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__label__cc	0.726695	0.273305	Ashrika Tyagi A journalism student and freelancer who believe in destiny and doings. A strong reader and a versatile writer who mould her hand to write for what encounters her fate. Daze towards the art of clothing, bought her to possess a fashion blog. A sheer ardour inhibited with stories and notions and a million words which hesitated to appear on the spell, but bloomed flamboyantly in the words. Read Fascinating Facts About No Celebrity, But A Caterpillar FactsAshrika Tyagi - March 4, 2018 0 Celebrity gossip and television series discussions are all that is trending, talking about who what wear or who is dating who is what the... Know About The Famous Writers Who Changed The World FactsAshrika Tyagi - February 16, 2018 0 Written text has been changing the world since the time of holy gods. The words have such power and influence over learned people, and... Imagine Tattoos Producing Sounds – Introducing “Soundwave Tattoos” FactsAshrika Tyagi - December 31, 2017 0 Soundwave tattoos are inked on the bodies and can be apparently be heard, and this technology is commenced and in practice from June 2017.... Did Legendary Singer Tansen Really Bring Rain With His Music? Music came to earth way before we all were born. Egyptians invented flutes in 4000 BCE, which was celebrated as the newborn steps of music... Rupi Kaur – A Writer Who Healed Through Poetry Who is Rupi Kaur? Rupi Kaur is a Sikh and a Canadian who completed her education in Toronto. Rupi Kaur is a known and talked... Original Skeletons Found In Disneyland Ride Disneyland is a world's wonder! The destination is a homeland for cartoons and fairy tales which is also a dreamland for everyone, even the... Strange Features Of Vintage Cars That You Didn’t Know HistoryAshrika Tyagi - December 12, 2017 0 How much you know about vintage cars? We have history playback for you today! 1. Automatic Belts in Vintage Cars George Cayley tossed the idea of... Some Questions About Universe We Don’t Have Answers To! Here’s Why? FactsAshrika Tyagi - December 2, 2017 0 We breathe among uncounted truths and lies, and we also pass our life wondering, wondering for questions to which the answer must be known.... Ever Thought Why Do Books Smell So Good? Gauri Sindhu - November 24, 2017 0 Every book lover knows that there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that can beat the aroma of a book in this whole wide world. It... Tips for Staying Healthy while Ageing Stella Van Lane - October 21, 2018 0 Ageing is a normal process that comes with life. It can’t be reversed but it can be managed in a way so that you... Did You Know That Chimpanzees Are Smarter Than Humans? Gauri Sindhu - September 14, 2017 0 You hear of young children outperforming teenagers, teenagers beating adults but have you heard of chimpanzees outperforming humans? Read on for more! The Study over... Here Is Why Yummy Round Pizzas Are Delivered In Square Boxes Aishwarya Borgaonkar - July 2, 2017 0 To all the pizzaphiles out there, you cannot disagree on the fact that there's no season for not eating pizza. Craving for pizza is... 5 Great Reasons To Take Up Fishing Darsh Patel - July 16, 2020 1 Of all the hobbies you could take up, fishing is one of the most relaxing. It's just you, a rod, a body of water,... #DIY: Watermelon Dispenser To Make For Your Next Party Niharika Dadoo - January 26, 2018 0 Did you ever think that you can boost up your party in the most different way with just a unique way of serving a... Royal Enfield History And Interesting Facts Of This ‘Bike Of Century’ The Enfield Cycle Company founded in 1893 had the brand name, Royal Enfield. They used to manufacture motorcycles, bicycles, lawnmowers and stationary engines. The first Royal... 10 Most Astonishing Facts About Black Holes Vaishnavi - June 14, 2020 0 What is a black hole? A black hole is a region in spacetime where the gravity is so dense, that nothing, even particles and electromagnetic... You Need To Know About The Unsung Story Of Einstein’s First Wife! Lenora Agnel - November 24, 2017 0 “Behind every successful man, there is a woman,” they say. Be it a mother, wife or daughter, and they’ll never fail to smother you... Salutes Of The Indian Armed Forces: How and Why Do They Differ? Meghna Gopal - November 28, 2017 0 The life of a soldier is attributed to diligence, hard work, sacrifices, orderliness, and discipline. They carry themselves in a sophisticated manner, and it...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1128
__label__wiki	0.754391	0.754391	LynTec RPC Panelboards Support Light Beam Atop One World Trade Center Motorized Panelboards Bring Electrical Protection and Remote Control Capabilities to New York City’s Leading Landmark LENEXA, Kan. — May 6, 2014 — LynTec, a leading manufacturer of customized electrical power control solutions for professional audio, video, and lighting systems, today announced that the company’s RPC 329, RPC 341, and RPS 342 panelboards are being used to operate the rooftop lighting of one of the world’s most iconic structures: One World Trade Center in New York. Renowned for their ability to provide both built-in circuit switching and electrical protection within a single enclosure, LynTec’s RPC (Remote Power Controller) panelboards bring remote control capabilities, talk-back features, and seamless third-party GUI integration to the lights atop the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere. Installed above the structure’s 408-foot rooftop spire, the 104-story One World Trade Center’s lighthouse-inspired rotating beacon brightens the skyline by outputting more than 300,000 lumens at bidirectional distances of up to 50 miles. The one-of-a-kind solution employs a series of single and double-headed custom LED color uplight fixtures to illuminate the spire’s open steel frame while the structure’s rotating beacon uses a complex array of white LEDs and revolving mirrors to create an extraordinary sky-bound lighthouse effect. To enable advanced electrical protection and simple third-party integration throughout the world-class lighting installation, system integrator Barbizon — the nation’s largest lighting integration company — turned to LynTec’s award-winning line of RPC panelboards with motorized breaker technology. “For this once-in-a-lifetime project, it was essential that every component provide the uncompromised reliability, market-leading quality, and innovative features that would allow us to create a lighting solution that was worthy of an internationally renowned monument,” said John Gebbie, systems business development manager, Barbizon. “By selecting LynTec’s RPC panelboards, we gained a space-saving combination of switching and circuit protection capabilities in one panelboard, remote control functions via integration with our custom GUI, and the ability to receive instant alerts for lighting maintenance and service — all key features for such a hard-to-access, high-altitude installation. LynTec is known for its unparalleled tech support, which proved to be invaluable for an endeavor of this importance and complexity.” Built specifically to manage installed audio and lighting systems of any size, LynTec’s RPC panelboards combine the latest motorized breaker technology with Web-enabled circuit control, allowing integrators to easily set up, program, monitor, and control loads on a circuit-specific level. Accessible from any Web-enabled device, the solutions provide a complete overview and allow users to take action remotely, resulting in greater installation flexibility, more efficient power control, and the ability to provide direct on/off control for LED lighting. The panelboards also bring built-in auto-off brownout protection, optional sequential circuit level on/off capabilities, and the ability to interface with third-party control systems via contact closure, TCP/IP, DMX, or RS-232. “Being selected for this unique application truly distinguishes LynTec as an emerging market leader in the protection, monitoring, and control of large-scale LED lighting installations,” said Mark Bishop, president of LynTec. “In addition to supporting the project’s lighting effects, our RPC solutions increase the installation’s energy efficiency, enable more cost-effective maintenance, and allow easier access via powerful remote capabilities. We are thrilled to play a direct part in such a compelling landmark.” A fully collaborative project, the lighting installation atop One World Trade Center features Strong Lighting Mini Solutions LED fixtures with internal engines by DTS. The beacon’s rotating mechanism was enabled by JR Clancy while program control was provided by Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) and Pathway Connectivity. All installation labor was provided by Five Star Electric and its IBEW electricians. All electrical control was made possible by LynTec. More information on LynTec’s RPC panels and full line of products is available at www.LynTec.com. Barbizon Lighting	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1129
__label__wiki	0.544584	0.544584	Lyle Beerbohm Volkmann’s decision to fight irresponsible, selfish, moronic and arrogant June 23, 2013 by Chad Bush The controversy of Jacob Volkman not telling anyone about his blackout and seizure prior to his WSOF 3 bout with Lyle Beerbohm may be a stigma he will have to live with for some time. It is just one of those things that can’t be ignored; kind of like Kanye West, only more annoying. Categories MMA Tags blackout, dehydration, featured, Jacob Volkmann, Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Lyle Beerbohm, seizures, World Series of Fighting, WSOF, WSOF 3 World Series of Fighting 3 salaries: Josh Burkman tops $200K payroll June 17, 2013 by Pro MMA Now Staff The World Series of Fighting 3 event took place on Saturday night in Las Vegas at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. The main event saw Josh Burkman avenge a previous loss to Jon Fitch by submitting him in less than a minute in the main event. The total payroll for the event was $200,000. Categories MMA Tags Brian Cobb, featured, Jacob Volkmann, Josh Burkman, Josh Fitch, Justin Gaethje, Lyle Beerbohm, MMA, Steve Carl, tyson steele, WSOF 3 salaries WSOF 3 LIVE results and play-by-play June 14, 2013 June 14, 2013 by Jack Bratcher MMA World Series of Fighting returns to the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas this evening for their third event. The main card is headlined with a welterweight bout between former UFC top contender Jon Fitch and fellow UFC veteran Josh Burkman. Categories Event Results Tags Brian Cobb, Dan Lauzon, featured, Jacob Volkmann, John Gunderson, Jon Fitch, Josh Burkman, Justin Gaethje, Lyle Beerbohm, results, Steve Carl, tyson steele, World Series of Fighting, WSOF, WSOF 3 World Series of Fighting 3 weigh-in results The World Series of Fighting 3 card is all set to go as official weigh in’s took place earlier today in Las Vegas. The event will take place at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and will the main card airing on NBC Sports at 11 p.m. ET. Categories MMA Tags Brian Cobb, featured, Jacob Volkmann, Jerrod Sanders, Jon Fitch, Josh Burkman, Justin Gaethje, Lyle Beerbohm, Steve Carl, tyson steele, weigh-in results, WSOF 3 The World Series of Fighting 3: Fitch vs. Burkman II full card The World Series of Fighting 3 card will air Friday, June 14, on NBC Sports at 11 p.m. ET from the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Categories MMA Tags Brian Cobb, featured, Jacob Volkmann, Jon Fitch, Josh Burkman, Justin Gaethje, Lyle Beerbohm, MMA, Ray Sefo, Steve Carl, tyson steele, WSOF 3 WSOF 3 media call: Fitch, Burkmann, Volkmann, Beerbohm (Full Audio) June 6, 2013 June 6, 2013 by Pro MMA Now Staff Ray Sefo and the cast of World Series of Fighting 3 participated in a media conference call earlier today to discuss the upcoming event that takes place on July 14th at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Jon Fitch, Josh Burkman, Jacob Volkmann and Lyle Beerbohm joined Sefo on the call. Categories MMA Tags audio, conference call, featured, Jacob Volkmann, Jon Fitch, Josh Burkman, Lyle Beerbohm, NBC Sports Network, Nick Newell, Ray Sefo, Tyson Griffin, UFC, World Series of Fighting, WSOF 3 Rolles Gracie injured, Volkmann vs. Beerbohm moved to WSOF 3 televised main card June 5, 2013 by Jack Bratcher A wrist sprain has forced Rolles Gracie out of his heavyweight bout with Dave Huckaba at WSOF 3. The bout was scheduled as part of World Series of Fighting’s main card to be televised live on NBC Sports Network from the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on Friday, June 14. Categories MMA Tags dave huckaba, featured, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Jacob Volkmann, Jon Fitch, Josh Burkman, Las Vegas, Lyle Beerbohm, Mixed Martial-Arts, NBC Sports Network, Ray Sefo, Rolles Gracie, UFC, World Series of Fighting, WSOF 3 MMA veteran Lyle Beerbohm signs with World Series of Fighting September 19, 2012 by Pro MMA Now Staff Former Strikeforce lightweight Lyle “Fancy Pants” Beerbohm, has signed with the burgeoning World Series of Fighting (WSOF) promotion. Categories MMA Tags Apex Sports Agency, Fancy Pants, Jason Chambers, Lyle Beerbohm, Mixed Martial-Arts, World Series of MMA, WSOF Lyle ‘Fancy Pants’ Beerhohm signs with Apex Sports Agency April 26, 2012 by Press Release It was revealed today that Apex Sports Agency (ASA) has agreed to terms with Strikeforce veteran Lyle “Fancy Pants” Beerbohm. Categories press release Tags Apex Sports Agency, Fancy Pants, Jason Chambers, Lyle Beerbohm, Mixed Martial-Arts, press release Strikeforce adds Gesias ‘JZ’ Cavalcante-Lyle Beerbohm July 7, 2011 by Richard Anderson Mann Strikeforce has bolstered their “Fedor vs. Henderson” with a very interesting lightweight fight between veteran “JZ” Cavalcante and Lyle Beerbohm. Categories MMA Tags featured, Fedor Henderson, Fedor vs. Henderson, Gesias Cavalcante, Lyle Beerbohm, Strikeforce	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1131
__label__wiki	0.573323	0.573323	Home Money, Politics and Power The Year in Preview: Dates of Judgment in the Middle East The Year in Preview: Dates of Judgment in the Middle East What is the likelihood that the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations and Iranian nuclear talks both end well? Let’s test the odds. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite In front of the United States State Department, two large digital screens should be erected by New Year's, showing the countdown to the Obama administration's looming foreign-policy deadlines for 2014. One screen would flash the days left before March 29, when the nine months allocated by Secretary of State John Kerry for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations run out. By then, the two sides have to reach agreement, or at least show enough progress to have reason to keep talking. On the other screen, we'd see the time remaining until May 24, when the six-month interim accord on Iran's nuclear program ends-with a longterm accord, or well-founded hope of one, or a return to an unpredictable confrontation. In principle, the only thing that links success on the two tracks is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence that peace with the Palestinians depends on removing the Iranian nuclear threat. But the two diplomatic challenges do share common elements. One is the role of Netanyahu himself-his opposition to the outcomes that the administration seeks, and his unusually public tiff with President Obama. In both cases, domestic politics could torpedo progress. And with both, failure could strain American relations with Europe. Whether by design or not, American and European efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate complemented each other in 2013. Defying all predictions, Kerry succeeded in renewing negotiations. His cudgel-then and now-has been the threat of publicly labeling Netanyahu or Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as bearing responsibility for failure. Meanwhile, Europe is providing a preview of the potential cost of a breakdown. In July, just before the Israeli cabinet had to decide whether to return to talks, the European Union announced its new guidelines for its extensive economic and scientific cooperation with Israel. The directive barred the use of a single euro beyond the pre-1967 borders. In Israel, the European move was read-correctly-as signaling a fraying relationship with allies second in importance only to the United States, and as an omen of potentially much greater international isolation. Individual European countries have reinforced the message. The British government recently warned companies against making any investments in Israeli settlements. The Dutch firm Vitens, a major supplier of drinking water, has just cancelled a cooperation agreement with Mekorot, Israel's national water company, because of the latter firm's activities in the West Bank. This week Bucharest held up an arrangement enabling Israeli contractors to hire Romanian construction workers because Israel would not stipulate that none of them would work on projects in settlements. Romania is a minor matter. The trend is not. Meanwhile, an EU official has told Israeli reporters that the European Union might stop funding the Palestinian Authority if the talks fail. That's a direct threat to Abbas-and an indirect threat to Netanyahu, since the status quo in the West Bank depends on the Palestinian Authority continuing to function. Yet if there's a chance of the Israeli and Palestinian negotiators fashioning even an outline of an agreement, it depends on Kerry presenting American proposals and pushing Netanyahu and Abbas to work from those ideas. Last week he took what could be the first step in this process, with a plan for security arrangements in the West Bank following peace. The response from both sides has been predictably chilly. If, as expected, the secretary follows up with a full American draft for a framework agreement, Netanyahu is almost sure to employ a familiar tactic: publicly criticize Obama for undermining Israel and move the dispute from the negotiating room to American domestic politics, where Republicans will parrot him and Democrats will check which way the wind is blowing. This is just one reason for Obama to take the March 29 deadline seriously: It's well before the congressional election in November. Letting the talks end without results also has a price. At home, Obama risks opponents describing the initiative as a mistake from the start, another sign of a floundering presidency. Abroad, the Palestinian issue won't vanish. The convergence between American and European efforts is likely to give way to an open and uncomfortable dispute-potentially waged in the United Nations and elsewhere if Abbas survives and renews his quest for an internationally imposed solution. At the moment, a bookmaker would give better odds on success in the negotiations between Iran and the six major powers (choose your nomenclature for the latter: E3/EU+3 or P5+1). The Geneva interim agreement already lays out the terms for a final agreement, which would defang Iran's nuclear program and end the sanctions. Difficult as it will be to turn that intent into a signed accord, both sides now behave as if they want to get to yes. The roles of American domestic politics, Netanyahu, and Europe are also more sharply drawn. In response to the Geneva agreement, the usual unnamed sources speaking for the Israeli prime minister defined an acceptable diplomatic outcome as one that "would have dismantled Iran's nuclear capabilities." Obama, speaking at the Saban Forum last weekend, pointedly said that "the option is not available" of an agreement in which Iran "foreswore the possibility of ever having a nuclear program." The goal of diplomacy, as Obama defined it, is a deal preventing Iran from developing weapons. (A reminder: Most Israeli security experts out of government have given the agreement better marks-some of them much better marks.) The fight in Congress over imposing new sanctions on Iran isn't only a proxy fight between Obama and Netanyahu, but it's partly that. If a new sanctions bill passes, it's not 100 percent certain that Iran would pull out of the process, but the chance of that happening is high. If talks end for that reason, America will have undercut its European partners. Trying to get international cooperation to maintain and tighten sanctions will be more difficult. If the Iran hawks in Congress succeed, they are likely to achieve the opposite of what they intend. These aren't the only policy challenges in the Middle East. Most glaringly, the administration still needs a strategy for dealing with the Syrian civil war. What the Iranian nuclear talks and the Israeli-Palestinian track share is that the desired outcomes are clear, the obstacles are obvious, and the calendar is precisely marked. On the invisible screens outside the State Department, the number of minutes is getting smaller. Blog: Vox Pop Politics	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1132
__label__cc	0.673299	0.326701	2:32 – Artemis’ Adventure! The Evil Animal Kingdom Alternative Titles: Euthanasia Would Have Solved This First Aired: 25th December 1993 Artemis is a complete screw-up. Not only is he condescending and manipulative, he’s also wildly incompetent, something that Luna repeatedly points out. After finally snapping, Artemis is eager to prove to Luna and the Senshi that he’s not completely useless, and thus attempts to solve the case of the evil acrobatic animals in a sanctuary (Esmeraude ran out of ideas quick). Alas, he really doesn’t do much to improve his reputation, mainly because he’s an idiot. Firs things first, look what I was given as a gift: You’ll noticed I’m drinking out of Luna, as opposed to Artemis, mainly because she’s not an idiot I thought it was rather timely, considering this episode focuses on the cats. I can’t tell you how happy I was to get these, they’re very cool. Anyway, this episode is a-ok. Not brilliant by any means, Artemis isn’t the most riveting character to follow around, but I do like that they spent time with him and Luna, and some of the jokes are pretty great. Also, there are some very weird moments today. The episode starts like Sebastian the talking crab fleeing a stereotypical French chef with a lot of time on his hands, but instead of The Little Mermaid it’s Artemis fleeing from a Japanese cook. You’d think a talking cat would have more sense then to violate sanitation laws I don’t think you need to throw stuff at a cat, bro. You’ve got issues. Artemis runs away to Usagi’s house. Instead of funding sympathy from his cat pal Luna, she merely derides him mercilessly for being a moron. If the show fits… Luna has some great bitch-faces today So what the hell was he doing in a kitchen? Apparently “looking for the enemy’s hideout“. What? In the freezer? These guys are from the future, you idiot. Luna pushes this pointing, stressing that he only seems to check places with food. Remember all those times he was an ass to Usagi because she wasn’t Princess enough for him? Luna’s nickname for Artemis is a little disappointing: “Stupid Cat” is a little on the nose. Artemis tries to leave with some dignity having been insulted enough, only for Chibi-Usa to kick open Usagi’s bedroom door into his face. I think I’m going to like this episode. Not sure how he thought he was going to walk through the door anyway As Chibi-Usa is tending to Artemis’ head, both Usagi and Luna are finding it increasingly difficult not to burst out laughing at the fellow. They fail miserably. I always chuckle at this shared moment between the two It’s rare to see Usagi and Luna so united over anything – Luna’s a lot less in the role of a mentor when Artemis is involved. It’s karma, fluffball He walks off again in a huff, and Luna tells Usagi not to worry about it – “He’s just irritated because he hasn’t played a very active role lately.” Or ever, really. I suppose he’s done a good job acting as cannon fodder a couple of times… Both Usagi and Luna seem to feel a little bad after this, and go out looking for him half-heartedly. Even the unquestionably dense Usagi thinks Luna was a little harsh on him. I quite enjoyed this role-reversal, odd to see Luna being told off. Usagi offers to act as mediator. Luna isn’t impressed. Luna always has great exasperated faces In Minako’s room (she’s knitting. I don’t know why I find this so weird, but I do), Artemis is obviously in a bad mood. I love his stance, these are the good animators, the ones who actually know how to draw cats. My cat always pulls this pose. He’s less of a dick though In response to Minako’s questions, Artemis starts going on about his “pride as a man,” which makes me lose all sympathy for him… if I had any. This is a distinctly Japanese position, this idea of machismo and pride. Saying that, I think it’s a universal state of mind for idiots the world over, but the way in which he phrases it is very Japanese. Incidentally, on my first day in Japan, I saw a middle-aged couple arguing fiercely and loudly in public (something very rare for Japanese people). The man paused, looked like he was about to explode, and shouted in very poor English, “I AM MAAAN”. It was a rather alarming experience that I feel captured a microcosm of antiquated male identity in Japan. ANYWAY. Minako rather astutely realises that Artemis has had a fight with Luna – what else would make him so upset? She gives out useless meaningless platitudes to cheer him up. Sadly, he’s such an idiot that he seems to have taken her words as actual advice, and decides to do something drastic to make Luna realise his potential. “I’ve got to stop giving advice I read off the back of ketchup packets” Oh dear oh dear. Usagi and Luna are running over to Minako’s place to apologise. Just as they turn a corner, however… What’s up with those weird elf shoes though? I like em Well that was poor timing. Luna can’t help herself and calls him an idiot again – she’s rather cute when she’s mocking him, but it’s not like this was his fault. Usagi begins to try and mediate, until Artemis points out she’s still standing on his head. When she takes he foot away and they see the footprint, how could they help but laugh again? With all that white fur, that will probably stain bro I’m laughing along with them, this is really good stuff, especially because it’s so rare that Usagi gets to laugh at someone else’s misfortune. I could watch an entire episode of Luna and Usagi laughing at shit Poor Artemis buggers off again. Rather randomly, he comes across a box of abandoned kittens on a garbage heap. What the frack? This was a weird transition. Also, how could you abandon kittens? An issue VERY close to my cat-loving heart I suppose. “That man in the overcoat is clearly planning to have sex with that box of kittens” Before Artemis can react, a very suspicious-looking man gets out of a car. With the dramatic music and Artemis spying on the scene, it sort of looks like the shifty man is abducting the kittens. You know, for sex. I mean, he really does look like a park paedophile. After the man drives off with the kittens, Artemis decides that this his chance to do something great – by following a dude collecting animals? What the fuck have you been smoking, Artemis? Next up is a mangy old dog – Artemis, in his infinite stupidity, seems to think that the animals are being “kidnapped“. Seriously, what the shazbutt is wrong with this cat? Doggies, never accept sweets and rides from strangers, yeah? Let’s leave that aside for now and see what Esmeraude is up to. She’s prowling the streets looking for another Negative Point. She really has a lack of style – Rubeus had an imposing UFO, cool maps, technology, funky windows, a cool team beneath him… Esmeraude just wanders about with no firm plan using an earring to dowse for stuff. She’s not very interesting, is what I’m trying to say. “I’m actually just drunk off my face. Where can I buy a kebab, magic earring?” The new Negative Point is, in fact, a place called The Animal Kingdom, which is a sanctuary for abandoned pets. You can sort of see where this is going. But what you don’t see coming is people on the streets beginning to giggle at Esmeraude. She thinks that the common folk are admiring her for her beauty, but in fact she’s being covered in piss from a dog. This is still better then how she left Rubeus. I bet he would have killed to have been just covered in piss This is hilarious, and I laugh heartily, but it’s another example of the complete lack of respect Esmeraude has as an antagonist – she’s just one big joke, not intimidating in the slightest. The fact that she chases after the dog screaming is just sad. Meanwhile, the red car and the guy who is clearly planning to bone an old dog pulls into the Animal Kingdom, and Makoto and Ami just happen to noticed Artemis in the back seat. Well, Makoto did, Ami doesn’t seem to give a shit, more interested in her English vocabulary, which is hilarious. “Hey, isn’t that-“ “DON’T CARE.” SO. The Animal Kingdom is all lovely and that. No animals killing and eating each other, just harmony. We seem to have wondered into a Disney film again. …Until we see the old man dropping off the animals to be checked up on by a vet. Esmeraude turns up, zaps them (no idea why) and replaces the vet with a Dark Henge and a Droid. Ohhhh. Now I get it. There’s a tiny electric Esmeraude inside her own head…? Called Dogba. Yeah. That’s a little weird. She looks a little like Calaveras with the dominatrix whip and stuff. Oh yeah, he special power is to make animals evil. You can tell by the glowing red eyes, I guess. This is rather like that time Nephrite got that old man to attack people with evil squirrels. Out of all the things to recycle… evil animals…? Aside from the eyes, the animals are obviously EVIL because they can now walk on they front paws. …OK? And this will destroy 20th Century Tokyo… how? WTF is the point? I dunno, I think the writers are trying to take the piss out of how weird they can get sometimes. I find it hilarious, if oddly off-putting. The Senshi are discussing with Luna as to why Artemis would want to run away to the Animal Kingdom. Usagi puts forward the theory that Luna was so mean to him that he ran away, to which Luna scoffs (rightly), but the other girls seem convinced. “It’s YOUR FAULT even though I stepped on his head and almost killed him earlier” They all gang up on her and shame her into feeling bad. I guess she should a little… but they’re all still pretty mean. “I fucking hate you teenagers.” We get imagined shots of Artemis being attacked by alligators, snakes and tigers, all of which are rather brilliant. I don’t think they have alligators in Tokyo… Chibi-Usa, under the impression that they’re off to the zoo to have fun, bursts in all ready to go, despite Usagi’s reluctance. Wouldn’t bother mentioning this, except that it comes back for a great punchline at the end. In the Animal Kingdom, Artemis is all ready to leave, satisfied that the animals aren’t being mistreated, but when the (now evil) vet beings showing off her psychotic-looking circus animals, (and punctuating every sentence with a hearty “DOGBAAA!“, a clear warning sign), he begins to get a mite suspicious. OK this is pretty weird, but I don’t think it could get any worse. What the fuck is the plan here? Why is Dogba getting animals to form pyramids for the amusement of patrons? I have no clue. It looks insane. It’s so utterly mad. …OK? Seriously, Sailor Moon, you’re out-doing yourself Oh but then the animals totally being attacking everyone. Well this is more evil I guess. Artemis, running away (the coward), bumps into Luna, who came looking for him. The two hide in a bin, and Luna tries to apologise, but really doesn’t seem that into it. “Yeah I guess I’m sorry or whatever. Hey, it smells like ass in here.” Artemis’ response is to double down, act like more of an idiot and begin walking back towards the enemies. Luna, however, begins to follow him out of concern. It’s rather sweet really, until Artemis yells are her not to. She gets all haughty after having been worried about him and leaves. He’s such an idiot. At least now he seems to realise that he’s just a stupid cat with no discernible ability to deal with evil animals… before running off to attack Dogba again anyway. As Dogba is advancing on a group of scared citizens, the Dark Power beings to flow. I don’t know why. It’s not like she’s draining people of energy, it just seems to be that “EVIL ACTS” charge the Dark Henge. What’s up with that? “Plan B is just to walk around the park littering to charge the Dark Power, Dogba.” Usagi and Minako finally seem to realise that something funky is going down, and get their ass in gear. It’s Sailor Senshi Vs Evil Acrobatic Animals time! Please don’t hurt them, yeah? Dogba is wielding her, frankly, penis-esque whip, kocking out a whole bunch of people. I feel that the Senshi really are late today. Artemis doesn’t wait around, but gets his ass kicked by kittens. God he’s lame. Dogba decides that he time is best spent tormenting a talking cat, for some reason. “I literally have no idea what I’m meant to be doing, Dogba.” It looks so weirdly comical when the evil dog kicks him… This episode is really out there. OK I changed my mind, kill those freaky dogs Right, so Artemis is exactly where we thought he’d be, having not redeemed himself once. The final indignity is when he’s caught by a rope thrown by a goddamn evil monkey. SO WEIRD. …OK? Why is there a monkey? And Luna has to save his dumb ass. She begs him to realise that he’s a goddamn idiot, to the point of tears, and both get rather beaten up. See what your pride has wrought, you bastard? Where’s the goddamn Senshi, you ask? Well they finally turn up to save the cats. Sailor Moon and Sailor Venus’ entrance, although belated in the extreme, is rather fantastic – they’re back-to-back, and, well, just look at Venus’ hair: Wow, she’s totally worth it. Poor Sailor Moon is getting swamped in that stuff And then the two get defeated by goddamn dogs. The Deadliest Enemy Sailor Jupiter, Mars and Mercury actually work together rather cleverly, using their attacks to corral the animals into a single spot, then trapping them behind a wall with Shine Aqua Illusion. Finally, a good use for that attack from Sailor Mercury! It’s taken a while. “YAAAY I’M USEFUL. Briefly.” And then Dogba totally makes things awkward by chaining all the Senshi around their necks. This is really goddamn weird, especially with the dominatrix vibe going on. …OK? I mean, this is straight from my sexy fanfic, but still, awkward. Artemis finally sees his chance to redeem himself! Aaaaaand…he gets his ass beaten by Dogba. But this is, in fact, just enough time For Sailor Moon to pull a weird face and break free. Gosh, she’s got some muscles. Shes been pumping steroids on the side. A super heroine has to defend herself A Moon Princess Halation later and Dogba is but a confusing memory. Seriously, though, it’s going to be hard to forget this. Esmeraude, pissed off that the Dark Henge broke, immediately gets pissed on herself once again. What a complete mess of a human. Honestly, is she ever going to provide a credible threat? “I’m actually getting used to this. Feels rather nice and warm…” The episode ends with the Sailor Senshi frolicking with all the animals that just tried to kill them. Luna takes him to call Artemis an idiot again, but concedes that he did OK. I like that his only redeeming moment was, in the end, just pissing off Dogba for a single second The heroic effect is rather ruined when Chibi-Usa comes running into the zoo furious that Usagi ditched her. I think this might be a feeling you have to get used to, girl. She swings her bag wildly, throwing it into the air for some reason, and… “I’M SO MAD I’M SWINGING MY BAAAG” ….well we couldn’t have the episode end with Artemis having any dignity left, could we? Artemis is hurt, all is right in the world All in all, a perfectly serviceable episode. Some very weird moments, but it worked well in a surreal sort of way. Artemis is an idiot… but they never try to pretend that he’s anything but. I also very much like Luna today too. Still, I’m rather eager for the story to progress, but we have one more filler episode to go before the good stuff starts. It’s a pretty darn good filler episode, though. Episode Score: 3/5 Monster Score: 4/5 (Weird, memorable, good design. 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__label__cc	0.579089	0.420911	How Calvin and Hobbes Explains the Senate Filibuster Fight Peter Suderman \| 7.16.2013 3:51 PM If you want to understand the procedural fight over the filibuster that went down in the Senate over the last 24 hours, it helps if you first understand Calvinball. For those poor deprived souls who have never read Bill Watterson's classic newspaper comic Calvin and Hobbes, Calvinball is a made-up game played and invented by the two title characters. There are a slew of complicated rules associated with the game, most of which are arbitrary and some of which are utterly nutty, but the most important thing to know about the game is that any of the rules can be changed at any time, usually by any player, except perhaps when there are rules prohibiting some players from making those changes (although those rules can be changed or thrown out too, and games often end up with players making retaliatory rules designed to cancel out or complicate rules devised by other players). It's a game, in other words, with an awful lot of complex and arcane rules that tend to evolve over time and are generally determined by the players themselves—rules that usually have to be obeyed, except when they don't. This is not an exact description of how the Senate works, but it's close enough. And it's a reasonably useful context in which to understand the most recent squabble over the filibuster. Members of the Senate basically get to make up their own rules, and to change them at any time. So a rule that, for example, allows the minority party to block bills or nominations that fail to get 60 votes can always be altered with a simple majority. A rule—even a rule that effectively institutes a 60-vote supermajority requirement for action—is really only as strong as a simple majority of the Senate allows it to be. Calvinball wiki Hence the most recent fight over "the nuclear option." Senate Republicans have been relying on rules requiring supermajority support to proceed with voting to block legislation, judicial appointments, and a handful of presidential appointments. In response, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, after conferring with the rest of the Senate's Democratic majority, threatened to go forward with a rules change that would have allowed presidential appointments to go through with only a majority vote. That's the nuclear option: a big change to the filibuster rules that would almost certainly lead to a serious, and perhaps total, procedural war. This is not an entirely unheard of threat from Reid. The nuclear option, or some version of it, has been in the background of Senate procedural fights throughout the Obama administration. Nor is it a threat that Republicans have abstained from making themselves. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell talked up the possibility of invoking the nuclear option against Democrats when the GOP was in the majority back in 2005. There's a bit of a new wrinkle this time around, which is that the legal status of some of the current crop of nominees is dubious at best. Richard Cordray, Obama's pick to the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as well as two labor-friendly nominees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), were nominated while the Senate was in an intracession recess during a regular session—basically just a quick break. But President Obama used his recess appointment power to circumvent the Senate for their appointments. In cases focused on the NLRB appointments, two courts have ruled that recess appointments are only acceptable between sessions. That's most likely why the primary thing the GOP got out of today's deal was a promise to take the current two NLRB nominees out of the running, replacing them with two other (presumably union-friendly) nominees yet to be determined. The other thing that the GOP got was that Sen. Reid declined to actually go for the nuclear option. But that's not much of concession, since Reid refused to say that he would table the option permanently. He can always go nuclear at any point from now on, and more importantly, it seems more clear that, if provoked, he really will. Going forward, this means that Republicans will have a somewhat more limited ability to use the filibuster than they have in the past, although it probably won't expand to affect legislation or judicial nominees. It also means that Republicans can be expected to use the same sort of nuclear threat if and when they gain control of the Senate, a possibility that lately looks even more likely. And my guess is that eventually Republicans will inch further toward going nuclear than Democrats have—perhaps using the nuclear threat on blockaded judicial nominations as well. What's really shifted in the Senate is the credibility of the nuclear threat. But in some ways, very little has changed at all. As in Calvinball, the real rules are that there are no real rules, except the ones that most everyone agrees to play by. NEXT: Engineer Involved in Deadly Canadian Train Crash 'Devastated' Peter Suderman is features editor at Reason. Filibuster Senate July.16.2013 at 3:56 pm I am not seeing why this is a big deal. It is not like the filibuster has kept many nuts out of government. And whatever rule Reid makes, he will have to live by when there is a Republican President and Senate majority. If it is a really high profile appointment and the appointee is a real fruit loop, there should be enough red state Dems who can be pressured into voting against it. Some call me Tim? The big deal is that the filibuster has definitely prevented some bad bills from becoming law. If you remove the filibuster from nominations, it really becomes much more conceivable that it could be removed from regular bills as well. That would be VERY bad. I shudder to think of what might have become law at various times without it. But the “nuclear option” would only affect appointments. No one, not even Reid, is talking about getting rid of the filibuster altogether. robc Okay so maybe it is somewhat important as a precedent. But it is still a meh. It’s about breaking the precedent. Today it’s about the importance of the president getting up or down votes on nominations, but making this change makes it easier to have fight be about the importance of ____ legislation the next time. It’s basically a step towards othering the filibuster. Don’t worry. The Democrats will stop othering it the moment the Republicans win the White House and or control of the Senate. I’m not seeing that as reassuring. I think the administration is already anticipating Ginsburg’s departure from the SCOTUS, whether it’s voluntary or otherwise. They want this measure in place for that eventuality. Eduard van Haalen Interesting, seeing as how Ginsburg wasn’t filibustered when Clinton nominated her, and Republicans actually voted for her. Not as if there were any warning signals like her working in the feminist-insanity division of the American Civil Liberties Union. The really big deal is direct election of Senators. Put election of Senators back in the hands of the state legislatures and the whole checks and balances thing changes dramatically. I’ll go you one better: Have the legislatures of states X and Y elect the senators of state Z. Auric Demonocles That would just mean the senators of state Z are really the senators of state X and Y. More like: have states x and y vote or the state representatives of state z. Now THAT is an indirect election. Actually, our current political system, not just the congressional rules, is quite like Calvinball. New rule, new rule–it’s a tax, not a penalty! I feel that the game of WhackBat is underrepresented in the many analogies of complex rule-based systems. Pro Libertate\| 7.16.13 @ 4:00PM \|# Unless you were watching closely, it’s ‘way worse than that in CA. Re the ‘hate the government, get more of it’, the Dems pushed a re-districting initiative several years back; it was ‘non-partisan’. Somehow, every one if the new CA districts ended up electing a Dem rep. Now the CA GOP is full of knuckle-draggers, but usually at least one ends up in Sacto. Well…. H. Protagonist Dammit, McSuderman, the “most important thing to know” about Calvinball is that the only permanent rule is that you can’t play it the same way twice. What if I made a rule that the game had to be played the exact same way as last time? The idea that there’s a permanent rule in a game where you make up the rules as you go strikes me as part of the joke. You don’t understand a man like Watterson. He’s a warrior poet. I actually tried to play Calvinball once. My sister only lasted about 5 minutes. Ye gods, man, a temporary rule cannot modify or negate the permanent rule. What country do you think this is, Somalia? I dont think Suderman is familiar with Nomic. Clearly, “you cant play it the same way twice” is an immutable rule. Peter Suderman\| 7.16.13 @ 4:16PM \|# Yes it is. Very similar to our resident shithead claiming the filibuster is not ‘natural’ because it requires more than a majority, ignoring that it was instituted by a majority. Dweebston For those poor deprived souls who have never read Bill Watterson’s classic newspaper comic Calvin and Hobbes This is a bigger deal-breaker for me than a girl’s politics. If she thinks of Calvin as “that pissing boy” on the back window of some asshole’s truck, she’s picking up her half of the tab. All this talk of nuclear options, and yet the Union of Concerned Scientists hasn’t made a peep. And what is the dirty bomb option, chopped liver? Enough About Palin I like the neutron bomb option. It takes out all of the senators, but leaves the senate building intact. I like the stink bomb option. That’s most likely why the primary thing the GOP got out of today’s deal was a promise to take the current two NLRB nominees out of the running, replacing them with two other (presumably union-friendly) nominees yet to be determined. Is this why Republicans are the stupid party and Democrats are evil? Hmm, precedent. Precedent was broken when the filibuster became a routine matter instead of a rare political expression. The filibuster itself is a loophole in Senate rules, not a rule instituted for some purpose. The constitution obviously intended for the Senate to work on simple majorities for routine matters. The filibuster thus is also a de facto amendment to the constitutional order of our government. But precedence doesn’t matter, because Republicans are not going to let Democrats’ actions dictate their future behavior. Their outlandish abuse of the filibuster is itself evidence that if they want to go nuclear, they’ll do it regardless. The only thing that prevented them from doing it in the Bush administration was the move being blocked by a bipartisan “gang.” Dems should calculate the risk vs. reward of using the nuclear option, the reward being they get their people through, the risk being Republicans will piss their pants all over TV. One risk they shouldn’t consider as real is the Republicans using their move as precedent. They obviously don’t give a shit about precedent. The only thing that prevented them from doing it in the Bush administration was the move being blocked by a bipartisan “gang.” Or in other words the only thing that prevented it was the fact that not enough of them wanted to. And the risk is that when the Dems lose the Senate next year, they won’t be able to filibuster and stop things like pesky investigations. As I said, I don’t think the current senate not implementing the N.O. will dictate a future Republican senate’s behavior. There are indeed more elderly senators in both parties who do worry about ending filibusters because they might want to keep the power should they be in the minority. So yeah the only thing that’s different about this time is that Reid claims to have the votes. That’s how he won what he wanted, and the Republicans don’t get to piss their pants now. Still, should the GOP take the senate, I expect all of the bulldozing of precedent and constant radical antigovernment bullshit we’re seeing out of the House now. And the Democrats never abused the filibuster. That is why Janice Rogers Brown is on the appellete court. In fairness, Democrats using the filibuster out of animus towards black people does have a lot of precedent. So maybe the Democrats do respect precedent more than Republicans. As with most things, both parties are guilty, but Republicans are guilty to an absurd and heretofore unknown degree. Tony\| 7.16.13 @ 4:32PM \|# When you have no argument, just make up stuff, right, shithead? Nazdrakke Shorter Tony: “The Rules should reflect whatever is best for the Democratic Party.” The Democratic party has a majority in the Senate and the White house. That would seem to be the natural order. Except it isn’t, because the Senate is minority rule. Neoliberal Kochtopus The natural order is to have a supermajority. …”That would seem to be the natural order” I seem to recall you griping about ‘natural rights’, which at least have a shout-out in the DoI; where did you find “natural order”, shithead? July.17.2013 at 9:46 am Were you dropped on your head as a fetus? No, shithead, that was not “precedent”, that was “practice”. Do you think your lies won’t be caught? “The constitution obviously intended for the Senate to work on simple majorities for routine matters.” I missed this one in my last read-through of the constitution. Care to point me to it? Rights-Minimalist Autocrat It’s there if you believe it hard enough. Because that’s how votes are usually done. It specifies supermajorities for certain purposes, so the assumption is obviously that it intended for simple majorities for routine matters. You should have to point out where in the constitution it says all matters require supermajorities. “Because that’s how votes are usually done.” IOWs, shithead, you have no evidence. Westmiller Art 1, Sec 5, Cl 2: The word “determine” obviously refers to a majority vote, since the exceptional vote for expulsion is higher. However, I do agree with some comments regarding the filibuster. It doesn’t seem proper that a majority can vote to impose any procedural super-majority that isn’t specified in the Constitution. You have more than one problem with your interpretation, the most obvious being that if the body may determine the Rules, it may determine (as it did) the Rules to include filibuster. Mickey Rat Er, no. The constitution intended the Senate to come up with it own governing rules, and I seem to recall the Democrats defending the filibuster as a cornerstone of American democracy that must be kept inviolate. Micky R, I should have read one more post; you got it before I did. Michael S. Langston July.17.2013 at 12:03 am Precedent was broken when the filibuster became a routine matter instead of a rare political expression. Specifically – when did this precedent start? When was it broken? & what is “routine matter” and when did it start? Before you do though – I’ll give you a hint – the answer to all those questions are irrelevant as whether it’s used more now than later can only be analyzed when discussing what it as used for. IE – filibustering a criminal for instance, would seem to be the right thing to do in every single case – whereas filibustering a saint, with only perfect laws and perfect motivations and perfect intentions would be sacrilegious. DontShootMe If I were a gambling man, I would push Reid to enact the Nuclear Option close to the 2014 elections, betting that the Republicans would gain control of the body. Then they could use it, all the while blaming Reid for implementing it. I know Reid is stupid. But why would he do that? Because he is stupid and shortsighted? They obviously don’t give a shit about precedent. More detail, please. I thought I explained… their abuse of the filibuster (a loophole in senate rules) changes the precedent that the senate functioned usually as a democratic body rather than a minority-rules one. How is it a “loophole?” It’s laid out pretty clearly in Rule XXII. It’s implications are pretty darn obvious to anyone reading it. Passed in 1917 by Democrats–it establishes cloture but in effect created the modern filibuster. The concept of the filibuster has, however, always been associated with obstruction. It’s not an intended part of US constitutional democracy. …”It’s not an intended part of US constitutional democracy.” Oh, LOOK! Shithead now reads the minds of dead white guys! Why do you assume obstruction isn’t an essential or intended part of US Constitutional “Democracy”? It is part of the leftist belief system that pure democracy is to be preferred. Except, of course, when that democracy counters lefty policy, such as Prop 8. So shithead is simply inventing ‘intentions’ to support that agenda. Note above where common practice transmogrifies into “precedent”. Or below where the majority “should” get what it wants, supposedly as a governmental policy. All straw grasping for a ridiculous position. I fail to see how this makes it a “loophole.” Are you seriously saying that when they adopted a rule that you need 3/5 vote to cut off debate and go to a vote, they didn’t think that a 2/5 group that opposes a bill might vote to continue debate to stop a vote? That’s imputing an awful lot of stupid, even for senators. In fact, what would the purpose of such a rule be other than to permit a minority to keep debating? And by the way, there were other forms of “filibustering” before this (and still are), including in the house. Use != abuse Or were blacks abusing their freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of expression when they marched with MLK in Birmingham? What is it with liberals these days where following the rules is wrong? Apple pays all taxes legally – but to liberals, not enough so still wrong. Oh yeah – I forgot already – it’s all about the ends. If the ends aren’t what they think it should be – then the process is broken. So legislators using rights given them since the 1800’s is a “failure of the system”. Of course if these same legislators were filibustering all of Bush’s laws, I’m sure your desire to change the rules to stop them would be your top priority. So there’s no such thing as abusing the filibuster, or have we just not reached that point yet? See, Republicans don’t give a shit that the filibuster allowed Democrats to get their way in the mid 2000s. That’s what the precedent is: Senate rules are made to get Democrats what they want. Now that Democrats are in the majority, the obvious application of this precedent is that the filibuster must not be used, because doing so would stop Democrats from getting what they want. The majority should get what it wants in most cases–exceptions being constitutional amendments, treaties, veto overrides. You are welcome to hold me to that if the GOP gets the senate majority. “The majority should get what it wants in most cases–exceptions being constitutional amendments, treaties, veto overrides.” Thanks. Opinions from brain-dead lefties are really appreciated, shithead. The GOP already had the majority, and you support the Democrats for stopping them from getting what they wanted. I don’t recall shithead opposing that hag Pelosi ram-rodding that mess through congress to avoid a majority vote on it. Did I miss it? Was he all over her for not allowing the majority to speak? The majority of the senate voted for the cloture/filibuster rule, including the express provision that the rule itself could be filibustered and requiring a 2/3 vote to break it. So I guess you must support that rule as well… The majority should get what it wants in most cases facts not in evidence Calvin and Hobbes was a comic from a simpler time. When you could actually laugh at a comic strip about a kid with severe schizophrenia and not feel guilty about it. That’s bullshit. Hobbes was real. I wrote a letter to my state’s largest newspaper bemoaning the fact that the comic was ending. They ended up publishing it. I think I was 7, and my parents had it on their fridge until they moved about 15 years later. It is a very profitable post for me. I’ve enjoyed reading the post. 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__label__wiki	0.558289	0.558289	Jinnah as sole spokesman of the Muslims of South Asia In his memories Aga Khan has summed up Quaid’s leadership in following words; “Of all statesmen I’ve known in my life- Clenceau, Llyod George, Churchil, Curzon, Mussolini, Mahatma Gandhi: Jinnah is the most remarkable. None of these men has outshone strength of character, and in that almost uncanny combination of prescience and resolution which is statecraft.” In fact, Mohammad Ali Jinnah was the man of courage and remarkably appreciable qualities. He was a sole spokesman. In words of Iqbal Chagla “He stood alone, and seemed like a man who had done a Columbus with Pakistan.” Jinnah was not purchasable with goodies or compromises. When Mountbatten suggested that he could become the officiating governor-general of Pakistan, the offer was rejected. “Do you realise what this will cost you?” he asked Jinnah, who replied, “It may cost me several crores of rupees in assets.” Mountbatten continued the onslaught. “It may well cost you the whole of your assets and the future of Pakistan.” But Jinnah strongly stayed unmoved. Doubtlessly, Jinnah was the man of strength with god gifted vision of social and political understanding. Jinnah was the man who brought ashore the drowning ship of Muslims of South East Asia. Making of Pakistan was a team effort and the lead of the team was in Jinnah’s hands. There was a great number of Muslim Scholars in the subcontinent, who felt the pitiable state of the Muslims of the subcontinent, but Quaid was the man who brought the idea into action, He stood alone, gathered a team, leaded it and won. There were several factors which led Quaid to appear as a ‘sole spokesman’ of the Muslims of South East Asia. These factors can be classified as internal and external factors. Internal factors which made Quaid a ‘sole spokesman’ were Quaid’s inner qualities. He was blessed with a far-vision of political and social understanding. Area of his studies was quite wide and similarly his knowledge. And the most important factor was Quaid’s own interest in the political conditions of the subcontinent. When he came back from London, he joined congress. But it was his far-vision which felt the conspiracy of Hindu’s very early. He understood that rights of Muslims of Indian subcontinent are not safe in the hands of Congress. He bravely opposed their policies and demanded a fair one. But he didn’t find any progress in this regard and compromise was not his nature so he left congress and joined hands with All India Muslim League. It was Quaid’s far-visioning and political understanding which made him know the exact line of actions of Congress, and it was his strength of character which made him inquire for the same. Many other Muslims were the members of congress and they also felt the insecure future of Muslims but none of them could protest against it, instead they silently left the congress and joined Muslim league. But Quaid’s case was different. Actually , in the beginning Quaid was also in favour of United India, but when he came to know the motive of the Hindu leaders that, after getting independence from Britain all the major ministries (from Prime minister to foreign minister) would be under Hindu control and none of the Muslims will have access over them. Jinnah was so annoyed, that he fearlessly inquired the matter, but Nehru and others couldn’t satisfy him with any authentic answer. Another thing that Jinnah felt was the Gandhi’s duel attitude towards muslims. For instance Gandhi’s attitude with Muslim leaders was at its supreme, personally, but publicly it was totally opposite. This made Quaid confused for the secure future of Muslims in the subcontinent. Climax came when Gandhi started opposing Quaid’s personal life and in response Quaid stood up with his all strengths. Actually Gandhi felt the leadership qualities in Quaid and he was in fact a little afraid also and many times he attempted to hit Quaid on some irrational grounds also. Once in congress meeting at Gujrat (where the audience was purely Gujrati and no one could understand English) Gandhi announced, “Mr. Jinnah can’t speak in your native language as he doesn’t know any language other than English”. At that time Quaid addressed the audience in pure Gujrati in an exact accent, which shocked Mr. Gandhi and pleased the audience. Whenever any of the opponent tried to exhibit any weakness of Quaid, in response he not only overcame the weakness but left no leak. These were only those factors which distinguish Quaid from other leaders. The actual internal factor of being ‘sole spokesman’ was that, all the above mentioned qualities of Quaid made him so popular that Muslims of India started perceiving him a “Messiah”. Initially he was unknown of his popularity so his strengths were not in a particular direction, his strengths were divergent. He had a ‘handicapped combat’ with congress (he was the only opposing their policies). His fourteen points are the sound example in this regard. But when he realized that people have kept all their hopes with him, his all strengths became convergent and he found the direction. It was ‘peoples’ expectation’ which he realised internally and became the “SOLE SPOKESMAN OF THE MUSLIMS OF SOUTH EAST ASIA”. Now come external factors or those external forces which led Quaid to appear as a sole spokesman. Quaid during his studentship (in Britain), worked as a political secretary of a very well known member of British Parliament Mr. Dadabhoy Noorjai. It won’t be wrong to say that, “Dadabhoy Noorjai was the first political training institution for Mr Jinnah”. He had spent a long time with Mr. Noorjai and hence he had a thorough knowledge of BRITISH POLITICAL THINKING. When he came back to India, he applied his working experience here. His BRITISH WAY OF POLITICAL THINKING made him prominent among all other leaders. It doesn’t mean that other Muslim leaders were not great leaders. They were also great but none of them have better understanding of British rulers and the political demands as Quaid had. Actually all other leaders got political training in India so their style and approach was different then British. And Jinnah had a start with British political system so he was fully aware of the ‘games’ played by them. Or in other words before Quaid’s entrance in Indian Politics, British and some Hindus were on the screen of Indian politics, but when Jinnah stepped into, they found a man of their competition, and from here the actual spokesman ship of Muslims got a start. Dadabhoy Noorjai’s fellowship and British political training were the prominent elements of Quaid’s ‘sole spokesman ship’ but he couldn’t have ever won the hearts of Muslims of South East Asia without following Allama Shabbir Ahmed Usmani’s teachings. Quaid met Allama Usmani when Gandhi criticized him that “what kind of Muslim he is who doesn’t know Kalma”. Allama didn’t only teach him Kalma but also provided him with detailed and unbiased concepts of Islam. Jinnah was so fond of Allama’s that he wished his ‘Namaz-e-Jinaza Prayer” to be offered by Allama Usmani. Undoubtedly Allama’s teachings supported Quaid’s personality as a ‘sole spokesman’. Inspiration of Allama’s teachings revealed during the struggle for Pakistan, when there were two groups of Muslims of India, i.e. Sunni and Shia. Initially it was not clear that either Pakistan will be a shia state or a sunni state. And no one felt the need of such declaration. But when the time of Partition came , Rajasab Memmood Abad and Rajasab Ahmed Abbas asked Quaid about the national religion of Pakistan and Quaid firmly declared it will be Islam, irrespective of any group differentiation. There arouse the conflict between Shia and Sunni community but Quaid remained unmoved. He refused to have his say on any individual group, instead he maintained MUSLIM UNITY. This was the reason that both Rajasabs didn’t migrate to Pakistan instead they went to Britain. Here Quaid’s role as ‘sole spokesman’ was at its supreme level. There were some Sunni spokesmen and some Shia spokesmen, but Quaid was one who worked for united Muslims’ interests. Precisely Quaid was the man of character with god gifted vision and strength. Quaid’s own interest, vision, abilities, courage, thinking power and fighting spirit combined with the fellowship of Dadabhoy Noorjai and practice on Maulana Shabbir Ahmed Usmani’s teachings brought him on the screen of Indian Politics as a ‘sole spokesman’ of Muslims of South East Asia. Filed under: Pakistan \| « Jinnah’s strategies to run Pakistan in Post Partition Era The Political System of Islam » YLH, on September 4, 2006 at 5:30 am said: Shabbir Ahmad Usmani had little or no influence on Jinnah… I have no primary source evidence for Jinnah’s “request” that Shabir Ahmad Usmani do his funeral prayers. PS: Jinnah was a secularist … whose political ideology was a clear separation of church and state… saving Muslims from Hindu tyranny did not mean theocracy. Qurratulain, on October 20, 2006 at 6:05 pm said: @YLH i’ve read it in Nonehaal (when i was very young) that Jinnah requested Mr. Usmani to offer his funeral prayer. Secondly i totally agree with you that Jinnah was a secularist. I’d like to add a little in this context that Jinnah was a secularist. For instance “Quaid’s speech” on 11th August 1947 whereby Quaid said, “You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any place of worship in this state of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed, that has nothing to do with the business of the state.” But in my opinion, the ideology of Pakistan is based on Islam, and Quaid’s concept of Secularism completely adheres to Islam, as Qurann says (XLII, 15-25)Allah is our lord and your lord, unto us our works and unto you your works: No argument between us and you. MUSLIM PSYCHE, Diabetic Infection and PAKISTAN « Palashbiswaskl’s Weblog, on March 18, 2009 at 6:45 pm said: […] Jinnah as sole spokesman of the Muslims of South Asia « Qurratulain 29 Aug 2006 … Jinnah was the man who brought ashore the drowning ship of Muslims of South East Asia. Making of Pakistan was a team effort and the lead of … qurratulain.wordpress.com/2006/08/29/jinnah-as-sole-spokesman-of-the-muslims-of-south-asia/ – 49k – Cached – Similar pages – […]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1155
__label__wiki	0.853898	0.853898	Objects of Demonstration: An Exhibition About the Freedom of Indigenous Cultural and Political Expressions. People Used to Dream About the Future Exhibition King Chung Siu, P. CHAN, S. WONG Research output: Creative and literary works / consulting reports / case studies › Performance and exhibits › Other output Art medium 21May to 18 July Siu, K. C. (Author), CHAN, P. (Author), & WONG, S. (Author). (2004). Objects of Demonstration: An Exhibition About the Freedom of Indigenous Cultural and Political Expressions. People Used to Dream About the Future Exhibition. Performance and exhibits Siu, King Chung (Author) ; CHAN, P. (Author) ; WONG, S. (Author). / Objects of Demonstration: An Exhibition About the Freedom of Indigenous Cultural and Political Expressions. People Used to Dream About the Future Exhibition. [Performance and exhibits]. @misc{01e764f9a2564c6b9d2ae02ffca7ce02, title = "Objects of Demonstration: An Exhibition About the Freedom of Indigenous Cultural and Political Expressions. People Used to Dream About the Future Exhibition", author = "Siu, {King Chung} and P. CHAN and S. WONG", Siu, KC, CHAN, P & WONG, S, Objects of Demonstration: An Exhibition About the Freedom of Indigenous Cultural and Political Expressions. People Used to Dream About the Future Exhibition, 2004, Performance and exhibits. Objects of Demonstration: An Exhibition About the Freedom of Indigenous Cultural and Political Expressions. People Used to Dream About the Future Exhibition. Siu, King Chung (Author); CHAN, P. (Author); WONG, S. (Author). 2004. T1 - Objects of Demonstration: An Exhibition About the Freedom of Indigenous Cultural and Political Expressions. People Used to Dream About the Future Exhibition AU - Siu, King Chung AU - CHAN, P. AU - WONG, S. M3 - Performance and exhibits Siu KC (Author), CHAN P (Author), WONG S (Author). Objects of Demonstration: An Exhibition About the Freedom of Indigenous Cultural and Political Expressions. People Used to Dream About the Future Exhibition 2004.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1164
__label__cc	0.65267	0.34733	Three-dimensional analysis of surface plasmon resonance modes on a gold nanorod Y.-F. Chau, M.W. Chen, Din-ping Tsai We investigate the surface optical properties of a gold (Au) nanorod by using the finite-element method in a three-dimensional model. Results from the near-field optical images show spatially oscillatory patterns (nodal fields) on the surface, and these are attributable to plasmon-mode wave functions. We interpret these phenomena in terms of the electric field nodes on the surface of the rod, and the results show good agreement with our experimental observation in the optical images. © 2009 Optical Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.48.000617 Published - 20 Jan 2009 10.1364/AO.48.000617 Chau, Y-F., Chen, M. W., & Tsai, D. (2009). Three-dimensional analysis of surface plasmon resonance modes on a gold nanorod. Applied Optics, 48(3), 617-622. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.48.000617 Chau, Y.-F. ; Chen, M.W. ; Tsai, Din-ping. / Three-dimensional analysis of surface plasmon resonance modes on a gold nanorod. In: Applied Optics. 2009 ; Vol. 48, No. 3. pp. 617-622. @article{d7148ff984894e9b86b20c5e5b681c95, title = "Three-dimensional analysis of surface plasmon resonance modes on a gold nanorod", abstract = "We investigate the surface optical properties of a gold (Au) nanorod by using the finite-element method in a three-dimensional model. Results from the near-field optical images show spatially oscillatory patterns (nodal fields) on the surface, and these are attributable to plasmon-mode wave functions. We interpret these phenomena in terms of the electric field nodes on the surface of the rod, and the results show good agreement with our experimental observation in the optical images. {\textcopyright} 2009 Optical Society of America.", author = "Y.-F. Chau and M.W. Chen and Din-ping Tsai", doi = "10.1364/AO.48.000617", journal = "Applied Optics", publisher = "The Optical Society", Chau, Y-F, Chen, MW & Tsai, D 2009, 'Three-dimensional analysis of surface plasmon resonance modes on a gold nanorod', Applied Optics, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 617-622. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.48.000617 Three-dimensional analysis of surface plasmon resonance modes on a gold nanorod. / Chau, Y.-F.; Chen, M.W.; Tsai, Din-ping. In: Applied Optics, Vol. 48, No. 3, 20.01.2009, p. 617-622. T1 - Three-dimensional analysis of surface plasmon resonance modes on a gold nanorod AU - Chau, Y.-F. AU - Chen, M.W. AU - Tsai, Din-ping N2 - We investigate the surface optical properties of a gold (Au) nanorod by using the finite-element method in a three-dimensional model. Results from the near-field optical images show spatially oscillatory patterns (nodal fields) on the surface, and these are attributable to plasmon-mode wave functions. We interpret these phenomena in terms of the electric field nodes on the surface of the rod, and the results show good agreement with our experimental observation in the optical images. © 2009 Optical Society of America. AB - We investigate the surface optical properties of a gold (Au) nanorod by using the finite-element method in a three-dimensional model. Results from the near-field optical images show spatially oscillatory patterns (nodal fields) on the surface, and these are attributable to plasmon-mode wave functions. We interpret these phenomena in terms of the electric field nodes on the surface of the rod, and the results show good agreement with our experimental observation in the optical images. © 2009 Optical Society of America. U2 - 10.1364/AO.48.000617 DO - 10.1364/AO.48.000617 JO - Applied Optics JF - Applied Optics Chau Y-F, Chen MW, Tsai D. Three-dimensional analysis of surface plasmon resonance modes on a gold nanorod. Applied Optics. 2009 Jan 20;48(3):617-622. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.48.000617	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1165
__label__cc	0.656347	0.343653	Reversal Theory Portal Reversal Theory Bibliography: (DOC) (PDF) In-Print Books Apter, M.J. (2018). Zigzag: Reversal and Paradox in Human Personality. Matador. Apter, M.J. (Ed.) (2001). Motivational Styles in Everyday Life: A Guide to Reversal Theory. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Apter, M.J. (2005). Personality Dynamics: Key Concepts in Reversal Theory. Loughborough, UK: Apter International Ltd. Apter, M.J. (2007). Reversal Theory: The Dynamics of Motivation, Emotion and Personality. 2nd. Edition. Oxford: Oneworld Publications. Apter, M.J. (2007). Danger: Our Quest for Excitement. Oxford: Oneworld Publications. Apter, M.J. (2008). La Théorie du Renversement : La Dynamique de la Personnalité. Translation by S. Pakzad and E. Loonis of “Personality Dynamics: Key concepts in Reversal Theory.” Paris : Attitudes Design & Edition. Carter, S. & Kourdi, J. (2003). The Road to Audacity: Being Adventurous in Life and Work. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Kerr, J.H. (2004). Rethinking aggression and violence in sport. London: Routledge. Kerr, J.H. (2001). Counseling Athletes: Applying Reversal Theory. London: Routledge. Males, J. (2014). In the Flow. UK Book Publishing. Mallows, D. (2007). Switch to Better Behaviour Management: Reversal Theory in Practice. Dereham, Norfolk: Peter Francis Publishers. Rutledge, D.H. & Tucker, J. (2007). Reversing Forward: A Practical Guide to Reversal Theory. Fairfax, VA: OKA (Otto Kroeger Associates). Send new listings to: Jennifer Tucker. © 2021 Reversal Theory Portal	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1171
__label__cc	0.628246	0.371754	www.REDX.eu - About us (16.01.2021 - 13:16) INFORMATION & DIRECT EU ORDERS - UK HEADQUARTERS: redx@redx-eu.com With over 15 years experience within the industry and with thousands of pop-up instant shelters/marquees/party tents sold by us every year we are very confident in saying that we are one of the biggest specialists for instant pop-up shelters, marquees, party/event tents and other related products in the UK. With over 3,000 square feet of storage space fitted throughout with high-bay racking, REDX International Ltd has the largest stock of mini marquees, instant pop up shelters, party/event tents and accessories in Europe. This means any order placed before 3pm is received by the customer on the next working day. All our deliveries to UK mainland addresses are free of charge. We specialize in the design, manufacture and import of our range of instant pop up shelters, marquees, party/event tents and a wide variety of accessories. 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__label__wiki	0.672725	0.672725	Dea Parsanishi: Working with First Nations, Exploring spirituality as a resource https://media.blubrry.com/relationalimplicit/p/content.blubrry.com/relationalimplicit/RI-Parsanishi-2011-10.mp3 “I live and work on the west coast of Vancouver Island where I have had a private trauma psychotherapy practice for 10 years. Much of my current clinical work is with early developmental trauma and attachment and I work as a counselor educator with both the SE Trauma Institute and the University of Victoria. “I have been blessed to work in a number of First Nations communities and have been taught how communities survive multi-generational trauma, the importance of spirituality in healing, and the overlap between SE and some traditional ways of healing. This experience informs and affects my work with both First Nations and non-First Nations people. “I work from a body-oriented perspective, incorporating SE, movement, touch and touch awareness. “I also work and play with a fabulous team of SE-affiliated people, surf, build parts of my house with my husband and play, play, play with my young son.” Published October 2011. More: Podcast, SEPtalk, Trauma	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1175
__label__wiki	0.931539	0.931539	UPDATED: Family Identifies Woman In Fatal Stockton Pit Bull Attack Filed Under:Pit Bull Attack Editors Note: Initial reports claimed that the home belonged to the killed woman. However, CBS13 has learned that those reports were inaccurate and the story has been corrected. STOCKTON (CBS13) – A Stockton woman is dead after a pit bull attacked her Thursday evening, the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said. “It makes me sad, real sad,” owner Brian Hrenko said of the attack. “But, I don’t know who it is, so I really don’t know how to feel.” Deputies received reports of the dog mauling around 8:20 p.m. in the 400 block of North Lillian Avenue. Residents say that the pit bull — named Russia — has been terrorizing the east Stockton neighborhood for months now. WATCH: Interview With Pit Bull Owner Responding deputies found the woman in the front yard of the residence with several massive wounds. Medics pronounced her dead at the scene. The pit bull, Russia, allegedly attacked and killed a woman in Stockton. (Courtesy: Brian Hrenko/Owner) San Joaquin County Animal Control arrived at the residence around 9:30 p.m. and removed Russia from the yard without further incident. The pit bull is being held at the San Joaquin County Animal Shelter until the investigation is completed. Family members identified the victim to CBS13 as 38-year-old Claudia Gallardo — a mother of three. Hrenko says he doesn’t know Gallardo and that she climbed over his front yard fence while he was gone. A female friend of Hrenko’s was at the home at the time, and says the victim claimed to be there to clean the house. “The dog is just protecting its property. Whoever that girl was — which I don’t know who it was — I feel bad for her family, whoever it was. But she should not have jumped over the fence,” said Hrenko. The sheriff’s office has not confirmed the woman’s identity, nor has it confirmed if the woman jumped the fence. Hrenko said he was gone only 40 minutes, and when he returned home his female friend was torn up. “She was all hysterical, said Russia attacked (the woman) and she was all crying and stuff,” said Hrenko. “I don’t know exactly, I want to talk to her myself.” Family say Claudia Gallardo, 38, was attacked and killed by a Stockton pit bull. (Credit: Gallardo Family) However, he didn’t get the chance because deputies took him in for questioning. “They asked me about the character about the dog, and then they asked me and a girl might have did something to (victim), got in a fight with her or something — you got to be kidding me,” said Hrenko of his questioning. Some neighbors are worried after learning of the brutal attack. “I walk to school every single day and knowing that this happened, kind of doesn’t feel right. I don’t feel safe,” neighbor Nuri Rubio said. Especially, since Russia has a history. “He gets in fights with my neighbors dogs all the time. He’s attacked people in the yard, but never actually bit them. He, like, chases them, knocked them in our swimming pool, chased one up a tree — but, he’s never actually bit and really hurt anybody before,” Hrenko said. The San Joaquin Coroner’s Office has not released the identity of the woman.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1179
__label__wiki	0.558267	0.558267	Justia Patents US Patent for Electronically activated strained alkynes Patent (Patent # 10,676,449) Electronically activated strained alkynes Feb 25, 2019 - Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Compounds of Formula I: wherein: R1 and R1′ are independently selected from hydrogen, halogen, C1-to-C12 linear or branched hydroxyalkyl, C1-to-C12 linear or branched halo-alkyl, carboxy, carboxyalkyl, amido, N-alkylamido, N,N-dialkylamido, carbamoyloxy, N-alkylcarbamoyloxy, and N,N-dialkylcarbamoyloxy, provided that that R1 and R1′ are not simultaneously hydrogen; R2 and R2′ hydrogen, halogen, C1-to-C12 linear or branched hydroxyalkyl, C1-to-C12 linear or branched halo-alkyl, carboxy, carboxyalkyl, amido, N-alkylamido, N,N-dialkylamido, carbamoyloxy, N-alkylcarbamoyloxy, and N,N-dialkylcarbamoyloxy, provided that that R2 and R2′ are not simultaneously hydrogen; R3 is selected from hydrogen, C1 to C12 linear or branched alkyl, and nitrogen protecting groups; X is oxygen or nitrogen; when X is oxygen, R4 is absent; and when X is nitrogen, R4 is selected from H, C1-to-C12 linear or branched alkyl, and nitrogen protecting groups. Latest Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Patents: Method to make scalable ultrathin hexagonally faceted metal-organic framework (MOF) and method of using same for detecting explosives and other nitro-aromatic compounds Using liquid crystal to detect endotoxin in the presence of one or more potential masking agents Biemamides and related scaffolds as inhibitors of transforming growth factor-beta signaling Vernier machine with shaped permanent magnet groups Combinatorial androgen deprivation with an androgen receptor vaccine CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 15/873,984, filed Jan. 18, 2018, now U.S. Pat. No. 10,233,162, issued Mar. 19, 2019, which claims priority to provisional application Ser. No. 62/447,466, filed 18 Jan. 2017, both of which are incorporated herein by reference. FEDERAL FUNDING STATEMENT This invention was made with government support under GM111412 awarded by the National Institutes of Health. The government has certain rights in the invention. The difficulty of synthesizing a diverse array of complex molecules from readily available precursors has led to the development of many elegant and highly specific transformations in efforts to reach desired targets. An alternate approach to generating many specialized transformations focuses instead on using a small pool of highly efficient reactions. The idea of “click chemistry” mimics nature's modular usage of heteroatom linkages to afford a wide variety of macromolecular scaffolds. See H. C. Kolb; M. G. Finn; K. B. Sharpless (2001) “Click Chemistry: Diverse Chemical Function from a Few Good Reactions,” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 40 (11):2004-2021. While it is unlikely this approach would completely supplant the traditional strategies of molecular synthesis, the use of “click chemistry” has had notable applications and widespread use. See, for example, R. A. Evans (2007) “The Rise of Azide-Alkyne 1,3-Dipolar ‘Click’ Cycloaddition and its Application to Polymer Science and Surface Modification,” Australian Journal of Chemistry 60 (6):384-395; Spiteri, Christian; Moses, John E. (2010) “Copper-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition: Regioselective Synthesis of 1,4,5-Trisubstituted 1,2,3-Triazoles,” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 49 (1):31-33; and Hoyle, Charles E.; Bowman, Christopher N. (2010) “Thiol-Ene Click Chemistry,” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 49 (9):1540-1573. In the design and optimization of reactions used in this manner, basic principles of chemical reactivity must be utilized. Whether a cascade reaction leads to a complex natural product (for example, a specialized Diels-Alder cycloadditions employed by Boger) or a simple SN2 displacement, understanding how to manipulate weak bonds in starting compounds and transform them into strong bonds in the products requires the presence of a “driving force.” When the inherent energy profile is not favorable for the desired reaction to go to completion, an extra ‘push’ is often provided by a catalyst. This is the case for arguably the most efficient “click” reaction, the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC). See, for example, Castro, Rodríguez and Albericio (2016) “CuAAC: An Efficient Click Chemistry Reaction on Solid Phase,” ACS Comb. Sci. 18 (1):1-14. While CuAAC is undoubtedly an incredibly valuable transformation with broad applications, limitations do exist which are often linked to the requirement for this catalyst. In place of a catalyst, one highly effective strategy to promote reactivity has been the use of the release of strain energy. See FIG. 1, panels A, B, and C. However, incorporating strained alkynes into the starting compounds can increase reactivity of the alkyne bond to the point that is extremely difficult to isolate the starting compound. In fact, early attempts required a cycloaddition reaction to trap the intermediate cyclooctynes in order to prove their generation in situ. Since these early reports of strain as a method to increase reactivity, there has been intense interest in these unique molecules that was further renewed when strain was applied to azide-alkyne cycloadditions (strain-promoted azide-alkyne cycloadditions, SPAAC). See, for example, Baskin, J. M.; Bertozzi, C. R. (2007) “Bioorthogonal Click Chemistry: Covalent Labeling in Living Systems,” QSAR Comb. Sci. 26:1211-1219; Codelli, J. A.; Baskin, J. M.; Agard, N. J.; Bertozzi, C. R. (2008) “Second-Generation Difluorinated Cyclooctynes for Copper-Free Click Chemistry,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130:11486-11493; Johnson, J. A.; Baskin, J. M.; Bertozzi, C. R.; Koberstein, J. T.; Turro, N. J. (2008) “Copper-free click chemistry for the in situ crosslinking of photodegradable star polymers,” Chem. Commun. 3064-3066; and Sletten, E. M.; Bertozzi, C. R. (2008) “A Hydrophilic Azacyclooctyne for Cu-Free Click Chemistry,” Org. Lett. 10:3097-3099. The strain energy present in various cycloalkynes was used by Bertozzi and co-workers, supra, to sidestep the cytotoxicity associated with CuAAC by eliminating the need for copper catalysts, which proved problematic when attempting to use Huisgen 1,3-dipolar reactions in vivo. Since this initial report, new cyclic alkynes have been reported, with properties expanding the utility of this chemistry. These types of reactions are used in various fields, including biological labeling, the synthesis of specialized polymers and ligands, and the generation of libraries of medicinally relevant compounds. The value of cycloalkynes is due, in part, to their fast rates of reaction. As a result, several strategies have been explored to increase their reactivity in a predictable and controllable manner. The most common approach involves “ring strain activation,” where cyclopropanes, aryl groups or other sites of unsaturation are introduced into the molecule providing for rate enhancement of >2 orders of magnitude. Examples include the compounds known by their trivial names as bicyclo[6.1.0]nonyne (“BCN”), dibenzocyclooctynone (“DIBONE”), and dibenzoazacyclooctyne (“DIBAC”): However, this strategy can be problematic, as these changes result in inherent destabilization of the ring. Cycloalkynes activated primarily by increased strain may become sensitive to heat or light, they require harsh conditions to prepare, and typically have a very short shelf life. A different tactic to increase reactivity is achieved by manipulation of the desired reaction's transition state through electronic stabilization, in addition to the typical ring strain. See FIG. 1, panels A and B. This allows for an increase in reactivity over alkynes which rely solely on strain activation without sacrificing stability of the alkyne. In addition to raising the reactivity of the alkyne, combining electronic activation with strain offers the possibility of tuning each alkyne to a distinct coupling partner. Theoretically, this should yield alkynes with both fast reaction rates and selective reactivity. The most successful previous efforts to combine strain and electronic effects take advantage of the increased reactivity provided by electronegative atoms at the propargylic position. Again, see FIG. 1 at panels A and B. It has been shown that rate enhancements which stem from hyperconjugative π→σC—X interactions are especially important contributors in the transition state (TS). When σ-acceptors are also contained within the cyclic framework, they allow for strengthened hyper-conjugative (π→σC—X) interactions relative to systems containing exocyclic σ-acceptors. This is a result of the orientation of the endocyclic propargylic atom(s), which lie antiperiplanar relative to the new bonds being formed. See FIG. 1, panel B. When the σ-acceptor is located in an endocyclic orientation, it is already positioned appropriately for maximal electronic interaction in the transition state. This is in contrast to the gauche orientation noted when the propargylic σ-acceptors are exocyclic, as the propargylic C—C bond of the ring precludes them from adopting the ideal antiperiplanar geometry. Tomooka and co-workers recently synthesized medium-sized cycloalkynes with heteroatoms embedded at the propargylic positions that enable cycloaddition rates faster than those of cyclooctyne (“OCT”) and monofluorinated cyclooctyne (“MOFO”), but do not yet surpass those of difluorocyclooctyne (DIFO). See Ni, Mitsuda, Kashiwagi, Igawa, and Tomooka (2015) “Heteroatom-embedded Medium-Sized Cycloalkynes: Concise Synthesis, Structural Analysis, and Reactions,” Angewandte Chemie International 54 (4):1190-1194. Although many impressive strained alkynes have been reported, the existing chemistry remains far from optimal. There is an ongoing and unmet need for new strained cycloalkynes that offer ease and flexibility in synthesis, chemoselectivity, and reduced lipophilicity. Disclosed herein is a new class of cycloalkynes which incorporate heteroatoms into the ring. Also disclosed are method to make these novel cycloalkynes, and their use as reactants in 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions. This method to make the cycloalkynes is very flexible and can be used to make a host of modifications to the basic structure. The resulting cycloalkynes are thus “tunable” with respect to their rate of reaction and their chemoselectivity against both unwanted side reactions and the potential for selective reactivity between different types of dipoles (for example, selective reactivity with azide dipoles versus diazoacetamide dipoles). Disclosed are compounds of Formula I: wherein: R1 and R1′ are independently selected from hydrogen, halogen, C1-to-C12 linear or branched hydroxyalkyl, C1-to-C12 linear or branched halo-alkyl, carboxy, carboxyalkyl, amido, N-alkylamido, N,N-dialkylamido, carbamoyloxy, N-alkylcarbamoyloxy, and N,N-dialkylcarbamoyloxy, provided that that R1 and R1′ are not simultaneously hydrogen; R2 and R2′ hydrogen, halogen, C1-to-C12 linear or branched hydroxyalkyl, C1-to-C12 linear or branched halo-alkyl, carboxy, carboxyalkyl, amido, N-alkylamido, N,N-dialkylamido, carbamoyloxy, N-alkylcarbamoyloxy, and N,N-dialkylcarbamoyloxy, provided that that R2 and R2′ are not simultaneously hydrogen; R3 is selected from hydrogen, C1 to C12 linear or branched alkyl, and nitrogen protecting groups; X is oxygen or nitrogen; when X is oxygen, R4 is absent; and when X is nitrogen, R4 is selected from H, C1-to-C12 linear or branched alkyl, and nitrogen protecting groups. Also disclosed herein is a method of forming chemical bonds. The method comprises reacting a first compound as recited in the preceding paragraphs with a second compound comprising a 1,3-dipole in a 1,3-cycloaddition reaction. Numerical ranges as used herein are intended to include every number and subset of numbers contained within that range, whether specifically disclosed or not. Further, these numerical ranges should be construed as providing support for a claim directed to any number or subset of numbers in that range. For example, a disclosure of from 1 to 10 should be construed as supporting a range of from 2 to 8, from 3 to 7, 5, 6, from 1 to 9, from 3.6 to 4.6, from 3.5 to 9.9, and so forth. All references to singular characteristics or limitations of the present invention shall include the corresponding plural characteristic or limitation, and vice-versa, unless otherwise specified or clearly implied to the contrary by the context in which the reference is made. The indefinite article “a,” when applied to a claimed element, means “one or more,” unless explicitly stated to the contrary. All combinations of method or process steps as used herein can be performed in any order, unless otherwise specified or clearly implied to the contrary by the context in which the referenced combination is made. The methods, compounds, and compositions of the present invention can comprise, consist of, or consist essentially of the essential elements and limitations of the invention as described herein, as well as any additional or optional ingredients, components, or limitations described herein or otherwise useful in synthetic organic chemistry. FIG. 1 is a series of illustrations depicting various types of prior art SPAAC-type reactions (panels A, B, and C) as contrasted to the present process (panel D). Panels A, B, and C note the electronic effects on rate and selectivity of the various types of strain-promoted 1,3-dipolar-alkyne cycloadditions. FIG. 2 is an illustration depicting, in panel A, the free energies of activation (kcal/mol) of the lowest energy transition states for each cycloadditions of diazo- and azidoacetamides reacting with alkynes containing various propargylic substituents. Geometries optimized at the M06-2X/6-311+G(d,p) level of theory with an IEFPCM solvent model for water (radii=UFF). Inset: Distortion/interaction analysis for cycloadditions of diazoacetamide. Panel B depicts starting alkyne geometries with selected bond lengths given in Å and angles in degrees. Hybridizations obtained from NBO analysis are given for sulfur bonding orbitals in S—X bonds. Black=carbon; white=hydrogen; blue=nitrogen; red=oxygen; yellow=sulfur. FIG. 3 is an illustration depicting, in panel A, the free energies of activation (kcal/mol) of the lowest energy transition states for each cycloadditions of diazo- and azidoacetamides reacting with alkynes containing various homopropargylic substituents. Geometries optimized at the M06-2X/6-311+G(d,p) level of theory with an IEFPCM solvent model for water (radii=UFF). Inset: Distortion/interaction analysis for cycloadditions of diazoacetamide. Panel B depicts the starting alkyne geometries with selected bond lengths given in Å and angles in degrees. Hybridizations obtained from NBO analysis given for sulfur bonding orbitals in S—Y bonds. Black=carbon; white=hydrogen; blue=nitrogen; red=oxygen; yellow=sulfur. aSyn transition state is preferred. FIG. 4 is an illustration depicting, in panel A, the free energies of activation (kcal/mol) of the lowest energy transition states for each cycloadditions of diazo- and azidoacetamides reacting with alkynes containing various propargylic and homopropargylic substituents. Geometries optimized at the M06-2X/6-311+G(d,p) level of theory with an IEFPCM solvent model for water (radii=UFF). Inset: Distortion/interaction analysis for selected cycloadditions of diazoacetamide. Panel B depicts the starting alkyne geometries with selected bond lengths given in Ång-stroms and angles in degrees. Hybridizations obtained from NBO analysis given for sulfur bonding orbitals in S—X and S—Y bonds. Black=carbon; white=hydrogen; blue=nitrogen; red=oxygen; yellow=sulfur. FIG. 5 is a series of superimposed plots of activation energies versus distortion energies split by the diazoacetamide (circles) and azidoacetamide (squares) for all cycloadditions evaluated to date, excluding charged alkynes. DETAILED DESCRIPTION Abbreviations and Definitions BCN=bicyclo[6.1.0]nonyne. CuAAC=copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition. DIBAC=dibenzoazacyclooctyne. DIBONE=dibenzocyclooctynone. Halogen=chlorine, fluorine, bromine, and iodine. IEFPCM=integral equation formalism variant of the polarizable continuum model. NBO=natural bond orbital. OCT=cyclooctyne. SNO-OCT refers to heterocyclic cyclooctynes having sulfur, nitrogen, and oxygen heteroatoms. SPAAC=strain-promoted alkyne-azide cyclization. TBAF=tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride TS=transition state. UFF=universal force field. In the present description, unless otherwise indicated, terms such as “compounds of the invention” and “compounds disclosed herein” embrace the compounds in salt form as well as in free acid or base form (as the case may be) and also when the compounds are attached to a solid phase. Where a basic substituent such as an amine substituent is present, the salt form may be an acid addition salt, for example a dihydrochloride. Conversely, where an acidic substituent is present, the salt form may be a base addition salt. Salts include, without limitation, acid addition salts such as those derived from mineral acids and organic acids, explicitly including hydrohalides, e.g., hydrochlorides and hydrobromides, sulfates, phosphates, nitrates, sulfamates, acetates, citrates, lactates, tartrates, malonates, oxalates, salicylates, propionates, succinates, fumarates, maleates, methylene bis-b-hydroxynaphthoates, gentisates, isethionates, di-p-toluoyltartrates, methane sulfonates, ethanesulfonates, benzenesulfonates, p-toluenesulfonates, cyclohexylsulfamates, quinates, and the like. Base addition salts include those derived from alkali or alkaline earth metal bases or conventional organic bases, such as triethylamine, pyridine, piperidine, morpholine, N-methylmorpholine, and the like. Other suitable salts are found in, for example, “Handbook of Pharmaceutical Salts: Properties, Selection, and Use, 2nd Revised Edition,” P. H. Stahl and C. G. Wermuch, Eds., © 2011 Wiley-VCH, an imprint of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Hoboken, N.J.), ISBN 978-3-90639-051-2, which is incorporated herein by reference. The invention includes the compounds of the invention in pure isomeric form, e.g., consisting of at least 90%, preferably at least 95% of a single isomeric form, as well as mixtures of these forms. The compounds of the invention may also be in the form of individual enantiomers or may be in the form of racemates or diastereoisomeric mixtures or any other mixture of the possible isomers. A “protecting group” is any chemical moiety capable of selective addition to and removal from a reactive site to allow manipulation of a chemical entity at sites other than the reactive site. Many protecting groups are known in the art. A large number of protecting groups and corresponding chemical cleavage reactions are described in “Greene's Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis,” ISBN-13: 978-1118057483, ©2014, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. The term “nitrogen protecting group” is specifically directed to protecting groups that are capable of selective addition to and removal from a reactive nitrogen atom in a molecule (to allow manipulation of a chemical entity at sites other than the protected, reactive nitrogen atom). Greene describes many nitrogen protecting groups, for example, amide-forming groups. In particular, see Chapter 1, Protecting Groups: An Overview, Chapter 2, Hydroxyl Protecting Groups, Chapter 4, Carboxyl Protecting Groups, and Chapter 5, Carbonyl Protecting Groups. For additional information on protecting groups, see also Kocienski, Philip J. “Protecting Groups,” (Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart, New York, 1994), which is incorporated herein by reference. Typical nitrogen protecting groups described in Greene include benzyl ethers, silyl ethers, esters including sulfonic acid esters, carbonates, sulfates, and sulfonates. For example, suitable nitrogen protecting groups include substituted methyl ethers; substituted ethyl ethers; p-chlorophenyl, p-methoxyphenyl, 2,4-dinitrophenyl, benzyl; substituted benzyl ethers (p-methoxybenzyl, 3,4-dimethoxybenzyl, o-nitrobenzyl, p-nitrobenzyl, p-halobenzyl, 2,6-dichlorobenzyl, p-cyanobenzyl, p-phenylbenzyl, 2- and 4-picolyl, diphenylmethyl, 5-dibenzosuberyl, triphenylmethyl, p-methoxyphenyl-diphenylmethyl, di(p-methoxyphenyl)phenylmethyl, tri(p-methoxyphenyl)methyl, 1,3-benzodithiolan-2-yl, benzisothiazolyl S,S-dioxido); silyl ethers (silyloxy groups) (trimethylsilyl, triethylsilyl, triisopropylsilyl, dimethylisopropylsilyl, diethylisopropylsilyl, dimethylthexylsilyl, t-butyldimethylsilyl, t-butyldiphenylsilyl, tribenzylsilyl, tri-p-xylylsilyl, triphenylsilyl, diphenylmethylsilyl, t-butylmethoxy-phenylsilyl); esters (formate, benzoylformate, acetate, choroacetate, dichloroacetate, trichloroacetate, trifluoroacetate, methoxyacetate, triphenylmethoxyacetate, phenoxyacetate, p-chlorophenoxyacetate, 3-phenylpropionate, 4-oxopentanoate (levulinate), pivaloate, adamantoate, crotonate, 4-methoxycrotonate, benzoate, p-phenylbenzoate, 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoate(mesitoate)); carbonates (methyl, 9-fluorenylmethyl, ethyl, 2,2,2-trichloroethyl, 2-(trimethylsilyl)ethyl, 2-(phenylsulfonyl)ethyl, 2-(triphenylphosphonio)ethyl, isobutyl, vinyl, allyl, p-nitrophenyl, benzyl, p-methoxybenzyl, 3,4-dimethoxybenzyl, o-nitrobenzyl, p-nitrobenzyl, S-benzyl thiocarbonate, 4-ethoxy-1-naphthyl, methyl dithiocarbonate); groups with assisted cleavage (2-iodobenzoate, 4-azidobutyrate, 4-nitro-4-methylpentanoate, o-(dibromomethyl) benzoate, 2-formylbenzenesulfonate, 2-(methylthiomethoxy)ethyl carbonate, 4-(methylthiomethoxy)butyrate, miscellaneous esters (2,6-dichloro-4-methylphenoxyacetate, 2,6-dichloro-4-(1,1,3,3 tetramethylbutyl)phenoxyacetate, 2,4-bis(1,1-dimethylpropyl)phenoxyacetate, chlorodiphenylacetate, isobutyrate, monosuccinate, (Ε)-2-methyl-2-butenoate (tigloate), o-(methoxycarbonyl)benzoate, p-poly-benzoate, α-naphthoate, nitrate, alkyl N,N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-phosphorodiamidate, n-phenylcarbamate, borate, 2,4-dinitrophenylsulfenate); or sulfonates (methanesulfonate(mesylate), benzenesulfonate, benzylsulfonate, tosylate, or triflate). The more common of the amine-protecting groups have trivial abbreviations that are widely used in the literature and include: carbobenzyloxy (Cbz) group (removed by hydrogenolysis), p-methoxybenzyl carbonyl (Moz or MeOZ) group (removed by hydrogenolysis), tert-butyloxycarbonyl (BOC) group (common in solid phase peptide synthesis; removed by concentrated strong acid (such as HCl or CF3COOH), or by heating to >80° C., 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl (FMOC) group (also common in solid phase peptide synthesis; removed by base, such as piperidine), acetyl (Ac) group (removed by treatment with a base), benzoyl (Bz) group (removed by treatment with a base), benzyl (Bn) group (removed by hydrogenolysis), carbamate group (removed by acid and mild heating), p-methoxybenzyl (PMB) (removed by hydrogenolysis), 3,4-dimethoxybenzyl (DMPM) (removed by hydrogenolysis), p-methoxyphenyl (PMP) group (removed by ammonium cerium(IV) nitrate (CAN)), tosyl (Ts) group (removed by concentrated acid and strong reducing agents), sulfonamide groups (Nosyl & Nps; removed by samarium iodide, tributyltin hydride. As used herein, the phrase “1,3-dipole,” as in “a compound comprising a 1,3-dipole”, means dipolar compounds having delocalized electrons and a separation of charge over three atoms and capable of being a reactant in a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction. A non-exclusive list of compounds comprising a 1,3-dipole includes azides (R—N3), ozone (O3), nitro compounds (R—NO2), diazo compounds (R2—C═N═N), certain oxides (such as, but not limited to azoxide compounds (RN(O)NR) carbonyl oxides (Criegee zwitterions), nitrile oxides (RCN—O), nitrous oxide (N2O), and nitrones (R2CN(R)O), carboynyl oxide, certain imines (such as azomethine imine, nitrilimines (RCN—NR, analogous to nitrile oxide) and carbonyl imines), and certain ylides (including azomethine ylide, nitrile ylide (RCNCR′2), carbonyl ylide, and thiosulfines (R2CSS)). 1,3-dipoles may also be organized by structure as nitrogen-centered or oxygen-centered allyl-type or propargyl-allenyl-type. Nitrogen-centered, allyl-type 1,3-dipoles include, but are not limited to: Oxygen-centered, allyl-type 1,3-dipoles include, but are not limited to: Propargyl-allenyl-type 1,3-dipoles include, but are not limited to, nitrilium betaines such as as well as diazonium betaines, such as Synthesis of Strained Cycloalkynes One of the ongoing challenges when using conventional strained cycloalkynes is their very difficult synthesis. Prior art syntheses are lengthy and offer few opportunities for derivatization. In contrast, the present process begins with readily accessible silylated allenes (1, Scheme 1). The presence of the silyl group directs the regioselectivity of the aziridination to the distal allene to yield an endocyclic methylene aziridine 2. In prior art syntheses, the remaining alkene underwent diastereo selective epoxidation, followed by rapid rearrangement, to form azetidin-3-ones represented by 3. However, the inventive process treats 2 with TBAF, which triggers elimination of the silyl group, followed by ring-opening of the aziridine, to yield the novel strained alkyne 4 with heteroatoms incorporated into the ring at strategic positions. The scope of the reaction is illustrated in Table 1. Analogs of the allenic precursor 1 allow for varied alkyl substitution at the C1 and C4 positions. This allowed for an investigation of the effects of steric bulk, as well as a demonstration of the ability to include tethered functional groups. The propargyl nitrogen can be protected, which permits the electronic properties and strain experienced by the alkyne to be varied or “tuned.” Additionally, the homopropargylic oxygen atom can be replaced with a nitrogen atom by using a homoallenic sulfamide precursor. The flexibility of this scaffold allows for tuning of the strained alkyne. The synthetic approach can also be used to optimize the reactivity of the alkyne for its desired coupling partner (vide infra). Overall, the synthesis is rapid, high yielding, and easily diversified. It is also notable that these strained alkynes are easily isolable solids which are stable to heat and light, as well as to both acidic and basic reaction conditions. The stability of the inventive cyclooctynes in the presence of biologically relevant functional groups, including a free thiol, was assessed by stirring the alkyne with glutathione in a PBS buffered solution for 24 h. No reaction was observed. Scope of cycloalkyne formation and reactivity with benzyl azide. 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition entry substrate product yield (%) yield (%) k2 krel. 1 1a 4a XX XX 0.066 2.6 2 1b 4b XX XX 0.025 1.0 3 1c 4c XX XX 0.0040 0.16 4 1d 4d XX XX 0.037 1.5 5 1e 4e XX XX 0.042 1.7 6 1f 4f XX XX XX XX 7 1g 4g XX XX 0.047 1.9 8 1h 4h XX XX 0.0014 0.056 Reactivity of Strained Cycloalkynes with Benzyl Azide The reactivity of the novel strained alkyne derivatives disclosed herein were first assessed using benzyl azide 5 as a model substrate (Table 1, model reaction at top). In acetonitrile at ambient temperatures, the second order rate constant for substrate 4b (C5H11) was found to be 2.5×10−2 M−1s−1. When steric hindrance was increased by placing the more bulky isopropyl group at C1, the rate of the reaction slowed to a sixth of that of substrate 4c. Conversely, decreasing the steric bulk in substrate 4a (R1=Me) showed dramatically increased rate—the reaction proceeds 2.6 times faster than alkyne 4b. The effects of the heteroatoms in the ring were similarly pronounced. When the propargyl nitrogen was protected with a Boc group, the rate slowed slightly (4e). For Me-substituted substrates 4a and 4d, the rates slowed to roughly half their unprotected values. While a more electron-poor nitrogen heteroatom is expected to result in a stronger electronic effect and an expected increase in reaction rate, the conflicting effects of bond lengthening and steric repulsion between the Boc and R1 groups overrides any benefit and results in a net slowing of rate. Similarly, when the homopropargylic oxygen atom was replaced with a Boc-protected nitrogen atom, the rate fell dramatically to an eighteenth of that of the sulfamate (4f). The fastest substrate, 1a, compares favorably to other reported strained alkynes. It is faster than OCT, the exocyclic heteroatom-activated MOFO, and the endocyclic heteroatom-activated alkynes reported by Toomoka et al., supra. The reaction rate of 1a is surpassed only slightly by DIFO. See Table 2 for comparison. TABLE 2 Rate comparisons of common cycloalkynes with diazoazetamide and azidoacetamide in CD3CN (aCD3CN:D2O = 1:1) BCN k2(7:8): 0.73 DIBONE 2.1 DIBAC 2.0, 6.5a 4a, R = H: 3.0, 8.5a 4d, R = Boc: 5.0 Thus, the novel cyclooctynes described herein are sufficiently reactive for a large number of “click chemistry” applications. Furthermore, the inventive cyclooctynes are afforded in far fewer steps and higher yields than DIFO, providing for a much more accessible “click” reagent. Designing Cyclooctynes with Increased Chemoselectivity Previous work directed towards the reactions of cyclooctynes has focused heavily on azide-alkyne cycloadditions. (See the above-noted references.) While this has been a fruitful area with many useful applications, cycloalkynes will partner with other substrates. Nitrones, nitrile oxides, and diazo compounds have all been demonstrated to undergo rapid reactions with strained alkynes without the need for transition metal catalysts. By looking beyond azides for coupling partners, new orthogonal labeling systems are accessible for providing tandem chemoselective transformations in a cellular context. For these exploratory studies, diazoacetamide 8 (Table 3) and azidoacetamide 7 were chosen because of the increased nucleophilicity of 8 as compared to azide 7 and its ability to survive cellular metabolism. When comparing rate differences with diazoacetamide 8 and azidoacetamide 7 for common cycloalkynes, DIBAC reacted˜5-times faster with the diazoacetamide than the analogous azide in 1:1 CD3CN:D2O. This rate difference shows promise that the right balance of strain and electronic activation can be reached to provide for robust reagents displaying relatively rapid reaction kinetics. At the same time, these compounds provide for complete selectivity that is as of yet lacking in cyclooctynes. It was hypothesized by the present inventors that properly positioned heteroatoms in sulfamate-derived cyclooctynes would lead to an increase in diazo-selective reactivity over azides, thus enabling orthogonal bioconjugation techniques. It was found that under the same reaction conditions, the gap in reactivity for cycloalkyne 4 was even larger than that of DIBAC. Experimental rate constants and calculated activation energies and free energies (kcal/mol) for the lowest energy transition states for cycloadditions of diazo- and azidoacetamide reacting with alkynes 4a and 4d. azidoacetamide, 7 diazoacetamide, 8 ΔE‡calc. ΔG‡calc. k2 ΔE‡calc. ΔG‡calc. k2 (kcal/mol) (M−1s−1) (kcal/mol) (M−1s−1) 4a, R′ = H 11.5 23.8 xx 10.7 21.9 xx 4d, R′ = Boc 10.6 24.1 xx 10.1 23.1 xx Geometries were optimized at the M06-2X/6-311 + G(d,p) level of theory using an IEFPCM solvent model for water (radii = UFF). Bn was replaced with Me for simplicity in computations. The effects of the various heteroatoms on this increased chemoselectivity were investigated computationally. Reaction of the standard substrate 4 (Table 3) with diazoacetamide 8 was found experimentally to be about an order of magnitude faster than reaction with azidoacetamide 7. This observation suggests a ΔΔG‡ of ˜1.3 kcal/mol, while computations predicted ΔΔG‡ and ΔΔE‡ values of 1.9 and 0.8 kcal/mol, respectively, for the unsubstituted sulfamates 4a. Computations indicated that Boc-substitution decreases the ΔΔE‡ for reaction of both the diazoacetamide and azidoacetimide as the nitrogen becomes a better σ-acceptor. In contrast, the ΔΔG‡ is expected to increase, likely due to increased steric repulsion from the bulky Boc-group. This difference in rate provides ˜9:1 selectivity in competition experiments involving 1:1:1 mixtures of diazoacetamide (7):azidoacetamide (8):alkyne (4d, 4e). Efforts to improve the selectivity for reaction with 1 were undertaken by examining the effects of both propargylic and homopropargylic heteroatoms in 4. In the most closely related system, the cyclooctyne previously reported by Toomoka (FIG. 1, panel C), an N-tosyl and thioether linker occupy each of the endocyclic propargylic sites. The compounds and methods disclosed herein differ in two key ways. First, only one of the endocyclic propargylic positions is occupied by a heteroatom (nitrogen; see FIG. 1, panel D) and second, the nature of the endocyclic sulfamate replaces two carbon atoms of the ring with heteroatoms (oxygen and sulfur). Based on these features, it is reasonable to expect slower rates with compounds according to the present invention (such as 4; see Table 1) as compared to Toomoka's alkyne as shown in FIG. 1, panel C. This is because the inventive compounds experience hyper-conjugative assistance from only one propargylic heteroatom. However, that's not the case. Experimental results showed enhanced reactivity of the present compounds as compared to Toomoka's. This was a very surprising and unexpected outcome. Computational Studies of Cycloalkynes Introduction of a sulfonyl group into an all-carbon cyclooctyne ring relieves ring strain as a result of long C—S bonds and an increase in the linearization of alkyne angles (˜158/159° to ˜161/161°. In addition, the homopropargylic sulfonyl generates a more polar transition state in a cycloaddition reaction, as determined by NBO charges on the reacting partners. (Data not shown.) This is due to inductive effects, as well as double hyperconjugation through the exocyclic propargylic C—C bonds. This renders the ΔΔG‡ upon sulfonyl incorporation (4i) smaller for the diazoacetamide than for the azide. However, the way in which the two heteroatoms adjacent to the sulfonyl group (N and O in the case of the sulfamate of 4a) interact synergistically to increase the reactivity of the inventive cycloalkynes was not clear. To address this issue, computational studies were undertaken. Both the observed chemo- and regioselectivity were recapitulated by calculated values, where both dipoles favored approaching “anti” to the propargylic nitrogen and methyl group. To assess the effect of the sulfonyl group on previously reported π→σC—X interactions, a series of compounds differing in the electron-accepting ability of the propargylic σ bond were examined (X═NH, O, NH2+; see FIG. 2, panel A). All three heteroatoms decrease the barrier relative to compound 4i, containing only an SO2 group. Additionally, increased selectivity for cycloadditions of the diazoacetamide is predicted (larger ΔΔG‡ values) for compounds 4k and 4l (X═O and NH2+, respectively). Decreased activation energies were expected as the electron-acceptor abilities of the X group were increased, but this trend was not followed. The reaction of diazoacetamide 8 and 4k displayed a lower activation energy (and a nearly identical free energy of activation) than the reaction with 4l (see FIG. 2). Without being constrained to a given mechanism, this is thought to result from an increased S—N bond length upon protonation of the nitrogen, a direct effect of Bent's rule. (Bent, H. A. (1961) “An appraisal of valence-bond structures and hybridization in compounds of the first-row elements,” Chem. Rev. 61 (3):275-311.) As the electronegativity of the propargylic atom is increased, the sulfur utilizes more p-character in the bonding orbital directed towards atom X, amounting to an increase from sp3.5 to sp4.1 to sp5.6 for compounds 4j-l (NH, O, and NH2+, respectively; hybridization values obtained from NBO analysis). This results in calculated S—X bond lengths of 1.67 Å, 1.62 Å and 1.88 Å for the same series, compared to the S—C length of 1.82 Å for compound 4j. In addition to changes in hybridization, anomeric effects also influence the S—X bond length. The endo-anomeric effect (nX→σS—Y and nX→σS═O)) induces double bond character between the S and X, while the exo-anomeric effect (nO→σS—X) lengthens the S—X bond. Thus, in the case of X═NH2+, the exo-anomeric effect is strengthened and there is no longer a lone pair to engage in the endo-anomeric effect. More importantly, the reactivity of the alkyne is affected by both the acceptor ability of the propargylic heteroatom and the ring strain, where the angle at the proximal alkyne carbon increases from 157.2° to 158.8° to 159.5° for compounds 4k, 4j, and 4(O, NH, and NH2+, respectively). All of these derivatives display increased bending relative to the ˜161° of compound 4i, but the lengthening of the S—N bond due to protonation outweighs the increased acceptor abilities in compound 4l. These findings are recapitulated by the distortion/interaction analysis (vide infra). In summary, the bond length, dictated by the identity of the heteroatom at the X position, has a substantial effect on the reactivity of the molecule, with the shortest bond lengths and relatively high electronegativity associated with propargylic oxygen atoms giving the highest reactivity. While electronic tuning via substitution at the propargylic nitrogen may provide for increased reactivity, the delicate balance of increased electronegativity competing with structural relaxation renders the free NH the most reactive of analogs which have been synthesized to date. The effects of the homopropargylic heteroatom Y in 4 were investigated in a fashion similar to that described above for X. The substituents in the Y position were modified and X was fixed as a methylene group. The effects were surprisingly large, with over a 2 kcal/mol decrease in ΔE‡ and ΔG‡ noted. For the heteroatoms utilized experimentally (X═NH, Y═O), the effect of the homopropargylic oxygen in 4n is larger than that of the propargylic nitrogen in 4j. The increased reactivity as a result of homopropargylic heteroatoms stems from a slight increase in electrophilicity via inductive effects and also double hyperconjugation through exocyclic propargylic C—H bonds. These effects are moderated, however, by bond length alterations according to Bent's rule, as discussed above. This marks the first description of the participation of an endocyclic heteroatom at the homopropargylic positions in the reactivity of the strained alkyne. Finally, the combination of the effects of both X and Y in 4 were explored. See FIG. 3. In many cases, synergistic effects of the propargylic and homopropargylic heteroatom were observed, resulting in increased reactivity when reacted with a standard alkyl azide 7 or diazoacetamide 8. As the ultimate goal was to simultaneously enhance both reactivity and selectivity, there was an interest in cases with improved reactivity where the ΔΔG‡ between the dipoles is also increased. Interestingly, this holds true in compounds 4w and 4v (X═NH2+ and Y═O or NH2+). In this situation, where there is no heteroatom at the Y position, favorable electronics were outweighed by unfavorable geometric relaxation. The sulfur atom must accommodate electronegative substituents at both the X and Y position, preventing the high p-character and bond lengthening in either of the two bonding orbitals (FIG. 3). This allows for both the large interactions provided by a highly electronegative propargylic heteroatom, without the counterproductive bond lengthening as a result of Bent's rule. This effect is readily apparent in compound 4s (X═Y═O), where the alkyne is bent to a significant degree as a result of significantly shortened S—X and S—Y bond lengths (<1.6 Ångstroms). Previous reports of decreased reactivity upon thioether incorporation are overcome when the endocylic sulfur atom must accommodate multiple electronegative atoms simultaneously. This provides a unique opportunity to alter alkyne distortion/strain electronically, rather than through the incorporation of annealed rings or additional sp2 centers. Distortion/interaction (analogously termed strain activation) analysis was employed to elucidate structural effects on the reactivity of 4 when the identity of X and Y are varied (FIGS. 3, 4, and 5). In cases of a single heteroatom in either the X or Y position, the relatively short S—NH and S—O bonds, compared to S—C and S—NH2+, give decreased alkyne distortion energies (FIGS. 3 and 4). Due to increased S—NH2+ bond lengths, increased distortion energies are observed, however, large interactions partially compensate for the increased distortion energy. When effects are combined and heteroatoms are placed at both the X and Y positions, the major effect is a decrease in the distortion energy rather than an increase in interactions. Charged species benefit from both a decrease in distortion energies and an increase in interaction energies—as a second heteroatom mediates the bond lengthening due to changes in hybridization—giving extremely low energies of activation. While the distortion/interaction analysis accurately describes reactivity trends of each dipole with various alkynes (minus charged species that benefit from large interactions, FIG. 4), the analysis breaks down when plotting reactions of azide X and diazoacetamide Y together. This is due to the fact that stabilized diazoacetamides display artificially high distortion energies that are compensated for by increased interaction energies. Conjugative stabilization in the starting material is traded for bond formation, simultaneously increasing both distortion and interaction energies. As a result of increased hyperconjugative interactions in the transition state, large interactions are observed for both X═O and NH2+. In the case of X═O, favorable interaction energies are accompanied by a decrease in distortion—previously described as assistance to alkyne bending accompanied by assistance to bond formation. In the case of X (and Y)═NH2+, however, the favorable interactions are negated by the increased distortion energies resulting from the geometric relaxation of the alkyne. As a result, inclusion of charged species into plots of activation energies against total distortion energies provides for very low correlation. When charged alkynes are removed, good correlation is observed, especially when each regioisomer is plotted independently. In conclusion, disclosed herein are cyclooctynes bearing endocyclic heteroatoms that are able to tune alkyne electronics for varying degrees of reactivity amongst various 1,3-dipoles. Increased rates, high stability, and ease of synthesis relative to previously reported systems makes for an attractive compound for a number of applications. The electronic nature of azido and diazo dipoles render this an ideal system for chemo- and regioselectivity in noncatalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions activated by strain. The current system allows for complete regioselectivity in reactions with diazoacetamides and the highest chemoselectivity reported between the diazo-acetamide and the analogous azide reacting with a cyclooctyne to date. We have also unveiled a new method for the attenuation of strain in starting cycloalkynes. An interplay of anomeric effects and bond lengths dictated by hybridization is be predictably controlled by the choice of endocyclic heteroatoms. Building Orthogonal Reactivity Calculations predicted the ability to utilize the parent octyne and halogenated versions to achieve two orthogonal cycloadditions with tetrazines and diazoacetamides, respectively. This was also realized experimentally: Table 4 shows the predicted reaction thermodynamics and rates: Gibbs free energies of activation (kcal/mol) and reaction rates for various cycloadditions using for mono-halogenated and di-halogenated octynes having sulfur, nitrogen, and oxygen heteroatoms (SNO-OCT): ΔG‡ (kcal/ Rate SNO-OCT dipole mol) (M−1s−1) kreld 1 diazoacetamidea azideb tetrazinec 19.3 20.7 17.4 4.75e−02 3.95e−03 1.12 1.20e01 1.00 2.84e02 2a diazoacetamidea azideb,e tetrazinec 16.6 19.9 21.9 4.51 1.65e−02 5.08e−04 8.88e03 3.25e01 1.00 2b diazoacetamidea azideb,e tetrazinec 15.9 19.2 22.7 1.38e01 5.28e−02 1.35e−04 1.02e05 3.91e02 1.00 3b diazoacetamidea azideb tetrazinec 14.7 18.0 22.1 1.07e02 3.96e−01 4.04e−04 2.65e05 9.80e02 1.00 Geometries were optimized at B97D/6-311 + G(d,p) with CPCM solvent model (water) amethyl diazoacetamide bmethyl azide cdipyridyl tetrazine dRelative rates across all dipoles for each SNO-OCT derivative esyn TS is the lowest energy pathway The above derivatives can be made via Scheme 1, above, with adjustments to the reagents to yield various substituents on the two carbon atoms adjacent the triple bond. The synthesis of was both simple and flexible. See Scheme 2, below. Installing a silyl group at the allene carbon proximal to the sulfamate in 1 promoted regioselective aziridination at the distal alkene of the allene to furnish 2, due to the ability of the coplanar C—Si bond to stabilize the developing positive charge on the β carbon via hyperconjugation. Reaction of an intermediate silylated methyleneaziridine 2 with TBAF triggered a ring expansion to deliver the SNO-OCT 3. Important features of the SNO-OCT scaffold, as compared to conventional cycloalkynes, include the ability to tune the polarizability and reactivity of the triple bond, the ability to retain stability in the SNO-OCTs without significant loss in reactivity, and the lack of reaction towards glutathione and other nucleophiles present in the typical biological milieu. As illustrated in Scheme 3, addition of a lithium acetylide to propanaldehyde gave 9 in quantitative yield. Formation of the ester 10, followed by a Claisen rearrangement mediated by Zn/TMSCl and esterification furnished allene 11 in 76% yield over 2 steps. Ester reduction, formation of the sulfamate and tandem aziridination/TBAF-mediated ring expansion (as per Schemes 1 and 2) provided the di-halogenated (fluorinated) SNO-OCT 8a. The ability to change the substitution pattern of the allene and the ease with which silylated bicyclic methyleneaziridine precursors to SNO-OCTs can be formed, stimulated our interest in understanding how the polarizability of the alkyne might be tuned to achieve two major goals: 1) to significantly increase the rates of reactions involving SNO-OCTs, and 2) to achieve mutually exclusive orthogonal reactivities of SNO-OCTs with Type I, Type II, and Type III dipoles in [3+2] and [4+2] cycloadditions. Other key advantages of SNO-OCTs include the ability to install multiple functional handles for appending dyes and other reporter molecules, water solubility, and precluding the reaction of the alkyne with thiols in the biological milieu. Computational methods to predict the rates of reactions involving SNO-OCTs: The first major goal was to increase the rate of reaction of SNO-OCTs with various dipoles, without sacrificing either the stability of the ring or increasing the level of background reactions with other nucleophiles in the biological milieu, particularly thiols. It was felt that computational studies would be extremely helpful in predicting which modifications to the SNO-OCT would be most likely to result in significant rate enhancements. The choice of computational methodology was key to achieving successful predictive capabilities; thus, we sought to identify the optimal screening tool to inform our experimental efforts. The M06-2X hybrid functional can be used for cycloaddition studies, but it has a tendency for activation barriers to be overestimated at this level of theory. See Y. Zhao & D. G. Truhlar (2006) “The M06 suite of density functionals for main group thermochemistry, thermochemical kinetics, noncovalent interactions, excited states, and transition elements: Two new functionals and systematic testing of four M06-class functionals and 12 other functionals,” Theor Chem Acc. 120 (1-3): 215-241. To account for this deviation, a correction factor based on experimental 2nd-order rate constants, is applied to the computed values to bring them into better quantitative agreement. Similarly, it has been found that M06-2X overestimates activation barriers in strain-promoted oxidation-controlled quinone (SPOCQ) cycloadditions. In the case of SNO-OCTs, density functional theory (DFT) calculations initially conducted at the M06-2X level of theory with a 6-311++G(d,p) basis set using Gaussian 16 (Gaussian, Inc., Wallingford, Conn.) also showed that the predicted rates, and even relative trends in rate, deviated significantly from the experimental values. This suggested that a different level of theory might be more suitable for the SNO-OCT systems. Thus, transition state models were optimized using a B97D functional with the Conductor-like Polarizable Continuum Model (CPCM) for the solvent (Table 5). This change in the level of theory led to a marked improvement in computed reaction rates, predicting a 0.0040 M−1s−1 reaction rate (CD3CN) for the reaction of the parent SNO-OCT 4 with MeN3, a result within an order of magnitude of experimental (0.026 M−1s−1) data for the reaction of 4 with BnN3 (Table 5, entry 1). The presence of the hydroxyl group in 5 increased the 2nd-order rate constant in the reaction with azides both experimentally and computationally (entry 2), showing that although the absolute rates are still not accurate, the trend may be predicted. However, one limitation of this computational method is that the rate increase observed experimentally when moving from CD3CN to a 2:1 D2O:CD3CN mixture is not well-reflected in the computational results. The lack of ability for DFT methods to accurately model solvents is well-known. While this caveat should be kept in mind, the B97D functional does enable valuable predictions of how changes to the SNO-OCT structure might be expected influence the rates of 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions with azides and diazoalkanes. B97D/6-311 + G(d,p) calculated reaction rates are in agreement with experimentally determined kinetics for various SNO-OCT/dipole cycloadditions. Experimentala Calculatedb SNO- Rate SNO- Rate entry OCT dipole (M−1s−1) OCT dipole (M−1s−1) 1 4 Bn—N3 2.60 × 10−2 6 Me—N3 3.95 × 10−3 2 5 Bn—N3 8.70 × 10−2 (1.30 × 10−1) 5 Me—N3 1.43 × 10−2 (1.40 × 10−2) 3 4 2.70 × 10−1 6 4.75 × 10−2 aExperimental rates determined in CD3CN or 2:1 D2O:CD3CN bGeometries optimized at B97D/6-311 + G(d,p); CPCM solvent model (H2O or CD3CN) Another compelling feature of SNO-OCTs is their preference for reaction with diazoalkanes over azides, highlighting their potential for use in orthogonal reactions. As an ideal computational method should also be capable of predicting orthogonality, we constructed TS models for the reactions of 4 and 6 with azide and diazoacetamide dipoles (Table 5, entries 1 and 3). Despite the fact that computed models were truncated versions of the experimental substrates, the predicted chemo selectivity (12:1) favored the reaction of the methyl diazoacetamide over methyl azide in a ratio of 12:1; this was in excellent agreement with experimental results (10:1). New SNO-OCT derivatives for increasing reaction rate: Halogenated SNO-OCT compounds with the halogen substituent(s) at various positions in the SNO-OCT scaffold were then explored. These modifications were first explored computationally by comparing the Gibbs free energies of activation and predicted reaction rates for a parent SNO-OCT 6 and two proposed difluorinated derivatives 7 and 8 (Table 6) with the 1,3-dipoles methyl diazoacetamide and methyl azide. With all three SNO-OCTs 6-8, computations predict that installation of homopropargylic fluorines in 7 will decrease the reaction rate with both 1,3-dipoles relative to the parent SNO-OCT 6. In contrast, placing the two fluorines at the propargylic carbon in 8 is predicted to increase the rate of its reaction with MeN3 by an order of magnitude as compared to 6. Interestingly, computations also predicted that 8 should be almost 300 times more reactive towards methyl diazoacetamide, as compared to 6. This exciting result shows that the reactivity of the core scaffold can be adjusted to improve reaction rates and to yield purposefully designed pairs of mutually bioorthogonal SNO-OCTs. Gibbs free energies of activation (kcal/mol) and reaction rates for fluorinated SNO-OCTs with Me diazoacetamide and MeN3. 1,3-dipole MeN3 SNO- ΔG‡ k2 ΔG‡ k2 OCT (kcal/mol) (M−1s−1) krelc (kcal/mol) (M−1s−1) krelc 6 20.7 3.95 × 10−3 1.00 19.3 4.75 × 10−2 1.00 7 22.3 2.57 × 10−4 6.51 × 10−2 20.3b 8.27 × 10−3 1.70 × 10−1 8 19.2b 5.28 × 10−2 1.34 × 101 15.9 1.38 × 101 2.91 × 102 aGeometries optimized at B97D/6-311 + G(d,p); CPCM solvent model (H2O). bsyn TS is lowest energy pathway. cRelative rates across all SNO-OCTs for specified dipole. With the difluorinated SNO-OCT 8a in hand, preliminary kinetic studies were carried out (Table 7) and compared to computed and experimental rates of both the parent SNO-OCTs 4 and 6, as well as 8. A rate enhancement of 13-fold was predicted in moving from the parent SNO-OCT 6 (entry 1, right column) to the difluorinated SNO-OCT 8 (entry 3, right column) in reactions with alkyl azides; this was quite similar to the experimental rate enhancement seen in moving from 4 to 8a of 18× (entries 1 and 3 in the left column). A rate enhancement of ˜300-fold was predicted in moving from the parent SNO-OCT 6 (entry 2, right column) to the difluorinated SNO-OCT 8 (entry 4, right column) in reactions with alkyl diazaoacetamides. Experimentally, the rate enhancement in moving from 4 to 8a (entries 2 and 4 in the left column) could not be determined using proton NMR spectroscopy to monitor the progress of the reaction. However, this result suggests that the second order rate constant is likely to be significantly higher ≥1 M−1s−1. These results further stimulated our interest in exploiting the preference for reaction of fluorinated SNO-OCTs with diazoalkanes over their non-fluorinated SNO-OCT counterparts. While orthogonality was also observed for reactions of 4 and 8a with azides, the selectivity appeared to be lower than that predicted for the diazoalkanes. Comparison of experimental and calculated (B97D/6-311 + G(d,p)) rate constants in cycloadditions of SNO-OCTs with azide and diazoacetamide 1,3-dipoles. SNO- Rate SNO- Rate entry OCT dipole (M−1s−1) OCT dipole (M−1s−1) 1 4 Bn—N3 2.60 × 10−2 6 Me—N3 3.95 × 10−3 {open oversize brace} see Table 1 2 4 2.70 × 10−1 6 4.75 × 10−2 3 8a Bn—N3 4.60 × 10−1 8 Me—N3 5.30 × 10−2 4 8a >1M 8 1.38 × 101 aExperimental rates determined in CD3CN bGeometries were optimized at B97D/6-311 + G(d,p); CPCM solvent model (water) The outcome of these SPAAC-type reactions can also be controlled by substituting one or both of the propargylic carbon atoms in the octyne ring with substituents having different potential hydrogen bond donor and acceptor sites. This, for example the electrophilicity of the alkyne moiety can be steadily increased, for example, according to the following series of compounds: The same substituent may also be used at the other propargylic carbon item, for example, In short, the ability to “tune” the alkyne electrophilicity via rationally selected substituents at the propargylic carbon atoms allowed for mutually orthogonal Type 1/Type III cycloadditions. See, for example, Scheme 4: In the top reaction, the left-hand propargylic carbon atom of the octyne ring is unsubstituted. The leftward reaction, with the diazoacetamide, does not occur. The rightward reaction, with the tetrazine, proceeds readily. The exact reverse is true when the left-hand propargylic carbon atom is di-halo substituted, as shown in the bottom reaction of Scheme 4. In the bottom reaction, the left-hand propargylic carbon atom is di-halo substituted. Here, the rightward reaction (with the tetrazine) does not occur. The leftward reaction, though, with the diazoacetamide, proceeds readily. 1. A compound of Formula I: R2 and R2′ hydrogen, halogen, C1-to-C12 linear or branched alkyl, C1-to-C12 linear or branched hydroxyalkyl, C1-to-C12 linear or branched halo-alkyl, carboxy, carboxyalkyl, amido, N-alkylamido, N,N-dialkylamido, carbamoyloxy, N-alkylcarbamoyloxy, and N,N-dialkylcarbamoyloxy, provided that that R2 and R2′ are not simultaneously hydrogen; 2. The compound of claim 1, wherein X is oxygen. 3. The compound of claim 1, wherein X is nitrogen. 4. The compound of claim 1, wherein X is oxygen and at least one of R1 or R1′ is halogen. 5. The compound of claim 4, wherein R1 and R1′ are halogen. 6. The compound of claim 4, wherein at least one of R1 and R1′ are fluorine. 7. The compound of claim 4, wherein R1 and R1′ are fluorine. 8. The compound of claim 4, wherein at least one of R2 and R2′ is C1-to-C12 linear or branched alkyl or C1-to-C12 linear or branched hydroxyalkyl. 9. The compound of claim 4, wherein at least one of R2 and R2′ is C1-to-C12 linear or branched halo-alkyl. 10. The compound of claim 4, wherein at least one of R2 and R2′ is carboxy or carboxyalkyl. 11. The compound of claim 4, wherein at least one of R2 and R2′ is amido, N-alkylamido, N,N-dialkylamido, carbamoyloxy, N-alkylcarbamoyloxy, or N,N-dialkylcarbamoyloxy. 12. The compound of claim 1, wherein X is nitrogen and at least one of R1 or R1′ is halogen. 13. The compound of claim 12, wherein R1 and R1′ are halogen. 14. The compound of claim 12, wherein at least one of R1 and R1′ are fluorine. 15. The compound of claim 12, wherein R1 and R1′ are fluorine. 16. The compound of claim 12, wherein at least one of R2 and R2′ is C1-to-C12 linear or branched alkyl or C1-to-C12 linear or branched hydroxyalkyl. 17. The compound of claim 12, wherein at least one of R2 and R2′ is C1-to-C12 linear or branched halo-alkyl. 18. The compound of claim 12, wherein at least one of R2 and R2′ is carboxy or carboxyalkyl. 19. The compound of claim 12, wherein at least one of R2 and R2′ is amido, N-alkylamido, N,N-dialkylamido, carbamoyloxy, N-alkylcarbamoyloxy, or N,N-dialkylcarbamoyloxy. 20. The compound of claim 12, wherein R4 is H. 21. The compound of claim 12, wherein R4 is C1-to-C12 linear or branched alkyl. 22. Compounds of claim 12, wherein R4 is a nitrogen protecting group. 23. A method of forming chemical bonds, the method comprising reacting a first compound of Formula I: when X is nitrogen, R4 is selected from H, C1-to-C12 linear or branched alkyl, and nitrogen protecting groups; with a second compound comprising a 1,3-dipole, in a 1,3-cycloaddition reaction. Burke. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017, 139, 8029-37 (Year: 2017). Baskin, J. M.; Bertozzi, C. R. (2007) “Bioorthogonal Click Chemistry: Covalent Labeling in Living Systems,” QSAR Comb. Sci. 26:1211-1219. 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Spiteri, Christian; Moses, John E. (2010) “Copper-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cyclo addition: Regioselective Synthesis of 1,4,5-Trisubstituted 1,2,3-Triazoles,” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 49(1):31-33. Filed: Feb 25, 2019 Date of Patent: Jun 9, 2020 Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, WI) Inventors: Jennifer M. Schomaker (Madison, WI), Eileen G. Burke (Somerville, MA) Primary Examiner: Noble E Jarrell International Classification: C07D 291/02 (20060101);	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1187
__label__wiki	0.687954	0.687954	Justia Patents Bearing Or Air-gap Adjustment Or Bearing LubricationUS Patent for Laterally unconstrained magnetic joint for tip tilt and piston-tip-tilt mounts Patent (Patent # 10,830,988) Laterally unconstrained magnetic joint for tip tilt and piston-tip-tilt mounts Sep 9, 2018 - Light Steering Technologies, LLC The subject of this invention is a laterally unconstrained magnetic joint and application of said joint in tip-tilt and piston-tip-tilt optical mounts. The laterally unconstrained magnetic joint in its basic embodiment comprises two interfacing parts: one having a flat surface interfacing a convex surface of the other, wherein one or both parts are made from permanent magnets that are magnetized along the axis of the joint, and the other of the said parts is made from a ferromagnetic material thus creating magnetic force attraction between the two parts. The resulting lack of lateral mechanical constraint between the two parts of the joint is utilized in tip-tilt mounts by decoupling an adjustor and/or actuator from the payload resulting in a simple, uniform design, while magnetic force provides retention sufficient for a wide variety of applications. Latest Light Steering Technologies, LLC Patents: Magnetic joint and optical mount using the same This disclosure relates generally to the mounting and positioning of optical components, and in particular to mounting and positioning of a mirror or other optical component requiring tip-tilt or piston-tip-tilt adjustments. Optical systems require accuracy and stability in positioning of optical components and in many cases said components must have adjustment capabilities to achieve system performance. In particular, system alignment is often achieved via “pointing adjustment” of reflective components such as mirrors, using mounts with two rotational degrees of freedom around axes perpendicular to reflective surface normal, often termed “tip-tilt”. Conventional approaches for mirror mounting and adjustment include kinematic mounts, flexure mounts, and gimbal mounts. These mounts are often complex and require precision machining. The optical element is usually mounted in a flame putting metal surfaces in close proximity to the retained optic, which can be undesirable in high power laser applications. The additional weight of an optical element retainer makes conventional mounts ill-suited for applications requiring rapid adjustments, such as fast steering mirrors. Therefore, a need exists for a novel approach to adjustable mirror mount that would address the drawbacks of conventional approaches. Furthermore, a simpler, more compact design and lower cost are the attributes which are always in demand. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION This invention comprises a novel method and apparatus for implementing a flexible magnetic joint and application of said flexible magnetic joint in tip-tilt and piston-tip-tilt optical mounts. The invention employs a magnetic joint which, in its basic embodiment, consists of two interfacing parts: one having a flat surface interfacing a convex surface of the other. One or both parts of the magnetic joint are made from permanent magnets which are magnetized along the axis of the joint, or one of the parts is made from a ferromagnetic material thus creating magnetic force attraction between the two parts. Unlike conventional magnetic joints which utilize matching spherical surfaces and only allowing three rotational degrees of freedom, the magnetic joint of this invention does not mechanically constrain the translational degrees of freedom perpendicular to the joint axis. This feature of the magnetic joint of this invention is critical to its application to tip-tilt mounts. When travel of actuators in a tip-tilt mount is constrained to parallel axes, the distance between points defining the plane of an optical element or its holder is not constant. The magnetic joint of this invention allows for simple, uniform design where the optical element or its mount are decoupled from actuators through the lack of lateral mechanical constraint between the two joint components, while magnetic force provides retention sufficient for wide variety of applications. Embodiments of the present invention are illustrated as examples and are not limited by the figures of the accompanied drawings, in which like reference may indicate similar elements and in which: FIG. 1 depicts a perspective view of the basic embodiment of the laterally unconstrained magnetic joint and its degrees of freedom. FIG. 2 shows perspective views with quarter sections of possible embodiments of the laterally unconstrained magnetic joint. FIG. 3 shows a perspective view of an example of a mirror mount embodiment with side section views of the possible laterally unconstrained magnetic joint embodiments. FIG. 4 shows perspective views of possible laterally unconstrained magnetic joint arrangements when used in mirror mount embodiments The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to limit the invention. The term “and/or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items. The singular forms “a”, “an”, and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well as singular forms, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms “comprises” and/or “comprising”, when used in this specification, indicate the presence of stated features, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, elements, components, and/or groups thereof. The present disclosure is to be considered as an exemplification of the invention, and is not intended to limit the invention to the specific embodiments illustrated by figures or description below. The present invention will now be described by referencing the appended figures representing preferred embodiments. FIG. 1 depicts a perspective view of the basic embodiment of the laterally unconstrained magnetic joint (the “joint”). The joint consists of two components 21 and 22 interfacing each other: one component 22 having a flat interface surface, and the other component 21 having a convex interface surface. One embodiment of the joint comprises both components 21 and 22 made from a permanent magnet material magnetized in the same direction along the joint axis 31. Another embodiment of the joint comprises one component made from a permanent magnet material and another from a ferromagnetic material. In both cases there is a magnetic force attracting the two components of the joint together along the joint axis 31 as shown in FIG. 1.a). By the nature of the interface between the flat and the convex surface the two components 21 and 22 of the joint are free to move laterally as shown in FIG. 1.b). While in most embodiments, the convex surface is expected to be spherical, any other continuous convex surface which allows desired range of tip-tilt motion is within the scope and spirit of this invention. For all possible geometries of the two joint components 21 and 22, there will be a position of one relative to another when the lateral magnetic forces are at equilibrium. For rotationally symmetric embodiments, this condition is satisfied, gravity and other forces not considered, when the symmetry axes of each component are collinear. Lateral displacement 32, 33 of the two components 21 and 22 relative to each other results in magnetic force towards the said equilibrium condition thus providing retention within the joint. The joint is free to articulate within all three rotational degrees of freedom, the two of which 34 and 35 are around the axes perpendicular to the joint axis 31. The articulation 34 and 35 as shown in FIG. 1.c) is limited by the extent of the convex surface of the joint component 21. Examples of the joint embodiments are depicted in FIG. 2. The basic joint embodiment as described in previous paragraphs is shown in FIG. 2.a). FIG. 2.b) depicts an example of embodiment where the joint interface surfaces are concave and convex with convex having a greater curvature so that lateral motion of the joint is permitted. In general, this invention covers embodiments of any surface pair configuration that permits lateral motion between the two joint components 21 and 22. In another embodiment the joint may have a component 23 as shown in FIG. 2.c) that improves bearing properties of the joint. Such component 23 may float between the two joint components 21 and 22, be attached to one of the joint components, or be a surface coating of either or both joint components 21 and 22. In another embodiment the joint may include ferromagnetic fluid (“ferrofluid”) 24 as shown in FIG. 2.d), which can be used to increase the magnetic force attracting the two joint components together, and/or improve the bearing properties by lubricating the interfacing surfaces of the joint. An example of a mirror mount embodiment utilizing the laterally unconstrained magnetic joint (“mount”) is depicted in FIG. 3. The mount would utilize three joints 11 arranged in any configuration other than a line, thus defining a plane with three points in space. On one side, all three joints 11 would interface a mirror, mirror mount, or any other type of payload 12. This interface can have numerous embodiments, which are outside of the scope of this invention. On the other side of the joint, an embodiment of an optical mount providing piston-tip-tilt functionality would have all three joints 11 interfacing an adjustor or linear actuator 13; and an embodiment of an optical mount providing tip-tilt functionality would have two joints 11 interfacing an adjustor or linear actuator 13, while the third joint 11 will be statically attached to a reference point. Embodiment of adjustors and linear actuators 13 is outside of the scope of this invention and can be any combination of manual or motorized types including but not limited to: screws, fine-pitch screws, micrometers, differential screws, piezo actuators, leadscrews, ball-screws, roller screws, rack and pinions, chain drives, belt drives, hydraulic, pneumatic, voice-coils, linear drives, etc. While most embodiments are expected to have the adjustors and linear actuators 13 act along parallel axes, other embodiments may have different configurations. As long as such embodiments utilize the laterally unconstrained magnetic joint as described by this invention to decouple the adjustment and/or actuation mechanism from the mirror, mirror mount, or any other type of payload, they are within the scope and spirit of this invention Examples of embodiments of an actuator 13—joint 11 arrangements within a mount are shown in FIG. 4. Equilateral triangle arrangement shown in FIG. 4.a) provides symmetrical mounting of the payload, equalizing the forces seen by joints 11 under uniform operating conditions. The drawback of equilateral arrangement is non-orthogonal actuation during adjustment. Orthogonal arrangement depicted in FIG. 4.b) is functionally equivalent to conventional tip-tilt mounts which utilize cone, groove, and flat constraint systems. Another embodiment shown in FIG. 4.c) is close functional equivalent of gimbal mounts, which minimize path length variation during adjustment. Although this invention has been illustrated and described herein with reference to preferred embodiments and specific examples thereof, it will be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that other embodiments and examples may perform similar functions and/or achieve like results. All such equivalent embodiments and examples are within the spirit and scope of this invention, are contemplated thereby, and are intended to be covered by the following claims. 1. A laterally unconstrained magnetic joint comprising: a first part comprising a first permanent magnet material, and a second part comprising a second permanent magnet or a ferromagnetic material, wherein the first part and the second part interface by interface surfaces of different curvature permitting lateral translation of the first part relative to the second part, wherein the first part and the second part are attracted to one another by the means of magnetic force along a joint axis intersecting the interface surfaces, and are otherwise free to articulate relative to each other within the constraints of said interface surfaces. 2. The laterally unconstrained magnetic joint of claim 1 further comprising: an interface component disposed between the interface surfaces of the first part and the second part, wherein the interface component improves one or more bearing properties of the joint interface. 3. The laterally unconstrained magnetic joint of claim 1 further comprising: a part or parts encapsulating one or both interface surfaces of the first part and the second part, wherein the part or parts improve one or more bearing properties of the interface surfaces. 4. The laterally unconstrained magnetic joint of claim 1 further comprising: a ferromagnetic fluid between the interface surfaces, wherein said fluid enhances the magnetic force between the two articulating sides of the joint, or improves one or more bearing properties of the interface surfaces. 5. A mount comprising: a. a payload, b. three (3) laterally unconstrained magnetic joints of claim 1, c. a reference body, and d. one (1) to three (3) adjustment means, wherein the laterally unconstrained magnetic joints are arranged in a pattern that does not form a line, the adjustment means are applied to adjust one (1), two (2), or three (3) of the laterally unconstrained magnetic joints relative to the reference body, and the rest of the joints, if any, are statically attached to the reference body. 6. The mount of claim 5 further comprising a ferromagnetic fluid disposed between interface surfaces of each of the three laterally unconstrained magnetic joints. 7. The laterally unconstrained magnetic joint of claim 2, wherein the interface component includes at least one of (i) a surface coating on the first part, (ii) a surface coating on the second part, and (iii) a ferrofluid between the interface surfaces. 8. The laterally unconstrained magnetic joint of claim 1, wherein the joint axis is perpendicular to the interface surfaces. 9. The laterally unconstrained magnetic joint of claim 1, wherein the second part comprises the second permanent magnet. 10. The laterally unconstrained magnetic joint of claim 9, wherein the first permanent magnet is magnetized along a first axis extending through the first part, the second permanent magnet is magnetized along a second axis extending through the second part, and the magnetic joint is biased towards an equilibrium position in which the first axis, the second axis, and the joint axis are collinear. 11. The laterally unconstrained magnetic joint of claim 10, wherein the first axis is a first axis of symmetry and the second axis is a second axis of symmetry. 12. The laterally unconstrained magnetic joint of claim 10, wherein when the first part is laterally displaced relative to the second part, a magnetic force biases the magnetic joint towards the equilibrium position. 13. The laterally unconstrained magnetic joint of claim 1, wherein the first part has a planar first interface surface and the second part has a convex second interface surface. 14. The laterally unconstrained magnetic joint of claim 13, wherein the convex second interface surface is hemispherical. 15. A magnetic joint comprising: a first part having a first interface surface and comprising a permanent magnet magnetized along a first axis intersecting the first interface surface; and a second part comprising a ferromagnetic material and a second interface in point contact with the first interface surface, wherein an interface of the first interface surface and the second interface surface permits lateral translation of the first part relative to the second part, and wherein the first part and the second part are attracted to one another by the means of magnetic force along a joint axis intersecting the first interface surface and the second interface surface. 16. The magnetic joint of claim 15, wherein one of the first interface surface and the second interface surface is planar and the other of the first interface surface and the second interface surface is convex. 17. The magnetic joint of claim 16, wherein the permanent magnet is a first permanent magnet and wherein the second part comprises a second permanent magnet magnetized along a second axis intersecting the second interface surface. 18. The magnetic joint of claim 17, wherein the first axis is a first axis of rotational symmetry and the second axis is a second axis of rotational symmetry. 19. The magnetic joint of claim 17, wherein the magnetic joint is biased towards an equilibrium position in which the first axis, the second axis, and the joint axis are collinear. 20. The magnetic joint of claim 15 further comprising a surface coating on one or both of the first interface surface and the second interface surface, the surface coating configured to improve bearing properties of the joint relative to the first interface surface and the second interface surface without the surface coating. 5550669 August 27, 1996 Patel 5821655 October 13, 1998 Tokushima 6566992 May 20, 2003 Vicentelli 6856437 February 15, 2005 Witt et al. 8043513 October 25, 2011 Milanovic et al. 20030106230 June 12, 2003 Hennessey 20150369418 December 24, 2015 Wong 20180095223 April 5, 2018 Wiley et al. 20190086634 March 21, 2019 Krylov 105587757 May 2016 CN 2816723 December 2014 EP 3007499 December 2014 FR 2007-032595 February 2007 JP 2008044229 April 2008 WO C. Belly et al., “Long Stroke/High Resolution Tip Tilt Mechanism”, Actuator, 14th International Conference on New Actuators, Jun. 2014, Bremen, Germany, 3 pages. PCT Search Report and Written Opinion for PCT Application No. PCT/US2019/021286, dated Nov. 18, 2019, 15 pages. Filed: Sep 9, 2018 Date of Patent: Nov 10, 2020 Assignee: Light Steering Technologies, LLC (Hooksett, NH) Inventor: Vladimir G. Krylov (Brookline, NH) Primary Examiner: Euncha P Cherry Current U.S. Class: Bearing Or Air-gap Adjustment Or Bearing Lubrication (310/90) International Classification: G02B 26/08 (20060101); G02B 7/182 (20060101); G02B 7/198 (20060101); F16C 11/04 (20060101); G03F 7/20 (20060101); G02B 7/00 (20060101);	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1188
__label__cc	0.558466	0.441534	Treatment and Medication Try our Symptom Checker Got any other symptoms? MEDICINES AND DRUGS View all Medicines and Drugs TREATMENT FOR TOOLS AND TESTS Am I Depressed? PRO ARTICLES Osmolality Haemorrhagic Fevers Abdominal Pain in Children Subdural Haematoma Obesity in Adults View all Pro Articles PHQ-9 GAD-7 6CIT GPCOG View all Medical Calculators Upgrade to Patient Pro Medical Professional? Manage Notes Authored by Dr Colin Tidy, Reviewed by Dr Laurence Knott \| Last edited 23 Sep 2020 \| Meets Patient’s editorial guidelines This article is for Medical Professionals Professional Reference articles are designed for health professionals to use. They are written by UK doctors and based on research evidence, UK and European Guidelines. You may find the Endometriosis article more useful, or one of our other health articles. Treatment of almost all medical conditions has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. NICE has issued rapid update guidelines in relation to many of these. This guidance is changing frequently. Please visit https://www.nice.org.uk/covid-19 to see if there is temporary guidance issued by NICE in relation to the management of this condition, which may vary from the information given below. Endometriosis is a chronic oestrogen-dependent condition characterised by the growth of endometrial tissue in sites other than the uterine cavity, most commonly the pelvic cavity (including the ovaries), the uterosacral ligaments, the pouch of Douglas, the rectosigmoid colon, and the bladder and distal ureter. Other sites are rarely involved but include the umbilicus, scar sites (eg, following caesarean section and laparoscopy), the pleura and pericardium, and the central nervous system. Adenomyosis is the invasion of the myometrium by endometrial tissue. Extrauterine endometrial tissue causes inflammation, pain and the formation of adhesions. Clinically its significance is as a cause of chronic pelvic pain, dyspareunia and female infertility[1]. Coronavirus: how quickly do COVID-19 symptoms develop and how long do they last? COVID-19: how to treat coronavirus at home Coronavirus: what are asymptomatic and mild COVID-19? Coronavirus: what are moderate, severe and critical COVID-19? Quiz: Am I depressed? How to make small healthy changes to your diet without dieting Quiz: Am I pregnant? What your vaginal odour could mean Are the new COVID-19 swab tests accurate? What causes vaginal odour after sex? Quiz: Do I have OCD? What you need to know about post-viral fatigue What are the rules for the January 2021 national lockdown? Gallstones diet sheet The best way to treat a herpes outbreak Why you constantly need to pee What’s causing your pelvic pain? Quiz: Do I have diabetes? How to treat constipation and hard-to-pass stools Is it safe to delay your period for your holiday? 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The prevalence of endometriosis in women with infertility is about 30-50%. Risk factors include: an early menarche, late menopause, late first sexual encounter, delayed childbearing and nulliparity. Obstruction to vaginal outflow - eg, hydrocolpos, female genital mutilation or defects in the uterus or Fallopian tubes. Genetic factors: Risk for first-degree relatives of women with severe endometriosis is six times higher than that for relatives of unaffected women. Familial aggregation has been shown in clinical and population-based samples and in twin studies[3]. Other risk factors include white ethnicity, low body mass index (BMI) and smoking. Aetiology[1] The exact cause of endometriosis is unknown. It is thought that endometriosis may develop as a result of a combination of the following possible theories/factors: Retrograde menstruation: endometrial cells flow backwards from the uterine cavity, through the Fallopian tubes, and implant on pelvic organs. Lymphatic or circulatory dissemination: it has been suggested that endometriotic tissue may also be able to travel to distant sites (such as the lungs, eyes, and brain) through the lymphatic system or in the bloodstream. Genetic predisposition. Metaplasia: cells in the pelvic and abdominal area change into endometrial-type cells. of the germinal epithelium. Environmental factors: this theory suggests that certain environmental toxins can affect the body, immune system, and reproductive system and cause endometriosis. Immune dysfunction: many women with endometriosis appear to have reduced immunity to other conditions. Common symptoms include: Dysmenorrhoea. Dyspareunia. Cyclical or chronic pelvic pain. Subfertility. Other symptoms may include bloating, lethargy, constipation and low back pain. Less common symptoms include cyclical rectal bleeding, menorrhagia, diarrhoea and haematuria. The clinical presentation is variable, with some women experiencing several severe symptoms and others having no symptoms at all. The severity of symptoms tends to increase with age. Women with endometriosis may have no symptoms and be diagnosed incidentally or during investigations for infertility. The appearance or worsening of symptoms at the time of menstruation, or just prior to it, suggests endometriosis. Other symptoms include lower urinary tract symptoms (eg, dysuria), painful defecation, abdominal pain, backache, menstrual irregularity, and cyclical pain or bleeding (eg, epistaxis, haemoptysis) at extrapelvic sites. Examination is often normal. However, there may be: Posterior fornix or adnexal tenderness. Palpable nodules in the posterior fornix or adnexal masses (endometriosis can cause cystic lesions on the ovaries, known as 'chocolate cysts'). Bluish haemorrhagic nodules visible in the posterior fornix. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends abdominal and pelvic examination for women with suspected endometriosis to identify abdominal masses and pelvic signs, such as reduced organ mobility and enlargement, tender nodularity in the posterior vaginal fornix, and visible vaginal endometriotic lesions. If a pelvic examination is not appropriate, offer an abdominal examination to exclude abdominal masses[4]. Pelvic inflammatory disease. Ectopic pregnancy. Torsion of an ovarian cyst. Appendicitis. Primary dysmenorrhoea. Irritable bowel syndrome. Uterine fibroids. Urinary tract infection. For a definitive diagnosis of most forms of endometriosis, laparoscopy is the gold standard investigation but it is invasive with a small risk of major complications - eg, bowel perforation[3]. Symptoms and laparoscopic appearance do not always correlate. Transvaginal ultrasound scanning appears to be a useful test, both to make and to exclude the diagnosis of an ovarian endometrioma[3]. MRI scan may be a useful non-invasive tool in diagnosis, especially for subperitoneal deposits. CA 125 measurement has limited value as a screening test or diagnostic test[3]. In an acute setting, blood tests (eg, FBC), urinalysis and MC&S, cervical swabs (MC&S, chlamydia testing) and beta human chorionic gonadotrophin (beta-hCG) may be helpful in excluding some important differentials. The NICE guidelines for the management of endometriosis advise on recognition of symptoms and diagnosis, as well as treatments for symptom control and when a couple are trying to conceive[4]: Transvaginal ultrasound can be used to investigate suspected endometriosis even if the pelvic and/or abdominal examination is normal and also to identify endometriomas and deep endometriosis involving the bowel, bladder or ureter. Pelvic MRI should not be used as the primary investigation to diagnose endometriosis in women with symptoms or signs suggestive of endometriosis. However, it might be used to assess the extent of deep endometriosis involving the bowel, bladder or ureter. When pelvic MRI scans are used in assessment of pelvic pain symptoms, they should be interpreted by a healthcare professional with specialist expertise in gynaecological imaging. Management[5, 6] The treatment of endometriosis is usually individually based, depending on the nature and severity of symptoms and the need for future fertility. Medical treatment may reduce symptoms in 80-90% of patients but none of the treatment options has been shown to reduce recurrence of symptoms once treatment has stopped[3]. Suppression of ovarian function for at least six months is the basis for most medical treatment, and the options include the combined oral contraceptive (COC) pill, medroxyprogesterone acetate and gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist. The levonorgestrel intrauterine system has been shown to be effective even after three years of use. Surgical options include removing severe and deeply infiltrating lesions (which may reduce pain related to endometriosis), ovarian cystectomy (for endometriomas), adhesiolysis and bilateral oophorectomy (often with a hysterectomy). NICE recommends that the evidence for uterine artery embolisation for treating adenomyosis shows that the procedure is effective for symptom relief in the short and medium term and there are no major safety concerns[7]. Management may also include pain management specialists and clinical psychologists. For pain, the general principle is to create a pseudo-pregnancy or pseudo-menopause, whilst the treatment of infertility requires a different approach. For laparoscopically confirmed disease, suppression of ovarian function for six months reduces endometriosis-associated pain. Effective hormonal drugs include the COC pill, danazol, oral or depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, the levonorgestrel intrauterine system and GnRH analogues. Approximately 80-85% of patients improve with treatment. Ablation of endometrioid lesions reduces endometriosis-associated pain. The smallest effect is seen in patients with minimal disease. Drugs[8] Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (eg, naproxen) may be effective in reducing the pain associated with endometriosis, although the evidence to date is inconclusive[9]. Paracetamol, with or without added codeine, is an alternative. If there is no evidence of a pelvic mass on examination, there may be a role for a therapeutic trial of a COC pill (monthly or tricycling) or a progestogen to treat pain symptoms suggestive of endometriosis, without a diagnostic laparoscopy first. Danazol is effective in treating endometriosis but its use is limited by androgenic side-effects[10]. GnRH analogues (GnRH agonists) appear to be effective at relieving pain associated with endometriosis[11]. GnRH agonist therapy given for three months may be as effective as treatment given for six months in relieving endometriosis-associated pain. If longer or repeated treatment is required, GnRH agonist use can be extended with 'add-back' therapy (a low-dose oestrogen, progestogen or tibolone to relieve menopausal side-effects and prevent bone loss)[3]. NICE recommends to consider referring women to a gynaecology service for an ultrasound scan or gynaecology opinion if[4]: They have severe, persistent or recurrent symptoms of endometriosis. They have pelvic signs of endometriosis. Initial management is not effective, is not tolerated or is contra-indicated. Laparoscopic excision or ablation at the time of diagnostic laparoscopy. The main conservative surgical techniques performed by laparoscopy are thermal or laser ablation, excision, ovarian cystectomy and denervation procedures[1]. Hysterectomy with salpingo-oophorectomy is reserved for women as a last resort. Laparoscopic surgery has been shown to reduce pelvic pain when compared to diagnostic laparoscopy alone[12]. Medical treatment for endometriosis should be avoided for women who are trying to conceive[3]. In minimal-mild endometriosis, suppression of ovarian function to improve fertility is not effective but ablation of endometrioid lesions plus adhesiolysis is effective compared to diagnostic laparoscopy alone. The use of laparoscopic surgery in the treatment of subfertility related to minimal and mild endometriosis may improve future fertility[13]. There is insufficient evidence available to determine whether surgical excision of moderate-to-severe endometriosis enhances pregnancy rates. In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is appropriate treatment, especially if there are co-existing causes of infertility and/or other treatments have failed[14]. A review found an association between endometriosis and some histological subtypes of ovarian cancer[15]: Endometriosis was associated with a significantly increased risk of clear-cell, low-grade serous and endometrioid invasive ovarian cancers. No association was noted between endometriosis and risk of mucinous or high-grade serous invasive ovarian cancer, or borderline tumours of either subtype. Infertility: moderate-to-severe endometriosis can cause tubal damage leading to infertility. Lesser degrees of endometriosis, even in the absence of any obvious tubal damage, are also associated with subfertility and increased risk of ectopic pregnancy. Adhesion formation may occur due to the endometriosis or following surgery. Women with endometriosis have an increased risk of inflammatory bowel disease[16]. Prognosis[1] The prognosis is variable. It is unclear whether endometriosis is always progressive, remains stable, or improves with time. Endometriosis can be a chronic disease affecting women throughout their reproductive lives, and sometimes beyond the menopause. For the majority of women, symptoms can be controlled with hormonal treatment. Some women have complex needs and require long-term support. Studies in untreated women with infertility suggest that endometriotic deposits can spontaneously regress in up to 30% of women, and progress is around 50% over 6-12 months. Recurrence after surgery ranges from 10-50% at one year and increases over time. Are you protected against flu? See if you are eligible for a free NHS flu jab today. Join our weekly wellness digest from the best health experts in the business Please enter a valid email address. By clicking ‘Join now’ you agree to our Terms and conditions and Privacy policy. Further reading and references Endometriosis UK Endometriosis; NICE CKS, February 2020 (UK access only) Mehedintu C, Plotogea MN, Ionescu S, et al; Endometriosis still a challenge. J Med Life. 2014 Sep 157(3):349-57. Epub 2014 Sep 25. Management of women with endometriosis; European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (Sept 2013). Endometriosis: diagnosis and management; NICE Guidelines (Sept 2017) Engemise S, Gordon C, Konje JC; Endometriosis. BMJ. 2010 Jun 23340:c2168. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c2168. Brown J, Farquhar C; Endometriosis: an overview of Cochrane Reviews. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2014 Mar 103:CD009590. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009590.pub2. Uterine artery embolisation for treating adenomyosis; NICE Interventional Procedure Guidance, Dec 2013 Zito G, Luppi S, Giolo E, et al; Medical treatments for endometriosis-associated pelvic pain. Biomed Res Int. 20142014:191967. doi: 10.1155/2014/191967. Epub 2014 Aug 7. Brown J, Crawford T, Allen C, et al; Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for pain in women with endometriosis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2017 Jan 231(1):CD004753. Ferrero S, Remorgida V, Venturini PL; Endometriosis. Clin Evid (Online). 2010 Aug 132010. pii: 0802. Brown J, Pan A, Hart RJ; Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues for pain associated with endometriosis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010 Dec 8(12):CD008475. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008475.pub2. Jacobson TZ, Duffy JM, Barlow D, et al; Laparoscopic surgery for pelvic pain associated with endometriosis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009 Oct 7(4):CD001300. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001300.pub2. Jacobson TZ, Duffy JM, Barlow D, et al; Laparoscopic surgery for subfertility associated with endometriosis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010 Jan 20(1):CD001398. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001398.pub2. Surrey ES; Endometriosis-Related Infertility: The Role of the Assisted Reproductive Technologies. Biomed Res Int. 20152015:482959. doi: 10.1155/2015/482959. Epub 2015 Jul 9. Pearce CL, Templeman C, Rossing MA, et al; Association between endometriosis and risk of histological subtypes of ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of case-control studies. Lancet Oncol. 2012 Apr13(4):385-94. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(11)70404-1. Epub 2012 Feb 22. Jess T, Frisch M, Jorgensen KT, et al; Increased risk of inflammatory bowel disease in women with endometriosis: a nationwide Danish cohort study. Gut. 2012 Sep61(9):1279-83. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2011-301095. Epub 2011 Dec 19. Danazol (Danol) Combined hormonal contraceptives Goserelin implant (Zoladex/Zoladex LA) Norethisterone for painful or heavy periods (Primolut N, Utovlan) I had sex on December 13th and my friend finished inside of me, but with a condom on. I hadn't had sex in almost a year and I got nervous and took Plan B within 10 hours. On December 20th, he and I... Join the discussion on the forums Feeling unwell? Assess your symptoms online with our free symptom checker. Start symptom checker Last Reviewed 23 September 2020 Next Review 22 September 2025 Document ID 2097 (v26) Author Dr Colin Tidy Peer reviewer Dr Laurence Knott The information on this page is written and peer reviewed by qualified clinicians. Disclaimer: This article is for information only and should not be used for the diagnosis or treatment of medical conditions. 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__label__cc	0.717353	0.282647	← Waiting for the Trolley The Rice President’s House → Friday Afternoon Follies Total mayhem, 1960. You need to click on these to really see what’s going on. What’s coming from up there? Someone’s on the roof. The empire strikes back. These pictures came in the mail last week but the sender refuses to answer any questions, citing the long statute of limitations on goofiness. If anyone else would like to testify about this bizarre sequence of events, though, please let me know. I can’t claim to really understand what this is all about. 16 Responses to Friday Afternoon Follies C Kelly says: These old-timers get excellent marks for enthusiasm, but average ones for ingenuity. (They must have been ‘academes.’) In my day (just a few years later than these pictures), we used 2-by-4s as supports for the surgical tubing – thereby creating a real big, accurate sling-shot. We also shot ‘mystery meat’ & ‘hockey pucks’ at Will Rice. I’m sure there’s still some crust on the upper windows that were hard to wash. Furthermore, some of my confreres would get their baseball gloves & try to catch water balloons shot back at us in Lovett College. Of course, the balloons broke on contact, but we counted lots of coup if someone made a good catch. Oh, those were the days. Hanszenite says: This is taking place at Hanszen and the college system would have been in place by 1960. As such, there might be something in Hanszen’s own archives about this. We’re placing an emphasis next year about getting back to our history and we’ve been doing a lot of digging… Richard Miller says: During my years, the Hanszen/Weiss baloon wars reach a climax in the fall of 1972. (The first year that Dr. Stephan Baker was master). Up until then, the practice was to add up the damager from broken windows and the like and pay out of the college funds. That fall a certain person (again naming no names) started using frozen ballons and one memorable night (after Dr. Baker had mentioned things were getting a bit out of control) he showed up at dinner annoucing he had just broken 10-2o windows. I think the colleges put halt to it when the clay tiles on Weiss started getting broken to the tune of around $1,000 – $2,000 which was serious money in those days If you are digging, look to see if there are any records still around of the graffiti left when old Hanszen was renovated and it was announced that the women were going to get the tower the next year. This did not go over well since the tower was conidered to be the premium space @ Hanszen and there was a bunch of resentment over the ‘newcomers’ getting the ‘best space’ . When the residents vacated in the spring, they started the demolition process as well as decorating the walls with ‘well wishes’ to the new residents. I think this would be around 1975 since that was the summer the commons burned (with all of the stored furniture) Thanks so much for all of your insight – there’re quite a few curious Hanszenites who will be searching for said graffiti now… Melissa Kean says: I’d like to hear more about this–I’ve never heard it mentioned before. You could send me an email if you’d rather not post it for the entire world! kean@rice.edu Joseph Lockett ('91) says: By later times, I believe, these home-built catapults were known as “gazilchers” (that may be a phonetic spelling) and eventually were suppressed by the administration after they began causing property damage. Evidently the ammunition graduated from eggs and citrus fruit to chunks of peanut butter and even, in one disturbing bit of creativity, liquid-nitrogen-frozen lab mice which shattered on impact. Students more endowed with energy than forethought punched a few holes in residential college walls — and, in one case, an athletic team pulling surgical tubing attached to some goalposts evidently managed to loft a golf ball through an upper-floor office window in the Medical Center…. I can’t claim to have witnessed any of the above in person; it comes from conversations with older alumni, so I recommend at least a few grains of salt. Lisa Childs says: Gazilchers were still prevalent when I was there. Weiss ’87. (1st class of co-eds at Weiss.) Those sure look like gazilchers to me. Gloria Meckel Tarpley '81 says: Yes, those were what we called gazilchers — they were most often used to launch projectiles among what are now known as the South Colleges, and the gazilcher wars often went on late into the night (along with the yelling wars). One choice object for flight was an individual sized carton of Dannon Yogurt (probably 6-8 ounces, I’d guess?) from the commons — they were a popular choice at breakfast and lunch at that time. I was at Rice from ’77 to ’81, and the gazilcher wars were alive and well, and it now appears they had begun at least as early as 1960. Those were the days, indeed….. None of that went on in my own college, Brown, which was all-female at the time — although I’m sure there must have been some thought about taking on Jones (also all girls at the time) in a gazilcher battle. We had other raids, instead……. John "Grungy" Gladu says: Gzilcher Some balloons were less pleasant – urine, butyric acid, etc. Bill Free WRC '65 says: Yes, this definitely is Hanszen at their “finest.” However, while I lived on campus ’61-63 the Hanszen “gentlemen” rarely won a gazilcher battle with Will Rice men (only males need {permanently} reside therein at that time.) We even caused a few abandonments of the Hanszen tower water balloonists by our superb marksmanship from the ground below. High grade hospital tubing was often purloinable from across the boulevard. Even my wife, who did not attend Rice, knew what these pictures depicted. Springtime and campus minds turned to fancy, and it was too far to trek to Jones for entertainment on a study break…yes, those were the days of “cloistering” of the TRGs. By my time, I think very rarely did Hanzen and Will Rice go at it. Hanzen primarily battled Weiss. By that point both Lovett and Sid Richardson were the foes of Will Rice. I remember seeing some very spirited battles between Will Rice and Sid Rich (thing about the height advantage) and I believe Lovett and Will Rice also had some epic battles. This doesn’t still go on, does it? Unfortunately not (we ironically just had a joint tailgate with Will Rice last weekend). But all of this talk has this Hanszenite wanting to bring this back (we’re bringing back the Gentlemen’s Dinners) so I’m sure you’ll hear about it if it does come back… Those were ending by my time. My freshman year we still had Sunday tie rule. I do recall one memorable sunday when two Hanzenites showed up in their ties (only) arguing that there was nothing in the dress code that mandated they had to have any other clothing. CW McCullagh says: If I recall, possession of one in the early 2000s was a rusticatable offense. That said, my roommate had one (no doubt inspired by his dad’s 1970s Hanszen antics) and we often snuck on the roof of the Will Rice commons to launch week-old oranges at Lovett during Willy Week (sometimes accidentally clearing Lovett all together and flying well into the Allen Center parking lot) Michael Lecclier says: This tradition continued well into the late 90’s in clandestine/secret society fashion. AS I SEEM TO RECALL……….there were a couple of underclassmen in the late 90’s that used to load up on ammunition from the Commons at Jones, sneak onto the roof of Jones South, and ‘gazilch’ (NOUN trans. VERB) food rounds at the unsuspecting Brown proletarians. On one such occasion, a fifth floor window at Brown imploded from a extremely “aged”, rock-hard bagel that was standard fare. I’m not sure if the end result or the quality of Rice food was more shocking.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1193
__label__wiki	0.596052	0.596052	Home A&E Theater Screwball Sitcom Screwball Sitcom For its latest production Spiral Theatre has moved to its third location so far this season. And while the performance space at Bucketworks’ new location has all the emotional warmth of a warehouse or an aircraft hangar, it has much better acoustics than their old performance space in the old Mandel building. Spiral Theatre brings an endearing degree of warmth to the new space with it’s production of the 1994 Charles Busch comedy You Should Be So Lucky. The type of show that has been described as a “screwball comedy,” You Should Be So Lucky comes across as something like the lost pilot episode of a particularly bizarre and zany TV sitcom that never got picked-up. Director Mark Hooker stars as Christopher, a down-on-his-luck electrologist operating out of a run-down apartment with inconsistent electrical service. Christopher’s luck begins to change as he helps out a wealthy Jewish gentleman named Rosenberg (Terry Gavin). Just as Rosenberg begins to express interest in becoming Christopher’s first client in months, the electrologist’s sister, Polly, drops by to announce that she’s moving in. Polly (Jenna Wetzel) is a struggling actress with an overdeveloped sense of the dramatic. She has been kicked out of her lover’s apartment and is without a place to stay. In spite of the strange first meeting, Rosenberg and Christopher become friends, and it is through this friendship that Christopher meets a promising new boyfriend named Walter (Doug Griffin.) Things seem to be going well until a freak electric surge in the apartment causes Rosenberg to die while Christopher is operating on him. This prompts a visit from Rosenberg ’s estranged daughter Lenore, a lawsuit and Christopher’s inevitable appearance on a talk show hosted by the cheerful Wanda Wilson. Stay on top of the news of the day Subscribe to our free, daily e-newsletter to get Milwaukee's latest local news, restaurants, music, arts and entertainment and events delivered right to your inbox every weekday, plus a bonus Week in Review email on Saturdays. The ensemble’s comic delivery is seamless in places, but the cast unilaterally suffers from a lack of modulation between extremes. Wetzel’s Polly, for instance, has a perfectly affected artificial British accent, but when she returns to an American accent out of anger and frustration, the contrast isn’t quite as sharp as it needs to be to maximize the comic effect. To a certain extent, every cast member suffers from this sort of problem. Many of the finer details of Charles Busch’s script get lost here, but on the whole, this is a very fun production. You Should Be So Lucky runs through May 3. A&E Theater You Should Be So Lucky Spiral Theatre Reviews Plays Drama Russ Bickerstaff Russ Bickerstaff is a theater critic and aspiring author living on the south side with his wife and two daughters. Read more by Russ Bickerstaff	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1203
__label__wiki	0.989675	0.989675	Browse Books: Family & Relationships / Bullying Barbarians at the PTA: A Novel (Hardcover) By Dr. Stephanie Newman Tongue Fu!: How to Deflect, Disarm, and Defuse Any Verbal Conflict (Paperback) By Sam Horn Supernormal: The Secret World of the Family Hero (Paperback) By Meg Jay Little Girls Can Be Mean: Four Steps to Bully-proof Girls in the Early Grades (Paperback) By Anthony, Michelle, M.A., Ph.D., Ph.D. Lindert, Reyna Take the Bully by the Horns: Stop Unethical, Uncooperative, or Unpleasant People from Running and Ruining Your Life (Paperback) A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade (Paperback) By Kevin Brockmeier Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully (Paperback) By Allen Kurzweil Bald Knobber (Hardcover) By Robert Sergel Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online (Paperback) By Anastasia Goodstein Heartland: A Memoir (Paperback) By Neil Cross Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy (Paperback) By Emily Bazelon Heal This Way - A Love Story (Paperback) By Tracey B. Wilson, Tracey B. Wilson (Photographer) Family & Relationships / Bullying Alternative Family Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD-ADHD) Babysitting, Day Care & Child Care Children with Special Needs	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1205
__label__wiki	0.599284	0.599284	Robosonic & Stefano Ritteri -She Was On My Mind (OFF Recordings) OFF Recordings has been the home of many outstanding artistic collaborations, but we can’t express how immensely excited we are to introduce this new production team formed by two of the recently most successful artists in the game. We welcome Stefano Ritteri, who is making his debut on the label but who’s already a name that doesn’t need a lot of introduction with his huge releases on Defected, Viva, Pets and Exploited. This time hes joined by one of the pivotal acts of the OFF family, Robosonic. Little can be added to this duo’s catalog of hits, including Worst Love and The Edge on OFF, as well as their recent chart topping collaboration with the Adana Twins on 2DIY4, “La Fique”… The all-star team brings us the single “She Was On My Mind”, a deep percussive groover that builds up the tension throughout, mixed with powerful synths and melodic vocal work: a feel-good track that keeps the flow going while providing a classic soulful feeling. OFF is truly proud to be showcasing such talent to the world, another one meant to be a discerning dance floor essential. Artist: Robosonic & Stefano Ritteri Title: She Was On My Mind Label: OFF Recordings Catalog No.: OFF066 August 13, 2013 By Sand	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1206
__label__cc	0.68245	0.31755	on the Dutch North Sea Trip Scheepvaart B.V. for the scattering of ashes on the Dutch North Sea Trip Scheepvaart B.V. is located in Scheveningen as a family business concerned with sea funerals since 1962. Depending on weather conditions, sea burials are possible seven days a week according to prior arrangements with the shipping company. Scattering ashes over the sea In this case, you scatter the ashes directly over the North sea. Funeral at sea This means the urn is lowered to the bottom of the sea by rope. Sea urns consist of a biodegradable material which dissolves completely in sea water. PAY ATTENTION !! NEW CORONA MEASURES FROM OCTOBER 14, 2020 !! Pavilion Trip At the pier in the Dr. Lelykade 3, next to our ship, we have a pavilion available for your reception. There you may enjoy a cup of coffee to finish the obsequies or just to relax before departure. Parking is available at no cost until 18:00 hours. Check out the measures we take against the spread of the corona virus. Trip Junior Our boat named Trip Junior is a former fishing boat (a lugger), purchased by Rederij trip in the early 1980s. The maximum capacity for passengers is 96. Built in 1956 by wharf de Jong N.V. in Vlaardingen, the boat was originally called the Katwijk 153 and baptised as Francina. The boat measures 40.60 meters in length and 7.25 in width. The draught is 3.62 meters. Gross tonnage is 260.06. The ship is propelled by a Caterpillar 3508 DITA engine that provides 855 PK ( kW 455 ) at 1600 revs, powering a 4-blade propeller with a diameter of 1.8 meter. Onboard power is generated by 2 auxiliary engines: John Deere 4045 DF 158, 60 HP ( 44 kW ) Mitsubishi S4S, 30 kVA. The history of TRIP The origins of Rederij Trip In May of 1924, de Haagsche Courant newspaper published a comic strip of a little man made of matchsticks and acorns. That figure was called Tripje. Tripje was a fast and smart guy. Just like Dirk Roos Senior (born in 1895). He quickly earned the nickname Tripje in Scheveningen. Together with their father Roos (the last boatsman in Scheveningen), Bert and Dick Roos Junior founded a tugboat company in 1962. Bert and Dick Junior immediately thought of a good name for the tugboat: TRIP. Father Roos wasn’t too pleased with this choice. He didn’t talk to his sons for three months. But the tugboat company became a huge success and father Roos was very proud. In 1964 they acquired a second tugboat, the Eurotrip. Two tugboats weren’t enough to supply the illegal radio ship Radio Noordzee Internationaal off the coast in Scheveningen and in 1970 they bought the Trip Tender. On weekends this boat sat idle. This really bothered the Roos family. They decided to take passengers on fishing trips. This became such a huge success that in 1976 they added the Trip Senior. This boat was named after Dirk Roos Senior. In 1982, the family bought the Trip Junior and named it after Dirk Roos Jr. (the son of Dick Roos Jr. and grandson of Dirk Roos Sr.), the current owner of the shipping company. The two tugboats, as well as the Trip Tender and Trip Senior have been sold since then. Country flag selection We provide the following flags for free. Please let us know if the flag you are looking for is not among those listed. We will acquire the flag of your choice. Except an extra certificate, flowers or a sea-urn there won’t be any additional costs. prices are in euro and 0% v.a.t. included. Price changes reserved. You can contact us by phone 7 days a week till 18.00 hours. Dr. Lelykade 3, 2583 CL Scheveningen (The Hague), The Netherlands captain@rederij-trip.nl 0031 (0) 70 3 54 11 22	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1212
__label__wiki	0.804773	0.804773	Movies Main Movies-to-View Trailer Database Close Screen USA • 2019 • 181m • • Directed by: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo. • Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chadwick Boseman, Brie Larson, Tom Holland, Karen Gillan. • Music by: Alan Silvestri. After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more. Length: Languages: Subtitles: TV Spot - [A Once In A Generation...] TV Spot - [Epic] TV Spot - [Every Batlle...] TV Spot - [In 5 Days] TV Spot - [Time] TV Spot - After I Kill You... TV Spot - Allright Avengers! [1] TV Spot - Avengers! [1] TV Spot - But Whatever... TV Spot - Come On! TV Spot - Even If There Is A Small Chance... TV Spot - God, It Seems... TV Spot - Hang On! TV Spot - Heroes... TV Spot - I Can't Help Everybody TV Spot - I Think I Am Having... TV Spot - I Used To Have Nothing TV Spot - If We Do This... [1] TV Spot - Is That Everyone? [1] TV Spot - It's Not About... [1] TV Spot - Let's Do This! TV Spot - Let's Finish This TV Spot - Let's Get Thanos TV Spot - Look At The World Around You TV Spot - Okay, What Did I Miss? TV Spot - Part Of The Journey... [1] TV Spot - So This Is It TV Spot - Some People... [1] TV Spot - Thanos Did... [1] TV Spot - Thanos Used The Stones Again TV Spot - That's Pretty Good TV Spot - The Work Is Done [1] TV Spot - The World Has Changed TV Spot - The World Is In Our Hands TV Spot - There Was An Idea... TV Spot - This Is The Fight Of Our Lives [1] TV Spot - Three, Two, One... TV Spot - Time-Travel Test... TV Spot - Under Differend Circumstances... [1] TV Spot - We Are Getting The Whole Team [1] TV Spot - We Found Something... TV Spot - We Have A Chance... [1] TV Spot - We Have To Take A Stand TV Spot - We Lost... TV Spot - We're Going In Three... [1] TV Spot - We're In The Endgame Now [1] TV Spot - We're Trying To... [1] TV Spot - What Do You Think... TV Spot - Whatever It Takes TV Spot - Will You Keep That Quiet? TV Spot - You Could Not Live With Your Own Failure TV Spot - You Know Your Missions... TV Spot - You Know Your Teams... I loved Civil War and I loved Infinity War. When I came out of those films, I knew immediately that they were great and that I wanted to see them again. With Endgame, I'm not sure. I respect how they were prepared to show the consequences of what Thanos had done but by killing him off so quickly and then them having to do their own stone quest (hadn't we already seen Thanos doing this in IW) it felt slow and lazy. Worse still was that it felt very self-indulgent and attempting to be clever for clever sake. Like how Back to the Future II considered itself clever for showing the events of the first film but with Marty flitting around behind the scenes to ensure that it all still happened. I know it's meant to be fan pleasing but it really felt like a gimmick and lacking in confidence. Almost like it was saying 'Hey guys, this will make you smile'. If you want to make me smile, concentrate on maintaining the quality of your product rather than directly trying to make me like you. But the trouble with messing around with timelines and bouncing around is that it makes the audience start asking questions during the film. The linearity that we'd seen in IW and the imminent fast approaching threat is replaced in Endgame with a lack of direction and characters that are earlier versions of who the audience have seen. In IW we were shown Thanos. He was written to be sympathetic or at least a character that we the audience could understand. He believed in what he was doing and this made him more rounded. But in Endgame, that version is dispatched quickly and we are supplied with a 2014 (?) Thanos who isn't the character we know but is just a token bad guy. This Thanos hasn't made the sacrifice at Vormire, he isn't the guy that would empathise with Scarlet Witch for what she did to Vision. He has suddenly become a token cut out evil bad guy that needs to be defeated. Hell, the writers even manage to forget their own time loop by saying that this Thanos has learnt that he doesn't want to wipe out 50% anymore because they are too ungrateful. How does he know this when the 2014 Thanos has only just literally arrived in the post wipeout Universe? How has he had time to form the opinion that his previous quest for a 50% cull isn't worthy? Is this a case of the writers being terrified that they had created a bad guy that people related to or was it a fear that they'd written themselves into a hole? Why go to the effort of creating that character in IW to suddenly kill him off at the beginning of Endgame just for a dramatic punch? For me, the time travelling and stone gathering wasted time to create unimportant scenes that fundamentally undermine the films that came before. In my opinion it would have been better if they had shown the remaining Avengers preparing to do some Avenging and maintained the single minded linearity of IW of battling towards and reaching a post click Thanos and somehow reversing his work. The more I think of the film, the more plot holes and frustrations manifest themselves. Thor's drinking and man child antics might have been initially funny but one begins to realise that they are deliberately doing this to clip his wings. Likewise with Hulk, his primordial desire to smash and destroy has been removed to think it out and he has become an embarrassing shadow of his former self. The thing that is meant to be amazing about the MCU is the world building but inconsistencies have been appearing and there are so many in Endgame that it makes you question whether these two films are written by the same people. In IW, Thanos is a dangerous and credible threat because he has the infinity stones. He takes on half of the Avengers, Strange and some of the Guardians on Titan and smashes them and then takes on the other half on Wakanda and smashes them. Yet it is Stormbreaker (whose creation we have seen been hard earned by a motivated Thor) that has the power to take down Thanos even when he has a full complement of Infinity Stones. Yet we roll forward to Endgame and we have literally all the good guys together in one place, Cap with his shield, Tony fully powered up, Scarlet Witch pssed and vengeful, Capt Marvel who can seemingly do anything and Thor wielding both Mjolnir AND Stormbreaker and Thanos NOT in possession of the gauntlet, yet they can't defeat him. It's like the fights in IW were so amazing because the good guys were taking on an unbeatable foe yet here he is now seemingly defeatable by the 'rules' that the writers established. A good example of this would be in IW when Cap is the last man standing before Scarlet Witch and he grabs the gauntlet. You see the look of admirationrespect on Thanos' face that Cap is holding open the gauntlet before he punches him to the ground yet now that scene seems pointless. The writers for Endgame seem to have been driven to undo everything they did in IW. All the tension, all the sacrifice, all the development of Thanos discarded for well, I don't know what. It makes no sense. IW had two incredible scenes that used to choke me up. When Cap appears in the train station, the Avengers theme kicks in and Falcon and Widow take down the henchman in a wonderfully choreographed scene. In just that one scene it shows them coming to the rescue, it shows how intuitively they work together and it showcases their heroism. Likewise when Thor creates Stormbreaker and makes his entrance on Wakanda, I felt it for the journey that Thor has been on. He's had to contend with loss and defeat and humiliation and this is his redemption. Here is a character that has earned his game changing weapon and when he arrives and demands to face a character that everyone else is running away from, I want to punch the air. But in Endgame, that feels like it has to be corrupted. We can't have Thor being dominant, let's break him and make him a fool. We can't have Thanos being complicated and relatable, let's make him a cut out bad guy. We can't have Hulk being rage fuelled and smashing stuff up, let's make him more sensitive and talking stuff out. We can't have Cap being stoic and heroic, let's have him ridiculing one of his own iconic lines in a silly gimmicky fight with himself and commenting on his butt. We can't have a powerful female character that we're invested in look sexy AND be able to take down Thanos, let's give Scarlet Witch a small part but focus our attention on a female character that hasn't earnt our admiration or desire for revenge. To be honest, the 'rules of engagement' had been set so well in IW that when in Endgame Thanos massed his ranks against the Avengers and then ALL of the good guys showed up, I was almost expecting the camera to pull away and not show the fight given that it was so obviously going to be an easy win for the good guys. And as for the big fight scene, it did reek of what DC always manage to do which is just throw everything into an end battle and bludgeon you with CGI and pyrotechnics so that you aren't really sure what is going on. In the many fights in IW, you knew what was going on, you recognised the combatants, you understood the stakes and you identified the geography of the scene. In Endgame we got one big massive fight where everything was thrown in the pot and it was just assumed by the directors that we would be happy with all the flashing lights. And I have to say that considering that Steve and Tony fell out so hard, and that Tony's criticism of Steve was so unfair, that I really had hoped for more than just a handshake, a muttering of 'no worries' and 'here's your shield'. These guys wrote and directed Civil War, they created the line 'we fell out hard' and hence I had hoped for something deeper and more touching than a handshake. Steve wrote Tony a letter telling him that when he needed him he'd be there but once again the Iron Man bias had to creep in and once again Tony was the victim and the ultimate hero. But I think my biggest problem is how the convenient time travelling undermines everything. When a franchise starts retrofitting stuff (like Fury's eye being from a space cat), it's then hard to consider the previous stories. Having 2014 Gamorra means that all the evolution that we saw her go through in GOTG 1 and 2 is wasted. Having Cap marry Peggy means the pain of his sacrifice, him seeing her in Winter Soldier when she is suffering from Alzheimer's, hell even his blossoming relationship with Sharon Carter is kinda irrelevant. Having seen Thor at last step away from his two weaker origin films into the entertainment of Ragnarok and the redemption in IW leaves us now with a bumbling buffoon. We know that what makes Captain America what he is, is the serum that makes him a super soldier. That he was transformed from a weakling to a superhuman. Sam Wilson is not a super soldier and he didn't take the serum. He is Falcon. Now maybe in the comics he becomes Cap but Bucky is a super soldier. Is the new Cap going to foil an evil plot and be defeated with a tazer or a knife to the chest? Consider the beatings that Steve has taken and the physical strength that he has shown we can recognise that Sam Wilson does not have that. I'm sorry to say but the Russo's have dropped the ball. Themselves and their writers have succumbed to their success and their desire to be engineers of political correctness and social change. I thought Endgame would be the high soaring end to this 10 year run of impressive movie entertainment but in the end the writers got carried away, the directors over reached and the studio sacrificed the integrity of their product for a chance to 'educate' us all. A real shame and a wasted opportunity. Infinity War is clearly the highlight of the last 10 years but even now I fear that repeated viewings will render it pointless considering how the makers decided to fundamentally damage it. Review by Paynebyname from the Internet Movie Database. 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__label__wiki	0.674947	0.674947	SubTopic Implementing HCM software Essential Guide The rise of the talent management suite Talent management technology market primer Experts say Oracle-Taleo integration on track Talent management software crown jewel of HCM platform Sidestep talent management suite integration problems in three steps Talent management software is now 'have to have' technology SelectMinds acquisition helps Oracle keep pace with SAP in HCM world Tips for buying and implementing talent management systems Mintigo uses assessment tool to base hiring on more than gut feeling Learning management software can help shrink the skills gap Social performance management platform Work.com scales culture Hiring managers view interviews on-demand with video recruitment tool Compensation management software simplifies sales rep pay Healthcare user decides to stick with PeopleSoft HCM after 9.2 release Talent management terms Apply what you've learned Take the quiz on talent management systems This content is part of the Essential Guide: Talent management system essential guide Bersin finds users willing to switch vendors to unify HRIS systems At Impact 2013, Katherine Jones presented data on HCM technology trends, and gave tips on what 'good, better and best' HR IT systems look like. Emma Snider, Associate Site and News Editor The sheer number of products and vendors in human resources technology can make it nearly impossible for HR leaders to get a handle on market trends. But that's not stopping them from entering the market for new HRIS systems, funds in hand and prepared to switch vendors to get what they want, according to Bersin by Deloitte human capital management (HCM) lead analyst Katherine Jones. Jones led the session "The HCM Technology Rodeo: What They Sell, What We Buy" at Impact 2013, held this week in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She gave an overview of the talent management and HR information systems landscapes and shared insights about organizations' HRIS buying patterns from Bersin research. She also identified differentiating features that can help buyers evaluate products. User interface, integration differentiating features for HRIS systems More than half of the respondents who participated in a recent Bersin survey said their HRIS system was more than seven years old, so it's not surprising that the No. 1 reason HR managers are seeking a new HRIS system was "better, faster technology in the market." However, the No. 2 response was to improve the user experience, a consideration that Jones said has grown in importance over the last few years. One surprising statistic had to do with vendor loyalty, as 76% of respondents said they were not planning on sticking with their current vendor when they replace their HRIS system. "That was much higher than I had anticipated," Jones said. "That means it's an open market out there, and people are looking." So, if buyers are boldly venturing into the market, how should they evaluate products? Not on functionality, Jones said. "The basic functionality of most of these programs is accessible all across the board." Instead, she identified four key differentiators: user interface, integration, depth and breadth of analytics, and the degree of social integration. The quality of the user interface isn't just about the look of the software, she said, but also the ease of navigation for users. Jones cautioned that just because a product looks integrated doesn't mean that the data is synced up underneath. "It's the degree and the kind of integration. There are a lot of ways [products] can be integrated, and sometimes it's just on the surface," she said. "That's not so good because you can't really get analytics if only the top layers are integrated." Responding to an audience question about whether mobile capabilities were a distinctive feature, Jones replied, "Mobile wasn't a differentiator; it's a universal." Talent management demand shifting from standalone apps to integrated suites "Talent management [systems] have gone from 'nice to have' to 'have to have,'" Jones said. One major trend she identified in the talent management (TM) market is the move from standalone applications to integrated suites. This is a key reason why organizations are interesting in replacing current TM systems -- a fair portion of which are homegrown, according to a survey. A highly segmented TM market pie chart demonstrated just how many vendors are competing in the space, and Jones explained that it's one of the most rapidly expanding software segments overall. "This is a huge market, [so] 1% of the market could actually be a fairly sizable customer base," she said. Mobile and social capabilities are often heavily hyped in TM, and Jones offered a reality check from survey data. Talent acquisition, learning and onboarding were the top three areas where survey respondents wanted social capabilities. Jones commented on the low response for the area of performance management. "You hear about social performance, [but] it was only 10% who thought it was an interesting area." The top three answers for mobile were recruiting, performance management and onboarding. Talent management vendors in particular often attach social features to places that don't always make sense for users, Jones said. "[Social] has to be relevant, not stuck on every piece of software," she said. "You need one [social] platform for your company, not a little bit here and a little bit there." User and vendor push for employee single system of record Jones also said HR leaders are increasingly interested in a "single point of truth" for each employee. At many organizations, employees have two separate profiles -- a system of record housed within an HRIS system containing factual information like gender and marital status, and a talent management system profile that holds performance and learning data. This record split can be further complicated by having multiple HRIS systems. Citing Bersin research, Jones said 18% of companies with more than 25,000 employees have 10 or more systems, and 68% of all companies have two to five. "People have many more pieces of technology to manage than probably makes sense," she said. More on HCM software Learn the basics of HCM software Jones said both talent management and HRIS systems vendors are taking note of the interest in a single system of record, and while HRIS providers are striving to add talent management and payroll capabilities, talent management vendors are ensuring their products offer seamless integration to HRIS systems, or are building out HRIS capabilities. But no matter how vendors choose to provide new pieces -- either by acquiring or merging with other vendors, or building them in-house, Jones quelled the fears of audience members uneasy at the thought of more market consolidation by explaining that "a vendor has no interest in losing you as a customer." Responding to an attendee running on-premises SAP HR applications who was concerned about no longer being supported in the wake of SAP's cloud-based SuccessFactors strategy, Jones extended the same reassurance, while also encouraging organizations that are on-premises customers to plan for a hybrid Software as a Service (SaaS) future. "Ask yourself at what point is some part of this more efficient in a SaaS solution, and there are some places where SaaS will never make sense," she said. "But look at your on-premises and cloud integration strategy, because somewhere down the line, [that] will be more economically efficient." 'Good, better and best' HCM products Overall, Jones ranked HCM product features in terms of "good, better and best." The "good" category included such features as built-in metrics, mobile capabilities and cloud delivery; the "better" category, global market and hourly labor functions, and some cross-application analytics; and the "best" category, contingent employee management, merged talent profiles, advanced analytics, career pathing and vertical concentrations. But no matter what vendors an organization ultimately chooses, the HR technology landscape will likely continue to be a fast-paced "rodeo" for the foreseeable future, Jones said. "The pace of our technology is not going to slow down, the horse is not going to get any slower [and] the ground is not going to get any softer," she said. "There are a lot of swerves, and we don't want to fall off." Dig Deeper on HCM implementation HRIS (human resource information system) HRIS vs. HRMS vs. HCM: Key differences and similarities By: Rachel Meltzer SaaS HCM tilts power to business side of HR-IT partnership By: David Essex Digital Workspaces of the Future: Technology that Serves the People, Not Vice ... –Citrix ‘One Size Fits All’ IT Will Strangle Digital Businesses with a Lack of Choices –Citrix Key differences in uses of DataOps vs. DevOps As with DevOps, DataOps hinges on cooperation between teams and breaking down silos within an organization with the focus of ...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1232
__label__cc	0.739256	0.260744	FIRST ON CNN: Intel chief wants more lie detector tests to deter leaks Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wants more government employees to be subject to an enhanced lie detector test as a deterrent to leaking classified information, an intelligence source told CNN Thursday. RECOMMENDED: "Avalanche of leaks" As he briefs top intelligence lawmakers who are outraged over a series of recent leaks of classified information, Clapper wants to widen the numbers of people across government agencies who would be required to take the “Counterintelligence Polygraph,” the source said. The move would be aimed at government employees who hold top-secret clearance, including employees at the 16 intelligence agencies he oversees, but also at other departments, such as State and Defense, which have employees with access to similar information, according to the intelligence source. But the scope of Clapper's efforts would not include White House officials who also are privy to classified information.As of now, not everyone with that clearance level is required to take this specific polygraph, which, the source said, would have questions added to it, including whether the employee has passed information to journalists or other unauthorized recipients, for example. Clapper is pushing for a number of bold changes to government procedures in order to detect and stop leaks, according to the source, which would also include looking at circumstances under which clearances might be revoked or suspended, and reviewing a number of other administrative policies. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, is calling for new provisions to be added to the intelligence authorization bill, including requiring congressional notification of authorized leaks of information, and finding more severe ways to crack down on those who are not cleared to disclose information but do it anyway. Feinstein was joined by counterparts on the House Committee on Intelligence in saying that a recent string of leaks are dangerous to the U.S. intelligence community and sometimes endanger lives. Included among those instances were: disclosures about an ongoing operation deep inside al Qaeda as they developed a bomb to potentially be used against the United States; reports of drones carrying out targeted killings; and leaked information about the Stuxnet virus, which rendered centrifuges at an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility inoperable. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Georgia, the ranking member on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said after meeting with Clapper that there is "no more important issue than this issue." Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, has blamed the White House of intentionally leaking classified information to burnish President Barack Obama's national security image five months before the presidential election. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said Thursday that those allegations "have no basis in fact." Feinstein and Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, said they do not believe recent leaks came from the top ranks of the White House. Post by: CNN Intelligence Correspondent Suzanne Kelly Filed under: Central Intelligence Agency • Clapper • Congress • Intelligence • ODNI Why is CNN not reporting that Diane Feinstein and a counsel investigating leaks says they are coming from the White House. Dont you think that might be a little important? Since Clapper brought this lie detector thing up let's apply it in this order. Start with the infamous Fast and Furious and put Obummer and then Holder to the test. Then broaden the topic to WH leaks and again test Obummer and Holder first. If they pass, then it can be broaden to other government employees. Anyone who has taken polys will tell you how crude the device is. In the 80's Reagan wanted to expand the use of polygraphs (including polygraphing his cabinet) due to leaks in that era. His Sec. State at that time, George Shultz refused and told Ronnie that he would resign if he was asked to taken one. Polygraphs are not accurate but are used as a 'coercive interrogation device'. They do elicit various confessions during screening because polygraph sessions can drag on for 3-4 hours at a time (full scope poly) and your focus can waver. The main issue with the polygraph however is that it is very blunt. It does measure overall physiological responses decently but it is not accurate at pinpointing issues for a particular question. John Pollard, Aldrich Ames, Richard Hassen all passed polys. They are used a lot at the IC's because it is cheaper to weed out potential employees before initiating expensive Background Investigations but polys do not do a good job accurate separting wheat from chaff. They throw the baby out with the bathwater. A crude instrument that provides a false sense of security to agencies who do not want to spend the extra/actually investigate all case files/employees. gman90210 "Remarkably, nearly as many contractors hold top secret clearances (524,990) as do federal workers (666,008)." This is going to take awhile... agegaplove There's things you just don't need to know. Age gap dating is trending nowadays. 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Jack Be Humble The polygraph for Dick Cheney should only be done... if it includes industrial 440v shocks when he tells a fib. 😀 Start with the WHite House johnymac60 This is idiotic. POLYGRAPHS DO NOT WORK. The only folks who will claim they do are polygraph operators.This is pseudo-science at it worst. I agree, see how well it worked with preventing what Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen did. Oh HUSH now! The war on Drugs is working perfectly! "Lie Detector" science proven many times through common psychiatric analysis has results that show they don't work, BUT they kind of work if you spread the lie that they do! So we just gotta keep spreading the lie that Gun control works! That lie detectors work, and that the war on drugs is working and just wait a little while longer for it all to come true. Sarcasm off now. how much longer do we have to wait before we can throw out grandpas shoddy scientific practices? What we need are professional psychological evaluations to analyze people, not 'space age" seismographs. genebrady It's all about Israel.... The should have started with Baby Bush four years ago..The worst President ever kmac Obama can release anything he wants as President. What makes any of you thing any or even part is the truth or no part of mislead or any of the other games than other games that intel plays. Explain why most Russian advisors left Iran before the virus hit. Suppose we cover something there by talking here? Truth is a lie and lies are the truth sometimes. old gaffer The President is held to the same rules of protecting classified information as the rest of us that hold access are. It's perhaps arguable that he can release whatever he wants, but that doesn't make it declassified, just leaked. Congress and the White House are two of the biggest leakers of classified information going, followed closely be a largely irresponsible press that prints everything it ca get its hands on without a moment's consideration for potential damage to the U.S. Another VERY serious problem is over-classification; some agencies would classify the menu at the local carry out if they could get away with it. When everything is classified, nothing is protected. davecu Start with the Obamas. I dare them to take it. lol yeah to find out he was born in hawaii Mr. Obama, you yourself wrote before you wanted to be President that you were born on Kenya. Your publisher had it on record for years, and you never changed it. All of a sudden now it's a 'typo'. Care to explain that? just an American Please people, stop saying The President leaked classified material, he is the only person that can declassify at will so if the President wants to tell anyone anything he can do it. And as for leaaking, every government leaks for a varity of reasons it is the way the world works. SaveRMiddle No need for the tests now. They can just check to see who's googled "Beating lie detector results". Should save the taxpayers. Wootings Only the catastrophically moronic have any faith in polygraph testing...they have a 100% failure rate in their originally-intended purpose – catching spies. Yup. No spies ever have failed a polygraph test. On the flipside, it's easy to fail a polygraph test even if you're not guilty. The very fact that such things are still legal...let alone tolerated...is a massive embarrassment. I agree with the LIE detector tests. Being an intelligence professional you have a responsbility. Unfortunately, the folks who are in the White House (The People's Home) do not seem to care. They are only there for a short time and think they can do and say what they want with impunity while the rest of us professionals know we could go to jail for leaking information. I believe they are doing it with the blessing at the highest level in the USG. Ok, Gary. It's your turn. BADBADOBAMA its funny how people in this administration talk and talk and talk. Sooner or later they may release some info that gets Obama impreached. I am sure Obama is a dirty president. looking at his history of influence by people like Bill Ayers etc. deeman really? and the past admin wasn't dirty. no bid contracts awarded to the vp's company, both are head deep in the oil business, and oh yeah, god told him to invade iraq. typical repub to point fingers while their own party is all messed up. nothing like passing the blame. I know you are but what am I? I know you are....... Claudia, Houston, Tx Please find out who did it because John McCain is sounding like Donald Trump making accusations but can't give any names. Paul Price What is really funny is that there is a "Senate Intelligence Committee" and a "House Intelligence Committee"! Oxymorons like Jumbo Shrimp! TheGrimJester Why not do tarot readings? They are just as accurate as a polygraph machine. I DON'T THINK BIEBER WOULD APROVE Why can't I like your comment? I do, I do! The first test should be Obama. The people would laugh their butts off seeing that everything out of his mouth is a lie. WDinDallas Start with Axelrod.,.. bobby frank- dallas, texas Can't any of you folks spell correctly? That really makes us look pretty bad if you can't spell the word.....leaks not leeks and requirement not requirment....oh boy! Dickhed and not Dikhead. Yes, it is pretty bad. I agree it makes us look pretty bad and uneducated. Bob dowlen Tea Partie losers. Says the person who doesn't properly use Capital Letters? I like leeks... good in a salad. thedoctor Study the science. Polygraph tests don't work. Maybe you need to take one since you know it all. You're a liar. Oblame-o the clown Haha, hook that thing up to O-blame-o the clown and it will blow up. And exactly what will YOU be blowing? Not exactly what Monica did, I'd presume... Bleh64 Wow, and everyone accused Bush of wanting a police state. Here we go, next will be the GPS transmitters and computer chips with all of our information. Augie This is for people who are going to have access to classified information. SaneConservative Does the President undergo polygraph tests? Should he? Agreed, Bush and Cheney should have. no elected officials are subject to poly. POTUS/Congress that have access to ts/sci info do not need to be poly or subject to SSBI. leaks are have been good for the government keeps em honest to some degree going them anyway start the lairs on capital hill Moosehockey I had a security clearance for over 40 years when I worked in the defense industry. If I had spilled the beans as often as these political hacks have, I would still be in San Quentin. I knew the importance of keeping my mouth shut and it is obvious these dimwits do not! Better have Congress and their staffers take the polygraph too since they are some of the biggest leakers IHateLies So the Director of National Intelligence wants to waterboard its own employees. They may not say that now, but that's where it eventually goes. itsso They will go for relatively employees, with diverse backgrounds. CI & CO will subsequently, create a "witch hunt" to find something anything to discredit this person. They will find something. Because everyone makes mistakes and it all depends how behavior is interpreted. Most likely they will find some minor issue. It will be something others are allowed to get away with every day. However, in the case of the targeted individual they will argue: See we told you: "these people should not work for us." Because once targeted the office doing the investigations feel they need to prove themselves. Its all about the ego at this point and not about being fair to the employee. The „system" will spend enormous amounts of energy and resources on these individuals, not giving up, because it has to be proven that: "they were right all along. Meanwhile the leaking will go on. End of the story the target employee´s reputation will be ruined (because none of their personal information is really personal and for years to come the employee will have to face the music), the government will have spend our tax dollars barking up the wrong tree and THE LEAKING CONTINUES. At least the intolerant extreme right wing will have succeeded in running out another employee, "who should not be there anyway." Riigghhtttttt! Because the intolerant, murderous LEFT-wing would never do that. Right? Barry? What say you? Start with obama, then work your way through the White House and his reelection staff. That's where the leeks are. OhPlease 1. Nice spelling. I'm sad that you are able to vote. 2. It was Dick Cheney that ousted a CIA clandestine agent for clearly political purposes...name one thing President Obama or any of his staff has ever leaked ( <--correct spelling) Jay Bates Leeks, I love leeks! Add a little butter...mmmm. Dick Bush What a losers. Must be a leek for tea party. Isn't it the first requirment for all govt officials to be able to fake a polygraph test? Or is it to be able to lie convencingly? Can't remember which it is? SeeThruIt2 That's a great idea. Demand that more people have a polygraph before they can work for the government. And since you can't get most jobs without first having the polygraph, that makes those who DO have a polygraph more expensive (eg. government employees). Polys present more problems than they solve. The poly comes down to the reader, and this person will always be pressured to come up with a quota (goal is mroe accurate) of how many positives they will get. Polys act as a deterrent for epople to do their jobs. For example, after Ames was found, the CIA went on a poly spree, and their initial poly spree showed some ridiculous number like 40% of all operatives were spying against the US. This poly spree created paranoia throughout the agency because now people were too scared for their jobs to communicate to others, thus leading to intelligence breakdowns. It is this intel breakdown that led to the 9/11 attacks as by then, the CIA has been so gutted and filled with fear, no one wanted to share any info because they were scared of being accused as a spy. A poly is not accurate, and it relies on the reader who can have bias in their interpretation. The FBI fought to keep it in their hiring, yet fought against its use in the court system, because they know how inaccurate it is, but since they have so many applicants, they do not care that over 50% of them fail the poly. The thing about the poly is you cannot prove a negative. So for example, it shows you lied about doing drugs in the past; how can you prove you did not? It is impossible to prove something you did not do, like trying to prove Santa does not exist, it is a fallacy. JerseyJoe I heard they gave John Boehner a similar test a while back and ask him if he put the welfare of the America people over the profits of Big Business. He said "Yes". They still haven't found the needle from the polygraph machine, although rumor has it that it was spotted by the Hubble Telescope passing Jupiter. I'm conservative by nature, but i have to admit, that's funny i don't care who ya are!!! TJeff1776 J. Edgar Hoover once said "The so-called lie detector test" has released more guilty criminals AND convicted more innocent people than any instrument I know"........its a gauge on the nervous system which can be manipulated with drugs and other mental methods....its a farce. Non-confessors nearly always beat tha heat. Chris Sparks Just a guess, but I would say J. Edgar didn't have access to the same technology in his polygraph machines as we do today. Just a thought. Like saying Eli Whitney's cotton gin shouldn't be used today. No S*T, Sherlock! nogomel J.Edgars dress had wires that allowed him to cheat on polygraphs. No. Seriously. There is no technology to improve. The information is available, don't take my word for it. Did you hear that on Fox? I thought George Bush said that. You are quite the history buff on the polygraph. Maybe you have have taken one? I Tea Party proude. They should start with the GOP in Congress anyone that signed Grover NOquist's pledge...and remember Mitch McConnell said his number one goal was to make Obama a one term President...so he could be leaking information to make Obama look bad...just like Dick Cheney and his office help to out a CIA undercover agent..Oh that is right some one else took the fall for that... what a joke. the subject of every major spy case in the last 40 years or so has had multiple CI polys. most had passed a lifestyle poly. Director Clapper knows this, and should know that the entire program is a huge waste of tax dollars that should have been eliminated long ago. pathetic. reddog9500 Does anyone here doubt that someone can be "trained" to fool a "lie detector" test? Even torture cannot get at the "truth". You subject me to torture and I'll admit that I'm the Queen of England, if that's what you want me to do to stop the pain. (Just coming on, but if someone has already addressed this, cut me a little slack, please.) It's my understanding that a "lie detector" test is inadmissible in a court of law, because there are so many chances that the results may be wrong. So, if that's true, then why do so many prosecutors/defenders continue to use it to determine someone's guilt (or innocence)? Am I missing something? Cops who have a really weak case or are incompetent frequently use it as a 'tool' to manipulate their prime suspect into confessing. You won't take it? Why? What do you have to hide? You failed? may as well come clean, boy. Excitizen Boy! The repub.lican trolls are out in full force today! LOL Sit and spin your brains out calling for a lie detector test for Obama and calling him a liar ROTFLMAO! I guess that's easier than admitting to the multi-trillion dollar disaster that is the Iraq war – based completely and totally on lies. Those two criminals have never been made to answer for that. Oops, your rasism is showing again! iT'S NOT JUST TODAY. fOX STOPPED ALLOWING COMMENTS OVER AT THE PIG PEN, SO THEY ALL CAME OVER HERE TO SPREAD THEIR RACIST FILTH. jUST IGNORE THEN. I really do not understand what many hope to gain by the cheap shots at Obama or Bush or Cheney – was it supposed to clever? did they think are scoring points? actually persuading anyone. There are two problems with this 1) it's partisan so most of us just ignore it 2) Its ALL been heard before – none of it is overly clever, earth shattering, new, except to discount the opinions of those posting. What is the point? it's called an open forum for posting one's opinions under freedom of speech gO AWAY fOXTARD. nOBODY LIKES YOU. Bring back Vladi and impelling. Ah, yes, the notorious Vlad the Impeller, who terrorized the populace with his practice of dismembering his victims by forcing them through hydroelectric turbines. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. YOU! are the smartest person on here. I vote for you. Seriously... LOL... too funny Lady Sal Lie detectors do not work at all. They are wasting money asking people to take it. I know for a fact they are no good. There is no such thing as a lie dectector when will stupid people give this up. No true scientist or educated person would say using such a machine can detect the truth unless they cheated in school Even George Burns was wrong about Gaylord Focker on multiple occasions. Lie detectors can't be trusted. Opps. It was Jack Burns. Not George. technically, the IC refers to it as a polygraph examination. only lazy & sensationalist "reporters" call it a lie detector. but you are correct, it does not work. I Like to tiE My doG To the rooF Of tHE famILY Car for FUN Sure you don't want to employ water-boarding? and witch burning too? The Vatican can advise and loan you some medieval torture devices that they used on early Christians during the Inquisition! Silly people, secrets are for criminals! In reality, Vatican inquisition, torture and burning was directed at anybody not followng the Vatican line especially scientists like Bruno (1600). Spanish Inquisitions in the 1500 was directed against the remaining Jews who "converted" but secretly practiced their Jewish faith. Hitler was a copycat. mbal LOL. Polygraphs don't work. This director should know better. One of his buddies must own a polygraph firm. LMAO but I believe you! not laughing, this is my tax dollars being incinerated, but I believe it too. DNI should know better. the rest of us do. Jeez people! I wonder if your comments would be so flippant if you had friends or families in the special forces of our military putting their lives on the line? These talking heads vying for political points in the Obama Administration are on the verge of commiting treason. no more than the last one did. I hope you were just as outraged at the Bush W.H. leaks that directly outed FBI agents. Also, I just don't see how talking about cyber attacks puts anyone in danger or the program. They are constantly changing and, to one extent or the other, almost every industrialized nation is using them. How does one prove what country a virus comes from after their computer has been attacked? As far as putting forces in danger, I think the disgusting behavior of those troops in Afghanistan have done much more damage and have truly put U.S. forces all over the world in danger. Yes...it's only an outrage when it's the "other guy" doing it. I guess it makes sense... he sort of looks like a HITLER!!!!? Are we even in America anymore? MItt says you're in AmerCIA... We have an Intelligence Chief? Wow! Who would have guessed? Okay, Intelligence Chief... Pakistan, P...A...K...I...S...T...A...N, rhymes with Packer fan, and is near India...is bad. Yep, bad. That means no good, horrible, evil, our enemy. Do not, I repeat, not, send them any money. That is the green stuff with pictures of presidents on it. If you do not understand what I am saying, go to Pakistan and ask them to explain it to you in plain English while you are wearing a tee shirt with an American flag plastered all over it. Make sure to have a boom box blasting Lady Gaga at full volume so they know you are coming. Swear to them on the Bible that you will do your best to build schools to educate them in civil rights, especially for minorities, women and gays. And maybe even promise to erect a monument of Mohammed in Washington, D.C. Show them a proposed picture of the mock-up. Make sure to finalize any agreement with a left-handed handshake over a beer or two. And then get back with me and tell me what you've learned. dallastexas75205 Can we give Bush and Cheney one first??? Never Debate Good one, Give it up dude. Bush hasn't been in office in over 3 years. I can't believe you are still stuck on that. How about you focus on the current president's failures and lies and deception. Actually, we all still live every single day with the damage, both financially and globally, that were created by that disasterous 8 years, so it's valid whether you agree with it or not. We should forget the damage done by W for 8 years, and pretend that all this mess is Obama's? You will find many war widows, war orphans, injured vets who will take exception to that. Bushy walked out with 700,000 jobs a month disappearing, 2 UNFUNDED wars underway, Medicaid Drug Plan unfunded, auto industry on death's bed, huge tax cuts to those wonderful "Job Creators"....on and on. Take your head out. Far smarter than you Start with the guy in the Oval Office please. Thanks. Well we need to start at the beginning of this mess to figure out how to never repeat it again. Obviously that would only be accomplished by never electing another republican again. Good response. Anarkhos Then start with Clinton and don't stop with Obama! Lying isn't a partisan sport, it's the sport of kings. Why don't we just waterboard them. If it was good enough for Bush and Cheney, it ought to be good enough for Obama! Ca Ed what do you think "enhanced lie detectors" are? Next will be the Iron Maiden and Thumb Screws with the Gibbet hanging outside NSA offices occupied by those found "guilty". TheTruth As if a "lie detector" actually works – there's a reason they not allowed in court as evidence. Disanitnodicos They need to start with the president. He is in serious need of a lie detector test. Agreed !! TheOne You vill not kwaveshtion ze emporor!!! zig hiiiiiiiiyelll!!!!! Bob Kealey The lawmakers constantly leak information under the “condition of anonymity” Why is they do not take a poly? Especially the intelligence commity? (contradiction in terms) They see data that’s classified way beyond the TS full scope poly’s! Don’t care if you’re an elected official they should have to test as well! That will stop a lot! For starters, Obama, Holder, and Pelosi should be given a lie detector test every morning, noon, and night. When they lie they should be knocked in the side of the head. Did you mean to say "comity" or "committee" ? At least you spelled intelligence correctly even if the rest of you post was unintelligible. OrionStyles Typical... "We've got to stop these people from leaking the illegal things we are doing!" "Umm... shouldn't we just stop doing all the illegal things?" everyone bursts into laughter* Right on the money!!! Yes, U.S. intelligence operatives infiltrating terrorist groups in Yemen is SUCH a horrible crime! How dare they! Good thing someone leaked the operational details that put our assets in danger! randy otis Under current laws anyone passing/leaking classified information is punishable of at least 10 years in jail and 250K fine. So why is it law makers can leak classified info and not get in trouble but anyone else goes to jail? MyTake The same applies to them. If there are actually instances of that I would like to know. How about a truth detector? According to the birthers the intelligence agency under the control of the Bush/Chaney regime couldn't simply verify the birth place of Obama when he became a US Senator. How lame can U Be. AlCourts http://www.Hear-The-Truth.com Very funny site ... thanks. Wow who would actually believe that stuff ...? nonbeliever Al, I think you need some help in understanding human nature and the reality of man-made religion. Sagebrush Shorty boyamidumb Anyone who knows anything about them recognizes that lie detector test results are a joke. At best they frighten ignorant people into "confessing." Beating them is easier than lying to your mother. What it does is put a big question mark on anyone who is threatened with such a test. Refuse and you are assumed to be guilty. Take one and the simple fact that your are "freaked out" by the "show" surrounding such a test can make you look guilty. Nothing is answered. The real "criminal" – if that is what they are – is generally able to beat the test without difficulty. This is a joke. But one that will certainly damage people who are innocent – and no one seems to care. I see polygraphers at work in my job. I was skeptical at first but see that they do have it down to a pretty good science. Especially in screening you for something you feel guilty about like stealing. However they are only as good as the operator. Cut corners and you get a bad result. Incorrect. There is no science behind polygraphy. It is pseudo-science. Your coworkers have you suckered. Lie Detector tests are passed by the guilty and the innocent are failed. This is why the tests are NOT allowed as evidence in court, nor are legally binding, except in the clinically paranoid CIA, FBI, DEA, NSA – notice a pattern here? The federal government agencies tasked to protect the country and citizens use inaccurate, flawed devices to supposedly sift out the guilty from the innocent. Question Everything and remain skeptical of our government. worldlypatriotusaveteran Sorry, you are grossly misinformed. It's likely you have NEVER taken a polygraph exam, or been educated about its strengths and weaknesses. For your education, in the U.S. Government, the polygraph is NEVER used as the sole basis of making a decision about a person's honesty, integrity, or character. It is one tool, among many, to assist in the decision-making process. In reply to the poster "w....." regarding polys not being the sole tool. It depends on the agency. At some IC agencies, multiple 'inconclusive' polys are enough to drop a COE without any further investigations. The poly is a blunt tool and not a precision scalpel. The SOR usually used in that case is "deception on poly" which is impossible to refute. Expanding polys is a lazy and poor solution; administrators love making this recommendation because it makes them feel/sound like they are doing something when in reality it does not solve much. GIving a narcicistic, pathalogical liar a polygraph will only confirm that they are a narcisitic, pathalogical liar. Even the prez should be required to take a lie detector test, they no doubt have access to classified information so they should be no different. There's no need to polygraph the President or other elected officials. Regardless of the results, the polygrapher can't undo the results of the election. Imagine if any particular party in power were to use polygraph results to target the opposition. They could swap out all of the opposition party that was just elected for their own candidates. The U.S. would quickly become a one-party country (ie. Communists). age gap date Age gap dating is trending nowadays. Many women are looking to date older men cuz older men are usually more stable and mature. If you are over 40, check out ~~~~ AgeDαter.℃o㎡ ~~~~ It is the best place to meet women who like older men. Give them a shot! You have nothing to lose! Anything to stop the truth! Which is, of course, beamed into your tin hat. "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH" There's things you just don't need to know. Just behave yourself and keep paying your taxes. As long as you are safe here in the USA.....just be thankful and go about your mundane life. Start With Obama!!! And Members of Congress kevgood lol haha The bad news is that for whatever rsoaen, either the Cain scandal or something else, some moderates who might have voted for the GOP seem to be going back to Obama. Here are some interesting poll numbers. Remember the goal is to beat Obama. We have to win. Eyes on the prize. I'm sure the polls will change again over time: President Obama now essentially ties, 43% to 42%, a “generic” Republican candidate when U.S. registered voters are asked whom they are more likely to vote for in the presidential election next year. This marks a change from October and September, when the Republican candidate was ahead, and underscores the potential for a close presidential race in the year ahead.Voter preferences on this measure have shifted somewhat from survey to survey over the last year, but support for both Obama and the Republican has varied within a relatively narrow 38% to 47% range.Obama gains two percentage points in his advantage over the Republican when taking into account the leanings of undecided voters, but the two remain in a 48% to 45% statistical tie. Chistopher Still waiting on Cheney to take one . . . Naybr Cheney isn't currently in office, Einstein.... Naybr...go back to Fox and beg them to open up comments again. 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__label__wiki	0.658451	0.658451	The Best All-Mountain Skis for Women This entry was posted by Sara Villarreal on 2019-04-26 at 04:52 All skis—women’s or men’s—are designed with assumptions about who will ski them. Some common assumptions in the past: that smaller people couldn’t drive a solid ski, that women didn’t want to ski as hard as men, and that weight was directly related to athletic ability. And for years, women’s skis were just supersoft versions of men’s models, which led to advanced women skiers without a ski to match. Fortunately, that’s beginning to change, and brands are investing in female-specific molds and constructions. Women are often shorter and lighter than men, with smaller feet and lower centers of gravity. Those differences change when a skier pressures the tip of the ski and engages the edges and how much force she will need to throw the ski on edge, but they don’t mean she just needs a short, soft ski. All-mountain skis are going to be the skis you reach for the most, on days when there’s a few inches of fresh snow and when groomers get skied out. Which, realistically, is most days on the mountain. Over the past two winters, I and a group of several dozen testers, who ranged in ability from average to expert, tried dozens of skis from 25 manufacturers, looking for boards that always felt solid. Five skis stood out, and I’ve written about them below. Our favorite was the Völkl Secret. It’s comfortable in most snow conditions and types of terrain, solid at speed, big enough to float in soft snow, and edgy when conditions are firm. But most of all, the Secret is really, really fun to ski. Our Favorite Ski (Courtesy Völkl) The Völkl Secret ($825) Versatility is the Secret’s most notable quality. The Secret’s, well, secret is what Völkl calls Titanal frame construction: one full sheet of Titanal (essentially jacked-up aluminum) sandwiched between a horseshoe-shaped piece of the same material that runs along the edges, which gives the ski the rebound energy and power of a full-metal ski without the heft. It has lightweight carbon in the tip, which we found reduced swing weight but didn’t feel chattery or unstable. The Secret is 92 millimeters underfoot and has a short, 16-meter turn radius in the 163-centimeter length. Some skiers found that it gravitated toward that size of turn, and if you spend most of your time in soft snow, you might want something wider, like the Elan Ripstick (reviewed below). But most of our testers thought it was intuitive to ski and easy to understand without being wimpy. The more you push it into railed turns or unforgiving snow, the more it performs, which is why we think it’s an ideal ski for a wide range of skiers. Testers found that they could lean into the tip and lay the Secret over, or make mellow swish turns and still feel the ski respond under their feet. It’s not going to overpower you, but you’re not going to easily overpower it, either. “This ski could translate to any level, but experts will be able to take it up a notch and use it to its full potential,” said one tester. Another called it precise and powerful in all conditions, from stiff groomers to off-piste chop. It has a big camber pocket—when you lay the Secret on flat ground, the area under the binding will be raised up—which let it feel comfortable in a lot of turn shapes. It’s damp and stable without being dead, and most of all, it’s fun and intuitive to ski. Best Frontside Ski (Courtesy Blizzard) Blizzard Black Pearl 88 ($599) The Black Pearl 88 has been the bestselling women’s ski in the world for the past four years, and it’s on track to be the most-sold ski in history. You don’t get that much market traction without good reason. It’s clear that Blizzard has put time, energy, and thoughtful engineering into its women’s ski line. In the Black Pearl, Blizzard moved the sidecut forward to help lighter skiers carve through turns, and it reduced weight without sacrificing dampness. The Black Pearl 88 has a core of beech and poplar wood, with two layers of fiberglass and a carbon frame, and except for a plate under the mounting points, it doesn’t have any metal. That mix results in a ski that feels unusually well-balanced both in terms of swing weight—it felt so natural on hill that some testers said they forgot about it—and how it manages different styles of skiing. You can lean into it and give it as much gas as you want on groomers, but it’s also stable at slower speed. The 159-centimeter length has a 14.5-meter turn radius, but, unlike some of the other skis we tested, it’s comfortable making other turn shapes. “It has a harmonic blend of flex and sidecut,” one tester said. Others noted that it was predictable in mixed conditions and had a big sweet spot in lots of different turn shapes. At 88 millimeters underfoot, it’s skinnier than a lot of the other skis we lump into the all-mountain category, which means you lose some float when the snow gets deep or variable. Still, it more than makes up for it in chop or on groomers, where it’s stable, responsive, and not easily deflected. Some testers didn’t love the way the tip dove in deep conditions, so if you’re skiing deep, heavy snow on a regular basis—in the Northwest, for example—this might not be your ski. For almost anyone else who is looking for a frontside-focused ski, it’s hard to do better than the Black Pearl. Best All-Mountain Powder Ski (Courtesy Elan) Elan Ripstick 102 W ($800) For western skiers who spend a lot of time looking for freshies but want a ski that’s not just soft-snow specific, we found the Ripstick 102 to be extremely well-balanced. It was one of the widest skis we tested in this category, but it’s stable and maneuverable and didn’t take a lot of energy to initiate a turn. Testers said it was as easy to roll on edge as a skinnier ski, like the Völkl Secret, and energetic once it was there. That versatility comes from the ski’s unique asymmetrical profile. They’re right and left specific, with more camber on the inside edge (this means a more effective edge for stability and grip, which we found handled well on steeper terrain) and increased rocker on the outside edge for better float in deep powder. A wood core with longitudinal carbon rods gives it torsional stability. “It’s damp and forgiving with an even, smooth flex,” one tester said. Some skiers found the Ripstick a little sluggish in shorter-radius turns, but it was easy to butter and smear around in variable conditions and happy in wide GS turns, even on solid snow. At 102 in the waist, it’s not the fattest powder ski of all time, but the lightened-up 132-millimeter tip planes easily without diving, and we think that actually gives it more utility. Instead of a one-trick, deep-snow-specific ski, it’s a solid and versatile all-mountain model that just happens to float particularly well. Best Playful Freeride Ski (Courtesy Black Crows) Black Crows Daemon Birdie ($980) One tester called the Daemon Birdie a “strong freeride charger.” Design wise, it is the most uniquely shaped ski we tested; it’s fully rockered without any camber underfoot, a design choice you’ll usually only see in fat powder skis. But the Daemon Birdie is only 99 millimeters underfoot, putting it right in all-mountain territory. It has a poplar core with a tapered Titinal plate at the binding mount point, making it light and flexible in the tip and tail but stiff underfoot and giving it a big sweet spot for variable-radius turns. The upshot of this design is that the Daemon Birdie is loose and playful, surfy in softer snow, easy to direct in crud, and well-suited to pivoty turns in bumps. For skiers who come from a traditional race-bred background, it won’t be the most intuitive ski, and it doesn’t shine on firm groomers. And because of the elongated rocker, it can be hard to release the tails and break it out of turns once it’s on edge. In general, it benefits from being skied upright instead of driven through the tips like a race ski. But if your style is playful, it’s fun and nimble, easy to shut down or smear, and solid at speed in variable snow. Best Backcountry Crossover (Courtesy Salomon) Salomon Lumen 99 ($599) If you expect to ski both lift-serviced and backcountry terrain, and you don’t want to be switching skis, we recommend the powerful and light Lumen 99. The Lumen 99 is built with a light poplar core and a laminate made of interwoven carbon and flax, with Koroyd in the tips. (Koroyd is a manufactured honeycomb-shaped material, which Salomon says reduces vibration.) The resulting ski is light, tours well, and has enough dampness and stability to make both resort laps and off-piste terrain easy and graceful. It’s balanced underfoot and easy to push through the tip and tail. A long effective edge means the ski favors long radius turns but also keeps it from feeling grabby in the kind of variable, wonky snow you might find in the backcountry. That said, one of our testers, a skier with a racing background, didn’t feel comfortable leaning into it at high speeds and found it floppy in firm conditions. “More of a soft-snow tool,” another said. But if you’re going to be splitting your time between the ski hill and the backcountry, the Lumen is capable on the downhill and relatively painless to schlep on the up. Paired with Salomon’s new DIN-certified pin binding, the Shift, it’s a one-ski option for skiers who want to spend time both in and out of the resort chasing untouched snow. Fortunately, women’s skis have mostly moved beyond the era of noodly lady skis with flower-spangled graphics. A lot of brands are making really good skis, and sometimes picking a favorite feels like splitting hairs, though some brands are better than others. Industry wide, most engineers are still dudes, so we’re still trying to skim the cream off the top of the crop. But aside from our five standouts, a few others caught our attention. (Courtesy K2) K2 Talkback 96 ($699) A combination of paulownia, carbon, and titanium in the core keeps the Talkback light and easy to turn. Some testers found it skittery at high speeds and on hard snow, but if you’re focused on uphill skiing and finding soft snow, one tester called it a “one-ski quiver for the backcountry.” (Courtesy Nordica) Nordica Santa Ana 93 ($650) Two sheets of metal and a balsa-wood core in the Santa Ana are a lightened-up nod to Nordica’s racing heritage. They take some muscle to get into a turn, but once they’re there, testers said they were crisp and snappy with tenacious edge bite, especially in carvy GS turns. “You control them, and they give back,” one said. (Courtesy Atomic) Atomic Vantage 97 C W ($499) The most common adjective testers used to describe Vantage 97 was “smooth.” The poplar and carbon ski isn’t particularly poppy or lively, but it reliably busts through crud and consistently makes every turn shape. (Courtesy Line) Line Pandora 94 ($499) The Pandora 94 won favor for being mellow and solid. Directional rocker—three millimeters in the tip and two in the tail—means it planes well in soft snow and rolls out of turns easily, making it a good ski to help freeride-oriented skiers progress. How We Picked the Best Women’s All-Mountain Skis We conducted this test over two seasons, beginning last winter when Outside ski testers Marc Peruzzi and Heather Schultz met with reps from 25 ski companies and tested dozens of models in Snowbird, Utah. This winter I expanded on that testing, sampling another eight pairs of skis while touring ski towns in the western U.S. We wanted to put the skis through a range of conditions, turn shapes, and terrain, and our testers come from a wide range of skiing backgrounds. What to Know Before Buying Skis All-mountain skis are going to be the ones you reach for the most, even if you already have a whole quiver. They’re the ones that are capable in conditions ranging from morning freshies to firm afternoon groomers. For this review, we asked Tracy Gibbons, a former U.S. Ski Team member and the current president and hard-goods buyer at Sturtevant Sports, how she helps women select all-mountain skis. First, Gibbons says, she starts with a question from the movie Office Space: “What is it you’d say that you do here?” Do a little self-analysis, and think about utility before you think about what might be new and cool. Consider the type of terrain you like to ski, the terrain you aspire to ski, as well as the kinds of turns you tend to make—quick short ones, long cruisers, smears, or carves. If most of your ski days are in New Hampshire, it probably doesn’t make sense to invest in a fat ski right off the bat, and if you like railing GS turns, a soft freeride-oriented ski is going to feel like Jell-O underfoot. There’s no best ski, but there are skis that are better suited to different kinds of skiing, and there’s no reason to fight what you like. Gibbons says that women have a tendency to understate their skills, so those questions are also a key to figuring out true ability level, which influences ideal ski length and stiffness. And there are some old myths that date back to the days of straight skis that she’s trying to break down, like the idea that beginners need tiny skis. “For length, I encourage gals to not go too short,” she says. “Skis that are too short don’t typically instill confidence and stability.” A lot of people focus too much on weight, Gibbons says, which doesn’t make a ton of difference in all-mountain skis, especially if you’re predominantly skiing from chairlifts. Aside from superlight touring skis or metal race skis—neither of which we’d call all-mountain—weight won’t be the first thing you’ll notice in performance. “Physical weight of the skis and bindings may play a part in a decision, but it definitely shouldn’t be the only factor in selecting the right skis,” she says. Gibbons says one of the trickiest parts of her job, regardless of a skier’s gender, is communicating how certain features of a ski will behave once the ski is on snow and how those features play out for the skier. During the buying process, there’s also some common vocabulary that will help explain how design affects performance. Camber: If you lie a ski flat on the ground, camber is the arch under the midsection. When you carve a ski into a turn, a cambered ski distributes the weight along the edge, increasing your effective surface. It’s like the suspension of your car; it keeps you in contact with the road. Rocker: A fully rockered ski will only make contact with the snow underfoot when it isn’t weighted. When it is, it takes the shape of the runners of a rocking chair, which helps keep the tips from diving in deep snow but at the expense of lost edge contact on harder snow. Most skis these days will have a combination of camber and rocker in the tip, tail, or both to try to give the ski both grip and float. Rocker can also be called early rise, tip rise, or, confusingly, reverse camber. Sidecut: The way a ski is shaped wider in the tip and tail and curved in at the waist allows for edge contact when you’re in a turn. That specific shape, the sidecut, dictates the ski’s turning radius, usually shown in meters. A ski with a longer and flatter sidecut will make bigger turns. Some skis these days will have a variable radius, thanks to tapered tips or different points of contact along the ski’s edges, which are designed to let the skier vary their turn shape. 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__label__wiki	0.690146	0.690146	Bulgarian Food Safety Agency confirms ASF outbreak at industrial pig farm in Silistra Written by The Sofia Globe staff on July 30, 2019 in Bulgaria - Comments Off on Bulgarian Food Safety Agency confirms ASF outbreak at industrial pig farm in Silistra The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency said on July 30 that it had confirmed, through laboratory tests, a new outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) at an industrial pig farm in the village of Popina in the Silistra district. The affected pig farm holds 17 000 animals. This is the fourth case of a confirmed outbreak of African Swine Fever at an industrial farm in Bulgaria and the first in the Silistra district. Measures have been taken to control and eliminate the disease in accordance with the rules of European and Bulgarian legislation and the Emergency Control Plan for ASF, the agency said. Enforced humane killing and disposal of all infected pigs, and pigs in contact with them, at the affected site, as well as of pigs in the risk zone that have “unclear health status and origin” would proceed. The agency also confirmed a new outbreak of African Swine Fever in domestic pigs in the town of Byala in the Rousse district at private farms that held nine unregistered pigs. The settlement was within the 10km monitoring zone set up on July 16 after a confirmed outbreak of ASF at a farm in the village of Pet Kladentsi in Byala municipality. A new case of African Swine Fever was also detected in six wild pigs in Svishtov municipality, Veliko Turnovo district, the Food Safety Agency said. The agency issued its latest reminder that ASF spreads easily and the virus is very persistent, and that disposal of carcasses should done in accordance with the law. Bulgarian National Television reported on July 30 that in Rousse, the district most affected by African Swine Fever, demand for chicken and fish is growing. A large hypermarket in the Bulgarian city on the Danube has terminated its pork supply contract with one of the industrial farms where there had been an outbreak of ASF. Although the price of pork was not increasing dramatically, large food chains in Rousse were seeing an increase in chicken and fish sales. The price of a kilogram of pork in Bulgarian in 2018 averaged 7.25 leva, according to the National Statistical Institute. It is currently, at bulk prices, about 7.79 leva, having risen from 7.60 leva a week earlier, having in turn risen from 7.41 leva a week before that. Bulgaria’s authorities say there is no alternative to mass culling of pigs where outbreaks of ASF have been confirmed. Current unofficial estimates are that close to 100 000 pigs either have been culled or are to be. Bulgaria is said to have about 550 000 to 600 000 pigs. Pork accounts for about 80 per cent of the meat consumed in Bulgaria. Most of the pork is imported, against a background of rising pork prices on world markets, the result in part of large-scale outbreaks of ASF in China and much of South East Asia. ASF is not dangerous to humans, but its rapid spread is seen as potentially devastating to pig populations. Losses to Bulgaria’s pig farming industry could run into hundreds of millions of leva, putting jobs and livelihoods at risk. Bulgaria’s Association of Meat Processors has said that unless the ASF outbreaks are countered, the price of pork in Bulgaria could increase by 50 per cent by the end of 2019. (Map: Bulgarian Food Safety Agency) Pork price in Bulgaria has gone up 33% since ASF outbreak Bulgarian meat processors: Record increase in pork price in 2019 African Swine Fever: Bulgaria imposes countrywide ban on transport of pigs Bulgaria’s Food Safety Agency confirms four new outbreaks of African Swine Fever	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1241
__label__wiki	0.675862	0.675862	830-629-1572 \| Open Wednesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Around the Sophienburg Policies and Fees Damas y Caballeros: West End Memories Memories of Easter Visitor Archive History To You Lindheimer’s Texas Sophie’s Shop at Wurstfest Sophienburg Museum and Archives > Blog > rainfall “Just a Grand Place to make a Living and a Grand Place to Live” Around the Sophienburg, Sophienblog By Keva Boardman, Sophienburg Curator When the New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce published a new brochure in the 1960s, they (rightfully) had a lot to boast about. New Braunfels was just beginning its change from a small town to a large town. Today, our community is changing from a large Brenda Anderson-Lindemann’s new book a real treasure By Myra Lee Adams Goff Recently Brenda Anderson-Lindemann released her new book, “Bridging Spring Branch and Comal County, Texas.” What an interesting collection of true family stories of the people living in that area back to the early 1850s. Some of the subjects that she covers are rural schools and Rededication of German pioneers marker at Canyon Lake By Myra Lee Adams Goff Next Saturday, March 28th at 11:00 a.m. a rededication of an historical marker will take place at the Canyon Dam Overlook. All are invited to view this beautiful view of the lake and dam. This site which was originally honored in 1968 with a Texas Famous trees in Comal County By Myra Lee Adams Goff In the Central Lowlands, the Hills, and Edwards Plateau, where Comal County is located, the average rainfall is 28 inches a year. Along with elevation and content of soil, these conditions determine the types of trees that grow in the area. New Braunfels was once Drought, floods, and war affect Comal County Fair By Myra Lee Adams Goff There were only three times in the long history of the Comal County Fair that the fair was postponed. Two times had to do with weather and one time had to do with war. The very first fair was scheduled to be held in November Wednesday-Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Location — Google Map 401 W. Coll St. (Entrance on Academy Avenue) New Braunfels, Texas 78130 Virtuellen Weihnachtsmarkt (November 19-21, 2021) See you online in 2021! Thanks to all of the 2020 Weihnachtsmarkt Sponsors! $5,000 Riverstone Advisors, LLC $2,500 Tammy & Jeff Albrecht Goff Family The… Thank You, Weihnachtsmarkt Sponsors Thank You, Corporate Verein Members © Copyright Sophienburg Museum and Archives. Other content copyright the respective owners. Your ticket for the: “Just a Grand Place to make a Living and a Grand Place to Live” We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we assume that you consent.Continue	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1245
__label__wiki	0.993692	0.993692	Abroad Spain halts extradition of Turkish-Swedish writer Hamza Yalçın Spain halts extradition of Turkish-Swedish writer Hamza Yalçın The Spanish government on Friday decided not to extradite Hamza Yalçın, a Turkish-Swedish reporter and writer who was taken into custody in Barcelona over an Interpol red notice requested by Turkey last month for alleged terrorism links. According to an AP report, government spokesman Inigo Mendez de Vigo said the process against Yalçın had been dropped because under Spanish law a person who has been granted refugee status cannot be extradited. He said Yalçın was granted asylum twice by Sweden and then acquired Swedish nationality in 2006. “I was really happy” when I heard it, the 59-year-old Yalçın was quoted as saying by Sweden’s TT news agency. “It feels incredibly good.” “I welcome the Spanish decision not to extradite Hamza Yalçın to Turkey,” Sweden’s Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said in a statement on Friday, adding that Yalçın, who fled to Sweden in 1984, was now free and could return to his family. Yalçın was arrested Aug. 3 in Barcelona but was conditionally released by the National Court. On Aug. 24, Spain also released German-Turkish writer Doğan Akhanlı, who was detained in Spain on a Turkish warrant for alleged involvement with an outlawed group. (turkishminute.com)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1254
__label__cc	0.637896	0.362104	Overload control facility saves roads – and lives 5Jul2018 SANRALauthor3723views0comments Extensive overloading of trucks on the N2 restricted by dedicated staff who weigh and check trucks for road-worthiness. Damage to roads because of overloading leads to higher maintenance and repair costs and shortens the life of a road. The Eteza Traffic Control Centre on the N2 in northern KwaZulu-Natal is helping curb the overloading of trucks that has resulted in a marked deterioration in the condition of the province’s road network. This in turn places an additional burden on the state as well as law abiding road users who ultimately carry the costs of careless and inconsiderate overloading. At the overload control facility at Eteza, heavy vehicles of more than five tons gross mass are weighed. Drivers of heavy vehicles will be issued a fine if the vehicle exceeds the permissible mass on gross mass and/or axle unit mass. The overload control facility is also used to inspect the roadworthiness of vehicles on a 24-hour basis. Eteza processes 200 trucks a day Behind a large screen in the control room, Samkelisiwe Ndebele watches trucks awaiting their turn on the weigh-in scale. Satisfied that the next truck is now ready to be weighed, she speaks into the microphone: “Driver, please move forward.” The truck roars forward and stops on the scale where Ndebele and colleagues have an unobstructed view through a large glass window. Once she is satisfied with the reading on the computer, she clears the truck to proceed. This is one of the main duties performed at the centre, which processes an average of 200 trucks each day. “Weighing the trucks helps the community at large by taking over-loaded trucks off the roads as they often are the cause of accidents. That is how we are trying to limit the problem that we are faced with,” said Ndebele. Peter Phiri, a truck driver bound for Johannesburg from Richards Bay, said: “The facility at Eteza ensures that we comply and carry the permissible load. I don’t have any problem with the service here. They are quick to take your particulars and weigh your truck.” David Makhoba, manager of the traffic control centre, which employs 23 people, said apart from weighing trucks, the roadworthiness of vehicle was also checked. Steven Sipho Nkosi, superintendent of the traffic police in Mtubatuba, said they worked closely with the Eteza traffic control centre to help enforce the law on the roads, particularly the busy N2. “The common offences are speeding, drunken driving, operating unroadworthy and unlicensed motor vehicles. “The traffic centre has helped to reduce overloading of vehicles, which damages the roads. The humps on the roads caused by overloading lead to accidents because people lose control of the vehicles due to the bad road conditions.”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1256
__label__wiki	0.864654	0.864654	Road America Pre-Race Notebook John Dagys’ pre-race notebook from Road America… Photo: Brian Cleary/BCPix.com *The Mercedes-AMG GT3 could make its North American debut at Petit Le Mans in October. Multiple sources have indicated to Sportscar365 that the German manufacturer is evaluating an effort for the 10-hour season finale at Road Atlanta. It’s unclear what team would run the car, although multiple teams, including Riley Motorsports, have been linked to a possible 2017 GTD program. Dane Cameron led the way in warmup, having posted a best lap of 1:56.190 in his No. 31 Action Express Racing Corvette DP. Colin Braun (PC), Joey Hand (GTLM) and Lawson Aschenbach (GTD) led their respective classes in the 20-minute session. A number of cars have been moved to the rear of the field for this afternoon’s race due to technical infractions, including both BMW Team RLL BMW M6 GTLM entries, the No. 7 Starworks Motorsport Oreca FLM09 and the No. 67 Ford GT. Click Here for the revised grid. A decision on Cooper MacNeil’s co-driver in the No. 22 WeatherTech-backed Porsche 911 GT3 R for the remainder of the season has not yet been made. Team owner Alex Job told Sportscar365 they tried to bring Shane van Gisbergen in this weekend, but the Kiwi had prior commitments. Van Gisbergen cannot take part in the next two rounds due to clashes with the Australian Supercars Championship, while Porsche Junior Sven Mueller, who was drafted in this weekend at the last minute, has a Porsche Supercup race at Spa-Francorchamps on the VIR weekend. Job said the No. 77 WeatherTech Porsche is a one-off entry and will not take part in any remaining rounds. He also ruled it out for January’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, in what will be another single-car WeatherTech effort with four drivers. Saturday’s annual auction for Camp Anokijig raised more then $26,400 toward the youth camp located just miles from Road America. Corvette Racing crew chief Dan Binks is part owner of the property with his father, and both are former campers. Corvette Racing Program Manager Doug Fehan served as the auctioneer with assistance from Binks, Corvette Racing/Team Chevy team members and many of the Corvette Corral volunteers. Be sure to download Andy Blackmore’s official Spotter Guide for today’s race, featuring all 41 entries for the ninth round of the WeatherTech Championship. **FOX Sports 1 will carry live coverage of the Continental Tire Road Race Showcase, beginning at 4 p.m. ET. IMSA Radio will provide full coverage, with international viewers able to watch the race feed on IMSA.tv and on-board cameras for everyone. Related TopicsfeaturedRoad AmericaIMSAbreaking More in WeatherTech Championship VIDEO: A Lap of Road America With Joey Hand Corvette Sneaks Through for GTLM Win at Road America	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1257
__label__cc	0.639147	0.360853	Northern Colorado vs Montana State College Basketball Picks, Odds, Predictions 1/9/21 Photo by Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports Randy Chambers January 8, 2021 7:48 pm Montana State Bobcats (4-3) at Northern Colorado Bears (5-5) College Basketball: Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 2:00 pm (Bank of Colorado Arena) The Line: Northern Colorado Bears -2 -- Over/Under: 139 Click to Get Latest Betting Odds TV: Pluto Stream College Basketball all season on ESPN+. Sign up now! The Montana State Bobcats and Northern Colorado Bears meet Saturday in college basketball action at the Bank of Colorado Arena. The Montana State Bobcats look for a win after splitting their last six games. The Montana State Bobcats are averaging 80.4 points on 45.8 percent shooting and allowing 72 points on 39.7 percent shooting. Xavier Bishop is averaging 16.7 points and four rebounds while Amin Adamu is averaging 13.8 points and 2.5 assists. Jubrile Belo is the third double-digit scorer and Nick Gazelas is dishing 0.9 assists. The Montana State Bobcats are shooting 37.6 percent from beyond the arc and 77.6 percent from the free throw line. The Montana State Bobcats are allowing 34.9 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 33.1 rebounds per game. The Northern Colorado Bears look for a win after losing three of their last four games. The Northern Colorado Bears are averaging 69.6 points on 45.6 percent shooting and allowing 67.8 points on 43.6 percent shooting. Bodie Hume is averaging 17.4 points and 1.8 assists while Daylen Kountz is averaging 14.8 points and four rebounds. Matt Johnson is the third double-digit scorer and Kur Jockuch is grabbing 6.2 rebounds. The Northern Colorado Bears are shooting 36 percent from beyond the arc and 65.2 percent from the free throw line. The Northern Colorado Bears are allowing 30.9 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 35.6 rebounds per game. The Bears are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 home games and 6-1 ATS in their last 7 Saturday games. The over is 6-1 in Bobcats last 7 overall. The under is 4-1 in Bears last 5 overall. The road team is 5-0 ATS in the last 5 meetings. The Montana State Bobcats have the offensive horses to hang in this game, but their effort this season has been hit or miss and they usually crumble in big games. The Northern Colorado Bears are in a bit of a funk lately, but they're easily the more balanced team here and it's not easy to beat the same team twice in a short span. I'll lay the bucket with Northern Colorado in a bounce back victory. Randy’s Pick Northern Colorado Bears -2 Miami-Ohio vs Northern Illinois College Basketball Picks, Odds, Predictions 1/9/21 Hampton vs UNC Asheville College Basketball Picks, Odds, Predictions 1/9/21 AUTHOR: Randy Chambers Randy has covered sports betting since 2014 and writes about everything from NFL to WNBA. Follow Randy Chambers on Twitter @WizardOf0dds	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1258
__label__wiki	0.845156	0.845156	The effect of experimental fascioliasis on the pharmacokinetics of antipyrine and sulphadimidine in desert sheep H. A. Elsheikh*, B. H. Ali Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacy Healthy adult male desert sheep were experimentally infected with Fasciola gigantica, to investigate the influence of experimental fasciolasis on the pharmacokinetics of antipyrine and sulphadimidine. Each animal received 500 metacercariae orally. The experimental infection was confirmed histologically, by detection of Fasciola eggs in faeces and by measuring the activities of the enzymes sorbitol dehydrogenase (SD), glutamate dehydrogenase (GD) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) in plasma during the course of the disease. Changes in the pharmacokinetics of antipyrine and sulphadimidine were reported in the experimentally infected animals. Significant prolongation of antipyrine half life was observed 16 weeks after infection. The half-life of sulphadimidine was also significantly prolonged 5, 9 and 16 weeks after infection. Clearance of the sulphonamide was decreased significantly 5 and 9 weeks after infection and it regained its pre-infection value 16 weeks after infection. Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics veterinary(all) 10.1111/j.1365-2885.1997.tb00091.x Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'The effect of experimental fascioliasis on the pharmacokinetics of antipyrine and sulphadimidine in desert sheep'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Fascioliasis Medicine & Life Sciences antipyrine Agriculture & Biology sulfamethazine Agriculture & Biology Antipyrine Medicine & Life Sciences fascioliasis Agriculture & Biology deserts Agriculture & Biology Sheep Medicine & Life Sciences Elsheikh, H. A., & Ali, B. H. (1997). The effect of experimental fascioliasis on the pharmacokinetics of antipyrine and sulphadimidine in desert sheep. Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 20(3), 167-172. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2885.1997.tb00091.x The effect of experimental fascioliasis on the pharmacokinetics of antipyrine and sulphadimidine in desert sheep. / Elsheikh, H. A.; Ali, B. H. In: Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Vol. 20, No. 3, 1997, p. 167-172. Elsheikh, HA & Ali, BH 1997, 'The effect of experimental fascioliasis on the pharmacokinetics of antipyrine and sulphadimidine in desert sheep', Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 167-172. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2885.1997.tb00091.x Elsheikh HA, Ali BH. The effect of experimental fascioliasis on the pharmacokinetics of antipyrine and sulphadimidine in desert sheep. Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 1997;20(3):167-172. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2885.1997.tb00091.x Elsheikh, H. A. ; Ali, B. 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__label__wiki	0.928287	0.928287	In a First, China Launches Canadian Satellite for Kepler Communications Marc Boucher January 19, 2018 Business, News 2 Comments Launch on January 2018 of China's Long March 11 carrying the Kepler Communications satellite. Credit: Xinhua. For the first time a Canadian satellite has been launched by China. Kepler Communications, a Toronto based startup, had its first satellite launched today as secondary payload on a Long March 11 rocket. Canadian satellites have previously flown on American, Russian and Indian launch vehicles. Kepler CEO Mina Mitry holding the CubeSat bus before assembly. Credit: Kepler Communications. This was the third launch of China’s Long March 11 (CZ-11), a four stage solid-propellant rocket reportedly derived from a Chinese ICBM. The primary payloads were two remote sensing satellites for China, Jilin-1 07 and Jilin-1 08, along with several secondary CubeSat’s from China and Kepler’s Communications 3U CubeSat. Prior to the launch SpaceQ contacted Kepler Communications CEO, Mina Mitry, to confirm if their satellite was scheduled to launch on the Chinese launch vehicle. Mitry would not confirm the launch saying “at this time we’re not commenting on our launches to protect our commercial interests.” SpaceQ could not confirm from any reliable sources whether the satellite was indeed manifested on the Long March 11 mission. China does not publish much information prior to a launch and generally only releases video after the launch has been deemed a success. SpaceQ had learned that Kepler signed a launch contract with the China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) last summer for a launch on a Long March 11, which at the time was originally scheduled for November of 2017. However, Kepler would not confirm the launch contract. Kepler has yet to confirm to SpaceQ it was a customer on today’s China’s Long March 11 launch, however CGWIC released a statement confirming that they had indeed launched Kepler’s satellite. Unlike its previous launch contract for a launch on a future Indian PSLV rocket, Kepler did not announce the contract with CGWIC. Kepler reportedly used Innovative Space Logistics of the Netherlands to broker the launch. Clyde Space of Scotland had been contracted to build Kepler’s first two satellites. Kepler did inform SpaceQ its second satellite will be launched in the second half of this year. Kepler Waits for the FCC While Kepler is celebrating the launch of its first satellite, it still has hurdles to clear before its constellation of satellites is providing customers with its services. That includes getting its spectrum license approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Kepler met with the FCC on December 4, 2017 to discuss its application. Kepler noted that ISED had granted Kepler a license for its full constellation and that Kepler’s launch was imminent “in the coming weeks”. Kepler also informed the FCC “that its earth stations are on schedule to be operational within the coming weeks and that the system should be ready for commercial operation in the first quarter of 2018.” Kepler is still waiting on the FCC’s decision. China Wants More International Customers In recent years China has become more aggressive in trying to capture a portion of the international commercial launch market. On January 2nd the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation announced that China plans on conducting 40 or more launches this year, almost doubling its best year in 2016 when they attempted 22 launches. Several of those launches will include foreign satellites. China has already completed four launches this year. With the door seemingly open for Canadian satellites to launch on Chinese launch vehicles, it probably won’t be long before another Canadian company signs up to launch with China. Tags China FCC Kepler Communications Long March 11 Previous The Humans to Mars Podcast Next New Robotic Hand Set for Installation on the International Space Station An introduction to China’s space economy – Part 2 An introduction to China’s space economy SpaceX Transporter-1 rideshare mission with Canadian satellites onboard slips to mid-January (Updated) Cannonkat Since when are corporations patriotic? They aren’t! windbourne Hopefully, the CA gov will blacklist Kepler’s com sats. Having the Chinese gov launch their SATs is an invite for cracking them.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1271
__label__wiki	0.842249	0.842249	Michael Chion The Voice in Cinema (1999) Translated by Claudia Gorbman How can a voice whose source is never seen—such as Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the mother of Norman Bates in Psycho—have such a powerful hold on an audience? When does "synchronized sound" fail to link bodies to their voices, and how do such great stylists of sound film as Jacques Tati, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Marguerite Duras deploy the power of the voice? In this brilliant essay, Michel Chion, internationally cited authority on the history and poetics of film sound, examines the human voice in cinema. The Voice in Cinema begins with the phenomenon of film's hidden, faceless voices and their magical powers, particularly in the context of Lang's Testament of Dr. Mabuse. Chion then explores subjective voices, bonding and entrapment by telephone, voice-thieves, screams (male and female), siren calls, and the silence of mute characters-all uniquely cinematic deployments. In conclusion, Chion considers "the monstrous marriage of the filmed voice and body" as embodied in Norman Bates. Claudia Gorbman's fluent translation retains Chion's sophisticated and accessible style, introducing readers to a distinct and paradigm-changing voice on film.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1272
__label__cc	0.503644	0.496356	Tag: Sport Social Magpies still feeling the effects of Covid outbreak ahead of Leicester game Posted on 1st January 2021 1st January 2021 by Ant McGinley Newcastle welcome Leicester on Sunday afternoon aiming for a 50th league win against The Foxes. The Magpies are currently on their longest Premier League winless run this season, so it’s a bad time to welcome to St James’ Park a side who have won on each of their past four league visits, plus both league meetings last season, scoring eight goals without reply. Leicester haven’t lost their opening league game of the year for 12 seasons and are boosted by the news that defender Jonny Evans has signed a new contract at the King Power. He could make an appearance alongside Caglar Soyuncu, who has not played in the Premier League since October. Magpies head coach Steve Bruce has no fresh selection problems but is still feeling the effects of the club’s coronavirus outbreak. Both skipper Jamaal Lascelles and striker Allan Saint-Maximin remain on the sidelines as they continue to recover, plus they’ll be without midfielder Ryan Fraser and Isaac Hayden, who is suspended. Leicester are expected to give a late fitness test to playmaker James Maddison, but Brendan Rodgers is expected to recall the majority of his key players at Newcastle. Wilfred Ndidi, Youri Tielemans, and Jamie Vardy were on the bench with Soyuncu last time out due to rotation, and are set to be back in the starting line up this weekend. The game kicks off at 215pm on Sunday afternoon. Newcastle boss Steve Bruce confirms two continuing Covid-19 cases at St. James’ Park Posted on 21st December 2020 21st December 2020 by Feargal Brennan Club captain Jamal Lascelles and star man Allan Saint-Maximin have been confirmed as the two players in question with Bruce stating he has no timescale on their expected return to action. The Magpies have been battling to contain an internal outbreak of the virus at their Darsley Park training base since the start of the month. That forced the postponement of their clash with Aston Villa on December 1 but the club has since stated they are confident the situation is now under control. And that’s latest your update from St. James’ Park check back in soon for more with the Sport Social.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1276
__label__wiki	0.940164	0.940164	SNY.tv Home The Juice on the Cuse Podcast Orange Watch [ January 15, 2021 ] Syracuse Orange v. Pittsburgh Panthers Prediction & Preview (1/16/21) Basketball [ January 15, 2021 ] Syracuse alumni Jerami Grant emerging as a premier NBA talent Basketball [ January 14, 2021 ] Orange Watch: Syracuse’s ACC report card incomplete at North Carolina Basketball [ January 14, 2021 ] Final ACC Power Rankings for the 2020-21 football season Football [ January 13, 2021 ] Tar Heels use muscle and height to overwhelm Syracuse, 81-75 Basketball HomeBasketballOrange Watch: The one opponent that will forever be linked with Syracuse basketball Orange Watch: The one opponent that will forever be linked with Syracuse basketball December 1, 2017 Brad Bierman Basketball, Orange Watch Saturday’s opponent, Kansas, will be indelibly linked to any Syracuse fan as the opponent in the 2003 national championship win Item: Certainly you might instantly think of Georgetown as the one all time rivalry connection to the modern era of Syracuse hoops during the 42 year Jim Boeheim run, and with good reason. There were so many famous games played among the 86 contests between SU and GU during the Big East days, and there’s still the heated competition during the current ACC era with the ‘Cuse still looking to beat the Hoyas for the first time in three tries in a couple of weeks (Dec. 16) in Washington. But first is the latest installment in what will be game six in the all time series against No. 2 ranked Kansas Saturday in Miami (5:30 p.m. ET / ESPN) to wrap up the Hoophall Invitational, with the Jayhawks eternally associated as the team Syracuse defeated to finally win a national championship in 2003. As we’ve written previously, the one basketball program on top of our wish list to make a first-ever Dome appearance is Kansas, the one team among the sport’s four Blue Bloods ahead of Syracuse with the most victories in college basketball history (we don’t count Temple being a spot ahead due to the 2015 NCAA infractions) never to play under the Teflon roof. The two programs have played at the historic Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, and in near-by Kansas City among the five previous games, but not on the SU campus. Perhaps that might occur before Jim Boeheim retires in the early 2020s if he and John Wildhack can coax a home-and-home series out of their counterparts, KU athletic director Sheahon Zenger and coach Bill Self who joined Boeheim in the Basketball Hall of Fame in September. For now it’s another neutral court meeting on Saturday, as we look back on the five previous games played between the two programs: 1968 – In the fifth game of the season, and following a game at Kansas State the day before, Syracuse was blown out 71-41 at the “Phog.” Center Bill Smith, who still holds the school record for the most points (47) in a game, was SU’s leading scorer in the defeat with 11 points. Also in the starting lineup was forward Bob Kouwe, uncle of The Juice podcast host and former Orange walk-on guard Andrew Kouwe, a member of the ’03 title team. » Related: How does Syracuse basketball look through six games compared to last year? 1996 – Following one of the most improbable comebacks in Syracuse NCAA history, beating Georgia in OT in the West Regional semifinals at Denver’s McNichols Sports Arena, the Orangemen’s 2-3 zone defense bewildered the Jayhawks into shooting just 4 of 25 from three point range (16%) to earn a trip to the school’s third Final Four with a 60-57 victory over No. 2 seed KU. Big men John Wallace and Otis Hill dominated underneath combining for 30 points, and the celebration included a postgame TV interview and sideline dance with the late Al McGuire, and the famous words from Wallace, ‘Cuse is in the House. Oh my God, Oh my God.” 2001 – One line apart as the No. 4 and 5 seeds, respectively, in the NCAA Midwest Regional opening rounds at Dayton, Kansas dominated the Orange on the glass (56-23 rebounding margin) and offensively in the second half (48 points) on route to an 87-58 blitz in the Round of 32. Following Boeheim’s 600th career victory two days earlier in an opening round win over Hawai’i, SU simply had no answer for a relentless KU team seeking to move into the Sweet 16 for the first time in three seasons. Preston Shumpert and DeShaun Williams each scored 20 points in the loss. 2003 – From the sweet pass by Carmelo Anthony to Craig Forth for the game’s first basket, to current assistant coach Gerry McNamara’s six treys in the first half, and finally to Hakim Warrick’s all time play blocking Michael Lee’s potential game-tying three-point shot with 1.5 seconds left, the ‘Cuse got “those four seconds” back from its 1987 title game loss to Indiana on the same Louisiana Superdome court to win its first NCAA Tournament championship. The 81-78 victory over Kansas set off a celebration never before experienced in central New York. 2008 – As part of the five game, beginning-of-the-season College Basketball Experience (CBE) Classic (which included an opening game 34 point win over LeMoyne at the Dome) Syracuse met Kansas in the championship game at Kansas City’s Sprint Center. Trailing most of the second half and down by 13 at one point in front of the partisan KU crowd, the Orange came roaring back. Jonny Flynn’s left side three-pointer with 6.4 seconds left in regulation forced overtime, and in OT it was all Orange, outscoring KU 17-9 to win 89-81. Flynn’s 25 points led a balanced ‘Cuse offense. For more Syracuse coverage, Like our Facebook page and follow us @TheJuiceOnline. The Juice Online Discussion Forum About Brad Bierman 705 Articles Now in his sixth decade of covering SU sports, Brad was sports director of WSYR radio for eight years into the early 1990s, then wrote the Orange Watch column for The Big Orange/The Juice print publication for 18 years. A Syracuse University graduate, Brad currently runs his own media consulting business in the Philadelphia suburbs. Follow him on Twitter @BradBierman. How does Syracuse basketball look through six games compared to last year? 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__label__wiki	0.771203	0.771203	Home Industry News Shows Triumph Moto2 Test Bike To Make Uk Public Debut At Goodwood Festival... Triumph Moto2 Test Bike To Make Uk Public Debut At Goodwood Festival Of Speed Triumph Motorcycles will run its Moto2™ test bike up the iconic hillclimb at the Goodwood Festival of Speed next month – the first time it will be seen in public in the UK. Ridden by four-time World Superbike champion Carl Fogarty and two-time Isle of Man TT winner Gary Johnson, this is the perfect opportunity for fans to see the future of the global race series with Triumph set to become exclusive engine supplier to Moto2™ from 2019. Both riders will also head up the storied Goodwood hill on a pair of classic racing bikes. Supplied by the National Motorcycle Museum, the first will be a Triumph Works 750cc from a batch of just three experimental models built in 1970 and winner of the 24-hour Bol D’Or endurance race in France that same year. It will feature alongside the ex-Mike Hailwood/Ray Pickrell 1971 works 750cc machine, which was responsible for a number of prominent victories that season, including three wins from six races in the Anglo-American Cup. It also competed at Daytona in the hands of Hailwood, and finished second in both the F750 Isle of Man TT race and UK Superbike series. All three bikes will go up the hill on Friday, Saturday and Sunday alongside the modern-day Speed Triple RS. Paul Lilly, General Manager, Triumph Motorcycles UK & Ireland, said: “We’re excited for people to see the new Moto2 test bike in action for the first time in the UK. This is the latest chapter in Triumph’s long-standing motorsport heritage and to have this bike star alongside the heritage models will be the perfect demonstration of this. We look forward to meeting everyone at the Triumph and National Motorcycle Museum stand across all four days.” For more information and to buy tickets for the Goodwood Festival of Speed: www.goodwood.com/flagship-events/festival-of-speed/. Previous articleMoto Guzzi V7 III Limited Unveiled At Wheels And Waves Next articleWin a VIP British Grand Prix Experience With Triumph http://superbike-news.co.uk New Triumph Dealership To Open In Dorset My Triumph Connectivity System Available Now on Street Triple and Tiger 800 Triumph Announce Dynavolt As Title Sponsor For 2021 British Supersport Team Triumph Street Triple R Review Celebrating the first-ever Motorcycle Live Online Triumph Motorcycles And PTR Racing To Partner In British Supersport Championship Get ballsy with GS Yuasa and OddBalls	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1280
__label__wiki	0.603036	0.603036	Home » Basketball » LeBron James hopes drinking wine will cure all of his problems LeBron James hopes drinking wine will cure all of his problems LeBron James joked he would try drinking wine upside down to avoid a repeat of his airball free throw during the Los Angeles Lakers’ victory over the Dallas Mavericks. Four-time NBA MVP James had 22 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds as the Lakers won 138-115 at Staples Center on Christmas Day, but his failure even to hit the rim with a shot from the stripe in the third quarter drew a lot of attention. The 35-year-old was cleared to face the Mavericks despite rolling his left ankle in the opening-day loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, which he playfully suggested he would treat in an unconventional way. “I’ll ice it, and I’ll drink some wine that will flow right to the ankle. I can make sure I can drink on the left side of my body so it just goes right down to my left leg, right down to my ankle,” James said at the time. He joked that his missed free throw was a negative side-effect and he would look to rectify that by changing the way he drinks. “I told you the other night when I drink the wine goes straight down to the left side of my body. Tonight, I shot the free throw with my right hand, so that had bad side-effects,” James said. “So I’ll see if I can drink some wine, if I can shoot it down to the right side of my body, maybe that’ll help with my free throws and give me a little more strength to where it doesn’t hit absolutely nothing. We’ll see what happens. Maybe I need to drink upside down tonight, maybe, vampire style. We’ll see.” The 16-time All-Star has now posted at least 20 points and 10 assists in four Christmas Day games, with only Oscar Robertson (seven) having more. However, James moved past Robertson for all-time points on December 25 by taking his tally to 383 in 15 appearances. Only Lakers great Kobe Bryant (395 points in 16 games) has more. But it was not just James doing the scoring against the Mavs. Anthony Davis had a game-high 28 points, Montrezl Harrel had 22 off the bench and Dennis Schroder and Kyle Kuzma put up 18 and 13 respectively. “That’s what the game called for, being well balanced. We had four guys who were basically in the 20s,” James said. “We have the ability to where we can have four, maybe five guys, scoring in the 20s. On any given night, as long as we’re sharing the ball, as long as we’re efficient, it’s a beautiful thing to see.” Schroder has reportedly begun talks with the Lakers over a contract extension, having turned down an initial offer before the start of the season. The point guard is in the final year of his existing deal and will become eligible for more years and money through an extension in February. Asked for his thoughts on prolonging his stay with the Lakers, Schroder said: “I would love to. It’s just got to be fair on both sides.” The NBA bubble is working, but the biggest safety test is imminent NBA Finals 2020: No one more reliable than LeBron James in a close-out game, says Jim Jackson ‘I probably could’ve made a better quality decision,’ Lou Williams says of Atlanta strip club visit NBA in talks to resume play at Disney complex Kevin Durant headlines NBA return NBA billionaire Mark Cuban loses $134 million over COVID-19 ← Saturday's NFL injury and roster news for Week 16 of 2020 season Utah star freshman RB Ty Jordan dies at 19 → Sources: LaMelo conducts workout for Wolves NBA Draft order by team: Complete list of picks for all 30 franchises in 2020 Pacers guard Malcolm Brogdon tests positive for COVID-19	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1283
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__label__wiki	0.884263	0.884263	Sydney Indian added a group తెలుగు వారందరికీ స్వాగతం .. added a post Mysterious green glow seen shooting across Australian night sky in Port Hedland, Western Australia, was an asteroid, Scientists say Experts had confirmed a bright green glow which shot across the sky in WA was likely a meteor. Video filmed by locals in Port Hedland, in the state's Pilbara region, showed the sky lit up with the ominous green object. The ominous glow was also seen by people in parts of Victoria and South Australia. Renee Sayers from Curtain University, which runs the meteor research group, Desert Fireball Network, believed it was only a small asteroid. "It was a beautiful blazing fireball and we probably expect it about the size of a washing machine or a chair up in the upper atmosphere," she told 9News. She added that researchers see them every night - though larger ones are only spotted a couple of times a year. Earlier today, other astronomers said they believed it could have been Asteroid 2002 NN4, which was scheduled to pass Earth about 11.20pm yesterday. That asteroid is estimated to be the size of six football fields, with estimated diameter of up to 570 metres, according to the Centre for Near Earth Object Studies. Despite being clearly visible, the asteroid was about 5.2 million kilometres away from our planet, 13 times further away than the moon, NASA says, so there was no risk of it hitting the Earth. NASA say these kinds of occurrences are pretty normal, with an asteroid estimated to be about the same size as 2002 NN4 passing us just last August, and experts at the time called it moderately sized. The biggest known asteroid that orbits the sun is a whopping 33 kilometres long, Lindley Johnson of NASA's Planetary Defence Coordination Office told CNN last year. Still, the probability of an asteroid actually hitting Earth is pretty slim -- occurring once every two or three centuries, Mr Johnson said at the time. In 2013, a meteor just 17 metres in diameter broke through the Earth's atmosphere over Russia. The meteor didn't actually make impact with the planet, but the blast still injured more than 1000 people. Being millions of kilometres away, that wasn't the case with 2002 NN4. The next time 2002 NN4 will be anywhere near this close to the Earth will be in June 2029. Source: www.9news.com.au India-Australia virtual summit wraps up with ‘Samosa-Khichdi’ diplomacy; Morrison misses ‘Modi hug’ After trying his hand on the crunchy samosas and delicious mango chutney, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday promised his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi that he will prepare Gujarati khichdi in his kitchen before their next meeting in person. The two leaders shared some lighter moments during the first-ever India-Australia virtual summit midst the COVID-19 pandemic. “It doesn’t surprise me, this is how (virtually) we’d continue to meet in these circumstances. You (PM Modi) are the one who started hologram in your campaigning many years ago, maybe next time we can have a hologram of you here,” he said, recalling Modi’s ‘hologram’ campaign ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The virtual summit was wrapped up with ”Samosa-Khichdi” diplomacy. “I thank you for the samosas….we had a lot of fun with it over the weekend,” Morrison said, referring to him making the samosas and tweeting about it. Morrison said he wished he could be there for what has become the famous ‘Modi hug’ and share his samosas with his Indian counterpart. “Next time, it will have to be the Gujarati khichdi. I will try that in the kitchen before next time we meet in person,” he said. Responding to Morrison, Prime Minister Modi said, “Your samosas have become a topic of discussion in India. As you spoke about khichdi, the Gujarati’s will be very happy to know this. There are so many Gujaratis settled in Australia. However, khichdi is a very common cuisine that is known by different names across the country.” Source: www.financialexpress.com Friends count: Followers count: · Sydney Indian	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1296
__label__wiki	0.560459	0.560459	How a New FDA Pilot Program Will Speed Up the Health Tech Industry Adam Rowe September 27th 2017 12:20 pm The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday its plans to launch a pilot program for nine top tech companies, allowing them to avoid a few regulations that have been slowing down the release of software and products within the health industry. In essence, they'll be able to cut the line. Apple, FitBit Inc., Samsung Electronics Co., Verily Life Sciences, Johnson & Johnson and Roche Holding AG are among the companies participating in the new program. “We need to modernize our regulatory framework so that it matches the kind of innovation we’re being asked to evaluate,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement reported by Bloomberg. Back in July, Gottlieb explained the concept for the program in more depth, saying “Historically, health care has been slow to implement disruptive technology tools that have transformed other areas of commerce and daily life.” Since Gottlieb took over as commissioner in May, Bloomberg reports, the FDA has been taking steps to streamline regulation and speed up the processes required to get new medical tools in the hands of customers. As Apple's recent special event noted, the Apple Watch Series 3 will have an improved ability to track vital signs on its wearer. Another project from Novartis AG and Alphabet's Verify aims to create a contact lens that monitors blood sugar levels. Under the new FDA pilot program, these processes and devices could be allowed on the market without the lengthy approval processes needed for medical technologies like pacemakers or a bionic hand. “Under the pilot,” as Bloomberg explains it, “the FDA will scrutinize digital health companies’ software and will inspect their facilities to ensure they meet quality standards and can adequately track their products once they’re on the market. If they pass the agency’s audits, the companies would be pre-certified and may face a less stringent approval process or not have to go through FDA approval at all.” A new FDA fast lane will speed up the rate that the health tech industry is able to impact the world, but will need to expand beyond just nine companies soon in order to avoid giving additional advantages only to those already dominating the health tech industry. The FDA is already planning a public workshop in January 2018 in order to help the more than 100 companies initially interested in the pilot program learn more about how to navigate the agency's process faster. Read more about health in the entrepreneur community here at TechCo Adam Rowe @AdamRRowe Adam is a writer at Tech.co and has worked as a tech writer, blogger and copy editor for the last decade. He's also a Forbes Contributor on the publishing industry (and Digital Book World 2018 award finalist) and has appeared in publications including Popular Mechanics and IDG Connect. When not glued to TechMeme, he loves obsessing over 1970s sci-fi art. The Best Phone Tech of CES 2021 Exciting new phones from Motorola and TCL take the stage at... Tom Fogden - 20 hours ago Samsung Galaxy S21 Series: Sleek, Shiny, and Pricey Samsung's new phones run the gamut from over-the-top to... Tom Fogden - 2 days ago CES 2021: The Best Laptops, Tablets, and Desktops CES is stacked with laptops, desktops, and tablets this... CES 2021: Best TV and Home Entertainment Tech With innovative products from the likes of Sony, LG, and...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1299
__label__wiki	0.789026	0.789026	Tees Biz Tees Business Events TV actress and model opens own café December 9, 2019 Martin Walker Featured, Redcar & Cleveland 0 Laura Pears at D'Dee's Cafe in Eston. Photograph: Stuart Boulton Model and TV actress Laura Pears has added ‘businesswoman’ to her job description after opening a café in her home town. The 30-year-old has opened her own Eston café, D’ Dee’s, which is named after her daughters – D’ for Danielle and Dee for Dekota. She has made the brave move after spending 11 months earning gaining qualifications through the council’s Youth Employment Initiative (YEI). The hard-working mum, who has lived in Grangetown, Whale Hill and South Bank, explained she has invested everything she has into the café and transformed a building on Eston High Street, on the town’s precinct. “I was up until 4.20am the night before our first day and walked back in at 6.20am for an 8.30am opening,” said Laura who has previously appeared in ITV’s Vera and BBC children’s show The Dumping Ground and is about to appear in an independent feature film, “It’s been full on ever since! “I’ve been up all hours but I don’t mind – I’m throwing absolutely everything I have into it. It’s taken a year of hard work and every penny I have and much more just to get to this stage.” Laura, a model who has been one of the ‘faces’ of Dalton Park shopping centre in County Durham as part of a three-year, advertising campaign with an advert due to be re-released, explained she was the YEI team’s longest client and the only one her YEI advisor who has gone into self-employment. “I had support getting lots of qualifications in food hygiene, business, health and safety, first aid, you name it. I also had great help with my business plan from Maria Lannon from support group, the Business Revolution and I’ve borrowed to get this place up to scratch. It was a right state. The builders were working on it right until the last minute. “My YEI advisor, Craig Dring, gave me a £50 voucher for ‘exceptional progress’ which I then invested in food for the café the week after we opened and I even borrowed £30 from my sister in Portugal to ensure we were properly stocked.” So far, the hard work is paying off. “We had customers right from day one,” said Laura, who explained she previously worked for Tom’s Café in the town for three years. “We need permission to put out boards to help spread the word more, but there’s nothing as good as word of mouth. We have really good, reasonably priced food – all homemade on the day including the chips! – and word is getting around. We even have a Victorian Jacket Potato machine which is very popular. The vision is to have a warm, inviting, family-friendly place to come and eat alone or with friends or family and this is my passion. “I’d like to thank Craig and the whole YEI team and the Council’s Business Growth Team for all their help. I couldn’t have got this far without them. I would recommend both teams to anyone.” Laura, who has appeared as an extra in TV shows including ITV’s Vera, has had grants from the Council’s High Street Support scheme and the Routes to Employment scheme. She has also had support from The Prince’s Trust. D’ Dee’s Cafe is available for food catering work and can be contacted on 07565346584. Find out more on her Facebook and Instagram sites on @ddeescafe If you’re aged 16 to 29 and not in employment, education or training call our advisors Steph, Craig or Lorraine on 01642 771246 or email YEI@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk Teesside charity having a ball after surge of Christmas generosity Worksurfaces supplier appoints new MD to drive growth plans Latest on Tees Biz All the winners from third annual Tees Businesswomen Awards Jane Armitage was crowned Businesswoman of the Year, there was a posthumous Outstanding Contribution Award for Julie Donaldson and Annalice Argyle completed her comeback from […] £20,000 personal donation to back mayor’s digital poverty fight Andy Preston has thanked a local business owner for an “incredibly generous” £20,000 personal donation to help local children who are missing out on their […] CPI collaborates with Syngenta to develop methods to support crop protection products CPI has completed a collaborative project with leading agriculture company Syngenta to develop purification methods for novel crop protection products. To help ensure food security, […] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47tzxOS5iag	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1304
__label__wiki	0.886071	0.886071	Home » Drama » Andrew Scott’s Hamlet headed to BBC2 this Easter Andrew Scott’s Hamlet headed to BBC2 this Easter On: March 23, 2018, By: Bill Young At long last, the televised version of the London stage play, Hamlet starring Andrew Scott, is headed to BBC2 on Saturday, 31 March. Scott, who was introduced to the masses with his brilliant portrayal of Jim Moriarty in Sherlock, recently followed in some pretty big footsteps of those who have previously played the Prince of Denmark including Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant and Tom Hiddleston. After a sellout 2017 run at the Almeida Theatre in London, Olivier Award-winning director Robert Icke’s staging of Hamlet set in a modern-day Denmark transferred to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End in mid-2017. (C) Almeida Theatre – Photographer: Manuel Harlan The Sherlock actor, who took the character of Jim Moriarty to levels that most Sherlock Holmes fans have never seen before, stars alongside Angus Wright (Peep Show), Downton Abbey‘s Jessica Brown Findlay and Juliet Stevenson (Accused) in Hamlet. The combination of Scott’s performance, which has been called ‘utterly thrilling’ and a ‘set in modern day Denmark’ adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy, affords the opportunity for both a wide and diverse audience when it transmits on BBC2 this Easter eve. Remembering the sheer intensity that Andrew Scott brought to Moriarty, one can only imagine the heights he takes Hamlet to when it becomes time to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius, after he murders his own brother, seizes the throne and then marrying his deceased brother’s widow. Hamlet with Andrew Scott airs on BBC2 on 31st March at In: Drama Andrew Scott goes from Moriarty to Hamlet in 2017 Ok, David Tennant, what did you do with Shakespeare’s head? ‘Late Night’ gold as Stephen Colbert and David Tennant cross paths Good & Evil join forces to avert the Apocalypse in ‘Good Omens’ from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Hamlet with Benedict Cumberbatch – coming to a theatre near you, Oct 15, via NTLive Another villain in the future for Sherlock’s Andrew Scott in ‘Swallows and Amazons’	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1306
__label__wiki	0.670095	0.670095	Arkansas Department of Health to double testing capacity, address issues raised in CDC report BusinessHealthcareLatest NewsTalk Politics by Michael Tilley ([email protected]) July 14, 2020 3:39 pm 571 views Testing and contact tracing continue to concern Gov. Asa Hutchinson and state healthcare officials. The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) is doubling testing capacity, and a working group is addressing issues with minority outreach in Northwest Arkansas. Known COVID-19 cases in Arkansas totaled 29,733 on Tuesday, up from 28,939 on Monday. Of the 794 new cases, 33 were from correctional facilities. There are 6,558 active cases. The number of deaths rose from 323 to 331. The number of COVID patients hospitalized in Arkansas was 445 on Tuesday, up from 439 on Monday. There are 91 patients on ventilators, up from 89 on Monday. Of the known cases since March 11, 22,844 have recovered. The top five counties for new infections were Pulaski (111), Washington (68), Sebastian (52), Pope (41) and Johnson (37). Those five counties accounted for 40.6% of new community cases reported Tuesday. As of Tuesday at 1 p.m., there were 3,387,053 U.S. cases and 135,984 deaths. Globally, there were 13,165,663 cases and 574,615 deaths. TESTING ISSUES Arkansas Secretary of Health Dr. Nate Smith said the ADH lab completed 1,832 tests Monday, which was an all-time high and more than was tested by the lab in all of March. But Smith said Arkansans “wait far too long” for test results, and the demand on commercial labs from rising cases in Arizona, California, Florida, Texas and other states reduces the number of commercial lab test results in Arkansas. He said the ADH plans to double testing capacity by acquiring two “high thru-put instruments.” Gov. Hutchinson said the new equipment is part of his challenge to Smith to invest in resources – people, space, testing machines and supplies, etc. – so the state can better respond to testing and contact tracing needs if the national testing supply chain continues to be stressed. Funding for the plan Smith develops will have to be approved by the Arkansas Legislative Council. The governor’s frequent pleas for the White House to do more to address the nationwide problem with testing supplies has been joined by Arkansas’ Congressional delegation – U.S. Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and U.S. Reps. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro; French Hill, R-Little Rock; Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs; and Steve Womack, R-Rogers. The delegation sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence, chair of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, asking the president to “take the necessary action to bolster the nation’s supply of testing reagents to ensure that these strides in testing can continue.” “Arkansas hospitals have had their internal testing capacity severely limited and are losing contracts with external labs due to a shortage of reagents. This creates an immediate dilemma with respect to the state’s testing requirement before elective procedures, and also raises concerns about the general ability to ramp up testing as the infection rate increases,” noted a joint statement from the delegation. The ADH also approved a $20 million contract with Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care to add 350 contact tracers. General Dynamics Information Technology, which was awarded the first $20 million contact tracing contract, had 83 of 350 contact tracers hired as of July 9. CDC NORTHWEST ARKANSAS REPORT A team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Northwest Arkansas in early June issued a report critical of efforts to respond to the outbreak within Hispanic and Marshallese communities. The report said people were sent back to work before testing results were known, and education efforts were not enough. As of June 13, the CDC report noted that Hispanics are 17% of the population in Benton and Washington counties, but known COVID cases among Hispanics was 45% of the cases in the two counties. Marshallese/Pacific Islanders are 1.5% of the Northwest Arkansas population, but 19% of cases in the region. “ADH conducts COVID-19 case investigations and contact tracing and provides testing for the community including Hispanic and Marshallese populations; however, with only one Spanish-speaking and 8 Marshallese-speaking case investigators in Benton and Washington Counties, ADH is unable to adequately respond to increasing case counts to address specific cultural and language barriers. In addition to the ADH, multiple other institutions and organizations are contributing to the COVID-19 response in NW Arkansas with limited coordination between these institutions,” the report noted. Following are the targeted responses recommended in the CDC report. • Use data-driven approaches to prioritize testing in settings with the highest COVID-19 burden. • Prioritize contact tracing and case investigation for high occupancy households and settings. • Coordinate with community partners to provide targeted communication and education. • Coordinate a multisector and multiagency plan that organizes and converges efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 and reduce health, social and economic barriers. • Reduce missing data by prioritizing the collection of key variables (e.g., race/ethnicity, address, employment, co-morbidities, possible contacts/exposures). Of the CDC report, Gov. Hutchinson said “we take that very seriously,” with an ADH working group responding to the CDC findings. Smith said he is “very sympathetic” to the challenges faced by the minority communities. “This [CDC report] is just telling us that we need to continue doing the work that we already know we need to do, and we’re glad that the CDC was actually able to get down and talk to members of the community and confirm our impressions that we need more linguistically and culturally appropriate messaging,” Smith said. 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__label__wiki	0.787696	0.787696	Sometimes I (Live) - Plasmatics (2) - The Early Years (CD) 22.10.2019 22.10.2019 By Dikora Label: Not On Label - none • Format: 2x, CD Compilation, Enhanced, Unofficial Release • Genre: Rock • Style: Punk Capriccio Ре Минор, Necropsia - Die Fucking Bastards (Cassette, Album), Fanitullen For Norwegian Hardangerfele, Thizizwith - Aït Menguellet - Amdjahhadh (Vinyl, LP, Album), John The Ill - Count Basie And Orchestra* - On The Road (CD, Album), Psalm 104 - Various - Chillout Meditation (CD), On Fire (Remix) - Tone Loc - Lōced After Dark (CD, Album), A Mururoa - Las Patatas Espantadas - Le Grand Chemin (CD), Hey Boys - The Travelers - The Travelers (Vinyl, LP), You Better Go, Do That To Me One More Time (Radio Version) - Da Flava - Do That To Me One More Time (CD) Futurecore vs. Synchromesh - Combat Squad (Vinyl) Gardanris says: WENDY O. WILLIAMS - F AND ROLL LIVE Limited Edition Red Vinyl. Classic Wendy O. LIVE EP Fuck and Roll Limited Red Vinyl Special Edition. Recorded live at L'Amour's ("Rock Capitol of the World") in , EP features title track "Fuck and Roll", and also includes live versions "Ain't None of Your Business" (with Wendy's famours "Stuffed Banana-Bozos" intro and Bump and Grind live. Mokree says: The Plasmatics were an American punk band formed by Yale University art school graduate Rod Swenson with Wendy O. Williams. The band was a controversial group known for wild live shows that broke countless taboos. In addition to chainsawing guitars, blowing up speaker cabinets and sledgehammering television sets, Williams and the Plasmatics. Zulkigis says: The Plasmatics were seen as a novelty item back in the day, and in retrospect it didn't do them justice. Wendy O. Williams deserves recognition as one of the greatest female punk singers of all time, right behind Patti Smith and Debbie Harry. She had a distinct vocal style which made "Sometimes I" and "Butcher Baby" their signature songs/5(25). Faukasa says: Recording. The album was recorded at Dierks Studios, near Cologne, Germany and was produced by Dieter Dierks, who had just come off a number one album with the Scorpions.. Coup d'Etat was a breakthrough album that began to blend the punk and heavy metal genres, something that would later be done time and time again by bands such as S.O.D., Anthrax, and the Cro-Mags by the end of the s. Meshakar says: Album: Early Years, CD1 mp3 download Year: Artist: Plasmatics Quality: High Rating: Plasmatics - Early Years, CD1 album Track listing. Jum says: Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Plasmatics - Coup D'Etat at Discogs. Complete your Plasmatics collection. Plasmatics and Wendy O. Williams Beyond the Valley of CD. Classic Plasmatics album first released in Foldout insert with famous Caddy demolition in the desert shot by Butch Star. Alice Cooper drummer Neil Smith on drums. Find Plasmatics credit information on AllMusic. At a time (the late '70s and early '80s) and a place (the New York punk scene) where shocking the audience was often the order of the day, few bands had a greater gift for cultivating outrage than the. Wir Feiern Heut Bananenfest - Unknown Artist - Das Dschungel Buch (CD) Various - Shit And Noize Art 007 (Vinyl) Good News - Erich Sylvester (2) - This Is A Holy Day (Vinyl, LP) Rock And Roll - Led Zeppelin - In The Evening (DVD) Rapscallion (2) - Gardens Of Machinery (Vinyl, LP, Album) Tenos on Sometimes I (Live) - Plasmatics (2) - The Early Years (CD) https://conlaycirechefasecasatenchuker.co/sperlongmeltdislapa/like-excalibur-26-in-remembrance-vinyl-lp-album.php	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1317
__label__wiki	0.912493	0.912493	Canadian company wants human trials for 60-second Ebola blood test QMI Agency Oct 29, 2014 • Last Updated October 29, 2014 • 1 minute read A Canadian biotechnology company that developed a 60-second HIV test is hoping the World Health Organization will approve human trials of a similar quick testing kit for the Ebola strain currently spreading through West Africa. The B.C. company says the finger-prick blood test could potentially be used anywhere, from West Africa to airports in Canada, if someone appears to be showing symptoms. "We basically have a proof-of-concept," bioLytical Laboratories CEO Christopher Shackleton said in an interview Wednesday. "This has not yet been subjected to use in a proper human clinical trial environment." Usually this kind of testing takes several years and costs millions of dollars, Shackleton said, but given the epidemic in West Africa, WHO put out a request for proposals and is speeding up the process. The company is speaking with WHO about taking the test to human trials, Shackleton said.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1326
__label__wiki	0.534831	0.534831	The Transatlantic Observer Analysis, commentary and reporting on US and European foreign policy Never again War: Germany’s Struggle with Military Force Greater Middle East August 20, 2014 by Spencer Kimball Calls for ‘IS’ media blackout after reported execution of US journalist (By Deutsche Welle) US freelance journalist James Foley has reportedly been executed by “Islamist State” (IS) militants. In response, a Twitter campaign has been started to stop the spread of violent postings by the IS. In a video originally posted on YouTube called “A Message to America,” militants claiming to represent the “Islamic State” (IS) appeared to execute a man identified as James Foley, supposedly in retaliation for Washington launching a campaign of airstrikes against the radical group in northern Iraq. They then threaten to take the life of a man identified in the video as Steven Joe Sotloff, an American who has freelanced for Time Magazine, if US President Barack Obama doesn’t end the airstrikes in Iraq. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the authenticity of the video, which was removed from social media sites on Tuesday. Shortly after the video went online, a social media campaign called #ISISMediaBlackout was started on Twitter, aiming to stop the footage and other violent videos from being shared. ISIS refers to the radical Sunni group’s previous name, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. So far, the Twitter campaign has been shared more than 7,000 times since Tuesday. Twitter user @LibyaLiberty kicked off the campaign. From here on out, I won't share any photo or video of violence intentionally recorded & released by ISIS for propaganda. #ISISmediaBlackout — Hend (@LibyaLiberty) August 19, 2014 Not only will I not share the video or any photos of James Foley's murder, I will not watch it either. I can offer only prayers & privacy. Meanwhile, CNN Global Affairs Correspondent Elise Labott raised the question of whether it’s in the public interest to share the video, in order to highlight the reality of the war in Syria and the dangers that journalists face reporting from there. Curious which you think is more useful-#ISISmediaBlackout to deny them publicity or raising awareness of their savagery? Must say I'm torn — Elise Labott (@eliselabottcnn) August 19, 2014 But Iraq analyst Sajad Jiyad said it’s important for the public not to become desensitized to images of death. In Iraq our children became desensitized to images of killings because it's always shown, don't let that happen elsewhere #ISISmediaBlackout — Sajad Jiyad سجاد (@SajadJiyad) August 19, 2014 Twitter has taken action, with company CEO Dick Costolo saying that accounts which share the video will not be tolerated. We have been and are actively suspending accounts as we discover them related to this graphic imagery. Thank you https://t.co/jaYQBKVbBF — dick costolo (@dickc) August 20, 2014 ‘Independent and impartial journalist’ Foley went missing in November of 2012 in northern Syria on his way to the Turkish border. He reported for the Boston-based news website GlobalPost as well as the French news agency AFP. The 40-year-old veteran war correspondent had previously reported from Libya and Afghanistan. “James was working as a brave, independent and impartial journalist covering the dangerous Syrian conflict when he was captured in November 2012,” AFP chairman Emmanuel Hoog said. “His work for AFP and other media organizations was widely admired,” Hoog continued. “Nothing could justify his incarceration or any threats against his life. Our thoughts are with his family at this very difficult time.” For more than two years, Syria has been the most dangerous country in the world for the news media, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). At least 69 journalists have been killed covering the war there and 80 have been abducted. At least 20 journalists, both local and international, are currently missing in Syria. CPJ believes that many of them are held by the IS. Although Foley’s death has not yet been confirmed by US authorities, his mother, Dianne, issued a statement published by GlobalPost. “We have never been prouder of our son and brother Jim,” she said. “He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people.” “We implore the kidnappers to spare the lives of the remaining hostages,” she continued. “Like Jim, they are innocents. They have no control over American government policy in Iraq, Syria or anywhere in the world.” This entry was posted in Greater Middle East, National Security, Syria, United States and tagged ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, James Foley. Bookmark the permalink. ← ‘IS’ is ‘the greatest threat to journalists’ German weapons deliveries to Iraq’s Kurdish region → Bombing people to save them? 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__label__wiki	0.605268	0.605268	Tech Bans in Classes May Impede Learning One professor said that the practice of banning tech in class may actually be ableist. Photo by Bhavan Mehta \| Mercury Staff Ayesha Asad Mercury Staff Majority of students surveyed use electronic devices to take notes Walk into any campus classroom and you’re bound to see seats filled with students and desks filled with laptops or tablets for note-taking. But what happens when professors ban those devices? For Ameera Fatima, a business administration sophomore, a typical day in class involves pulling up the professor’s PowerPoint on her laptop to follow along with the lecture. Fatima said that having the PowerPoint on her laptop makes it easier to take notes at her own pace. “I usually just use (my laptop) for school and stuff, like taking notes from textbooks, PowerPoints. Most of my textbooks are online,” Fatima said. “But my phone is definitely a distraction if it buzzes. Mostly I use it for … texting people, scrolling through social media and stuff.” While some professors ban laptop usage in their classes, Fatima said that professors should let students have their laptops out. “Our laptops usually help more than hinder,” Fatima said. “My laptop would … be kept for seeing the PowerPoints up close. But if (they) want our phones on silent or anything like that, or put away, I would get that.” Aliya Arni, a biology junior and Peer Leader in the UTD Academic Success Coaching Center, said that using technology in class can both help and distract but that it’s more of an enhancement than a distraction. “I feel like if you’re going to be distracted, then you’re going to be distracted anyway by something else,” Arni said. “I think that it helps, typing fast to keep up with what the professor is saying – or even just pulling up the lecture slides helps me focus.” Karen Huxtable-Jester, a UTD psychology professor and associate director for the Center for Teaching and Learning, said that she used to restrict laptop use in her class, but over time, began allowing and even encouraging laptop use for various class activities. “I would tell people it’s not the best way to take notes. You’re much better off without that distraction. You’re better off taking notes by hand and thinking about what you’re doing,” Huxtable-Jester said. “But I found that just simply having a flat out ban like that … was ableist, essentially, that I’m discriminating against people with disabilities who maybe need this accommodation.” Huxtable-Jester said that she noticed that students were often appearing to be distracted by laptop usage, though it was hard to tell simply by looking. “Somebody can be staring straight ahead and seeming to be very attentive, and they’re not paying attention at all because you can fake it,” Huxtable-Jester said. “Students still will be distracted just as always been the case, even when students used to read newspapers in class. When I was in school… somebody might actually have the newspaper wide open in class in some big lecture hall.” In a survey of 100 students conducted by *The Mercury,* 69.1% of respondents said that they used their smartphone, laptop, or tablet to look up definitions or follow their professor’s PowerPoint. The survey also revealed that 62.9 % of respondents said they use their technology for social media or texting. 43.4% of students said that they use their smartphone, laptop or tablet in three to five class periods per week, and 27.3% rated their distraction level from electronic devices as a two out of five, with one being not distracted at all. A study conducted by Mueller and Oppenheimer in 2014 found that longhand note taking as opposed to laptop note taking boosted conceptual performance on quizzes, but had no effect on factual-recall performance. Meanwhile, a 2019 replication of that study found that relative to longhand note taking, laptop note taking did not reduce knowledge of the lecture material after a brief delay with no opportunity to study. Fatima, meanwhile, said that writing her notes down on a notebook makes her feel like she’s physically retaining the information. “I tried using my laptop to take notes, but it didn’t work out as well for me because I learned better when I actually write things,” Fatima said. “Personally, I like writing things down.” Arni said that using either a notebook or laptop to take notes depends on the class. “I think for some classes when you can follow the professor and kind of condense your notes, then it’s easier to do it on paper,” Arni said. “But I think that if the professor goes really fast, and there’s a lot of information that you need to just strictly memorize for the class, then I think doing it with typing out your notes is just a faster, more efficient way to do it.” So, is technology usage in class more beneficial than harmful? Huxtable-Jester said that it goes both ways. “For me, the solution is to be more directive and say, okay, ‘Now’s the time for everybody to close their laptops and devices. We’re all going to watch this video.’ Or ‘Now’s the time to close it because we’re going to have a discussion.’” Huxtable-Jester said. “As opposed to people sort of thinking, ‘I’m going to sit here and work on my laptop while you’re in the background and if you say something interesting, I’ll look up.’” Arni said that unless the student’s materials are on a laptop, she understands why professors tell students not to go on their devices, but she also thinks that staying focused is the student’s responsibility. “If the student thinks something is more helpful, or just keeping their laptop on, or whatever just helps them concentrate…then I think that (the professor) should kind of leave it up to the students (to decide) what they want to do,” Arni said. “Because in the end, they’re learning and it’s their grade.” Huxtable-Jester said that she didn’t want to dictate what students did and that students must resist distractions themselves. “If I’m in a faculty meeting or in a workshop… I wouldn’t say, you know, ‘You’re not paying attention, put your laptop away,’ because I wouldn’t do that to a colleague. So I wouldn’t do it to a student,” Huxtable-Jester said. “But I might say to all the faculty, ‘Let’s all do this now because this is what we’re here for.’” Fatima said that students who are getting distracted with tech use should limit their social media time because it takes away from studying time, and Arni said that sitting near a TA or professor may keep a student in check during class. “That way you know that what’s on your computer, everyone else around you can see,” Arni said. “So that’ll help you be more controlled and not do other things that you don’t want other people to see.” Are UTD Students Unhappy? Alumni Tackle Food Insecurity among Students	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1330
__label__wiki	0.893987	0.893987	City removes showers, homeless structures from Victoria park Published Friday, November 20, 2020 10:37AM PST Last Updated Saturday, November 21, 2020 7:23PM PST VICTORIA -- Dozens of police and Victoria bylaw officers moved into Beacon Hill Park Friday morning to remove unsanctioned showers and a community tent that had been used by the park’s homeless population. In all, five structures were removed – two shower units, a large cistern and two large tents that comprised the community tent, according to city hall. The showers were constructed and delivered to the park earlier this month by a community group called Showers for the Unhoused. Homeless advocates in the park Friday said they were disappointed by the removal of the showers and community tent. They said they had been in talks with city officials about potentially moving the structures to a more suitable location. Victoria Coun. Sarah Potts took to social media during the ordeal Friday, confirming she was in "active conversations" with homeless advocacy groups about the structures, and calling the removal of the showers and tent a "shameful act." CTV News has reached out to Potts for further comment on the issue. Victoria and Saanich police officers attended the scene to keep the peace while bylaw officers removed the structures and hauled them away in a truck. "We understand the desire of individuals to want to assist people sheltering in the park, however we cannot allow structures without permits in parks, especially ones that are using gas generators and that pose fire risks, health and safety risks, and are damaging the environment," said city spokesperson Bill Eisenhauer. City hall has had "many discussions over the past few weeks with the individuals operating these unauthorized structures," Eisenhauer said. "They have simply declined to work with us to find an alternative solution, leaving us no choice but to remove the structures today." During the process, police say one woman was arrested for assaulting an officer. She was transported to VicPD cells and has since been released. The investigation into the incident is ongoing. Eisenhauer said the city was not removing people sheltering in the park at this time. The structures that were removed will be stored until they are claimed by their owners, he added. The homeless population in Beacon Hill and several other Victoria-area parks has exploded since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many indoor shelters were forced to close or limit their occupancy numbers. A community group has created several showers for unsheltered people in Victoria and plans to install them at Beacon Hill Park. Victoria group builds showers for homeless at Beacon Hill Park	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1334
__label__cc	0.679403	0.320597	Technology, financing and commercialization aspects: Lessons from Indian EV Start-up 03:00 pm - 04:00 pm (Asia/Kolkata, UTC+5:30) shravani.sharma@wri.org We all know how first and last mile connectivity can be a hindrance for the seamless usage of a perfect public transportation system in cities across the world. Not everyone has the luxury to live in compact cities where workplaces, recreational and institutional places are within walking distances from their homes! In these cases, the emerging trend of micro mobility services, together with cleaner technologies, act as complimentary services to increase the usage of public transport. In addition, they can also help increase active lifestyles, reduce parking issues resulting in bottlenecks and congestion, and other such urban transportation issues. Now, although we do have such many micro mobility services from ancient times such as man rickshaws, tuktuks, etc, it is important to know what it takes to mainstream this kind of service into transportation systems. In this webinar, we will learn from Gargi Ghosh of Yulu bikes, an Indian EV start-up, about what it takes to make these services successful and also the tremendous benefits of using them in uncertain times like we face today. In this webinar, Gargi will take us through these key points along with many others: What is the role and impact of electric micro mobility services in pre, present and post Covid scenarios? How do such services ensure resilient business models and partnerships in times of multiple uncertainties? What does it take to mainstream these services and create a behavioural shift in the users? What kind of technological, ownership, operational and partnership models needs to be considered in such services? This is a 1 hour session with a presentation by the speaker followed by Q&A. Speaker: Gargi Ghosh, Lead - Strategic Business Alliances - Yulu Gargi has been a part of Yulu’s growth story since its inception. Yulu’s vision is to decongest urban traffic by providing a highly scalable, affordable, efficient, and green mode for the first & last mile connectivity and short distance commute. Gargi believes that this is a large social problem that needs to be solved with technology and product innovation. She is a certified inbound marketer, bringing in the classic mix of Engineering and Management academics with a brief but substantial stint in a geographically distributed work environment. Linkedin \| Twitter Gargi Ghosh Lead - Strategic Business Alliances Discussion on Depot and Charging Management f... Ensuring daily operations, meeting growing passenger demands on quality and reducing costs – these are the challenges transport companies face, every single day. Electric Vehicle Safety: Thermal Runaway, Fir... Learn about thermal runaway, fire characteristics, and suppression in lithium-ion batteries. Battery Monitoring – Importance and Solutions... Learn about battery monitoring and management to ensure smooth functioning of electric vehicles. Towards a More Equal City: World Resources Re... On May 21, 2020, as the World Resources Report: Towards a More Equal City nears its conclusion, we gave a brief synopsis of the project so far and touch on the relevance of this research during the COVID-19 pan Lithium-ion Battery Hazards and Design Challe... Hazards and challenges of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Disruptive Potential of Fuel Cell Technology... The tenth webinar in the Electric Mobility Forum series Electricity Pricing and Charging Strategy for... Learn about the status, potential, and challenges of electricity pricing mechanisms for electric mobility. Circular Economy Strategy for Batteries in In... Learn about the social, technical, environmental, and economic aspects of battery recycling for electric vehicles in India. Sustainable Financial Mechanisms and Innovati... Do you know which is the most preferred type of business model for electric vehicles? Let’s find out! Corporate Adoption of Electric Vehicles in In... This webinar will address different aspects of the B2B model in the electric vehicles sector in India. Testing and Accreditation Status of Electric... Learn about homologation measures, safety recommendations, testing mechanisms, and the status of accreditation for electric vehicles in India. Impact of Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging on t... This webinar looks at the impact of charging electric vehicles on local power grids. Understanding Batteries for Electric Vehicles... Join this webinar to learn about the most preferred type of battery for electric vehicles. Retrofitting for Electric Vehicles: Status, P... Learn about retrofitting existing bus fleets for electric mobility. Standardizing Charging of Electric Vehicles:... This webinar looks at the need for standardization in charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in India. Business Models for Electric Bus Adoption Learn about business models that enable the adoption of electric buses in public transport, based on case studies in America, Asia, and Europe. World Metro Transport Development Conference	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1337
__label__wiki	0.896737	0.896737	Cardiff University is a world-leading, research excellent, educationally outstanding university, driven by creativity and curiosity, which fulfils its social, cultural and economic obligations to Cardiff, Wales and the world. The University is recognised in independent government assessments as one of Britain’s leading teaching and research universities and is a member of the Russell Group of the UK’s research intensive universities. Among its academic staff are two Nobel Laureates, including the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Medicine, University Chancellor Professor Sir Martin Evans. Founded by Royal Charter in 1883, today the University combines impressive modern facilities and a dynamic approach to teaching and research. The University’s breadth of expertise encompasses: the College of Humanities and Social Sciences; the College of Biomedical and Life Sciences; and the College of Physical Sciences, along with a longstanding commitment to lifelong learning. Cardiff’s three flagship Research Institutes are offering radical new approaches to neurosciences and mental health, cancer stem cells and sustainable places. We are pleased to partner with The Conversation to share Cardiff’s work, helping to make our discoveries and expertise, whether in science, technology, culture, politics or social affairs, widely accessible to all. Visit cardiff.ac.uk/ Are you an expert from this institution? Register to write Articles Authors Events Displaying 721 - 729 of 729 articles Connection between baby sweat and agression Babies who don’t sweat in scary situations may express more aggressive behaviours as toddlers say researchers from Cardiff… Dust clouds rapidly affect climate Dust blown off the Southern Ocean is directly related to past rapid climate change. Oceanographic processes are linked to… Falcon genes reveal predatory instincts Genome research into two types of falcons has helped to explain how the birds became fierce predators. A recent study has… If British Conservatives are worried about the environment, they would do well to focus on reducing emissions, not stopping wind turbines. floato/Flickr Corby by-election: British Tories all talk on wind power Adam Corner, Cardiff University There are few cardinal sins in politics – but campaigning on behalf of your opponent has to be one of them. So when news broke this week that the British Conservative Party MP Chris Heaton Harris had boasted… Doing the causality time warp If you know two things are causally related, you also expect them to be close in time - this can distort our perception of… Cheek cells maintain immune system status quo Lab results have found that cloned cheek cells can keep the immune system from using lymphocytes to harm the body. Lymphocytes… Creepy crawlies help maintain woodland biodiversity Invertebrates, such as the pill millipede, can help protect woodland biodiversity. george francis Common woodland creatures… BC building spree in England There was a building spree in England more than 5,500 years ago, when many of the most spectacular monuments in the landscape… Thousands of students took to the streets of London in December to protest about the increase in the student fees. AFP/Leon Neal The global impact of UK university funding cuts Terry Threadgold, Cardiff University Universities in Britain are being changed beyond recognition by budget cuts which may be crippling for some institutions. Many of the reforms are inevitable in the current global recession, but they will… First 33 34 35 36 37 Andreas Buerki Senior Lecturer, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University Bryan Paul Morgan Professor of Immunology and Director of the Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University Catherine Butler Reader in English Literature, Cardiff University Daniel Wincott Blackwell Law and Society Chair at Cardiff University School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University Debbie Foster Professor of Employment Relations and Diversity, Cardiff University Joshua Moore PhD Candidate in Applied Mathematics, Cardiff University Matluba Khan Lecturer in Urban Design, Cardiff University Michael Munnik Lecturer in Social Science Theories and Methods, Cardiff University Natasha Hirst Disability Researcher, Cardiff University Professor of Operational Research and Director of the Data Innovation Research Institute, Cardiff University Rebecca Windemer Postdoctoral Fellow in Planning and Energy, Cardiff University Rhian Barrance Lecturer in Education, Cardiff University Sam Varvastian PhD Researcher, Cardiff University Terry Marsden Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, Cardiff University Thomas Woolley Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Cardiff University	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1338
__label__wiki	0.773298	0.773298	Talking with a Muslim By R.J. Meliscat, ’17 Refugees in The City All photos by RJ Meliscat It’s 8 a.m in the Jersey City path station and it’s full of eager Syrian refugees, young and old excited to see New York for the first time since arriving to America. The American Muslim who volunteer first encountered each other at East Coast Muslim Convention this year and have been helping refugees get situated to the American culture. The leader of the volunteer group, sister Lila, wanted to continue the accumulation of the two cultures by taking the refugees families on a tour of New York City. “The parents and kids have seen a lot of the last year. We feel like it’s important to just give them days to just relax and enjoy life,” said Lila. The tour began with the guide Chris Mason performing a magic trick for the children and parents, which lifted the spirits of everyone who was their. “Giving the situation and Syria and what they had to do through to get here I was glad to volunteer my time to show them the city,” said Mason. For teenager refugees like Ahmed seeing the city was a blessing experiences coming from a place in constant war. “There’s always killing in Syria, but here in America there’s peace, I like, peace,” said Ahmed. The day ended with smiles and laughter for all who joined.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1340
__label__cc	0.672767	0.327233	April 22, 2020 April 22, 2020 kesabeth An Unexpected Apprenticeship Millie carefully picked her way down the stairs, only looking up at her destination when she was halfway down. What she saw had her staring in amazement. The hollow was a tiny, piled up village, gathered back against the hill, to face a grassy square and an open view to woods and trees beyond. The entire place was lovingly overrun with plants, and small animals scurried, soared and hopped around with no sense of fear or urgency. It was only after standing, staring for some time that Millie became aware of how quiet it was. She wasn’t sure if she just hadn’t been aware, or if a sound that had been there before had stopped. It made her realise the other strange thing. There were no people. And yet it didn’t feel abandoned. It felt lived in and loved and she didn’t think that just came from the animals and plants. Her mother used to smile at her creativity when she said such things at home. She didn’t seem to understand that Millie could feel the emotions of a place in the same way as she felt heat or cold. After a while, Millie kept it to herself. It was boring being teased, however gently, for something you took seriously. Millie stepped down into the grassy area fronting the village and looked around. Again, she had several paths to choose from. The bluebird danced toward one little sunlit lane in invitation but Millie ignored it. It was her that needed to feel her way through, not someone else. She closed her eyes and absorbed the surroundings. There were two pulls on her senses, one to a table set for tea under a pergola in the centre of the clearing, the other drew her towards a small path leading into the ever-present forest. Millie frowned, two, what was she supposed to do now? The bluebird continued trying to entice her in its direction but she stubbornly remained where she was, glaring at the little creature. “This is my journey, you’re not supposed to try and influence me, it’s bad luck.” The bird plumped down on a branch with a decidedly put out trill. Millie moved carefully towards the choices nagging at her senses. They were both in the same direction for the moment, so, if she went slowly, she had a little more time before she had to make a decision. She stepped up to a strange divide, where the grass changed colour between one blade and the next. It seemed the pergola was surrounded by some sort of border, so any step over it would commit her in the same way as entering the path beneath the trees. She turned and paced the perimeter, trying to understand what her senses were telling her. She completed the circuit and knew she had to make a choice, time had run out. She closed her eyes again and focused on every other sense, then took a deep breath and stepped over the invisible edge. Nothing seemed to change, until she realised a raven was sitting on the edge of the pergola’s roof, looking at her approvingly. “Are you going to try and influence me as well?” It cawed, and answered, “Hardly, this is your journey young witch, I’m simply here to answer questions on your alternatives, should you have them.” “I still have alternatives? I thought I just chose.” “And like so many choices, it has led you to yet more.” Millie stomped over to a convenient bench and plonked down in a huff, “This is getting too complicated. I just want to start my apprenticeship and get on with being a witch.” “But what kind of witch do you want to be?” Millie looked up in fascination, “I have a choice?” “You more than any. You have a talent that can be manifested in a number of different directions.” “So what are my current directions?” “You have three, follow the bluebird, follow the forest path, or stay here for someone or something to arrive.” Millie grimaced, “I don’t know that I like just waiting around, but this place feels loved and happy, and that’s probably important. And what is my talent then? I thought I was supposed to be a plant-growing witch like Mrs Honey.” “You could be, although it would be a waste of potential. You’re a greenwitch child.” If Millie hadn’t already been sitting down, she would have done so. A greenwitch was a rare being, with magic connected to all growing and living things. According to her classes, there was only two other greenwitches in the whole world. “Should I apprentice to one of the other greenwitches? How could I find them?” “It’s one of your choices. Another choice is to be a healer, especially of plants and animals, and your third is building things from nature and natural products.” Millie stared, “How do I know, how do I choose?” “Think about them and which one pulls at your heart. Stand and feel, with that option at the front of your mind. The path you want will open.” Millie closed her eyes and felt her way through each of the futures presented to her. She opened her eyes and took a deep breath, “Alright, I know what I want, magic, show me the way.” The pull to remain in the pergola vanished, as did the one to the forest. Instead, the tug led her to one of the houses bordering the green area and that was the one she followed. The raven chucked behind her and said to the bluebird, “Tough luck bubble-beak, she never even looked at your path.” The bluebird chirped rudely in reply and winged its way down the lane. Millie knocked on the door, it was opened by a woman slightly older than her mother, with a ready smile and dancing eyes. “I’m so glad you chose me. Please come in, you must be starving by now.” The woman waved an arm and the raven took off, circling and calling out, “She’s chosen, you can resume your duties now.” Millie stepped over the threshold, dimly aware of movement and conversation starting up behind her as people emerged from the houses and the forest, calling to each other and chattering excitedly. Mille sat at the kitchen bench she was waved to and gratefully took one of the sandwiches offered. “I did make the right choice didn’t I?” “Well I think you did, but I’m not really an unbiased observer in this. The others will be a little miffed but I think they’ll come around.” A deep breath, and out again, Millie asked, “So what does a greenwitch do and how do I start becoming one?” Previous Mischief Managed Next Friendship	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1342
__label__wiki	0.615176	0.615176	Week 7 Fantasy Hockey Awards By Michael Bondy December 6th, 2016 Week seven of fantasy hockey was taken over by some new and unfamiliar faces. For the first time this year, all three awards were taken by players who only participated in three games, which is normally odd since the higher stats come from more games played. Regardless it was a great week for fantasy hockey across all positions. And with that, here are your week seven fantasy hockey major award winners: Fantasy Hart Trophy – Mike Hoffman GP:3 G:4 A:2 Pts:6 +/-:+2 PPP:3 The Fantasy Hart Trophy is awarded to the week’s most valuable player. Starting your week off with a hat trick on Monday night is always a nice way to start a big week. For Mike Hoffman, his three goals on the first night of week seven was a nice microcosm of what was to come from the Ottawa right-winger. He doubled his total goal output through six weeks in the past seven days. Hoffman may finally be coming back to the consistent goal scoring form fantasy owners have come to rely on over the past few years. Averaging above 28 goals per season across his past three seasons, Hoffman came into this year looking to finally eclipse the 30-goal plateau for the first time in his career. Sadly, the start of his season hasn’t gone as planned as he had only assembled 4 goals through the first 19 games of the 2016-17 season. This lack of production led a lot of owners to give up on the sniper and release him to free agency for more effective options. On pace for a lowly 17 goals, before the week started, it was nice to see the power-play specialist show us why he was so highly touted fantasy-wise to begin the year. For the owners who decided to hold onto Ottawa’s top sharpshooter, they finally reaped the benefits of their patience as he was the most effective fantasy producer through week seven among all players. Hoffman’s six points on the week found him sharing the top spot among all players with superstar Sidney Crosby. His four goals were also tops among skaters with his three power-play points leading all players for Hoffman’s third top category of the week. As mentioned, Hoffman’s season did not start as planned but make note that week seven was the period where he may have lost the snake bite and regained his scoring touch. Owners will hope he is back to the form that was expected prior to the season’s start, as his value will skyrocket if he can produce like he did this past week and re-establish himself as one of the league’s pure goal scorers. Playing on the Senator’s top power-play unit, owners should expect Hoffman to continue to bring his season numbers closer to his career averages rather than the lowly output he had given them so far this year. Honourable Mentions: Vladimir Tarasenko, Kris Versteeg Fantasy James Norris Trophy – Kevin Shattenkirk GP:3 G:2 A:4 Pts:6 PPP:2 SOG:11 The Fantasy James Norris Trophy is awarded to the week’s most valuable fantasy defenseman. Shattenkirk has been enjoying a phenomenal season and the best of his career through the first 25 games of 2016-17. After his Norris-worthy performance in week seven, he is on pace for 62 points on the year, 17 points higher than his previous career high of 45 from the 2013-14 season. The St.Louis Blues player has given fantasy owners plenty to enjoy statistically and after this week continues to give them hope that he may be the next Erik Karlsson or Brent Burns fantasy-wise. In week seven, the Blues’ top defenseman led all NHL blueliners with five points. His two goals were tops among defenders tied with five others, but his three power-play points impressively led all defenseman. Much like Hoffman with the Fantasy Hart trophy, Shattenkirk is leading in three categories for his position making him deserving of this award. As the year continues, owners can only hope Shattenkirk sustains his steady weekly production and can continue to develop into the elite fantasy option he has shown to be. Expect Shattenkirk to continue to warrant consideration for this weekly award as long as he sticks to his high-end play and the Blues continue to score. Now the number one offensive option on the Blues’ blueline, Shattenkirk’s fantasy value has never been higher. Honourable Mentions: Ian Cole, Justin Schultz Fantasy Vezina Trophy – Chad Johnson GS:3 W:3 L: GAA:1.62 SV%:.948 SO:1 The Fantasy Vezina Trophy is awarded to the week’s top goaltender. Chad Johnson is taking the fantasy hockey world by storm and surprise. Since taking over the Flames’ starting goaltending job, Johnson has done nothing but impress and win with the suffering Calgary Flames. Struggling to even establish a starting job in the NHL, Johnson worried a lot of fantasy owners due to his overall career inconsistency, but with Brian Elliot floundering and Johnson surging, anyone who was in need of a goaltender and acquired this journeyman, was more than pleased with his performance and the results he delivered for fantasy week seven. With three wins in three games, Johnson was second only to Steve Mason’s impressive four-win week. The difference that made Johnson the most valuable fantasy goalie was his 39 save shutout, one of five total shutouts across the week league-wide, which gave him and owners a very important point in the SO fantasy category. His .948 save percent was sixth among goalies with two starts or more which further adds to his value on the week and earning him this honour. Prior to this season, Johnson had struggled to establish himself as an NHL worthy goaltender. With 88 starts through six total career seasons with five different teams, it seemed as if Johnson’s break into the league as a starter would never come. Luckily, with the Flames acquiring Elliot in the offseason and his terrible early start along with that of the Flames, Johnson has finally earned himself a starting job and looks like he is going to do whatever it takes tokeep it. Chad Johnson before Calgary (101gms): 50-30-11 / 2.39 GAA / .917 SV% / 4 SO Johnson with Calgary (13gms) 8-4-1 / 2.06 GAA / .930 SV% / 3 SO — 🅱️𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗞 🥅 (@Brock_Seguin) December 2, 2016 The Flames may have found a diamond in the rough in Johnson as a solution to finally solve the goaltending issues that have played the organization for years. It may be a short sample size and Johnson may just be on a hot streak, but while he is starting in Calgary, owners can enjoy their new starting goaltender and ride his success for the time being. I wouldn’t expect Johnson to be up for this weekly award often, but for now, his owners can enjoy the unexpected success he is bringing to all of their goaltending stats. Anyone who puts up elite goaltending numbers across any week is extremely valuable, especially for desperate owners in need of goaltending help. Honourable Mentions: Steve Mason, Martin Jones Kevin Shattenkirk	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1350
__label__wiki	0.787069	0.787069	For Kids and Country For Kids & Country unites, engages, educates, and empowers parents, teachers, students, faith leaders, and citizens in the fight to restore our schools and culture. Follow For Kids and Country: [Statement] Rebecca Friedrichs: California’s SB 419 Hands Classrooms Over to ‘Disruptive Students’ ORANGE COUNTY — Rebecca Friedrichs, 28-year California public school teacher and founder of For Kids & Country, releases the following statement denouncing California Senate Bill 419, which bans schools from suspending students who show “willful defiance.” The bill was signed into law Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. “California’s union-controlled legislature and governor just told students across the state there are no consequences for unruly behavior and have handed control of the classroom over to the most disruptive students. Teachers who simply want to teach and students who truly want to learn are held hostage by their new overlords — willfully defiant kids. “Teachers nationwide are in crisis thanks to similar short-sighted leniency policies which deceptively claim to protect special needs students. In reality, they incentivize administrators to ignore pernicious behaviors that warrant suspension, expulsion or police involvement, allowing special needs students like the Parkland shooter to go unsupported and undetected.” Rebecca Friedrichs is the founder of For Kids & Country and a 28-year public school teacher who led the fight against the divisive tactics, politics and corruption of teachers’ unions as lead plaintiff in Friedrichs v. CTA. Her U.S. Supreme Court case paved the way for a precedent-setting ruling which freed all public sector employees from forced unionism. Her PragerU video “Why Good Teachers Want School Choice” has over 5 million views. She’s the author of Standing Up to Goliath: Battling State and National Teachers’ Unions for the Heart and Soul of Our Kids and Country. Website \| For Kids & Country Facebook \| 4kidsandcountry Twitter \| @4kidsandcountry	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1354
__label__wiki	0.881173	0.881173	The Scott Perry Effect: Rebranding a Broken Knicks Orga... Kevin Knox Could Be the Knicks’ Point Guard Solut... What Should the Knicks Do with Courtney Lee? How the Knicks Can Progress Toward an Analytics-Friendly Team How Much Does RJ Barrett’s Three-Point Development Mean to His Personal Progress? Why the Knicks Should Choose to Spend Willingly in 2020 NBA Free Agency Knicks Travel to Atlanta to Face Hawks For Final Time This Season Posted by Nick Scolaro \| Mar 11, 2020 Can the Knicks finally stop Trae Young for once? Frank Ntilikina and the visiting squad are tasked with halting the Hawks on Wednesday. The New York Knicks (20-45) take their talents (or lack thereof) down to the ATL this evening as they look to secure the rubber game of their season series against the young Atlanta Hawks (20-46). Last night, the Knicks coughed up a 16-point halftime lead against the Wizards in embarrassing fashion en route to their third loss in four games. Hawks’ Young Talent Matchups New York looks to bounce back tonight against a bad but exciting Hawks squad that has won nine of their last 12 at home, per ESPN. All-Star pint guard Trae Young has been one of the few bright spots for the Hawks this season, enjoying a breakout sophomore campaign to the tune of 29.4 points per game and 9.3 assists per game, per Basketball-Reference. The 21-year-old has taken the league by storm with his incredible scoring ability and sleek passing game. Young recently became the fastest player in NBA history to hit 350 three-pointers and also recorded his 27th double-double of the season in his last game. In two matchups against the Knicks this season, Young has scored 42 and 48 points, torching a Knicks defense that has consistently struggled defending talented guards. With Frank Ntilikina playing so well last game and him being the Knicks’ best perimeter defender, expect the French guard to be assigned to cover Trae Young. Ntilikina (6’4”) has a size advantage over Young who is 6’1” and can hopefully use that to his advantage in disrupting Young’s rhythm from beyond the arc. John Collins, Young’s running mate has also had himself a nice season after missing 25 games due to a suspension for performance enhancing drugs. Collins himself has 21 double-doubles on the year and has eclipsed the 20-point mark in 23 of the 40 games he has played in this season, per ESPN Stats. Expect Collins to present a unique challenge to the Knicks’ bigs and keep an eye on the matchup between him and Mitchell Robinson. Two young, alpha big men going at it in the paint should be fun to watch. High Scoring Affair? This comes as somewhat of a surprise, considering how bad both of these teams are, but the winner of each of the previous two matchups has scored 140-plus points. With the Hawks 16th in the NBA in points per game and the Knicks 29th (via NBA.com), you wouldn’t expect these matchups to be fireworks shows, but be prepared for another potential offensive clinic (or lack of defense) Wednesday at State Farm Arena. Frank Sighting Last game, Frank Ntilikina arguably had one of his best games of his career, scoring a career-high 20 points and dishing out 10 assists in an impressive performance. Frank knocked down his perimeter shots, played good defense, and was able to convert on his scoring chances, something that has plagued him during his time in the NBA. It would make sense for Frank to get the most minutes at the point guard position tonight, especially with the tall defensive task of stopping Young, but you never know with this coaching staff what the minutes distribution will look like. We could inexplicably see Elfrid Payton more often and have Ntilikina back to barely seeing the floor. Hopefully we see the French Prince get another opportunity to build on his previous performance. Coronavirus Scare With many sports leagues taking extreme precautions regarding the coronavirus pandemic, this could be one of the last games for a while we see with fans in attendance. The NBA has already restricted locker room access to the media and is rumored to take a huge step soon by banning all fans from attending NBA arenas, with only “necessary personnel” allowed in during games. The Golden State Warriors plan on playing the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday at the Chase Center without fans in attendance, per Marc Stein of The New York Times, so this will likely spill over across the NBA very soon. »READ: The Knicks Wall 2020 Draft Board — second edition: the other pick »READ: Maurice Harkless could give New York a valuable piece for next season »READ: New Knicks President Leon Rose’s to-do list PreviousTKW Highlights: Frank Ntilikina’s New High-Scoring Game Plus Dishing Out 10 Assists Next[UPDATE] Knicks Home Games Expected to Close to Public With Looming NBA Response to Coronavirus Nick Scolaro "I got my wings when I was young so I tend to fly" — Marist College — Staff Writer For @TheKnicksWall Knicks Look to Right the Wrongs With Cavs Battle in Cleveland Slumping Knicks Host Crosstown Rival Drama-Laden Nets Knicks Looking to Get Back on Track vs. Hornets Knicks Look to End Homestand on a High Note Against Nuggets Dsgntree	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1356
__label__wiki	0.921221	0.921221	Trail-hunting licences suspended in England’s forests as police examine hunters’ Zoom ‘smokescreen’ briefing footage Jane Dalton England’s largest land manager has suspended all licences for trail-hunting in forests after police revealed they were studying two webinars at which the UK’s leading hunting figures discussed how to create “a smokescreen” around their activities and how to avoid prosecution. Forestry England, which manages the country's 1,500 publicly owned woods, said no hunts would be allowed, in response to the investigation. Specialist officers say they are working with the Crown Prosecution Service to see whether any criminal offences were committed during the two video meetings, which were secretly recorded and later leaked. In the meetings, dozens of hunters and two retired police officers shared tactics ranging from how to create doubt over whether a fox was being deliberately hunted to the “terribly good wheeze” of legally using a bird of prey. One admitted the presence of terrier men was "a bit of a marker to everyone". The discussions have been claimed by hunt saboteurs as an “irrefutable” signal of long-standing wrongdoing, revealing a “conspiracy” by hunters to avoid being caught breaking the law. National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for foxhunting Paul Netherton said: “Police are currently investigating and examining video content from two webinars on the theme of hunting which have recently come to our attention. “We are working in conjunction with the CPS to see if any criminal offences have been committed. “As these events were online and there are no specific geographical areas for one force to investigate, Devon and Cornwall Police are leading the investigation on behalf of all UK forces.” He added: “We understand this is a contentious issue. However, at this time this is a live and active investigation which we cannot comment further on.” Hunting wild mammals, such as foxes, with dogs has been illegal since 2005, but hunts insist they stay within the law by laying scent trails for hounds to follow. Hunt opponents dispute that trails are laid, insisting hounds are routinely trained to hunt foxes in autumn cub-hunting. Secretly recorded in August, the sessions were run by the Hunting Office, which administers hunts. One of the online meetings was attended by more than 100 hunters, many of them hunt masters, representing more than half of the country’s foxhunts. The Hunting Office denied the webinars were organised to discuss covering up unlawful activities, saying members discussed protecting themselves against “false and malicious” allegations by hunting opponents. In one clip, one experienced hunter was recorded saying: “I think the most important thing that we need to bear in mind is that if you’ve got saboteurs out with you in any shape or form, we need to have clear visible plausible trail-laying being done throughout the day. “I don’t think it’s good enough just to have your huntsman ducking and diving trying to just give them the slip and leaving it at that, we need to have very clear evidence of trail-laying.” He added: “It’s a lot easier to create a smokescreen if you’ve got more than one trail-layer operating, and that is what it’s all about, trying to portray to the people watching that you’re going about legitimate business.” He described the presence of terrier men at hunts as their “soft underbelly", saying: "A lot of people would say that if you’re going trail-hunting, why do you need terrier men following you around? Yes, it is totally legal for them to be out doing everything if they follow the correct exemptions, but it does flag up a bit of a marker to everyone: you know, why, as trail-hunting, do you need them there?” At another point he also said: “The law states you can use a pack of dogs to flush a wild mammal to be hunted by a bird of prey — now that’s a terribly good wheeze for holding up, and I think everyone during autumn hunting ought to be considering that.” A former police officer and former hunt master advised attendees: “If you’re recording evidence for the Hunting Act, trail-laying, whatever, don’t use the same phones or anything where you’ve been using social media and bragging about what you’ve been doing out hunting, because if the police get hold of it you’ll get both sides.” Another former police officer warned members that saboteurs may “holler” or play loud music, saying: “What it will do is create that smokescreen or that element of doubt that we haven’t deliberately hunted a fox, so if nothing else you need to record that and it will help us provide a defence to huntsmen.” He also advised hunters on what to do if stopped by police, telling the meeting: “I hope there are not police officers listening - there is no such thing as an off-the-record chat with a policeman”. Chris Luffingham, director of campaigns at the League Against Cruel Sports, said: “This is huge. It’s what we’ve been saying since ‘trail’ hunting was invented after the Hunting Act came into force in 2005 – that it’s a smokescreen for real hunting.” At the start of the meeting, one participant closely linked to the Countryside Alliance encouraged a culture of gathering complaints against “antis”, saying: “If every hunt that has antis made sure that they made one complaint and there was one prosecution a year, my goodness would it make a difference.” Digging is done not to get to the fox but to rescue the terrier, one hunter said Hunt Saboteurs Association He warned attendees: “Anything that comes out of these meetings is to be kept amongst ourselves. It’s not for general coverage.” Lee Moon, a spokesperson for the Hunt Saboteurs' Association, said the videos appeared to confirm what the group had long believed — “almost every hunt in the UK is routinely flouting the Hunting Act”. The Hunting Office issued a statement aimed at hunters and supporters that read: “The Hunting Office is facing allegations that training webinars run during August were organised for the purposes of covering up unlawful hunting. “The truth is that two, hour-long, Hunting Office webinars clearly dealt with the operation and promotion of legal trail hunting and managing animal rights activism. “The allegation that they were organised to discuss covering up unlawful activities is totally incorrect and can only be made by taking a few individual short comments completely out of context. “As you will be aware hunts face almost daily spurious allegations of illegal activity from anti hunt saboteurs and professional activists, and therefore not only have to operate within the law, but also have to be able overtly to demonstrate that they are doing so at any time. “We would encourage you all to avoid commenting on these allegations on Social media or other public forums" The league, which says it received 677 reports of suspected illegal foxhunting last season, has called on organisations that allow trail-hunting on their to revoke the licences. The Hunt Saboteurs and the league said they expected other landowners to follow suit. Fox hunt supporters 'blocking badger setts', leaving animals to die Police ‘routinely turn blind eye to illegal hunting despite evidence’ Jacob Rees-Mogg 'hosted fox hunt where badger sett illegally blocked' How fox hunting is ‘driving communities apart’ in Lake District Three to increase pay-as-you-go roaming charges. Mobile phone operator will increase prices from 16 February but says rates remain competitive A top French general in West Africa has dismissed calls for his country to engage more in Central African Republic (CAR) after rebels earlier this week attempted to take the capital Bangui, saying that the situation was different to a rebellion in 2013. The Central African army has been battling groups backed by former president Francois Bozize that are seeking to overturn a Dec. 27 vote in which President Faustin-Archange Touadera was declared victor despite fraud claims. Russia and Rwanda have sent troops to back the government. Will your 3rd stimulus check be delayed by the Trump impeachment? Investing is a great way to grow wealth and put money to good use. But buying into misinformation could cause you to make bad choices as an investor. Here are three investing myths you should steer clear of at all costs. Philippines, China vow cooperation for post-pandemic recovery Foreign ministers of China and the Philippines on Saturday committed to prioritising post-pandemic recovery efforts as senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi wrapped up a week-long visit to four Southeast Asian countries. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte in March imposed one of the world's longest and strictest lockdowns to contain the virus, grounding to a halt what was one of Asia's fastest growing economies before the pandemic. "As a friend of the Philippines and your closest neighbour, we will firmly stand with the people of the Philippines until the defeat of this virus," Wang said in his opening remarks at a meeting with Manila's foreign minister. Jessica Alba admits using spy cameras to keep an eye on her children during home schooling Mother of three opened up about what lockdown has taught her about parenting A coalition of health bodies has written to the Government urging it to update legislation to protect ‘vulnerable’ staff. Cate Blanchett is 'building her own art gallery' at English countryside mansion Renovations at her East Sussex home have been approved India launched one of the world's largest vaccination campaigns through video conferencing on Saturday (January 16), aiming to bring the pandemic under control. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed health workers. "India is going to the start the world's largest vaccination drive. I congratulate the countrymen for this." Modi will not immediately take the vaccine himself as India is initially prioritizing 30 million nurses, doctors and others on the front line. About 270 million over 50's or those deemed high-risk will follow. Sanitation worker Manish Kumar became the first person in India to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the country. On the first day of vaccinations, around 100 people will be voluntarily vaccinated in each of the 3,006 centre's in India. Indians won't have a choice between the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine and a government-backed, homegrown one from Bharat Biotech whose efficacy is not known. Both are being produced locally. India has reported the highest number of coronavirus infections after the United States. The country wants to vaccinate around 300 million people with two doses in the first six to eight months of the year.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1367
__label__wiki	0.7727	0.7727	ListenNotes Feed Sign in Join The Listener Walks, Songs, Love, Work, Barbra Made For Walking Episode: “I Fell Down” \| Podcast: The WALKING Podcast \| 57m52s Writer takes a walk in the woods, recording only the ambient sound. For almost an hour, the listener hears just crunching footsteps, running water and rustling trees as he strides about the countryside in the northwestern US. It’s a relaxing soundscape with an intimate atmosphere, since the listener is aware all the time that host Jon Mooallem is present with them, but choosing not to speak. In this episode, he tours a ruined sawmill and then falls over — that’s what passes for a big event on this show. The only time you hear Mooallem’s voice is when he reads the advert, which he stops to murmur into the microphone “beside the giant, upended root ball of a fallen fir”. Very good for getting focused work done or falling asleep (57m52s) A Punch Up Episode: “Come on Eileen” \| Podcast: Punch Up The Jam \| 106m20s Trio of comedians improves the classic 1982 pub rock anthem “Come on Eileen”, originally recorded by Dexys Midnight Runners. Here it is “punched up” into a new and strange version with replacement lyrics and added beats. Along the way, they dissect the original line by line, considering its value as a nostalgic karaoke selection as well as deriding it as an out-of-time bop only enjoyed by drunk people. The style of the episode is loose and conversational but good-humoured, and although full of digressions away from the music, the hosts’ easy chemistry is enough to keep the listener on board throughout (106m20s) Episode: “Act 1 of 3” \| Podcast: 36 Questions \| 46m18s First act of a three-act podcast musical, in which a married couple attempts to rescue their relationship with a cheesy quiz intended to make strangers fall in love. Jessie Shelton and Jonathan Groff (who originated the role of George III in the original Broadway production of Hamilton) star. The music is tender in style, and the intimacy of having a story sung to you personally rather than experiencing it as one of a large audience in a theatre is surprisingly moving. The sound design is a crucial element here; there are spoken word elements as well as the music, plus ambient noise and sound effects, but they are expertly balanced and blended (46m18s) Sound Work Episode: “How Sarah Koenig Gets It Done” \| Podcast: The Cut on Tuesdays \| 28m59s Interview about work and productivity with the host of the blockbuster Serial podcast, Sarah Koenig. For such an experienced interviewer, she is a hesitant and awkward interviewee, but she becomes eloquent when discussing the details of how she works and what she has done over the years to improve her audio production techniques. Her account of the relationship she has with her “work wife” Julie Snyder is particularly of note, as an example of how a creative partnership can be formed and then flourish over a long period of time. There’s clearly a dominant one in the relationship, too. It was Snyder’s idea, for instance, that they should build a new audio project around Koenig as host, rather than continue to keep her solely behind the scenes as a producer (28m59s) Fan Boy Episode: “What Are We Talking About When We Talk about Socialism?” \| Podcast: New Yorker Radio Hour \| 33m38s From 19:31 onwards, a delightful item in this magazine-style podcast with the actor Richard E. Grant. He tells the story of how his childhood idol, singer and actress Barbra Streisand, recently replied to a fan letter he sent to her almost 50 years ago when he was growing up in Eswatini in southern Africa (the tiny country formerly known as Swaziland). Grant, who is 61, received his first Academy Award nomination in 2019 and his glee at finally inhabiting the vaunted role of “nominee” also shared by his beloved Streisand is palpable in every word he utters. Pure joy in interview form (33m38s) Latin, Cars, Lighthouse, Trauma, Teeth Mould, Pasta, Bikes, Teens, Habits Amy Sinclair @AmySaintClaire I have found so many now-favourite podcasts through this newsletter. Strongly encouraged reading for those looking to find audio content outside their geographical/political/production-style bubble. Try it out! 8:46 PM - 15 Oct 2019 from Cape Town, South Africa Discover your next favourite podcast with The Listener. Sign up for a free weekly email, or get unlimited access for $30 per year. envelope Become a subscriber The Browser The Viewer Publish with Ghost You've successfully subscribed to The Listener	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1368
__label__cc	0.564866	0.435134	Milwaukee Democrat Praises Obama’s Gun Control Plan Others, Including Speaker Ryan, Say Legal Challenge Is Likely By Chuck Quirmbach Rep. Mandela Barnes, shown above speaking at a 2013 labor rally. SEIU Local 1 (CC-BY) President Barack Obama’s plan to reduce gun violence has received a thumbs-up from a Wisconsin lawmaker whose district is often plagued by gunfire. Rep. Mandela Barnes of Milwaukee said Tuesday that he’s especially in favor of the president’s plan to require background checks for all gun sales. “Just yesterday, you saw that the Department of Transportation released new rules for motor vehicle sales where that has to be documented on a new online database,” said Barnes. “If we’re going to regulate vehicles in this way, there’s no reason the entire United States cannot regulate the selling of firearms.” House Speaker Paul Ryan said the president’s executive order will be challenged in the courts. The Janesville Republican said the president’s “words and actions amount to a form of intimidation that undermines liberty.” © Copyright 2016, Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. Popular Interests In This Article: Chuck Quirmbach, Gun Control, Gun Violence, Mandela Barnes, President Barack Obama Read More - Related Articles Wisconsin Officials and Others Discuss Biden’s Build Back Better Plan Sen. Baldwin and Lt. Gov. Barnes Talk Impact of COVID-19 Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes Talks Plan to Counter Gerrymandering What the DNC Can Learn from Wisconsin Gov. Evers Signs Order for Task Force on Climate Change	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1369
__label__wiki	0.792187	0.792187	Rich friends, tech friends or green friends: Federal parties in their pre-election hustle Parties are gearing up to prepare for the 2019 federal election. Jason Unrau Montreal, QC July 25, 2019 4:57 PM 3 mins reading This article was published more than 1 year ago, information might not be accurate. If big tech continues censoring conservatives, that means our days on these platforms may be numbered. Please take a minute to sign up to our mailing list so we can stay in touch with you, our community. Subscribe Now! The return of Gerald Butts to Trudeau’s “inner circle” was the Official Opposition’s top line in this dog day summer’s week of pre-campaigning some three months away from the federal vote. “Gerald Butts is back, the Lavscamsters are reunited and nothing has changed,” declared Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre in a scolding of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to re-draft his university-chum-cum-confidant to team-elect Trudeau 2019. Butts resigned on February 18 of this year, 11 days after a Globe and Mail story revealed that then-attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould resisted repeated overtures by the Prime Minister’s Office cadre to forego SNC-Lavalin’s bribery and corruption trial for a remediation deal. Wilson-Raybould refused and the rest is history as Trudeau shuffled her to Veterans Affairs before turfing her and Markham-Stouffville MP Jane Philpott from the Liberal caucus, in very public fashion a day after April Fools’. “If Trudeau is returned to power, we will see more SNC-Lavalin scams,” Poilievre told reporters in the National Press Theatre. “Justin Trudeau will repeat his conduct over and over again, because he believes he can get away with it.” The capper of the question-answer, conducted mostly in French due to the volume of Quebec media interest, was near the close of the 15-minute affair when an Anglophone reporter checked in to ensure she had heard Poilievre correctly. “I just wanna go back to Gerald Butts. You said that, um, Prime Minister Trudeau keeps continuing his actions because he thinks he can get away with it. If the Liberals are re-elected, do you think that would, kind of reaffirm his belief that he can in fact, get away with it?” “Yes,” replied Poilievre. Both the incumbent-Trudeau camp and Conservatives stayed well clear of the Huawei connectivity confab down the road the same day, at the newly-renovated National Arts Centre. There in the performing arts center’s glass atrium, the Canadian arm of the Chinese tech-giant announced plans to put high-speed internet across Canada’s North. This was under the spectre of crushing embargoes against Canadian agriculture products by China, retaliation for our house arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou while she awaits possible extradition to the United States. Asked why Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale skipped Huawei Canada’s announcement, his spokesman Scott Bardsley wrote in an email to The Post Millennial; “Minister Goodale’s priority is securing Canadian networks, not promoting private commercial interests.” And securing Canadian networks could hinge on banning Huawei’s 5G tech from domestic telecom networks, an additional dimension to ongoing tensions between Canada and China. If elected, Conservatives have promised to pull Huawei’s 5G plug while the incumbent Liberals say they continue to study the “emerging 5G technologies..(and) will be taking appropriate decisions in due course.” “Due course,” could mean after the fall election, if this BNN Bloomberg report is accurate. In other pre-election, beltway-news New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh is unhappy with Trudeau’s latest pick to fill the last vacant Senate seat: Québec banker Tony Loffreda, former-vice chairman for wealth management at the Royal Bank of Canada. “Justin Trudeau, once again, showed whose side he’s on by appointing a senior person in the banking sector…to the Senate. It’s simple: his priority is working for the richest, not for the rest of us,” Singh said in a statement after the announcement on Tuesday. “In his former job, (Loffreda) focused on ‘high net worth’ and ‘affluent’ individuals such as corporate executives, heirs, and Canada’s richest families.” In 2016, the Royal Bank avoided Federal Court by agreeing to give Canada Revenue Agency decades of personal bank records implicated in the Panama Papers tax haven scandal. Two years later, the agency determined just five cases were worth auditing. The bank also made news in 2013 when it was caught offshoring domestic IT jobs and cutting dozens of Canadian staff. Out East in Fredericton New Brunswick on Wednesday, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May gave a speech to the Assembly of First Nations’ Annual General Assembly, in which climate change was almost as racist as the Indian Act. “We are in a global climate emergency. And everywhere, Indigenous peoples who contributed the least to this crisis are on the front lines of impacts,” she told chiefs from across the country. “Whether floods or forest fires, melting permafrost or loss of multiyear ice, for Indigenous peoples the climate emergency is a threat to human rights.” May also said the Indian Act is detriment to Indigenous’ rights, “racist” and should be replaced by “self-determining Indigenous governance”. But the Green leader played it cool, remember that she was speaking to a room of mostly Indian Act band council members who belong to an organization whose antecedents – the National Indian Brotherhood – rejected abolishing the legislation back in 1969. “It will take time for each nation to resolve its preferred traditional governance – or remain within the current structure,” she conceded. “But we must move on and end the structural violence of the Indian Act.” Join and support independent free thinkers! 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__label__wiki	0.788488	0.788488	Shi Han Ong Culture New anime in Winter 2021 The run of Fall 2020 anime series is coming to an end, and soon, we’ll be able to enjoy a new crop of new anime come Winter 2021. Besides Attack on Titan: The Final Season, which was mentioned in our previous upcoming anime article, there are many other titles worth checking out when the Winter 2021 anime season graces us in December. We’ve compiled 9 new anime coming out in Winter 2021 that you should keep an eye out for. 1. Horimiya Image credit: Horimiya Wiki Horimiya follows the story of the beautiful and intelligent Kyoko Hori, and the boring and seemingly unapproachable Izumi Miyamura. The two classmates would never have been more than acquaintances if not for an unexpected encounter outside of school. Image adapted from: AnimeUS Both Hori and Izumi are hiding their real personas behind the image they put up in school. After finding out how different they are outside of school, the two agree to keep it a secret. As they start spending more time together, an unlikely friendship and eventual romance between the two blooms. Horimiya - Official Trailer (Hori & Miyamura.) Genre: Slice of life, Comedy, Romance, School, Shounen Release date: 10th January 2021 Available on: Crunchyroll 2. Log Horizon: Destruction of the Round Table Image credit: u/rommelcedric Log Horizon follows Shiroe and his allies as they settle down in the world of Elder Tale, a popular multiplayer online role-playing game. During one of the game updates, 30,000 Japanese players suddenly find themselves trapped in the virtual game. These players are later known as “Adventurers” in the in-game world, and most of them end up living as members of various guilds in Akihabara, or “Akiba” for short. Image credit: Geek Ireland Shiroe forms the Round Table Alliance with 11 leaders from the influential guilds in Akiba. The alliance serves to manage the things that happen in the land. Together, they try to get used to their new reality, get to know other people in the game, fight against evil forces, and find a way back to the real world. Image credit: @otaquest In this 3rd season of Log Horizon, Shiroe and friends will face unprecedented troubles. Even after living together in Elder Tale for a year, there are still many issues between the Adventurers. These problems, as well as monsters, threaten to destroy the harmony in Akiba. Shiroe and his allies will struggle to find a way to maintain peace and prosperity in the land. But the most important question remains: will they find a way to bring everyone back home safely? Log Horizon Season 3 Official Trailer [ログ・ホライズン 3期 PV1] Genre: Action, Game, Adventure, Magic, Fantasy Length: 12 episodes Available on: Funimation, Crunchyroll, Netflix 3. Re: Zero Starting Life in Another World – Season 2 (Part 2) Image credit: MyAnimeList Re: Zero Starting Life in Another World follows the story of Subaru Natsuki, a 17-year-old recluse and gamer. One day, Subaru is mysteriously transported to a fantasy world where he encounters Emilia when she tries to save him from muggers. Although Subaru later dies during the attack, he was able to resurrect himself due to his special ability, “Return by Death”. It allows him to change how events are played out every time he dies. Every time Subaru gets revived, only he will remember what happened in the previous timeline while everyone else’s consciousness will be reset. Image credit: TranslationChicken Due to Emilia’s act of kindness towards him, Subaru vowed to help her succeed in her goal of becoming the land’s ruler. The new season picks up from where the 1st left off – Subaru and Emilia are currently stuck in the forest where they have to clear 3 trials successfully in order to escape. Image credit: u/majc18 Re: Zero Starting Life in Another World is a show that will keep the audience on their toes as the story progresses in unexpected ways. Watch as Subaru struggles and try yet again, despite countless deaths and resurrections, just to keep Emilia safe and help her become the ruler of Lugnica. TVアニメ『Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活』2nd season｜後半クール 2021.1 ON AIR START Genre: Drama, Psychological, Thriller, Fantasy Available on: Crunchyroll, Netflix 4. The Promised Neverland – Season 2 Image credit: IMDb The highly anticipated 2nd instalment of The Promised Neverland will bring you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions as it picks up from where it left off in the previous season. The 1st season followed Emma, Ray, and Norman as they struggled to escape their orphanage, Grace Field House, after finding out that they would be killed and eaten by demons if they continued to stay there. The new season sees the children struggle to flee from the forest they were stranded in after escaping the huge walls surrounding the orphanage. Emma and the others will have to navigate deep in the forest – and a world completely different from what they’d read in books – in order to survive. There will be new discoveries, new information, and new characters in this new season of The Promised Neverland. The children will come across forest creatures, demons, and other children that have escaped from different orphanages as they go along. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO0z2_r6w_8 Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery, Psychological, Thriller, Shounen Release date: 8th January 2021 5. Non Non Biyori Nonstop Image credit: u/HayashiSawaryo In the 3rd season of Non Non Biyori, Renge, Hotaru, and friends are back to keep us company with their tranquil and slow-paced countryside life around 5 years after the 2nd season ended. The slice of life series started with 5th-grader Hotaru Ichijo transferring to Asahigaoka Branch School after her family had moved over to the rural town. As it is a small countryside, the school only has one class with a total of 4 students all in different grades – 1st-grader Renge Miyauchi, 7th-grader Natsumi Koshigaya, 8th-grader Komari Koshigaya, and 9th-grader Suguru Koshigaya. Hotaru befriends Renge and the Koshigaya siblings and they spend their daily lives in the countryside together. Non Non Biyori follows the lives of the 5 friends as they study together, have fun, and make precious memories while showing the audience the stark differences between living in a city and the countryside. 「のんのんびより」TVアニメ3期制作決定PV Genre: Slice of life, Comedy, Seinen 6. The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragon’s Judgement Image credit: @Sneakynationone The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragon’s Judgement is the 4th season of the shounen anime series, The Seven Deadly Sins. The story follows the 3rd princess of Liones, Elizabeth, and the 7 legendary knights known as the Seven Deadly Sins. The knights fight against Holy Knights who have defected from the kingdom of Liones, as well as the demon armies, in order to keep their people safe. Despite countless battles between the Seven Deadly Sins and the demon forces, the war still rages on. Image adapted from: vap official In this season, we will see Meliodas, the head of the Seven Deadly Sins and the son of the Demon King, strive to defeat his father, become the next Demon King, and try to put an end to this prolonged war with the demons once and for all. He fights persistently in the hopes that Elizabeth and the kingdom of Liones will be safe and protected. TVアニメ新シリーズ「七つの大罪憤怒の審判」制作決定PV30秒公開！ Genre: Action, Adventure, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy, Shounen Available on: Netflix 7. Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation tells the story of a 34-year-old unemployed loner. He is given a new chance at life in a fantasy-like world after being reborn as an infant named Rudeus Greyrat. Although he may look like a newborn, Rudeus has kept his intelligence and memories from his past life. As a result, Rudeus is able to pick up combat skills and hone his magic abilities from a young age. Having led a meaningless life in the past, Rudeus resolves to make the most out of his new life and become a better person. Image adapted from: TOHO animation As Rudeus grows up, he will form bonds with his childhood friend Sylphiette, the quick-tempered but skilful swordswoman Eris, and the young demon teacher Roxy. He will also learn to fight and protect what is precious to him. TVアニメ『無職転生～異世界行ったら本気だす』ティザーPV／2021年1月10日(日)放送スタート Genre: Drama, Magic, Fantasy 8. The Low Tier Character “Tomozaki-kun” Image credit: Zerochan The Low Tier Character “Tomozaki-kun” follows the life of Fumiya Tomozaki, who’s an expert gamer but a “failure” in real life. He loves playing games because his efforts are always rewarded in the game, unlike how it is in reality. He firmly believes that real life is unfair, unpredictable, and unsatisfying. Image adapted from: TVアニメ「弱キャラ友崎くん」公式チャンネル However, this changes when he meets Aoi Hinami, a gamer who’s also a popular and smart student in school. Aoi resolves to help Fumiya “win” in the game of life by teaching him step by step and setting tasks for him to clear – just like in a video game. TVアニメ「弱キャラ友崎くん」ティザーPV Genre: Drama, Romance, School life 9. Laid-Back Camp – Season 2 Image credit: Yuru Camp Wiki Laid-Back Camp follows the introverted Rin Shima and boisterous Nadeshiko Kagamihara after they accidentally get to know each other while camping on Mount Fuji. The unlikely duo soon become friends due to a shared love for camping and Mount Fuji. Image credit: @renren486 This slice of life series will showcase the fun camping adventures of the 2 girls and others they befriend over the course of the show. It will teach us the wonders of winter camping and the power of friendship that is formed from a common interest. TVアニメ『ゆるキャン△ SEASON２』特報 │ 2021.1 ONAIR Genre: Slice of life, Comedy New anime in Winter 2021 to look forward to As the Fall anime season is wrapping up soon, it’s a good time to find out about the new titles coming up next. Do keep a lookout for these new anime series when the Winter 2021 season begins in December. 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__label__wiki	0.935931	0.935931	University Observer Students' Union Affairs OTwo OTwo Interview Literature & Drama Staff Writes The Harpy Generation gender and the proper way to discuss these issues By Elliot S \| Feb 22 2019 With RTÉ hosting “Generation Gender” while UCD hosts panels on Trans issues and closed spaces, Elliot Savage takes a deeper look at how these discussions are framed on and off campus Following the RTÉ debate surrounding the PrimeTime segment “Generation Gender”, the discussion on campus is proving to be quite different to that at a national level. Ireland is considered to be a ‘world leader’ when it comes to trans inclusion, however socially it is not keeping in line with legal acceptance. The Gender Recognition Bill, signed into law in 2015, gives adults the right to apply through the Department of Social Protection in order to be legally recognised as the gender by which they identify. However, 16 to 17 year olds have more of a struggle, requiring parental consent to legally transition, an issue if their parents don’t recognise their gender the same way as they identify, and for younger people this is not available. A review proposes that this recognition be extended to all ages, with minors requiring parental consent and also that a system be introduced for non-binary people. Discussion on trans issues is not new around campus. Last February, the University made the decision to re-designate more than 170 toilets to “gender neutral” and introduce changing facilities for transgender members at the sports centre. Students can also change their names on official University documents without a gender recognition certificate. The LGBTQ+ society leads the discussion on trans issues on campus, dedicating a week to events around the issues, including a vigil on the Transgender Day of Remembrance. There are a number of committee and society members who are part of the trans community, and there are a number of events each semester such as trans info night and trans only closed spaces. National conversation surrounding trans issues is growing, both negatively and positively. More people are being made aware of issues faced by those in the trans community. There have been calls for the improvement of trans healthcare in the country and for reform to take place in order to tackle the immense waiting lists faced by trans people seeking Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). Trans people also face high levels of discrimination nationally. Marginalisation is ripe in homes, schools and workplaces, and issues faced can cause major upset or distress for trans people. Unfortunately, with the airing of this program came the changing of some people’s views on trans issues. Many parents of trans kids reported family members who once ‘tolerated’ their kids identities now were refusing to respect names and pronouns and many young trans people feared attending school in the days following the debate for fear of backlash from staff and fellow students. It is likely that discussion differs between campus and nationally due to the presence of the LGBTQ+ society and the work they put in to bringing issues to light, as well as many student having more liberal views, while nationally, you have to take into account the older generation, many of whom either do not understand or refuse to accept trans identities. A group from UCD recently attended the protest at RTÉ against Graham Linehan appearing on the Prime Time segment “Generation Gender”. In the lead up to the show, the public complained about the planned inclusion of Linehan in a debate on Irish Law. Many questioned the reasoning for this when he is ‘a known transphobe.’ A petition was set up but RTÉ failed to change their stance on the issue. Linehan has a history of making transphobic comments including likening trans activism to Nazism. He also attempted to block funding to Mermaids, a charity supporting trans youth in the UK. This was counteracted by YouYube/Twitch gamer “hbomberguy”, playing a 57 hour Donkey Kong stream to raise money for the charity, resulting in the raising of £250,000. The UK, where Linehan has lived and worked for many years, has significantly more TERFs(Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists) in its feminist movement than Ireland. Last week, two British women ambushed Sarah McBride, the National Press Secretary of the Human Rights Campaign following a meeting between the Parents for Equality National Council and members of Congress. They complained that “this ideology”, presumably meaning the belief that trans people exist, had been “imported into the UK by America.” They claimed they had gone to its “source” to reduce the “female erasure.” The UK is falling behind Ireland in terms of tackling trans rights, with the failure to provide a law allowing for gender recognition best on self-declaration. Since 2004, trans people have been able to have their gender recognised under restrictions. They must be 18 or over, be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, have lived for at least two years in their acquired gender and “intend to live permanently in their acquired gender until death.” TERF ideology comes into play when certain feminist groups criticise the Gender Recognition Act and the idea of furthering trans rights. They argue that in some circumstances trans women should be treated differently to how cisgender women would be. They argue that some women-only spaces and jobs should be reserved specifically for cis women. The counter-argument here is that this is scaremongering and likely rooted in a transphobic biased. They need only look at Ireland as an example to see that issues they ‘fear’ have not yet occurred despite trans people having the right to self-declaration. Ireland still has a lot of work to do in terms of trans healthcare and legal recognition for non-binary people, but as things stand currently they are far ahead of the UK in terms of tackling issues faced by the trans community. “He Made us Happy”- How Diego Maradona lifted a broken nation Cupboard Love: Shortbread Agony Aunt: Vol XXVII Issue 4 Alcohol Free Alternatives The University Observer E: info@universityobserver.ie The University Observer is a member of the Press Council of Ireland and supports the Office of the Press Ombudsman. 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__label__cc	0.69593	0.30407	Everything Tracy Jordan Said Season 3 May 18, 2009 cohenaaron30 rock, documentation, everything they said, googlesterity, humor, Pantheon, quotations, Television, tracy morgan Anytime Tracy Morgan as Tracy Jordan has a scene on 30 Rock, my brain shuts off and it’s difficult to function. It’s the combination of delivery and content, and there’s hardly ever a scene throughout which, I’m not giggling foolishly. In celebration, I thought I’d post everything he said in 30 Rock Season 3. If you guys like it, I’ll do Season 1 and Season 2, too. Some of these lines are made funnier by adding context. For the most part, however, they’re funnier without, so I didn’t include any. Yes, this is basically a transcription of his lines without comment and I could have just copied and pasted out of the scripts. However, they’re not online, so I watched every episode again, just for you. Leave your favorite lines in the comments, enjoy! “It’s official, I’m a genius. My video game is selling through the riznoof.” “61 million copies at 60 dollars each.” “I don’t know, I think I did it alone, and this check is the priznoof.” “I know what you’re hinting at, Liz Lemon. That I should get my rap career going again. [Whispering] All in due time.” “Nobles Oblige, yes. Let’s go shopping. To the Bat Mobile!” “Attention everyone. I’d like to thank everyone involved for making my video game the most profitable thing since the war on terra!” “Yes, I am provocative!” “Frank, for all your hard work, please accept this set of solid gold nunchuks.” “Petey Pete, for letting us use the sound booth, please accept this chinchilla coat.” “You’re going to get so much nice nice in that, you’re going to have to grow another ding-.” “Bev, [kissing] mwah. Now you look out for my girl Liz because me and her go way back like spinal chords and car seats.” “You’re going to sue me? Who do you think you are, the San Diego zoo?” “You can’t sue me, I’m already being sued. Double indemnity!” “Do you know who I am? Seriously, please, tell me who I am.” “Liz Lemon! Nemesis.” “OK, two can play at that game. Liz, could you please tell Kenneth that Liz wants him?” “Mediation is a binding form of non-judicial dispute resolution.” “I watched Boston Legal 9 times before I realized it wasn’t a new Star Trek.” “What? Please. We are here because white folks think they can do whatever they want to black folks. It’s like when Adrian Brody kissed Halle Berry at the Oscars.” “White people stole jazz, rock and roll, Will Smith, AND heart disease. Now they think they can take my hard earned money.” “Liz Lemon? That chick is dumb.” “Do you know it’s still illegal to be black in Arizona.” “If it weren’t for your people I’d still be in Africa. Gorgeous, politically stable, Africa.” “Whatever, you couldn’t last one day in my shoes, Maroney, right, Toph?” “OK, I will.” “Freaky Friday social experiment.” “Liz, it’s Becky, your college roommate. See Liz Lemon, you’re already treating me with more respect.” “You wait til I test this noise out on society. Minds will be blown.” “You can’t fix this Liz Lemon, it’s about race. It’s about man and woman. It’s about money. It’s about being on TV. And no one understands all that.” “Hi strangers, do you think I’m sexy. Giggle, giggle, giggle.” “I’m meeting my girlfriends for brunch, I hope we can sit outside. Lipstick. Heeheehee.” “They ran out of white makeup because I insisted they do my buttocks.” “Jenna and I are doing a social experiment.” “I haven’t seen Oprah since she did that episode about the worst celebrity dads.” “Uh, how you doing?” “It’s the way my world is right now.” “I’ve been hearing, but I haven’t been listening.” “Lean on me, when you’re not strong.” (Thanks for visiting Unlikely Words. If you liked what you read Subscribe by RSS, or follow on Twitter, or subscribe by email or on Facebook) “What’s wrong, Ken. You got wife eyes!” “Is there nothing sacred? Have we lost our moral center? It just makes me want to pee on someone.” “I hate to see you like this, Ken Doll. It’s like an owl without a graduation cap. Heartbreaking!” “So what can I buy you to make you happy?” “Court? At night? I’m already laughing. Tell me more.” “So you never got closure with those beloved characters?” “You ready for your big surprise?” “Tadah!” “That’s right, K, and they’re here for you!” “My boy Ken has written a masterpiece. And trust me, I use that word a lot.” “I don’t know, Ken, this is bad. I wish this was an episode of Night Court because then there’d be some big joke right now.” “You have to go through with this wedding, Harry, it means the world to my boy Ken.” “OK, so you and Markdeline have some bad blood, but it’s bigger than that. My boy Kenneth, is going through some really tough times. They’re trying to make him wear a coat that’s different than his other coat.” “You won’t regret this, Harry, you look great.” “It’s happening.” “A problem that persists, Liz Lemon.” “I want a different answer, where’s Jack Donaghy.” “Ken! You did it! You changed her mind!” “I added that. I went upstairs and I told them if, ‘you don’t bring back the old uniforms, I refuse to play the role of Mac in Unversal’s upcoming Night Court movie.'” “I don’t want to go home, Ken. You know my two sons, Tracy Jr and George Foreman? They’ve been acting really weird lately.” “Those two have never paid me any attention. And rightly so, I’m a strange man who can’t be taken seriously. Now they won’t let me out of their sight.” “Nope, look at what the little one made me.” “This is voodoo, Ken! Those two are up to something.” “Well, there is all this new money coming in. And it’s not just from the video game. It’s the tie-ins, the toys, the life size Tracy Jordan sex doll that’s selling like hotcakes in Japan!” “I thought that was just the tagline for my movie, Deathbank.” “What? Say it! My kids are going to kill me!” “Hey, guys, daddy’s home. Don’t Menendez me. Ahhhhhhhhh.” “That’s not me, that’s the Tracy Jordan Japanese sex doll. You can tell us apart because IT’S not suffering from a vitamin deficiency.” “To use as a decoy. So my greedy children will murder it and I’ll be able to escape un-Menendezed.” “Or is it. The parallels between the Jordans and the Menendi are uncanny!” “Both families are rich. Both families have two sons. And both families are staples of court TV.” “You want to get one? I can get you one.” “I love you, too, son. Stop it. Stop…patriciding. It’s me. There’s nothing to be freaked out about. That’s just a Japanese sex doll in daddy’s bed. Now you listen. You don’t have to ever worry about me leaving because I’ll always be there to take care of you. And there’s something else. If anything ever happens to me, you, and your brother are going to go to jail.” “Liz Lemon, look, I’m not dead.” “Oh, also everything worked out with Jenna’s dad visiting.” “Oh, you weren’t really around for any of that.” “I would feel safer with some Saltines.” “You gotta go to your reunion. You get to get back everyone who ever messed with you.” “You said I’d never amount to anything. Look at me now, look at this necklace.” “How come there ain’t no Puerto Ricans on Star Trek? They got every race and lifeform in the galaxy, except for Puerto Ricans. What’s up with that?” “Because Kenneth got a bigger laugh in the elevator than me today. And where were you two? Your job is to protect me from embarrassment.” “Making up words won’t save you, ok? We’re going to get on an elevator with Kenneth and you’re going to laugh at my jokes.” “Hey, elevator, what’s this? A ghetto mating call.” “Jenna, we’re the most important people here, right?” “And people around here shouldn’t take attention from us, should they?” “It’s not the baby, it’s Kenneth.” “Yeah, he does.” “That sounds really nice.” “We have to stop him!” “This studio hosted the Kraft Television Theater where young writers like Patty Tchaiovsky and Rod Sterling first rose to prominence.” “It doesn’t feel good when someone does your job, does it? “I don’t like it when you do jokes in the elevator. That’s my job.” “[Crying] We’re not really best friends. We’re just good friends. I just want you to stop.” “Colorful sweaters?” “[Crying] That kid’s never going to be a doctor. Better buy it a jet ski.” “And NBC has to pay for our cabs to the airport.” “And I’m not going anywhere for Christmas.” “Nonononononono. I will not let you go into that neighborhood alone. In the spirit of Christmas and Kwanzo-” “-And shalamsazam to you, too, my sister- We’ll go with you uptown. And remember, Dotcom, you are there to protect ME, and not Liz Lemon.” “Thanks a lot, I never operated a camera before. I’m serious, that was very helpful.” “What’s the past tense for scam? Is it scrummed? Liz Lemon, I think you just got scrummed.” “Oh, really? We’re both black, so we must know each other.” “Hey, Irennnnnnne. Novicki hook you up with this job? Oh, girl, you better stop.” “Well, if all you want is a hug from a black person, maybe you should just host the Price is Right.” “Alright, I’ll call Griz and Dotcom. I’m sure they’re not doing anything.” “Or Basquiat.” “Our guest is sung with everyone from Paul Anka to Crocodile Dundee. Cross to Piano. Ladies and gentlemen, Jenna Maroney!” “Liz Lemon, I know you’re going to be all alone on Christmas Day, so if you like, you can spend it with the Jordans.” “Good, we’ll be over at 2. My kids have a peanut allergy, but my dogs only eat steak.” Subscribe to RSS Follow us on Twitter “Give me an example.” “Jack, you don’t get it. I don’t want to spend so much, I have to. I’m afraid Angie will divorce me if I ever have enough for her to live off of half. So before she can get it, I have to spend it on useless things like gold shoes and Griz and Dotcom.” “I don’t gotta pre-nup. When Angie and I got married, my only assets were a toaster oven and two tickets to a Young MC concert.” “OK. I’ll bring Angie in, but I’m going to tell her this is all YOUR idea.” “Don’t help me, I’m too proud.” “You’re not?!” “She’s done it before, Jack!” “Forget it. I know you’re not going to leave me. I’ve got somebody whose going to watch me die.” “This is happening, Jack. You can stay or you can leave, but it’s going to take a while.” “There he is. I owe you, Jackie D. When I’m on my deathbed frenching my wife, I will think of you.” “This is real people. This is not a drill.” “They do that a lot in movies. An Afair to Remember, Sleepless in Seattle, and that remake of An Affair to Remember that I was in, A Blfair to Rememblack.” “Wooooow. Now you have what me and Angie have, minus the hypertension.” “I’ll do it.” “Hello, yes, ok, thank you.” “The test was positive. Nonono. I mean positive like it’s good. The test results were negative. Oh, I see your confusion. That’s funny. Ahahaha. Ahahaha. Funny. Jack thought the test results was positive.” “Lalalalalalalalal.” “They said it was a flu shot, but I know it was really a truth serum?” “Then why am I telling you you look like Tootsie today.” “We didn’t know what to get them and then I had a brainstorm. It was a bad one, Jenna had to put my tongue guard in.” “So, go do that.” “My what?” “With what, my arms?” “That would be the worst part.” “Yeah, for the crew, cuz it’s they birthday.” “Yeah, we were out getting soup for the crew. Nope. We forgot about that, too. We were out shopping together. We had fun, though.” “Yeah, I tried on a lot of outfits.” “I know. I also want to thank you for controlling yourself sexually, while we spent time together on this adventure.” “Give it to me, it’s mine.” “Medicine?” “Attention, ladies and germs and gentleman. Are you ready to feel better, cuz we have just the thing.” “No. Now in the grand tradition of Patch Adams, prepare yourself for the comic stylings of Tracy the Amazing and Jenna!” “What, why aren’t you laughing? This is happening to Liz.” “So, how am I looking Dr. Spaceman?” “Diabetes?” “So, how bad is diabetes, really?” “Could I replace it with a wheel, like Rosie from the Jetson’s?” “It’s a practice wheel for when I lose my foot to diabetes.” “There’s no link between diabetes and diet. That’s a white myth, Ken. Like Larry Bird or Colorado.” “And I heard that from Yusef Jackson.” “Diabetes and diet. Next you’ll be telling me that leasing a sports car is a bad investment.” “K. What’s up with this disgusting stuff?” “N-O-E. No. E.” “I didn’t say anything.” “Through the stone?” “I’m fine, Ken. I have so much energy, my hand keeps dancing.” “Hmmm. What is this?” “Damn, K. That is weak. I’m a fourty year old man. You think I’ma be scared into eating some stuff because some-” “Ahhhhh. I renounce everything. Cover your brain.” “What’s up, Brian?” “Of course not, I transcend race.” “You shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition at. But yeah, I’m in.” “A yard, like a lawn? Yes I have.” “I went out with the interns. Those white boys are not kidding around. Have you ever tasted scotch? It’s terrible! And this thing they call ‘box seats at the Ranger’s game,’ it’s so cold. And what is Rohyphnal?” “So I shouldn’t have taken 2 of them for my headache? “Hey, you know it, Bri-man.” “I have no idea what either one of us just said.” “I have a rep to maintain. If I can’t keep up with a bunch of Wall St frat boys- uh, oh, here come the Roofies. You can do whatever you want to me.” “I’m going to. I’m Tracy Jordan. Why would I be afraid of fire next to my mouth.” “Ken, these interns are wearing me out. It’s like I said in my non-hit comedy ‘Cruise Boat,’ I’m getting too old for this ship.” “Yes there is. Do you know what happens to a comedian when he gets old and loses his audience? He starts to get offered serious roles. And do you really want to see me play Arthur Ashe?” “Exactly, so if I’m going to keep my hilarious reputation, these interns gotta go.” “Then I’ll find something for them to do.” “I’m doing this so no one will know I’m getting old.” “This interview is over.” (Thanks for visiting Unlikely Words. If you liked what you read Subscribe to RSS, check out our About Page, read some of our favorite posts or follow us on Twitter) “NBC, blah blah blah, thank you.” “Ken, you need to snap out of it and ask out that sexy Ms Magoo. “I know love at first site when I see it. I saw it when I met Angie. I saw it the first time Dotcom laid eyes on Griz’s fiance.” “Now’s the time for gallantry.” “Well, cotton and fiddles, I enjoy your smile.” “You may call me, Kenneth the Page, cuz that is who I am. Would you like to go out with me tomorrow night? Yes, indeedy corn cobs.” “It’s a Valentimesdatelydoo.” “That’s how you get to Manhatten’s fanciest restaurant.” “Yes, I found it on my favorite website. Stopshowingoff.com.” “It’s the best, darn tootenist restaurant in all of New York.” “Not just any entertainment, the best singer in the world. Michael McDonald.” “It doesn’t have to end here, ya’llsies.” “That is cold, blind lady. Oh, and by the way, you’re not so attractive yourself.” “Yes, you are.” “I tried.” “You know it! I cursed for three hours straight just to get it out of my system, you dumb bitch!” “You got it. NGS, Fridays at C30 on TB10.” “But then he scores a basket even though he’s not a wolf anymore.” “Good. I’m glad I’m here.” “Larry, I’m not an expert, but I do have a strong opinion. New York, as we know it, will no longer exist tomorrow.” “Look. I grew up here, Larry, in the days before Starbuck. And if Wall St crashes, it’ll be the 1970’s all over again. People will get mean. The streets won’t be safe. It’ll be graffiti everywhere. And the movies will only cost 3 dollars.” “Uhm, my work has taken me there. I was supposed to be in that movie Rush Hour, but two weeks into shooting, I was replaced by Jackie Chan.” “Larry, what everyone needs to do is just take a deep breath, calm down, and start preparing their bodies for the Thunderdome. That is the new law.” “Devil’s avocado here, Larry. I think people should freak the geek out. Withdraw all your money and hide it.” “It’s what I’ve always done. I hide cash everywhere. At home, at church, even at work. In fact, I’ve hidden so much money, that if some of it was gone, I probably wouldn’t even notice.” “I’m saying the Disneyfication of New York is over, everyone. At the stroke of midnight, your Lexus is going to turn back into a hot pile of rats fighting over a human finger.” “Hang on. I know Jack Donaghy and that is an imposter. Hang up. Hang up on him, Larry.” “Hey, I recognize that voice anywhere, Larry. That’s my friend Peter Frampton on the phone.” “Of course, Pete. I hid my money in the safest place at 30 Rock. Without giving it away, the place I picked is very dry and warm. Its top is hard, but its bottom is soft. And although the location changes all the time, the money stays in the same place.” “I already told you. It’s dry and warm. Its top is hard, but its bottom is soft. And although the location changes, it’s always in the same place.” “I never said it was a thing.” “Watch TGS, Fridays at 10:30. Word!” “Thanks for coming out, thanks for watching. Love, peace, and hairgrease!” “That’s because I don’t have a birthday, Ken.” “I don’t have a birth certificate, cuz I was born inside of Yankee Stadium. I bounced around foster families so much, no one ever bothered to throw me a party.” “I don’t need a birthday cause I buy myself all the presents I need. And because of my drinking, they’re often a surprise.” “But I don’t have a birthday!” “I do feel it. You’re all so amazing. And to think I was just calling ya’ll a bunch of racists.” “I did not know that?” “Suree, Suree, Suree.” “You were right, Ken, birthday’s are special. And now mine’s is over. And who knows when February 24th will come again. Now that warm happy feeling is gone, there’s no cake in my mouth, and that birthday wish is malarkey. Malarkey!” “Come on, Daniel.” “My birthday wish came to true!” “I wished for you to get better. I was gonna to wish for breakfast in bed with Robocop while an elephant paints us.” “But then I saw you with that backbrace on right before I blew out my candles. It’s a birthday miracle!” “Ahhhahaaahah. Ahhhahaha.” “Here come the County Court Steppers. Their traditional dance celebrates the spirit and the ingenuity of the Irish people.” “Wake up, Motherfu-” “I feel I should be rewarded for going this long without swearing on live TV.” “50 grand? Can anyone cut this in half.” “OK, great meeting.” “There you are, Liz Lemon. You wanna buy half a watch? I have to pay my fine in cash. I guess FCC stands for Federal Bunch of Sticklers.” “I sure have. I learned that if you pay some money afterwards, you can say whatever you want on TV. I can even say what Earnest Borgnine whispered to me at-” “That’s always the lesson! If you have money you can do whatever you want. Now I’m off to appear on Martha Steward Live. Ooh, it’s gonna be raunchy.” “Hello, Liz Lemon. Just catching up on some work. What sounds more shocking ‘[Bleeeeeeeep]’ or ‘[Bleeeeeeeep]’? “Hear you go. Everything’s OK.” “I don’t want to hurt the crew. I love the crew. All we do is joke around together about our stupid boss Liz Lem-” “Great idea, Liz Lemon!” “The first two thirds! I don’t need to stop being myself if I AM the advertiser! I have the money. I’ll just buy up all of the ads and let that hilarious Tracy Jordan character do whatever he wants.” “We’ll see about that.” “Kenneth, I need you to set up a meeting with you and the folks from ad sales. What do you mean you’re not in charge anymore?” “I do not apologize, America. I did not even write that apology. I am advertiser Tracy Jordan and I approve this message. I am an advertiser. I am an advertiser. Is that 30 seconds, yet?” “Hey, America, check out my fun cooker!” “Hi. I’m Tracy Jordan. My wife is throwing away some of our old towels. Do you want them cuz they’re out by the trash cans. Now that’s gots to be 30 seconds. Nine? OK, here comes the fun cooker.” “Can we get some Diet Slice and pita chips up in here?” “All I did is ask for some Diet Slice and some pita chips.” “Hey, Ken, do you know what I have a craving for?” “And some?” “You are my Radar O’Reilly, Ken. Now get in here and rub my feet til you hear a chopper coming.” “This is better than a family. No one around here asks me for my damn bone marrow.” “OK. Sorry it took me so long to answer. I was just thinking about how weird it is that we eat birds.” “How is this not really about money?” “What’s that now, Charles?” “I never thought of it like that. Thank you. I quit. Goodbye.” “Bill Cosby? You gotta a lot of nerve getting on the phone with me after what you did to my Aunt Paulette.” “1971, Cincinnatti. She was the cocktail waitress with the droopy eye.” “Try to tell me what to do? Dr Heathcliff Huxtable with your light-ass kids. Jack, why would you make me talk to this man?” “[Singing] ‘My girl has a fat neck.’ I’m sharp, let’s do it again.” “Oh, hey, Cranston, I was looking for Kenneth.” “[Singing] ‘Fat neck girl let me count your neck rings.’ Family? Whose in charge of my thirst?” “Cranston, why hasn’t Kenneth called me back yet? I miss him. Cranston? Why are you crying?” “Hey, Ken? I’ve been calling you, has Cranston not been giving you my messages?” “Yeah, well. Don’t worry. I just came to get a few of my things. And I won’t bother you.” “Alright. I guess that’s everything. But I want you to know. If I walk out that door, Ken, I’m not gonna call again. It’s over. You understand?” “You used Cranston as his gatekeeper?” “Wait a minute, you want to fire my boy, Ken?” “Unless?” “You say Kenneth can’t work here because I don’t work here. But if I work here, so can Kenneth.” “Of course you don’t, you idiot. I’m coming back to work, Jack. With Kenneth!” “I’ll be in my dressing room.” “I will be brief. I have decided to fulfill my dream of going into space. If you have a spaceship and are looking for a hilarious astronaut with an irregular heartbeat and thirty million dollars, I am prepared to leave as soon as tomorrow. I wrote that yesterday. I will not be taking questions.” “What is this, Horseville? Cuz I am surrounded by naysayers. Wordplay!” “Look, when I was a kid growing up in the projects, I would look up at the stars and dream of going into space. Of escaping the slums. Of killing the Ewok! Now the man that kid has become can make those dreams come true. Do you know what that’s like?” “Then you know why I have to do this. As Robert Browning once wrote, ‘Ho, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what is a heaven for? I was prepared for the possibility of this meeting.” “Thank you, Jacky D!” “At least it’s a dry heat here in Florida.” “Computer, when do I get some Tang? Also, I’m thirsty. Hahahahaha. Wordplay. Hahaha.” “I’m scared, but I’m also excited! Hahahah. Ooooh. I’m Lizzing. Hahaha. Lizzing. I’m Lizzing.” “Tracy to Earth. Come in Earth.” “Great wink, Kenneth. Space is very cold, but very beautiful. And sometimes it sounds like Jenna yelling in the distance. I think I- Oh my God, where did you get that rocket?” “It’s awesome.” “Hey, Jacky D. If everyone could see the world the way I see it, it would be a better place to live!” “I think so. I wish I was there so I could play with it.” “Someone put too many farts in this engine, it’s about to explode.” “I’m Flava Obama and I’d like to introduce our Undersecretary of Housing and Crystal Meth, boooooyyyyy.” “It’s farting. It’s farting.” “That’s our show for tonight, see you next week!” “This is TGS.” “Woah, K.” “I’m sorry, but just let me know if there’s any way I can help.” “No, I was just saying that. Why can’t you read human facial cues? Alright, what is it?” “Yeah, OK. Birds are like little dinosaurs. So what I’ll be doing is actually pretty cool and brave.” “Hey, little guy.” “I wasn’t going to. I wasn’t going to. Ahhh.” “Jenna, something weird is going on.” “No, it’s not that. Jenna, you’re the smartest person I know. Do you think Kenneth could be a murderer?” “Well, I might be crazy, but neither he, nor his bird would let me into his bedroom. And why wouldn’t you want to let Tracy Jordan into your bedroom unless you got a bunch of dead nurses in there.” “He grew up killing pigs.” “No wonder he’s fascinated when I do that.” “I admonished him for that earlier. Three for three, he’s a monster.” “Hey, K. Where’s Jonathan?” “Uh, huh.” “Yeah, it’s about someone else. I’m afraid this guy I know in Canada might be a serial killer.” “Kenneth. I mean, I’ll tell you his name. It’s Kenneth.” “If I had any doubts about this before, and I don’t think I did, they’re gone now.” “Yeah, like Julia and Denzel in the Pelican Brief.” “Jenna, I just want you to know, that if we find any human remains in there, I’m gonna throw up all over your face.” “Oh, no. Kenneth’s a murderer and a Riddler is coming.” “Yeah, but on the bright side, you’ve been downgraded from suspect to person of interest.” “Hahahaha. Time does heal all wounds.” “Ken, we feel bad that we, but mostly Jenna, gassed your bird.” “No, Passive resistance. I learned that from Dr. King. I’m brave!” “I don’t need to read it. The entire thing is loosely based on an evening I spent with Isaiah Thomas.” “Alright, enough. This fighting stops now.” “I knew this would happen someday. A woman would come between us. Well I’m not standing by, I’m taking action.” “Well, Liz Lemon’s in jail now and somebody has to step up and take charge around here.” “Let the problem solving begin.” “Are you Daphne? Yeah, you’re fired.” “I had to. Friendship and trust in the entourage is the most important thing. Like that HBO show, John Adams.” “Hmmm, usually this is the point in my process where Liz Lemon steps in and takes care of everything. Heavy is the head that eats the crayons. Gonna take a nap, see you in 10 hours.” “No we don’t, he’s not even gonna notice they’re gone.” “These are the new dancers, Ken. Say hi to Velvet.” “Just think, an hour ago they were broiling in the parking lot, but tonight they’re gonna be stars. Oh boy.” “As we celebrate the life of Jenna Maroney.” “That was some of Jenna Maroney’s earlier work. It’s hard to believe that both of those women outlived her, especially the woman on the right. We’ll be right back.” “And finally tonight. What more fitting way to say goodbye to our friend than with the gift she gave all of us, her music. Ladies and gentlemen, Issac Bimmelmans and the Tracy Jordan Dancers.” “Why are you smiling, you’re freaking me out.” “You’re crazy.” “We’ve narrowed it down, Liz Lemmon.” “This Saturday is the 20th anniversary of the night that me and Angie met. She was working at the Diker Heights Arthur Treaches and I was residing there. She slipped me a free shrimp combo and we’ve been together ever since, so this present has to be special. It’s either going to be a denim jacket that says ‘Hot Bitch’ in diamonds, or a Slanket.” “You are wise, Liz Lemon, like a genetically manipulated shark. So as a token of my gratitude, I got something especially for you.” “Liz Lemon, you dummy.” “I asked Angie what she wanted for our anniversary, and she wants me to get a tattoo of her name.” “And above it she wants this picture of her face. I can’t have this on my chest scaring off beautiful women in the clubs.” “You know I like to socialize, Liz Lemon. And you know my signature move with the ladies.” “It’s taking off my shirt.” “Now, it’s a Sophie’s Choice. I can’t get this tattoo and I can’t tell Angie ‘no’.” “That’s a start, Liz Lemmon, that’s a start.” “Dotcom, that is a great idea. If you want everyone to think I own a gay lion. Tangiers?” “Look, this is my reputation we’re talking about here. Use your heads.” “-Is for me to arrange a test of erotic temptation. Yes.” “We’re going out tonight, Jacky D, and we’re going to be tempted like Jesus in the wilderness. Jesus is my stereo guy and the Wilderness is a club I took him to once.” “Sure thing, baby. Give a kid a call, hmm? Holla?” “Tip of the iceberg, Jacky D. You can have all of this whenever you want. Or, you could marry that nice lady you’re in love with. It’s up to you.” “Of course I do. Angie’s the one.” “It’s a thing I made up after seeing the Matrix.” “OK. This is something I’ve never told anyone. This is my terrible secret. In 20 years that I’ve known her, I’ve never cheated on my wife. There, I said it. Don’t look at me.” “The partying is just for show, and because I’m a high-functioning alcoholic. All those phone numbers you see me handing out? They’re not even mine.” “So can you. Because I’m a ridiculous unstable human being.” “And if Angie wants me to get a tattoo of her to prove my life, then I’m getting that tattoo.” “Griz, get the car. Dotcom get the coats and which one of your ladies wants to pick up the tab.” “No and at large. I mighta went out and had too a little much to drink last night, but you’ll be proud of me, Liz Lemon Cool J, because I went out and got that tattoo Angie wanted me to get. Pow! How you like me now?” “What the hell time is it?” “No, I took my son to his cello recital this morning at what turned out to be midnight yesterday! White opressors, answer my question. What time is it really?” “You’re a bunch of racists.” “You treat me like a child. No worse than that. You treat me like one of those little pageant girls with the clip on teeth.” “Irregardless, you know what? Race card!” “I think I’ve made my point.” “Don’t patronize me with your Celtic slang, Liz Lemon, we have a black president now.” “This is post-racial America, and I demand to be treated like everyone else.” “Fine, I’ll bring my lunch from home.” “You don’t think I can do that?” “Fine, but I’ll have the last laugh. Hahahaha.” “Professional is my middle name.” “No need, I’ve got it memorized.” “I’m going to do a Valentino cross, camera right, then dump the lavs, so stay on your fours, guys.” “3:15, time for union break.” “No. Do not apologize. In fact, everyone? Everyone gather round. Actor announcement. I want to publicly thank you, Liz Lemon, for you have shown me, that in today’s world, everyone should be treated exactly the same. No one should get preferential treatment.” “Not black comedy superstars, not Hispanics, not Indians, not whatever this guy is. And not women, Liz Lemon.” “Good. I feel parched from being so professional, could I trouble you for some water?” “No. No. Equality. Everyone should be treated the same, right Liz Lemon? You should change it.” “No one help her.” “Hello, Liz Lemon. I was just telling these fellas how you don’t want to be treated any differently because you’re a woman.” “Good. We’re learning.” “Hello, Elizabeth.” “I’m done with my work, I was very professional.” “You coming, Liz Lemmon? Because a dude boss would be a jerk if he didn’t come to Lutz’s bachelor party. Also a dude boss, would pay for it.” “Twist.” “I don’t want to be here, I don’t like it here. Who is this guy?” “The black one. I can’t take it anymore. I hate it.” “Everything is upside down.” “Yes, we upset the natural order. You’re going to strip clubs, I’m up writing all night.” “We’re dressing monkeys up as people and monkeys are playing with people as toys!” “We don’t wanna end up like those two!” “Come on in, Jack, I’m just practicing sitting.” “Because he’s dead.” “Because if that man was alive, he’d be living in my pool house and I’d be paying him two hundred thousand dollars a year to mow my lawn.” “I feel like you’re not telling me something, Jack. Let me guess. You bought a sidecar for your motorcycle and your dog won’t stay in it.” “Why? Jack, every man should know his father.” “No it wasn’t. I struggled through that sentence. But I know what I’m talking about because not long ago a son I didn’t know about found me.” “My love child tracked me down. I was shocked, scared, angry. Like a dog in a sidecar when it comes loose from the motorcycle. But it turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to me.” “Everybody, gather up. Actor announcement. No, human announcement.” “There’s something I want you all to hear directly from me before you read about it in next month’s issue of Black Entrepreneur and Butts Magazine. I have an illegitimate son.” “Obviously, my family wanted to keep this private, but somehow, those vultures in the media found out about it.” “Like a dog in a sidecar when it comes loose from the motorcycle. But it turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to me.” “Oh, noooooooo.” “Now, I didn’t know about this boy up until three years ago, but I’ve been supporting him financially ever since. And I want you all to meet him.” “I want you bastards to meet my bastard. My baby boy, Donald Jordan.” “Well, as long as it’s for something you need.” “I love you, man.” “Why won’t this stupid gizmo do what I want. I’m going to miss the lotto drawing.” “Of course, why would I lie about my age, I’m in the entertainment industry.” “Not familiar, but what about this song? [Singing] Tea is great after being out late, after walking my baby ba-” “Yes you are, son. That’s what that birth certificate you printed out for me said.” “Yes I do, and I left the amount blank, just like you asked.” “Donald’s opening a dojo.” “Hey, remember this song? [Singing] If e’r a fair maiden, a knight chance to see.” “OK, that was to put in Dotcom’s birthday card. But you’re right. The card is enough.” “Liz Lemon, I might hug people too hard and get lost in malls. But I’m not an idiot.” “When Donald came to me he was a fast talking charmer from the wrong side of the track. He reminded me of someone, Liz Lemon, Jon Travolta’s character from Grease. And me.” “Call it what you want, but in the last three years, Donald has gone from scamming celebrities to being a small business owner.” “And the community center is thriving. Do you know Kenneth’s eighty dollars bought a chess set and a crate of condoms?” “That’s what ya’ll naming it? Thank you, son. Thank you.” “Not interested.” “Because Frank Lucas High School was a hell hole. Griz knows, he was there. A drug dealer named Campbell, he ruled that school. He wanted me to find a snitch called Baby. Campbell wanted me to cut him open.” “I wouldn’t do it. I dropped out, and I vowed never to go back to that place.” “Yes he was.” “No he wasn’t.” “What frog?” “When have I ever cried?” “It’s true, there is no Baby. I was chicken. I was chicken.” “You can’t understand, Ken. Where I come from, street cred is everything. That’s why, when I left that school in shame, I vowed never to cry again. And I never have.” “Don’t die! I love you, Jack.” “Diet Slice and some pita chips.” “I don’t wanna be here, I don’t like it here.” “I was just calling ya’ll a bunch of racists.” “We’re not really best friends, we’re just good friends.” “I was chicken. I was chicken.” “I’m never going back to Frank Lucas High School to be reminded of my greatest failure.” “Uh uh. I’ve changed, Ken, into a badass adult. I have a wolfdog, and I have two bad knees and I have a gun. That I lost!” “Damn, K, you know who that was?” “I grew up with that guy. He was the baddest gangster in my class. We called him ‘Mean Steve’, but his real name was Steven Killah.” “Well, if a bad ass OG like that can get stuck delivering food, how did I get out?” “You’re right, Ken. They should. 5 F bombs, right?” “I almost didn’t make it here this afternoon, but then a very special friend showed me the way. So I’d like to take a moment to thank Victor Cardova from the Sunoco station on Lennox Avenue.” “But there’s another reason why I almost didn’t come today. Fear. Fear of letting people know the real me. I have but one thing to say to all of you. Be yourself. And I’m talking to you clearly, gay kid. And you, white kid just trying to go unnoticed.” “Just be yourself and I guarantee you every single person in this room will one day be President of the United States.” “OK, but I’m allergic to horses.” “[Crying] Who wants my autograph.” “There you are, you stupid cracker. Do you know why I get a hotel room? To poop in peace! No kids banging on the door, no phones ringing. It’s my time! Every Tuesday and Thursday at three PM. I don’t know why I only go twice a week. That’s what Angie should be worried about.” “Pete, how am I going to live, I only have three hundred million dollars.” “High school graduate, do you know what this means, Griz? Dotcom? Ken? We’re going to college.” “How’d you say that without moving your mouth?” Thanks for visiting Unlikely Words. If you liked what you read Subscribe to RSS, check out our About Page, read some of our favorite posts or Follow us on Twitter ← Demetri Martin Quotes 24 Season 7 Episode 23 6 AM – 7 AM and Episode 24 7 AM – 8 AM Live Blog → 0 thoughts on “Everything Tracy Jordan Said Season 3” I’m gonna be so rich, Liz Lemon, My grandkids will play Lacrosse! Lacrosse! Liz Lemon. Tracy Morgan is a bad ass : Know the Ledge says: […] online at hulu.com, im not going to even link it here. You should already know about it. Anyways, here is a list of amazing things that Tracy Morgan has said on that show. This entry was posted by Weston Deboer on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 at 1:52 pm and is filed […] Rizen Creative » This n’ that. says: […] Love 30 Rock? Read everything Tracy Jordan ever said. […] â€œWhat? Please. We are here because white folks think they can do whatever they want to black folks. Itâ€™s like when Adrian Brody kissed Halle Berry at the Oscars.â€ That is hilarious! lol! Muthalovin.com says: […] is a link to even more Tracy Morgan funnies from 30 Rock this past season. As my good friend Shoeshine McGhee once told me, “… but […] Clarkson says: omg dude, you have, like, no life. This makes me feel sad. I could have used some context, those didn’t seem funny at all. More! Seasons one and two now! “I Would Feel Safer With Some Saltines.” « Archana Ramachandran says: […] Everything Tracy Jordan Said, Season 3 […] catania says: you need to do the rest. I love his character….Thank you! Everything Tracy Jordan Said – Dave and Thomas Daily Timekillers says: […] addition. To help the matter, one dude went through the entire third season of â€œ30 Rockâ€ and transcribed all of Tracyâ€™s lines. […] Rob Kristjansson says: I just wanted to say that this post is an important public service, a service that I, for one, appreciate very much. What can I do to help you continue you important work in accumulating, cataloguing, and disseminating Tracy Jordan’s timeless words of wisdom? Someone Else’s Idle Hands Are Play Things For My Simple Brain « ChiLL PiLL {take daily} says: […] for your reading pleasure: Everything Tracy Jordan Said Season 1 and Everything Tracy Jordan Said Season 3. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Interview with RICHARD UNGER – Hand […] Tracy’s new memoir, I Am the New Black, comes out October 20th! The photo on the cover is hilarious! Check out his new website TracyistheNewBlack.com for info and to see a video interview with Tracy. The Fourth Annual Andy TV Awards â€“ Best Supporting Actor « Critically Speaking says: […] Tracy Morgan in 30 Rock – Tracy Morgan is a comedy assassin. He just floats in and out of the show, says some crazy shit that makes him sound like a space alien, then moves on. And we are all better for it. OK, here comes the fun cooker. […] They ran out of white makeup because I insisted they do my buttocks. « Blogfwends says: […] not make any sense, but neither do the rest. Here you can waste a lot of time reading everything Tracy Jordan has ever said! Plus, it’s rather entertaining when taken out of context. Not that it was ever […] pame stoixima says: I love this guy!!! In my top 5 best tv persons ever!!!!!!! stoixima pyite81 says: are you going to do season four? djdjd04 says: “A book hasn’t caused me this much trouble since Where’s Waldo went to that barber pole factory!” –Tracy Jordan I just about died when he said that! LOL!!! pixx says: I love 30 Rock, and Tracy says the funniest stuff. “Cranston, why hasn’t Kenneth returned my calls? I miss him. Cranston? Why are you crying?” Veckans omslagsdebutant: Tracy Morgan - Sidbloggen says: […] tidigare i veckan fÃ¶r tio fenomenala oneliners frÃ¥n senaste sÃ¤songen 30 Rock. 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__label__cc	0.691959	0.308041	Disconnect: A Novel – CHAPTER 6 (of 13) Date: 9 Aug 2018Author: Amaan Khan 30 Comments How is everyone doing today?! And who’s ready for this week’s instalment? If you missed the Introduction to Disconnect: A Novel , the Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, or Chapter 5, do check them out before reading Chapter 6. Disconnect is fiction, comprised of a prologue, an epilogue, and 13 chapters. Every week, on every Thursday, a chapter will be posted on the blog, non-stop, until the entire book is up. Chapter 6 of Disconnect, my second novel, begins right below! Sound off in the comments so that I can know how the story is going so far? Who’s your favourite? What are your theories? Let me know! And thank you! CHAPTER SIX – 3 P.M. ASHNI spies on her father from behind her school book. She pretends to be reading, and with her eyes a centimeter over the book, she watches him on the phone, calling her babysitter. After a minute, he returns it to the receiver, sighing. Then he walks to where she is curled up on the couch and sits beside her, by which time her attention has moved to her book. “Ashni, sweety. I was going to step out for a while, but Niloufer’s mother says she’s not at home today. I would have asked Uncle Ian to babysit you, but he isn’t home either.” Her father is going to leave her home alone once again. Ashni’s heart does little dance despite herself. She doesn’t mind that he does this and she never has. She loves the liberty an empty house gives her. On the handful of times that her father has left her unsupervised–always in the daytime and for no longer than an hour–she has dialed unknown persons for an amusing chat, ordered for toys from tele-shopping networks, and also experimented in the kitchen. When her father returns home, he always catches her red-handed, doing something or the other she is not supposed to. But today will be different. Today he will not. He will really understand her melancholy now, when he returns home to find her in exactly the same spot he left her in, not having done anything mischievous or digressed from her school books. “You’ll be alright for some time, won’t you? It will take me less than half an hour.” Ashni questions whether to nod. That would count as communication. “You need to answer me, sweety. Are you fine with me leaving you all alone?” Her finger traces the lines of her book until it comes across a ‘go’ in a sentence. “Alright,” her father says, not sounding very confident. “You’re sure, sweety?” Her finger insists on the word, pressing on it. “Okay.” Her father gets up to slip on his loafers at the front door. “Remember the rules. Don’t answer the doorbell for anybody. I’ll be back as soon as I can. And no phone calls, alright?” But he might as well be talking to the walls. Ashni is a piece of stone that is staring at a book. “Okay. I love you, sweety. Bye.” Ashni doesn’t have to look at her father to sense his disappointment. She can hear it in his wavering voice. Ashni always says I love you back. But, today is a day of firsts. It hurts her that she can’t say it, and so she can’t help but finally glance at her father. She catches the frown on his face just before he turns to leave, closing the front door behind him. Something pricks in her heart. I’m sorry, she thinks, but her need for a guard dog is too dire to give up this war so soon. As soon as the front door clicks shut, Ashni hops off the couch and races to the door to listen to the summoned lift that will take her father five storeys down. When she hears the mechanics descend, she returns her book to the couch and heads for her bedroom. She had left her bedroom door open earlier, when she ventured out for lunch. But that is not okay now. Her father is gone and she is all alone. This is the perfect opportunity for the monsters under her bed to strike. Although, that is not likely since the monsters have never really shown themselves and it is daytime. Even so, why take the risk? Better safe than sorry, she thinks, as she learned in school. Light on her feet, she tip-toes down the hallway to her room. Keeping her eyes peeled, she gently grabs the handle of her bedroom door, waits a beat, and then yanks it shut at the spped of sound. It closes with a BANG! This noise, echoing through am empty apartment, scares her silly. Ashnireally twists and races back to the living room, almost like something might be after her, and pounces back onto the couch, letting out a sigh of relief. Phew. She wipes her brow as though there might be sweat on it. That was scary, she thinks, laughing a little. But she did it. And now it’s time for some fun. Ashni grabs the remote control and switches on the televison. She needs to be quick about this. The tele-shopping channel is selling exquisite faux-diamond Cinderella slippers. BAHAR hobbles to her front door with her purse in hand. She barely makes an attempt to greet the man who rang her doorbell, but she notes that he is on time as he should be. “Pizza Paradise delivery!” The beaming delivery boy announces. But one look at her sallow, wretched face divests him of all his gusto. He takes a cautious step back. Bahar knows she looks like she has the plague or something. Whatever, she thinks. She doesn’t care. She simply takes her delivery as he hands over each item in fearful silence, his eyes the size of watermelons. The thought of what is in these boxes alone nearly gives Bahar’s stomach a reason to riot. Finally, she pays the boy and tips him generously. “I hope you enjoy your meal, madam, and thank you for choosing Pizza Paradise to take you away on a heavenly journey.” She wasn’t expecting anything, let alone that, from this delivery boy who looked like he lost the power of speech after seeing her. Though, as she considers what he said, she admits to herself she has heard worse slogans. She mutters a weak ‘thank you’ and starts to close her front door. Something shifts in her mind and she pulls her door open again. “Excuse me,” she croaks. The delivery boy draws back up to her door. Bahar is being such a cheat, but she might as well interview this man while she has him so that her review contains some shred of truth. “Yes?” he says. “I have a few questions about the delivery service,” she says dryly. The delivery boy becomes enthusiastic all over again. His eyes dance and shine with it. “Sure, madam! What would you like to know?” “What’s the area for the 30-minute time limit?” “Its twenty-nine minutes actually, madam. It covers anything from Navy Nagar to Chowpatty. Your address is the end of that zone. But we do deliver to areas beyond this, madam, up to Bombay Central, where the time-limit doesn’t apply.” “I see…” Bahar fights to concentrate over her lightheadedness from not having eaten anything in over fourteen hours. “And how exactly is the time… calculated?” “With this.” The delivery boy with the turban wields forward an electronic tablet from his back pocket. “See this green button? I push it and it begins to count down from twenty-nine minutes, locking in my location. We only push it once we leave the restaurant.” “So it does not matter if you… place the order by calling… or online.” “No, madam. Same rules apply.” “Alright, thank… you.” “Thank you, madam. Enjoy your meal. And thank you for choosing Pizza Paradise…” His voice fades behind her closing door. “Yes, yes… to take me away on a heavenly journey,” she mumbles in completion, rolling her eyes. “Who can forget?” Bahar slumps into a chair as she sets down the boxes on her dining table. She isn’t ready to put any of this in her body. She already sees herself throwing up all this food that would no doubt be mouth-watering on any other day. Or it might go the other way. Her cranky bowels have… well, it has happened twice since she woke up. She is not looking forward to doing it a third time. She’d sooner dive headfirst into a vat of boiling acid. The garlic bread smells through its container, too pungent, so she pushes the box far away from her. She is going to have to build a good bit of courage to bite into that. Only the Red Velvet cake and the side of Macaroni & Cheese seem to be odourless and tolerable. But finally, she can tell from the hot pizza box that the star of the meal will lend itself to a good vegan review. She breaks the plastic seal and lifts the box lid, eager too feast her eyes, if not actually feast, on this fancy pizza from a fancy place… … and she cringes. Shrimp-vinaigrette, smoked salmon, and tuna, all artistically arranged on a multi-grain base. A far cry from the Very Very Veggie Pizza she distinctly remembers ordering. And the smell. That nasty trigger. The smell. Instinctively, Bahar clamps her lips shut and slaps a hand over her mouth to keep her from repeating history. Not daring to take a single breath, she leaps from her chair and flees to her bedroom, slamming the door behind her. GAUTAM has an empty look on his face. His hands move like a puppet’s as they pack the wads of money that will soon round off to ten crore rupees. He sure feels like a puppet, carrying out someone else’s demands. The eleven men seated around the dining table methodically hand him one wad at a time, after they have counted and accounted for each one, three times, with great precision. They have been at it for close to three hours now. What is happening? Gautam thinks. He cannot bring himself to believe that his little champ’s future now depends on this sack of money. The one he is taking great take care to put together. Apart from their private residence, no investment of the family comes close to providing what Gautam needs. Shaan’s trust fund held just over ten crore Rupees. The trustees didn’t need much persuading to agree that liquidating all of its assets fell under an authorized disposition for the advancement and benefit of Shaan as the sole beneficiary, as strictly provided for in the trust deed. Gautam was determined to use the veto power as an acting trustee and settlor of the trust incase they did not resolve so. Fortunately, they did not put up any resistance, and the ransom money was smoothly amassed, leaving his son’s trust fund drained of all but two lakh Rupees. The very last wad of money is passed into Gautam’s hand–ten thousand rupees–and he hesitates to do it, but after a glance at turstees’ long and grave faces, he finally stuffs it into the duffle bag and zips the bag close. The trustees begin to stand one after another. “Thank you, gentlemen,” he tells them numbly. After shaking all eleven hands, he bid them goodbye and, being left alone, takes a seat at the head of the table. He wants to be by himself for some minutes. He doesn’t want to move on to the next task until his mind catches up to this moment. Except, his mind is empty. No thoughts pass by him. No emotions come up to the surface. He stares vacantly across the dining table, hand resting on the duffle bag, listening to himself breathe. Suddenly, his little champ is not missing anymore, but is looking right at his papa from his usual seat of the dining table. Messing his food, playing with another toy robot he yet again managed to sneak to dinner, chuckling when he yanks off its detachable arms and legs. The image is feeding something in Gautam and he doesn’t want to stop seeing Shaan, not now, not ever. If it were up to him, Gautam would stay here and watch till the end of time. He cannot possibly tear himself away. Not when Shaan is here and everything feels back to normal. Except that nothing really is back to normal. He must tear himself away to make the daydream he is seeing a permanent reality. When he does find it in himself to do so, he lifts the bag and heads off to find ACP Omkat. He finds the man in charge in the study, surrounded by the Technical Team, on what seems to be an important phone call. “Ten minutes? Yes, thank you. We will be waiting for it to arrive.” The ACP replaces the receiver and notices Gautam enter te room. “Dr. Shah, that was the head of the Crime Department. Our request for the counterfeit money in the prescribed duffle bag is approved. It should be here–” “The money is here,” Gautam says flatly. He extends his arm and drops his duffle bag onto the table of computer screens. The all rattle. “Ten crore rupees. It’s been triple checked.” ACP Omakr looks exasperated. “Dr. Shah, I told you we do not need your money. We cannot give the kidnappers real notes. That would be a waste. The Department is supplying–” Gautam speaks over him. “No, ACP. I don’t need your money.” He is not open to negotiation. He makes himself as clear as possible, speaking each syllable of each word as carefully as he can. “I will not gamble away my son’s life. The kidnappers have asked for real money, in an uncompromised bag with no triggers or trackers. That is what I’ve got you. And this is what we will give them.” The ACP scowls. “Doctor, you need to understa–” Gautam cuts off the ACP again. He is not unaware of how the ACP is treating the Inspector. For a reason that is very unclear, ACP Omkar has been giving Kapadia a very rough time, but Gautam will be damned if he lets any of that friction come in the way of his little champ’s rescue. “With all due respect, ACP, I don’t care how real the counterfeit money looks. The moment they realize they’ve been tricked, I lose my son. That is something that I won’t let happen today.” A fire Gautam has never felt burns inside him, and it refuses to take no for an answer. He will have things go his way, even if it comes to fighting this out, tooth and nail. He will. The ACP seems worked up as well, not intent on losing this argument. Both men stand chest to chest, which look puffed to an equal extent as they silently defy each other, eyes locked. Tension flares in the study as analysts and officers shuffle to the edges of the room, because it looks like either man is likely to turn this into a physical fight. But before either of them can say or do anything next, Gautam feels his cell-phone begin to vibrate in his coat pocket. His racing heart clenches to a stop. He has been waiting for this call. “It’s settled,” Gautam says through gritted teeth. “We do it my way.” The ACP starts to raise an object, opening him mouth, but seems to change his mind and closes it. With a grunt, he concedes to Gautam’s finality on the matter. Gautam turns on his heels and stalks out of the study for the privacy of the kitchen. He whips out his cell-phone and takes the call, almost fumbling before answering it. “Dr. Shah…” “How is she?” “She is doing fine,” Inspector Kapadia informs him. “There is nothing to worry abo–” Gautam nods ot himself, but he has too many questions. “Where are you? Are you with her?” “Yes. She said she needed to buy something before returning. She has gone into the store now.” “Tell her that the ransom is ready. We are waiting for them to contact us again.” “Are you sure she’s well? When she came to me, she was so neurotic that I couldn’t let her go by herself. I’m scared for her.” “Don’t be, doctor. You’ll see when we return. She is doing much better.” Gautam heaves a sigh of relief. But he still needs to see it with his own eyes. The fright Payal gave him by leaving the house without explaining much still jangles every nerve inside him. He was at a total loss until he realized to seek the Inspector’s help. After thanking the Inspector and ending the call, he relaxes against the kitchen counter and drags in a long breath. Gautam begins to stare past the window, at the unwatered lawn of the mansion that commands his attention for a few moments. He feels unreasonably annoyed. He is surprised that with everything that is happening, something so trivial can frustrate him so much. So many things have derailed today, turning what was once a house of happiness into the proverbial house of cards. His son; his wife; the disheveled food that was ordered for the police force working the case that they were polite enough not to complain about; and, now, this. Even the gardener didn’t show up today. It’s such an ordinary bother, not worth his time or trouble, least of all on a day like this, but it still adds to his fury, that not one thing, even the simplest of things, has gone right today. DIPAK is relieved to find the Baskin Robbins parlour quite empty this afternoon. Not many people are here and that should help him get what he wants and return back to his daughter in no time. But he feels quite winded after scaling the hill of Kemps Corner, so he is glad he gets to wait in line and study all the available flavours on display before being served. Bubblegum has been Ashni’s favourite ever since he started feeding her ice cream. The next ones her list are Banana Caramel and Mint Milk Chocolate Chip. No other flavors exist that she is head over heels about. Today, he is going to surprise her with all three. Thank God they have all three available, he thinks. That should break the silent treatment, which is can’t bear any longer. Before him in the line are two men, and a woman. The cashier serves the men quite snappily. The woman places her order next, for a tub of Chocolate-chip, and Dipak waits for her to pay. As she does, Dipak can’t help but notice the tremors in her hands as she hands over the notes to the cashier. The AC in here is not turned up so much that she could shiver so badly. Later, when she tries to lift the bag of the ice cream she has just purchaed, her hand gives way and she loses her balance, like the bag is too heavy for her. The bag topples and her tub of Cholocate-chip ice cream tumbles to the floor. Dipak rushes to her aid. He helps right her and retrieve her ice cream. “Thank you.” The woman’s tone matches her body language, weak and atremble. “It’s no problem,” Dipak says. With the tub returned to her bag, she still looks concerned about something. “Would you like to take a seat?” She nods, and Dipak directs her to the chairs in the corner of the parlour. The cashier asks him for his order and he places it. He then asks for a glass of water and returns to the woman. “Here,” he offers it. The woman takes it, sipping at it slowly. Dipak watches her closely. “Would you like me to call somebody for you?” She shakes her head. “Thank you, but… I’m fine. I just…” Dipak does not catch the rest; she merely trails off. The cashier calls him back. Dipak pays, takes his bag of tubs, and returns to take a seat next to the woman. Her head is lowered now, and Dipak doesn’t know if she is staring into the glass of water she holds in her lap or at the floor. He cannot read her. For some reason, and perhaps that reason is simple compassion, he is very worried for this woman. This woman who looked pained and haunted. He doesn’t know what to do, only that she mustn’t be left alone. “This is for my daughter,” he says, unable to think of anything else to say. The woman glances up, at his sizeable bag of tubs. “What did you do?” Her response is quick. It’s a good sign. But what she means is lost on him. “You must have done something,” she adds. “Isn’t that why you are trying to make it up to her?” Dipak grins, and he did not think he would. She must be a mother, that’s how she understands, he thinks. “I made her angry,” he says sheepishly. “Nine,” he says. “Ah,” she comments. “That is when they begin to rebel, isn’t it?” “It is,” he agrees. When the woman falls silent and looks down again, he is afraid she may relapse. He quickly adds, “She wants us to get a dog.” The woman looks up, her eyes livelier than they were a moment before. “She’s afraid the monsters in her room may eat her up.” The woman nods. “And you said no?” “It’s the only thing I could say,” Dipak says, lifting a shoulder. “I want her to get over her fears. She is a bit too old to be afraid of monsters.” The woman wrenches her head at him so fast it must have hurt her to do it. She looks him right in the eye. “We’re never too old to be afraid of monsters,” she says darkly. Dipak is taken aback. “So, you think I’m making a mistake?” The woman doesn’t asnwer. He asks her to drink some more water but she shakes her head and refuses. “This is for my son.” She gestures at her bag. “Chocolate-chip is his favourite.” “How old is he?” “Seven.” “Are you also trying to make it up to him?” She isn’t forthcoming at first, once again, her eyes going distant, her shoulders slumping. She gves Dipak the impression of a pile of leaves about to be taken by the wind. “Something like that,”she then says. “I… I did something… Do you mind if I’m honest?” Her voice breaks. Before he can tell her to continue, she does so, and hastily, like she must explain something to him. “Try and reconsider. I know it’s not how you want to solve the problem, but that is nothing compared to how you’ll feel if you never get to give her anything ever again.” She pauses as if to make sure Dipak understands what she is trying to say. As if he needs to soak this up. As if he needs to hear this from her. “I know how that feels. Believe me when I say that it devours me. You don’t want to be in my position, to have to feel what I feel. I love my son. I love him so much I am ready to give my life for him. But if a time comes when we want to do something for our children, and we are helpless… Just… reconsider, please. It might be the last thing you do for her.” Dipak stares at her, confounded. No words come to his mind so that he may speak them. Even if they did, he is not sure he could. There is something about this woman, like there is a dull pall drawn around her, but what strikes him the most is that she has given him something to think about. Her words ring so true, hit squarely home. Being a single parent is preventing him from seeing things as they are meant to be seen, giving him only half the picture. Ashni my everything, he thinks. It would be easier if his love was spread among many people, but it is his misfortune that it is not. There’s just one person. Only one person. And this is what he should be worrying about more than anything else. The woman runs her hands down her face, and then suddenly rises to her feet. Dipak wonders how she regained her strength so quickly. He opens the door of the parlour for her as they leave together. “Take care,” he finally manages to say, still very much deep in thought. “Thank you, again.” She turns to smile briefly at him. He returns it. She then walks to the sidewalk, where a man, who seems to have been waiting for her, stands. They exchange a few words, and the man whom she joined casts a cursory glance over his shoulder at Dipak. Then the couple walk up the road together. RAHUL steps out of the shower and pats himself dry. His unpacked clothes have been hung and laid out in neat order in the wardrobe by the hotel attendant. He picks a light cotton shirt and summer trousers to put on. After getting dressed, he grabs a green apple from the fruit bowl of the dining table and bites into it. He parks himself at the foot of his bed and uses the remote control to switch on the television. There is breaking news of a kidnapping in the city. A boy of seven was taken last night. Rahul recalls that he was on the flight around that time. There is also a cricket match underway. India and Pakistan are facing off for the hundredth time in history. Despite being from India, and having lived in London for the past decade, the sport does not appeal to him. He surfs through a few more channels and finds no good movies or sitcoms worth watching to bide the time. You’ve never been a T.V person anyway, he thinks wryly. He switches off the T.V and falls back, his legs dangling off the end of his bed. He stares at the ceiling for what seems like an eternity, until the quiet stillness of his surroundings settles deep within his muscles like a pleasing tranquillizer. Just when it begins to soothe his mind and he is about to drift off, his cell-phone rings, disturbing his imminent moment of sweet, sweet peace. The sound reverberates throughout the hotel suite like an ominous call, a terrifying signal from the past. His eyes shoot open. Dad. It is his father calling, to ask Rahul what is taking him so long so show his face. He wants to know why Rahul has returned to India after all this time. He expects Rahul to step up like a man and do what must be done. A mental identikit forms in Rahul’s mind, of the man he abandoned nine years ago. He must be drink-addled now, doomed to find happiness at the bottom of a liquor bottle, what he turned to after Rahul abandoned him. He must have languished is life, having lost a son whom he thought the world of; whom he wanted to follow in his footsteps and enlist and make him proud; who confronted him with a bitter truth which forced the man to refuse he ever had a son; and all his hopes and expectations of a strong legacy were washed away in one blow of rejection that is now too late to take back. When Rahul gets up and goes to his cell-phone which he placed the bed-stand, he doesn’t expect to see DAD flashing. His father doesn’t have this British number. But when Rahul sees the caller’s name on the screen, it is like a brilliant light has been shined upon his soul, casting out all the darkness. He feels like he can fly. “Hi,” he answers the calls lightly. “Hi, there.” The sound of Thatcher’s voice makes Rahul want to hold him in this moment. “I checked into the Four Seasons an hour ago,” Rahul says. “I miss you.” Thatcher’s laugh is full and hoarse. “I miss you too. How was the flight?” “It was how flights go. Long and boring. How’s your day going?” “It hasn’t yet,” Thatcher says matter-of-factly. “I’m just heading out.” It surprises Rahul that it is early morning for his fiancé. He feels dumb for no having thought of it. “I thought you were going to call me when you landed?” “Yeah, I… I got tangled up with lost and found. And with all of this it completely slipped my mind. I’m sorry.” “No, don’t be.” Thatcher understands. Rahul wants him all the more for it. He wants to reach through the phone and hold Thatcher. Or for Thatcher to hold me, he thinks. “When do you think you will… go to speak to him?” “I was thinking tomorrow. I think there’s a good chance of him being home on a Sunday.” “How are you holding up?” Rahul speaks his mind. To the only person in his life that he can. “Honestly, Thatcher, I feel completely hopeless. I just don’t know what I was thinking. Why did I come back here? For all I know, he could be dead, and I’m the bloody idiot for not knowing that.” Thatcher clicks his tongue. “Don’t do that, Rahul. You have to stop blaming yourself.” “I wish you were here. I don’t know how I’m going to do this by myself.” “You argue for a living,” he smartly reminds Rahul. “There is not a single lawyer I know who doesn’t shit himself when you walk into the courtroom. If you can take on the biggest sharks of the cut-throat legal world of the UK, you can do anything left-handed. I wonder who told me this very modestly when we first met. Oh, that’s right, it was the man I’m marrying.” “Well, I take it back. Turns out there may be some things I can’t do.” Rahul is enjoying the levity, the playful banter. He didn’t think he would be anything but emotionally exhausted today. “By the way, aren’t you meeting Rose and Jack for lunch?” “No, they rescheduled. They’re juggling three weddings. I told them if they mess up planning ours, they can forget the free legal advice.” A doorbell sounds in the background. “Oh, I need to get that,” Thatcher says mournfully. Rahul frowns. “I’ll call you later. And don’t forget. Tell them I want the vanilla frosting on the cake. Not the chocolate.” “What… can’t hear… Rahul?…” Thatcher always knows what it takes to make Rahul laugh, and Rahul does laugh, for the first time in twenty-four hours. He has almost forgotten how to. “You heard me, mister. I’ll talk to you soon. Love you.” Thatcher laughs aloud. “I love you too, bub.” Bub. The moment Rahul ends the call, the house-phone rings. He answers it. It is the concierge. “The private car you requested has arrived, sir. Will you require a driver?” “That won’t be necessary,” Rahul says, a blessed smile on his face that won’t be going anywhere any time soon. YASHWANT thinks his taker is diseased. The napkin tied around her face, covering her nose and mouth, alarms him. He has been parked at Chowpatty for some time now and he cannot afford to refuse her. In all honesty, I could, he thinks. He has had nine takers so far today and he has more than made up for the dry spell that was the past two days. This woman is his tenth, and he is going to keep this streak going. Besides, he wouldn’t dare turn away a single taker that Waheguru sends his way. The woman also carries with her a pizza box, which she places on the seat beside her when she gets in. When he see it, it puts him in his usual talkative mood. “Yummy pizza time, behenji? I have never been one for pizza. It doesn’t do anything for me. I’m more of a masala tadka kind of man.” His passenger says nothing. He cannot read her reaction, since her covered face, but her eyes seem to contain the fire of Hell, like she wants to bite his head off and incinerate him. Like a respectful man, he takes his eyes off the rear-view mirror and shuts his gap. A moment later, straight out of a horror movie, his passanger suddenly breaks into a horrifying coughing fit. Yashwant drives his taxi while sitting on the very edge of his seat. He is scared for his passanger’s life, and for himself, if what she has in contagious. But it is his taxi that he is worried about the most. Each painful cough makes it sound like she is about to gag. She may end up emptying the contents of her stomach in his clean ride. Please don’t do that, he begs her silently. Yashwant waits for her to recover, but there simply doesn’t seem to be an end to her bout of coughing. It goes on and on. She keeps coughing until he gets her to her destination, Churchgate, and all the while he keeps chanting Wahegur’s name, begging against an expensive car wash that he cannot possibly afford. At least not yet, he thinks. END OF CHAPTER 6 © Amaan Khan, August 9, 2018. To continue reading Disconnect, head on over to Chapter 7. masala tadka: meaning spicy food cooked in the traditional Indian way behenji: meaning ‘sister’, a term of respect for woman Waheguru: how Sikhs address their Lord #books#life#love#novel#poetry#writerauthorbloggingliteratureprosepublishingreading Previous Previous post: Disconnect: A Novel – CHAPTER 5 (of 13) 30 thoughts on “Disconnect: A Novel – CHAPTER 6 (of 13)” Great as always! 🙂 I laughed out loud when I read Yashwant’s scene. I think in the next chapter there might be a problem with the ransom if Shaan is not there and I’m thinking maybe one of the other characters might run into him. (What will definitely happen is that Shaan will be picked up by the taxi and Bahar will throw up on him and he will run away again — just kidding — having too much fun reading these 🙂 Great job! Hey there! Yeah hahaha Yashwant is one lucky and unlucky guy lol. He’s a hoot to write about 😂😂. And Damn all those speculations. I can’t confirm or deny any of it. 🙈🙈 But yes, theres gonna be several more intersections in the coming chapters, it’s crazy. Lol who knows what can happen? 😲😲. Lol, ok I do know, since I wrote it, but lol I cannot say 🙈🙈🙈 Haha! Well, I definitely look forward to seeing all my speculations be proven wrong so I can make up some more lol 🙂 🙂 Hahahaha 🙈😲 nah, who knows, maybe you’re on to something. You could very well be spot on! 🙈🙈😂 🙂 Hopefully not with the vomit! Haha! 🙂 Hahahha 😂😂 maybe weve seen too much of vomit from Bahar so far. So much that it’s enough. 😂😂 righteousbruin9 says: Pizza- the great universal leveler of the gastronomical playing field. Hahaha yes!! I know right!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙏 🙌😀 Alyssa's Muses says: Ashni is hilarious, I can definitely relate to scaring myself when I was younger. ” This noise, echoing through am empty apartment, scares her silly.” is such a great way to put that, I love it! Oh damn, wow. Thank you so so much! I’m really glad you are enjoying it so much! You rock!! 🤩🤩🤩😃😃🙌🙌👌👍 Thanks for posting it! No, thank you for reading!!! Thank you so much!! 🤩🤩😊🙌🙌	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1404
__label__wiki	0.901274	0.901274	Kill Paris Releases Sophomore Album ‘Galaxies Within Us’ Hunter Phillips \| Feb 14, 2019 \|Kill Paris\|Chill, Mixtapes / Albums, Music Kill Paris has finally graced us with his sophomore album, and it’s everything we’ve wanted and more from the multitalented artist. Following up his similarly named debut album, Galaxies Between Us, Kill Paris’ forward-thinking Galaxies Within Us covers a broad spectrum within dance music and pushes his artistry to new levels. We’ve managed to get a glimpse at the album from its three singles: “Two Minds”, “I (Still) Dream Of You”, and “Magic”, which, like the LP as a whole, blend elements of future bass, house, and more. Kill Paris’ star-studded list of collaborators seals the deal with Big Gigantic, Jimi Tents, and Fatherdude, to name a few. Galaxies Within Us showcases Kill Paris’ talent for sound design as it effortlessly enmeshes multiple musical genres and styles with punchy instrumentation juxtaposing chilled-out aesthetics. The push-and-pull of each track is furthered by gritty synth bass and wide, melodic chords overlaying expert percussion work. In addition to the album’s singles, other noteworthy tracks that capture its vibe are “Cool Ranch”, “Vision Funk”, “Inside Out” with Tim Moyo and Kuda, and “Fizzy Lifting Drink” with Big Gigantic and Jimi Tents. What makes this album even more special is that each of these songs were recorded in part with the use of a MIDI Sprout which converts biodata and vibrations from plants into sound. Coming off the heels of this unique release, Kill Paris is set to embark on a supporting North America tour starting February 16. Additionally, a music video for “Fizzy Lifting Drink” is due to be released soon. Check out Galaxies Within Us in full below courtesy of Monstercat and enjoy! Kill Paris – Galaxies Within Us	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1406
__label__wiki	0.716722	0.716722	As imports swell, Vedanta plans 25% ramp-up in downstream output By Jayajit Dash \| Bhubaneswar \| Last Updated at December 01 2018 22:11 IST Metals and mining conglomerate Vedanta Ltd has aimed at 25 per cent jump in downstream products output in the October-March period to counter the surge in imports. As a result of the simmering US-China trade conflict, India has witnessed a swarm of imports of an array of aluminium products. While scrap imports from US have zoomed 144 per cent, overall imports have risen 32 per cent in July-September period, unnerving the domestic aluminium producers. In addition to scrap, imports of fake semis from China and wire rods from South East Asia region have compounded the woes of domestic makers. Imports are making fast gains into the market share of the three primary producers- Vedanta, Hindalco Industries Ltd and the state-controlled entity- National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco). The share of imports to the total domestic aluminium consumption in the country has reached a staggering 60 per cent, forcing the domestic manufacturers to either widen their export markets or expand production of downstream products, especially the ones that can act as import substitutes. Aside from combating imports, Vedanta's proposal to expand the downstream, value-added portfolio is expected to boost its realisations. "On the marketing side, we continue to focus on improving net premiums by progressively increasing value-added production. The value-added production is expected to grow by 25 per cent in the second half from 432,000 tonnes which we saw in the first half, driven by improved sale of wire rods in the domestic market, as well as higher billet sales internationally," Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan, chief executive officer, Vedanta Ltd said at the results conference call. Flagging concerns on imports, he said, "Specifically, scrap imports from United States have significantly increased by an astonishing 128 per cent in the first quarter of this year, and a further 144 per cent in our second quarter, over the same period last year. This is one of the areas we are taking some policy intervention and support from the government. We are certainly committed on improving the overall profitability in the aluminium business and unlocking its true potential." Like other primary producers, Vedanta is struggling to contain its aluminium smelting cost due to input commodity inflation. Despite Vedanta's focus on structural cost reduction, its cost of production (CoP) for aluminium was on the higher side at $2000 per tonne because of market forces driven by higher coal costs. Vedanta eventually looks to prune its aluminium CoP to $1500 per tonne. To achieve the competitive costs in aluminium CoP, Vedanta has secured 3.2 million tonnes of additional linkages from Tranche IV coal auctions. Coal mining has also commenced at the captive Chotia mine which feeds the Group owned BALCO smelter at Korba (Chhattisgarh). To optimise its alumina making costs, Vedanta has inked a long-term linkage agreement with Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC). Under the arrangement, 70 per cent of bauxite mined by OMC from its Kodingamali mine will be fed to Vedanta’s Lanjigarh alumina refinery installed at the foothills of bauxite laden Niyamgiri hills. With the OMC mine ramping up well, Vedanta expects 250,000 tonnes of bauxite each month in Q3 to help meet the Lanjigarh refinery requirement. The refinery’s present capacity is one million tonnes per annum (mtpa) but Vedanta has firmed up plans to scale it up to six mtpa in a staggered expansion. The first phase ramp-up will see the refinery scaling four mtpa capacity expected by December 2020. First Published: Sat,December 01 2018 17:31 IST Prev » Sun TV eyes lower double-digit growth in H2 ad revenues this fiscal Next » HackerEarth eyes aggressive US ops, expects biz to rise from 35% to 60% Indian aluminium makers defy global trend, log 12% growth in April-July Odisha approves expansion of six key projects of Nalco, Hindalco, Vedanta Coal shortage hits Vedanta, Nalco and other aluminium makers in Odisha Base metal prices at a crossroads; analysts prefer Hindalco No choice but to build reserves despite US monitoring list : RBI Governor	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1414
__label__cc	0.739499	0.260501	Political Context Geography and Population of Palestine Climate and Rainfall Domestic Water Use in the West Bank Domestic Water Use in the Gaza Strip Agricultural Water Use in the West Bank and Gaza Increasing Water Availability Home / Palestine / Water Use / Domestic Water Use in the West Bank June 5th, 2015 / November 21st, 2016 Boy draws water from cistern in the village of Khirbet Jenbah, South Hebron Hills, which is not hooked up to water grid. By Sharon Azran, B’Tselem. Most of the West Bank governorates suffer from severe water shortages. In 2011, around 88 MCM of water was supplied to the Palestinian communities for domestic use. Of this, approximately 53% was purchased from Mekorot, while the water quantities supplied from local resources reached almost 42 MCM. In 2011, the total real deficit in domestic water supply reached 62.4 MCM for the whole of the West Bank.[i] On average, domestic water supply covered only 73% of the demand. While Palestinians have an intermittent supply, and over 25% of their homes are not even connected to the municipal network, Jewish settlers receive a continuous water supply, largely from groundwater wells in the West Bank. In 2009, water consumption by West Bank Palestinians was approximately 73 L/p/d (for some rural locations, this can be as low as 10-20 L/p/d), while Jewish settlers in the West Bank consumed on average 369 L/p/d (Fig. 9).[ii] Figure 9. Water consumption in Israeli settlements and nearby Palestinian villages. Source: Richard, 2012, after B’Tselem, 2011. Moreover, many residents of neighbourhoods and villages that are connected to the municipal network receive water only one day a week or only once every few weeks. This leaves them no choice but to buy more expensive and lower quality water from private suppliers who use mobile water tankers. [i] PWA, 2011b. Annual Status Report on Water Resources, Water Supply, and Wastewater in the Occupied State of Palestine. Available at: http://pwa.ps/userfiles/file/تقارير/Annual%20Water%20Status%20report%202011.pdf, accessed 2 May 2015. [ii] Amnesty International, 2009. Troubled Waters – Palestinians Denied Fair Access To Water. Available at: http://www.amnestyusa.org/pdf/mde150272009en.pdf, accessed 1 May 2015. 2011 - 2012 - Access to Water - Fanack - Groundwater - Israel - Mekorot - Palestine - Palestinian - PWA - Resources - Settlements - sources - State - The West - Wastewater - Water - Water Resources - Water Use - West Bank	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1416
__label__wiki	0.653774	0.653774	RESULTS 61 - 80 of 118022 Columbia County Chair calls state vaccine distribution 'beyond crazy' news On Jan. 11 Greene County said that though the state expanded eligibility for the coronavirus vaccine to those 75-years-old and older, they were not vaccinating those seniors yet, because they had not... Overlooked: 20210113 audio After the local news at noon, “Overlooked” is a show focusing on overlooked and under-heard jazz, improvisational, and other fringe music, from early roots to contemporary experiments, a mix of famili... Jennifer Hicks, Paul Tonko broadcast In the first hour, Rep. Paul Tonko, a Democrat who represents Albany County, tells of his experience during the murderous attempted coup at the Capitol Jan. 6. In the second hour, host Tom Roe will sp... Volume 209 White Riot broadcast Vol. 209 White Riot. This week our hero leads a charge on the Capitol from behind. Thanks this week for the songs from The Clash ("White Riot"), R.E.M. ("Begin the Begin"), Randy Rainbow ("Seditio... Donald Drumpf Theatre Vol. 209 White Riot audio 20210114 broadcast Rebroadcast from Jan. 12, 2021. A monthly round-up of sounds that filter through the blog Raven Sings the Blues, presented here as a two-hour block of psychedelic seep. While constantly trying to draw... Seeley resigns from Catskill Village Board news Sarah Trafton is reporting for Columbia-Greene Media Catskill Village President Vincent Seeley is walking away from his seat on the village board after a four-month absence. Seeley was elected to his... Rafal Alumairy broadcast Radio history is close to our hearts at Radio Survivor and on this week’s episode we explore the story of student radio in Australia. Our guest, Rafal Alumairy, is working on book about this little-to... Rebroadcast from earlier in the day, as the show was interrupted by the impeachment proceedings. After the noon local news, The Bedazzled Radio Hour features pop, rock, and soul obscurities from the... Musical Comfort broadcast An upbeat music show featuring the American songbook, as interpreted by contemporary artists as well as the jazz greats in a diverse range of genres. Rhinebeck mayor has Democratic challenger news William J. Kemble is reporting for the Daily Freeman Rhinebeck Village Mayor Gary Bassett is facing a primary challenge from former village board member John Rossie. The Democratic primary will take p... Allegiant Air to add more flights from Stewart news MidHudson News is reporting Allegiant Air has announced it will add two more routes from New York Stewart International Airport later this year. Those flights are in addition to the current Myrtle Bea... The Bedazzled Radio Hour: 20210113 audio After the noon local news, The Bedazzled Radio Hour features pop, rock, and soul obscurities from the '60s, '70s, '80s and beyond, including freakbeat, baroque rock, glam, bubblegum, pop-psych, sunshi... The Hudson Café: Musical Comfort audio WGXC Morning Show: 20210113 audio The WGXC Morning Show is a radio magazine show featuring local news, interviews with community leaders and personalities, reports on cultural issues, a rundown of public meetings and local and regiona... Makeover plan for Hillsdale park to be presented news The Times Union is reporting a draft design for the renovation of Hillsdale’s Hamlet Park will be presented to residents during a Zoom meeting beginning at 7 p.m. , Wed., Jan. 13. The plan was created...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1418
__label__wiki	0.927592	0.927592	Gothic, Risen and ELEX Developer Piranha Bytes Purchased by THQ Nordic, ELEX 2 Basically Confirmed THQ Nordic announced this morning to have acquired German developer Piranha Bytes, a studio well known to RPG fans for their Gothic, Risen and ELEX games. jörn Pankratz, Project Director and Game Designer of Piranha Bytes, said in a statement: Embracer Group in Talks to Buy Over 100 Developers, Including a Dozen “Sizeable” Studios There are situations in life where you think to yourself “This feels right.” Well, this is exactly one of them. We have been working on some great and exciting things over the past couple of years and we are extremely stoked about what the future brings with the right partner and the right network of companies. After all, we want to continue to create great, memorable, and impactful games with as much creative freedom as possible, and with THQ Nordic we know we are now part of a family, which support us by all means in our efforts. According to the press release, THQ Nordic will retain full creative freedom to create unique RPG gaming experiences. There's also a FAQ (which we've also reported below) that basically confirms ELEX 2, while there's no word yet on remasters/remakes of Gothic and Risen. Still, considering that THQ Nordic usually does that for all the franchises it can get its hands on, we'd bet it will happen at some point. Employees/Staff Q: Will there be any changes in personnel at Piranha Bytes (PB)? Q: Will PB change location and move to Vienna? A: No, what happens in Ruhrpott, stays in Ruhrpott. Company/legal technicalities Q: What is the deal, why is there a new company being incorporated? A: Technically speaking, Pluto 13 GmbH (the former company behind the Piranha Bytes brand) sold the trademarks “Piranha Bytes” and “Gothic” as well as the entire Gothic IP to THQ Nordic AB. The remaining rights of Risen and ELEX, which were in other entities of the Piranha Bytes folks, were also acquired by THQ Nordic AB. In the forefront of the closing of this deal, THQ Nordic GmbH set up a new entity (initially named “THQ Nordic Reserve 1 GmbH”; in the next days renamed to “Piranha Bytes GmbH”). This company is now stepping into the existing employment and service agreements with all personnel and has also acquired the existing office equipment (furniture, hardware, coffee machine). Intellectual Properties Q: What about ELEX 2? A: Semi-official comment: Have a guess. Q: What does this mean for potential remakes of Gothic and/or Risen? A: Nothing to say at this stage. Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning Dev Is Looking Into FPS and Crashing Issues Francesco De Meo • Sep 9, 2020 Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning Review – A Great Return Destroy All Humans! Review – 2000s: A Game Odyssey Nathan Birch • Jul 27, 2020 Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning New Trailer Reveals Release Date; New Expansion Confirmed Francesco De Meo • Jul 7, 2020 Biomutant Shows Off Its Huge Open World and Character Customization in New Gameplay Nathan Birch • Jun 24, 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1420
__label__cc	0.724797	0.275203	We Are Wildness We’re a global community of humans reconnecting with the natural world, rewilding our daily lives, and protecting the wild spaces that still remain. We’re passionate about helping people reconnect with Nature We created an educational hub grounded in Nature to help people empower themselves with the knowledge they need to live a wilder, healthier, happier, more connected life. We Are Wildness U is an online learning center for those who want to learn with Nature, about Nature and from Nature. Inspiration & Awareness We share inspirational images, blog posts, videos, and other resources through social media and email to inspire our community members to get outdoors, get wild and reconnect with Nature. We strive to create an awesome close-knit community of wild humans who care about and protect the natural world. 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__label__wiki	0.693154	0.693154	Vote.net Home Election News 2020 Election News Bennet, Surgery Behind Him, Gets in the Race Bennet, Surgery Behind Him, Gets in the Race Michael Bennet, a US Senator from Colorado, announced on May 2, 2019 that he is a candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President of the United States. This comes just two weeks after cancer surgery, with a spokeswoman for Bennet saying that the procedure was a complete success. Bennet becomes the second Coloradan in the race, after former Governor Hickenlooper. He also becomes one of the seven sitting US Senators running. Perhaps more important than either of those distinctions, Bennet is a former managing director of the Anschutz Investment Company, a venture capital concern that has stakes in several media entertainment properties, as well as energy and telecomm concerns. As Mitt Romney’s campaign for President in 2012 demonstrated, this sort of finance-world background can create fodder for the opposition research of other campaigns. On the other hand, within the Democratic Party Bennet’s past in the VC world may reassure some who believe the party has become too socialistic. It may let them know that he doesn’t just believe in capitalism, he has practiced it. The Thing to Know: In November 2016, after Donald Trump had become President-elect, outgoing President Barack Obama was asked who were the next leaders of the Democratic Party. He named four. Bennet was among them. Governor John Hickenlooper 2020 Election News Health: President Obama’s Memoir and ‘Obamacare’ Health: SCOTUS Hears Arguments About Obamacare Suggestive Results in the House of Representatives Vote.net is an online forum that allows students to share their ideas on current politics and enter an open political discussion. By using this online site, students can find interesting articles about current political events and then can write their own. Join the Vote.net staff. Become a contributor by emailing us with your area of interest. Contact us: max@votenetbk1.mystagingwebsite.com Kavanaugh’s yearbook under scrutiny Live: Beto O’Rourke gives concession speech after losing to Ted Cruz Trey Gowdy calls out media, Dems over Don Jr. ‘speculation’ Cable News12245 News Feeds5533 Thing to Know583 Election News517 Late Night384 Political Humor371 MSNBC337 Today's Headlines336 © Made in New York City Special Election in the 25th District, California Tulsi Gabbard Says: Let’s Move Forward, Beyond Collusion Allegations	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1423
__label__cc	0.749208	0.250792	Very Ersatz News December 13, 2017 Lifestyle North Pole Meltdown After Four Elves Accuse Santa Of Inappropriate Behavior VEN (Santa’s Workshop) — Orgies with Rudolph, Donner, and Blitzen. Pills, booze, Internet porn, late night sleigh rides to visit so-called “Gentleman’s Clubs” on Montreal’s infamous St Catherine’s Street, and a young mistress tucked away at close friend Superman’s notorious Fortress of Solitude are just the tip of the iceberg, veracity-challenged, pit-bull plaintiff’s attorney Gloria Allred told reporters Tuesday in what some Santa watchers are predicting could be the beginning of end of Christmas as we know it! Flanked by four stern-faced former Santa Helpers from Central America, Ms Allred depicted Jolly Old Saint Nick as a sado-masochistic, pill- popping tyrant who regularly engaged in “despicable acts” with his overworked, underpaid, undocumented elves, who — fearing deportation — were too afraid to come forward. “This large imposing bearded man with an enormous belly like an intimidating professional Sumo wrestler, who — in outrageous defiance of intentional law — continues to dress in his signature crimson-dyed baby seal pelt suit with polar-bear fur trim and contrasting black Alaskan sharkfin Pilgrim belt should be held accountable for years of elfin exploitation and abuse! “And we’re here today to ensure that he is!” Arnold Saperstein — spokesperson for Klaus-Feinstein, Inc who own a majority share of Christmas — vigorously denied the allegations against Mr Klaus, and told reporters they welcomed the chance to clear his name in court. “Santa Claus, his wife Mrs Klaus, and Klaus-Feinstein, Inc do not settle. We fight. “Mr Klaus will be delivering Christmas presents as usual this year. And contrary to continuing inaccurate stories in the Washington Post, Rudolph — who has been close friends with the Klaus family since 1949 — will be the lead reindeer again on Christmas Eve, assuming he finishes his program at the Betty Ford Clinic on time, and we have every reason to believe that he will. “Ms Allred’s baseless, self-serving ‘Grinch Gambit’ is not going to steal Christmas 2017!” Developing . . . . Posted in Lifestyle and tagged Allred, Christmas, elves, Grinch, Mrs Klaus, North Pole, Rudolph, Santa, Very Ersatz News. Bookmark the permalink. susanfineman on December 14, 2017 at 8:03 am I knew he was a perv…sneaking into people’s houses while they’re sleeping! Very Ersatz News on December 14, 2017 at 9:35 am LOL — very true! It’s been going on for years! Surprised that he wasn’t called out before. www.sеху.zaqto.ru on April 5, 2018 at 1:27 am Mistletoe Sales Slump As Groping Accusations Rise Kamala Harris Calls For UN Sanctions Against “Crazy Cracker A**” Santa Claus	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1429
__label__cc	0.636655	0.363345	Veterinary Healthcare Team Vetrax Sensor Firmware Vetrax Partner Companies I’m A Pet Owner I’m A Healthcare Team Member Get Vetrax Hill’s And AGL Announce Strategic Alliance To Advance Veterinary Health Care For Dogs Today at the NAVC Conference, Hill’s Pet Nutrition Inc. and AGL announced a strategic alliance that will combine Hill’s expertise in pet nutrition with AGL’s new VetraxTM veterinary medical analytics system. The collaboration is expected to provide veterinarians and their clients with a new level of understanding about how therapeutic nutrition can help improve a dog’s health and behavior — specifically scratching and mobility. “We are extremely excited about the capabilities of the Vetrax technology and the impact we believe it will have on veterinary health care,” says Jesper Nordengaard, vice president, Global Marketing and Innovation, Hill’s Pet Nutrition. “With Vetrax, veterinarians will now have a window into their patients’ behaviors and be able to monitor the effects of their recommendations in real time. And through this strategic alliance with AGL, Hill’s is able to bring innovation beyond therapeutic nutrition to our veterinary customers that can help transform the lives of pets suffering from these health conditions.” Vetrax is a robust veterinary medical device and information platform designed to more quickly alert veterinarians and pet owners to potential health concerns as part of an ongoing monitoring program. It incorporates specially developed, dog-behavior algorithms with state-of-the-art sensors and data-sharing capabilities, and is the first system sophisticated enough to distinguish the acts of scratching or shaking from running. Veterinarians will recommend Vetrax for dogs that need to be regularly monitored, including those with dermatological conditions, arthritis or obesity. Vetrax is now in tests with select veterinary practices. It will be marketed exclusively to veterinarians and is expected to become more widely available to clinics later this year. The strategic alliance between Hill’s and AGL is an exclusive agreement involving therapeutic nutrition, the Vetrax technology, and data associated with various symptoms of medical conditions in pets, including scratching and reduced mobility. “We are thrilled that our first strategic alliance is with Hill’s, an organization that is well-known for its commitment to helping pets reach their full potential through quality nutrition and health care,” says Joe Young, chief operating officer, AGL. “Beyond the monitoring capability, Vetrax will provide analytical insights that are truly unlike anything the veterinary profession has seen before. And, Hill’s is extraordinarily well-equipped to convert those insights into innovative nutritional solutions that will advance dog health.” For more information about Vetrax and other strategic alliance opportunities with AGL, call 913-565-2445 or email joe.young@AGLtechnology.com. Based in Norcross, Georgia, AGL develops novel systems that help owners and their veterinarians manage animals’ health to provide the best quality of life for pets. AGL works with strategic-development partners, including the Georgia Tech Research Institute, to combine the very latest technologies with exclusively licensed animal-behavior algorithms. The result is convenient, noninvasive monitoring systems that are extraordinary. Founded more than 75 years ago with an unwavering commitment to pet nutrition, Hill’s’ mission is to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets. The right nutrition combined with the devotion of veterinary professionals can transform the lives of pets; and healthier and happier pets can transform the lives of pet parents. Hill’s is dedicated to pioneering research and groundbreaking nutrition for dogs and cats based on a scientific understanding of their specific needs. HILL’S® Prescription Diet® therapeutic pet foods, HILL’S® Science Diet® and HILL’S® Ideal BalanceTM wellness pet foods are sold through veterinarians and pet specialty retailers worldwide. For more information about Hill’s, our products and our nutritional philosophy, visit us at Hillspet.Com, Hillsvet.Com or Facebook, keywords “Hill’s Pet Nutrition.” Vetrax is a trademark of AGL. Animal Dermatology Group Announces Publication Validating Wearable Technology For Dogs Benefits Of Wearable Technology Highlighted In New Clinician Survey Vetrax™ Now Available To Veterinary Practices	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1430
__label__wiki	0.508608	0.508608	Carnival revelers poke fun at world leaders in Germany A figure depicting US President Donald Trump as Emperor Nero is shown during a press preview for the Mainz carnival, in Mainz, Germany Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) MAINZ, Germany (AP) — The heads and bodies are gigantic, the subjects are world leaders, and the creations are irresistible to look at. All of these oversized figures are coming together for a provocative parade at the traditional Mainz carnival celebrations in western Germany. They included a victorious British Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a grim looking Queen Elizabeth II standing behind him; a bare-chested Russian President Vladimir Putin holding a remote control to steer Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan atop a tank; and a triumphant U.S. President Donald Trump playing the harp like Roman Emperor Nero. The Mainzer Carnival Association presented the colorful figures for a first glimpse Tuesday before they will entertain the crowds on top of floats next week in the traditional Shrove Monday street parade. Mainz, Cologne and Duesseldorf, Germany’s three big cities along the Rhine River, are all famous for their politically provocative floats. During Carnival, dubbed the “fifth season of the year” before the start of Christian season of Lent, the common people are traditionally allowed to make fun of those in power. The famous Carnival street parades, which travel for kilometers (miles) through the cities, will include not only the floats, but also dozens of brass bands, dancing groups and “Carnivalists” who throw tons of candy to revelers in the streets. NEW: Nevada reports 40 deaths, lower COVID-19 hospitalizations and cases	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1437
__label__wiki	0.927413	0.927413	NEW: Nevada reports 55 deaths as COVID-19 test positivity stays over 20% by: Greg Haas LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Nevada is reporting 55 new deaths as COVID-19 test positivity remains above 20 percent, according to data released on Friday. The 55 deaths are the third-highest since the pandemic began, and come two days after a record 60 deaths were reported on Wednesday. In the past three days, 159 deaths have been reported. Nevada’s 14-day rolling average is now 19 deaths per day. Nevada is reporting 2,866 daily COVID-19 cases, with 2,382 from Clark County. The state had a record 3,402 new cases reported yesterday, driven by Clark County’s record 2,923 cases. Nevada’s total cases are now at 243,661. Clark County has a total of 185,829. The state’s positivity rate is now at 20.7 percent, and climbing again. More than 1,000 coronavirus cases have been reported in Nevada in 64 of the past 66 days. There were 18,407 tests performed in the last day, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. For the 12th week in a row, Clark County was flagged for elevated disease transmission. Clark County remains in the red on Nevada Health Response’s “county criteria tracker.” The county was flagged for elevated disease transmission after meeting the criteria of high case rates and high test positivity. Clark is one of 16 counties flagged in the tracker, updated daily on the DHHS Dashboard. Clark County has a case rate of 2,093 per 100,000, and a test positivity of 21.5 percent. VACCINATION UPDATE As of Jan. 7, 44,656 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, according to DHHS. Of these, 21,081 doses were administered in Clark County, according to the Southern Nevada Health District. The first vaccines were distributed on Dec. 14, 2020. “Nevada counties are vaccinating individuals in Tier 1 and some counties may be moving into Tier 2 soon. As this effort continues, counties may move throughout the Tiers at different paces, based on factors such as population size and vaccine demand within the Tier groups. Nevada’s plan was developed to accommodate these differences,” a spokesperson for the Nevada DHHS told 8 News Now. According to the CDC’s vaccination data, Nevada has received more than 187,375 vaccine doses. NOTE: The Nevada COVID-19 Dashboard was updated with a new format on Monday, Dec. 4. The dashboard, developed and operated by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Analytics, provides daily updates on cases, testing and COVID-19 deaths throughout the state. Data illustrates the trends and rolling averages in order to account for day-to-day fluctuations. This is the second update to the dashboard since the previous update went live in October of 2020. Below is the full COVID-19 report for Thursday, Jan. 7. NEVADA HOSPITALIZATIONS NOTE: The state is not updating hospitalization data, including the number of patients in ICU units or on ventilators, on Sundays or holidays. Nevada’s COVID-19 hospitalizations appear to be stabilizing, according to the Nevada Hospital Association (NHA). Northern Nevada hospitalizations and ICU use has dropped significantly, according to NHA’s Dec. 7 report. According to the state’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the number of hospitalized patients in Nevada was DOWN on Thursday, according to data released Friday. The number of hospitalizations dropped by 44 in the last day, and the current total is 1,874 confirmed/suspected cases. The relative demand being placed on hospitals by COVID-19 is currently 34 percent. More data from the Nevada Hospital Association (as of Jan. 6): Statewide licensed beds occupied: 85% ICU units occupancy rate: 74% Ventilators in use: 45% The state set a record high for hospitalized patients on Dec. 13 with 2,025 cases. Top 5 Number of Hospitalizations (statewide) Date reported 1 2,025 Dec. 13 4 1,996 Dec. 20, Dec. 21 Click HERE to see the DHHS dashboard, page 6 ICU/VENTILATOR DATA FOR THURSDAY, JAN. 7: There were 399 patients in intensive care units (ICU) across the state, down 12 from Wednesday. The DHHS report showed 263 patients on ventilators, down 17 from Wednesday. Click HERE to view DHHS hospitalizations NEVADA CASES, TESTING, DEATHS There are now 243,661 confirmed cases and 3,394 COVID-19-related deaths in Nevada, with 2,866 new cases reported in the last day. More than 1,000 cases have been reported in Nevada in 64 of the past 66 days. The state set a record for COVID-19 cases yesterday with 3,402. Here are the largest single-day increases for COVID-19 cases in Nevada: Top 5 Number of COVID-19 cases (statewide) Date reported 1 3,402 Jan. 6 2 3,194 Dec. 4 3 3,159 Nov. 24 You can find this data on Nevada’s DHHS coronavirus dashboard, page 2 The DHHS is reporting 55 new COVID-19-related deaths statewide. The 14-day rolling average of daily deaths now stands at 19. “Please keep in mind that the death rates we are seeing correspond to cases diagnosed up to 5 weeks ago,” Nevada Health Response stated in a news release. A recent update to the state’s COVID-19 daily death graph (Mortality Trends tab of DHHS dashboard) shows Dec. 10 had the highest count of fatalities with 44, followed by 42 deaths on Dec. 6. The data has not yet updated on Friday. The Nevada DHHS says it is important to note that there is often a delay in death reporting. Cumulative daily death counts are displayed by the date of death, rather than the date the death was reported to the state. The total count for statewide deaths on the first tab may not equal the sum of the cumulative daily death counts because of cases where exact date of death is unknown or pending report. Here are the highest number of COVID-19-related deaths recorded in a single day in Nevada: Top 5 Number of deaths (statewide) Date reported 1 44 Dec. 10 2 42 Dec. 6 5 36 Dec. 18, Dec. 20 As of Thursday, a total of 2,198,438 tests have been conducted in Nevada, with an increase of 18,407 in the past 24 hours. The test positivity is now being reported as a 14-day average, which puts it at 20.7% as of Thursday, up from 20.6% the day before. It reached 10% on Oct. 24 but before then, Nevada had not recorded a test positivity at or above 10% since Sept. 1. *NOTE: Daily lab data from DHHS and SNHD reports is updated every morning for the previous day. Click HERE to view the DHHS Dashboard CLARK COUNTY CASES, TESTING, DEATHS Of Nevada’s 2,866 new COVID-19 cases, more than 83 percent of them — 2,382 — were reported in Clark County on Thursday, according to data released by the Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) on Friday. There is now a total of 2,566 deaths, 185,829 confirmed cases and 10,580 hospitalizations, according to the Southern Nevada Health District dashboard that updates daily. Like Nevada, Clark County is experiencing a resurgence in hospitalizations. There were 42 new deaths reported in Clark County in the last day. In its most recent report, the health district states that 110.7 people have died for every 100,000 people in Clark County. SNHD data shows that 12,343 positive cases were reported in the county over the past seven days. About a third of the cases (31.6%) reported in Clark County are among Hispanics, making it the most impacted ethnic group locally and nearly half (46.3%) of the positive cases reported in the county are in the age group of 25 to 49. The SNHD is including the number of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in its daily report. Twelve new cases were reported in December, 2020. Three new cases have been reported in January, with the most recent reported on Jan. 7, bringing the total to 34. All of these cases were reported in children under the age of 14, and all of whom tested positive for COVID-19. MIS-C is a condition where different body parts can become inflamed, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal organs. According to the health district, MIS-C is rare and is still being studied by the CDC to learn more about it and its impact on children. While there isn’t a known cause, many children with MIS-C had the virus that causes COVID-19 or close contact with someone who did. The number of people who have recovered from the virus in Clark County continues to increase. As of Thursday, the county estimates a total of 163,567 recovered cases; that’s 88% of all reported cases in the county, according to SNHD’s latest report. The health district provides a daily map with the number of positive tests in each ZIP code in Clark County. SEE: Number of COVID-19 cases by ZIP code in Clark CountyDownload UNLV COVID-19 CASE UPDATE UNLV has changed the way it is reporting COVID-19 cases. At the end of each week, the university will update its graph noting new cases. According to the most recent report, 25 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in the last week, nine among students, 13 involving staff, and three faculty members. A total of 610 cases, including both students and employees, have been recorded since UNLV began tracking COVID-19 data on March 25. CLICK HERE TO SEE UNLV’S COVID-19 REPORT. NEVADA COVID-19 MITIGATION EFFORTS Governor Sisolak announced Dec. 13 that he would be extending the statewide pause, due to end Dec. 15, through Jan. 15, 2021. This comes as Nevada continues to see an increase in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. Nearly two weeks before the statewide pause announcement, Gov. Sisolak pleaded with Nevadans to follow a “Stay at Home 2.0” order for two weeks. Sisolak said the state needed these two weeks to bring testing timelines down, catch up on contact tracing and relieve Nevada’s healthcare infrastructure. During a press conference on Oct. 20, Gov. Sisolak said the state is starting to see a fall surge of COVID-19. He made it clear that it is not the time to let up on mask-wearing and social distancing. Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak announced Tuesday, Sept. 29, that the group gathering limit will adjust to 250 people — five times the current limit of 50 people under COVID-19 regulations. The change took effect Thursday, Oct. 1. This means that many events can soon return to Nevada, including live performances and church services. WATCH: Gov. Sisolak raises cap on crowds to 250, effective Thursday. Nevada is still continuing to get a handle on the COVID-19 pandemic, and is seeing progress with the downward trend of hospitalizations and cases. In August , Gov. Sisolak announced that Nevada’s new long-term plan will be state managed, but locally executed. Here is a quick breakdown of how it works: Every week, the state will update the Elevated Disease Transmission Criteria for each county. That includes testing, case rates and positivity rates. Counties at high risk will need to create and implement an action plan that targets sources of infection and community spread. For more on this new approach, click HERE. After Gov. Sisolak extended Phase 1 restrictions of bars in Clark County on July 10, the Nevada COVID-19 Mitigation & Management Task Force voted Sept. 17 to allow Clark County bars, taverns, wineries, and similar businesses to reopen. The establishments reopened on Sept. 20. Nevada COVID-19 Mitigation & Management Task Force votes to allow Clark County bars, taverns to reopen The state transitioned into Phase 2 of reopening on Friday, May 29, after a directive in mid-March that forced all non-essential businesses to close to avoid the spread of the coronavirus. Nevada Health Response officials noted Tuesday, June 9, that Nevada’s COVID-19 data is showing an above-average daily increase in COVID-19 cases throughout the state. They are reminding Nevadans of precautionary measures that can be taken to minimize the spread of the virus such as staying at home when possible, wearing a face-covering in public, maintaining six feet of social distancing and keeping up with proper hand hygiene. SEE ALSO: Previous day’s report Timeline, graphics and several maps by Sasha Loftis / Jan 15, 2021 LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Las Vegas is one of many cities across the country planning for possible unrest surrounding the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday, January 20. The entrance to the Foley Federal Building was boarded up Friday, as local officials prepare for potential violence. by Orko Manna / Jan 15, 2021 LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Frontline workers and seniors over the age of 70 are continuing to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Nevada. And now, there is a call for more vaccine volunteers. "It's all hands on deck right now," said Dr. Christina Madison, an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Roseman University of Health Sciences. by Christian Cazares, Lucas Wright / Jan 15, 2021 LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The COVID-19 vaccine is starting to be distributed among the community in phases but how quickly will you get both shots? We know the COVID-19 vaccine is administered in two shots to have its full effect. Although the distribution is slowly underway, the window to get that second shot will be fast.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1438
__label__wiki	0.902643	0.902643	Police email reveals anonymous witnesses 4:31pm Oct 25, 2019 Victoria Police mistakenly revealed to more than 150 people the true identities of secret police who handled high-risk police informers including Nicola Gobbo. A weekly email update on the royal commission into police use of informers mistakenly left all recipient addresses visible, revealing the real names of officers whose identities are protected for safety reasons. The force confirmed on Friday that 104 serving and 55 veteran officers, who have been or are expected to be called as witnesses, received the email on Tuesday. Among them were Source Development Unit handlers who were responsible for managing informers including Ms Gobbo, the lawyer-turned-informer known as Lawyer X. The identities of those officers weren't widely known within Victoria Police when they belonged to the now-defunct unit and were meant to remain secret. The inquiry has restricted reporting of any information that might identify them, given them pseudonyms and required that evidence be given over the phone from a remote location. "Whilst the error is regrettable, and we apologise unreservedly to all affected, we note that every recipient is a veteran or serving police officer, who is well aware of their obligations to protect the security of information," a police spokesman said on Friday. The email was recalled when the error was noticed and police have contacted or attempted to reach all recipients, the spokesman said. Commission hearings are due to continue next week. Auto news: New Jaguar Land Rover shape-shifting seat mimics walking - caradvice.com.au	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1439
__label__wiki	0.75028	0.75028	Cole Haan Launches 2 Zerøgrand The footwear brand has a new silhouette that combines a running shoe sole with an oxford upper. By Aria Hughes on July 27, 2016 Cole Haan 2 Zerøgrand Cole Haan, which is known for its shoes with formal uppers and athletic soles, has introduced a new style: 2 Zerøgrand. The brand is calling the shoe, which is available online for men and women and in Cole Haan stores, a reinvented oxford. It features an anatomically contoured footbed cushion that supports weight distribution and moisture control and an integrated motion outsole that helps with unrestricted motion and flexibility. The shoe comes in multiple color ways and retails from $250 to $270 for women and from $300 to $320 for men. The launch of the shoe coincides with a global campaign called “Feel the Future,” which showcases innovators including Scott Patt, the vice president of design and innovation at Cole Haan’s Global Inovation Center; Harry’s cofounders Andy Katz-Mayfield and Jeff Raider, and Danielle Fong, cofounder and chief scientist of Lightsail. The brand recently partnered with JackThreads on the first iteration of this shoe, the Zerøgrand, shoe for a summer capsule collection inspired by the Olympics.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1441
__label__wiki	0.818927	0.818927	Gucci Scoops Medal at Chelsea Flower Show Judges give silver-gilt award to Flora-themed garden. By Samantha Conti on May 20, 2014 TOP BLOSSOMS: Gucci has scooped a silver-gilt medal for its Flora-themed garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, which opened in London today. The award-winning designer Sarah Eberle created a garden inspired by Gucci’s Flora motif, winning the award in the fresh garden category. The Flora illustration, drawn by the artist Vittorio Accornero, was commissioned in 1966 by Rodolfo Gucci for a scarf for Princess Grace. Dedicated to the four seasons, it features flowers, fruits and insects, in 37 colors. Eberle filled her Gucci garden with plants and flowers including peonies, water lilies, holly, tulips, mint, clematis blue hybrid and lily corydalis. There are four grades of award at the show, which runs through Saturday, and the silver-gilt is the top prize after gold. Companies Fashion Scoops People & Companies regions	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1443
__label__wiki	0.896832	0.896832	Wheels \| Graffiti Muralists Reach Settlement in Case of Contentious Fiat 500 Commercial Graffiti Muralists Reach Settlement in Case of Contentious Fiat 500 Commercial By David Gonzalez December 2, 2011 6:00 am December 2, 2011 6:00 am After a series of highly public missteps over a Fiat commercial featuring Jennifer Lopez, in which the entertainer was depicted cruising past a copyrighted graffiti mural in the Bronx, a settlement has been reached with local artists who claimed to have never granted permission for their mural to be used in the spot. Most of the settlement’s details were kept private. Stacey Richman, the attorney representing TATS Cru, the mural’s artists, said in a statement on Thursday that her clients were “excited to announce an additional collaboration” with Fiat. The brand would donate a 500 series vehicle to the artists, which would be painted and offered at auction. The proceeds would go to a local charity, Ms. Richman said. Whether the muralists would earn anything from their previous, wholly unauthorized collaboration with Fiat was not made clear, although the artists said they were satisfied with the resolution. A statement released Wednesday by Chrysler, the Fiat subsidiary, said that the company had “recently learned of a copyright issue involving a graffiti mural” by TATS Cru, though the company had been contacted by Ms. Richman in mid-November. In an e-mail Monday evening, Ms. Richman said that she heard nothing from the automaker until a report appeared on Wheels Monday afternoon. In its statement, Chrysler said it was “standard protocol” to require its contracted ad agencies to “conduct the necessary due diligence” to ensure that proper permissions were obtained to use copyrighted images. Doner, the agency that produced the ad, did not respond to repeated requests from Wheels for comment. Asked how Chrysler and Doner produced and aired a national ad without obtaining proper clearances, Dianna Gutierrez, a spokeswoman for the automaker, refused to answer, saying that the agreement’s details would not be made public. Unlike a mural that anyone can freely see — but not film. With an Asterisk, Chevrolet Volt Tops Consumer Reports Owner Satisfaction Survey Honda Adds 273,000 Vehicles to Long-Running Air Bag Recall	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1447
__label__wiki	0.698099	0.698099	Tips, Tricks and Trade by Agnes What are the benefits of a VA Loan? 100% Financing & No Down Payment Loans No Private Mortgage (PMI) No Penalties for Prepaying the Loan Qualification is Easier than a Conventional Loan Sellers Pay Some of the Closing Costs Can be combined with additional down payment assistance to reduce closing costs 4000 Mac Arthur Blvd. East Bldg. Suite 800 santosagnes@me.com Agnes Santos Accessibility Statement Agnes Santos strives to ensure that its services are accessible to people with disabilities. Agnes Santos has invested a significant amount of resources to help ensure that its website is made easier to use and more accessible for people with disabilities, with the strong belief that every person has the right to live with dignity, equality, comfort and independence. Accessibility on Agnes Santos website Agnes Santos makes available the UserWay Website Accessibility Widget that is powered by a dedicated accessibility server. The software allows agneshomeloans.com to improve its compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1). Agnes Santos accessibility menu can be enabled by clicking the accessibility menu icon that appears on the corner on the page. After triggering the accessibility menu, please wait a moment for the accessibility menu to load in its entirety. Agnes Santos continues its efforts to constantly improve the accessibility of its site and services in the belief that it is our collective moral obligation to allow seamless, accessible and unhindered use also for those of us with disabilities. Despite our efforts to make all pages and content on Agnes Santos website fully accessible, some content may not have yet been fully adapted to the strictest accessibility standards. This may be a result of not having found or identified the most appropriate technological solution. If you are experiencing difficulty with any content on Agnes Santos website or require assistance with any part of our site, please contact us during normal business hours as detailed below and we will be happy to assist. If you wish to report an accessibility issue, have any questions or need assistance, please contact us by sending an email to: santosagnes@me.com This site uses cookies to process your loan application and other features. You may elect not to accept cookies which will keep you from submitting an loan application. By your clicked consent/acceptance you acknowledge and allow the use of cookies. By clicking I Accept you acknowledge you have read and understand Agnes Santos's Privacy Policy.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1465
__label__cc	0.716352	0.283648	We use cookies on our website. To learn more about the cookies we use, please see our cookie policy. You can manage cookies via your browser settings. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Accept and Close. Skip navigation & go straight to the main content. Coronavirus - advice and latest information Why Aber? Online Resources Hub Your English Visa Support & Advice Service Aberystwyth Research Portal Support Aber Old Students' Association Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Student Support & Careers Services Student Dignity and Respect Aberystwyth University and Aberystwyth Students' Union are committed to providing a working and learning environment that enriches lives, and where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Neither the University or Students' Union will tolerate bullying or harassment or any type of behaviour contrary to dignity and respect perpetrated by its students. Students, staff and members of the public should not be treated unfavourably or be subjected to bullying or harassment because of race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sex or sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, religion or belief (or no religion or belief), maternity/pregnancy, gender identity or status, age, trade union membership, disability, offending background or any other protected characteristic. Types of behaviour that are not acceptable How to report a concern The University is aware that there may be a number of barriers to reporting incidents and you therefore have a choice of reporting methods. Report a concern using the online form Using the online form you can report a concern anonymously or as a third party or by identifying yourself. If you submit an anonymous report we will be unable to offer you individual advice or support and the information you provide will be used for statistical purposes only. Where you identify yourself your report will be submitted to staff in the Advice, Information and Money Service and will be used to put you in touch with a Student Adviser who will advise you about your options for taking the matter forward and discuss the type of support available to you. Personal or identifiable information will not be disclosed to others without your consent unless we believe there is a risk to your or to another individual’s safety and wellbeing. Please note that in submitting either an anonymous or third party report or by identifying yourself you are not initiating a formal complaint. Report a concern in person to a member of staff Such individuals may include for example, a personal tutor, residences staff or campus security or staff in Student Support and Careers Services. To ensure that any potential legal proceedings are not prejudiced, on receipt of a report staff should, with the student’s permission, direct the student to colleagues in the Advice, Information and Money Service (based in the Student Welcome Centre) for specialist advice and support. However, where the student does not wish to do this staff should contact the Advice, Information and Money Service for confidential advice on how to proceed. There will be no requirement to name the student at this point. Read the Code on Student Dignity and Respect Student Code on Dignity and Respect (DOCX) Student Code on Dignity and Respect (PDF) Accessibility Service Advice Information and Money Service Report a Dignity and Respect Issue Sources of Help and Support Careleavers and Estranged Students Aberystwyth Chaplaincy Service Guidance for students on the use of social networking sites Aberystwyth University, Reception, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3FL ©2021 Aberystwyth University. Registered charity: No 1145141 Staff Login?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1470
__label__cc	0.660082	0.339918	Why Your Skin Peels After a Sunburn, According to Dermatologists Science of Beauty Podcast: LasersLISTEN NOW peeling payoff By Sarah Kinonen You skimped on sunscreen. Then forgot to re-apply. Now, you have a sunburn that — quite literally — burns like no other, and your scorched skin more resembles the scaly, flaky mess shed from reptiles (ew) than its usual smooth, glowing disposition. But did you know that when your skin begins to peel, it's actually your body's way of ridding itself of dead, damaged skin cells that were exposed to the sun's damaging ultra-violet rays? Pretty cool, if you ask us. "UV light exposure causes free-radical damage to your skin," Joshua Zeichner, the director of cosmetic and clinical research in dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, tells Allure. "Significant inflammation leads to a process known as programmed cell death, where skin cells shut down because they are too damaged to live properly. Any redness, and especially peeling, signifies that there has been damage to the skin." In non-science speak, your body is literally shedding dead skin that was touched by the sun as a form of protection. So what does that mean for the skin that didn't shed? "In some cases, if skin cells do live despite significant damage to their DNA, they can become cancerous," says Zeichner. That's why it's so (emphasis on so) important to slather on sunscreen (at least SPF 30) every day — 30 minutes before heading outdoors — and then re-apply every few hours, as the American Academy of Dermatology recommends. "Skin cancer is largely preventable," says Zeichner. "Even a single sunburn increases your risk of developing skin cancer later in life. This risk doubles if you develop a blistering burn." (Which is what unfortunately happened to this guy.) Your best bet in skipping the scaling sensation, as well as avoiding your risk of skin cancer, entirely is to be sun smart. And don't get burnt. It's really as simple as it sounds. "It's like car accidents — don't put yourself in harms way and wear a seatbelt," Beverly Hills-based dermatologist Ava Shamban tells Allure. Along with slathering on SPF, Shamban recommends wearing a hat, sitting in the shade, and opting for UV-protected sunglasses when you're outdoors. "Taking precautions now will prevent premature aging, skin cancer, and painful peeling of unsightly skin," she says. "Treat your skin like your favorite article of clothing — you wear it every day." More on sun care: 5 Skin Cancer Symptoms to Watch for This Summer Look At This Runner’s Excruciating Sunburn and Then Immediately Go Reapply Your Sunscreen Bathing In Earl Grey Tea Could Be the Key to Soothing Your Next Sunburn Now, find out how to soothe your sunburn with a single tea bag: Follow Sarah on Twitter and Instagram. Keywordssunburnsunscreenskin cancerskin peelingdermatologist tips	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1478
__label__cc	0.743802	0.256198	Charles Nikas BIOGRAPHY - Charles NIKAS / www.Charles-Nikas.Gallery Born in New York City in 1951, Charles' body of work is an extension of his social / professional life which in his early years he lived and studied in Europe. This euro-American eclectic exposure to life and contemporary art provided him with a rich palette in which to produce the works he exhibits today. Charles has exhibited in Switzerland, Greece and the United States. His work is characterized as dynamic, intense, and perennial. Each image depicts metaphysical and/or surreal imagery which are personal to him, yet undeniably extricate individual emotions, messages, and senses from the viewer. His work has evolved through levels of creative experience and technical milieus. ' Each definitive and substantial in its own right.' In the 70s, his figurative ‘black and ‘white’ works depicted contemporary man as a pensive, soulless entity, yet in transition. Charles’ work is spiritual providing a 'raison d’ etre.‘ By the mid-80s’ thru the 90s’, Charles turned toward visual enigmas, by introducing the medium of 'collage' to his portfolio. This new style coupled with his draftsman's line, created quasi-surrealistic images which disturbed and provoked the viewer. Again, he applies himself to perceive time and space in thought and rational experience, as man transcends his own dimensional plane. “Each viewer must contemplate his work in the rational, and unlock the cryptic message of the 'unconscious' versus the 'conscious'. PRESS RELEASE: 2013 New York artist Charles Nikas creates dream-like yet compelling abstract expressionistic works. His color saturated images are composed using a variety of mediums including acrylic paint and spray, silver, gold and copper leaf, printers ink and file transparencies -.all expertly arrange on paper, glass, canvass and polyethylene construction board. Nikas spent his early years abroad in Europe, giving him a large degree of cultural exposure that has served as a catalyst in the evolution of his work as it stands today. Nikas’ art is dynamic and intense, as rich in palette as it is in energetic rendering, Infused with complex images and layers of meaning the work is meant to ignite an intimate response in the viewer, both on a mental and emotional platform. As he explains, “Ech image depicts metaphysical forces, yet undeniably, extricates individual emotions, messages, and imagery from the viewer.' What results are unforgettable pieces that transcend context to reflect the intricate and multifaceted realities of human existence on the very level of the soul. LES NUMEROS - 2014 Acrylic spray color work with gold, silver and copper leaf and stenciled numbers on Arch paper. Painting focuses on the randomness of numbers, yet, they evoke a symbolic presence in the daily meaning of our lives. Framed; 24" x 34" Price $2K Acrylic spray color work with gold, silver and copper leaf and stenciled numbers on Arch paper.. Painting focuses on the randomness of numbers. Yet, they provide a symbolic presence in life's meaning. Framed; 24" x 34" . Unframed: 20" x 27". Price $3K COSMOS - 2014 Abstract Acrylic color spray work. Work depicts an evolutionary phase in the development of a universe during its gaseous phase into the development of matter. Framed: 46" X 46". Price $3K ANALYSIS PARALYSIS - 2012 Abstract Acrylic paint and spray work. Gold and silver leaf, chart tape applied over drafting imagery transpariencies. Framed: 28" x 28" Price: $1.7K DEUX MOTS - 1980 Symbolic Mixed Media Work: Red & Yellow Polyurethane Fresnels with distorted visual images on Black Bainbridge board. Work depicts visual representation of two words (Deux Mots) as seen in the subconscious mind. Framed 18" X 42" Price $1.8K “DEUX MOTS” TERRAFORMING - 2014 Symbolistic Abstract: Black & White Acrylic Spray on Polyurethane Corrugated Black Board. Work depicts the early stages of planet creation: Solid, liquid and gaseous and matter in flux. Framed 45" x 35" Price $3K. ALIEN MYSTERIES - 2011 Mixed Medium Figurative Symbolism: Acrylic spray and paint over alien imagery and transparencies of that which is enigmatic. Work attempts to exude an ambiance of the cryptic. Framed: 25" x 36" Price $1.5K BOOGIE WOOGIE - 2011 Abstract Work: Acrylic paint and spray. Chart and Mesh Tape on Arch Paper. Framed: 25.5" x 25.5" Price $1.5K FLUX - 2014 Abstract. Acrylic paint and spray chart and Chart and Mesh Tape, Gold leaf on Glass. Framed over in glass 30: x 36". Price 1.5K. This work depicts the inter geometric imagery of a Virus Strain which for the most part humans are exposed to on a daily basis. There is gold and silver leaf used to highlight the luminous and vile world of these parasites.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1484
__label__cc	0.691835	0.308165	Georgia Woman Kills Man Attacking Daughter When Roger Cochran got angry over a Facebook post last Saturday night, things went from bad to worse very quickly. According to local media reports, Cochran was at his girlfriend Toni Davis’ house in Coffee County, Ga., when he got angry and began beating her. When Davis’ mother tried to intervene, Cochran pushed her down, then held a knife to Davis’ throat and threatened to kill her. Fearing the worst, the mother shot Cochran, ending the threat. Cochran died from his wounds. No charges will be filed against the mother. Texas AG Suing County Over Carry Ban The Texas attorney general has filed a lawsuit against a southeast Texas county for restrictions barring law-abiding citizens from carrying concealed firearms into the courthouse. Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the lawsuit against Waller County, just west of Houston, which has attempted to ban guns in its county courthouse. “A local government cannot be allowed to flout Texas’s licensed carry laws, or any state law, simply because it disagrees with the law or doesn’t feel like honoring it,” Paxton said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “I will vigilantly protect and preserve the Second Amendment rights of Texans.” According to state figures, about 2,600, or 6 percent, of Waller County residents are licensed to carry handguns. Freedom Hangs in the Balance in Georgia ATF Withdraws “Guidance” for Stabilizing Braces	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1488
__label__wiki	0.75961	0.75961	MoDaCo Manages To Get Adoptable SD Card Storage Working On The Galaxy S7 And Galaxy S7 Edge, No Root Required 12:30pm PST Mar 10, 2016 It was a nice surprise when Samsung announced that its new flagship phones would be running Android 6.0, and that they were bringing back the much-requested expandable storage was icing on the cake. The news that the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge would not support adoptable storage, Android Marshmallow's ability to take an SD card and partition it as semi-permanent device storage, was met with less enthusiasm. But all is not lost, expandable storage fans: long-time modder and ROM developer Paul "MoDaCo" O'Brien has got this covered. A Nasty Zenfone 2 Bug Is Gobbling Up Gigabytes Of Storage With Giant Log Files 7:26pm PST Mar 8, 2016 A number of Zenfone 2 owners have been making oddly similar complaints about a lack of storage space, and it looks like this isn't a case of poor management on their part. There may be a bug in the device that clogs the internal storage with multiple gigabytes of log files. What's worse, you can't do anything about it without root. [Who Needs The Cloud] Samsung Begins Mass Production Of 256GB UFS Chips For Mobile Devices Jeff Beck 2016/02/24 7:11pm PST Feb 24, 2016 Samsung just announced that it has begun mass manufacturing of the industry's first 256GB Universal Flash Storage chips for high-end mobile devices. The new memory is nearly twice as fast as typical SATA-based SSDs found in PCs. Using two lanes of data transfer, the new chip can move data at up to a blistering 850MB per second. Sequential writing speeds clock in at a rate of up to 260MB a second, or about three times faster than high-performance external SD cards. What this translates to is buttery-smooth frame rates when the chip is tasked with the playback of Ultra HD video files, even while simultaneously multitasking in a split screen. [Deal Alert] PNY 128GB MicroSD Card On Sale For $34.95 At Amazon So, you've got a massive library of media, and you absolutely must have as much of it with you as possible at all times? Sounds like you need a gigantic microSD card (and a phone that supports it, but that's a story for another day). But oh, the cost! Well, there's a sweet deal on a PNY card today at Amazon. 128GB for thirty-five smackers. Signal hits 50 million installs on Play Store amid WhatsApp privacy concerns SanDisk Announces New 200GB Wireless Stick And 128GB Dual USB 3.0 Drive 6:25pm PST Jan 5, 2016 SanDisk has a number of products geared toward mobile devices, and two of the most popular are getting an update today with new top-tier storage options. The Wireless Stick now comes in a 200GB version and the Dual USB Drive has a 128GB variant. Both are already listed on Amazon too. [Deal Alert] Transcend 64GB And 128GB MicroSD Cards On Sale For $13.99 And $42.99 On Amazon 12:55pm PST Dec 30, 2015 Phones are increasingly shipping without microSD card expansion slots, but you can still stick it to the man by getting cheap expandable memory for plenty of devices. Today you can save a few bucks on Transcend microSD cards on Amazon. The 64GB and 128GB varieties are on sale for up to 72% off full retail. Samsung Announces New 128GB PRO Plus MicroSD Memory Cards Priced At $199.99 11:43am PST Dec 15, 2015 Samsung is upping its microSD card game. Today the company announced its new 128GB PRO Plus memory cards. Compared to the existing 128GB EVO Plus cards, these offer significantly faster write speeds. Microsoft Will Let You Keep Your Free 15GB Of OneDrive Storage If You Ask Nicely Last month, Microsoft made a very unpopular decision to cut back on OneDrive storage for all of its users, reducing unlimited Office subscriber plans to 1TB, replacing paid 100GB and 200GB plans with 50GB ones for newcomers, and taking 10GB back of free storage on all regular user accounts. The justification given was an "abuse" of the unlimited plan by some users who had created backups of multiple computers and stored over 75TB of storage. In response, the user uproar explained that "unlimited" is, by definition, unlimited, and Microsoft should have put a limit from the first place if it didn't want users to surpass a certain capacity. [Deal Alert] SanDisk 200GB MicroSD Card Down To Just $99.99 On Amazon 8:55am PST Nov 24, 2015 The price on SanDisk's largest microSD card just keeps dropping like a rock. I mean, like... a rock with another heavier rock tied to it or something. After hitting $135 about a week ago, the 200GB microSD card is now $99.99 on Amazon. That's a lot of storage. Google Will Add The Ability To Downgrade Original Quality Photos To High Quality And Reclaim Space Wednesday, Nov. 18th 12:03pm PST Nov 17, 2015 Google gives you a choice when you back up your images to Google Photos: do you save them at their original size or do you let Google store a compressed "high quality" version? The former counts against your storage space, while the latter doesn't. Unfortunately when you choose one, you're kind of stuck with the decision. You can opt to change how you save future photos, but you can't go back to compress those shots you previously saved at their original quality. This is about to change. Tomorrow, Google will introduce the option to downgrade those previously uploaded images. 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__label__wiki	0.658702	0.658702	The Question of the Importance of Samadhi In Modern and Classical Advaita Vedanta. Michael Comans, PhD Philosophy East & West Vol.43 No 1 Pp.19-38 Copyright by University of Hawaii Press SEE AS WELL: THE SAMADHI TRILOGY The word SAMADHI [1] became a part of the vocabulary of a number of Western intellectuals toward the end of the first half of this century. Two well-known writers, Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood, were impressed by Eastern and specifically by Indian thought. Huxley made a popular anthology of Eastern and Western mystical literature under the title "The Perennial Philosophy" (1946), and in his last novel, "Island" (1962), words such as moksa and samadhi occur untranslated. In both these works, Huxley uses the words "false samadhi, " implying that the reader was already conversant with what samadhi actually is. Conveniently glossing over any emphisis regarding the Hindu goddess Kali-Ma, Isherwood wrote an account of the life of the nineteenth-century Bengali mystic Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and his disciples (1959), and he published as the second part of his autobiographical trilogy an account of the years he spent with his own guru, Swami Prabhavananda of the Ramakrsna Order, in "My Guru and His Disciple" (1980). Why these writers were drawn toward Eastern spiritual thought, and to the Vedanta teachings in particular, is not the subject for discussion here. But perhaps one significant reason is that with the decline in organized religion after World War I, these writers found in the Vedanta, as presented to them by the followers of Sri Ramakrsna and his disciple Swami Vivekananda, a spirituality which emphasized the authority of firsthand experience as the only way to verify what was presented as the Truth. The Vedanta, as they saw it, was a "minimum working hypothesis," which could be validated through cultivating a certain type of experience, and that experience was seen to be a mystical, super-conscious state of awareness called samadhi. Isherwood edited a book of articles titled "Vedanta for the Western World" (1948). In his introduction he emphasizes the centrality of having a direct, personal experience of Reality, which, he says, the Christian writers call "mystic union" and Vedantists call "samadhi." Isherwood raises the question as to how Reality can be experienced if it is beyond sense perception, and he answers the question in terms of samadhi experience: Samadhi is said to be a fourth kind of consciousness: it is beyond the states of waking, dreaming and dreamless sleep. Those who have witnessed it as an external phenomenon report that the experience appeared to have fallen into a kind of trance. The hair on the head and body stood erect. The half-closed eyes became fixed. Sometimes there was an astonishing loss of weight, or even levitation of the body from the ground. But these are mere symptoms, and tell us nothing. There is only one way to find out what samadhi is like: you must have it yourself? Huxley and Isherwood did not find Indian spirituality by journeying to India--rather it was India which found them; and the variety of Indian spirituality with which these Englishmen came into contact in California in the late 1930s was that of the Vedanta Society, founded by Swami Vivekananda and his followers, who were monks of the recently established (1886) Order of Ramakrishna. If we seek to locate the source of the orientation of spiritual life around the cultivation of samadhi experience, which has become one of the principal characteristics of modern Vedanta, it must be traced to Sri Ramakrsna himself. Ramakrsna was not a Vedantin in the orthodox sense of one who has received instruction centered on the exegesis of the sacred texts (sastra), which are generally in Sanskrit, from a teacher (acarya), and who then consciously locates himself within that specific body of received teachings (sampradaya). Ramakrsna, as is well known, affirmed that a variety of diverse disciplines and traditions within Hinduism, and even outside of Hinduism, were valid in that they were all efficacious means toward the same spiritual goal. However, as has been pointed out, it would be most correct to locate. Ramakrsna's teachings within a Tantric paradigm. [3] (The time spent under the direction of Totapuri, who was said to be an Advaitin, was much shorter than the time spent studying Tantra, and the information available on Totapuri is very meager, so it is difficult to be sure whether he was actually an Advaitin rather than a follower of yoga) Tantra is an expressly experience-oriented discipline and it relies upon yoga techniques, particularly those of Hatha Yoga, [4] to bring about a samadhi experience. Ramakrsna frequently underwent trance-like states, which are referred to in The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna as samadhi experiences. A typical description in the Gospel would be the following passage: At the mere mention of Krishna and Arjuna the Master went into samadhi. In the twinkling of an eye his body became motionless and his eyeballs transfixed, while his breathing could scarcely be noticed. [5] Ramakrsna has himself linked the occurrence of samadhi with Kundalini Yoga, which is referred to in the treatises on Hatha Yoga and is fundamental to Tantra soteriology. For example, Ramakrsna is recorded as having remarked: A man's spiritual consciousness is not awakened unless his Kundalini is aroused. The Kundalini dwells in the Muladhara. When it is aroused, it passes along the Sushumna nerve, goes through the centres of Svadhisthana, Manipura, and so on, and at last reaches the head. This is called the movement of the Mahavayu, the Spiritual Current. It culminates in samadhi. [6] From the above we should be able to see the importance that the samadhi experience had in the life and teachings of Sri Ramakrsna. Such an experience-oriented view of spirituality was a legacy which passed from Ramakrsna to Vivekananda. Vivekananda was receptive to this view, for it seemed to agree with what he had studied of the British empiricist philosophers and the positivist Auguste Comte, insofar as they by University of Hawaii Press had stressed the centrality of empirical experience. Vivekananda extended the empiricist epistemology that all knowledge is derived from sense experience into the domain of metaphysics, for he thought that since experience is the basis of all knowledge, then if a metaphysical Reality exists, it, too, ought to be available for direct experience? And from his association with Ramakrsna he gathered that samadhi was the experience required in order to know God. In his writings he placed much emphasis on the necessity of attaining samadhi. He loosely translated samadhi as "super-consciousness,"[8] and he stated in his work Raja-Yoga, a commentary in English on the Yogasutras of Patanjali, that samadhi experience was the acme of spiritual life: Samadhi is the property of every human being--nay, every animal. From the lowest animal to the highest angel, some time or other, each one will have to come to that state, and then, and then alone, will real religion begin for him. Until then we only struggle towards that stage. There is no difference now between us and those who have no religion, because we have no experience. What is concentration good for, save to bring us to that experience? Each one of the steps to attain samadhi has been reasoned out, properly adjusted, scientifically organized, and, when faithfully practised, will surely lead us to the desired end. Then all sorrows cease, all miseries vanish; the seeds of actions will be burnt, and the soul will be free for ever.[9] Vivekananda was attracted to Ramakrsna for reasons somewhat similar to those that initially attracted Huxley and Isherwood to the Vedanta taught by the followers of Vivekananda: they all sought some direct, experiential verification of the propositions of religious metaphysics, and they all came to believe that the key to such verification lay in the attainment of a samadhi or "super-conscious" experience. This legacy of Ramakrsna, the search for an extra-ordinary experience in order to validate spiritual life, not only extended to the West via the Ramakrsna Order of monks that Vivekananda helped to found, but it also become a dominant view within the Western-educated Indian middle class through the spread of Ramakrsna-Vivekananda literature. The modern Indian philosopher, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, an eloquent advocate of the importance of experience in religion, has described samadhi in the following manner: "In samadhi or enstatic consciousness we have a sense of immediate contact with ultimate reality.. It is a state of pure apprehension.. "[10] At this point the reader may wonder whether we are not stating the obvious, for is it not precisely because samadhi is so important that modern Vedantins such as Vivekananda and Radhakrishnan gave it such emphasis? It is certainly important to modern Vedanta, but the question can be legitimately raised as to what importance it has in the Upanisads, the very source of the Vedanta, and in the classical Vedanta such as in the works of Sankara, the most famous of all the Vedanta teachers. That is the topic which we shall now address. The first point to be noted is that the word samadhi does not occur in the ten major Upanisads upon which Sankara has commented.[11] This is not a matter to be lightly passed over, for if the attainment of samadhi is central to the experiential verification of the Vedanta, as we can gather it is, judging by the statements of some modern Vedantins such as those cited above, then one would legitimately expect the term to appear in the major Upanisads which are the very source of the Vedanta. Yet the word does not occur. The closest approximation to the word samadhi in the early Upanisads is the past passive participle samahita in the Chandogya and Brhadaranyaka Upanisads.[12] In both texts the word samahita is not used in the technical meaning of samadhi ,that is, in the sense of a meditative absorption or enstasis ,although the closest approximation to this sense occurs in the Brhadaranyaka. In the first reference (BU 4.2.1) , Yajnavalkya tells Janaka: "You have fully equipped your mind (samahitatma) with so many secret names [of Brahman, that is, Upanisads]."[13] Here the word samahita should be translated as "concentrated, collected, brought together, or composed." In the second occurrence (BU 4.4.23), Yajnavalkya tells Janaka that a knower of Brahman becomes "calm (santa), controlled (danta), withdrawn from sense pleasures (uparati), forbearing (titiksu), and collected in mind (samahita). This reference to samahita is the closest approximation in the Upanisads to the term samadhi, which is well known in the later yoga literature. However, the two terms are not synonyms, for in the Upanisad the word samahita means "collectedness of mind," and there is no reference to a meditation practice leading to the suspension of the faculties such as we find in the literature dealing with yoga. The five mental qualities mentioned in BU 4.4.3 later formed, with the addition of faith (sraddha), a list of six qualifications required of a Vedantic student, and they are frequently to be found at the beginning of Vedantic texts.[14] In these texts, the past participles used in the Upanisads are regularly changed into nominal forms: santa becomes sama, danta becomes dama, and samahita becomes samadhana, but not the cognate noun samadhi. It would thus appear that, while Vedanta authors understood samahita and samadhana as equivalent terms, they did not wish to equate them with the word samadhi; otherwise there would have been no reason why that term could not have been used instead of samadhana. But it seems to have been deliberately avoided, except in the case of the later Vedanta work, Vedantasara, to which we shall have occasion to refer. Thus we would suggest that, in the Vedanta texts, samadhana does not have the same meaning that the word samadhi has in yoga texts. This is borne out when we look at how Vedanta authors describe the terms samahita and samadhana. Sankara, in BU 4.2.1, glosses samahitatma as samyuktama, "well equipped or connected." In BU 4.4.23, he explains the term samahita as "becoming one-pointed (aikagrya) through dissociation from the movements of the sense-organs and the mind."[15] The term occurs again in the Katha Upanisad 1.2.24 in the negative form asamahita, which Sankara glosses as "one whose mind is not one-pointed (anekagra), whose mind is scattered."[16] In introductory Vedanta manuals, samadhana is also explained by the term "one-pointed" (ekagra).[17] The word samadhana can thus be understood as having the meaning of "one-pointed" (ekagra). In the Yogasutra, "one-pointed" (ekagra) is used to define concentration (dharana),[18] which is the sixth of the eight limbs of Yoga and a preliminary discipline to dhyana and samadhi. We may see, then, that the Vedantic samadhana means "one-pointedness" and would be equivalent to the yoga dharana, but it is not equivalent to the yoga samadhi. The word samadhi first appears in the Hindu scriptures in the Maitrayni Upanisad (6.18, 34), a text which does not belong to the strata of the early Upanisads[19] and which mentions five of the eight limbs of classical Yoga. The word also occurs in some of the Yoga and Sannyasa Upanisads of the Atharvaveda.[20] Samadhi would thus seem to be a part of yogic practice which has entered into the later Upanisadic literature through such texts as the Yoga Upanisads as a result of what Eliade calls "the constant osmosis between the Upanisadic and yogic milieus."[21] The diverse teachings of yoga were systematized in Patanjali's Yogasutras, where it is explained that the goal of yoga is to restrain completely all mental fluctuations (vrtti) so as to bring about the state of samadhi. Samadhi itself has two stages, samprajana samadhi, or an enstasis where there is still object-consciousness, and asamprajatasamadhi or nirbijasamadhi, where there is no longer any object-consciousness. Asamprajnatasamadhi became known in later Vedanta circles as Nirvikalpa Samadhi.[22] The point to be noted about yoga is that its whole soteriology is based upon the suppression of mental fluctuations so as to pass firstly into samprajnatasamadhi and from there, through the complete suppression of all mental fluctuations, into asamprajnatasamadhi, in which state the Self remains solely in and as itself without being hidden by external, conditioning factors imposed by the mind (citta). When we examine the works of Sankara, however, we find a very sparing use of the word samadhi.[23] In the Brahmasutrabhasya he makes three references to samadhi as a condition of absorption or enstasis.[24] In the first (2.1.9) , he implicitly refutes the idea that samadhi is, of itself, the means for liberation, for he says: Though there is the natural eradication of difference in deep sleep and in samadhi etc., because false knowledge has not been removed, differences occur once again upon waking just like before.[25] What Sankara says is that duality, such as the fundamental distinction between subject and object, is obliterated in deep sleep and in samadhi, as well as in other conditions such as fainting, but duality is only temporarily obliterated for it reappears when one awakes from sleep or regains consciousness after fainting, and it also reappears when the yoga arises from samadhi. The reason why duality persists is because false knowledge (mithyajana) has not been removed. It is evident from this brief statement that Sankara does not consider the attainment of samadhi to be a sufficient cause to eradicate false knowledge, and, according to Sankara, since false knowledge is the cause of bondage, samadhi cannot therefore be the cause of liberation. The only other significant reference to samadhi in the Brahmasatrabhasya occurs in the context of a discussion as to whether agentship is an essential property of the self. According to Sankara's interpretation, sutras 2.3.33-39 accept agentship as a property of the self, but sutra 2.3.40 presents the definitive view that agentship is not an intrinsic property of the Self but is a superimposition. The word samadhi occurs in 2.3.39 (samadhy-abhavacca), and here Sankara briefly comments, "samadhi, whose purpose is the ascertainment of the Self known from the Upanisads, is taught in the Vedanta texts such as: 'The Self, my dear, should be seen; it should be heard about, thought about and meditated upon'" (BU 2.4.5) .[26] Sankara shows by the phrase atmapratipattiprayojana ("whose purpose is the ascertainment of the Self") that he acknowledges that the practice of samadhi has a role in Vedanta. However, these two references do not in themselves present a conclusive picture of Sankara's thought, for in the first reference it is evident that he does not consider samadhi to be a sufficient means for liberation, while in the second he has clearly given it a more positive place as a means for liberation. This second reference, however, has to be treated with some circumspection as it forms the comment upon a sutra which Sankara does not consider to present the definitive view. Another reference to samadhi, where it again seems to have a more positive value, occurs in the commentary upon the Mandukyakarika of Gaudapada, where in verse 3.37 the word samadhi is given as a synonym for the Self. Sankara glosses the word samadhi in two different ways, and in the first he says "samadhi = because [the Self] can be known through the wisdom arising from samadhi."[27] Thus we can see that, according to Sankara, samadhi has a role to play in Vedanta, but yet the first reference (2.1.9) indicates that this role is perhaps more circumscribed than the modern exponents of Vedanta would have us believe. We will attempt to resolve the matter through a wider examination of Sankara's thought, particularly in regard to his use of yoga. The first specific mention of yoga is in the Katha Upanisad, and there is a verse in this Upanisad which details a type of yoga meditation: The discriminating person should restrain speech in the mind, he should restrain the mind in the cognizing self, he should restrain the cognizing self in the 'great self' and restrain that 'great self' in the peaceful Self.[26] Sankara introduces this verse with the comment that the Upanisad here presents "a means for the ascertainment of that [Self]."[29] In his commentary upon Brahmasutra 1.4.1, Sankara refers to this Katha verse with the remark that the sruti"shows yoga as the means for the apprehension of the Self."[30] In his commentary upon Brahmasutra 3.3.15, he again refers to this verse when he says that it is "just for the sake of the clear understanding of the Self that the sruti enjoins meditation, viz. 'the discriminating person should restrain speech in the mind.... "[31] It is therefore evident that Sankara considers the verse above to present a method of yoga meditation leading to Self-knowledge. As to his understanding of this Katha verse, he has explained it succinctly in his commentary on Brahmasutra 1.4.1: This is what is said. 'He should restrain speech in the mind' means that by giving up the operations of the extemal senses such as the organ of speech and so forth he should remain only as the mind. And since the mind is inclined towards conjecturing about things, he should, by way of seeing the defect involved in conjecturing restrain it in the intellect whose characteristic consists in determining and which is said here by the word 'cognizing self'. Then bringing about an increase in subtlety, he should restrain that intellect in the 'great self', i.e. the experience, or the one-pointed intellect. And he should establish the 'great self' in the peaceful Self, i.e. in that supreme Purusa who is the topic under consideration, who is the 'highest goal'.[32] Aranyaka Upanisad 2.4.11, which forms part of the well known Yajanavalkya-Maitreyi dialogue, Sankara briefly describes a method of contemplation which is similar to the one mentioned in the Katha 1.3.13. It is as follows: [text]..as the skin is the one goal of all kinds of touch [commentary] such as soft or hard, rough or smooth.... By the word 'skin', touch in general that is perceived by the skin, is meant; in it different kinds of touch are merged, like different kinds of water in the ocean, and become nonentities without it, for they were merely its modifications. Similarly, that touch in general, denoted by the word 'skin', is merged in the deliberation of the Manas [mind], that is to say, in a general consideration by it, just as different kinds of touch are included in touch in general perceived by the skin; without this consideration by the Manas it becomes a non-entity. The consideration by the Manas also is merged in a general cognition by the intellect, and becomes non-existent without it. Becoming mere consciousness, it is merged in Pure Intelligence, the Supreme Brahman, like different kinds of water in the ocean. When, through these successive steps, sound and the rest, together with their receiving organs, are merged in Pure Intelligence, there are no more limiting adjuncts, and only Brahman, which is Pure Intelligence, comparable to a lump of salt, homogeneous, infinite, boundless and without a break, remains. Therefore the Self alone must be regarded as one without a second.[33] We can see that the type of yoga which Sankara presents here is a method of merging, as it were, the particular (visesa) into the general (samanya). For example, diverse sounds are merged in the sense of hearing, which has greater generality insofar as the sense of hearing is the locus of all sounds. The sense of hearing is merged into the mind, whose nature consists of thinking about things, and the mind is in turn merged into the intellect, which Sankara then says is made into 'mere cognition' (vijanamatra); that is, all particular cognitions resolve into their universal, which is cognition as such, thought without any particular object. And that in turn is merged into its universal, mere Consciousness (prajnana-ghana), upon which everything previously referred to ultimately depends. There are two points which ought to be noted concerning Sankara's presentation of yoga which differ from the model we find in Patanjali's Yogasutra. The first concerns method. Sankara does not say that all thought forms must be restrained in the manner of the cittavrttinirodha of the Yogasutras. While in other places Sankara has mentioned that meditation involves the withdrawal of the mind from sense objects,[34] he has also made it clear that control of the mind (cittavrttinirodha) is "not known as a means of liberation."[35] Rather, Sankara's method involves thinking, although it is thinking of a certain type, leading from the involvement in particulars to a contemplation of what is more general and finally to the contemplation of what is most general, that is, Consciousness. Thus Sankara's method of yoga is a meditative exercise of withdrawal from the particular and identification with the universal, leading to contemplation of oneself as the most universal, namely, Consciousness. This approach is different from the classical Yoga of complete thought suppression. The second point is one of approach, for nowhere does Sankara present the Atman-Brahman as a goal to be reached. On the contrary, his approach is that the Atman-Brahman is not something to be acquired since it is one's own nature, and one's own nature is not something that can be attained. This approach has its corollary in his method of negation: the removal of superimpositions in order to discover what is already there, although concealed as it were by all sorts of false identifications based ultimately upon the ignorance of who we really are. Such an approach is different from that of the classical Yoga of the Yogasutras, where a goal is presented in terms of nirvikalpasamadhi, which one has to achieve in order to gain liberation. That Sankara's method is one of negation in order to "reveal the ever revealed" is evident throughout his whole discussion of the role of action in the matter of liberation. In Brahmasutra 1.1.4, an opponent argues that the role of scripture is injunctive--it is to enjoin a person either to do something or to refrain from doing something--and the role of the Upanisads, too, after presenting the nature of Brahman, is to enjoin meditation upon Brahman as a means of release.[36] Sankara replies that if liberation is to be gained as a result of an action, then liberation must be impermanent. He specifies that actions can only be of four kinds: an action can produce something, or it can modify a thing, or it can be used to obtain something or to purify it.[37] He takes up each action in turn and argues that liberation is not something that can be either produced, attained, modified, or purified by any action whether physical, oral, or mental. His main argument is that if liberation is an effect of some kind of action, then liberation would have a beginning and would be time-bound and hence noneternal, and that such a consequence would go against the whole tradition that teaches that liberation is eternal. Sankara's view is that liberation is nothing but being Brahman, and that is one's inherent condition, although it is obscured by ignorance. He says that the whole purpose of the Upanisads is just to remove duality, which is a construct of ignorance;[38] there is no further need to produce oneness with Brahman, because that already exists. Sankara's frequent use of the phrase "na heya naupadeya" (cannot be rejected or accepted)[39] along with the word Atman indicates that the Self cannot be made the object of any kind of action whatsoever. Sankara has summarized all this in his commentary on the Brhadaranyaka: ... liberation is not something that can be brought into being. For liberation is just the destruction of bondage, it is not the result of an action. And we have already said that bondage is ignorance and it is not possible that ignorance can be destroyed by action. And action has its capacity in some visible sphere. Action has its capacity in the sphere of production, attainment, modification and purification. Action is able to produce, to make one attain, to modify or to purify. The capacity of an action has no other scope than this, for in the world it is not known to have any other capacity. And liberation is not one of these. We have already said that it is hidden merely by ignorance.[40] Thus we can see that the perspective of Sankara is fundamentally different from that of the yoga tradition where, although the purusa is presented as not something to be acquired, liberation is nonetheless a real goal to be attained through a process of mental discipline, which necessitates the complete suppression of all mental activity. That there is a certain ambivalence toward yoga on the part of the followers of Vedanta can be seen in Brahmasutra 2.1.3, "Thereby the Yoga is refuted," which offers a rejection of yoga following upon the rejection of Sankhya philosophy. The problem as Sankara sees it is that yoga practices are found in the Upanisads themselves, so the question arises as to what it is about yoga that needs to be rejected. Sankara says that the refutation of yoga has to do with its claim to be a means of liberation independent from the Vedic revelation. He says, "... the sruti rejects the view that there is another means for liberation apart from the knowledge of the oneness of the Self which is revealed in the Veda."[41] He then makes the point that "the followers of Sankhya and Yoga are dualists, they do not see the oneness of the Self."[42] The point that "the followers of Yoga are dualists" is an interesting one, for if the yogins are dualists even while they are exponents of asamprajnatasamadhi (nirvi-kalpasamadhi), then such samadhi does not of itself give rise to the knowledge of oneness as the modem exponents of Vedanta would have us believe. For if it did, then it would not have been possible for the yogins to be considered dualists. Clearly the modem Vedantins, in their expectation that samadhi is the key to the liberating oneness, have revalued the word and have given it a meaning which it does not bear in the yoga texts. And, we suggest, they have given it an importance which it does not possess in the classical Vedanta, as we are able to discerm it in the writings of Sankara. The matter to be decided is what place samadhi, and yoga in general, holds in Sankara's thought. We suggest that his commentary upon the Bhagavadgita contains certain programmatic statements that are of general assistance in determining his views on the place of samadhim and yoga in the Advaita scheme of liberation. In the Gita, Sankara very frequently glosses the word yoga when it occurs in a verse by the word samadhi, thereby indicating that on many occasions he understands yoga to mean the practice of a certain discipline wherein samadhi is the key factor, as in verse 6.19, "...for one who engages in yoga concerning the Self" (yunjato yogam atmanah), which Sankara glosses as "practices samadhi concerning the Self" (atmanah samadhim anutisthatah).[43] It is evident that he considers samadhi as a state wherein normal distinctions are obliterated, as is evident from his statement in 18.66, "the evils of agent-ship and enjoyership etc. are not apprehended in deep sleep or in samadhi etc. where there is discontinuation of the flow of the erroneous idea that the Self is identical to the body."[44] Here, as in his commentary upon Brahmasutra 2.1.9, Sankara links deep sleep and samadhi, and it is evident that he recognizes samadhi to be a state wherein distinctions are temporarily resolved, as they are in deep sleep. At the beginning of his commentary upon the Gita, Sankara makes a significant statement concerning the relation of Sankhya to Yoga.[45] He says that Sankhya means ascertaining the truth about the Self as it really is and that Krsna has done this in his teaching from verses 2.11 up until 2.31. He says that sankhyabuddhi is the understanding which arises from ascertaining the meaning in its context, and it consists in the understanding that the Self is not an agent of action because the Self is free from the sixfold modifications beginning with coming into being. He states that those people to whom such an understanding becomes natural are called Sankhyas. He then says that Yoga is prior to the rise of the understanding above. Yoga consists of performing disciplines (sadhana) that lead to liberation; it presupposes the discrimination between virtue and its opposite, and it depends upon the idea that the Self is other than the body and that it is an agent and an enjoyer. Such an understanding is yogabuddhi, and the people who have such an understanding are called Yogins. From this it is clear that Sankara relegates Yoga to the sphere of ignorance (avidya) because the Yogins are those who, unlike the Sankhyas, take the Self to be an agent and an enjoyer while it is really neither. They are, therefore, in Sankara's eyes, not yet knowers of the truth. Sankara again clearly demarcates Sankhya and Yoga in his comments on verse 2.39, where Krsna says, "O Partha, this understanding about Sankhya has been imparted to you. Now listen to this understanding about Yoga.... "According to Sankara, 'Sankhya' means the "discrimination concerning ultimate truth, " and the 'understanding' pertaining to Sankhya means a "knowledge which is the direct cause for the termination of the defect which brings about samsara consisting of sorrow and delusion and so forth." He then says that Yoga is the "means to that knowledge" (tatpraptyupaya) and that Yoga consists of both (a) karmayoga, that is, performing rites and duties as an offering to the Lord once there has been a relinquishment of opposites (such as like and dislike) through detachment, and (b) samadhiyoga.[46] In 4.38, Sankara again explains the word yoga occurring in the verse as referring to both karmayoga and samadhiyoga.[47] It is evident that Sankara understands the word yoga in the Gita to refer to both karmayoga and to the practice of meditation, that is, samadhiyoga. It is also evident that he considers yoga to be a means leading to Sankhya-knowledge but that it is not the same as Sankhya-knowledge. In 6.20, Sankara says that one apprehends the Self by means of a "mind which has been purified through samadhi."[48] From the evidence of the above we suggest that according to Sankara the role of samadhi is supportive--or purifying--and is preliminary to, but not necessarily identical with, the rise of the liberating knowledge. As is well known, Sankara considers that knowledge alone, the insight concerning the truth of things, is what liberates. To this end he places great emphasis upon words, specifically the words of the Upanisads, as providing the necessary and even the sufficient means to engender this liberating knowledge. Sankara repeatedly emphasizes the importance of the role of the teacher (guru/acarya) and the sacred texts (sastra) in the matter of liberation. For example the compound sastracaryopadesa, "the instruction on the part of the teacher and the scriptures," occurs seven times in his commentary on the Gita alone, along with other variations such as vedantacaryopadesa, and it regularly occurs in his other works as well.[49] The modem Vedantin, on the other hand, has overlooked, possibly unknowingly, the importance which sacred language and instruction held in the classical Vedanta as a means of knowledge (pramana) and has had to compensate for this by increasing the importance of yogic samadhi which is then put forward to be the necessary and sufficient condition for liberation. The contrast between the Vedanta of Sankara and some of its modem exponents is clear enough. But it should not be thought that the modem emphasis on yogic samadhi is without precedent. As we have mentioned, there is evidence of yoga techniques in the principal Upanisads themselves although it did not then have a dominant emphasis, and this is reflected in the approach of Sankara in his commentaries. However, in the centuries following Sankara, Advaitins have exhibited a gradual increase in their reliance upon yoga techniques. This can be shown by examining a few of the Advaita Prakaranagranthas, noncom-mentarial compositions by Advaita authors. The only noncommentarial work that is widely accepted as the composition of Sankara is the Upadesasahasri. In this work the word samadhi rarely occurs. The word samahita is used in 13.25, and we have previously argued that samahita (concentrated) has a meaning equivalent to the word samadhana, one-pointedness of mind, but it does not have the same meaning as nirvikalpasamadhi.[50] Sankara mentions samadhi three times in the Upadeaasahasra,[51] but he does not extol it; on the contrary, speaking from the understanding that the Self is nirvikalpa by nature, he contrasts the Self and the mind and says: As I have no restlessness (viksepa) I have hence no absorption (samadhi). Restlessness or absorption belong to the mind which is changeable.[52] A similar view is expressed in 13.17 and 14.35. In 15.14 Sankara presents a critique of meditation as an essentially dualistically structured activity.[53] Furthermore, in 16.39-40, Sankara implicitly criticizes the Sankhya-Yoga view that liberation is dissociation from the association of purusa and prakrti,[54] when he says: It is not at all reasonable that liberation is either a connection [with Brahman] or a dissociation [from prakrti]. For an association is non-eternal and the same is true for dissociation also.[55] Thus it is evident from the above that Sankara implicitly rejects both the soteriology of yoga, namely, that liberation has to be accomplished through the real dissociation of the purusa from prakrti, and the pursuit towards that end, that is, the achievement of nirvikalpa or asamprajatasamadhi. However such a view became blurred in the writings of post-Sankara Advaitins. This can be briefly shown by examining some later Advaita prakarana texts. For example, in the popular fourteenth-century text Pancadasi, we find a mixture of Vedantic and Yogic ideas. Towards the conclusion of the first chapter on the "Discrimination of the Real" (tattvaviveka) , the author explains the Upanisad terms sravana, manana, and nididhyasana (vv. 53-54), and then proceeds to describe the cultivation of samadhi as the means whereby the mediate verbal knowledge derived from the Upanisads is turned into immediate experience (vv. 5962). However, in chapter nine, "The Lamp of Meditation" (dhyanadipa), meditation is prescribed for those who do not have the intellectual acuteness to undertake the Self-inquiry; and in chapter seven (v. 265), the author repeats the verse of Sankara from the Upadesasahasri("As I have no restlessness"), which was cited above. Therefore it would appear that the Pancadasi is an early example of a Vedantic text which is consciously making room for classical Yoga but which has not lost sight of Sankara's perspective.[56] The Vivekacudamani is a popular text in contemporary Vedanta circles and is ascribed to Sankara. However, it is highly unlikely that it is a genuine work of Sankara, for the fact that there are no Sanskrit commentaries on this work by any of the well-known commentators on the works of Sankara would indicate that the Vivekacudamani is either a late composition or that it was not regarded as a work of Sankara by the earlier Advaitins.[57] In this text, samadhi comes in for considerable praise; for example: Reflection should be considered a hundred times superior to hearing, and meditation a hundred thousand times superior even to reflection, but the Nirvikalpaka Samadhi is infinite in its results.[58] We can observe in this text how samadhi is treated as the indispensable requirement for liberation, and we can see in the following verse that samadhi is advocated for the same reason as is given in Yogasutra 1.1.4: "at other times [the Self] takes the same form as the mental modifications (vrttisarupyamitaratra)": By the Nirvikalpaka Samadhi the truth of Brahman is clearly and definitely realized, but not otherwise, for then the mind, being unstable by nature, is apt to be mixed up with other perceptions.[59] As a final example of the use of samadhi in this work we cite the following verse: Through the diversity of the supervening conditions (Upadhis), a man is apt to think of himself as also full of diversity; but with the removal of these he is again his own Self, the immutable. Therefore the wise man should ever devote himself to the practice of Nirvikalpa Samadhi for the dissolution of the Upadhis.[60] If we compare the idea contained in this verse with the ideas of the Upadesasahasri, we find that nowhere in the Upadesasahasri does San-kara advocate the dissolution of the upadhi: On the contrary, his attitude throughout the Upadesasahasri is to show that an upadhi is to be negated merely through the knowledge that it is an object, for as an object it cannot be identical with the perceiver; and because an upadhi is essentially unreal (mithya), it cannot negate the nondual truth, and therefore no additional effort need be expended for its removal. As a final example of the increasing tendency to identify Vedanta and Yoga, we refer to a late Vedanta text, the Vedantasara of Sadananda (fifteenth century A.D.). He, like the author of the Pancadasi, has added samadhi to the triad of sravana, manana, and nididhyasana. What is of interest here is that he has reinterpreted samadhi to make it conform to Advaitic ideas; for example, nirvikalpa samadhi is said to be the state where the mind is without the distinctions of knower, knowledge, and object of knowledge and has become totally merged in the "nondual reality."[61] Furthermore, this text lists the eight limbs of Yoga practice mentioned by Patanjali (Yogasutra 2.29), suitably reinterpreted to conform to the Vedanta. There are other, later Vedanta texts which also do this.[62] Thus we see that through the centuries Vedanta has increasingly accommodated itself to Yoga, leading to the almost complete absence of a distinction between the two in modem times. Although the importance of concentration is evident from the early Upanisads (BU 4.4.23), a form of yoga practice leading to the absorptive state of samadhi is only in evidence in the later texts. We have seen that Sankara does speak of a type of concentration upon the Self which is akin to yoga insofar as there is the withdrawal of the mind from sense objects, but he does not advocate more than that and he does not put forward the view that we find in classical Yoga about the necessity of total thought suppression. We have seen that he has used the word samadhi very sparingly, and when he has used it, it was not always in an unambiguously favorable context. It should be clear that Sankara does not set up nirvikalpasamadhi as a spiritual goal. For if he had thought it to be an indispensable requirement for liberation, then he would have said so. But he has not said so. Contemplation on the Self is obviously a part of Sankara's teaching, but his contemplation is directed toward seeing the ever present Self as free from all conditionings rather than toward the attainment of nirvikalpasamadhi. This is in significant contrast to many modem Advaitins for whom all of the Vedanta amounts to "theory" which has its experimental counterpart in yoga "practice." I suggest that their view of Vedanta is a departure from Sankara's own position. The modem Advaitins, however, are not without their forerunners, and I have tried to indicate that there has been a gradual increase in samadhi-oriented practice in the centuries after Sankara, as we can judge from the later Advaita texts. MEDITATION ALONG METEOR CRATER RIM DOGEN'S REFLECTING POOL THE PRACTICE OF ZAZEN AWAKENING 101 Michael Comans, Ph.D. began a serious study of Advaita Vedanta as a resident student of Swami Dayananda Saraswati. After returning to Australia he studied for his doctorate under the guidance of the renowned Indologist, Professor J.W. de Jong, at the Australian National University. He also has the opportunity to study from Senior Pandit Srinivasa Shastri of Deccan College, Pune, and Dr. R. Krishnamurti Shastri of Madras Sanskrti College. Dr. Comans taught at the University of Sydney (Centre for Indian Studies) for a number of years. He now spends his time both in Sydney, where he teaches Vedanta and Sanskrit, and in India. Abbreviations are used in the notes below as follows: BSBh Brahmasutra-Sankarabhasyam with the Commentaries Bhasyaratnaprabha of Govindananda, Bhamati of Vacaspatimisra and Nyaya-Nirnaya of Anandagiri. Edited by J. L. Sastri. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1980. BU Brhadaranyakopanisad. ChU Chandogyopanisad. US Upadesasahasri of Sankaracharya, A Thousand Teachings: in Two Parts--Prose and Poetry. Translated by Swami Jagadananda. Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1979. 1. When the word samadhi is used in this article, it refers only to the higher stage of samadhi known as Nirvikalpa Samadhi, which is an "enstasis without thought constructions." See footnote 22 below. 2. Vedanta for the Western World, ed. C. Isherwood (London: Unwin Books, 1975), p. 15. 3. The three years of continuous Tantric sadhana under the direction of the Bhairava Brahmani was his longest and most significant training. See W. Neevel, "The Transformation of Sri Ramakrishna," in Hindu-ism.' New Essays in the History of Religions, ed. B. Smith (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976). The time spent under the direction of Totapuri, who was said to be an Advaitin, was much shorter than the time spent studying Tantra, and the information available on Totapuri is very meager, so it is difficult to be sure whether he was actually an Advaitin rather than a follower of yoga. 4. M. Eliade, Yoga: Immortality and Freedom, Bollingen Series, no. 56 (New York: Princeton University Press, 1973) , pp. 227 ff., and The Hathayogapradapika of Svatmarama (Madras: Adyar Library, 1984), p. 125. 5. Ramakrishna, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, trans. Swami Nikhi-lananda (Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1974), p. 6. Ibid., p. 814. Also cf. pp. 310, 576. 7. Cf. The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1970), vol. 1, p. 470, "If there is a God, you ought to be able to see Him. If not, let Him go." Also cf. his introduction to Raja-Yoga, pp. 125 ff., and vol. 2, p. 220, "Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know." 8. Ibid., vol. 1, pp. 137, 180, 181,212, and vol. 5, p. 300. 9. Ibid., vol. 1, p. 188. 10. S. Radhakrishnan, Eastern Religions and Western Thought (London: Allen and Unwin, 1940), p. 51. 11. G. A. Jacob, A Concordance to the Principal Upanisads and Bhagavadgita (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1971); G. M. Kurulkar, Sasandarbhanighantusahita Dasopanisadah (Pune: Tilak Maharastra Vidyapitha, 1973). 12. ChU 8.1.3, 4, 5; BU 4.2.1, 4.4.23. 13. The Brhadaranyaka Upanisad, with the Commentary of Sankaracarya, trans. Swami Madhavananda (Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1975), p. 410. 14. Cf. BSBh, p. 36; Vivekacudamani of Sri Sankaracarya, trans. Swami Madhavananda (Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1974), vv. 19-27; Aparoksanubhati or Self-realization of Sri Sankaracarya, trans. Swami Vimuktananda (Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1977), vv. 3-8. 15. Ten Principal Upanisads with Sankarabhasya, Works of Sankaracarya in Original Sanskrit, vol. 1 (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1978) , p. 937, " samahitah indriyantahkaranacalanarupad vyavrtya aikagryarupena samahito bhutva." (Hereafter, all Upanisad references containing Sankara's commentary will be to this work). 16. Ibid., p. 78, "asamahitah-anekagramana viksiptacittah." 17. Tattva Bodha of Sankaracharya (Bombay: Central Chinmaya Mission Trust, n.d.), p. 7; Aparoksanubhuti (cited n. 14 above), v. 8. 18. Georg Feuerstein, The Philosophy of Classical Yoga (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1980), p. 84. 19. Paul Deussen, The Philosophy of the Upanishads (New York: Dover, 1966), pp. 23-26. Also, see Winternitz quoted in S. Dasgupta, A History of Indian Philosophy (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1975), vol. 1, p. 39. Eliade considers the Maitrayani to belong to the same period as the Bhagavadgita, i.e., between the second century B.C. and the second century A.D. (Eliade, Yoga, p. 124). 20. Amrtabindu 6, 16; Aruneya 2. It also occurs in the Bhagavadgita at 2.44, 53, 54. 21. Eliade, Yoga, p. 114, remarks: "It is true that the Upanisads remain in the line of metaphysics and contemplation, whereas yoga employs asceticism and a technique of meditation. But this is not enough to halt the constant osmosis between the Upanisadic and yogic milieus." 22. I do not know why later Vedantins used the word nir-vikalpa to characterize what is essentially the yogic asamprajnata samadhi. Perhaps they wished to distinguish their practice from that of classical Yoga. The word nirvikalpaka was first introduced into the astika ("orthodox") tradition by Kumarila Bhatta, who used it in his explanation of perception, under the influence of the Buddhist philosopher Dignaga. See D. N. Shastri, The Philosophy of Nyaya-Vaisesika and Its Conflict with the Buddhist Dignaga School (Delhi: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan, 1976), p. 438. See also footnote 1 above. 23. I am assuming that Sankara is not the author of the Yogasutrabhas-yavivarana, as this issue has not yet been settled. See W. Halbfass, Tradition and Reflection: Explorations in Indian Thought (New York: State University of New York Press, 1991), chap. 6. 24. BSBh 2.1.9 (p. 365, line 6), 2.3.39 (p. 545, line 10), 2.3.40 (p. 551, line 2) ; Word Index to the Brahma-Sutra-Bhasya of Sankara, T.M.P. Mahadevan, general ed., 2 vols. (Madras: University of Madras, 1973). 25. BSBh 2.1.9 (p. 365, line 6). 26. Ibid., 2.3.39 (p. 545, line 10). 27. Mandukya 3.37 (p. 224, line 3). 28. Katha 1.3.13. Cf. J. Bader, Meditation in Sankara's Vedanta (Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 1990), chap. 3. 29. Katha 1.3.13 (p. 83, line 11). 30. BSBh 1.4.1 (p. 295, line 10). 32. Ibid., 1.4.1 (p. 295, lines 12 ff.). 33. BU 2.4.11 (p. 764, lines 11 ff.). See also Madhavananda, trans., Brha-daranyaka Upanisad (cited n. 13 above), pp. 253 ff. I have cited Madhavananda's translation here as I cannot make any significant improvement on it. 34. Cf. commentary on Katha 1.2.12 and Bhagavadgita 16.1. 35. BU 1.4.7 (p. 663, line 9). 36. BSBh 1.1.4 (p. 69, line 6). 37. Ibid., 1.1.4 (p. 79, lines 7 ff.). Also, for the reference to action as consisting of four types, cf. BU 3.3.1 (p. 798, lines 22 ff., and p. 801, lines 1 ff.), 4.4.22 (p. 933, lines 21 ff.); Mundaka 1.2.12 (p. 152, lines 25 ff.) ; US 17.50; Shri Shankaracharya's Upadeshasahasri with the Gloss Padayojanika, ed. D. V. Gokhale (Bombay: The Gujarati Printing Press, 1917); Shri Shankarabhagavatpada's Upadeshasahasri with the Tika of Shri Anandagiri Acharya, ed. S. Subramanyasastri (Varanasi: Mahesh Research Institute, 1978). 38. BSBh 1.1.4 (p. 79, line 1); also BU 2.1.20 (p. 739, lines 20 and 24). 39. BSBh 1.1.4 (p. 64, lines 2 and 4; p. 84, lines 3 ff.; p. 85, lines 1 ff.; p. 87, lines 4 ff.). 40. BU 3.3.1 (p. 798, lines 19 ff.). 41. BSBh 2.1.3 (p. 354, lines 1 ff.). 42. Ibid., 2.1.3 (p. 354, line 3). 43. Bhagavadgita with Sankarabhasya, Works of Sankaracarya in Original Sanskrit, vol. 11 (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1978) 6.19 (p. 107, lines 9 ff.), and also 5.21, 6.4, 8.10, 12.6, 13.10, 18.33. 44. Ibid., 18.66 (p. 296, lines 6 ff.). 45. Ibid., introd., 2.11 (p. 9, lines 14 ff.). 46. Ibid., 2.39 (p. 27, lines 13 ff.). 47. Ibid., 4. 38 (p. 80, line 18). 48. Ibid., 6.20 (p. 107, line 16 [my emphasis]). 49. Ibid., 2.21 (p. 20, line 12), 2.63 (p. 36, line 12), 8.8 (p. 128, line 16), 13.30 (p. 215, line 23), 13.34 (p. 217, line 19), 18.16 (p. 263, line 19), 18.17 (p. 264, line 4), 18.50 (p. 281, line 7), 18.55 (p. 284, line 9); Word-Index to Sankara's Gitabhasya, ed. Francis X. D'Sa (Pune: Institute for the Study of Religion, 1985). Also cf. BU 2.1.20 (p. 744, line 23), 2.4.2 (p. 767, line 5), 2.5.15 (p. 776, line 12); ChU 6.15.2 (p. 537, line 12), 8.1.6 (p. 571, line 2); Katha 1.5.12 (p. 96, line 1); Mundaka 1.2.12 (p. 153, line 5), 2.2.7 (p. 162, line 22); US 17.51-52. In an otherwise interesting and insightful article, "The Path of No-path: Sankara and Dogen on the Paradox of Practice" (Philosophy East and West 38, no. 2 [April 1988]), David Loy has come to an erroneous conclusion (p. 133) that "there can be no means--not even sruti--to realize Brahman.... "But if that were the case, it would not be possible to explain Sankara's concerted effort in meticulously commenting on sruti; and such a statement also overlooks the numerous references where he states that the sruti is the means of knowledge for Brahman. It is precisely because Sankara sees no other way to arrive at the knowledge of the unconditioned Absolute that he resorts to the sacred words of the Upanisads as the means to dispel the ignorance of the ever present Self. Among Western scholars, Sankara's views on sruti have been well articulated by W. Halbfass in his discussion of the role of sruti in Sankara's thought; see his Tradition and Reflection (cited n. 23 above), chap. 5. 50. Samadhana is mentioned in US 17.23-24. Cf. Tattvabodha (cited n. 17 above) , p. 7: "samadhanam kim? cittaikagrata." 51. US 13.14, 17 and 14.35. 52. Ibid., 13.14. 54. The Sankhyakarika of Isvara Krsna, ed. and trans. S.S. Suryanarayana Sastri (Madras: University of Madras, 1973), vv. 20, 21, 66, 68. 55. US 16.39-40. 56. Cf. Pancadsi of Sri Vidyaranya Swami, trans. Swami Swahananda (Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1975). 57. There are two commentaries on the Vivekacudamani: one is by a little known writer, Harinathabatta, and the other is a recent commentary by Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati, who was the Sankaracarya of Sriagiri Matha from 1912 to 1954. See R. Thangaswami, Advaita-Vedanta Literature: A Bibliographical Survey (Madras: University of Madras, 1980), p. 218; Advaita Grantha Kosa, prepared by a disciple of Sri Ista Siddhindra Saraswati Swami of the Upanisad Brahmendra Mutt (Kancheepuram: n.n., n.d.), p. 67. Perhaps the Vivekacudamani is itself a work of one of the Sringiri Sankaracaryas? 58. Vivekacudamani (cited n. 14 above), v. 364. 59. Ibid., v. 365. 61. Vedantasara or the Essence of Vedanta of Sadananda Yogindra, trans. Swami Nikhilananda (Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1974), p. 110. 62. The Aparoksanubhuti has been ascribed to Sankara but is unlikely to be a genuine work. See Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, ed. Karl Potter, vol. 3, Advaita Vedanta up to Samkara and His Pupils (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1981), p. 320. The final forty-four verses (out of 144) describe yoga. Here, however, yoga is consciously reinterpreted within a Vedantic manner: "The complete forgetfulness of all thought by first making it changeless and then identifying it with Brahman is called Samadhi known as knowledge" (Vimuktananda's trans., cited n.14 above, v.124) . The Sarvavedantasiddhantasarasangraha is another work which is most likely not a work of Sankara. See Thangaswami, Advaita-Vedanta Literature (cited n. 57 above), p. 220; Potter, Advaita Vedanta up to Samkara, p. 339; Advaita Grantha Kosa (cited n. 57 above), p. 68. In this work we again find the grafting of yogic nirvikalpasamadhi onto Vedanta teachings; see The Quintessence of Vedanta, trans. Swami Tattwananda (Emakulam: Sri Rama-krishna Advaita Ashrama, 1960), pp. 171 ff.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1491
__label__wiki	0.813225	0.813225	Home Singapore A Deepavali filled with devotion A Deepavali filled with devotion Deepavali was a more sedate occasion this year given the pandemic, but many devotees still found ways to give thanks and celebrate the festival of lights. While some turned up at Hindu temples yesterday to offer their prayers and usher in new beginnings, more chose to perform their rituals online, from the safety of their homes. When The Sunday Times visited the Sri Thendayuthapani Temple in Tank Road, masked devotees kept a safe distance while offering their prayers. They also had to undergo temperature screening and follow a barricade system that directed the flow of worshippers. Deepavali has been “very muted” this year, said Mr Raja Segar, the Hindu Endowments Board’s (HEB) chief executive officer. “People understand the current situation and they are aware that they can’t have big gatherings,” he added. “But some of them felt that they should spend a short time at the temples, and we wanted to allow them to do that.” At the four HEB-managed temples – Sri Mariamman Temple, Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple, Sri Vairavimada Kaliamman Temple and Sri Sivan Temple – visitors likewise observed safe management measures. Live-streaming arrangements were provided to allow devotees, particularly seniors and those unable to make the journey, to be part of the celebrations. While many spent the day with their families, cleaning operations manager Ravi M. G. Rajasagaran chose to mark this Deepavali alongside migrant workers at dormitories, including buying them food. He headed home only in the late evening to have dinner with his 30-year-old wife Mahaletchumi Asokan and two young children – Theevinesshvaren Ravi, seven, and Luutikaa Naidu Ravi, four. READ Ong Ye Kung: HBL will not be extended and June holidays will be brought forward to start on May 4 “The celebrations this year are different with Covid-19, but we are fortunate that we can spend it together,” he added. Yesterday, politicians also took to social media to convey their well wishes. Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam wished all Indians who celebrate the festival and “everyone who treasures Singapore’s multicultural diversity” a happy Deepavali. In his post, he recalled a visit two years ago to the ancient Hindu temple ruins of My Son in Vietnam. The temple complex is a reminder of the interaction of cultures that made today’s South-east Asia, said Mr Tharman. “Some religions and cultures were ascendant for a time, depending on which kingdom was ruling, and which merchants were predominant. But fortunately, none of the cultures has been able to completely eradicate the others. “They are all what has made South-east Asia’s heritage so rich and complex,” he noted. Meanwhile, Leader of the Opposition and Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh shared that it was heart-warming to see residents of different faiths and beliefs extending Deepavali wishes to their Indian neighbours and friends during an estate walk in his Eunos ward. “Whatever your faith, may Deepavali or the Festival of Lights bring peace, joy and happiness to you and your loved ones.” In a video, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan extended his wishes to Singaporeans at home and abroad. Despite this year’s Deepavali being different – with the need to celebrate in small groups due to the pandemic – the festival is a reminder that “there is always a victory, for hope and for wisdom, even in difficult times”. READ Taste of home for Bangladeshi workers as they break fast Previous articleTributes flow for pioneering Saudi director Tarek Riri Next articleThai anti-government protesters demanding political reforms turn their backs to king’s motorcade Pet kitten falls to its death from window of highrise HDB flat Two coffeeshop patrons alleged to have humiliated beer promoter Singaporean engineer-turned-nurse in US amid Covid-19 crisis: 'My mum asked me to quit' Morning Briefing: Top stories from The Straits Times on Jan 16, 2021 Bi-national couple charged with breaching SHN at Ritz-Carlton 29-year-old inmate gets straight As for O levels, tops her cohort Singapore Resets: How to build back better after Covid-19 Eateries expand revenue streams, online presence E-learning here to stay as Covid-19 changes education landscape in Singapore Technology set to change face of medical care Muhyiddin sends condolences to family of former Lord President Salleh Abas GE2020 ballot papers incinerated Hong Kong decries latest US sanctions over opposition arrests as ‘insane, shameless and despicable’ K-pop fans use Twice memes to make fun of Donald Trump's second impeachment	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1504
__label__cc	0.529026	0.470974	Andrew Foxwell Bearish China outlook fuels global economic fears Fund managers say a Chinese recession is their biggest tail-risk fear, according to a new survey. It comes amid declining optimism over the global economy and a sharp reduction in EM allocations. Shanghai's A-share market has been on a roller-coaster ride this summer A recession in China has become investors’ biggest economic fear, according to the latest survey of global and regional fund managers. The prospect of a Chinese slump has dwarfed all other concerns following a summer of A-share market crashes and currency devaluation. Emerging-market sentiment has suffered in tandem, with poll results showing that managers’ allocations have hit their lowest level for 14 years. Bank of America Merrill Lynch yesterday released its monthly fund manager survey, which was conducted from August 7-13. Asked what they considered to be the biggest “tail risk”, 52% of the managers surveyed said a Chinese recession. This easily dwarfed votes for the second-biggest tail risk, an emerging-market debt crisis, which was cited by about 13% of respondents. The results come on the back of sharp equity and renminbi falls in mainland China in June, July and August. Another crash was seen on Tuesday this week , with the Shanghai Composite Index closing down 6.2%. But yesterday the index rebounded, closing up 1.23%. China sentiment is generally poor. About 71% of survey participants said they believed China’s real GDP growth will trend down to below 6% by 2018 and one-third think it will fall below 5%. In addition, despite a 25% decline since its June peak, two-thirds of the surveyed investors think that the China A-share market is still in a “bubble”. This China bearishness has been reflected in poor global and EM sentiment. A mere 53% of investors said that the global economy would strengthen in the coming year, which was a significant drop from 61% in July. The survey also reported the lowest allocations to EM equities since April 2001. “Investors are sending a clear message that they are positioned for lower growth in China and emerging markets,” said Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research. A total of 202 panellists with $574 billion of assets under management participated in the survey; 162 managers, managing $449 billion, took part in the global survey; and 100 managers, managing $224 billion, participated in the regional surveys. baml china emerging markets Norges Bank IM’s selective approach to China and EMs Norway’s sovereign fund allocates 3.1% of its $1 trillion to China, up from 2% in 2016. Head of external strategies Erik Hilde explains how it invests there and in other emerging markets. Market Views: How do investors expect emerging markets to perform? This year's strong inflow of capital into emerging markets assets is likely to continue next year with both equities and fixed income receiving a warm welcome. Alaska Retirement says no to lone China, EM strategies The US state pension fund has made the decision as part of a review of its asset manager relationships with an eye on simplification, cost-efficiency and greater excess return.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1505
__label__cc	0.551201	0.448799	Home Media & News Atec awarded EPaS Contract Supporting the U.S. Navy Atec awarded EPaS Contract Supporting the U.S. Navy Atec received a Multi-Award Contract for the FRCs, Fleet Readiness Centers, on May 28, 2019. The Equipment Procurement & Sustainment contract was Congressionally approved and is a Multi-Award Contract for Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity. This new EPaS award is our second USN IDIQ effort coming on the heels of our assumption of the NAVSUP Weapons Systems Support—JETI, SETI, TPTI IDIQ 2 years ago. This large government contract provides sustainment equipment procured under 14 functional areas in support of the FRCs. Atec was awarded in 2 of the 14 functional areas and will be supporting the Ancillary Support Equipment and Test Equipment Support section needs for the next 5 years. The Commander Fleet Readiness Center (COMFRC) oversees four major depot level maintenance centers that Atec will be supporting: FRCSE-Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, FL FRCE-Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, NC FRCSW-Naval Air Station, North Island, CA FRCASE-Aviation Support Equipment-Solomons Island, MD The depot level maintenance centers repair and overhaul aircraft, engines and components. To support the FRC’s operations, the awarded companies will upgrade, repair, replace and maintain equipment. Sustainment efforts will be made to support fleet aircraft schedules and to obtain solutions to obsolescence issues. For the MAC IDIQ, Atec will deliver innovative, cost-effective solutions to support the COMFRC by increasing productivity and resolving challenges across multiple locations. “This contract greatly expands our Navy business and puts the company in a good position to serve the Navy and Marine Corps for many years. The team at Atec has done an exceptional job serving our armed forces with our past and present contracts, and I have no doubt the team will perform to Navy and Marine Corps standards for EPAS,” says Chris Buttry, Contract Administration Manager. We look forward to providing equipment and sustainment efforts for the FRCs in support of the U.S. Navy! Project Joy & Hope Adopt a Family December 23, 2020 Leadership in Military Engine Support August 25, 2020 Remanufacturing: Repair Strength at Atec June 19, 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1507
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This gives a cost efficient, flexible, beginners level solution that makes use of eye-catching layouts and colour schemes built to entice new participants. What can the Sugar Tax do for you? The sugar tax has been set up to put taxes on soft drinks which are high in sugar. By creating the sugar-tax, fizzy drinks companies may be encouraged to reduce the amount of sugar which they put into their drinks. This works towards the main goal of the sugar tax, which is to combat childhood obesity in the United Kingdom. The sugar tax is great for schools and sporting clubs which give access to young people, as the extra money made by the sugar-tax will be used to fund facilities and athletics equipments in these types of establishments. By helping to improve athletics facilities in schools and other institutions, young people may be more likely to participate in activities. Compact Facility Construction in Ardcharnich For establishments struggling with spending budget along with external space, the compact facilities produce a excellent solution for training simple FUNdamental skills within a variety of sports. Discus circles, shot put circles, jogging straights and also jumping runways are amongst some of the more popular components of these recreational surface types. Where there is small space, we will reduce the dimensions and design of particular athletic facilities. Compact facilities are flexible, enabling them to be used for a range of establishments. Present sports activity and play provisions in primary schools, high schools, universites and colleges can be enhanced by installing the compact sports facility. By making it easier for young children to participate in an array of activities, more skills may be learnt and built upon for improved progression in the future. They've created a fantastic addition to any kind of present sports features which help improve engagement from pupils. Smaller sized facilities are a cost-effective alternative accessible to virtually any school or athletic club. In terms of the FUNdamental skills of athletics, many more children are in a position to learn and practise running, jumping and throwing by using a variety of activities, such as Medicine Balls https://www.athleticsequipment.org.uk/throwing/med-ball/highland/ardcharnich/ The target for UKA is to motivate children and young children to engage with sports and also athletics, which explains why these kinds of facilities are extremely essential. This will be generated even more by holding IAAF and IPC World Championships in London in 2017. By allowing young people to use the shot put facilities, there's a higher opportunity for athletes to improve their skills and move into qualified clubs because of this. If you are interested in the shot put sports facilities we have to offer in your surrounding areas, or any other sporting equipment, please feel free to complete our contact form and we will get back to you as soon as we can. We are happy to help with any enquiries you may have regarding shot put equipment in Ardcharnich IV23 2 . 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__label__wiki	0.528822	0.528822	Home / Banister Nissan of Norfolk Nissan dealership with new and used car sales in Norfolk / Nissan Model Research / 2021 Nissan TITAN XD Newport News VA 2021 Nissan TITAN XD Newport News VA While the Nissan TITAN was introduced back for the 2004 model year, it wasn’t until the model’s second generation – which kicked off in 2016 – that the brand introduced its heavy-duty sibling, the Nissan TITAN XD. Unlike its light-duty sibling, the TITAN XD is built on a heavy-duty frame, more akin to the brand’s commercial vehicle line than the TITAN. For the 2021 model year, both pickup trucks got a mid-generation facelift, updating the models’ design and a few other things throughout. Now, the 2021 Nissan TITAN XD is available right here in the Newport News VA area! View Our TITAN XD Inventory New Heavy-duty Pickup Truck Available in Hampton Roads Unlike its light-duty counterpart, the TITAN XD is only available in the Crew Cab configuration with four-wheel drive. Even still, it’s available in six different trim levels: S, SV, PRO-4X, SL and Platinum Reserve. Each one increases the value of features and technologies found throughout the pickup truck, with the Platinum Reserve being the most premium, top-of-the-line variant. Features include everything ranging from safety and connectivity technology, such as Rear Automatic Braking or the 8” display audio system, to the many on- and off-road performance features, like hill start assist and hill descent control. Even though the TITAN XD is heavier duty than the traditional TITAN, the two trucks are actually powered by the same unit – a 5.6L V8 engine that delivers an output of 400 horsepower and 413 pound-feet of torque. All that power, on top of its heavy-duty architecture and some added features, like its integrated gooseneck hitch, enable it to have some pretty impressive capabilities. To be more specific, the TITAN XD has a max payload of 2,390 pounds and a maximum gooseneck trailering capacity of 11,040 lbs. If all of this has you convinced that the heavy-duty 2021 Nissan TITAN XD is the right pickup truck for you, then be sure to get in touch with us right here at Banister Nissan of Norfolk.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1511
__label__wiki	0.606183	0.606183	Weekly Current Affairs 22nd To 31st August 2019 Published on Monday, September 02, 2019 By - Neha Verma PM Modi Begins 3-Nation Visit He embarked a 2-day visit to France on 22nd August and hold talks with French President Emmanuel Macron. He met the French Prime Minister Edouard Charles Philippe and inaugurated a memorial for Indian Victims of Air Crashes in 1950 and 1966 in Nid D’ Aigle. Modi reached UAE capital Abu Dhabi on 23rd and met with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. IMF suggested Rule change on Age Limit The top candidate to serve as IMF managing director, Bulgaria's Kristalina Georgieva turned 66 in August 2019 and it makes her too old for the job. All 189 member countries of the IMF have to vote on the recommendation for its implementation. Indian Railways Banned Single-use Plastic Materials The Indian Railways has directed the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to set up plastic bottle crushing machines in major railway stations. The IRCTC will implement the return of plastic drinking water bottles as a part of Extended Producer Responsibility. ‘San-Sadhan’ Hackathon Government has invited applications for tech enthusiasts to participate in ‘San-Sadhan’ hackathon- for Divyangjan accessible toilets. It is being organised jointly by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities and the Ministry of Jal Shakti in collaboration with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog. Kathmandu-Siliguri Bus Service The initiative is a part of a Motor Vehicle Agreement for Passenger Traffic which was signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Nepal visit in 2014 to facilitate the movement of people between the countries and also promoting tourism. Presently, 13 routes have been approved between India and Nepal for regular bus service and Kathmandu-Siliguri is the 11th route. EESL plans to invest Rs 180 crore in Super-efficient ACs Super-efficient AC programme (SEAP), EESL is planning to sell 50,000 AC in the first phase which will be based on first come first serve basis. It is expected to save 27 million kWh of electricity per year. A total investment of Rs 180crore is planned out of which it will be supported by grants from Global Environment facility. Project SURE Launched by Ministry of Textiles SURE stands for 'Sustainable Resolution', that points to a resolution/commitment from the industry for a clean environment. The project is a move towards sustainable fashion by setting up a sustainable pathway for the Indian fashion industry. Mobile application-“Janaushadhi Sugam” Launched “Janaushadhi Sugam” will enable people to search and locate the nearby Janaushadhi generic medicines and stores. He has also announced to slash the price of “Jan Aushadhi Suvidha Oxo-Biodegradable Sanitary Napkin” from 2 rupees 50 paise earlier to just 1 rupee per piece. Centre decided to Offer Sugar Export Subsidy The Centre has decided to offer Rs10.45 per kg subsidy to incentivise sugar mills to export their surplus stocks. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs took the decision, as with record sugar production causing a drop in prices led to cane farmers facing huge arrears in payment. Bill against conversion by Force Passed by H.P The new bill incurs stiffer punishments with a jail term is of 7 years as compared to the Freedom of Religion Act in which punishment was only 3 years. As per the new bill, the person willing to convert his/her religion has to file a month’s notice in advance to the district magistrate. CBDT’s Clarification to Avail Tax Holiday CBDT (Central Board of Direct Taxes) clarified that small start-ups with turnover up to Rs. 25 crores, a condition specified in Section 80-IAC of the Income Tax Act, 1961 will continue to get the promised tax holiday. The tax holiday for small startups provides a deduction for 100% of the income of an eligible start-up for 3 years out of 7 years from the year of its incorporation. Enhanced Surcharge withdrawn by the Government To encourage investors in the capital market, the government has withdrawn surcharge on tax payable on the transfer of certain assets. Only the Foreign Institutional Investors (FPI) derivatives are treated as capital assets and gains from it are subjected to the special rate of tax as per the provision of section 115AD of Act. Central Vigilance Commission set up ABBF The ABBF has been formed in consultation with the RBI and is constituted to examine bank fraud of over 50 crore rupees and recommend action. The board’s jurisdiction is confined to cases of an allegation of fraud involving officers of General Manager Level and above in the PSBs. Bandhan Bank Tie-up with Standard Chartered Bank Bandhan Bank’s growth of the current account and savings account (CASA) over the past 4 years is the deciding factor for the collaboration. CASA accounts for nearly 36% of Bandhan Bank’s total deposit base of about Rs 43,000 crore. Standard Chartered Bank has been growing at 15-20% on a y-o-y basis and has 100 branches in India. RBI will Transfer Rs 1.76 lakh Crore to the GOI RBI to transfer Rs1.76 Lakh crore to Government of India under ‘Surplus Distribution Policy’ that include interim dividend of Rs28,000 crores paid on February 2019. RBI board accepted all recommendation of the Bimal Jalan Committee. Cabinet Decision to attract FDI The cabinet has relaxed the requirement of 30% by allowing it to be calculated over the first five years of operation. The cabinet has decided to allow 100% FDI under the automatic route in contract manufacturing in India which was only for the manufacturing sector earlier. Govt. announced Mega-Merger of 10 PSBs After the merger, the number of public sector banks will crease to 12 banks from 27 banks. Among these banks, PNB got the highest share of Rs 16000 crore and Punjab & Sind Bank got the lowest i.e. Rs 750 crore. Labels: gk, weekly current affairs	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1512
__label__cc	0.726674	0.273326	Wil Crowe Stats & Scouting Report - Baseball America Wil Crowe Name: William Chandler Crowe Born: Sep 9, 1994 in Sevierville, TN High School: Pigeon Forge (Tenn.) HS College: South Carolina Career 8.1 11.88 2.64 8.64 8.64 Drafted in the 2nd round (65th overall) by the Washington Nationals in 2017 (signed for $946,500) Part of the same Tennessee prep class of 2013 that included the likes of Nick Senzel, Will Craig, Dakota Hudson and more, Crowe was on the outside looking in last June, sidelined by Tommy John surgery. While the rest of that Tennessee prep class heard their names called in the draft, Crowe made clear he'd be returning to South Carolina for another season. The thickly built righthander had the misfortune of tearing his UCL late in his sophomore year, wiping out almost two seasons for Crowe, who was the Gamecocks' Friday ace and a freshman All-American in 2014. Crowe reclaimed his place in the Gamecocks rotation this spring and dominated early, showing the kind of stuff that made him a hot commodity before the injury. At his best, Crowe can touch 96-97 mph, sitting 91-94, with a sharp upper 70s curveball and a tighter, more horizontal slider. Crowe has shown improved feel for his 83-85 mph changeup this season, using it effectively against lefthanded batters. However, there's been some inconsistency in the quality of Crowe's stuff and sharpness, particularly late this season--perhaps the result of fatigue from his time on the shelf. He's been tasked with leading the South Carolina pitching staff since ace Clarke Schmidt went down with a torn UCL of his own.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1514
__label__cc	0.581049	0.418951	Recent View all The Hundred-Mile Radius The Passion Pursuit of the Side Hustle Disrupting How College Is Done Trends & Insights10 The Exchange10 Better Series10 Best in Class9 Latin American Communities Flavorful Joy Trust: A Language Spoken Around the World Reinventing Bridalwear Shopping Honesty: The Foundation of Trust The Rise of the Freelance Workers Business is Blooming for Preserved Rose Retailer Doing Well for the Greater Good Defining a Better Business: Doing Good vs. Doing Well Greater Than Inspiration Fearlessly Creating a Movement A Determined Win Calling All Heroes 4 Keys to Becoming a Savvy Consumer BBBTrusted Better Series Shelley Rosen, Founder and CEO of Luxe Bloom, discusses her company’s partnership with Disney, reflects on her journey to success, and offers advice for fellow entrepreneurs. By Jasmine Turner Red carpet events, interviews, and a host of new business opportunities have consumed Shelley Rosen, Founder and CEO of Luxe Bloom, since I interviewed her for the winter issue of TRUSTED magazine. (Read about how Rosen’s company is transforming the floral marketplace with its jaw-dropping floral arrangements in “From Details to Decadence: The Flourishing of Luxe Bloom.”) I caught up with Rosen to ask how business is going for Luxe Bloom and how it feels to partner with one of the world’s biggest brands. Turner: In February, Luxe Bloom’s preserved roses were chosen as the official flower for Disney’s blockbuster Beauty and the Beast. While your partnership with Disney may appear to be an overnight success, you have been working extremely hard for years to make Luxe Bloom into the successful business it is today. Can you walk me through your journey? Rosen: Creating a brand is the act of a thousand small gestures. I am making a new market, and it takes time. There is no such thing as an overnight sensation. The behind-the-scenes planning to figure out how to import flowers and then make and ship luxurious rose arrangements without breaking them was laborious. We had early failures except in one area: customer service. We learned early on that luxury leaders overservice guests and that we must do the same. Each time we won an account, we focused on our product performance. Over time, we earned our reputation for delivering the goods and services a luxury operator demands in floral. Turner: Can you tell me how your partnership with Disney came about? Rosen: After installing a rose wall with 1,000 red roses for the St. Regis Washington, D.C.’s 90th anniversary celebration, I opened my email to a note from Disney saying they wanted to talk to us. We were humbled and flattered to receive a call from the most creative company on the planet. A leader at Disney had seen us on NBC’s Today show. Shortly after, we went to a meeting in Burbank, California, and thus began our alliance. Turner: When you founded Luxe Bloom, could you imagine Disney wanting to partner with you? What did you see in your company’s future? Rosen: You won’t believe this, but one of the first sales calls I made was to Walt Disney World and the parks in Orlando. We believed the magic of our roses was a perfect fit for the magic of Disney. Then, three and a half years later, something wonderful happened with this Beauty and the Beast promotion. Turner: You just celebrated your fourth anniversary. How does it feel to have come this far? What emotions are you feeling as you look back from day one until now? Rosen: Innovation is hard. The road is long. I underestimated the long, lonely days and nights it takes to figure something out. This was not the fish in a barrel type of sales. I would be exhilarated for each sale and exhausted by each execution to ensure a flawless experience. What keeps me up at night is finding great people and ensuring the brand promise I made comes through in each transaction we make. Once the 7,000-rose wall was up on the red carpet and the lights came on for Beauty and the Beast, I must say, sheer joy were the only words that came to mind. Looking back, I knew there was a there there when we won The Red Door Salon & Spa account nationwide. We serve all 30 spas in a brand-consistent manner with our floral, and for this we are most proud. Turner: What advice can you give entrepreneurs who are working toward their own shining moment for their businesses? Any words of encouragement? Rosen: Thomas Edison supposedly once said that “a vision without execution is merely a hallucination.” Have a plan, and then do everything in your power to bring this plan to life. If you think being in flip-flops and working on a laptop is going to create an empire, good luck. Get out, see your customers, and walk in their shoes. Make sure your product makes money, or you will never make money. Know when to ask for help. Hire and fire fast — you don’t have enough money to have a B person sitting in an A role. Turner: What’s next for Luxe Bloom? What do you see in the future? Rosen: The future is bright. First, since I am the market-maker here in the United States, we are forming a trade association of growers and suppliers to ensure the industry is recognized as such. I plan to keep my eyes on high customer satisfaction to ensure recurring sales. Finally, everything we make is beautiful. I want to make sure we never lose sight of our mission to beautify environments responsibly every day and everywhere we operate. Jasmine Turner is a native Washingtonian and a recent graduate of Marymount University with a degree in communications. 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__label__cc	0.666276	0.333724	Home Best Eats Diet Tired of dieting? Best HealthUpdated: Mar. 31, 2016 These golden rules of weight loss really work Source: Best Health Magazine, Spring 2008 Bad diets are like history—they keep repeating themselves. Ever-popular get-skinny plans, such as Atkins and the Cabbage Soup Diet, originated decades ago. So why are almost two-thirds of Canadians still overweight? The reasons are many, but clearly fad diets don’t work. Very few people who go on a diet keep the pounds off in the long term. Still, losing even five percent of your weight can reduce your risk of diabetes and heart disease. Today, researchers have revealed what does shed pounds, and their findings don’t involve liquid fasts or overloading on bacon. Rather, the golden rules of weight loss involve old-school ideas like portion control and eating real foods in lieu of processed diet treats. “We’re overeating and under-exercising,” explains Carolanne Nelson, a registered dietitian and assistant professor at the University of Prince Edward Island. “I don’t believe in dieting,” agrees Robin Evans, a 38-year-old copywriter in Vancouver, who lost 20 pounds in the past year by swapping processed foods for fresh choices, working out three times a week and walking her dog twice a day. “I just have a different attitude about which foods are healthy.” So be like Evans and try these proven rules to losing weight. Golden rule #1: Battle portion distortion Food today is B-I-G. Those store-bought muffins, Monday’s frozen entrée, your favourite fast-food lunch combo—they’re anywhere from two to five times the size they were 20 years ago, says Dr. Sue Pedersen, a physician specializing in endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Calgary. While most of us know this intellectually, few of us actually control portions, she adds. In a major 2007 study she led, participants who used a plate with protein, carb and sauce portion dividers were six times more likely to lose up to five percent of their body weight over six months than the group that didn’t. It works so well because it’s easy. “There’s no counting calories or weighing food,” she says. “All you have to do is portion it out.” Golden rule #2: Don’t let exercise trick you into overeating Gary Taubes’ controversial book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control and Disease, revealed that exercise alone doesn’t melt pounds. At best, it can maintain weight loss that is shed through healthy eating. But before you ditch your gym membership, try exercise and calorie control. Dr. Neil King, a senior lecturer at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and the author of a September 2007 study in the International Journal of Obesity, explains that exercise stimulates our appetite and can trigger psychological yearnings (“I earned this ice cream bar”). Working out will still do you loads of good—for your health and your figure—as long as you don’t give in to the urge to compensate for calories burned. Golden rule #3: Enjoy lean proteins—especially if you work out Researchers at the University of Guelph found that participants on a higher-protein diet lost seven more pounds over 12 weeks than those on a higher-carb diet. Kelly Meckling, the author of the study published in Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, discovered that dieters were more likely to stick to high-protein meal plans if they exercised, because working out helps us process protein. Leanne Elnicki, a 35-year-old Toronto-based newscaster, can relate. She hit a six-week plateau seven months into her current weight-loss journey —despite cutting calories and exercising regularly. “I was so frustrated!” she says. When a dietitian suggested that she up her lean protein intake from white meat and beans, however, the pounds started coming off again. Now she’s just 33 pounds away from her goal of losing 105 pounds. We’re not talking Atkins here—a restrictive approach that most registered dietitians don’t recommend. Lean proteins need to be balanced with fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Golden rule #4: Calorie counting really works A recent Journal of the American Dietetic Association review of 80 weight-loss trials —using strategies ranging from meal replacements to weight-loss medications—showed that the best results (16 pounds over six months) come from diets that track and trim calories. Amy Lees, a 27-year-old mom and part-time student in London, Ont., can vouch for this practice. She has lost a total of 140 pounds, or “a whole person,” as she puts it, using online tools that help her tally her energy intake. Her favourite sites are eDiets.com and sparkpeople.com. Golden rule #5: Get a grip on emotional eating A lot of recent research and weight-loss plans focus on external influences—for instance, the proximity of the chip bowl to your sofa. Yet thoughts and emotions that trigger overeating are often overlooked, says Dr. Heather Niemeier, an obesity researcher at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. In fact, a recent study she led found that each point higher that participants rated themselves on an emotional eating scale predicted weight gain of an extra pound at six months and again at 18 months. To discover whether you are an emotional eater, write down what you eat, how much, when, how you’re feeling when you eat and how hungry you are. Over time, you may notice patterns that reveal the negative triggers you should avoid. Golden rule #6: Dream small—like, size 4 small Until now, experts have contended that overweight women who have unrealistic weight-loss expectations—double the average loss, for example—tend to give up early. But a new study in the International Journal of Obesity suggests that letting your expectations soar doesn’t mean you’ll be at risk for depression or pack on more pounds if you don’t reach your dream weight. Study author Anthony Fabricatore, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, says that unrealistic expectations may lead to more weight loss, although the loss is small. Golden rule #7: Stop eating diet foods We already know that many low-fat foods contain more sugar, carbs and sodium to improve flavour, but new, preliminary research indicates that diet foods may actually trigger overeating as well. A study in the journal Nutrition suggests that artificial sweeteners in diet soft drinks may stimulate appetite. Although more research is required to confirm this theory, you may be better off opting for a smaller portion of the regular version. Compare nutrition labels: If calories are equal, and the regular version is low in saturated or trans fats, stick with it. Keep in mind that women need certain nutrients and healthy fats in their diet. Calcium in dairy, for instance, is shown to aid in weight loss. And omega-3s boost heart health, says P.E.I. dietitian Nelson. “That’s why I always tell people to pick the regular salad dressing instead of low-fat dressing—because it contains healthy oil such as olive or canola.” Found this article informative? Subscribe to our magazine today and receive more Best Health exclusives delivered to your door! 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__label__cc	0.602532	0.397468	Cloudy skies. A few flurries or snow showers possible. High 37F. Winds WSW at 10 to 15 mph.. BG City Schools adjust to pandemic Photo by Mallory Kiser BGSU women's basketball blows out Ball State; starts 3-0 in the MAC Reese Lannon \| Sports Reporter The Bowling Green women’s basketball team continues their surprising start to the season with a blowout 89-55 win on Saturday over Ball State. The Falcons are off to their best start in years, and sit at 3-0 in the MAC and 7-1 overall while Ball State dropped to 1-2 in the MAC and 3-4 overall. The Falcons put together maybe their best offensive performance of the year, combined with their usually stifling defense. Freshman standout Lexi Fleming was her usual self, scoring 19 points on 6 of 9 shooting, including 4 of 5 from the three point line and dictated the offense for the Falcons while fellow freshman Nyla Hampton had the best game of her young career, playing 34 minutes and racking up 18 points to go along with five rebounds and four assists. The Falcons have struggled to find a second scoring option with Fleming this year, but Hampton is looking like she could potentially fill that void. Both teams struggled for the majority of the opening period, but the Falcons pulled away on a 11-0 run to end the quarter. Senior Madisen Parker, who had a fantastic game off the bench with 15 points, hit two long-range tries to spark the run that ended the quarter with a 19-8 Falcons advantage. The Falcons continued the three point barrage in the second quarter, hitting three quick three pointers to start the period. However, the Falcons did cool off and made just two more field goals in the quarter, but also held the Cardinals to 4 of 14 from the field with great defense and took a 36-20 lead into the break. After half, the Falcons came out smoking hot. They pushed ahead relying on the steady hand of Fleming and the impact energy of Hampton and Parker. Bowling Green broke the game open near the end of the quarter. After being locked in at 50-30 in the Falcons advantage in the middle of the quarter, the Falcons outscored the Cardinals 18-7 to end the third quarter, making it 68-37 and effectively putting the game out of reach. the fourth quarter, the Falcons began to empty the bench and young players including the likes of Macy Spielman and Olivia Hill. Bowling Green outscored Ball State in every quarter, and that trend continued in the fourth quarter as the Falcons outpaced the Cardinals 21-18 to wrap up a commanding 89-55 win. A significant trend in the game was the Falcons swarming defense forcing a mind-boggling 29 turnovers and outsourcing the Cardinals 38-8 in points off turnovers. The Falcons also were very efficient from the line, going 24 of 31 from the line for a clip of over 77% while Ball State went just 12 of 22 (54%). The Falcons will look to remain unbeaten in MAC action on Wednesday, when they travel to Kalmazoo to face a struggling Western Michigan team who is winless in conference play. React to this Post Bgsu Women's Basketball Bowling Green Women's Basketball Bgsu Falcons Bgsu Women's Basketball Recap Bowling Green Women's Basketball Recap Nyla Hampton Lexi Fleming Bgsu Women's Basketball Vs. Ball State Bowling Green Women's Basketball Vs. Ball State Ball State Women's Basketball Tweets by BG Falcon Media	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1519
__label__cc	0.631724	0.368276	Avigilon Adds Appearance Alerts to Commercial Video Management Software AI-powered facial recognition technology will help commercial customers enhance safety and efficiency Vancouver, BC, December 12, 2019--(T-Net)--Avigilon Corporation, a Motorola Solutions company, today announced the newest version of its video management software, Avigilon Control Center (ACC) 7.4, which incorporates artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition technology. The new "appearance alerts" capability will help commercial organizations, such as educational institutions and hospitals, accelerate response times by identifying people of interest in enterprise settings. For example, the technology can alert the security team at a local high school when a banned or flagged individual has entered the campus. People of interest are identified based on a secure, controlled watch list created and maintained by authorized users at the commercial organization. For organizations that use the new ACC™ software and license their Avigilon cameras for facial recognition, cameras will seek to identify potential matches based on the watch list. If a potential match is found, the user is alerted within the ACC software, and security personnel can then determine whether further investigation or action is necessary. "Our latest ACC software delivers substantial benefits to our commercial customers by offering facial recognition technology in a secure and controlled manner," said John Kedzierski, senior vice president, Video Security Solutions, Motorola Solutions. "The appearance alerts capability enables our customers to move from a reactive approach - staring at a wall of video feeds where critical information can be easily missed - to a proactive approach that brings important information directly to authorized users so they can make better-informed decisions." "It's important to note that we view facial recognition as an aid that can improve the decision-making of the user - it does not make consequential decisions or initiate actions on its own. We refer to this approach as 'human in the loop,' and it is foundational to the way we apply AI," added Kedzierski. ACC's new facial recognition capabilities reflect Motorola Solutions' commitment to the responsible use of artificial intelligence as well as individual privacy rights. Data stewardship is integral to these new capabilities, and we build compliance controls into our products to support this. For example, user authentication is required for these capabilities, audit logs of user actions are generated, data retention periods for the watch list can be specified within the application, and records can be expunged or deleted on demand as well as verified through auditing and reporting. Data is locally hosted, owned and controlled by the business or school. The data used to train the AI algorithms is also thoroughly evaluated, ensuring sufficient quantity, quality and diversity to ensure high accuracy and consistent performance. ACC 7.4 software is now available for download. About Avigilon Avigilon, a Motorola Solutions company, designs, develops and manufactures solutions in video analytics, cloud, security cameras, video management software and hardware, and access control. Avigilon is an industry leader and, together with Motorola Solutions, provides integrated solutions for video security, access control and critical communications. To learn more about Avigilon, visit avigilon.com. ©2019, Avigilon Corporation. All rights reserved. AVIGILON, the AVIGILON logo, AVIGILON CONTROL CENTER, ACC are trademarks of Avigilon Corporation. Other names or logos mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. Avigilon Corporation Vancouver, BC (Other Tech Sectors) 500 Employees In BC (1200 Total) Avigilon (TSX: AVO) is defining the future of the security industry through innovative, end-to-end solutions. In 2014, Avigilon ranked among the fastest-growing technology companies in Canada for the fifth year in-a-row on the Deloitte Fast 50. 1 - 3 of 94 Results New Search Avigilon Introduces New H5A Explosion-Protected Camera Line Avigilon and Motorola Solutions Integrate Enterprise Body-Worn Cameras and Video Management Software Avigilon Brings New Facial Recognition Features to Video Management Software with Avigilon Control Center (ACC) 7.6 Want More Avigilon Corporation News? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1521

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