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__label__cc	0.650456	0.349544	Articles about reggae music, reviews, interviews, reports and more... Interview: Burning Spear https://unitedreggae.com/articles/n225/102708/interview-burning-spear By Angus Taylor on Monday, October 27, 2008 - 1 comment “Don’t look back and don’t be thinking that you get left out of anything. That’s where the future of this music lies today.” Burning Spear (born Winston Rodney, St Ann's Bay, Jamaica) has released over 50 albums during a long and illustrious career. He started recording for Coxsone Dodd in 1969 before making an impact on an international level with the Jack Ruby produced album Marcus Garvey, on Island records. In recent years he has declared his independence from the music business by starting his own label, management and booking agency. His new album Jah Is Real is out now. Angus Taylor spoke to him in New York about all this and more... Tell us about your new album Jah Is Real. Jah Is Real is a album I been working upon for a good while, getting the melodies and the lyrics together, and when I was thinking that the time was right I decided to go in the studio, call in a couple of musicians and lay some basic tracks down until we ended up doing the right thing. So we put the album together carrying a lot of very very strong tracks and a lot of various concepts you know? And I tried to create the album where everyone could have a taste, have their own taste, something is there where everyone could feel, that everyone could like, everyone could hang on to. It’s like a picnic you’re creating and you’re cooking the pot, and you cook various foods for everyone who eats different foods so they are able to get a taste from the pot. I think that’s what I do creating Jah Is Real A lot of the lyrics talk about the music business. What sent you in this particular direction? Well what sent me into that direction is basing it upon some of the things I’ve been through dealing with record companies, labels, distribution, and other bad ways of some people who is within the music business. I get a lot of squeeze and I been treated so unjust, I have sometimes not been getting no royalties from then people who I am supposed to be getting my royalties from. And at the time when you try to speak out people are thinking that you’re stupid or you don’t understand the business. So I have to make it be known, you can’t go to every other person and let them know what you been through, it just don’t work like that. So I use the music to carry the message to the people, based upon the condition a lot of us artists been through, dealing with record companies In the song Wickedness you specifically discuss royalty payments. Was there a single event that inspired the song? Yes, there was. The last record company I happened to deal with was Heartbeat. I wasn’t getting no royalty, up to today they owe me so much money. And nobody even try to talk to me about how they’re going to be paying that kind of money. So it was like from Heartbeat to Rounder [Heartbeat’s parent company] because Rounder and Heartbeat is the same thing, and they were collecting my publishing, my mechanical rights, they were collecting everything for me and I wasn’t getting anything. And people who I also do business with when I say that I were honest and I were straight up dealing with them, they show that they didn’t care about my honesty dealing with them, and they would try to take as much as they could off me, you know? So I have to make it clear, I have to shout it out, you know? There’s a lot of exploiters. People always try to take away from me what not belong to them. People just don’t care who you is you know? Or what you stand for or what kind of life you choose to live. Once people see that they can feed off you they will. They will feed off you. You have to identify it and secure yourself from people like those. So I feel the best way to express yourself dealing with these kind of people is through the music, and the music will carry the message as far as it can go. In the song No Compromise you say “My Music Is A Never Looking Back Music”. Can you explain to our readers what you mean by this? Yeah. My music is not a looking back music because since 1969 – the year I get started – that’s the way I continue to go. I never look back, I never compromise, I never think that I’m doing the wrong thing, and I never that I get left out of anything. So the way I get started, that’s the way I continue, to what I have to do. And that’s what people expect from Burning Spear. If I try to do something different musically or in some way different then people would consider that I possibly might get left out of something, and I don’t see myself as get left out of anything. I think I’m on the right track doing what I been doing since 1969 – so no compromise. In the song Step In you talk about your popularity around the world. Are you more popular in Europe than in Jamaica? Well of course, Jamaica is where everything get started, and of course sometimes people don’t really appreciate you where you’re from, and to get that appreciation and that full respect you have to go to some different places. I think my popularity since I get started developed itself in various countries, most of these countries back in Europe, United States, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, you name them! All these different countries – Germany, France, Italy, Holland, all these countries there’s more appreciation, they embrace the music. I have so many fans based all over the world and back in Europe I think my biggest fanbase is in France. Back in America I think my biggest fanbase is in California. In Canada I think my biggest fanbase is between Toronto and Vancouver. And it go on and on and on and on in different countries where I go. So Step It is a song that’s reminding the people and especially my fans from whence I been stepping to all these different countries. I’m still stepping. I might not be stepping so often as before, I’ve toned down the touring so I might go out there and do say a couple of little festivals here and there – but I am still stepping. How did the drum and bass remix of this song come about? (LAUGHS) Well we tried to something different you know, with Mr Hard Groove. And it came out pretty good! That’s a club mix and that club mix also available on a single – a vinyl that we created. We also have a vinyl available of the album Jah Is Real. So that mix we talking about now it’s a single on the vinyl – a vinyl mix by Mr Hard Groove, and we just tried to do something different with the music, and at the same time maintaining the roots and the culture within the music. I been doing this kind of mix for a good while now. I do a lot of dub and this is just a different level, a bit more adjustment, creating a different sound from a dub album mix. Actually the two musics are close. Another song with an unusual rhythm is One Africa. Tell us about this song. One Africa – I was working on that song for a good while. The melody was there and others things, but the lyrics wasn’t quite there. So I went to Kenya. I had been invited by the U.N. for the people. And I get all the lyrics. All the lyrics just keep coming after the performance in Kenya. It was lively, it was happy, it was chirpy back in Kenya. I think I bring a light in Kenya, I think I bring all the people together. For at that time there was a lot of ups and downs - you know? - with the people against each other. But for the concert everyone was together, united, was one people for about two, three hours, and everybody was properly enjoying themselves. So the force of that song, One Africa, was really coming from Kenya. Do you listen to much African music? I listen to a lot of African music. I love the artists. Some of the names I might not be familiar with, but the music, I been listening to African music from way back. I always love to listen to African music, I love to listen to blues, I love to listen to jazz, R&B – I love R&B. Once the music is saying something and I can feel something from the music it make a lot of sense listening to the music. I used to listen to Curtis Mayfield, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, the Blue Magic… I used to listen to a wide variety of singers and musicians. As a singer and musician myself it’s a part of the whole thing for we to listen back to each other you know? It create that musical essence. Do you ever listen to your own albums? Yes I listen to my own works too. I listen to a lot of my works. I have so many works and so many unreleased works. I think I have one of the biggest reggae back catalogues in the business today. I can release up to two or three albums right now without even going to the studio. So I have a lot of unreleased stuff. And can you give some background 2006 St Ann’s Bay Infirmary concert mentioned in the song 700 Strong? We decided we wanted to do something for the infirmary in my town which is St Ann’s Bay. We wanted to buy them like washing machines, stoves and all them things. So we thinking the best way to do it is to put a concert together and we start to sell the tickets from over here in the states. And my fans turned out and decided to support this cause and everyone realise and find out what the cause was for. We did the show and the show was properly supported so we were able to buy all these things for the infirmary. And since that time we give to the infirmary every year a Christmas dinner and a New Year’s dinner and any other little things we can do to help. I try to do that at the best I can. So that is how the 700 Strong came about. It was a donation performance. As well as yourself and Bob Marley, St Ann now has stars like Perfect and Chezidek. Why has the St Ann area produced so many great reggae artists in your opinion? Well a lot of great people come from the parish of St Ann - a lot of great people come from Jamaica to be honest! – and sometimes we as great people take our time before we identify our greatness. So great people will always be coming out of St Ann Parish. And once we can identify our greatness then we should utilise it within the right and proper way and share it amongst the people and try to reach as far as we can, spreading our greatness amongst other people all over the world. You were awarded the Order Of Distinction last year. How did you feel? It was good, of course, to be honoured with the Order Of Distinction. Some times in life these are things you expect would happen at a earlier time but it didn’t. But along the way it happened so I have to give thanks that at least it happened and I were alive to go there and accept what them giving to me. Many of us been honoured and were not around to accept their things. Other people have to accept it on the behalf of them. So I were here so I have to give thanks. At least I get it. Nobody didn’t get it and then keep it and say “it’s for Spear”. Spear was there. I have to give thanks for that! (LAUGHS) Why did you decide to found your own label - Burning Spear Records? I always wanted to do this. Even when I was dealing with various record companies I was always thinking about doing things for myself. I believe if you don’t own something in life you have nothing. I was always creating music and giving it to various record companies. They sold it, they give you what they think it was worth or what you should get. And I know I never yet been treated the way I should. I never get the full amount of what I think I should get. So I say, “someday I know will be doing this for myself”. I start to observe, see how much these people does what they do - you know? – like companies, booking agent and promoters. I see everything. So I decided to do it and the first time I decided to do it I get started with the booking. The booking was my wife and she thought it was strenuous and I tell to her that she can do it. And she started – it was shaky when we just started – and after a while the shakiness became strong. And we get strong and we start to book ourselves all over, every place you can think of we were doing it. A lot of people thought it wouldn’t work, but it worked. So when we get strong booking we start looking in a different direction, trying to take a different step, by producing myself. Of course, I used to produce myself back in Jamaica. But when I come into this country and decide to do business, I start to think that the business is to take away from these record company and come to me. I’m the one who is presenting the music and I’m the one who is creating the music. So I start to do it. And my first release was Free Man and my second release was Our Music and my third release is Jah Is Real. It’s been doing good since that time that I insist I have to own something. And even when you own something there’s a outside force always want to take away from you what you own. And I insist that I’m not going to give it up to no one what I own. I will continue to own what I have and I continue to build these foundations. This is how a lot of people in the business today – especially big companies – this is how they get started. Maybe three people get started, maybe four people get started, maybe they started with three thousand dollars, four thousand dollars, maybe fifteen hundred dollars. They get started just as how I get started but they get started in a earlier time. Now I get started in this time. A lot of people be thinking I shouldn’t be doing what I been doing. A lot of people thinking that I’ve been unable to maintain my capability – you know? – and my determination. Determined to do what I want to do for myself. So after I started doing it a lot of people tried to set up a lot of roadblock. Distribution who I used to deal with calling people and telling people not to buy my record unless I am coming back through them. Today I have a distribution [company] in court – Mega Force – we have to go to court because of lack of payment and destroy a lot of my cd without a cause and stuff like that. So we have Mega Force in court, any time now the case is gonna call up and get this thing straightened out. So all these things I put them together and I say “yeah it makes sense for me to do something for myself” and block out these people and have less confusion and have less misunderstanding and less negativity. So I am continuing to do and build something. What is the future for the reggae music business? The future of the reggae music is in how the people really see it and how their heart is thinking. As long as we have good singers this music will continue to go places. The less singers we have, the less place we have for this music to be able to go. So the future of this music is in the hands of the singers and the musicians – you know? What is the next turn they are going to take? This generation come with a different kind of music, different from the original, and whatever they came with is springing from the original. So we are they who lay the foundations but they could come through. But a lot of people who come through they are not making on the original way of doing things. A lot of people bypass the original and do some quick things. Some things that just last for maybe a month or two or three. Maybe a year or two and that’s about it. There’s no longevity from what they are doing today. So I think we need more original, we need more roots. We need more artists with less compromise standing up strong and sticking to the programme. The way they get started - continue that way. Don’t look back and don’t be thinking that you get left out of anything. That’s where the future of this music lies today When you started your sound was very different. Did you think roots music would take off the way it did? Well of course. Bob was there. And other artists away from Bob was there. Jimmy Cliff was there. Heptones, Dennis Brown, a lot of artists was there. Yes, it take a time before the whole thing became international but most of these artists whom I speak of they were in the international section for a while. These companies they start to sign up all these artists, build these artists, promote these artists, market these artists and sell these artists. And the artists start to become international, the music start to spread all over and people start to identify the reggae music in various countries. So yes, I know things would happen. I also know things would happen for me but it would take some time. So I was like looking on more a long term way of doing this thing than a short term. Possibly if I was taking the short term way of doing it I wouldn’t be here today. My time would come to a end and I would finish for it’s a short term thing. But I believe in the long term. And in the long term you take your time before you see the true direction where you want to go, and I finally see my direction and I head straight into that direction. So I know with patience and with believing in yourself and believing in what you’re doing you can reach places. And after a while I see that I’m going to be reaching out to a lot of people in different countries. Sometimes you don’t know what gonna happen but you have to have a clean mind and a clear thought so when things start happen you don’t have to find yourself baffling around. You know exactly what to do. And how have you maintained your singing voice all these years? (LAUGHS) It’s how you condition yourself you know? I am not a night person who going from nightclub to nightclub, drinking beers and stuff like that! Coming in at like 5 o clock in the morning or 4 o clock in the morning – I’m not that kind of person. I try to live a clean and a healthy life, I try to eat the best food I can, I try to get a lot of rest. I just try to centre myself and balance myself just in case something come up where I have to go out there and do it, so I will always sound the way I want it to sound and the way the people looking forward for me to sound and expecting me to sound. It’s about how you take care of yourself and who is in your corner. My wife is in my corner so it’s a duo – it’s me and her! (LAUGHS) So I am properly taken care of. What’s next for Burning Spear? What’s next is to continue to do my documentary – I’m working on it – and continue to do as much as we can to keep pushing Jah Is Real for it still have a long way to go, and there’s a lot of people who it still don’t reach just yet, and our duty is to reach to as much people as we can. The documentary tells the true story about Spear. I’m telling the story about me because no one else can tell the story better than the artist. I wouldn’t have to question a lot of people asking them about Spear for I am Spear and I know about Spear… (LAUGHS) So the documentary going to be a very upstanding documentary, it’s gonna be very tight, and it’s going to be something that everyone gonna reach out to. A lot of people who don’t have the full understanding about Burning Spear, this documentary is going to lead them right into everything basing upon Burning Spear. From the beginning. What is the one thing people should know about Marcus Garvey? Self determination. Self determination. So many things can happen but if you don’t have that self determination to make what you would like to happen for you and in your life, then it’s not gonna happen. It’s only you who can make it happen and you got to have that self determination. Like a kid going to school and he or she can overcome this arithmetic test or this science test or whatsoever that test might be. But if he or she doesn’t have that self reliance, self confidence, all these things, you’re not gonna overcome the test. Everything is up to you - yourself And what is the one thing people should know about Burning Spear? (BIG LAUGH) I think it’s to always keep the Spear burning! Once you keep the Spear burning you can know everything about Burning Spear! Most times the Spear is just a simple laidback person you know? I’m not the kind of upfront person carrying a lot of excitement. I’m more like a laidback person and pretty easy to be with. Pretty easy to be with. I think that is one of the most important things about Burning Spear. Pretty easy to be with. Tags: Burning Spear Read more about this topic Jah Is Real album review Burning Spear biography and discography Burning Spear - Jah Is Real (epk - 2008) Posted by George Browne on 04.08.2011 Selassie I, I am seeking manager/agent services and after viewing your page I was encouraged to contact you, what is the format to deposit tracks for consideration? Comments actually desactivated due to too much spams Art and Poetry Interview: Winston McAnuff in Kingston (Part 1) By Angus Taylor Interview: Capleton in Kingston Interview: Alpheus & Roberto Sanchez (2017) Sylford Waker in Paris Interview: Big Youth in Kingston Linval Thompson in Paris Marcus Gad Meets Tamal - Enter A Space EP By Gerard McMahon Da Fuchaman - Stronger Together By Chloe Sharma Ital Horns - Showcase Vol. 1 At Conscious Sounds	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line811
__label__cc	0.564733	0.435267	BRUTALITY “ANTECEDENT OFFERINGS” EP is out! Dezembro 8, 2018 Dezembro 8, 2018 Kostas Dahmer 0 Comments Brutality, Death Metal ANTECEDENT OFFERINGS Featuring re-recordings of Crushed and Artistic Butchery. They are limited to 500 copies and over half have already been sold during pre sales. Brutality® was formed in 1986. In 1988 they released their first demo “Brutality” which gained them recognition in the underground fanzines. Their 2nd demo “Dimension Demented” was recorded in 1990 releasing a 7-inch EP on Gore Records called “Hell on Earth”. 1991 saw the release of “Metamorphosis” a cassette EP that received worldwide distribution on Wild Rags Records. After necessary lineup changes in 1992, the band propelled forward and into the studio to record a new demo. The band utilized this demo to shop for a record deal and found interest from many different labels. They signed with Nuclear Blast Records and released a 2-song, 7-inch EP called “Sadistic”. Brutality’s first album “Screams of Anguish” was released in 1993. They toured with Hypocrisy in Europe and crushed venues with their dark metal riffs. The bands 2nd album “When the Sky Turns Black” was released in 1994. The release of “When the Sky Turns Black” spawned a European wide venture where they toured with Bolt Thrower & Cemetery. With continued efforts to improve their sound and direction, additional lineup changes were made in 1995 and they started writing their 3rd album “In Mourning”. This, their 3rd and most recent album was released in 1996. The band continued to play regional shows and US Metal Fests and in 2003 the band recorded a 3-song demo which was never released due to sub-par songs and recordings. After years of success Brutality’s band members decided to disband, to pursue personal gain with family and their careers. All three of Brutality® albums were re-mastered and released in 2008 on Metal Mind Productions with unreleased bonus tracks. Mid 2012 Brutality® reformed and has plans to invade a venue near you in the near future. Follow Contact, https://www.facebook.com/BrutalityTheBand/ http://heavymetalonthisday.com/brutality By Kostas Dahmer [quadsvi id=1] ← WOM Features – Children Of Bodom / Hamferð / Dark Millenium WOM Photo Report Brought By Pain @ Hard Club, Porto – 15.11.2018 →	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line821
__label__wiki	0.812154	0.812154	Transcript: Kyle Shanahan discusses Jimmy Garoppolo's and Trent Williams' future, Javon Kinlaw, COVID-19 as 49ers enter bye week Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports Kyle Shanahan discusses Jimmy Garoppolo’s and Trent Williams’ future, Javon Kinlaw, COVID-19 as 49ers enter bye week San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan spoke with reporters on Tuesday, two days after the team's 27-13 loss to the New Orleans Saints. Here is everything he had to say. "Alright guys, injuries from the game. We had [S Johnathan] Cyprien who had a hamstring, he'll be out a few weeks. [RB JaMycal] Hasty, broken collarbone. He'll have to have surgery, be done for the year. [S Jared] Mayden had a quad strain, likely done for the year. Guys who didn't play because injury, [RB] Tevin Coleman, hopeful to have him back next week versus the Ram's. [LB Demetrius] Flannigan-Fowles, hopeful to have him back also. [WR] Deebo's [Samuel] in that same boat, hopeful for the Rams. [CB] K'Waun Williams will still be out more weeks than that. Other guys coming back from IR that aren't on the 53 man. We've got [RB] Raheem [Mostert], hopeful to get him back for the Rams. [LB Mark] Nzeocha, outside chance for the Rams, hopefully the week after. I'm hoping to get [CB Richard] Sherman back this week. [RB] Jeff Wilson, I'm not expecting for the Rams. Has a chance, but hopefully the week after and you guys know we've got [DL] Arik [Armstead] on the COVID reserve list and that's all I got. Go ahead." What do you guys do during this week and are the players allowed to go home wherever home might be? Like, what kind of instructions do you leave them with? "It's totally different this year, just because you've got to get tested every day. So, this is the first year where getting on a plane or going somewhere is really not an option. Everyone's got to be up at the facility sometime before 11:00 A.M. so we can get our testing in and have it back for the next day. With Arik getting on the COVID list and the stuff that happens with that, being in intensive protocol and everything, we aren't going to have anybody up in the building this week. I was going to go Tuesday and Wednesday, but because of this, we're going to put that off. Met with the guys today, just to give them the schedule. We will have guys up there on Friday and Saturday, where we can do a little bit of a walkthrough type thing, just to get us back into it and also have the guys work out with our strength and conditioning staff. So, all really that we have set for this week is Friday and Saturday. We'll get the players up there a little bit. Guys got to test every single day before 11. And we'll allow everyone back in the building on Monday, but when we go on Friday and Saturday, it'll just be out on the field. We're not going to be entering the building because of the COVID situations." With Armstead going on the COVID list and having played in the game, were there any high-risk contacts identified? What kind of chaos did that kind of throw in on that he was on the plane back and just anything like that with his case? "Oh yeah. He did have some close contacts. When you guys see when we get them all, there'll be on the list. So, you'll see that. With this being our bye week, we weren't in there anyways, so really all it changed was today. Had just told the guys not to come in, where we were going to get together today and watch all of what happened on Sunday and kind of put that game to rest. Now we're just doing that all Zoom-wise and each coach, each position's going to finish it up before we see them in person on Friday because we'll just meet them on the field on Friday. So yeah, he's going to have some close contacts, but we're still waiting to see who those are." You mentioned the other day after the game that some guys have kind of been put in positions where maybe there's more on their plate than you expected, just because of the injuries and things like that. Is DT Javon Kinlaw one of those guys? How has he developed as the season's gone on and with maybe more of a role than you might've expected at the beginning? "Yeah, I think that is. Almost everybody has and so he definitely would be that too. I think he's done a really good job. Him and [WR Brandon] Aiyuk are in a similar boat. I've told them both, just talking to them Sunday night, we know about their talent and everything, but I've been really impressed with those two in the last few weeks just how they carry themselves. Just how they've been in practice at this time of the year, how they're taking care of their bodies and stuff after practice. I think both of them been acting like pros and it's starting to carry over to the field. We've got six more games with them and it's important to me that they keep acting that way and stuff. You guys will keep seeing them get better on the field, which will lead a lot more to next year and help us finish this year off the right way." QB Jimmy Garoppolo has been off of his ankle for a couple of weeks now. Has he made progress in that regard and are you still looking to have him come back into the lineup at some point next month if that ankle is entirely healed? "Yeah. I'm really holding out hope that Jimmy can get back and play some games with us. I'm hoping that we can change a little bit of our outcomes. So, when he does come back, and hopefully a few other people are coming back for a reason, but Jimmy did have a real bad ankle injury. It's very good that he didn't have to have surgery because that's what gives him a chance. I think he just got out of his boot and we're still a little bit of ways from getting there, but that's what I'm holding out hope for." Regarding Jimmy, I realize you're still in the middle of the season and you could still be playing more this year. Perhaps you've heard there's some speculation about what his future is with the franchise beyond 2020. I assume you can't say he's going to be the starter in 2021, but kind of how do you view his future beyond this season? "I expect Jimmy to be our starter next year. I expect him to come and play with us this year. We have six games left. We are not out of the playoffs yet. I've been on a team that was three and six going into a bye week and ended up winning their division. I think we have guys on this team capable of finishing this the right way. We've got to do one game at a time and I hope Jimmy can come back and be a part of that, but to think that we've made any decisions on somebody going into the future, this isn't the case. Jimmy has won a lot of games for us this year. It's a lot harder to win games when he's not here and I'm just hoping we can get him back." Along the lines of the nickel blitz and the slot blitzes that New Orleans brought on Sunday, upon review of the film, how much of those are on QB Nick Mullens to be able to identify those and how much of the success of those and the Saints was on your backs not pass protecting well enough? "We all had our part in them. They brought 10 of them. I usually see those more as run blitzes and they guessed right on a number of them. A number we guessed right on, it went the other way on. I think where we didn't do a good enough job on was really making them pay. When someone blitzes that much with one guy, it is risky for running into that type of stuff and in some of your protections, especially when you're stacking the back, but it's also risky for them too. It leaves them vulnerable and in the pass game, I think our biggest thing off of it was the 12-yard pass to [TE] Jordan Reed. We had another opportunity where our back could have done better, where he didn't, that I think cost us a big pass play. We didn't make them pay for it and so we kept having to deal with it. It's something we've got to do a lot better to stop that bleeding." With Santa Clara changing the protocol, they're, I guess, down in purple again, does that change how you are able to approach your practice, the protocols that you have to go through? "Not that I'm aware of yet. I'm sure, I mean, I know I'll find that out. Without us being in the building right now, we've spent a lot of time with them and them with us working together and them checking out our facility and how we do have everyone spaced out. I think they feel real confident along with ourselves with how we do that. So, I don't see anything changing. It's kind of the, I don't remember exactly when, but I think that's how we were in training camp. I think that's where Santa Clara has been and in order for us to get that open and started, we had to pass a number of things. I know they've been working with us with that and I think they've been impressed with how our building has been." You put a waiver claim in on former Cincinnati Bengals DL Takk McKinley who failed his physical with the Bengals. There's a report, or I guess reports, that you've had some level of interest in former New York Giants CB Deandre Baker. Can you comment on any of those two guys and if they might – with you guys? "Yeah. I've had no discussions with anyone on the Deandre. I was told today that Takk failed his physical and I know we put in a claim last time. So, I don't think that's until tomorrow at one, but I know we plan on putting another claimer in." With the guys not being able to really fly anywhere and of course still having to get tested, did that change your bye week message at all, just in terms of staying focused and being careful? "No, it didn't change much of it. I didn't have to give a much of a talk and speech about what happens when guys go fly to Miami or Vegas or something for the whole week. I have a lot of stories on what that has done to certain people over the year and their careers. Not as big of deal with this because you can't go anywhere. We're going to be up every day. I just try to stress to the guys, we had planned for the building to be open as much as possible for them because this week, to me, we need this week very badly. Just to rest our bodies and stuff, but the main thing is you need this week to get better. I think us resting will get us better, but you've got to rest the right way. You don't just sit around and hang out for seven days and do nothing. That gets you out of football shape. Your body might feel a little bit better, but once you have one practice you feel twice as bad, because you've lost a lot of stuff that you've been working to get. So, it's trying to find that even level. With the COVID stuff, it's a little different, because we don't have a lot of stuff open up to the building. So, you've just got to put a lot of pressure on the guys, we're sending them run programs, stuff like that. They've got to get one on their own in tomorrow, Wednesday, a real good one. We'll get them up, get something done with us Friday and Saturday, which should help. But, my biggest key with those guys is you need this rest so much, but if you just sit there and try to relax like nothing's going to happen for these next two months, you won't be able to get it back going again. I've got high expectations for our team. I know our team does also and I know we're going to get some guys back who help us, but we can't count on those guys coming back like they're just going to be the answer. Those guys can help, but we need everyone who's been playing to get a lot better, coaches included, and I believe that we can." What is the status for OL Ben Garland? What is his timeline looking like? "I don't know exactly. I know he's not in the discussions right now. That's why I'm not bringing him up. All those guys, whether it's Jimmy, whether it's [TE George] Kittle, Ben Garland, I'd probably put just a little bit ahead of them, if I had to say, but all those guys have a chance to come back and help us. We've just got to take care of business here in these next few weeks to give them a reason." You guys have so many potential free agents next year and T Trent Williams is one of them. He seems to have been playing pretty well all season, kind of as you expected. Is he going to price himself out of your guys' possibilities and how do you see that unfolding with Trent? "That's stuff that we'll have to deal with next year. Yeah, I hope not. Trent knows how I feel about him and how our whole team feels about him. I think Trent feels the same, so hopefully it makes sense for him to stay here and I know it makes sense for us. That's the tough part about this league. We've got a lot of good players and we've worked real hard to build our roster up and that's why we've had to make tough decisions last year and we're going to have to do it again this year, but everything's tied together. I know Trent is very important to me and very important to our team and someone I want around here for a while." You said that in your mind, there's not a whole lot that separates Nick and QB C.J. Beathard. What are your thoughts, just kind of where you guys go with that position as the season goes on? I know you said that you felt like Nick was firmly kind of entrenched as the starter last week, but do you kind of leave open the possibility that it's a game plan to game plan, opponent to opponent decision that you make of who starts at quarterback? "Yeah, I mean, I don't want to answer that the wrong way so I get a question every day, like, who is it today? Nick is our guy, but I also try to make it not as big of a deal as it could come off. Both of them are our backup quarterback to Jimmy and both of them we're capable of winning with. I think our players know that, too, to where if there was ever something that I thought gave us an advantage over one or the other, I wouldn't hesitate to do it. It wouldn't be the biggest deal to me, like even in the New Orleans game, I thought that Nick played very well. There's a time I was like, "Man, maybe we should just put in C.J. just to try to spark something," to where I wouldn't consider that normally with Jimmy. Jimmy's been our true number one guy, and that's how the team treats him and everything. It's just not as emotional like that as it would be in a normal situation. So, I mean, yes, Nick's our guy. I don't plan on just changing every series or every week, but I also know it's not the biggest deal in the world. We can put in either guy, our team will respond the same way. Both of those guys are always prepared to go in like they're the starter, whether they're the two or the three. So, I just don't think it's as pivotal of a discussion as it normally is with, "Hey, did he lose his job? Did he keep his job?" They're both our backup quarterbacks and they're going to be for most of the rest of this year. Hopefully Jimmy will be able to come back, but until then, they're both just trying to hold down the fort." Obviously, there was a lot of self-inflicted wounds in the Saints game. How do you approach that as a coach? You can't beat it over their heads, obviously, but how do you coach those mistakes? "I put it on all of us, not just the players. On the coaches, too. I knew we had an uphill battle going into that game, but I strongly believe that the way that game went, that if we would have been better with those self-inflicted wounds, I believe that we would have won that game. So, you've got to look at each one individually, which comes to, we muffed two punts, which neither of those guys can do. We've got to catch those. We had two picks that one was especially, I thought, was avoidable. I think we were on the 32-yard line in field goal range. We've got to see that guy and can't throw that pick. The one at the end of the game, gave them more of a chance in the end zone. Yeah, which was a little bit better. That was part of just trying to come back, but if you just take out that game, all the games that we've lost and compared to the games that we've won and it's just a night and day difference in turnovers, which is also a night and day difference in how much points we've scored or how much points we've given up. So, you make the guys completely aware of it. The guys know when we're missing some guys, but I try to echo after that game, that even if we had guys, if you turn the ball over like that, it's not going to matter. If we don't fix that, then you don't give yourself a chance to win. I believe we can fix our turnover issue, which we've had in our losses, regardless of who's healthy for us. I think we'll have a chance to be in every game we play." How big of a boost would it be for your offense to get Deebo and Raheem back and how big of a boost would it be for your defense to get Richard Sherman back? "Just those two guys, it's a huge boost. Getting guys who you depend on, who've done a lot for us, I think you guys can see how Deebo's been in just the games he's played this year. How Sherm's been, just even when he came out to practice the boost he gives. I also want to say, which I echoed to the guys today too, that we're not going to win just because these guys are coming back. These guys haven't played football in a while and usually when they do come back, it takes them a week or so to get into it and to really affect a game. We're going to win based off of whether the guys that we have get better or worse. I think we've got some guys giving everything, but I still think guys can take it to another level. I think there's a number of guys out there, even like Brandon Aiyuk. He's been playing great. He can take it to another level. So can [CB] Jason Verrett, so can [DB] Jimmie Ward, so can Kinlaw, so can Trent Williams. Getting Deebo back, getting Raheem back, Sherm, that stuff is going to help big. That's some juice we need, but we also don't have much room for error with where our record is right now. So, I can't count on those guys just to come in and change everything. I just want those guys to get healthy and be a part of it, but we need to really make sure that this week makes us better, not just rested, but makes us better. Sometimes that's tough to do when you're not practicing or doing anything. That's why I'm hoping the guys are handling it the right way and I'll make sure when I see them Friday and Saturday we do our part and we come in next week, rested, pumped up to go and ready to finish out 2020 the right way."	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line828
__label__cc	0.57056	0.42944	The Poetry of Function Naming For nearly a quarter of a century, one of the responsibilities that I’ve taken most seriously is the shepherding of the design of Mathematica. Partly that has involved establishing foundational principles, and maintaining unity and consistency across the system. But at some point all the capabilities of Mathematica must get expressed in the individual built-in functions—like Table or NestList—that ultimately make up the system. Each one of those functions encapsulates some piece of repeated computational work—often implemented by some deep tower of algorithms. And each one of those now 3000 or so functions requires a name. We’re currently in the closing weeks of a (spectacular!) new version of Mathematica, and I spent part of last week doing final design reviews for some fascinating new areas of the system. And as part of those design reviews, we were confirming and tweaking some of the names we’re going to use for new functions. The naming of functions is a strange and difficult art—a bit like an ultimately abstracted form of poetry. The goal is to take the concept and functionality of a function, and capture the essence of it in one, or two, or perhaps three, words (like Riffle, or DeleteCases, or FixedPointList)—chosen so that when someone sees those words, they immediately get the right idea about the function. In even the most succinct forms of ordinary poetry, you get at least a handful of words to communicate with. In function names, you typically get at most perhaps three. With enough experience, it can sometimes be pretty easy to come up with that little gem of a name for a function. Sometimes it can even seem quite obvious as soon as one thinks about the function. But sometimes it can take immense amounts of time—wrestling with what can seem like an insoluble problem of packing everything one needs to say about a function into that one little name. It’s an unforgiving and humbling activity. And the issue is almost always the same. The reason you can’t find a good name is because you don’t really understand with complete and ultimate clarity what the function does. And sometimes that’s because the function really isn’t designed quite right. There’s something muddled about it, that has to be unmuddled before you’ll ever be able to find a good name. It’s very satisfying, though, when you finally crack it. These days I’m usually working on design reviews with teams of people. And when we finally get the right name, everyone on the call (yes, it’s essentially always a phone call) immediately says “Oh yes, that’s it”. And we all feel a little stupid that we just spent an hour, or however long, just coming up with one or two words. In ordinary human languages, new words typically develop by some form of natural selection. Usually a word will be introduced—perhaps at first as a phrase—by one person. And then it spreads, sometimes changing a bit, and either becomes popular enough to be widely understood and useful for general communication, or disappears. But for a computer language the pattern is necessarily different. For once a function name—that corresponds to a “word” in the language—has been introduced, it must immediately be a full, permanent, element of the language. For programs will be written that contain that name, and they would all have to be found and updated if that name was changed. And indeed, in Mathematica, I am proud to say that in nearly a quarter of a century, very very few names have ever had to be changed—so that a program written for Mathematica 1.0 in 1988 can still be understood and executed today by the very latest version of Mathematica. There is also another difference between words in human languages and function names in a computer language. In a human language, there is no ultimate, absolute, meaning defined for most words. Instead, the best we can do is—like in a dictionary—to define words by relating them to other words. But in a computer language, each function name ultimately refers to a particular piece of functionality that is defined in an absolute way, and can be implemented by a specific precise program. This doesn’t usually make it any easier to come up with function names, though. It just means that there’s a clearer notion of the “right name”: the name where a human has the best chance of correctly figuring out from it what the function does. Function names are in a sense ultimate points of human-machine communication. They’re the places where all that internal computational activity has to be connected with something that humans can understand. When the functionality is simple there are pictorial and other alternatives. But when the functionality is diverse or sophisticated we don’t know any possibility other than to use language—and the linguistic construct of names for things. The function names in Mathematica are ultimately based on English, and for the most part, they consist of ordinary English words. In ordinary natural human languages, it is possible to introduce a completely new word, and have it gradually gain popularity and understanding. But in the dynamics of computer languages—with their necessarily sudden introduction of new names—one has no choice but to leverage on people’s existing understanding of a human language, like English. Still, when we come up with function names in Mathematica today, they are in a sense not based just on “raw English”. They also rely on the web of meaning that has developed through the several thousand other functions that already exist in Mathematica. There are definite conventions about what particular kinds of names mean. (Functions that end in List generate lists; functions that begin with Image operate on images; functions that begin with Find involve some kind of searching; and so on.) There are ways that names tend to appear together in typical usage of the language. And there are definite conceptual frameworks—and metaphors—that have developed in the language and the system. (Nest refers to repeated function application; Flat refers to flattening of nested structures; Dynamic refers to dynamic interactivity; and so on.) In ordinary human language, natural selection no doubt often favors words that follow certain patterns. Sometimes for example consistency may make words easier to remember; sometimes inconsistency makes them stand out more, and thereby easier to remember. But there is no grand plan to organize the words in a particular way: say to avoid having obscure meanings “take up” short words, or to make words easier to sort in a particular way. But when we introduce function names in Mathematica we have both the ability—and, I think, the responsibility—to design everything. Of course, the development of Mathematica is incremental, and at any given time we can only foresee a certain amount of what will follow. But still, I take great pains to name every new function in the best possible way. What are some of the criteria? First, one must leverage on peoples’ existing knowledge and understanding. If there is a familiar name that’s already widely used, then if at all possible one must use it. Of course, sometimes that name may only be familiar in some particular area. And it may be very short—perhaps a single letter—and incomprehensible without further context. And in that case, what we typically do in Mathematica is to burn into the name some kind of stylized context. (So, for example, the Fresnel integral S(x) has the name FresnelS in Mathematica.) In building Mathematica, we’ve had the longstanding principle of always trying to make every function as general as possible—so that it is applicable to as wide a range of situations as possible. Sometimes, though, a function will have one particular, familiar, use. But if the name of the function reflects only that use, one is shortchanging the function. For without a more general name, people will never think to apply it in other cases. (So, for example, it’s List, not “vector”, and it’s Outer, not “outer product”.) And indeed, one of the responsibilities of function naming is that it is the names of functions that to a large extent directly determine how people will think about a function. If they are led in a particular direction by the name, that will be the direction in which they will go in using the function. And even the very “texture” of the name is important in getting people to think correctly about functions. A sophisticated function should have a sophisticated name (like DynamicModule or EventHandler). A straightforward, common, function should have a simple name (like Length or Total). A function that does a clear but unusual thing should have an unexpected name (like Thread or Through). By now in Mathematica there are a great many precedents for how functions should be named. And we always try to follow these precedents whenever possible. First, because they often represent good solutions to the naming problems we’re now trying to solve. And second, because by following them one is maintaining a certain consistency that makes it easier for the system to grow, and for people to learn the system—and to guess about functionality they do not already know. When one finds a good name for a function, one of the things that happens is that when people hear the name, they can successfully “unpack” it into a one-sentence description of what the function must do—often in effect just by using the name of the function as the main part of a sentence. And indeed, when we’re stuck in trying to find a good name for a function, I’ll often suggest that we try to write a sentence that describes what the function does—that we can perhaps use in the Documentation Center for the function, but then condense down into the nugget we need for the name itself. One of the painful aspects of function naming is that however clever you are about it, it can never be perfect. I often claim that the only language that is perfectly consistent is the one that does nothing. As soon as there is actual functionality to represent, there are inevitably awkward cases and corners. For example, one wants to maintain consistent simplicity in naming in each area of the system. But then at the overlaps between these areas there are inconsistencies. And sometimes one runs into limitations of English: there just isn’t any familiar word or phrase for a concept, perhaps because that concept is somehow new to our experience. And in such cases what one typically has to do—just like in natural language—is to come up with an analogy. Some of the analogies and metaphors we consider start quite wild and outlandish. But eventually they become tamer—like Sow and Reap or Throw and Catch—and an important way to extend the linguistic base for names in Mathematica. It might be nice if English—like Mathematica—had the feature that a particular word meant only a particular thing, or at least a class of things. But that is not how it works. A single word can act as different parts of speech, and can have wildly different meanings. Usually in actual English usage, one can disambiguate by context. But in the tiny length of a single function name, one does not have that option. And quite often that means one has to reject some wonderful word just in order to avoid a possible misunderstanding from a different way it can be used in English. (So, for example, “Live” or “Active” can’t be candidates for Dynamic—they’re just too easy to misunderstand.) If one is lucky, a thesaurus (these days in Wolfram\|Alpha) will give one a word that captures the same concept but avoids the potential misunderstanding. But sometimes one has to rearrange the whole structure of the name to avoid the possibility of misunderstanding. And yet, after all those judgment calls, after all that drilling to clarify precisely what a function does, one has to come to a conclusion: one has to settle on a definite name. That will represent the function—and all the work done to implement it—well. And that will serve as a permanent handle by which people can access some piece of functionality in Mathematica. I have no idea now how much time I have spent over the past quarter century coming up with names in Mathematica. Each one encapsulates some idea, some creative concept—frozen in a tiny clump of words. Like little poems. Thousands of them. Posted in: Language and Communication, Life and Times, Mathematica I remember I was very surprised by introduction of Sow and Reap. But they are great namings I think, though I amuse myself by wondering whether they would be born somewhere not that agricultural as the state of Illinois. There should be a TallyBy function Indeed, at Wolfram Research people spend hours and hours and hours over the proper choice of symbol names, and also the arguments they take, and how to handle special cases in the inputs and outputs, and what would be the most consistent when seen in comparison to the other symbol names. And I think (usually) a very good choice was made. If one compares the symbol names in M with the names used in classes (and their members) in the traditional languages (Java, C#, C++, Fortran, etc.) one can only discover that the names in M are still the most systematic and consistent. Some names and naming conventions in these traditional languages cause feelings in me that range from mild chuckles to outright hilarity. Some bad choices were made in M as well, but they are honest about it. All in all, one has to use a natural language for function/symbol names, and therein lies the problem. If you want to use exactly the right name for what it does, you are still limited to what the English language provides you. Mooniac Quoting Phil Karlton’s wise saying: “There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things” Alfonso Jiménez This blog post reminded me of the quote: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. –Phil Karlton The naming of things is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your holliday games… Dreiss @Alfonso, @John: A version of that quote I’ve heard goes, “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.” Interesting that you compare naming with poetry. It immediately brought to mind the Paul Dirac anecdote: Oppenheimer was working at Göttingen and the great mathematical physicist, Dirac, came to him one day and said: “Oppenheimer, they tell me you are writing poetry. I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write a poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say…something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand. Rick Bryan tuyan tasarım Jimmy Xemenez Meram Ajans Konya Reklam Ajansları It isn’t just one of your holliday games. Yeni Atmaca In Less Than a Year, So Much New: Launching Version 12.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica Just Published: Adventures of a Computational Explorer	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line831
__label__wiki	0.875281	0.875281	WSTale » Music » Who Aretha Franklin Once Said 'All Singers Aspired To Be' Who Aretha Franklin Once Said 'All Singers Aspired To Be' mediabest January 11, 2021 Music Aretha Franklin will live on in history as the Queen of Soul — a woman whose voice inspired the masses, whose hit tunes led to weeping, foot-tapping, dancing, and shouting from the rooftops for decades on end. She was a powerhouse, an icon, and a cultural activist whose life work will succeed her for ages to come. When thinking about musicians’ careers that up and comers yearn to emulate, it’s hard to think of someone more significant than Franklin. Yet, according to the “Respect” singer herself, there’s one artist like no other — one artist who she deemed worthy of all the other vocalists’ aspirations. Aretha Franklin on meeting Sam Cooke Franklin met Sam Cooke — often referred to as The King of Soul — in the 1950s, as MentalFloss reports. They met at Franklin’s church, and Franklin explained her reaction to eyeing the “Cupid” singer. She shared: “I was sitting there waiting for the program to start after church, and I just happened to look back over my shoulder and I saw this group of people coming down the aisle…And, oh, my God, the man that was leading them—Sam and his brother L.C. These guys were really super sharp…And I had never seen anyone quite as attractive—not a male as attractive as Sam was. And so prior to the program my soul was kind of being stirred in another way. Both Franklin and Cooke started out in Gospel, and Franklin felt that Cooke was a “singer’s singer —” someone who knew their voice was enough to carry them through. Aretha Franklin on Sam Cooke’s unparalleled talent Franklin once explained that Cooke was the man to emulate — the man other singers could only hope to be. She said: “All singers aspired to be Sam…Sam was what you call a singer’s singer … He didn’t do a lot of running around on the stage, and because he knew he didn’t have to. He had a voice, and he didn’t have to do anything but stand in one place and wipe you out.” Like Franklin, Cooke’s voice was enough. He didn’t need a gimmick. Didn’t need complex choreography. He just needed a microphone and an audience. In 1998, Cooke was inducted into the Hall of Fame for his hit song “You Send Me.” In 1999, he won the Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2000, he was recognized again for “A Change Is Gonna Come.” In 2004, the singer won the Grammy for Best Music Film for Legend. Previous Previous post: Leah McSweeney: 'Of Course' I'd Support My Daughter Getting Plastic Surgery Next Next post: Kim Kardashian: Divorcing Kanye Because of Twitter Rants?	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line832
__label__wiki	0.949359	0.949359	HARDtalk Asia Business Report Robert Caro, "Working" Small Business Commission BBCNEWS (BBC News) SFGTV FBC (FOX Business) SFGTV: San Francisco Government Television Artdestruction Favorites Newsday : BBCNEWS : January 30, 2020 1:00am-1:31am GMT Jan 30, 2020 01/20 our studios in singapore and london. this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 2am in geneva, where the world health organization has warned that the entire world needs to take action to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, which began in the chinese city of wuhan. several countries including the us have begun flying their nationals home from china. britain had hoped to begin a repatriation on thursday, but it's now emerged that the process could take a little longer. this report from our china correspondent, john sudworth. safely out of wuhan, a plane arriving at a california air base with 200 americans on board. earlier, japan got a flight full of its citizens out, touching down in tokyo. the night before the great escape... but the brits are still only preparing to leave. kharn lambert‘s grandmother, vera, stuck here on holiday, is running low on her medications. how do you feel about going home? delightful. there's frustration with the uk government. i think it's been an absolute shambles, to be honest with you. i don't thin our studios in singapore and london. this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 2am in geneva, where the world health organization has warned that the entire world needs to take action to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, which began in the chinese city of wuhan. several countries including the us have begun flying their nationals home from china. britain had hoped to begin a repatriation on thursday, but it's now emerged that the process... Newsday : BBCNEWS : January 16, 2020 12:00am-12:31am GMT welcome to newsday. i'm kasia madera in london. the headlines: politics and parchment: donald trump's impeachment trial moves a step closer as house speaker nancy pelosi signs the key documents. make it be very clear that this president will be held accountable that nobody is above the law. the moment impeachment articles were walked through capitol hill — hand delivered to the senate — where the president trump will be put on trial. i'm mariko oi in singapore. also in the programme: wildfires, flooding and drought: the last decade is confirmed as the world's hottest on record. and, why trouble is brewing in sri lanka's world famous tea industry, as prices fall and costs rise. it's midnight here in london, 8 in the morning in singapore and 7 in the evening in washington where the stage is now set for the senate trial of donald trump, only the third us president ever to face impeachment. the house speaker nancy pelosi has signed the resolution finalizing the articles of impeachment. democrats are accusing mr trump of abusing his power and obstructing congress. earlier, mrs welcome to newsday. i'm kasia madera in london. the headlines: politics and parchment: donald trump's impeachment trial moves a step closer as house speaker nancy pelosi signs the key documents. make it be very clear that this president will be held accountable that nobody is above the law. the moment impeachment articles were walked through capitol hill — hand delivered to the senate — where the president trump will be put on trial. i'm mariko oi in singapore. also in the programme:... alarming pace. life from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 8am in singapore, midnight in london and eight in the morning in the chinese province of hubei where local authorities have confirmed a newjump in the number of infections with a deadly, new coronavirus. there were 25 new deaths in the province since tuesday, bringing the total number of victims nationwide to more than 130. the number of infections now stands at more than 4,500. hong kong is the latest place to announce stringent new measures to stop the spread of the virus. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes has sent us this report. if carrie lam was aiming to calm fears in hong kong about the coronavirus, herface mask sent a different message. mrs lam is under huge pressure now to shut the border with china, and, today, she partially capitulated. "intercity services to china will be suspended," she said. "flights will be cut by half. ferries will also be stopped." by thursday morning, the number of people crossing into hong kong from mainland china behind me he alarming pace. life from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 8am in singapore, midnight in london and eight in the morning in the chinese province of hubei where local authorities have confirmed a newjump in the number of infections with a deadly, new coronavirus. there were 25 new deaths in the province since tuesday, bringing the total number of victims nationwide to more than 130. the number of infections now stands at more than... infectious disease expert raina macintyrejoining us earlier from sydney. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme, we meet the filipino superstar who gave voice to princess jasmine from disney's aladdin. looking from disney's aladdin. forward to that. also on the programme, changing social attitudes. japan's environment minister does something that very few salarymen do he goes on paternity leave. donald trump is now the 45th president of the united states. he was sworn in before several hundred thousand people on the steps of capitol hill in washington. it's going to be only america first! america first! demonstrators waiting for mike getting and his rebel cricket team were attacked with tear gas and set upon by police dogs. anti—apartheid campaigners said they will carry on the protests throughout the tour. they called him the "butcher of lyon". klaus altmann is being held on a fraud charge in bolivia. the west germans want to extradite him for crimes committed in wartime france. there he was the gestapo chief, klaus barbie. millions came to bathe as cl infectious disease expert raina macintyrejoining us earlier from sydney. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme, we meet the filipino superstar who gave voice to princess jasmine from disney's aladdin. looking from disney's aladdin. forward to that. also on the programme, changing social attitudes. japan's environment minister does something that very few salarymen do he goes on paternity leave. donald trump is now the 45th president of the united states. he was... welcome to newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: a city in lockdown — chinese officials say the people of wuhan cannot travel, as they try to contain the spread of a deadly virus. at the trump impeachment trial the us senate hears the opening arguments as the prosecution makes the case against the president. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme. judges at the international court are to rule on whether six hundred thousand rohingya muslims living in myanmar still face the threat of genocide. and the pakistani prime minister defends comparing the indian government to the nazis, in a wide—ranging interview. what is happening in kashmir is shocking — 8 million people in an open prison for over five months. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. it's 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 9am in wuhan in china, where public transport has been temporarily shut amid an outbreak of a newly discovered virus. buses, subways, ferry and long—distance travel networks will be suspended from thursday mo welcome to newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: a city in lockdown — chinese officials say the people of wuhan cannot travel, as they try to contain the spread of a deadly virus. at the trump impeachment trial the us senate hears the opening arguments as the prosecution makes the case against the president. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme. judges at the international court are to rule on whether six hundred thousand rohingya muslims living in... this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: deserted cities as the death toll from coronavirus in china exceeds 130. foreign governments begin to evacuate their citizens. the promise of a united jerusalem. president trump lays out his plans for peace in the middle east — and one last chance for the palestinians. after 70 yea rs of little progress, this could be the last opportunity they will ever have. the proposals though are roundly rejected in ramallah — both by the leaders and people who took to the streets. and i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: huawei, the chinese technology firm, is allowed a restricted role in the uk's 56 mobile network, despite security warnings from the us. and we have a special report from antarctica, where a glacier the size of britain is melting at an alarming pace. voiceover: live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 9am in the morning in the chinese province of hubei, where local authorities have confir this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: deserted cities as the death toll from coronavirus in china exceeds 130. foreign governments begin to evacuate their citizens. the promise of a united jerusalem. president trump lays out his plans for peace in the middle east — and one last chance for the palestinians. after 70 yea rs of little progress, this could be the last opportunity they will ever have. the proposals though are roundly rejected in ramallah — both... welcome to newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: chinese authorities impose further travel restrictions in hubei province where a previously unknown respiratory virus has killed 25 people. major lunar new year celebrations in beijing are cancelled to try to control the spread of the disease. i'm lewis vaughanjones in london. also in the programme: the government of myanmar dismisses a ruling by the un's top court ordering measures to prevent the genocide of rohingya muslims. and out of the devastation of the australian bushfires comes inspiration for a major work of art. this is bbc world news. it's newsday. it's 9am in singapore, 1o‘clock in london and 9am in china where the city of wuhan is in lockdown due to the outbreak of a coronavirus. the chinese government has just said the death toll there has risen to 25 with 830 people infected. it's still too early to knowjust how dangerous the outbreak will turn out to be. and the world health organization has again said it is not a global health emergency, though it is an emergency in china. from beijin welcome to newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: chinese authorities impose further travel restrictions in hubei province where a previously unknown respiratory virus has killed 25 people. major lunar new year celebrations in beijing are cancelled to try to control the spread of the disease. i'm lewis vaughanjones in london. also in the programme: the government of myanmar dismisses a ruling by the un's top court ordering measures to prevent the genocide of rohingya... thanks forjoining us on newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: iran's leaders under pressure, after more protests over the shooting down of a passenger jet. 57 canadians died — prime ministerjustin trudeau paid his respects and promised justice. we will not rest until there are a nswe i’s. we will not rest until there are answers. we will not rest until there is justice and accountability. thousands are told to leave their homes in the philippines, as a volcano spews out a massive cloud of ash. i'm lewis vaughanjones in london. also in the programme: what really happened when students at one of delhi's top universities were attacked. we have a special report. queen elizabeth prepares to hold talks with prince harry and meghan over the royal couple's future. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news — it's newsday. glad you could join us. it's 8:00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 3:30am in tehran, where there's a strong police presence on the streets of the iranian capital. it follows a second day of protests aft thanks forjoining us on newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: iran's leaders under pressure, after more protests over the shooting down of a passenger jet. 57 canadians died — prime ministerjustin trudeau paid his respects and promised justice. we will not rest until there are a nswe i’s. we will not rest until there are answers. we will not rest until there is justice and accountability. thousands are told to leave their homes in the philippines, as a volcano... Newsday : BBCNEWS : January 7, 2020 1:00am-1:31am GMT welcome to newsday on the bbc. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: huge crowds gather in iran to mourn general soleimani who was killed by us forces — his coffin arrives has arrived in his birthplace of kerman ahead of his funeral. i'm lucy hockings live in wandandian in new south wales where firefighters are in a race against time with hot, windy weather forecast for later in the week. i'm kasia madera in london — also in the programme. an indonesian man — declared the worst serial rapist in british criminal history has been jailed for a minimum of 30 years. disgraced movie producer harvey weinstein faces charges of rape and sexual assault — and notjust in new york. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 8 in the evening in washington where the trump administration has been forced to deny it plans to pull us troops out of iraq. as demanded by the baghdad parliament. it follows the emergence of a leaked letter that the us defence secretary has called ‘misleadi welcome to newsday on the bbc. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: huge crowds gather in iran to mourn general soleimani who was killed by us forces — his coffin arrives has arrived in his birthplace of kerman ahead of his funeral. i'm lucy hockings live in wandandian in new south wales where firefighters are in a race against time with hot, windy weather forecast for later in the week. i'm kasia madera in london — also in the programme. an indonesian man — declared the worst... welcome to newsday on the bbc. i'm sharanjit leyl, in singapore. the headlines: the world health organisation declares a global health emergency as china's coronavirus spreads. at least 200 people have now died and there are cases in 18 other countries. the main reason for this declaration is not because of what is happening in china, but because of what is happening in other countries. the race is no on to develop a vaccine before the virus takes hold. we'll be at a laboratory in san diego, which is spearheading the research. i'm lewis vaughan jones, in london. also in the programme: with less than 2a hours until brexit, we look at britain's chances of striking quick trade deals with the rest of the world, including china. and the high tech trainers said to feel like running on trampolines — are they giving professional athletes an unfair advantage? live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news — it's newsday. hello. it's 1am in london, 9am in the morning here, in singapore, and 2am in geneva, where the coronavirus has been declared a global public em welcome to newsday on the bbc. i'm sharanjit leyl, in singapore. the headlines: the world health organisation declares a global health emergency as china's coronavirus spreads. at least 200 people have now died and there are cases in 18 other countries. the main reason for this declaration is not because of what is happening in china, but because of what is happening in other countries. the race is no on to develop a vaccine before the virus takes hold. we'll be at a laboratory in san diego,... Asia Business Report : BBCNEWS : January 29, 2020 1:30am-1:46am GMT over and is spreading at an alarming rate as we just heard on newsday and at the beginning of this programme. as you can newsday and at the beginning of this programme. as you can see newsday and at the beginning of this programme. as you can see the nikkei and what is happening in australia, they have shaken off their fears. yesterday it was deep in the red and there were significant sharp declines. today, a lot of investors are looking to see what happened with apple earnings, and as well, the world health organization came out yesterday, saying they do have confidence in the chinese government that will combat and contain this virus. but we will see exactly how the hang seng holds out the rest of the hang seng holds out the rest of the day, if they can set up those nerves as well. thank you so much for the market update, monica miller. and as we have been seeing ina number of miller. and as we have been seeing in a number of countries, they are looking to evacuate nationals from wuhan due to the coronavirus. that has infected thousands and lead to a near total lockdown of the hu over and is spreading at an alarming rate as we just heard on newsday and at the beginning of this programme. as you can newsday and at the beginning of this programme. as you can see newsday and at the beginning of this programme. as you can see the nikkei and what is happening in australia, they have shaken off their fears. yesterday it was deep in the red and there were significant sharp declines. today, a lot of investors are looking to see what happened with apple earnings, and as well,... welcome to newsday. i'm kasia madera, in london. our headlines" our headlines: the duke and duchess of sussex announce they're stepping back as senior royals, in an unprecedented move. president trump says he believes iran is standing down in its military confrontation with america, after it fired missiles at air bases housing us forces in iraq. i'm rico hizon, in singapore. also in the programme: mystery after a ukrainian plane crashes shortly after take off in iran killing 176 people and, as australia continues to battle wildfi res, prime minister scott morrison defends his handling of the crisis response. the response that you're seeing rolled out here in australia at a state level and a commonwealth level is unprecedented. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news — it's newsday. hello and welcome. it's 9am in singapore and 1am here in london, where prince harry and his wife, meghan, have unexpectedly issued a personal statement saying they will step back as senior royals and work to become financially independent. the duke and duchess of sussex als welcome to newsday. i'm kasia madera, in london. our headlines" our headlines: the duke and duchess of sussex announce they're stepping back as senior royals, in an unprecedented move. president trump says he believes iran is standing down in its military confrontation with america, after it fired missiles at air bases housing us forces in iraq. i'm rico hizon, in singapore. also in the programme: mystery after a ukrainian plane crashes shortly after take off in iran killing 176 people... welcome to newsday. i'm kasia madera, in london. the headlines: queen elizabeth agrees to harry and meghan's plans, to step back from being senior royals. but there's still a lot to work out. the bbc is given access to al asad in iraq, one of the american airbases ta rgetted by iranian missiles last week. this is the crater from one of five missile barrages. look at the enormous blast, enough to force over these concrete barriers. i'm mariko oi, in singapore. also on the programme. more people flee the philippines volcano, amid fears of an imminent explosion. this is the scene live there, this morning. and the nominations for this year's academy awards are in — joker, is leading the pack but could a film from south korea also capture the limelight? live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news — it's newsday. it's 8am in singapore and midnight in the uk where what's been dubbed as the sandringham summit has taken place, during which queen elizabeth met with her grandson, prince harry, to try to figure out how he and his wife, meghan, will step back from r welcome to newsday. i'm kasia madera, in london. the headlines: queen elizabeth agrees to harry and meghan's plans, to step back from being senior royals. but there's still a lot to work out. the bbc is given access to al asad in iraq, one of the american airbases ta rgetted by iranian missiles last week. this is the crater from one of five missile barrages. look at the enormous blast, enough to force over these concrete barriers. i'm mariko oi, in singapore. also on the programme. more people... , coupled with realism. nicholas witchell, bbc news. you are watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: we meet the 91—year—old who has no plans to retire from teaching. also on the programme: 0ne of the world's rarest eagles arrives in singapore in an effort to save them from extinction. day one of operation desert storm to force the iraqis out of kuwait has seen the most intense air attack since the second world war. tobacco is america's oldest industry and one of its biggest, but the industry is nervous of this report. this may tend to make people want to stop smoking cigarettes. there is not a street that is unaffected. huge parts of kobe were simply demolished, as buildings crashed into one another. this woman said she had been given no help and no advice by the authorities. she stood outside the ruins of her business. tens of thousands of black children in south africa have taken advantage of laws passed by the country's new multiracial government and enrolled at formerly white schools. tonight sees the 9,610th performance of the long—running play, the mousetr , coupled with realism. nicholas witchell, bbc news. you are watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: we meet the 91—year—old who has no plans to retire from teaching. also on the programme: 0ne of the world's rarest eagles arrives in singapore in an effort to save them from extinction. day one of operation desert storm to force the iraqis out of kuwait has seen the most intense air attack since the second world war. tobacco is america's oldest industry and one of its... Newsday : BBCNEWS : January 3, 2020 12:00am-12:31am GMT welcome to newsday. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: by land and by sea — tens of thousands of australians are evacuated as bushfires rage on. the fireball just came through at about 80 kays an hour, hit the house, and then we ran into the lake, and all the embers and everything were hitting us, burnt her hair a little bit. the bushfires‘ impact is felt as far as new zealand — where smoke fills the air and glaciers are coated in soot. i'm nuala mcgovern in london. also in the programme: flooding and landslides claim dozens of lives in the indonesian capital jakarta after the most intense rainfall in quarter of a century. the us bans some e—cigarette flavours amid concerns about teen vaping. but how much of a drag is it really for manufacturers? live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 8am in singapore, midnight in london and ham in new south wales where a state of emergency has been declared — that's the area worst affected by australia's bushfire crisis. the emergency status allows the authorit welcome to newsday. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: by land and by sea — tens of thousands of australians are evacuated as bushfires rage on. the fireball just came through at about 80 kays an hour, hit the house, and then we ran into the lake, and all the embers and everything were hitting us, burnt her hair a little bit. the bushfires‘ impact is felt as far as new zealand — where smoke fills the air and glaciers are coated in soot. i'm nuala mcgovern in london. also in... this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines... a 50—year—old man is the first person in the capital, beijing, to die from coronavirus — travel bans remain in place as china battles to contain the outbreak. even getting on a beijing subway train has become a surreal experience. workers in full hazmat suits checking every passenger. how a leaked manuscript from john bolton — the former us national security advisor — has renewed calls for witnesses in president trump's impeachment trial. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme... us officials confirm that one of their planes came down in a taliban—held province in afghanistan, but they've not said how it crashed. and remembering a legend. the world marks the passing of nba superstar kobe bryant. good morning. it's 9am in singapore, 1am in london and nine in the morning in beijing, where authorities have confirmed the first death from the new coronoavirus in the chinese capital. meanwhile the bavarian health ministry has confirmed the first case in germany. so far, the virus has killed 82 pe this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines... a 50—year—old man is the first person in the capital, beijing, to die from coronavirus — travel bans remain in place as china battles to contain the outbreak. even getting on a beijing subway train has become a surreal experience. workers in full hazmat suits checking every passenger. how a leaked manuscript from john bolton — the former us national security advisor — has renewed calls for witnesses in president... this is hello, this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore, the headlines: the moment a boeing aircraft came down with 176 people on board — canada's prime minister says there's mounting evidence to what caused the tragedy. the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an iranian surface—to—air missile. this may well have been unintentional. a day after the duke and duchess of sussex announce they're stepping back from royal life, meghan leaves the uk for canada. i'm lewis vaughanjones in london. also in the programme: bushfires are still burning in australia with temperatures forecast to get higher in some places. and the bbc speaks to carlos ghosn — the fugitive businessman now banned from leaving the country he fled to. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. it's 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in ottawa where the prime ministerjustin trudeau has said there's evidence from multiple sources that the ukrainian passengerjet that crashed near tehran was shot down by an iranian missile. all one hundred this is hello, this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore, the headlines: the moment a boeing aircraft came down with 176 people on board — canada's prime minister says there's mounting evidence to what caused the tragedy. the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an iranian surface—to—air missile. this may well have been unintentional. a day after the duke and duchess of sussex announce they're stepping back from royal life, meghan leaves the uk for canada. i'm... welcome to a special edition of newsday. i'm lucy hockings in nowra in new south wales in australia. the worst weekend of bushfires yet, and australia has seen dozens of homes destroyed. and there's a warning this could go on burning for months. after weeks of criticism for his reaction to the bushfire crisis, prime minister scott morrison defends his government's response. this is the largest single call—out ever of reservists working with our full—time defence service providing support that our country has never seen before. south of here in the state of victoria, there are fears that two huge fires could merge into one to create a mega blaze. we will bring you all the latest from here in australia. i'm lewis vaughanjones in london. also in the programme: iran says it's taking another step back from the constraints of the international nuclear deal following the american assassination of general soleimani. masked attackers roam the campus of one of india's most prestigious universities targeting students opposing the government's new citizenship law. this is bbc world news. it welcome to a special edition of newsday. i'm lucy hockings in nowra in new south wales in australia. the worst weekend of bushfires yet, and australia has seen dozens of homes destroyed. and there's a warning this could go on burning for months. after weeks of criticism for his reaction to the bushfire crisis, prime minister scott morrison defends his government's response. this is the largest single call—out ever of reservists working with our full—time defence service providing support... from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 8am in singapore and midnight in london where prince harry has given a dramatic response to events culminating with saturday's agreement for him and his wife, meghan, to give up royal duties. he said it brings him great sadness it has come to this and went on to explain why he felt there was no other option. let's hear more from his speech at an event for his charity, sentebale. i wanted to hear the truth from me. as much as i can share. not as a prince or duke but as harry, the same person that many of you have watched grow up over the last 35 yea rs watched grow up over the last 35 years but now in a clearer perspective. the uk is my home and a place that i love. that will never change. i've grown up feeling supported from so many of you and i watched as you welcome meganmack with open arms, as he saw me by the love and happiness that i'd hoped for all my life. x mac meghan. finally, the second son of diana got hitched. hooray. ialso know finally, the second son of diana got hitched from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 8am in singapore and midnight in london where prince harry has given a dramatic response to events culminating with saturday's agreement for him and his wife, meghan, to give up royal duties. he said it brings him great sadness it has come to this and went on to explain why he felt there was no other option. let's hear more from his speech at an event for his charity, sentebale. i wanted to hear... welcome to newsday. the headlines: a moment in history. as donald trump's impeachment trial gets under way in the senate, the president denounces it as a hoax. it's a hoax, it's a hoax. everybody knows that. it's a complete hoax. the world has reached the point of climate change crisis — a stark warning from one of the world's most influential environmentalists. the moment of crisis has come. we can no longer prevaricate. as i speak, south—east australia is on fire. i'm lewis vaughanjones in london. also in the programme: in front and behind the lens. prince harry posts his own footage of his first public engagement since stepping back from royal duties. and seeking sanctuary from the bushfires. the rescue centre caring for australia's koalas. hello. it is 8:00am in singapore, midnight in london and 7:00pm in washington, where donald trump's impeachment trial has formally begun with the charges being read out in the us senate and the presiding judge being sworn in. the lead prosecutor, adam schiff, said no president had ever sought to impede an impeachment investigation so th welcome to newsday. the headlines: a moment in history. as donald trump's impeachment trial gets under way in the senate, the president denounces it as a hoax. it's a hoax, it's a hoax. everybody knows that. it's a complete hoax. the world has reached the point of climate change crisis — a stark warning from one of the world's most influential environmentalists. the moment of crisis has come. we can no longer prevaricate. as i speak, south—east australia is on fire. i'm lewis vaughanjones... london. this is bbc world news. its newsday. -- its. good morning. it's 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 9am in wuhan in china, the centre of an outbreak of a newly discovered virus which is spreading across the country. the chinese authorities have now confirmed the virus has passed from person to person. the world health organization will convene its emergency committee this week to discuss whether it constitutes an international public health emergency. here's our medical correspondent, fergal walsh. it's official. china's mysterious new virus can pass from person to person. health authorities there are urging the public not to panic. most cases have come as a result of direct contact with animals, but human—to—human transmission means this virus is potentially a far bigger threat. the outbreak centres on the city of wuhan, population 11 million, where the source is thought to be a seafood market. 170 people in wuhan are being treated in hospital. several are critically ill and three deaths have been confirmed. there have been a handful of cases of the virus in south korea, th london. this is bbc world news. its newsday. -- its. good morning. it's 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 9am in wuhan in china, the centre of an outbreak of a newly discovered virus which is spreading across the country. the chinese authorities have now confirmed the virus has passed from person to person. the world health organization will convene its emergency committee this week to discuss whether it constitutes an international public health emergency. here's our medical correspondent,... welcome to newsday on bbc news. i'm sharanjit leyl, in singapore. the headlines: australia's new south wales fire service warns people to leave the coast while they can. bushfires have killed eight, and destroyed over 1,000 homes since monday. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, seeks immunity from prosecution over charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. i'm nuala mcgovern, in london. also on the programme: hong kong police make 400 arrests, as anti—government protests and violence spill into a new year. all this started more than six months ago. few could have imagined it would last this long. today, very few can imagine how this is all going to end. good afternoon, i am your butler. and challenging stereotypes in singapore — we meet the working women rewriting the rules. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news — it's newsday. it's 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 12pm in south—eastern australia, where the fire service in new south wales has warned people to leave the south coast if they don't need to be there, ahead of p welcome to newsday on bbc news. i'm sharanjit leyl, in singapore. the headlines: australia's new south wales fire service warns people to leave the coast while they can. bushfires have killed eight, and destroyed over 1,000 homes since monday. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, seeks immunity from prosecution over charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. i'm nuala mcgovern, in london. also on the programme: hong kong police make 400 arrests, as anti—government protests and... any family, let alone the royal family gareth barlow, bbc news. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: we'll be live in the australian state of new south wales where increasing temperatures and high winds threaten the spread of renewed bushfires. the japanese people are in mourning following the death of emperor hirohito. thousands converged on the imperial palace to pay their respects when it was announced he was dead. good grief! after half a century of delighting fans around the world, charlie brown and the rest of the gang are calling it quits. the singer paul simon starts his tour of south africa tomorrow in spite of protests and violence from some black activist groups. they say international artists should continue to boycott south africa until majority rule is established. teams were trying to scoop up lumps of oil as france recognises it faces an ecological crisis. three weeks ago, the authorities confidently assured these areas that oil from the broken tanker erika would head out to sea. it didn't. the world's tallest skyscraper opens later to any family, let alone the royal family gareth barlow, bbc news. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: we'll be live in the australian state of new south wales where increasing temperatures and high winds threaten the spread of renewed bushfires. the japanese people are in mourning following the death of emperor hirohito. thousands converged on the imperial palace to pay their respects when it was announced he was dead. good grief! after half a century of... other things that could be done in between that don't involve a full deal. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: the race to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus. we report from a laboratory in the us which is at the forefront of research. also on the programme: the science behind the speed — the controversial running shoes helping athletes go for gold. the shuttle challenger exploded soon after lift—off. there were seven astronauts on board, one of them a woman schoolteacher. all of them are believed to have been killed. by the evening, tahrir square, the heart of official cairo, was in the hands of the demonstrators. they were using the word "revolution". the earthquake singled out buildings and brought them down in seconds. tonight, the search for any survivors has an increasing desperation about it as the hours passed. the new government is firmly in control of the entire republic of uganda. survivors of the auschwitz concentration camp have been commemorating the 40th anniversary of their liberation. they toured the huts, gas chambers an other things that could be done in between that don't involve a full deal. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: the race to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus. we report from a laboratory in the us which is at the forefront of research. also on the programme: the science behind the speed — the controversial running shoes helping athletes go for gold. the shuttle challenger exploded soon after lift—off. there were seven astronauts on board, one of... their side and to sway public opinion to their case. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: why mindfulness matters, when it comes to boosting mental health in the workplace. donald trump is now the 45th president of the united states. he was sworn in before several hundred thousand people on the steps of capitol hill in washington. it's going to be only america first. america first. demonstrators waiting for mike gatting and his rebel cricket team were attacked with tear gas and set up on by police dogs. anti—apartheid campaigners say they will carry on the protests throughout the tour. they called him ‘the butcher of lyon'. klaus altmann is being held on a fraud charge in bolivia. the west germans want to extradite him for crimes committed in wartime france. there, he was the gestapo chief klaus barbie. millions came to bathe as close as possible to this spot. a tide of humanity that is believed by officials to have broken all records. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm mariko oi in singapore. i'm kasia madera in london. our top stories: the trial of pre their side and to sway public opinion to their case. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: why mindfulness matters, when it comes to boosting mental health in the workplace. donald trump is now the 45th president of the united states. he was sworn in before several hundred thousand people on the steps of capitol hill in washington. it's going to be only america first. america first. demonstrators waiting for mike gatting and his rebel cricket team were attacked... coming apart at the seams. you are watching newsday on the bbc. live from singapore and london. still to come on the programme, not just an athlete but an oscar winner. we will find out more about kobe brya nt‘s success we will find out more about kobe bryant's success in hollywood. the shuttle challenger exploded soon after lift—off. there were seven astronauts on board, one of them a woman school teacher. all of them are believed to have been killed. by the evening, tahrir square, the heart of official cairo, was in the hands of the demonstrators. they were using the word ‘revolution'. the earthquake brought down buildings in seconds. tonight, the search for any survivors has an increasing desperation about it as the hours passed. the government is a family in control of the entire republic of uganda. survivors of auschwitz have been commemorating the 40th anniversary of the liberation. they toured the crematoria and the gas chambers and relived the horrifying experiences. welcome back everybody. this is newsday on the bbc. our top stories. the american basketball legend kobe bry coming apart at the seams. you are watching newsday on the bbc. live from singapore and london. still to come on the programme, not just an athlete but an oscar winner. we will find out more about kobe brya nt‘s success we will find out more about kobe bryant's success in hollywood. the shuttle challenger exploded soon after lift—off. there were seven astronauts on board, one of them a woman school teacher. all of them are believed to have been killed. by the evening, tahrir square, the... decades. hello and welcome to this special edition of newsday. it's 1:00am in london, 9:00am in singapore and 4:00am in iraq where iran has launched a ballistic missile attack on air bases housing us forces in the country. the pentagon says at least two sites were hit in erbil and al—asad west of baghdad. it says the missiles were launched from iran itself. iranian state tv says the attack was launched in revenge for the us assassination of the iranian general, qasem soleimani. the white house says president trump has been briefed and is monitoring events. our news reporter gareth barlow is with me. of course this is a developing story which has been going on for about two and a half hours now, but i think it would be worth reminding ourselves from the beginning what has been happening. it was around two o'clock in the morning local time in iraq when there were reports of six missiles being fired at and striking the al—asad airbase. this is an iraqi airbase that also houses us troops and coalition troops. that figure of the number of missiles has increased, the pentagon now says at le decades. hello and welcome to this special edition of newsday. it's 1:00am in london, 9:00am in singapore and 4:00am in iraq where iran has launched a ballistic missile attack on air bases housing us forces in the country. the pentagon says at least two sites were hit in erbil and al—asad west of baghdad. it says the missiles were launched from iran itself. iranian state tv says the attack was launched in revenge for the us assassination of the iranian general, qasem soleimani. the white... in singapore and london. this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington, where the impeachment trial of president trump has officially started in the us senate. not a lot of progress yet, though. republicans and democrats can't even decide on how it should proceed. here's our north america editorjon sopel. hear ye, all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment. 1868, 1999 and now 2020, for only the third time in american history, the sergeant at arms tells senators on pain of imprisonment that they must maintain silence in the trial of a sitting president, the asth, donald] trump. presiding over it the chief justice, john roberts. but all for this being a judicial process, it is really raw politics. the first person to be called was the senior white house counsel acting as the defence. we believe that once you hear those initial presentations, the only conclusion will be that the president has done absolutely nothing wrong. and that these articles of impeachment do not begin to approach the stan in singapore and london. this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington, where the impeachment trial of president trump has officially started in the us senate. not a lot of progress yet, though. republicans and democrats can't even decide on how it should proceed. here's our north america editorjon sopel. hear ye, all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment. 1868, 1999 and now 2020, for only the third... studios in singapore and london. this is bbc world news. its newsday. good morning. it's 8am in singapore. midnight in london and 8am in wuhan, china, which is in lockdown due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. an 18th person has died and 650 people have been infected. however, it's still to early to knowjust how dangerous the outbreak will turn out to be. and the world health organization has again said it is not a global health emergency, though it is an emergency in china. from beijing, john sudworth reports. this is the moment a city of 11 million people was effectively shut off. aaron military police guarding the station, as all departing trains are cancelled. in the hospitals, medical staff in full body suits patients. while images on social media appear to show a system struggling to cope. empty shelves in the shops and scuffles over food. we spoke to one british man now stuck inside wuhan. it's a very surreal feeling. knowing especially that if you go outside, there is potential to catch such a deadly virus. and when you look outside the window, what's the atmosphere li studios in singapore and london. this is bbc world news. its newsday. good morning. it's 8am in singapore. midnight in london and 8am in wuhan, china, which is in lockdown due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. an 18th person has died and 650 people have been infected. however, it's still to early to knowjust how dangerous the outbreak will turn out to be. and the world health organization has again said it is not a global health emergency, though it is an emergency in china. from beijing,... believed by officials to have broken all records. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. and i'm lewis vaughan—jones in london. our top stories: prince harry says his decision to step back from royal duties and move his family to canada hasn't been ta ken lightly. hundreds of lebanese protesters have clashed with security forces in the centre of beirut — after three months of anti—establishment demonstrations. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the japan times reports on the 60th anniversary of the us—japanese alliance. it quotes donald trump, who has praised the relationship, while calling onjapan to make a greater contribution to the upkeep of the us troops stationed there. president trump is also reaching out to president duterte of the philippines. the philippine star reports mr trump has invited his counterpart in manila to a summit in las vegas, despite signing off on the banning of certain philippine officials from entering the us. and gulf news is reporting on renewed agreement by foreign nations on a libyan arms embargo. the new believed by officials to have broken all records. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. and i'm lewis vaughan—jones in london. our top stories: prince harry says his decision to step back from royal duties and move his family to canada hasn't been ta ken lightly. hundreds of lebanese protesters have clashed with security forces in the centre of beirut — after three months of anti—establishment demonstrations. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world.... this is newsday on the bbc. i am rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: basketball great kobe bryant dies in a helicopter crash aged 41. it is sad to see a basketball great path like that but we will keep his legacy alive. the private helicopter he was travelling in crashed in california and burst into flames, killing nine people, including his 13—year—old daughter. i'm lewis vaughanjones in london. also in the programme: china reveals the coronavirus, which has claims more than 50 lives, is infectious before symptoms show, making it harder to contend with. after more clashes in iraq, the shia cleric muqtada al—sadr tells his supporters to clear the streets to avoid an escalation. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news — it's newsday. glad you could join us. it's 9:00 in the morning here in singapore, it's 1:00am in london and it is 5:00 in the afternoon in california, where one of the all—time greats of basketball, kobe bryant, has been killed in a helicopter crash. reports say his helicopter went down into a hillside in calabasas in f this is newsday on the bbc. i am rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: basketball great kobe bryant dies in a helicopter crash aged 41. it is sad to see a basketball great path like that but we will keep his legacy alive. the private helicopter he was travelling in crashed in california and burst into flames, killing nine people, including his 13—year—old daughter. i'm lewis vaughanjones in london. also in the programme: china reveals the coronavirus, which has claims more than 50 lives,... relationships together and bring economic prosperity to taiwan. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: could a swap shop for clothes curb the environmental costs of fast fashion? also on the programme: defying stereotypes in the hospitality industry. how women are breaking the mould at singapore's raffles hotel. the most ambitious financial and political change ever attempted has got under way with the introduction of the euro. tomorrow in holland, we're going to use money we picked up in belgium today. and then we'll be in france and again, it will be the same money. it's just got to be the way to go. george harrison, the former beatle, is recovering in hospital after being stabbed at his oxfordshire home. a 33—year—old man from liverpool is being interviewed by police on suspicion of attempted murder. i think it was good. reporter: it was just good? no, fantastic! that's better! big ben strikes the hour this is newsday on the bbc. and i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. i'm nuala mcgovern in london. our top stories: australia's new south wales fire s relationships together and bring economic prosperity to taiwan. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: could a swap shop for clothes curb the environmental costs of fast fashion? also on the programme: defying stereotypes in the hospitality industry. how women are breaking the mould at singapore's raffles hotel. the most ambitious financial and political change ever attempted has got under way with the introduction of the euro. tomorrow in holland, we're going to... Robert Caro, "Working" : CSPAN2 : January 4, 2020 4:25am-6:02am EST , committed that you were taught very early. a man, i think it was alan hathaway at newsday. told you when you were doing research, turn every page. you took it literally and i think you've taken it farther than any biographer in the history of the written word. tell us about that. >> well, i was a young reporter at newsday. still doing very short stories. so an accident, i got thrown into an investigative. i had to go down and go through a bunch of files out of federal agencies. and i came back and wrote a memo for the real reporters who would write the story the next day. and we had a managing editor was an old guy from the 1920s. he was a guy with a big head. just hair around the back. the head was very red because he started drinking very early in the day. we never knew that alan - - whether alan graduated from college or even went to college but he really had a prejudice against people from prestigious universities. i went to princeton. they hired me while he was on vacation as a joke on him. so he would walk by my desk every day on the way to his office and he never talked to me , committed that you were taught very early. a man, i think it was alan hathaway at newsday. told you when you were doing research, turn every page. you took it literally and i think you've taken it farther than any biographer in the history of the written word. tell us about that. >> well, i was a young reporter at newsday. still doing very short stories. so an accident, i got thrown into an investigative. i had to go down and go through a bunch of files out of federal agencies. and i... been telling you on newsday, president trump's impeachment trial has started in washington, but he is actually thousands of miles away in davos for the world economic forum. mr trump used his speech to attack environmentalists. this is a time for tremendous hope and joy and optimism and action, but to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow, we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. they are the heirs of yesterday's foolish fortunetellers andi yesterday's foolish fortunetellers and i have them and you have them and i have them and you have them and we all have them, and they want to see us do badly, but we don't let that happen. for me, it was classic president from. i don't think anyone should be surprised. i thought it was less about an attack on environmentalists, it was really about a very confident us president talking about a resurgent america. i think many people, perhaps myself included would have liked to address more about these bigger issues about the climate, but i think he was right on point and making it clear that the story of been telling you on newsday, president trump's impeachment trial has started in washington, but he is actually thousands of miles away in davos for the world economic forum. mr trump used his speech to attack environmentalists. this is a time for tremendous hope and joy and optimism and action, but to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow, we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. they are the heirs of yesterday's foolish fortunetellers andi... Asia Business Report : BBCNEWS : January 3, 2020 1:30am-1:45am GMT on the story and you have heard lots about it on newsday. let's talk about this man, carlos ghosn. he is the former boss of nissan and he was facing charges injapan but he skipped bail and arrived in lebanon, which does not have an extradition treaty with japan. interpol have put up a red notice for carlos ghosn‘s arrest as a request for assistance, but interpol cannot force its members to comply, so perhaps not as significant as it first sounds. we managed to have an answer from the minister ofjustice regarding managed to have an answer from the minister of justice regarding the arrest warrant by interpol. they said they received it today and they are going to do all the due diligence of legal investigation into the case, and they will take action in accordance to the finding of that investigation. however, they will never extradite him or turn him back to japan because this is something that they will not do for him. now to the markets, because wall street's major indices notched up wall street's major indices notched up yet more record highs. that is how they opened the new year on the story and you have heard lots about it on newsday. let's talk about this man, carlos ghosn. he is the former boss of nissan and he was facing charges injapan but he skipped bail and arrived in lebanon, which does not have an extradition treaty with japan. interpol have put up a red notice for carlos ghosn‘s arrest as a request for assistance, but interpol cannot force its members to comply, so perhaps not as significant as it first sounds. we managed to have an answer from the... HARDtalk : BBCNEWS : January 27, 2020 12:30am-1:00am GMT and then things once again turn mild and unsettled later in the week. this is newsday on the bbc. i am rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: basketball great kobe bryant dies in a helicopter crash aged ai. it is sad to see a basketball great path like that but we will keep his legacy alive. the private helicopter he was travelling in crashed in california and burst into flames, killing nine people, including his i3—year—old daughter. i‘m lewis vaughanjones in london. also in the programme: china reveals the coronavirus, and then things once again turn mild and unsettled later in the week. this is newsday on the bbc. i am rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: basketball great kobe bryant dies in a helicopter crash aged ai. it is sad to see a basketball great path like that but we will keep his legacy alive. the private helicopter he was travelling in crashed in california and burst into flames, killing nine people, including his i3—year—old daughter. i‘m lewis vaughanjones in london. also in the... HARDtalk : BBCNEWS : January 7, 2020 12:30am-1:00am GMT , particularly on thursday, the winds easing, and drier and colder on friday. welcome to newsday on the bbc. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: huge crowds gather in iran to mourn general soleimani who was killed by us forces — his coffin arrives has arrived in his birthplace of kerman ahead of his funeral. i'm lucy hockings live in wandandian in new south wales where firefighters are in a race against time with hot, windy weather forecast for later in the week. i'm kasia madera in london — also in the programme. an indonesian man — declared the worst serial rapist in british criminal history has been jailed for a minimum of 30 years. disgraced movie producer harvey weinstein faces charges , particularly on thursday, the winds easing, and drier and colder on friday. welcome to newsday on the bbc. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: huge crowds gather in iran to mourn general soleimani who was killed by us forces — his coffin arrives has arrived in his birthplace of kerman ahead of his funeral. i'm lucy hockings live in wandandian in new south wales where firefighters are in a race against time with hot, windy weather forecast for later in the week. i'm kasia madera... . this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines... a 50—year—old man is the first person in the capital, beijing, to die from coronavirus — travel bans remain in place as china battles to contain the outbreak. even getting on a beijing subway train has become a surreal experience. workers in full hazmat suits checking every passenger. how a leaked manuscript from john bolton — the former us national security advisor — has renewed calls for witnesses in president trump's impeachment trial. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme... us officials confirm that one of their planes came down . this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines... a 50—year—old man is the first person in the capital, beijing, to die from coronavirus — travel bans remain in place as china battles to contain the outbreak. even getting on a beijing subway train has become a surreal experience. workers in full hazmat suits checking every passenger. how a leaked manuscript from john bolton — the former us national security advisor — has renewed calls for witnesses in...	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line833
__label__wiki	0.670742	0.670742	/Blogs/African Foreign Policy and Regional Integration/Article/ A Liberal View of Post-Brexit Referendum on Regionalism Across Africa The decision of Britain to leave the EU, although can be viewed through a realist perspective, is not a threat to globalisation and regionalism. By Sekou Toure Otondi in African Foreign Policy and Regional Integration. Liberalism and idealism-two opposing forces Well, the UK has decided to leave the European Union. The proponents of an independent UK, outside the 28 member regional bloc, carried the day with over 52% of votes cast, with 48% of the voters opting to remain. In the run up to the referendum, as well as in its immediate aftermath, several issues, mostly revolving around economy, immigration and sovereignty, propped in debates. Nevertheless, underneath these issues, there seems to be two old age subterranean ideological forces that seek to influence and shape the direction of not only the UK, and Europe, but to an extent our perception of international relations. These two camps are basically realism and idealism. While liberalism is mainly in favour of globalization and to an extent regional, idealism has always been more inclined towards the traditional international political system, based on state sovereignty, and modelled along the 1648 Peace of Westphalia treaty. Liberalism still rules despite win by Brexit vote Although the UK’s decision to quit the EU, from the outlook may indicate the triumph of idealism over idealism, and can be perceived as a symbol of general dissatisfaction with globalization, the UK’s decision to quit the EU is merely a hiccup in the regional integration processes. Regionalism, as a product of globalization hinged on liberal ideology, is on a cruise across the globe and seems unstoppable. This is especially true in Africa, where regional integration efforts are actively being pursued at the sub-regional and regional levels. Regional integration efforts on the continent are being seen as a panacea for economic, political and security challenges facing Africa. To pitch for liberalism, as an ideological foundation of globalization and to an extent regional integration in Africa, within the context of the recent UK referendum on its relations with the EU, we need to look at urbanisation and youths as the two main parameters that drives globalisation forward. Urbanisation and youths as drivers of regional integration Urbanisation; the voting patterns in the concluded UK referendum were skewed with regard to rural and urban populations. The majority of voters in rural areas, reportedly overwhelmingly voted for an exit, as compared to most voters in cosmopolitan large centres across Britain. For instance in London, over 62% of voters backed the need for closer ties with EU. This indicates that more people living in urban centres have a positive outlook at globalization, compared to rural folks. The impact of these statistics indicates that the future of regionalism on the continent is bright. This is basically due to the indicators that illustrate an upward trend of rural-urban migration across the continent. Africa has experienced the highest urban growth during the last two decades at 3.5% per year and this rate of growth is expected to hold into 2050, with projections indicating that between 2010 and 2025, some of African cities will account for up to 85% of total population. As the population of towns and cities expand across the continent, most residents are likely to pick up the urban global culture. Hence, majority Africans are less likely to define themselves on the basis of national identities, and more along with global identities. Thus like in the UK context there is likely to be more support for regional integration efforts as rural urban migration expands. Age; secondly, in the UK referendum, majority of young voters, up to 75%, between the ages of 18 and 34, mainly voted for the UK to remain within the EU. However, older UK citizens voted to quit the union. It’s highly likely that these young people, who are the future policy decision makers, and in favour of globalization are likely to pursue policies and constitutional procedures that favours regional integration. Africa, with a huge population of young people that is growing rapidly, with over a half aged below 20 years, are more inclined towards supporting globalization and its related trends. Identity politics defined Brexit vote not realism In conclusion, the role of urbanisation and youths in globalization, in addition to the interconnected nature of the global financial system, will continue to make globalization and its ramifications, such as regional integration, at least in economic and cultural sense, a strong ideological base for explaining the dominance of liberal ideology in the study of international relations. As long as urbanisation continues to grow, and the global financial and trading systems continue to widen and deepen its tentacles to the remotest parts of the globe, more people, especially younger members of the population, will continue to share a common culture. The decision of Britain to leave the EU, although can be viewed through a realist perspective, is not a threat to globalisation and regionalism. This is true especially within an economic and cultural standpoint. 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__label__wiki	0.633831	0.633831	Many States Look to Add Annuity ‘Best Interest’ Regulations By Rachel Summit, with Annuity FYI in Regulations According to a recent article from InsuranceNewsNet, several states are considering the addition of a “fiduciary duty” on insurance agents in the form of new regulations, and many aren’t too happy about it. Majority of the 14 states talking about regulation are big, heavily populated states where progressives are in key political positions, like California and New Jersey. “There’s a narrative that we have to fix something but there’s no evidence that there’s something that needs fixing,” said Kim O’Brien, CEO of AssessBEST, a compliance software company. O’Brien recently hosted an industry webinar for the Fixed Annuity Consumer Choice campaign, a group that is planning a full offensive to counter the best interest movement. “The reality is that the annuity market is very strong, and what they’re doing will really harm agents and consumers,” O’Brien added. The state of New York is leading the way with its best interest rule, which covers both annuities and life insurance, slated to take effect in August 2019. 2 lawsuits have already been filed to stop the rule, one by the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors’ New York chapter, and the other by The Big I and the Professional Insurance Agents of New York. The combination of the two lawsuits is expected in the coming weeks, according to Scott Hobson, director of government relations for the Big I NY. Hobson said that his organization has several concerns, mainly that New York Department of Financial Services’ regulators will be able to “unilaterally” extend the best interest rule to any and all insurance transactions. He claimed that with a rule on the books, they could expand it and bypass the normal public comment process. “We expect that many decisions would be second guessed, resulting in litigation, claims and stuff of that nature,” said Hobson. Big I NY and PIANY called the new standard “wildly subjective,” arguing that it fails to instruct agents/brokers whose best interest, the policyholder, beneficiary, or owner of a policy, they must consider. A decision on the lawsuit is expected by the middle of the first quarter of 2019. New Jersey is also expected on the battlefield after publishing a “pre-proposal notice” in October, seeking comments. The New Jersey plan is short on details but would impose a fiduciary duty on all investment professionals in the entire state. Dwight Carter, operator of an annuity marketing organization in Raleigh, N.C. who also chairs the FACC, said that it is expected to be a big year for annuity sellers to fight against being demonized. “We have some work to do,” he said. “The New York situation is a forerunner on what we’re going to have to deal with. We’re going to be positioned and we’re going to be classified and we’re going to be deemed to be not in the best interest of the consumer.” Annuity Sales Rules To Be Adopted By Year’s End Advice: Choosing a Lump-Sum, Monthly Pension, Or a Bit of Both Kansas Judge Won’t Block DOL Fiduciary Rule, Second Win for the Regulation DOL Fights Back Against Claims That FIA & VA BICE Exemptions Are Unlawful	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line843
__label__wiki	0.528037	0.528037	PARASOCIAL MEDIA EFFECTS https://doi.org/10.31108/1.2020.6.4.5 Yuliia Chaplinska Institute of Social and Political Psychology of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine PDF 64-74 (Українська) parasocial relationship Chaplinska, Y. (2020). PARASOCIAL MEDIA EFFECTS. PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNAL, 6(4), 64-74. https://doi.org/10.31108/1.2020.6.4.5 This article generalizes the performed theoretical review of scientific research on the parasocial theory. The author separates key concepts of the parasocial theory such as parasocial interactions and parasocial relationships and gives a brief description of them. She describes phenomenon of parasocial processing, which is studied rarely. This phenomenon is generated while mass-media watching, but does not lead to the formation of neither parasocial interaction nor parasocial relationships; however media consumers demonstrate reactions to media persons or on their certain phrases or actions on the cognitive, emotional and behavioural levels. Basing on the theoretical analysis, by synthesizing and generalizing world scientific achievements, the author presents, within parasocial theory, ten media effects the most common among consumers. The presented media effects demonstrate various options of consequences (from emotional to behavioural) characteristic for the audience with formed parasocial relationships. The author divides media effects on the following groups: the illusory effects, appearing if young people, while watching, experience something that does not actually exist (the effects of parasocial presence, paraidentification, virtual reversed parasocial projection); the effects of emotional bias, when people immerse emotionally into a relationship with a media figure and starts to think of them as of a real person (when they are not) and, consequently, because of emotions, media consumers stop to look at this media figure objectively or analyze their actions (the effects of paraempathy, parasocial belonging, influenced perception of a media figure); the effects of a changed personal ideology, when people influenced by parasocial relationship change their opinions or values (the effects of parasocial contact, self-concept modification); and behavioural effects when the existing parasocial relations change an individual’s behavioural patterns and add a new ones (the effects of fans’ paracreativity, consumer behaviour, self-concept modification). 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__label__cc	0.627562	0.372438	AMANDA MARIE EILIS KING DRAW/PAINT Amanda Marie Eilis King is a visual artist through exploring drawing, painting, printmaking, film photography, and abandoned buildings. She was born in New York and obtained her Bachelors of Science locally at Skidmore College for Studio Art & Biology, and then earned her Post-Baccalaureate degree at the Maryland Institute College of Art. A majority of her work during her undergraduate and post-bacc periods encompass her experience of the death of her father in his battle against a rare form of cancer, and the evolution of her home life as a single child throughout this ordeal. Because he opted for radiation injections as a treatment for his cancer, her frequent use of radiation masks and suits express the dilemmas within that choice. In addition, she chose to create work that includes actual images based on photographs from her childhood, because of her helplessness, inferior, and innate connection to this experience. In 2015, she was finally able to fulfill a dream of gaining access to visit Chernobyl and Pripyat to further her research in the varying connotations of the effects of radiation. She's had three solo shows at Next Gallery during her recent time living in Denver, including: Residing in Our Epitaph (2014), The Kyiv Paintings (2015), and One More Thing (2016). She also owns a C&P letterpress, which she uses to create custom invitation and announcement work. She is a licensed embalmer & funeral director in both Missouri and Connecticut, having completed her apprenticeship under Vernie R Fountain, as well as reconstruction training. She has also earned her designation as CFSP. Currently, she resides in CT working as the Care Team/Prep Room Manager for Carmon Community Funeral Homes, and traveling to speak on behalf of improved embalming/restorative/cosmetic approaches for those within the mortuary field. She also operates an Etsy page to sell her work & recent projects on: https://www.etsy.com/shop/AMEKgraphics	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line846
__label__cc	0.531816	0.468184	Policy and advocacy: The science policy we deserve Advancing science and technology in a way that helps to address the knowledge and innovation needs of the nation is much more difficult. But that’s the sort of challenge that today’s civil and political unrest indicate should be at the center of how policy-makers organize public investments in science and technology. In May 2020, a bill was introduced in Congress to pour $100 billion into technology development to “catalyze United States innovation.” Exactly 10 days later, the University of Colorado shut down its Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. The juxtaposition of these two events is not some bitter irony, but it does bring into sharp focus the essence of American science politics. Science policy centers such as the University of Colorado’s have come and gone over the past few decades, all aimed at providing analysis that can support decision-making about a variety of issues in science and technology. The $100 billion technology bill is pertinent to the story because it demonstrates why such centers are expendable: no one really cares about science policy analysis unless it provides more reasons for getting more money into the research system. No one really cares about science policy analysis unless it provides more reasons for getting more money into the research system. The idea that money is the variable that really matters in science policy can be sustained by two widely held beliefs. First, as Vannevar Bush taught the world in Science, the Endless Frontier, science policy is easy: if you add more money, you’ll get more science, and the world will get better. Second, because more science delivers more truth, as long as politicians and policy-makers listen to what scientists are saying, they’ll make the right decisions about how to deal with the many challenges facing the world today, and tomorrow. Science policy isn’t only easy, it’s unnecessary. Never mind that the state of the nation today amounts to a comprehensive and dispiriting falsification of those two beliefs. I’ll dispense with the second one first. Spend a couple of hours reading up on the science of COVID-19 and you’ll quickly see that whatever truth’s virtues, there’s an awful lot of it floating around, enough for pretty much everyone to have a version on their side. And if you think it’s just about good scientists and rational citizens on one side, and bad politicians and know-nothings on the other, then I double dare you to dig into the literature on cloth mask efficacy, or hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19. Decision-making is really easy when the truths are self-evident; it’s when they are contested, mired in uncertainty, intermingled with competing interests, and implicated in urgent problems that the connection between science and decisions gets difficult. So, here we are with a proposed infusion of $100 billion for science and technology, in a new piece of legislation—S. 3832, introduced by Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)—called … wait for it …… the Endless Frontier Act. As the bill explains: “For over 70 years, the United States has been the unequivocal global leader in scientific and technological innovation, and as a result the people of the United States have benefitted through good paying jobs, economic prosperity, and a higher quality of life.” The bill apparently aims to redress the costs of past science and technology by catalyzing new sources of regional innovation capacity. None of this is to argue in the least that economic growth should not be one of the central motivations for America’s science and innovation policies. As David Sainsbury explains in “Race to the Top,” common macroeconomic wisdom, applied in a world of globalizing science and markets, has led to a decline in the high-value-added sectors of the US economy that fuel both productivity increase and high-quality job creation. Innovation policies must focus on reversing this decline. VISIT HERE to view the article in its entirety. Filed Under: Public Policy, R&D, Science, Technology	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line850
__label__wiki	0.841582	0.841582	How Rome Fell Death of a Superpower Written by: Adrian Goldsworthy Narrated by: Derek Perkins Categories: History, Ancient History First Emperor of Rome Caesar Augustus's story, one of the most riveting in western history, is filled with drama and contradiction, risky gambles and unexpected success. He began as a teenage warlord, whose only claim to power was as the heir of the murdered Julius Caesar. Mark Antony dubbed him "a boy who owes everything to a name," but in the years to come the youth outmaneuvered all the older and more experienced politicians and was the last man standing in 30 BC. Great content and great as an audiobook By Luc Briedé-Cooper on 2018-07-19 Written by: Adam Zamoyski Narrated by: Leighton Pugh The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski dives deeper than any previous biographer to find him. Beautifully written, Napoleon brilliantly sets the man in his European context. Great narration. Historically biased writing. By Quadratic on 2019-06-10 The Fall of Carthage The Punic Wars 265-146BC The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era, while the eventual outcome had far-reaching consequences for the history of the Western World, namely the ascendancy of Rome. An epic of war and battle, this is also the story of famous generals and leaders: Hannibal, Fabius Maximus, Scipio Africanus, and his grandson Scipio Aemilianus, who would finally bring down the walls of Carthage. It's a basic outline of the 3 Punic wars By Duy B. on 2019-03-20 Life of a Colossus Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of Julius Caesar's life, Adrian Goldsworthy covers not only the great Roman emperor's accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful dictator but also lesser-known chapters. Ultimately, Goldsworthy realizes the full complexity of Caesar's character and shows why his political and military leadership continues to resonate some 2,000 years later. Excellent performance, timeless story. By Nicholas Taylor on 2018-02-26 Philip and Alexander Kings and Conquerors Narrated by: Neil Dickson This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world - and their rise and fall from power. In the Name of Rome The Men Who Won the Roman Empire Adrian Goldsworthy has received wide acclaim for his exceptional writing on the Roman Empire - including high praise from the acclaimed military historian and author John Keegan - and here he offers a new perspective on the empire by focusing on its greatest generals, including Scipio Africanus, Marius, Pompey, Caesar, and Titus. The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land Written by: Thomas Asbridge The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge - a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker) - covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, listenable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history. Fantastic Book By braden on 2018-11-18 The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 Written by: Christopher Clark Narrated by: Shaun Grindell In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia - a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development - ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished. But as Christopher Clark reveals in this pioneering history, Prussia's legacy is far more complex. Infuriating narrator can't say German names By Chris Shannon on 2018-12-12 A History of Ancient Rome Written by: Mary Beard Narrated by: Phyllida Nash Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still influence our own debates on civil liberty today. SPQR is a new look at Roman history from one of the world's foremost classicists. A comprehensive history of Rome Written by: Philip Freeman Narrated by: Michael Page Alexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia, the kingdom that would soon rule over Greece. Tutored as a boy by Aristotle, Alexander had an inquisitive mind that would serve him well when he faced formidable obstacles during his military campaigns. Shortly after taking command of the army, he launched an invasion of the Persian Empire, and continued his conquests as far south as the deserts of Egypt and as far east as the mountains of present-day Pakistan and the plains of India. Fantastic story By Matthew MacMartin on 2020-10-02 The Storm Before the Storm The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic Written by: Mike Duncan Narrated by: Mike Duncan The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. After its founding in 509 BCE, the Romans refused to allow a single leader to seize control of the state and grab absolute power. The Roman commitment to cooperative government and peaceful transfers of power was unmatched in the history of the ancient world. But by the year 133 BCE, the republican system was unable to cope with the vast empire Rome now ruled. Brilliant, especially for beginners like myself By Stefan J. Knibbe on 2018-02-13 The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar Written by: Tom Holland Narrated by: Mark Meadows Dynasty tells the story of Rome's first dynasty of emperors, from its establishment by Augustus Caesar in the last decades of the first century BC to its final, florid extinction less than a century later. The line of autocrats known to historians as the 'Julio-Claudians' remains to this day a byword for depravity. The brilliance of its allure and the blood-steeped shadows cast by its crimes still haunt the public imagination. By randy hanson on 2019-10-05 Napoleon the Great Written by: Andrew Roberts Narrated by: Stephen Thorne Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just 20 years, from October 1795, when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'état, he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the revolution had descended. Bad pronunciations By Amazon User on 2018-06-23 In the Shadow of the Sword The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two venerable empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on and one had vanished forever, while the other seemed almost finished. Ruling in their place were the Arabs: an upheaval so profound that it spelt, in effect, the end of the ancient world. In The Shadow of the Sword, Tom Holland explores how this came about. It's great By Trevor sawatzky on 2021-01-08 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich A History of Nazi Germany Written by: William L. Shirer Narrated by: Grover Gardner Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer’s monumental study of Hitler’s German empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the 20th century’s blackest hours. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print around the globe, it has attained the status of a vital and enduring classic. By Emma Cloutier on 2019-05-01 Written by: Barbara W. Tuchman Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of Kings and Kaisers and Czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed...and how horrible it became. Can't believe this happens only 100 years ago! By Claude, Calgary on 2018-11-20 Heart of Europe A History of the Holy Roman Empire Written by: Peter H. Wilson Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan The Holy Roman Empire lasted 1,000 years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire quipped that it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet as Peter H. Wilson shows, the Holy Roman Empire tells a millennial story of Europe better than the histories of individual nation-states. The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom Narrated by: Mark Meadows, Tom Holland Millennium is a stunning panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000. This was the age of Canute, William the Conqueror and Pope Gregory VII, of Vikings, monks and serfs, of the earliest castles and the invention of knighthood, and of the primal conflict between church and state. The story of how the distinctive culture of Europe - restless, creative and dynamic - was forged from out of the convulsions of these extraordinary times is as fascinating and as momentous as any in history. In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in Western Europe and much of northern Africa, and only a shrunken Eastern Empire remained. This was a period of remarkable personalities, from the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius to emperors like Diocletian, who portrayed themselves as tough, even brutal, soldiers. It was a time of revolutionary ideas, especially in religion, as Christianity went from persecuted sect to the religion of state and emperors. Ultimately, this is the story of how an empire without a serious rival rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the greater good of the state. ©2009 Adrian Goldsworthy (P)2014 Tantor "This richly rewarding work will serve as an introduction to Roman history, but will also provide plenty of depth to satisfy the educated reader." ( Publishers Weekly) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century What listeners say about How Rome Fell The tragic story of the fall of a great empire What made the experience of listening to How Rome Fell the most enjoyable? How comprehensive the story was. It began before Commodus and went past 476. This emphasized how the fall was not in a vacuum nor was it necessarily a true, catastrophic collapse. It continually emphasized the facts instead of wide held societal beliefs. Each supposed cause of the fall of the Roman empire was examined and preconceived notions where attacked and discarded. It is very balanced and reasonable. What does Derek Perkins bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? As with all my reviews of his work, he is an excellent narrator who can really bring the story to life. If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be? They said it was un-filmable, and they where right If you want a general overview of the narrative and potential causes of Rome's dissolution, this is an excellent source FarleyFarley he's got me convinced! Would you listen to How Rome Fell again? Why? Yes, and I might do that. I've read or listened to several recent books on this question, and Goldsworthy's argument is compelling. If every time you have a change of government, you have a devastating, depopulating civil war, and you have changes of government all the time, then it seems that you don't have to go very far to find out why Rome fell.Goldsworthy is really good at marshaling the evidence and not going beyond. Who was your favorite character and why? I did not have a favorite character. Which character – as performed by Derek Perkins – was your favorite? Derek Perkins is a fine narrator. I should add that I am not extraordinarily fastidious in that regard. no, it is too long. Goldsworthy is an excellent writer with fine analytical skills. He also wrote a terrific book on Julius Caesar, Life of a Colossus. Dina Torek Great read, highly recommend it Goldsworthy provides an eloquent and detailed summary of the collapse theory regarding Rome with accurate notation of events and an enjoyable style. The performance by Derek Perkins is engaging and well done, and this is a great introduction to modern discourse on the fall of Rome. While I don't personally agree with the collapse thesis I found this to be a great summary of Gibbon's work with additions by less antiquated (heh) historians, great entry level reading. Good Material, Lots of Caveats I suppose the story of how Rome fell, like many aspects of ancient history, is liable to be shrouded in mystery. One can imagine how, for example, Donald Trump would be viewed if only one religious cleric writing 100 years from now was all you had to go on. There is a ton of equivocation in this book. Often the author will talk for several minutes stating a theory of a particular event, and then say something along the lines of "this has been recently called into question" or even "this seems unlikely in the light of such-and-such evidence." On one hand, this gives you a more honest picture, and I appreciate it, but it hardly makes for a good or thrilling story. The story of how Rome eroded (largely, as it turned out, from within) is an interesting story, and given the continuation of the Eastern Roman empire in a progressively diminished form, the story more fades from sight then ends entirely. For example, Justinian, an Eastern Roman emperor who wasn't even born until after the last Western Roman emperor was overthrown, gets an extensive treatment. The book presents a lot of good information, and you just have to take the broad themes and decide for yourself what "lessons" can be learned from it. AlexIndia Full history run through This was a great book. Covers all the emperors very well but does not get into tabloid history. Only criticism is that you really need a timeline to look at now and again to keep it all straight in your head. Captain D Wonderful Story Teller A very informative history of the Roman Empire from Augustus past the fall of the Western Empire in 476 thru Justinian! (A nice surprise!) It is truly amazing that the Western Empire lasted as long as it did thru numerous & almost constant civil wars! Dylan Becker Interesting, loosely connected facts The book is interesting, but it seems like the topics are a bit random because the author doesn't really talk in terms of cause and effect. At times it makes it hard to tell why he is even talking about certain topics. The only time the author puts forward a causal argument is in the very end after all these random facts are thrown at you. The upshot of this is that you know the facts are truly that and not opinions of the author. Worth the listen. Euryleia Adrian Goldsworthy appears to deserve all of the accolades he has received if his other works are all this good. His writing is clear, his research is deep and his interpretations are interesting without being fanciful or melodramatic. Most impressively, he manages to keep the sections where where were multiple concurrent emperors with similar names from being a confusing mess! The narrator was great as well, with a pleasant vocal tone and cadence, and clear diction. Another Great book by Goldsworthy Yet another amazing book by probably the best writer for this entire period especially for Roman history, his detail and present the facts writing is the best of the best. I love how with all of his books he goes out of his way to present the facts, tell you what some people think about it and then show by what is the facts what is the most likely thing that happened for a period that we truly don't know everything about. Derek Perkins also does another amazing job with the narration, this is probably the 8th book by this pair I have enjoyed and every one is a treat of knowledge that could not be executed or presented better. Deep and Contextual Narrator was superb. Very thorough references to Imperial Rome and a contextual guide to how the Empire fell.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line853
__label__wiki	0.57097	0.57097	Lessons on Global Crisis Management, from Haiti to Japan This week marks the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that struck Japan in 2011. The resulting tsunami and international nuclear crisis affected hundreds of thousands of people. To highlight the importance that emergency management can play in reducing and mitigating tragic loss, Ashoka Japan... The Necessary Allies: Jobs and Environment Two of the world’s most urgent tasks—protecting the environment and creating jobs—both have enormously broad public support. Politically, however, both are orphans. Why? Take the case of the environment: Its very broad, diffuse constituency presses government to impose unwelcome costs on one highly... 'Who Cares?': A Film About Social Entrepreneurship Wins the Best Feature Documentary Award at the DC Film Festival The Portuguese language film “Quem se Importa?”—which translates to “Who Cares?” in English—was written and directed by Mara Mourão and produced by Tatiana Battaglia. Mourão's crew shot the film in a total of 20 locations in just 40 days, capturing the stories of everyday people in Brazil, Peru...	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line857
__label__wiki	0.77281	0.77281	Book Review: Danger of the Dragon Year Our Correspondent Jan 26, 2012 1976 was not an auspicious year for China. That “cursed year” of the dragon saw the deaths of Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong and anywhere between 242,000 and 650,000 people killed in a 23-second quake that nearly obliterated China’s coal mining capital. As historian and author James Palmer writes in his latest work, Heaven Cracks Earth Shakes: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao’s China: “The 23 seconds of the earthquake were probably the most concentrated instant of destruction humanity has ever known. In Tangshan alone it did more damage alone than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki, more damage than the fire bombings of Dresden, Hamburg or Tokyo, more damage than the explosion at Krakatoa. It took more lives in one fraction of northeast China than the 2004 tsunami did across the whole of the Indian Ocean. While the actual strength of the earthquake was not remarkable – 7.8 on the Richter scale … it was the speed, timing and placing of the quake that made it so devastating.” But the year also saw a shift in the political landscape with the end of the Gang of Four, the Cultural Revolution and the beginning of the return of Deng Xiaoping from house arrest to eventually steer the country away from its strict Maoist path towards a market economy. The book’s title stems from a traditional Chinese saying that cataclysmic events such as earthquakes are signs of heaven’s displeasure with the ruling dynasty and certainly that seemed to be the case just as the year began with the death of the widely popular and beloved premier Zhou Enlai on January 8. Zhou’s death led to national mourning resented by the ailing Mao that came to a head in April when thousands gathered in Tiananmen Square with banners and wreaths memorializing the late premier and some criticizing the Gang of Four (including Mao’s hysterical, scheming wife, Jiang Qing) and even Mao himself. The discontent spread to other Chinese cities as well where the people were becoming thoroughly weary of the Cultural Revolution that had taken, according to some estimates, as many as 10 million lives. Zhou’s death was followed by that of another veteran revolutionary, Zhu De on July 6 and on July 28 Tangshan literally collapsed under a sea of liquid earth and sand. The few remaining buildings were all foreign built – remnants of the German and British mining companies that had originally overseen the area’s vast coal mining industry. Palmer has skillfully interwoven the Tangshan disaster – particularly with poignant and painful memories of survivors -- with the country’s changing political bedrock, lessons in geophysics and China’s steadfast belief in earthquake “predictions” (mostly “accurate” in hindsight following the temblors) into a brisk, absorbing and gripping account of the dark year. China’s reaction to the Tangshan quake stands in some stark contrast to the more recent disasters such as the 2008 Sichuan upheaval, which received much more national and international exposure and had the benefits of trained rescue teams, volunteers and foreign aid in addition to the People’s Liberation Army. Tangshan survivors and the PLA were the sole support for rescue efforts that, due to its importance as an industrial powerhouse, the lack of manpower, hardscrabble logistics and no heavy equipment were concentrated solely on the city itself, leaving devastated rural residents to fend for themselves. Foreign aid in particular was rejected. It was, Palmer writes, “inconceivable because ‘imitating foreign devils’ was one of the cardinal sins during the Cultural Revolution.” It was a decision that political officials cheered at the time but later came to deeply regret. “So many years went by before we realized what a stupid thing we’d done,” recalled one Tangshan deputy political commissioner. The Gang of Four meanwhile generally ignored the disaster and concentrated on seizing power as Mao’s days drew to an end. But due to their own shortsightedness, overconfidence and ignorance of the popular and political winds blowing against them, they were easily arrested as Deng waited for his chance to push aside Mao’s chosen successor, the decidedly modest and uncharismatic Hua Guofeng whose time as chairman lasted about a year. Using broad strokes with some telling details Palmer leads the reader easily through the machinations and conspiracies roiling Beijing during this uncertain time with an eye towards China’s remarkable changes and current state of affairs.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line858
__label__wiki	0.932302	0.932302	US Delisting of North Korea Deals Japan "Bush Shock" Our Correspondent Oct 14, 2008 Along with plunging stock prices and the faltering United States financial system, the US decision this weekend to remove its terrorism support label from North Korea could go down as the “Bush Shock” in the modern history of Japan. While the world's attention was mainly focused on the Group of Seven finance ministers and central bankers' meeting in Washington, the George W Bush administration removed North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism—somehow discreetly. To Japan, it compared unfavorably with the so-called “Nixon Shock” of the 1970s when then-President Richard Nixon, without telling Tokyo, the US’s most important ally in Asia, announced that he was granting diplomatic recognition to Japan’s then-enemy, the Communist regime in China. The administration appears to have to have taken cover under the world’s financial confusion in order to salvage the deadlocked nuclear disarmament talks. But the decision still gave its closest Asian ally Japan a surprising new twist on the US’s wavering policies toward North Korea in its final months in office, irritating Tokyo by removing, apparently without telling the Japanese, one of Japan’s few weapons in its attempt to discover what happened to many of the Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. In a hastily called press conference Saturday morning, the US state department announced the decision to delist North Korea. Neither Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice nor nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill were at what the state department called a “special briefing” on its homepage. Hill visited Pyongyang earlier this month attempt to resolve the North Korean nuclear standoff. President Bush also did not make any official comment, downplaying the agreement with the North and showing Washington’s nervousness on the issue, probably afraid of criticism from conservative lawmakers who already believe that the US has been too gentle with Pyongyang. The state department said that in the agreement, investigators will have access to all declared facilities at the North Korean nuclear facility in Yongbyon, and based on “mutual consent,” to undeclared sites. But it will be significantly difficult for inspectors to go to any undeclared sites and take material samples in North Korea, which strictly limits the movement of persons and material. The agreement omitted—or procrastinates in the best of terms— about the issues of existing nuclear weapons; the controversial and problematic highly enriched uranium program; past proliferation activities involving nuclear material and missile technology to Syria and Iran, among other discrepancies. Pyongyang has recently resorted to its favorite tactic of further brinkmanship to escalate tension and wring concessions. It said it was working on restarting its nuclear plant and dismissed the prospect of being removed from a US terrorism blacklist in return for a disarmament deal. It also once asked the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the nuclear watchdog of the UN, to remove its seals and surveillance equipment from the Yongbyon plant. Pyongyang is fully aware of the current US weakness. With the situation in Afghanistan deteriorating and with 140,000 troops tied up in Iraq, North Korea is not concerned with the threat of military action. This US weakness was crucially different from when the so-called 1994 Agreed Framework accord between the US and North Korea was formed. The US financial crisis also is diminishing US strength as the world’s superpower. {mospagebreak} No matter how much the US administration downplayed the decision, however, it made front page news in every Japanese newspaper on Sunday, all of which reported the disappointment and anger of the families of Japanese victims of North Korea's past abductions. “I cannot help feeling empty because everything is decided somewhere beyond our reach,'' Shigeo Iizuka, 70, who heads a group of Japanese abductees' families, told reporters. Teruaki Masumoto, 53, secretary general of the family group, criticized the Japanese government for failing to get the US to keep North Korea on the list and sharply criticized the US decision. “If it cannot persuade an allied country, how can it persuade North Korea and bring back the abducted victims?'' Masumoto asked. The US delisting, he said, is “an act of betrayal, which fails to provide cooperation to save people’s lives of its allies.” Yomiuri Shimbun Monday reported that President Bush notified Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso of the US action by phone just 30 minutes before the US state department announcement, and three hours later after Secretary of State Rice actually signed the document, suggesting Washington’s last-ditch attempt to allay Tokyo’s anxiety over its decision. For the Japanese government, the decision was thus totally unexpected and came as a shock, the Asahi Shimbun reported. Tokyo was kept out of the loop on the negotiation process, the newspaper said. What galled ordinary Japanese was that the US State Department said, “We welcome the recent progress between Japan and the (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) to address Japan’s concerns, particularly the abductions issue,” after just Friday, the Aso cabinet actually extended its sanctions on North Korea for another six months beyond the Oct. 13 expiration. Tokyo sees no progress in resolving issues relating to the North's abductions of Japanese nationals. Tokyo says North Korean agents kidnapped 17 Japanese in the 1970s and 80s; five have returned; 12 are unaccounted for. In September 2002 when then prime minister Junichiro Koizumi visited Pyongyang, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il for the first time admitted that North Korean agents had kidnapped 13 Japanese nationals. He told Koizumi that eight are dead and the other two never entered the country. The North has remained silent on the remaining two. The abducted Japanese are mostly believed to have been forced to teach Japanese language and culture for its covert operations and subversive activities against South Korea. Washington put North Korea on the list in January 1988 after the bombing of a South Korean airliner the preceding year. The bombing of the Korean Air airliner en route from Baghdad to Seoul killed 115 persons on board. Many observers believe North Korea aimed to prevent South Korea from holding the 1988 Seoul Olympics. North Korea still denies any involvement in the terrorist attacks on the airliner, saying it's a malicious fabrication by South Korea and others. But Kim Hyun-hee, one of the North Korean agents who blew up the plane, claimed in her book after she escaped to the south that Kim Jong-il masterminded the 1987 bombing by giving her the order. (Kim Jong-il is also believed to be the mastermind of the 1983 Yangon bombing in Myanmar, which was aimed at then South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan.) As long as Pyongyang doesn’t repudiate its involvement in the bombing, the US delisting makes little sense to Japan because they do not believe the nature of the North Korean regime has changed. The abduction issue Some Western media have written the confrontation with North Korea over the abductions has left the Japanese government marginalized at six-nation talks to end the communist country's nuclear development program. Some media are starting to call it “Japan Problem.” From a Japanese perspective, the media have not understood the nature of the issue. Most of the abducted were the socially vulnerable; some were single mothers. Some were cocktail hostesses. A young noodle shop clerk was also among them. They were targeted because they were relatively alienated people in Japanese society, which is why the Japanese government itself continued to ignore the issue for decades. Japan’s immediate concern is that if Pyongyang fully resumes disablement work at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, Tokyo will be under strong pressure to provide energy assistance to North Korea, as pledged at the six-party talks. "Japan still needs to interlock the abduction issue with the nuclear issue," Shunji Hiraiwa, an expert on Korea and a professor at the University of Shizuoka, said. "It will ask the other four parties to put pressure on the North in the handling of the kidnapping issue and to create an environment where Japan can provide energy aid to the North." Kosuke Takahashi, a former staff writer at the Asahi Shimbun, is a freelance correspondent based in Tokyo. He can be contacted at letters@kosuke.net.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line859
__label__wiki	0.843541	0.843541	The Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office Robert Muharremi On August 3, 2015, the Assembly of Kosovo amended its Constitution[1] and passed the Law on the Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office (the Law).[2] These two judicial institutions were established within the justice system of Kosovo to investigate, prosecute, and try “international crimes committed during and in the aftermath of the conflict in Kosovo, which relate to those reported in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Report Doc 12462 of January 7, 2011 (The Council of Europe Assembly Report) and which have been the subject of criminal investigation by the Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) of the Special Prosecution Office of the Republic of Kosovo (SPRK).”[3] A Host State Agreement was signed between Kosovo and The Netherlands on February 15, 2016 authorizing the Dutch authorities to start preparations for the establishment of a seat of the Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Netherlands.[4] The establishment of the Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office relates back to a report on Inhuman Treatment of People and Illicit Trafficking in Human Organs in Kosovo prepared by the Committee on Legal Affairs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in December 2010.[5] The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe approved the report in January 2011, expressing concerns about allegations “that serious crimes had been committed during the conflict in Kosovo, including trafficking in human organs.”[6] Investigations into the allegations began immediately thereafter under the auspices of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX), which established for this purpose a Special Investigative Task Force (SITF).[7] The Specialist Chambers consists of judicial chambers and a registry[8] and is staffed with international personnel only; no Kosovo judges or prosecutors will be involved.[9] The Specialist Chambers will be attached to every level of the court system in Kosovo, which means that the Basic Court, the Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court, and the Constitutional Court will each have an additional special chamber which will deal exclusively with criminal proceedings related to the Council of Europe Assembly Report.[10] The Chamber at the Basic Court is composed of three judges and one reserve judge, while the Chambers at the Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court, and the Constitutional Court each have three judges.[11] Judges will be appointed by the head of EULEX and not by the president of Kosovo as in the case of other judicial appointments.[12] The Specialist Prosecutor’s Office is responsible for the investigation and prosecution of persons responsible for crimes falling under the jurisdiction of the Specialist Chambers,[13] and it is independent from the Specialist Chambers and from other prosecution authorities in Kosovo.[14] The Law provides that the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office will take on the mandate and personnel of the SITF, and the Lead Prosecutor of the SITF will be appointed by the head of EULEX as the Specialist Prosecutor.[15] All other prosecutors and officers of the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office are appointed by the head of EULEX upon the recommendation of the Specialist Prosecutor.[16] The Specialist Prosecutor’s Office has its own police, which have authority equivalent to that of the Kosovo Police under Kosovo law.[17] The Specialist Chambers has jurisdiction over crimes against humanity and war crimes under international law, as well as crimes under Kosovo law to the extent that they relate to the Council of Europe Assembly Report and its allegations of “grave trans-boundary and international crimes committed during and in the aftermath of the conflict in Kosovo” and which have been the subject of criminal investigation by the SITF.[18] Jurisdiction is limited to crimes that occurred between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2000[19] and that were either commenced or committed in Kosovo.[20] The Specialist Chambers has jurisdiction over natural persons of Kosovo/Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) citizenship and any other persons who committed crimes against persons of Kosovo/FRY citizenship.[21] Within their jurisdiction, the Specialist Chambers has primacy over all other courts in Kosovo,[22] and it and the Specialist Prosecutor have the authority to order the transfer of proceedings within their jurisdiction from any other prosecutor or any other court in the territory of Kosovo.[23] The Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office have certain features that set them apart from other Kosovo judicial institutions. Unlike other Kosovo courts, they have the capacity to enter into arrangements with states, international organizations, and other entities for the purpose of fulfilling their mandate.[24] International treaties entered into between the Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office with another state on judicial cooperation do not have to be ratified by the Assembly of Kosovo, and the Specialist Chambers must only seek the agreement of the Government of Kosovo before entering into such a treaty.[25] The Specialist Chambers, the Registry, and the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office are also authorized to utilize mutual legal assistance agreements that were entered into by Kosovo and other states, or make requests for assistance based on the principle of reciprocity.[26] Further to that, the Specialist Chambers may enter into agreements with other states on the immunity and inviolability of their premises, property, funds, assets, archives, records, and documents,[27] and the servicing of imprisonment sentences in the territory of such states.[28] The jurisdiction of the Specialist Chambers is not limited by any amnesty that may be granted under the Constitution of Kosovo.[29] Judgments of the Specialist Chambers are also not subject to any pardon that may be granted under the Constitution.[30] The budgets of the Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office will be funded by the European Union rather than from the Kosovo budget.[31] Indeed, the two bodies also operate entirely outside of Kosovo’s public financial management and accountability system. They are not subject to any audit by the Kosovo Auditor and they are also not required to comply with Kosovo legislation on public finance.[32] Bearing in mind that the Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office are intended to function within the Kosovo justice system, it is striking that the premises, property, papers, and personnel, including counsels, experts, witnesses, and any other persons performing functions for the Specialist Chambers or the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, enjoy privileges and immunities that are accorded by Kosovo law to the offices and personnel of EULEX.[33] Their premises, property, funds, assets, archives, and records are inviolable and immune from any form of search, confiscation, or other interference by Kosovo authorities.[34] Their archives are their own property and are maintained in a dedicated repository outside Kosovo.[35] All their papers, records, and archives, including those of the Registry, are explicitly not considered to be public documents of Kosovo due to security and privacy considerations and there is no general right of access to them.[36] In light of the structural elements outlined above, the Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office present an interesting case that may further inform the debate on which criteria should be used to differentiate between internationalized domestic courts and international tribunals with national elements, both of which may be considered “hybrid courts.” Hybrid courts are generally defined as courts of mixed composition and jurisdiction, which include national and international elements. Based on existing models, such as the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor, the “Regulation 64” Panels in Kosovo under UNMIK, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, and the War Crimes Chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one could distinguish between internationalized domestic courts and international tribunals with national elements, and differing views have been proposed regarding what factors distinguish these two categories of hybrid courts. One approach considers mixed panels composed of both domestic and international judges as the only defining element of hybrid courts.[37] From this perspective, the Specialist Chambers, which is composed of international judges only, would be a pure international tribunal. Another approach looks at the legal foundations of the institution, i.e., whether it is founded on international law or domestic legislation.[38]According to this view, the Specialist Chambers would be an internationalized domestic court, as it is established by Kosovo law and operates within the Kosovo justice system. Thus, as a special court which is established by Kosovo law but which is operated exclusively by international judges, the Specialist Chambers is a novelty among existing models of hybrid tribunals. In matters of legal form, the Specialist Chambers is a domestic court; in terms of its composition and personnel, however, it is an international tribunal. About the Author: Robert Muharremi lectures in Human Rights and International Relations at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Kosovo. [1] Amendment of the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo No. 05-D-139 (Aug. 3, 2015); Law No. 05/L-053 on Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office (Aug. 3, 2015). [2] Harry Hobbs, Hybrid Tribunals and the Composition of the Court: In Search of Sociological Legitimacy, 16 Chi. J. Int’l L. 482, 484 (2016). [3] Law No. 05/L-053 on Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office (Aug. 3, 2015), art. 1(2). [4] Agreement between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Kosovo concerning the Hosting of the Kosovo Relocated Specialist Judicial Institution in the Netherlands, Kos.-Neth., pmbl., Feb. 15, 2016, available at http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBV0006581/2016-02-15. [5] Report on Inhuman Treatment of People and Illicit Trafficking in Human Organs in Kosovo, Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Eur. Parl. Ass. Doc. AS/Jur (2010), at 46 (Dec. 12, 2010), available at http://www.assembly.coe.int/CommitteeDocs/2010/ajdoc462010prov.pdf. [6] Resolution on Investigation of Allegations of Inhuman Treatment of People and Illicit Trafficking in Human Organs in Kosovo, Eur. Parl. Ass. Doc. 1782, ¶ 1 (2011), available at http://www.assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=17942&lang=en. [7] Special Investigative Task Force Factsheet, European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo, http://sitf.eu/images/fact_sheets/sitf_factsheet_en.pdf (last visited May 20, 2016). [8] Law No. 05/L-053 on Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office (Aug. 3, 2015), art. 24.1. [9] See Law No. 04/L-274 on Ratification of the International Agreement between the Republic of Kosovo and the European Union on the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (Apr. 23, 2014), art. 1.2. [10] Law No. 05/L-053 on Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office (Aug. 3, 2015), art. 3.1. [11] Id. art. 25.1. [12] Id. art. 28.3, 28.4. [15] Id. arts. 24.2, 35.6. [18] Id. arts. 1.2, 6.1, 13, 14, 15. [19] Id. art. 7. [21] Id. art. 9.2. [29] Id. art. 18. [31] See id. art. 63.1; Marija Ristic, Kosovo’s New War Court: How Will it Work?, Balkan Transitional Justice (Aug. 6, 2015), http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/how-will-special-kosovo-court-work--08-05-2015. [32]Law No. 05/L-053 on Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office (Aug. 3, 2015), art. 63.3, 4. [37] See, e.g., Sarah Nouwen, “Hybrid Courts”—The Hybrid Category of a New Type of International Crimes Courts, 2 Utrecht L. Rev. 190, 213 (2006). [38] See, e.g., Fidelma Donlon, Hybrid Tribunals, in Handbook of International Criminal Law 85, 94 (William Schabas & Nadia Bernaz eds., 2011). Text of New U.S. Treaties and Agreements Publis... Nonviolent Movements for Democracy and Human Ri... First Joint Law Report Published by African, Eu... EU Adopts Sanctions Mechanism for Human Rights ...	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line860
__label__wiki	0.749782	0.749782	Norbury Hall Park This peaceful park with centuries of history hides in an overlooked section of South London. Norbury Hall Park. Robin Webster/cc by-sa 2.0 Norbury Hall. Robin Webster/cc by-sa 2.0 Magnificent nature of Norbury Hall Park. guillaumelondon (Atlas Obscura User) Norbury Hall Park , and Norbury Hall in the background. guillaumelondon (Atlas Obscura User) Top Places in London Suck and Chew Freud Museum London Metropolitan Police Coat Hook This quiet park is a hidden gem within South London. It’s a welcoming, easily overlooked patch of nature nestled within a bustling city. Norbury Hall Park and Norbury Hall, the majestic white house nearby, are the last remaining pieces of the Norbury Manor Estate, which stood from the 14th century until the mid-19th century. The Norbury House was built in the early 1800s within the historic medieval estate. The estate was allowed to fall into a bit of disrepair, though it’s still a peaceful place to escape the rush of day-to-day life in London. By walking this park today, you can see what used to be the Manor and the woodlands that used to cover the whole property. Stroll the grounds, and you’ll discover historical statues and remnants of the estate such as old outdoor stairs. Keep an eye out for some unusual birds, too, as the park is also home to some of the feral parakeets that roam South London. Local legend says that these are descendants of parrots that escaped during the filming of The African Queen. There's easy access via the Norbury Train Station (From London Victoria or London Bridge). Then just follow local directions to Craignish Avenue. It's best to visit during daylight hours. estates mansions birds parks history guillaumelondon https://www.croydon.gov.uk/sites/default/files/articles/downloads/norbury-hall-history.pdf https://www.croydon.gov.uk/leisure/parksandopenspaces/parksatoz/norbury-hall https://norburywatchblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/06/brief-history-of-norbury-hall-and-norbury-hall-park/ 52 Craignish Ave West Norwood Cemetery Crystal Palace Subway Crystal Palace Dinosaurs A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood. A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road. Abstract dinosaur models in London. Ruins of the Crystal Palace The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851. Bartow-Pell Mansion This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers. Theodore Roosevelt Island The national park was once a plantation estate. Parkersburg, West Virginia Blennerhassett Island Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States. Barney Family Mausoleum The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line864
__label__wiki	0.98915	0.98915	Amid criticism, Baltimore police defend treatment of those arrested near Artscape By Kevin Rector and Carrie Wells Sixty-five people were arrested on Saturday after participants in a march against police brutality blocked Interstate 83 just north of downtown Baltimore. Amid criticism, the Baltimore Police Department issued a statement Tuesday defending its actions in the arrests of 65 people Saturday during protests near the Jones Falls Expressway and the annual Artscape festival. Protesters and others caught up in the police sweep — including some who had blocked the expressway and others milling along an on-ramp that had been closed for the festival — have said they were held in custody without being processed for hours, that one protester vomited in the closed police van, and that officers ignored requests for water and medical needs. The department acknowledged complaints from some who were arrested that "they weren't treated well at the staging area for the mass arrests," but said each person was "provided with the opportunity" to stretch, use the bathroom and have handcuffs switched from behind to in front. The department said a lieutenant from its inspections unit had been assigned to check on the detainees' condition as they were waiting to be processed at a staging area in the Northern District and that there had been no formal complaints to the internal affairs section as of Tuesday afternoon. "The Baltimore Police Department is acutely aware of the level of scrutiny that has been placed on us and specifically the transport wagons themselves," the department said in an apparent nod to the continuing investigation by the U.S. Justice Department into its patterns and practices following the death last year of Freddie Gray, 25, from spinal injuries suffered in the back of a police van. [More Maryland news] Another act comes to the former Odell’s nightclub on North Avenue » "In this scenario of a mass arrest, we made adjustments to ensure each arrestee was adequately attended to," the department said. "Arrestees were processed as quickly as possible and once they were completed, they were free to leave. That time varied in this situation, but that should be expected when 65 individuals are arrested in one scenario." The Baltimore state's attorney's office has declined to prosecute 10 juveniles arrested in the incident. The 55 adults who were arrested were issued citations, including for failing to obey and illegally walking on a highway, and released. Several activists who were arrested have taken to social media to lambaste the police for their treatment. Some called the department's statement Tuesday a lie. The Baltimore Action Legal Team, a group that sent four legal observers to the protest — three of whom were arrested — has said the arrests were "a shameful tactic" used "not to uphold the law, but to silence dissent." Others expressed concerns. [More Maryland news] A small Maryland town seethes after learning one of its own, the police chief’s son, says he joined Capitol’s mob » Retired news editor Tenney Mason was taking pictures at Artscape when the march passed by Penn Station, and he decided to follow with his camera. Mason, 72, said he followed the marchers as they briefly blocked the expressway and was on the on-ramp from Charles Street shooting pictures. The ramp became filled with people as the protesters came off the highway, said Mason, a former photo editor for Patuxent Publishing, which is owned by The Baltimore Sun. "Five minutes later I had my hands cuffed behind my back," Mason said. Mason said it was stiflingly hot in the police van with a half-dozen other people. The van sat without moving for what seemed like an hour before one of the others threw up and passed out, he said. "They didn't even have the engine on, so there was no air conditioning," Mason said. "It was hot, there's no circulation. After an hour or so, he said, 'I'm getting dizzy.' Next thing you know, he pukes." Mason said the people in the van started yelling for a medic and the man was removed, then later returned and appeared OK. Police adjusted the handcuffs of some who complained they were too tight, he said. Mason said he was in the van for about seven hours before he was finally processed at the Northern District station. He said he was given two citations — a traffic violation for walking on the highway and a criminal charge for disobeying the order of an officer. That one carried a $500 fine and a court date, he said. Afterward, Mason said he and others who had been arrested walked to a 7-Eleven to get something to eat and took an Uber back to Penn Station to pick up their cars. "They arrested too many people and weren't prepared to deal with it," he said. "They didn't seem to have a plan. We were just sitting and waiting. It was just a lack of organization." krector@baltsun.com Latest Baltimore City Thomas V. Mike Miller, longtime president of Maryland Senate, dies twitter.com/rectorsun Baltimore Police Department	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line866
__label__wiki	0.69212	0.69212	6 ways to screw up your retirement plan By Marilyn Bowden Marilyn Bowden's Twitter profile Nov. 8, 2011 / Retirement plan mistakes Contributing to an employer-sponsored retirement plan is an important step toward a secure future, but experts warn that, like any other financial asset, it takes oversight as well as common sense to reap its benefits. Avoid these six critical mistakes to improve your chances of having a successful retirement. Managing income in retirement Unforeseen retirement expenses 7 retirement investing mistakes Accelerate retirement savings Retirement account slackers Build a secure retirement plan Don’t roll over your 401(k) Automated retirement plans Mistake No. 1: opting out One of the biggest mistakes is to decide not to participate, says Robert Gordon, senior financial adviser at Miami-based Investor Solutions. “As the saying goes, ‘you’ve got to be in it to win it,'” he says. “Be it a 401(k), 403(b), 457 or other similarly numbered options, the responsibility is on the employee to take the initiative and complete the paperwork.” In an attempt to encourage more people to take advantage of employer-sponsored retirement plans, the 2006 Pension Protection Act provides safe harbor to companies who offer automatic enrollment that requires employees to opt out rather than opt in, says CFP Artie Green, a professional investment adviser at PWJohnson Wealth Management in Sunnyvale, Calif. “That has not taken hold to the degree the government was hoping,” says Glenn A. Hottin, a CFP at M&H Advisors in New Haven, Conn. “The majority who don’t elect to join generally are confused by their choices, and the confused mind does nothing.” Definitely don’t opt out if your company offers automatic enrollment. It will also automatically select an investment option for you — often a target-date fund. Once you’re in the plan, take time to acquaint yourself with all its investment options so you can determine if the preselected fund is the best choice or if there’s one that better meets your goals, time horizon and risk tolerance. Mistake No. 2: borrowing from your plan Your company retirement plan is not a piggy bank. Treating it like one has very expensive consequences. “Borrowing from a retirement account has become more prevalent,” Hottin says. “For someone out of work, it may be the only way to address some large expenses. “My suggestion is always to exhaust other options prior to going into your 401(k), because it’s so expensive to do so. It could cost you as much as 40 cents on the dollar — and that is money you never recover.” That could occur if you borrow the money and then default on the loan, which results in a deemed distribution on which you would owe taxes and a penalty if you’re under a certain age. “Some things are legal but just not wise,” Investor Solutions’ Gordon says. “This is one of those things.” Mistake No. 3: cashing out in a job change “I am always amazed by the number of people who cash out their plan when they leave their previous employer,” Gordon says. “I hear excuses like, ‘It was easier than rolling it over,’ ‘I needed the money for moving expenses,’ or, the best, ‘I used the money to fund my vacation before I started the new job.'” Cashing out at 59 ½ years of age or younger, he says, carries a 10 percent penalty. “It doesn’t make sense to take the funds on which you have been earning less than 2 percent and pay a guaranteed penalty of 10 percent,” says Gordon. Of course, this would be in addition to the taxes you would owe. This also doesn’t take into account the returns you forfeit by not staying invested. Even small amounts cashed out when you’re young can prevent you from amassing a large nest egg. For example, if you had kept $5,000 in your retirement account 20 years ago instead of cashing it out, that amount could have grown to nearly $14,590 today, assuming a 5.5 percent annualized return. While the last 10 years or so have been a challenge for investors, the stock market’s historical returns have rewarded them. Mistake No. 4: leaving the account in limbo Just leaving your retirement account with a former employer is also a bad option, Hottin says. “If your former company downsizes or is acquired by another firm,” he says, “finding some contact who can help you retrieve it at a later time could be a hassle. “It’s better to take your 401(k) with you and mix it in with your new employer’s plan — or roll it into an individual retirement account of some type so you can manage it a bit better.” If you do an IRA rollover, make sure it’s a trustee-to-trustee transfer. Rolling it into your new employer’s account will give you continued creditor protection, says Green. “Even if you default on loans or you’re a defendant in a lawsuit and lose, nobody can touch the money in your 401(k) or 403(b).” Depending on the state you live in, he says, your money might also be protected in an IRA. Mistake No. 5: too much company stock Financial advisers caution you should have no more than 10 percent of your retirement account in your employer’s company stock. If you’re concentrated in a single security, you get hit with a double whammy if your company hits hard times and you lose your job. “Having company stock in a 401(k) plan is good for the company in a few ways, but it’s a bad idea for the nonowner employees in many ways,” Gordon says. “If you’re thinking, ‘What about the Facebook or Google employees who are now millionaires because of their stock?’ don’t confuse luck with skill. On the streets of this nation, there are many former employees of Enron, PanAm, WorldCom and others who also believed in their company’s stock.” Sometimes, companies make their stock available to employees at a discount through stock options or other direct purchase programs, he says. If you’re tempted, “you are probably best served by taking advantage of the discount and realizing the gain on the ‘discount’ as soon as (feasible).” Mistake No. 6: ignoring the big picture Your employer-sponsored retirement plan is just one leg of the proverbial three-legged stool of a retirement plan. “One of the largest mistakes is lack of planning in a holistic sense,” Hottin says. “People fail to consider their retirement plans as part of the bigger picture. Your employee retirement account should be part of an overall strategy of financial well-being.” In other words, Green says, the term “retirement plan” should refer not just to tax-qualified plans such as IRAs and 401(k)s, but also other sources of income such as Social Security, company pensions, part-time work and other money saved up — “your overall plan for how you’re going to get through the remainder of your life.” Of course, many variables are beyond your control: You don’t know how long you will live, how your investments will perform or whether you’ll encounter an unforeseen expense that can derail your plans. So the best way to plan for the unexpected is to spend less, invest as much as you can and choose investments wisely. IRA withdrawal for kids’ education expenses? Tax-savvy retirement plan distributions Luxurious senior living communities Calculating Social Security Plan now for retirement Time to retire? Not now Marilyn B. Bowden is a freelance writer, editor and book reviewer who has published in a number of national publications. She honed her editorial skills working in-house for Harvest House Publishing in Montreal and Halsey Publishers in Miami. During her tenure as a real estate reporter for Miami Today, a weekly business paper, Florida Society of Professional Journalists awarded her third place in its Breaking News category in 1998 and third place in its Book Review category in 1999. Also in 1988, she presented two lectures on ghostwriting at the Florida Freelance Writers Association's annual convention. She is currently working on her eighth book as a ghostwriter. Ms. Bowden's six-word send-up of Ogden Nash placed fourth in a parody contest sponsored by The Miami Herald. A graduate of the University of Rhode Island, she lived and worked in Providence, R.I.; Montreal, Quebec; Denver, Colo.; Thousand Oaks, Calif.; and Miami, Fla., before settling in a small town in central Arizona. 6 reasons not to roll over your 401(k) How much are you paying for your 401(k) plan? Financial meltdown: 401(k) plans	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line867
__label__wiki	0.609722	0.609722	Cabinet Office consultancy fees more than... Cabinet Office consultancy fees more than treble in a year due to Brexit Cabinet Office spending on consultancy work is rising at an unprecedented rate due to Brexit, with figures for the three month period to January analysed by Best for Britain showing consultancy fees had more than trebled from the previous year. The analysis shows that the Cabinet Office spent £13 million on EU exit work between November 2018 and January 2019. Of this, £12.4 million was paid in consultancy fees relating to the UK's exit from the EU - a whopping 221% increase on the total spent on consultancy services in the same three month period a year earlier. In January 2019 alone the department spent £6 million on EU exit work, £5.5 million of which was paid for consultancy services. The last figure represents an increase of 312% on January 2018, when £1.3 million was spent on all forms of consultancy services, and a 145% increase on EU exit-related consultancy fees in December 2018. While the data highlights the soaring cost of consultancy work relating to the UK's exit from the EU, the Cabinet Office also spent large sums of money on its Brexit communications program. Best for Britain found that the department spent £300,000 in December and then a further £400,000 in January - the same month that the House of Commons rejected the Prime Minister's Brexit deal by an unprecedented margin of 230. Commenting, Best for Britain supporter and Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi said: "This is yet more clueless spending from the government. “Anyone still arguing that Brexit isn’t already costing the country a pretty penny needs to take a look at the millions being spent on consultants. “But no amount of money can unpick the parliamentary knot this Prime Minister has tangled herself in. The only way to do that is by giving the public the final say on Brexit, so that the people can tell politicians what they want after three years of this mess.”	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line869
__label__cc	0.632758	0.367242	Drama, Musicals Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange Joe Gideon (Scheider) is a clear stand-in for director Fosse in this not-so thinly-veiled tale of a choreographer/filmmaker on the brink of losing it all. As the film progresses and Joe's pill-popping and drinking increase in volume in proportion to the pressures hes facing at work and home, fantasy begins to intrude on reality, and it isn't clear if he will make it out alive. There is literally no film quite like "All That Jazz." Its lengthy, closing dreamscape blends dance, music, and fragmented storytelling, and is truly worth the price of admission alone, but Fosse's rhythmic cutting and inventive shooting throughout present an entirely new model of filmmaking. Not unlike a high-wire dance performance, Fosse's radical style may take a little getting used to, but once you've settled in, you'll be exhilarated at the unprecedented access to the mind and process of a genius. Roy Scheider may be the star, and his performance here reminds us that he existed outside of the Jaws franchise, but this is Fosse's show through and through.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line870
__label__wiki	0.658877	0.658877	are engaged, reports Bossip.com. The site claims a source close to Rowland confirmed the news on Monday, and indeed the former Destiny's Child member was spotted on Instagram rocking a big diamond ring. The couple have been dating for four years and Witherspoon is also Rowland's manager, but the couple kept a low profile over the years. If the news is true, Rowland joins her besties Kim Kardashian and Ciara in the wives-to-be club. We'll have to wait and see if the typically low-key star decides to confirm or deny, but in the mean time, we're already picturing a wedding party that includes Beyoncé as a bridesmaid and Blue Ivy and North West as flower girls! BET.com is your #1 source for Black celebrity news, photos, exclusive videos and all the latest in the world of hip hop and R&B music. (Photo: Brian To/WENN.com) Written by Evelyn Diaz Celebrity Marriage	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line871
__label__wiki	0.665949	0.665949	Brad Thor Books In Order Publication Order of Scot Harvath Books The Lions of Lucerne (2001) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Path of the Assassin (2003) Hardcover Paperback Kindle State of the Union (2004) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Blowback (2005) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Takedown (2006) Hardcover Paperback Kindle The First Commandment (2007) Hardcover Paperback Kindle The Last Patriot (2008) Hardcover Paperback Kindle The Apostle (2009) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Foreign Influence (2010) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Full Black (2011) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Black List (2012) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Hidden Order (2013) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Act of War (2014) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Code of Conduct (2015) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Foreign Agent (2016) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Use of Force (2017) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Spymaster (2018) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Backlash (2019) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Near Dark (2020) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Publication Order of Scot Harvath Short Stories Books Free Fall: A Prelude to Hidden Order (2013) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Epilogue II: A Bonus Chapter to Hidden Order (2013) Hardcover Paperback Kindle The Athens Solution (2015) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Publication Order of Standalone Novels The Athena Project (2010) Hardcover Paperback Kindle Brad Thor Biography: Raised in Chicago, Illinois Brad Thor was born to be an author. As a child, Thor spent hours writing down story ideas and engrossed in novels. After graduating high school in Chicago, Thor studied at the University of Southern California where he graduated cum laude with a Bachelors of Arts degree in creative writing and film production. While at USC, Thor was mentored by award winning novelist T.C. Boyle. After graduating from USC, Thor became the award winning creator, writer, television producer, and host of Traveling Lite. In this public television series, Thor travels to locations around the world providing historical information, travel tips, and more. Thor gained practical insight for many of his books when he worked the Department of Homeland Security as a member of their Red Cell Analytic Department. The Red Cell unit calls upon individuals in a variety of different fields from academia to computer science to envision possible terrorist attacks and plan how to stop them. Currently, Thor has written twelve novels with a thirteenth due to be released on July 9th, 2013. His books have achieved international acclaim and his writing has been compared to Robert Ludlum who is arguable the most famous spy novelist of all time. Brad Thor has steadily become one of the most popular authors in the United States. Thor’s books have become staples on the New York Times bestsellers list. Thor’s books are not just popular in the United States as they have been published in China, Denmark, Australia, Turkey, Vietnam and many other countries around the world. When not writing books, Brad Thor can be found on popular television and radio programs discussing terrorism. Thor has hosted the Glenn Beck television and radio program, in addition to numerous appearances on FOX News, CNN, ABC, NBC, and PBS programs. Many of Thor’s books parallel important world issues or security concerns in the United States. The books read like news headlines from around the world. Thor is often called on to lecture at colleges and at a variety of law enforcement organizations to speak on how to forecast and plan for future threats. In preparation for writing The Apostle, Thor had the unique privilege of shadowing a Black Ops Special Forces unit in Afghanistan. Currently, Brad resides with his wife in Chicago where he donates much of his free time to charitable causes like the Wounded Warrior Project, the Yellow Ribbon Fund, and the Salvation Army. Brad Thor’s first novel, The Lions of Lucerne, opens in the snowy mountains of Utah where a tragedy of unthinkable proportions has just occurred: the President of the United States is kidnapped and thirty Secret Service agents have been brutally massacred. The person behind the attacks is the ruthless leader of the most dangerous and violent terrorist organization in the Middle East: Fatah. In this first novel, we meet the star of Brad Thor’s novels: Scot Harvath. A former Navy Seal and at this point a Secret Service agent Scot is the only hope for the President alive. With James Bonds’ charm and Jack Bauer’s brawn, Scot Harvath is the ultimate warrior. In this book, Scot sets out on a mission that takes him around the world to avenge the death of his fellow agents and rescue the President. Like in every subsequent novel, Scot must bend the rules and risk his life to save the day. Reading the novel is like watching a Hollywood action movie in the theater. Scot’s efforts to find the President are hampered by a dangerous coalition of top government officials who are attempting to frame him for the terrorist attack. Soon Scot is a wanted man in the United States and with nowhere left to go, Scot follows the trail of the terrorists to Switzerland.As we are introduced to Scot the reader instantly falls in love with him and eagerly awaits each new installment of his life. After saving the President from his kidnappers, Harvath picks up where he left off in Thor’s second novel The Path of the Assassin. With the President safe and secure in Washington, Harvath sets out find, capture, and ultimately kill all those responsible for the deaths of his friends and fellow Secret Service agents. As he hunts for the mastermind, Hashim Nidal, Harvath becomes entangled in a world of espionage, violence, and action. With plans to destroy both Israel and the United States, Nidal becomes the most wanted man in the world. Unfortunately, no one knows what he looks and Harvath is forced to do what he does best: track down and kill anyone in his path. The only question that remains is will Harvath be in time to save the world? As each novel is written, the mystery behind Scot Harvath emerges. A man without a family and with no ties is the ultimate machine. As the books progress we see Harvath mature, go through heartbreak when he loses the woman he loves, and grow into the ultimate fighting machine. For many, Scot Harvath is the hero we always to be as children. Harvath combines personality, fitness, looks, and humor in one package. Brad Thor is the ultimate thriller writer in America today. Thor separates himself from other authors int he same genre with his excellent prose and compelling storylines. With his trusty protagonist, Scot Harvath, each of Thor’s novels set out to make the world a safer place. However, Thor has become more than just an author as his books have become beacons for change and concern. With each book, Thor writes about future security threats and how they could impact our lives. Consequently, Brad Thor has been able to use his books to advocate for policy change and review. Each one of Thor’s books is guaranteed to keep you on your toes and wanting to read more. With suspense on every page, Brad Thor’s books are the ultimate in reading pleasure. Therefore, the next time you are at a bookstore and looking for a page turning thriller pick up the latest best seller from Brad Thor. I’m willing to bet that his writing won’t disappoint you. Book Series In Order » Authors » Brad Thor Clive Cussler started working as a copywriter for an advertising industry after his discharge from the military. Later he became the creative director of two successful advertising agencies. He was assigned to produce radio and television commercials and was also given a reward at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival for many of his commercials.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line877
__label__wiki	0.897775	0.897775	Cleaver Bio 1975 — Returned to U.S. and began a remarkable political transformation. Renounced the Black Panthers and stated he believed he would be treated fairly by the American judicial system. Murder charges were dropped. Placed on probation for assault. Sentenced to twelve-hundred hours of community service. Books by Eldridge Cleaver Soul on Ice / Post-Prison Writings and Speeches / Target Zero; A Life in Writing / Conversation with Eldridge Cleaver Being Black / Education and Revolution / Eldridge Cleaver / Eldridge Cleaver Is Free An Eldridge Cleaver Bio-Chronology [In] the 60s, for a time, everything was possible; that this period, in other words, was a moment of universal liberation, a global unbinding of energies. –Fredric Jameson, 1984 1935 (August 31) — Born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas. His family moved first to Phoenix and then to Los Angeles. Grew up in Watts section. His father was a dining car waiter; his mother a maid. Ran into trouble with the law and finally arrested for theft and selling marijuana. 1954 to 1957 — Imprisoned at eighteen for possession of a bag of marijuana 1957 — Arrested for rape and attempted murder. Convicted of assault with intent to murder and sent to California’s tough San Quentin and Folsom prisons. Received two to fourteen year sentence. Immersed himself in the writings of various revolutionary authors (Marx, Tom Paine, Lenin, Bakunin, et al.), black American writers (Richard Wright, James Baldwin, W. E. B. Du Bois), and counter-cultural writers (Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs). Began to write and through his lawyer, Beverly Axlerod, came to the notice of various literary figures, including Norman Mailer, who petitioned the authorities for his parole. 1966 — Released from prison. Helped found the Black Panthers, a militant, leftist, anti-establishment black nationalist group based in Oakland, California. Became its information minister, or spokesman. 1967 to1971 — Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party 1968 — Initially published in Ramparts magazine, his writings were published as the book Soul on Ice. Written almost entirely while he was in Folsom Prison, the book is a loosely knit series of letters and essays about race issues in America, prison life, Baldwin, and other black literary figures, revolutionary violence and his sexual obsessions, especially his obsession with white women. 1968 (April)– Wounded after a shootout between Black Panthers and police in Oakland. Arrested. Many New York radicals demonstrated for his release. Two months later, released when a judge ruled that he was held as a political prisoner. Fall 1968, taught an experimental course at the University of California Berkeley. Then Governor Ronald Reagan was outraged: “If Eldridge Cleaver is allowed to teach our children, they may come home one night and slit our throats?” 1968 — Ran for U.S. president on the ticket of the Peace and Freedom Party, Cleaver. A higher court overturned the June 1968 ruling that released Cleaver. Faced a long prison term on charges of assault and attempted murder. Jumped bail, and fled the United States for a life of exile. Stopped first in Cuba, then in Algeria. Traveled widely. Given a warm welcome in the Soviet Union, Vietnam, and Kim II Sung’s Korea. 1971 — Broke with Panthers and moved to Paris, France. While in France, had a mystical vision in which the faces of Marx, Engels, Mao, Castro, and others appeared in the moon, followed by the face of Christ. This tale created the foundation for his Christian conversion. 1975 — Returned to U.S. and began a remarkable political transformation. Renounced the Black Panthers and stated he believed he would be treated fairly by the American judicial system. Murder charges were dropped. Placed on probation for assault. Sentenced to twelve-hundred hours of community service. Became a born-again Christian, a follower of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, a Mormon. Embraced anti-communism. Made an unsuccessful run for the GOP nomination for a Senate seat in California. 1982 — Booed by Yale’s Afro-American student society for supporting Reagan 1980s (mid) — Became addicted to crack cocaine, which led to new brushes with the law. 1986 — Explained in interview his many life transformations. “Everybody changes, not just me,” he said. “I was pulled over in my car with my secretary for a traffic thing, and one of the officers walked up to the car and saw me sitting inside. He took off his hat and said, ‘Hey, Eldridge, remember me?'” “He used to be a Panther,” Cleaver said. “It was hard to believe.” 1988 — Placed on probation after convictions for burglary and cocaine possession 1992 — Arrested again for cocaine possession, but a judge threw out the charges after determining Cleaver was improperly arrested. 1994 — Berkeley police found him staggering about with a severe head wound and crack in his pocket. Almost died from the blow to the head administered by a fellow addict. With the help of his family, he got off drugs and again immersed himself in evangelical Christianity. 1997 — Interviewed by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Cleaver Speaks to Skip Gates 1997 (April) — Appeared at an Earth Day conference in Portland, Oregon. He was reported to have said that he’d ” gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.” 1998 (May l) — Died in hospital, sixty-two years old. Family refused to disclose the cause of death. At time of his death, worked as a diversity consultant for the University of La Verne, near Los Angeles. Source: New Criterion, Jun 98, Vol. 16 Issue 10, p.5, 9p Cleaver as born again Christian said his “red fighting” was born from his experiences in communist countries during his years on the run. “I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die,” Cleaver told interviewers during his congressional campaign. “Everybody changes, not just me,” Cleaver explained. Ralph Ellison on the Redeemed Criminal Sure, theyre treated as though serving time has endowed them with a mysterious, god-granted knowledge. And, especially if they say that theyve been to the depths of hell and have been reborn into a new vision. Well, Ive known a few guys who spent time in prison and none of them underwent any such mystical transformation. Nevertheless, for Americansand especially Christiansthe confession of sin and the assertion of rebirth and redemption has tremendous appeal. This is especially true of our own people, who understandably are hungry for heroes and redeemers. I used to collect the handbills distributed by fly-by-night faith-healers in Harlem, and most of them stated that after being up to their eyeballs in crime, theyd had the scales struck from their eyes while in prison, and this had prepared them to lead their people. During the Sixties, this myth of the redeemed criminal had a tremendous influence on our young people, when criminals guilty of every crime from con games, to rape, to murder exploited it by declaring themselves political activists and Black leaders. As a result, many sincere, dedicated leaders of an older generation were swept aside. Im speaking now of courageous individuals who made sacrifices in order to master the disciplines of leadership and who created a continuity between themselves and earlier leaders of our struggle. The kids treated such people as if they were Uncle Toms, and I found it outrageous. Because not only did it distort the concrete historical differences between one period of struggle and another, it made heroes out of thugs and self-servers out of dedicated leaders. Worse, it gave many kids the notion that here was no point in developing their minds; that all they had to do was to strike a militant stance, assert their unity with the group and stress their Blackness. If you didnt accept their slogans, you were dismissed as a Neegro Uncle Tom. Years ago, DuBois stressed a leadership based upon an elite of the intellect. During the Sixties, it appeared that for many Afro-Americans all that was required for such a role was a history of criminality (the sleazier the better), a capacity for irresponsible rhetoric, and the passionate assertion of the mystique of Blackness. At least, thats how it appeared to me. Source: The Essential Ellison (Interview)Ishmael Reed, Quincy Troupe, Steve Cannon. Ishmael Reeds and Al Youngs YBird Copyright © 1977, 1978 YBird Magazine Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000 By Adam Fairclough Better Day Coming is intended, in author Adam Fairclough’s words, as “neither a textbook nor a survey, but an interpretation” (p. xiv) of the circuitous struggle for racial equality pursued by African Americans and their occasional allies between 1890 and 2000. Chronologically organized, the narrative moves from an evaluation of the hard-pressed, contending forces vying for ascendancy in the black South at the nadir to the interwar period and well beyond, into the urban cauldron of the northern ghettoes at the high point of the Black Power movement. Fairclough brings to his project a fluent understanding of the shifting institutional configurations of opposition to Jim Crow and a keen sensitivity to the ways in which the efforts of those who fought it were hampered, circumscribed, and occasionally crushed by the pressures of operating in a society formally committedfor most of the period under discussionto aggressive defense of the racial status quo. Fairclough’s “basic argument” seems at first glance uncontroversial: that “although blacks differed . . . about the most appropriate tactics in the struggle for equality, they were united in rejecting allegations of racial inferiority and in aspiring to a society where men and women would be judged on merit rather than by race or color” (p. xii). But his ultimate aim is more ambitious: he sets out to rehabilitate the accommodationist tradition represented by Booker T. Washington which, though “apparently unheroic,” in the author’s view “laid the groundwork for the militant confrontation of the Civil Rights Movement” (p. xiii).h-net Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, formed in the aftermath of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, remains one of the most controversial movements of the 20th-century. Founded by the charismatic Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the party sounded a defiant cry for an end to the institutionalized subjugation of African Americans. The Black Panther newspaper was founded to articulate the party’s message and artist Emory Douglas became the paper’s art director and later the party’s Minister of Culture. Douglas’s artistic talents and experience proved a powerful combination: his striking collages of photographs and his own drawings combined to create some of the era’s most iconic images, like that of Newton with his signature beret and large gun set against a background of a blood-red star, which could be found blanketing neighborhoods during the 12 years the paper existed. This landmark book brings together a remarkable lineup of party insiders who detail the crafting of the party’s visual identity. Publisher Rizzoli Douglas was the Norman Rockwell of the ghetto, concentrating on the poor and oppressed. Departing from the WPA/social realist style of portraying poor people, which can be perceived as voyeuristic and patronizing, Douglass energetic drawings showed respect and action. He maintained poor peoples dignity while graphically illustrating harsh situations.Wikipedia 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created By Charles C. Mann Im a big fan of Charles Manns previous book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, in which he provides a sweeping and provocative examination of North and South America prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Its exhaustively researched but so wonderfully written that its anything but exhausting to read. With his follow-up, 1493, Mann has taken it to a new, truly global level. Building on the groundbreaking work of Alfred Crosby (author of The Columbian Exchange and, Im proud to say, a fellow Nantucketer), Mann has written nothing less than the story of our world: how a planet of what were once several autonomous continents is quickly becoming a single, globalized entity. Mann not only talked to countless scientists and researchers; he visited the places he writes about, and as a consequence, the book has a marvelously wide-ranging yet personal feel as we follow Mann from one far-flung corner of the world to the next. And always, the prose is masterful. In telling the improbable story of how Spanish and Chinese cultures collided in the Philippines in the sixteenth century, he takes us to the island of Mindoro whose southern coast consists of a number of small bays, one next to another like tooth marks in an apple. We learn how the spread of malaria, the potato, tobacco, guano, rubber plants, and sugar cane have disrupted and convulsed the planet and will continue to do so until we are finally living on one integrated or at least close-to-integrated Earth. Whether or not the human instigators of all this remarkable change will survive the process they helped to initiate more than five hundred years ago remains, Mann suggests in this monumental and revelatory book, an open question. The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 By Pauline Maier A notable historian of the early republic, Maier devoted a decade to studying the immense documentation of the ratification of the Constitution. Scholars might approach her books footnotes first, but history fans who delve into her narrative will meet delegates to the state conventions whom most history books, absorbed with the Founders, have relegated to obscurity. Yet, prominent in their local counties and towns, they influenced a conventions decision to accept or reject the Constitution. Their biographies and democratic credentials emerge in Maiers accounts of their elections to a convention, the political attitudes they carried to the conclave, and their declamations from the floor. The latter expressed opponents objections to provisions of the Constitution, some of which seem anachronistic (election regulation raised hackles) and some of which are thoroughly contemporary (the power to tax individuals directly). Ripostes from proponents, the Federalists, animate the great detail Maier provides, as does her recounting how one state conventions verdict affected anothers. Displaying the grudging grassroots blessing the Constitution originally received, Maier eruditely yet accessibly revives a neglected but critical passage in American history.Booklist updated 25 February 2008 Home Eldridge Cleaver Table Conversations Table Amiri Baraka Table Fifty Influential Figures The Du Bois-Malcolm-King Related files: Revolutionary Suicide	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line880
__label__wiki	0.865414	0.865414	The Late Shift with Steven Bell - Recapping and Grading WWE SmackDown Wed, Jul 4, 2018 03:00AM UTC Join your host, Steven Bell, every Monday and Tuesday night as he recaps and grades WWE Raw and Smackdown, breaking down the hottest topics in pro wrestling along the way! From The HeatSeeker, where we take a look at one of the hottest topics in pro wrestling, to a full, LIVE recap of the just finished show and ultimately an overall grade, this is a show for those who aren't only "smart" but also intelligent pro wrestling fans. Provided BY a fan, FOR fans, this isn't a show where you'll be told what to think. It is, however, a show where you'll be encouraged to think for yourself. The Late Shift with Steven Bell is uncensored and contains adult language. All views expressed are solely those of Steven Bell and do not represent those of Lords of Pain, BlogTalk Radio or any of their respective advertisers.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line884
__label__wiki	0.895842	0.895842	The family which doesn’t feel pain Letizia Marsili, 52, first realised she was different when she was very young. She had a high threshold for pain, which meant she didn't feel burns or notice broken bones. Five other family members are also affected by the condition which means they are insensitive to pain. Letizia told the BBC: “From day to day we live a very normal life, perhaps better than the rest of the population, because we very rarely get unwell and we hardly feel any pain. “However, in truth, we do feel pain, the perception of pain, but this only lasts for a few seconds.” Scientists believe the condition could be down to some nerves not reacting properly. Researchers who studied the family hope their discovery of a gene mutation in family members could help chronic-pain sufferers in the future. “We have opened up a whole new route to drug discovery for pain relief,” said Prof Anna Maria Aloisi from the University of Siena in Italy. How is the family affected? Letizia's mother, two sons, sister and niece all show signs of being affected by the syndrome that is named after the family – Marsili pain syndrome. She said pain was an important alarm signal and because they feel it only fleetingly, the family often have fractures that go undetected and this leads to inflammation in their bones. They also experience burns and other injuries without knowing. Letizia said her 24-year-old son Ludovico, who plays football, has encountered problems. “He rarely stays on the ground, even when he is knocked down. However, he has fragility at the ankles and he often suffers distortions, which are micro fractures. “In fact, recently X-rays have shown that he has lots of micro fractures in both ankles.” She said her younger son Bernardo, 21, had a calcification of the elbow without even realising he had broken it after falling off his bike. He continued to cycle for another nine miles. Letizia says she fractured her right shoulder while skiing but continued to ski all afternoon, only going to the hospital the next morning because her fingers were tingling. The same thing happened when she broke a bone in her elbow playing tennis. “Because of a lack of pain, it got so stressed that it ended up breaking,” she says. But the worst thing, she says, has been problems in her mouth because of a tooth implant that went wrong. Letizia's mother, Maria Domenica, 78, has had a number of fractures which have never healed properly and have hardened naturally. She often suffers burns because she doesn't feel any pain. Her sister Maria Elena often damages the top of her mouth because she burns herself with hot drinks, and her daughter Virginia once left her hand in ice for about 20 minutes without feeling pain. Despite all this, Letizia says she has never seen the condition “as a negative for our lives”. Why do they feel little pain? Lead study author Dr James Cox, from University College London, said the Marsili family members had all their nerves present, but “they're just not working how they should be”. He said: “We're working to gain a better understanding of exactly why they don't feel much pain, to see if that could help us find new pain relief treatments.” The research team, whose findings are published in the journal Brain, worked with the family to find out the nature of their phenotype – the observable characteristics caused by their genetics. The Marsili syndrome, named after them, means the affected individuals are less than normally sensitive (or hyposensitive) to extreme heat, capsaicin in chilli peppers and have experienced pain-free bone fractures. What did scientists discover about their genes? The researchers mapped out the protein-coding genes in each family member's genome and found a mutation in the ZFHX2 gene. They then conducted two studies in mice which had been bred without this gene and found that their pain thresholds had been altered. When they bred a new line of mice with the relevant mutation, they found they were notably insensitive to high temperatures. Prof Aloisi said: “With more research to understand exactly how the mutation impacts pain sensitivity, and to see what other genes might be involved, we could identify novel targets for drug development.” The family is believed to be the only one in the world to be affected by this faulty gene. Additional reporting by Mauro Galluzzo [contf] [contfnew] [contfnewc] The post The family which doesn't feel pain appeared first on News Wire Now. Letizia told the BBC: "From day to day we live a very normal life, perhaps better than the rest of the population, because we very rarely get unwell and we hardly feel any pain. "However, in truth, we do feel pain, the perception of pain, but this only lasts for a few seconds." "We have opened up a whole new route to drug discovery for pain relief," said Prof Anna Maria Aloisi from the University of Siena in Italy. "He rarely stays on the ground, even when he is knocked down. However, he has fragility at the ankles and he often suffers distortions, which are micro fractures. "In fact, recently X-rays have shown that he has lots of micro fractures in both ankles." "Because of a lack of pain, it got so stressed that it ended up breaking," she says. Despite all this, Letizia says she has never seen the condition "as a negative for our lives". Lead study author Dr James Cox, from University College London, said the Marsili family members had all their nerves present, but "they're just not working how they should be". He said: "We're working to gain a better understanding of exactly why they don't feel much pain, to see if that could help us find new pain relief treatments." Prof Aloisi said: "With more research to understand exactly how the mutation impacts pain sensitivity, and to see what other genes might be involved, we could identify novel targets for drug development."	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line885
__label__wiki	0.941964	0.941964	2019/20 Sky Bet Championship Preview: Wigan Athletic The Latics complete our look at next season's opponents Wigan Athletic 2018/19 League Position: 18th (17/18 1st in League One - Promoted) Average league attendance: 11,663 (17/18 9,151) Top league goal-scorer: Will Grigg (19) Wigan Athletic will be looking forward to a second season back in the Sky Bet Championship after a solid, if not always comfortable, campaign last term. Under Paul Cook, The Latics' were never in the relegation places and even entertained hopes of back-to-back promotion challenges after winning five of their first nine games up to October. That was the high-point however, as a shocking run of just three wins in 25 left Cook's side three points above the drop zone in Mid-March. Just as it looked like Wigan's stay in the second tier might be over at the first attempt, The Latics rallied to win four of their last nine to finish the season 12 points above the drop zone. Cook's men, like many others in the division, were a different side away from home, picking up a joint league low 11 points on the road. On the other hand, they won as many points at home as Aston Villa with only Derby County losing less games on home soil. DW Stadium Miles from Brentford: 208 Address: Loire Dr, Wigan, WN5 0UH Guide to The DW Paul Cook brought The Latics back to the Championship at the first time of asking, exactly a year after he led Portsmouth to the League Two title. Before that, Cook held the reins of Chesterfield when he also got them out of the fourth tier. Cook featured as a central midfielder during a playing career that spanned 23 years, notably in the Premier League for Coventry City. He also played in the Football League for Wigan Athletic, Norwich City, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Tranmere Rovers, Stockport County and Burnley, ending his career with nearly 650 league appearances. THE KEY MAN Sam Morsy 2018/19: 40 appearances, 1 goal Sam Morsy continues to provide an effective foil for Wigan's more attack minded midfielders, making the sixth most tackles (112) in the division last term. That style did come at a cost as the 27-year-old picked up 14 yellow cards and one red, which was later rescinded. However, a new two-and-a-half year deal midway through the season shows how highly he is viewed in Lancashire as Wigan look to cement their second tier status. Brentford wins: 8 Draws: 10 Wigan wins: 19 Get ready for our upcoming campaign by supporting The Bees as a 2018/19 Season Ticket Holder. Secure your place online now.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line886
__label__wiki	0.930807	0.930807	Victoria County History - Cambridgeshire A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 2 Friaries: Austin friars, Cambridge A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 2. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1948. 22. AUSTIN FRIARS, CAMBRIDGE Priors of Austin Friars The Order of Friars of St. Augustine was constituted in the middle of the 13th century to bring under one rule various congregations of hermits, and they were therefore sometimes known as Friars Hermits. Although the Order did not obtain full equality with the other three great Orders of Friars until 1241, (fn. 1) a house of Austin Friars was established at Clare in Suffolk apparently about 1248. (fn. 2) In June 1290 Sir Geoffrey de Picheford, who was Constable of Windsor and active in the service of Edward I (fn. 3) but is not known to have had any connexion with Cambridge, obtained licence to alienate to the Austin Friars a messuage in Cambridge, subject to a rent of 7s. to the Crown. (fn. 4) This was evidently the nucleus of the site which they subsequently occupied on Peas Hill. Sir Geoffrey, who apparently founded the house in memory of his son Arnulf, intended to enlarge the site, (fn. 5) but died early in 1299 (fn. 6) before he had done so. On 7 April 1292 the prior and convent had licence to enclose a strip of ground 200 ft. long by 30 ft. wide, extending from their wall to the King's Ditch, provided that they made a gate at each end with a way between for the defence of the town. (fn. 7) Two messuages adjoining their site were granted to the friars in 1305, (fn. 8) and in 1319 the king remitted, in support of the lights and ornaments of their church, the rent payable to the Exchequer for their site, here stated to be 3s. 4d. (fn. 9) In 1335, in belated fulfilment of the founder's intention, Robert de Comberton, a burgess of Cambridge, and Thurstan, bedell of the University, gave to the king two more messuages for the use of the friars, (fn. 10) to whom he promptly granted them. (fn. 11) Two years later, in 1337, they had licence to acquire another 1½ acres, (fn. 12) under which they acquired four more messuages. (fn. 13) Finally, in 1376 they were pardoned, on condition of praying for the souls of Edward III and Queen Philippa, for having acquired without licence a messuage and toft in Lurteburgh Lane (fn. 14) (now Free School Lane). The Friary had now apparently reached its full extent, and occupied, as it did at the Dissolution, the whole space lying between the modern thoroughfares of Peas Hill on the north, Pembroke Street on the south, Free School Lane on the west, and Corn Exchange Street on the east. (fn. 15) Probably some of the messuages were retained as received, with their dwelling-houses upon them, and let to selected tenants. (fn. 16) The site being within the parish of St. Edward, and the friars having papal exemption from all forms of tithe, they agreed in 1290 to pay 4s. a year to the vicar, and to increase the amount proportionately as they increased their bounds; they also undertook not to receive any parishioner to the sacraments, but to send their own secular servants who received wages to St. Edward's, and to see that they paid their dues there. (fn. 17) In 1289 the Pope had given to the Austin Friars an indulgence of 100 days for those who visited their churches on certain feasts, (fn. 18) and in 1302 the right of burial, (fn. 19) as well as that of preaching and hearing confessions, was given them. The Austin Friars of Cambridge had thus spiritual advantages to offer to their benefactors in the church. That the right of burial was used is shown by the female skeletons—four in number, with, apparently, the remains of two children— found when the church was excavated in 1908. (fn. 20) The friars' own cemetery lay to the south of the church, on the other side of the main roadway to the domestic buildings, (fn. 21) of which a part, reputed to have been the refectory but more probably either the infirmary or guest hall, existed until 1746. (fn. 22) On the south, in the wall by the King's Ditch, one of the two gates ordered in 1292 was to be seen towards the end of the 16th century, and in the 18th Cole remembered 'good old gates' with a larger and a smaller wicket, opening upon Peas Hill. (fn. 23) The church, which in the 15th century and perhaps earlier, played an important part in University functions, (fn. 24) as did that of the Austins at Oxford, (fn. 25) occupied the north range of the cloister. It was apparently repaired, and perhaps enlarged, in the middle of the 14th century, as in 1356 protection was given to the servants of the friars employed with a cart and three horses in the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon fetching victuals and stone and timber for the repair of their church. (fn. 26) That their system resembled that of the Franciscans is shown by Bishop Montacute's licence to seven limitors among the Austin Friars of Cambridge in 1340. These were Robert atte Lee, the prior; the sub-prior Peter de Wisbech, Hugh de Over, Hamo de Hythe, William Braughing, Henry de Kingston, and Nicholas de Parys. (fn. 27) The two first were appointed surrogates, and all seven, with five other friars, were licensed as penitentiaries on 2 November 1340, (fn. 28) their licences being renewed for a further 3 years on 10 March 1342. (fn. 29) Of the five other penitentiaries four— William Walcote, John de Lynne, Simon de Lynne, and Walter de Berewyco—were Bachelors of Divinity. On 3 February 1387 Arundel, as Bishop of Ely, manumitted John, son of William Gybbe of Wivelingham, an Austin Friar of Cambridge, his nativus. (fn. 30) The Austin Friars were deeply involved in trouble between town and gown which became acute about 1413. In 1417, when John de Rykinghale, the Chancellor, was at the Council of Constance, and Henry Stokton his Vicechancellor was acting for him, the differences were laid before Henry V at Southampton. (fn. 31) The townsmen alleged that Thomas Cressale, Prior of the Friars Hermits, Henry Stokton his friar, Vicechancellor of the University, with the proctors, bedell, and sub-bedell, had encouraged riotous scholars to insult and threaten the mayor, and had themselves imprisoned Thomas Hierman, a servant of the commonalty who had a suit for debt against a servant of the Prior of Barnwell, and a burgess named Henry Dunmowe. The affair dragged on, and Bilney, the ex-mayor, when he was summoned, on Rykinghale's return, to appear before him in the church of the Austin Friars, offered to fight the Chancellor and threatened to resist arrest with 100 armed men. He himself had arrested Cressale, the prior, and another friar named Nicholas Swafham, both Doctors of Divinity, with two scholars' servants and had kept them all in prison pending the payment of fines which the University alone had the right to demand. Bilney was also accused of a false plea that the Prior of the Austin Friars had attempted his life while he was mayor and had entered Hierman's house illegally. (fn. 32) In 1494 Archbishop Morton wrote to the Bishop of Ely that the Austin Friars of Cambridge 'with intent to make money by fraud' have, under cover of a confirmation of their privileges recently obtained from the Pope, proclaimed that they have the right to grant plenary remission to all who resort to them. He bade the bishop inhibit them until the instrument on which they based their claims had been examined. (fn. 33) It is probable that Cambridge was in touch with the reformation movement in Germany from its inception there in 1493. If 'Erasmus laid the egg that Luther hatched', its nest was the Austin Friary. The reforming friars in Germany obtained a bull giving them self-government under their own Vicar-General Staupitz, an intimate friend of Luther: while Staupitz was Dean of the Faculty of Theology at Wittenberg an English Austin Friar, Robert Barnes, (fn. 34) was studying at Louvain. He returned to England, was incorporated B.D. at Cambridge, and took his degree of D.D. there in 1522-3: in the same year Luther's these were adopted by the Provincial Chapter of the Austin Friars of Saxony at Wittenberg. Soon after this Barnes was made Prior of the Cambridge convent, and at once began to read Terence, Plautus, and Cicero in the friary with the assistance of his pupil, Thomas Parnell, whom he had brought from Louvain. He collected a group of like-minded scholars, most of them Austin Friars, who met at the White Horse Inn, near the friary, nicknamed 'Little Germany' from their activities. Academically, the members were not the most prominent friars of their time, and little is heard of them in the University records, possibly because the group was broken up while most of them were still young. In 1515 Thomas Swillington, D.D., who describes himself as 'Vicar of the Order of Friars Hermit of the Order of St. Augustine of Cambridge', presented four friars to the bishop for ordination, (fn. 35) of whom one, Thomas Cambridge, was probably the 'Master Cambridge' who, with Miles Coverdale, Christopher Coleman, and 'Masters Feld and Burley', formed the circle within his convent which actively supported Barnes. Of these Coverdale alone is known to have attained distinction, but Christopher Coleman, or Foster, was preaching to a non-conforming congregation in London in 1567, and still agitating for Puritan reforms in 1570. (fn. 36) John Stokes, (fn. 37) the predecessor of Barnes as prior, incepted with him, and went to Norwich where, as prior, he tried in 1531 to persuade Bilney to recant. He preached against the changes and was imprisoned, but submitted and sought from Cromwell permission to 'leave his habit'. In 1525 Erfurt, Martin Luther's friary, ceased to exist as such, and on Christmas Eve of that year Dr. Barnes preached his famous sermon in St. Edward's, which broke up 'Little Germany' and caused him to be brought before Cardinal Wolsey, charged with heresy. He was condemned to 'bear a fagot' at Paul's Cross, which he did on the following 11 February, and to perpetual prison at Northampton, from which he escaped and went abroad. He was taken back into favour and had a part in negotiating the marriage of the king with Anne of Cleves, but he was condemned as a relapsed heretic and burnt in 1540. Miles Coverdale, (fn. 38) who later took an important part in the translation of the Bible into English, and became Bishop of Exeter under Edward VI, is perhaps the best known of the frequenters of 'Little Germany'. He was ordained priest in 1514, and was Barnes's secretary at the time of his trial for heresy in 1526. During 1527 he was in correspondence with Cromwell, and, having preached a sermon against images in 1528, left his Order and fled the country. He returned to England when the lesser monasteries were dissolved and became one of the most prominent of the Reformers who lived into Elizabeth's reign. The Austin Friars of Cambridge, having been the moving spirits in the Reformation there, practically dissolved themselves. The surrender is signed only by John Hardyman, the prior, and three other friars, whose names are not found in the Grace Books and who had taken no prominent part in the White Horse group. The surrender, like those of the Franciscans and Dominicans, has a blank left for the date and is unsealed. (fn. 39) Of the signatories, Thomas Norley was probably identical with the vicar of that name presented to Harston 12 September 1539 by the patron to whom Barnwell 'conceded' the living; (fn. 40) he was still vicar in 1547; John Barber may be the John Barber, priest, who witnessed a will in Trumpington in 1542, (fn. 41) but apparently held no preferment; of Thomas Watson nothing is known. 'Dr. Hardyman, late prior', was left in charge of the house after the Dissolution, and when the commissioners came in 1539 they found it in his custody. (fn. 42) The Visitors had sold the bells, but there was still some lead, in spite of earlier sales by Hardyman and George Browne. A good deal of slate from the 'late Austin Friars' was used for the new steeple at Great St. Mary's in 1545 and at the same time much of the friary was demolished. (fn. 43) When Leland visited the convent shortly before its dissolution he noted in the library five works of William Ockham and two of John Capgrave, the famous Austin Friar of Lynn, and a volume of sermons by Ralph the Almoner of Westminster. (fn. 44) The only book known to have survived from this library is now at Trinity College, Dublin (MS. 115), a volume of miscellaneous tracts, some written by Adam de Stockton at Cambridge in 1375. (fn. 45) Robert atte Lee, occurs 1340 (fn. 46) Richard de Walpole, occurs 1337 (fn. 47) John de Comberton, occurs 1343, 1348 (fn. 48) John Tuylet, occurs 1350 (fn. 49) John Blyclyng, occurs 1375 (fn. 50) Thomas Cressale, occurs, 1417 (fn. 51) Thomas Swillington, D.D., occurs 1520 (fn. 52) John Stokys, D.D., occurs 1521, (fn. 53) 1522 (fn. 54) Robert Barnes, D.D., c. 1523-5 (fn. 55) John Hardyman, D.D., (fn. 56) occurs 1536, surrendered 1538. 1. Empoli, Bullarium Ord. Erem. Sci. Aug. (Rome 1628), 100. 2. V.C.H. Suffolk, ii, 127. 3. Moore, Knights of Edward I (Harl. Soc.), iv, 63-4. He had property in Wendy in this county; ibid. 4. Rolls of Parlt. i, 62; Cal. Pat. 1281-92, p. 368; Inq. ad q.d. xii, 15. 5. Cal. Close, 1333-7, p. 511. 6. Cal. Fine. R. i, 412; Cal. Inq. p.m. iii, 566. 7. Cal. Pat. 1281-92, p. 482. 8. Ibid. 1301-7, p. 324. 9. Ibid. 1317-21, p. 396. Cf. ibid. 1321-4, p. 399. 10. Cal. Close, 1333-7, p. 511. 11. Cal. Pat. 1334-8, p. 150. 12. Ibid. p. 419. 13. Ibid. p. 501; ibid. 1338-40, p. 43; ibid. 1348-50, p. 353. 14. Ibid. 1374-7, p. 393. 15. H. P. Stokes, 'The Augustinian Friary in Cambridge' (C.A.S. xxii), 56. 16. Ibid. 57. This no doubt accounts for the Austin Friars paying 3s. on rents to the subsidy of 1312: Cooper, Annals, i, 72. 17. Liber Memor. de. Bernewelle, 212-14. 18. Empoli, op. cit. 259. 19. Ibid. 50-2. 20. C.A.S. xiv (no. lv), 7-38. 21. Ibid. xxii, 74. 22. Ibid. 72. 25. V.C.H. Oxford, ii, 145. 27. Ely Epis. Reg. Montacute; Cole MS. xxiii, fol. 44. 30. Ely Epis. Reg. Arundel, fol. 59; E.D.R. (1896), p. 89. 31. Cooper, Annals, i, 158. 32. Ibid. 161-5. 33. Ely Epis. Reg. Alcock, fol. 217; E.D.R. 1910, pp. 29, 49. 34. Cooper, Ath. Cant. i, 74-5; Dict. Nat. Biog.; Cooper, Annals, i, 311-23. 35. Cole MS. xxvi, fol. 149. 36. Cooper, Ath. Cant. i, 283. 38. Ibid. 268-74; Dict. Nat. Biog. 39. Dep. Keeper's Rep. viii, app. 14. 40. Ely Epis. Reg. Goodrich, fol. 122; E.D.R. 1912, p. 36. 41. Cole MS. lx, fol. 25. 42. Mins. Accts. (P.R.O.), Hen. VIII, no. 7286. 43. Stokes, op. cit. 62. 44. Leland, Collectanea, iv, 15. 45. Ker, Medieval Libraries, 16. 46. Cole MS. xxiii, fol. 44. 47. Ibid. fol. 45. 49. Ibid. fol. 121. 50. Ibid. xxiv, fol. 10. 51. Cooper, Annals, i, 161-5. 52. Cooper, Ath. Cant. i, 90. 54. Nichols, Test. Vet. 578 (printed 'Stobs'). 55. See above. 56. Cooper, Ath. Cant. 251.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line889
__label__wiki	0.951535	0.951535	Culture \| Insiders How to use classical music to tell a chef’s story Orchestrating food Text: Adibah Isa Image: Netflix 18/4/17 8:48 am Creator, executive producer and director of Chef's Table David Gelb shares the score that forms the backbone of his highly-successful Netflix documentary Music can shape your entire experience with food, which is why a good soundtrack at a restaurant shouldn't be intrusive or dramatic. Its subtlety is appreciated when you take a pause inbetween courses, or when your fingers scroll through a menu listing dishes you're not able to pronounce. But when food goes behind the scenes through a documentary like Chef's Table (whether in foraging, preparing or plating), the soundtrack is all the more instrumental — especially in a show without a host. Documentary filmmaker David Gelb's career choice was probably written in the stars. When you're born to a father who was a manager of the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (as well as a leader of the Sony Classical Record label) and your mother is a recipe chef and cookbook writer, you're destined for a path in music and food. Which is exactly what the 34-year-old Manhattan-born documentary filmmaker has weaved into his line of work. Catching the eyes of filmmakers and foodies alike with his breakout documentary, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Gelb has continued his love affair with food through three seasons of Chef's Table. To craft sushi master Jiro Ono's story in his first food documentary, Gelb instilled the stylings of Philip Glass and Max Richter. The earlier was employed as a metaphor for Jiro's work ethic — repetitive but escalating. However, for Chef's Table, Gelb used Vivaldi's The Four Seasons: Winter as a dramatic fast and slow build to start each episode — the perfect amuse bouche for the oncoming visual journey. Season four is currently in the works, although he's keeping mum on details during our chat last week at The Warehouse Hotel. The affable character was in town to give a lecture on virtual reality for advertising firm D&AD. Yes, after whetting our appetite with the cinematic stylings of Chef's Table, the director has gone on to film The Possible — the first documentary series to be filmed in virtual reality. Four episodes have already been released and distributed via the Within app, with the fifth premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival next month. Sneaking in a chat amid his packed schedule — which included a trip to Lau Pa Sat for satay, black pepper and chili crab — we speak to Gelb about #foodporn, his love for classical music, and working with Emmy-nominated composer Duncam Thum. You're responsible for inciting lust in your shots of food — be it plating, preparing and finally presenting — what food porn gets you off? For me, I'd like to think of it as food romance and not food porn, because it's more than just the food, it's about the story behind it. I like the emotional context that's behind the food. In Jiro Dreams of Sushi, there's a story about the young apprentice who has to make the egg sushi. He has to cook it over 200 times before they would allow it to be served to the customer. And that's after being in the restaurant for 10 years. Finally when he gets it right, he's moved to tears. The audience thinks of the tears that went into making this piece of sushi. For me, the most beautiful food should have an emotional background to resonate with the audience. What do you think sets Chef's Table apart from other food documentaries? The entire show is built around the character. We're not teaching the audience how to cook, we're teaching why these chefs cook. Is everyone who works on Chef's Table a foodie? On each shoot, we have one day dedicated to shooting food. The food comes in, we do our shots and all of our crew members have chopsticks and knives and stuff on their tool belt. How has the soundtrack of Chef's Table progressed over three seasons? We had a lot of classical music for the first season. We try to adapt the style of music to still feel like Chef's Table, but to help us reveal something about the character of the chef. Alex Atala, for example, calls himself a punk chef. So we used some rock and roll music or electric guitars. It still sounds like Chef's Table but we change the instruments a bit. For Ivan Orkin, we used a lot of jazz music. We felt it was more his style. You're a fan of classical music yourself. Are any of your favourite works incorporated into the show? The opening credits are Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Winter, which is a song I've loved for a long time. It's a piece of music that's in every single episode. In the first season, we used some famous pieces of classical music, and sometimes the music is an original composition. Who's a composer you've worked with? Duncan Thum. For season two and season three, he composes all the music. He's a brilliant composer that I met in college. He's been nominated for two Emmys in a row for Chef's Table. Finally, what do you whip up for yourself back at home? When I'm at home, I usually eat like a monk. I've been cooking vegetarian a lot just to be healthy —because when I work and travel, I eat incredibly heavy meals. I'll usually do a mushroom risotto, using farro instead of rice. I steal a lot of things from the episodes. I have a lot of cookbooks. A very good cookbook is The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters. Read more stories on Netflix. Born in the year of the rooster? 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__label__wiki	0.974827	0.974827	Intense Photos Show What It Was Like As Trump Supporters Took Over The Capitol Trump supporters attempted a coup on Wednesday, demanding Congress overturn the results of the 2020 election. By Kate Bubacz Kate Bubacz BuzzFeed News Photo Director Last updated on January 6, 2021, at 6:41 p.m. ET Posted on January 6, 2021, at 4:12 p.m. ET Bill Clark / Getty Images Trump supporters stand on a Capitol Police armored vehicle as others take over the steps of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress works to certify the Electoral College votes. Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. As Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory, thousands of people have gathered to show their support for President Donald Trump and his claims of election fraud. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Jim Urquhart / Reuters Trump supporters scale the walls of the Capitol building, Jan. 6, 2021. An image of President Donald Trump appears on video screens before his speech to supporters from the Ellipse park by the White House, Jan. 6, 2021. Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. Win Mcnamee / Getty Images A man holds a Trump flag inside the Capitol near the Senate Chamber, Jan. 6, 2021. Olivier Douliery / Getty Images Trump supporters gather outside the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. Trump supporters interact with Capitol Police inside the Capitol building, Jan. 6, 2021. Saul Loeb / Getty Images A US Capitol police officer speaks with Trump supporters inside the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. Roberto Schmidt / Getty Images Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. Trump supporters enter the Capitol as tear gas fills the corridor, Jan. 6, 2021. Trump supporters mob the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. Police with guns drawn point their weapons through a broken window at Trump supporters trying to break into the House Chamber, Jan. 6, 2021. Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag Rep. Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat, and other members take cover as Trump supporters attempt to disrupt the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote, Jan. 6, 2021. US Capitol police officers point their guns at a door that was vandalized in the House Chamber, Jan. 6, 2021. Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol building assemble in the Rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. Trump supporters roam under the Capitol Rotunda after invading the building, Jan. 6, 2021. Trump supporters enter the Capitol Rotunda as smoke fills a corridor, Jan. 6, 2021. A Trump supporter hangs from the balcony in the Senate Chamber, Jan. 6, 2021. A Trump supporter sits at a desk and vapes after invading the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. US Capitol Police detain Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol outside the House Chamber, Jan. 6, 2021. Samuel Corum / Getty Images Trump supporters storm the Capitol following a rally with the president, Jan. 6, 2021. Andrew Caballero-reynolds / Getty Images Supporters of US President Donald Trump gather across from the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. A man surrounded by Trump supporters is seen bleeding from his eye outside the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. A Trump supporter leaves a note reading "We will not back down" in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office in the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. Police officers stand guard as a mob of Trump supporters riot outside the US Capitol building in Washington, DC, Jan. 6, 2021. Police officers in riot gear work to disperse protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building. A pro-Trump mob breaks into the U.S. Capitol. Jim Bourg / Reuters Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump try to enter the U.S. Capitol as they riot. A rioter and supporter of US President Donald Trump struggles with a riot policeman after the protester pushed a line of police outside the Capitol building. Kate Bubacz is the Photo Director for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. Contact Kate Bubacz at kate.bubacz@buzzfeed.com.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line896
__label__cc	0.704062	0.295938	A Tale From Two Cities On the most recent episode of my new show “Cesar Millan’s Dog Nation,” my son Andre and I went down to San Diego and, while we were there, dropped in to help a rescue organization and shelter in Tijuana, Mexico. The two cities are so close that they pretty much touch each other. But they are also very far apart because they’re in two different countries, which did make it a little bit more complicated to film a TV show. Personally, I would love a world without borders of any kind between us — physical, intellectual, or spiritual. But, as a human being, I also have to respect the way that other humans have decided to create borders and divide things up. This is very different from the way dogs do things, though. In fact, when you try to impose this human notion on dogs, it doesn’t end well. I know, you’re probably thinking, “But Cesar — you always say that dogs need rules, boundaries, and limitations. Now you’re saying dogs shouldn’t have boundaries?” Actually, no. A boundary is different because a dog can cross it any time that you give permission. But I’m thinking about the kinds of cases I’ve heard about far too often when a family’s dogs get into a fight. The family’s reaction is to keep the dogs apart at all times after that, creating two separate homes for them out of one. Two dog nations, divided, if you will. But just because the houses are divided it doesn’t mean that the dogs’ sounds and scents don’t fill both. Suddenly, you’ve created for the dogs two rival territories that share a border neither of them can cross. If they weren’t hostile to each other before (hint: they probably weren’t) then they are going to come to despise each other now. In these cases, humans have gone from a negotiable peace between their dogs to a state of war. If they had worked with the dogs, or possibly even just let them back together again, chances are the fight and aggression would be over as long as the humans didn’t hold on to the negative energy and escalate the situation. Working with the dogs to solve the problem is the much simpler solution in this situation. Permanently splitting your house in half complicates your life for years, just like bringing a film crew back and forth across a national border complicates all of their lives. I am glad that we made that crossing though, because one of my goals in doing a “Dog Nation” down there was to show Andre the power of the unconditional love that dogs have for us. When we return that love to them, it inspires us to work together across our borders. The power of that love can remove the walls that we have created. It can also be eye-opening. As Andre told me later, “Going to Tijuana was one of my favorite places, because I saw the harsh realities of what it’s like in a different country and the different epidemics that they have compared to those here in California. I got to study and understand why the rate of stray dogs is 300,000 plus, just in Tijuana alone.” It’s amazing the difference in attitudes that can arise on opposite sides of those walls, and I often wonder which came first — those differences, or the borders. In Nature, the only boundaries are, well, natural — mountains, rivers, oceans. But with determination, anyone can cross them at any time because Nature does not create borders, only obstacles. Obstacles are meant to be overcome, and that was personally my favorite lesson my son learned while doing this episode. As Andre put it, “Getting to see what it was like after you crossed the border and how you had to live and what you did just to survive was to me one of the best learning experiences I could ever have.” I learned how to survive from the best teachers Nature has to offer us: our dogs. And I’m grateful that they gave me the opportunity to go back, be able to cross that border again, and share those lessons with a new generation. Stay calm, and overcome those obstacles! “Cesar Millan’s Dog Nation” airs Friday nights at 9/8 p.m. Central on Nat Geo WILD. PrevPreviousR-E-S-P-E-C-T NextInspired By LoveNext How To Adopt A Dog From A To Z – Cesar Millan Everything You Need to Know About Adopting a Dog If you’re thinking of adopting a Woman’s Emotional Support Dog Comforts Her When She’s Having An Anxiety Attack There are many benefits to having a furry companion by your side. But for some The Real Meaning Of “Dog Nation” The first season of “Dog Nation” is over, although you can still catch it online Cesar Milan Dog Nation A Monumental City Having A Rocky Moment	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line897
__label__cc	0.695589	0.304411	Blog - Torah Insights Multi Layered Festivals - ראה Friday, August 30, 2019 - 1:30 PM Multi Layered Festivals Virtually all ancient cultures had festivals celebrating the agricultural harvest, paying tribute to the bounty of mother nature. Judaism’s ’s three pilgrimage festivals, discussed in this week's Torah portion, capture a far deeper perspective. On the one hand the festivals coincide with the natural agricultural cycle: Passover is a celebration of the spring, Shavuot of the harvest, and Sukkot the completion of the ingathering of the produce. Yet these same agricultural festivals also celebrate historic events that celebrate not nature but rather the miraculous relationship between the Jewish people and G-d. Passover is the commemoration of the miraculous exodus, Shavuot is a commemoration of the Divine revelation at Sinai, and Sukkot is a celebration that follows the Divine atonement of Yom Kippur. To Judaism the natural and the miraculous are not a dichotomy. For nature is not an independent force, but rather it is an expression of the Divine creative power. The Chassidic teachings further elaborate on this idea. The Kabbalah teaches that the physical reality is a mirror of the spiritual reality. Earthly reality is a reflection of heavenly energy. Thus the Jewish agricultural festivals are a multi layered commemoration. They come to celebrate the material bounty of the harvest, but they also celebrate a spiritual harvest, the reaping of the spiritual produce. Passover, celebration of the Exodus, is in the spring. The spring is the time when the wheat begins to ripen, yet it has not matured to the point that it can be harvested and taken home. This holiday is a celebration of potentiality. It is a celebration in anticipation of the ripening produce. The same is true regarding the spiritual growth process. The ten plagues, the exodus, the splitting of the sea, occurred not because the Jewish people were deserving of these incredible miracles; but rather it was in anticipation of the spiritual heights they would achieve in the future, by receiving the Torah and implementing its teachings in their life. The Shavuot holiday, is the celebration of the harvest. Although the wheat is not yet in our home, we nevertheless celebrate the tangible gift of the produce we have been blessed with, which we can now hold in our hands. Likewise, Shavuot is the time when we receive the Torah. While we did not “bring the Torah home” by internalizing its teachings, we have the gift in our hands. We can begin the process of internalizing its teachings and inspiration. And finally, on the holiday of Sukkot, our joy is complete, because the produce has been gathered into our home. It is now ours to enjoy. Just as it is with the produce of the field so too it is with the produce of our spiritual toil and effort. Sukkot is the celebration of the internalization of the Torah. During the months between the giving of the Torah and Yom Kippur, the Jewish people betrayed the Torah by creating the golden calf. Then, on Yom Kippur, G-d forgave them and gave them the second tablets. We realize that our relationship with G-d is unconditional. Even if we stumble we are able to reconnect to the Torah; for at our core, the Torah, our soul and G-d are all one. We realize that the “produce”, the relationship we are creating with G-d, is “in our home”. It has been internalized to the point that it can survive any challenge and overcome any distraction. The produce has been “gathered in”. (Adapted from Lekutei Sichos. Beracha vol. 29) Post a Comment \| Permalink \| 0 Comments Meaning of a Meal - עקב Friday, August 23, 2019 - 10:17 AM Meaning of a Meal “And you will eat and be sated, and you shall bless the Lord, your God, for the good land He has given you”. (Deuteronomy 7:11). Based on the biblical commandment to thank G-d for the food we eat, the sages instituted that we recite four blessings after every meal (at which we eat bread). In these four blessings we cover several themes: in the first blessing we thank G-d for the food. In the second, we give thanks for the land of Israel, the Torah and the covenant of circumcision. In the third blessing we mention Jerusalem, the kings of the house of David and the holy temple, and in the fourth blessing we thank G-d for the kindness he showed us during one of the darkest periods of our history, under Roman rule. As explained in the Talmud: Rav Naḥman said: Moses instituted for Israel the first blessing of: Who feeds all, when the manna descended for them and they needed to thank God. Joshua instituted the blessing of the land when they entered Eretz Yisrael. David and Solomon instituted the third blessing: Who builds Jerusalem, in the following manner: David instituted “…on Israel Your people and on Jerusalem Your city…” as he conquered the city, and Solomon instituted “…on the great and Holy Temple…” as he was the one who built the Temple. They instituted the blessing: Who is good and does good, at Yavne in reference to the slain Jews of the city of Beitar at the culmination of the Bar Kochva rebellion. They were ultimately brought to burial after a period during which Hadrian refused to permit their burial. (Brachot, 48b) Why do we need to mention all this every time we simply want to eat a piece of bread? Why the need to mention so many events in Jewish history, and cover so many themes? Why is it not enough to simply say “”thank you for the piece of bread”? When we eat we are focused on our own needs, on our biological and physical needs. When we eat we are feeding the material, zeroing in on the self-oriented side of self. Therefore, as we conclude the meal we seek to elevate the activity of eating by expanding our perspective. We remind ourselves that we eat not just because we need to survive, not merely because it provides us pleasure and comfort,but rather because the energy and vitality we receive from eating becomes fuel to elevate us to greater spiritual heights. We eat not only for biological survival. Yes, we eat in order to live, but the life we live is part of a greater spiritual calling. We are part of a people who are charged with a mission and purpose, symbolized by Israel and Jerusalem. We are part of a people who have learned to seek out and find the hand of G-d even in the midst of terrible darkness. Specifically when we are focused on the physical aspect of life, when we are engaged in eating our meal, we remind ourselves that we feed our body for the sake of our soul. We remind ourselves that the bread we eat is part of the story of Israel and Jerusalem; part of the mission to transform the earth into a dwelling place for the creator. (Adapted from Olas R’iyah). When You Go on the Road - ואתחנן When You Go on the Road The Shema, the prayer that captures the essence of Judaism, is said by Moses in this week’s Torah portion. Moses commanded the Jewish people to recite the Shema twice every day, “when you lie down'' which is interpreted by the sages to mean in the evening, “and when you get up” which is interpreted to mean in the morning. The words “and when you lie down and when you get up” are subject to a debate in the Mishnah. The sages of the House of Shammai believed that the verse addresses the position of one’s body when one recites the Shema. They explain that one is required to lay down during the recitation of the evening Shema, and stand up during the recitation of the morning Shema. While the sages of the House of Hillel believe that the Shema should be read in any position. As the Mishna explains: Bet Shammai say: in the evening every man should recline and recite the Shema, and in the morning he should stand, as it says, “And when you lie down and when you get up”. Bet Hillel say that every man should recite in his own way, as it says, “And when you walk on the way”. Why then is it said, “And when you lie down and when you get up?” At the time when people lie down and at the time when people rise up. Rabbi Tarfon said: I was once walking by the way and I reclined to recite the Shema according to the words of Bet Shammai, and I incurred danger from robbers. They said to him: you deserved to come to harm, because you acted against the words of Bet Hillel. (Brachot 1:3) This dispute is more than a specific debate about the meaning of the words “when you lie down and when you wake up”. The schools of Shammai and Hillel are debating a fundamental point about the nature and meaning of our relationship with G-d. When reciting the words of the Shema, “Hear O Israel, the L-rd is our G-d the L-ord is one”, we focus on the existence of G-d and our relationship to Him. The House of Shammai believe that in order to experience a connection with G-d we have to cease “walking on our way”, and we have to align our bodies in the position spelled out in the Torah. The Shema, argue the House of Shammai is a time to cease our mundane activities and focus on G-d. The House of Hillel disagree. The House of Hillel believe that the essence of our relationship with G-d is for our connection to permeate all areas of life. If the recitation of the Shema requires aligning the body in a specific way, that would mean that our connection to G-d is reserved for the specific times when we cease from our activities and focus exclusively on G-d. The House of Hillel teach that the Shema should be read “when you walk on the way”, in any position you may be in, without disengaging completely from natural life, while you are engaged in your activities. For the purpose of Judaism, and the calling of the Shema, is to allow the oneness of G-d to affect, inform and sanctify every aspect of our life. (Nishmas Hamishnah) Transformative Words - דברים Thursday, August 8, 2019 - 11:58 AM Transformative Words The fifth book of the Torah opens with no less than nine descriptions of the precise location from where Moses began to speak to the people thirty six days before his passing. As the opening verse of the book tells us: These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on that side of the Jordan in the desert, in the plain opposite the Red Sea, between Paran and Tofel and Lavan and Hazeroth and Di Zahav. The problem with the verse however, is that some of these locations do not exist and some of them that do exist were nowhere near where the Jews were at that time! Rashi addresses this problem and explains that this verse is an example of Moses’s sensitivity and love for the people. Moses intended to rebuke the people for their sins over the previous forty years, yet he did not want to embarrass them, so he concealed the sin and alluded to it by evoking the name of the place which referenced the specific sin. Since these are words of rebuke and he [Moses] enumerates here all the places where they angered the Omnipresent, therefore it makes no explicit mention of the incidents [in which they transgressed], but rather merely alludes to them, [by mentioning the names of the places] out of respect for Israel. But if Moses was concerned about respecting the people of Israel, why then does he, later in the portion, describe some of their sins explicitly and with great detail? If Moses began with a veiled rebuke to protect the dignity of the people, why does he then proceed to speak about the sins directly? One interpretation is straightforward: Moses feared that if he began with an explicit rebuke the people would refuse to continue listening, he therefore began with a veiled rebuke. When he saw that the Jewish people were accepting his words, he realized that he could speak directly and the people would still listen, he therefore continued the speech discussing the sins directly. The Chassidic commentary offers deeper insight. Sin and betrayal is cause for pain and negativity. Yet when a person corrects the sin and heals the betrayal, the experience is transformed. The pain caused by the sin can become a powerful motivator to correct the mistake and strengthen the relationship, fueling a greater bond and passion. Once corrected, the sin is no longer negative and shameful, for it has been transformed into fuel for positivity and growth. Moses began speaking to the Jewish people with veiled rebuke. Those words penetrated their hearts and caused them to return to G-d. At that point there was no need to hide the negative experiences because they had become engines of growth, and a source of tremendous passion and enthusiasm in their relationship with G-d. The first portion of the fifth book is always read just before the ninth of Av, the day of mourning for the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. We can either experience the sadness and pain of the day, or we can transform the pain into motivation and fuel to bring us closer to G-d and to each other. The choice is ours. The Women of Menashe - מטות מסעי Friday, August 2, 2019 - 8:01 AM The Women of Menashe At the conclusion of the fourth book of the Torah the Jewish people were camped at the eastern bank of the Jordan River ready to cross into the promised land. We have reached the conclusion of the story of the five books of Moses. (The fifth book consists of Moses’ repetition of the first four books, there are, however, no new episodes in the fifth book). We would expect the final verses of the fourth book to capture an important story, idea or lesson that would express the culmination of the story of our people. Yet, the concluding story seems trivial, and inconsequential for us today. At the conclusion of the fourth book we read about how the members of the tribe of Menashe approached Moses, concerned about the possibility of the five daughters of Tezelafchad marrying members of another tribe. Earlier in the story, in response to their request, the daughters of Tzelafchod were granted the right to inherit their deceased father’s portion of the land of Israel. If the daughters of Tzelafchad would marry members of another tribe, they would then ultimately pass the inherited land to their own children, the land would then be transferred from their tribe to the tribe of their husbands (as the tribal division is patriarchal), depriving the tribe of Menashe of tribal land. Moses agreed with the members of Menashe, and instructed the daughters to marry within their tribe. The book concludes by telling us that the women did just that: Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah married their cousins. They married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained with the tribe of their father's family. (Numbers 36:11-12) Upon deeper analysis, this episode does, in fact, capture a central theme of the Torah; the story of these five women symbolize the purpose of the Jewish people on this earth. The backstory is as follows: two of the tribes, Reuven and Gad, requested that they be granted land east of the Jordan, outside the borders of the land of Israel. After some discussion, Moses reluctantly conceded to their request and allocated the land east of the Jordan to them. Surprisingly, although they did not request it, Moses also decided to settle half the tribe of Menashe east of the Jordan. Why did Moses split the tribe of Menashe and place half the tribe outside the land of Israel? Moses, explains the Rebbe, was teaching us that our mission is not merely to live a holy and wholesome life in Israel, but rather our task is to spread the holiness of Israel to the rest of the world, to infuse all lands with the holiness of the land of Israel. While Reuben and Gad did not want to enter Israel, Menashe, divided between both banks of the Jordan, had a foot in both worlds. Half the tribe was in Israel, and half the tribe was tasked with expanding the holiness of Israel to foreign soil. More than anyone else in the tribe, The five sisters embodied this message. For while the collective tribe of Menashe lived on both sides of the Jordan, every individual member of the tribe lived either in Israel or outside of Israel. The five daughters of Tzelafchad, however, married their cousins who lived on the other side of the Jordan. Thus they inherited land and settled on both sides of the Jordan, they optimized the Torah’s central purpose: first to create a holy environment in Israel and then to spread that holiness all throughout the earth. We who live outside of Israel must look to these remarkable women for inspiration. Our presence in the diaspora should not be a rejection of the holiness of Israel, as was the attitude of Reuben and Gad, but rather, like the five sisters of the tribe of Menashe, we are tasked with spreading the wholeness of Israel wherever we may be. We too, like Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah live, figuratively, with a foot on either side of the Jordan River. May we succeed in ushering in the era when “G-d will expand your boundaries” (Deuteronomy 12:20) and “the (holiness of) land of Israel is destined to spread to all lands” (Sifri, Devarim). Adapted from the teachings of the Rebbe Lekutei Sichos, Matos Masei vol. 28 Looking for older posts? See the sidebar for the Archive. 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__label__wiki	0.578594	0.578594	Mary Ann Kerwin The Kerwin Family Mary Ann Kerwin and her cofounders of La Leche League International (LLLI) have been dubbed the “Revolutionaries Who Wore Pearls” because these traditional mid-twentieth-century American housewives carved a new path to healthier lives and women’s empowerment throughout the world. Kerwin’s circle of friends started the group in 1956 to encourage breastfeeding mothers in Chicago, Illinois. In 1958, Kerwin coauthored the best-selling book The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, which challenged the pervasive culture that instructed new mothers to ignore their own bodies and bottle-feed their babies infant formula. Triggering an international movement for women to seize control of their own health choices, the organization now serves mothers and babies in more than 70 countries. Kerwin moved to Denver in 1960. She founded the Colorado chapter of LLLI and chaired the group’s international board. Juggling life as a mother of eight, Kerwin traveled the United States and the world advocating for infant and maternal health. She earned her law degree in 1986 at the University of Denver at age 54. Under Kerwin’s leadership, LLLI helped combat efforts to force impoverished women in developing countries to forgo breastfeeding in favor of infant formula, which often was mixed with polluted water. Believing that “never before in the history of the world had a resource as valuable as human milk been so widely discarded,” Kerwin consulted with health experts throughout the world. Today the United Nations views breast milk as one of the most cost-effective tools to combat the health risks of maternal poverty. She and other breastfeeding advocates helped spur an entirely new field of medical professionals: board certified lactation consultants. As a leader of the Colorado Breastfeeding Coalition, Kerwin helped spearhead critical state legislation that, in 2004 and 2008, guaranteed women the right to nurse babies in public and the workplace. This law provided a model for inclusion of breastfeeding rights in the landmark federal health care legislation The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. ← Frances McConnell-Mills, MD Florence Sabin, MD →	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line901
__label__wiki	0.806485	0.806485	Best. Cop Car. Ever. Ariel Atom Enters Police Service in U.K. There’s a British expression that seems particularly appropriate here: cop a load of this. Yes, it’s an Ariel Atom police car, a one-off liveried version of the lightweight special—complete with blue flashing lights—that’s been created for the U.K. police as part of a safety campaign aimed at young motorcyclists. We’ve seen police-spec supercars for years, of course. Just last week, in fact, we brought you news of the latest Lamborghini that’s been drafted in to work with the Italian Polizia. But in terms of raw performance, this Atom 3.5R is in a different league thanks to its combination of a 350-hp supercharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder Honda engine and a claimed 1212-pound curb weight. Ariel claims a 0 to 60 mph time of 2.5 seconds, which has to surely make the Atom PL1 the fastest-accelerating police car on the planet. (A 300-hp supercharged Atom we tested in 2009 weighed 1388 pounds and hit 60 in 2.9 seconds.) Not that the PL1 is going to be used in any sting operations. It will be used mostly at shows and events to promote motorcycle safety, but Ariel boss Simon Saunders is keen to emphasise that the Atom is ready for work, finished in Avon and Somerset Constabulary colours and with a working light unit and rescue equipment. “If a police officer is driving it, then it’s a police vehicle,” he told us from the company’s HQ in Crewkerne, Somerset. “We don’t imagine it will be used for too many pursuits, though.” If it is, then we predict any such pursuits will be over quickly. Saunders says that Ariel was happy to lend the car, as so many of the company’s staff are riders. “Almost everyone here has a motorcycle license,” he said. “It’s fair to say that safety is a subject that’s close to our hearts.” In the U.K., motorbikes make up just one percent of road traffic but account for nearly 20 percent of fatalities. Can’t Spell “1500” Without Five-Oh: Chevy Releases Silverado SSV Police Truck Dodge Charger Pursuit Tested: The Appearance of Absolute Power Smashing Atom: Ariel Atom V8 vs. Large Hadron Collider Saunders admits that police supercars played influenced the decision to create the PL1, but has no doubt that it would be quicker than any of the others. “We’ve seen some of these police specials before, and it we’d be very interesting to have a track test with them. I reckon we’d probably win that one.”	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line904
__label__wiki	0.815579	0.815579	Published: November 1, 2019, 11:22 am Tags: Arts, Men's sports, Celebrity, entertainment, Sports, Men's rugby union, Men's rugby Prince Harry, young Archie send good-luck message to England Britain's Prince Harry reacts during the launch of the UK team ahead of the Invictus Games The Hague 2020, in London, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. The Invictus Games is an international event, created for wounded, injured or sick armed services personnel and veterans to compete in competitive sports. (Paul Grover/Pool via AP) TOKYO – Britain's Royal Family is getting excited about England's appearance in the Rugby World Cup final — even its most recent arrival. Prince Harry has sent a message of support to the England squad ahead of their title match against South Africa in Yokohama on Saturday. Included in the message was a photo of the prince's 5-month-old son, Archie, in an England jersey. "A nice touch," England flanker Sam Underhill said Friday. Harry is a long-standing England fan and a patron of the Rugby Football Union. He will be attending the final this weekend. More AP Rugby World Cup: https://www.apnews.com/RugbyWorldCup and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line906
__label__cc	0.547053	0.452947	press releaseCalBio, Dairy Farmers and Chevron Announce First RNG VISALIA, California, Sept. 24, 2020 – California Bioenergy LLC (CalBio), Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and local dairy farmers today announced their joint venture, CalBioGas LLC, successfully achieved first renewable natural gas (RNG) production from dairy farms in Kern County. The milestone underpins the partners’ commitment to provide affordable, reliable, and ever-cleaner energy to California consumers. Manure storage on dairy farms results in the release of methane, a greenhouse gas. CalBio brings technology and operational experience to help build digesters and methane capture projects to convert this methane to a beneficial use as RNG. CalBio, dairy farmers and Chevron are providing funding for digester projects across three geographic clusters in Kern, Tulare and Kings counties. As they are completed, these projects will mitigate the dairies’ methane emissions and reduce greenhouse emissions from livestock. The dairy biomethane projects are designed to send dairy biogas to a centralized processing facility where it will be upgraded to RNG and injected into local utility SoCalGas’ pipeline. The RNG is then marketed as an alternative fuel for heavy-duty trucks and buses. “The project is the result of efforts of a remarkable range of stakeholders, including the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utility Commission. CalBio also is honored to be supported by a group of California’s dairy farmers, Farm Credit West and Chevron, California’s largest energy company,” said N. Ross Buckenham, CalBio’s CEO. “These projects bring so many win-wins – they help create local jobs, improve local air quality by producing renewable natural gas for use in low-NOX emission fleets, and reduce dairy methane emissions.” With other recent Chevron announcements – such as the Adopt-a-Port initiative with Clean Energy Fuels – this milestone further demonstrates the company’s action areas to increase renewables in support of its business and invest in lower-carbon technologies. “This is an exciting milestone that speaks to the capabilities and can-do attitude of our partners – CalBio and dairy farmers – to bring this RNG to the California vehicle fuels market,” said Andy Walz, president, Chevron Americas Products. “Chevron is increasing RNG in support of our business and is making targeted investments and establishing partnerships, as we evaluate many emerging sources of energy and the role they will play in our portfolio. And as a proud California company, we are pleased that local communities in the state will benefit from this investment.” About California Bioenergy CalBio is a leading developer of dairy digesters for generating renewable electricity and vehicle fuel in California. Founded in 2006, CalBio has worked closely with the dairy industry and state agencies to develop programs to help the state achieve its methane reduction goals while delivering a new revenue source to California dairies. For more information, visit: www.calbioenergy.com Chevron U.S.A. Inc. is a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, one of the world's leading integrated energy companies. Through its subsidiaries that conduct business worldwide, Chevron Corp is involved in virtually every facet of the energy industry. Chevron explores for, produces and transports crude oil and natural gas; refines, markets and distributes transportation fuels and lubricants; manufactures and sells petrochemicals and additives; generates power; and develops and deploys technologies that enhance business value in every aspect of the company's operations. Chevron is based in San Ramon, Calif. More information about Chevron is available at www.chevron.com.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line909
__label__cc	0.737051	0.262949	A publication of AAEA Reduce but Do Not Eliminate America’s Trade and Budget Deficits William A. Ward JEL Classifications: F36, F42, F65, G11, H6 Keywords: Exorbitant Privilege, Trade Deficits, Budget Deficits Citation: Ward, W.A. 2018. "Reduce but Do Not Eliminate America’s Trade and Budget Deficits." Choices. Quarter 1. Available online: http://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/submitted-articles/reduce-but-do-not-eliminate-americas-trade-and-budget-deficits Stating that America’s international trade and federal budget deficits are too big does not mean they should be zero. Both deficits derive in part from the exorbitant privilege (Eichengreen, 2012) reaped by the United States from the Bretton Woods and post–Bretton Woods economic order, the historical development of which is explained in Part 1 below. Each of these deficits has a nonzero, “warranted” level. Part 2 below presents a method for calculating these warranted levels—levels that global economic growth will gift the United States with the exorbitant privilege of never having to repay. The warranted deficit model (WDM) used in this article, shows for the period 2001–2016, America’s warranted trade deficit (WTD) averaged about $199 billion per year, whereas the average actual trade deficit was more than double that amount, or about $527 billion per year. The WTD indicates the level of deficit that is welcomed by the rest of the world and should be welcomed by well-informed American citizens. Other countries need those dollars to hold at their central banks to back their own currencies; as their economies grow they need additional amounts of central bank–held dollars; meanwhile, American citizens should welcome the opportunity this affords for consuming $199 billion of imported goods per year that they won’t have to pay for, as explained by the Babe Ruth check analogy in Part 1. Based on the 5.91% average rate of growth of the rest-of-the-world (ROW) economy – that is, other than the U.S.—during 2000–2016, the model shows America’s WTD for that period averaged 1.47% of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP)—let’s say 1.5% of annual U.S. GDP. As Part 1 explains, there is a reason we call the U.S. trade and budget deficits the “twin deficits.” Because of the twin deficit relationship laid out below, there is a warranted budget deficit (WBD) of about the same size as the WTD; it, too, is welcomed by the rest of the world and should also be welcomed by American citizens as well. Given that the federal budget is about one-quarter the size of U.S. GDP, the WBD for 2001–2016 worked out to be about 6% of the budget (consistent with also averaging 1.5% of GDP) during the indicated period. The WBD represents government services financed from abroad that the United States Treasury (that is, American taxpayers) will never be asked to repay. Meanwhile, as with the actual versus warranted trade deficits, the actual budget deficits were about double the WBD for the indicated period. Part 1. How U.S. Deficits Became Exorbitant Privilege As World War II ended, Maynard Keynes (of the British Treasury) and Harry White (of the U.S. Treasury) devised the Bretton Woods system to keep individual national economies—and thus the world economy—from toppling back into the Great Depression when war-time spending wound down. The agreements negotiated at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944 and approved by the U.S. Congress in 1945 not only created the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, they also put the United States at the center of a new international economic order. That order linked the dollar to gold, while other currencies were indirectly linked to gold via fixed exchange rates with the U.S. dollar. Keynes came up with the idea and wanted the central role for the United Kingdom and its currency, the pound sterling. But White had the clout of the U.S. Treasury (holding roughly two-thirds of the world’s monetary gold at the time) and the U.S. economy (possessing the only major industrial sector not bombed out by World War II) and used that power to grab that role for the United States and the dollar. The rules negotiated at the Bretton Woods Conference severely limited private international financial transactions. They did this so that individual governments could use the new Keynesian macroeconomic management principles to reflate each country’s economy without having their efforts undermined by international currency speculators. Under the Bretton Woods rules, the gold backing of the U.S. dollar made the dollar as good as gold. Fixed exchange rates with other currencies made those currencies indirectly good as gold. From 1945 until the summer of 1971, countries with currencies that remained stable (that is, kept their trade and payments in good order) could exchange their currencies for dollars at the fixed exchange rate and then convert dollars to gold at the fixed price of $35 per ounce, if they wished. Under the Bretton Woods system, a nation’s money supply could grow by acquiring additional claims to the gold in the system—that is, by trade surpluses or by mining gold themselves. A nation could grow its economy, in turn, by (a) expanding their money supply (using one or both of the above two methods), (b) domestic price deflation (having all prices go down together—most effectively by increasing the productivity of the various factors of production [land, labor, and capital]—so that more output was achieved with the same level of inputs and with the same level of money supply), or (c) increasing the “velocity of money”—that is, the rate at which the money supply turns over, which we assume here to be relatively constant (see Higgins, 1978). Global economic growth could occur by increasing the global supply of gold or by adjusting gold’s U.S. dollar price along with all the fixed exchange rates of all the countries in the system. The latter option never occurred as a matter of year-by-year, overt policy. What happened instead was that evolving market and fiscal processes birthed a new reality granting the U.S. the exorbitant privilege of running unrelenting and unrequited trade and budget deficits. The U.S. Marshall Plan, President Johnson’s Great Society, the Viet Nam war, and other U.S. ventures had the unintended effect of accumulating large sums of dollars abroad. A “Eurodollar market” developed—in Europe initially, as the term suggests—and grew from there. Dollars circulated between second- and third-party countries with the only U.S. involvement being to “export” potential foreign central bank reserves (that is, U.S. dollars) to import goods and services. The reality slowly emerged that America would never really have to pay for some of those imports. The reason was that—lacking gold mines of their own—other countries needed the dollars for growing their own trade and, indeed, for stabilizing and growing their own economies. Most of those countries welcomed the U.S. trade deficits. Table 1. Market Price of Gold (USD), 1955–1974 Source: Only Gold, 2018. The leadership of France saw things a bit differently, however. They thought—correctly—that this system gave the U.S. the exorbitant privilege of running trade deficits for free and began demanding gold for dollars at the official price of $35 per ounce—quite a deal, as the price of nonmonetary gold was beginning to rise above that level (Table 1). These and related pressures led President Nixon to rescind dollar-to-gold convertibility in August 1971—and along with it, the indirect gold backing of all the other currencies. Thus, began the 1971–1990s evolution from the Bretton Wood system to the re-globalized world envisioned in the emerging Washington Consensus (see Williamson, 2004). How Dollar Drain Turned into a U.S. Gold Mine Dollars held abroad became the monetary gold of the late 20th and early 21st centuries; the U.S. trade deficits began to function like a gold mine, supplying the liquidity needed for the global economy to grow. As these developments were institutionalized from the 1970s onwards, dollars came to make up the bulk of global central bank reserves ($6.13 trillion, or 63% of the global total of $11.297 trillion at the end of 2017, according to the International Monetary Fund). Gold no longer backed the dollars; trust in the U.S. economy and in U.S. institutions came to provide that backing. Since 1979, the dollar percentage of global reserves has ranged between 50%+ (reaching this low point in 1991) and 70%+ (reaching this high point in 1999) of global total reserves (calculated from IMF, 2017). The euro (introduced 1999–2002) currently makes up 20%; Japan’s yen contributes 4.5%; and China’s renminbi yuan rose to 1.12% by December 2017 (Leong, 2017). Meanwhile, gold makes up only about 15% of global central bank reserves (Leong, 2017). Dollar holdings that are not needed for immediate trade and related transactions are used to buy U.S. Treasury Instruments (notes, bonds) that are issued in financing U.S. federal budget deficits. That way, idle dollars at foreign central banks get to earn a little (risk-free) interest while they sit there backing the local currencies. Recall that U.S. Treasury instruments are the numeraire in Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT)—the canonical risk-free investment from which the risks associated with other investments are assigned interest rate differentials. The dollar’s status as the most-desired reserve currency would evaporate without (a) trust in the U.S. government and (b) the world’s deepest capital markets, in which trust of American institutions is paired with daily liquidity of U.S. dollars and federal debt instruments. This combination makes the exorbitant privilege of annual trade deficits spill over onto an exorbitant privilege of annual U.S. federal budget deficits. Why Good as Gold Is Now Better than Gold The sometimes-idealized globalist era of 1870–1914 (also the “direct” gold standard era) was plagued by recurring deflations and depressions. Gold and silver discoveries could not keep pace with the explosive growth in economic capacity that came with the overlap between the first and the second Industrial Revolutions. Specie shortages were temporarily relieved by South African (1886) and Klondike (1896) gold discoveries and by clumsy U.S. attempts at bimetallism. Nevertheless, specie shortages in the face of rapidly growing productive capacity drove the overall U.S. price level down by half between 1800 and 1900. Along with this century-long general deflation came year-to-year price-level vacillations between +15% and −15% (excluding the +27% inflation during the U.S. Civil War). Also accompanying these price dynamics were five financial panics, roughly equivalent to the Great Depression of the 1930s, about once every two decades (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, and 1893). With dollars good as gold in the post-1970s global political economy architecture, the money supply is not whimsically determined by the insights of geologists or the luck of gold and silver prospectors. Today the supply of global quasi-gold (that is, U.S. dollars) is determined by government management of the U.S. economy and the health of U.S. politics. How Trade Surpluses Became Un-American The global demand for dollars keeps the dollar’s price (exchange rate) high. U.S. companies can compete in export markets and against imports in U.S. domestic markets if they can continually grow their productivity and develop attractive products; companies failing to do those things cannot compete. That is the unavoidable tradeoff that comes with reserve currency, exorbitant privilege status. Armed with the above history, then, don’t be surprised to hear that the United States has not had an annual trade surplus since the mid-1970s. Repeat: Zero U.S. trade surpluses in the past 40+ years. America is NOT (and has not been for nearly five decades) just another international trade competitor seeking to balance trade or run a trade surplus. Americans should forget about trade surpluses or even balanced trade. Instead, America should seek to limit annual trade deficits to the WTD, which can be calculated using the warranted deficit model (WDM) introduced in Part 2. Why Some Foreign-Held Debt Is Like Babe Ruth Checks Foreign central banks hold dollars—today’s quasi-gold—as backing for their own currencies. They convert dollars to U.S. government debt to safely earn interest on their central bank holdings. They increase and then hold onto those dollars and federal debt instruments because they must: Re-globalization and technological advances grow their economic potential just like that of the United States. To avoid unemployment of their own labor and equipment, they expand financial capacity (dollar holdings) as the country’s economic potential grows. Unless the U.S. becomes a fools-play nation, foreign-held federal debt will not be cashed in by foreigners simply because it exists or even because it is “large.” Like the checks that Babe Ruth wrote (autographed) when paying off golf gambling debts, some of that debt is more valuable to hold than to cash in. Far greater risks to America’s economic well-being come from ill-informed political economy solutions. Ditto divisive U.S. politics that destroy the global trust that enables America to still write Babe Ruth checks. Part 2 estimates the deficit boundaries warranted by America’s exorbitant privilege. It also estimates the “overshoot” present in the actual deficits of 2000–2016. Part 2. The Warranted Deficit Model (WDM) Global economic growth requires growth in assets held at national central banks, and the U.S. trade and Federal Budget deficits play the biggest role in supplying those assets for the rest of the world. The WDM contains the following variables: GGDPy = global gross domestic product in year y (for example, GGDP2016); UGDPy = U.S. gross domestic product in year y; RGDPy = rest-of-world gross domestic product in year y, where RGDPy = GGDPy minus UGDPy RGRy to y+1 = growth rate of rest-of-world GDP, year y to year y + 1; GCBR = global central bank reserves; BR%$ = proportion of GCBR held in dollars and/or U.S. Treasury instruments; WTD = U.S. trade deficit warranted by exorbitant privilege and RGRy to y+1 × RGDPy; WBD = U.S. federal budget deficit warranted by exorbitant privilege and RGRy to y+1 × RGDPy. In this model, we hold constant the following relationships: GCBR/GGDP = 16%; (U.S. dollars + U.S. Treasury instruments)/GCBR = 60%; WTD = WBD. The model is specified as follows: (1) WTD = WBD = [RGDPy × RGRy to y+1] × [GCBR/GGDP] × BR%$. Table 2. Data Table for Warranted Trade Deficit and Warranted Budget Deficit Calculations (USD) Notes: The U.S. federal budget was in surplus during 1998–2001. Source: World Bank, 2017. Table 3. U.S. Actual versus Warranted Trade Deficit, (USD) 2000–2016 Source: Calculated from Table 2 data and warranted deficit model. The model states that this year’s WTD equals this year’s growth in rest-of world GDP multiplied by the fixed ratio of global central bank reserves to global GDP multiplied by the fixed proportion of U.S. dollars and federal debt instruments in global central bank reserves. As indicated in Table 2, the rest-of-the-world economy shrank during 2000–2001, 2008–2009, and 2014–2015. Thus, WTD estimates for 2001, 2009, and 2015 in Table 3 are negative. For all other years during the period, WTD estimates are positive. The accumulated U.S. trade deficit warranted by global GDP growth during the period 2000–2016 totaled $3,189 billion ($3.2 trillion). The actual trade deficit undershot the WTD only once (2011) during the period. The WTD calculations suggest that—over a period in which rest-of-world GDP growth averaged 5.91% per year—the WTD for the U.S. averaged about 1.5% of U.S. GDP (calculated above as averaging 1.47% of U.S. GDP annual values). The actual accumulated U.S. trade deficit 2001–2016 was $8,931 billion ($8.9 trillion), resulting in an overshoot of $5,694 billion ($5.7 trillion) with respect to the WTD. The average annual WTD for the period was $199 billion, while the average annual actual trade deficit for 2001–2016 was $527 billion (that is, approximately half of a trillion dollars per year). Thus, the actual U.S. trade deficit was more than double the deficit warranted by rest-of-world GDP growth alone. The model’s presumption that the federal budget deficit equals the trade deficit is best measured over several years rather than for single years (that is, conversions between currency and U.S. Treasury instruments are not necessarily instantaneous). Over the reference period, the actual equality between the two is missed by less than 4% ($9,382 billion of trade deficits versus $9,050 billion of federal budget deficits—Table 2). Summary and Conclusions The U.S. trade and federal budget balances intertwine with the status and health of U.S. markets for capital and currency. The reserve currency status of the U.S. dollar has important effects on these markets, including: Keeping the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar high vis-à-vis other currencies and practically guaranteeing annual U.S. trade deficits; for U.S. firms to be trade-competitive requires extraordinary cost efficiency and/or exceptionally attractive (innovative) products. Keeping U.S. interest rates relatively low, as global demand for U.S. Treasury instruments keeps instrument values high. Recall the math and market principle that interest rates and bond values bear an inverse relationship to each other; low interest rates ease the financing of federal budget deficits. Allowing a portion of federal budget deficits—calculated in the WDM—to never have to be repaid. The United States has the only economy in the world so starkly facing the above situation. Global leadership confers exorbitant privileges, but it also carries obligations that require enlightened management of the U.S. government and the U.S. role in the global economy. Global economic leadership and the exorbitant privilege that comes with it make totally balancing U.S. trade and the federal budget impossible without destroying today’s global economic architecture and the central position of the United States in that architecture. Pass the word. Eichengreen, B. 2012. 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Available online: https://piie.com/publications/papers/williamson0904–2.pdf World Bank. 2017. World Development Indicators. Available online: http://databank.worldbank.org/data/reports.aspx?source=world-development-indicators William A. Ward (waward@clemson.edu) is Professor Emeritus, John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University, Clemson, SC. Acknowledgments: The author thanks the Choices Editors, anonymous reviewers and technical editors. Articles in this theme: Sharon Raszap Skorbiansky, Suzanne Thornsbury, and Kevin M. Camp John Lai, Stephen Morgan, Bachir Kassas, Jaclyn Kropp, and Zhifeng Gao Steven Deller and Jackson Parr Lindsay A. Gaesser, Nako Kobayashi, and Norbert L. W. Wilson 2nd Quarter 2020 Gary W. Brester and Anton Bekkerman Anton Bekkerman, Gary W. Brester, and David Ripplinger Chinonso Ezenwa Etumnu and Nicole Olynk Widmar Peter Richards, Farzad Taheripour, Eugenio Arima, and Wallace E. Tyner A publication of © 1999-2021 Choices. All rights reserved. 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__label__cc	0.593131	0.406869	Contact Us \| Agent Login \| Customer Login Protects and Restores Catastrophic Claims Resilience: A Bocce Ball Court Story For most people, a bocce ball court is just that – a bocce ball court. A flat surface, covered with sand or short grass, an old Italian lawn game. For Tim Esparza, his backyard court was exactly what he envisioned it to be—a destination. The court was a place where neighbors, families and friends would congregate, play and build life-long memories. But after October 8, Tim’s bocce ball court took on even greater meaning. The Tubbs Fire ripped through Santa Rosa overnight, as one of 250 wildfires that devastated California in early October. For the Esparza family, October 8th was a normal Sunday. Their entire weekend was occupied with soccer, as the Santa Rosa City Cup was happening in town. Tim, a soccer coach, was out and about all day while his 10-year-old sons competed in the tournament. When evening came about the family was fast asleep by 9:30 p.m., not even aware a wildfire was in pursuit. Pushed by strong winds, the front of the Tubbs Fire moved more than 12 miles in its first three hours. Their neighborhood – Mark West Estates – was right in its path. “We heard a pounding on the door at 1am from our neighbor, there was a fire coming right at us,” Tim recalled. “The back of our home faces a canyon, and we could see it coming. The fire sounded like a freight train, the sound of exploding propane tanks. It was the scariest sound I’ve heard in my entire life.” Tim had about 15 minutes to get his family together and get out of the house. They gathered what possessions they could, their two sons and their dog. His wife and he split up into two cars, each taking one of their sons. They hit the road south, driving past walls of flames, cars on fire and what Tim described to be a “warzone.” Their evacuation took them from Santa Rosa to Sebastopol, Petaluma to Windsor, as other wildfires threatened the communities. In all, the Tubbs Fire burned 36,807 acres, destroyed more than 5,100 structures and caused the death of 22 people. An employee at Redwood Credit Union, Tim had been an Auto and Home policyholder with Capital Insurance Group for about 10 years. “Our home was engulfed at 3am, and by 8am my agent was texting me my policy,” Tim said. “A few days later I was able to visit CIG’s satellite office and file my claim in person. It was one less thing I needed to worry about. CIG put hope back in a situation where we felt hopeless. We know this is going to take time, but just to know that we’re covered and someone has our back is so reassuring.” Tim and his wife had just completed a five year remodel of their home, which they planned to retire in. “Nobody ever thinks about using their homeowners insurance. Maybe your fence blows down or you need to replace your roof. Not many people have to deal with this kind of catastrophe,” he said. In the days following the fire, Tim was able to return to his home with a neighbor sheriff. The property was completely destroyed, with frames still burning. Through all the rubble, there was only one piece of his property left intact – his bocce ball court. Standing amongst a sea of charred dirt and blackened trees, the court stood magnificent. Every inch of the court, from the brick retaining wall to the terracotta wooden beams, remained intact. The sand base seemed to sparkle in the sun, as did the pickle-colored bocce balls, which were in the same spot as when they were last played. For Tim and his family, and even the debris removal crews, no one could understand why or how the court survived the fire. But it did. “Everything will be built around that bocce ball court,” Tim declared. “That is resilience. If it can make it, we can make it. And that’s the only way I’m able to get through this. I’m teaching my boys about how to deal with adversity. This bocce ball court is just that.” Today, Tim and his family are living in Santa Rosa as they begin to rebuild their home. Special thanks to the entire Esparza family, for sharing their story. Roadside Assistance: Claims Service Center: © 2019 Capital Insurance Group. All rights reserved. A member of the Auto-Owners Insurance Group ℠ CIG Marketing Release 4.0.8 (1)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line912
__label__cc	0.650355	0.349645	Home Conventions WHOA: As San Diego Convention Center decays, expansion plan is shot dead WHOA: As San Diego Convention Center decays, expansion plan is shot dead I can’t say this was unexpected, but here we go again: after the threat of endless legal battles, environmental group opposition, the lack of any real financing plan and perpetual local conflict, after spending $10 million in six years, the planned expansion of the San Diego Convention Center has been killed. KILLED. One of the biggest ironies of the Convention Center expansion’s demise is that this path — the one that has taken six years, cost $10 million and ended in nothing — was considered the least risky. And yet, with one 7-0 vote Tuesday, the San Diego City Council abandoned the effort. The $520 million plan to expand the facility — the biggest construction project on the city’s docket — is now dead. It won’t have to fight off the last environmental litigation from attorney Cory Briggs, who engineered this collapse. It will not pass go. Whoa. The Convention Center expansion was a key in San Diego Comic-Con agreeing to stay in San Diego, and signing a multi-year contract to stay. The planned $520 million project was to have been funded by a hotel tax, but his aced many legal challenges, and opposition to the plan won out. Those in favor of the expansion said it would draw other big shows that the current Convention Center can’t handle, but I’m not sure huge trade shows themselves were a big enough growth area to justify the expense: Now what? : Councilman David Alvarez, who voted against the financing plan two years ago, said he was pleased that his colleagues decided against pursuing an appeal. “We have a new opportunity to move forward with a better project, including a potential stadium site, and engage San Diegans in a citywide dialogue about how to build the best facility possible,” Alvarez said. “The people of San Diego should get a say on whether to fund a convention center expansion, and discuss the size, scope and location of the project that best serves the needs of our city.” Stadium site? Yep, the other problem in downtown is getting a new stadium for the Chargers, and now the idea of a dual use stadium/convention center seems to be dancing in the heads of some—possibly in that big area on the other side of Petco Park. But that would also have to be paid for by someone. And probably not cosplayers. Adding to all the confusion? The Convention Center itself is said to be badly in need of repair: The move to pursue a naming rights deal is fueled by the center’s growing tab for repairs, most notably the need to replace the fabric structure of the upper level Sails Pavilion. “The Sails Pavilion is 25 years old, and its useful life is 20 years, so it’s rotting and likely to fail anytime soon,” said center spokesman Steve Johnson. In addition, the center no longer has the funds to maintain an operating reserve, a concern raised repeatedly by the city’s independent budget analyst. The center is largely self-supporting through the revenues it gets from leasing the bayfront facility, although it does receive an annual city subsidy of $3.4 million, $1.9 million of which goes to the Tourism Authority staffing for booking large conventions. Double whoa. As I’ve covered the convention center story for the last few years the Chargers dilemma has always been bubbling under the surface—Qualcomm Stadium (formerly Jack Murphy Stadium) was built in 1967 and it’s about what you would expect from that era, without any nostalgic value to keep it around. While I’m not an expert in the local politics surrounding this, I’d suspect getting a new stadium will become the new #1 dream project. As for Comic-Con International, it’s current deal is to stay in San Diego throughout 2016. When the extension was originally signed in 2010, it was based on the planned expansion. IN the intervening four years, the big show seems to have taken many steps to deal with its constrained facilities. For a long time, the biggest problem facing the con was finding a way to increase revenue with ticket sales at a finite level. They seem to have found ways to grow with more sponsorships and spreading out to the nearby hotels. I never got around to writing my SDCC 2014 final report, but it was obvious to me that things had been scaled back this year, some things internally, some things externally. I don’t think the expansion plan failing was unforeseen by anyone involved with Comic-Con. And like Mark Evanier, I can’t see San Diego not being in San Diego. 130,000 people it will be. Only so many people can go to the Super Bowl or the Oscars of the Westminster Dog Show. There can be endless crowds milling around the Gaslamp district, but even that seemed to lose a bit of luster what with the Zombie Walk hit and run. It’s likely that we’ve just reached the size that things are going to be for the foreseeable future. In some ways, I’m glad to hear the expansion won’t go through. The outdoorsy area behind whe center added a nice natural seaside feeling, and as shown by this years Simpsons display and Gotham zipline, it can still be put to very good use. In the meantime, perhaps that decaying roof is our new ticking time bomb. SDCC '15 Previous articleKibbles ‘n’ Bits 8/27/14: Hulk statue ahoy! Next articleSPX announces programming Charles Rozanski 08/27/2014 10:08 am At 10:08 am I began advocating for a longer duration (7-10 days) for the convention several years ago. I have no idea if San Diego has any consecutive weekends available any time soon, but if they do that would be a far less expensive way of allowing more fans to experience the show. Over the years, I have spoken with dozens of my fellow exhibitors about this idea, and have yet to find a single one who objects. All agree that spreading our costs of travel and setting up at the show over more revenue days, would actually be quite beneficial. joey 08/27/2014 12:54 pm At 12:54 pm San Diego needs to address the Stadium issue with the Chargers or there is a very real possibility the league will help move the team to LA or Orange County (who are already part of that NFL TV Market). LA was planning on building a multi use stadium/convention space as well but without a team it stalled. The NFL is all about having great, new stadiums especially for a Superbowl hosting cities and San Diego needs to be in that business. The NFL brings a LOT more $$ to the city and local businesses than conventions do. chris 08/27/2014 1:18 pm At 1:18 pm Joe – there is very little evidence to support building stadiums for professional sports teams. The money returned just isn’t actually there. Bruce Lidl 08/27/2014 1:44 pm At 1:44 pm I had a much longer response get wiped out by a bad connection, but I would just agree with Heidi and chris. I really can’t see SDCC moving from San Diego, especially as they are doing some interesting things to expand beyond the convention center. I moved from San Diego in 2012, so I’m not up on the details, but I sincerely hope the Chargers don’t get taxpayers to pay for their new stadium. It never ends up paying off for the community, and that franchise simply doesn’t deserve it, imo. David 08/27/2014 1:49 pm At 1:49 pm San Diego needs both. It would probably go bankrupt faster if the chargers left more so than Comic-Con but the financial effects of either one leaving would be dire. Extending the con for 7 days isn’t an option for many exhibitors. When you look at the short term cost, most already lose money with the exceptions being a Hasbro or Mattel. Asking them to fund more for publicity’s sake would drive too many companies, CCI relies on, away. The 4 day pass is going away and single day prices going up. That’s the world we’re going to live in for the foreseeable future and it’s a bit sad that it will still thrive under those conditions. CCI had offers for much cheaper expenses from cities like LA, Vegas, and Anaheim but they chose to stay in San Diego. They’re committed to riding through this storm and hopefully the city will get its books in order to keep the show there because there’s only so much anyone can take before they hit their breaking point. The Beat Herself 08/27/2014 3:34 pm At 3:34 pm Chuck R: You do realize that expanding the shoe by days would add so much in hotel and other expenses that any gains would be wiped out, right? I never NEVER spoken to ANYONE in favor of this! I guess we run in different circles. That said, pretty much anyone who has a major entertainment booth is there from Saturday/Sunday to the following Monday/tuesday anyway. I think SDCC will remain a unique amazing experience and other venues will add their own niche experiences like Movie Con and SXSWi. Jamie Coville 08/27/2014 7:18 pm At 7:18 pm Hmm.. so what are they doing with that hotel tax they’ve been charging me (and everybody else that’s been in a hotel) for the last few years? They aren’t using it to expand the convention centre and if it was an ‘illegal’ tax are they going to refund us? Maybe a class action suit is needed? My understanding was that San Diego signed the last agreement under the understanding the city was going to expand the convention centre. I don’t know if that’s actually in the contract, but if so I hope they sue the city for all the lost revenue that a non-expanded convention centre will cost them. In short, I wish it were really, really, really more expensive to the city to cancel the convention centre expansion than it would be to go through with it. IMO multimillion dollar making NFL football teams should not be getting public money. Wayne Beamer 08/28/2014 1:18 pm At 1:18 pm Heidi: About the non-funding of SD Convention Center improvements: Told you so… Cameron 08/28/2014 3:04 pm At 3:04 pm I’m not sure how I feel about this news. Pros and cons either way. Im not sure leaving San Diego all together is a viable option since no matter where it goes it will just be considered that city’s Comic Con. Most cities these days have a comic con of sorts already. I think SDCC will end up raising the price significantly per ticket to cover the loss of growth that is had the potential of gaining. SDCC brings in $163,000,000 to San Diego every year (at least) hope they realize what that could mean if they lose SDCC Chris Thorne 08/28/2014 5:39 pm At 5:39 pm Mr. Rozanski – All of this talk about whether or not to have 4-7 day cons is a moot point for you and your business cause you are pulling out of SDCC anyway right? You can’t make any money there. How is spending even more time and lodging costs for you and your team make the show more affordable? The city council is listening to the people that elected them and those people love sports. SDCC is not about sports and they don’t want to spend money on things at they can’t watch on TV. SDCC should stay in SD, the Gaslamp is a very unique area that cannot be replicated in Anaheim, LA or Las Vegas. I have been to all three places for shows and SDCC is the best, because of the Gaslamp. I hope it stays, but if there is more money to be made for SDCC I am sure they will leave and if they do, Comic-Con will deteriorate…In my very humble opinion. Joshua Starnes 08/29/2014 12:41 pm At 12:41 pm I’d suggest the one big difference between San Diego and events like the Westminster or the Oscars is that they also have extensive television rights with much to make money off of people who can’t physically attend, something Comic Con has never been able to fully capitalize on, nor am I sure they’re able to as groups like The Nerdist have fully staked out that ground. EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: The hunt for Lancelot continues in ONCE & FUTURE... DC ROUND-UP: The Future State Week 2 Roundtable talks JUSTICE LEAGUE,... Ubisoft developing open-world STAR WARS game	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line913
__label__cc	0.55386	0.44614	Members' Publications ccc.anthropocene.org@gmail.com 24th & 25th February, 2016 Screenings of Works by Wang Libo 24/2/2016 (Fri) 7:30pm at Green Wave Art China \| 2016 \| 128mins \| Chinese and English subtitles The experience and reflections of a Red Guard. Director's Statement Every time after a political disaster, most people are turned into victims of the disaster. The Individual actions of the victims in the disaster are always overlooked. These overlooked actions permeate the entire process of the disaster. The entire process of the disaster turns most people into victims of the disaster. In every political disaster... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14:30 at Hong Kong Baptist University The film records interviews with numerous witnesses of the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake as a way to investigate the prediction and non-disclosure of the prediction proceeding to disaster. It also exposes the same disregard for procedure that again let to the tragedy of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake. Director's Statement: The 1976 Tangshan Earthquake left the world with many unanswered questions. Before the earthquake, seismologists and quake experts in Beijing had already warned of an imminent quake. But in the end more than 240,000 people had to pay with their lives, causing a shocking tragedy of massive proportions. Why did this happen? In the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake about 100,000 people were killed. Faced with terrible quakes, the human race repeats tragedy time and time again. It is terrible that people can only offer money and bland tears after the disaster - when better preparation could have saved lives. A people has to courageously face it's own weaknesses; only then is there room for progress. 25/2/2016 (Sat) 6pm at Hong Kong Baptist University Oh! The Three Gorges The Three Gorges Dam was the world's largest hydro-electric power water conservancy project. In 2010, the dam's water level reached 175 meters, that is, its maximum capacity. Emerging at the same time were a host of other problems: population relocation, geological disaster, environmental harm, problems of sourcing sustainable operation costs... As an individual citizen grown up during such a period of transition and transformation in China, I hope to exercise my right to know and mu right to discourse, both legally granted to me by the Constitutions, and approach the issues of the Three Gorges Dam as a citizen should be able to. What are the responsibilities and rights of an individual? What are the responsibilities and authority of a state government? Co-organisers: (in random order) Green Wave Art Ying E Chi Visible Record Cinezen Li Xianting Film Fund Steering Committee for Contemporary Chinese Culture and the Anthropocene Research Consortium ©2017 by Steering Committee for Contemporary Chinese Culture and the Anthropocene Research Consortium. Proudly created with Wix.com	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line915
__label__wiki	0.72829	0.72829	Leah Remini > Leah Remini Lands Own Reality TV Show On TLC By Nick Hill in Movies / TV / Theatre on 06 March 2014 Follow Leah Remini The former 'The Kings of Queens' actress will have a show depicting her family life in their Los Angeles home, as well as featuring one or two colleagues. Picture: Leah Remini - 2014 UNICEF Ball presented by Baccarat at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel Four Seasons Hotel - Los Angeles, California, United States - Tuesday... Leah Remini could become television's next big reality TV star. The 43 year-old, who will feature in a 12-episode series, starts production for the new show today (Wed 5th March). Deadline reports, the series is expected to focus on her family life in Los Angeles. A "spotlight" will be put on her husband Angelo, who is a devoted father to their nine year-old daughter Sofia, and is in charge of running the family's dinner. Other family members who will appear in the show are Remini's stepfather, Mother, sister and brother-in-law. The cast rounds off with Sofia's nanny, who is from England, and her personal assistant whose dream job is an actress, she should be ecstatic about this opportunity then! "Leah is a no-nonsense, hardworking, relatable mom, wife, daughter, and sister. Her sharp humor and unfiltered family are a perfect match for the network," TLC GM Nancy Daniels said in statement, announcing the project. "This series continues our focus on creating compelling series about remarkable families, using heart and humor to anchor it to the TLC brand," she added. This isn't the first time the former 'King of Queens' star has entered the world of reality TV. Although it was a completely different format, the actress appeared on the 17th season of 'Dancing With The Stars' and finished in fifth place. Remini hit the headlines in summer of last year (2013) due to her walking out of the Church of Scientology. Over a week ago, she told BuzzFeed, "I don't want to be known as this bitter, ex-Scientologist." Adding, "I'm not trying to bash anybody and I'm not trying to be controversial. I just want people to know the truth." So if anybody is interested, tune into the reality show, which is eyeing up a summer premiere, to find out more on why Remini chose to leave the controversial religion Scientology. Remini's family life will be the focal-point of the series Leah Remini praises Thandie Newton Leah Remini issues Scientology warning following Danny Masterson charges Leah Remini Says Scientology Wanted Her To Recruit Kevin James Leah Remini Aiming For A Federal Investigation Into Scientology With Second Docuseries 'It's For The Victims': Leah Remini Blasts Scientology In Documentary Series Leah Remini Says Katie Holmes' Statement Nearly Made Her Cry Leah Remini Gives Sensational Interview About Scientology Leah Remini 'excited' about Scientology book Leah Remini Writing Scientology Tell-all Leah Remini's Daughter Baptised After Leaving Scientology Leah Remini Still Dealing With Pain And Anger From Scientology Split Leah Remini: 'Best Thing' about Scientology exit is the alcohol Leah Remini Credits Jennifer Lopez With Newfound Spirituality	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line919
__label__wiki	0.500695	0.500695	IT disaster recovery, cloud computing and information security news In a remote work world, it’s time to move past VPN In the initial rush to rapidly increase remote working as a business continuity measure to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic many organizations deployed an expansion of their Virtual Private Network (VPN). However now is the time to consider better solutions says Brad Peterson. Organizations worldwide had to scramble to accommodate the massive switch to remote work that the pandemic necessitated. IT teams worked overtime to ensure workers had the hardware and software they needed to keep working and maintain business continuity. This seems to have worked well in the short term, but long-term concerns about security and productivity remain. One of the tactics many organizations deployed was an expansion of their Virtual Private Network, where users leverage a secure tunnel from their PC to access the corporate data center, in response to the pandemic. But VPNs aren’t always secure, and they can lead to bottlenecks that negatively affect performance. A better solution for enabling secure end user computing is needed, and the answer resides in the cloud. Latency and scalability issues For a long time now, IPSec VPN technology – provisioned by the IT team – has been a solution for enabling remote work, but it won’t suffice for the long term in today’s digital world. When users are traveling or need to work from home, employees can use their corporate-owned device to establish a secure network tunnel back through their VPN to the corporate data centers and then access the apps and data running on servers. The quality of this experience depends greatly on the latency and the bandwidth of the remote connection. People are able to work, though with a compromised experience that may reduce productivity. Latency is a common issue with VPNs. Another issue is the lack of scalability, which has become a priority in recent months. VPNs were provisioned for the use case where maybe five percent of people are working remotely. This means VPNs suffer from significant scalability and agility limitations. The technologies instead hinder enterprise growth in relation to what’s possible today with alternative approaches. In addition, the amount of infrastructure required to support 100 percent of your employees using the corporate stack of VPN concentrators for remote work is exceedingly expensive, and that is even if you can find inventory to order. Then there’s the security issue. It’s already difficult to manage updating and patching corporate PCs with the latest security updates, even when the PCs are on-premises. IT and security leaders are acutely aware that a single unpatched PC can put the entire company in jeopardy. However, this risk increases by an order of magnitude when PCs are remote and connected to the data center / centre via a VPN. The ability to patch PCs becomes more difficult because the PC may be offline, or it might not be connected to the corporate network. In addition, updates can be interrupted mid-stream more frequently when they are remote. Cloud VPN, also known as VPN-as-a-Service, has also entered the marketplace, but it still suffers from many of the same issues of traditional VPN. Cloud desktops: three benefits As they demonstrate their ability to overcome standard VPN drawbacks, cloud desktops, Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) and cloud-based VDI are quickly gaining traction in the market. In fact, Gartner analysts predict a growth of 95.4 percent for DaaS by the end of 2020, rising to $1.2 billion. This stands to reason, as organizations continue to look for cost-effective ways to support the onslaught of remote workers and to make access to enterprise applications secure across multiple devices and locations. Since cloud desktops are centralized in a secure cloud and data does not reside on endpoints, they offer better security. They often use encrypted proxied connections to ensure security, with no virtual network tunnel. VPNs create security concerns because they do not regulate access to an organization’s applications, but only to its network perimeter. Conversely, large-scale cloud services providers offer more options for secure access. ESG’s Are Desktops Doomed? report found that almost 8 in 10 organizations believe VDI or DaaS is more secure than traditional desktops, and 39 percent of respondents said DaaS improved security by keeping sensitive data off devices. The research firm also found that in terms of making the case for investment in VDI or DaaS, security and compliance was the second-highest justification, after greater IT efficiency. Traditional VDI had scalability issues, but today’s modern DaaS/cloud desktop options have vastly improved upon this. If an organization wants to add more users, it’s now possible to simply add more licenses. In most cases, users can be added in minutes and everything scales automatically. Organizations can also expand their footprint to one or more new cloud regions and move some users to different cloud regions as needed. And once cloud set-up is complete, it is relatively easy and quick to expand to new use cases. Cloud equips business for the long haul Remote work was an initial quick fix until employees could return to the office. But months later, there’s no obvious end in sight. Organizations that already had infrastructure in place had to address the challenge of scale, and those that had little to no remote work infrastructure had to cobble together a system. Companies that chose VPN have often been disappointed by poor performance and scalability. And in the rush to change, security may have been overlooked. But now that cloud desktops are available, organizations don’t have to make the difficult choice between performance and security. Cloud desktops provide a high-quality experience for uses at a lower cost than VPN, and with greater security and scalability. Even when the powers that be give the ‘all clear’ to return to headquarters, remote work will remain an option for most organizations. Cloud desktops are a short- and long-term option. It’s a sound long-term business play, then, to transition to an agile solution that helps organizations navigate a world fraught with risk. Brad Peterson is vice president of marketing, Workspot. Brad leads marketing strategy and operations for the company’s vision of securely delivering desktops, workstations and apps via Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Previously, Brad was Vice President of Marketing at DocuSign (IPO), the global leader in eSignature and Digital Transaction Management. Before DocuSign, Brad worked with Citrix for almost a decade where he built the global EBC program, produced solutions videos driving millions in pipeline, and was a regular keynote speaker for Citrix and partner events globally. Brad joined Citrix in 2004 through the acquisition of Net6, where he relocated to the Citrix EMEA headquarters in Switzerland and launched the new security appliance business over a two-year period to a $30M run rate. Brad has also held executive roles at Net6 (acquired by Citrix), Octane (acquired by E.piphany), BayStone (acquired by Remedy) and Auspex (IPO).	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line921
__label__wiki	0.593438	0.593438	Sliced okra Okra, also known as lady's finger, bhindi (Hindustani) and gumbo, is a flowering plant in the mallow family (along with such species as hollyhocks, cotton and cocoa) valued for its edible green fruits. The fruits are harvested when immature and eaten as a vegetable. In Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Yemen, and other parts of the eastern Mediterranean, okra is widely used in a thick stew made with vegetables and meat. In Indian cooking, it is sauteed or added to gravy-based preparations and is very popular in South India. In the Caribbean islands, okra is cooked up and eaten as soup, often with fish. In Haiti, it is combined with rice and maize and also with meat for sauce. It became a popular vegetable in Japanese cuisine toward the end of the 20th century, served with soy sauce and katsuobushi or as tempura. It is used as a thickening agent in gumbo. Breaded and deep fried, okra is served in the southern United States. The immature pods may also be pickled. Okra leaves may be cooked in a similar manner as the greens of beets or dandelions. The leaves are also eaten raw in salads. Okra seeds may be roasted and ground to form a non-caffeinated substitute for coffee. As imports were disrupted by the American Civil War in 1861, the Austin State Gazette noted, "An acre of okra will produce seed enough to furnish a plantation of fifty Negroes with coffee in every way equal to that imported from Rio." Okra forms part of several regional 'signature' dishes. Frango com quiabo (chicken with okra) is a Brazilian dish that is especially famous in the region of Minas Gerais. Gumbo, a hearty stew whose key ingredient is okra, is found throughout the Gulf Coast of the United States and in the South Carolina Lowcountry. The word "gumbo" is based on the Central Bantu word for okra, "kigombo", via the Caribbean Spanish "guingambó" or "quimbombó". It is also an expected ingredient in callaloo, a Caribbean dish and the national dish of Trinidad & Tobago. Okra is also enjoyed in Nigeria where okra soup (Draw soup) is a special delicacy with Garri(eba)or akpu. Okra oil is a pressed seed oil, extracted from the seeds of the okra. The greenish yellow edible oil has a pleasant taste and �odour�, and is high in unsaturated fats such as oleic acid and linoleic acid. How much does one cup of okra weigh? Estimated US cup to weight equivalents: Ingredient US Cups Grams Ounces Okra raw 100 grams 4 ounces Conversion notes: Every ingredient has a cups to ounces or grams conversion table. Search for the ingredient, cup to weight conversions are at the end of each ingredient page. We also have a generic conversion table and a portions per person lookup. Other thickening agents Chicken and Sausage Gumbo Find recipes that contain 'Okra' #okra #soysauce #portionsperpersonlookup #rice #pickled #sauteed #katsuobushi #maize #deepfried #otherthickeningagents #indiancooking Retrieved from "https://www.cookipedia.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Okra&oldid=257725" Page modified 17:13, 3 July 2020.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line922
__label__wiki	0.756227	0.756227	Elvis's 40 Year Reign (1968) Review: The Jungle Book (and a brief history of 3D films) Believe it or not, the very first 3D movie of any sort was a film called “The Power of Love.” No it didn’t star Huey Lewis and the News. It was a silent film from 1922 and was the first to use the famous “red and blue glasses” technique. In the years that followed, various studios and theater chains looked into ways to make the effect a mass market success, but at least in the early days of cinema, the medium never caught on. It wasn’t until the post-war 1950’s that, with a booming economy, ticket buyers and cinema operators were willing to pony up the money needed to embrace the gimmick. 1953’s House of Wax is a famous one, narrated by Vincent Price it is considered the grandfather of the “3D horror film” genre. Pairing the “in your face” technology with jump-scares and monsters was a perfect marriage and allowed the 3D format to become a niche for a generation of movie goers. Even Alfred Hitchcock got in on the action, with his 3D release of Dial M for Murder. But for the most part, 3D was seen as a B-movie gimmick, and not something to be attached to “serious” films from “serious” filmmakers. By the end of the 50’s the format was considered a dying fad and most were done being impressed by the red and green-tinted thrills. A few art films continued to use the medium throughout the 1960’s but generally speaking it was a dead gimmick until the 1970’s, when Stereovision developed the anamorphic film strip, which allowed dual film images to be overlayed to display an impressive 3D picture. It still required two-color glasses, but the effect itself was much sharper and more…I dunno…realistic? Are we really going to call Jaws 3D realistic? Alright. It was still a gimmick though, and still expensive for both theaters and ticket-buyers, so the resurrected format once again died a death by the mid 1980’s. As it did, however, IMAX begin experimenting with its own 3D film business, IMAX used the medium mostly for nature movies as Hollywood was not ready to embrace the IMAX format any more than they were ready to (re)embrace 3D. You could still find the technology being used in theme park attractions though; and though the novelty of it was still there, the cost was too great at the time to be added to cinemas across the country. It wasn’t until 2004 that Hollywood began to see potential dollar signs in the medium. Robert Zemeckis released The Polar Express to both standard theaters and “IMAX 3D” chains. Even though IMAX only had a handful of 3D capable screens at the time, the 3D box office receipts (and higher ticket prices) accounted for nearly a quarter of the movie’s revenue. Hollywood and movie theaters simultaneously realized a new market was available and immediately began developing 3D movies and 3D-capable theaters. But Hollywood is nothing if not frugal. Instead of filming movies in full 3D (which would require expensive and cumbersome cameras), most films were shot in basic 2D and then converted to 3D, either entirely or on select moments in the picture. The first major 2D-converted movie was Superman Returns (2006), which featured the opening credits and the airplane rescue (so basically the two best scenes of the movie) in 3D. Avatar is of course the one everyone thinks of when it comes to this new generation of 3D movies. The film grossed over 2 billion at the box office and was basically marketed as an “event” film, whose 3D effect (the movie was actually shot in 3D) was worth the bump in ticket prices. After decades of competing with the home video market, Avatar showed Hollywood that people—record numbers of people—could still be convinced to shell out extra money to go to the movies. But Avatar was an expensive movie. It cost around 300 million dollars to produce, and again, Hollywood is nothing if not frugal. Thankfully for them, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland was released a year later and though it was filmed in 2D, it was entirely converted to 3D, and even though it was not that great of movie, it grossed over a billion dollars (due largely to the price hike that 3D allowed). If Alice in Wonderland could make that much money (on a traditional Hollywood blockbuster budget of $200 million) then so could all the blockbusters. And so we have the modern age of 3D movies. Unfortunately, few are worth the price hike. The problem is, at the theater I usually frequent, the biggest and best screen is also the 3D screen, which means I’m stuck paying extra to see movies that don’t need 3D, aren’t filmed with 3D in mind, and don’t use the 3D gimmick properly. Even a big blockbuster like Batman v Superman barely deserved to be in 3D. For the most part, it’s simply a gimmick to bring in more money to studios. But every now and then, a movie comes along that totally makes the 3D effect worth it. Let’s talk about The Jungle Book. Disney has been in a bit of a remake mood lately (go figure, right). They did the aforementioned Alice in Wonderland (which is getting a very trippy-looking sequel later this year), and also Cinderella. They have Beauty and the Beast and Pete’s Dragon on the way, as well as adaptations of Dumbo (which is sacred ground, if you ask me) and Pinocchio all on the distant horizon. Was there anything wrong with the 1967 Jungle Book animated feature? Nope, and there was nothing wrong with Beauty and the Beast either. But I’m okay with Disney doing live action adaptations of their animated library. There’s something special and immersive about seeing the childhood “cartoons” you grew up with re-imagined in a real-world setting. The movies—when done right—tend to have more gravitas and more of an epic quality (this movie certainly did). What I don’t like is when they put an unnecessary spin on the story, like Disney did with the so-called Sleeping Beauty adaptation, Maleficent. So as I awaited the start of The Jungle Book (by sitting through the same obnoxious commercials and “please recycle your 3D glasses” videos I’ve seen a hundred times this year), I worried that the temptation would be to move this movie too far away from the “source” material. And I don’t mean the original Kipling story. That novel will see see a more traditional and faithful adaptation from Warner Bros in 2018 (who else but Disney’s perpetual rival to try and out-Jungle Book the House of Mouse). No, when I say “source” material, I mean the 1967 animated motion picture. Never fear, Disney fans, the studio did not give in to the temptation to go grim and gritty with their tale. They didn’t shoehorn in an unnecessary prologue, or add a pointless side story to give the move more of a “relatable” (as studio executives might think) human presence to the movie. There are changes, yes, but overall this is exactly what it promised to be when the first trailer hit: It’s a live action adaptation of Disney’s animated classic—complete with songs!—that is epic in scope, gorgeous to behold, intense in its action scenes, warm and funny, and “serious” only in that it never becomes a parody of itself. It takes itself seriously without forgetting that it’s about talking animals and a boy raised by wolves out in the jungle. The cast is perfect, especially Idris Elba as the menacing Shere Khan. Even though he’s played many good guys on film, his voice lends itself very well to a villain and his growling vocals are sure to be the stuff of kids’ nightmares (which is good; movie scares build character in kids). Surprisingly, however, in terms of terrors, Khan might have been upstaged, of all parts, by King Louie. In the 1967 movie, Louie was a scat talking, jazz playing “villain” in name only. He was barely a fright for kids. But in this movie, played by Christopher Walken, he’s a tough-talking, intimidating mob boss. The fact that he provides the movie with one of its two songs is a strange choice, but seeing him sing the song turned what sounds like a fun moment into a tense and creepy situation. Bill Murray doesn’t sound like you would imagine a giant talking bear to sound, and he’s nothing like Phil Harris from the original animated movie, but once you hear him in the context of this film, you’ll see why he was perfect for the role of the lovable Baloo. His laid back, sarcastic delivery is right at home with the lazy old bear. Director Jon Favreau clearly has an affinity for the 1967 original, as several shots are faithfully recreated. Here, just look: Special appreciation is owed to Neel Sethi, who plays Mowgli. Other than a few seconds here and there, Sethi is the only human we see in the whole picture. The computer-generated animation is so good, you forget you’re not seeing real tigers, panthers, bears and monkeys. In fact, the whole jungle was built entirely on sound-stages and not a single shot was on location anywhere. Almost everything but Mowgli is computer-created, and though the nine-year-old actor had muppets (courtesy of Jim Henson Studios) and other reference points to work off of he still was tasked with carrying the on-set acting of the picture on his shoulders. Not only is the CG animation flawless and seamless but Sethi’s interactions with it is likewise seamless. If I had to nitpick anything, I’d say it’s a little weird that there are only two songs in the movie and neither are heard until a good hour into the picture, and both happen within a thirty minute span. They kind of come out of nowhere, in other words. But they are very much “Jungle Book” songs. They fit the picture to a “T” and are sure to put a smile on your face. They serve to lighten the mood after some tense scenes (in the case of the first song) and really creep you out, in a good way (in the case of the second song). But that’s a very minor nitpick and barely worth mentioning. Really, this film is nearly perfect. As for the 3D, it has perhaps the best usage of the format since Avatar, and in this case, it actually has a good film underneath the gimmick. Unlike other movies, that feel the need to fill the screen with particle effects and “pop out” visuals, this movie uses the feature to add depth to the picture. From the very first scene, as the camera moves away from the beautiful, hand-drawn animated “Disney castle” (sort of) to the heart of the jungle, the vast landscape feels wholly alive. It’s stunning at first, and though you get used to it after awhile, as you start getting into the movie, every now and then you are treated to a shot that looks like you’re staring out a window to a world that stretches for miles. Amazing work for an amazing movie. 10/10 – There’s nothing I’d change. Brilliant film. Must see. 3D moviesAdventure MoviesDisneyDisney RemakesFamily MoviesJungle Book paidimartinez Everret All of the 3-D features, shorts, and cartoons exhibited in commercial theaters from 1952 through 1955 were projected using polarized light. The glasses had colorless lenses exactly like today’s major 3-D films: http://www.3dfilmarchive.com/home/top-10-3-d-myths Reply to Everret Zootopia Review: Animal racism and a skunk butt rug Inside Out and the Joy of Sadness \| July 5, 2015 Peanuts Review: Go fly a kite, Charlie Brown Goosebumps Review: Stop calling it Jumanji	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line924
__label__wiki	0.906468	0.906468	Deborah Hopkinson loves bringing history to life for young readers By Jessica on September 5, 2012 author interview, picture books “There’s something wonderful about reading a book when you’re a child. Sometimes, in your memory, it’s almost as if you were there yourself.” —Deborah Hopkinson Deborah Hopkinson loves history. That’s why she writes about it. Kids are fascinated by it, too, she says. “I think children are curious by nature, and if you don’t tell them that history is supposed to be ‘boring,’ they’ll naturally be interested,” Deborah told Cracking the Cover. “Historical fiction is one of my favorite genres. I think all of us sometimes wonder what it would be like to live in another time and place. Or we can admire the courage of someone like Helen Keller and imagine what we would do when faced with the same incredible challenges.” Students are frequently drawn to high-interest topics like the sinking of the Titanic, Anne Frank or Helen Keller, but Deborah says those subjects can become springboards to all sorts of events from the past. “I think that the younger that children are introduced to history and how much fun it can be to explore the past, the more prepared they will be for academic studies,” she said. Deborah, who has penned some 30 books, wanted to be a writer since she was 10 years old, but it’s not her full-time job. She currently serves vice president for advancement at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland. “While having two careers is challenging, it’s also given me amazing opportunities to serve my community,” she said. The author’s newest book, “Annie and Helen,” comes out on Sept. 11. The book focuses on the relationship between Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller. Deborah her children were fascinated by Helen Keller, and when a photo of Helen Keller with her doll was recently rediscovered, Deborah decided it was time to look at their story with new eyes. “Annie’s process of discovering how to teach Helen is amazing,” Deborah said. “And that became the focus for this book, which includes excerpts of Annie’s letters during her first few months with Helen in the spring of 1887.” There’s nothing better than beginning to research something new, Deborah says. In fact, there’s a lot of research that goes into her most of books. For “Annie and Helen” Deborah turned to adult biographies, especially Joseph Lash’s “Helen and Teacher,” which served as her primary research sources. It was in the centennial edition of Keller’s “The Story of My Life” that Deborah found Sullivan’s letters to. Sophie Hopkins, her close friend and former housemother at Perkins School for the Blind. The staff at Perkins also made available many of the photos on the book’s endpapers. Simply finding something to write can be a challenge for Deborah who wants to find stories that young readers will enjoy. It’s great for her to see that pay off. “One of the highlights of being a writer is traveling — visiting schools and libraries and attending conferences all over the country to meet people of all ages who care about learning and books.” Over the years, Deborah has become increasingly interested in how people think about history. “I didn’t take a lot of American history classes in college by any means, and through researching my own books, I think I have become better informed,” she said. “I’m also always looking for ways to continue to grow as a writer and to write books that play with traditional formats, she continued. “For instance, while my 2012 picture book, ‘A Boy Called Dickens,’ is actually historical fiction, ‘Annie and Helen’ is nonfiction. As more schools move toward adopting the Common Core Standards, which call for half of fourth-graders’ reading to be informational, nonfiction will be increasingly important. And it’s something I love to write.” *Read Cracking the Cover’s review of “Annie and Helen.” Read a complete transcript of Deborah’s interview with Cracking the Cover. Learn more about Deborah during the “Annie and Helen” blog tour. Sept. 1: Watch. Connect. Read Sept. 1: SharpRead Sept. 2: Nerdy Book Club Sept. 3: Bakers and Astronauts Sept. 4: Two Writing Teachers Sept. 5: Cracking the Cover Sept. 6: Teach Mentor Texts Sept. 7: Nonfiction Detectives Sept. 8: Booking Mama Sept. 9: Children’s Book Review Sept. 10: Random Acts of Reading Sept. 11: 7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast © 2012 – 2017, Cracking the Cover. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise noted, all books — digital and physical — have been provided for free by publishers in exchange for honest and unbiased reviews. All thoughts and opinions are those of the reviewer. Addie Boswell & Mercè López’s Snow Dancer is a delight	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line928
__label__wiki	0.690717	0.690717	Andrew Luk, Peter Nelson and Alexis Mailles Release New Project "Autosave: Redoubt" City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong A new interactive media artwork will be debuted on October 21 & 28 in the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre at City University of Hong Kong. Autosave: Redoubt uses the popular computer game Counter-Strike to recreate historical architecture and draw attention to a crumbling heritage site in Hong Kong. The structure was built in 1938 and was the site of first contact between the two sides in the Battle of Hong Kong and has been accurately reconstructed within the Counter-Strike game engine. This artwork seeks to challenge expectations of online games, their potential to draw our attention to the history that is around us, and what we expect from them as players, or as artists, or as historians. This project by Andrew Luk, Peter Nelson and Alexis Mailles has been a year in the making.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line933
__label__wiki	0.847487	0.847487	The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office deemed the shooting justified last year, deciding that Cardova “reasonably believed” he was in danger, but Montanez family has filed a lawsuit arguing that police had no reason to use deadly force because they should have known the elderly, mentally-ill man posed no real threat. The Indio Police Department now wants lawsuit thrown out, filing the photo published with this story to support arguments that Montanez was dangerous. “The video footage clearly shows Montanez holding a deadly weapon with a firm grip in a position close enough to stab the officer in the neck, eye, other portion of his face or his torso or leg, and thereby inflict serious bodily injury or death,” said Larry Albers, an attorney for the police department, in court documents. In response, attorneys for Montanez’s family argue that he was holding the scissors in a “non-threatening manner” with the blade pinched between his right index finger and thumb. The photo, as filed in public court documents, is too blurry to tell conclusively how Montanez is gripping the scissors. The photo is a single frame from the body camera footage of Officer Kevin Fowler, another Indio cop who was at the scene but did not draw his gun. The footage has not been made public. A federal judge denied The Desert Sun access to the video in March. HERO COP:Bloodied and half-blind, this cop’s grip was the last defense against disaster MORE:Twenty-five cops were caught cheating on a promotional exam. Nobody got fired. Some got promoted. Arnoldo Casillas, an attorney for Montanez's family, said in court records that the police were never in danger, and if they truly felt they were at risk, they could have just backed up. Instead, Cordova got "unreasonably and deliberately too close" to Montanez, and now police are attempting to use that closeness to justify the shooting, Casillas said. "The use of deadly force was, against policy, not a last resort, because there were ample opportunities to stay (out) of Mr. Montanez's way and less-than-lethal force options were available to detain Mr. Montanez, rather than shoot him," Casillas wrote. He also argues that the size difference between Montanez and Cordova suggests that the officer could have captured Montanez without deadly force. Montanez was 5’3” and 113 pounds. Cordova is 6’5” and 285 pounds. Police say the size difference is “irrelevant.” “A small individual armed with a deadly weapon can cause as much harm as a large individual armed with the same weapon,” Albers said in a court motion. “(Montanez’s) close proximity, his movement holding the scissors in a position to strike, and his refusal to obey the officers’ commands made Montanez every bit as dangerous to the officers’ safety as an individual of greater size.” Montanez had a long history of mental health issues, and at least three of his family members have told investigators that he was tormented by hallucinations, which he would sometimes try to attack with a knife. It appears that the Indio police witnessed this behavior firsthand in an incident that was eerily similar to the fatal shooting but ended with nobody getting hurt. One week before the shooting, a different Indio police officer encountered Montanez wandering alone, yelling loudly to himself. When the officer confronted Montanez, the old man pulled out a pair of keys and assumed a fighting stance. In a sworn deposition, the officer said that she and another officer were able to quickly wrestle Montanez to the ground with their bare hands. Montanez was then taken to a nearby hospital, where he continued to be disruptive and had to be restrained and fitted with a spit mask, according to court documents. Fowler and Cordova, both of whom were at the hospital at the same time, saw Montanez in this state and came to believe he was "crazy," according to their depositions. Casillas, the attorney for the Montanez family, argued in court documents that this hospital visit shows that Fowler and Cordova knew the old man was mentally ill. “They knowingly tased and shot an elderly, extremely slight man that they knew suffered from a mental condition … Their actions were patently reasonable,” Casillas wrote in court documents. The shooting occurred eight days after the hospital visit. Indio police received a report of a man with a knife threatening a woman and her family at the Rancho Fresco Market on Jackson Street. Fowler, the first officer on the scene, immediately recognized Montanez. Fowler had arrested Montanez just one night prior for allegedly assaulting a gardener. This time, Montanez was holding a pair of scissors. RELATED:Indio police shot a little old man, plagued by hallucinations, who threatened with scissors According to a summary of the shooting from the District Attorney's Office, footage from Fowler’s body camera shows the cop confronting Montanez in the parking lot. Montanez appears “agitated,” then moving towards the cop in an “aggressive manner.” Fowler holds his flashlight in one hand and his Taser in the other, shouting for Montanez to drop his weapon. The old man taunts him. “Come here, come here, take your gun out, take your gun out (expletive),” Montanez yells in Spanish, according to the DA's summary. “I’m going to stick you … take it out. Take out your gun. Shoot me, (expletive).” Fowler fires his Taser, striking Montanez with the metal barbs, which stun him but do not stop him. “Your battery is finished,” Montanez shouts in Spanish, according to the summary. “Take out the other one. Take out the gun. I don’t care. I don’t give a damn.” Fowler then pulls out his baton and raises it, as if to strike, just as Cordova arrives on the scene and steps out of his patrol car. Montanez then turns his attention toward Cordova, who draws his gun tells Montanez to get on the ground, or he’s going to “get shot.” Montanez doesn’t get on the ground. Then Cordova shoots him. At the time of the shooting, Cordova had a Taser, pepper spray and baton, but he did not use them. During an interview with investigators after the shooting, Cordova said he dropped his baton so he could draw his gun because he did not believe the baton “would be effective against a sharp-edged weapon.” Cordova said he used deadly force to match what he felt was a deadly threat posed by Montanez. “We looked eye-to-eye and the look in his eyes was like as if he wanted to kill me,” Cordova told investigators after the shooting, describing the moment he pulled the trigger. “He just looked like he didn’t have a reason to live. He was just coming at me like as if he really wanted to hurt me, possibly kill me.” Officials with the Indio Police Department has repeatedly declined to comment on the Montanez shooting, saying the agency does not discuss matters that are under litigation. Reporter Brett Kelman can be reached by phone at (760) 778-4642, by email at brett.kelman@desertsun.com, or on Twitter @TDSbrettkelman	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line934
__label__wiki	0.818523	0.818523	Under the proposal, schools will be grouped into playoff divisions after each regular season, based solely on how each team performed in that particular season. The previous format placed schools in divisions prior to the season, based on how the teams had performed in previous years. That led to some teams, including Xavier Prep in Palm Desert, to be left out of the playoffs in 2019. The CIF-SS announced that several teams that missed the playoffs last year, including the Saints, would have made it under the new format, which stresses strength of schedule and quality wins over a team’s finish in their league. "I love this decision," Xavier Prep head coach James Dockery said. "Our goal is to make the playoffs every year. Our work is cut out for us but this definitely was a decision we are in favor of." Moving forward, each team in the CIF-SS will be rated and given a ranking using a formula adopted from CalPreps, which has used the method to ranking teams in the state for years. That will make the divisional playoffs much more competitive, coaches say. “I’m really pleased that CIF’s new playoff format passed,” said Dan Murphy, the head coach at Palm Springs High. "It allows teams to be ranked, based on their current year’s success and doesn’t get you tied to a specific division on a multi-year basis.” A similar proposal to improve the competitive equity in boys’ and girls’ swimming also passed on a 77-7-6 vote from the CIF-SS Council. Among the other items that passed in the 3 1/2 hour Zoom meeting Thursday was a proposed bylaw revision that affects player ejections. In the past, if a player had been ejected from a game, they were also issued an automatic one-game suspension. That rule has been controversial among coaches of all sports in the valley and that was changed, with 79 leagues voting yes to change the rule to remove the automatic suspension. The council also approved a plan to allow national cheerleading championships to take place on Sundays. A vote will take place on the state level this fall. If it passes, it could help pave the way for other sports to get a similar exemption to play title games on Sundays. Andrew John covers sports for The Desert Sun and the USA TODAY Network. Find him on Twitter: @Andrew_L_John. Email him at andrew.john@desertsun.com.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line935
__label__cc	0.727545	0.272455	For Julie and Jay Jacobi giving back is a privilege and a joy. A joy they are generously sharing by supporting the causes they care about through their charitable giving funds at the Community Foundation. “Working with the Community Foundation was a way to manage what we wanted to do short-term and long-term in ways we wouldn’t be able to do on our own,” says Jay. “When you know how much you want to give, but you don’t know where to give it at the time, it’s nice to put the money in a charitable giving fund so as needs come up we can offer support.” As the Community Foundation team has worked with the Jacobi family, connections have been made to support their areas of interest. “There are always things that come up that cannot be anticipated. That is where the Community Foundation comes in. Once they know where you like to focus your philanthropy and where your interests lie, they can match you up,” say Julie. One of these interests is helping disadvantaged youth, which is why the Jacobi family generously offered their support to Freedom for Youth. When the Community Foundation learned of a variety of needs at the organization, including a new air conditioning unit and the building of a recently opened coffee shop to teach job skills, the Jacobi family was interested in providing support. “Being a part of the growth of Freedom for Youth has been a really fun road to travel,” says Jay. “We appreciate the Community Foundation’s knowledge of our community’s nonprofits. The connections they’ve made have helped us to magnify the impact of our giving.” “If you have the opportunity to make a difference in the world and in the lives of other people, why wait? The Community Foundation is a wealth of knowledge and a vehicle to make your charitable giving so much easier. We love it!”	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line936
__label__wiki	0.552877	0.552877	Home > Archive > News Archive > Remarks by Secretary Jeh Johnson at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Undergraduate Commencement Remarks by Secretary Jeh Johnson at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Undergraduate Commencement As Delivered Mr. President, Dean, faculty, administrators, graduates, and your families. Thank you very much for the honor you bestow on me today, and for the opportunity to be your commencement speaker. There are Hoyas in my family. My wife is a graduate of the Georgetown Dental School, class of 1986. {interruption from audience} To those of you who are our international guests: welcome to our wonderful, and sometimes noisy, democracy. When I was first asked to speak to the School of Foreign Service, I turned to my international affairs team. I asked them to help me develop a speech about the increasing internationalization of homeland security, and to convey, in this age of the foreign terrorist fighter, the increasing need for diplomacy as a component of homeland security. By working with other nations to secure their borders from foreign terrorist travel, we secure our own homeland. In the meantime, as we just saw, there has been a controversy that has arisen on this campus as a result of the invitation to be your commencement speaker. After meeting with students on Monday, I decided to scrap the prior approach and address the immediate issue, that you saw, head-on. In the process, I believe I can deliver on the request to talk about the manner in which today’s government leaders grapple with difficult issues of national and homeland security. These remarks were written by me and me alone. First: to the students and alumni who object to me and our immigration policy, I admire your energy and passion. I hope you continue in your cause. Your level of activism and commitment is something I encourage in my own college-age children. In this free country, you have an important role, your views matter, and they contribute to the policymaking of our government. And, do not become disheartened if others oppose you. It is true that I head the Department of our government that is responsible for the administration and enforcement of our immigration laws. I shall not shrink from that. When I took this job, I accepted an obligation to enforce the law consistent with the enforcement priorities of President Obama’s Administration. What does that mean? Let’s take a closer look. Two years ago President Obama directed me to revise our immigration enforcement policies, to make them more humane and fair. And, in November 2014 we announced new policies that more clearly prioritize public safety and border security. In fact, therefore, fewer people are now deported from this country and a higher percentage of them are within our priorities for removal, and are convicted criminals. In fact, President Obama and I want to expand upon his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy – also called DACA -- and make others eligible for deferred action: adults who’ve been here for five years, have kids who are citizens or lawful permanent residents, have committed no serious crime, and who submit to a background check. This is the new “DAPA” policy the President and I announced in November 2014. This effort is in the Supreme Court right now, and we are fighting to defend it. At the same time, we must enforce the law consistent with our priorities for enforcement. If someone who is a priority for removal has received a final order of removal, has no pending appeal, and has not qualified for asylum or other humanitarian relief under our laws, we must repatriate them. There are many who strongly disagree with this. But, we are a nation with borders, and these borders cannot be open to illegal migration. Is sending a man, woman or child back to the very situation they fled pleasant? No. As government officials and leaders, we try to do the right thing. Doing the right thing can be complicated. In government decision-making and policy-making, doing the right thing is rarely simple, pure or perfect. It’s rarely one-dimensional, or even two-dimensional. It’s often multi-dimensional. And one of those dimensions can be your personal convictions. In 29 months in this office, I’ve spent hours meeting and talking with hundreds of children in Border Patrol processing centers on our southern border, in a refugee camp in Turkey, and, just yesterday and the day before, in resettlement centers in El Salvador and Honduras. I don’t mind telling you it has brought me to tears. As a father and a Christian, I personally want to scoop all these kids up and take them home with me. But we cannot formulate government policy based solely on my personal reaction to a painful situation. President Obama said something similar in his commencement address at Howard two weeks ago. Government decision-making and policy-making involve compromise – a compromise between and among different considerations. In foreign service, there will be times when you will be asked to form alliances with governments with a less than perfect human rights record. In foreign service, there may be times when you must sit down with a government or organization that is actively working to undermine U.S. interests. In national security, there will be times when we must send good young men and women into harm’s way. In national security, there will be times when we must authorize military force in circumstances where innocent people may die. In 2010, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike Mullen announced publicly his personal opposition to the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law that prohibited gays from serving openly in the military. Admiral Mullen stated his opposition as a matter of integrity – theirs and ours. As a matter of integrity, he could no longer ask other service members to lie about who they are. Many agreed, and insisted that we immediately suspend separations under what they believed was an unjust and unconstitutional law. But Admiral Mullen and the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, who were stewards of a military force of about two million people, knew there were larger considerations. They commissioned a 10-month study of the issue in which we surveyed 400,000 service members. At the end, by this deliberate, thorough approach, we convinced the military community and skeptics in Congress that we could repeal the law. That repeal went even smoother than we predicted, and contributed, I believe, to the shift in public opinion that followed, toward LGBT rights and gay marriage. The greatest moral leader of modern times in this country, my Morehouse brother Martin Luther King, had to at times compromise his own principles and disappoint his supporters. Many of you know about “Bloody Sunday” on the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma Alabama, on March 7, 1965. Many of you know about the successful Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights that began two weeks later, on March 21, 1965. Far fewer know about the aborted march in between, on what is referred to as “Turnaround Tuesday.” In reaction to the televised beatings of the civil rights marchers by police on Bloody Sunday, many energized civil rights advocates rushed to Selma to take up the cause and resume the march. Led by Dr. King, they were prepared to face the same beatings their comrades had suffered two days before. Inexplicably to his followers, Dr. King led them across the Edmund Pettis Bridge, knelt in prayer before the line of police, and then led the marchers in a U-turn back across the bridge. Many of the marchers were prepared to put their bodies on the line, were furious at Dr. King, and felt tricked and betrayed by him. But, Dr. King had quietly concluded that he did not want to violate a federal temporary restraining order, and alienate the judge who had issued it, who, Dr. King believed would eventually see it their way. In retrospect, Dr. King was right. Judge Frank Johnson lifted his temporary restraining order, which paved the way for the now-famous Selma to Montgomery march, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and a more perfect union. Even closer to home for me is a story of a man who died 60 years ago named Charles S. Johnson. Dr. Johnson was a sociologist and president of Fisk University, a black college in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1950, Fisk needed a good mathematician on the faculty, and Dr. Johnson hired a gifted teacher named Lee Lorch. Lorch was white, and a committed civil rights activist who was willing to teach at a black college. Lorch was also suspected of being a Communist. For years, during the height of the McCarthy era, Johnson stood by Lorch. It was a matter of principle. Johnson was even suspected of being a Communist himself. Testifying before federal and state legislative Un-American Activities committees, Johnson -- a World War One veteran with honorary degrees from Harvard and Columbia – publicly denied he was a member of the Communist Party. Johnson also said publicly what he thought about these investigations: that they were “witch hunts” and “much more un-American than the un-American activities being pursued.” But, after years of defending Lorch, in 1955 Johnson had to set aside his principles and terminate Lorch’s contract, to protect Fisk University, its reputation, its financial standing, and its future. For my grandfather, this was an agonizing decision that we never talk about in my family, and that, according to a good friend, contributed to my grandfather’s fatal heart attack in 1956, at the age of 63. But, today, 60 years later, among many small black colleges that struggle to survive, Fisk continues to exist, financed in very large part by a $100 million art collection assembled by my grandfather for the school while he was president. When an action we are called to take offends our personal convictions, we can resign. But, abandoning your responsibility only passes the burden to someone else – and possibly someone less thoughtful, less sensitive and more callous. Resignation relieves you of your personal dilemma, makes a forceful statement, but may not be good for the country or a lot of people who depend on you as their leader. This is a burden you must be prepared to accept in public service, and as a leader. Sometimes our options are plenty. Sometimes our options are limited and lousy. But, at all times we try our best to find the best solution and do the right thing. In a democracy, we are then judged by the voters who elect us, or elect the person to whom we are accountable. Ultimately, we are judged in the pages of history, and by God. There are graduates here who have stated publicly that they do not want to shake my hand. That is your right and your privilege. I am willing to extend my hand to every one of you. In our democracy, the people do not owe their government leaders any form of reverence. If anything, in this country it’s the other way round. We are public servants. We work for you. A year ago I met a man named Kamal. Kamal is from Syria. Kamal and his family have been granted refugee status in this country, and now live in Texas. Kamal says that, while living in Syria, he was persecuted and put in military detention, where he was sexually assaulted, subject to electric shocks, and had his kidney removed without his consent. When I met Kamal, he told me “my regime tortured me.” I said to Kamal, “welcome to the United States, I am your new regime, and no one here is going to torture you.” I then shook his hand, and gave him a hug. To this graduating class from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, I have not said much about the “foreign” aspect of foreign service, but I do hope that I have conveyed to all of you what it means to be in service – service to others, service to the public. I’ve talked a lot about the burden and responsibility of service, but the truth is, I love what I do. For most of my career I have been a corporate lawyer. For less than a third of my career I’ve been in public service. Though I now make less than a 1st year associate at the corporate law firm where I was previously a partner, my public service has been the most consequential and gratifying part of my professional life. I expect to go back to private law practice soon. But, no matter how many cases or clients I win in private practice, I know the first paragraph of my obituary will be my public service. Public service is about helping others, and within almost all of us as human beings is the basic desire to do good and help others. When you leave here many of you will acquire the burden of student loan debt, a mortgage, and a financial responsibility to yourself and your family. My hope for all of you, as proceed today on your journey from here, is that you never lose the spark that motivated you to come to this school in the first place. Last Published Date: May 21, 2016	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line939
__label__cc	0.530889	0.469111	Modern Thinking & Lifestyle 1 My Lifestyle Nowadays, we come across many instances where my lifestyle is discussed. Lifestyle means the way a person spends his/her life. It includes the schedule, food habits, wealth, health in day to day life of a person. Generally, we say nowadays my lifestyle has become very fast. What does that means, it means that nowadays people are lost somewhere while running in the chase of life and are unable to cope up with the pace of life. In the old golden days, people were calm, having peace while spending their life. They had little money, had to do a lot of hard work, but we’re happy. They were satisfied with what they had. Compared to nowadays, people are not happy even though they achieved a lot more than before. There is a greed for achieving more than what they have. People are unsatisfied with what they have, making them run to get some more resulting in the fast life. Every person is comparing themselves with another person to calculate whether they are in profit or loss compared to others. Comparison is not a bad thing, it sets up a goal for a person and motivates them to achieve it. But it becomes bad when people start taking these things in their hearts which results in the breaking of relationships. Now, people think more about status, try to uplift their living standard to show how rich they are, how much success they have achieved. Nowadays, doing the show off is very common. People who do so are considered as good people and rest others are considered out of society. Society does not accept this type of individual which is wrong. It’s just that they want to live their life peacefully without showing off as they have other important work to do. But people consider them as rebels, they try to make their life hell without any reason, just because they are not like them showing off. This is the current lifestyle of the majority of people in society. Some people say, in the new generation, people are greedy, want always more. All is true. The new generation has to be greedy to get the things on their plate as with so much competition, one has to be competent enough to survive in the world. But it does not mean that in greed one should hurt others, hurt humanity. In the present world, everybody comes across instances where humanity is compromised and we all are evidence of that. Sometimes we raise our voice against it, sometimes we remain silent. When it comes to oneself, then one will be fighting, but when it comes to fighting for others, everybody raises their hands up as nobody cares about others. This is the present lifestyle of individuals. Unlike these days, there were old days where people took a stand for others, there was brotherhood, people were mature and understanding enough to solve issues. Now with the technological enhancement, the mindset of people is degrading resulting in the increasing numbers of crimes. This is really heartrending to see how society has become so rude, unfair, biased toward people. Now friendship has also become a puppet of greed. People make friends get some benefit, not like the old days in which they were ready to sacrifice their life for each other without any greed. But it’s not that this situation cannot be changed, if mankind adapts good habits, try to change their thinking process, then the present situation can be changed. But apart from all this, even in today’s world humanity has not died. There are still some people who care for others, who do things for others without hope of getting something in return. These are the persons who are pillars of society that have kept it to stand instead of all the bad happenings of today’s world. The lifestyle of these kind people is the right my lifestyle, one should follow to be happy, feel satisfied in life. And also by adapting this good lifestyle, we can achieve peace, happiness which people were enjoying in the past. So, signing off with this thought that we will gradually try to change our mindset and lifestyle to get satisfaction and peace in life. Passion and Profession Introvert vs Extrovert 21 Volunteer Ideas from Kids to Adults for their perfect development Copyright © 2020 drsuggestion inc. We offer Suggestions and Blogs. The motive of this website is to aware and educate people. User convenience is our first priority. Image Credit: Pixabay, pexels, unsplash & internet. 2021 © drsuggestionTheme by SiteOrigin	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line944
__label__cc	0.525623	0.474377	If your state were holding elections this week, would you vote in person? Sarah McGowan, Siyu Song Photo source: New York Times This week, Wisconsin held its primary election as planned despite burgeoning Covid-19 infections and a state-wide stay-at-home order, because of Supreme Court rulings denying postponing in-person and absentee voting. While we’ll have to wait for official data to see the exact impact of Wisconsin’s decision on turnout and public health, we can assume that the impact will be sizable. But assumptions aren’t helpful when making tough decisions. We at Data 2 the People prefer to use data. And when the perfect data is not available, we go to the next best data that is available. This is why we were so excited to see the results of recent surveys from 1Q. The surveys aimed to assess public behavior and sentiment in the context of Covid-19, and included questions on Americans’ preferred election format in this unprecedented time. We dug into this data and share our findings in the interest of preserving the health and safety of both our democracy and its constituents. Our hope is that public officials across the country can use this data to help inform equitable decisions that optimize for both public health and election integrity. Some notes before we share the results: This data reflects snapshots in time. Surveys reflect the opinions, knowledge, and trends at the time they are conducted. The Covid-19 situation is evolving rapidly, and sentiment expressed in these survey may likewise change with time. The survey we primarily reference was conducted on April 8th, and we use data from a survey on March 22nd to look at trends. Respondents are only a sample of the US population. The April 8th survey does a great job of census-balancing the demographics of the respondents. Still, the sample size is small so there is uncertainty in how the results generalize. What people say is not necessarily what they will do. This is always the case, but is especially important to keep in mind during a period of time that is especially stressful and emotional for many. Here is what the data shows: 1. Respondents expressed low likelihood of voting in person. When asked their likelihood of voting in person at a voting location if their state were holding elections next week, only 27% of respondents said they would be “likely” to vote. The majority of respondents - 55% - indicated they would not be comfortable voting in person. 2. Respondents were generally happy with mail and online voting options. 57% of respondents expressed likelihood to vote by mail and 72% expressed likelihood to vote through a secure online link. Notably, vote by mail would make voting more accessible for about a third of respondents. 34% of respondents are “likely” to vote by mail where they were “unlikely” to vote in person. Some states already have 100% vote by mail - Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and Utah. We are unaware, however, of any state using or considering online voting methods in this primary season for the general population (some states have considered online methods for absentee or military voting), so the online option is purely hypothetical. (But interesting for the future!) 3. The interest in voting by mail appears consistent across demographics. We did not see meaningful differences in likelihood to vote through different channels when looking across gender, race, education level, and income. This suggests that encouraging vote by mail options could be an equitable option during this time when in-person voting presents a health risk to many. 4. Interest in voting by mail does differ by political party, but this may be due to recent politicization of the topic. Results from the most recent survey conducted on April 8th indicate that Republicans are less interested in voting by mail than Democrats, though the groups have similar rates of aversion to voting in person. This is a change from the survey on March 22nd, however, when Democrats had a slightly stronger aversion to vote by mail. On April 8th, 22% of Republicans reported they were unlikely to vote by mail in the next week, while only 13% of Democrats reported such. This difference was significant, with only a 4.3% likelihood of chance. This trend was also reflected in the “incremental” mail-in voter population - the group unlikely to vote in person, but likely to vote by mail. 39% of Democrats are “incremental” mail-in voters, vs. 35% of Republicans. What is particularly interesting is that results differ from a similar survey conducted on March 22nd which showed a dramatically less polarized environment. At that time, Democrats actually had a stronger aversion to voting by mail than Republicans. It’s possible that the partisan dialog and news coverage surrounding this topic in the past few weeks swayed responses. We’ll note that the March 22nd poll surveyed a different population (and a smaller population), but we believe the trend is worth noting. We'd like to emphasize the universal benefit mail-in voting provides. Roughly a third of Democrats and Republicans report that they are unlikely to vote in person, but would vote by mail. As a reference point, only 23% of Americans cast a mail-in vote in 2016. (Only 17.7% were absentee ballots.) By supporting mail in options during this pandemic, we will include large legions of voters on both sides of the aisle. We hope this data will help states decide quickly what changes to make to voting, so they can begin the required operations and communication processes as soon as possible. As always, our goal is to help current and future public leaders leverage the best data available to make the best possible decisions. For further details and analysis, please see the appendix file, here. If you have any questions or would like to know more about our analysis, please reach out to us at data2thepeople.org. For further information on how you can use mobile surveys for rapid data collection, please reach out to 1Q.com. Many thanks to 1Q for sharing their survey data. #covid19 #ElectionIntegrity #1Q #dataforgood To Fix Digital, Democrats Should Focus on Quality not Quantity Each one teach one: how we’re practicing antiracism as an organization Where to donate in the last 5 days	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line947
__label__cc	0.508708	0.491292	Mali – United Nations – Sanctions (6 September 2017) France welcomes the unanimous adoption on September 5, at the request of the Bamako authorities, of UNSCR 2374 establishing a sanctions regime for Mali. This resolution makes it possible to the freeze assets of and impose a travel ban on individuals who hamper the implementation of the peace and reconciliation agreement. It will make it possible to impose sanctions on those who violate the ceasefire or deliberately undermine the peace process, as well as on those who support them through the proceeds of trafficking, notably of drugs and persons. It notably targets those who plot, support and carry out attacks against the local institutions or international forces, prevent the delivery of humanitarian assistance, violate human rights or recruit child soldiers. This sanctions regime is an additional tool to help advance the peace and reconciliation agreement in Mali. It seeks to hold the stakeholders in the peace process to account. France took note of the Malian government’s communiqué yesterday paying tribute to “France’s active role in ensuring the adoption of the resolution.” France / Mali (in French) More information on the website of the ministry Embassy of France in Mali (in French) Mali – Attack against MINUSMA (13 Jan. 2021) Mali – Visit by Jean-Yves Le Drian to Bamako (25-26 Oct. 2020) Mali - Q&A from the press briefing (05 Oct. 20) Mali – Q&A from the press briefing (22 Sept. 20) Mali - Q&A from the press briefing (25 Aug. 20) Mali - Statement by Jean-Yves Le Drian (19 Aug. 20) Mali – Statement by Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs (18 Aug. 2020) Situation in Mali Mali – Violence in Bamako – Statement by the Deputy Spokesperson (10-11 Jul. 20) Situation in Mali (22 Jun. 20)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line953
__label__wiki	0.962463	0.962463	Source: CBS You Might Have Forgotten Why Delilah Fielding Is in a Wheelchair on 'NCIS' Fans of NCIS who loved watching Delilah in the past few seasons of the show are finally getting a bit more screen time with their favorite character in this current Season 16 of the procedural. These days, on-screen couple Delilah and her husband McGee have been going through some rocky times, with many fans speculating they might be headed for divorce — uh oh! But other fans of the show are wanting more of a refresher as to how their favorite character ended up in a wheelchair. It's been a long time since she started on the show and we did get to meet her when she was walking around, after all. So, before we keep getting sucked into more of her relationship drama with McGee, let's go over some basics when it comes to Department of Defense employee Delilah Fielding. Remind me, why is Delilah in a wheelchair? Although McGee brings up a new girlfriend at the end of Season 10, we don't actually meet Delilah until the opening episode of Season 11. Things are a bit awkward because as soon as we meet Delilah, she also meets Abby — but the two quickly warm up to each other and become fast friends. Flash to: the gala in Season 11, Episode 12's "Kill Chain" that's being thrown in Delilah's honored. Remember, she's hugely respected in the counter-terrorism world and blows everyone away with her expertise as soon as she joins McGee in the Department of Defense. Except Benham Parsa happens to have selected that very gala as his latest symbolic target and proceeds to bomb the place. This leaves Delilah suffering a paralyzing spinal injury that leaves her permanently paraplegic. Delilah's storyline was inspired by the Boston Marathon bombings. Following her hospitalization and her eventual return to NCIS, we watch as Delilah grows accustomed to her wheelchair and deals with the trials and frustrations that go along with adjusting to a new way of life. Her partner McGee is also coming to terms with his girlfriend's permanent disability and we watch as he navigates the fine line between actually being helpful and becoming overly protective of her emotions. It turns out that the plot of having Delilah learn to live her life as a disabled person was inspired straight from the real-life successes of women who survived the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and rebuilt their lives. "I remember seeing a piece on I think it was the Today show about a bunch of women who had really managed to start pulling their lives back together again," executive producer Gary Glasberg said at the Television Critics Association press tour, according to Entertainment Weekly. "I wanted to try to capture some of that on our show. So the intent was — and is — to show someone who comes from a government background involved in something tragic like this and manages to persevere," he said. "We're very excited about the arc of what that character is going to face as someone in a wheelchair and how that's going to be portrayed," he continued. As for the characters surrounding Delilah, Gary was also interested in portraying the "psychological challenge[s]" that affect the people around someone who suffers such a life-altering accident. Is the actress who plays Delilah also in a wheelchair? Unlike Investigative Computer Specialist Patton Plame, played by Daryl "Chill" Mitchell, who uses a wheelchair, Margo Harshman, who plays Delilah, is able-bodied. Millennials might remember Margo from the best show of our tween years, Even Stevens, in which she played Louis' friend-turned-girlfriend, Tawny Dean. Since then, she's appeared on Grey's Anatomy, Without a Trace, 90210, Modern Family, Boston Legal, House, Bones, and in a recurring role as Sheldon's assistant Alex Jensen in The Big Bang Theory. Go Margo! Watch NCIS tonight at 8 p.m. EST on CBS. The Actor Who Portrays Patton on 'NCIS' Really Does Use a Wheelchair Bryan Cranston's 'Breaking Bad' Co-Star RJ Mitte Weighs in on 'The Upside' Controversy Woman With MS Tied To Wheelchair By Delta Staff, According To Family Carrie From 'My 600 lb Life' Looks Like a Totally New Person Now The Story Behind Drew Carey's Ex-Fiancée Is So Tragic Lara Jean Ends up With [SPOILER] at the End of the 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before' Series Serial Killer Richard Ramirez Was Married for 13 Years	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line954
__label__cc	0.554906	0.445094	Modifications or operational limitations for a limited number of rigs Per Wiggo Richardsen VP Director of Media Relations, DNV GL Group Per.Wiggo.Richardsen@dnvgl.com Høvik 27/09/2016: Following the accident involving COSLInnovator on 30 December 2015, some 100 semi-submersible rigs approved by DNV GL will be reviewed. Preliminary assessments indicate that a limited number of rigs will be subjected to modifications or operational limitations. The semi-submersible rig COSLInnovator was drilling for Statoil in the Troll field when it was hit by a large, steep wave. Several windows on the rig's two lower decks were shattered. One person was killed. “Since the incident, we have made great efforts to identify what happened, understand how this could happen and, most importantly, implement actions to prevent similar incidents from occurring again,” says Ernst Meyer, DNV GL Director for Offshore Classification. “We have been working with rig owners, designers, operators and authorities towards a common goal; to ensure the safety of all those working on board the rigs.” The incident investigation report presented by the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority in April 2016 concluded that the incident involving COSLInnovator has provided new knowledge that must be utilized in order to prevent similar incidents in the future. DNV GL therefore published a new technical guideline (OTG-13 – Prediction of air gap for column-stabilised units) as early as in June 2016. This gives a consistent and updated approach for calculating the air gap - the clearance between the highest wave crest and the bottom of the deck box in all relevant sea conditions. Most rigs can operate as before Last week, DNV GL asked all owners of DNV GL-classed semi-submersible rigs to provide updated documentation of each rig's air gap. Rigs that, based on the new technical guideline (OTG-13), can confirm a positive air gap, will be able to operate as before without reinforcement or operational limitations. This is expected to apply to most of the semi-submersible rigs operating on the Norwegian shelf. “I can't indicate how many rigs have negative or positive air gaps before each rig's calculations have been performed,” says Ernst Meyer. “A limited number of rigs may not have a positive air gap, but most of these will be able to avoid changes. The prerequisite is that they are able to document a positive air gap for a specific location, or that they simply do not have windows that may be exposed to waves.” Some rigs will need to remove windows He elaborates on the consequences for the other rigs – those that are unable to prove a positive air gap in all sea conditions – including the hundred-year wave: “Initially (for the next winter), these rigs will be required to remove windows in exposed zones. If the strength calculations show that further structural modifications are necessary, such modifications will be required as part of the permanent solution. “The most important thing is that the windows are removed before the coming winter. This action eliminates the largest risk elements if a similar incident occurs,” Meyer explains. He emphasizes once again that operational limitations and limitations with regard to areas of operation may solve the air gap issue in the short term. Rigs that are certified for worldwide operation must be documented according to North Atlantic wave data. Most rigs operate in milder areas, such as the North Sea, and can postpone modifications that may be necessary in the Norwegian Sea or Barents Sea. DNV GL is the classification body that certifies the largest number of semi-submersible rigs, and these rigs operate under the most extreme weather conditions globally. The company works continuously to improve the class regulations used in certification work through future-oriented research and the thorough examination of and learning from incidents and accidents. “The work behind the new guideline includes the use of updated statistical weather data and knowledge acquired from several independent model tests conducted in light of the COSLInnovator incident. We have also learned from previously conducted model tests and from operational experience after 40 years classing hundreds of similar rig types,” Ernst Meyer concludes. Contact: Per Wiggo Richardsen, Communication Director +47 90 77 78 29 per.wiggo.richardsen@dnvgl.com	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line956
__label__cc	0.505794	0.494206	EU unemployment rate holds steady for the second month in a row The latest EU unemployment figures show that the overall rate of unemployment in the Eurozone in July 2013 was 12.1%, stable compared with the figure for the previous four months. The rate for the EU28 was 11.0%, also stable compared with the previous four months. However, despite this recent stability, unemployment rates are still well above the levels recorded a year ago, at 11.5% in the Eurozone and 10.5% in the EU28. A further sign that the rise of unemployment may be steadying is the fact that the number of people without a job has fallen by 33,000 in the EU28 and by 15,000 in the Eurozone over the past month, following a decrease the month before. In addition, unemployment levels have fallen in 11 EU Member States over the past year. Andrea Broughton, Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies, commented: ‘Despite the indications of stability, the EU is not out of the woods yet: youth unemployment remains high. However, the Eurozone youth unemployment rate increased only slightly over the past month, from 23.9% to 24.0% in July 2013, while the EU28 youth unemployment rate dropped slightly, from 23.5% to 23.4%. Youth unemployment remains highest in Greece, at 62.9% (May 2013) and Spain, at 56.1%. Croatia, the EU's newest member, also has high youth unemployment, at 55.4% (June 2013). ‘Although the longer-term trends in terms of unemployment cannot yet be assessed, it is certainly encouraging that the rate of unemployment in the EU has been stable for two consecutive months, which will surely give EU policymakers cause for cautious optimism. In the meantime, the EU still has significant labour market issues to contend with, alongside the continuing high youth unemployment there is the wide discrepancy between the labour market performances of individual Member States, essentially along a north/south divide.’ The Institute for Employment Studies is the UK’s leading independent, not-for-profit centre for research and evidence-based consultancy on employment, the labour market, and HR policy and practice. About Andrea Broughton Andrea joined IES in 2006 and has over 20 years' experience of research and writing in the areas of employment relations and industrial relations, specialising in international comparative research. Specific areas of interest include workplace-level industrial relations, European social dialogue, employee involvement, restructuring and change management, health and wellbeing issues and work-life balance issues. For interviews or further information, please contact: Lorna Hardy: 01273 763 414 or lorna.hardy@employment-studies.co.uk IES tweets from @EmploymtStudies IES contact Andrea Broughton Employee relations and labour market structures Unemployment and welfare Workforce planning and labour market change 🔗 See the latest European unemployment statistics from Eurostat	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line958
__label__wiki	0.564342	0.564342	The Maids Tickets The Maids Tickets Trafalgar Studio One, London About The Maids The Jamie Lloyd Company’s first production of 2016 will be the full-throttle UK premiere of a contemporary adaptation of Jean Genet’s masterpiece, The Maids – not seen in the West End for twenty years. Director Jamie Lloyd has assembled a powerhouse trio of actors - double Emmy Award winning Uzo Aduba (Orange is the New Black), Zawe Ashton (Fresh Meat) and Laura Carmichael (Downton Abbey), to tackle this explosive psycho-drama. In a luxurious bedroom, two maids fantasize about killing their employer, playing out dangerous and sadistic scenarios as they plan her violent death. An intense psychological thriller seething with unique theatricality and brimming with intrigue, The Maids is a vicious analysis of the class system, and a provocative exploration of sexuality. The Maids Performance Dates & Times The Maids is not available to book, please sign up to our newsletter for updates and offers on forthcoming and available shows. Thursday 17 March (Matinee and & Evening) & Friday 18th March (Evening) Zawe Ashton will not be appearing. Friday 25 March (Evening) & Saturday 26 March (Matinee and Evening) Uzo Aduba will not be appearing. Trafalgar Studio One Where is The Maids? 14 Whitehall London SW1A 2DY Nearest Bus stop: (Whitehall) 3, 11, 12, 24, 53, 88, 91, 159, 453; (Strand) 6, 9, 13, 15, 23, 29, 87, 139, 176 Parking: Some people may still know Trafalgar Studios as the Whitehall Theatre. Use both names if asking for directions. Nearest Night Bus: (Whitehall) 12, 24, 53, 88, 159, 453, N2, N3, N5, N11, N18, N20, N44, N52, N87, N91, N97, N109, N136, N155, N381 (Strand) 6, 23, 139, 176, N9, N13, N15, N21, N26, N29, N41, N47, N89, N279, N343, N551 (5mins) Head left on the main road Strand. Follow Trafalgar Square around onto Whitehall and the theatre’s on your right.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line959
__label__cc	0.74968	0.25032	by Knut Pedersen Who is the commander ? Hollis Sanders Hunger is an interesting and visceral look into the writing process, as well as the conditions of young starving Scandinavian artists in the late 1800s. Over the course of the story, the narrator struggles from extreme hunger, and the often unexplored psychological side affects of this state of health consume him and cause him to behave and think strangely. His only method of earning money is to occasionally write an article for a local paper, which happens less and less frequently as his erratic mindset begins to take hold. This type of magical thinking affects his perspective in many aspects and relationships in his life, such as his relationship with "the commander." The commander is evidently one of the editors that the narrator is attempting to submit articles to in order to sustain himself. When in the depths of his magical thinking, the narrator often uses synecdoche to describe the people around him. He describes a woman as "red dress," for example. His assertion that the editor is a "commander" tells us much about his view of the man, as he seems to be a literary inspiration to the narrator. In a brief moment of relative lucidity, he sets out to write a climax that is "worthy of the commander." It is perhaps the fact that the narrator is so inspired by the commander's work that the man's ethos "commands" him to attempt to achieve literary excellence. Whatever the case, the commander is something of a deified presence in the narrator's life. Last Updated by eNotes Editorial on February 18, 2020 Why does the main character of Hunger care so much about his pride?	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line960
__label__wiki	0.994817	0.994817	Zenn and the art of electric car maintenance TORONTO, ONTARIO - The first thing you notice about a Zenn car is its silence. "You can hear the birds singing driving down an urban street," Ian Clifford, founder of Toronto's Zenn Motor Co., boasted to Rick Mercer, bringing a mock tear to the comedian's eye when he visited the company's assembly plant for a segment of his show last year. Zenn (for "zero emissions, no noise") is a low-speed electric car, conceived and assembled in Canada. It can go 80 kilometres on one charge, maxing out at 40 km/hr, which pretty much limits it to neighbourhood excursions. Some 350 have been sold, mainly to U.S. buyers, as only one Canadian province Â— Quebec Â— permits it on its roads. It is, Mr. Clifford admits, a niche technology. But the 46-year-old entrepreneur has much bigger plans. In 2004, Mr. Clifford signed a licence with Eestor, a Texas battery developer, that gives Zenn exclusive rights to use its technology in small and mid-size cars. Because Eestor's battery promises to propel a car up to 400 kilometres at highway speeds after just a five-minute charge, the deal could have a massive upside: Mr. Clifford envisions "Zennergy" electric propulsion systems powering millions of new and old vehicles. "We want Zennergy drives to be ubiquitous with electric-drive cars," he says. "We want to be the standard." The downside? If Eestor's technology, still in development, proves unviable, Zenn could join Bricklin and Magna's Torrero in the annals of failed Canadian car brands. Mr. Clifford is well aware of the gamble, but he's driven as much by ecological passion as business opportunity. In the mid-'90s, frustrated at being unable to buy an electric car in Canada, he bought a 1959 French electric car. "You'd park it and there'd be 20 people around it, staring and asking questions," he recalls. Then, in 2000, two things happened: Mr. Clifford sold his Internet marketing business, and his beloved car broke down. He called the guy from whom he'd bought it to ask how to get it fixed, and was told, "Look in the Yellow Pages under 'lift trucks'." (As in forklifts.) "That was the 'Aha!' moment," Mr. Clifford says. "There are millions of electric cars being driven behind closed doors in warehouses. This is proven, commercialized technology." In 2002, Mr. Clifford ventured forth on two parallel streams. One was assembling a commercial, low-speed electric vehicle for neighbourhood driving, using the chassis of French Microcars. "I saw it as a low-capital-risk way to get a product to market" while establishing a brand and industry credibility, he says. The second, more important stream was to develop a long-range, high-speed electric drive system that could power any car. "Consumers will not accept electric vehicles until they do exactly, or close to, what their gas-powered vehicles do," Mr. Clifford says. That means a charging time roughly equivalent to what it takes to fill up at the pump, the ability to operate in any climate, and near price parity. The challenge turns primarily on battery technology, and the Zenn team investigated numerous options until it came across Eestor, an Austin-based startup whose prototype ceramic "ultracapacitor" promised to provide the same energy of existing batteries at one-tenth the weight. "It was a completely disruptive, breakthrough technology," Mr. Clifford says. "It replaces petroleum Â— it has that capacity." But the tech was still untried. To raise development funding, Eestor offered licences covering rights for various applications, from automotive to industrial to military. Zenn paid $2.5-million for rights covering small to mid-size cars, then in April invested another $2.5-million in the company. Why would Eestor sell exclusive rights to an upstart given that partnering with a large auto maker could be much more lucrative? "I get that question all the time," Mr. Clifford says. For starters, auto giants, most of which are working on electric models, were holding out for a proven solution, he says, and Zenn, like Eestor, was a young company passionate about the technology's potential. "We were willing to take the risk when no one else would. Part of it was a leap of faith, part was due to diligence," Mr. Clifford says. "We were like angel investors, in at the ground floor, able to negotiate a strategic agreement which, when they commercialize, will creative a massive global opportunity." Mr. Clifford knows that skeptics would say "if" rather than "when." He stresses that the Eestor deal triggers payments only after Eestor reaches various developmental milestones. So far, Eestor is behind on its timeline. Meanwhile, Mr. Clifford has publicly stated that he expects Zennergy-powered cars on the market by the end of 2009. While Mr. Clifford admits that relying on another company for the realization of his entrepreneurial dream is "a little stressful," he's heartened by the fact that Eestor has attracted funding from two major players: venture capital fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Lockheed Martin, which licensed the technology for military applications. If the Eestor bet pays off, Mr. Clifford plans to shift Zenn away from low-speed vehicles and focus on supplying electric drivetrains to auto makers. "The last thing we want to be is a car maker," he says. "It's more the Intel-inside model." And if it doesn't pan out? Mr. Clifford says he has plans B and C, but won't divulge them. But he stresses he won't give up on delivering an electric car Â— one that doesn't draw a crowd, because it's like every other on the road. Except for its silence. 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__label__wiki	0.568576	0.568576	Biofuel doubts hit Dutch renewable energy output AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - The proportion of Dutch electricity produced from renewable sources fell to 6 percent in 2007 from 6.5 percent in 2006 as less biofuels were used, the statistics office said. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) said in a statement that power plants almost halved the use of biofuels in 2007 compared to 2006 after government subsidies were cut mid-2006, in part due to concerns about the environmental effects of some biofuels. Environmentalists are worried that booming biofuel demand is encouraging destruction of rainforests to produce palm oil or sugar, as well as driving up food prices. The Dutch government wants 9 percent of electricity consumption to come from green power sources by 2010 and 17 percent by 2020, to help fight climate change and make the country less dependent on fossil fuels like oil and gas. The cabinet also wants renewables to make up 20 percent of total energy consumption in 2020 compared with 2-3 percent in 2007. Electricity from wind, favoured by the Dutch government as a green energy source, increased by a quarter and accounted for half of renewable electricity in 2007, making it the most important renewable source, the CBS said. New wind turbines and more wind increased electricity production, the CBS said, adding that the total capacity of wind turbines was 1,750 megawatts by the end of the year. The Dutch government last month earmarked almost 1.4 billion euros ($2.1 billion) for green energy subsidies to help fight climate change for the period until 2014, and said wind turbines were cost effective. German utility company RWE said it has filed plans with the Dutch government to build off-shore wind parks off the Dutch coast with a capacity of 2,000 megawatts. Maryland Reveals 2017 Investment Plans For Green Jobs, Renewables Wave and Tidal Energy Market Studies Research 2025 Detailed Analysis of Restrain and Growth Factors	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line968
__label__wiki	0.618616	0.618616	1 Environment The Americas Amid Fire And Flood, Americans Are Looking For Action September 10, 2020 September 10, 2020 Eurasia Review 0 Comments From wildfires in California to hurricanes battering the Gulf, the United States has been assailed by natural disasters from coast to coast. But how can the United States address, mitigate, and adapt to the widespread destruction from wildfires and floods as they intensify from unchecked climate change? According to a new survey by researchers at Stanford University, Resources for the Future, and ReconMR, Americans overwhelmingly want leaders at the federal and state levels to enact policies to adapt to wildfires and floods. The second in a six-part series, the natural disasters installment of Climate Insights 2020: Surveying American Public Opinion on Climate Change and the Environment explores how Americans see climate change in relation to wildfire and inland flood adaptation policies.The report gives policymakers and the public an idea of where Americans stand on prospective policies, the role of governments, and who should pay for prevention and adaptation. “We’ve found that Americans favor action,” report author and Stanford University professor Jon Krosnick said. “Liberals and conservatives, wealthy and not, people want public policy that will protect future generations and the most vulnerable. This is a strong signal to lawmakers that the public is supportive of new policies.” Topline Findings The majority of Americans favor a mix of state and federal government efforts to protect people from future wildfire and flood damage. However, most Americans prefer that people in fire- and flood-prone areas shoulder the costs of prevention and adaptation policies. Americans who believe in the existence of climate change and people who are told that there is a link between climate change and natural disasters are more likely to support adaptation policies. People who think climate change threatens future generations are far more likely to support adaptation policies than those who do not. Belief in this threat is the strongest predictor of policy support studied in this survey. Black and Hispanic Americans are more supportive of government efforts than white, non-Hispanic Americans. This may be explained by the fact that people in historically marginalized communities disproportionately live in areas that are and will be most affected by climate change. Contrary to the luxury goods hypothesis, lower-income people (with incomes less than $35,000) were more likely to support government adaptation policies than people with incomes of $35,000 and more. “While issues of climate change and the environment often feel divided–and even divisive–in the United States, it’s interesting to see that the majority of Americans support adaptation policies to help us remain resilient in the face of fire and flood,” RFF Senior Fellow Margaret Walls said. “What’s more, the relationship between support for these adaptation policies and belief in climate change drives home the fact that education and trust in science is the bedrock upon which public policy must be built.” To learn more about these findings, read the natural disasters installment of Climate Insights 2020 by Jon Krosnick, social psychologist at Stanford University and RFF university fellow, and Bo MacInnis, lecturer at Stanford University and PhD economist. You can also try out our data tool, which allows users to explore the data in greater depth. Future installments in the survey series will focus on green stimulus, political dynamics, electric vehicles, and an overall synthesis. The first installment of this report, which focused on overall trends, was published on August 24, 2020. Home » Amid Fire And Flood, Americans Are Looking For Action ← Consequences Of The 2018 Summer Drought Guatemala: Mining And Imperialism – OpEd →	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line973
__label__wiki	0.66532	0.66532	Three Reasons You Should Be Worried about 2019 Elections You don’t need special prognostic powers to know that the 2019 elections will be fraught with frightening fraud. Here are three reasons why anyone who spares a thought for the future of democracy in Nigeria should be worried. 1. Nigerians feel oddly smug and empowered by the possession of their Permanent Voters Card (PVC). They think it's their bulwark against Buhari's continuing incompetence. I am sorry to be a party pooper, but the truth is that in Buhari's Nigeria, the PVC is becoming worthless, as we've seen in most of the elections conducted while Buhari is president, the latest being the Osun governorship election. The Independent National Electoral Commission deployed what I call electoral legerdemain to rig the Osun State governorship election for the All Progressives Congress. Even APC chairman Adams Oshiomhole admitted in an instructive slip-up that the Osun election was rigged. "I think that for democracy to flourish, only those who can accept the pain of RIGGING, sorry defeat, should participate," he said during a press conference in the immediate aftermath of the Osun governorship election. That was an archetypal Freudian slip that revealed the unconscious processes in his thought-processes. In other words, what his heart concealed, his mouth revealed. In his classic 1901 book titled The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Sigmund Freud said we often suppress untoward or socially unacceptable thoughts (such as admitting that one brazenly rigged an election), which then settle in our unconscious realm. However, in our unguarded moments, these suppressed thoughts occasionally bubble to the surface through involuntary verbal miscues. That was precisely what happened to Oshiomhole. We also saw what happened during the APC governorship primaries in Lagos State. Hired thugs were instructed to forcibly disenfranchise anyone who won’t vote for the candidate that eventually emerged “victorious.” To give just one example, in a viral video, one Oluwabunmi Adetola from Ward E Shomolu in Lagos said thugs beat up people who wanted to vote for Governor Ambode. “The council chairman was going around with thugs, with canes,” she said to wild approval from the crowd. “They were beating people up and down. Even some of our people are still in the hospital. They didn’t allow anybody to vote. They just go [sic] somewhere with all their members and start [sic] voting. Anybody that is Ambode, that they know that you’re doing Ambode, they’d not allow you to vote. So there is nothing like election in Lagos.” A party thug also confessed in a viral video that their “leader” told them to never allow anyone who won’t vote for Sanwo-Olu to vote. (Here is another widely circulated video of voters saying they were disallowed to vote because they supported Ambode). So, obviously, APC has a new rulebook of rigging, and it goes like this: Can't win an election fair and square? No problem. Get INEC to declare the election "inconclusive." During the rescheduled election, hire police officers, soldiers, and thugs to intimidate voters, openly steal PVCs, and then brazenly rig. And, voila, you're a winner! The more electorally vulnerable APC is, the more vicious these agencies will be in their partisanship and strong-arm tactics. If that doesn’t work, hire thugs to screen voters who will allow only those who will vote for you to be at the polling station. Or, as happened in Kano, just manufacture arbitrary but fantastical figures from nowhere and pass them off as the number of votes your preferred candidate won. Because APC has gotten away with these newfangled rigging strategies, they will perfect and replicate them in 2019. Watch out. 2. All indications show that Buhari would lose the 2019 election if it's free and fair because he is almost back to his provincial pre-2015 electoral map. From recent election results in southwest Nigeria, one of the voting blocs that gave him victory in 2015, it’s obvious that Buhari won’t win the region in 2019. Northern Christians who voted for him for the first time in 2015 (he won the predominantly Christian Benue and Plateau states, for example) won’t vote for him in 2019 for obvious reasons. Of course, southeast and southern minority voters whom Buhari injudiciously called people who gave him only “5 percent” of their votes won’t vote for him. In other words, Buhari’s electoral map has shrunk to what it used to be before 2015. Here is why this matters. Buhari never believed he lost the 2003, 2007, and 2011 presidential elections even though he never campaigned outside the north and was voted for mostly by northern Muslims whose votes alone are not sufficient to make him—or anyone—president, as the 2015 presidential election clearly demonstrated. (In spite of his 2015 makeover, which won him new voters in the southwest and in the Christian north, he defeated Goodluck Jonathan by fewer than 3 million votes). A man who believed he was “rigged out” even when he never ran a national campaign and was popular only within his primordial constituency won’t give up power when he loses an election as an incumbent. But it isn't just that Buhari might not hand over power even if he is defeated; he might seek to be president for life if he manages to survive a second term. It is apparent that Buhari just loves power not because of what he can do with it to improve the lot of the people who elected him, but for the perks and attention it confers on him. He can't imagine life outside it. 3. The current INEC is not the same INEC Professor Attahiru Jega headed. Like all human beings, Jega isn’t perfect, but anyone who knows him will admit that he is a scrupulously fair-minded person whose singular obsession is always to make a mark in anything he does. When I congratulated him in 2010 upon his appointment as INEC chairman, he said, “You should rather commiserate with me.” He said that because he had anxieties about the legacies he would leave at INEC, about public perceptions of his fairness, etc. He requested me—and everyone that was close to him—to help him with suggestions on how to restore integrity in the electoral process. It wasn’t that he didn’t have ideas of his own; he wanted more ideas. He even offered me a job at INEC, which I couldn’t take, and which sort of strained our relationship a little bit. I share all this to let the reader know that Jega was genuinely invested in a free and transparent electoral process because he was conscious of his pedigree and desirous to leave a legacy. I think even his worst critics would concede that he is far and away the best electoral chief Nigeria has ever had. The current INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, is known to me personally, too. He is one of the most brilliant scholars anyone can ever wish to meet. His razor-sharp intellect is outmatched only by his piercing wit. Nevertheless, he is no Jega. He isn’t encumbered by the sort of self-imposed moral burden that drove Jega to reform INEC and to remain above the fray. Yakubu sees himself as an APC appointee who is beholden to the party. I have no confidence in his capacity to be fair in the 2019 presidential election. I hope he proves me wrong. I wish I could be more optimistic, but the danger signs are too glaring to ignore. Posted by Farooq A. Kperogi at 12:00 AM Labels: 2019 election, Daily Trust on Saturday, Farooq Kperogi, Nigerian politics, Permanent Voters Card (PVC) Three Reasons You Should Be Worried about 2019 Ele...	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line975
__label__wiki	0.769951	0.769951	Ilorin is an Ethnogenesis: Response to Kawu’s Anti-Saraki Ilorin Purism (II) Last week, I pointed to the presence of non-Muslim Fulani pastoralists in Afonja’s army before the arrival of Alimi in Ilorin in 1817— at the behest of Afonja. Professor Abdullahi Smith’s book shows that Afonja’s army, called “jama” (derived from the Arabic jama’ah, which translates as “congregation” in English), also had several Hausa ex-slaves who all later became part of Ilorin. As most people know, Afonja didn’t found Ilorin. That distinction goes to a Yoruba hunter named Ayinla, according to the Ta’alif, who, out of respect, gave up his dwelling to Afonja. Afonja then used Ilorin as the main base for the formation of his fierce and feared multi-ethnic jama with which he attacked the Alaafin in Oyo-Ile, where Afonja was born. We learn from many historical sources that in c.1821, four years after Alimi’s arrival in Ilorin, Afonja’s jama used the town of Iseyin (incidentally the hometown of the late Olusola Saraki’s mother) as a base to launch attacks on the Alaafin. Afonja had been doing this for at least 20 years before Alimi came to Ilorin from the Yoruba town of Kuwo in Asa Local Government of Kwara State. (As I pointed out last week, Alimi had lived in Ogbomoso for three months and in Ikoyi for a year before moving to Kuwo where he lived for three years prior to his invitation to Ilorin by Afonja). I bring all these examples to illustrate the originative ethnic cosmopolitanism in the evolution of Ilorin’s ethnogenesis and to show the hollowness and inadmissibility of notions of Ilorin purism. Language and religion, not ethnicity or ancestral provenance, are the most important cultural markers of the Ilorin identity. (Emotional attachment and self-identification are other central markers of the identity, as I’ll show in my conclusion.) The language is Yoruba, but it’s a dialect of Yoruba that bears poignant linguistic testament to the labyrinthine identities that blended to form the Ilorin identity. In the Yoruba dialect spoken in Ilorin, you encounter distinct, if muffled, echoes of Hausa, Fulfulde, Baatonu, Kanuri, Nupe, and, of course, Arabic. Yet the language is mutually intelligible with the Yoruba spoken in much of Nigeria’s southwest. Islam is another central building block in the construction of the Ilorin identity. It’s often said that it is easier to find an “indigenous” Kano non-Muslim than it is to find an “indigenous” Ilorin non-Muslim. Many people who despise the Sarakis and want to rhetorically sever their connection to Ilorin like to point to an apocryphal account of their Egba (Abeokuta) origins. I interviewed the late Olusola Saraki in early 2002 (read my November 24, 2012 column titled “My Last Encounter with Saraki”), and he told me his paternal grandfather was a Malian Fulani Islamic scholar who was drawn to the Islamic ferment that was taking place in Ilorin. There is certainly a huge Malian influence in Ilorin and many parts of Nigeria, which I’m currently researching. Although the Malians who brought Islam to Yoruba land were Mande, not Fulani, people, there was a lot of mixing between the Mande and the Fulani in old Mali. It is entirely plausible that the Sarakis are patrilineally descended from the Malian Islamic scholars who migrated to Yoruba land (and elsewhere) in large numbers from the 15th century up until the late 19th century. But let us, for the sake of argument, agree that Olusola Saraki made up his Malian Fulani ancestry to cozy up to the northern Nigerian political establishment, and that his father, Muktar Saraki, was only an Islamic student in Ilorin from Abeokuta. Well, that was precisely how much of Ilorin was formed: people coming from different parts of what is now Nigeria into Ilorin in search of Islamic education from the mid-1800s up until the early 1900s. Muktar Saraki was clearly born in the 1800s, which coincides with the incipience of Ilorin as we know it. That makes him as authentically Ilorin as anybody else who claims that identity. And insisting that Muktar Saraki not being born in Ilorin delegitimizes his claims to Ilorin origins would open a Pandora’s box of unintended delegitimizations. Let’s start from the obvious. It would mean that Abd al-Salam, Ilorin’s first emir who reigned from c. 1823 to c.1836, according to Smith’s chronology, was not an Ilorin man since he was not born in Ilorin; he was born in Sokoto, according to the Ta’lif. It would also mean that Shi’ta, Abd al-Salam’s younger brother who succeeded him as emir and ruled from c. 1837 to c. 1863, was not an Ilorin man since he, too, was born in Sokoto. It would, of course, also mean that every child born of Ilorin parents outside of Ilorin town is not native to Ilorin. That’s simplistic nativist logic. What is even more simplistic, not to talk of ahistorical and unsociological, is the claim that Bukola Saraki’s Yoruba given names (Olubukola Olabowale Adebisi) somehow denude him of his Ilorin bona fides. Modibbo Kawu said, “These are not names an Ilorin person would normally be called.” Well, one of Ilorin’s distinctions is the rich cultural and onomastic tapestries its people embody with grace and pride. I know of no Ilorin person, whatever his or her ancestral provenance, who does not have a Yoruba given name. Even Kawu himself used to be known as Lanre, the short form of Olanrewaju. The current emir of Ilorin was known as Kolapo throughout his professional career. He only formally became known as Ibrahim after he became emir. Babatunde “Tunde” Idiagbon, one of Ilorin’s most famous sons, who was patrilineally Fulani, didn’t also formally bear his Muslim name, Abdulbaki, throughout his life. In fact, he gave all his children Yoruba names: Adekunle, Babatunde, Ronke, Mope, and Bola. Ilorin people are simultaneously all of the multiplicity of identities that constitute them and none of it. That’s why they are an ethnogenesis. No one is pure anything in Ilorin, and every Ilorin person knows this. For instance, someone once told me that the ancestors of Professor Shuaib Oba Abdulraheem, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin and head of the Federal Character Commission, came to Ilorin from Mali. When I interviewed him in 2000 or thereabouts, I asked if this was true. He shrugged off my question. It was probably his way of saying that it’s impractical and pointless to trace that sort of neat, discrete provenance in a complex ethnogenesis like Ilorin. In his stirring, delicately phrased tribute to his mother in September 2009 titled “Now I feel Truly Vulnerable,” Kawu admitted that his mother was Yoruba. That’s half of his DNA. The other half, which is Fulani, is mixed with many other ethnicities, so that if a scientific DNA analysis were done on him, the Fulani stemma in him would probably only be about 10 percent or less. This would be true of even the contemporary descendants of Alimi who don’t look anything close to how the Ta’lif describes Alimi, Abd al-Salam, and Shi’ta—“red,” i.e. light-skinned. That’s why scholars of identity, as I’ve pointed out here several times, characterize identity as “fiction,” even though they admit it’s politically consequential fiction that is often deployed to exclude, marginalize, and imagine communities. The late Dr. Olusola Saraki clearly had an enormous emotional investment in his Ilorin identity. He self-identified as an Ilorin person, and that’s all that matters. Ultimately, our identity is what we think and proclaim we are. In any case, Bukola Saraki didn’t choose to be born into the Saraki family, which claims Ilorin origins. That was an accident of birth about which he had no control. To judge people on the basis of invariable attributes, such as the place or circumstance of their birth, is to condemn them even before they were born. Malcolm X called that “the worst crime that can ever be committed.” In the final analysis, heterogeneity is at the structural and symbolic core of the Ilorin identity, and nativism and rigid ethnic exclusivism are a painful betrayal of the intrinsic hybridity of that identity. Ilorin is an Ethnogenesis: Response to Kawu's Anti-Saraki Ilorin Purism (I) My Last Encounter With Saraki El-Rufai's Hypocritical Xenophobia and Obadiah Mailafia's Fulaniphobia Obadiah Mailafia: From Fulaniphobia to Embarrassing Ignorance Posted by Farooq A. Kperogi at 11:37 PM No comments: Links to this post Labels: Afonja, Bukola Saraki, Daily Trust on Saturday, Farooq Kperogi, Ilorin identity, Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, Olusola Saraki, Tunde Idiagbon Ilorin is an Ethnogenesis: Response to Kawu’s Anti...	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line976
__label__wiki	0.897342	0.897342	8 Free Education Lessons for “Gambari Progressives Society” on KWASU VC Today's back-page column in the Saturday Tribune may not appeal to a mass audience, but it's important nonetheless. It tackles a group of ignorant, regressive rubes known as "Gambari Progressive Society" who have zero knowledge about how the university works but who are lyrical in their ignorance. The column also exposes the real etymology of the term "Gambari." Enjoy: I recently became aware of a press statement by an Ilorin group that calls itself “Gambari Progressive Society.” The press statement attempted to justify the discriminatory and widely condemned appointment of Professor Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi as Vice Chancellor of Kwara State University by maligning Professor Sakah Saidu Mahmud who came first in the interview for the job and who was acting VC after the expiration of the tenure of the past VC. In smearing Professor Mahmud, the association revealed egregious ignorance, particularly of the American university system after which KWASU is modelled. Let me educate them—and hopefully educate others who swim in the same ocean of ignorance as they do. 1. The association said it took Professor Mahmud 10 years to complete his Ph.D. and that it took Professor Akanbi two years to complete his. It then implied that the length of time it takes to complete doctoral studies has a bearing on competence. Here’s why they got it wrong. Akanbi has a UK PhD; Mahmud has a US PhD. The UK has no coursework for doctoral studies. It’s just research. In the US, doctoral coursework alone takes between two and three years. At the end of doctoral coursework, students take a comprehensive exam, typically in their third year. Some people take up to a year to prepare for the exam after coursework. After students pass the comprehensive exams, they take another year to write up their proposal and defend it, after which they start work on their dissertations. For most humanities and social science courses, getting a PhD takes between five and seven years. But Mahmud’s case was different. His doctoral dissertation was an ambitious comparison of post-independence Nigeria and early Meiji Japan, which required him to live in Japan, learn the Japanese language, and acquire sufficient proficiency in the language to be able to read and make sense of primary sources in it. That lengthened his studies. He should be praised, not ridiculed, for his admirably challenging but ultimately rewarding scholarly adventure. How many people can learn a completely different language as adults and conduct research in it? 2. The association said Mahmud was elevated from Lecturer I to Professor. This is flat-out false. He left Transylvania University as an Associate Professor, which is equivalent to a Reader in the British system. The American university system has no rank called “Lecturer I.” He was overdue for the rank of full professor at Transylvania University, but he didn’t apply for it, which is common in the US and Canada. Being full professor (equivalent to professor in the British system) is no big deal. It doesn’t increase your pay by much, doesn’t change your title (unlike in the British system where being addressed as “Professor” confers titular privilege), and requires a lot of mind-numbing paperwork. Many accomplished, tenured academics don’t apply for full professorship. For instance, when Professor Donna Strickland of the University of Waterloo won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, people were surprised that she wasn’t a full professor. She was an Associate Professor. In an October 7, 2018 interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education, she said she had "never applied" for a full professorship even though she was qualified for it because "it doesn't carry necessarily a pay raise… I never filled out the paperwork… I do what I want to do and that wasn't worth doing." 3. The association belittled Mahmud for not having graduated a PhD student and suggested that scholars who don’t supervise PhD students can’t be professors. First, Mahmud supervised two PhD students to completion at KWASU. Second, Transylvania University, where he spent most of his professional life in the US, is a liberal arts institution that is focused on undergraduate education. In the US, different universities have different missions. Universities that are called “liberal arts colleges” emphasize undergraduate education. They may have a few master’s degree programs, but they hardly have any PhD programs. There are comparatively few doctorate-granting institutions in the US. To suggest that scholars can’t be full professors until they have mentored PhD students is to betray ignorance of how the university system works. At Transylvania University, which was established in 1780 and has the distinction of being the oldest university in the state of Kentucky and the 16th oldest in the US, academics are judged mostly by the quality of their teaching. While research is important, it isn’t the main criterion for promotion. In 2003, Mahmud was voted Transylvania University’s “Outstanding Faculty of the Year” based mostly on the excellence of his teaching—and, of course, the quality of his research and service. (“Faculty” is the generic term for a university teacher in US academe). 4. The association inflated Akanbi’s publication count to 90 and undercounted Mahmud’s. It then went ahead to imply that, based on their publication records, Akanbi is more qualified than Mahmud to be KWASU VC. But Akanbi’s Google Scholar profile page shows that he has 14 published articles, seven of which are co-authored, and most of which were published in local journals with lax or zero standards. Mahmud’s two single-authored books alone—not to talk of his other journal articles and book chapters— eclipse Akanbi’s entire publication record. But that’s even irrelevant. 5. The main issue is still that Akanbi came third in the judgement of the (Ilorin-dominated) committee set up to fill the position of KWASU VC. He scored a measly 63.2 % against Mahmud’s 86.4%. Professor Mohammed Gana Yisa scored 74%. But, somehow, in the “wisdom” of the Kwara State governor, the third became the first. 6. How can a regressive association that defends injustice and champions the perpetration of unfair advantages to undeserving people because of where they come from call itself “progressive”? The association must not know what “progressive” really means. KWASU is owned and funded by the whole of Kwara State, but the school’s VC, registrar, pro-chancellor, and visitor are all from Ilorin. How can an association that calls itself “progressive” defend that? 7. The association said Mahmud’s invidious exclusion was justified because he would be 72 years old when his five-year term would expire. But the job ad for the position didn’t identify age as a disqualifying criterion. In any case, the previous VC, who is from Ilorin, served two terms of 10 years, even though vice chancellors are by law allowed one nonrenewable term. If it didn’t matter that the law was circumvented in the past, why would an additional two years into Mahmud’s term after his official retirement age matter? It’s unjust to shift the goalpost after the goal has been scored. 8. Finally, the association’s divisive rhetoric that suggests that “Kwara south” and “Kwara north” are uniting to oppose Ilorin ignores the fact that Ilorin is peopled by a mixture of ethnic groups from both regions of the state. Contemporary Ilorin people are the product of the fusion of Yoruba, Fulani, Baatonu, Nupe, Hausa, etc. people. No one from any part of Kwara can hate Ilorin people without hating him or herself because Ilorin people embody the state’s diversity. In any case, the association suggested that the previous VC, who is from Ilorin, wanted Mahmud to succeed him. What does that tell them? The fact that Yoruba people in Kwara south and non-Yoruba people in Kwara north (which includes the Baatonu, the Nupe, and the Bokobaru people) are united in opposing the appointment of Akanbi as KWASU’s VC, which is unexampled in the history of the state, says something. Interestingly, the word “Gambari” is a Baatonu word, which originally occurs in the language as Gambaru. It literally means “language of someplace.” “Gam” means someplace and “barum” means language in the Baatonu language, which Yoruba people call Bariba. Gambaru initially referred to any ethnic group that the Baatonu people didn’t know, but it later came to be associated with the Hausa. (Gambarum is the language and Gambaru is the people, the plural form of which is Gambarusu). Oyo people, who are the southern neighbors of the Baatonu, borrowed Gambaru and changed it to Gambari, which is the adjectival form of Gambaru in the Baatonu language. It’s supremely ironic that people who call themselves “Gambari” are antagonizing a Baatonu man whose only “offense” is that he dared to be indignant at being cheated out of what was rightly his. Gov. AbdulRazaq’s Odious Ilorin-centric Bigotry at KWASU Posted by Farooq A. Kperogi at 12:00 AM 16 comments: Links to this post Labels: Baatonu, Farooq Kperogi, Gambari, Kwara State, Kwara State University, KWASU, Professor Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi, Professor Sakah Saidu Mahmud 8 Free Education Lessons for “Gambari Progressives...	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line977
__label__cc	0.624792	0.375208	Check Out This Set of Stylish Alternate Posters for 'The Maze Runner' Source: IMPAwards Never Stop Running. Along with the new trailer today, 20th Century Fox has been unleashing handfuls of new posters for The Maze Runner adaptation, a sci-fi thriller about a bunch of kids locked in a gigantic, elaborate, futuristic maze. Earlier in the week we ran the theatrical poster, now we have a batch of 8+ stylish alternate posters for the film (and they're worth taking a look at). The artwork highlights two main themes: running, and mazes, and often integrates both of those into one image. Some of these are better than others, but overall I'm quite impressed with the marketing, and I'm hoping these will build interest with audiences. Thanks to Yahoo for most of these and to IMPAwards as well. Here are other posters for The Maze Runner: Last but not least, two character posters showing Kaya Scodelario & Ki Hong Lee in The Maze Runner. Be sure to watch the latest trailer here and stay tuned for additional updates from the director @WesBall. The Maze Runner marks the feature directorial debut of Wes Ball (of Ruin), working from a script by Noah Oppenheim and James Dashner (who wrote the book on which the film is based). The story follows teen Thomas (Dylan O'Brien), who awakens in a rusty elevator with no memory of who he is, only to learn he's been delivered to the middle of an intricate maze, along with a slew of other boys, who have been trying to find their way out of the ever-changing labyrinth — all while establishing a functioning society in what they call The Glade. Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter and more star in the film arriving on September 19th, 2014. Find more posts: Artwork, Posters, Sci-Fi The orange one is good. I will be very interested in seeing how this performs. As it is clear mountains of money are being spent on marketing. The WCKD IS GOOD poster is going to really confuse people without context. I completely understand why you wouldn't go with it. Unless you read the book you don't know what it is. Kento on Jul 30, 2014	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line981
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__label__wiki	0.640696	0.640696	Stephen Kenny’s Republic of Ireland team will begin their 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign with a Group A fixture away to Serbia on Wednesday, March 24th next while Qatar have been added as the sixth team in the Group on a non-competitive basis. Ireland will welcome Luxembourg to the Aviva Stadium on Saturday, March 27th before Qatar arrive for a non-competitive Group A fixture on Tuesday, March 30th. World Cup fixtures will return after the summer in September when Ireland face Portugal away on Wednesday, September 1st, followed by a home game against Azerbaijan on Saturday, September 4th and Serbia at the Aviva on Tuesday, September 7th. October sees the Republic away to Azerbaijan on Saturday, October 9th, and away to Qatar, at a European venue, on Tuesday, October 12th. The final Group A fixtures will be played in November when Ireland are at home to Portugal on Thursday, November 11th, and away to Luxembourg on Sunday, November 14th. Qatar have been added as the sixth team to Group A to give them match practice ahead of their hosting of the World Cup in 2022. These games will be non-competitive with Qatar in Dublin on March 30th while the second match will be played at a neutral venue in Europe on October 12th. The FAI will begin to plan for these World Cup games with their Group A opponents immediately now that the fixtures are known but no ticket details will be available for some time as the Associations await developments on the return of fans in the COVID-19 era. REPUBLIC OF IRELAND FIXTURES GROUP A EUROPEAN QUALIFYING - 2022 FIFA WORLD CUP Wednesday, 24th – Serbia away Saturday, 27th – Luxembourg home Tuesday, 30th – Qatar home, non-competitive Wednesday, 1st – Portugal away Saturday, 4th – Azerbaijan home Tuesday, 7th – Serbia home Saturday, 9th – Azerbaijan away Tuesday, 12th – Qatar away, non-competitive (game to be played in Europe) Thursday, 11th – Portugal home Sunday, 14th – Luxembourg away	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line992
__label__cc	0.617793	0.382207	SURFER ROSA [Vinyl] Album: SURFER ROSA [Vinyl] 1) Bone Machine More Info... 0:03 2) Break My Body More Info... 0:02 3) Something Against You More Info... 0:01 4) Broken Face More Info... 0:01 5) Gigantic More Info... 0:04 6) River Euphrates More Info... 0:02 7) Where Is My Mind? More Info... 0:04 8) Cactus More Info... 0:02 9) Tony's Theme More Info... 0:02 10) Oh My Golly! More Info... 0:01 11) Extra More Info... 12) Vamos More Info... 0:04 13) I'm Amazed More Info... 0:01 14) Brick Is Red More Info... 0:02 The Pixies: Black Francis (vocals, guitars), Joey Santiago (guitars), Kim Deal (bass, vocals), David Lovering (drums). All songs by Black Francis except "Gigantic" (Mrs. John Murphy) and "Levitate Me" (Black Francis/Lovering/Walsh). Recorded at 2-Division, Boston, Massachusetts and Fort Apache, Roxbury, Massachusetts. The Pixies: Black Francis (vocals, guitar); Kim Deal (vocals, bass); Joey Santiago (guitar); David Lovering (drums). Recorded at Q-Division, Boston, Massachusetts. Now seen as an important alternative band of the 80s, it is a pity they were not more appreciated at the time. The Boston-based Pixies exploded into life with this abrasive selection. Produced by enfant terrible Steve Albini, the album emphasized the quartet's scratchy tension. A vicious drum sound underpins the group's uncanny blend of urgency and melody, where Black Francis's rabid intonation contrasts with Kim Deal's more gentle perspective. Obtuse lyrics and barely controlled guitar accentuate the Pixies' uncompromising visions and emphasize an approach that both excites and intrigues. Terse, exhilarating and single-minded, SURFER ROSA is an audacious collection. Q (10/01, p.67) - Ranked #26 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime" Q (7/01, p.90) - Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time" - "...As cerebral as it is visceral....a relentlessly teeth-baring onslaught..." Alternative Press (8/01, p.112) - Included in AP's "10 Essential '80s Albums" - "...An alternatively explosive and tender opus..." NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #44 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.' NME (Magazine) (9/25/93, p.19) - Ranked #14 among The 50 Greatest Albums Of The '80s. Blender (Magazine) (p.86) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "'Broken Face' and 'Break My Body' harness loneliness and self-loathing to images of deformation -- Pixies perennials; and 'Cactus' smolders with lust." Home » Music » Alternative Home » Music » Pop Home » Music » Vinyl » Rock/Pop » Indie/Alternative Pixies Music Pixies Vinyl Music The Pixies Music	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line994
__label__wiki	0.519704	0.519704	OCCTH 610 Physiology Lecture 9/9 What are 4 functions of the plasma membrane? 1. physical isolation 2. regulates exchange with environment 3. monitors the environment 4. structural support What is the mitochondria? the "power house" where energy is made muscle is full of mitochondria The plasma membrane is made up of a ? phospholipid bilayer What is a lipid that is a precursor to steroids and gives structure to the bilayer and holds it together Definition of a mitochondria? a membrane-enclosed organelle found in most eukaryotic cells Mitochondria are sometimes described as "cellular power plants" because they generate most of the cell's supply of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), used as a source of chemical energy.[2] In addition to supplying cellular energy, mitochondria are involved in a range of other processes, such as signaling, cellular differentiation, cell death, as well as the control of the cell cycle and cell growth What is needed to hydrolize ATP ATPace 1 Glucose molecule makes how many ATP? 36 ATP 1 Triglyceride molecule makes how many ATP? 144 ATP 1 Triglyceride = 3 fatty acids Fatty acid = 4 acetyl CoA + 1 acetyl CoA = 12 ATP's What are the steps of the Krebs Cycle? take Acetyl CoA goes into Krebs Cycle input acetyl ends with a bunch of ATP What are the three specific transport pathways through the cell membrane? Simple Diffusion What is facilitated diffusion? Facilitated diffusion is the spontaneous passage of molecules or ions across a biological membrane passing through specific transmembrane transport proteins. The facilitated diffusion may occur either across biological membranes or through aqueous compartments of an organism What is active transport? Active transport is the movement of a substance against its concentration energy. In all cells this is usually concerned with accumulating high concentrations of molecules that the cell needs, such as ions, glucose, amino acids. If the process uses chemical energy, such as from adenosine triphosphate (ATP), it is termed primary active transport. Secondary active transport involves the use of an electrochemical gradient. Active transport uses energy, unlike passive transport, which does not use any type of energy. Active transport is a good example of a process for which cells require energy. Examples of active transport include the uptake of glucose in the intestines in humans and the uptake of mineral ions into root hair cells of plants. What is diffusion Diffusion describes the spread of particles through random motion from regions of higher concentration to regions of lower concentration. Lipid-soluble molecules diffuse through the: plamsa membrane Small water-soluble molecules and ions diffuse through: membrane channels Large molecules that cannot diffuse through lipids cannot cross plasma membrane unless they are transported by: a carrier mechanism What is osmosis? is the movement of water molecules across a selectively-permeable membrane down a water potential gradient.[1] More specifically, it is the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane from an area of high water potential (low solute concentration) to an area of low water potential (high solute concentration). Less specifically, it is when water moves. It is a physical process in which a solvent moves, without input of energy, across a semipermeable membrane (permeable to the solvent, but not the solute) separating two solutions of different concentrations.[2] Osmosis releases energy, and can be made to do work.[3] Osmosis is a passive process, like diffusion. What is tonicity? Tonicity is a measure of the osmotic pressure (as defined by the water potential of the two solutions) of two solutions separated by a semipermeable membrane. What does isotonic mean? Isotonic solutions contain equal concentrations of impermeable solutes on either side of the membrane. What does hypertonic mean? A hypertonic solution is a solution having a greater solute concentration than the cytosol. It contains a greater concentration of impermeable solutes on the external side of the membrane. When a cell’s cytoplasm is bathed in a hypertonic solution the water will be drawn into the solution and out of the cell by osmosis. If water molecules continue to diffuse out of the cell, it will cause the cell to shrink, or crenate. What does hypotonic mean? A hypotonic solution is a solution having a lesser solute concentration than the cytosol. It contains a lesser concentration of impermeable solutes on the external side of the membrane. When a cell’s cytoplasm is bathed in a hypotonic solution the water will be drawn out of the solution and into the cell by osmosis. If water molecules continue to diffuse into the cell, it will cause the cell to swell, up to the point that lysis (rupture) may occur. What happens to the carrier protein during facilitated diffusion? It changes shape What are the 3 main steps in facilitated diffusion? 1. glucose molecule attaches to receptro site 2. carrier protein changes shape 3. glucose released into cytoplasm What is an action potential? an action potential is a short-lasting event in which the electrical membrane potential of a cell rapidly rises and falls, following a stereotyped trajectory. Action potentials occur in several types of animal cells, called excitable cells, which include neurons, muscle cells, and endocrine cells. In neurons, they play a central role in cell-to-cell communication. In other types of cells, their main function is to activate intracellular processes. In muscle cells, for example, an action potential is the first step in the chain of events leading to contraction What is the Sodium Potassium Pump An enzyme located in the plasma membrane Active transport is responsible for cells containing relatively high concentrations of potassium ions but low concentrations of sodium ions. The mechanism responsible for this is the sodium-potassium pump, which moves these two ions in opposite directions across the plasma membrane. What are the main steps in the process of an action potential? 1. Resting Potential 2. Depolarization 3. Re-polarization 4. Hype-rpolarization What happens during the action potential period? De-polarization & Re-polarization With an action potential what happens during the refractory period ? Hyper-polarization & resting potential What is the threshold potential? threshold potential is the membrane potential to which a membrane must be depolarized to initiate an action potential. It often can be between −40 and -55 mV, but it can vary based upon several factors What is the resting potential? The relatively static membrane potential of quiescent cells is called the resting membrane potential (or resting voltage), as opposed to the specific dynamic electrochemical phenomena called action potential and graded membrane potential. What is re-polarization? repolarization refers to the change in membrane potential that returns the membrane potential to a negative value after the depolarization phase of an action potential has just previously changed the membrane potential to a positive value. Repolarization results from the movement of positively charged potassium ions out of the cell. Typically the repolarization phase of an action potential results in hyperpolarization, attainment of a membrane potential that is more negative than the resting potential. What is usually the peak of an action potential in milivolts? +40 milivolts What is hyper-polarization? is a change in a cell's membrane potential that makes it more negative. It is the opposite of a depolarization. All _____ cells have the ability to have action potential? excitable What doe poisons do to your cells? inhibit your cells from firing an action potential Channel proteins are used for: Carrier proteins are used to move ions across membranes for: 1. facilitated diffusion 2. Active transport What does co-trasnport mean? Co-transport, also known as coupled transport, refers to the simultaneous or sequential passive transfer of molecules or ions across biological membranes in a fixed ratio. Permitting one ion or molecule to move from the side where it is more concentrated to that where it is less concentrated increases entropy and can serve as a source of energy for metabolism (e.g. in ATP synthase). In cotransporters, it is used to force the transport of another ion or molecule (usually) from the side where it is less concentrated to that where it is more concentrated. What are the names of the 2 other types of transport? 1. co-transport 2. counter transport Co-transport 2 ions transported together in same direction Counter transport 2 ions transporting together but 1 in 1 direction and 1 in the other direction (Criss cross) In osmosis, the movement of water wants to go in what direction? hypo (tonic) to hyper (tonic) bulk transport out of the cell bulk transport into a cell What is pinocytosis? a form of endocytosis in which small particles are brought into the cell suspended within small vesicles which subsequently fuse with lysosomes to hydrolyze, or to break down, the particles. This process requires a lot energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate, the chemical compound used as energy in the majority of cells. Pinocytosis is primarily used for the absorption of extracellular fluids (ECF), and in contrast to phagocytosis, generates very small vesicles What is phagocytosis? is the cellular process of engulfing solid particles by the cell membrane to form an internal phagosome by phagocytes and protists. Phagocytosis is a specific form of endocytosis involving the vesicular internalization of solid particles, such as bacteria, and is, therefore, distinct from other forms of endocytosis such as the vesicular internalization of various liquids. Phagocytosis is involved in the acquisition of nutrients for some cells, and, in the immune system	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line997
__label__cc	0.709501	0.290499	Home / Stay Informed / News Cauda Equina Syndrome - The spinal injury costing the NHS millions According to a leading consultant, failure to diagnose and treat Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES) is costing the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds each year. CES is a severe narrowing of the spinal canal usually caused by a prolapsed invertebral disc when the nerves become severely compressed. This can lead to numbness and weakness in the legs, numbness in the saddle area, difficulty controlling the bladder and even loss of bladder control. Although CES is very rare, it is a very serious condition which can have life changing consequences if undiagnosed and not treated within the first 24 hours. A recent national audit of the NHS found that standards simply aren't being met - 63% of referrals were made without an available MRI scan and therefore many did not have a confirmed diagnosis. In a report published by the NHS, evidence points to a lack of out of hours radiography support resulting in patients not receiving timely MRI scans which can lead to devastating consequences. Many people who suffer from the condition are young and as a result, are often left unable to return to work and left needing lifetime care and support. Due to the nature of the problem this can cause, where negligence can be proven, it can often result in a six figure settlement. The NHS has projected claims for the period 2014-16 are likely to be £68m, two thirds of which is due to failure to diagnose and treat the condition. This figure excludes claims against GP's and so the true cost is unknown. More needs to be done to address the issue and reduce avoidable harm, CES should be treated as an emergency and urgent decompression surgery is critical. Medical professionals need to act quicker to recognise the red flag symptoms of CES to improve the prospects of individuals making a full recovery and reduce the likelihood of avoidable long term harm. If you are affected by any of the issues mentioned above, you can find support with www.ihavecaudaequina.com. Leonie Millard is working with CESA (Cauda Equina Syndrome Association) to promote awareness, and can provide advice and guidance in exploring whether a medical case has been dealt with negligently. For more information contact Leonie Millard in our Clinical Negligence department via email or phone on 01254 770517. Alternatively send any question through to Forbes Solicitors via our online Contact Form.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1000
__label__wiki	0.932665	0.932665	Stacey Sprenz \| Tabletop Media Group After spending time at Magnolia Grill in Durham, Union Square and Gramercy Tavern in New York, Peninsula Grill in Charleston, and a research station cafeteria in Antarctica, chef Jason Smith returned to his hometown of Raleigh to start 18 Restaurant Group. Bringing Big-City to the Neighborhood How a well-traveled chef brought his experiences cooking all over the world back to his hometown in Raleigh, North Carolina. March 2018 Laura D'Alessandro Even as a kid, Jason Smith loved going to restaurants. After a long car ride with his dad from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Raleigh, they’d stop to get something to eat. It was the excitement about the experience that first piqued Smith’s interest in the business. “I loved that entire going out to eat feeling of excitement, right before you get to the restaurant,” the chef says. “I still love going out to eat but I almost love more when my wife and I are getting ready and we’re having a cocktail waiting for the Uber to come; that excitement that we know we’re going out to eat is what I like. That adrenaline part of the business has kept me very interested in it. Still to this day I’m nervous about every shift because you’ve never seen it all or done it all.” Smith owns four restaurants in the Raleigh area, three of which opened in a span of less than four years. He opened the first, 18 Seaboard, in 2006 after making stops at Magnolia Grill in Durham, Union Square and Gramercy Tavern in New York, Peninsula Grill in Charleston, and a year managing foodservice at a research station in Antarctica. Smith’s restaurant group’s flagship location has become a neighborhood anchor. The chef and owner says 40 percent of the clientele on any given evening are repeat customers. Won’t You Be My Neighbor Cultivating a neighborhood clientele at 18 Seaboard, as well as other locations in the restaurant group, comes down to management. Smith says hiring decisions make a big difference and personality is key. “Having the right managers and having the right culture,” are the secrets, he says. At 18 Seaboard, Smith or the manager will try to visit as many tables as possible when they can to build and nurture those neighborhood relationships. “The most important thing in business is how a customer feels,” he says. “No matter what you say, how they feel is going to create a lasting memory—more than the food, the service, the ambiance. Trying to get our customers to feel a certain way is key.” Harvest 18, Smith’s third restaurant, has a local following as a family destination. But many of them are new to the area. “That area is growing so much,” he says. “Say we have 100 customers all day—85 have moved here in the last year-and-a-half.” When Smith moved back to the area, he couldn’t have predicted just how close to home his businesses would be. His second restaurant, Cantina 18, opened in Raleigh’s Cameron Village in 2009. “I rode my BMX bike through that shopping center as a kid, now I’m a merchant there,” he says. “You just don’t hear that anymore. There are not a lot of places left in the world where a doofy guy like me can do something like that—that’s really how I feel and I tell people that.” Making Trends Approachable The restaurant business is certainly different for Smith in Raleigh than it was when he was a chef in New York—a slower pace, more familiar faces, and less demand for trendy items. When 18 Seaboard opened, local sourcing wasn’t quite as common a practice as it is now. But Smith made the effort to source locally for his restaurants from day one, he says. It can be more expensive, and it’s important to be able to share that cost. “The good thing is I have a clientele that find value in it,” he says. “You pass a lot of it onto the customer. We have kept reasonable prices but we’re also serving catfish.” Smith sources catfish from a local midsize company as a business-to-business purchase and says he’ll always keep it on the menu. He also sources from local farmers markets and creates long-term relationships with North Carolina farmers. Being an agricultural state helps, he says, but so does being more resourceful with purchases. Ultimately, it’s a balance. “Taking by-product type things and making them better than premier cuts is what we’ve tried to do as best we can,” he says. “We do a flat iron steak, we do a lot of short ribs. It’s not always the most desirable cut, and we still have some commodity ingredients here.” Slowing But Still Growing The menu at 18 Seaboard stayed the same for a long time after its initial opening. Smith says the first four to five years were very seasonal, but after that many best-of’s were hanging out on the menu while he was side-tracked with growth. After opening 18 Seaboard 2006, he opened Cantina 18 in 2009 and Harvest 18 in 2014. In 2016, he had the opportunity to renovate the original Cantina 18, and then opened a second location in 2017. Now, he’s taking time to regroup and circle back, tightening the screws so to speak. But there was one last renovation on the list: 18 Seaboard’s menu. There are some menu items he’ll always stand behind: barbecue brisket, crackling pork shank, and of course, the catfish. But now customers can find new bar bites and trendy pokes on the menu. The renovation doesn’t represent a change so much as a refocus, Smith says. “It was just getting back to focusing on being seasonal and ingredient-driven, and making sure it was complex enough to be fun and interesting but not an intellectual test,” he says. “That’s what we do here and tried to do the best.” Anchor Packaging 13515 Barrett Parkway #100 Innovative packages for hot & cold foods for restaurants and supermarket grab (more) AyrKing Corporation 2013 Cobalt Drive A team of food prep specialists that optimize food preparation which reduces costs. Gluten Free/Natural Aspen Sales Group 350 Main St suite 6A ASG, Global Networking specialists. 80+ years experience in the food industry (more). Marketing/Customer Engagement/Promotions 3989 Research Park Drive Mystery shopping programs, customer surveys & brand reputation management (more)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1003
__label__wiki	0.833614	0.833614	Home Ethiopia Interview with Ambassador Herman J. Cohen, former Assistant Secretary of State for... Interview with Ambassador Herman J. Cohen, former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 6.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. By: Kabir K. Gandhi. Earlier this month the Africa Policy Journal sat down with Herman J. Cohen, a former U.S. ambassador to several African countries, advisor to multiple U.S. Presidents, and a 38-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service. During his time in Africa, Cohen developed relationships with African leaders including South African President Nelson Mandela and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. In his time as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the first President George Bush Administration, and through his role at the National Security Council under President Ronald Reagan, Cohen worked to bring about transitions of power in South Africa and Namibia, and to end long-standing conflicts in Angola, Ethiopia, and Mozambique. Currently, Cohen is the President and CEO of Cohen and Woods International and a consultant on Africa for Contour Global Electric Power. Though still keenly interested in the evolving African political climate, Cohen now focuses on bringing investment to Africa and strengthening U.S.-Africa trade relations. Cohen discusses how U.S. policy towards Africa has changed and his upcoming bookThe Mind of the African Strongman. Below is an edited version of the conversation. Q: What really interested you in Africa? Cohen: I was a junior diplomat just getting involved in the late 1950s and it was just the time that a lot of African countries were becoming independent, mainly those colonized by the French and the British. So there I was in the State Department and told that I should specialize in something as the world grew increasingly complex. So I saw that all these countries were becoming independent and thought, ‘So what is going to be U.S. policy?’ Q: What were the U.S.’s objectives in trying to stabilize Ethiopia, Eritrea, Mozambique and the other countries facing political turmoil? Cohen: One of our objectives in mediating was trying to make sure that the ongoing governance situation was more democratic than non-democratic. So in Angola, one of the agreements in the peace deal was an election with the hope that it would lead on to more democracy. In Ethiopia, we urged the rebels who ended up on top to fix their democracy. In Mozambique, we helped establish a democracy, which has lasted to this day. So our objective was always a good- governance situation after the conflicts. Q: In your book The Mind of the African Strongman, you discuss post-colonial figures leading nations post independence for better or for worse. You mention Gaddafi and Mandela, for example. How have these “Strongmen” shaped the Africa we see today? Cohen: I think they made Africa lag behind for the most part. Some of the more selfish leaders didn’t only lead to non-democratic governance but also adoption of policies, both economic and political, that would guarantee progress that couldn’t compare to say South-East Asia. Q: Has this corruption affected the way Americans view investment into Africa? Cohen: I remember having dinner at the Ambassador’s house in Ghana, after I left government, and it was all Ghanaian businessmen. I asked them if they were all really investing, but they said they were waiting for Americans to invest, who they said would make them feel comfortable. But it’s the opposite in reality. Americans will only invest where they see local people investing. It’s still quite rare. Now you have Ford Motor Company starting a factory in Kenya, for example, where they feel comfortable and don’t feel like they’ll be harassed. It’s happening in Nigeria too, where you know that it’s only commercial issues that will decide if you make money or not. But I would say only twenty percent of the African continent is inviting to foreign investment. Q: What do you see as a resolution to this issue? Be it in the form of policy or otherwise, how can the US encourage further foreign investment in the country? Cohen: We have people in USAID and the World Bank who go in and study the situation and explain why Africa is deterring Western investors. There is the judicial issue and the corruption issue. Some governments don’t even know the issues their countries face. It is essential to encourage locals first and foreigners will then feel comfortable. That’s a heavy part of our good- governance objective. Q: What do you see as some of the challenges the continent unilaterally faces? Cohen: I would say the biggest issue is electricity, because you can’t really do anything without reliable power. You go to many large African cities and they have power outages that last 2-3 hours virtually every day and if you’re an investor that needs that power to keep your production going that’s an issue. So I give that the highest priority – and that’s what I’m working on now: how to get power into Africa via the private sector. The second is other forms of infrastructure, especially ports. For example, Ethiopia is having a major drought problem that has led to famine. Now ships are coming into their only close port, which is Djibouti, and they’ve taken forty days in waiting. And there are ports that are still operating like they were in 1950. These have to adapt now to handle these gigantic ships, especially for minerals. Thirdly, I would say are roads. What use is a port if you can’t transport materials from ports into the major cities? So the issues are mainly infrastructure-oriented, in addition to corruption and the lack of apt judicial processes. Q: Will American companies and businesses be involved in this push to develop African energy and electricity infrastructure? Cohen: They already are. In fact, I am Africa Political Risk Advisor to a New York company called Contour Global, which is a worldwide company that invests in power generation and the receiving country signs a contract to buy that power at a fixed price for twenty years. We now have started in five countries, Togo, Senegal, Rwanda, Mali and Nigeria. Q: Does the infrastructure necessarily exist for disseminating that energy? Cohen: That’s a good question, because it doesn’t always exist in a lot of countries, but everywhere the company has invested they have focused on selling the power to the consumer and figuring out how to get it there. But in other countries, Contour Global has said we can’t work here because there is simply no facility to transmit our product. Q: Should Africa first develop a fully-fledged grid network of electricity or go straight to solar energy? Cohen: I think you need both. The statistic is that 600 million people still don’t have access to electricity in Africa. So what do you do? Well, those who live in large cities or medium sized cities, they have grids but not enough production. So there you put in more generation. A good example is the city of Conakry in Guinea – a typical African country where the French left behind a small generation facility with unmaintained lines running throughout the city. So the World Bank came in and said, ‘We’ll fix the lines,’ and an Indian company came in and said, ‘We’ll install pay-first meters,’ and now the city never has any outages. For cities, you go back to the traditional generation of power and people pay for it. For people in the rural areas you have off- grid power – like small solar kits that they buy for $500 which enables them to have five light- bulbs and a television set. I think it’s essential that they equip themselves with off-grid electricity and eventually the main lines will reach them. Q: How has the US government’s policy directed towards encouraging business in Africa changed? Cohen: Well, the Clinton administration brought in a very innovative project called the African Growth and Opportunities Act which says that whatever African countries make, we’ll allow into the United States duty free, which is a tremendous advantage. Somebody in Madagascar can now make a ladies sweater far more cheaply than the Chinese could. This has not been a blockbuster project, but some of these countries have really benefitted a lot from it, like Lesotho, South Africa, and Tanzania. Q: What has inhibited the African Growth and Opportunities Act from realizing its potential? Cohen: If you are going to take advantage of this policy to its full extent you have to make things. In order to make things you need investors. So you expect that Americans would think they can get lots of cheap labor in Africa and import their goods into the United States, but because of the governance issues we’ve discussed, American investors say, ‘Let the Taiwanese investors build factories and we’ll give them big contracts.’ The Africans do benefit from a heavy uptake in employment, but are not benefitting as much as they could from real direct American investment. Q: How do you see the difference between the Afro-Chinese and Afro-American business relationship? Cohen: China has not seen Africa as a development destination, but the U.S. sees to it that businesses in collaboration with the government contribute to a development result. When the Chinese started their big expansion nearly twenty years ago they saw Africa as a vast treasure trove of commodities which they needed, except for bauxite. They needed iron ore, copper, diamonds, oil and all these other things. So they saw Africa as a barter area – they came in and asked the countries what they needed. ‘We need a road from the capital to the sea.’ The Chinese said they would send a road building company, but asked, ‘Can you guarantee us 100,000 tonnes of copper per year?’ That’s a fine approach, but there was not economic development rationale included. U.S. companies create not only jobs but also highly skilled individuals, like in the case of Chevron. The Chinese never do that. They bring in their own workers and then after the project is over, some workers stay and bring in Chinese goods for their retail shops that undercut local production. So when people tell me that China is undercutting the U.S., I disagree because our objectives are different. Q: To close our discussion, I’d like to ask you a quite hotly debated topic. Do you think that foreign aid is more valuable than international trade? Cohen: There’s a book that has made a lot of noise called Dead Aid, which was written by a Zambian economist. She argues that aid creates a dependency syndrome, so Africans get used to it. So therefore thing, ‘Why make an effort to do what is necessary to generate our own wealth?’ When you look at the budget of a lot of African countries you see that 30-40 percent is foreign aid, budgetary support. And so some argue that it is a disincentive for African political leaders to do what’s right. I tend to think there is something valid in that argument. So what I’m saying is let’s give notice to a lot of African countries that there are only ten more years of support. We will support you technically even after we stop our budgetary aid any way. However, I mentioned this to a congressman who said, ‘If you have no foreign aid, you have no foreign policy.’ So it’s a clash between good economic rationale and foreign policy. We want to make sure we still have an influence. Brief overview of Ambassador Cohen’s career in the Foreign Service: Senior Advisor, Global Coalition for Africa (1993-1998) Assistant Secretary of State for Africa (1989-1993) Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Africa, National Security Council (1987-1989) Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (1980-1984) U.S. Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia (1977-1980) Director for Central African Affairs (Department of State) (1969-1974) Chief of Mission, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (1968-1969) Author bio: Kabir Gandhi, member of Harvard College Class of 2019, is Communications Chair and Vice President-elect for the Harvard Africa Business and Investment Club. Born in New York City, Gandhi has also lived in Mumbai, Hong Kong and most recently in London, where he attended the Harrow School. He is deeply interested in the development of emerging markets and government policy geared towards financial inclusion. 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__label__cc	0.697071	0.302929	ENTERPRISE EUROPE NETWORK INDIA – GBI Innovation Management Services & International Networks Innovation Management Services & International Networks Global Business Inroads works closely with government bodies, bilateral agencies, leading international business networks, embassies, consulates and innovation organizations to facilitate meaningful exchanges between Indian and international business, innovation and technology entities. GBI is highly experienced in facilitating EU-India, Indo-Taiwanese, Indo-Guatemalan, and Indo-US innovation synergies. Over the years, we have built close relationships between universities, governments and innovation actors from regions including Europe, Asia, North & South America, allowing us to be well-positioned to support SMEs, incubators, startups, innovation stakeholders with soft-landing services, transnational entrepreneurship services, and bilateral exchange. 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We will also encourage startups to participate in relevant conferences and events in both regions. The aim is to kick-start a self-sustaining ecosystem that fosters high-level interactions and technology & innovation partnerships that benefit both regions. Read more about this EU initiative at https://startupeuropeindia.net/eiip/ or in GTIN: 12th Edition GLOBAL INNOVATION NETWORKS Global Business Inroads has developed long-standing partnerships with the following international innovation networks for soft-landing services into the US, Europe and North & South America. EU Market Access THE EUROPEAN BUSINESS AND INNOVATION NETWORK GB I is has the Indian ambassador for the European Business and Innovation Network (EBN), Brussels. EBN is a not-for-profit European network of 250+ business and innovation centers, incubators, accelerators and other organizations that support the development and growth of entrepreneurs, startups and SMEs from over 40 countries around the world. 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__label__wiki	0.968533	0.968533	Home :: WMD :: Library :: News :: Iran :: 2020 :: October :: WMD Menu Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) 'Suspects Involved In Downing Ukrainian Plane Over Tehran Face Three Years In Jail' By Radio Farda October 23, 2020 Ukraine's Prosecutor-General is seeking a sentence of "three years in prison" for the suspects involved in the downing of a Ukrainian plane outside Tehran. In a statement, Ukraine's Prosecutor-General's Office said that the Kyiv delegation that traveled to Tehran for the second round of talks on the downing of Ukraine International Airline (UIA) Flight 752 is prioritizing justice for the defendants in the case. Per the statement, Iran had promised to provide Ukraine with full information about the detained defendants within a week, adding, "The Islamic Republic authorities have also promised that they would deliver the tablet belonging to one of the plane's crew by the end October. of the crew of the Ukrainian plane." The Iranian investigation team found the tablet in the first days after the accident. In January, the 737-800 took off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini international airport heading to Kyiv when the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) fired two missiles at the plane. The three-year-old Boeing jet crashed near the capital city, killing all 176 people aboard. The crash victims included 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, eleven Ukrainians, ten Sweden, four Afghans, three Germans, and three Britons. Only after three days did the Guard take responsibility for the tragedy. It took Iranian authorities three days to admit that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps had fired two missiles at the passenger plane. The Iran and Ukraine joint judicial working group, formed during the first round of talks in Kyiv, carried on its discussions on October 19 during the second round of negotiations in Tehran. Four Ukrainian delegation members led by Deputy Prosecutor-General, GÃ¼nduz Mamedov, and representatives of the Tehran Military Prosecutor's Office separately examined the criminal investigation into the downing of the Ukrainian plane. The Ukrainian delegation also visited the crash site and commemorated the victims. In his meeting with Iran's Military Prosecutor in Tehran, Mamedov focused on the principal areas of cooperation that will intensify the investigation, including restoring the chronology of events, conducting joint investigative actions and expert examinations, analyzing flight recorders data and records from a combat vehicle from which the shots were fired and obtaining information on the six people suspected of downing the plane. "Acceptance of the voiced proposals will indicate Iran's readiness to cooperate and comply with international law," the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine cited Mamedov as saying. Last Wednesday, Kyiv's Ambassador to Ottawa told the Canadian news network CBC News that Ukraine is still demanding to know more about the chain of command, including how decisions were made and who is responsible for the tragedy. Ukrainian officials asked for evidence and details about the "six servicemen" Iran said it has detained in connection to the plane's downing, Shevchenko said. According to Ambassador Andriy Shevchenko, Ukraine expects to receive an exact copy of Iran's Civil Aviation Organization's report on the tragedy before being released publicly by the first anniversary of the international disaster conventions. "It's a very important piece of the investigation because it should help us to understand what happened â€” in particular, why the skies above Iran were not closed on that very tragic day," Shevchenko told CBC News. "It will be unacceptable to see Iran punish the minor personnel without presenting a clear picture of the chain of command which led to this terrible tragedy," he said. Over the three days of technical meetings, Ukraine learned some further details about the safety probe and the criminal investigation, Shevchenko told CBC. He added the information could not be released publicly. "What I heard from my capital is, it was a very difficult, detailed conversation with a lot of the right words spoken," he said. "But ... we'd like to see the actions that will follow." Meanwhile, he admitted that during the three days of negotiations in Tehran, Ukraine received further details concerning the technical and criminal investigation into UIA's doomed Flight 752. However, he noted that the information received could not be made public. Since January 11, the IRGC and other Iran authorities have insisted that the missiles were "accidentally" and "mistakenly" fired at the UIA's plane. Ukraine and Canada have repeatedly rejected a report by Iran's Civil Aviation Authority stating that the UIA's three-year-old Boeing had been targeted due to human error, a mistake in radar configuration, and lack of coordination between the system operator and the Air Defense Command. Since the first day of the downing of Flight 752, Ukraine has opened a criminal case in parallel with an independent technical investigation. Kyiv has always criticized Tehran for refusing to cooperate constructively. Still, according to Radio Farda sources, which was also confirmed by the Ukrainian ambassador to Canada, Iranian officials' approach during the second round of talks in Tehran was "different." The first round of talks between Ukraine and Iran took place in late July, and the next round is set for the end of November and early December. Earlier this month, Canada announced that it would form its forensic team led by a former deputy spy chief to examine the evidence in the tragedy and advise the government accordingly. Source: https://en.radiofarda.com/a/suspects- involved-in-downing-ukrainian-plane-over-tehran -face-three-years-in-jail-/30909487.html Copyright (c) 2020. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1021
__label__cc	0.528342	0.471658	GlossaHouse Language Resources for the Global Community Gamma Rho Kappa The Leaves of the Tree (ON SALE for $9.74) is a full-length album produced by Leaf, a female artist in the Netherlands. She blends her folk-acoustic style with Koine Greek Scriptures, prayers, and anthems to produce a one-of-a-kind record. Sweet to the ears, warm to the heart, and rooted in the richness of the Christian tradition, these songs are just another example of what makes GlossaHouse a cutting-edge leader when it comes to language resources, especially ancient & biblical languages. The digital download contains 10 mp3 files and 2 pdfs. The pdf (1 High Quality and 1 Low(er) Quality for quicker download) contains the cover, track list, lyric sheets (Greek & English), and additional info. © 2020 GlossaHouse	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1023
__label__wiki	0.510035	0.510035	michael.martinez@gmlaw.com 215 South Monroe Street, Suite 530, Tallahassee, FL 32301 Michael Martinez is senior counsel in the Alcohol Beverage Industry Group. Mr. Martinez has worked in Florida state government for the past fifteen years at the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR). His primary focus at the Department was with the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco having held the positions of front line ABT prosecutor, Chief Attorney for ABT and for the last several years serving as Deputy General Counsel over the business divisions housed at DBPR. He provided daily legal guidance to the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco and consistently worked with the private bar and industry to develop unique and creative solutions to licensure issues as well as the resolution of administrative actions and other regulatory matters. He routinely interacted with other Florida agencies and local governmental entities in areas of overlapping regulation such as alcoholic beverage and hotel licensure, zoning issues and implementation of The Florida Clean Indoor Air Act. While at DBPR, Mr. Martinez also had supervisory oversight for the legal guidance provided to the divisions of pari-mutuel wagering, hotels and restaurants, Florida condominiums, timeshares and mobile homes, and drugs devices and cosmetics. He has been registered as a legislative lobbyist for DBPR for the past several years and has worked closely with committee staff on drafting alcoholic beverage legislation, constituent issues and interim projects. Mr. Martinez has drafted administrative rules, chaired rule hearings, worked on implementation, testified at rule challenge hearings at the Division of Administrative Hearings and defended rule challenges on behalf of the state. Throughout his tenure at DBPR he routinely interacted with the Governor’s office regarding litigation and policy matters. Mr. Martinez’s career has been primarily focused on business regulation however, in his role as Deputy General Counsel over Professions (2003-2007), he supervised the professions attorneys and provided guidance and legal advice regarding the following professions: architecture and interior design, asbestos contractors and consultants, athlete agents, auctioneers, barbers, boxing, kick boxing and mixed martial arts, building code administrators and inspectors, certified public accounting, child labor, community association managers and firms, construction industry, cosmetology, electrical contractors, engineers, employee leasing companies, farm labor, geologists, harbor pilots, labor organizations, landscape architecture, real estate, talent agencies, and veterinary medicine. Prior to joining the state he defended over 20 criminal trials ranging from driving under the influence to robbery. J.D., Florida State University College of Law, 1996 B.S., Criminology, Florida State University, 1993 Elder Care Services, “Meals on Wheels,” Volunteer Tallahassee Marathon, Aid Station Coordinator Panelist, Craft Breweries, Florida Independent Spirits Association, 2014 Panelist, Regulatory Updates, Retail Beverage Counsel of the Florida Retail Federation, 2013 Panelist, Regulatory Issues, Retail Beverage Counsel of the Florida Retail Federation, 2005 Lecturer, Wine, Beer, and Spirits Law, “A Synopsis of Florida’s Tied House Evil Law,” CLE International, Las Vegas, NV, October 2004 Panelist, Legislative and Regulatory Concerns, Retail Beverage Counsel of the Florida Retail Federation, 2004 Florida Trend magazine, Florida “Legal Elite,” 2007, 2009 Florida Trend magazine, “Up and Coming Legal Elite,” 2006 Greenspoon Marder Supports The Dade County Bar Association’s “A Review Of Florida’s Cannabis Laws: Practical Business And Legal Considerations” Panel Discussion Select Select OneLocal Government	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1025
__label__wiki	0.969813	0.969813	Bayern Munich complete $1.5m capture of U.S. starlet Richards 10:35 1/24/19 Alexandra Beier The highly-rated 18-year-old defender has penned a four-and-a-half-year deal with the Bundesliga champions after sealing a switch from FC Dallas Bayern Munich have completed the $1.5 million capture of teenage defender Chris Richards from MLS side FC Dallas. Goal revealed in early January that a deal was on the cards for the 18-year-old centre-half. Confirmation has now arrived, with the youngster penning a four-and-a-half-year deal with the Bundesliga champions. Reynolds to Juventus: How USMNT ace went from MLS backup to Serie A target in a matter of months Richards was initially loaned to Bayern’s U19 side in the summer of 2018 and has impressed during his time in Germany. He formed part of the club’s senior squad at the 2018 Audi Summer Tour and has now been tied to a contract which is due to run until 2023. “We are very happy that we have agreed Chris’ transfer from FC Dallas," Bayern’s campus manager, Jochen Sauer, told the club’s official website. “Chris has represented us very well in the last six months and we are convinced that he will continue to develop well here at FC Bayern. We see great potential in him.” U.S. U20 international Richards is looking forward to opening another exciting chapter in his promising career, with big things expected of him as his undoubted potential continues to be unlocked. He said of agreeing a permanent stay at the Allianz Arena: “I've always dreamt of playing for a big European club and now I’m at one of the world’s top teams. I'm really happy.” #FCBayern signs Chris Richards from @FCDallas! 🇺🇸 https://t.co/Q6WsE9SlBv pic.twitter.com/p8OcYEbsbR — FC Bayern US (@FCBayernUS) January 24, 2019 Bayern have had an elite player development program partnership in place with FC Dallas since February 2018. As they continue to benefit from that agreement, the club’s preside of the Americas, Rudolf Vidal, said: “Just under a year ago, we entered a partnership with FC Dallas to create pathways to professional soccer in the U.S. and Europe for young players. “To be able to announce the transfer of a player today is a landmark moment for all involved.” Richards becomes the second player developed in MLS to have linked up with Bayern this season. Canada international Alphonos Davies is also part of the fold in Bavaria, with the 18-year-old winger now forging a career in Europe after making a record-setting $13.5m (£10m) move from the Vancouver Whitecaps. He recently took in a competitive debut for Bayern in their Telekom Cup final victory over Borussia Monchengladbach. Copyright © 2021 Goal (United States) All rights reserved. The information contained in Goal (United States) may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed without the prior written authority of Goal (United States)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1026
__label__wiki	0.638282	0.638282	Home encouragement The tagger who found Jesus ex gang The tagger who found Jesus By Michael Ashcraft — Junior Cervantes Born into a family beset by drugs and gangs in Pacoima, California, his future prospects seemed dim. Junior Cervantes displayed athletic promise on the soccer field, but depression dragged him down. His uncles were shot in front of the house. There were family arrests, fighting, and chaos. Junior decided to run away from home and drop out of his beloved soccer. He opted for hanging out with friends, robbing houses, smoking marijuana and tagging. “I was a stealer. I was a liar. I was angry. I was depressed. I was lonely. I was an outcast,” Junior recalls. His uncle, Edgar Cervantes, kept insisting that Junior move in with him in Santa Monica – about 25 miles away — and straighten up his life. In and out of jail for most of his life, Edgar had two “strikes” under California penal law and was scared of getting the third, so he turned to Jesus to clean up his life. He worked a restaurant job in Santa Monica and preached on the Third Street Promenade every week. It was through Edgar’s influence that Junior prayed to receive Christ as his Lord and Savior. But because of Junior’s background and some of the influences swirling around him, he faced a rocky road to maturity in Christ. One night Junior went out with his old friends and they got involved in tagging – spray-painting graffiti in an area to mark their turf. When police unexpectedly showed up, Junior and his friends ran, and in their haste, Junior left his backpack and I.D. behind. Now his I.D. was in possession of the cops and it would only be a matter of time before they came calling. With police investigators searching for him, Junior figured the best escape from Pacoima would be to move in with his uncle in Santa Monica. “I wanted to leave the city,” Junior said. “My uncle Edgar comes through and says, ‘Junior, do you want to move in with me in Santa Monica?’ I was like, ‘Yes! This is the perfect getaway.’” Immediately, his uncle enrolled Junior in the 10th grade at the Lighthouse Christian Academy. When Junior showed up for classes, he fell into his normal routine of clowning around and acting up, wanting to prove his toughness to other students. Behind his hard-shelled exterior, however, was an inner pain as he compared his life to other students’ lives. “I was lonely. I was hurting for something,” he said. “I would see the students at school, I would see people happy. I was really insecure.” Then his day of reckoning with the police came. It took them about six months to track Junior down using his schools transfer information. Junior was pulled out of class, but then something surprising happened before he was taken away. His new principal got into the squad car with him and asked the cops for a moment to pray with Junior before they drove him to the station. “I thought that was radical because he prayed for me out in front of everybody, in front of the cops, in front of the students. I’d never seen that before,” Junior said. “I’ve never been the same after that prayer. I’ll probably never forget that prayer. It’s what I needed.” Junior Cervantes (center) on mission trip to Guatemala He was released to his parents and given a court date. Police wanted to charge him with a felony but the deputy DA lowered it to a misdemeanor after reviewing a letter from Pastor Rob Scribner, head of Lighthouse Church ministries, vouching for the fact that Junior was doing much better at the school. Ultimately Junior was given 100 hours of community service. During summer school in 2010, Junior began to chafe at his studious new lifestyle. His old friends called several times, cajoling him to return to his old haunts, and eventually Junior buckled. He went back to hang out with them in Pacoima. That’s when Pastor Rob Scribner stepped in once more and delivered a stern warning to Junior: If you go back to your old lifestyle you’re going to die. Through a pastor’s influence and God working on his heart, Junior recognized the folly of his ways. “After time, God finally opened my eyes and showed me that Lighthouse is my true family and that I needed to give up my past, my friends, my addictions, my habits.” “Overcoming who I was is the most amazing thing,” Junior said. “I got saved and became joyful, loving, and kind. I have a burden to want to help people that are in the same position I was in.” If you want to know more about a personal relationship with God, go here ex-gang member Christian testimony ex-gang member testimony Previous articleAustralia: Moderate Muslims receive death threats from radicalized Muslims Next articleMost-winning high school football coach credits faith in God Miki Rutter December 2, 2014 At 10:07 pm THANK YOU HEAVENLY FATHER FOR SAVING THIS CHILD OF YOURS. NOW HE HAS A WONDERFUL TESTIMONY TO TELL OTHERS TO HELP BRING THEM TO JESUS CHRIST!!!! mike ashcraft December 3, 2014 At 1:11 am Thanks Miki for the encouraging comment! God bless you!	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1028
__label__wiki	0.77756	0.77756	Home evangelism & outreach God arrested Atlanta madame to stop lengthy backslide God arrested Atlanta madame to stop lengthy backslide By Max Devantier — As a madame in Atlanta, Pamela Hillman had a mansion and drove a Hummer. “I always had a lot of money,” Pamela says on a CBN video. “It was a very big business.” Pamela was a small town girl, whose mom was a free-spirited Playboy bunny and whose Dad was an abusive alcoholic. Trouble started for her when she was 5 years old and begged her dad to be able to keep a stray puppy she brought home. “If you come upstairs with me, you can have him,” her dad told her. When she ascended the stairs, she was violated. “Something happened that day. It planted a seed that I could get what I want by going upstairs.” What happened to her as a child, set her on the wrong path in life The horrific happenings altered Pamela’s life forever. She went from a happy-go-lucky girl with dreams of growing up to becoming a PTSD-warped automaton whose emotions were guided by the sordid underbelly of American sin. She DID tell mom what dad had done to her, and mom got him kicked out, but other members of the family picked up where dad left off. The curse had spread. At age nine, Pamela found marijuana lying around the house and discovered she could be free from her room, from restrictions, from pain — all by smoking. “When I discovered pot, I just went somewhere else,” she says. “I felt free from being trapped in that bedroom.” Soon she was progressing through harder drugs and found cocaine. But sex was her major coping mechanism in the quixotic quest for love. She was married and divorced three times before she turned 20. Prostitution, drugs and being in and out of jail became a way of life. The men who consort with strippers and prostitutes while using and abusing them, denigrate and antagonize them. They would echo to her the dehumanizing words from her own self-condemnation. “I was a whore. I was a slut. I was never going to amount to anything.” The never-ebbing undercurrent of her life was shame. “That was all that I knew. Filth.” Fortunately for Pamela, not every influence in her life was bad. If her mom and dad contributed to her downfall, her grandmother was a voice of reason and Christian love. A friend of her grandmother prophesied over Pamela when she was young. “This one here is special. She’s going to do great things for God.” Many times those words of hope would come back to Pamela. They especially reverberated powerfully when Pamela, at age 26, decided to kill herself. With enough cocaine in the needle to end her life, Pamela heard those words again as she held the syringe, ready to jam it into her arm. “God, if you’re real, help me, rescue me,” she cried out. “I need you.” The voice spoke. “You don’t belong here. You’re going to do great things for God.” “In that moment, I heard my grandmother’s voice,” Pamela remembers. “I heard so many of her prayers.” Instead of committing suicide, she committed her life to Christ. She got off drugs, abstained from extra-marital sex and went to church for two years. But Pamela had one slip-up, one moment of weakness in which she fell into sin again. She was overcome with grief, shame and hopelessness. She thought there was no recourse but to dive headlong into full-blown sin. “I relapsed because I couldn’t deal with that shame and guilt,” she says. “I was unworthy to be in His presence, to be a child of God.” It was a backsliding that lasted 25 years and brought her to new lows. On the outskirts of Atlanta, Pamela became a sin entrepreneur, peddling drugs and pimping young ladies. She became a madame. She went by Madame Georgia or Queen Pam. “I knew how to make more money in that industry,” she says. “That was the big industry.” She tried to justify her actions. She “rescued” girls by buying them off from sleazy pimps. She let them work for her free from abuse. She gave them a great salary and managed their work schedules. The money flowed from well-heeled clients. “I didn’t want to be doing this,” she says with tears. “I didn’t want to be selling my soul to the devil. But I didn’t know how to get out.” In 2010, God provided a way out. He arranged for her arrest. Faced with a five-year sentence, Pamela repented truly and deeply. She sought deliverance from the actions and demons that had bound her. “God became the Father I was looking for all along,” she says. “It was His ‘liquid love.’ I can’t describe any other way. There’s no man that can fill the void that Father God can fill.” A key to her deliverance was to forgive the men who had violated her. “God not only healed my heart, but He healed the heart of the offenders that I was praying for and brought them to Christ.” She started a ministry of sharing scriptures with the inmates. After serving 18 months of her five-year sentence, Pamela was released in 2011 and embarked on a new life. She launched a ministry of outreach into the prison and beyond called Life Changers Legacy Prison and Reentry Mentorship Program. “I knew my purpose was to go out and help the disenfranchised, to help the less fortunate, to help those who are lost and forgotten in the prison wall,” she says. “It doesn’t matter what you’ve been through in life. There is a way out. It is Jesus,” she says. “Allow Him to minister that beautiful healing and to guide you in the purpose He has for you.” Max Devantier studies at the Lighthouse Christian Academy in Santa Monica. Life Changers Legacy Oz Hillman Pamela Hillman reentry program Previous articleGay and dying with AIDS, he came back to Jesus, thanks to love from family and church Next articleOn trip to Beirut blast site, he met Christians who escaped death Michael Ashcraft http://thelighthousechristianacademy.com	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1029
__label__wiki	0.984502	0.984502	Royal Family Portraits Through the Years From Queen Victoria to Princess Charlotte. By Erica Gonzales and Charlotte Chilton Royal portraiture is a longstanding tradition that's survived for centuries, but the medium has changed almost as much as the British monarchy has. Here, we highlight some standout images over eight generations of the British royal family, spanning from Queen Victoria's reign (when photography was first introduced), to Queen Elizabeth II's childhood, to Princess Charlotte's early years. From rigidly posed portraits to sweet candids, take a look at these official royal snaps. Queen Victoria, who reigned from 1837-1901, was Queen Elizabeth II's great-great-grandmother. She was the first British sovereign to embrace photography as a means of making the royal brand accessible to the public, as the medium was introduced shortly after she ascended the throne. She and her husband, Prince Albert (pictured), became champions of the new art form. King Edward VII, who ruled from 1901 to 1910, and Queen Alexandra are Queen Elizabeth II's great grandparents. Here, the couple poses at the State Opening of Parliament in London in regalia. Like her in-laws, Queen Alexandra was also an avid fan of photography. King George V, Elizabeth II's grandfather, ruled Britain from 1910 (following the death of his father, Edward VII) until his passing in 1936. Here, he's pictured with his wife, Queen Mary, formerly Princess Mary of Teck, in the Robing room of the House of Lords. King George V and Queen Mary's son, Albert, Duke of York (the future King George VI) and his wife Elizabeth, Duchess of York, welcomed their first child and future Queen, Princess Elizabeth, on April 21, 1926. In this photo, the royal couple looks dotingly at their daughter at her christening, a month after she was born. The immediate royal family poses for an official portrait celebrating the coronation of King George VI, Elizabeth II's father. The picture was taken by Hay Wrightson at Buckingham Palace. Back row, from left to right: Mary, the Princess Royal; the Duchess of Gloucester; the Duke of Gloucester; Queen Mary; King George VI; Queen Elizabeth; the Duke of Kent; the Duchess of Kent; and the Queen of Norway Front row: Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth (who would later become Queen Elizabeth II) Fox PhotosGetty Images Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Princess Elizabeth, and King George VI pose for a family portrait at Buckingham Palace. The royal daughters match in gray blazers, pleated skirts, and peach button-down shirts. A young Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret pose with Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. The mother-daughter trio sport floral '40s-style dresses and matching pearls for the portrait. The royals pose for a family portrait outdoors. Queen Mary, King George VI, Princess Elizabeth, and Elizabeth the Queen Mother are seated in the front row, while the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Princess Margaret, Princess Mary the Countess of Harewood, the Duchess of Kent, and Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood stand behind them. A young Queen Elizabeth II, Philip Mountbatten, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, King George VI, and Princess Margaret pose in July 1947 in the royal apartments to celebrate Elizabeth and Philip's engagement. Philip reportedly proposed with a three-carat diamond ring that consisted of a center stone flanked by 10 smaller diamonds. Elizabeth and Philip share a sweet moment on their wedding day. The couple tied the knot at Westminster Abbey on November 20, 1947. The future Queen's wedding gown included 10,000 seed pearls and a 15-foot train. Hulton DeutschGetty Images Elizabeth poses with her grandmother Queen Mary, her father King George VI, and her first child, Prince Charles, on his christening day. Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne the year after her father, King George VI, passed away. Here, she's pictured on her coronation day with Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, and Elizabeth the Queen Mother, dressed in full regalia, at Buckingham Palace after the ceremony. KeystoneGetty Images Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth have a picnic with their children, Prince Charles, Princess Anne, and Prince Andrew, at Balmoral Castle, the royal family's Scottish holiday home. The estate is believed to be Her Majesty's favorite residence. It's where she and the family take their annual summer holidays. Prince Charles, Prince Philip, Princess Anne, and Queen Elizabeth II pose for a family portrait at Sandringham House, Her Majesty's country home near Norfolk, England. The photo was taken ahead of their royal tour to Australia and New Zealand. The royals take great candids too, like this photo taken the day after Christmas in 1971 at Windsor Castle. Back row, left to right: the Earl of Snowdon, the Duchess of Kent and Lord Nicholas Windsor, the Duke of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent, Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Prince Andrew, and Angus Ogilvy Middle row, left to right: Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, The Queen, the Earl of St. Andrews, Princess Anne, Marina Ogilvy, Princess Alexandra, and James Ogilvy Front row (left to right): Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley, Prince Edward, and Lady Helen Windsor Princess Anne, Prince Charles, Prince Edward, Prince Andrew, the Queen, and Prince Philip enjoy a summer vacation at Balmoral Castle in August 1972. This image is from a series of photographs taken to celebrate the Queen and Prince Philip's 25th wedding anniversary. Anwar HusseinGetty Images The Queen gives an adoring smile as she poses with Princess Anne and her first grandchild, Peter Phillips, on the day of his christening at Balmoral. Queen Elizabeth II, her mother, and Princess Margaret pose for an official portrait in matching cobalt satin jackets. Nearly two decades later, in 2002, Margaret and the Queen Mother passed away less than a month apart from each other. Elizabeth II and her sister had a close-knit relationship and "a love, friendship, and conspiracy that were impressive to behold," according to Vanity Fair. Margaret reportedly had a direct phone line at Kensington Palace to her older sister, which she'd often use to chat and gossip with her sibling. Lady Diana Spencer — later known as Diana, Princess of Wales — and Prince Charles pose outside Buckingham Palace to celebrate their engagement. The bride-to-be flaunts her ring, featuring an oval sapphire surrounded by blue diamonds. Charles and Diana wed on July 29, 1981, at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. After the ceremony, the newlyweds posed for photos with their family members, including the Queen, Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Princess Anne, Prince Edward, Prince Andrew, Diana's mother Frances Shand Kydd, and her father John Spencer. The royal couple welcomed Prince William in 1982 and Prince Harry in 1984. Here, Charles, the Prince of Wales, has a silly moment with his two sons at home in Kensington Palace. Prince Charles, Princess Diana, Prince William, and Prince Harry pose for a portrait at home in Kensington Palace with their dog. Harry's mischievous smile is too cute — and so are his and William's matching shoes. Pool/Tim Graham Picture LibraryGetty Images The royal family poses for 14-year-old Prince William's confirmation. Prince Harry, Princess Diana, Prince Charles, the Queen, King Constantine, Lady Susan Hussey, Princess Alexandra, the Duchess of Westminster, and Lord Romsey join William for the portrait, taken at Windsor Palace. Queen Elizabeth II sits in front of her son Prince Charles (second in line for the throne) and Prince William (third in line for the throne) at the 50th anniversary of her coronation. The photo was taken at Clarence House, Charles' official residence. Nine years after divorcing Diana, Prince Charles was remarried to Camilla Parker Bowles. The couple wed in a civil ceremony on April 8, 2005. The Queen didn't attend the nuptials, but she was present at the reception afterwards. This photo, taken at the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, features the married couple with Prince Harry, Prince William (the best man), Prince Philip, the Queen, Tom and Laura Parker Bowles, and Camilla's father, Bruce Shand. A month after announcing their engagement in November 2010, Prince William and Kate Middleton released their official engagement portraits, shot by Mario Testino in the historic chamber of Clarence House. The couple wed four months later. Prince William and Kate Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, tied the knot at Westminster Abbey. Their official family portrait was taken in the Throne Room at Buckingham Palace. Front row, left to right: Grace van Cutsem, Eliza Lopes, Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II, Margarita Armstrong-Jones, Louise Windsor, and William Lowther-Pinkerton.Back row, left to right: Tom Pettifer, Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Charles, Prince Harry (the best man), Michael Middleton, Carole Middleton, James Middleton, and Pippa Middleton. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge welcome their first child, Prince George, on July 22, 2013. The new parents pose with their firstborn at the Middletons' family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire. Prince George smiles while holding his newborn sister, Princess Charlotte, who was born on May 2, 2015. Kate Middleton captured the photo when her daughter was less than a month old, at the Duke and Duchess' country home, Anmer Hall, in Norfolk, England. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are all smiles with their two children in late October 2015 at home at Kensington Palace. The family chose this portrait for their Christmas card later that holiday season. 20 Craziest Fan Theories About Famous Movies From: Harper's BAZAAR US Erica Gonzales Erica Gonzales is the Culture and Content Strategy Editor for BAZAAR.com, where she oversees news and culture coverage, including celebrity, music, TV, movies, and more. 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__label__wiki	0.825751	0.825751	"There's going to be people who disagree with me -- and that's fine -- but I think if you coach six-man a couple of years it makes you a better football coach. Because you can't be a quarterbacks coach. You can't be a defensive line coach. You have to learn it all, and that's the great thing I like about it." And the same goes for six-man players -- they have to be well-versed in everything. "Oh yeah," the Lohn coach said. "The starting quarterback might be the backup center, or the starting center might be the backup quarterback." Texas Football magazine projects Lohn to finish fifth in District 16-1A D-II. Eight-time state champion Richland Springs is picked to win it, followed by Panther Creek, Cherokee and Rochelle The Lohn coach wants his players to be confident no matter who they're up against, even a powerhouse team like Richland Springs. "I know the district's going to be tough and I think that speaks for a lot of the teams," Jackson said. "If you can play with your district opponents, you can play with anybody." Jackson wants the Eagles to begin a new chapter with a bang in 2018. "Of course you want to make the playoffs," he said. "If we can have a .500 season, I think that would be good." READ RELATED STORIES More: West Texas Class 1A district predictions More: Robert Lee welcomes exciting newcomers More: Garden City reloads for another shot at state More: Water Valley must tackle new challenges More: Bronte hopes to take six-man by the horns	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1031
__label__wiki	0.726116	0.726116	The Chief Executive, Mr Ho Iat Seng, meets with member of the Standing Committee of CPC Shandong Provincial Committee and Secretary of the CPC Jinan Municipal Committee, Mr Sun Licheng, at the Government Headquarters in Macao. Government Information Bureau (GCS) 17th December 2020 at 19:35 News image Previous: The Chief Executive, Mr Ho Iat Seng, unveils the plaque of the Public Prosecutions Office building. Next: The Secretary for Security, Mr Wong Sio Chak, attends a plenary meeting of the Legislative Assembly, which holds a second reading and vote on a bill to amend the Law No. 1/2001 Unitary Police Service and a bill to amend the Law No. 9/2002 Internal Security Law of the Macao SAR.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1034
__label__wiki	0.511915	0.511915	Morgen Victoria D’Arc Morgen Victoria D’Arc passed away July 24, 2018, at the Barron Center in Portland, Maine following a prolonged illness. Morgen was born in Philadelphia to Solomon Meyer Berman and Lilly Gottlieb Berman and was one of seven siblings. Morgen was an avid swimmer, biker and walker. Morgen was an unforgettable member of our human family with a wide variety of interests and talents. A passionate seeker and creator, she dug deeply into many aspects of the human puzzle to better understand and assist humanity in its evolution. She worked in the field of architecture, and as a real estate appraiser, and as a fundraiser for non-profit organizations. She was the owner of Marble Amphora, a baking business that created and baked delectable treats, such as Ethiopian Truffles, which were sold in coffee shops across Portland. Morgen was also a founder and later sole proprietor of Emerald Images Astrological products and services, as well as the Project Guts Support Group, a grassroots endeavor to improve the lives of people with General Underactive Thyroid Syndrome. As an elected member of the State Steering Committee of the Green Party, Morgen was a major force in the creation of the National Green Party’s Women’s Caucus, helped launch and contributed to the Green Horizon Magazine as well as an outstanding fundraiser for the national party. Morgen was an elemental force who brought acumen, spark, and wisdom to her work and her relationships. She was truly an amazing woman and will be greatly missed. In lieu of a memorial service, friends have designated August 7, at 7:00 p.m., for private remembrances. Donations in Morgen’s memory may be sent to:	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1036
__label__wiki	0.762319	0.762319	Greco-Roman Antimicrobial Minerals A Wellcome Trust Seed Award Project Dr Effie Photos-Jones Honorary Research Fellow in Archaeology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. She is an archaeological scientist with long experience in the industrial minerals of antiquity and the project’s principal investigator (PI). She will be responsible for the effective cross-linking of the project’s diverse themes. She is also the PI of NERC-FENAC and Society of Antiquaries of Scotland funded projects, currently running in parallel and under the same research theme. Professor George Christidess Professor of Mineral Resources Engineer at the Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece. Clay mineralogist, geochemist and economic geologist, George Christidis will be responsible for the chemical and mineralogical characterisation of the minerals derived from the thematic landscapes, focusing on their properties and potential medicinal applications. Dr Despina Ignatiadou Curator of Sculpture at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece, Despina Ignatiadou has been researching the role of warrior/doctor/priests in the Classical and Roman periods in Macedonia, N Greece. She will juxtapose material culture arising from burials and archaeological evidence deriving from Macedonian Asclepeia. Dr Charles Knapp Senior Lecturer in Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, Charles Knapp is a microbial ecologist with expertise in the role and effects of antimicrobial compounds in the environment. He will coordinate and guide the work on DNA sequencing of the microbial colonies associated with the minerals derived from the thematic landscapes, focusing on the effect they may have in attributing antimicrobial properties to the minerals, a key aim in the GR-AMs seed project. Dr Danae Venieri Assistant Professor of Environmental Microbiology in the School of Environmental Engineering at Technical University of Crete. Danae Venieri is a biologist with expertise in the microbiological quality of aquatic environment and microbial response against pollutants. She will coordinate and guide the work on the bioactivity of minerals against reference bacterial strains. She will be focusing on the antimicrobial properties of the archaeological, geological, and composite samples of the project. Mr Ianto Jocks PhD Candidate at the University of Glasgow, Ianto Jocks will be investigating the practicality of Roman pharmacy and pharmacology in addition to its theoretical, economic and socio-cultural context. Ms Iosifina Gounaki A biologist working in the Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology in the School of Environmental Engineering at Technical University of Crete, Iosifina Gounaki will work on the microbiological assaying of the archaeological, geological, and composite samples. She will perform the susceptibility assays, which will determine the bioactivity of the samples against reference bacterial strains. Dr Brian Barrett Lecturer in Geoinformatics at the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Dr Barrett is responsible for the accurate recording and 3-D illustration of some of the thematic landscapes. He is instrumental in creating a permanent record of these dynamic landscapes allowing the continuing scrutiny of their nature and character even after the field work period has come to an end. Dr Giuseppina Ballassone Researcher in mineralogy in Department of Earth, Environment and Resource Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy. Her expertise is in the crystal chemistry of minerals from lavas, pyroclastic rocks and ore deposits, as well as on archaeometric studies of metallic objects and other artifacts. Pina Balassone will contribute with field and sampling work in the Campi Flegrei area, and with mineralogical analyses of medicinal minerals in museum collections. Professor Jim Hansom Professor of Geography, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Reader in Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow. Jim Hansom will investigate the changes over time in the land surface processes and resultant morphologies of the therapeutic landscapes. Land surface morphologies are subject to environmental and human-driven changes over time, changes that may have profound effects on the distribution and nature of both habitats and minerals. Dr Monica Piocchi Researcher in Volcanology at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy. Monica Piocchi specialises in the physics of volcanoes and magmatic processes and is interested in the study of dynamics at quiescent volcanoes through merging data from diverse disciplines. She plans to examine the implications of monitoring microbial ecology as a means of hazard assessment within extreme volcano landscapes. Dr Andrea Di Renzoni Researcher, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico (ISMA), Rome, Italy. Andrea Di Renzoni will be responsible for the archaeological survey of Vulcano island with particular reference to prehistoric and 19th century activities. Dr Angela Mormone Researcher in Mineralogy at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy. Responsible for the running of the of X-ray powder diffraction Laboratory at her institution, Angela Mormone will be focusing on the mineralogical characterization of Campi Flegrei efflorescences and associated minerals. 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__label__wiki	0.812413	0.812413	Graphic compares the number of wildfires in Brazil to other countries in South America, with details on how Brazil in 2019 compares to the previous 20 years. Amazon rainforest wildfires comparison By Ninian Carter August 27, 2019 - President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has angrily refused a $22 million aid package pledged by the G7 nations to help fight Amazon rainforest wildfires. Shortly after the Group of 7 (G7) leaders – who have been holding a summit in Biarritz, France – offered $22 million in aid to help fight Amazon rainforest wildfires, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has angrily rejected the gesture. In a series of aggressive Twitter posts, Bolsonaro criticised and taunted France’s President Emmanuel Macron, whom he has been feuding with over Macron’s language regarding the environmental crisis. Before the G7 summit began, the French leader put the Amazon fires at the top of the agenda and called the situation a global crisis, heavily criticising Bolsonaro’s policies which have included cutting $23 million from Brazil’s environmental enforcement agency – almost a quarter of its budget. Bolsonaro has been widely criticised by environmentalists too for trying to open up protected parts of the rainforest to logging, farming, mining and other industries, which they say has caused further exploitation of the region, including illegally set fires driven by his policies. The Brazilian leader argues that the wildfires are within an "average" range for the past 15 years, citing data released by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research. In the first decade of the century, seven years had greater numbers of wildfires than 2019. The institute records 82,285 fires have been detected in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest so far in 2019, with more than 1,660 new fires ignited in just two days. Brazil says it will reject $22 million in Amazon aid pledged at G7 (New York Times) National Institute for Space Research Near the Amazon fires, residents are sick, worried, and angry (National Geographic) 9 numbers you need to know to understand the Amazon fires (PBS) PUBLISHED: 27/08/2019; STORY: Graphic News	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1038
__label__wiki	0.977606	0.977606	Top News December 30, 2020 December 30, 2020 Luke Letlow, Louisiana Congressman-elect, dies of Covid-19 at the age of 41 He is survived by two young children and his wife, Julia Barnhill Letlow, the news star reported. State and national political leaders mourned him Tuesday evening. “COVID-19 took us Congressman-elect Letlow way too soon,” said Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (D) in shared a statement on Twitter. “I am broken that he will not be able to serve our people as the US representative, but I am even more devastated for his loving family.” A native of Start, La., A town of approximately 900 people, Letlow graduated from Louisiana Tech University before starting his political career working with Bobby Jindal (R), who later became a United States Congressman and then Governor of Louisiana, reported the news star. When Abraham was elected to Congress in 2015, Letlow joined him as chief of staff. In the race to succeed Abraham, Letlow was the establishment Republican who received the support of his former boss and greatly outperformed his opponents. the Associated Press reported. He received a majority of the vote in a nine-candidate field in November, then defeated Republican MP Lance Harris in a December 5 runoff. However, photos on his Twitter page show that he sometimes wore inconsistent masks during the campaign covering his face speaking at meet-and-greets, but also indoors without a mask on in rooms of mask-free residents. At a candidate forum in October, Letlow called on the state to ease the pandemic Restrictions, say“We are now in a place where we are in real danger if we don’t open up our economy.” After his symptoms worsened earlier this month, Letlow was first admitted to St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe, where he delivered hopeful news on December 21st. tweet that he was “confident” in his recovery. Two days later, he was rushed to a Shreveport Hospital and taken to an intensive care unit, where he was reportedly treated with remdesivir and steroids a statement from his office. READ Video Games - PlayStation 5 v Xbox Series X \| Companies He was in critical condition this week but showed signs of recovery. GE Ghali, Chancellor of LSU Health Shreveport, said the lawyer. But on Tuesday he suffered a “heart event” and died, Ghali said. When asked if any underlying conditions could have contributed to his death, Ghali said, “None. Everything related to Covid ” the lawyer reported. Letlow’s death comes as coronavirus cases and deaths rise in Louisiana. On Tuesday, the state reported more than 3,900 new cases and 61 deaths The Washington Post, 185 percent more than the average number of deaths in the past seven days. In total, the state had more than 304,000 cases and 7,397 deaths. After Letlow’s death, Jindal recalled his former coworker’s “passion for service” during the years they had worked together. “I met Luke when he was a student and spent countless hours with him in his truck driving the back streets of Louisiana.” Jindal wrote on twitter. “His passion for service has been constant throughout his life.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Also noted Letlow’s dedication to public service. “Congressman-elect Letlow was a ninth generation Louisian who fought passionately for his point of view and dedicated his life to public service,” Pelosi said in a statement. “As the House mourns the death of Congressman-elect Letlow, our grief is compounded by the grief of so many other families who have also suffered lives shortened by this terrible virus.” Louisiana’s congressional delegation, including the House minority whip, Steve Scalise (R), issued a joint statement praising Letlow’s “positive spirit”. READ Kushner visits Saudi Arabia and Qatar to end the crisis “We are devastated when we hear of Luke Letlow’s death. Luke had such a positive spirit and an incredibly bright future ahead of him, ”the statement said. “First and foremost, Luke was a loving husband, father, brother and son, and his family – like so many others affected by this nasty disease – need our prayers.” Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), The minority chairman of the House of Representatives, said he spoke to Letlow’s family after his death. “Our hearts break tonight as we process the news of the death of Congressman-elect Luke Letlow.” he wrote on Twitter. “I spoke to his wife Julia. Judy and I are praying for her and her two young children at this terrible time. “ Tropical storm Eta lands on the Florida coast The storm’s fourth landing took place at 4 a.m. south of Cedar... 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__label__wiki	0.893229	0.893229	HiB/News/Latest-news/HiB Named in Sunday Times League Table HiB is proud to be included in the 2018 Sunday Times BDO Profit Track 100 Companies published this month. Ranked at 51 of the 100 companies included on the list, this accolade represents the incredible work of the entire HiB team. The Sunday Times BDO Profit Track 100 league table ranks Britain’s 100 private companies with the fastest-growing profits over their latest three years, and to be included is an exceptional honour. Robert Ginsberg, managing director at HiB, said: “It has been a tremendous team effort to grow the company by so much in the last three years. This continued development has given us the opportunity to reinvest back into our ambitious plans for long-term sustainable growth. “This reinvestment can be seen throughout the business, from the move to our new 85,000 sq ft premises, Inspire House, to an increased focus on product development and our ongoing employee training and support. We look forward to the next big step in HiB’s success story.” HiB appoint new National Contracts Coordinator	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1052
__label__wiki	0.938022	0.938022	Hendrick Street: A slightly unloved Dublin street It was never a fashionable place: a short street slotted between the city's hay, corn and cattle markets to the east and the enormous Royal Barracks to the west. A street that might be used on the way to or from somewhere else: so overlooked that it never made it once into the canon of Joyce's Dublin. The shell of Edmundson's Electrical depot still dominates Hendrick Street today, as does the firm of Bourke's Funeral Directors on the corner. Together they somehow evoke the many everyday struggles and tragedies that visited Hendrick Street over the years. Lying in the ecclesiastical parish of St Paul's, Hendrick Street sprang from what was once part of the major public ground of north Dublin,Oxmanstown Green.The street was named after its developer : local entrepreneur William Hendrick whose ancestors had a small brewing business at Islandbridge. According to Brendan Twomey, author of Smithfield and the parish of St. Paul,1698- 1750, young Hendrick bought up numerous parcels of land in the area in the 1720s and leased them to prospective builders. Like many Dublin developers, Hendrick went bankrupt when he defaulted on his loans and he was sent to the nearby Four Courts Marshalsea for a time. Development of the street was only piecemeal as a result, and it really only started to take shape as a real street in the 1740s, long after Hendrick's death on the continent while serving in the army. The Sign of St. Patrick One of the first leaseholders in the street was Samuel Tyndal, a timber merchant.The plots he owned on the north east, where Queen Street and Hendrick Street intersect, became known as Tyndal’s Row. Old deeds from the 1750s reveal that a house on the junction between the two streets (where Bourke's Funeral Directors stands today) was commonly known as the Sign of St. Patrick, and was occupied by a timber merchant called John Plunkett. John Roque’s map of the area from 1755-6 shows that Hendrick Street was still shaped more like a green than a street as only the north side of it had been built up. The new terrace of houses was of the gabled three or four storey “Dutch Billy” model, like those seen in locations such as Sweeneys Lane and Hammond Lane.(Since demolished). There was a mix of two and three-bay houses in the terrace. The street is lined up with what was once the Dublin Water Pipe Office to the west, near where a small harbour called the Gravel Walk Slip landed water pipes for the city. It was also a stone’s throw from the Royal Barracks with the soldier’s artillery ground lying to the immediate north west of the street. The Blue Coat Hospital School, which adds great architectural quality to the area, wasn't begun until 1773. This magnificent building serves as a backdrop for Blackhall Street instead. Along with Tighe Street to the south (now part of Benburb Street )Hendrick Street was sometimes called the Gravel Walk. This title is remembered today in the name of the modern block of apartments on the north west side of the street. In fact the Gravel Walk marked a walk way from Queen Street to an old banqueting house that stood on Barrack Street (now also Benburb Street) . Gravel Walk Methodists A Methodist church stood at the west end of Hendrick Street from 1771, the second to be built in Dublin city. It evolved in the 1740s from the tradition of outdoor preaching at Oxmanstown Green by John Wesley and his followers. These meetings were stormy affairs and it wasn’t unusual for the preachers to be attacked by local crowds. Popularly known as Old Gravel Walk Chapel, it was said to be the homeliest place of Methodist worship - avoiding the social elitism of the Abbey Street and the religious stuffiness of the Whitefriar branches. The proximity of the chapel to the Royal Barracks ensured that many soldiers were converts to the religion too. These barracks always played a significant part in the life of Hendrick street. 18th and 19th century marriage registers from St Paul’s Church of Ireland on nearby North King Street show how many soldiers’ brides came from the street. The methodist chapel was rebuilt in 1841 and this is the building which faces on to Blackhall Place today. During the building project, several workmen fell a great height when a scaffold gave way, causing the death of one worker and severe injuries to four others. A Wesleyan School catering for over 400 pupils was added to the complex by the 1830s. The chapel was sold in the 1960s and although there were fears for the buildings’s future at the time, its exterior has been well preserved, although it is frequently vacant. With its proximity to the main city markets and the barracks, Hendrick Street was always destined to be part residential and part commercial, with businesses seeking to capitalise on these major centres. It had developed a strong tradition of timber merchandise in the 18th century and Charles Peatland had a slate and timber yard there. Joshua Peet of No. 15 Hendrick Street made barm, a popular by-product of beer used for cake and bread making. A small orphanage for catholic girls was located briefly on Hendrick Street between 1804-1806. Run by the Poor Clare nuns, the house of 30 orphans moved to Harolds Cross in 1806 and so played no further part in the street. In the early 19th century Goodwin’s Coach factory and Livery Stables had a thriving business at No. 30-31. The firm was owned by John (or James) Goodwin and his wife Catherine. In late August 1834, thirteen Goodwin children became orphans in the space of 18 hours when both parents were carried off by cholera. The newspapers reported on a fund that locals had set up to provide for the children. By 1835 the street was home to a soap store, a shoemaker, a cabinet maker, a milliner, a dressmaker, and several corn stores. The last remnant of 18th century Hendrick Street today lies with the building occupied by Bourke’s Funeral Directors, located on the north east junction with Queen Street. It is now a two-storey over basement structure but was once a three or even four storey dwelling and may have been gabled. Bourke’s was founded in the 1880s by local coach operator, Thomas Bourke. With its main entrance on Queen Street, the property boasted 24 windows according to the 1911 census, in addition to a stable, coach house, shed and workshop. Bourke's is operated today by the Harmon family who are descendants of the original founders. In her childhood memoir of Queen Street, A Dublin Memoir, Eithne Aungier recalls how the building was also used as a location for the 1960 British thriller, The Siege of Sidney Street. Many of the Dutch Billys of Hendrick Street were already tenements by the 1840s. In February 1847, a Leitrim couple called John and Ellen Mulhearn died in a back dwelling at No. 6 within 24 hours of each other . They had been in the parish only nine months. An inquest later that month concluded that both had died of destitution from prologued want. Prison Gate The 1901 census of the street shows that a Prison Gate mission operated at No. 6 to provide women released from prison with temporary accommodation. Along with its 81 year-old caretaker, Mary Jane McClean, the Prison Gate held 14 female lodgers, although the census enumerator’s return mentioned 22 inhabitants. One lodger, Sarah Peggs, was a typical example. She was constantly passing through the local prison and workhouse system in the 1890s as the records of these institutions show. 4’ 1” tall and a charwoman, she had been deserted by her husband who somehow managed to marry another woman in Dublin without any difficulty. By the time of the 1911 census, the mission had gone and No. 6 was now home to 7 families. In April 1914, 5 year-old Patrick Reddy from 9 Hendrick Street lost his life. His clothes caught fire from a match thrown by another child as they played on the street. The December before this 21 year old John Eccles died suddenly in the same house. There were allegations at the time by the deceased man's brother, Peter Eccles, that his wife had somehow caused his death. But the coroner found that heart disease was the actual culprit, despite his young age. Many of the 18th century Dutch Billys of Hendrick Street survived until the 1950s. But they were in poor condition. No.s 9 to 11 were the first to be demolished in 1951. No.s 5,6,7,8 by 1953. In 1963, No.s 13 and 18-22 were taken down, prompted in part by the collapse of two houses at nearby Fenian Street which had resulted in the deaths of 2 children.The 1960s demolition left only one 18th century house on the street, the aforesaid Bourke's Funeral Home. Skin & Hides Hendrick Street was synonymous with the hide and skin business of the Judd family for many decades. The founder, Wicklow-born Michael Judd (1822-1907) started out at 4 Watling Street before moving to 18 Hendrick Street in the 1880s, taking over the premises of provision merchants, Kehoe and Reddy. He was joined in the business by brothers Ignatius and Ambrose Judd. All were sons of Bray-based glover and wool merchant, John Judd and his wife, Margaret Kelly. Conveniently location beside the cattle market,the Judd Brothers thrived and expanded into No.s 15,16 &17 Hendrick Street in the early 20th century, with two phoenix birds,carved out of wood, capping the tall pillars of the main gates. Michael Judd didn't live in Hendrick Street. His residence was at Strawberry Hill, Dalkey, where he served as local councillor. A major fire wiped out the Judd Brothers Factory in February 1962 with the destruction of all its stock of hides, wool and skin, although one of the carved phoenixes survived. The site was replaced in time by a modern factory-type building. Unlike Judds Brothers, this factory was well set in from the road behind a tall railing, so breaking the line of the street. Well-known Motor Factors, Brown Brothers, in business since 1888, occupied the street for a time but left in 1972. They were followed by General Electric at 15-19 Hendrick Street in the late 1970s. Edmundson Electrical Distributors arrived by the early 2000s. It was a reminder of the interesting local origins of the firm as William and Joshua Edmundson, Furniture Wares and Ironmongers, had started at nearby No. 33-36 Capel Street in 1830. (At the so-called Birmingham & Sheffield Building).This site on Hendrick Street has been derelict for some time, despite plans over the years to re-develop it as apartments. To Boldly Go............ Notable residents of the street included Willie “Toucher” Doyle (1880-1933) of No. 22, the best known toucher in a time of prominent Dublin cadgers. Although officially a clerk, Doyle was better known for his presence at race meets and society events. Edward VII was reputed to have been one of his famous victims.The law caught up with "Toucher Doyle" in 1923 when he was handed a prison sentence for picking the pocket of the aptly named Mrs Fortune at Nelson's Pillar. An angular, sharp-featured man, Willie Doyle's face was immortalised in a painting by Harry Kernoff. And there are playful theories doing the rounds that he may have been the inspiration for Star Trek's Doctor Spock. No. 22 was also home to Irish Press photographer, Joe Smartt, who captured the dramatic Custom House fire of 1920 from the railway bridge. Margaret Ellis, sister of one of the Invincibles, Joe Brady who was executed for his part in the 1882 Phoenix Park murders, lived at No. 11 for much of her married life. Recently Hendrick Street has enjoyed a new lease of life as a favourite destination for Dublin's thriving ghost industry, although the most notoriously haunted houses were demolished over fifty years ago. In Autumn 2016 there are plans afoot for a seven-storey hotel on the very spot where they stood. If it goes ahead it will be a significant first for the street. 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__label__cc	0.621628	0.378372	希平方 x ICRT 「Jeff Kluger：手足之情」- The Sibling Bond Well, TED has already persuaded me to change my life in one small way, by persuading me to change the opening of my speech. I love this idea of engagement. So, when you leave here today, I'm going to ask you to engage or re-engage with some of the most important people in your lives: your brothers and sisters. It can be a profoundly life-affirming thing to do, even if it isn't always easy. This is a man named Elliot, for whom things were very difficult. Elliot was a drunk. He spent most of his life battling alcoholism, depression, morphine addiction, and that life ended when he was just 34 years old. What made things harder for Elliot is that his last name was Roosevelt. And he could never quite get past the comparisons with his big brother Teddy, for whom things always seemed to come a little bit easier. It wasn't easy being Bobby, either. He was also the sibling of a president. But he adored his brother, Jack. He fought for him, he worked for him. And when Jack died, he bled for him, too. In the years that followed, Bobby would smile, but it seemed labored. He'd lose himself in his work, but it seemed tortured. Bobby's own death, so similar to John's, seems somehow fitting. John Kennedy was robbed of his young life; Bobby seemed almost to have been relieved of his. There may be no relationship that affects us more profoundly, that's closer, finer, harder, sweeter, happier, sadder, more filled with joy or fraught with woe than the relationship we have with our brothers and sisters. There's power in the sibling bond. There's pageantry. There's petulance, too, as when Neil Bush, sibling of both a president and a governor, famously griped, "I've lost patience for being compared to my older brothers," as if Jeb and George W were somehow responsible for the savings and loan scandal and the messy divorce that marked Neil in the public eye. But more important than all of these things, the sibling bond can be a thing of abiding love. Our parents leave us too early, our spouse and our children come along too late. Our siblings are the only ones who are with us for the entire ride. Over the arc of decades, there may be nothing that defines us and forms us more powerfully than our relationship with our brothers and sisters. It was true for me, it's true for your children and if you have siblings, it's true for you, too. This picture was taken when Steve, on the left, was eight years old. I was six, our brother Gary was five and my brother Bruce was four. I will not say what year it was taken. It was not this year. I open my new book, "The Sibling Effect," on a Saturday morning, not long before this picture was taken, when the three older brothers decided that it might be a very good idea to lock the younger brother in a fuse cabinet in our playroom. We were, believe it or not, trying to keep him safe. Our father was a hotheaded man, somebody who didn't take kindly to being disturbed on Saturday mornings. I don't know what he thought his life would be like on Saturday mornings when he had four sons, ages four years old or younger when the youngest one was born, but they weren't quiet. He did not take to that well. And he would react to being disturbed on a Saturday morning by stalking into the playroom and administering a very freewheeling form of a corporal punishment, lashing out at whoever was within arms' reach. We were by no means battered children but we did get hit, and we found it terrifying. So we devised a sort of scatter-and-hide drill. As soon as we saw or heard the footsteps coming, Steve, the oldest, would wriggle under the couch, I would dive into the closet in the playroom, Gary would dive into a window-seat toy chest, but not before we closed Bruce inside the fuse box. We told him it was Alan Shepard's space capsule, and that somehow made it work better. I dare say my father was never fooled by this ruse. And it was only in later years that I began to think perhaps it wasn't a good idea to squeeze a four-year-old up against a panel of old-style, un-screwable high-voltage fuses. But my brothers and I, even through those unhappy times, came through them, with something that was clear and hard and fine: a primal appreciation for the bond we shared. We were a unit—a loud, messy brawling, loyal, loving, lasting unit. We felt much stronger that way than we ever could as individuals. And we knew that as our lives went on, we could always be able to call on that strength. We're not alone. Until 15 years ago, scientists didn't really pay much attention to the sibling bond. And with good reason: you have just one mother, you have just one father if you do marriage right, you have one spouse for life. Siblings can claim none of that uniqueness. They're interchangeable, fungible, a kind of household commodity. Parents set up shop and begin stocking their shelves with inventory, the only limitation being sperm, egg and economics. As long as you can keep breathing, you may as well keep stocking. Now, nature is perfectly happy with that arrangement, because our primal directive here is to get as many of our genes as possible into the next generation. Animals wrestle with these same issues, too, but they have a more straightforward way of dealing with things. A crested penguin that has laid two eggs will take a good look at them and boot the smaller one out of the nest, the better to focus her attentions on the presumably heartier chick in the bigger shell. A black eagle will allow all of her chicks to hatch and then stand back while the bigger ones fight it out with the little ones, typically ripping them to ribbons and then settling back to grow up in peace. Piglets, cute as they are, are born with a strange little outward set of pointing teeth, that they use to jab at one another as they compete for the choicest nursing spots. The problem for scientists was that this whole idea of siblings as second-class citizens never really seemed to hold up. After the researchers had learned all they could from the relationships in the family, mothers and other relationships, they still came up with some temperamental dark matter that was pulling at us, exerting a gravity all its own. And that could only be our siblings. Humans are no different from animals. After we are born, we do whatever we can to attract the attention of our parents, determining what our strongest selling points are and marketing them ferociously. Someone's the funny one, someone's the pretty one, someone's the athlete, someone's the smart one. Scientists call this "deidentification." If my older brother is a high-school football player --which, if you saw my older brother, you'd know he was not—I could become a high-school football player, too and get at most 50 percent of the applause in my family for doing that. Or, I could become student council president or specialize in the arts and get 100 percent of the attention in that area. Sometimes parents contaminate the deidentification process, communicating to their kids subtly or not, that only certain kinds of accomplishments will be applauded in the home. Joe Kennedy was famous for this, making it clear to his nine children that they were expected to compete with one another in athletics and were expected to win, lest they be made to eat in the kitchen with the help, rather than in the dining room with the family. It's no wonder that scrawny second-born Jack Kennedy fought so hard to compete with his fitter firstborn brother, Joe, often at his peril, at one point, engaging in a bicycle race around the house that resulted in a collision costing John 28 stitches. Joe walked away essentially unharmed. Parents exacerbate this problem further when they exhibit favoritism, which they do overwhelmingly, no matter how much they admit it. A study I cite in this TIME magazine covering in the book "The Sibling Effect," found 70 percent of fathers and 65 percent of mothers exhibit a preference for at least one child. And keep in mind here—the keyword is "exhibit." The remaining parents may simply be doing a better job of concealing things. I like to say that 95 percent of all parents have a favorite, five percent are lying about it. The exception is my wife and me. Honestly, we do not have a favorite. It's not parents' fault that they harbor feelings of favoritism. And here, too, our natural wiring is at work. Firstborns are the first products on the familial assembly line. Parents typically get two years of investing dollars, calories and so many other resources in them, so that by the time the second born comes along, the firstborn is already...it's what corporations call "sunk costs," you don't want to disinvest in this one and launch the R&D on the new product. So what we begin to do is say, "I'm going to lean to the Mac OS X and let the Mac OS XI come out in a couple of years." So we tend to lean in that direction. But there are other forces at work, too. One of the same studies I looked at both here and in the book found that, improbably, the most common favorite for a father is the last-born daughter. The most common favorite for a mother is the firstborn son. Now, this isn't Oedipal; never mind what the Freudians would have told us a hundred years ago. And it's not just that fathers are habitually wrapped around the fingers of their little girls, though I can tell you that, as the father of two girls, that part definitely plays a role. Rather, there is a certain reproductive narcissism at work. Your opposite-gender kids can never resemble you exactly. But if somehow they can resemble you temperamentally, you'll love them all the more. As the result, the father who is a businessman will just melt at the idea of his MBA daughter with a tough-as-nails worldview. The mother who is a sensitive type will go gooey over her son the poet. Birth order, another topic I covered for TIME, and another topic I cover in the book, plays out in other ways as well. Long before scientists began looking at this, parents noticed that there are certain temperamental templates associated with all birth rankings: the serious, striving firstborn; the caught-in-a-thicket's middle born; the wild child of a last born. And once again, when science did crack this field, they found out mom and dad are right. Firstborns across history have tended to be bigger and healthier than later borns, in part, because of the head start they got on food in an area in which it could be scarce. Firstborns are also vaccinated more reliably and tend to have more follow-up visits to doctors when they get sick. And this pattern continues today. This IQ question is, sadly—I can say this as a second-born—a very real thing. Firstborns have a three-point IQ advantage over second borns and second borns have a 1.5 IQ advantage over later borns, partly because of the exclusive attention firstborns get from mom and dad, and partly because they get a chance to mentor the younger kids. All of this explains why firstborns are likelier to be CEOs, they are likelier to be senators, they are likelier to be astronauts, and they are likelier to earn more than other kids are. Last borns come into the world with a whole different set of challenges. The smallest and weakest cubs in the den, they're at the greatest risk of getting eaten alive, so they have to develop what are called "low-power skills"—the ability to charm and disarm, to intuit what's going on in someone else's head, the better to duck the punch before it lands. They're also flat-out funnier, which is another thing that comes in handy, because a person who's making you laugh is a very hard person to slug. It's perhaps no coincidence that over the course of history, some of our greatest satirists—Swift, Twain, Voltaire, Colbert—are either the last borns or among the last in very large families. Most middle borns don't get quite as sweet a deal. I think of us as the flyover states. We are—we're the ones who fight harder for recognition in the home. We're the ones who are always raising our hands while someone else at the table is getting called on. We're the ones who tend to take a little longer to find their direction in life. And there can be self-esteem issues associated with that, notwithstanding the fact that I've been asked to do TED, so I feel much better about these things right now. But the upside for middle borns is that they also tend to develop denser and richer relationships outside the home. But that advantage comes also from something of a disadvantage, simply because their needs weren't met as well in the home. The feuds in the playroom that play out over favoritism, birth order and so many other issues are as unrelenting as they seem. In one study I cite in the book, children in the two-to-four age group engage in one fight every 6.3 minutes, or 9.5 fights an hour. That's not fighting—that's performance art. That's extraordinary. One reason for this is that there are a lot more people in your home than you think there are, or at least a lot more relationships. Every person in your house has a discrete one-on-one relationship with every other person, and those pairings or dyads add up fast. In a family with two parents and two kids, there are six dyads: Mom has a relationship with child A and B, Dad has a relationship with child A and B. There's the marital relationship, and there is the relationship between the kids themselves. The formula for this looks very chilly but it's real. K equals the number of people in your household, and X equals the number of dyads. In a five-person family, there are ten discrete dyads. The eight-person Brady Bunch—never mind the sweetness here—there were 28 dyads in that family. The original Kennedy family with nine kids had 55 different relationships. And Bobby Kennedy, who grew up to have 11 children of his own, had a household with a whopping 91 dyads. This overpopulation of relationships makes fights unavoidable. And far and away the biggest trigger for all sibling fights is property. Studies have found that over 95 percent of the fights among small children concern somebody touching, playing with, looking at the other person's stuff. This in its own way is healthy if it's very noisy, and the reason is that small children come into the world with absolutely no control. They are utterly helpless. The only way they have of projecting their very limited power is through the objects they can call their own. When somebody crosses that very erasable line, they're going to go nuts, and that's what happens. Another very common casus belli among children is the idea of fairness, as any parent who hears 14 times a day, "But that's unfair!" can tell you. In a way this is good, too, though. Kids are born with a very innate sense of right and wrong, of a fair deal versus an unfair one, and this teaches them powerful lessons. Do you want to know how powerfully encoded fairness is in the human genome? We process that phenomenon through the same lobe in our brain that processes disgust, meaning we react to the idea of somebody being cheated the same way we react to putrefied meat. Any wonder that this fellow, Bernie Madoff, is unpopular? All of these dramas played out day to day, moment to moment, serve as a real-time, total-immersion exercise for life. Siblings teach each other conflict avoidance and conflict resolution, when to stand up for themselves, when to stand down; they learn love, loyalty, honesty, sharing, caring, compromise, the disclosure of secrets and much more important, the keeping of confidences. I listen to my young daughters—aren't they adorable?—I listen to my young daughters talking late into the night, the same way my parents, no doubt, listened to my brothers and me talking, and sometimes I intervene, but usually I don't. They're part of a conversation I am not part of, nobody else in the world is part of, and it's a conversation that can and should go on for the rest of their lives. From this will come a sense of constancy, a sense of having a permanent traveling companion, somebody with whom they road-tested life before they ever had to get out and travel it on their own. Brothers and sisters aren't the sine qua non of a happy life; plenty of adult sibling relationships are fatally broken and need to be abandoned for the sanity of everybody involved. And only-children, throughout history, have shown themselves to be creatively, brilliantly capable of getting their socialization and comradeship skills through friends, through cousins, through classmates. But having siblings and not making the most of those bonds is, I believe, folly of the first order. If relationships are broken and are fixable, fix them. If they work, make them even better. Failing to do so is a little like having a thousand acres of fertile farmland and never planting it. Yes, you can always get your food at the supermarket, but think what you're allowing to lie fallow. Life is short, it's finite, and it plays for keeps. Siblings may be among the richest harvests of the time we have here. Thank you. i.e. 跟 e.g. 到底是什麼意思？兩者相等嗎？	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1057
__label__wiki	0.632463	0.632463	Doctor Who: Daleks in the Mirror New Year Resolution? Remember Weight Loss Does Not Equal Wellness Best Virtual Bets: Altered Books, Diverse-City, and Dance Natalie de la Garza \| Things To Do \| Natalie de la Garza \| October 1, 2020 \| 4:00am DACAMERA will premiere its original production of Olivier Messiaen’s Visions de l'Amen during their opening weekend this Saturday. Photo by Ben Doyle Welcome to October! For the first week of a new month, we have gathered a list of some interesting virtual activities for you to partake in as we patiently await Halloween and the cold fronts we’re told are coming around the corner. With music, dance, visual art and even some arts and crafts to get your hands dirty, we think we’ve got a little something for everyone. Fresh off their musical journey though Latin America in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Apollo Chamber Players’ 20x2020 Virtual Festival continues tonight, Thursday, October 1, at 7 o'clock. A simple suggestion of doing something Irish by one of the eventual underwriters of the work featured in tonight’s episode was the genesis of said work, What is the Word, by composers Christopher Theofanidis and Mark Wingate. Based on Samuel Beckett’s poem of the same name and written for string quartet, the ensemble interacts with the digital playback of a woman (Maura Hooper) reciting the poem during the piece. Episode 12, premiering Sunday, October 4, at 7 p.m. will feature composer Chitravina N. Ravikiran’s Cosmic Knowledge and A Mouthful of Universe with some special guests: Houston Symphony Principal Robin Kesselman (double bass), Erode Nagaraj (mridangam), and dancers from Silambam Houston. Remember, new episodes – all free – will continue to premiere every Thursday and Sunday at 7 p.m. on Apollo Chamber Players’ YouTube and Facebook pages through November 1. If you’ve missed the Virtual Open Studio offerings from the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, you've missed some high-quality crafting on Saturday afternoons. That’s because every first Saturday of the month CAMH gets artsy: ATC-making (that’s artist trading cards), journal making; and even the repurposing of VHS and cassette tapes to create a self-portrait inspired by the artists of their "Slowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses" exhibit. The good news is that you can catch up on these here. And this Saturday, October 3, at 2 p.m. you can join in real time for Virtual Open Studio: Altered Books. To gear up for transforming literature into a different kind of work of art, you can start gathering some books you don’t mind losing and then tune in to Virtual Open Studios on Saturday. They are released on the CAMH website and hosted over on Instagram Live. Or you can just dive in now – instructions are here. French-born photographer Isabelle Perreau will open “Diverse-City, An Ode to Houston” at Archway Gallery this Saturday, October 3, at 6:30 p.m. with a virtual opening and artist talk. Perreau describes the exhibit as “a love letter to Houston – a ‘photographic ode’” based on her 20 years of getting to know and appreciate the city, which – for a world traveler like Perreau – wasn’t all that impressive on first sight. You can join the virtual opening and artist talk through the Archway Gallery website or Facebook Live, and you can also experience the exhibit, which will be on view through November 5, on the Archway Gallery website. DACAMERA opens their 2020-2021 season this weekend with an entire lineup of virtual performances. First up, this Friday, October 2, at 7 p.m. DACAMERA will livestream a wide-ranging offering of chamber music that travels across genres, including the jazzy stylings of pianist (and Houston’s own) James Francies and Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez; Bach from cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton; “a kind of sonic hug” when flutist Claire Chase performs Marcos Balter’s Echo, a work for flute and electronics; and much more. DACAMERA’s Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg will host the livestream, and the virtual opening night will also see the release of their full season lineup, which will feature a mix of livestreams, concert premieres from the DACAMERA archive with new introductions, and live concerts. Opening weekend will continue Saturday, October 3, at 7 p.m. when DACAMERA premieres its original production of Olivier Messiaen’s Visions de l'Amen – straight from the archives. Composed in 1943 for two pianos, the work – called “kaleidoscopically majestic and mystical” by The New York Times – was performed by Rothenberg and Marilyn Nonken and recorded in 2015 with lighting designs by two-time Tony winner Jennifer Tipton. Both events are free, but registration is required. Pianist George Li joins the Houston Symphony to perform Joseph Haydn’s best remembered piano concerto, Piano Concerto No. 11, on Saturday. Photo by Simon Fowler Pianist George Li joins the Houston Symphony this weekend for Live from Jones Hall: Clyne, Haydn & Dvorák. On the program is Anna Clyne’s Within Her Arms, a piece written in memory of Clyne’s mother that’s been said to not only have “a perfectly sculpted tension, a somber beauty, and an inner radiance” but “the feel of wholesome traditional British string music enlivened by a new spirit.” Joseph Haydn’s best remembered piano concerto, Piano Concerto No. 11, “a work of the composer’s maturity, with strikingly dramatic contrasts, an expressive slow movement and an infectious Hungarian Rondo” is also on the program, which will conclude with Antonín Dvorák’s Serenade in D minor. On Saturday, October 3, at 8 p.m. the program will be livestreamed straight from Jones Hall. For $20, you get a ticket to the concert and to a live Prelude discussion with musical ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero on Zoom to learn more about the program. Axiom Quartet will present their first digital offering this Sunday, October 4, at 5 p.m. when the string ensemble takes to Facebook Live for Beethoven Op. 18 No. 5 in Four Parts (Part 1). While Beethoven always seems a good choice, they’ll actually be exploring Beethoven’s celebratory fifth string quartet though the lens of their season’s theme, “Hindsight,” paying particular attention to both the obvious homage paid within the piece to Mozart and the ways it went on to influence the genre. Really, the similarities to Mozart’s K.464 quartet are striking, a piece that supposedly elicited high praise from Beethoven: “That’s a work! That’s where Mozart said to the world: Behold what I might have done for you if the time were right!” As the title indicates, this is part one of four, featuring the first movement. The free series will continue on October 4, October 11, October 18, and October 25. Dance Source Houston hosts Mind the Gap 16 this Monday, October 5, at 7 p.m. – but this time instead of trekking over to The MATCH, where you’ve been able to catch the last 15 (!) installments, you can join from cyberspace. The program will include five original works from five local choreographers: Joshua Eguia, Ke’Ron Wilson, Paty Solórzano, Emalie Thok and Karen Imas. Each performance will be coming to you straight from their homes to YouTube. And after the show, you can open up Zoom for an artist talkback. Tickets are available here on a sliding price scale. Natalie de la Garza is a contributing writer who adores all things pop culture and longs to know everything there is to know about the Houston arts and culture scene. Reviews For The Uneasily Quarantined: One Night In... What Is a “Cool” Parent? Market Square Park Glows With Newest Public Art Installation	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1059
__label__wiki	0.904109	0.904109	Facebook finally bans deepfakes (well, some of them) The company announced the decision in a late-night blog post. Cheyenne MacDonald 1.7.2020 5:40 AM Facebook is taking a stance on deepfakes and other forms of "manipulated media." Sort of. In a blog post published Monday night, the company outlined new criteria for handling digitally-altered media. From now on, Facebook says it will remove videos that have been altered in a way that makes them indistinguishable from the real thing to the average viewer and thus carry the potential to "mislead someone into thinking that a subject of the video said words that they did not actually say." More broadly, the company says it is cracking down on AI-altered videos that present false content as though it were authentic. There's an interesting omission, though: satirical content. "This policy does not extend to content that is parody or satire," Facebook said, "or video that has been edited solely to omit or change the order of words." Deepfakes have become a growing concern, particularly in relation to the upcoming U.S. election, and Facebook has so far remained pretty hands-off, to the ire of many. That's despite the fact that the company's own CEO, Mark Zuckerberg was the subject of one such video after it decided not to remove similarly falsified footage of House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi. After many months of scathing criticism over its lax approach, Facebook has finally started taking steps to address the issue, this just being the latest. Last month, the company announced a partnership with global news agency Reuters to offer courses on deepfake-identification. And, apparently, there's more to come. "As these partnerships and our own insights evolve, so too will our policies toward manipulated media," Facebook says. We'll see what that means.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1064
__label__wiki	0.899075	0.899075	Homebase to close Grimsby store The Grimsby Telegraph has reported that staff at Grimsby's Homebase have been informed that the shop is set to close and could be replaced by a rival store later this year. They were told about the decision by bosses on Wednesday. The Grimsby Telegraph understands the store will be replaced by home, leisure and garden store The Range in October – however, this is yet to be confirmed. As yet, it is also unknown what will happen to the jobs of the staff employed at the store. A spokesman for the Home Retail Group, which owns Homebase, confirmed that the Grimsby store is likely to close. She said: "We can confirm that the business has entered a period of consultation concerning the proposed closure of our store in Grimsby. "Colleagues at the store have been informed and we will be working with them over the next few weeks to support them as much as possible. "Homebase continues to be committed to providing employment opportunities and great customer service to people in the area. "Due to commercial sensitivities, we are unable to comment further at this time." In 2012, Homebase announced that they would be closing 40 stores over the next five years. The retailer has 65 store leases coming up for renewal over the next five years, and says it is planning to close all but 25 of them. This is part of their decision to halt expansion and to concentrate on multi-channel development, as seen with their introduction of Argos in some of their Homebase stores. Nevertheless, Home Retail, which owns Argos and Homebase, has recently said it expects profits to be slightly ahead of market forecasts. Internet sales have also grown year on year. Originally known as CDS Superstores, The Range originated in the markets in the south-west and was founded by Plymouth entrepreneur Chris Dawson. The expanding company boasts 88 stores nationwide, including nearby Lincoln and Scunthorpe, but more are expected to be announced soon. The Range has more than 65,000 products and more than 16 different departments, including DIY, homewares, furniture, lighting, arts, crafts and soft furnishings. In 2009, The Range was ranked 121st on the Sunday Times' Price Waterhouse Company top track and 250th on the league table tracking the UK's fastest growing companies. A spokesman for The Range was unable to confirm or deny if they were planning to open a store in the area. www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/Grimsby-s-Homebase-DIY-store-facing-closure-Range/story-21078835-detail/story.html	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1065
__label__wiki	0.984271	0.984271	Ground breaking Advanced Passenger Train recognised as British engineering trailblazer The Advanced Passenger Train-Experimental (APT-E) received a prestigious Engineering Heritage Award by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on Friday 24 May, at a special ceremony at Locomotion, the National Railway Museum at Shildon, County Durham. The APT-E is awarded coveted Engineering Heritage Award at special ceremony at the Locomotion Museum, Shildon The APT-E was recognised as the world’s first self-propelled active tilting train and being the pre-cursor to tilting trains in current use like the Pendolino. The award was presented by Professor Isobel Pollock, Past President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to Paul Leadley, from the APT-E Conservation and Support Group. Prof Isobel Pollock, Past President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, said: “The APT-E pioneered some hugely innovative ideas in railway transport, which still live on today. The train is testament to the fact that the UK is home to some of the most inventive engineering innovations in the world. “The train marked a number of world firsts, including being the first self-propelled active tilting train; the first train to have computer designed wheelsets and active suspension; and the first train to run at over 100 mph on any track without side-to-side instability. “Sadly politics, industrial relations and poor publicity lead to the demise of the APT project, but its legacy has been integral to the development of modern railway travel.” Paul Leadley, from the APT-E Conservation and Support Group said: “At long last the APT project has been recognised as the peak of british railway engineering and design, technology which is now in use world-wide on a day to day basis. Managerial and political issues caused the APT project to be scrapped, not the technology. As Sir Peter Parker (Past chairman of British Rail), once said, we have solved a very difficult problem by developing the APT, now let’s take pride in it.” The APT-E conservation & Support Group has been working on the restoration of the train for over 13 years, which also includes correcting the public’s views towards the APT project as a whole. This award is a fitting tribute to all who worked on the APT-E, and the entire APT project. Anthony Coulls, Senior Curator of Rail Vehicles at the National Railway Museum said: "The APT-E is often a misunderstood part of our collection. The Institution’s award will raise its profile, quite rightly and show the importance of the train in the development of high speed rail travel as we know it." The APT-E (Advanced Passenger Train Experimental) was a prototype advanced passenger tilting train. It was powered by gas turbines, the only multiple unit used by British Rail to use this technology. The unit was only intended for testing and was never intended to be used in ordinary public service, although it did carry office staff and the occasional dignitaries on trial runs. When its period of testing was complete in June 1976, it was sent to the National Railway Museum in York for preservation before being moved to the National Railway Museum in Shildon. The APT was an experimental tilting high speed train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s. The introduction into service of the Advanced Passenger Train was to be a three-stage project: Phase 1, the development of an experimental APT, the APT-E, which was completed. Phase 2, the introduction of three prototype trains, known as the APT-P, into revenue service on the Glasgow-London route. The APT-P enjoyed only limited service due to bad publicity. Phase 3, the introduction of the Squadron fleet designated APT-S. This phase did not occur. The Engineering Heritage Awards celebrate engineering artefacts of particular engineering importance. Previous recipients include Tower Bridge, the E-Type Jaguar and the Mallard Locomotive.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1069
__label__wiki	0.519144	0.519144	T1 Teddy: "I’d like to have revenge on all the teams that beat us." David "Viion" Jang On the 6th (KST), T1 swept SeolHaeOne Prince in the 2020 League of Legends Champions Korea Summer Split. It was their 4th straight win and their 10th win overall. Bot laner Park “Teddy” Jin-seong had a great performance and was voted as the Player of the Game for game 2. It was the second POG of the season for him, which was quite unusual. After the match, Teddy joined Inven Global for an interview. How do you feel about today’s win? We won 2-0. I had fun in today’s match, and I’m happy that I even got the POG. It has been a long time since you got your last POG. Don’t you want to get more? Actually, I didn’t mind not getting any POGs, but recently, I started to think that I need to play with more ambition. Since my teammates played so well recently, I think they deserved it. Recently, I started to think of the POGs as a motivation, that I should be able to carry as much as my teammates do. It’s your fourth straight win. The team atmosphere seems good. How is it? As much as we’re on a 4-game winning streak, the atmosphere is great. But we can’t be careless. Even with the winning streak, we’re trying to stay tense. I hope we can go on without being stopped. Clozer has been doing amazing. Did you predict that he’d do this well? I wasn’t much worried since he’s a great player. But even if he’s really good, he could get nervous in official matches. The environment could be unfamiliar. I’m proud of him for doing so well. Did you give him any advice? He was already very good to give him any advice. All we did was give him some feedback on things he could improve. In game 2, he picked up two straight solo kills after a death. What do you usually tell him in those situations? We don’t praise him too much during the game. The praises come after the game. When he dies, we just tell him that it’s alright. He died a bit often today in game 2. When he did, I just said all’s well and that I can carry. Caitlyn was buffed. SeolHaeOne Prince picked her today. How often do you think she’ll appear in the pro scene? Caitlyn is a champion that has to be played well in terms of moving and positioning. She can die very easily. Although she has good range, her survivability isn’t that good. It might be difficult, but if played well, she’s really good. She can appear in official matches often. It’s kind of a high-risk-high-return pick. Effort isn’t hitting the Nexus and urging teammates to do so anymore. He even dove the Obelisk today. What changed him? He might have gone nuts since I talked to him too much. I try to play more aggressively and he tries to help out. About hitting the Nexus, it seems that he’s given up and is enjoying the win with everyone else. You’re always considered one of the best ADCs in Korea. Do you think it was a good choice to become an ADC? It was definitely a good choice. It was a lot easier to raise my ladder points when I played ADC. It’s a position that is a perfect fit for me. If I played a different lane, I probably would have become a top laner, diving 24/7, blaming the jungle when I die. [Laughs] Do you think you would have been able to be considered one of the best top laners if you picked top laner? I’m purely thankful for being even considered one of the best in my position. I think fans are just saying that since I won the championship three times. Anyways, if I were a top laner… I’m not sure. [Laughs] Many people say that I’m a gifted player, but I put in a lot of effort as well. If I did play top lane, I probably would have been quite good. I’m not sure about being one of the best though; I’d say the possibility would be less than 50%. You’ll be facing Team Dynamics in the next match. They beat T1 in the first round. In round 1, we lost to stronger teams and to Team Dynamics as well. We did lose to Gen.G in round 2, but I’d like to have revenge on all the teams that beat us. I really want to do well. Any last comments to the fans? The coronavirus pandemic is going very long. I wonder when it’ll all be gone. Despite the struggles, thank you for cheering for us. It’s a difficult time, but I hope everyone is well. For more LoL Esports news and content, head over to our dedicated League of Legends section! Find full schedules, brackets, and more for your favorite esports on Juked.gg! T1WIN viion@inven.co.kr Nick Geracie 9 hours ago	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1072
__label__wiki	0.891702	0.891702	israelandstuffcom \| November 24, 2016 Future U.S.-Mexico border fence may be boon for Israeli security firms Magal Security Systems, an experienced player in building high-tech fences & security walls along Israel’s volatile borders, as well as the security barrier separating the West Bank, is being seen as a possible option for Trump’s proposed Mexico wall. The Israeli company that has built high-tech fences along the country’s volatile borders is being regarded by investors as a possible safe bet to cash in on the US president-elect’s plan to seal the border with Mexico.Magal Security Systems has been a major player in building high-tech fences and walls along Israel’s volatile northern and southern borders, as well as the massive separation barrier that snakes along the frontier with the West Bank. Its products include cameras, sophisticated sensors, robots and software to operate the systems. proposed Judea & Samaria fence “We believe that the US government is going to increase its security budgets in the coming years and definitely we look forward to hopefully taking part in it,” the company’s chief executive, Saar Koursh, told The Associated Press. Investors seem to agree. Despite a mixed record of profitability and a historically volatile stock, the company’s shares have surged on the Nasdaq Stock Market since Donald Trump was elected president on Nov. 8, while trading volume has surged in some cases by more than 150 times the pre-election levels. Its shares were trading at $5.53 apiece on Wednesday, up 24 percent from its $4.45 closing price on Nov. 8. Magal was established in 1965 as a branch of the state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries. It was privatized 15 years later and has traded on the Nasdaq since 1993. Magal has served customers in over 80 countries, including airports, the seaport in Mombasa, Kenya, and sporting events and utilities. With market capitalization below $100 million, the company is much smaller than potential competitors, which could include major global electronics and construction firms. But it’s a leader in a country that is in turn a global leader in the building of barriers. Israeli defense officials confirmed Magal’s projects have included not only the West Bank barrier, but also a 150-mile structure that has halted an influx of African migrants across the Egyptian border. Additionally, Magal is also responsible for the high-tech fence separating the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip from Israel. Victor Bar-Gil, a former Israeli Defense Ministry official who worked with Magal on a project to fortify the border with Lebanon, said the company did “very thorough and precise work.” “It was work that had to be done really urgently. The military was withdrawing from Lebanon and a fence needed to be built very quickly and this fence was built,” he said. Koursh believes that if the Mexico barrier is built, it will be similar to Israeli structures that include a combination of fences and walls equipped with cutting edge technology. “It is dependent on so many factors, including the type of wall, the type of fence, (and) the type of sensors that you want to put on the fence (that) it’s hard for me to estimate, but for sure this would be a mega project,” he said. David Holtzman, a financial analyst at Israel’s First International Bank, said Magal is considered a world leader in the construction of security barriers but cautioned that the run-up in its stock price is speculative. “It is important to remember that currently we still do not know yet whether everything that Trump has promised prior to the election he will in fact carry out,” he said. View original Ynet publication at: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4883706,00.html Category: The Diaspora \| Tags: border fence, Magal Security Systems, security fence, Security wall	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1075
__label__wiki	0.875544	0.875544	Home » blog » canon » Chris Redmond » history » scholarship » An Overlooked Colonel An Overlooked Colonel by Chris Redmond January 23, 2016 "The Mutiny broke out, and all hell was loose in the country." [CROO] It's very easy to skip over some of the historical background in the (otherwise exciting) Sherlock Holmes stories. We've all done it. Would you know for sure, if I asked you out of the blue, whether anybody by the name of Colonel Greathed appears in any of the tales? Well, he does. I quote from Jonathan Small's narrative near the end of The Sign of the Four: "A flying column under Colonel Greathed came round to Agra and cleared the Pandies away from it." Thus in 17 words he has his one and only brush with the great detective of Baker Street. The problem with this sort of reference is that the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58, sometimes known to historians as the First Indian War of Independence, was far more vivid in the minds of the novel's original readers than it is in ours. When The Sign of the Four was published in 1890, the Mutiny was just 32 years in the past. Memories of it were as sharp and detailed as are our own memories of, say, the freeing of the American hostages in Iran in 1981. Indeed, they were probably more so, since our generation has seen many similar traumas since that one. The Indian Mutiny had an impact on public opinion and awareness in Britain that is probably better compared to that of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States: neither would be soon forgotten. So the readers of SIGN knew about Agra, and knew that Pandies were rebel troops, whether or not they knew anything about Colonel Greathed. At this point we turn to a footnote in Leslie S. Klinger's Sherlock Holmes Reference Library , which first of all points out that William S. Baring-Gould was wrong in his identification of Greathed. The relevant line in Baring-Gould's The Annotated Sherlock Holmes suggests that Colonel William W. H. Greathed was the hero in question, but others, including Jack Tracy in his Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana , put the spotlight instead on his brother, Col. Sir Edward Harris Greathed. Tracy is, as it happens, correct; it was Edward Greathed whose column of troops relieved Agra on October 10, 1857 (the date is, astonishingly, wrong in Wikipedia). "Peace seemed to be settling upon the country," as Jonathan Small observes. General Sir Edward Harris Greathed (image source: Wikimedia Commons) Edward Greathed (born 1812) had bought his commission, as one did in those days, in the 8th Regiment of Foot, and worked his way up through the officer corps in the same way, with postings to the West Indies, Canada, and (as of 1846) India. His unit — including the aforesaid brother William, of the Royal Engineers — was part of the forces led by Sir Archdale Wilson, also mentioned by Jonathan Small, that recaptured Delhi in September 1857. He then was sent to chase mutineers into Oudh and then to relieve the besieged city of Lucknow. Along the way his troops fought that impromptu October battle at Agra, near the famous fort. He subsequently served under Sir Colin Campbell at Cawnpore before returning to Britain for medals, new commands, and eventually a promotion to general. The story of Edward Greathed, and his extremely minor role in the saga of Sherlock Holmes, is one of some 800 Victorian dramas that will be included in my book Lives Beyond Baker Street, to be published in March 2016 by MX Publishing. Image source: Kashmir Gate one year after the siege (Wikipedia) blog, canon, Chris Redmond, history, scholarship Episode 89: The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes vs. Tarzan — by the Numbers The 2016 BSI Weekend — Wrap Up and How You Can Help Episode 88: The Abominable Show Remembering Alan Rickman ABOMs Away! A Viewer's Guide to "The Abominable Br... This Irregular Waited 50 Years to Attend His First... Original Holmes and Parallel Holmes The Roylott Files — Don't Try This At Home A Requiem for Sherlock Holmes Help Sherlock Holmes Celebrate His 162nd Birthday Everything You Need to Know — A Roundup of Abomina... Meta, Meta, Meta — An Abominable Bride Review The Abominable Bride — We're Not in Baker Street A... The Abominable Bride — A Review of Two Minds Fun in Challenging the Past — An Abominable Bride ... Sherlock: The Abominable Bride Lived Up to Its Name Brace Yourself — Abominable Bride Reviews Ahead Sherlockian New Year's Resolutions The Unpublished Cases of Sherlock Holmes	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1081
__label__wiki	0.710009	0.710009	Follow Evan Solomon Host of Overview & CTV's Power Play Evan Solomon is the host of Overview with Evan Solomon on Newstalk 580 CFRA weekdays from 2pm to 6pm. He is also the National Affairs Specialist, and is heard daily on Bell Media Radio’s news/talk stations throughout Canada. The first-ever National Affairs Specialist for Bell Media Radio, Solomon’s expanded role includes daily morning news hits with news/talk stations in Ottawa, Montreal & Toronto. In addition Solomon is heard weekly on news/talk stations in Victoria, Kelowna, BC, as well as in Windsor, London & St. Catharines in Ontario. Solomon is also host of the syndicated weekend program, “Real Talk with Evan Solomon”. Airing across Bell Media news/talk stations, Solomon brings his passion for breaking news and storytelling to in-depth, hour-long interviews with national and international newsmakers and celebrities. Solomon was most recently the host of SiriusXM’s daily show “Everything is Political” where he remains the executive producer. Solomon is an accomplished writer, magazine publisher and radio-television journalist, who anchored CBC News Network’s daily political series “Power & Politics” and CBC Radio’s weekly “The House”. He is also a weekly contributor for Maclean’s Magazine. Solomon is a McGill University graduate where he studied English literature and religious studies. 580 CFRA CFRA’s Daily Download #ELXN2019 The Evan Solomon Show Canada Day Special with Evan Solomon Newstalk 1290 CJBK Overview with Evan Solomon Ottawa Now with Kristy Cameron Real Talk With Evan Solomon CTV's Question Period Inside City Hall with Evan Solomon	cc/2021-04/en_head_0047.json.gz/line1082

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