s travel contingent on having a companion. (AOC 005462) 7/12/01 Memo to Cardinal George saying that The Mundelein police department visited Strand because he was living closer than 500 feet to Mt. Carmel School. Unless the law is changed Strand must move. “We will need to find a different location for priests who are convicted sex offenders.” (AOC 005500) 3/14/02 Review Board summary on Strand says that three males alleged abuse by Strand that took place between 1964 and 1973. Strand served 22 months in prison for criminal sexual abuse of minors and was on parole until 1999. He lives in a monitored setting at Koenig Hall at Mundelein Seminary and works in the Vicar for Priests office. (AOC 005432) Jeff Anderson & Associates Copyright ©2020 Jeff Anderson & Associates \| Disclaimer \| Privacy Statement 366 Jackson Street, Suite 100 • St. Paul, MN 55101 • 651–227–9990 12011 San Vicente Blvd, Suite 700 • Los Angeles, CA 90049 • 310–997–4750 505 Thornall Street, Suite 405 • Edison, NJ 08837 • 609–901–5010 55 West 39th Street, 11th Floor • New York, NY 10018 • 646–760–7137	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line835
__label__wiki	0.50574	0.50574	Why Is The Deep State So Afraid Of Gen. Flynn? In what Gen Michael Flynn’s attorney, Sydney Powell, called a “travesty of justice”, Judge Emmitt Sullivan tabled a motion by the DOJ to dismiss the case against Flynn. After evidence was released that the FBI set a perjury trap for Flynn, rather than totally toss this case into the garbage, the activist judge invited interested parties to file friend-of-the-court briefs, called amicus briefs, to weigh in on the case. Who are these friends of the court? No other than 16 dinosaur Watergate prosecutors from the 1970s! Do they have any personal interest in this case? Nope. Their interest is solely the fact that they want to run Trump out of office just like they did Nixon. They’re engulfed in their past glory! But more than anything, they’re the Deep State! Now, the timing of activist Judge Sullivan couldn’t be more suspicious… As you probably know, there was a phone call with Obama and his former aides last week in which the former president said “There is no precedent that anybody can find for somebody who was charged with perjury just getting off scot-free”. Now we know that none of this is true. But since it’s Obama saying this, his faithful worshipers wouldn’t dare correct him. But isn’t it strange that Clinton appointed activist Judge Sullivan now decides to delay resolution of the Flynn case after his spiritual leader demands that Flynn be punished? Let me be clear: there IS no case. The most this activist judge can do is delay, delay, delay such that he may feed the media with the narrative as if there was a case to hurt Donald Trump as we get closer to the November election. But there is no case. You see, Sullivan cannot try a case that the DOJ doesn’t bring to court. And AG Barr cannot bring anything to court because he has no evidence of any wrong-doing on the part of Gen Flynn. Therefore, ultimately Sullivan will have to toss the case as well. But that doesn’t stop the activist judge to help his activist friends in the Media such that the Democrats may have a better shot in the November election. It’s all political. Sullivan is complicit in generating a phony news cycle to keep the story going to help the Democrats. He’s a Leftist political hack. But that doesn’t explain why they fear Flynn. I get the fact that Flynn is the ticket to Trump. And they hate Trump. But why this obsession with Flynn? And it is an obsession indeed: let’s not forget that when he was President, Obama fired Flynn, started an investigation on Flynn and made sure to recommend Trump during the transition not to hire Flynn. Why Flynn? Why this obsession with Flynn? One could speculate that Flynn knows something about Obama that the former President doesn’t want the public to know. But that’s pure speculation on my part. Or it could be that Obama simply hates Flynn’s guts for no reason. That would make Obama insane – nobody hates anybody for no reason. Whatever the case, we know that there has to be a reason for Obama’s obsession with Flynn and his strong desire to ensure Flynn is convicted. Sure, ultimately a Flynn conviction makes Trump look bad and this alone, in the Deep State’s opinion, would pave the way to them winning the White House. And that’s why Sullivan is being such a good servant doing what his Master, the former President, demands. But I have to tell you, Obama’s beef with Flynn goes way back to 2014, when Obama fired the General. So whatever feelings the former President has for Flynn today are not new. And the question becomes, why? We know there is no case against Flynn. We know that all this delay does is feed the Leftists in the Media with the narrative they need to help their friend Joe Biden or whoever ends up getting the Democrat presidential nomination. Hopefully people will see the truth. Hopefully they will see that if they go after Flynn like this, they can go against anyone and for no reason. We’re already seeing the Left’s true colors during this lockdown, with 77 year-olds or moms being arrested for wanting to reopen their businesses and feed their families. Rights are being violated. What makes anyone think that what’s happening to Flynn won’t happen to the rest of us? If they made up a case against Flynn, what makes us think they won’t do the same against anyone? The deep state prosecutes innocent people with the help of activist judges like Emmitt Sullivan. Their trials take years to be resolved. They go broke in the process. It’s hard not to conclude that our freedoms are lost. If we’re to remain a free country, we need to ensure to really drain the swamp. It won’t be easy, but we need to fight. “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Latest Effort To Stop Trump: Blocking E.O. On Sanctuary Cities On Tuesday, Judge William H. Orrick blocked a Trump executive order about cutting funds of sanctuary cities. Of course, this means the Left gets to celebrate and commemorate this newest hero against the 'tyrannies' of Donald Trump’s administration. As such, they create a narrative that Trump was defeated once again… which is false. The Left wants you to think this single judge, much like the one from Hawaii who blocked the Muslim ban order, is capable of completely stopping anything the president does. They will make it appear as though this activist judge has prevailed, when in reality, this means absolutely nothing. And here’s why. The executive order that Trump issued isn’t an order that creates a new law. If the president uses executive orders to create new laws, as Obama often did, judges are capable of doing this very thing, since it’s unconstitutional for the president to create laws (though hardly anyone tried to stop Obama when he did it. Thanks, GOP establishment.) However, if an executive order simply indicates that we’ll start enforcing a previously unenforced law, there’s nothing wrong with that. Nothing unconstitutional about that. Trump is saying that we’ll start enforcing a law that allows him to cut funding of sanctuary cities. The only reason I believe the president is doing this via executive order is to show that Obama was so incompetent that he wouldn’t enforce said law (though we know why) and is telling people that Obama’s gone now and he’s in charge. Essentially, what I’m trying to say here is, don’t distress. When the Supreme Court analyzes these cases, they’ll find that there’s nothing unconstitutional about the orders and they’ll go through. The president enforcing existing laws isn’t unconstitutional, in fact, it’s what he’s SUPPOSED to do! An executive executes. A legislator legislates and a judicial judges. That’s why the founding fathers made sure there were three branches of government with checks and balances to make sure one doesn’t have more power over the others. Though after 8 years of Obama, you’d think at some point checks and balances were done away with. In the end, there’s really nothing the Left can do to truly stop Trump, only slow him down a bit. But even that will be enough for them. If they can minimize the 'damage' they think Trump would create, they are ok… well, that’s debatable. They’re never truly satisfied, but that’s an article for another time. But the fact remains that, as much “good” as the Left thinks it’s doing in slowing down the president, in reality, they’re doing nothing good, maybe even for their owners-… uh… I mean, donors. You see, this can only be damaging to the Left, since they are going against the will of the people. The people voted for Trump because we wanted him to do the very things he’s doing. And if the Left is in the way, we will make sure that they get out of the way by taking away as much of their power as voters can. The Left has only been losing seats since the beginning of the Obama administration. And they’ll continue to lose seats if they don’t accept reality: they are completely out of sync with the American people. They don’t do themselves any favors if they continue to oppose what the vast majority of America wants to be done. And they don’t do their donors any favors by going along with this trend of opposition. If the Left can’t win, donors will get mad. If donors get mad, they stop donating to them. After all, who bets on a team to win a championship that clearly looks like it won’t make it anywhere close to the playoffs? In the end, the Left will only continue to damage themselves because they have the highly erroneous idea that they are somehow the preferred party by nearly everyone in the nation. Even with loss after loss, they only see things the way they want to see them. They see a judge blocking Trump’s executive order as a sign that Trump and his policies aren’t liked by everyone. They are blind to the world around them and are enclosed to the things they see and hear in their own circle of elite establishment friends. The Left is blind. But there is a cure. “’To open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.’”	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line837
__label__wiki	0.999201	0.999201	Stephen Amell Teases Guest Star Returning to Arrow By Sukriti Chowdhury August 6, 2019No Comments As The CW’s Arrow works its way through production on the final 10 episodes series star Stephen Amell has been taking to social media to directly talk to fans both about the process of making those final episodes, but also to thank various members of cast and crew for their hard work. In his latest update, though, Amell thanked one specific person by teasing a surprising and unannounced return to the series. Video shared by Stephen Amell teasing an unannounced return to the series In a video Amell shared to Instagram on Friday night, the Oliver Queen actor marked the end of filming on episode two of the final season and took a moment to thank a handful of people, including the mystery guest star. Check out the video below. “I would really like to thank the guest star that I can’t talk about that I’m pretty sure hasn’t been announced, but they were wonderful, and they were very gracious to come back and I thought that we shared some wonderful moments together,” Amell said. There have already been several guest stars announced for Arrow‘s final season. It was previously announced that Susanna Thompson will reprise her role as Moira Queen during the final season. It was also announced that both Josh Segarra (who played Adrian Chase/Prometheus) and Colin Donnell (who played Tommy Merlyn) are both returning. We also know, that the final episodes will be a “greatest hits” situation for Arrow, with episode two serving as an ode to Season 3. Arrow, Stephen Amell “Episode one is an ode to Season 1, and episode two is an ode to Season 3,” Amell said in a recent interview. “We’re playing our greatest hits.” With that statement about episode two correlating in a sense to Season 3, it begs the question who appeared in Season 3 that could make for a surprising return. While there are quite a few possibilities, one that fans would enjoy seeing is Paul Blackthorne as Quentin Lance. Blackthorne departed Arrow at the end of Season 6, with Quentin dying during the sixth season finale episode “Life Sentence”. Quentin had a significant role in Season 3 of arrow, with the character being promoted to police captain, but also saw him deal with the death of his daughter, Sara Lance (Caity Lotz) for a second time when she is murdered via arrows to the chest. It’s Sara’s death that leads Quentin to tell the Arrow that he will no longer help him, though he ultimately assists the team when Ra’s al Ghul plants to unleash a bio-weapon on Starling City. Stephen-Amell But Blackthorne is just one of many actors who could be making a guest return to the series in its final episodes and given what’s coming for the Arrowverse — “Crisis on Infinite Earths” — any character really could make a return as the series closes out. “It’s a love letter to the show; it really is,” Arrow executive producer and “Crisis on Infinite Earths” showrunner Marc Guggenheim told Green Arrow TV. “I was telling Beth [Schwartz], it felt a lot like the series finale, not the season premiere, in the best possible way, almost to the point where we’re like ‘what are we going to do for the series finale?’ I mean, we know, obviously, but it has that kind of resonance to it, and that’s exciting.” Season eight of Arrow will premiere on October 15, 2019. Source: comicbook , youtube Tags •ArrowStephen Amell	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line838
__label__wiki	0.985375	0.985375	'The Promised Neverland' Season 2 TV anime series is listed with 11 episodes Written by: Jei Beltrano \| Published on: January 06, 2020 at 11:27 PM PHT (GMT+8) The official Twitter for Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu's "The Promised Neverland (Yakusoku no Neverland)" manga series has revealed on Wednesday that the 2nd season of the TV anime adaptation of the series is listed with 11 episodes. This was revealed through the Blu-ray DVD Information that was posted on their Twitter page. The first episode of the new season has aired in Japan on January 7 at 12:00 AM JST on Fuji TV's Noitamina anime programming block. The new season's cast and staff will reprise their roles. It is animated by CloverWorks and directed by Mamoru Kanbe, with Toshiya Ono handling series composition, Kazuaki Shimada handling character designs, and Takahiro Obata composing the series' music. The new season was announced in March 2019. It was originally set for release in October 2020 but it was later postponed to January 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kiro Akiyama will perform the second season's opening theme song "Identity." The ending theme song will be performed by Myuk and composed by Eve titled "Mahou". The first season of the TV anime adaptation of the series was aired from January 11 to March 29, 2019 with 12 episodes covering the first story arc. A live-action film adaptation was released in Japanese theaters on December 18, 2020. The Promised Neverland series is based on the Japanese manga series written by Kaiu Shirai and illustrated by Posuka Demizu. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from August 2016 to June 2020, with the individual chapters collected and published by Shueisha into twenty tankōbon volumes. It follows the story of Emma, Norman, and Rey, three young orphans who discover that their orphanage is most assuredly not all that it seems. When Emma and Norman find themselves discovering that one of their fellow orphans wasn't actually adopted, but was instead offered as food to a race of monsters that are seemingly ruling the world, the story creates a spine chilling narrative that sees the trio playing a game of cat and mouse with their overseers as they try to formulate a plan to escape. Source: The Promised Neverland Official JP Twitter Kaiu Shirai Posuka Demizu Toshiya Ono Kazuaki Shimada Takahiro Obata Kiro Akiyama Weekly Shounen JUMP Magazine	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line839
__label__cc	0.678182	0.321818	Young U.S. Electrotechnology Professionals Sought for Prominent International Standardization Competition Nomination Deadline: April 30, 2015 The U.S. National Committee (USNC) of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is currently seeking nominations of emerging electrotechnology professionals to participate in the upcoming IEC Young Professionals 2015 Workshop, which will be held on October 12-16, 2015, in Minsk, Belarus, in conjunction with the 79th IEC General Meeting (GM). Nominations can be submitted using the USNC Young Professionals Workshop Nomination Form until April 30, 2015. IEC Young Professionals Background Now in its sixth year, the Young Professionals Workshop program was initiated to encourage emerging electrotechnology professionals' participation in standardization and conformity assessment activities. The U.S. Young Professionals selected in 2014 were: Ryan Franks, Technical Program Manager, National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) Kevin Mangold, Computer Scientist, U.S. Department of Commerce ‘s (DOC)'s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Carin Stuart, Senior Technology Engineer, Energizer Holdings, Inc. Each year, the Young Professionals Workshop assembles international candidates at the beginning of their careers in electrotechnical standardization who have been chosen by IEC National Committees around the world. The program supports the increased involvement of young professionals in international electrotechnical standards and conformity assessment work, bolstering the future of technology transfer and long-term national involvement in the international standardization arena. The USNC will select up to three young professionals to represent the United States at the 2015 workshop. The selectees may be employed by industry, the government, academic bodies, consumer organizations, or any other members of the U.S. standards and conformance community that uses, benefits from, or contributes to the IEC's work in electrotechnical standardization and conformity assessment. The program is intended for individuals who have completed their undergraduate education and are in the early years of their professional career. Alongside recipients from other nations, the USNC-selected young professionals will take part in a dedicated workshop covering information about the IEC and relevant strategies for international standardization and/or conformity assessment work. Participants will also be given the opportunity to visit local industry, receive guidance from a mentor, and observe a meeting of the IEC Standardization Management Board (SMB) and Conformity Assessment Board (CAB). Individuals chosen to take part in the 2015 Young Professionals Workshop will be financially supported for their travel to Minsk and for up to three nights of accommodations. Candidates may be nominated by any interested stakeholder who is not a member of the program's selection panel; letters of support from members of the standardization community testifying to the candidate's appropriateness for the workshop and significant achievements to date are highly encouraged. Prospective candidates may also nominate themselves, but must provide at least one letter of professional recommendation and written assurance that their employers have agreed to allow them to attend the 2015 IEC GM if selected. Candidates will be judged based on their demonstrated leadership and dedication in connection with standardization and/or conformity assessment activities, as well as their vision of the larger commercial and strategic impact of standards and conformance work, and their accomplishments in their chosen field of activity. Nominated individuals will be assessed by a selection panel made up of USNC officers, standing committee officers, former U.S. Young Professionals Workshop participants, and a pool of USNC Honorary Life Members. All individuals chosen to take part in the 2015 Young Professionals Workshop will be notified in July 2015. To nominate yourself or another individual, complete the USNC Young Professionals Workshop Nomination Form and submit it to Charlie Zegers, general secretary of the USNC, via email at czegers@ansi.org by Thursday, April 30, 2015. About the USNC/IEC The U.S. National Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission (USNC/IEC) serves as the focal point for U.S. parties who are interested in the development, promulgation, and use of globally-relevant standards for the electrotechnical industry. The Committee is also engaged in the assessment of conformance to standards, undertaking work in areas such as testing, certification and accreditation. As the U.S. representative to the IEC and many related regional standardization bodies, the USNC/IEC serves as a conduit to the global standards-setting community for technical and policy positions arising in the U.S. and brings issues from the global arena to the U.S. for review, consideration, and response. The USNC/IEC is a totally integrated committee of the American National Standards Institute. ANSI Cities Network to Hold Webinar on Sustainable Sites Initiative	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line840
__label__wiki	0.777062	0.777062	Businesses are stocking up for an expected downturn Dion Rabouin, author of Markets U.S. companies are holding off on major purchases and investments, paying down debt and stacking up cash as they look to position for an expected economic downturn in 2020. Why it matters: Firms are trying to protect themselves from a recession, but their spending pullback could weaken the overall economy — and potentially help precipitate the very conditions they fear. Business investment has fallen for six months straight and declined by 3% in the third quarter, the largest drop since 2015. The retrenchment by businesses helped turn Wednesday's U.S. workforce productivity report — a key economic metric that compares goods-and-services output to the number of labor hours worked — negative for the first time in four years. What's happening: A slew of traditional recession indicators have shown up: The yield curve has inverted, the manufacturing and housing sectors have weakened, and income inequality has spiked to the highest level on record. But in contrast to previous economic cycles when businesses spent recklessly, expecting the good times to last forever, today nearly two-thirds of top executives and business owners say they expect a recession within the next 18 months. And they're taking action. The big picture: U.S. corporate balance sheets are holding more than $2.2 trillion in cash, according to the latest figures from global accounting firm PwC. It's the highest number in decades. Companies have added to their holdings since that survey and are "absolutely" getting themselves prepared for the downturn, PwC's U.S. deals leader Colin Wittmer tells Axios. "They're building cash reserves in their balance sheets like we haven't seen in a long time. There's just an incredible amount of cash there." Investors also are getting ready for the good times to end. Data from the Investment Company Institute shows that even though the stock market has risen by nearly 25% this year, investors have been net sellers of stocks, pulling $100 billion out of equity funds. They've moved more than $3.5 trillion into money market funds, which are essentially savings accounts; it's the highest level since 2009. On one hand: "All the preparation for the end of the cycle could forestall the end of the cycle," John Bilton, JPMorgan's head of global multi-asset strategy, tells Axios. On the other hand: There are still risks, particularly the rising level of debt, which could portend a bubble. "We don't have overbuilt houses, we haven't overdone capital spending. There's no boom, so hard to get to a bust," JPMorgan Asset Management's chief global strategist David Kelly adds. "I do think it gives a stability to the real economy, but I don't think it lends a further stability to the financial side of things, necessarily. It's a more complicated story."	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line842
__label__wiki	0.829355	0.829355	Jan 11, 2018 - Science Why the universe glows Erin Ross The Taurus Molecular Cloud is the dark, obscured region in the upper left of the image, where the gas and dust are blocking the stars behind the cloud from view. Taken from Charlottesville, VA on January 2, 2018. Credit: Brett A. McGuire For the first time, scientists have identified a complex molecule in a distant part of the solar system, according to research published Thursday in the journal Science. The find brings scientists closer to solving a 30 year old astronomical mystery. Why it matters: The researchers identified benzonitrile, a molecule made of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen, which is thought to be a building block for two other types of molecules that are possible precursors for life on Earth. By finding it — and developing a technique precise enough to identify specific molecules in distant space — scientists are closer to understanding the types of material that may form planets and the composition of our universe. The mystery: 30 years ago, scientists saw bands of infrared light in many places in interstellar space that couldn’t be explained. They suspected large groups of two molecules — polycyclic aromatic nitrogen heterocyles (PANH) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) — could be responsible. By one estimate, 20% of the carbon in the universe is bound up in a PAH. On Earth, they’re considered a carcinogen, and are produced when things burn — like fossil fuels. Both PAH and PANH are potential precursors to life on Earth but are extremely hard to find in interstellar space so researchers instead chose to hunt for its precursor benzonitrile. Identifying it brings them closer to solving that mystery. Additionally, Brett McGuire and his team at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory noted that benzonitrile could, itself, be involved in the creation of the mysterious infrared bands. "[The molecules] can form the seeds for interstellar dust. This dust eventually forms rings and planets," McGuire said in a press conference. Additionally, they contain carbon and hydrogen, which are essential for life. When exposed to radiation, they could break down to form life's building blocks, said McGuire. How they did it: The study authors pointed the Green Bank Telescope at a distant molecular cloud in the Taurus region, and precisely measured the wavelengths the telescope absorbed. They were able to identify a number of molecules, including benzonitrile. Then, they performed a series of lab experiments to confirm that benzonitrile does, indeed, produce the wavelengths seen in Taurus. One cool thing: Aromatic molecules aren’t called that because of what they smell like, but for the type of bonds they form. BUT: for the curious, benzonitrile smells like almonds.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line843
__label__cc	0.574167	0.425833	http://www.kwik-fitinsurance.co.uk/ UK locations: About Kwik-Fit Insurance What is it like to work for Kwik-Fit Insurance 81% of staff disagreed: My health is suffering because of my work The KFI 'Health Living Club' provides employees with an all-round approach to wellbeing. This includes a healthy eating programme within the restaurant and their occupational health adviser provides advice and support with both health monitoring and nutritional advice. The on site gym provides a comprehensive programme of exercise classes, one to one training and state of the art equipment to encourage a more active workforce. Alternative therapies are also subsidised through the Health Living Club. I believe this organisation does not do enough to protect the environment As charity giving is an integral part of of the culture of KFI, they have gradually introduced a number of activities which all help to form their commitment to charities. They include a payroll giving scheme called 'Donate an hour’s pay' which encourages staff to sign up and allow a salary deduction of the equivalent of one hour’s pay each month, dress down days when they ask staff to donate once a month £1, a 'Countdown to Christmas' weigh in scheme in which employees are sponsored to lose weight (monitored by the Occupational Health Nurse), a number of group events during the course of the year, including Maggies Monster bike and Hike, Caledonian Challenge and fun events such as white water. Each year, employees select a charity of the year. Last year, Rutherglen High School (a local special needs high school) reveived many benefits including a new minibus and a new sensory garden. KFI has a monthly bonus scheme in place for the majority of people that allows them to earn an additional 20% OTE. Targets are set for each person which are specifically related to performance and quality. Capital bonds are paid over and above the monthly bonus scheme. All of Kwik-Fit's people are engaged in the scheme that allows them to earn bonds each month for achieving performance and quality targets. Bonds accrue over the year and are paid at Christmas. Their employee of the year scheme also ensures people feel rewarded for their efforts. Every month each department identifies their employee of the month. All winners are rewarded with free food in the restaurant, access to the concierge service and gym membership for one month. All winners go through to the four monthly Qualifier Awards and department winners are treated to a day off and lunch with the senior management team. Qualifier winners are also invited to their Employee of the Year ceremony. This is a black tie event held in a 5 star venue and partners are invited. Each department winner gets £1000 and the overall employee of the year is awarded £10,000. At least 33% of senior managers are women On-site gym or subsidised gym memberships On-site nursery or vouchers Companies offering a final salary or non-contributory pension scheme 40% of employees with more than 5 years' service Full family cover Dental insurance offer to all employees	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line844
__label__wiki	0.971197	0.971197	SAVE OUR NUTS: Local macadamias listed as endangered M. tetraphylla, native to northern NSW, has been listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Rebecca Lollback 16th Dec 2020 8:00 AM A LISMORE-BASED environmental organisation is calling for action after three species of macadamias were listed as vulnerable or threatened. The Macadamia Conservation Trust says the Federal Government should urgently adopt a recovery plan for the survival of three wild macadamias ‒ the popular Macadamia integrifolia, native to southeast Queensland, M. ternifolia, native to Queensland, and M. tetraphylla, from northern NSW. All three nut species were put on the Red List of Threatened Species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in its latest update. Macadamia Conservation Trust executive officer, Denise Bond, said it was a wake-up call. "I hope this listing will encourage the federal government to adopt the Macadamia Species Recovery Plan which will facilitate action to address the threats facing wild macadamia species," she said. The plan, submitted to the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment in early 2019, provides information on the biology, ecology, distribution and threats to survival of macadamias and identifies the research and management needed to support the species' long-term recovery. Calls for public comment on the draft plan closed in June last year, but Minister Susan Ley is yet to adopt it. "Macadamias are native to Australia and their inclusion on the IUCN Red List is a reminder that, post-colonisation, in less than 200 years, these species have lost 80 per cent or more of their rainforest habitat," Ms Bond said. "Even now, their remaining habitat is threatened by further clearing, weed invasion, changes to fire regimes, and climate change and that's why we want a formal Recovery Plan in place." These three macadamia species are listed as "vulnerable" under the government's Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, and by the Queensland and NSW governments. macadamia industry northern rivers business endangered species macadamia industry macadamia nuts northern rivers business	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line847
__label__wiki	0.653797	0.653797	May 18, 2015 Justiciability—Mootness—Effect of Offer of Judgment Prior To Class Certification Article III of the Constitution limits the jurisdiction of the federal courts to “cases” and “controversies.” The Supreme Court has held that “‘an actual controversy … be extant at all stages of review, not merely at the time the complaint is filed.’” Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona, 520 U.S. 43, 67 (1997). Accordingly, “[i]f an intervening circumstance deprives the plaintiff of a ‘personal stake in the outcome of the lawsuit,’ at any point during litigation, the action can no longer proceed and must be dismissed as moot.” Genesis HealthCare Corp. v. Symczyk, 133 S. Ct. 1523, 1528 (2013). In Genesis, the Court recognized that one “intervening circumstance” may arise under Rule 68 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which permits a party to offer to allow judgment in favor of its adversary on specified terms. A party who rejects a Rule 68 offer, but obtains a judgment “not more favorable than the unaccepted offer,” must pay the costs accrued by the offering party between the offer and judgment. Today, the Court granted certiorari in Campbell-Ewald Company v. Gomez, No. 14-857, to determine whether a defendant’s unaccepted offer of judgment, made before a class is certified, that would fully satisfy the claim of a would-be class representative renders the plaintiff’s individual and class claims moot. The Court also granted certiorari to decide whether the derivative sovereign immunity doctrine recognized in Yearsley v. W.A. Ross Construction Co., 309 U.S. 18 (1940), applies only to claims for property damage caused by public works projects. In this case, respondent Gomez filed a class action alleging that he and other individuals had received unsolicited text messages recruiting for the U.S. Navy without their consent, in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The Navy had hired petitioner Campbell-Ewald Company to develop a mobile marketing campaign to attract new recruits; the text message Gomez received was part of that campaign. Before a class had been certified, Campbell-Ewald tendered a Rule 68 offer to Gomez, offering to pay him $1503 per violation (slightly more than the full statutory damages available under the TCPA) in addition to certain costs, and to stipulate to an injunction. When Gomez rejected the offer, Campbell-Ewald moved to dismiss his individual and class claims as moot. The district court denied the motion, but granted Campbell-Ewald’s later motion for summary judgment on the ground that, as a government contractor, Campbell-Ewald was entitled to derivative sovereign immunity. The Ninth Circuit reversed, agreeing with the district court that Gomez’s claims were not moot but holding that Yearsley applied “only in the context of property damage resulting from public works projects.” The Supreme Court addressed a similar mootness issue in Genesis, which concerned whether a defendant’s offer of judgment to the named plaintiff in a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act mooted the entire action. Id. at 1532. The Court recognized that the circuits are divided over whether an unaccepted offer that fully satisfies a plaintiff’s claim is sufficient to render the individual claim moot. Id. at 1528-29. The Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Circuits have held that such an offer of judgment moots an individual plaintiff’s claims, while the Second, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits have held to the contrary. But because the plaintiff in Genesis had not contested the mootness of her own claims in the court of appeals, the majority assumed without deciding that an unaccepted offer that fully satisfies a plaintiff’s claim renders the claim moot. Id. at 1528-29. The Court explained that once the offer of judgment had mooted the named plaintiff’s individual claims, the entire action “became moot, because [the plaintiff] lacked any personal stake in representing” other employees. Id. at 1529. The Court did not decide whether the same logic applied in the context of a class action, observing only (in the course of distinguishing earlier cases) that “Rule 23 actions are fundamentally different from collective actions under the FLSA.” Id. Justice Kagan’s dissent in Genesis criticized the majority’s assumption that the individual claims were moot, maintaining that an unaccepted offer of judgment is a “legal nullity” with “no operative effect.” Id. at 1533 (Kagan, J., dissenting). Justice Kagan further contended that an offer that addresses only the named plaintiff’s individual claim is insufficient to moot either a FLSA collective action or a class action under Rule 23. Id. at 1536. The lower courts have been divided over the application of Genesis in the context of offers of judgments made to named plaintiffs in putative class actions. Notably, the Ninth Circuit—in a case prior to Campbell-Ewald—rested its reasoning on the dissent in Genesis, stating: “We are persuaded that Justice Kagan has articulated the correct approach.” Diaz v. First American Home Buyers Protection Corp., 732 F.3d 948, 955 (9th Cir. 2013). The Court will now resolve the questions left open in Genesis regarding the effect of an unaccepted Rule 68 offer has any legal effect on both individual and class claims. If the Court holds that Gomez’s action is not moot, it will decide whether a government contractor may invoke derivative sovereign immunity outside of the context of damage caused by public works projects. Yearsley involved property damages claimed to result from Mississippi River dikes constructed by a government contractor. The Court held that the contractor was immune from suit, however, explaining that, “if th[e] authority to carry out the project was validly conferred, that is, if what was done was within the constitutional power of Congress, there is no liability on the part of the contractor for executing its will.” 309 U.S.at 20-21. While the Ninth Circuit limited Yearsley to property damage from public works projects, at least four other circuits have applied the derivative sovereign immunity doctrine outside that context. This case is of fundamental interest to all businesses. The Court’s resolution of the mootness issue is important for all potential class-action defendants. As the petition indicates, the question has two important components: (1) the effect under Article III of an unaccepted Rule 68 offer that would fully satisfy the plaintiff’s claims, and (2) the significance for Article III purposes of the individual plaintiff’s desire to represent a putative class that has not been certified. In addition, if the Court were to reach the scope of the derivative sovereign immunity doctrine, its decision will determine the liability of a wide range of government contractors. Absent extensions, amicus briefs in support of the petitioner will be due on July 2, 2015, and amicus briefs in support of the respondent will be due on August 3, 2015. Any questions about this case should be directed to Archis A. Parasharami (+1 202-263-3328) in our Washington office or to Donald M. Falk (+1 650 331 2030) in our Palo Alto office.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line849
__label__wiki	0.853663	0.853663	Home>Marketing>Exports Coronavirus impact on China's meat, food business unclear TAGS: Outlook Gilnature/iStock/Getty Images U.S. Meat Export Federation says foodservice sales weakening very fast. Krissa Welshans \| Feb 03, 2020 How the coronavirus outbreak is affecting Chinese commerce remains unclear, but Joel Haggard, U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) senior vice president of the Asia Pacific region, told Feedstuffs that USMEF staff members in China have been closely following developments. In China, Haggard said it’s "all hands on deck," with all of China’s leadership now fully engaged in trying to halt the spread of the virus. Complicating the effort, however, is the imminent end of the Chinese New Year, he noted. Related: Coronavirus: Wise caution or overreaction? “We’re going to see here a rush by hundreds of millions of migrant workers and other persons from there traditional homes back to their workplaces. This will likely place an additional strain on efforts to break these chains of contagion,” he explained. The movement was set to begin this weekend, but Haggard said China has issued directives to lengthen the holiday period. Related: Steps to contain coronaviruses For now, how the disease outbreak has affected the meat and food business is still unclear and difficult to assess because the Lunar New Year holidays are still underway, according to Haggard. Rumors that Chinese ports are closed “are just that: rumors,” he said. “Clearance of goods may have been slowed because of the holidays, and we know inspectors are focused on expediting much-needed health care materials for fighting the disease, but so far, we’re not aware of any port closures due to disease risk.” Even during the bleakest days of the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak of 2003, Haggard said the port was still loading and unloading vessels 24/7. What really remains unclear at this point is how the overall food supply chain is functioning. “There’s no question that there have been runs at supermarkets. In most tier 1 cities, the populace is bunkering down in their homes. So, that really means they head out to the supermarket to stock up and then head back home for a lockdown,” he said. USMEF is hearing that this is turning into a very fast weakening of foodservice sales, but Haggard said it’s hard to quantify the impact because many of the restaurants had already closed for the holiday. Still, the new travel advisories and the decline of inbound travelers will no doubt hurt foodservice and hotel business. “It’s definitely not a positive outlook,” he said. Further, Haggard relayed that USMEF is also watching is food transportation logistics. He said China’s ministries of agriculture, transport and public security issued a “pretty important” joint notice to ensure that so-called vegetable basket products — staples like meat and vegetables — should be circulated normally. “This is a plea for players in the marketplace not to hoard, not to price gouge and to make sure that all efforts are being made to supply products into the market,” he explained. There have reports of hoarding and price gouging, but Haggard said Chinese officials recently announced that many large companies, including Alibaba, COFCO and Wumart, have pledged to make sure supplies of key daily necessities are available at reasonable prices. Importantly, Haggard said the notice also forbids locales — small municipalities up to province — from setting up arbitrary transportation blockades. “There have been reports of communities trying to shut themselves off from all visitors and traffic. We assume the government will need to work hard to ensure transportation network are functioning normally," he said. However, until there are signs that the epidemic's growth curve is abating, he said, “It’s going to be tough on restaurant operators across the board.” Haggard continued, “Retail logically will benefit, but it’s apparent the government feels it [needs to] issue guidance to those in the market to make sure food supply chains remain open and operating smoothly.” On the meat side, it may be another few days or even another week before there is a sense of how meat is moving in the country or whether supply chains are getting backed up, Haggard said. December trade numbers have not been released, but inbound shipments of all meat and poultry during November were a monthly all-time record, he relayed, adding, “Volumes that hit Chinese ports in December were likely very large, as well.” Haggard said those products are going to need a smooth supply chain to reach consumers, “but the coronavirus and all its impacts on the way society goes out and moves around will definitely be a challenge.” As to whether the virus may affect China's ability to meet the commitments it recently made in the phase one trade deal with the U.S., Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said “the honest answer is we just don’t know yet.” What is known, he said, is that it's causing some general economic disruption. “It has already dislodged a number of people. I think the last number I saw was 46 million people sheltering in place in China, so it obviously is going to have some ramifications economy-wide, which we hope will not inhibit the purchase goal we have for this year,” Perdue said. U.S. creates Coronavirus Task Force President Donald Trump announced Jan. 31 the formation of the President’s Coronavirus Task Force. Members of the task force have been meeting on a daily basis since Jan. 27. During a meeting Friday, Trump charged the task force with leading the U.S. government's response to the novel 2019 coronavirus and with keeping him apprised of developments. The Coronavirus Task Force is led by Health & Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and is coordinated through the National Security Council. It is composed of subject matter experts from the White House and several U.S. government agencies, and it includes some of the nation’s foremost experts on infectious diseases. The task force will lead the Administration’s efforts to monitor, contain and mitigate the spread of the virus while ensuring that the American people have the most accurate and up-to-date health and travel information. “The risk of infection for Americans remains low, and all agencies are working aggressively to monitor this continuously evolving situation and to keep the public informed,” the announcement said. According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention website, there are currently 121 pending cases of coronavirus in the U.S., but of 120 cases that have already been analyzed, 114 were negative, while six were positive. States with confirmed cases include Arizona, California, Illinois and Washington state. Meat exports see growth in key markets Here’s why China is going to boom 2020 global beef trade reflects production challenges, foodservice struggles My prediction: China will become the largest buyer of US beef in the next five years	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line851
__label__cc	0.691654	0.308346	by Jeremy Bell (Grade 5, 6:00) Una Noche en Varadero is a Salsa-inspired piece for Wind Ensemble incorporating elements of Latin music such as the 3-2 and 2-3 clave, bass drum tumbao, piano montunos, jazz harmonies, and stylistic scoops and falls. The piece also has a percussion feature using Latin percussion such as the guiro, timbales, and congas. Salsa music initially started to rise in New York City during the 1960’s as many Cubans and Puerto Ricans (think West Side Story) who moved there began to fuse musical styles like the Cuban son montuno, cha cha, and mambo with elements of jazz as well as rock, R&B, and funk. Salsa actually means “sauce” in Spanish and normally refers to the spiciness of Latin and Caribbean cuisine, but in the context of the musical style, it carries a slightly different interpretation of frenzied, “hot,” or wild. Una Noche en Varadero begins somewhat “tamely” during the introduction until bar 31 when the conductor yells out, “Uno! Dos! Tres! Cuatro!” starting a faster tempo that gradually speeds up throughout the piece until the wild finale with the whole ensemble falling off their last pitch. Una Noche en Varadero - Printed Score and Parts © 2019 Bandworks Publications.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line855
__label__wiki	0.548758	0.548758	BARBARA: transforming food by-products into useful raw materials Every year, the European Union produces around 110 million tonnes of food waste in terms of animal and vegetable matter. Some of that waste, in the form of almond shells, is already being used as a biofuel. But could these shells also be used to produce state-of-the-art innovations in the construction or car industries? This is the aim of the BBI JU-funded BARBARA (Biopolymers with Advanced functionalities foR Building and Automotive paRts processed through Additive manufacturing) project. The project focuses on the development of new materials from these waste products which, via 3D-printing, can then be used for a wide range of different uses. For example, food waste and agricultural by-products can be used to purify pigments, fragrances, or reinforcing agents. They can then be incorporated into engineered bioplastics, derived from the corn-processing industries. These new materials are being transformed into prototypes with lots of different uses in demanding sectors, such as the construction and car industries. The 550-person agricultural cooperative Vega De Pliego in Murcia, southern Spain, is the kind of facility that produces waste that can be used in the BARBARA project. The cooperative processes huge amounts of fresh products; last year, this included four million kilograms of almonds. But as Pedro Noguera Rubio, the cooperative's Managing Director points out, once the almonds' shells are cracked and discarded, the maths are different: 'Out of those four million kilos, scarcely 25% is the almond itself, the fruit, that we can use to cook and eat, to produce nougat, or to make beauty products with. The remaining 75% is the almond shell; that is currently being mainly reused as biomass for energy generation.' At a laboratory at the University of Alicante that's involved in the BARBARA project, almond shells along with other waste by-products from broccoli, lemon and pomegranate production are processed to extract natural materials which have high potential for further use in industrial processes. Microwaves, chemical products and nanoclays then help to maximise the potential of each substance. María del Carmen Garrigós Selva, a chemist at the university, says that from waste food, many useful things can be extracted: 'from lemon for instance, we can extract a yellow colourant and also some essential oils with lemon fragance. They can give both an aroma and also possess useful antibacterial properties to the final product we want to develop.' 'Pomegranate also provides antibacterial elements and a wide colour range, from red to blue, depending on the chemical process that we use in the lab. Broccoli gives a natural green colourant that's quite eye-catching. And almond shells, once ground and mixed with bioplastics, can give a texture and a look similar to that of wood.' Aitiip Technology Centre Natural additives are then mixed with corn starch-based bioplastics in the next stage at a facility like the Aitiip Technology Centre in Zaragoza. Mechanical processes involving high temperatures, water cooling and material binding and reinforcing turn the mixture into a thread that can then be 3D-printed into car parts. Lidia Garcia Quiles, an Industrial Engineer at Aitiip, says there is great potential: 'We are looking at improving or at least maintaining the thermic and mechanical properties - the resilience to high temperatures and impact - of existing commercial materials used for 3D-printing and then eventually using them in the same industrial applications.' 'We also want to give them antibacterial properties - and we are trying to develop customised fragrances.' Marta Redrado is a chemical engineer at the Aitiip Technology Centre and also the Barbara project coordinator. Her sights are firmly fixed on the future: 'Our next step is to scale up what we have developed in the lab to a semi-industrial level. That takes around four to five years. So in four to five years, products like the ones we've developed could come to the market.' Source: Euronews, Futuris	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line858
__label__cc	0.569075	0.430925	Investor Movement Index Summary: December 2019 Advertiser Disclosure The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. Although the piece is not and should not be construed as editorial content, the sponsored content team works to ensure that any and all information contained within is true and accurate to the best of their knowledge and research. The content that follows is for informational purposes only and not intended to be investing advice. January 07, 2020 7:40am 1345 Comments TD Ameritrade clients continued to increase equity market exposure in their accounts during the December IMX period. The IMX increased to 5.55, up 7.35%, from 5.17 the previous period. This marked the highest score in 14 months. TD Ameritrade clients were net buyers overall, and increased exposure to equity markets during the period. The increase in exposure was mostly driven by net buying in broad-based equity products, including ETFs and mutual funds. Clients were also net buyers of less risky assets, including fixed-income products. Market volatility continued to be light, with the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, not registering a closing price above 16 during the period. The bull market continued during the December IMX period. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite both crossed historic levels at 3,200 and 9,000, respectively, for the first time ever. All three major U.S. indices saw positive gains, with the Nasdaq leading the way, up 3.9% during the period. The S&P increased 3.2%, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 2.1%. Helping gains during the period was an announcement that the U.S. and China had reached a phase-one trade agreement, aimed at halting the ongoing trade war. The Federal Reserve also held its benchmark interest rate steady after lowering it the previous three meetings, and indicated no desire to raise it anytime soon. Data also signaled an improvement in the Chinese economy, adding to optimism that risks to global financial markets may be diminishing. TD Ameritrade clients found some names to buy during the December IMX period. Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) traded lower as "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" hit theaters, but sales lagged earlier installments in the series sending the stock lower. DIS was net bought for the ninth month in a row on the weakness. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) was net bought as the stock reached an all-time high during the period following an analyst upgrade. Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD) saw some volatility during the period as investors questioned the company's investment program to improve the customer shopping experience, and was a net buy. Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: OXY) was net bought after OPEC announced it had struck a deal with allies to deepen their output cuts. Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) announced the resignation of its CEO as the company tries to recover from the 737 MAX fallout, and was net bought as the stock traded lower. Additional popular names bought include Marvell Tech Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: MRVL), Peloton Interactive Inc. (NASDAQ: PTON), and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE: BMY). TD Ameritrade clients once again sold some names on strength. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) reached a 52-week high during the period as the company announced additional measures to insure the integrity of advertising on its platform and was net sold. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA) was net sold as the company announced its Ant Financial Services Group would provide investment advisory services to Chinese retail investors and reached a 52-week high. Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) hit a 52-week high and was net sold as it announced the acquisition of Taris Biomedical, which is developing drug delivery technology for the treatment of bladder diseases including cancer. Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) was net sold for the third month in a row as the stock reached a 52-week high after receiving an analyst upgrade. Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) reported healthy growth outside the U.S. and was net sold as the stock traded at prices not seen since July. Additional names sold include Square Inc. (NYSE: SQ), Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD), and Iqiyi Inc. (NASDAQ: IQ). Inclusion of specific security names in this commentary does not constitute a recommendation from TD Ameritrade to buy, sell, or hold. TD Ameritrade's Investor Movement Index (IMX) has generally correlated with the S&P 500 as clients react to equity price movements, but the index has gone through uncorrelated periods. Beginning in January 2010, when TD Ameritrade started tracking the IMX, the index rose with equity markets until April 2010, when it peaked at 5.40. In May 2010 investors experienced the "Flash Crash" and the IMX began a sharp downward trend. The IMX didn't reach 5.00 again until the S&P 500 was well above April 2010 levels. The index eventually peaked at 5.56 in June 2011. This peak was immediately followed by a plunge in equity markets, and in the IMX, as the media was dominated by the U.S. debt ceiling debate, S&P downgrade of U.S. debt, and European debt concerns. The S&P 500 began to recover in the fall of 2011, but the IMX continued to decline until it reached a new low at the time in January 2012. As the S&P 500 began to sustain an upward trend in early 2012, the IMX started to rise. In 2013, as economic conditions improved and the S&P 500 climbed to record levels, the IMX rose to the high end of its historical range, finishing 2013 at 5.62, and continued to rise in 2014 amid geopolitical tensions related to Ukraine and the Middle East, until seeing slight declines in October and November. By the middle of 2015 the IMX had seen increases, as equity market volatility had reduced to near historical levels while the market continued its upward trend. As 2015 ended its third quarter, volatility had returned to markets, as global economic concerns and speculation around the timing and trajectory of Federal Reserve rate increases seemed to rattle overall equity markets. This uncertainty continued to play a role in the equity markets through the fourth quarter of 2015 and into early 2016. The volatility accompanying this uncertainty abated in the second quarter of 2016 and remained low until late in the third quarter. Just as it had in 2015, the IMX saw increases mid-year during the period of lower volatility. The IMX continued to climb into the fourth quarter reaching 5.83 in October 2016, its highest point in two years. A brief spike in volatility during November, timed around the U.S. presidential election, coincided with a slight pullback in the IMX, which then ended 2016 at the high end of its historical range. The IMX started 2017 with an upward trend and reaching an all-time high in March, before pausing in April as lower volatility led to a decrease in the IMX. The momentum resumed in May, with the IMX breaching 7.0 for the first time ever in July of 2017. The IMX took another brief pause in September, before following markets higher and breaching 8.0 for the first time ever in November and ending 2017 at an all-time high. Volatility returned to the markets in early 2018, and the IMX decreased for four consecutive months to start the year. 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__label__cc	0.583228	0.416772	The Apostle John was not pointing at the Roman Empire when he said The Seat of Satan was in Ancient Pergamum (Turkey) he was literally pointing out Satan’s throne! The Antichrist spoken of in the Bible is the Middle East Muslim uprising and not Rome, or the US, or Europe! A certain verse in Revelation 2:12, has my head spinning as to what John really meant when he said “To the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘I know your works, and where you dwell… where Satan’s throne is. And you hold fast to my name, and did not deny my faith even in the days in which Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.'” In the apostle John’s letter to the congregation in Pergamum, he could be literally referring to Satan’s throne, he could be referring to the martyrdom of Antipas which was mentioned in the same verse as “the throne of Satan,” Antipas may have been killed for refusing to worship Caesar, Pergamum was at the time the capital of the Roman province of Asia. Perhaps an additional factor bearing on the identification of “where the throne of Satan is” was the prominent worship of Zeus, or Jupiter, the chief god among all the pagan gods and goddesses. But Bible prophecy is mostly not truly understood when first written, as was clearly the case told by the angel to Daniel in Daniel 12:4 “Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.” What is now unfurling in the Middle East is so clear to see, so easy to understand, there is an uprising, a new hate war on Jehovah’s Christian and Jewish people by the clearly Satanic and demonic god Allah What we couldn’t see or understand 5 years ago is now so openly blatant but yet many scholar and world leaders still have the blind incompetent syndrome….Look at Angela Merkal for instance, how could a world leader be so naive? Turkey at the moment is probably the chief player in what is seen by many people to be the build up to WW III. Recently the world held it’s breath when Turkey shot down a Russian jet fighter, Turkey is the chief antagonist against Israel, Russia, Syria, Iran and Iraq at the moment, it has even been accused by some of helping ISIS and domestically is at war with it’s own Kurdish people. Turkey is also, along with Syria the home of the first ever documented terrorist’s, the Assyrians are renowned for their blood lust and cruelty throughout history. The Assyrian Empire— that of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (933–612 BC)—the era that primarily gave the Assyrian Empire its reputation for extreme ruthlessness and cruelty was feared by all at the time. The cruelness, rape and torture by these people has been passed on down throughout Assyrian history and continues to this day, there are still Assyrians in Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria and other countries ISIS is said to be another bastion of Assyrian people. In Daniel 11:37 he tells us the Antichrist will hate women and show no regard to any god: “He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will magnify himself above them all. This is not Western Ideology but Islam. In fact while we are on the topic of Turkey, their ruler and his wife have just stated Sultans’ harems were ‘educational centres that prepared women for life’, Persia, the old name of the area where ISIS are blood curdling their way to creating a caliphate, has been the capital of blood lust for thousands of years. World powers have throughout history fought gruesome wars to control this part of the world. The Babylonians, Medo-Persia, Alexander the Great, The Romans, The Ottoman empire, Iraq, Iran, Sunni vs Shiite. Who is behind this wanton destruction? Could it be a fallen angel with the grand name “The Prince Of Persia?” Around 600 BC we once again visit Daniel the prophet, he was living in Babylon, he had prayed to God two weeks earlier but had received no answer. He was walking on the banks of the Tigris probably nearby Baghdad today with some companions, he was suddenly confronted with a supernatural sight, Daniel fell to his knees and his companions fled. The supernatural sight was an Angel and it said… Your words have been heard from the first day that you gave your heart to understanding and to humbling yourself before your God, and I have come because of your words. But the prince of the royal realm of Persia stood in opposition to me for 21 days. But then Michael, one of the foremost princes, came to help me; and I remained there beside the kings of Persia. I have come to make you understand what will befall your people in the final part of the days, because it is a vision yet for the days to come.” Daniel 12:11-15. Who was ‘the Prince of Persia’? The angel was obviously not referring to Persian King Cyrus, who at that time looked with favour upon Daniel and the Jewish people. Moreover, how could a mere human king resist a spirit creature for three weeks when it took one angel only one night to destroy 185,000 mighty warriors? Isaiah 37:36 This hostile ‘prince of Persia’ could only be a fallen angel assisting the Devil, that is, a fallen angel who was given control over the realm of the Persian Empire. Later in the account, God’s angel stated that he would once again have to fight against “the prince of Persia” and another fallen angel prince, “the prince of Greece.” Daniel 10:20 What can we conclude from this? Simply that there really are invisible “world rulers,” demon princes who share control of the world under the authority of their chief, Satan the Devil and no doubt use human leaders as puppets without their knowledge. Paul wrote in Ephesians, 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. The Prince Of Persia is surely still working hard for Satan knowing time is short and he is part of the Islamic uprising against Jehovah’s people all over the world. This article is from: http://www.thebigwobble.org/2016/03/john-was-not-pointing-at-roman-empire.html The following information and links are being placed on most of the new pages on my Websites, in order to help you become aware of the impending Great Tribulation Period, the Wrath of God and the beginning of the Millennial Reign. The vast majority of humanity has no concept of these events. At least you will be able to better understand what is occurring, when you see these events begin to happen… These Sermons are from Pastor Tom McElmurry at Dardanelle Missionary Baptist Church at Dardanelle, Arkansas. His Website is: His Website is: www.TribulationPeriod.com Tom McElmurry is a pastor who holds University, Seminary, and Institutional degrees in Physical Science, Theology, and Divinity. He was certified as a Meteorologist in 1954 by the United States Air Force; became a member of the American Meteorological Society in 1962; served in the Mid-eastern, African, European, and Far-Eastern Theaters as a Meteorologist; and is a member of the Israel Geological Society. He worked as a tornado forecaster in the Kansas City Severe Weather Service, and as an analyst for the National Security Agency, retiring from the USAF-NSA in 1971. He has taught Physics, Chemistry, Physical Science, Biology, and Earth Science in the public school system as a certified teacher, and has written three books: Tectonic Chaos, Tribulation Triad, and Tribulation Birth Pangs from the Bottomless Pit. He has also written scientific articles published by the USAF and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. His wife and family reside in Dardanelle, Arkansas, where he has pastored since 1974. His military and civilian education includes 2,730 clock hours of meteorological instruction in USAF selected institutions of higher learning, and more than 265 University and Seminary hours in undergraduate and graduate studies. He has lectured worldwide in 20 Missionary Baptist colleges and seminaries,and in more than 600 Missionary Baptist Churches in Lithuania, Romania, Africa, and the U.S.A. He is a distinguished graduate of the USAFMAC Military Academy. He has a weekly short wave broadcast on Saturday by Middle East Bible Voice on a frequency of 13.710 MHz at 1930 UTC. It can be heard in Israel at 9:30 P.M. local time and in Iraq at 11:30 P.M. local time. It is heard in Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, Oman, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, and Qatar. 2247. The Antichrist #1.2247	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line864
__label__wiki	0.783915	0.783915	Q&A: New film academy president talks hostless show, museum by: LINDSEY BAHR, Associated Press Posted: Aug 8, 2019 / 01:07 PM GMT-0500 / Updated: Aug 8, 2019 / 09:29 PM GMT-0500 FILE – In this Feb. 4, 2019, file photo, an Oscar statue appears at the 91st Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif. Casting director David Rubin has been elected the new president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that bestows the Oscars. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP, File) LOS ANGELES (AP) — The new president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been on the job for less than a day, but already has more than enough on his plate. Casting director David Rubin has ascended to the post as the head of the organization that puts on the Oscars after a turbulent year in which public backlash led to the “popular film Oscar” being discarded , the host backing out and the show abandoning plans to present a handful of awards during the commercial breaks. The opening of the Academy Museum has also been delayed again to an unspecified date in 2020, and the industry at large continues to grapple with the question of powerful streaming services and whether their films should be eligible for the industry’s top film awards. But Rubin is not deterred by the challenges and is optimistic about the year to come and the Oscars itself, which is being held earlier than usual on Feb. 9. Rubin spoke to The Associated Press about his plans, this year’s Oscar broadcast, the museum, and whether the question of Netflix’s eligibility will come up again . Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity. AP: Are show format changes and awards category changes still on the table for this year? RUBIN: That’s all very much ahead of us, but I don’t think we and our partnership with ABC are looking to make appreciable changes because we’ve had tremendous success with our broadcast and the last Oscar broadcast was a huge success. AP: With the Emmys following suit, the academy seems to have started a trend with the host-free show. Do think the show will repeat that this year? RUBIN: I would think that every possibility exists on the table and we’ll do whatever is best for the broadcast and our partnership with ABC. AP: Is the producer search under way? When do you hope to have that settled? RUBIN: Putting the show together and all the elements of the show are our first priority and because we have announced an earlier broadcast date, it is a particularly urgent focus for us. So all of that is still to come. AP: With your background as a casting director, do you think it’s possible that the Oscars might add a casting award, or perhaps a stunt award? How are you hoping to support your fellow below the line craftspeople? RUBIN: I like to think that my being elected from the casting directors branch will shine a light on the work that casting directors do and of course I was thrilled to read the news that BAFTA has announced a category this morning for their 2020 awards, but, you know, that’s the extent of my agenda. I think we’ll just see what the year and the future will bring. AP: Eligibility requirements have already been settled for this year, but do you anticipate that the Netflix and streaming question will come up for debate for next year? RUBIN: I think it’s timely to assemble the best and brightest of our filmmaking colleagues to have a conversation about what is a motion picture. The fruits of those conversations will help determine if any changes are required in eligibility. AP: The museum is delayed again and just lost its director, how do you hope to get that back on track? RUBIN: I don’t see it as being off track. I think (academy museum director) Kerry Brougher did a magnificent job in getting us to this place and as the outside of the great Renzo Piano Building is nearing completion, we’re turning our focus to the inside. I see this like the academy producing a film and just like the release of a film: We’ll choose the right moment for our opening and announce it when the time is right and we’ll be very ready to sell tickets. Follow AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ldbahr	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line865
__label__wiki	0.756514	0.756514	US imposes new sanction on Beijing over South China Sea by: MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Posted: Jan 14, 2021 / 12:39 PM GMT-0500 / Updated: Jan 14, 2021 / 12:39 PM GMT-0500 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday imposed new sanctions on Chinese officials over Beijing’s increasing assertiveness in the South China Sea. The penalties are yet another Trump administration move that may make President-elect Joe Biden’s diplomacy with China more difficult when he takes office next week. In its waning days, the Trump administration put in place travel bans on an unspecified number of Chinese officials and their families for what it said were violations of international standards regarding the freedom of navigation in those waters. The administration also said it was adding China’s state oil company, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, to a list of companies with which U.S. citizens are banned from doing business. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the sanctions less than a week Inauguration Day, next Wednesday, in what is the latest in a series of last-minute U.S. moves against China. “The United States stands with Southeast Asian claimant states seeking to defend their sovereign rights and interests, consistent with international law,” Pompeo said. “We will continue to act until we see Beijing cease its coercive behavior in the South China Sea.” Since the fall of 2019, the administration has steadily pressured China over human rights issues in Tibet, Hong Kong and the western region of Xinjiang, as well as over trade, Taiwan and the Chinese response to the coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday, the administration banned the import to the U.S. of some agricultural goods, provoking an angry response from Beijing. Thursday’s move affects Chinese officials and others involved in South China Sea activities. The announcement did not specific which officials would be targeted but many may be covered under previous actions, In July, Pompeo announced that the U.S. would reject virtually all of China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea, which are disputed by most of China’s smaller neighbors.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line866
__label__wiki	0.750618	0.750618	Gilbert William Lindsay (1900-1990) Posted on January 27, 2018 June 8, 2020 by contributed by: Martin Schiesl Global African History: Global African History: People Gilbert Lindsay Fair use image Civil rights supporter, city official, and social activist Gilbert William Lindsay was born on a cotton plantation in Mississippi on November 29, 1900. As a teenager, he left the state and enrolled in a school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Lindsay later moved to Arizona where he served in the 10th Calvary and 25th Infantry of the United States Army. Lindsay left the military in 1923 and migrated to Los Angeles, California. He worked as a janitor in the city’s Department of Water and Power (DWP). Along with his job, he attended classes in governmental administration and political science at the University of Southern California. After passing a civil service exam, he became a clerk in the DWP. While at DWP, he got involved in grassroots Democratic politics and helped turn out the black vote on bond issues in the 1930s. For the next three decades Lindsay continued to work for the DWP while maintaining his involvement in local politics. In 1952, he managed the election of Kenneth Hahn to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Hahn then appointed him a field deputy, his first job outside of DWP. In late 1962, Edward Roybal, who represented the Ninth district of the city council and the first Latino councilman since 1888, was elected to the United States Congress and vacated his post, leaving it open for an interim appointment. The district covered downtown, Boyle Heights, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, and part of predominantly black South Central. Three months before the council elections in April of 1963, the council appointed Lindsay, making him the city’s first African American officeholder in the city since the Spanish period. Civil rights was another part of Lindsay’s career. From 1953 to 1958, he served on the national board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Even after becoming a member of the Council, Lindsay continued his civil rights activities. He joined the local United Civil Rights Committee and participated in a June 1963 protest against school segregation. Lindsay won election in the Ninth district in 1965 and continued to serve until 1990. He headed the Public Works Committee, served as vice-chairman of the Arts, Health, and Humanities Committee, and was a member of the Community and Economic Development Committee. He was most noted for expanding the amount of housing available to senior citizens. Among the projects were Stovall Foundation, Philips Temple Community Housing, and Angelus Plaza complex, the largest subsidized senior citizen housing in the nation. He also arranged for $14 million in low-interest loans to South Central homeowners for rebuilding projects after the Watts Riot and he established several child care centers. Lindsay belonged to several prominent civic organizations. Among them were the American Legion, Town Hall, and the Los Angeles Urban League. Gilbert W. Lindsay died at Queen of Angels/ Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center after a long illness on December 28, 1990 at the age of 90. He was survived by a daughter and a stepson. In March of 1995, a 10-foot-high artwork covered with photo images of him was unveiled on a plaza in front of the Los Angeles Convention Center. Subjects: Global African History, PeopleTerms: 20th Century (1900-1999), Gender - Men, United States - California, United States - Mississippi, Civil Rights - NAACP, United States - Pennsylvania, Military service - Army, Civil Rights - Urban League, United States - Arizona, Military Unit-Buffalo Soldiers, Government-Local-City Council Schiesl, M. (2018, January 27) Gilbert William Lindsay (1900-1990). Retrieved from https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/lindsay-gilbert-william-1900-1990/ Janet Clayton and Tracy Wilkinson, “Gilbert Lindsay, 1st Black Councilman, Dies,” Los Angeles Times, December 29, 1990; A.S. Doc Young, “Councilman Lindsay is Dead at the Age of 90,” Los Angeles Sentinel, January 27, 1991; Larry Gordon, “Monument in the Image of ‘the Emperor’: Tribute: A huge artwork honors the late Gilbert Lindsay, who was a powerful figure on the City Council for 27 years,” Los Angeles Times, March 31, 1995; Josh Sides, L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003). Previous Previous post: Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) Next Next post: Louis Delgres (1766-1802)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line868
__label__wiki	0.979881	0.979881	Venice Portal Venice Carnival Home » The City » Special events » 2007 » 64th Venice Film Festival » Bill Mechanic and Gregg Araki Bill Mechanic and Gregg Araki Two leading figures from the North American cinema world, producer Bill Mechanic and director Gregg Araki, have been selected as presidents of two of the international juries for the 64th Venice Film Festival, respectively for the Luigi De Laurentiis Prize for a First Film, and for the Orizzonti section dedicated to the new film-making trends. The 64th Festival, organised by the Biennale di Venezia chaired by Davide Croff, will take place between 29th August and 8th September 2007 and will be directed for the fourth year by Marco Müller. Bill Mechanicand Gregg Araki are two of the most representative figures of the new US film-scene, where independent spirit and creative originality contribute to give a renewed impulse to the production system. Bill Mechanicjoined Walt Disney Studios in 1984, where he served as Senior Vice President of Walt Disney Home Video and Vice President of Pay Television Sales, completely revolutionising the policy of distribution and hugely multiplying earnings, which under his tenure passed from $30 million to over $3 billion. As Vice President of Disney’s television sector, he produced numerous programmes nominated for Emmy Awards. In 1993, Mechanic became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment, a post he held for seven years (1993-2000), overseeing all operations of the studio, from production to distribution, marketing to sales. During his chairmanship, Fox Filmed Entertainment produced films enjoying world-wide success and obtaining 42 Oscar nominations, including Titanic, Braveheart, Moulin Rouge, Boys Don’t Cry, Independence Day and The Full Monty, which won the sought-after statuette. Later, he embarked on a new activity as independent producer for the his company, Pandemonium Films. In 2005, he produced The New World by Terrence Malick and Dark Water, the first English-language film by the Brazilian director, Walter Salles. Currently, he is working on the production of films directed by Hollywood’s leading directors, such as David Fincher, Paul Haggis, Philip Kaufman, Henry Selick and John Woo. Gregg Arakiis one of the most important directors of the independent cinema in the United States, endowed with a provocative, uncompromising style exploring themes associated with the tribulations of adolescence. His visual style is impregnated with pop culture and is inspired in part by the works of Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard and R.W. Fassbinder. His films have made their presence felt in leading film festivals ever since his early Three Bewildered People in the Night, which was awarded the Bronze Leopard at Locarno in 1987. After having been presented at the Sundance festival, The Living End was highly acclaimed also in Berlin, New York, Seattle and San Francisco. Araki has twice been present at the Venice Film Festival, in 1995 with The Doom Generation and in 2004 with Mysterious Skin in the Orizzonti section, where they proved highly popular with both critics and public. His latest work is Smiley Face (2007), an irreverent comedy premiered in January at the latest edition of the Sundance where it was highly acclaimed by critics. The jury chaired by Bill Mechanic will award the Lion of the Future – Luigi De Laurentiis Venice Award for a First Film and US$ 100,000 donated by Aurelio De Laurentiis’s Filmauro, to be divided equally between director and producer, to one of the first-work feature films presented in the various sections of the Festival. The director will also receive a voucher worth Euro 40,000 to be spent on film stock offered by Kodak. The international jury for Orizzonti, chaired by Gregg Araki, will assign the Orizzonti Prizeand the Orizzonti Doc Prize, chosen from the feature films selected for the Orizzonti section, which aims to provide an overview of the latest trends in cinema, especially as regards film-making that follows the line between fiction and document. Biographical notes: Bill Mechanic(United States), producer, joined Walt Disney Studios in 1984, where he served as Senior Vice President of Walt Disney Home Video and Vice President of Pay Television Sales, completely revolutionising the policy of distribution and hugely multiplying earnings, which under his tenure passed from $30 million to over $3 billion. Mechanic ended a five-year relationship between Disney and Warner Bros. for the overseas distribution of the Disney studio’s theatrical product and set up BVI, the first completely new international theatrical distribution organisation in more than three decades. In its first full year of operation, the unit established a record for Disney. As Vice President of Disney’s television sector, he produced numerous programmes nominated for Emmy Awards. In 1993, Mechanic became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment, a post he held for seven years (1993-2000), overseeing all operations of the studio, from production to distribution, marketing to sales. During his chairmanship, Fox Filmed Entertainment obtained 42 Oscar nominations, including two nominations for best film with Titanic and Braveheart, both of which won the statuette. In 1998, Fox was the number one studio in worldwide box-office gross earnings. During his tenure at Fox Filmed Entertainment, the company produced such hit films as Titanic (1997), winner of 11 Oscars, Braveheart (1995), winner of five Oscars, Moulin Rouge (2001), winner of two Oscars, Boys Don’t Cry (1999), given its world premiere at the 56th Venice Film Festival, with which Hilary Swank won an Oscar for best actress, Independence Day (1996), winner of an Oscar for best special effects, The Full Monty (1997), Oscar for best soundtrack, Minority Report (2002), winner at the Hollywood Film Festival and candidate for an Oscar for best sound editing, Castaway (2000), candidate for two Oscars, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), X-Men (2000), Entrapment (1999), and many more. In 1998, Fox Music produced five of the top ten selling soundtracks: Titanic, Hope Floats, Doctor Dolittle, Bulworth, and Ally McBeal. In 1999, Mechanic was involved in the events concerning the production of David Fincher’s Fight Club. Mechanic supported the film, and as a result of a difference of opinion with Rupert Murdoch, decided to leave Fox in June 2000. The film was given its world premiere at the 1999 Venice Film Festival and later went on to gross US$ 100 million around the world. Mechanic then decided to start a new activity as independent producer, founding Pandemonium Films, with which he produced Dark Water in 2004, the first English-language film by the Brazilian director, Walter Salles. This was a remake of the Japanese film, Dark Water (Honogurai Mizu No Soko Kara, 2002) by Hideo Nakata. In 2005, he produced Terrence Malick’s film, The New World, candidate for an Oscar for best photography (by Emmanuel Lubezki). Currently, three films produced by him are being worked on: Coraline, which combines computer animation and stop motion, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman, and written and directed by Henry Selick, the award-winning director of other animated films such as Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and James and the Giant Peach, (1996); Torso, directed by David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac), inspired by the cartoon of the same name by Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko, adapted by scriptwriter Ehren Krueger (The Ring); The Desmond Doss Story, based on a script by Robert Schenkkan, the dramatist who won a Pulitzer prize and wrote the script for Phillip Noyce’s The Quiet American. Mechanic has other major projects in the pipeline with Paul Haggis, John Woo and Philip Kaufman. Gregg Araki (United States) earned a Bachelor’s degree in the History of Cinema at the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Masters of Fine Arts in film production at the University of Southern California. Among the films he has directed are Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987), his first work, presented at the Locarno International Film Festival, where it won the Bronze Leopard, Critics Prize and Young Cinema Jury Award (“Astonishing. Few low-budget independent films have had such impact since Cassavetes’ Shadows”, LA Times); The Living End (1992), presented at the Sundance, Berlin, New York, Seattle and San Francisco Film Festivals, for which the critics wrote unstinting praise (“Savagely funny, marked by humor, rage and finally, true romantic longing”, Rolling Stone, “Desperate, uproarious, it has the power of honesty and originality”, New York Times); The Long Weekend (O’Despair) (1989), winner of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Independent Film; and the trilogy on the adolescents of the X Generation: Totally F***ed Up (1994), presented at leading American festivals, The Doom Generation (1995), presented at the 52nd Venice Film Festival, where it was received to great acclaim by the public and critics (“Gorgeously imagined, wonderfully acted. One of the great emerging voices of the American cinema”, LA Weekly), and Nowhere(1997), officially selected at the Sundance Film Festival and Deauville. With a visual style impregnated with pop culture and inspired in part by the works of Andy Warhol and R.W. Fassbinder. Araki is universally considered one of the “champions” of the visionary and provocative American underground. His later works include Splendor (1999), also a Sundance Festival official selection, and Mysterious Skin (2004), presented with great success in the Orizzonti section of the 61st Venice Film Festival which earned Araki an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Director, as well as his most recent effort Smiley Face (2007), a comedy which premiered in January at the latest edition of the Sundance Film Festival and is an official selection in the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes. The film tells the story of a young, idle actress (Anna Faris) who, after having inadvertently swallowed some pastries baked with marijuana, embarks upon a series of misadventures during a day in which everything goes wrong. 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__label__wiki	0.500428	0.500428	The CBA Admin Law Insider: November 2020 Statement from the CBA President on judicial appointments The decision about who gets to be a judge in Canada is made, in the end, by politicians. And political decisions, even when they don’t reach the level of blatant and deliberate stacking for ideology, risk having some sort of partisan taint. Statement from the CBA President on fisheries dispute in Nova Scotia Canada prides itself on being a nation based on the rule of law. The Constitution Act 1982 recognizes and affirms existing treaty rights. In the 1999 Marshall ruling the Supreme Court of Canada held that 1760-61 treaties signed with the Mi’kmaq gave those peoples the right to make a moderate livelihood through hunting and fishing. See what’s coming from CBA Professional Development. And remember – member pricing has been reduced to $55 and $75 for most upcoming webinars. Plus, Student and Young Lawyer Members benefit from even bigger discounts! The 2020 Langlois Prize Law student essay contest winners The CBA Business Law Section is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Langlois Prize Law Student Essay Contest: 2020 Law for the Future Fund grants COVID-19, along with gender and race issues dominate the initiatives being funded through the Law for the Future Fund’s 2020 grants. After the pandemic: Modernizing our privacy laws Tune in to our next After the Pandemic series, where we discuss emerging issues in law in a world transformed. In less than a year, Covid-19 has stirred conversations about the need to update our laws to the realities of the 21st century. Over the next few months, we will be looking at different areas of law and asking our guests what changes they would like to see in their area of practice to make the law fit for purpose. Conflicts of Interest Toolkit updated All lawyers should be alert to the potential for conflicts of interest when taking on a new client or a new matter for an existing client as a matter of due diligence. Some conflicts are easier to spot than others, however, and identifying them takes a strategic approach. New CBA resource for access to justice It’s long been acknowledged that Canada is at a crisis point when it comes to access to justice. And while no lawyer would argue for a less accessible justice system, it’s hard to know where to begin to argue for change. We all want to change the world – do you have a resolution? The resolutions that are debated each year at the CBA’s annual general meeting have a significant role to play by positioning the CBA’s governance, and its stance on issues of importance to the legal community.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line874
__label__wiki	0.822735	0.822735	Ngo Quyen Article Additional Info Home Politics, Law & Government World Leaders Kings Vietnamese king https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ngo-Quyen Corrections? Updates? Omissions? Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Feedback Type Select a type (Required) Factual Correction Spelling/Grammar Correction Link Correction Additional Information Other Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Join Britannica's Publishing Partner Program and our community of experts to gain a global audience for your work! The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree.... Last Updated: Jan 1, 2021 See Article History Ngo Quyen, (born 897?—died 944), Vietnamese liberator, known for his military tactics, who founded the first enduring Vietnamese dynasty and laid the foundation for an independent Vietnamese kingdom, which he called Nam Viet. Ngo Quyen was prefect, under Chinese domination, of Giao Chau province in the valley of the Red River in what is now northern Vietnam. In 938–939 he defeated the Chinese at the Bach Dang River north of modern Haiphong and declared an autonomous kingdom. He established his capital on the Red River at Co Loa, believed to have been the capital of Vietnam’s legendary Au Lac dynasty. Ngo Quyen could maintain only a tenuous control over his domain because feudal lords, known as su quan, refused to cooperate with his centralized authority. They tried to wrest power from Ngo Quyen, who barely managed to save the throne for his successors. Ngo Quyen’s military tactics, used to expel the Chinese in 939, were imitated by later generals in the course of Vietnamese history. His reign marked a turning point for Vietnam. Although China attacked repeatedly in the centuries to come, the kingdom of Nam Viet remained autonomous until the French seized control in the 19th century. Ngo Quyen’s immediate heirs proved unable to maintain a unified state. After his death in 944, Duong-Binh Vuong Tam-Kha usurped the throne for a brief time—until Ngo Quyen’s two sons, Ngo Nam-Tan Vuong Xuong-Van and Ngo Thien-Sach Vuong Xuong-Ngap, finally established a joint rule, which lasted until the collapse of the Ngo dynasty in 954. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. Subscribe Now Learn More in these related Britannica articles: Vietnam: The Ly dynasty Ngo Quyen, a Vietnamese commander who defeated the Chinese in 939, became the first head of the new independent Vietnamese province. For more than a half century, however, independence brought neither peace nor political stability. In the early 11th century, the Vietnamese province was finally… China, country of East Asia. It is the largest of all Asian countries and has the largest population of any country in the world. Occupying nearly the entire East Asian landmass, it covers approximately one-fourteenth of the land area of Earth. Among the major countries of the world, China is… Army, a large organized force armed and trained for war, especially on land. The term may be applied to a large unit organized for independent action, or it may be applied to a nation’s or ruler’s complete military organization for land warfare. Throughout history, the character and organization of… History at your fingertips Sign up here to see what happened On This Day, every day in your inbox! By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice. title / office king, Nam Viet (939-944)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line879
__label__wiki	0.679562	0.679562	5882027 Rick Astley Date Saturday 8th May 2021 Description Two years ago Rick Astley returned with an album that surprised everyone, even himself. His number 1 album '50' sold over 300,000 copies and was one of the biggest selling albums of 2016. What was even more incredible was that Rick wrote, produced and played every instrument on that comeback disc. And guess what? He's only gone and done it again! His new album, 'Beautiful Life', is released July 20th on BMG with an iconic cover shot by Rankin. Each of the twelve tracks are written, produced and played by Rick. Highlights are many and include the Chic flavored title track, the evocative 'Rise Up', the insanely catchy 'Try' and the warm childhood memories of 'The Good Old Days'. After selling over 100,000 tickets on his 2017 tour, Rick and his band will be joined by very special guest Gabrielle. Time(s) May 8, 6pm Price £27.50-£49.50, rescheduled from Oct 23, original tickets remain valid	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line880
__label__wiki	0.696054	0.696054	Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best. John C. Maxwell Become a Member of an Exclusive Club COMPLETED BY 14 LISTED 35 Eight of the world's most exclusive clubs -- can you join? Alfalfa Club Is holding its annual banquet on Saturday night. These groups are not your university’s alumni club. Certain national and international associations and business groups command a high price of entry, high prestige, and members with high power — but they often keep a low profile, if their proceedings or membership rosters are not downright secret. Want to join? If you have to ask, you’re not invited. We can reveal, however, that one of them — the Alfalfa Club — is holding its annual banquet on Saturday night. Head to Washington, D.C. if you want a peek at the invitees. The Bohemian Club San Francisco’s Bohemian Club is a private gentleman’s club founded in 1872 originally for bohemian writers, artists, and musicians -- but membership expanded over the years to encompass figures such as Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, as well as other more conservative leaders and prominent businessmen. While the club’s current membership list is not public, what is known is the club’s annual July tradition of two weeks in the woods at Bohemian Grove, in Monte Rio, Calif., a sort of summer camp for CEOs and other wealthy men. It's referred to by the San Francisco Chronicle as a “rowdy bacchanal.” Officially the group’s motto is “Weaving Spiders Come Not Here” from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream -- meaning that members should leave business at home. However, the Washington Post cited one notable exception in 1942 when a planning for the Manhattan Project was held there. The Belizean Grove This invite-only women’s club based in New York is thought of as the female answer to the Bohemian Club. Formed in 2001, the Grove meets once a year in Belize or other locations in Central America. When the group met in Colombia in 2011, the New York Times described them as “a sort of Illuminati of the business and political worlds.” Their mission, according to the same article: to put a woman in the White House. It’s called The White House Project. The ranks of international Grovers include directors from Xerox XRX 0.38% , Procter & Gamble PG -0.70% , Nordstrom JWN -1.60% , PetSmart PETM 0.00% , REI REI -0.19% , the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, as well as Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, until she resigned in 2009 during her confirmation hearings, since federal judges may not be part of a club that discriminates based on sex. The Yellowstone Club In Big Sky, Mont., lies a 13,600-acre private ski and golf club plus residential community with membership costs that are Rocky Mountain high. A 2009 New York Times article reported a minimum $250,000 to join, with annual dues of around $20,000, plus the cost of a home (currently ranging $1.65 million for a homesite -- $18 million for a ranch). Members of the club have included Dan Quayle, Jack Kemp, Peter Chernin, Steve Burke, Bill Gates, bankers Todd Thomson and Robert Greenhill, as well as L.A. Dodgers owner Frank McCourt. Since 1954, Bilderberg has been an annual invite-only three-day conference of 120-150 leaders and figures from industry, finance, academia and the media. Two-thirds of the participants hail from Europe and the rest come from the United States. The current steering committee features American members from Microsoft MSFT 0.48% , The Goldman Sachs Group GS -1.34% , Lazard LAZ 0.25% , and Alcoa AA -0.40% , as well as international members from Deutsche Bank AG DB -1.89% , TD Bank TD -0.09% , and Airbus AIR -1.22% . According to the Bilderberg Meetings website, “The conference is a forum for informal discussions about mega-trends and major issues facing the world.” However, not everyone believes the secretive summit is innocuous. “Some outsiders suspect that the Bilderbergers are part of something much more sinister than the world’s most exclusive debate club,” said Julie Tibbott, author of Members Only: Secret Societies, Sects, and Cults Exposed! (Zest Books, 2015). She notes that conspiracy theorists claim the group is a threat to democracy with intentions of organizing an international government: a New World Order. Defenders say the conference was instrumental in creating the European Union. The China Entrepreneur Club Meanwhile, in China, The China Entrepreneur Club gathers the country’s top 46 leaders of business, as well as politicians, academics, and others. Formed in 2006, the club stages events and also travels together. According to the BBC, new members are rarely admitted. Members include Guo Guangchang (the Chinese Warren Buffett), club chairman and Lenovo computer founder Liu Chuanzhi, and Alibaba BABA 0.09% ecommerce billionaire Jack Ma, China’s richest man. Chuanzhi says the private nonprofit exists partially to encourage acceptance and trust of the private sector and business. Sustainability is another concern -- a CEC subgroup sponsored by Deng Feng and others is a think tank concerned with fighting pollution, as well as other social and environmental issues. The prestigious 300-or-so member Augusta National Golf Club, which opened in 1933, has had a reputation for extreme exclusivity. African-Americans were not permitted to join until 1990, and women were not allowed until 2012. On top of that, Clifford Roberts, one of the co-founders, is quoted in the New York Times saying, “As long as I’m alive, all the golfers will be white and all the caddies will be black.” (He died in 1977.) Annual membership fees are about $10,000, but even for those who can pony up, it’s still invite-only. Those who make it known they want into the club haven’t got a chance. Present members include Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, as well as dozens of the world’s most influential businessmen, CEOs, and bankers, according to The Independent. The first female members were Condoleeza Rice and Darla Moore, a partner in the Rainwater, Inc. investment firm. The invite-only Trilateral Commission is a think tank formed in 1973 by David Rockefeller to improve communications and cooperation between North America, Europe, and Pacific Asia. Other members included diplomat Henry D. Owen, former governor of Pennsylvania William Scranton, Truman and Eisenhower adviser Robert Bowie, atom arms expert Gerard C. Smith, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and George H.W. Bush. It now has about 390 members, according to the group’s website. The organization has drawn the attention of conspiracy theorists, appearing in some 9/11 theories claiming it aims to install a new world order. The commission, for its part, offers up presentations from its meetings and publications on its website. Isa Wensink Nov 14 at 00:08 am A-tijd gehaald bij damesdispuut Abio Genesis Ad Infinitum Bucket List Blog © 2015 BUCKETLIST 127	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line881
__label__cc	0.512355	0.487645	CB #24 (1962-1969) Signed with the Bills as an undrafted free agent out of Western Illinois University in 1962…Named to the 1962 AFL All-Rookie Team…Won two consecutive AFL Championships with the Bills in 1964 and 1965...Registered 23 interceptions for 421 yards, and two touchdowns in his 106 games with the Bills. He became one of the best man-to-man cornerbacks in the league during his eight seasons. Recipient of Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Distinguished Service Award in 1993…Inducted into Western Illinois University Hall of Fame in 1996…Inducted into Quad City Sports Hall of Fame in 1998…Named to Larry Felser’s All Time Bills Team in 2000…Inducted into Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame in 2001…Named to both Larry Felser’s 50th Anniversary Team and Mark Gaughan’s 50th Anniversary Team in 2009. Booker currently resides in Amherst, NY and is the President of the Buffalo Chapter of the NFLPA Retired Players Association.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line882
__label__cc	0.537789	0.462211	CCCS Announces Next President for Community College of Denver CCCS News, Press Releases Dr. Marielena DeSanctis will begin new role January 2021. Following a nationwide search, Colorado Community College System (CCCS) Chancellor Joe Garcia today announced Dr. Marielena DeSanctis as the next president of Community College of Denver (CCD). Dr. DeSanctis, a distinguished scholar who has led academic, equity, and innovation programs in various roles, brings demonstrated leadership and commitment to advancing access to higher education, increasing student success, and closing equity gaps. Dr. DeSanctis will officially begin her term as president of CCD on January 15, 2021. She will succeed Dr. Everette Freeman, who is retiring December 31 after seven years of service. “We are excited to welcome Dr. DeSanctis and are confident that she will provide the right energy, expertise, and collaborative leadership for CCD,” said Garcia. “With six years of experience as an engineer for a top manufacturing company and over 22 years as a leader in education, Dr. DeSanctis exemplifies deep understanding of issues facing students and higher education, a bold vision for the future, and the executive experience to manage the intersection of sustaining financial health and innovation.” The search team worked diligently over several months to screen, interview, and conduct community forums – which were open to staff, faculty, students, and the public – in order to identify those most suited to be considered for the role of president. “The search committee and I express our appreciation to those who participated in the presidential search process, which resulted in a field of strong candidates and allowed us to make an outstanding choice for the institution’s new leader,” said Garcia. We are excited to welcome Dr. DeSanctis and are confident that she will provide the right energy, expertise, and collaborative leadership for CCD. - Chancellor Joe Garcia Currently, Dr. DeSanctis serves as the Provost and Senior Vice-President of Academic Affairs and Student Services at Broward College, a Hispanic-Serving Institution in Florida. During her tenure, she guided the institution through research-based best practices that significantly improved outcomes between Pell and non-Pell eligible students and cut in half the gap between passing courses for Black and White students; implemented a new college readiness and enrollment program in partnership with the local school district focused on supporting schools with high rates of racial/ethnic minorities and Free and Reduced Lunch eligibility; stewarded shared governance principles and practices; and successfully advocated for large grants and gifts, including ten TRIO grants, a Gates Foundation grant, and a public-private partnership that yielded a multi-million-dollar revenue stream for the college. Dr. DeSanctis expressed her eagerness to start working with CCD’s dedicated and talented faculty and staff on behalf of the institution’s hard-working students, as well as immersing herself in the Denver community. “I am honored and humbled to be selected by the Chancellor to take on this important role for both the college and the surrounding community,” said Dr. DeSanctis. “With over 50 years of rich history, CCD is an incredibly strong and vibrant institution, and it will have an enormous impact on the future of the city and state. The CCD community has done a lot in recent years to prepare for the next chapter and I am excited to become a part of this transformative work.” Dr. DeSanctis and her husband, Lance, look forward to joining the Denver community and Community College of Denver family. About Community College of Denver Community College of Denver (CCD) is a leading point of entry to higher education for the city and county of Denver. CCD provides cost-effective, high-quality college education, along with access and opportunity for non-traditional students, workforce development, training resources for local organizations, and community partnerships. CCD is a federally funded Hispanic-Serving Institution. Learn more at www.ccd.edu. About Colorado Community College System The Colorado Community College System (CCCS) is the state’s largest system of higher education, delivering more than 1,000 programs to over 125,000 students annually through 13 colleges and 40 locations across Colorado. Our open access mission ensures all Coloradans who aspire to enrich their lives have access to quality higher education opportunities. The System Office provides leadership, advocacy and support to the colleges under the direction of the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education (SBCCOE). Join us in changing the way Colorado goes to college.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line883
__label__wiki	0.864304	0.864304	CARICOM to support relief and recovery efforts in Haiti and The Bahamas post Hurricane Matthew Bridgetown, Barbados, October 14th, 2016 (CDEMA) - The Caribbean Community will rally support for its Member States, Haiti and The Bahamas, following the devastation caused by Hurricane Matthew. This was presented during CARICOM’s high level mission to both countries from October 11 – 13, 2016. The delegation which was led by Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and the Secretary General of CARICOM, Ambassador Irwin LaRoque, also included; Mr Ronald Jackson, Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), the Honourable Saboto Caesar, Minister of Agriculture, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Dr David Farrell, Principal of the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH). Following meetings with the Governments of Haiti and The Bahamas, CARICOM has identified urgent matters for the recovery and rehabilitation efforts for the two Member States. According to Mr. Jackson, “With over 300 schools damaged throughout the affected areas in Haiti, it is being recommended that the Community focus its intervention on adopting at a minimum, a school in Les Cayes and Jeremie and making a contribution to the rehabilitation to include a feeding programme for a maximum of two (2) weeks catering to the children from those two schools displaced as a result of Matthew.” Given the devastating impacts to particular areas in the SUD (South) department, CARICOM also agreed that attention should be placed on providing support to the severely affected areas of Les Cayes and Jeremie. To this end, resources are being garnered from Member States to provide the well needed support to the worst affected population in these 2 areas for a maximum period of one month. Specific support from the Community will also include providing emergency supplies such as water, protein, starch, tarpaulin and support for babies. “The Community has also identified the lack of water supply as a major concern and will further explore among Member States and Community Institutions options for short-term interventions for providing potable water to the affected areas until water supply systems are brought back online”, added Mr. Jackson. In The Bahamas, where the CDEMA Rapid Needs Assessment Teams (RNATs) were deployed between October 9th and 12th, 2016, several priorities were identified upon completion of their field mission. These range from short, medium to long term. “The recommendations for the Caribbean Community support in The Bahamas are in the areas of rapid utility restoration, support for small farmers and fisherfolk and in early recovery assistance for lower income households”, said Mr. Jackson. The National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC) in Haiti latest damage and injury report as of 14th October 2016 indicates the confirmed fatalities stand at 546, with 128 persons still missing and 439 injured. The number of persons in shelters remains at 175,509 in 4 Departments – Grand Anse (99,400), Nippes (7,866), Ouest (3,877) and Sud (64,366). Just over a week after the powerful Hurricane Matthew devastated the southern peninsula of Haiti, the extent of losses and damage is still being analysed in order to assess the needs. The NEOC has begun the compilation of figures for the Needs List and the preliminary needs identified throughout all the impacted areas include: water, tarpaulin, hygiene kits, water purification tablets, vector control, bleach and medicines. Priorities for the Government remain the distribution of water, food and drugs to people in temporary shelters and the adversely affected communities. The restoration of roads and communications are also a Government priority. Clive Murray Communication and Education Specialist CARIBBEAN DISASTER EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (CDEMA) Resilience Way, Lower Estate Tel #: (246) 434-4880	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line884
__label__cc	0.725938	0.274062	Publisher: Florida Coastal School of Law and Vytautas Magnus University School of Law International Journal of Baltic Law Frequency: irregular and other / Country: United States International Journal of Baltic Law is a joint publication of Vytautas Magnus University School of Law and the Florida Coastal School of Law, in cooperation with the Lithuanian American Bar Association. The International Journal of Baltic Law is an international scholarly publication which publishes articles and other scholarly writings or documents which concern law and legal issues in Lithuania and the other Baltic International Journal of Baltic Law is a joint publication of Vytautas Magnus University School of Law and the Florida Coastal School of Law, in cooperation with the Lithuanian American Bar Association. The International Journal of Baltic Law is an international scholarly publication which publishes articles and other scholarly writings or documents which concern law and legal issues in Lithuania and the other Baltic States and other countries of the "New Europe." Editor-In-Chief: Tadas Klimas, Vytautas Magnus University Assistant Chief Editor: Stephen Durden, Florida Coastal School of Law	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line885
__label__cc	0.625011	0.374989	Is Asia still accumulating reserves in financial self defense? I think it is fair to say that I profoundly disagree with this week's Economics Focus column in the Economist, and therefore, I suspect, with the underlying Genbert, McCauley, Park and Persaud paper. Five points: Presumably at some point, emerging Asia accumulated a large enough war chest to avoid a repeat of the Asian crisis. There are lots of points in between a reserves to GDP ratio of 5% and a reserves to GDP ratio of 50%. Goldman has done serious work on reserve adequacy, and concluded that Asia is over-reserved. The ADB reached the same conclusion. Ifzal Ali, the ADB's chief economist: "These reserves "have grown far beyond what is optimal level. It's basically a reflection of a lack of imagination, a lack of innovativeness and to some extent a lack of self-confidence." The World Bank also thinks Asia has more than enough reserves - too many actually. See p. 9 of this chapter of the World Bank's 2005 report on Global development Finance. China rode out the Asian crisis with far fewer reserves than its has now. No problems there. I fail to see how the Asian crisis explains China's decision to let its reserves rise from say 40% of GDP to 50% of GDP and be on a track where they will rise to 60% of GDP. The IMF's own chief economist has said China has enough reserves to protect against everything short of the apocalypse. China's reserves exceed its short-term debts by a ridiculous margin. Korea - which actually experienced a crisis in 1997 largely because it had too few reserves - has concluded it now has more than enough. Why hasn't China reached the same conclusion? The notion that China's exchange rate regime is OK because it has not changed for some time misses the point. The world has changed since 1997 -- and since 2001. Look at what has happened to Chinese exports since 2002. And look at what has happened to the dollar since 2002. Higher surpluses in oil exporting and commodity exporting regions normally would be offset by lower surpluses (or deficits) in oil importing regions, including much of Asia. That has not happened. Or at least it did not happen til this year for most of Asia, and still has not happened for China. The rise in the current account surplus of the oil exporters has largely been offset by the rise in the deficit of one oil importer -- the US -- and a lot of other countries also import oil. China's current account surplus is going to be quite large this year, and next year. Moreover, the increase in China's 2005 current account surplus was entirely predictable. See Morris Goldstein. Going forward, a large share of China's reserve accumulation will be explained by its current account surplus; moreover, China - which has attracted significant inflows of stable FDI - quite clearly could have run a current account deficit without taking on the financial risk that gave rise to the Asian crisis. Look at the graphs on p. 2 and p. 5 of the new IMF WEO chapter on global and savings and investment; they offer a better baseline for sensible discussion. Why is consumer demand so weak in Germany? Corporate Virtual Roundtable: Central Bank Digital Currencies and the Future of Finance	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line887
__label__wiki	0.609475	0.609475	California governor Brown endorses Clinton May 31, 2016 By Tami Luhby 4 Comments As reported by CNN: California Governor Jerry Brown lent his support to Hillary Clinton Tuesday, saying it was the only way to “stop the dangerous candidacy of Donald Trump.” Next week’s California primary is the final battleground for Clinton as she prepares to clinch the nomination. But it has become an unexpectedly tight race between her and Bernie Sanders, which does not bode well for Clinton. Even though she will likely secure the nomination in New Jersey, which also goes to the polls June 7, Clinton has banked on the support of non-white Americans. A loss in the diverse Golden State would show that Sanders has made in-roads with these voters. Sanders has pledged to stay in the race until the Democratic convention in July. … Filed Under: Trending News Tagged With: Hillary Clinton, Jerry Brown, June Primary No presidential debate in California after Clinton breaks promise May 24, 2016 By Joe Garofoli 3 Comments As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle: There will be no Democratic presidential debate in California, because Hillary Clinton’s campaign reneged Monday on its earlier promise to participate in one. In February, the campaigns of both Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders agreed to debate in California before the state’s June 7 primary. But with Clinton comfortably ahead in both pledged delegates and superdelegates — plus her desire to pivot to her likely general election matchup against Republican Donald Trump — there was little political incentive for her campaign to participate. The Chronicle, as the Sanders campaign noted last week, also expressed interest in co-hosting a debate. But that debate will not happen. “We have declined Fox News’ invitation to participate in a debate in California,” said campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri. “As we have said previously, we plan to compete hard in the remaining primary states, particularly California, while turning our attention to … Click here to read the full story Filed Under: Trending News Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Debate, Hillary Clinton, June Primary Prop 50: The weirdest measure on the ballot this year May 12, 2016 By Laurel Rosenhall 3 Comments As reported by CalMatters: It’s been two years since criminal accusations against three lawmakers rocked the California Capitol. Charged with corruption and perjury in separate cases, three Democratic state senators were suspended from the Legislature in 2014 but kept earning their $95,000 annual salary for many months. Now, California voters will get their say on a question prompted by that spate of scandal. Proposition 50 on the June 7 ballot asks whether legislators who are suspended from duty should also have their paychecks taken away. In a year of weird ballot measures – should porn actors be required to wear condoms? – Proposition 50 may be the most unusual one California voters face. Here are three reasons why: 1. It stems from a bizarre year in the Legislature – not a widespread problem in the state. Most measures that make the ballot ask voters to weigh in on a question that impacts the masses: raising taxes, for example, or making marijuana legal. Proposition 50, if approved, would apply … Filed Under: Trending News Tagged With: June Primary, Legislature, Prop. 50 Poll: Trump winning big in California April 21, 2016 By Shane Goldmacher 3 Comments As reported by Politico: Ted Cruz called California “the big enchilada” on Wednesday and said it would be the state that ultimately decides the Republican nomination. But a new poll from Capitol Weekly/Sextant Strategies shows Donald Trump in a dominant position across the state. The results, provided to POLITICO, show Trump leading statewide with 41 percent of the vote and Cruz trailing far behind with 23 percent. John Kasich is in third with 21 percent, and 15 percent of Republicans said they remain undecided. California is worth 172 delegates when it votes on June 7 — with the winner of each of the state’s 53 congressional districts receiving three delegates. The statewide winner receives 13 delegates. The Capitol Weekly/Sextant Strategies poll shows Trump winning in almost every … Filed Under: Trending News Tagged With: Donald Trump, John Kasich, June Primary, Ted Cruz June Ballot “Orphaned,” But Likely to Pass February 12, 2016 By Matt Fleming 6 Comments While dozens of measures are vying to make it on the November general election ballot, one proposal is ready for the June primary — even though no one is campaigning for or against it. Proposition 50 is a constitutional amendment empowering legislators to suspend other legislators without pay with a two-thirds vote of the respective chamber. The measure is in response to three suspensions with pay in 2014: Democratic state Sens. Roderick Wright of Inglewood, Leland Yee of San Francisco and Ron Calderon of Montebello. Wright was suspended after being convicted of felony perjury and election fraud and the other two were suspended after federal corruption charges were filed. The measure has a good chance of passing, as public perception of the Legislature took a hit following the rash of incidents in 2014 (in February of 2015, it rebounded a bit but was still in the low 40 percent range). “From a voter’s perspective, it’s pretty straight forward,” said Kathay Feng, the executive director of the good government group California Common Cause. “There’s not much love for misbehaving legislators.” Feng said some may question whether this measure violates the spirit of innocent until proven guilty, but others are sure this won’t be an issue. “Guilty until proven innocent when it comes to legislators,” said Steven Maviglio, a Democratic campaign strategist, noting that the measure is “totally non-controversial.” Politics and Process The measure doesn’t have any opponents actively fighting it. But no one is pushing for it either. When contacted by CalWatchdog, former Democratic Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, who introduced the measure, deferred through an aide to sitting senators or the Senate Rules Committee for more info. But sitting senators would refer it to an outside group to handle the campaign, yet no such committee has been formed. No one is campaigning for it. “All of the people who were originally involved seemed to have left this as an orphan for somebody else,” said Feng. If the measure’s passage is truly inevitable — a slam dunk — then there may be little need to push for it, especially in the absence of opposition. But some observers say it could be that the pressure is off now that no one is in trouble. “Out of sight, out of mind,” said John J. Pitney, Jr., a Roy P. Crocker professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College. “The idea may regain currency if another legislator gets into major trouble, but until then it is in the political memory hole.” The measure will appear on the June ballot because it is a constitutional amendment added by the Legislature. Measures that go through the signature gathering process can only appear on the November general election ballot — of which it appears there will be plenty. How Else Can They Be Punished? Besides suspension, legislators have other punitive actions they can take against lawmakers, although they are rarely used. According to Alex Vassar, who runs the California political website One Voter Project, censure (it’s basically a public shaming by peers) was last used in 1982 to strongly condemn comments made about abortion rights protesters by O.C. Republican John G. Schmitz. Expulsion, according to Vassar, was last used in 1905 against legislators colluding to solicit bribes (Wright was threatened with an expulsion vote). And members can also be stripped of committee assignments, which was used last with Yee, Wright and Calderon. Originally published by CalWatchdog.com Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: Assembly, June Primary, Legislature, Leland Yee, Roderick Wright, Ron Calderon Capitol Corruption Inspires June Ballot Measure February 4, 2016 By Jon Fleischman 7 Comments Former State Senator Leland Yee. Photo Credit: kqed.org California Secretary of State Alex Pedilla has assigned a number, Proposition 50, to the only measure to appear on the upcoming June primary ballot. If passed by the voters, Prop. 50 would amend the state constitution to allow either chamber of the Legislature, by a two-thirds vote, to suspend a member of that body without pay or benefits. The measure stands as a reminder of the corruption that has gripped the California State Capitol in recent years. To understand the origin of this measure, placed on the ballot by the Legislature, you need only look back to March 28, 2014. That was just days after State Senator Leland Yee became the third Democrat in the Legislature’s upper chamber to become embroiled in criminal wrong-doing, with the federal government charging Yee with gun-running, illegal sale of firearms, of taking tens of thousands of dollars in cash bribes, and more. The previous month, State Senator Ron Calderon had been indicted by the federal government on bribery and corruption charges. A month before that, State Senator Rod Wright was convicted by a jury of multiple felony counts of voter fraud and perjury. Then-State Senate President Darrell Steinberg was part of a bi-partisan Capitol establishment which largely looked the other way, permitting Wright to serve after being charged, and – incredibly – after being found guilty. Calderon was also allowed to continue to serve despite his high-profile charges. Public calls by several Republican Senators to take action, including a formal resolution to expel Wright, were buried by Steinberg and not permitted to come to a vote. It wasn’t until Yee was indicted that finally the pressure on the State Senate leadership was such that they were forced to act. Yee’s indictment was apparently the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back, and the Senate voted to suspend Calderon, Wright and Yee. When that was done, it was made clear that there was no authority under the state constitution to stop paying the Senators their $90,526 annual pay–and benefits. At that time the constitutional amendment that would become Prop. 50 was introduced. Wright remained in the Senate until appeal of his conviction was denied. Calderon and Yee served through the end of their terms in 2014, while suspended from their official duties. Both have criminal trials pending. California state law allows only for measures placed on the ballot before the Legislature to appear on the June ballot. All measures qualified by gathering signatures must appear in November. It is anticipated that over 15 measures will appear on the general election ballot. This article was originally published by Brietbart.com/California Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: Corruption, June Primary, Legislature, Leland Yee, Rod Wright, Ron Calderon Neel Kashkari: Returning CA to Path of Prosperity May 30, 2014 By Neel Kashkari 12 Comments When I started thinking about running for governor more than a year ago, it was in large part because I was frustrated by the Democrats’ ascension to one-party rule in Sacramento. Their big-government policies have continually failed millions of middle-class families across the state; that was no surprise. Since then, we’ve also seen a culture of corruption revealed in Sacramento that underscores the urgency of electing new leaders to guide our state. The truth is, California is in desperate need of fresh, bold leadership that is unafraid of taking our state in a new direction. California has the potential to be the best place to live, but the fact of the matter is that we have been in a downward spiral for years. If you were to listen to Governor Jerry Brown, however, you would think that things have never been better in the Golden State. But his claims of a “California comeback” ring hollow for families, businesses and communities up and down the state. In fact, Governor Brown has completely lost sight of California’s priorities. At a time when the state ranks 47th in jobs, 46th in education and 1st in poverty, his focus continues to be on his legacy: A $68 billion high-speed rail project that Californians don’t want and can’t afford. California is perennially listed as one of the worst places to do business – Chief Executive Magazine awarded us the dubious honor again just a few weeks ago – yet Sacramento politicians turn a blind eye to these troubling statistics and continue to pass laws and regulations that make it more and more difficult for small businesses to grow. It sometimes feels as though a California company talks about moving to, or expanding in, Texas every other day. Businesses should be flocking to the Golden State – not from it. California has some of the highest taxes in the nation, yet the tax-and-spend culture in Sacramento continues to thrive. Politicians can’t wait to get their hands on taxpayer dollars to waste on frivolous government programs. I recently called on Governor Brown to repeal the sales tax increase portion of Proposition 30 in order to bring relief to middle-class Californians who are working tirelessly to make ends meet – but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. We know our state’s taxes are too high, they’re poorly designed and we’re not getting our money’s worth for the taxes we pay. And the ones who are struggling most as a result? Millions of middle-class families – and it’s time we held Governor Brown accountable. The good news is that we know how to turn this around. We know how to unleash the private sector and to improve our schools. All across the nation, Republican leaders have implemented bold reforms that have produced remarkable results. We know that this can work – but it does require a willingness to challenge the status quo. My first order of business as governor will be to cancel the high-speed rail project and instead invest it in water storage to help prepare for our state’s next, inevitable drought. I want to create incentives for companies that open manufacturing facilities and create jobs here. By safely tapping into our state’s natural resources, we can create thousands of jobs. Regulatory reform can make a huge difference in making our state friendlier to job creators. Reforming our education system starts by giving control back to parents and teachers. Our kids aren’t all one size, so our policies shouldn’t be either. Giving schools and parents much more control over their budgets and how they educate their students provides them the opportunity to innovate in ways that can lift student achievement. Likewise, making higher education more accessible opens up doors to social mobility that can help close the inequality gap that’s grown ever larger in recent years. As Election Day approaches, I am more convinced than ever that Republicans can take back Sacramento. Californians are fed up with the same tired rhetoric from career politicians who have run this state into the ground. The task won’t be easy, but I am up for the challenge. With voters’ support, we can win in November and return California to the path of prosperity. Neel Kashkari, Republican candidate for governor, previously served in the U.S. Treasury Department during former President George W. Bush Editor’s note: A column by state Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, Republican candidate for governor, will be published Saturday on CAPoliticalReview.com Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: Election 2014, governor, June Primary, Neel Kashkari	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line889
__label__wiki	0.890801	0.890801	Archive for the 'Language Interpreters' Category Language in Statecraft Companion Category: Language in Counterinsurgency From USA Today concerning language and the State Department: Complicating the Obama administration’s plan to ramp up civilian aid to Pakistan and Afghanistan, the State Department employs just 18 foreign service officers who can speak the language of the region where the Taliban insurgency rages, according to records and interviews. Two of them work in Afghanistan, both in the capital, Kabul, according to the State Department’s Bureau of Human Resources. Five are in Peshawar, Pakistan. “It’s a grim illustration of two problems,” said Ronald Neumann, a veteran diplomat who was U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan from 2005 to 2007. “First, there is no money, and second, there are no people.” The Pashto language is the main tongue of the mountainous Pashtun region that straddles the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the Taliban and al-Qaeda recruit and operate. Afghan President Hamid Karzai is among the estimated 35 million Pashtuns in both countries. The State Department has long failed to meet its language needs. In 2006, the Government Accountability Office found that nearly 30% of State Department employees based overseas in “language-designated positions” could not speak and write the local language well enough to meet basic requirements. The language deficit is one reason the United States has turned to contractors to deliver foreign aid, a practice that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she wants to curb. Clinton is asking for billions in the coming budget to hire 1,226 additional diplomats, but it will take time to train them. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. military and the State Department boosted their training in Afghan languages, but the military commands vastly more resources. Seven years into the Afghanistan war, the Defense Department says it has trained 200 people in Pashto and 300 in Dari, the primary language of the non-Pashtun areas of Afghanistan. The California-based Defense Language Institute has given 10,000 people some basic exposure to Pashto through mobile training units, spokesman Brian Lamar said. The Defense Department gave a half-million-dollar grant to Indiana University to train ROTC candidates in Pashto. The State Department’s efforts have been more modest. In addition to the 18 foreign service officers who are proficient in Pashto, 82 speak Dari, State’s Bureau of Human Resources said in an e-mail. It said 20 Dari speakers are in Afghanistan. Those figures will improve, said Ruth Whiteside, who directs State’s Foreign Service Institute, which is training 13 diplomats in Pashto and 37 in Dari. A larger 2010 budget will expand those numbers, she said. Rather than reflexively blame the situation on the lack of money, let’s frame the problem somewhat differently. The Department of Defense knew that the exposure to and need for knowledge in the indigenous languages would be significant in counterinsurgency, so directed the funds and energy towards that end. The State Department is filled with “lifers,” many of them, who want to conduct international relations while sitting in Washington. North Korea has not been prevented from achieving nuclear status by State Department labors, and neither has Iran been persuaded to relinquish its pursuit of its own nuclear weapon. Syria was never forced to stop assisting the influx of foreign fighters into Iraq, and Hamas still controls Gaza. There should be mandatory language training at least one day per week at State (whether by tape or trainer). After all. What else do they have to do? Then after the languages are mastered, there ought to be mandatory field rotations for all State employees (that is, deployments). After all, what else do they have to do? Language in Statecraft,Language Interpreters Interpreters, Language and Counterinsurgency For a smart analysis of what knowledge of the indigenous language can do for you in counterinsurgency, see our previous article The Enemy of My Enemy. We have long been a proponent of more and better language training for both enlisted men and officers preparing to deploy to Iraq. But we still badly need good interpreters, and yet stupid decisions will soon undermine the interpreter program in Iraq. The U.S. military has barred Iraqi interpreters working with American troops in Baghdad from wearing ski masks to disguise themselves, prompting some to resign and others to bare their faces even though they fear it could get them killed. Many interpreters employed by the U.S. government and Western companies do everything they can to avoid being recognized on the job because extremists have tortured and killed Iraqis accused of collaborating with the enemy. “The terps are the No. 1 wanted here,” said A.J., a 36-year-old military interpreter, using the shorthand for his profession. “More than the Americans. More than anyone.” The interpreters have come to symbolize the bravery of Iraqis who have aided the American project in Iraq. About 300 U.S. military interpreters have been killed since 2003, according to Kirk Johnson, a former official in Iraq with the U.S. Agency for International Development who has fought to make it easier for interpreters and other Iraqis to come to the U.S. U.S. military officials said they began to enforce the mask ban in September because security in Baghdad has improved dramatically. “We are a professional Army, and professional units don’t conceal their identity by wearing masks,” Lt. Col. Steve Stover, a U.S. military spokesman. Some U.S. soldiers said enforcing the policy makes them feel terrible. “It’s a life-and-death issue for them,” said Staff Sgt. Jeremy Ziegler, who works in Dora, a district in southern Baghdad. “We can’t work for the U.S. Army if we don’t wear a mask,” said Maximus, 28, who has worked as an interpreter for the military on and off since 2003. “If they recognize our face, they’re going to kill our families.” “Maximus” is not exaggerating. Consider the 2007 example of an interpreter for the British Army in Basra. A man said to have been an interpreter for the British Army in Basra has been killed by militia gunmen on the very day that his wife learnt she was pregnant with their first child. Nine or ten masked men went to the home of Moayed Ahmed Khalaf in the al-Hayaniah district of Basra and beat him in front of his wife and mother, four sources told The Times. They then dragged him away, telling the frantic women that they would bring him back shortly. Khalaf’s body was found on Al Qa’ed Street later that night. He had been shot multiple times, according to Colonel Ali Manshed, commander of the Shatt-al-Arab police station. A cousin, a close friend and two other interpreters all told The Times that Khalaf, 31, had worked for the British at their Basra airport base. Colonel Manshed said that everyone questioned by the police had said Khalaf was an interpreter, adding: “He was a good man, everyone liked him and there was no other reason to kill him.” The best way to use the desire to have interpreters who don’t hide their identity is to use masks as metrics as was done in Fallujah in 2007. The more interpreters feel the need to wear masks, the more work needs to be done in order to ensure security. The less interpreters wear masks, the greater indication that is of success. In Fallujah it was the Iraqi Police who wore masks – in this case, it’s the interpreters. But this brings up another point. None of them (IP or interpreters) are uniformed U.S. Army or Marines. Said Lt. Col. Stover, “We are a professional Army, and professional units don’t conceal their identity by wearing masks.” Odd statement, this. The Army and Marines don’t conceal their identity, so what is Col. Stover talking about? Again, the IP and interpreters aren’t our Army. Why wouldn’t we understand and be sensitive to cultural and local issues such as the need for security and protection of identity? At some point this becomes more than just stupid. It’s immoral to force interpreters to risk their family’s safety unnecessarily. Also, Lt. Col. Stover isn’t quite right concerning the notion of U.S. forces not concealing their identity. It is customary and routine for Special Operations Forces not only to wear garb that conceals their identity, but also to issue pro forma declarations about everything related to their operations being OPSEC (Operational Security). This is certainly an overreaction, but true nonetheless. We are affording our own forces protections that we won’t allow our contracted interpreters. Counterinsurgency,Iraq,Language Interpreters	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line890
__label__wiki	0.873732	0.873732	Cape officer resigns in wake of problem with GED documentation A Cape Coral police officer recently resigned after officials discovered that he had provided the city with a forged GED document when hired in 2005. A couple of months ago, Cape Officer Stephen B. Chase applied at the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. During Chase’s application process, the background investigator for the sheriff’s office came across a document for his GED. “When they were looking at the document, it didn’t look quite right,” Maj. Gene Sims, head of the LCSO’s Special Operations Bureau, said Wednesday. He said the name and completion date looked like they had been added on. The investigator contacted the school district for the state and obtained a copy of the record to compare the documents and confirm Chase’s GED. “The document he did supply us was a forgery, so to speak,” Sims said. Chase had apparently found the GED of someone with the same name and input his own information, like Social Security number, on the document. “We stopped processing him as an applicant,” Sims said of the discovery. The LCSO notified the Cape Coral Police Department of the problem, which then conducted its own investigation, according to Cape police officials. “He resigned before he got fired,” spokesman Lt. Tony Sizemore said. He added that Chase quit about four to five weeks ago. According to Sizemore, Chase was hired in 2005 during one of the Cape department’s mass hirings. Processing more than 1,100 applications, the CCPD hired approximately 100 new officers within the 18-month period. A military veteran, Chase provided a copy of the fake GED at that time. “That’s one of the problems with mass hirings,” Sizemore said. Chase did not have any college credits or a college degree when hired. “It was during a time when we didn’t require that,” Sizemore said, noting that the department now requires a degree. “It’s kind of a mute point now.” He added that Chase’s work as an officer for the CCPD will remain valid. Chase attended the police academy and is a certified officer with the state. “His actual work product was good,” Sizemore said. “He did deliver on his service.” The issue that the department has was the lack of truthfulness. “It’s concerning that the guy would lie about having it,” Sizemore said. Chase will not face any criminal charges in connection to the GED forgery. Officials confirmed with the State Attorney’s Office that it did not qualify as identity theft, and the real GED owner was not harmed – was not a victim. “We’re talking about something that happened six years ago,” Sizemore said. “The actual harm was done to his own reputation and name. Chase was a patrol officer at the time of his resignation. His annual salary was about $46,093, according to city records.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line891
__label__wiki	0.811387	0.811387	Cape veteran’s group receives mask donation from South Korea By Staff \| Jul 9, 2020 A show of gratitude an ocean away to the United States to help combat a global pandemic has stretched all the way to Southwest Florida. The South Korea Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs shipped 500,000 protective face masks to the United States to American Veterans of the Korean War. 2020 marks the 70th anniversary of the war between North and South Korea. The United States supplied 90 percent of foreign combat forces backing the South opposing a Soviet Union and China led North. These masks were shipped in May and some have now made their way to the Southwest Florida Korean War Veterans Association Chapter 155. The group received 2,000 masks to be distributed throughout its chapter and to fellow veterans and family of veterans in the community. “South Korea really appreciated what we did,” said Sonnie Rochelle, board member of the local chapter and Navy Korean War veteran. “It’s a really good quality mask. We’re going to distribute them to our people.” Since the Korean War, the United States and South Korea have been allies both in the military realm and economically. Throughout the Korean War — that is technically still ongoing despite warfare ending in 1953 — the U.S. supplied South Korea with more than 300,000 troops. More than 36,000 American died, more than 100,000 wounded in action and more than 7,500 were unaccounted for. ‘We greatly appreciate all that South Korea does for us and they appreciate all we did and do for them,” Rochelle said. “They were greatly appreciative of us being over there when we were.” Rochelle said the average age of those belonging to the Chapter is around 88, putting them in the “at-risk” age range when it comes to COVID-19. He said these masks are a great help for local veterans and their families and that he and his wife never go to the store without one. “Anybody my age is a fool not to wear a mask,” Rochelle said. “It’s really a life-saving measure to take, really.” The South Korea Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, in a press release, said they were supplying the masks “to the aging U.N. veterans of the Korean War to mark the 70th anniversary and to recognize their service and sacrifice.” Kim Eun-gi, a co-chairman of the committee organizing commemorations for the anniversary, in the release stated, “We would never compare these masks to the noble service and the ultimate sacrifice shown by the U.N. veterans during the war, but we sincerely hope our small gesture would help our veterans in dealing with the coronavirus. “We will overcome the COVID-19 crisis when we stand side by side together.” The ministry will also send 500,000 masks to Korean War veterans in 21 other countries. -Connect with this reporter on Twitter: @haddad_cj	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line894
__label__cc	0.676623	0.323377	BiomX Reports Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results and Announces Expanded Portfolio of Phage Therapy Candidates Company unveils BOLT (BacteriOphage Lead to Treatment) platform designed for more rapid and efficient development of phage therapy BOLT enables the Company to expand portfolio with two additional phage therapy programs in cystic fibrosis and atopic dermatitis and allows consolidation of two programs into one product candidate, BX003, for the treatment of both inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) Company to host conference call today at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time NESS ZIONA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BiomX Inc. (NYSE American: PHGE), a clinical stage company developing natural and engineered phage therapies targeting specific pathogenic bacteria, today reported financial results and a business update for the third quarter ended September 30, 2020. “BiomX continues to lead in the field of phage therapy by implementing proprietary processes for accelerated development,” commented Jonathan Solomon, Chief Executive Officer of BiomX. “Our novel BOLT platform, which is the result of an accumulated five years of technological development, significantly reduces the time required to reach clinical proof-of-concept. The improved efficiency of this platform allows us to expand our portfolio with two significant new programs without affecting our projected cash runway.” Continued Mr. Solomon, “This expansion includes near term opportunities with phage therapy candidates. We expect clinical proof of concept results in patients for cystic fibrosis and atopic dermatitis by the end of 2021 and mid-2022, respectively. Improvements in R&D also allow for the consolidation of our inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) programs. We now have one improved, broad host range product candidate, BX003, targeting Klebsiella pneumoniae, a potential pathogen implicated in both diseases to be developed for both indications. The consolidation of these programs results in an updated timeline for Phase 1b/2a results with BX003 expected in mid-2022. In addition, we expect data from a planned Phase 2 cosmetic clinical study in acne-prone skin in the second quarter of 2021.” About the BOLT Platform The newly unveiled BOLT (“BacteriOphage Lead to Treatment”) R&D platform enables BiomX to rapidly develop, manufacture and formulate a phage treatment targeting a given pathogenic bacteria. The platform allows BiomX to conduct an initial clinical proof of concept study in patients (Phase 2 results) within approximately 12-18 months of project initiation1. The ability to move quickly into clinical development is also driven by the strong safety profile of naturally-occurring phage, as corroborated by regulatory guidance provided to BiomX by the FDA as relating to its IBD program, allowing the Company to bypass safety studies and studies in healthy volunteers and to proceed directly to patient studies. Recent Highlights and Key Upcoming Milestones The Company expects to initiate a Phase 2 cosmetic clinical study of phage therapy BX001 in the first quarter of 2021, with results expected in the second quarter of 2021. A new program for development of a phage therapy targeting chronic respiratory infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a main contributor to morbidity and mortality in patients with cystic fibrosis. Phase 2 results of a proof of concept clinical study evaluating safety and efficacy in patients are expected in the fourth quarter of 2021. A new program for development of a topically administered phage therapy targeting Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium linked to the development and exacerbation of inflammation in atopic dermatitis. Phase 2 results of a proof of concept clinical study evaluating safety and efficacy in patients are expected in the first half of 2022. IBD and PSC Results of a Phase 1a study are expected in the first quarter of 2021. The study is designed to provide safety and pharmacokinetic data, including an assessment of delivery of viable phage to the gastrointestinal system as a key exploratory endpoint. Results of the Phase 1b/2a study aimed at evaluating the efficacy of BX003, improved broad host range phage therapy, in reduction of the target bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae are expected by mid-2022. Tumor-Targeted Delivery in Cancer BiomX is exploring phage mediated delivery of therapeutic payloads to Fusobacterium nucleatum bacteria residing in the tumors of patients with colorectal cancer. Preclinical results from animal studies evaluating use of phage therapy in combination with checkpoint inhibitors are expected in the second quarter of 2021. Biomarker Discovery Collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim In September 2020, BiomX entered into a collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim to utilize the BiomX XMarker microbiome-based biomarker discovery platform to potentially identify biomarkers associated with patient phenotypes in IBD. Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results Cash balance and short-term deposits as of September 30, 2020, were $64.5 million, compared to $82.4 million as of December 31, 2019. The decrease was primarily due to net cash used in operating activities. Research and development expenses were $6.4 million in the third quarter of 2020, compared to $2.9 million in the same period of 2019. The increase was primarily due to growth in the number of employees which resulted in an increase of salaries and related expenses and due to an increase in depreciation and amortization expenses. General and administrative expenses were $2.4 million in the third quarter of 2020, compared to $1.8 million in the same period in 2019. The increase was primarily due to expenses associated with operating as a public company, such as directors’ and officers’ insurance, filing and legal and accounting expenses. Net loss was $8.8 million in the third quarter of 2020, compared to $4.3 million in the same period of 2019. Net cash used in operating activities was $17.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, compared to $10.5 million in the same period of 2019. Financial Expectations Existing cash, cash equivalents and short-term deposits are expected to be sufficient to fund the Company’s current operating plan through mid-2022. BiomX management will host a conference call and webcast today at 8:00 a.m. ET to report financial results for the third quarter of 2020 and provide business updates. To participate in the conference call, please dial 1-877-407-0724 (U.S.), 1-809-406-247 (Israel) or 1-201-389-0898 (international). A live and archived webcast of the call will be available in the Investors section of the company’s website at www.biomx.com. About BiomX BiomX is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing both natural and engineered phage cocktails designed to target and destroy bacteria that affect the appearance of skin, as well as target bacteria in the treatment of chronic diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease, primary sclerosing cholangitis, cystic fibrosis and colorectal cancer. BiomX discovers and validates proprietary bacterial targets and customizes phage compositions against these targets. Additional information is available at www.biomx.com, the content of which does not form a part of this press release. Safe Harbor Language This press release contains express or implied “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as: “target,” “believe,” “expect,” “will,” “may,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “would,” “positioned,” “future,” and other similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. For example, when BiomX discusses the potential opportunities for and benefits of the BOLT platform, the expected timing of initiation and receipt of results from its various pre-clinical and clinical studies as well as the acceptance of regulatory agencies of the design thereof, its collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim and the potential thereof and the sufficiency of its funding through mid-2022, BiomX is making forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, they are based only on BiomX management’s current beliefs, expectations and assumptions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of BiomX control. Actual results and outcomes may differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Therefore, investors should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements and should review the risks and uncertainties described under the caption “Risk Factors” in BiomX’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and additional disclosures BiomX makes in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), which are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, and except as provided by law BiomX expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to update forward-looking statements. 1 In certain indications the length of clinical proof of concept may be longer depending on indication, identity of target bacteria, recruitment rate, cohort size and other factors. Noel Kurdi, BiomX VP Investor Relations and Strategy noelk@biomx.com Rich Allan, Solebury Trout rallan@soleburytrout.com	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line896
__label__cc	0.680289	0.319711	T. 972 450 761 info@butterflypark.es Contact and Prices Meet some of our park friends INDIAN MUNTJAC (Muntiacus muntjak) Of the twelve recognized species of muntjacs the Indian muntjac is the most widespread. It gives calls similar to barking upon sensing a predator, hence the common name of barking deer. – Muntjacs are one of the smallest and oldest species of deer, appearing about 32 million years ago. – It is extremely rare nowadays to discover new mammal species; nevertheless, over the past decade scientists in S.E. Asia recorded five new species of muntjacs. SEBA’S SHORT-TAILED BAT (Carollia perspicillata) These small fruit bats dwell in evergreen and deciduous lowland forests of Central and South America. They live in harems of one male and up to 20 females. Their food consists of fruit, nectar and pollen and they play an important role as pollinators and seed dispersers. – They weigh only half an ounce (15 grams) – Fruit bats are not blind, their vision is pretty good. They use both vision and smell to find food. GREEN IGUANA (Iguana iguana) The green iguana is a large arboreal and herbivorous species of lizard native to Central and South America. It is an excellent swimmer and when threatened can stay submerged for a long period. Whipping its spiny tail is also an iguana defense tactic. – Once a year female iguanas lay clutches of 20 to 70 eggs. – They can remain underwater for half an hour. – Depending on their origin they can reach 2 m in length. SCARLET IBIS (Eudocimus ruber) The Scarlet Ibis inhabits wetlands and mangroves from Venezuela to Brazil. It is a social bird and often roosts in large colonies of several thousand individuals. Their distinctive long, thin bills are used to probe for shrimp and other red shellfish in soft mud. – The ibis get their bright pink colour from pigments in their food, primarily red crustaceans. Without these they would remain light brown in colour. WHITE-THROATED TOUCAN (Ramphastos tucanus) These toucans are found throughout the Amazon region of South America. Their huge bill is remarkably strong but very light. They feed on fruit, flowers and nectar. Toucans nest in cavities in tree trunks where females lay between 2 and 4 eggs. – There arem ore than 40 species of toucans. – To keep in balance while asleep, the toucan turns its head so that the long bill rests on its back. – Toucans are able to use their over-sized bills as heat regulators. VICTORIA CROWNED PIGEON (Goura victoria) The Victoria crowned pigeon is the largest species of pigeon in the world. It is found in the lowland forests of northern New Guinea and surrounding islands and listed as a vulnerable species due to hunting and habitat destruction. – Pigeons and flamingoes are unusual among birds in that they produce milk in their crop to feed their young. Crop milk is produced by both female and male birds. ATLAS MOTH (Attacus atlas) The giant Atlas moth is native to the tropical forests of South Asia with a range extending roughly from Afghanistan to New Guinea. It is considered the world’s largest moth with a wingspan measuring up to 30 cm. Despite its size, the adult moth has no mouth and lives off fat reserves built up during its larval (caterpillar) stage. After emerging from its cocoon, the male moth dies within a week. The female though, lives a little longer in order to lay its eggs. – With its feathery antennae the male can detect odor-carrying molecules, called pheromones, released by females at a distance of 5 km away. – The forewings resemble a snake’s head scaring off potential predators. – The females lay up to 200 eggs. RED-NECKED WALLABY (Macropus rufogriseus) A medium-sized marsupial found in the more temperate and fertile parts of eastern Australia. The Red-necked or Bennett’s wallaby is the largest species of wallaby and often confused for the kangaroo. Its thick and coarse fur is medium grey with a patch of red across its shoulder. The large ears can each rotate 180º, as a result it can detect sounds from different parts of the environment. The wallaby is a herbivore and feeds mainly on grasses, leaves and fruit. – The most obvious difference between the wallaby and the kangaroo is size. As a rule, a kangaroo is generally larger than a wallaby. – The front teeth are replaced four times during the animal’s life. – The wallaby is largely a solitary animal, most active at twilight. – Young stay in the pouch for about nine months. BUTTERFLY PARK EMPURIABRAVA c/ Sta. Clara, s/n 17486 Castelló d’Empúries Girona, Catalunya, Espanya ZOO NUMBER: G25/00119 Open every day from 10am till one hour before sunset. Closed on Xmas Day and New Year’s Day. Copyright © 2019 Butterfly Park • Privacy policy • Site by Agència El Corriol	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line898
__label__wiki	0.916527	0.916527	News Sports Politics Opinion For Subscribers NKY Obituaries E-Edition Legals Gresham's absence causes a stir Paul Dehner Jr. pdehnerjr@enquirer.com The big news pregame in Cleveland was Jermaine Gresham landing as a surprise inactive with a toe injury. He ended up a big story in the postgame as well. Marvin Lewis said the fifth-year tight end should be good to go when speaking with reporters on Friday and then looked fine running around and testing it in pregame, but Gresham felt there was too much pain in order to play through it. In the locker room after the game the tight end confronted Bengals radio color analyst Dave Lapham, contending Gresham was called a quitter on the air before the game. The conversation went out over the air and caused a stir on social media. Listen to conversation here This wasn't the first time Gresham was on the edge of playing and opted to sit out. He's now been inactive for six games in his career, in two of those he was listed as doubtful, three times questionable and in Seattle in 2011 didn't play after listing as probable with a hamstring injury. "We put him through his paces before the game and he just felt he was in too much pain to be able to stand it and play out the whole football game or at least the major portion of it," Lewis said. "But he doesn't have anything debilitating … it just cropped up too late in the week to get it calmed down enough so hopefully he'll be ready to go." Gresham is in the final year of his rookie contract and will be a free agent at the end of the season. HAPPY WITH HEWITT: The unsung hero of the 244 yards in the run game Sunday was H-back Ryan Hewitt. Helping make up for the loss of Gresham he played extended snaps as a tight end along with his fullback duties. In all, he took 76 percent of the offensive snaps, most on the year. He caught three passes for 34 yards and plowed the holes for Jeremy Hill and Giovani Bernard. The performance wasn't lost on his head coach a day later. "Ryan has been invaluable all season with his role," Lewis said. "But he continues to excel in everything he's given." He nearly was given his first career touchdown when he slipped behind the defense on a play action pass, but Dalton under threw him for an interception. The efficiency of the running game set up the play, but Lewis knows Dalton can't miss a throw that open that badly going forward. "When it's called and it's there, you don't want to have a foul ball, you know what I mean?" Lewis said. "That was an error. It wasn't a foul ball. … The way the defense unfolded it couldn't have worked out better for that particular play and then we came up short on it."	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line901
__label__wiki	0.946303	0.946303	VIDEO \| UK Charity Week makes Embrace’s single its campaign theme tune A charity single, written in lockdown to raise money for Embrace Child Victims of Crime, has been adopted by UK Charity Week 2020 as its campaign theme tune. UK Charity Week runs from Monday 7 December until Sunday 13 December. The campaign is designed to put charities and fundraising high on the national agenda at a time when statistically people are found to be their most giving. The week-long campaign has daily themes such as Charity BIG Bake, Volunteers’ Day and UK Charity Week’s Christmas Jumper Day and this year the organisers have chosen Embrace CVOC’s We Will Overcome as the theme tune for the week which will be used on all its social media channels. Lee B. Rayment, the founder of the UK Charity Week campaign, said: “It has been an incredibly difficult year for everyone, so it’s more vital than ever that the charity and third sector comes together to raise awareness of the fantastic work it continues to carry out to support communities through these difficult times. “When I first heard We Will Overcome I knew we had to use it because it’s message and the circumstances in which it was written is so fitting for the current times.” We Will Overcome was written by Embrace CVOC’s website designer and host Trevor Jones who is also a singer/songwriter with a studio in his back garden in Cambridgeshire. Trevor wrote and performed We Will Overcome with his daughter Lorien Clark (27), her mother Amanda Clark, actress and singer Michelle Jimenez-Alder, and other musician friends in the last lockdown to raise people’s spirits and raise money Embrace CVOC. The track was recorded through a virtual collaboration of artists across the UK and costs 99p to download. All proceeds go to Embrace CVOC. Father of four and grandfather of one Trevor (49) said: “I wanted to do something positive in response to all the doom and gloom and all the anxiety, uncertainty and fear created by the global pandemic. Everyone is suffering because of being separated from their friends, family and loved ones, and life is extraordinary due to social distancing. Covid-19 has had a big impact on everyone. I know it is a very serious issue, but I wanted to bring some hope and positivity. The message of the song is that this will pass, we will be together again, and together we will overcome these challenges and be stronger for it.” The virtual band also includes West End composer and musical supervisor Gary Hind, who has worked on some of London’s most successful shows including The Lion King, Les Miserables and Sunset Boulevard, Hannah Elizabeth and Griff Jameson from the Cambridge award-winning folk duo Elizabeth & Jameson, Bass guitarist Duncan Kelman, and lead guitarist Adam Chinery from Cambridge. Trevor added: “I’ve always loved music and I’m always in my studio recording something. I wrote the music for We Will Overcome first, and Michelle wrote the first verse. I wrote the second verse, and Amanda wrote the middle 8. Everyone recorded their pieces individually and sent it to me, and I put it all together. Michelle recorded all her vocals on an iPhone, which shows what you can achieve.” Anne Campbell, chief executive of Embrace CVOC, said: “I am delighted that UK Charity Week has chosen We Will Overcome as its theme tune this year. I think it gives a strong message to all UK charities and the communities we support that we will get through this together. “Every download will help us to help those children who have had an extra-tough time in lockdown – because unfortunately there are children within our communities who are living in tense, scary households and need our support. “Many of the children referred to Embrace have experienced violence, sexual or emotional abuse or domestic violence, and by purchasing this single, you will be helping them get the help they deserve.” Embrace CVOC is the only charity in the UK which works solely with children who have been harmed by serious crime. Since its launch In 1993, it has helped thousands of children across the UK who have suffered violent, physical or sexual abuse or neglect or who have last a close family member to homicide. It operates in all parts of the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It delivers a range of support including access to therapy, practical support and emotional support and uplifting experiences for children and their families. You can download We Will Overcome from iTunes https://music.apple.com/gb/album/we-willovercome-single/1517603943. It is also available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B089XLBJ8Z/ ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_Xup4EbQRNR98Y To find out more about Embrace CVOC please visit: www.embracecvoc.org.uk	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line905
__label__wiki	0.502488	0.502488	PARK Afterschool Brochure & Forms Welcome to Youth Programs! Current youth programs are linked below. You can access program information, registration dates and fees by clicking on this link. The current Program Guide for children in grades Pre K - 5 is located on the side menu bar entitled BROCHURES & FORMS. Please refer to it for detailed program information. Most of your questions should be answered in the Program Guide. Category Adult Leagues Adult Programs Special Events Youth Leagues Youth Programs Youth Services Sub Category Class Clinic Fitness Recreation Sports Camp Summer Recreation Swim Lessons - Session 1 Swim Lessons - Session 2 Swim Lessons - Session 3 Tennis Program Youth Enrichment Grade PRE-K3 PRE-K4 K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Gender Female Male Age 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 Facility Andrew Hardings Beach Cape Cod Technical High School Charles Moore Arena Rink Chase Park Chatham Community Center Chatham Elementary School Cockle Cove Beach Com. Center Ball Field Crows Pond Town Landing Depot Road Playground Depot Road Tennis Courts Forest Beach Former Queen Anne Tennis Court Harding's Beach Jackknife Harbor Beach Kate Gould Park Labryinth Lighthouse Beach Middle School Tennis Courts Monomoy Regional High School Monomoy Regional Middle School Nauset Regional High School Nauset Regional Middle School Nickerson Park Oyster Pond Beach Oyster Pond Parking Area Pleasant Street Beach Ridgevale Beach Schoolhouse Pond Sear Road Town Landing Sears Park Skatepark South Chatham Tennis Court Veteran Field Parking Area Veteran's Field Volunteer Park White Pond Beach Instructor Abate, Charlie Austin, Mary Bergquist, Terry Brooke, Foster Burgio, Sandy Cauley, Mary Clobridge, Kathy Collins, Jeffrey Constant, Amanda Crockett, Ali Decker, Michael Delorey, Renee Demello, Mary Ann DiFinizio, Louis - "Lou" DiGennaro, Sharon Dobbrow, William F. - "Sandy" Eizenberg, Maryalice Gada, Frank - "Sonny" George-Bryden, Joy Goldman, Evan Gomes, Araci Halpern, Kathryn Dana Howell, Jeffrey Johnson, Selissa Kew, Nancy Kuntz, Alice Lantz, Bryan Lantz, Alexandra MacDonald, Tina McDowell, Gerry McGraw, Melanie Moore, Margaret Moreton, Andrea Norton, Jennifra Pitta, Jen Proudfoot, Jill Pulido, Numael Quin, Susan Randall, Jonathan Sanders, Christine Scovil, Jessamy C. Seiser, Beth Shackleford, Karen Smith, Erin Spezio, Elaine Stark, Oksana Tuttle, Tom Twomey, Valerie White, Missy Williams, Sue Season Fall Summer Winter Year 2021 Day of Week Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Starts between and Starts between Time 12:00am 12:30am 1:00am 1:30am 2:00am 2:30am 3:00am 3:30am 4:00am 4:30am 5:00am 5:30am 6:00am 6:30am 7:00am 7:30am 8:00am 8:30am 9:00am 9:30am 10:00am 10:30am 11:00am 11:30am 12:00pm 12:30pm 1:00pm 1:30pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 3:00pm 3:30pm 4:00pm 4:30pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 10:30pm 11:00pm 11:30pm and Time 12:00am 12:30am 1:00am 1:30am 2:00am 2:30am 3:00am 3:30am 4:00am 4:30am 5:00am 5:30am 6:00am 6:30am 7:00am 7:30am 8:00am 8:30am 9:00am 9:30am 10:00am 10:30am 11:00am 11:30am 12:00pm 12:30pm 1:00pm 1:30pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 3:00pm 3:30pm 4:00pm 4:30pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 10:30pm 11:00pm 11:30pm Recreation Software by R.C. Systems, Inc.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line908
__label__cc	0.56293	0.43707	- Any -BooksEventsCompaniesNews/TopicsProducts ActualityRelevance Human Resources & Career Markets & Companies Plant Construction & Process Technology Reserach & Innovation CHEManager International Chemicals & Distribution Research / Laboratory New Study Relativizes Talc-Cancer Ties New Study Relativizes Talc-Cancer Ties (c) GVictoria/Shutterstock A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), which found “no statistically significant association” between genital talc use and ovarian cancer, could aid Johnson & Johnson in dealing with its nearly 17,000 pending lawsuits charging that its popular talc-based baby power caused their cancer. At the same time, although this is reportedly the biggest study to date, it might not be a major boon, as the methodology used was not always uniform, and the powders tested (not all from J&J) did not all have the same makeup. There were other flaws in the research, including the small sample of who had ovarian cancer at all among the women whose data was studied. Also, not all of the powders contained talc – some contained cornstarch – and it was unclear if any were found to be laced with asbestos, as has been claimed in some of the J&J lawsuits. Further criticism focused on the fact that the study participants included mostly white, well-educated women, half of whom had a Body Mass Index (BMI) less than 25, so that is not clear if this result can be generalized to other demographics. The research focused on pooled data from 252,745 women in the United States with a median age of 57 years. Among these, 38% said they used powder in their genital area, 10% said they had been doing so for at least 20 years and 22% reported using it at least once a week. In a follow-up after about 11 years, 2,168 of the women had developed ovarian cancer. Comparing the case numbers, the study’s authors said they found an 8% increased risk of ovarian cancer for women who reported ever using talc in the genital area. For powder users with an intact reproductive system, the increase in risk rose to 13% compared with those who never used powders. One comment on the conclusions noted that if future research shows a possible association between powder and ovarian cancer among women who had no history of hysterectomy or tubal ligation, there could be some truth to the hypothesis that the powder may be irritating or inflaming the reproductive tract as there is some correlation between pelvic inflammatory disease and ovarian cancer. Studies conducted in the past have shown mixed results. In 2006, the International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the use of talc in the genital area as "possibly carcinogenic to humans." This is the same agency that classified the key agrochemical ingredient glyphosate as a possible human carcinogen. However, pharma journals noted that this is considered its weakest classification as a cancer cause. For the American Cancer Society, talc's relation to cancer "is less clear. While saying “ there is some suggestion of a possible increase in ovarian cancer risk," ACS said its bottom-line advice is, "until more information is available, people concerned about using talcum powder may want to avoid or limit their use of consumer products that contain it." A J&J spokesperson told the journal Fierce Pharma that the study "drew from data already gathered on tens of thousands of women followed over many years and reaches a conclusion that is consistent with the more than 40 years of independent research and clinical evidence that supports the safety of talc." Dede Wiliams Johnson & Johnson Pharma Stocks Crash on Trump Pricing Hints Bayer and J&J Win Third Xarelto Case Judge Reverses Another J&J Talc Verdict Opioid Makers Angling to Settle out of Court Johnson & Johnson Loses Another Patent Suit Stress Test for The Supply Chain Advancing Sustainable Chemical Solutions Mack Brooks Exhibitions Ltd. Paving the Way for the Recovery of the Fine & Speciality Chemicals Industry Advertising Opportunities Print, Digital & Content Solutions We keep you posted - Subscribe to the CHEManager International newsletter here!	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line909
__label__wiki	0.972515	0.972515	Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/civic-leaders-seek-to-distance-themselves-from-supes-contract-targeted-by-feds/) SUPES Academy Civic leaders seek to distance themselves from SUPES Academy, now target of fed probe By Sarah Karp and Melissa Sanchez \| April 20, 2015 More on SUPES Academy Subscribe to SUPES Academy Mark Van Scyoc/shutterstock.com One of Mayor Emanuel's inner circle has been interviewed by the FBI in connection with the SUPES Academy investigation. Governor Bruce Rauner, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Public Education Fund–the non-profit organization that paid to pilot the initiative at the center of an ongoing federal investigation into the circumstances surrounding a controversial $20 million contract–all sought to distance themselves from the situation on Monday. The Chicago Public Education Fund, a non-profit that Rauner and Emanuel have both been involved with, originally gave SUPES Academy $380,000 to provide coaching to network chiefs and deputies. In a statement issued Monday, the Fund acknowledged that they had been contacted by federal investigators, but said they have been informed that it was “solely as a witness” and not as a target. In 2013, SUPES received a $20 million no-bid contract for principal training that is the focus of the federal probe that has targeted Barbara Byrd-Bennett, who is now on leave from the CEO position. She has not been accused of any wrongdoing. A source tells Catalyst Chicago that in 2011 and 2012, Byrd-Bennett was paid through the SUPES contract with the Fund to provide coaching for then-Chief Education Officer Noemi Donoso, whose position Byrd-Bennett eventually took over. The Fund is a politically connected group made up of Chicago’s civic elite. The 15-year-old organization has funded a variety of projects, from a consultant who helped to write a CPS action plan to staff time at the University of Chicago to help develop the current teacher evaluation system called REACH. In May of 2012, when CPS hired Byrd-Bennett to be the chief education officer, it was widely reported that she had been in Chicago for 10 months doing “executive coaching” and was being paid by the Fund. At the time, the Fund did not refute that, but now officials say that the Fund never paid Byrd-Bennett directly. The Fund was asked by CPS leaders to continue to pay SUPES, but it declined, according to the statement from Fund Executive Director Heather Anichini. Anichini would not say whether the Fund ‘s decision to end SUPES’ funding was connected to quality, the contract itself, or something else. “We work differently than other philanthropies,” Anichini said. “We set very clear expectations for what we want those programs or opportunities to provide for teachers and principals. In cases where those expectations are being met, we continue to work with those organizations.” Since then, the Fund has had no involvement with SUPES, according to the statement. Then, by October 2012, SUPES got its first no-bid contract with CPS for $2 million. In June of 2013, they were awarded the $20.5 million that raised suspicions and led to a Catalyst article that spurred an investigation by the inspector general. Board of Education Vice President Jesse Ruiz, who is a lawyer, was appointed interim CEO. Ruiz sent out a memo to staff this weekend saying that he is asking for a third-party to review the process for awarding single-source bids. At a luncheon on Monday, Rauner at first said that the Fund did not pay for SUPES. Once corrected, he said the Fund did “what the mayor or what the schools leadership wanted to do.” “It was a little bit more of a support group rather than a truly independent group,” he said. “And that was a source of frustration to me over time.” Anichini later said she disagreed with Rauner’s perspective and that the Fund operates independently of CPS. Emanuel said his administration played no role in the contract given to SUPES. Emanuel says he supports Ruiz having the procurement process reviewed. He also said he thinks that Board President David Vitale is doing a good job. Both Ruiz and Vitale voted to award the contract to SUPES. Also on Monday, several groups made up of parents and activists held a press conference at City Hall to call on Emanuel to remove Vitale and board member Deborah Quazzo. Quazzo is a partner in a firm that invests in educational technology companies that are reportedly doing more business with CPS since she came on the board. Vitale was board president for the Academy of Urban School Leadership before assuming the role at CPS. AUSL has a number of contracts to manage schools. “We want a school board with integrity,” said Jeannie Biggs, a CPS parent of three and a board member of Raise Your Hand. “A school board that we can trust and that includes leaders who have the best interests of our children at heart. We do not have that right now.” About Sarah Karp Sarah is the deputy editor of Catalyst Chicago. More by Sarah About Melissa Sanchez Melissa Sanchez is a reporter for The Chicago Reporter. Email her at msanchez@chicagoreporter.com and follow her on Twitter at @msanchezMIA. More by Melissa From police to schools to transit, a crisis of accountability in Chicago As Rahm Emanuel courts flashy projects amid a slew of scandals, it seems the mayor is more accountable to big-money donors than to neighborhood constituents. CPS sues Byrd-Bennett, SUPES pals for $65 million Chicago Public Schools is seeking to recoup money spent on the crooked SUPES contract and other penalties under a state law that allows government agencies to sue individuals who commit fraud against them. Superintendents elsewhere caught up in SUPES Dozens of superintendents and other high-level district officials from across the country consulted for SUPES in the crooked deal that got former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett in trouble. And in some cases — from St. Louis and Huntsville, Ala., to Baltimore and Prince George’s counties in Maryland — those officials work at districts that have also had SUPES contracts.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line911
__label__wiki	0.588224	0.588224	The Limited Use of Statistics and Other Points of View June 16, 2014 admin 0 Comments FEATURED Brad Biggs at the Chicago Tribune answers your questions: “Right tackle seemed to me to be the weakest of the all the offensive starting positions in 2013. I believe an upgrade there would significantly improve the offense. Are they satisfied with Jordan Mills’ potential or is it possible they would look at Kyle Long or Eben Britton there with Brian de la Puente at right guard? Mills looked OK to me for a late-round plug-in, but I didn’t see the long-term potential. – Jim G., from email” “Mills, recovered from foot surgery just after the end of last season, lined up with the starters at Tuesday’s OTA open to media. Barring something unexpected, he’s going to be the player to beat out for that job. Coach Marc Trestman has said there are no plans to switch Long and Britton and de la Puente took turns running with the ones at left guard in place of Matt Slauson, who will be sidelined a little longer following surgery on his right shoulder. “I think Mills has upside as a guy entering his second season. There are a couple things I like about him. For starters, he’s got some nasty to him. Watch him finish blocks, particularly in the running game. He’s also athletic and light on his feet for a right tackle and has long arms. Yes, he needs to get better and as a young players that starts with being more consistent. But in my opinion Mills has taken a bad rap for what to me was a surprisingly poor grade by Pro Football Focus. I’ve got a lot of respect for the work PFF does. Some of their analysis is certainly subjective. We’ve seen plenty of shoddy line play by the Bears in the not-too-distant-past. Remember Bernard Robertson and Qasim Mitchell? J’Marcus Webb never improved, at least on a consistent basis, after his rookie season. Webb got substantially higher grades from PFF than Mills did last year and I think most would agree Webb didn’t pass the eye test.” Biggs points out one of my pet peeves when it comes to the analysis of performance of any player – the over-reliance on statistics. As a research investigator at a university in Chicago, I can tell you that to a large extent – especially in situations like this – you can often bias the statistics to show what you want them to. My Ph.D. advisor used to tell me that if you need statistics to tell you that your results are significant, he wasn’t interested in them. Similar to the situation here, they need to pass the eye test first. Biggs gets a similar question but makes a different point: “Hoping you might put a question to Phil Emery at some point. In light of his talent and athleticism, any thoughts on moving Kyle Long to the tackle position, specifically left tackle? My thinking is he is too talented for guard especially after reading a quote from Gil Brandt where he said “guards are a dime a dozen.” I agree and think Long could excel at left tackle. Jermon Bushrod could move to right tackle and Jordan Mills could compete with James Brown at right guard. The O-line would be improved without adding anyone new. — Robert J., Pompano Beach, Fla.” “I certainly think Long is athletic enough to play anywhere on the offensive line. One of the first questions I posed to coach Marc Trestman back in March at the owners meeting was about Long and where the team planned to play him this season. He said then the plan was to keep him at right guard and nothing has changed to this point. The only difference on the offensive line through OTAs has been Eben Britton and Brian de la Puente lining up at left guard in the absence of Matt Slauson, who is recovering from shoulder surgery. Guards have long been considered one of the non-premium positions on offense and certainly exploring data of contracts by positions would support that. But I can tell you offensive coordinator Aaron Kromer feels very differently about interior offensive linemen. Kromer came from New Orleans where the Saints put an emphasis on their play from guard to guard on the offensive line. The idea is to ensure there is a secure pocket for the quarterback to step up into and deliver the ball.” After watching the Bears offensive line over a number of years, I also tend to agree with this philosophy and although they still aren’t at the salary level of the tackle position, to my eye there has been a rise in demand for good guards over the last decade. Giving up sacks from the outside is bad. But allowing pressure up the middle to consistently get into a quarterback’s face is absolutely devastating, not to mention the effect of weak guard play on the run game. I’ll go with strength up the middle every time. Here’s another good question for Biggs that I hadn’t thought of: “Why do teams keep a dedicated long snapper rather than just having a backup guard/center be the long snapper? — @jackbearmiller from Twitter” “This question has popped in a few times and I think it is important to emphasize that long snapping is a true specialty and needed skill. It’s a precision exercise involving hundredths of a second and pinpoint accuracy. The average long snapper will have the ball in the hands of the punter in 0.75 seconds. Snappers with fastballs can come close to 0.6 seconds and you don’t want the snapper to be slower than 0.8 seconds. It requires good zip on the snap but it’s also imperative to hit the punter in the same spot every time. Accuracy becomes a real issue with backup snappers and one bad snap can swing a game. When special teams coaches evaluate the snap for field goals and extra points, they’re timing the entire operation from the snap to the time the ball leaves the kicker’s foot. A smooth operation should take 1.25 seconds or less. Some operations will take 1.15 seconds but a snap that is off line for the holder can ruin a kick and require an extra half-second. Rule changes preventing a double push by linemen have put an emphasis on edge rushers on field goals. The fastest edge rushers can be unblocked and still not get their hands on a kick that is executed in a clean operation of 1.25 seconds or less. This isn’t a task that a reserve offensive lineman could master and it would be foolish for a team to try to go through a season with anything less than a full-time specialist. A bad snap can cost you 50 or even 60 yards of field position on a punt. A bad snap can cost you three points on a field goal.” Biggs takes another question that I’ve heard allot: “With Kyle Fuller doing well against players like Eric Ebron in college were you surprised to see him on the outside in nickel package? — @rayllis from Twitter” “No. The nickel position is one of the most challenging positions to play on defense. Usually the most successful cornerbacks in the slot are veterans and introducing Fuller to the NFL on the outside probably makes sense. The nickel is a hybrid player as he replaces the strong-side linebacker, so you need someone capable of fitting in the run game. Fuller is considered a physical corner but Tim Jennings has been successful as a run defender. He’s got the short-area quickness and savvy to be productive on the inside. The move makes a lot of sense to me.” Backing Biggs’ opinion up, Dan Wiederer at the Chicago Tribune addesses the issue with Jennings: “It’s an underrated skill and a different feel as a cornerback to slide from the outside into the interior. And while Jennings played inside in his early days in the league with the Colts, since arriving in Chicago he’s been an outside corner exclusively with guys like D.J. Moore, Kelvin Hayden and Isaiah Frey handling the slot duties. “So now comes a different approach. Jennings insisted this week that he has no issues with the push to slide him inside in nickel and dime packages and that he should be adapted to the new role in no time. But again, the responsibilities are different, the vision required is different, the instincts needed are different. “‘You have to be able to see a lot more things,’ Jennings said. ‘You’ve got to be able to see a lot more backfield sets. It’s a lot more reads. There are a lot more keys that you have to get. I’ve got to get used to seeing different people, different formations with my eyes and being able to see different things with my keys. …It’s kind of two-way, run-pass keys. It’s another linebacker position. But you’re just a cornerback so now you’re kind of matched up with the third wide receiver. Yet in certain situations, with certain keys, you’ve got to be able to fit the run like a linebacker.’” I can’t emphasize enough that the Bears are under-going is a complete change in philosophy on the defensive side of the ball when contrasted to the last decade or more. In the past players have been expected to learn one position and play it well. Now they’re being asked to learn more than one position in different situations and to be able to play them all well. That’s much harder. You run the risk of being a jack of all trades and master of none. Remember the Chris Conte mistake that ended the season last year. Although that was more of a miscommunication, don’t be surprised if you see more of those kinds of mistakes, especially earlier in the season. The Bears are taking a huge risk. ← Tough Love for Lance Briggs and Other Points of View World Cup: Americans Open With 2-1 Win Over Nemesis Ghana →	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line912
__label__wiki	0.691181	0.691181	Nunes walks back 'go to your local pub' comments, blames media for creating coronavirus panic Savannah BehrmannUSA TODAY WASHINGTON – Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., appeared on Fox News on Monday night and walked back previous comments where he had contradicted public health experts and encouraged Americans to “go to a local restaurant” during the coronavirus crisis. Sunday, Nunes said, “There’s a lot of concerns with the economy here because people are scared to go out. But I will just say, one of the things you can do if you’re healthy – you and your family – it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant. Likely you can get in easily.” "Go to your local pub," he continued. Nunes' comments came as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, saying people "should prepare to hunker down significantly." However, on Monday, Nunes, who is one of President Donald Trump’s top allies in Congress, said that "media freaks don't have a clue what's going on out in the real world" regarding the outbreak, and claimed that during his Sunday Fox News appearance, he was encouraging people to do drive-thru or takeout. Coronavirus live updates: Restrictions could last months; Canada closes border; McDonald's closing seating areas Many cities around the country are shuttering their restaurants amid the coronavirus outbreak, and only offering takeout options for dining. Also, six counties across the Bay Area in California, the state Nunes helps represent in Congress, issued a “shelter in place” order on Monday for all residents – requiring roughly 6.7 million people to stay in their homes – in an attempt to slow the coronavirus outbreak. In a significant increase in measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus, Trump on Monday issued guidelines that called for Americans to avoid social gatherings of more than 10 people and to limit discretionary travel. Though he stopped short of imposing a national quarantine or curfew, Trump said the country may be dealing with a number of restrictions through July or August as a result of the virus. Trump called for governors in states with evidence of community transmission to close schools in affected and surrounding areas. Bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms and other venues where groups of people congregate should also be closed in states with evidence of community transmission. Coronavirus update: Counties in Bay Area under near-lockdown, affecting nearly 7 million Trump was pressed about Nunes’ comments during the press conference Monday after issuing the stricter guidelines. The president claimed he hadn’t heard Nunes’ encouraging of people to go out to restaurants, but said he “disagreed” with the notion. “We don’t have an order, but I think it’s probably better that you don’t, especially in certain areas,” Trump continued, saying he’d “take a look” at the comments. Nunes added Monday that "media freaks" are the ones "endangering lives" by "continuing this panic when we have no food shortage in this country." The U.S. death toll rose to 85, with more than 4,600 known cases as of Monday afternoon. The global deaths surged past 7,100. Contributing: Gabrielle Canon, John Bacon, Jorge L. Ortiz- USA TODAY. James Ward, Visalia Times-Delta	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line919
__label__cc	0.593151	0.406849	Hamilton Tiger-Cats win random draw for first overall selection of '21 CFL draft CFL balls are photographed at the Winnipeg Blue Bombers stadium in Winnipeg Thursday, May 24, 2018. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods) Published Saturday, November 21, 2020 8:53PM EST TORONTO - The Hamilton Tiger-Cats will have the first selection of the 2021 CFL draft. Commissioner Randy Ambrosie made the announcement Saturday. The draft order was determined by a random draw rather than won-lost records because the league didn't stage a 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Saskatchewan Roughriders will select second overall, followed by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, B.C. Lions, the Edmonton Football Club, Ottawa Redblacks, Toronto Argonauts and Calgary Stampeders. Hamilton will conclude the opening round with the ninth selection overall, the second of two first-round picks acquired from the Montreal Alouettes in the 2018 trade involving quarterback Johnny Manziel. In keeping with the 'snake' format of the draft, Montreal will begin the second round. Hamilton will again have the final pick. No. 18 overall, then begin the third round. The '21 draft will be reduced from eight to six rounds. Also eligible players will have the right to opt out in favour of the 2022 event. The date for the 2021 draft has yet to be determined. Fans mourn passing of Kobe Bryant NBA players and fans pay tribute to NBA great Kobe Bryant. 107th Grey Cup The Tiger-Cats and Blue Bombers battle for the championship. Raps receive championship rings A look at the Raptors' new championship rings.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line920
__label__wiki	0.790739	0.790739	CTMQ > Museums > 207. Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Museum 207. Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Museum THE Kate at The Kate Old Saybrook (Google Maps location) Who doesn’t love a little museum devoted to an impressive and/or famous person? At this one, Cynthia McFadden, the ABC/NBC newswoman who graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Bowdoin College and then received her Juris Doctorate degree from Columbia Law School in 1984 serves as an honorary capital campaign committee member. The Kate McFadden has had help, as the museum was steered by several people, including Mr. Ellsworth Grant. Before he died in 2013, Grant lived a rather impressive life. He was an author of several books, wrote articles for the Courant, served as VP of the Allen Corporation and then founded another manufacturing firm. As a Harvard grad, this was par for the course. Grant served on many boards of directors and founded Combined Health Appeal and Fort Saybrook Monument Park. He was a former president of the Connecticut Historical Society, a founder of Riverfront Recapture, a trustee of local museums and a member of numerous clubs. Oh yeah, Grant served as Mayor of the great city of West Hartford from 1969 to 1974. And, being a West Hartford resident, he was invited to a party in the 1930’s at the house of the good Dr. Hepburn over at 201 Bloomfield Avenue between the Hartford Golf Club and the University of Hartford. The West Hartford Hepburn home. This was one Thomas Norval Hepburn, a urologist at Hartford Hospital. He was married to Katharine Martha Houghton, a feminist campaigner. Both fought for social change in the US: Thomas Hepburn helped establish the New England Social Hygiene Association, which educated the public about venereal disease, while Katharine headed the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association and later campaigned for birth control with Margaret Sanger. Ellsworth Grant met a girl named Marion at that party over at the Hepburns and married her. Such impressive people, these Hepburns. Since I live nearby, I took a few useless pictures of the former Hepburn home. The weirdest one of Hepburn brood was the moody tomboy sister named Katharine. She was a bit of a loner and liked solitary pursuits like golf and swimming. No one thought much of her goals and interests, as most of the other siblings were more interested in law and medicine and things of that nature. I’m sure Marion took pity on her sister, especially after she was the one who found their brother Tom’s lifeless body in Greenwich Village. Katharine withdrew even more after that; even as she later attended Bryn Mawr College which she hated, but went to make her mom happy. Her mom would probably have made fun of her self-portrait though. C’mon, Kate. Flash-forward a few years and she graduated but devoted herself to acting. Katharine was hardly an immediate success. She endured years of starts and stops, acting with tiny little stock companies up and down the east coast – including Connecticut’s Ivoryton Playhouse in Essex, which is very proud of their Hepburn connection. She was fired from as many shows as she was hired for. Every time she made it to broadway, the show was terrible. Hepburn’s Fenwick “cottage” But she pressed onward, landing some roles in Hollywood films, and being featured on Broadway. Live theater success continued to elude Hepburn and my favorite critique was from Dorothy Parker, who said, “She runs the gamut of emotions all the way from A to B.” Feeling badly for his less fortunate sister-in-law, Ellsworth Grant donated some trinkets to the museum. Here’s an Emmy for some TV work in 1975. Katharine’s 4 Oscars are at the Smithsonian. Oh, and she also won the Humanist Arts Award in 1985 for her openly atheist declarations. Hepburn spent years doing bad films and failed stage shows. She developed a reputation for being arrogant and difficult to work with. Somehow, she kept getting cast with actors like Cary Grant and Spencer Tracy, both of whom, of course, kept her career afloat. I love how she had a professional photographer take a picture of her lumberjacking a tree in designer shades and jeans because that’s a good encapsulation of who Kate was. Later, of course, Hepburn went on to great Hollywood success with 12 Oscar nominations for Best Actress (winning 4 times). That’s a record that still stands in 2016. I’m sure I thought this would be funny when I did it in 2011 And later still, Ellsworth Grant and Cynthia McFadden and others got together with the town, restored an old town hall in Old Saybrook, and created “The Kate.” The Kate is a small theater first and foremost, but it also contains the Katharine Hepburn Museum. Do you think this donor chose to be anonymous before or after he or she was told what their money was going to be used for? (The transformation of the building deserves a bit more explanation, but I’ll let The Kate handle that themselves. The fact that is is now, once again, a performing arts center is pretty darn cool – since it was originally builts as such over 100 years ago.) Here’s Ellsworth, former mayor of West Hartford, out on the Sound in boats with his sister-in-law. The museum is merely a collection of some personal artifacts, paintings, posters, and awards. The Hepburn family stayed in Fenwick (the exclusive part of Old Saybrook) for decades, and Katharine lived out her final years at her “cottage” there. Her property allowed her the privacy she strove for and even today, it’s rather difficult to get a good look-see. Painting by Easton, CT’s Everett Raymond Kintsler, who did the official White House portraits of Presidents Ford and Nixon. Supposedly, that hat she’s wearing was Spencer Tracy’s (for whom she held decades-long affection) and was given to Henry Fonda for On Golden Pond. When Hepburn died at the age of 96 in 2003, lots of things went into motion. This cultural arts center and musuem came together quickly. Her childhood home up on the West Hartford/Hartford line, was given to the University of Hartford, at which time the house was discussed as a cultural touchpoint for the region. Oh, and she’s buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford – which offers a really interesting tour. She was the best. That obviously never happened. Her little “cottage” at the tip of Fenwick (at the tip of Old Saybrook) was also put up or sale for $28 million but I know it had trouble selling. This dress was from some movie called Dragon Seed in which Hepburn played a Chinese woman. Because that’s how Hollywood rolls – then AND now. Anyway, this dress was found in the attic at 201 Bloomfield Avenue, sat in office of UHa’s president for a while, then wound up down here for posterity. But Hepburn was a local fixture – despite being a bit of a recluse. She’d go shapping at Walt’s in town and sailing out on the Sound and up the Connecticut River. Moreover, Katharine Hepburn is known all over the world as one of the greatest actors of the 20th century. And that’s pretty cool. Here’s some more from the little museum about THE Kate inside The Kate: The world shared the talent of Ms. Hepburn, but it was the people of Old Saybrook who knew her not as international star, but neighbor. That is what makes the Center special and it is this connection the museum emphasizes with memorabilia and reminiscences about Kate, our neighbor and friend. In addition to many photographs from Katharine Hepburn’s life and career, the museum also features Katharine Hepburn’s Emmy Award, among others, and a self-portrait Katharine painted. The museum is adjacent to the Center’s main lobby and is open during box office hours and performances. The family’s Fenwick estate was destroyed in the 1938 hurricane. Then she took a bath. Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Free Museums, Middlesex County, Old Saybrook, Tiny Museums Marcia Tracy says Ivoryton Theater… you mean the Ivoryton Playhouse, right? Or perhaps “a theatre in Ivoryton, CT” is the right phrase? And Kate still holds the Best Actress nominations record…. several of Meryl’s are for supporting actress rather than lead. All of Kate’s are lead actress. Thanks for the corrections. But now it’s weird because if I fix them above… our comments make no sense. Oh well. What a wonderful place! CTMQ’s Guide to Burlington	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line922
__label__cc	0.550205	0.449795	Support for the Energy Sector in New York State, Part 3: Long-Term Neil J. Alexander This is the third blog in a three-part series about near-, middle-, and long-term impact for the Energy Sector in New York. Improved Siting Process for Renewable Energy Projects Earlier this April, the Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act (the Act) was adopted as part of the New York State 2020 budget. The inclusion of the renewable energy siting and transmission reform in the state budget provides for an improved siting process for renewable energy projects that will help New York achieve 70% renewable electricity by 2030, as required by New York’s 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), while maintaining New York’s environmental and public participation standards. It could also provide a much-needed stimulus after the economic slow-down caused by COVID-19. Building wind and solar and investing in transmission can be part of our state’s post-COVID-19 economic recovery. The Act establishes an Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) at the NYS Department of State; lays out a sensible, stepwise permitting process; and directs the new office to establish standard operating conditions for wind and solar projects. It also has the potential to significantly reduce the amount of time it takes for developers to build renewables, while ensuring a rigorous environmental review process and creating green jobs across the state. Indeed, the new siting rules will ensure that renewable projects larger than 25 megawatts (MW) can receive approval within a year, in contrast to the previous siting process that could take several years or more. The 2020 State budget also provides funding for up to 25 full-time ORES employees. In addition, the Act, which will be codified as N.Y. Executive Law § 94-c: Creates a new New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) program to identify sites that can be made “build-ready” for renewable development, and then transfer the development rights to private developers Creates an Endangered Species Mitigation Bank Fund to support conservation projects Calls for developing a State Power Grid and Study Program to accelerate the planning and build-out of bulk and local transmission and distribution infrastructure Directs the Public Service Commission to establish a distribution and local transmission system capital program for each utility in need of local upgrades in their service territory Authorizes NYPA to pursue transmission projects that are deemed high priority Adds deadlines to the permitting process for transmission, which will include onshore transmission needed for offshore wind development Local governments will have access to intervenor funds, and both they and the public will have the opportunity to participate in the process. All projects must follow local laws unless deemed ‘unreasonably burdensome,’ by the Siting Office in view of the CLCPA targets and the environmental benefits of the proposed major renewable energy facility, which is consistent with the current standard under the Article 10 siting process. It is also noteworthy that any final permit issued by the Siting Office must include host community benefits, which are intended to provide benefits to owners of land and communities where renewable facilities are located. Importantly, the Act eliminates the need to obtain any other state or local approvals, meaning projects greater than 80 MW will no longer need to obtain a separate approval under Section 68 of the Public Service Law. In addition, projects that propose to connect to the electric grid via transmission lines less than 10 miles in length will also be included as part of the streamlined review process and will no longer need to go through the lengthy and costly Article VII approval process. Unfortunately, the Act did not include uniform local property tax assessment methodologies. As such, the patchwork of property taxes and payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreements remains. Renewable energy developers will need to continue to navigate New York’s local taxing and industrial development authorities to set project property tax levels through PILOTs. Hopes for COVID-19 Recovery Last year’s CLCPA requirements, including the mandate of 100% carbon neutrality in the electricity generating sector by 2040, set a high goal, and the Act provides a trajectory to reach those targets. Moreover, building wind and solar and investing in transmission can be part of our state’s post-COVID-19 economic recovery. The renewable siting reform package is a crucial piece of legislation to help New Yorkers recover from this unprecedented health and economic crisis. It will help jump start our economy by creating much-needed jobs and business opportunities, while allowing the transition to renewables to get up to speed. And it provides more certainty to developers in terms of the kinds of conditions they will have to meet, thereby making it easier and faster for these projects to navigate the process. In March, Governor Cuomo revealed details of 21 large-scale solar, wind and storage projects that will bring 1,278 MW of capacity to the upstate region alone. Hopefully, the Act will transform the current renewable siting landscape to timely deliver these projects and more. For more information contact energy@cuddyfeder.com.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line923
__label__wiki	0.957631	0.957631	Work begins at £21m art complex Work begins on Southampton's £21m art complex By Joseph Curtis WORK is underway on Southampton's new £21m arts complex. Mayor Ivan White 'cut the first sod' at a ceremony at Guildhall Square this morning, beginning a development that has been years in the making. Cllr White said: "This has been through all political iterations and all parties are very, very proud of the plans and strongly support construction. "This completes the final part of the jigsaw of the arts square and the cultural quarter." The city council has teamed up with Grosvenor Developments to deliver the complex by Spring 2016. McLaren Construction has been appointed to carry out the work, which will provide film, theatre and dance studios, a contemporary art gallery and educational space. The wider scheme will also create 300 jobs, shops, restaurants and 38 apartments. Simon Armstrong, project director for Grosvenor, added: "We are delighted to reach this point in the project cycle. " This is the first time Grosvenor has worked with the city council and McLaren and we are looking forward to a fruitful partnership and delivering this contract on time and on budget."	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line927
__label__cc	0.505288	0.494712	Meet DeeDee Freeman DELORIS R. FREEMAN, affectionately known as DeeDee, is the wife of Dr. Michael A. Freeman, Pastor and Founder of Spirit of Faith Christian Center, a ministry focused on faith family and finances. Devoted to the vision of the ministry, DeeDee serves alongside her husband to ensure that his God-given assignment is carried out. An example to many, her lifestyle and teachings both inspire and challenge women to develop strong relationships with God and with their families. A champion of healthy marriages, she passionately encourages women to be incubators for their husband’s visions and dreams. DeeDee is an anointed, uncompromising teacher of the Word of God with a passionate desire to see the Body of Christ to have what God intended. A woman of many gifts and talents, DeeDee is an innovator in women’s ministry. As the founder of Women Walking in the Word, a women’s fellowship of over two thousand women, DeeDee is a trailblazer in women’s ministry. Women Walking in the Word continues to grow; more than tripling in size since it’s inception. Committed to fulfilling her role in bringing women together, she also hosts more frequent intimate events, during which time she highlights women’s issues and offers an atmosphere of support and empowerment. DeeDee’s ingenuity and passion for offering unforgettable, life-changing experiences in the Christian community also birthed the God’s Glamorous Girls conference series which impacts the lives of women across the globe through powerful speakers and phenomenal entertainment. Utilizing all avenues to impact and increase the lives of women around the world, DeeDee is also an accomplished author. Her literary works include titles such as, Are you a Real Sistah-Friend?, So What, I’m Still God’s Glamorous Girl and How a Pastor’s Wife Can Help or Hurt a Church Her passion for women and her vision for Dee’s House of Hope was the catalyst for her pursuit of a master’s degree in Human Services and minor in Christian Counseling, DeeDee has set out to open Dee’s House of Hope, a transitional home for battered women. Through Dee’s House of Hope, DeeDee and her team will offer a multitude of essential resources and services to battered women in an effort to propel them and their children into successful futures. DeeDee’s role as mother and grandmother yields incomparable joy. The mother of three lovely children: Brittney, married to Kevin Borders, Joshua, husband to Kesha, and Brelyn who is married to Timothy Bowman, Jr. She is the proud grandmother to Dakota Lindsey, Demi Leilani, and Joshua, Jr., whom she and Dr. Mike believe are the most adorable “grand-kisses” in the world! DeeDee attributes her success to God, her parents and the continual leadership and support of her husband. Brittney Borders (Daughter), Kevin Borders, konner, levi, Demi & Dakota Josh Freeman (Son) and Josh, Jr. Brelyn Bowman (Daughter), and Tim Bowman, Jr.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line932
__label__wiki	0.852384	0.852384	Unions exempted from state bill stopping midyear drug-coverage changes Health Pulse Team A state bill to stop health plans from changing their drug formularies in the middle of a contract year met resistance from organized labor, so unions are being exempted. The bill is intended to prevent insurers from stopping coverage of drugs or increasing how much consumers must pay out of pocket for medication in the middle of a contract, when patients can't switch to another plan. The issue has pitted patient advocacy groups and drug companies against insurers and businesses, which fear the legislation could prevent them from managing costs using formularies. Labor unions let the Legislature know they wanted to maintain their leverage to negotiate drug prices, prompting the Assembly to add an amendment to its version of the bill that says, "The provisions of this section shall not supersede the terms of a collective-bargaining agreement, or the rights of labor-representation groups to collectively bargain changes to the formulary." Sen. Neil Breslin will add the amendment to the Senate version of the bill, which he sponsors, a spokesman for the Albany Democrat said. "We're just happy to have their support of the bill," the spokesman said, referring to the unions. "Prospects are very high that we will be able to get this done this year." Lev Ginsburg, senior director of government affairs at the Business Council of New York State, said the amendment creates a "ludicrous" double standard that could hurt small businesses. "Our concerns are cost-driven. We're very sensitive to anything that would raise premiums higher," Ginsburg said. "If it's not good policy for the unions, why would it be good policy for private employers and the everyday New Yorkers buying on the individual market?" More than 40 patient advocacy groups—including the AARP, the Arthritis Foundation, the American Lung Association, the Global Healthy Living Foundation and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society—have fought for the bill in each of the past four years. It passed the Assembly four times but failed each year in the Senate, which had been controlled by Republicans. With the Senate now led by Democrats, patient advocates are looking for the measure to pass. One obstacle was concern from the Civil Service Employees Association and the New York State United Teachers, which were worried that the bill would prevent their insurance plan from making formulary changes that could help control costs. It's that same flexibility that insurers want to preserve that is driving their opposition to the bill. "When you've got drug manufacturers increasing the prices multiple times in the same year, restricting health plans to changes no more than once a year would make it much more difficult to manage prescription-drug costs," Eric Linzer, president and CEO of the New York Health Plan Association, told Crain's this month. The bill would affect state-regulated commercial insurance plans but not Medicaid managed-care plans or self-funded employer plans, which are regulated by the federal government. Corey Greenblatt, manager of policy and advocacy for the Global Healthy Living Foundation, which promotes the interests of people living with chronic illnesses, said his organization continues to support the bill. "We have no real issue with the amendment, because it doesn't impact the core of the bill," Greenblatt said. "This is about getting labor unions on board—which will reduce the chance of a veto from the governor." —Jonathan LaMantia State offers $27M for nursing home transition assistance The state Department of Health is offering $27 million for a nonprofit to assist nursing home residents with transitioning to living in the community of their choice. The department issued a request for proposals to administer a statewide network of transition centers, which help with resolving barriers to discharge and obstacles to successful living in the community. To do so, the network provides re-entry education, peer outreach and support, and targeted education and outreach to all nursing homes in the state. Trained peers help identify people who want to leave institutional settings. Transition assistance exists as part of the state's Money Follows the Person program. The MFP program has aided in shifting health care priorities away from institutional care toward long-term care in the community, the department stated in its request for proposals. The program, it added, "has served as a focal point to increase access to home- and community-based services for eligible Medicaid recipients, older adults and individuals with physical and developmental disabilities." New York is one of 44 states that have participated in the program, the department said. Between 2008 and mid-2018, nearly 5,000 New Yorkers transitioned to living in the community of their choice through MFP. The department said it expects that $5.4 million per year for five years will be available to award one contract for administering the transition assistance. The initiative is supported by a combination of federal and state funding, the department said. —Jennifer Henderson Three Bronx nursing homes to consolidate into one The Bronx Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare has received approval from the state Public Health and Health Planning Council to absorb two smaller nursing homes and perform a $57.2 million renovation to expand its 200-bed facility. All three for-profit homes are managed by Centers Health Care and operated by Kenneth Rozenberg, its CEO. Centers Health Care manages more than 50 nursing homes in New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Missouri and Kansas and provides consulting services to other facilities. The Bronx Center plans to add 46 beds from the University Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing near Fordham University and 77 beds from the Williamsbridge Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in the Morris Park section of the borough. The nursing homes are consolidating because the smaller ones are outdated and residents will be able to get access to additional amenities at the renovated site, Centers Health Care said. After the consolidation, the Bronx Center will have 323 beds. The nursing home plans to build a 4-story extension next to its current 6-story building—a project that will allow the center to provide all double-bed rooms. Some of the facility's floors now have rooms with four beds. When assessing impact on patients, the department noted that all three homes are within 5 miles of each other. During peak traffic times, though, it can take more than 30 minutes to travel from the University Center to residents' future home at the Bronx Center. At a hearing last month on the project, Tracy Raleigh, director of the state Department of Health's Center for Planning, Licensure and Finance, said the department supported the application. "It's going to enhance the resident experience," Raleigh said. —J.L. United Hospital Fund looks to help providers partner with local organizations The United Hospital Fund has developed a framework to help primary care providers screen their patients for social determinants of health and then partner with community-based organizations to respond to those needs. Providers in New York are increasingly screening for social determinants of health, such as inadequate housing and food as well as poverty. But the process of screening patients, referring them to organizations for services and following up to determine outcomes is complex, the fund said. The fund's framework outlines how providers can select a screening tool, develop a realistic workflow and identify appropriate organizational partners. It also provides guidance on how providers can build and maintain relationships with organizations. For instance, primary care providers may want to consider previous working relationships with community-based organizations, the capacity the organizations have to accept and serve additional patients, and the cultural alignment the organizations have with patients in selecting partners, according to the fund's report. Partnerships, the fund further noted, should be based on clear expectations when it comes to service levels, accessibility and feedback. "By collaborating and coordinating our efforts, we can make a more meaningful difference in the lives of disadvantaged populations," said Dr. Anthony Shih, president of the fund, in a statement. However, challenges remain when it comes to technology and return on investment. "The lack of a common technology platform for connecting health care providers and CBOs, constrained resources for social services and the absence of a compelling financial case regarding a return on investment are all factors likely to be rate-limiting," the fund stated in its report. "The potential of Medicaid and value-based payment systems to create a sustainability 'solution' is raising hopes, but those hopes may not be completely fulfilled." —J.H. WHO'S NEWS: Dr. Michael Doyle has been named executive director and chief medical officer of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley, part of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network. Doyle, a U.S. Army veteran, previously was vice president of medical affairs at Vassar Brother Medical Center in Poughkeepsie. Earlier in his career, he was deputy commander of Keller Army Community Hospital in West Point. VACCINES: The Partnership for New York City, a leading city business group, is pushing state lawmakers to pass a bill that would ban non-medical exemptions to vaccine requirements. HEALTH REFORM: Venture capitalist Bob Kocher and former CMS Administrator Donald Berwick proposed a set of solutions in Health Affairs that could be used to improve affordability, access and quality of care in the absence of Medicare-for-all reform. The proposals include limiting hospital and drug prices and expanding reinsurance programs. PSYCHIATRISTS AND MEDICAID: Fewer psychiatrists have been accepting Medicaid even though expansion of the program has provided more patients mental health coverage, Reuters reported, citing a new research report in JAMA Psychiatry. The percentage accepting Medicaid was just 35% in 2014 to 2015, down from about 48% in 2010 to 2011. 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__label__cc	0.599971	0.400029	Many restaurants have closed in response to COVID-19. (Ashley Wadhwani/Black Press Media) A study by Morneau Shepell points to economic uncertainty in the pandemic as the cause for angst Scott Tibballs The mental health of Canadians has undergone a steep decline and a slow recovery amid the turbulence of 2020, according to a recent report released by research company Morneau Shepell. Comparing provinces, Alberta is the most anxiety-ridden, with B.C. close behind as the third most troubled in the country. The study, which drew on data collected from 3,000 Canadians in an online survey, compared reported mental health to a benchmark set at the start of the year. Economic uncertainty was singled out as the primary driver of an overall negative mental health score for Canadians generally, with younger Canadians and workers in the hospitality industry hit the hardest by not just the bite of the pandemic, but the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement. Morneau Shepell’s Paula Allen said, “Without question there are a few industries (that) have been more negatively impacted and seem to have a slower recovery.” Suffering some of the worst mental health effects were Canadians in industries those associated with tourism and hospitality, reflecting the nature of months-long government-mandated limits on travel and eating out, with workers in those sectors returning consistently low scores. The data cutting across age cohorts showed that Canadians between 20 and 29 are suffering the worst mental health declines in 2020 compared to the beginning of the year, while older Canadians are relatively laid-back by comparison. Allen said that the report showed that the pandemic was primarily being seen as an economic destabilizer. “The younger you are, the more it has impacted you from an economic point of view … one would think as you get older and approach a more vulnerable group from an infection point of view that you should be more anxious, but we’re not seeing that.” Allen stressed the importance of taking on the uncertainty of 2020 in a coordinated way, saying that it wasn’t something that individuals can approach “one day at a time,” and getting out of the rut that is 2020 will take a lot of personal resilience, support from private companies looking after workers and government initiatives. “(It’s) critically important for everyone to realize that we’re all in a position of risk. There is really no one that hasn’t been touched by the pandemic.” Looking around Canada, the data revealed Alberta is the most anxious Canadian province as of July (-13.4) while the folks in Newfoundland and Labrador are relatively chipper at -4. British Columbians had a score of -10.5, the third-worst in the country. “Manitoba in particular has seen extensive improvements between June and July,” said Allen, who explained that as a first-mover on mental health support, the province was reaping the benefits. Allen was optimistic but cautious about the recovery of Canadians’ mental health, saying that while the country is still feeling blue at the same time scores were slowly improving, the scars of 2020 would continue well into the future. “This is the health issue of our time. The potential for the mental health impact of the pandemic to outlast the impact of the actual virus is almost certain.” Coronavirusmental health B.C. Appeal Court prevents Victoria woman from using the term ‘death midwife’ in her job	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line937
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__label__wiki	0.920873	0.920873	Twitter is bringing in a new subscription-based platform which is going by the name ‘Gryphon’ Arooj Ahmed apps, Business, news, Social-Media, Technology, Twitter Twitter has confirmed that is has been working on a subscription-based platform codenamed “Gryphon”. It has also posted two job listings for the upcoming platform which also confirms Gryphon’s existence. The first job description and requirements posted on Twitter’s careers portal says that the social media giant is looking for full-stack engineers to work with its Payments and main Twitter platform. However, all the details about the subscription-based platform remain unclear and are not yet revealed. The job listing introductions reveals itself as a new team which is codenamed “Gryphon”. The description also reveals that the team is focused on building a subscription platform that can be reused by the others in the future. It also added that such a project is first for Twitter. Gryphon is described as a team of full-stack engineers who are closely working and collaborating with Twitter.com and the Payments department. The engineers hired will lead the client to work for Subscription and Payment divisions. They will also be hired on the basis of whether they value working together and in collaboration as much as Twitter does so that they can act as a bridge for the engineering team. Officials also said that it is a great opportunity for all teams involved in the project. The second job position is that of a backend Scala engineer (engineers specializing in Scala programming language), but this position is no longer accepting new applications. It is revealed that the team will be collaborating to rebuild some of Twitter’s services in order to produce a subscription management platform. It is also added that the Payments platform is a cross-organizational collaboration between different teams at Twitter. After the news about the subscription-based platform broke, shares of Twitter rose by more than 8%. This move can be a way for Twitter to boost its revenues, which currently comes primarily from data licensing and ad sales all over the platform. Estimated at $3.46 billion, Twitter’s revenues increased by 14% year-over-year (YOY) in 2019. It was detailed by The Verge that Twitter previously considered offering subscriptions as a paid service for power users. Users would have to pay for services like access to new analytics, information about account’s followers’ tweets, and alerts about the latest and breaking news. However, the core service in itself would remain free of cost. At that time, Twitter was considering a $20 per month worth of a subscription fee. The Verge also noted that Twitter could be working on a completely different project as well, which could be like Twitch (an online site that allows users to watch or broadcast live streaming or pre-recorded video of the broadcaster’s gameplays). Users can also subscribe and pay to the broadcasters for access to exclusive content) competitor, allowing users to subscribe to various accounts for their exclusive content. Read next: Twitter is Testing Collaborative Fleet To Give Users More Reasons To Stay on Its Platform Labels: apps Business news Social-Media Technology Twitter Iam an experienced web content writer who loves to cover trendy and latest news. More than it I have written alot of blogs and Amazon listing. Writing is my passion so looking forward for better opportunities to fill the writing world with my own pen. Words Counter digitalinformationworld.com (c)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line941
__label__cc	0.529735	0.470265	Saintly Parents Raise Saintly Children By CHRISTIAN AND CHRISTINE MEERT (Editor’s Note: The following story is part of a year-long series commemorating the 15th anniversary of the Diocese of Colorado Springs’ Office of Marriage and Family Life.) In a time when Pope Francis has to remind parents to teach their children and the whole family to say three words — “please,” “thank-you,” and “I’m sorry,” — it’s good to look to saintly parents who raised saintly children. Two such parents are Saints Louis and Zélie Martin, who were canonized together by Pope Francis on Oct. 18, 2015. The Martins were the parents of St. Thérese of the Child Jesus, a Doctor of the Church, and Léonie Martin, who is on her way to beatification. The Martins are also the patron saints of parenting. What can we learn from their lives? Like many parents today, both of them worked. Zélie Martin had a flourishing lace business by age 25, which was not common for that time period. Louis Martin joined her in the business after they were married. Louis and Zélie began each day by attending Mass and loved to spend time in eucharistic adoration. The couple also served the poor and the sick. But they also knew how to enjoy themselves. Louis, in particular, was a great singer and imitator. He brought joy to the family by performing bird songs, reading stories and providing other entertainment after dinner. Their lives certainly were not devoid of hardship, however. For one thing, none of their sons lived to adulthood. However, in spite of their losses, the Martins did not try to dissuade their daughters from entering religious life. In fact, they did everything they could to foster their children’s vocations. All five of their daughters entered the convent. In his homily for the Mass of their canonization, Pope Francis said of Louis and Zélie Martin: “The radiant witness of these new saints inspires us to persevere in joyful service to our brothers and sisters, trusting in the help of God and the maternal protection of Mary. By saying yes to God in the mundaneness of our daily life and work, as Sts. Louis and Zélie did, we pave the way for courageously saying yes in life’s bigger or more difficult moments.” The Martins are the Patron Saints of the Office of Marriage and Family Life of the Diocese of Colorado Springs. One-hour presentations on their life are offered to parishes upon request. For more information, contact christian@catholicmarriageprep.com.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line942
__label__wiki	0.889031	0.889031	Senior ED Adviser King on NCLB, Race to Top, and Coming In As Things Wind Down By Alyson Klein — March 11, 2015 6 min read John King, the “senior adviser” who is essentially serving as the deputy secretary of education, went from one tough edu-job—state school chief in New York—to another, second in command at the U.S. Department of Education at the tail end of the Obama administration. The department and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have launched a lot of bold and politically tricky initiatives during President Barack Obama’s tenure. Now officials are trying to land the plane. So what are King’s plans and priorities as the administration draws to a close? Both halves of Politics K-12 sat down with him to find out. Below, in Q&A fashion, is a summary of a 30-minute conversation we had with King on Tuesday afternoon. How did King wind up in the education field to begin with? King seems to have had K-12 education as his birthright, in a way. He grew up in New York City, where both of his parents were educators. King’s mother passed away when he was in elementary school, and his father developed Alzeihmer’s, making for a really tough home life. It was a teacher, Alan Osterweil, who helped give him confidence and challenge him academically, through grades 4, 5, and 6. At that time, “school took on this very central role in my life,” he said. “At a time when life at home was very unstable, school was great,” he said. The experience moved him, he said, to pass on to other children what Osterweil had taught him. He began volunteering with K-12 students while in college and eventually became a teacher, and a principal. He later led a network of high-performing charter schools (called the Uncommon Schools) in Massachussetts, New Jersey, and New York. His early experiences have helped shaped his policy views, including when it comes to educating poor and minority students. “I was blessed to have teachers who invested in me and saw possibility for me,” he said. “Teachers could have looked at me and said here’s an African-American male Latino student with a home life in crisis in an urban public school and what chance does he have? But instead they looked at me and they saw an opportunity to help me grow academically and provide a supportive environment and so the question I think for our country is how do we ensure schools are doing that for every child?” What exactly is King’s portfolio as a senior adviser who is basically the deputy secretary? King oversees the Education Department’s pre-K through 12 work, which includes everything from special education and English-language learners, to innovation, human resources, and IT. And he doesn’t seem to think that whether or not he gets congressional confirmation makes a big difference. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, he said, “is laying out a vision,” and it’s up to the rest of the staff at the department to execute on it, he said. During much of Obama’s first term, many folks criticized Duncan for not surrounding himself with enough (or any) top advisers who had deep experience at a state education agency. Now, he has two former state chiefs serving in key roles: King and Deborah S. Delisle, the assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education. So how is King planning to help Duncan work with states on everything from prekindergarten to No Child Left Behind Act waivers? King noted that many of the administration’s initiatives rely on states to develop policy and support for districts. “I think it’s important that we are mindful of both what we are asking of states and the kinds of supports that states need,” he said. “One of the challenges for many is capacity. ... Do they have the capacity to effectively support their districts in taking on really challenging change? There are states that are demonstrating tremendous progress, and there are states that clearly need additional support, and I think part of our role is to help states get their work done with districts. And also to try to foster and support their innovative leadership. When states have creative solutions to problems, we should help clear the way for them.” King is coming in at a time when the Obama administration no longer has $100 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to encourage states to adopt its vision of education redesign. How does he plan to guide policy without having that kind of money to work with? King talked about the department’s plans to release research and evidence to show what’s worked in the Investing in Innovation, or i3, program, which is meant to scale up promising practices at the state and district level. The department will also be looking at other competitive grant programs, including Race to the Top, to identify best practices. And he talked about the president’s proposed additional funding for i3 and the First in the World Fund, which is a kind of i3 for higher education. In his role as commissioner of New York schools, King played an integral role in the securing the state’s $700 million Race to the Top winnings. What does King see as the key successes of the administration’s hallmark education competition? What could have gone better? (One note: King was only able to address Race to the Top in general, not New York specifically). King noted that, at this point, more than 40 states are pursuing standards aimed at preparing students for higher education and the workforce. (Many states adopted the Common Core in part to be competitive for Race to the Top.) And he said states are using their Race to the Top dollars and other funds for extensive professional development, including training aligned to Common Core State Standards and other high standards. He also noted the program’s focus on low-performing schools, and revamping teacher preparation, evaluation, and support. (That’s pretty much everything that has to do with the program.) But what about the fact that many Race to the Top states have scaled back the time table or ambition of their teacher-evaluation systems, ditched the assessment consortia funded through the program, or reconsidered the common core standards altogether. Does King think that the department has gotten its money’s worth? “Race to the Top was intended to be seed funding to galvanize states taking on raising standards. It’s not the federal role to prescribe standards,” King said. Still, most states are moving toward expectations aimed at preparing students for college and the workforce. “Will states tweak their standards? Absolutely. But we have momentum toward higher standards.” What has the department’s role been in shaping the bipartisan draft being negotiated by Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act? King said the department has been clear on its vision for reauthorization, both in a January speech from Duncan, and in a lot of subsequent appearances. (Those include increased resources for early learning and a continued focus on the lowest performing schools.) Plus, he said the administration is in regular communication with folks on Capitol Hill. Is King worried that if there is no reauthorization, the next president could issue waivers from the law that would supersede those of the Obama administration? For instance, a potential President Rand Paul could issue waivers for states that are willing to embrace vouchers. Does King think the department opened up a can of worms by issuing waivers? King said he thinks there’s a lot of “bipartisan momentum” around much of the department’s agenda, including investing in early learning. And he says that groups representing education officials, such as the Council of Chief State School Officers, have put forward plans to rewrite the law that mirror pieces of the department’s agenda, including when it comes to maintaining annual testing. So it sounds like he thinks that states will want to keep pushing on those policies even if a new administration has other priorities. Speaking of early learning, what’s the Obama administration’s vision when it comes to early learning and a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind Act, the current version of the law? In a perfect world, King said, the administration wants to see the president’s big “Preschool for All” program added to the law. But if that doesn’t happen, the Obama folks at least want “real resources and meaningful progress toward the goal of expanding early learning.” No Child Left Behind Act Department of Education	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line944
__label__wiki	0.833049	0.833049	James McSherry (2) Jurist, son of the author James McSherry; born at Frederick, Maryland, 30 December, 1842; died there 23 October, 1907. He received a collegiate education to the year before graduation at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland, but was compelled to leave there in 186I on account of his outspoken Southern sympathies, being arrested and confined for a time at Fort McHenry, Baltimore. He studied law in his farther's office and was admitted to the bar on 8 February, 1864. On 26 February, 1866, he married Miss Clara Louise McAleer, by whom he had six children. In l887 he was appointed chief judge of the circuit court for Frederick and Montgomery Counties and, as such, a member of the court of appeals of the State, and was elected for the full term on 8 November, 1887, without opposition. Judge McSherry was appointed chief justice of the court of appeals on 25 January, 1896, which position he filled with distinction until his death. The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon Judge McSherry by Mount St. Mary's College in 1904 and by the University of Maryland in 1907. J.P.W. MCNEAL	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line952
__label__cc	0.502413	0.497587	§1.181-4 Special rules. (a) Recapture—(1) Applicability—(i) In general. The requirements of this paragraph (a) apply notwithstanding whether an owner has satisfied the revocation requirements of §1.181-2(d). An owner that claimed a deduction under section 181 for a production in any taxable year in an amount in excess of the amount that would be allowable as a deduction for that year in the absence of section 181 must recapture the excess amount as provided for in paragraph (a)(3) of this section for the production in the first taxable year for which— (A) For any pre-amendment production, the aggregate production costs of the production exceed the applicable aggregate production costs limit under §1.181-1(b)(1)(i) or (b)(2); (B) For any pre-amendment production, the owner no longer reasonably expects (based on all of the facts and circumstances at the end of the current taxable year) that the aggregate production costs of the production will not, at any time, exceed the applicable aggregate production costs limit set forth under §1.181-1(b)(1)(i) or (b)(2); (C) The owner no longer reasonably expects (based on all of the facts and circumstances at the end of the current taxable year) either that the production will be set for production or that the production will be a qualified film or television production; or (D) The owner revokes the election pursuant to §1.181-2(d). (ii) Special rule. An owner that claimed a deduction under section 181 and disposes of the production prior to its initial release or broadcast must recapture the entire amount specified under paragraph (a)(3) of this section in the year the owner disposes of the production before computing gain or loss from the disposition. (2) Principal photography not commencing prior to the date of expiration of section 181. If an owner claims a deduction under section 181 for a production for which principal photography does not commence prior to the date of expiration of section 181, the owner must recapture deductions as provided for in paragraph (a)(3) of this section in the owner's taxable year that includes the date of expiration of section 181. (3) Amount of recapture. An owner subject to the recapture requirements under this section must, for the taxable year in which recapture is required, include in the owner's gross income as ordinary income and add to the owner's adjusted basis in the property— (i) For a production that is placed in service in a taxable year prior to the taxable year for which recapture is required, the difference between the aggregate amount the owner claimed as a deduction under section 181 for the production for all such prior taxable years and the aggregate depreciation deductions that would have been allowable for the production for such prior taxable years (or that the owner could have elected to deduct in the taxable year that the production was placed in service) for the production under the owner's method of accounting; or (ii) For a production that has not been placed in service, the aggregate amount claimed as a deduction under section 181 for the production for all such prior taxable years. (b) Recapture under section 1245. For purposes of recapture under section 1245, any deduction allowed under section 181 is treated as a deduction allowable for amortization. [T.D. 9551, 76 FR 60728, Sept. 30, 2011]	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line955
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__label__cc	0.675234	0.324766	Hannibal Buress Arrested After Asking Miami Police to Call Him an Uber (Plus Some Other Stuff) Taylor Swift Cozies up to Joe Alwyn at the Jingle Bell Ball Hollywood Takes to Social Media to Support Keaton Jones An intoxicated Hannibal Buress was arrested on Saturday night in the Wynwood district of Miami. According to an arrest affidavit obtained by TMZ, police officers reported that Buress approached them with bloodshot eyes and alcohol on his breath. The comedian asked the officers to call him an Uber. When they refused, Buress became “angry and belligerent” with the police officers. Asked to leave the area, the 34-year-old stand up comedian instead walked into the nearest bar. The officers followed him in asking him to go home because he was too drunk. Exiting the bar, Buress caused a scene by yelling profanities at the officers, resulting in a crowd gathering around the police and the comedian. The cop reported asking Buress to leave five times before putting him in handcuffs. When told by one of the officers to get in the squad car, Buress responded, “No, I’m not getting in your car. Unless you have probable cause for anything… take the handcuffs off of me. I didn’t do anything. I’m not getting in your car.” Video footage shows an officer going around to the other side of the car to pull Buress into the vehicle while the other one shoved him in. Initially, the Miami police officers said they were detaining Buress for trespassing. However, the arrest was made due to disorderly intoxication. On Sunday morning around 6 AM, Buress was released on a $500 bond. Later that day, he posted on Twitter to let everyone know how he was faring following his run-in with the law. https://t.co/bjyOWEZ5Io — Hannibal Buress (@hannibalburess) December 11, 2017	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line962
__label__cc	0.526156	0.473844	Home » Philosophy Tibetan philosophy Tibetan philosophy developed from the texts and assumptions of Indian Buddhism and almost exclusively in the Buddhist sphere, offering interesting solutions and developments to the Madhyamaka, Pramāṇavāda and, to a lesser extent, Yogācāra currents. Some key concepts used by contemporary interpreters of Indian and Buddhist philosophy, such as the distinction between a svātantrika and a prāsaṅgika current in Madhyamaka, and the notion of «root text» (mūla) of a certain school, dating back to Tibetan scholasticism. In the self-representation of their own tradition, Tibetan thinkers give a decisive role to the debate held in bSam yas towards the end of the 8th century, during which it was decided what form of Buddhism to adopt in Tibet. In opposition, there were the gradualist current, of Indian origin, linked to Śāntarakṣita and Kamalaśīla (Madhyamaka) and which was the winner of the debate, and an instantaneist one, of Chinese origin and linked to Chan Buddhism. Instantaneism then remained a constant key of interpretation and was applied to various forms, always minor, of Tibetan Buddhism. The idea that no practice was needed to achieve awakening (bodhi) was proposed to bSam yas, since Buddha’s nature is already present ab initio in everyone and it is only necessary to realize it through a form of intuitive anagnosis. On a more properly philosophical level, central to Tibetan philosophy is the debate among the supporters of «emptiness in itself» and «emptiness of what is other» (śūnyatā). Three of the four major Tibetan religious schools, the Sa skya, the bKa’ brgyud and the rNying ma, adhere to the Madhyamaka interpretation called «emptiness of what is other», which maintains that the absolute is devoid of all conceptual and dependent superimpositions, and therefore «empty» with respect to these, but not empty in itself. Nāgarjuna’s writings – according to this interpretation – would deny any reality at the level of conventional reality (saṃvr̥ti-satya), but not at that of absolute reality (paramārtha-satya). This would consist of knowledge (in Tibetan ye shes) that goes beyond the distinction between subject and object and is identifiable with the nature of the Buddha beyond its historical manifestation. This interpretation is decisively opposed by the dGe lugs school, from whose ranks come the great thinker Tsong kha pa (1357-1419), who accused supporters of the «emptiness of what is other» of turning Buddhism into a substantialist philosophy. Tsong kha pa, therefore, adheres to Candrakīrti and the Madhyamaka current prāsaṅgika. However, Tsong kha pa himself opposes Pa tshab and his disciples, who, following the current prāsaṅgika, deny any proposition of Nāgārjuna’s tetralemma claiming that everything neither «exists», nor «does not exist», nor «exists and does not exist». This representation, according to Tsong kha pa, is self-contradictory and does not explain what is learned by the means of valid knowledge (pramāṇa). If, in fact, each object is ultimately empty and illusory, there is no distinction between the content of correct knowledge and that of an error, that is, between a vase and a piece of nacre that is mistaken for silver. In order to avoid such consequences, Tsong kha pa specifies the first two propositions of the tetralemma, which therefore states that everything neither «exists from the point of view of absolute reality» nor «does not exist from the point of view of conventional reality». In Tibetan monastic universities the cursus studiorum is composed of epistemology (pramāṇa), Prajñāpāramitā, Madhyamaka, Vinaya, and Abhidharma (Theravāda). For epistemology, Tibetan philosophy develops its own literature, called bDus grwa, while the last five topics are studied on the basis of Indian texts, but through manuals based on the terminology of the bDus grwa. This develops discussions about vyāpti (anumāna), denial and classifications of correct or erroneous knowledge based on a Sautrāntika ontology as represented in Dharmakīrti. Constant is the attention to produce formally correct definitions and their use in debates. Especially in its beginnings, connected to the figure of Phya pa (1109-1169), the bDus grwa elaborates areas of investigation separate from those dealt with in India, while Sa skya Paṇḍita (1182-1251), one of the most important thinkers of Tibetan philosophy, strives to bring epistemology within the mark of Dharmakīrti. Developed in Tibetan philosophy is also the theory of apoha.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line963
__label__cc	0.710698	0.289302	What are the different types of light sensors? December 8, 2020 By Nikhil Agnihotri Light sensors or photosensors, which are designed to measure light intensity, are one of the most commonly used sensors in electronic applications. Light intensity is one of the seven base physical quantities. The measurement of light intensity is useful in many consumer, industrial, and security applications. What is a light sensor? A light sensor is a photoelectric device that converts light energy into electrical energy. These sensors are designed to be sensitive to visible, infrared, or ultraviolet light, which means they’re sensitive to a narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum. Light sensors are built from selective materials that generate electricity on exposure to a specific part of the spectrum. The amount of electricity is proportional to the intensity of the incident light. Units of light intensity Light intensity is one of the seven base physical quantities. Its “SI” unit is candela. One candela is the luminous intensity in a given direction of a source, which emits monochromatic green light of 540×1012 hertz and has a radiant intensity of 1/683 Watt per steradian in the same direction. Candela is often used to indicate the intensity of artificial lights. Other units include lumen and lux. Lumen is the unit of luminous flux and measures the total amount of light emitted by a source. It’s defined as the amount of light emitted per second over a solid angle of one steradian from one candela’s uniform source. Lumen is often used to indicate the brightness of light sources. While lumen is a unit used to express the total amount of light from a source, lux is the total amount of light from a source incident on a particular surface area. One lux is equal to one lumen of the light incident per square meter. Types of light sensors Light sensors are mostly passive devices. They’re categorized into two classes: 1. Generates electricity on exposure to light (i.e., photoemissive and photovoltaic devices) 2. Conducts electricity on exposure to light (i.e., photoconductive/photoresistive and photojunction devices) One of the best examples of a photovoltaic device is a solar cell. A phototube is a photoemissive device. A light-dependent resistor is a photoconductive/photoresistive device. Photodiode and phototransistor are popular photojunction devices. However, it’s important to note the differences between these mechanisms. Photoemissive devices are built from photosensitive materials, such as cesium, which generates free electrons on exposure to photons. These devices generate current when exposed to light. The higher the frequency of incident light, the greater the energy of the incident photons, and the higher is the amount of electric current generated. In photovoltaic devices, the difference between two semiconductor materials is generated in response to incident light energy. Due to these potential differences, the current flows between the two semiconductor layers. Photoconductive devices are built of semiconductor materials that are conductivity changes based on exposure to light. Due to the energy absorbed from the incident light, more free electrons are generated and the conductivity of such materials increases. The most common photoconductive material used in LDR cells is cadmium sulfide. Photojunction devices are built from typical semiconductor materials, such as silicon or germanium. They operate like any normal diode or transistor except that their PN-junction is exposed to light and conduct when subject to light. The response of a photodiode or phototransistor is tuned to a specific range of the electromagnetic spectrum. A light-dependent resistor (LDR) or photoresistor is made of a photosensitive semiconductor that’s conductivity changes when exposed to the light. The material’s resistance is in several thousand ohms or mega ohms in the dark and falls to a few hundred ohms when subject to light. The semiconductor material is often laid in a zigzag pattern over a ceramic substrate to increase the dark resistance. The semiconductor materials typically used for constructing photoresistors are lead sulfide (PbS), indium antimonide (InSb), lead selenide (PbSe), and cadmium sulfide (CdS). Cadmium sulfide is the most common material used in the construction of LDRs. It’s a low-cost semiconductor with a response curve that closely matches that of the human eye. The peak sensitivity wavelength of cadmium sulfide is 560 nm to 600 nm. Generally, LDR is used for the detection of light or dark. It can be connected in a voltage divider network with a transistor circuit or a microcontroller/microprocessor. It can also be connected to a Wheatstone Bridge with an operational amplifier circuit. A photodiode is a photojunction device. It’s a normal diode with its PN junction exposed to light through a transparent case or a clear lens. These diodes have the same voltage-current characteristics as any other junction diodes. But they have higher conductivity than conventional diodes because their junction is open to light exposure. The photodiodes are connected in a revers-bias configuration, which conducts a reverse leakage current in the dark. When the photodiode is subject to light, the reverse leakage current is increased multiple times. The reverse leakage current of a silicon diode in the dark is 1 uA. That of a germanium diode is 10 uA. On exposure to light, the reverse leakage current can shoot as high as 300 uA. The higher the intensity of incident light, the higher goes the reverse leakage current. LDRs or photoresistors have a long response time. They may take several seconds to change conductivity after exposure to light. Photodiodes, on the other hand, have an instant response. Although an LDR is tuned to the visible spectrum of light, photodiodes are sensitive to both visible and infra-red lights. The biggest disadvantage of photodiodes is that their reverse leakage current is still in the micro-ampere range – even when subject to light. Therefore, they require an operational amplifier circuit for light detection. Photodiodes have a response time in nanoseconds. These are used in sophisticated applications including cameras, imaging and scanning devices, CD and DVD readers, optical fiber communication, motion detection, and positioning sensors. Phototransistors are similar to photodiodes except they provide amplification to the current. These are generally designed using normal NPN transistors with their collector-base PN junction exposed to light via a transparent case or a clear lens. Due to current amplification, their output current is 50 to 100 times greater than photodiodes. The base region is electrically isolated or has control for sensitivity. As phototransistor already provides current amplification, unlike a photodiode, and requires no external amplifier for its operation. A phototransistor is simply a typical transistor with a base-collector exposed to light. The NPN phototransistors are connected in a circuit with their base-collector in a reverse-bias configuration. In the dark, there’s a small leakage current from the emitter. When exposed to light, the base current increases and is amplified by the transistor. The sensitivity of a phototransistor depends on the DC gain of the transistor. The output current can be controlled by the resistance between the base and the emitter of the phototransistor. For higher sensitivity applications, such as optocouplers, Darlington phototransistors are used. In Photodarlington transistors, two NPN-type phototransistors are connected as a Darlington pair. The output current amplification is the product of the current amplification of the two phototransistors. Photodarlington transistors have a longer response time compared to phototransistors but offer higher sensitivity. The phototransistors are typically used as optical switches, optical isolators, or infrared filters, and in IR remotes and optical-fiber communication. Solar cells or photovoltaic cells are not sensors. They’re mainly used for generating solar energy and are made of single-crystal silicon PN junctions, similar photodiodes but with a broader response curve. Unlike photodiodes connected in a reverse-bias configuration, solar cells are connected in a forward-bias configuration much like typical diodes. These cells are designed to be sensitive to sunlight instead of a narrow range of the electromagnetic spectrum. When exposed to solar radiation, a cell generates a potential difference of 0.58V. Typically, several solar cells are connected in series in a panel to output a greater voltage. This DC voltage can drive a resistive load or be converted to AC for transmission. Applications of light sensors LDRs, photodiodes, and phototransistors are commonly used as light sensors in a variety of applications. Examples include: brightness adjustment in mobile devices, automatic lights, automatic irrigation, optical isolation, fiber optic communication, motion detection, IR remotes, position sensing, optical data, and optical imaging. Light sensors are also used for security applications and home automation. For example, they’re often used in shipment cargo to detect at what times the container was opened to track lost goods. Some light sensors are also used for motion detection in many smart home security applications. What are the AMBA protocols? What is the Z-Wave protocol? What is the HART protocol? 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__label__wiki	0.93413	0.93413	Langley leads 75 qualifiers into Amateur match play Berkshire’s David Langley shot 14-under par over 36 holes to lead the qualifiers into the match play stages of the English amateur championship at The Berkshire. A total of 75 players – the leading 64 and ties – made it into the knockout as heavy rain dampened the scoring in the second round and the cut fell on level par. But Langley ignored the conditions to add 68 on the Red course to his remarkable first round of 10-under 61, which is a new record for the Blue. “It filled me with confidence but I knew I needed to forget about it and start afresh today,” said the 23-year-old from Castle Royle (image copyrght Leaderboard Photography). “In a way the tough conditions helped me forget about yesterday because it was so different. It really was a grind.” Despite the rain and gusting wind he played the front nine beautifully in three-under and worked his way home in one-under, with his only bogey on the 17th. He finished the qualifying three ahead of the field, but now the slate is wiped as the matchplay gets underway. Langley will be drawing on his experience in the Amateur Championship, when he reached the third round, beating such opponents as world number nine Connor Syme. “I like match play and I’ve played a lot growing up. I think the Red course is one of the best courses in England and for match play it’s even better with the variety of holes. You could be a couple up with four or five holes left and still have a lot of golf to play. I’m really looking forward to it and I can take confidence from the Amateur.” The second seed is Surrey’s David Corben (Hindhead) who returned five-under 67 on the Red, continuing his form of yesterday when he played his second nine in six-under 29. “I pretty much had it stuck on the stick. Today wasn’t quite so pretty but it was reasonably effective,” said Corben who was spurred on by playing partner Tom Sloman who went round in seven-under 65. “I just followed Tom. He led with a few birdies and I tried to keep up!” added Corben, who is a fan of The Berkshire courses, having been second, third and fourth in the prestigious Berkshire Trophy. Corben who works full time as a financial equity trader last played in this championship on 2009, when he lost to Eddie Pepperell. Sloman (Taunton & Pickeridge, Somerset) is just back from the Netherlands where he won the U21 Dutch Junior Open – and booked a place in the KLM Open on the European Tour. He’s brought his good play with him, qualifying in third place on nine-under par, and credits his results to keeping his temper. “I’ve stayed quite calm,” he said. “I haven’t in the past, I used to get angry, but I’m just trying not to care and it’s much better,” he said. Also on nine-under are Andrew Wilson (Wynyard, Durham) and Todd Clements (Braintree, Essex). Castle Royle is clearly a competitive golf club. As well as Langley, two other members have qualified for the matchplay: Aaron Siddell, 18, who is eight-under, and Tim Shin on two-under. Defending champion Dan Brown (Masham, Yorkshire) made his way safely into the knock out on six-under.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line965
__label__wiki	0.521853	0.521853	Policy Fellow (USPIRG) In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, we want to assure you that U.S. PIRG is actively hiring for this position, and we welcome your applications. Our mission is to advocate for the public interest—to speak out for a healthier, safer world in which we're freer to pursue our own individual well-being and the common good. Whether it’s working to stop the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture, addressing our country’s plastic waste crisis, or alerting people to threats in the marketplace, the problems we work on aren’t progressive or conservative. They’re just problems that our country shouldn’t tolerate any longer. We have a 45-year track record of winning laws and policies that make a real difference in people's lives. Take clean air for example. Deaths from air pollution dropped nearly in half between 1990 and 2010. The laws and policies that we won to limit pollution from power plants, cars and other sources helped save tens of thousands of lives. If you are ready to roll up your sleeves and win more results for the public, we’d love to hear from you. What It Means to Be a Fellow You won’t just sit behind a desk. You’ll be out in the real world, working to protect consumers and enable citizens to lead healthier, safer, more secure lives. You’ll be recruiting new groups to join a coalition, speaking in a church basement or town hall to win a new endorsement, organizing a news event or rally, meeting with an editorial board, or doing whatever else it takes to get results. You’ll run a grassroots campaign office each summer during your fellowship where you’ll hire and manage a staff of 20 canvassers to raise money, build our organization and membership, and help win one of our key campaigns. This is a one-year program, expressly designed to prepare future leaders with U.S. PIRG. We look for smarts, leadership experience, top-notch written and verbal skills, and an eagerness to learn. We value organizing experience, including building campus groups. The target annual compensation for this position is $28,000- $30,000 in the first year. U.S. PIRG offers a competitive benefits package. We also offer an excellent training program and opportunities for advancement. Locations & Start Dates We’re currently hiring for positions in Boston, MA and Washington, DC. If you’re flexible, you can apply for multiple locations. We accept applications on a rolling basis. Positions start in August 2020. Please apply here: https://jobs.uspirg.org/apply_32.html?utm_source=Emerging-Practitioners-in-Philanthropy&utm_medium=web-ad&utm_campaign=USPspring2020&utm_term=32&utm_content=Policy-Fellowship-with-National-Nonprofit. One of our partners is hiring short term campaign staff to help register and get out the vote on Election Day. The Student PIRGs is hiring Organizers in over 16 states to help get out the youth vote. Learn more here at www.StudentPIRGs.org. U.S. PIRG is part of The Public Interest Network, which operates and supports organizations committed to a shared vision of a better world and a strategic approach to getting things done. Visit https://jobs.uspirg.org/core-values.html to learn more. Right now, U.S PIRG is working to ensure that everyone who needs a COVID-19 test gets one. The pandemic has affected thousands of Americans, and killed dozens already, but doctors still can’t get tests for those that need it. Please take action by calling on the new testing chief to adopt a plan that will help ensure that everyone who needs a test gets a test: https://uspirg.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=37037. U.S. PIRG is an equal opportunity employer. Los Angeles-based positions: U.S. PIRG will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring. Jobs_washington_dc Jobs_Boston	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line967
__label__cc	0.688686	0.311314	‘Meat’ the regulators who tackle the tough questions Today I want to talk about how federal regulators do their jobs. Let me stop you right there before you point out that the federal government is shut down right now and assure you that I know that but that I have faith it will reopen at some point—I hope it happened by the time you read this!—and all the regulators will get back to doing what they do. Longtime readers probably already know that, even as a lawyer representing and defending the regulated industries, I have never shared the oft-heard view that ‘government’ is always a problem and ‘regulations’ are always a scourge. More specifically, I don’t think more regulatory controls are always the solution to problems, I support any effort to seek more efficient regulatory means to an end, and fight hard against wrong or unfair regulations. But I am not a cynic about regulatory agencies and personnel as such. Without regulations, our nation would be a less predictable, less fair, less convenient, and less safe place to live. In fact, in my experience, people who work for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other federal and even state agencies tend to be dedicated, careful, smart people who make every reasonable effort to do their jobs in a way that complies with legal requirements, often in the face of budgetary restraints or uncertainties that do nothing for them but make their jobs harder. Not to overstate the obvious, regulators generally have great familiarity with the laws and regulations that they are supposed to implement. Regulations of all kinds contain requirements, specifications, definitions, limitations, procedures, and exceptions, and the regulators are pretty well familiar with all of those and can handle routine matters without hesitation. Ah, but problems can arise for regulators, and the regulated industries, when they are confronted with out-of-the-ordinary, new products or procedures that challenge the traditional categories and definitions, so it isn’t obvious how they should be regulated. (In the worst position of all are the beleaguered lawyers who try to advise these companies. Sniffle.) Thus, FDA knows how to regulate food contact substances in packaging, as food additives in most cases, but innovative active and intelligent packaging doesn’t always obviously meet the traditional definition of ‘food additive’ or ‘food contact material,’ and requires some extra thought to determine what regulatory requirements apply to them. Another example: FDA knows how to regulate drugs and how to regulate medical devices, but some years ago when the pioneers of medical science figured out how to combine drugs with devices, FDA had to work through what to do when confronted with so-called combination products such as stents that let out drugs in the body. And a number of agencies, including FDA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Environmental Protection Agency, have attacked the problem of updating how products of biotechnology are to be regulated, whether from plant or animal origin, in an effort to keep up with innovation. The agencies have also developed specific policies to address the unique issues presented when traditional substances are intentionally engineered to contain nano-scale particles. A fair argument could be had about whether FDA in particular is too slow to accept innovative technologies, or even to figure out what it thinks of them. My sense is that they pedal as fast as they can on such questions, given the limitations on resources that force them to constantly make and revisit priorities. Thus it is that the emergence of cell-cultured food products from cell lines of livestock and poultry, that is, lab-grown meat, one of the most far-out and innovative ideas of recent decades, has challenged the relevant regulators. After all, the FDA regulates most of the foods in the U.S. food supply, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture regulates meat and poultry products, so it wasn’t obvious which one should take responsibility. These cell-cultured food products allow growth in a laboratory of what otherwise would be grown in, you know, an animal. Several companies are already developing commercial products of this type. In addition to figuring out how and whether the creation of these foods should be overseen or controlled, regulators recognize that the retail labeling of these products needs special attention, so as to inform consumers accurately, especially given that right now you can see this technology variously described as lab-grown meat, fake meat, imitation meat, in vitro meat, among other names. FDA has experience, to quote its recent statement, with “regulating cell-culture technology and living biosystems,” and USDA has “expertise in regulating livestock and poultry products for human consumption.” The agencies, after hearing from public stakeholders via a public meeting last year and written public comments, developed a division of labor for these new cell-cultured foods. The agencies announced in November of last year that they will create “a joint regulatory framework wherein FDA oversees cell collection, cell banks, and cell growth and differentiation. A transition from FDA to USDA oversight will occur during the cell harvest stage. USDA will then oversee the production and labeling of food products derived from the cells of livestock and poultry.” The brave new world of cell-cultured meat promises to bring genuinely mind-blowing, innovative new products to our lives, just as has happened with many other innovative technologies. As you watch it happen, pause to acknowledge the important role of the regulators who, rather than being cowed by the challenges, do their best to help steer these innovations to market to assure they are safe and fair, and risks stay low. (Apologies for the puns, which are indeed intended.) PW Eric Greenberg can be reached at [email protected] Or visit his firm’s Web site at www.ericfgreenbergpc.com. INFORMATIONAL ONLY, NOT LEGAL ADVICE.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line969
__label__wiki	0.62905	0.62905	Page 91 of 91 « First < 41 81 88 89 90 91 09-10-20, 06:10 PM #3601 Cormack74 Interesting article on Michael Gough who many cricket fans may be unfamiliar with even though he's far and away the best umpire in the world - well at least according to the stats. What's the secret to being the best umpire in the world? Cleaning your ears, according to Michael Gough. The 40-year-old Englishman won praise for his near faultless judgement in England's Test series wins over West Indies and Pakistan this summer. In fact, he has been brilliant for longer than that. Since 2018, Gough has a 93% success rate on decisions referred to the TV umpire. The next best umpire is Sri Lanka's Kumar Dharmasena with 79% In an interview with the BBC World Service's Stumped programme, Gough reveals why he makes so few mistakes, how retiring as a player at the age of 23 helped shape his second career, and the importance of keeping those ears clean... "Probably the most important things to an umpire are your eyes and your ears," explains Gough. He says he makes sure "the little things like ears are always clean, so I can hear" and he does "a lot of work with my eye muscles". "I do that throughout the day, just to give myself every single chance - as some people would say, the little one-percenters that can make so much of a difference," he adds. Gough also reviews those decisions he got wrong, although there have been precious few in recent years. He says: "Sometimes when I've made an error, I look at it and think: 'How did I get that sort of decision wrong? What was the thinking? What was the thought process at the time? What was I actually seeing? Was I thinking about something else?'" Gough also puts much of his success down to keeping fit. "Fitness is a big thing for me, especially in lockdown now, so I've started a lot more running," he says. "It means I can concentrate longer; I don't feel as tired at the end of the day. I feel as all my senses are a lot clearer - vision and sound." A promising right-handed opener and useful spinner at Durham, Gough captained England Under-19s and played for England A. In 2002, he averaged more than 50 in first-class cricket, but the following year, aged only 23, he quit a sport he had long since stopped enjoying playing. After trying to make it as a semi-professional footballer -"there were some scouts coming to watch me but at that age - 23 - you tend to be seen as a bit of an older man" - Gough ended up working in his father's sports shop. "I didn't know what real life was like. You don't realise how much is done for you when you're a professional cricketer. I had to go back and actually work for a living, which was a bit of a challenge," he says. Watching the famous 2005 Ashes between England and Australia was a "turning point" which reignited Gough's love for cricket. He remembers: "I thought: 'I'll just give the umpiring a go.' It was one Sunday afternoon and I absolutely loved it. I just thought this could be something to make a bit of a career out of. "I never really got the best out of myself as a player. I didn't really work hard enough. I didn't really motivate myself. I never dedicated myself enough to my profession. "When I was fortunate enough again to get into umpiring and the world of officialdom, I just wanted to make sure that I gave myself the very, very best chance to succeed and do well at this level." Gough has certainly achieved those goals. He won the Professional Cricketers' Association umpire of the year award - as voted for by county cricketers - an unprecedented eight years in a row from 2011 to 2018, made his international debut in 2013 and was elevated to the International Cricket Council's elite panel of umpires in 2019. With rules that prevent umpires officiating in Tests involving their native country relaxed this summer because of coronavirus, Gough was able to stand in four of England's six Tests, and was TV umpire for the remaining two. Asked about his thought process for making decisions, Gough says: "I always find that if I give myself a little bit of time and not rush into it, generally I make the right decision more often than not. "Sometimes you just have to go with your gut instinct as well. That's the biggest thing for me - if I go with my gut, nine times out of 10 I'm right. "I just go out in the middle to do the job to the best of my ability. Sometimes the luck's on your side." Send a private message to Cormack74 Find More Posts by Cormack74 destinydude Ben Stokes just scored a hundred off 59 balls in IPL vs Mumbai Indians and won RR the game. 107*(60). 14x4; 3x6. Patience when teased often, transforms into rage Send a private message to destinydude Find More Posts by destinydude Whilst Marlon Samuels is a bit of a prick, his online feud with Stokes is amusing to me. Will also add these incidents to my catalogue of problems he's had with black players. I've stated my 'Stokes is a racist' theory earlier in the thread and I obviously can't prove it and having problems with people of other backgrounds doesn't mean you're racist but the contempt people have towards him is eye-opening. Whilst Samuels can be deliberately confrontational, his poorly worded messages could be interpreted to have racial undertones. It's not like he goes around saying stuff like that to other opponents. I wasn't aware of the feud but having looked at this most recent incident I'm not sure how it could interpreted that Stokes is the racist here. Samuels comes across as rather vile. Obviously in this situation Samuels is the aggressor (unnecessarily so) but some article I read a few days ago quoted Samuels as saying 'superior skin tone' and something to do with 'hate in his heart'. As I say, I don't have proof and am most definitely putting random pieces together so my theory holds no real substance. Just wouldn't be surprised if something comes out or occurs over the next few years. Most of what I'm saying is based on separate interviews with Rabada and Bavuma in the 2015 series. I don't know, they sounded like they were furious with him over something ongoing - since then I've just noticed a few subtle things over the years. Again, doesn't mean anything. 19-12-20, 10:59 AM #3606 Yozza India 36 all out v the Aussies “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” Bob's Miserable Bastards Club Member #2 Send a private message to Yozza Find More Posts by Yozza Originally Posted by Yozza It was incredible to watch after yesterday's wrong call to run. Maybe they were worried about Australia's borders closing again! Brilliant 4th innings by the Indians to get a draw. And Paine and Wade making twats of themselves giving it large but both having poor games Originally Posted by Cormack74 Really well batted. Couldn't stop laughing when Paine dropped a fairly regulation take after he had so much to say to Ashwin with the stump mic turned way up too. Couldn't have happened to a better lot. Blimey - forgot this started today First innings 135 all out First innings 112 - for 2 wickets (38.0overs) England trail Sri Lanka by 23 runs with 8 wickets remaining Dressed up as Batman? I know Burns is at home for the birth of his child, but where is Ollie Pope? Fucking chances, goals Send a private message to Shaggy Find More Posts by Shaggy Ollie Pope is back batting in the nets following surgery on a dislocated shoulder suffered during England's last Test of the summer against Pakistan; the 22-year-old batsman is not in the squad to face Sri Lanka but is hoping to play a part in the series against India in February. Some of the SL wickets were pure slapstick...	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line970
__label__wiki	0.642918	0.642918	Nine more NFV documents opened for industry comment Santa Clara, 1 August 2014 At the 7th meeting of ETSI’s Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Industry Specification Group (ISG), co-hosted by Citrix and Ericsson in Santa Clara from 29 July to 1 August 2014, nine draft NFV documents were released for industry comment, a new leadership team was elected and plans for the next phase of NFV were laid down. The nine draft documents made openly available for comment this week will together complete the first release of NFV when published at the end of the year. The ISG NFV has adopted a policy of making draft specifications openly available to the industry in order to encourage feedback. The documents released this week describe an infrastructure overview, the virtualized network functions architecture and the compute, hypervisor and infrastructure network domains. They also cover management and orchestration, resiliency, interfaces and abstractions, and security. These drafts are now available for industry comment from http://docbox.etsi.org/ISG/NFV/Open, and will be completed and published before the end of 2014. As well as focusing on the technical content of the first release at this meeting, plans for the content and structure of the second phase of NFV were discussed and laid down. The main objectives of this next phase are to build on the achievements made in the first two years of the ISG and include interoperability, formal testing, as well as working closer with projects developing open source NFV implementations. The activities will include both normative and informative work. NFV ISG has chosen a new management team to carry the group forward. Dr Steven Wright, of AT&T, was elected as chairman, and Mr. Nakamura Tetsuya, of NTT DoCoMo, was chosen as vice-chairman. Both are elected for a period of two years. Dr. Wright commented “I’d like to thank the outgoing chair, Prodip Sen, and all the ISG participants, for their hard work to bring the ISG to this point. I look forward to assisting the ISG as it continues to progress towards its goal of an open NFV ecosystem with interoperable implementations.” The ETSI NFV ISG held its first meeting in January 2013. Since then it has grown to over 220 participating organizations, with over 300 delegates attending this last meeting. The first five ETSI Group Specifications resulting from the NFV ISG’s work were published in October 2013. ETSI produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, aeronautical, broadcast and internet technologies and is officially recognized by the European Union as a European Standards Organization. ETSI is an independent, not-for-profit association whose more than 700 member companies and organizations, drawn from 63 countries across five continents worldwide, determine its work programme and participate directly in its work. Ultan Mulligan	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line972
__label__wiki	0.719853	0.719853	EVERGREEN FINE ART Gallery & Sculpture Garden ©T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts/UMB Bank Trustee/Licensed by VAGA, New York. Evergreen Fine art is proud to offer original oil paintings, works on paper and lithographs for sale direct from the estate of Thomas Hart Benton. Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. Benton paintings included sculpted figures, distinctly stylized and fluid works of art that focused upon the working class as a usually underrepresented group of people. Many of the murals he created dealt with subject matter commonly attributed to a Midwest lifestyle and are packed with complexity and energy. Benton enjoyed a long career. He studied in Paris, lived in New York, and had many milestones such as his famous murals. Thomas Hart Benton continued to work until his death in 1975, and his paintings are still viewed by millions each year in museums around the nation. Desert Country Oil, 5 x 6, Original Frame, signed Ink wash and Gouache on paper 9 x 12, framed Repairing the Sloop Lithograph, ed 250, 13 3/4 x 18, 1973 framed, signed Apache Reservation Ink, graphite and sepia wash on paper 7 1/2 x 9, framed, signed Indian with Braids 12 x 19, framed, signed and dated '26 9 x 12, framed, signed Graphite on Paper, 5 x 8, framed, signed Farmyard Scene Graphite on paper, 11 1/2 x 15 1/2, Ink, graphite, gouache and sepia wash on paper, 9 x 12, framed, signed and dated '28 Desert Still Life with Skull Oil, 7 1/2 x 10, framed, signed Wyoming Autumn Lithograph, ed 250, 17 x 23 1/4, 1974 Acclaim - Michigan Communists Ink, graphite and ink wash on paper (featured in life magazine 7/26/1937) Hands Holding Tobacco Graphite on paper, 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 Horses, Wagons Near Tower Graphite on paper, 7 x 9 Graphite on paper, 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 Lithograph, ed 150, 19 x 16, 1971 Utah Desert with Horse Wyoming Landscape 9 x 12 framed, signed Osage River Graphite on paper, 17 x 12 Two Trains and Running Horse Graphite on paper, 11 1/2 x 15, framed Crooked Road and Tree 13 7/8 x 9 7/8, framed, signed 5 Figures - 3 Holding Two Horses by Windmill 12 3/4 x 12 1/2, framed, signed Two Cowboys by Fence Graphite on paper, 9 x 12, 5 x 7 1/2, framed, signed View the Southwest Art Magazine Preview Here An extraordinary chapter in American art history is about to be opened at Evergreen Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, giving lovers of both art and history an unprecedented chance to possess their own unique page of our nation’s cultural heritage. At 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 9, gallery owners Barb Hadley and Phil Shanley will be pleased to unveil “Legacy”, a remarkable collection of original works and lithographs by painter, muralist and iconic American artist Thomas Hart Benton. “These pieces all come directly from his family estate, and many of them have never before been offered anywhere,” says Hadley. Born in 1889 to a prominent Missouri political family, Thomas Hart Benton studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and went on to study in Paris alongside such renowned painters as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. He would in later years become a cherished professor and mentor to a young artist destined to become famed abstract impressionist Jackson Pollock. Short of stature, famously pugnacious and fiercely loyal to his friends, in the 1920’s Benton joined American laureates Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry in spearheading the powerfully representational Regionalist movement. He traveled the country’s byways alone, amassing a poignant treasury of images marking the nation’s growing industrial mastery and celebrating the unsung working classes that made it possible. Although Benton was best known for his powerful depictions of the Midwest, many of his most memorable works portray the people and places of the South and the distant West. Benton died at his easel in 1975, and his estate came under the stewardship of the UMB Bank in Kansas City, Mo., which has offered his works for sale on behalf of the Benton family only sparingly and, until now, only through selected Eastern and Midwestern galleries. Late last year his best-known work, a majestic mural entitled “America Today”, found a permanent home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, becoming the only occupant of a grand chamber constructed solely for its display. Composed of 10 broad floor-to-ceiling panels, “America Today” presents a broad and balanced picture of the Union as it lived and breathed in the 1930’s, and provides a comprehensive tutorial on Benton’s unmistakable artistic style – complex fields, strong forms and distinctively fluid shapes that excite the eye with energy and motion. Thomas Hart Benton holds a place of reverence in galleries, museums and private collections the world over, and in “Legacy” he will at last be directly available to Rocky Mountain admirers. UMB Bank has generously entrusted to Evergreen Fine Art an exquisite assortment of Benton originals including oil paintings still snug in their original frames, powerful and pristine lithographs, and a wonderfully intimate and diverse portfolio of drawings that trace Benton’s footsteps on his journeys across a much younger America. “It is unusual to have this concentration of Benton’s work available for sale to the public,” Shanley says. “We’re privileged to be able to offer the works of such a significant American painter right here in Evergreen, and grateful to UMB Bank for giving us that opportunity.” Gallery Hours: By Appointment Evergreen Fine Art - 3092 Evergreen Parkway, Suite 100 - Evergreen, CO 80439 - (303) 679-3610 - efa@evergreenfineart.com © 2019 by Evergreen Fine Art Gallery. All rights reserved. Note: information presented on evergreenfineart.com is subject to errors, omissions, price changes or withdrawal. Graphite on paper, 8 1/2 x 9 5/8 framed, signed $13,800 ©T.H. 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__label__wiki	0.981456	0.981456	FIRST FLEET CONCERTS Presented By First Fleet Concerts Blues Traveler and JJ Grey & Mofro Doors: 5:30 PM / Show: 6:30 PM Lauridsen Amphitheater at Water Works ParkDes Moines, IA Blues Traveler and JJ Grey & Mofro will be performing at Lauridsen Amphitheater at Water Works Park on Thursday, July 1st, 2021. 30 years ago, the four original members of Blues Traveler, who had known each other since their early teens -- John Popper, Chandler Kinchla, the late Bobby Sheehan and Brendan Hill -- gathered in the basement of their drummer's parents' Princeton, NJ, home and the seeds were planted for a band who has released a total of 13 studio albums, four of which have gone gold, three platinum and one six-times platinum. Over the course of its illustrious career, Blues Traveler has sold more than 10 million combined units worldwide, played over 2,000 live shows in front of more than 30 million people, and, in "Run-Around," had the longest-charting radio single in Billboard history, which earned them a Grammy® for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Their movie credits include Blues Brothers 2000, Kingpin, Wildflowers and others. A television favorite, they have been featured on Saturday Night Live, Austin City Limits, VH1's Behind the Music and they hold the record for the most appearances of any artist on The Late Show with David Letterman. "We started this whole adventure as a team," says Brendan Hill. "We've taken every step of this as a group together, from the basement to moving to New York, getting signed, hiring a manager, to achieving all our goals." "I'm a firm believer that rock and roll keeps you young," adds co-founding member Chan Kinchla. "Because I don't feel any different than I did when we started, even though I've got a wife, two kids and all kind of life in between. We still go back to that mentality we had as kids, smoking pot and learning to jam. We had our first epiphanies about music together. This is a real family affair." "The way the songs have held up moves me," admits legendary frontman Popper, who has gotten down to a svelte 280 from a high of 436 after a gastric bypass 10 years ago, which he admits saved his life. "We've really got nothing but love from our audience. If something has quality, it's constantly reconsidered through the ages. And that's what we're doing this for... posterity. We've never been 25 before, so having this kind of retrospective, as songwriters, it's an opportunity for long forgotten songs get their day in court." From the suburbs of New Jersey, Blues Traveler moved to New York in the late '80s, where they became part of a jam-band scene that packed clubs like Nightingale's, McGoverns and Kenny's Castaways, where they would share the bill with Spin Doctors and Phish. Represented early on by Bill Graham and son David, Blues Traveler's live reputation led to a deal with A&M Records, for whom they released their self-titled debut, which produced songs like the hit "But Anyway," "Gina" and "100 Years," eventually going gold simultaneously with the album Four. The following year came Travelers & Thieves, also now gold, with songs like "What's For Breakfast." The subsequent gold release Save His Soul followed in 1993, with songs like "N.Y. Prophesie," whose lyrics were actually co-written by John's Hungarian father, Robert. The recording, and resulting tour, was marked by Popper having to sing from a wheelchair, the result of a motorcycle accident that almost took his life and destroyed the band, which led to a deeper investment from A&M to help support the band during a mettle-testing period in their career. The band's Four, released in 1994, was a watershed moment for the group, eventually selling more than six million albums on the strength of the singles "Run-Around" and "Hook." "The fact we had that success in the middle of our career, rather than early on, was beneficial because it opened doors to a whole new audience that we continue to court today," says Hill. The band's next album, the now-platinum Straight on till Morning, released in 1997, produced the memorable "Carolina Blues," a longtime staple of Blues Traveler's live show. After that, tragedy struck when bassist Bobby Sheehan was found dead in New Orleans on August 20, 1999, at the age of 31. It was a wake-up call for Popper, who vowed to lose his extra weight after help from friends like Howard Stern and Roseanne Barr. Deciding to soldier on, the group brought in Chan's brother Tad to replace Sheehan on bass and, at the same time, enlisted keyboardist Ben Wilson. "I kind of vicariously grew up around the band," says Tad, four years younger than his older brother. "I saw all the trials and tribulations moving forward, and then lightning striking." "They wanted to bring in someone who could be part of the band," recalls Wilson. "They wanted keyboard to play a little bit more of a part of the sound. Apparently, Bobby had always wanted to have a keyboard player in the band. So adding me was a bit of a nod to him." The transition took place in 2001 on the aptly named studio album Bridge, the band's last for major label group Interscope Geffen A&M, on songs like "Back in the Day" and "Girl Inside My Head." "That was us looking back," admits Popper. "It was the end of an era. We wanted to call it 'Bridge Out of Brooklyn' as an homage to Bobby, but we decided to talk about where the bridge was going rather than where it was coming from." Truth Be Told, recorded in Ojai and Santa Barbara, CA, followed in 2003 on the Sanctuary label and proved a fun experience for the band as they explored their more pop side on songs like Tad's "Let Her and Let Go" and "Unable to Get Free," both represented on this compilation. Bastardos, produced by former Wilco member Jay Bennett for the Vanguard label, featured "Amber Awaits," Popper's ode to one of several New England Patriots cheerleaders with whom he fell in love while on a USO Tour of Iraq and Afghanistan. North Hollywood Shootout, recorded in 2008 and released on Verve Forecast, produces a pair of tracks for the collection, Chan Kinchla's Led Zeppelin-esque "Remember It" and Wilson's "You, Me and Everything." Currently putting the finishing touches on their tenth studio album -- the first to feature outside songwriters in addition to the band members' contributions -- the group is taking the opportunity of their milestone to not just look behind, but ahead. "We intend to keep going as long as they pay us," laughs Popper, resplendent in bathrobe, Simpsons pajamas and Samurai sword dangling from a belt loop. "We're going to be in everybody's face this year. I feel like I'm in my prime. I was convinced I'd be dead at 37." "We're brothers," concludes Chan. "We're not done. We've got a few more swings left, some more damage to do. I'm sure we bug the shit out of one another at times, but it's an honor to play onstage with these guys. They are awesome musicians. You have to keep touch with that. And never forget it." Still alive and kicking, Blues Traveler prepares for the next 25 years, with a comprehensive overview of the first, in one deluxe package. JJ Grey & Mofro From the days of playing greasy local juke joints to headlining major festivals, JJ Grey remains an unfettered, blissful performer, singing with a blue-collared spirit over the bone-deep grooves of his compositions. His presence before an audience is something startling and immediate, at times a funk rave-up, other times a sort of mass-absolution for the mortal weaknesses that make him and his audience human. When you see JJ Grey and his band Mofro live—and you truly, absolutely must—the man is fearless. Onstage, Grey delivers his songs with compassion and a relentless honesty, but perhaps not until Ol’ Glory has a studio record captured the fierceness and intimacy that defines a Grey live performance. “I wanted that crucial lived-in feel,” Grey says of Ol’ Glory, and here he hits his mark. On the new album, Grey and his current Mofro lineup offer grace and groove in equal measure, with an easygoing quality to the production that makes those beautiful muscular drum-breaks sound as though the band has set up in your living room. Despite a redoubtable stage presence, Grey does get performance anxiety—specifically, when he's suspended 50 feet above the soil of his pecan grove, clearing moss from the upper trees. “The tops of the trees are even worse,” he laughs, “say closer to 70, maybe even 80 feet. I'm not phobic about heights, but I don't think anyone's crazy about getting up in a bucket and swinging all around. I wanted to fertilize this year but didn't get a chance. This February I will, about two tons—to feed the trees.” When he isn't touring, Grey exerts his prodigious energies on the family land, a former chicken-farm that was run by his maternal grandmother and grandfather. The farm boasts a recording studio, a warehouse that doubles as Grey's gym, an open-air barn, and of course those 50-odd pecan trees that occasionally require Grey to go airborne with his sprayer. For devoted listeners, there is something fitting, even affirmative in Grey's commitment to the land of his north Florida home. The farms and eddying swamps of his youth are as much a part of Grey's music as the Louisiana swamp-blues tradition, or the singer's collection of old Stax records. As a boy, Grey was drawn to country-rockers, including Jerry Reed, and to Otis Redding and the other luminaries of Memphis soul; Run-D.M.C., meanwhile, played on repeat in the parking lot of his high school (note the hip-hop inflections on “A Night to Remember”). Merging these traditions, and working with a blue-collar ethic that brooked no bullshit, Grey began touring as Mofro in the late '90s, with backbeats that crossed Steve Cropper with George Clinton and a lyrical directness that made his debut LP Blackwater (2001) a calling-card among roots-rock aficionados. Soon, he was expanding his tours beyond America and the U.K., playing ever-larger clubs and eventually massive festivals, as his fan base grew from a modest group of loyal initiates into something resembling a national coalition. Grey takes no shortcuts on the homestead, and he certainly takes no shortcuts in his music. While he has metaphorically speaking “drawn blood” making all his albums, his latest effort, Ol’ Glory, found him spending more time than ever working over the new material. A hip-shooting, off-the-cuff performer (often his first vocal takes end up pleasing him best), Grey was able to stretch his legs a bit while constructing the lyrics and vocal lines to Ol’ Glory. “I would visit it much more often in my mind, visit it more often on the guitar in my house,” Grey says. “I like an album to have a balance, like a novel or like a film. A triumph, a dark brooding moment, or a moment of peace—that's the only thing I consistently try to achieve with a record.” Grey has been living this balance throughout his career, and Ol’ Glory is a beautifully paced little film. On “The Island,” Grey sounds like Coleridge on a happy day: “All beneath the canopy / of ageless oaks whose secrets keep / Forever in her beauty / This island is my home.” “A Night to Remember” finds the singer in first-rate swagger: “I flipped up my collar ah man / I went ahead and put on my best James Dean / and you'd a thought I was Clark Gable squinting through that smoke.” And “Turn Loose” has Grey in fast-rhyme mode in keeping with the song's title: “You work a stride / curbside thumbing a ride / on Lane Avenue / While your kids be on their knees / praying Jesus please.” From the profane to the sacred, the sly to the sublime, Grey feels out his range as a songwriter with ever-greater assurance. The mood and drive of Ol’ Glory are testament to this achievement. The album ranks with Grey’s very best work; among other things, the secret spirituality of his music is perhaps more accessible here than ever before. On “Everything Is a Song,” he sings of “the joy with no opposite,” a sacred state that Grey describes to me: “It can happen to anybody: you sit still and you feel things tingling around you, everything's alive around you, and in that a smile comes on your face involuntarily, and in that I felt no opposite. It has no part of the play of good and bad or of comedy or tragedy. I know it’s just a play on words but it feels like more than just being happy because you got what you wanted — this is a joy. A joy that doesn’t get involved one way or the next; it just is.” Grey's most treasured albums include Otis Redding's In Person at the Whisky a Go Go and Jerry Reed's greatest hits, and the singer once told me that he grew up “wanting to be Jerry Reed but with less of a country, more of a soul thing.” With Ol’ Glory, Grey does his idols proud. It's a country record where the stories are all part of one great mystery; it's a blues record with one foot in the church; it's a Memphis soul record that takes place in the country. In short, Ol’ Glory is that most singular thing, a record by JJ Grey—the north Florida sage and soulbent swamp rocker Lauridsen Amphitheater at Water Works Park 2201 George Flagg Pkwy Des Moines, IA, 50321 More Upcoming Shows Fri 1/29 - Sunny Sweeney Fri 2/12 - STRFKR Sat 3/13 - The Robert Cray Band Fri 3/26 - The Dip Sun 4/11 - Animals As Leaders Thu 4/15 - Brandy Clark - Who You Thought I Was Tour Sat 4/17 - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Fri 4/23 - Gin Blossoms Sat 4/24 - BenDeLaCreme Mon 4/26 - Watsky - Placement Album Tour @firstfleet Tweets by firstfleet Brenton Skating Plaza Hoyt Sherman Place Seven Flags Event Center Simon Estes Amphitheater Temple Theater Vaudeville Mews Water Works Park Amphitheater Wells Fargo Arena Wooly’s Five Flags Center CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA Paramount Theater Blue Moose Tap House MAQUOKETA, IOWA Codfish Hollow Barnstormers The Castle Theatre Orpheum Theater Reverb Lounge Bourbon Theatre Myth Live The Cabooze © First Fleet Concerts 2021 Site by 8/7central	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line979
__label__wiki	0.720847	0.720847	Johnny ^Jensen Johnny Jensen Johnny Jensen_2 Johnny Jensen is an award-winning modern/contemporary blues/soul/rock/pop guitarist singer/songwriter from Florida. Born in 2003, his love for music began at a very young age. At age 2, he would sit for hours and strum on his toy guitar. When given a set of drums at age 4, he quickly shifted his attention to percussion. Over the next five years, he perfected his skills performing songs from Led Zeppelin, The Who and Rush. Then came another gift, a Fender Squire Guitar. By age 9, he was proficient at playing both instruments; however, guitar quickly became his instrument of choice. After a brief stint of studying guitar at the renowned Berklee College of Music, he began to hone his vocal skills by being accepted into the prestigious Florida All-State Choir for two consecutive years along with being casted as the lead role in several musicals. It was not too long after that he was chosen to represent the state of Florida at the IBC “International Blues Challenge” Youth Showcase in 2019 and 2020. It was during this time that he began building a name for himself by sharing the stage with top national acts such as Jim Messina, Elvin Bishop, Mary Wilson of The Supremes, Matt Schofield, John Lodge of The Moody Blues, The Marshall Tucker Band, Paul Nelson, J.D. Souther, Jason Scheff (Chicago), Ruben Studdard, Jesse Cook, and many more. He’s currently working on his next album with a Grammy Award-Winning Producer as he continues to perform on tour. website: www.johnnyjensen.rocks We would like to welcome Lucas Mann from Rings of	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line980
__label__wiki	0.718617	0.718617	The Fascinating Stories Behind Famous True-Crime Books By Alison Nastasi Earlier this week, JSTOR Daily published a fascinating essay about the history of true crime dating back to the 16th century. The public’s fascinating with the true-crime genre is still going strong thanks to the popularity of podcasts like Serial and Netflix’s Making a Murderer — which we’ve continued to watch develop in recent headlines. But behind every true crime tale is another story about the authors and their experiences or relationships with their grisly subjects. Here are just a few of those stories. The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer by author Jason Moss details the author’s fascination and correspondence with multiple American serial killers, including John Wayne Gacy, Richard Ramirez, Henry Lee Lucas, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Charles Manson. Moss became close with Gacy in particular and believes he was Gacy’s final victim after a face-to-face meeting with the killer. The book was a bestseller. Sadly, Moss committed suicide in 2006. Eerily enough, his death occurred on June 6, 2006, which has become a source of speculation since Moss explored Satanism to prep for his meetings with some of the murderers. Brooklyn-born writer Philip Carlo spent three years getting inside the head of serial killer Richard Ramirez for his true-crime classic The Night Stalker. Ramirez terrorized suburban California in the spring and summer of 1985, leaving 13 people dead. Despite his status as one of America’s most vicious serial killers, Ramirez gathered a female fan following. After Carlo published his book, thousands of women from all over the world contacted the author, begging to be put in touch with the serial killer. Carlo wound up interviewing some of those women to find out why they were so drawn to a murderer. Two Yale college students bicycled across America in 1977, stopping at a campsite in Oregon. It was there that a man brutally attacked the women after running over them with his pick-up truck and assaulting them with an ax. Both women survived, and one, Terri Jentz, wrote a book about the horrific incident. Strange Piece of Paradise details Junta’s account of the attempted murder, and her journey back to the small town where it happened to try to solve the crime. What makes Ann Rule’s The Stranger Beside Me particularly terrifying isn’t necessarily the details about serial killer Ted Bundy’s crimes, but that the author knew Bundy personally. They both volunteered for a suicide hotline in Seattle. Rule viewed Bundy as an empathetic person and doubted his guilt, but eventually came to terms with his status as a killer and called the police when she recognized a police composite sketch that resembled Bundy. Why does Ann Rule have a connection to so many serial killers? It’s beyond us. But the author also wrote about Gary Ridgeway, the “Green River Killer,” who was convicted of 49 murders, but confessed to more and is thought to be responsible for over 90 brutal deaths. Rule writes about how some of the murders happened in her own southwest Seattle neighborhood. Vincent Bugliosi, the attorney famous for prosecuting Charles Manson and writing the bestselling book about it called Helter Skelter, has some interesting stories about the trial of the hippie cult leader who was behind the killing of actress Sharon Tate and several other innocents. From Time: I was honored that the DA had enough confidence to assign a case of that magnitude and complexity to me. I worked on it around the clock, seven days a week, sometimes 80 or 90 hours. The trial was almost as bizarre as the murders themselves. One day, Manson got a hold of a sharp pencil and, from a standing position, he leaps over the counsel table and starts to approach the judge, and of course the bailiffs immediately tackle him, and he shouted out to the judge, ‘In the name of Christian justice, I want to chop off your head.’ The judge started carrying a .38-caliber revolver under his robe in court. One of the defense attorneys vanished from the face of the earth during the trial and turned up dead. He took the stand, but it was outside the presence of the jury. If you want to call it testimony, he was under oath and for an hour or so kind of mesmerized everyone. He just rambled on discursively. When it came time for cross-examination, I asked him a couple of sarcastic questions. Afterwards, the judge asked me why I didn’t cross-examine Manson, and I said, ‘Judge, the jury was upstairs. I don’t want to give him a dry run.’	cc/2021-04/en_head_0004.json.gz/line981

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