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__label__cc	0.727909	0.272091	All Fatawaas - Financial Transactions Charity Given to Rich Beggar doesn`t Become Part of his Property We found out that our father was a beggar and this was the source of his estate. However, sometimes, the money that he collected from begging sufficed for our needs and there was even a surplus. Is it lawful for us to take our shares in the inheritance or not? If it is unlawful, is it permissible to use that inheritance as a loan and pay it back to charity on his behalf? Ruling on Constructing an Additional Floor What is the ruling on constructing a floor on roof of building? Ruling on Marketing for Brokerage Firms What is the ruling of Sharia on marketing for a brokerage firm (See attached copy)? Islamic Ruling on Taking Commission for Mediating between Borrower and Lender Is it permissible to take brokerage fees for helping someone to borrow a certain amount of money from someone else, knowing that the borrowed amount is to be paid off without any addition? Ruling on Profit of Wadee`ah Resulting from Misconduct of the Person Entrusted with it What is the ruling on the profits of the money deposited into the bank as a trust for someone? For example, someone has entrusted me to keep a certain sum for him, but I deposited it into a bank account and it made profits. Is it permissible for me to take the profits and give back the original sum to its owner? Islamic Ruling on Financial Leasing Offered by Cities & Villages Development Bank What is the ruling of Sharia on financial leasing contract (movable property) offered by Cities & Villages Development Bank; see attached copy? Islamic Ruling on Starting a Casino or Working in One What is the ruling of Sharia on starting a casino or working in one? Ruling on Dealing with a Conventional Bank in Exchange for Marketing its Services A conventional bank has offered to be the exclusive sponsor of my business in return for allowing it to put an ATM there. What is the Islamic ruling on this? Whoever Misuses any Amount from Public Money is Required to Give it Back I used to serve in the Jordan Armed Forces. I have doubts that during my service I took, by mistake, an amount of money. Will I be cleared from liability before Allah if I gave that amount to the Social Solidarity Fund of the Military Iftaa`, as "clearing liability" is one of this Fund`s resources? Rulings Related to Monthly Contribution Charged by Bus Driver to Transport Students I`m a bus driver and contracted by parents to transport their children to and from school at specific times in exchange for a wage (A monthly contribution), regardless of the number of days they attend school each month. What is the ruling on the monthly contribution that I collect in full although students may abstain from going to school or be absent for some days? Poultry Farmers Follow a Certain Customary Practice when Calculating Poultry Weights In accordance with the normally accepted commercial practice, there are two types of plastic live chicken transport boxes: (7 kg) and (8kg). Recently, two new boxes have been imported into the market and theyweigh (6kg) and (7,200kg). However, traders deal with the latter boxes as the former. This caused loss to poultry farmers and breeders, in addition to fraud (tampering with the weighing scales), which is forbidden in Sharia. Because of this disparity, the marketer managed to make a great deal of profit. What is the ruling of Sharia on this knowing that the farmers take out one kilo from the weight of every basket against chicken runoff? Ruling on Taking Money against Swapping Jobs Two teachers have reached an agreement by which one pays a certain sum to the other against swapping jobs. What is the ruling of Sharia on this? • Read More Actions of Agent must be in Favor of Principal My father has granted me power of attorney to manage his funds. Is it permissible that I give a loan from his money, even a son/daughter of his? If I did so, is that loan a debt on him/her or part of their share in the inheritance? Is it permissible that I sell some of his property and distribute the money amongst some of the heirs? This is knowing that he is having health issues undermining his capacity. • Read More Ruling on Financing Services and Medical Fees for Members of Provident Fund What is the religious ruling on the agreement of procuring services and medical fees offered by the provident fund of the Jordan Petrol Refinery (See attached copy)? • Read More Debt Guarantee on Behalf of Deceased is Determined by Form of Guarantee My father passed away, and being his oldest son, I was asked to guarantee settling the debt that he owed and I agreed, as I was overwhelmed with grief. Am I liable for settling that debt on his behalf?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line468
__label__cc	0.659839	0.340161	Tag Archives: Power The Mausts at Stone Mountain Posted on June 28, 2018 by tedmaust Over the last year, as my grandmother, Evelyn Brunk Maust, neared the end of her life and then passed away, I started looking at family pictures. At Christmas, I looked through scrapbooks as she slept in her chair. In May, as we prepared to bury her, we looked through many more. And last week, as most of the family gathered at a beach house for a vacation, we looked at a couple hundred slides. Evelyn, Dennis, and Robert Maust pose in the Petrified Forest National Park. David Thelen and Roy Rosenzweig included looking at family photos as one way of engaging with the past in their landmark study The Presence of the Past, and now I understand why. I was able to see past editions of these people I love, versions I will never meet. I was able to catch glimpses of their world: to see how my grandparents’ house evolved and how the neighboring campus of Eastern Mennonite University has changed and remained constant. There were flashes of the present too. Nearly every photo of my dad and my uncle was accompanied by an outburst of “He looks like [my cousin/me/my cousin’s children]!” The boys in the slides, now in their seventh decade of life, retained fresh memories too: of people, places, and sartorial choices. I believe those folks facing the camera are members of the Brunk family. Photo by unknown photographer, circa 1940. Because of my interest in public history, I paid special attention to the photos of relatives at historic sites. In the scrapbook, for instance, I found a photo of my grandmother’s family visiting Mount Vernon. In the slideshow, there were many more history sites. When my father was a boy, his family spent many of their summers in Pigeon, Michigan, with his father Earl’s extended family. Several summers, however, they embarked on massive road trips. On these odysseys, the Mausts made stops at various national parks and tourist attractions. Dennis and Robert Maust in front of one of the ships they visited. Historic ships have their own special appeal, and the Maust family visited at least two of them. They visited Plymouth Rock too. The rock, inscribed with the year “1620,” was identified as the landing place of the first Pilgrim immigrants by a ninety-five year-old man in 1741 and moved multiple times over the last centuries.1 An unnamed interpreter in American Indian dress poses for a photo, location and date unknown. The western trips included stops at the St. Louis Arch, giant redwoods, at least one spot that had a person in American Indian ceremonial costume, and Mount Rushmore. Perhaps more surprisingly, on a trip through Georgia, the Mausts visited Stone Mountain. Their visit was probably soon after the site—which features carvings of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson—opened to the public as a state park on the centenary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Dennis, Earl, and RobertMaust sit in front of the tree named “General Sherman” in Sequoia National Park. What were the lessons at all of these sites in the 1960s? Despite Denise Meringolo’s uncovering of radical precedents of public history, the historic sites and monuments of the mid-twentieth century were overwhelmingly nationalistic and concerned with privileged Americans. Many of these sites, both private and public, explicitly aimed to teach visitors how to be American; that is, how to assimilate to a specific strand of American culture. House museums and period rooms, for instance, were used to display idealized American homes and teach the values which informed the décor choices. The sites visited by my family probably saw themselves fulfilling the same purpose to varying degrees. The messages at historic ships and Plymouth Rock likely centered around eighteenth century European immigration. Across the American west, history sites largely told the story of Manifest Destiny. Did the Mausts hear anything about the “Six Grandfathers” on the South Dakotan mountain which were replaced by four white presidents? Surely the word “genocide” did not appear on any plaques or on any tour guide’s tongue. A Maust photo of Mount Rushmore, undated. Evelyn and Earl Maust were mainstream Mennonites for their time. Earl achieved several degrees in music and education and Evelyn was a nurse. Earl served in Puerto Rico in Civilian Public Service. Together they had traveled through Europe. So what did they take away from any of these places? Did they feel patriotic fervor at Mount Rushmore? Or alienation? Did they feel American? Did they settle for awe at the size and and skill evident in the carving? Perhaps more intriguingly, what did they take away from Stone Mountain? To what extent had the nurse from Harrisonburg, Virginia, and the choral director from Pigeon, Michigan, internalized the Lost Cause narrative? Did they know that Stone Mountain was the site of the re-founding of the KKK in 1915? Earl participated in a march led by Martin Luther King Jr. in Nashville just a few years before. How do we square these events in one family’s life? What was the Mausts’ racial consciousness in the mid 1960s? Were Earl and Evelyn just attracted by the novelty of the new state park? Dennis and Robert Maust pose in front of Stone Mountain. These are questions I suspect I’ll never have answers to. My grandmother left behind some diaries and correspondence which might shed light on her tourist experience, but knowing her, any observations would likely be enigmatic and brief. My grandfather, who passed away fifty years ago this fall, left these slides and little else, I think. Why do I pose these questions? By the late 1960s, over a million and a half Americans visited Mount Rushmore each year. I suspect that the Mausts were not the only Mennonites among that number. Considering how Mennonites and other Anabaptist groups engaged with American public history sites at the high tide of their nationalist focus could provide an important data point in the story of twentieth century Anabaptist life and these communities’ relationship with the state. Perhaps more importantly, considering Anabaptist reactions to sites such as Mount Rushmore and Stone Mountain which directly or indirectly commemorate white supremacy and genocide might provide important context for those working to dismantle racial injustice in the present. For those of my parents’ generation, understanding their parents’ engagement or disassociation with mainstream American culture through this lens might be enlightening as they consider their own identity as American Anabaptists. What messages conveyed by these sites were comfortable to mid-century Anabaptists? Which ones were uncomfortable? Even glimpses into the answers to these questions might be illuminating as contemporary Anabaptists confront an uncomfortable present. Special thanks to Robert Maust for digitizing these slides on short notice. James Thacher, History of the Town of Plymouth: From Its First Settlement in 1620 to the Year 1832 (Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1832), 29-30: http://books.google.com/books?id=IWWLjiaEs2AC. Also, here’s a great home video of Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock ca. 1960: https://vimeo.com/32595596. ↩ Posted in Essays \| Tagged monuments, national parks, Native Americans, Power, Public History, white supremacy \| 3 Replies Lessons in Mischief from the Eastern Mennonite High School Class of 1959 Posted on November 14, 2017 by hollyvscott The Eastern Mennonite School centennial a few weeks back provided the opportunity to reflect on, as Donald Kraybill has put it, one hundred years of countercultural education. Hopefully, the reunions and reminiscences also provided the chance to reflect on a quintessential aspect of student life: mischief. But if you’re looking for more, read on. In March 2014 I sat down with five women from the EMHS class of 1959. They shared about many aspects of student life in the 1950s, perhaps most gleefully reminiscing about the little ways they pushed the boundaries of good behavior. What follows is a list of things I learned about how to get away with mischief from the self-described “good kids” of 1959. (The women are identified below by their initials. All quotes come from the transcript I prepared, titled “EMHS 1959 Transcript,” available at the Menno Simons Historical Library at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA). #1. Spies are all around: know who to watch out for (and where to watch for them) It’s not just teachers, staff, or parents who enforce good behavior. College students, too, could act as “spies.” MH: You remember the spies? [they all laugh]. They were college kids. We didn’t know who they were. College kids were designated spies so when you were in the dorm [Northlawn] in the social room…You never knew who was watching you. So you tried to sit there with your hands down here [indicates under the table] so you could hold hands [with a boyfriend]. We did that a lot…. I never got caught but it’s not that we never held hands. #2. Break one rule at a time and make the most of your image In 1959 looking plain signaled that all was right within you. You could be trusted. And this meant you could get away with more. MH: And one day, I lived in the dorm and [boyfriend] had a sister that lived down close to where the seminary is now. They wanted us to come for supper so Miss Barge and Esther Longacre were deans and I had to get permission to go walk from this dorm [Northlawn] to there with him and it was dark. And that was almost a no-no. They didn’t want to let us go but [boyfriend] at that time was very conservative. He wore a plain coat. And Miss Barge liked him. [laughing]. And I still remember her words: we’re going to let you go but you know we trust you. [more laughter]. Little did they know! [laughter] CB: If you looked conservative. MH: Yeah. CB: You could get by with just about anything. #3. Mischief is best accomplished within the safety of a group — and in a way that uses modesty to your advantage The women recalled a particularly conservative faculty member and what they did to irritate him: CB: …one time just to be kind of ornery, some of us girls sewed little bells on our crinolines, under our skirts. And then when we walked it jingled a little bit. Wasn’t real loud but you could hear these little bells. And I know…one of the professors, it would agitate him so. Of course he couldn’t see them but he started quoting scripture about these tinkling cymbals or something. [Laughter.]…. he thought we were very sinful because we had bells on. #4. If possible, be a boy CB: And remember the boys found out that I was so afraid of mice…We had these desks which opened up. I opened it up and there’s a mouse! UK: a live one? CB: No, dead. And I screamed. [Laughter]. They had the biggest kick out of that. But I don’t think they got in trouble. [More laughter]. UK: You probably got in trouble for screaming. #5. Sometimes you need a little help from worldly items (like an eyebrow pencil) WR: You were supposed to wear hose all the time. Girls playing volleyball, c. 1961. Is that truly a stocking seam on the back of the girl’s leg? Or a cleverly drawn line, courtesy of an eyebrow pencil? (Girls playing volleyball, 1961 Shenandoah (Eastern Mennonite School yearbook), courtesy of the Menno Simons Historical Library, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA.) WR: And they had to be dark. ED: And they had to have seams. HS: What was it about seams? [the younger interviewer is confused, having only known a world where hose don’t have seams] ED: So they knew you had hose on. CB: Eyebrow pencil worked. UK: You just took eyebrow pencil and — UK: There’s always a way to get around everything! [Laughter] CB: You could use an eyebrow pencil and put the mark up your leg and you’d look like you had stockings on. HS: And that worked? [wondering how they all had eyebrow pencil; wouldn’t make-up have been forbidden?] WR: For a while! [Laughter] #6. Enjoy the ironies that will come when your elders don’t think through the logical results of certain rules The women remembered rules about wearing skirts even during gym class. Bad news for the girls; potentially appreciated by the boys. MH: And the boys really enjoyed going to the basketball games. Because they couldn’t wait until we’d fall over and then they’d see our skirts would fly up. I remember them talking about it. [laughter.] Girls playing basketball in the old gym at EMS, c. 1957. Their skirts appear well in order. (Girls playing basketball, 1957 Shenandoah (Eastern Mennonite School yearbook), courtesy of the Menno Simons Historical Library, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA) #7. Sometimes you just have to risk it CB: The most sneaky thing we did was we snuck out in front of the chapel, got on motorcycles with two of our male classmates and they took us for a ride through Park View and back and then we worried for weeks; we were afraid that somebody would find out. That would have been terrible. UK: We’d have been sent home. #8. When you get older and are looking back, have some grace for your elders CB: You know I have done a lot of fussing about the way things were but I really appreciate the bottom line was a good religious base and some of these far out things that they demanded, they were just carrying out what they needed to, I suppose. But I am thankful for what the church stands for, the Mennonite church. #9 But also acknowledge that amid the fun was real hurt—and real mistakes It may be funny sixty years later to think of boys hoping the girls’ skirts would fly up in gym class; it could very well have been deeply embarrassing for the girls then. But embarrassment is the least of the problem—sexism, double standards, and all the problems inherent in the male gaze also come to mind. And while pushing the limits in small ways was one thing, the costs were real for those who didn’t quite fit in. The women remembered one classmate who left school because she would not confess to the error of having a boy student put his arm around her shoulder on the couch. They remembered this student had “looked a little wordly” and always been under suspicion. Speaking of another issue, one woman recalled that her sister had red, curly hair. Just having this bright, unruly hair meant “she looked like a wordly student…And everything that went wrong, she got blamed for because she just looked like somebody that would be mischievous or break the rules or whatever. And she carries that stigma with her today.” Whether kicked out of school, or just being under suspicion for how you naturally look, inequality and injustice lurks in many of these memories. What lessons in mischief do you have from your school days? What gems could be recorded at your family dinners? Thanksgiving is coming. In the centennial spirit, think about purchasing a small digital recorder (I use an RCA VR5320 R digital voice recorder which costs around $30) and sitting down to record some stories. If you interview a Mennonite women, consider donating the recording to the collection where the interview I quote from here is housed: Voices: Oral Histories of Mennonite Women, in the Eastern Mennonite University archives. I am happy to answer any questions about the logistics of recording interviews or about how to donate recordings to an archive. Posted in Essays \| Tagged Eastern Mennonite College, Eastern Mennonite High School, Power \| Leave a reply Power, History, and the Future Church Summit Posted on July 20, 2017 by JoelHNofziger Shortly after we married, my wife turned to me and asked, “Why are all the influential men in the Mennonite church historians?” Strictly speaking, this is not a true statement, with Orie O. Miller and George Brunk1 being examples of North American Mennonite leaders who did not work historically. But, working from my context with Mennonites in the United States, there is a strong line of Mennonite leaders using history as a tool towards power, specifically the power that comes with shaping the story of Mennonites.2 The story has played a role in the way Mennonites understand their identity, and has contributed to power dynamics in Mennonite historiography that must be reckoned with. (For a parallel in how institutions have shaped history, see posts by Jason Kauffman and Simone Horst.) The following is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but merely a demonstration of how intimately enmeshed history is with influencing Mennonite identity and faith, a project many of these embraced as “creating a useable past.” The immigrant Bishop Heinrich Funk (d. 1760) worked alongside Dielman Kolb and others to have the Ephrata Martyrs’ Mirror translated and printed as a way to remember the mythic origin of Anabaptism in the face of the Seven Years’ War.3 His grandson, John F. Funk (1835-1930), worked to create a unified Mennonite community, as best exemplified by Herald of Truth. His publishing house worked to create a usable past for this newly “unified” community, reprinting texts such as The Martyrs’ Mirror and the 1632 Dortrecht Confession of Faith.4 C. Henry Smith (1875-1948) wrote “Christian Peace: Four Hundred Years of Mennonite Peace Principles and Practice” as a brief overview of how Anabaptists have practiced nonresistance, written for workers in CO camps. The pamphlet ends with a doctrinal and ecclesiological discussion on the future of the peace testimony. Threats include “the subtle influence creeping into the church from certain short cut Bible schools which are committed to an unwholesome overemphasis on a militant millenarianism . . .”5 Harold S. Bender (1897-1962) perhaps most clearly illustrates this trend with the Anabaptist vision he and his students promoted. Because of some doctrinal disagreements, his position at Goshen was in history rather than Bible or theology, the fields of his formal training. Fred Kniss notes in Disquiet in the Land that this meant “he was thus able to avoid most of the divisive disputes over doctrine. By concentrating on Anabaptist-Mennonite history, he was able to concentrate on questions that drew communalism back into the center of Mennonite discussion.”6 John Howard Yoder (1927-1997), while a theologian, rooted his work in a historical methodology. The Politics of Jesus works towards systematic ethics and theology with biblical and historical scholarship. In his “Anabaptist Vision with Mennonite Reality,” John D. Roth notes that one of the innate tensions in Politics is a confusing use of history, where Anabaptism is claimed as a hermeneutic but used as a historical possibility.7 Moving towards the contemporary era, John D. Roth continues the tradition of historians playing leading roles in the Mennonite church with the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism and its initiative, the Bearing Witness Stories Project, both of which work to create a useable past from the experience of Anabaptists around the globe.8 Ervin R. Stutzman, current executive director of Mennonite Church USA, also has historical inclinations. He has published a series of historical fiction novels, including the Return to Northkill series, looking at the encounters between the Hochstetler family and Native Americans, as well as From Nonresistance to Justice: The Transformation of Mennonite Church Peace Rhetoric 1908-2008, which is a rhetorical and historical look at how Mennonites articulate what they believe about peace. All these have given valuable contributions to the Mennonite understanding of who they are, as well as helped conversations with how the faith community has related and interacted with broader culture. But it is important to recognize the power, albeit soft power, therein. One demonstration of this is, as Felipe Hinojosa notes, how “historian after historian has ignored the calls by Black and Brown Mennonites—and marginal white Mennonites— that offer us alternative visions of the future church.” The power of history as a tool for understanding and controlling identity came to the forefront during Mennonite Church USA’s Future Church Summit (FCS), part of MC USA’s biennial convention. The FCS was billed as an opportunity for the denomination to imagine what it means to “follow Jesus as Anabaptists in the 21st century.” After building community with the table groups on the first day, the process turned to the question, “How our past has shaped us and what this may mean for us going forward?”9 To provide context, there was a plenary presentation that featured John D. Roth, Erica Littlewolf (Northern Cheyenne), Jason B. Kauffman, Bishop Leslie Francisco III, and Regina Shands Stoltzfus presenting a timeline of Mennonite history, graphically presented as a tangled vine growing from sixteenth century roots and stretching into the future. Photo provided by Vada Snider An effort was made to be as broad and inclusive as possible in the process. There was diversity represented among the presenters, with representation from African Americans and Native Americans, and participants were reassured that they would have the opportunity, indeed, were encouraged, to come up afterwards and expand the timeline. Some interesting dynamics were explored, especially as Erica Littlewolf teased out how Mennonite narratives of coming into the land and finding freedom and prosperity directly contradicted her people’s experience of suffering. There were problems in the presentation’s content, however, with significant gaps in the material presented. There was no mention of the rich Hispanic Mennonite tradition (though this was partly because a representative could not make it at the last moment), no past for the LGBTQ Mennonites (perhaps not surprising given the politics of MC USA), and no mention of the old General Conference Mennonites (an omission, I am told, that left some people so angry they could barely speak). The history as it was told did not contain all people present. However, the content gaps were not the most striking disconnect in the presentation. Most striking was that the lack of recognition of the power dynamics inherent in history, especially in the Mennonite church context, since church history has been equated with stories of belonging that are told in our faith tradition. The opening remark, “We all know that is history is an argument” was an example of this. It may be a true statement in the academy, but it is at odds with how history has been embodied publicly in Mennonite congregations and schools.10 History in the Mennonite church has been a tool of authority, giving an absolute view of what happened in the past. History has been a firm foundation for the purpose of maintaining Mennonite identity, not a malleable past that can be argued. There was a fundamental disconnect between the useable past given to summit participants and the history many attendees had been primed to receive by experience in church and school. This is in part why the reaction to the historical gaps was so strong: people were looking for a useable past that told them who they were, but instead were told that they needed to find history for themselves.11 As historians choosing to practice history within the church, we need to be aware of the weight of interpreting the past. The place to start is to give careful attention to the contours of power surrounding Mennonite historiography, an investigation that deserves further attention. It is from this place that we can work with individuals, congregations and broader church institutions to create history that is in the service of living traditions.12 I have not made an extensive study of George Brunk and his thought, but am basing this claim on a conversation with Javan Lapp, who has studied revivalism among Old Order and conservative Mennonites. ↩ There is also an interesting phenomena where non-historians writers have felt they need to translate their work into history in order to speak into the Church, but that is outside the scope of this post. ↩ Zijpp, Nanne van der, Harold S. Bender and Richard D. Thiessen, “Martyrs’ Mirror.” Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online, November 2014 (accessed July 19, 2017). ↩ Ted Maust, “”Union with such as we might perhaps otherwise never know”: John F. Funk and the Herald of Truth, 1854-1864,” Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 38 no. 2 (April 2015): 40-54. ↩ C. Henry Smith, “Christian Peace: Four Hundred Years of Mennonite Peace Principles and Practice” (Peace Committee of the General Conference of the Mennonite Church in North America, 1938), 31. ↩ Fred Kniss, Disquiet in the Land: Cultural Conflict in American Mennonite Communities (New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997), 65; James C. Juhnke Vision, Doctrine, War: Mennonite Identity and Organization in America, 1890-1930 Mennonite Experience in America Vol. 3 (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1985), 277-282. ↩ John D. Roth, “Living Between the Times: ‘The Anabaptist Vision and Mennonite Reality’ Revisited” in Refocusing a Vision, ed. John D. Roth (Goshen, Ind.: Mennonite Historical Society, 1995); John Howard Yoder, “Anabaptist Vision and Mennonite Reality,” in A. J. Klassen, ed., Consultation on Anabaptist-Mennonite Theology (Fresno, Cal.: Council of Mennonite Seminaries, 1970). ↩ Goshen College, “Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism” goshen.edu, https://www.goshen.edu/isga/ (Accessed July 19,2017). ↩ Mennonite Church USA, “Future Church Summit,” http://convention.mennoniteusa.org/future-church-summit/ (accessed July 19, 2017). I attended as the delegate for Pilgrims Mennonite Church, Akron, Pennsylvania. Most of the material going forward is based on my personal notes. ↩ In his ethnographic study of Mennonite schools in Lancaster, Pa., Ken Sensenig notes, “Heritage [that is, history] awareness plays a significant role in Greenfield’s attempts to maintain its peace position. Remembering and interpreting the people and concepts which gave birth to the Anabaptist/Mennonites during the sixteenth century Reformation is one important method of teaching peace at this school. [. . .] More formal heritage training takes place in the classroom, with both schools devoting courses exclusively to the study of Mennonite and general church history. The commitment to peace and justice is an important focus of these studies. Kenneth L. Sensenig, “An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Sociopolitical Views in Two Mennonite High Schools.” (Dissertation, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1991), 91-92. ↩ This is not a bad way to do history in the church, but it is not how many are accustomed to it to being done. ↩ I borrow this phrase from William H. Katerberg, “Is there Such a Thing as ‘Christian’ History?” Fides et Historia 34:1 (winter/Spring 2002): 57-66. ↩ Posted in Essays \| Tagged Historiography, Mennocon, Power \| 4 Replies Anabaptist Historians is a collaborative blog. Its mission is to share cutting-edge scholarship with a broad readership and to foster debates bearing on contemporary Anabaptist faith and life. 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__label__cc	0.635939	0.364061	LUNCH LADIES I’d just like to start off by saying thank you to first time Writer, Clarissa Jacobson for allowing me access to an online screener of her 19 minute Horror/Comedy short “Lunch Ladies”, Directed by J.M Logan. Lunch Ladies centers around two passionate Johnny Depp fans who are burnt out on their lunch gig at the local high school. When hyperactive, Seretta and cool, calm and collected, LouAnne (played by Donna Pieroni and Mary Manofsky respectively) win a contest to cook for Depp himself, they must find a way to deal with the demands of the school principal (Chris Fickley) and Alexis, the head cheerleader, (Daisy Kershaw) all the while trying to come up with the money for the plane ticket to Johnny. I try to avoid reading detailed reviews where I can, but I had heard some good things about Lunch Ladies and was happy to bemet with a warm reception by Clarissa. Lunch is served! Right from the opening car ride shared by Seretta and LouAnne, I had similar feelings toward their pairing and that of the Morgan brothers duo in the underrated Horror/Comedy gem, “100 Bloody Acres” (filmed in my home state) see review https://adamthemoviegod.com/100-bloody-acres-review/. The dynamic between the characters comparable, as well as the representation of the contrasting personalities. The audio track is clear and Chris Ekstein’s cinematography looks great. Everything is nicely framed and pretty well-edited. The shot choices are fairly simplistic but everything works, particularly the external placement of the camera for the shots during the opening car ride. The fx team on Lunch Ladies did a wonderful job of the continuity and the practical effects and prosthetics. The most graphic scene sees a lot of blood spray as the duo run body parts through the grinder (once again, much in the same fashion as the Morgan brothers do). The one on-screen kill looks fairly tame but those aforementioned after effects are impressive. There can be no doubting that Antoni March’s grand score (and just his second time composing at that) is not only the best thing about Lunch Ladies but it’s perhaps the best thing about any film this year. Taking cues from the iconic, John Williams (Home Alone and Indiana Jones) and Tim Burton’s masterful composer, Danny Elfman (Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands), March fuses a multitude of quirky tones to convey a really off-beat brand of “homedy” (see what I did there). I hear plenty of my childhood in David Newman esq sounds (The Sandlot and The Flintstones), as well as the modern flare of something like “La La Land” see review https://adamthemoviegod.com/la-la-land-review-2/. I absolutely love this score encase you couldn’t tell! Both Pieroni and Manofsky handle their roles quite well but I’d be lying if I said that I liked both of the characters. Lunch Ladies being what it is, maybe you’re not necessarily supposed to like either of these women all that much. LouAnne is a little more relatable because she’s trying her best to figure out how the plan will come together, she’s quick on her feet and level-headed (sort of). Seretta is unbelievably and dramatically over the top, I’m not sure someone like LouAnne would ever be friends with her in the real world, but opposites attract I suppose. Seretta’s only got one gear, so in turn Donna’s correlating performance does wear a little thin mid way through proceedings. My only other complaints were that the film was fairly light on both the horror and comedy aspects. I would have liked to have seen a couple more kills and a better, wittier back and forth between the two women (though I did like them referring to Johnny as “The Depper”). Lunch Ladies is a very “American” Horror/Comedy short that serves its purpose productively and ended up reminding me a lot of our home-grown talent, “100 Bloody Acres” (just in the short format). The audio, camera work and special effects are all really well conceived. Donna and Mary do a solid job of their respective roles, and the Johnny Depp aspect within the comedy is quite amusing. Antoni’s score is absolutely outstanding and reason enough alone for me to revisit the film again in the not to distant future. Despite being surprisingly light on kills and laugh out loud moments, it entertains for the full run time. The only downside is that Seretta becomes a little grinding as the film rolls on. Even with its issues, Lunch Ladies is thoroughly enjoyable and deserves much of the praise its receiving across the film festival circuit. Keep an eye out for this one soon! My rating for “Lunch Ladies” is 7.5/10	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line477
__label__cc	0.667742	0.332258	BENEATH THE GRAY BRIONI SUIT by Ramsey Mathews SICK HEADACHE by Thomas Elson MUKUND GNANADESIKAN – Author of ERRORS OF OMISSION Home Fiction THRIFT SHOP SWAN by Terry Sanville Fiction - Year III - Number 14 - July 2018 THRIFT SHOP SWAN by Terry Sanville THRIFT SHOP SWAN by Terry Sanville Eugene folded his umbrella, stomped on the welcome mat, then entered the Goodwill Store. The floor manager, Mingo, motioned him over. “If I were you, I wouldn’t go back there.” “Why? What’s going on? “The Zombie Lady’s freakin’ out.” Eugene looked to the rear of the shop. A crowd of women of all shades and ages surrounded several racks of clothing. Pants, blouses, jeans, dinner jackets, and even bras flew through the air. Animal grunts broke the silence. “Cops?” Eugene asked. “Yeah, I called ’em. Didn’t want to, ’cause that lady’s got enough troubles. She’s quiet most of the time. I’ve never seen her this bad.” “Maybe she’s off her meds.” Mingo grinned. “How the hell should I know? I don’t check prescriptions.” A police cruiser pulled off the boulevard into the parking lot, its roof lights flashing but no siren. Two officers in rain slickers eased through the front door and Mingo pointed. They moved forward and ordered the women to clear out. In a few minutes they led Zombie Lady outside, guided her into the squad car’s rear seat, then drove away. Eugene saw her every week or so, along narrow streets that ran through the old neighborhoods south of the Downtown. The first time she had almost run him over, moving like a sleepwalker on crank. Her dark eyes stared at something over the horizon, her face as white as a geisha’s. She seldom looked at him, which felt strange since most street people treated Eugene as one of their own, and surely not as a retired school administrator. He liked his long-haired and bearded disguise. She wore a full white evening gown, its ragged hem filthy from dragging the ground. Built like a young boy, she kept her red hair wrapped in a tight bun, carried a little girl’s purse and a lace-fringed parasol. “She crazy, you know,” Chuntao, the pretty Chinese woman at Rainbow Donuts told him. “She stand in rain. I give her donut, free…but she no come inside.” “What’s her name?” Eugene asked. “Natalia, I think. She speak with accent…so not sure.” “She’s a strange one.” “She look like girl, but she old. I tell by her eyes.” “Where does she live?” “I think at Shelter, or under bridge.” After the thrift store incident, on his daily walks around town Eugene made up a short speech to tell the Zombie Lady, once he got up the nerve. After being retired for ten years and widowed for seven, talking with women had become harder, except maybe with Chuntao. But he searched for Natalia anyway, at Goodwill, UVS Thrift, The Hope Chest, and Fred & Betty’s Secondhand. She looked intelligent, even in her spaced-out condition. But her eyes never seemed to quite focus. “Why you care about crazy lady?” Chuntao asked. She poured him a third cup of coffee and leaned against the counter in the empty donut shop. “You think you save her? Be big hero? Forget it. She lost.” Eugene smiled and stared unseeing at the front page of the Wall Street Journal. “She’s no more lost than I am. I wanted to be my wife’s hero. But she died anyway. Once was enough.” “Not your fault…and…I don’t believe you.” Chuntao shook her head and returned to wiping the counter and refilling the sugars. On a cloudy Monday, Natalia charged toward him on Pacific Street. He stood his ground. She continued on a collision course. Just before she smashed into him, she slowed, the impact gentle, with more bone than flesh. Eugene figured she weighed less than a hundred pounds. Her high-pitched scream made him jump. “You’re real,” she said, looking into his eyes for the first time. “Yes, of course. Why would you think differently?” “I sometimes see…see people…like the ones following me. The voices tell me I should keep moving, run.” Eugene stared past her along the street, the sidewalk empty for blocks. “Yes, that would be frightening. But I must have scared them off. Look.” She turned slowly and followed his gaze. “They are gone. A big man like you would be fearsome while I am nothing. Sometimes, I’m not sure I’m even here. Am I here?” Eugene abandoned his plan for making a speech. He grinned, reached forward and took her hand. “Yes, you are here.” He felt her stiffen. Her breaths came faster. But she wouldn’t release his hand. “You must stop them from forcing me to practice. They will destroy me.” “Practice? Practice what?” “I can’t quite remember. But I know they do not want me to tell anyone. They say I will suffer if I do. There is always one of them…watching.” “Hey listen, Chuntao at Rainbow is a friend of mine. Let’s go there and get some donuts.” “I won’t go inside.” “Rats and bugs crawling everywhere.” “They aren’t there when I go inside. Come on, have coffee with me.” Eugene pulled her gently along the street. They threaded their way through the neighborhood of dilapidated warehouses, muffler shops, and trailer parks until reaching the donut shop, at the junction of two broad boulevards. Chuntao’s eyes widened when they pushed through the door. “I see you find Natalia.” “We’re here for some of your fine donuts, and maybe a little coffee.” Natalia clutched his arm in a vise-like grip and edged inside. They sat at a corner table next to the plate-glass window with traffic noiselessly blasting by outside. Chuntao brought two mugs and a coffee pot. “May I have tea, please?” Natalia asked. “Some Lapsang Souchong would be wonderful.” Chuntao rolled her eyes but brought a teabag and hot water with honey to sweeten. Eugene and Natalia sat looking at each other, not speaking, not forcing conversation. She smelled of sweat and unwashed clothes that had been rained on and had never fully dried. Chuntao served fresh donuts. Natalia nibbled on a plain cake, finishing only half of it. “I’m sorry. I don’t eat much, can’t afford to gain weight.” She sipped her tea and continued to stare until standing abruptly. “I must go, it’s time for practice, time for practice.” “Practice what?” Eugene asked. “I can’t tell you. They will know.” She hurried from the shop. He watched her open-mouthed as she disappeared into the distance, her white gown bouncing as she walked. “You do good,” Chuntao said. “I never get her inside. I think she like you.” “How can you tell? She didn’t say much of anything.” “You kind man. She will talk. You still have chance.” “Chance? What are you talking about?” “You know, you know.” Chuntao let out a high giggle and returned to her spot behind the counter. After that day, whenever they met on the street, Natalia offered Eugene her hand or clutched his arm and they’d walk to Rainbow Donuts, sit without speaking in the late afternoon sun until she bolted for the outdoors. One evening, he checked under the Marsh Street Bridge and found her on a mound of dirty bedding, the river roaring not more than ten feet from where she slept. Eugene backed away, thought about how he might help. On a particularly stormy night he paid for a room at the Motel 6. He left her there watching a badly adjusted TV and fingering the dry clothes he had bought for her at Fred & Betty’s Secondhand. Two weeks went by without an encounter. Eugene checked all the thrift shops but couldn’t find her, phoned the hospitals without success. He couldn’t stop worrying about her safety: being raped by some homeless troll; caught by a flash flood and swept away; or attacked for no other reason than she was small, seemed frail, and an easy target. The spring rains had slacked off when he caught up to Natalia. Mingo stopped him as he entered the Goodwill Store. “Hey look, you know the Zombie Lady better than anybody that comes in here. Maybe you can get her to stop.” “What’s she doing now?” “She’s tossin’ the shoe section. Got the kids and their mothers in an uproar. If you can get her outta here, I won’t call the cops.” Eugene crept toward the rear of the shop. Shoes flew through the air. A black stiletto-healed number slammed into a mirror, shattering it. Little kids and women screamed. Natalia moved along the shelves full of shoes, yanking pairs from their perch, grunting, then slinging them over her shoulder. She had cleared most of the women’s selection and was working on the top shelf filled with the weird stuff that didn’t belong in any particular category. She grabbed a pair of pink slippers with squared-off toes and stopped, then kicked off her flats, exposing raw feet, calloused, blistered, bones and toes badly deformed, with dried blood under the nails. She pulled on the slippers and wrapped and tied their ribbons tightly around her ankles. Standing, Natalia reached up and drew her filthy gown over her head. The crowd gasped. A pink leotard covered her upper body, breasts flattened by its elastic pressure. White tights encased her slender legs. Mingo joined Eugene. “After she broke that mirror, I called the cops. They’ll be here any minute. If you can get her outta here, I’m cool with it.” Eugene smiled. “No, let her dance. I’ll talk to the Police and pay for that mirror.” Natalia had pushed herself up onto her toes, arms extended in a perfect “V” above her tilted head. She raised one leg and joined it to the other at the knee, balanced with no shaking, then moved rapidly across the floor, spinning, arms extended. Little kids from the toy section sat on the floor and formed a gallery of gawkers. They stared wide-eyed, smiling, while their mothers called to them to be still and watch. Natalia danced with eyes half closed, moving from one position to the next, gracefully, fluidly, face fixed in a state of bliss. She moved along the shoe section aisle, threatening to crash into display racks, but always in control, her jumps perfectly executed, never a stumble or waver on the landings. The thrift shop’s front doors opened and two beefy patrolmen entered. Mingo hurried to intercept them as Natalia continued to dance before her spellbound audience. In a flurry of leaps and turns, she slowed to a kneeling position, then slid to the floor, eyes closed, hands clasped as if praying, her slender body still, at peace. The women clapped and the children joined in. Natalia rose to her full height and, with great dignity, made a deep curtsy. The little girls surrounded her, giggling, trying to copy her dance moves. A cop stepped forward. “Excuse me, miss, you’ll have to come with us.” Natalia backed against a display rack. “Father, I said I would practice more. I will…you’ll see.” “It’s okay, officer,” Mingo said. “I’m not going to press charges for the broken mirror. You can let her go.” “I’m afraid not. We’ve received other complaints. This woman needs help.” The officers retrieved Natalia’s gown, purse and shoes, escorted her outside to their patrol car. Eugene followed them. “What are you going to do with her?” he asked. “Are you a relative?” the cop said. “No, just…just a friend…a good friend.” “They’ll probably put her on a 72-hour psychiatric hold. You can call County Mental Health if you have questions. She’ll be taken care of.” Natalia stared at him from the back of the car, her eyes clear, focused. A quiet smile of what might have been satisfaction creased her face. As Eugene walked home, he thought about how they might live together, how she could put on special performances, at schools, community arts events, show off her talents to those who would appreciate their beauty and grace. He tried building a story of hope for both of them. Two days later, Eugene phoned Mental Health. Natalia had already been released to the streets. He searched all the places that she might hole up. As the weeks passed he slowly surrendered any chance of finding her. “She out there somewhere,” Chuntao told him. “I know you want to save her. But you lucky you not find her.” “Why the hell is that?” Eugene shot back, scowling. “I say before, she crazy. She make you crazy, crazy sad. I want you stay normal. You my friend first.” “I haven’t felt normal for a long time. Maybe I should start. And…and thank you.” Chuntao smiled coyly and refilled his coffee cup. He returned to reading the Wall Street Journal and she to wiping down the counter and refilling the sugars. Months passed. One hot summer day, Eugene sat reading the L.A. Times. He let out a yell. Chuntao almost dropped a tray of donuts and hurried to his side. “What wrong? You sick? You hurt? I call 911.” “No, I’m fine, I’m fine. But look.” He pointed to a short column tucked away in the newspaper’s back pages. A grainy image of Natalia stared back at them. “What it say, what it say?” Chuntao demanded. “Natalia was killed in a homeless camp far from here.” “I’m sorry, so sorry. But why she in paper? Like me, she nobody important.” “You’re wrong…on both counts. It says here that she was considered a Prima Ballerina by dance critics about ten years ago, worked out of New York City and London until she disappeared from the stage.” “What happen to her?” “Schizophrenia.” Chuntao shrugged. “What’s that?” “It’s not important.” She frowned and reached for her counter rag. “Wait a minute…wait.” Eugene gulped his coffee and stared at his age-spotted hands. “It’s very important. It’s a sickness that strikes some sensitive young people. It smashes their brains with a sledgehammer and breaks them. They stumble through life looking for their own scattered pieces.” Chuntao stared at him, wide-eyed. “How…how you know?” “I had to tell parents that pushing their kids to be the best doesn’t always work.” He banged his coffee mug down. “Fathers and mothers can carry the dark seeds of schizophrenia in their genes, and we don’t know why.” “So?” Chuntao shrugged again. “Like I say, Natalia real crazy.” “Maybe it is crazy…to try and build beauty out of what rags you’ve got left.” Eugene shook his head. “I’m glad I got to see her dance, even for just that one time. The thrift shop will never feel the same.” Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife (his in-house editor) and two plump cats (his in-house critics). He writes full time, producing short stories, essays, poems, and novels. Since 2005, his short stories have been accepted by more than 270 literary and commercial journals, magazines, and anthologies including The Potomac Review, The Bitter Oleander, Shenandoah, and The Saturday Evening Post. He was nominated twice for Pushcart Prizes for his stories “The Sweeper” and “The Garage.” Terry is a retired urban planner and an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist – who once played with a symphony orchestra backing up jazz legend George Shearing. Previous articleDERELICT by Allen Long Next articleBECAUSE IT FELT GOOD by Nikki Munoz	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line479
__label__cc	0.504171	0.495829	Presidential elections are galvanizing moments in America. They’re opportunities when we collectively contemplate the country’s trajectory and declare our preferred path forward. But our winner-take-all system feels cruel to those outside the majority and validating to those in it. Every four years, we come together to deliberate our shared future. Yet the moment a winner is declared, we split apart to celebrate… or not. The cycle is predictable, as are its consequences. If recent history is any guide, after the president-elect is determined, some will use partisanship to try to drive us further apart. Compromise will be treated as failure. Escalation will beget escalation. These compounding problems leave us feeling like our society is broken. When ideological fault lines widen, we tend to recede deeper into cozy enclaves of the like-minded, inoculated from hearing challenges to our worldviews. But what if it didn’t have to be this way? What if, instead of presuming this is our fait accompli, we choose a different path? What if we used these moments when we’re acutely focused on our civic and societal interests to engage each other more constructively by rejecting the premise that winning is all that matters? We can do better. We can safely emerge from our partisan corners to bridge our divides. In the aftermath of the 2016 election, we didn’t have a road map to follow. Now we do. And it begins with arguing better. The Better Arguments Project – a national civic initiative launched by Allstate, The Aspen Institute, and Facing History and Ourselves – is built on a framework that relies on five key principles: Take Winning Off the Table; Prioritize Relationships and Listen Passionately; Pay Attention to Context; Embrace Vulnerability; and Make Room to Transform. At its core, Better Arguments is a means to address our issues head-on. Instead of rushing to reconciliation, it forces us to step back and consider the inherited power inequities that have led us to conflict. It requires us to reckon with the hard truths – and that’s our biggest obstacle. That’s because in the United States, naming the “truths” behind power inequities is complex. No single group can be blamed for perpetuating every inequity across the whole of society. Our history is messy. It’s why our debates need to start from a place of common understanding and be facilitated according to agreed rules for engagement. That’s what Better Arguments offers. We’ve seen how effectively this framework can bring people together. Over the past three years, The Better Arguments Project has hosted a series of events in communities grappling with chasms. When we come together using the principles of a Better Argument to hash out differences, we take an offramp from the partisan skirmishes that tend to dominate our discourse. We engage each other’s humanity. We demonstrate that when the aim of an argument isn’t winning, we have space to constructively reckon with difference. In this moment, with tensions amplified by the pandemic and the presidential election, it’s more important than ever that communities have the tools for constructive dialogue. That’s why The Better Arguments Project recently released virtual tools to facilitate those conversations, even as we socially distance. These conversations are essential. If we don’t engage in a new way, we’ll just drift further apart. Then, four years from now, when it’s time to elect another president, we’ll find ourselves lamenting the same cycle of bickering that’s dominated our civic lives and stymied meaningful progress. We can do better. Not by shying away from arguments but by embracing them. Arguments are our legacy and our shared history. They’re what fuels the spirit of our nation. Let’s start arguing better. David Nadig SVP and Deputy General Counsel, Allstate; Chair, Chicago Debate Roger Brooks President and CEO, Facing History and Ourselves Eric Liu Executive Director, Citizenship and Identity Program, Aspen Institute; CEO, Citizen University For more information about The Better Arguments Project, please visit www.BetterArguments.org or email us at betterarguments@aspeninstitute.org.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line482
__label__wiki	0.983851	0.983851	Follow Ann Curry Ann Curry Quick Links News Pictures Footage RSS Ann Curry Quick Links News Pictures Footage RSS Ann Curry attending the World Premiere of 'Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them', held at Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City, United States - Thursday 10th November 2016 Ann Curry Announces NBC News Departure To Develop Her Own Media Start Up By Stephanie Chase in Movies / TV / Theatre on 14 January 2015 Ann Curry NBC Over two and a half years after her ‘Today Show’ departure, Ann Curry is leaving NBC News. It seemed a long time coming and now veteran journalist Ann Curry has finally announced she is leaving NBC News. After being sidelined for nearly two years, Curry is moving on to a new venture with NBC Universal which will see her develop her own media start up. It's a goodbye to NBC News for Ann Curry In a statement Curry said, “It has been a privilege to work with so many good and talented people at the network. At the same time, I can’t wait to expand my reach and work with people I admire in other places.” Continue reading: Ann Curry Announces NBC News Departure To Develop Her Own Media Start Up Matt Lauer's 'Today' Show Contract Extended By NBC By Elinor Cosgrave in Movies / TV / Theatre on 13 June 2014 Matt Lauer NBC Ann Curry Savannah Guthrie Natalie Morales Al Roker NBC has announced Matt Lauer's contract as News Anchor on the Today show has been extended. Matt Lauer's contract with NBC's Today show has been extended, laying rumours to rest surrounding his dismissal. The network received a number of complaints after Lauer's co-anchor on the morning show, Ann Curry, left. However, NBC has offered its official endorsement of the 56-year-old anchor and released a public statement making clear their intentions to keep Lauer on the show. Matt Lauer's contract on the Today show has been extended. The statement, issued on Thursday (12th June), announces Lauer has been signed as host for a number of years to come, at least two according to the NY Times. The NBC executives have released the news that Lauer's contract has been extended but the specific terms are uncertain. It is rumoured his salary could be anything between $20 and $25 million. Continue reading: Matt Lauer's 'Today' Show Contract Extended By NBC NBC's Ann Curry "Enormously Lucky" To Be Rescued By Boy Scouts After Hiking Accident By Lauren James in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 12 May 2014 The NBC journo was saved by some savvy scouts. Sometimes it's fun to take a break from the humdrum of city life and get back to nature but for Ann Curry a weekend away from the high pressures of the NBC newsdesk in New York's Harriman State Park ended in high drama last month. The weekend could have been a total disaster for the NBC journalist, who broke her ankle after taking a tumble, had it not been for a quick-thinking unit of scouts who rushed to her aid. Ann Curry Was Rescued By Boy Scouts After Breaking Her Ankle Whilst Hiking. Curry was with her husband and son when she injured her ankle but Scouts from Troop and Crew 368 from Berkeley Heights, NJ, who were on a training hike, spotted the Emmy-winning journalist sitting on the side of a trail with her leg extended, according to Scouting Magazine. Curry told the troop that she thought her ankle was broken but said they didn't need to stop for her. Continue reading: NBC's Ann Curry "Enormously Lucky" To Be Rescued By Boy Scouts After Hiking Accident New Jersey Boy Scouts Rescue NBC Journalist Ann Curry By Nick Hill in Movies / TV / Theatre on 12 May 2014 The Scouts of Berkeley Heights, N.J., built a splinter and stretcher for the inured journalist and carried her down the mountain. NBC journalist Ann Curry was saved by a group of New Jersey boy scouts after she was injured during a hike. The scouts of troop 368 carried the news reporter down Harriman State Park's Bear Mountain after they crafted her a splint and stretcher. Scouting Magazine reports, the New Jersey scouts spotted Curry and her family on April 5th and asked if they needed assistance as it was obvious they were in some distress. Continue reading: New Jersey Boy Scouts Rescue NBC Journalist Ann Curry Matt Lauer Tells Leno, "I'm Not A Guy Who Complains" - REALLY? By Michael West in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 03 May 2013 Matt Lauer Ann Curry Jay Leno Matt Lauer was hardly given a grilling by Jay Leno, though he briefly chatted about his rough year on television. Matt Lauer opened up about his frankly horrendous year on television during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Thursday (May 2, 2012). Many viewers perceive Lauer to be the sole reason why former Today show host Ann Curry was replaced on the show, which fell behind ABC rival Good Morning America in the ratings for the first time in years. "It's been an interesting year - no question about it," Lauer told Leno when asked how he was doing. "I'm not a guy who complains. I love this job, I really do." Lauer - who is reportedly paid $25 million a year - was said to have been "100 per cent" behind the decision to axe Ann, according to sources who spoke with Us Weekly. In an excerpt from Brian Stelter's new book on morning television, it is suggested that the plot to get rid of Curry was titled "Operation Bambi," with one production assistant apparently overhearing Lauer say, "I can't believe I am sitting next to this woman," while on set. Leno avoided going into detail about the Ann Curry saga, though was asked about a full page ad taken out by Kathie Lee Gifford this week, defending Lauer. "Kathie Lee did something very sweet a couple of weeks ago," he said. "She went around and she just passed around a note and had members of the staff sign it just saying, 'Things are going to be okay." Continue reading: Matt Lauer Tells Leno, "I'm Not A Guy Who Complains" - REALLY? Torture And Bullying: Ann Curry's Final Months At The 'Today' Show By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 19 April 2013 Ann Curry Matt Lauer Control room staff mocked Ann Curry's outfits whilst she was on air. The alleged extent to the bullying of Ann Curry in her final months at the 'Today' show has been revealed in an explosive excerpt from New York Times writer Brian Stelter's upcoming book 'Top of the Morning'. In it, Stelter reveals how Curry described her final months at the breakfast television show as "professional torture," with colleagues regularly mocking her outfit choices before she was publically fired and replaced. Executive producer Jim Bell even names the plot to oust Curry, 56, as 'Operation Bambi' after a friend told him firing the journalist would be like "killing Bambi." In the new excerpt posted on the New York Times' website, Stelter reveals that Curry felt bullied and belittled by the 'Today' show crew, who clearly wanted rid of her from day one. "Curry felt that the boys' club atmosphere behind the scenes at 'Today' undermined her from the start, and she told friends that her final months were a form of professional torture," he writes. The incidents that Curry encountered included a blooper reel making fun of her on-screen gaffes, moving boxes of her belongings being placed into the coat closet and the mocking of her outfits. One unidentified Today staffer told Stelter that "a lot of time in the control room was spent making fun of Ann's outfit choices or just generally messing with her." After Curry wore a bright yellow dress one morning, members in the control room apparently Photoshopped a picture of Big Bird next to her, asking Today staff "who wore it best?" According to Stelter, Bell never wanted Curry to get the job in the first place, though his weak-minded assumption that she would probably end up on another network as a direct competitor delayed the decision to fire her. Continue reading: Torture And Bullying: Ann Curry's Final Months At The 'Today' Show Matt Lauer On Ann Curry's Sacking: "We Didn't Handle It Well" By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 12 March 2013 Matt Lauer Ann Curry Matt Lauer clearly has regrets over the way Today handled Ann Curry's exit. It's taken him far too long, though Matt Lauer has finally opened up about the firing of Ann Curry, his former Today co-host who was replaced by Savannah Guthrie. NBC caused outrage after appearing to coax Curry out of the door, and Lauer accepts that much of the criticism was justified. "It was a hard time for everybody," Lauer told The Daily Beast, almost a year to the day that Curry left the show. "We were getting kicked around a lot. Some of it was self-inflicted and perhaps deserved." The host - one of the highest paid on television - concedes the transitional period was not handled properly. "You don't have to be Einstein to know that. It clearly did not help us. We were seen as a family, and we didn't handle a family matter well." Today has suffered from the mis-management, taking a backseat in the ratings to big rival Good Morning America, something Lauer suggests could be a good thing. "In some ways being No. 2 in the ratings is a real shot in the arm, a kick in the pants," he explained. "It makes you hungrier...I don't think it's a bad thing to have a fire lit under your ass." Continue reading: Matt Lauer On Ann Curry's Sacking: "We Didn't Handle It Well" Ann Curry's Ally Is New Today Show Exec, Matt Lauer Is 'Furious' By Hayley Avron in Movies / TV / Theatre on 14 November 2012 There could be trouble ahead for NBC’s Today show. The breakfast programme is already suffering with flagging viewer figures and has been a talking point, ever since Ann Curry’s departure earlier this year. Now, host Matt Lauer is said to be furious at the appointment of Alexandra Wallace as the show’s new executive producer. According to RadarOnline, there have already been some rather terse discussions between the two, regarding the future of the show and what’s more, Wallace is known to have a pretty close relationship with Ann Curry. Curry and Lauer, for the record, do not get along, it would seem. A source has told RadarOnline “Matt Lauer is NOT happy that Jim Bell who had been the executive producer of the Today show since 2005 has been forced out… Alexandra Wallace, who will be Bell's replacement, and Matt have never had a good working relationship. Matt doesn't like the fact that Alexandra is a big advocate of Ann Curry's.” Sounds as though there could be some frosty times ahead. Just cast your minds back to the moment that Matt had to introduce Ann’s segment as she reported from the London Olympics. It was pretty obvious back then that there was no love lost between them. The source also confirmed that Wallace intended to “shake things up on the show” so that they could get it back on top of the ratings. The outgoing executive producer, Jim Bell, has been blamed for much of the show’s recent ill-fortunes. Stars Show Support For Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together Telethon By Joe Wilde in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 03 November 2012 Christina Aguilera Matt Lauer Jon Bon Jovi Tina Fey Ann Curry Billy Joel Danny Devito Aerosmith Sting Mary J Blige Kevin Bacon Bruce Springsteen A Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together Telethon was held last night in the hopes of bringing relief to the millions affected when Hurricane Sandy ripped through the East Coast of America. NBC aired a commercial-free telethon last night (Nov 2) live from storm-ravaged Staten Island, with Matt Lauer helming the celeb fest that urged viewers across America to pledge what they could and help the millions suffering from the storm. Christina Aguilera got things started, entering a dark stage and delivering a powerful, stripped down version of ‘Beautiful.’ After the Staten Island native’s performance, a rolling montage of just some of the destruction was played, ending with a still of the once bustling Jersey Shore, after which Jersey native Jon Bon Jovi gave acoustic performances of ‘Who Says You Can’t Go Home’ and ‘Living on a Prayer’ with guitarist Bob Bandiera and Lorenza Ponce on the violin. Continue reading: Stars Show Support For Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together Telethon New Today Show Host Announced: Willie Geist Takes 9am Slot By Hayley Avron in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10 October 2012 Al Roker Natalie Morales Ann Curry Matt Lauer Savannah Guthrie Willie Geist has been named as the new co-host of the 9am hour of NBC’s morning show 'Today'. Jim Bell, the show’s executive producer made the announcement, revealing that Geist will start in his new role as of November 12, 2012. Geist, 37, will join Al Roker, 58 and Natalie Morales, 40 as co-presenter of 'Today'. In his statement, Jim Bell said “"We are thrilled to add Willie to the 'Today' team… He brings a solid news background with a keen sense of creativity and humor. From politics to pop culture, Willie is a skilled and versatile reporter who will make a great addition at 9 a.m. and contribute to the entire broadcast. According to US magazine, he’s going to carry on working as one of NBC’s main News contributors, as well as the NBC Sports Group. He’s also going to remain as co-host of MSNBC’s 'Morning Joe', where he has been covering national politics since 2007. Geist has long had a decent reputation amongst NBC’s ranks but excelled himself this summer, when he anchored NBC Sports Network’s coverage of the 2012 London Olympics. Earlier this year, Today show veteran Ann Curry, 55, was fired from her post on the show as Matt Lauer’s co-anchor. She had been with the show for 15 years and was replaced by Savannah Guthrie, 40. Willie Geist‘s wife is his childhood sweetheart, Christina Sharkey. They wed in 2003 and have two children together. Al Roker, Ann Curry and Matt Lauer - Al Roker, Ann Curry and Matt Lauer Friday 15th June 2012 Justin Bieber performs live at Rockefeller Center as part of the 'Today' show's concert series Ann Curry and Matt Lauer - Ann Curry and Matt Lauer Thursday 12th January 2012 the 'TODAY' Show 60th anniversary celebration at The Edison Ballroom Al Roker, Ann Curry, Meredith Vieira and Will Farrell - Al Roker, Natalie Morales, Tina Fay, Will Farrell, Ann Curry, Meredith Vieira Friday 29th October 2010 at NBC New York City, USA Guthrie Quietly Takes Over Ann Curry's Job Ann Curry Dropped From 'Today' Line-up After 15 Years Should Ann Curry Take The $10 Million And Run? "Fired" Curry Shows Up For Work Defiant Ann Curry Hosts 'Today' Show With Aplomb	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line483
__label__wiki	0.629395	0.629395	Vodafone Italia conducts first 5G tests From Branislav Pekic in Rome Vodafone Italia has made the first 5G data connection in Italy, within the framework of tests promoted by the Ministry of Economic Development. The telecommunications operator used the 3.7-3.8 GHz frequency band for the live 5G trials in the metropolitan region of Milan. The 5G data connection was conducted using a localised antenna at the Vodafone Village in Milan, with equipment provided by Huawei. 5G networking prototypes were used for the test, conforming to the current state of the 3GPP standard, including Massive MIMO technology, which increases both capability and coverage. During the test, the download speeds exceeded 2.7 Gbps, with a latency of just over a millisecond. Vodafone Italia CEO Aldo Bisio told daily Corriere della Sera that the operator is investing more than €90 million in the project. The plan is to cover 80 per cent of Milan and its metropolitan area by 2018. Once the coverage is completed in 2019, Bisio claims that Milan will be the city with the largest 5G coverage in Europe. Earlier this year, the Ministry of Economic Development announced plans to launch 5G trials in the 700 MHz band in five cities (Milan, Bari, Matera, Prato and L’Aquila). Mediaset to offer bundled services with Vodafone Italia Vodafone Italia partners with Chili TVoD platform Italy: Vodafone to offer 500 Mbps Vodafone Spain tests LTE broadcast technology Vodafone Italia, Mediaset TV Everywhere	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line487
__label__cc	0.623925	0.376075	IABM intros ‘BaM Content Chain’ Broadcast technology industry body IABM has introduced its new industry model dubbed the BaM Content Chain: from Creator to Consumer. The move is designed to reflect a growing awareness on the part of broadcast manufacturers that content production and distribution is changing thanks to the impact of the internet and cloud-based delivery of content. Unveiling BaM at NAB, IABM says the new model is designed to cater to changes in the business such as the emergence of OTT short-form and user-generated content as well as the move online of traditional broadcast channels. The model is designed to trace all steps between content creation, production and post-production through to management, publishing, distribution and monetisation. The IABM’s model is built around creation – encompassing live or recorded content in a studio or the field, including user-generated content and social media as well as professional production equipment, production, encompassing live production and post-production including graphics, audio, video production and services, production and post-production software, management, including quality control, and publishing, including linear playout, non-linear publishing systems and services, protection and encryption, linear distribution and encryption over traditional networks and web distribution. Customer advisory boards will be crated on a regional basis to bring technology buyers and sellers closer together, and enabling the IABM to cater to the particular needs of specific regions. Each board will comprise eight members or more and will be tasked with fostering collaboration between IABM members across technology and business model developments. IABM endorses AIMS IABM adds 11 members IABM and AIB partnership IABM training academy Post-decryption theft the weakest point in content delivery chain	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line488
__label__cc	0.682962	0.317038	Some body imagers are more equal than others By Douglas S. Katz, MD, FACR I recently read Charles S. White, MD’s guest editorial in this journal [Chest radiology: Not just an academic subspecialty, Nov. 2017]. In making his case for thoracic imaging fellowships, Charlie noted that many radiologists think that “anyone can read chest imaging.” To his credit, he thoroughly debunked that contention. Nevertheless, it hit a nerve. Actually, several nerves. Many radiologists, including many of those within my department and elsewhere, also believe that any radiologist can read body imaging—meaning sonography, CT, and MR of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis. Anytime, anywhere, no matter how seemingly simple or how apparently complicated. I understand—particularly as a body imager with clinical and academic interests in emergency radiology and other areas beyond torso imaging—that the vast majority of community and academic radiology departments, including mine, don’t have the luxury of having every examination interpreted by a fellowship-trained attending radiologist with extensive experience, particularly after hours. However—and no offense meant to those whose responsibility it is to staff departments—in my experience, body imaging becomes a dumping ground. Whereas breast imaging or interventional radiology cannot and will not be staffed by “just anyone,” as they both require subspecialty training, experience in specific procedures, and certifications, in marked contrast it’s often a case of, “Well, let’s put in the musculoskeletal radiologist or the nuclear medicine physician” or, yes, even the interventional radiologist, when body imaging needs to be covered. When someone applies for a job here at my institution, after years in neuroradiology or pediatric radiology, they’re told, “We expect you to do body imaging, too,” and that’s OK. So why did I do a fellowship in body imaging (albeit a relatively general one)? Why doesn’t 21 years of attending-level experience matter if “just anyone” can do it? It doesn’t, until problems arise and mistakes are made. And then it matters. A lot. Lately, it seems that more and more of the scans I interpret are NOT straightforward, prompting me to make comments to my residents like, “Aren’t you glad you weren’t alone on call for this one?” and “If I were just coming out of training, this patient’s images would really trouble me, and even at my level they still do.” Challenging cross-sectional images at my community/university hybrid hospital today alone included—no exaggeration—a spontaneously ruptured spleen in a patient with lymphoma; an atypical presentation of aspergillosis in a patient with vasculitis and emphysema; appendiceal mucoceles without and with appendicitis; complications of pulmonary embolism; and Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (Good thing I went to that RSNA film panel two years ago—I was all over that last scan). I realize this is a very complicated and nuanced topic that gets to the heart of what we are as radiologists—diagnostic, interventional, or both—who should be doing what, when, and why. In fact, body imaging—and even more so emergency radiology—is among the most general subspecialties in radiology. Does the body imager have to deal with, on a routine or semi-routine basis, breast, neuro-, musculoskeletal, and vascular imaging findings? Yes. Similarly, isn’t there a portion of the lungs on each and every thoracic spine CT and MR examination which neuroradiologists have to interpret? Yes.These divisions are somewhat arbitrary, and we all have to know something about everything—or at least know when to ask a colleague for help. Did I do a fellowship in skin imaging, and yet don’t I frequently see cutaneous and subcutaneous findings on imaging examinations? No and yes. Which brings me to my final point, recently emphasized in a meeting with our incoming department chairman, Michael Recht, MD: increased radiologist subspecialization may help to hold back the threat of artificial intelligence (AI) as our imminent replacement. This brings to mind a rather challenging patient who had not just one but three factors within the abdomen contributing to her extensive deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. Could Watson and his AI colleagues handle this one? Probably not now, and hopefully not for at least a few more years. When Watson can beat the best of us at film panels and “Diagnosis, Please,” then perhaps, as with Ken Jennings on “Jeopardy!,” it will be time for us to lay down our Dictaphones. So, is it true that “anyone can cook,” as stated by Auguste Gusteau, the chef from “Ratatouille”? Well, maybe, but certainly not at the level of a Thomas Keller or an Eric Ripert. Is it true that “any radiologist can read body imaging”? Well, maybe yes. But then again, probably not. Katz DS. Some body imagers are more equal than others. Appl Radiol. 2018;47(2):4-5. By Douglas S. Katz, MD, FACR\| February 05, 2018 Douglas S. Katz, MD, FACR Dr. Katz is Director of Body Imaging and Vice Chair for Clinical Research and Education, NYU Winthrop Hospital, Mineola, Long Island, New York, and Professor of Radiology at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line491
__label__wiki	0.749117	0.749117	Factors associated with damage accrual in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: results from the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) Inception Cohort Extended report Ian N Bruce1,2, Aidan G O'Keeffe3, Vern Farewell4, John G Hanly5, Susan Manzi6, Li Su4, Dafna D Gladman7, Sang-Cheol Bae8, Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero7, Juanita Romero-Diaz9, Caroline Gordon10, Daniel J Wallace11, Ann E Clarke12, Sasha Bernatsky13, Ellen M Ginzler14, David A Isenberg15, Anisur Rahman15, Joan T Merrill16, Graciela S Alarcón17, Barri J Fessler17, Paul R Fortin18, Michelle Petri19, Kristjan Steinsson20, Mary Anne Dooley21, Munther A Khamashta22, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman23, Asad A Zoma24, Gunnar K Sturfelt25, Ola Nived25, Cynthia Aranow26, Meggan Mackay26, Manuel Ramos-Casals27, Ronald F van Vollenhoven28, Kenneth C Kalunian29, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza30, Sam Lim31, Diane L Kamen32, Christine A Peschken33, Murat Inanc34, Murray B Urowitz7 1Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Institute for Inflammation and Repair, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK 2The Kellgren Centre for Rheumatology, NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK 3Department of Statistical Science, University College London, London, UK 4MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK 5Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine and Department of Pathology, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 6Department of Medicine, West Penn Allegheny Health System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 7Centre for Prognosis Studies in the Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 8Department of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Korea 9Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutrición, Mexico City, Mexico 10Rheumatology Research Group, School of Immunity and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK 11Cedars-Sinai/David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 12Division of Rheumatology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada 13Divisions of Clinical Immunology/Allergy and Clinical Epidemiology, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 14Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA 15Centre for Rheumatology Research, University College London, London, UK 16Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA 17Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA 18Division of Rheumatology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec et Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada 19Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 20Center for Rheumatology Research, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland 21Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 22Lupus Research Unit, The Rayne Institute, St Thomas’ Hospital, King's College London School of Medicine, London, UK 23Northwestern University and Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA 24Lanarkshire Centre for Rheumatology, Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride, UK 25Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Lund, Lund, Sweden 26Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, USA 27Josep Font Autoimmune Diseases Laboratory, IDIBAPS, Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain 28Unit for Clinical Therapy Research Inflammatory Diseases (ClinTRID), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 29UCSD School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA 30Autoimmune Diseases Research Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, BioCruces Health Research Institute, Hospital Universitario Cruces, University of the Basque Country, Barakaldo, Spain 31Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 32Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA 33University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 34Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey Correspondence to Professor Ian N Bruce, Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, Institute for Inflammation and Repair, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK; ian.bruce{at}manchester.ac.uk Background and aims We studied damage accrual and factors determining development and progression of damage in an international cohort of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. Methods The Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) Inception Cohort recruited patients within 15 months of developing four or more 1997 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for SLE; the SLICC/ACR damage index (SDI) was measured annually. We assessed relative rates of transition using maximum likelihood estimation in a multistate model. The Kaplan–Meier method estimated the probabilities for time to first increase in SDI score and Cox regression analysis was used to assess mortality. Results We recruited 1722 patients; mean (SD) age 35.0 (13.4) years at cohort entry. Patients with damage at enrolment were more likely to have further worsening of SDI (SDI 0 vs ≥1; p<0.001). Age, USA African race/ethnicity, SLEDAI-2K score, steroid use and hypertension were associated with transition from no damage to damage, and increase(s) in pre-existing damage. Male gender (relative transition rates (95% CI) 1.48 (1.06 to 2.08)) and USA Caucasian race/ethnicity (1.63 (1.08 to 2.47)) were associated with SDI 0 to ≥1 transitions; Asian race/ethnicity patients had lower rates of new damage (0.60 (0.39 to 0.93)). Antimalarial use was associated with lower rates of increases in pre-existing damage (0.63 (0.44 to 0.89)). Damage was associated with future mortality (HR (95% CI) 1.46 (1.18 to 1.81) per SDI point). Conclusions Damage in SLE predicts future damage accrual and mortality. We identified several potentially modifiable risk factors for damage accrual; an integrated strategy to address these may improve long-term outcomes. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-205171 Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem autoimmune disease in which adverse long-term outcomes remain a major challenge. In assessing patients with SLE, three disease dimensions are considered in formal outcomes studies: inflammatory disease activity, organ damage and health related quality of life (HRQOL).1 Damage is principally assessed using the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC)/American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Damage Index (SDI), which has been extensively validated.2 ,3 SDI items represent irreversible damage that has occurred after the diagnosis of SLE. However, an item does not have to be attributable to lupus.2 As a general rule, items should be present for at least 6 months and once recorded in the SDI they are permanent such that the score cannot decrease. The mean SDI tends to increase over time,4 and in time the majority of SLE patients will accrue damage. The SDI also predicts future mortality.5–7 It is therefore important to understand factors related to the development of damage. To date, studies have mainly focused on established SLE cohorts from a single centre or region.8–10 A number of factors have been associated with higher SDI scores, including older age at SLE onset,11 ,12 Hispanic and African ancestry race/ethnicity,8 ,13 ,14 chronic disease activity12 ,15 and major flares.16 Steroid exposure also predicts future damage, especially late-onset damage.8 ,16 ,17 There is also accumulating evidence that antimalarials (AMs) exert a protective role even after adjusting for their propensity for use in milder disease.18 We aimed to study damage accrual over the early years of follow-up in patients enrolled into the SLICC Inception Cohort. We focused on the rate of accrual of total damage as well as the impact of demographic, racial/ethnic and geographical variables. We also assessed the contribution of disease-related factors, therapy, co-morbidities and serological biomarkers to damage accrual. Finally, we sought to determine the relationship between damage and HRQOL, as well as future mortality. SLICC Inception Cohort study SLICC comprises 31 centres from 11 countries in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. An inception cohort was recruited from 2000 to 2011. Data were submitted to the co-ordinating centre at the University of Toronto at enrolment, and patients were reviewed annually. Laboratory tests necessary to evaluate disease activity and damage parameters were performed locally. The study was approved by the Institutional Research Ethics Boards of participating centres in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki's guidelines for research in humans. Patients and clinical assessments Patients were enrolled within 15 months of recognition of four or more 1997 ACR classification criteria for SLE.19 We included patients who either had two study visits or had died after their first study visit, that is, patients who had two data points to model statistically. There were no specific exclusion criteria other than failing to meet four ACR criteria and it being >15 months since diagnosis. We noted demographic features including age, gender, race/ethnicity, geographical region and years in post-secondary education. We also noted the number of ACR criteria fulfilled by the baseline visit. At each visit we also assessed the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index 2000 (SLEDAI-2K)20 and the SDI.21 At each visit we recorded whether the patient was taking corticosteroids (yes or no). In addition to steroid use, we also recorded whether patients were taking AMs, immunosuppressives (ISs), or both AMs and ISs. Co-morbidities (recorded at each visit) included in our analysis were diabetes mellitus (physician confirmed diagnosis) and hypertension (systolic blood pressure >140 mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure >90 mm Hg and/or taking antihypertensive medications). Baseline serological markers included antibodies to double-stranded DNA and C3 and C4 complement (in local clinical laboratories at each centre). Antibodies to cardiolipin, β-2-glycoprotein I and the lupus anti-coagulant were measured at a central laboratory at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation as previously described.22 HRQOL was assessed using the Medical Outcomes Survey Short-Form 36 (SF-36). All patients provided written informed consent. Simple descriptive statistics were used to summarise enrolment data. The SDI scores are discrete values that are observed over time for each patient. Thus, we used a multistate model for transitions among damage states, defined by the SDI scores. Specifically, at each visit a patient is assigned to one of the damage states according to their current SDI score. Since there are relatively few transitions to states 5–11, we merged these states into one state indicating an SDI score ≥5. We employed a multistate model with seven states, shown pictorially below: Patients may only show deterioration in the SDI damage index over time and patients may die at any time during observation. Multistate models allow estimation of the transition rates between these observed states, and these transition rates can be modelled as a function of explanatory variables (both time-independent and time-dependent). If λij(t) denotes the transition intensity from state i to state j at time t, then λij(t) may be modelled as follows: where λ0ij(t) denotes a baseline state i to state j transition intensity at time t, T denotes matrix transpose, and X(t) is a vector of explanatory variables with associated explanatory variable effects on the state i to state j intensity denoted by βij. In this work, we assume constant baseline transition intensities for the relevant transitions. That is, λ0ij(t)=λ0ij for all t, for the state i to state j transitions. Maximum likelihood estimation is used to estimate the unknown model parameters (λ0ij and βij) for each transition in the model together with their associated SEs. The correlation among the states of a patient at the different assessment visits is directly modelled through the Markov assumption that the future evolution of a patient's damage process depends only on his/her current state and not on his/her previous history. Initial modelling was based on a proportional hazards assumption and assumed common explanatory variable effects across selected transition rates. Notably we assumed that transition rates and explanatory variable effects between damage states where SDI ≥1 were the same and also that transitions to death from these higher SDI states were equal. Explanatory variable effects are reported as relative rates of transition, together with corresponding 95% CIs, obtained using maximum likelihood estimation. Age at diagnosis was standardised as (age in years−34.5)/13.4. For disease activity we report effects corresponding to 3-point increments in SLEDAI-2K.The Kaplan–Meier method was used to estimate the probabilities relating to time until first worsening of SDI score. For the modelling of HRQOL outcomes, we fitted linear models using generalised estimating equations (GEEs) to account for the correlation among observations over time within each patient. Standard Cox regression analysis was performed with patient survival as the outcome and functions of damage scores over time as explanatory variables. There were a total of 1722 patients in the SLICC Inception Cohort up to September 2011 and the mean (SD) number of follow-up visits was 4.25 (2.72). Demographic and disease-related factors at clinic entry are summarised in table 1. At baseline, 671 patients had their SDI scores recorded as they had more than 6 months of disease; of these 671 patients, 130 (19.4%) had an SDI score of 1 or more at the baseline visit. For this group (figure 1A), the overall estimate of the probability of SDI first worsening at a time greater than 6 years since clinic entry is approximately 0.58 (figure 1A). Put another way, of the 348 patients who were observed 6 years after clinic entry, 178 (51.1%) had at least one item of damage by that time point. When we stratified these 671 patients by baseline SDI score, those with initial damage were significantly more likely to have further worsening of the SDI at each follow-up visit (p<0.001) (figure 1B). Baseline characteristics of the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics cohort at entry to the study (A) and (B) Kaplan–Meier plots demonstrating the estimate of the proportions of patients who remain free of damage progression/SDI worsening for the patients within the SLICC cohort who had their SDI reported at their baseline visit (n=671) (A) and in this cohort stratified by whether or not they had an SDI score 0 (n=541) or SDI >0 (n=130) at baseline (B). SDI, Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC)/American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Damage Index. There were 1502 (1337 female and 165 male) patients who had at least two clinic visits or who had one clinic visit and subsequently died. In this group the predicted probability of remaining with the same damage score over a 5-year period was conditional on the pre-existing SDI score. The probability of death also increased with higher SDI scores (table 2). The predicted probability of a patients’ SDI state or mortality in 5 years’ time, conditional on their current SDI score Influence of age, gender, race/ethnicity and geographical region Increasing age and male gender both had a significant influence on the probability of damage accrual. Higher standardised age increased the risk of future damage, especially in those with no current damage, and the influence of age was non-linear. The significant effect of (standardised age)2 suggests that the effect of increases in age is most marked in older patients. Therefore, assuming all other covariates have the same values for each age at diagnosis compared to a patient aged 35.4 years (the mean age of diagnosis), the relative transition rate was 1.58 for a patient aged 50 years. Compared to a 50-year-old, the relative transition rate was 2.51 for a 60-year-old, and for patients between 60 and 70 years of age the transition rate increased by a factor of 4.52. We also found that the effects of race/ethnicity and location of study sites were not independent (Pearson's χ2=2096.775, 16 df; p<0.001) (data on file) and that both had a significant impact on damage accrual. We therefore combined these into new variables (tables 3 and 4). Compared to Caucasians in Europe or Canada, USA patients of African ancestry had a higher risk of moving from no damage to damage and also of progressing from baseline damage to higher damage (relative transition rates (RTR) (95% CI) 1.99 (1.33 to 2.96) and 2.55 (1.92, 3.40), respectively), while Asians had lower transition rates (0.66 (0.43, 0.99)). Hispanic patients in Mexico also had a higher risk of progressing from baseline damage to higher damage (RTR (95% CI) 1.36 (1.02 to 1.83)) (tables 3 and 4). Factors associated with the development of new damage that is, transition from SDI 0 to ≥1 in a multivariate, multistate model Factors associated with progression of damage in patients with present damage that is, transition from SDI ≥1 to a higher score in a multivariate, multistate model Clinical, therapeutic and serological factors associated with development and/or progression of damage Corticosteroid use, immunosuppressive use, SLEDAI-2K score and hypertension were all significantly associated with both the development of damage in patients free of damage at baseline, as well as progression of damage in patients with baseline damage (tables 3 and 4). The number of ACR criteria at enrolment was also associated with higher transitions from SDI 0 to ≥1 (RTR (95% CI) 1.19 (1.06 to 1.34)) as was IS use (1.69 (1.08, 2.63)). In addition, AM use was associated with a reduced transition rate to higher damage (0.60 (0.42, 0.84)) (tables 3 and 4). Multivariate models Multivariate, multistate models for both transitions confirmed that age, USA patients of African ancestry, SLEDAI-2K score, steroid use and hypertension were predictive in both models of damage accrual (tables 3 and 4). For transition from SDI 0 to ≥1, male gender (RTR (95% CI) 1.48 (1.06 to 2.08)) and USA Caucasian race/ethnicity (RTR (95% CI) 1.63 (1.08 to 2.47)) were also associated with damage, while patients of Asian ethnicity had lower rates of transition (RTR (95% CI) 0.60 (0.39 to 0.93)). For transitions from SDI ≥1 to higher damage, patients taking AMs also had lower rates of transition (RTR (95% CI) 0.63 (0.44 to 0.89)). We found no evidence that baseline autoantibody status influenced damage accrual. We also noted a significant interaction between SLEDAI-2K and steroid use for transitions from SDI 0 to ≥1 (SLEDAI/3×(Corticosteroids = Yes); RTR (95% CI) 1.33 (1.02 to 1.74)). This suggests that the association between disease activity and transition to damage is greater for those patients taking corticosteroids. In a secondary analysis we also assessed the influence of having ‘active renal disease’ during follow-up. We found that transition to higher damage states was greater in those with active renal disease (RTR (95% CI) SDI 0 to ≥1: 1.62 (1.10 to 2.38) and SDI ≥1 to higher damage: 1.66 (1.28 to 2.15), respectively). Influence of SDI on HRQOL The physical component domains of the SF-36 were more influenced by damage than the mental health components (figure 2). In a regression analysis with GEEs, the Physical Component Summary score (PCS) declined steadily with increased damage (table 5). We also found that PCS values were most influenced by recent changes in damage (coefficient (95% CI) −1.36 (−1.99 to −0.73) per SDI unit) and to a lesser extent by pre-existing damage (coefficient (95% CI) −0.39 (−0.36 to −0.58)). Influence of damage state on the Physical Component Summary Score (PCS) of the SF-36 in SLE patients Spider plot of how each component score of the SF-36 varies according to the damage state. BP, bodily pain; GH, general health; MH, mental health; PF, physical functioning; RE, role emotional; RF, role physical; SF, social functioning; VT, vitality. State 0: SDI 0; State 1: SDI 1; State 2: SDI 2; State 3: SDI 3; State 4: SDI 4; State 5: SDI 5 or more. SF-36, Medical Outcomes Survey Short-Form 36. Influence of SDI on mortality risk To date there have been 41 deaths in the cohort. Using a Cox proportional hazards model with SDI score classed as a numerical variable rather than a factor, the SDI score was associated with an increased HR of 1.46 (95% CI 1.18 to 1.81) for mortality. A generalised likelihood ratio test of this model against a model with SDI score stratified by factors produced a test statistic of 14.25 (p=0.007 when compared to the quantiles of a χ2 distribution on 4 df). This suggests that the level of damage has a significant effect on mortality but there is not a simple relationship with SDI score (i.e. log-linear). In a large international SLE inception cohort we have observed a steady accrual of damage over time and as has been reported by others, patients with damage are more likely to develop further damage over time and are also at higher risk of future mortality.5 ,7 ,9 ,14 We also found that damage has a significant effect on physical functioning. This steady accrual of damage has also been reported by other groups.10 ,14 ,23 ,24 We found no evidence of a plateau effect in our early cohort; studies that have suggested a plateau effect have tended to follow a cohort for more than 10 years.12 These observations are of clinical importance as the SDI is relatively easy to administer with some training in routine clinical settings and clearly identifies lupus patients at particularly increased risk of future adverse health outcomes. Damage, especially a recent increase in the SDI, had a significant influence on physical functioning. Patients with recent damage may experience the maximal physical disability soon after acquiring the damage item. Over time, this may be ameliorated by physical adaptation or by corrective interventions. For example, patients with cataracts may later have lens replacement, patients with osteonecrosis may have joint arthroplasty, and patients with stroke are likely to rehabilitate over time. Our data also allowed us to estimate the probabilities of developing future damage based on the patient's current SDI score. Such data allow us to consider how the SDI may be used as a clinical trial endpoint. For example, the estimated probability of remaining damage-free at 2 years is 0.844 if a patient has no damage at baseline. If there is one unit of damage, the estimated probability is 0.664 (similar for more than one). If we want to detect a doubling of the odds of remaining damage-free with an intervention, then in the first case the sample size needed (test at 5% and 80% power) would be approximately 670 (335 per group) and 349 (175 per group) in the second scenario. We found a non-linear effect of age, with the effect of increases in age being most marked in older patients. Certain damage items such as cataracts, stroke and osteoporosis are, of course, more common with increasing age in the general population. Therefore, there may be a greater sensitivity to the additional effects of SLE and drug adverse effects with increasing age due to reduced organ reserve. There were also important differences among subsets of patients according to race/ethnicity and location. USA patients of African ancestry have an increased risk of damage accrual and USA Caucasians were also more likely to develop new damage. Of note, Asians had a lower risk of developing damage. There are a number of explanations for these findings, including differences in the clinical phenotype and/or its severity across different racial/ethnic groups. Response to therapy may also vary in different racial/ethnic groups25 ,26 and socio-economic factors and access to healthcare may also contribute. We used post-secondary education as a surrogate for socio-economic status, which was not significant in our models. Other more direct measures of socio-economic status were not collected but may have helped address this question more fully. A number of similar factors drove development of new damage and/or progression of existing damage. Levels of disease activity, use of corticosteroids and hypertension all significantly influenced damage accrual. The significant interaction between disease activity and steroid therapy on new damage suggests that both act together to enhance the development of irreversible organ changes. Conversely, AMs were associated with reduced progression of damage, particularly in patients with baseline damage. These are all potentially modifiable risk factors. A multidimensional approach to damage prevention may therefore be needed and components of this would include better suppression of disease activity, minimising/avoiding corticosteroid use, use of AMs from an early stage and close control of hypertension. Also, if a novel therapy for SLE could achieve better disease control and steroid-sparing/avoidance, this ‘double benefit’ may translate to significant effects on damage accrual; indeed the interaction of inflammation and steroid therapy we found suggests there may be major gains in reducing future damage by such an approach. Our study has a number of strengths. This is a large international inception cohort from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds and geographical locations which has helped us understand how these factors influence damage development. We could also estimate probabilities of damage progression to help inform the use of the SDI as a clinical trial endpoint. There are some limitations to our study. Patients were followed annually so it is difficult to fully model disease activity and therapeutic exposures. We also lack data on psychosocial factors which may influence damage progression. Sundaramurthy et al previously demonstrated that locus of control and time orientation were strong predictors of future damage.27 Our cohort, followed at a number of major teaching centres, may represent a lower estimate of damage accrual rates than that seen in general rheumatology practice; conversely, the tertiary referral case mix in many centres may act in the opposite way to influence our estimates. Finally, while our multivariate modelling suggests an independent effect of steroids and AMs on certain outcomes, we cannot exclude the possibility of residual confounding and that unmeasured factors may also influence the use of these agents in SLE patients. In conclusion, we describe a steady increase in damage over time in SLE patients, with pre-existing damage being an important predictor of future damage accrual. We have also identified a number of modifiable risk factors that can be targeted as an integrated strategy. Overall, the SDI may therefore act in a way analogous to an erosion score in rheumatoid arthritis and could also act as a valid intermediate surrogate outcome for future mortality in SLE clinical trials. We are grateful for the generous donation of our patients’ time and the dedication of all the fellows, research coordinators and research assistants in the SLICC network to the completion of this work. Strand V, Gladman D, Isenberg D, . 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Handling editor Tore K Kvien Correction notice This article has been corrected since it was published Online First. Figure 1 has been corrected. Funding INB is a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator and is supported by Arthritis Research UK, The Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, the NIHR Biomedical Research Unit Funding Scheme, the NIHR Manchester Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility and the Manchester Biomedical Research Centre. AGO'K and VF were supported by MRC (UK) funding U105261167. MBU was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (grant MOP-49529), the Lupus Foundation of Ontario, the Ontario Lupus Association, Lupus UK, the Lupus Foundation of America, the Lupus Alliance of Western New York, the Conn Smythe Foundation, the Lupus Flare Foundation, and the Tolfo family of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. S-CB was supported by the Korea Healthcare Technology R&D Project, Ministry for Health and Welfare, Republic of Korea (A120404). CG was supported by Lupus UK, the Arthritis Research Campaign, and the NIHR/Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, Birmingham, UK. GSA was supported by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (NIH/NIAMS grant P60-AR-48095). AEC was supported by the Singer Family Fund for Lupus Research; she is also a Fonds de la Recherche en Sante du Quebec National Scholar. SB was supported by the Fonds de la Recherche en Sante du Quebec Jeune Chercheure and the McGill University Health Centre Research Institute; she is also a recipient of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Junior Investigator Award and a Canadian Arthritis Network Scholar Award. DAI and AR were supported by the National Institute for Health Research, University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre. PRF is a Distinguished Senior Investigator of The Arthritis Society with additional support from the Arthritis Centre of Excellence, University of Toronto. JGH was supported by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (grant MOP-86526). DDG was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. MP was supported by the Hopkins Lupus Cohort (grant AR-43727) and the Johns Hopkins University General Clinical Research Center (grant M01-RR-00052). MAD was supported by the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill General Clinical Research Center (RR00046). ON and GKS were supported by grants from the Medical Faculty at Lund University, Swedish Combine Projects, the Crafoord Foundation and Lund University Hospital. RRG was supported by the NIH (grants UL 1RR 025741, K24-AR-02318 and P60-AR-48098). DLK was supported by the NIH (grants UL1 RR029882 and P60 AR062755). We acknowledge funding support to SLICC for this study from GlaxoSmithKline and Human Genome Sciences. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the National Institute for Health Research or the Department of Health. Competing interests None. Ethics approval IRBs and Ethics Committees at all participating centres approved this study. Data sharing statement The study data have been archived and are available on request. No additional unpublished data are available. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. 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__label__wiki	0.753855	0.753855	LADIES FIRST: GET THERE EARLY June 6th, 2014 \| Ladies Football Captain Caroline O’Hanlon hopes a good turnout of fans can help maximise Armagh’s advantage from playing their Ulster Championship quarter-final as an Athletic Grounds curtain-raiser this Sunday. The mouth-watering clash with bitter rivals Tyrone will take place ahead of the corresponding men’s match against Cavan and the ladies have launched a ‘Get There Early’ campaign encouraging Armagh supporters to take in both games. It is being backed by Armagh greats past and present including Oisin McConville, Paul McGrane, Ger Houlahan, Jarlath Burns and Aaron Kernan, with their support greatly appreciated by ladies legend O’Hanlon. “The girls are grateful for these endorsements from such icons of Armagh football and we’ll certainly appreciate the support of every fan of the men’s team who can get there in time for our game on Sunday,” says the double All Star, a player undoubtedly worthy of this special stage to showcase her talents. “A lot of our team grew up watching the epic encounters between the Armagh men and Tyrone and the rivalry between the counties has become just as intense in ladies football during my career. “For a few years there we weren’t competitive enough, dropping down the divisions in the National League and falling out of the Senior Championship, but now we’re on the up again and this should be a cracking contest. “They’ve kept their place in Division One this spring but we’ve finally secured promotion from Division Three at the third attempt and there’s a positive vibe in the camp. “We played Tyrone in the Ulster semi-final last year and only lost by a point even though with hindsight the absolute belief maybe wasn’t there then. We’d chances near the end but couldn’t take them. “After that we took All Ireland champions Cork right to the wire in the qualifiers and although another one-pointer was hard to take, the recent NFL final suggests we’ve cracked how to close out tight games which was a problem last year. “Naturally this will be a significant step-up from playing Division Three and we’re well aware that Tyrone have quality players but there’s no way we’ll fear them or have an inferiority complex. “Playing in the Athletic Grounds is a big boost for us and we’re determined to do people proud. The last time we reached an Ulster final we beat Tyrone in a curtain-raiser along the way so that has good memories. “We can’t count on the Athletic Grounds doing it for us but it can undoubtedly become a significant factor in our favour provided we get everything else right in terms of our preparation and performance. “Unlike the claustrophobic pressure on us as overwhelming favourites in the league final, this time Tyrone will carry the burden of expectation and for us it’s all about opportunity. We’re determined to grasp it,” she insists. In O’Hanlon and vice-captain Caoimhe Morgan, who skippered the team to that last Ulster final, Armagh have heavyweight leaders at the heart of an experienced core supplemented by a new generation of outstanding young talent headed by the influential Fionnuala McKenna. There was certainly no love lost between the teams back in the mid to late noughties with several bad-tempered battles being the stuff of legend but there appears to be less animosity now. Quite a few players from both the current teams have worked well together for Queen’s under Armagh manager James Daly and Neamh Woods was part of O’Hanlon’s Larkfield netball team which won the NI Premier League and Senior Cup double this spring. Along with the leading Armagh girls, the great Gemma Begley and Woods were key members of the Ulster team who retained their interpro title the weekend before last, though interestingly there were six Orchard representatives in the panel compared to just those two from Tyrone. Ulster skipper Begley scored 2-3 in the final but the ferociously combative Morgan earned special plaudits from provincial manager Paula Cunningham for her exceptional performances at the back. The battle between her and Begley should be worth the admission money alone, with the men’s match a mere bonus, and will be a key component of the contest along with the extent to which the imperious O’Hanlon and fit-again Sinead McCleary can command midfield. Article by Richard Bullick	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line502
__label__wiki	0.796916	0.796916	Ghostbusters Fans Are Split Over New Trailer Credit: Sony Picture Entertainment Source: Youtube The first official trailer for Ghostbuster: Afterlife is out, and fans are split on how they feel about it. Directed by Jason Reitman, who is actually the son of the original Ghostbusters director, Ivan Reitman. Has a lot on his plate with this fourth installment in the Ghostbusters franchise. After the huge fan disagreement with the last all-female Ghostbusters reboot, which came out in 2016, staring Melissa McCarthy. Ghostbusters is moving in a new direction with this story. The trailer focuses on kids this time, staring Mckenna Grace, and Finn Wolfhard. It will be taking place years after the original Ghostbusters. According to IMDB The original cast from the 1984 Ghostbusters film will also be making a comeback. The trailer also pays homage to actor Harold Ramis, who played Egon in the original movies, but passed away in 2014. Even showing his, and the team's original ghost busting jump suits. So with a star cast, nostalgia, and a son of a original director behind this. Why are fans so split with their reactions? Currently sitting at half a million views with 98K likes and 4.5k dislikes on YouTube, at the time of writing, there seems to be 4 camps of opinions and thoughts on first impressions of this trailer. The first group loves it and only has positive and fun things to say. The second seems to be upset that everyone gave up so quickly on the 2016 Ghostbusters not giving it a squeal. The third group appears to like it, but are cautions of the writing, hoping it's not just a "cash grab" with lazy writing, but many who have this fear also mentioned that this is only the first trailer. The final camp is calling this "Stranger Things the movie." Ghostbusters: Afterlife will be released July 10th, 2020. You can watch the trailer for yourself, and see what group you agree with here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahZFCF--uRY Filed Under: ghostbusters, movies Categories: Articles, Videos	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line507
__label__wiki	0.899363	0.899363	Rio Ferdinand Gets Emotional As He Dedicates The Best Single Documentary Win TO His Late Wife Rebecca Ellison News by Joey Jordan Published on 14 May,2018 Updated on 18 Dec,2020 Former English Captain Rio Ferdinand Becomes Emotional During An Acceptance Speech In BAFTA Awards-Dedicates His Award To Late Wife Rebecca Ellison. Former footballer, Rio Ferdinand has won the BAFTA Award for Best Single Documentary for the Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad. Ferdinand dedicated the award to his late wife Rebecca Ellison. He became emotional and almost burst into tears while he gave an acceptance speech. His wife Rebecca Ellison died of breast cancer in May 2015. The couple shared three children together before Rebecca's untimely death. Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand was close to tears when he dedicated the BAFTA for Best Single Documentary to his late wife Rebecca Ellison. CAPTION: Former footballer Rio Ferdinand got emotional during a BAFTA acceptance speech SOURCE: Daily Mail The 39-year-old ex-footballer won the award for his BBC documentary Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad and he paid tribute to Rebecca in his acceptance speech at The Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday. CAPTION: Rio Ferdinand and his late wife Rebecca Ellison SOURCE: Daily Mail Ferdinand said in his acceptance speech, I'm normally quite used to picking up trophies. Thanks to BAFTA and all the other nominees, but also to BBC for believing in the project, all the guys at New Era, the management team, it's been quite a crazy whirlwind experience. He continued, I didn't do this for any other reason other than my three kids, The worst thing to come out of this is that I get quite emotional now. I'm not quite used to it. Rio went on to talk about his new girlfriend Kate Wright, This documentary has propelled me forward into a period of happiness where my kids are happy I've got a beautiful girlfriend. Thank you, BBC, thank you very much. It was the first time that Ferdinand and former TOWIE star Kate made their first public appearance as a couple which comes 16 months after they first met at a barbecue in Dubai in January 2017. CAPTION: Rio Ferdinand and his girlfriend Kate Wright SOURCE: Metro Kate, announcing the decision to quit her show last year, talked about her relationship as: I'm taking a step back from the public eye, I want to keep my life private as I lived my previous relationship on Towie, my priority right now is Rio and the family. Ferdinand's ex-wife Rebecca died of breast cancer in May 2015 when she was aged 34. Ferdinand and Ellison had been in a relationship for around a decade before her untimely death. The couple shared three children together; Tia Ferdinand, Lorenz Ferdinand, Tate Ferdinand. 11 Mar,2020 Biography by Arsad 05 Mar,2020 Biography by Shally 04 Mar,2020 Biography by Basanta 20 Oct,2020 News by Luna 23 Sep,2020 News by Luna 05 Aug,2020 News by Luna 17 May,2020 News by Dabria 10 May,2020 News by Arsad Georgia Groome Gives Birth, Welcomes First Child, a Baby Girl, With Rupert Grint	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line514
__label__wiki	0.733592	0.733592	Posted inIndia, South Asia, World The new Babel to India’s curse of personality worship by Raja Murthy November 1, 2018 Police stand guard near the Statue Of Unity by the Sardar Sarovar Dam in India's western Gujarat state. Photo: AFP/Sam Panthaky False pride recurs as a Tower of Babel curse of humanity, and the Indian government succumbed to this bane of Babel on Wednesday. Ignoring wisdom and protesting locals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the “world’s tallest” statue, ironically of Indian freedom fighter Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. It’s folly of the kind that costs prime ministers their reputation – and re-election. Independent India’s first home minister, Vallabhbhai Patel might have fired any misguided genius for spending 29 billion rupees (US$329 million) for a statue. He lived a spartan, self-sacrificing life. And the edifice in his memory features him standing barefoot, in simple attire. Called the “Statue of Unity,” the 182-meter tribute towers twice the height of New York’s Statue of Liberty. An unimpressed Business Standard noted: “The cost of the statue could have funded two new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campuses, five Indian Institute of Management (IIM) campuses and six Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) missions to Mars.” Or, the statue cost could have irrigated more than 40,000 hectares of land. Instead, it displaced farmers and tribals in 72 villages, with some of the affected farmers threatening to drown themselves during the Vallabhbhai statue inauguration. And Vallabhbhai was born in a farmer’s family. Indian Air Force helicopters shower rose petals on the ‘Statue Of Unity,’ dedicated to Indian independence leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The world’s tallest statue, it overlooks the Sardar Sarovar Dam in western India’s Gujarat state. Great leaders and saints never asked posterity to hoist statues, label roads in their name. But it’s easier to pay lip service of symbolisms, offer flowery rituals in hollow respect, than invest in the harder work of paying true respect by living an honest life, and serving fellow beings as they did. As an ancient civilization and a young democracy, India in its path to reclaiming its Golden Age runs into weaknesses that poisoned its culture across time. One such lethal poison is blind personality worship, the sickening sycophancy and empty symbolisms to eminent lives. The Modi government plans more Towers of Babel, with a project to build off the Mumbai coast a similar $300 million statue of the Maratha warrior king Shivaji. I wonder if India’s prime minister ever visited the Tata Memorial Hospital in central Mumbai, seen cancer-affected, bedridden children bravely smiling through pain, their misery-struck parents, once prosperous families ruined by costs of cancer treatment and now living in the streets outside. Then maybe he would have difficulty wasting $600 million on two statues – when 2% of that money could save thousands of lives. Personality worship and the curse of sycophancy are part of the same mania: blind idolizing of individuals, be it movie stars, political leaders, great kings of history, saints and the gods who too are subject to the eternal law of impermanence. Indian or Asian culture is not alone in personality worship. God Save the Queen is England’s national anthem, not “God Save England.” But unlike India’s VIP culture that has “Very Important Pests” disrupting routine life, Queen Elizabeth cannot get away with traffic violations, or flaunt hundred-vehicle motorcades that block citizens rushing to the hospital, to the office, or to catch a train or plane. India paid a heavy price for personality worship. More than 2,500 years ago, the Fully Enlightened Super-Scientist called the Buddha compassionately shared the practical path to true happiness. He taught Vipassana to clean the mind and reduce the ego that causes self-inflicted suffering. Yet soon after the Buddha’s passing away, personality-worship corrupted his practical teachings to another sect called “Buddhism.” The Buddha was not a “Buddhist.” A weakened India fell to invaders for centuries. Like a Trojan horse waiting to lure a 21st-century fort of fools, personality worship such as statue mania and empty symbolisms again poison practical values, and the corruption-free hard work that individuals and a country needs for real progress. Tagged: Arts & Culture, Buddha, Economy, Entertainment, Food & Drink, Gujarat, India, Narendra Modi, Opinion, Personality Cults, Politics, Sardar Patel Statue, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Shivaji statue, Statue Of Unity, Tata Memorial Hospital, Technology, Vipassana 11 replies on “The new Babel to India’s curse of personality worship” Prashant Jha says: He is so biased, loosing faith in asia times after reading this fully negative article. Kumar Vikram says: It will grow tourism you lol!! Binod Kumar Singh says: I found nothing interesting in your opinion… I can only say you know nothing Mr. Raja Aravind Venkatram says: With articles like these, it is no surprise that rank and file Indians or even americans for that matter hardly bother with what the MSM says. Characters like this author need to explain why they stayed silent during the many ego trips of Congress, Mamta Banerjee and many Left-wing politicans. Chandan TP says: The author and others like him never bothered to be critical of Maunmohan Singh and his Italian mistress. But suddenly they are critical of whatever the Modi administration does. Figures why the masses have stopped taking mainstream paid media seriously. Vijay Bhatt says: It’s Hindusim of 21st centuary with nukes and S400!! At least BJP govt is making people realized that we do not need dynasty poltics and loot anymore! Indian Govt has shown that how to collect money through various sources and started spending it on the identity not on workshiping the Gandhi Family!!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line519
__label__cc	0.51642	0.48358	Consumer Goods & Media Telecom & Utilities The New Investors All Markets Summit Australia markets closed ALL ORDS BTC-AUD AUD/EUR +0.0028 (+0.26%) NZX 50 +77.00 (+0.27%) Sign up NOW ✉️: Want to master your money in 2021? Join Yahoo Finance's 6-week bootcamp challenge! Simply Wall St. Did Changing Sentiment Drive Factor Therapeutics' (ASX:FTT) Share Price Down A Disastrous 95%? Simply Wall St 25 May 2020, 6:14 pm ·3-min read Factor Therapeutics Limited (ASX:FTT) shareholders should be happy to see the share price up 20% in the last month. But that doesn't change the fact that the returns over the last three years have been stomach churning. The share price has sunk like a leaky ship, down 95% in that time. So we're relieved for long term holders to see a bit of uplift. Only time will tell if the company can sustain the turnaround. We really hope anyone holding through that price crash has a diversified portfolio. Even when you lose money, you don't have to lose the lesson. Check out our latest analysis for Factor Therapeutics There is no denying that markets are sometimes efficient, but prices do not always reflect underlying business performance. By comparing earnings per share (EPS) and share price changes over time, we can get a feel for how investor attitudes to a company have morphed over time. Factor Therapeutics became profitable within the last five years. We would usually expect to see the share price rise as a result. So it's worth looking at other metrics to try to understand the share price move. Arguably the revenue decline of 22% per year has people thinking Factor Therapeutics is shrinking. After all, if revenue keeps shrinking, it may be difficult to find earnings growth in the future. You can see how earnings and revenue have changed over time in the image below (click on the chart to see the exact values). 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Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned. Thank you for reading. As the economy weakens, companies earn less money, which weighs down stock prices. One built to prosper during tough times is renewable energy juggernaut Brookfield Renewable (NYSE: BEP)(NYSE: BEPC). Saving for retirement is a critical goal, and whether you're nearing retirement age or still have decades to go, it's important to save as much as you can. Most investors have their money spread throughout a variety of stocks and bonds. In this Motley Fool Live video recorded on Jan. 6, 2021, Healthcare and Cannabis Bureau Chief Corinne Cardina and Fool.com writer Keith Speights discuss why Novavax could become a latecomer leader in the COVID vaccine market. Corinne Cardina: Let's talk about a couple of the other vaccine companies that are not yet authorized and being administered. 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European Leaders' Dislike Of Twitter's Trump Ban Reflects Their Own Failures Almost a week after Twitter permanently banned Donald Trump and suspended hispresidential campaign's account, its chief executive used his own platform toexplain the decision, a process that took 13 tweets and more than 600 words. Netflix is making sure that they are fully prepared to satisfy every type of consumer. 4 Credit Card Mistakes You'll Wish You Hadn't Made When you use your credit cards wisely, they can be a great financial tool. You can enjoy the rewards you'll reap from everyday spending and get to build your credit score. You don't want to spend years lamenting your credit card choices, so be certain to avoid these four big mistakes you're sure to regret. Better Buy: McDonald's vs. Yum! Brands McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) is the bigger chain, but Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) -- the name behind KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell -- is certainly no slouch. 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__label__cc	0.650084	0.349916	NCAA 1-1 The Game SECTION 1. Baseball is a game made up of two teams of nine players each. The team at bat is known as the offensive team, and its objective is to have its batters become base runners and its runners to advance legally, touching all bases. When this is done, a run is scored. The team in the field is known as the defensive team, and its objective is to prevent offensive players from becoming base runners and advancing around the bases. When three offensive players are legally put out, the teams change from the offensive to the defensive and from defensive to offensive. The object of each team is to score more runs than its opponents. The winner of the game shall be the team that scores, in accordance with these rules, the greater number of runs at the conclusion of a regulation game.In college baseball, the two teams represent their respective institutions and play the game in conformity with the rules that follow. Related Rules Rule 2 - Section 16 - FOUL, FOUL TIP 2-16-1 A foul is a batted ball: which settles on foul territory between home and first base or between home and third base; or that bounds past first or third base on or over foul territory; … How are you making that call? So this is a question recently sent out on this we... Batter steps out of batters box Situation, Runner on 1st, no outs. The count on th... Follow through (backswing interference) - Can a runner advance? Because it is a minor violation of the rules, back... improperly declared Infield fly 2nd and 3rd, no outs. B1 pops up to the 2nd basema... Retouching bases after an out of play award of bases Runner on 1st. 0 out. The batter hits a deep fly b... Rule 2 – Section 8 – BUNT NCAA 1-2 The Playing Field	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line534
__label__wiki	0.682108	0.682108	SIAC Football Honors: Week Six Posted on October 11, 2017 by Tee Mack ATLANTA — Brett Sylve (Kentucky State) was named Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) Offensive Player of the Week, while Osband Thompson (Tuskegee) was named Defensive Player of the Week, released by the league office on Monday. Nick Christiansen (Miles) was also tabbed Special Teams Player of the Week alongside teammate, Joseph Cambridge who was named Newcomer of the Week. Brett Sylve, RB, Kentucky State Sylve recorded 235 all-purpose yards and two rushing touchdowns against West Virginia State University on Saturday afternoon. The sophomore’s 167 rushing yards was a career-high, as he averaged seven yards a carry in the 35-23 loss. Osband Thompson, RB, Tuskegee Thompson helped the Golden Tigers to a 23-17 win over the Maroon Tigers as he led Tuskegee’s defense with 15 tackles—six solo and nine assisted. Nick Christiansen, K/P, Miles Christiansen scored a season-high 11 points by making all three of his PAT attempts and connecting on 2-of-3 goal field tries (25, 35). His one miss – the first of the season in 10 tries – was a 54 yarder into a gusting wind that came up about two yards short. Joseph Cambridge, QB, Miles Cambridge helped the Golden Bears to their 41-20 win over conference opponent, Central State. Playing in his first collegiate game, Cambridge set a Miles season high for passing yards and threw his first career touchdown pass for 64 yards. The freshman also completed 15 of his 28 passes for 212 yards. Tags: Black college sports, college football, HBCU football, SIACCategories: SIAC Editor In Chief Emeritus, BASN Newsroom	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line536
__label__wiki	0.523727	0.523727	Oliver Hunt Email Oliver Ollie's experience and judgement was vital to us achieving a successful outcome. I can't recommend him highly enough and we wouldn't hesitate to work with him again. His advice was second-to-none Ollie was superbly professional while being flexible in the way that he worked in order to fit with our start-up, not-for-profit budget. I provide commercial, corporate and strategic advice to charities, social enterprises, and mission driven businesses, and specialise in social and impact investing. I’m a member of the Impact Economy group at Bates Wells and act as an advisor and secretary to the UK Crowdfunding Association. Global Innovation Fund I help Global Innovation Fund, a charity whose mission is to invest in social innovations that aim to improve the lives and opportunities of millions of people in the developing world, with social investment and governance matters. I advise Trine, a crowdfunding platform that links investors with solar energy projects in the developing world, on its investments and relationships with stakeholders. I advised Comic Relief on governance and social investment projects Big Society Trust I advised The Big Society Trust, the parent organisation of Big Society Capital and Access, on the admission of new entities funded by “Dormant Account” funds into its group structure. My work includes forming and registering new charities and social enterprises, including CIOs, CICs, and community benefit societies I advise on the structure and execution of financing for charities and social enterprises, including social impact bonds, community energy projects, and the use of Social Investment Tax Relief I often work on cross-jurisdictional issues for international charities, NGOs and government funded programmes, including strategies following Brexit I have frequently acted on mergers and structural reorganisations relating to charities and not-for-profit organisations I advise on grant agreements, contracts, collaboration and joint venture arrangements University of Cambridge, MA (First Class), 2009 Nottingham Trent University, Graduate LLB (First Class), 2012 Trainee solicitor at Bates Wells, 2012 Admitted as a solicitor at Bates Wells, 2014 Seconded to Global Innovation Fund, 2017 Seconded to Principles for Responsible Investment, 2019 Secretary of UK Crowdfunding Association Trustee of Songbound Member of the Charity Law Association, Working Group member on charities and connected organisations SITR/CITR Working Group member, DCMS Advisory Group on Impact Investing Pro bono advice to a range of charities working within international development, health and civil engagement Author, Tolley’s Company Law Service Author, Practical Law Company Author, Lexis Nexis Corporate Law Thomson Reuters: Oliver Hunt comments on crowdfunding for social enterprises Unlocking More Philanthropic Capital for Social Investment Bates Wells launches new guide on tax reliefs for investing into charities and social enterprises Crowdfunding for charities and social enterprises Charity and Social Enterprise Update Summer 2017 Big Society Capital announces new ‘Crowd Match Fund’	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line537
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Blog: Archive Matters Blog: BC Museum & Galleries Blog: BC Places & Voices OJS Link View Cart: [cart_button show_items="true"] In/consequential Relationships: Refusing Colonial Ethics of Engagement in Yuxweluptun’s Inherent Rights, Vision Rights Review By Sarah King On the closing day of the Museum of Anthropology’s Unceded Territories exhibit of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s art, crowds formed queues long enough to snake through the halls and to pack the exhibit space for the final artist’s talk. Given this incredible turnout and the attention that his paintings and #RenameBC project received, I was surprised to see one of the most unique pieces in the exhibit garner little engagement from visitors and media alike. In the centre of the exhibit, Yuxweluptun’s 1992 virtual reality machine, Inherent Rights, Vision Rights (IRVR), remained unoccupied for most of my two visits to the museum. Compared to newer and sleeker virtual reality (VR) headsets, its PC-based and wired construction is dated. But in a time of unprecedentedly expansive and immersive VR experiences, IRVR has continued relevance. Positioned between paintings challenging Western scientific claims to intellectual authority on the one hand, and the perseverance of Indigenous ontologies on the other, this work raises powerful critiques for visitors to unceded territories – exhibit and geography both. Taking up one of the first critical engagements with Inherent Rights, Vision Rights – Loretta Todd’s “Aboriginal Narratives in Cyberspace” – this review considers the ways that IRVR not only enables users’ abilities to “portray themselves” but, in turn, refuses to allow settler subjects to proceed uninterrupted in executing colonial ontologies.[1] With a viewfinder, headphones, and joystick, IRVR’s virtual environment is designed to react to the user’s navigational decisions in challenging ways, refusing settler desires for consequence-free relationships to space that characterize museums and cyberspace alike. Virtual reality is an old technology and an even older concept. And in the more than twenty-five years since IRVR’s creation, VR technology has become more refined and accessible. But the colonial frameworks that inspired the technology continue to dominate our embodied and virtual realities. Last year saw the release of perhaps the most expansive open world game of all time, No Man’s Sky, which uses procedural generation to provide more than 18 quintillion planets for players to “discover,” rendering infinity “yours for the taking.”[2] While the game trades in pixels rather than physical plots, its premise echoes the terra nullius narratives that were used to foster settlement by feeding a growing sense of white entitlement to Indigenous lands in what is now known as North America. The game offers users limitless “unoccupied” space in which to engage according to the same terms as were used to solidify settlement: assuming authority over the world’s inhabitants through naming, performing entitlement to the world’s resources through extraction, and prioritizing one’s own wealth by attacking those who interfere with these projects.[3] The ongoing normalization of these behaviours highlights the continued importance of projects like IRVR, which design Indigenous ontologies into cyberspace. Indigenous people and people of colour have continually critiqued, traced, and theorized these normative inheritances. And, as norms, they rely on the maintenance of specific conditions to enable their existence. As Cree/Métis director Loretta Todd explains, Western culture’s appetite for everything and everywhere is enabled to grow by building worlds in which settlers are “[free] from consequence”: asserting dominance over lands and their inhabitants – virtual or material – is only conceivable if you are not party to relationships that will hold you to account for doing so.[4] In No Man’s Sky, for example, police might pursue you for killing other human or non-human animals, but not for imposing other irreversible changes on the landscape, including blasting holes through rock faces.[5] In other words, the game entitles players to make resources of landscapes without hesitation or heed to any pre-existing relationships and legal systems. Indeed, contrary to narratives about cyberspace as more “free” than our embodied realities, we design and enter VR with the same ethical and ontological frameworks that we use to navigate our material reality more broadly. This often produces expansive virtual worlds that are just as – if not more – violent, alienating, and oppressive than our embodied realities. In these spaces, colonizing subjects can conjure digital landscapes with 18 quintillion planets, while sustainable, nuanced, and just terms of engagement therewith seem unimaginable. With such limitless entitlement to space, then, is Yuxweluptun’s IRVR not just another space that settler audiences can explore through a colonial lens? Like other VR environments, IRVR presents the opportunity for users to enter a space and undertake actions to which they may not otherwise have access. IRVR opens beneath a moonlit sky, with the user down the path from a longhouse, smoke rising from its top. In first-person perspective, users can then navigate up to, in, and around the virtual longhouse, in which singing and drumming are audible. For many Indigenous and non-Indigenous audiences, this may represent a first engagement with longhouse ceremony, a first virtual engagement, or a first engagement outside of one’s own customs and relations. In a museum space, where fragments of Indigenous cultures have been objectified, generalized, and “shared” outside of their political and geographical relationships, these interactions risk complicity in colonial consumption, objectification, and exploitation. And given the maintenance of colonial norms in mainstream VR design, IRVR users enter the longhouse scene at the intersection of two powerful sites of colonial power. But Indigenous critiques do more than simply respond to and document colonialism in museums and cyberspace; as in the embodied realm, Indigenous communities and artists build worlds founded in Indigenous ontologies that imagine colonial terms of engagement out of existence, refusing to maintain the conditions for the normalization of colonial behaviour. If colonial exploitation requires separation from relationships of consequence by objectifying the environment into presumed unresponsiveness, then Todd’s description of an Indigenous world of relations as “a world of subjects to subjects” provides a foundation for these refusals. Such worlds are those in which “freedom from consequences” becomes unimaginable because the environment cannot be objectified by those assumed superior.[6] This relational ontology is embedded in IRVR’s design. As described above, IRVR normally offers users a joystick to navigate a virtual longhouse in which fire pits are active and ovoid beings are dancing, drumming, and vocalizing. During my visits, the installation was out of order; instead of navigating towards, around, or within the longhouse themselves, users could watch a recording of someone else’s navigation choices through the viewfinder. In this recording, the user walks up and into the longhouse and moves around inside, approaching the fires and ovoid beings as they appear and dissipate. These animations make clear that the user is not the only agential actor in the space; instead of navigating an “unresponsive” environment as an observer, as in an art exhibit, the user’s movements trigger reactions from other occupants. At one point during the recording, an ovoid figure vocalizes and moves towards the user before disappearing from view, perhaps having moved through them. It was overwhelming to witness and immediately prompted questions: What happened? Who was the figure? Was I (the user) hurt? Enhanced? Physically unaffected? If I had been in control of the navigation, would I have stepped so close? These questions could only arise in a context of unfamiliarity with the particular space and occupants, and with the appropriate protocol for relating to them. Without these relational familiarities, I could not discern the actual effects of the user’s actions. More significantly, had I been navigating, I would not have been able to determine an appropriate distance to keep (or not) from the figures, nor to determine whether it was appropriate to enter the longhouse in the first place. Questions like these are not prompted in (virtual) realities built through and for colonial ontologies of domination; they assume that you were always supposed to be there. But Yuxweluptun, Indigenous activists, and Indigenous ontologies more broadly demand deeper ethical reflection from all subjects: Are you actually supposed to be here? If, regardless, you are here, how will you conduct yourself? Such questions form what Todd calls Yuxweluptun’s invitation “into the mystery of the everyday.”[7] She argues that by not providing an avatar for the user, IRVR rejects the bodiless escapism offered by other VR projects: instead of assuming a separate identity, “you are challenged to ‘portray yourself.’” While I agree that the absence of an avatar brings users into the space as themselves, it is what that design decision sets IRVR up to do – particularly in a museum – that is so powerful. Bringing users into the longhouse without enhancement makes explicit that they can only rely on themselves, and the behavioural ethics they already hold in the world, to guide them. But instead of indulging settler entitlement to space, IRVR designs the rewards for such behaviour out of existence. If users seek to control the space, they are given no opportunity; if they do not wish to enter the longhouse, they do not have to. And for those who do choose to enter the longhouse, IRVR’s reactive animations make explicit that users are in subject-to-subject relations with its other inhabitants. Understanding IRVR as inviting users into different ways of relating to “the mystery of the everyday” offers a powerful way of framing subjectivity on unceded territories more broadly. In the exhibit, IRVR was installed facing another longhouse depiction, Yuxweluptun’s 2016 floor-to-ceiling Spirit Dancer Dances around the Fire, and in front of Red Man Watching White Man Trying to Fix Hole in Sky (1990). In the latter, a tower of lab coat-clad figures and paperclips attempt to patch over a hole in the sky with an insufficiently sized strip of blue, depicting the insufficiency of colonial tools for addressing colonialism’s consequences. And if we take seriously that, as IRVR and Todd suggest, the desire for control over knowledge is a colonial tool, as settlers we have to ask ourselves what the limits and consequences of our engagement with the former – a depiction of Indigenous ceremony – might be. This lays a foundation for asking wider, more difficult questions about how we will avoid replicating the patchwork approach to justice of Red Man Watching – questions that can only be answered in relationship to others and by rejecting the individualized Platonic quest to know and control all.[8] Indeed, answering these questions requires turning to the legal orders already present on the lands in which we live. As Métis scholar Chelsea Vowel writes: “It’s a good thing Indigenous peoples are still here, because our legal orders address all of those questions. So why aren’t you asking us?”[9] By not designing for domination and exploitation, IRVR refuses to be the “somewhere else to go” for settlers seeking to escape the consequences of colonial ethics.[10] Instead, in normalizing subject-to-subject relations, IRVR asserts that consequences are always present – even if less explicit than ovoid figures passing through you. Engaging in either virtual or material reality as if they are not is a dangerous assertion of one’s separation from and superiority over these consequences, but it does not remove them from existence. And until the conditions for settler colonialism are designed out of our material realities, Inherent Rights, Vision Rights will continue to be an important intervention into (virtual) reality. Those interested in learning more about Yuxweluptun’s interventions should look at the award-winning exhibit catalogue, Unceded Territories, edited by Secwepemc artist Tania Willard and curator Karen Duffek.[11] Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Unceded Territories May 10 – October 16th, 2016 [1] Loretta Todd, “Aboriginal Narratives in Cyberspace,” in Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments, ed. Mary Anne Moser and Douglas Macleod (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996), 192. [2] Hello Games, “About,” No Man’s Sky, 13 June 2014, http://www.no-mans-sky.com/about/. [4] Todd, “Aboriginal Narratives,” 186. [5] “No Man’s Sky: 18 Minute Gameplay Demo – IGN First,” IGN, YouTube video, 9:30, 6 July 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLcjvIQJns0. BC Studies Newsletter Join our mailing list and receive news and info about BC Studies. 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__label__wiki	0.923638	0.923638	Last 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 OT: Trump/Russians/Robert Mueller 267,285 Views \| 3271 Replies \| Last: 3 hrs ago by concordtom In reply to mikecohen • 9:15a, 2/18/18 tequila4kapp said: BearChemist said: This "hoax" now has 18 indictments and 4 guilty pleas by my count. That's some hoax. You don't think he was referring to the Trump/Russia collusion charges (HRC/Russia collusion is already established)? You understand the real implications behind Trump's tweets? Last time I checked WH needs more talents like you. Thanks for the personal attack. Stay classy. The real implications behind Trump's tweets? You mean that he can't communicate through the traditional means because the media is grotesquely biased against him so he bypasses them? Yep, I'm aware. To the larger point, so for there isn't a scintilla of evidence of collusion by Trump with the Russians. It has been proven beyond beyond doubt that Hillary and the DNC conspired with Russia. Those are the facts, so far. But hate on... Details/Specifics please about Hillary and the DNC conspiring with Russia. I suspect we'll be waiting a while for this. THIS JUST IN: Robert Mueller has flipped Rick Gates, reaching a plea deal. Gates will testify against Manafort, his former partner. Things just got very interesting... In reply to tequila4kapp • 9:51p, 2/18/18 Right now it's the money laundering and obstruction for the attempt at hiding Russian money for his real estate transactions and the firing of Comey . There are 4 people, Trump's own words (tweets included) and financial docs that will confirm money laundering and obstruction. The only question left is who else will be charged? Looks like Mueller will be looking into the Kushner real estate financing. Is Ivanka going to have top explain to the kids why daddy is behind bars and can't be at birthday parties or will Kushner become his star witness against his father-in-law? Either way, somebody is going to need money on their book for snacks. In reply to BearNIt • 5:11p, 2/19/18 If I am The Kush, I'm thinking roids, weightlifting, increasing body mass and ink. If I am Ivanka I'm thinking recipe for Pound Cake a la chisel. Jarvanka in deep doo doo. Bannon will help as much as he can. He has a pathological hatred of Jarvanka. Kushners are hyper achievers. Very muti generation felon families ponied up $2.5M to Harvard to keep prison chain migration intact. Jared is the Eli Manning of jailbirds. Mueller has Gates as his new witness and although Gates has information on Manafort, Mueller doesn't need Gates for Manafort's financial crimes which can be proved with financial documents, but he does need Gates for others whose crimes have not been charged as of today. Given that Gates worked on the campaign and transition team he may have information that will assist Mueller with obstruction, conspiracy to obstruct, and possible collusion because of the fact that his partner Manafort has been closely tied to various Russians who have ties to Putin. Mueller is working his way up the food chain in an attempt to get to the head cheeto. 7:24a, 2/20/18 Trump setting the record straight for Americans. He has actually been tough on Russia all along. In reply to B.A. Bearacus • 8:07a, 2/20/18 We need an interpreter from the Ministry of Truth. One of Cal friends grew up in Pacific Heights. He always made sure the family dog peed on the Russian Consulate. Was over a 100 degrees in SF the day they finally shut down the Consulate, but the chimney worked overtime that day. In reply to BearDevil • 8:25a, 2/20/18 Sounds like your friend was tougher on Russia than Trump. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/20/donald-trump-trump-soft-russia-mueller?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other 11:36a, 2/20/18 There is a new player in this saga. It appears that a lawyer named, Alex Van Der Zwaan, a lawyer at Skadden Arps whose father-in-law just happens to be the chairman of a bank with ties to the Kremlin and is involved in money laundering. Van Der Zwaan will pead guilty to lying to the FBI due to lying about conversations with Gates. Mueller is continuing to squeeze Manafort for information on collusion by charging Gates and Van Der Zwaan, the two individuals who have intimate knowledge about his dealings with the Russians. How much time is Manafort willing to serve before he says enough and provides info to Mueller? Even if Trump pardons him, it has been reported that the New York AG could bring state charges against Manafort. I guess Manafort could always ask the Russians for help getting out of the country, but he owes millions to some of Putin's friends. https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/20/politics/robert-mueller-rick-gates/index.html 12:00p, 2/20/18 Bob Mueller, turning over every stone...and soon there will be an avalanche. GOP should really GTFOTW. Excellent read. Mueller's Message to America Don't know about you guys, but when this is all over I want to see Mueller's face on money. Following the above article on The Atlantic's web page is an article by one of the E.R. Doctors who treated the victims of the school shooting, comparing the effect of AR-15 rounds on that of other firearms whose wounds this E.R. doc treats daily (in Central Florida). The main point is the extraordinary effect AR-15 bullets have on organs - essentially blasting everything in its path into true, no kidding, oblivion - no possibility of any medical help. The Exit Wound of a standard AR-15 bullet is the size of an orange. This article tears one's soul, as much as the bullets tear body parts, into shreds; and should be required reading for all NRA Members and their Fellow Travelers. In reply to mikecohen • 5:59p, 2/23/18 I've always wanted to ask NRA spookspeople the following question: Does everyone have a Second Amendment right to own a nuclear bomb? If not: Where does one draw the line?, and why at that place? I know this is an over simplication of a complex issue but: The tRump Administration is in a whole lotta trouble. Go Bags or weightlifting and increasing body mass are in order. tRump views lawyers as hacks because those are the only ones that will work for him. Mueller is A+. A species of attorney tRump has no frame of reference for. Game. Set. Match. [Deleted: intentions of post not clear. My bad.] I read about the destruction of AR-15s...and the conservatives still think it's a-okay but god forbid there is porn. The thing is, if you can't see why and how AR-15s and assault weapons are destructive and not suited for society..you lack humanity. There's really no salvation for these types, and it's not really a coincidence that many have a death wish fantasy with guns. It's all the "my cold dead hands" crap. Well do society a favor and eat your gun...like a hero. Machine guns will be needed for the door to door urban combat that will ensue when HRC is installed as Queen by The New World Order. In reply to B.A. Bearacus • 7:20p, 2/23/18 Unfortunately, I just don't get it. Please explain. Sorry, that's NRA's slippery spokesperson and ornery pitbull Dana Loesch who would be the one evading or discounting your questions and attacking you. Here's a sample of her style: Sorry, that's NRA spokesperson and ornery pitbull Dana Loesch who would be the one evading or discounting your questions and attacking you. Thanks. I recognized her; but, for me (FWIW), the possible commutations and angles were so various and extensive, I just didn't know where to start. If Trump said that Liberals want to take away your porn, then suddenly porn would be a Conservative value. In reply to blungld • 6:54p, 2/24/18 It already is. If history has taught us anything it is that the more you publicly condemn certain sexual behavior, the bigger the freak you are in private. FuzzyWuzzy In reply to bearister • 9:04p, 2/24/18 I used to laugh and point when I read about one of the dozens of prominent, hypocritically anti-gay conservatives who turned out to be homosexual themselves. Now I feel guilty about that. I feel sorry for them. What a mental prison they must live in. I wonder what became of some of them, the Larry Craigs and Ted Hazards. I wonder if their views changed over the years, after leaving their positions of power. In reply to FuzzyWuzzy • 9:56p, 2/24/18 FuzzyWuzzy said: I have always had a deep respect for Mr. Craig. He stands alone as the Father of the Wing Tip Tapping Morse Code Mating Call. On tRump's statement he looks forward to being questioned by Mueller: "A member of the Trump legal team told the Wall Street Journal that President Trump testifying for Mueller could set a bad precedent for future presidents, eroding their powers: "This person also questioned whether an interview is necessary given all the information that the White House has shared with Mr. Mueller." The member of the legal team said: "It would be a travesty to waste his (Mr. Trump's) time and to set a precedent which would cripple a future president." Axios Go Captain Mueller! Semper Fi! Oorah! In reply to bearister • 12:41p, 2/27/18 "It would be a travesty to waste his (Mr. Trump's) time..." I mean it would be a real shame for him to take a few golf holes off out of his busy schedule...but yeah he might want to at least dip in and contribute to the investigation on WHETHER A FOREIGN COUNTRY SABOTAGED OUR ELECTION! If loyalty and partisanship were taken out of the equation, almost all of the the country would be completely satisfied with his guilt from what we know already (and at the very least his incompetency, dereliction, and obstruction in the wake of the election). It is so frustrating to watch what is unprecedented craziness happening in our government and watching it reflected back by his supporters. It's a total cover up in plain sight...and yet they'll instead reach for straws like "Deep State" and "Obama is a Muslim" over being able to hear that the guy standing right smack in front of them is lying and acts in guilt and self-interest at every turn. I suspect that they know inside that it is all true, but that to admit that to themselves feels like letting Liberals win or having to admit to themselves other failings in their ethics and judgement--and so it is all-in with denial, obfuscating, and attacking "Libtards". It's scary to watch their minds operate, but illustrates so much about group think and authoritarianism. If I was ever to fall for an authoritarian, I guarantee that they'd be a lot more compelling and intelligent than this guy--I don't get it at all. I'll follow someone who seems more competent and wise. They seem to follow someone that speaks at their level so that they don't have to feel dumb. Character flaws: Trump is irresponsible and bad at protecting others. Dumb and Dumber... Timeout for unofficial thread stat: This is the #2 all-time longest thread on BI (30 pages) View count: 32K #1 is "Hey Dodgers Fans" (100+ pages and viewcount of 336K) Bearister should be allowed to have his posts be green for a month for starting this thread. 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__label__cc	0.69454	0.30546	Cover Reveal! TRISTAN by Jennie Lynn Roberts (The Hawks #1) Blitz! DEATH UNDER THE MISTLETOE: A VALENTINE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY by Jenna Harte About DEATH UNDER THE MISTLETOE Tess is excited to spend her first Christmas with her sexy husband, Jack Valentine, that is until the mall Santa staggers in her shop and drops dead underneath the mistletoe on Christmas Eve. There’s no shortage of suspects who wanted Santa dead. Was it his jealous elves? His estranged wife? The in-laws who never thought Santa was good enough for their daughter? Or the neighbor who secretly coveted Santa’s wife?Although Tess and Jack are happy to let Detective Daniel Showalter deal with the case, somehow the newlyweds end up a target of Santa’s killer who plans to make sure Jack and Tess never celebrate Christmas. Death Under the Mistletoe: A Valentine Christmas Mystery is a novella that takes place afte rbook five in the Valentine Mystery series. While I don’t feel it’s necessary to have read the previous books to enjoy this mystery, it does make reference to events that occur in previous books. Note: Jack and Tess are married and sometimes in engage in intimate activities. Get your hands on DEATH UNDER THE MISTLETOE now https://amzn.to/2B88ca9 Want to read the other books in the Valentine Mysteries series? Get your hands on the boxset! About the VALENTINE MYSTERIES series: Passion, Murder, Chocolate and Couture Lingerie Tess Madison walked away from her two-timing fiancé, a multi-million dollar trust fund and a cushy corporate law job to pursue the single life indulging in chocolate and fancy French underwear. But her newly reordered life comes unraveled when she reluctantly accepts an invitation to a dinner party and stumbles upon the host’s dead body and into the arms of the sexy, blue-green eyed Jack Valentine. As romance grows, so too does Tess and Jack’s propensity to get into trouble. If you like romance mixed with your mystery, the Valentine Mysteries are for you. In this collection, you’ll get books 1 through 3. Pick up the VALENTINE MYSTERIES box set now: https://amzn.to/2OMRn9W About Jenna Harte: Jenna Harte is a die-hard romantic, writing about characters who are passionate about and committed to each other, and frequently getting into trouble. She is the author of the Valentine Mysteries, the first of which, Deadly Valentine, reached the quarter-finals in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award in 2013. She’s also the author of the Southern Heat contemporary romance series, and recently sold a three-book deal of a new cozy mystery series involving coupons, fairy tales and airplane repos. The first book in that series, Death of a Debtor, is due in February 2019. She’s a member of the Virginia Writers Club and Sisters In Crime. When she’s not telling stories, she works by day as a freelance writer, author, and online entrepreneur. She speaks and teaches adult education courses on publishing, writing, and author platform building.She’s an empty nester living in central Virginia with her husband and a fat cat. Get free ebooks, updates on Jenna’s work, and more at her website: http://www.jennaharte.com. Website and Newsletter: http://jennaharte.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jenna_harte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennaharteauthor/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jennaharteauthor Published inblitzBOOKS!new releasespotlight a valentine christmas mystery death under the mistletoe jenna harte Previous Post Teaser Reveal! YOURS AFTER DARK by Marie Force (Gansett Island #17) Next Post New Release and Giveaway! KINGDOM OF GLASS AND ASHES: A LIMITED EDITION OF CINDERELLA RETELLINGS	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line545
__label__wiki	0.651338	0.651338	Home News Xiaomi Launches $43 Fish Tank That Can be Powered by a Power... Xiaomi Launches $43 Fish Tank That Can be Powered by a Power Bank Last Updated: November 13, 2019 11:57 am After launching a Geometry Fish Tank Aquaponics Ecosystem earlier this year, Xiaomi has just unveiled a new model to add to its hi-tech portable aquarium portfolio. Simply called the Xiaomi Fish Tank, the tiny device comes with a 299 yuan ($43) price-tag and, can be powered by a standard power bank. According to Xiaomi, the aquarium has been designed to maintain its internal ecological balance so that users won’t have to change the water as frequently as they have to do with standard fish tanks. As can be seen from the images, the device has a compartment at the top for potted plants that receive the requisite moisture via water vapors when the tank is filled to the recommended level. It also has a knob at the side to adjust the oxygen levels and for feeding the fish. Image Via: GizChina Another cool feature of the Xiaomi Fish Tank is the convenient water drainage facility that takes the pain out of maintaining an aquarium at home. There’s also a four-stage filtration system that includes volcanic stone and magnetic ring stone, as well as cultured nitrifying bacteria that help maintain the tank’s ecological balance. The device also comes with activated carbon to kill harmful bacteria, as well as cotton filters at the top and bottom to filter debris. As part of its efforts to become a more complete consumer tech company, the Chinese tech giant has recently launched a slew of quirky little products in India, including the likes of the Mi Beard Trimmer, Mi Truck Builder, Mi Water TDS Tester, Mi Polarized Sunglasses and more. Given that most of these products have received a warm reception, it will be interesting to see if the new fish tank will also be launched in the country at some stage. VIAGizChina Xiaomi Fish Tank Xiaomi’s Leaked Foldable Phone Has a Crease Problem! [UPDATE: Official Statement] US Government Blacklists Xiaomi, Along with 8 Other Chinese Companies Redmi K40 Series with Snapdragon 888 5G SoC Confirmed to Launch Next Month Xiaomi Working on Three Foldable Devices for 2021, Hint Various Patents [UPDATE: Official Statement] Mi A3 Android 11 Update Bricks Device for Many Users	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line546
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__label__wiki	0.93707	0.93707	Blacksonrise Interviews Blacksonrise News AOC and Michael Moore urge Iowa voters not to ‘play it safe’ as they stand in for Sanders by blacksonrise in African American News IOWA CITY, Iowa — Two of Bernie Sanders’s highest-profile allies, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, filled in for him on the campaign trail Friday night, speaking to a rally here at the University of Iowa, as the Vermont senator participated in the impeachment trial in Washington, D.C. Their message to the audience, overwhelmingly students, was not to settle for more moderate candidates who claim to have a better chance in the general election against President Trump, but to stick with Sanders. Moore referenced campaign ads by another (unnamed) Democratic hopeful, paraphrasing his message as: “You should vote for him because he’s the safe candidate.” He meant former Vice President Joe Biden, who debuted a new commercial on Friday that was focused on electability. “This is no time to take a risk. We need our strongest candidate. So let’s nominate the Democrat Trump fears the most. Vote Biden. Beat Trump,” a narrator says in the ad. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks as a surrogate for Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders at the University of Iowa Friday, Jan.24, 2020, in Iowa City, Iowa. (Photo: Sue Ogrocki/AP) Biden has been a consistent frontrunner in national polls, with Sanders generally second. But new polling in Iowa, which holds the first-in-the-nation caucuses on Feb. 3, puts Sanders in the lead there. The former vice president has made electability a central part of his pitch to voters, contrasting his centrist policies and bipartisan approach to politics to Sanders’s radical “democratic socialist” platform, including his controversial proposals for universal public health care. In his speech, Moore argued this ignored polls showing “Bernie beats Trump head-to-head by a larger percentage than any of the other candidates.” Moore appears to have been cherry-picking his data; RealClearPolitics, which amalgamates polling data from numerous sources, as of Saturday shows Biden beating Trump by an average margin of 4 points, and Sanders defeating the president by 3.1 points. Moore went on to argue that focusing on who might be electable in a general election has historically been a bad strategy for Democrats. “I started to think about this ‘play it safe.’ Every time we’ve been told that … and we voted safe we lost,” Moore said, adding, “Every time we play it safe, we choose the safe nominee, and we lose … except those times — time — when we decided to take a risk.” Filmmaker Michael Moore speaks during a campaign event at Grinnell College for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Jan. 23. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP) Moore was referring to the 2008 election, which was won by Barack Obama despite fears voters wouldn’t send an African-American to the White House. “You remember … two years before Barack Obama was going to run and there was talk about it, how many people in here said … ‘I know this country I live in, there’s no way they’re going to elect a black man,” said Moore. “But Barack Obama didn’t care.” Moore then introduced Ocasio-Cortez, who rocketed to political stardom when she won her New York congressional district in a shocking upset in the 2018 midterms. The congresswoman, who is nicknamed “AOC,” had already made one trip to Iowa to campaign for Sanders last November. Some supporters are already envisioning her as a potential candidate as soon as 2024, when she will become eligible for the presidency less than a month before the general election. Ocasio-Cortez shared a personal story about how she went a “few years” without going to the doctor because she didn’t have health insurance when she worked in restaurants prior to her election. The congresswoman talked about the fear and anxiety she experienced during this period and suggested it informed her conviction the U.S. needs the complete the Medicare for All universal health care program with “no cracks in the system” that Sanders has championed. She noted some moderate Democrats regard Sanders’s proposals for health care, a “Green New Deal” to address climate change, and criminal justice reform as unrealistic. But she believes the real issue for Sanders’s opponents is whether a candidate with that platform can win. “They call it unrealistic. You know what I think is so funny? I go back to D.C. … Those folks who argue against those same policies, behind closed doors, they never tell me it’s unrealistic,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “They don’t use that same argument in the Capitol,” she continued. “The argument that they use is, ‘We will lose.’ … It’s not that we can’t, it’s that we’re scared.” Ocasio-Cortez went on to say she has spent “so many years of my life scared” about a litany of concerns including making rent, health care costs and her family in Puerto Rico. “I’m sick of being scared. I want to solve these problems once and for all,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “We shouldn’t be scared of what will happen if we try. We should be scared of what will happen if we don’t.” Ocasio-Cortez speaks as a surrogate for Bernie Sanders at the University of Iowa. (Photo: Sue Ogrocki/AP) Along with Ocasio-Cortez and Moore, the event included a talk by Sanders, who delivered his stump speech by telephone from Washington shortly after the day’s impeachment proceedings wrapped up. Sanders and his rivals who are also stuck in the Senate during the impeachment trial, including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, have been relying on surrogates to bring their messages to voters. Both Moore and Ocasio-Cortez have more planned appearances for Sanders in Iowa over the weekend. Klobuchar deployed her daughter, Abigail Bessler, to campaign for her in Iowa last Wednesday. Warren had actress Ashley Judd rallying for her in New Hampshire, which is the second state on the primary calendar, on Friday. Judd is scheduled to return to New Hampshire for Warren on Jan. 28. Jonathan Van Ness, the podcaster, hairdresser and star of the Netflix makeover show “Queer Eye,” is set to campaign for Warren in Iowa on Jan. 26. While Warren has canceled some events due to impeachment, she is currently scheduled to join Van Ness in his last event on Sunday, which is the one day of the week where there is a break in the impeachment proceedings. Students at the University of Iowa were divided on whether the Sanders surrogates were an exciting draw. Josh, a senior who said he is undecided about whom to support in the primary, was in the building where the Sanders rally was set to take place on Friday evening planning a spring break trip with friends. He said he was not going to watch Moore and Ocasio-Cortez speak but would have wanted to see Sanders “a lot more.” “I don’t really follow them,” Josh said of Sanders’s surrogates. Nori Oshiro, a junior who was studying in the lounge outside the Sanders rally, said he understood the senator had “more pressing issues right now” with the impeachment proceedings. Oshiro planned to attend the rally and was quite excited about the guests. “I know of AOC since she started campaigning,” Oshiro said. “I’ve seen Michael Moore’s films since I was a teenager. So, these are people that I tend to look up to and get a lot of information from.” The students were also divided about whether Warren’s star surrogate, Van Ness, was a more exciting draw than Sanders’s allies. “They’re pretty even in my book,” said Presley, a graduate student who is deciding between Sanders and Warren. 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__label__wiki	0.730832	0.730832	Apple Store goes down ahead of possible first new product launch of 2017 March 21st, 2017 at 6:54 AM Is Apple about to quietly release its first brand new products of the year? Are tablets now such an afterthought that new iPads aren’t even important enough to warrant their own Apple press conference? Those questions and more should be answered shortly — the online Apple store went down shortly after midnight this morning, and it’s still down right now. No one is quite sure exactly why the Apple store was taken offline, though the outage was scheduled and was noted on Apple’s system status page on Monday ahead of today’s outage. While it’s entirely possible that Apple is just performing server upgrades or some type of maintenance, recent rumors suggest the company might be preparing to quietly release several new iPad tablets. We all know Apple tends to release new iPads around this time every year, and rumors last week stated that Apple could have new iPad models in store as soon as this week. With the Apple store currently offline and Apple’s typical “we have something special in store for you” message plastered across the online shop’s landing page, it’s entirely possible that those rumors are about to pan out. Apple reportedly has multiple new iPad models in store for fans this year. Included among them is a refreshed 9.7-inch iPad, an updated 12.9-inch iPad Pro, and a completely new 10.5-inch iPad Pro model that might feature a new design with narrower bezels. The device is said to be about the same size as Apple’s current 9.7-inch iPad Pro, and it may replace that model when it’s released, pushing the 9.7-inch iPad into entry-level range. Will the new 10.5-inch model be released on Tuesday along with the other new iPads that might appear in the Apple store? Probably not. Apple seems unlikely to introduce its new design with shrunken bezels on an iPad ahead of the iPhone 8 set to debut later this year. What’s more, a post on Monday from Daring Fireball smelled an awful lot like a plant from Apple PR intended to set expectations for today’s launch. Nothing is confirmed, of course, but Apple PR does love to plant stories in order to help keep expectations in line with reality when the rumor mill gets too carried away. Whatever the case, all will be revealed shortly — Apple’s online store outage was supposed to last for about six hours according to the company’s system status website, and we’re now approaching hour seven. Also of note, if new iPads are released today, you can expect embargoed previews to be published the moment the Apple store comes back online. Tags: Apple, iPad Pro What Facebook designers think about ‘copying’ Snapchat’s features By Jacob Siegal 17 hours ago Stop taking these OTC medicines before getting a coronavirus vaccine	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line562
__label__wiki	0.959936	0.959936	Beatriz Hayes Meizoso Presidential Management Fellow of the United States Government Google Scholar Page Honors Thesis Replication Data & Surveys Beatriz is a current GS-11 Presidential Management Fellow in the Programming Directorate Office of Voice of America (a branch of the United States Agency for Global Media). Though she grew up in Madrid, Spain, she attended the top British school in the country (Runnymede College), as well as the number-one ranking British boarding school (Wycombe Abbey) in the interim. For university, Beatriz obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy from Duke University, graduating cum laude with department honors too. From 2017 to 2019, Beatriz became a Politics Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University, and earned a Master of Arts in Politics in International relations on the path to her doctorate. Beatriz has published several papers and both her undergraduate and graduate-level works have earned various awards for excellence. See the “About” page for more information, or visit Beatriz’s SSRN author page at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3738661. demand-driven says: Triple-buffered says: best-of-breed Grass-roots says: copying says: Frozen says: Electronics says: radical says: interfaces says:	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line563
__label__cc	0.570149	0.429851	1 Kings 7:48 Solomon made all the furniture which was in the house of the Lord: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; Then he made the table of acacia wood, two cubits long and a cubit wide and one and a half cubits high. He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made one hundred golden bowls. “You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and one cubit wide and one and a half cubits high. “Moreover, you shall make an altar as a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. Then he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit long and a cubit wide, square, and two cubits high; its horns were of one piece with it. the table, all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence; and the gold altar, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the veil for the doorway of the tent; Then he put the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil. Then he placed the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the veil; Leviticus 24:5-9 “Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake. Solomon also made all the things that were in the house of God: even the golden altar, the tables with the bread of the Presence on them, In the porch of the gate were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering. For the burnt offering there were four tables of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and one cubit high, on which they lay the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice. The altar was of wood, three cubits high and its length two cubits; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood. And he said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.” “They shall enter My sanctuary; they shall come near to My table to minister to Me and keep My charge. “But you are profaning it, in that you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is to be despised.’ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line564
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__label__cc	0.613733	0.386267	webgator Free Downlod After Effects & Premiere Pro Templates, Motion Graphics, Plugins & Preses, Sound Effects, Stock Footage. Free Downlod After Effects Projects Third-party vs. In-house Delivery: A Guide to Informed&nbspChoice Seo Blog Local SEO Third-party vs. In-house Delivery: A Guide to Informed&nbspChoice By Miriam Ellis On June 22, 2020 Image credit: Robert Couse-Baker Before all else, gratitude to every delivery person, whether in-house or third party, doing the essential work of keeping households safer and supplied in these times. I’m dedicating today’s column to the manager of a nearby Sprouts grocery store who personally drove my order to my door when an Instacart driver just couldn’t get the job done. If your business or clients are weighing whether to fulfill delivery in-house or partner with a third party, my small experience is an apt footnote to the huge, emergent debate over last-mile fulfillment options. I’d searched all over town for scarce potatoes, finally arranging by phone with the local Sprouts market to hold their last two bags for me one morning, and texting the Instacart driver about where the spuds were being held. Next: For whatever reason, the driver chose not to retrieve them, claiming the manager told them there was nothing being held for me. Not knowing whom to believe, I phoned the manager who confirmed the driver had never asked for the potatoes and, to my astonishment, told me he was going to bring the groceries to my house right away, himself. “I feel really bad about this,” he said. “Sometimes Instacart’s drivers just go so fast, they don’t do a good job. It’s really important to me that my customers get good service and feel good about our store, especially with this hard time we’re all going through.” And that’s the crux of what has suddenly become a pressing issue for millions of local businesses, as well as all local search marketers who draw a through-line between reputation and revenue. Today, we’ll: Stack up the pros and cons of in-house vs. third-party delivery Interview a software engineer who has been on the ground with this evolving narrative of critical choices Excerpt the revealing comments of a former head of development at Grubhub. Plan SEO and marketing strategy for competing with corporate delivery Examine the welfare of and best options for drivers Help your brand or clients make a better-informed delivery decision A piece of the pie On March 15, 2020, downloads of Instacart’s app shot up 218% over their normal daily average. Restaurants, grocers, and a wide variety of retailers have spent the past two months forging paths from shelves to customers’ front doors to meet demand. While initial implementation may have been a scramble for the state of emergency, we’re getting to the place where it’s time to talk long-term plans. I recently surveyed a group of several hundred local business owners and local search marketers to ask whether they intend to permanently offer home delivery. Of those who answered “yes,” I asked whether they would be staffing up an in-house delivery fleet or outsourcing to a third party, like Instacart, or Postmates, GrubHub, or Uber Eats. I found it amazing that my survey group was split right down the middle: Clearly, there’s an even divide between brands that expect to manage the entire customer experience from start to finish, and those whose circumstances are causing them to entrust the last mile to a workforce they can’t directly control. I wondered if the 50/50 split represented settled decisions or indecisions and, also, how my pie chart might look a year from today, when all parties have had more time for implementation and analysis. For now, we’ll start by examining another type of pie with a technician who experienced a pizza company shifting from in-house to third-party delivery. A tale of cold pizza and ghosting drivers My friend is a software engineer who worked on last-mile delivery integration for a headlining US pizza startup, and whose anonymized takeaways serve as a stunning cautionary tale. The engineer tells it this way: “We started with an in-house delivery fleet, with two drivers assigned to each company vehicle and each vehicle servicing a radius of approximately five miles. Delivery times were under fifteen minutes with this setup, and we had a ton of very happy customers. Leadership then decided to outsource delivery to a well-known third party.” Take note of what happened next. “Average delivery time shot up to sixty minutes for peak dinner hours, and holidays were especially bad. One Hallowe’en, it was taking three hours for customers to receive their dinnertime pizza because of driver availability. The third party can’t simply add more drivers as they have no control over when drivers sign onto their platform, but with an in-house fleet, you can plan for high demand and increase staffing. And, instead of having an in-house driver waiting with their truck on the premises to take a delivery, you have to wait for the third party to assign a driver (between 5-30 minutes), wait for the driver to arrive (another 5-30 minutes), and then, finally, deliver. You’d sometimes see deliveries assigned to third-party drivers twenty miles away who would end up ghosting because they don’t want to be bothered with the long drive.” As for technical concerns, the engineer told me: “Technically, the third-party service was not reliable. I had to deal with a lot of random bugs in their API, as well as constant service interruption, and they had very poor engineering support for their API. This might not be true of all third-party services, of course.” And, finally, here’s how the engineer summed up the impact of this on customers: “The third-party delivery fleet wasn’t just inefficient in terms of time, but often, they didn’t have the proper bags to keep the pizzas warm. Customers waiting a long time for cold pizza will obviously lead to dissatisfaction. In-house drivers care more about the product they’re delivering, in my experience. I’m convinced that, given the choice, customers would always prefer restaurants to have in-house delivery staff, but it’s hard to compete nowadays with the big name last-mile platforms. Some brands have taken a very public stance on refusing to work with third parties, and I’d like to see Google and Yelp roll out features to let customers know when businesses have their own delivery staff, because it can make such a difference for the customer.” As a local SEO, I know that difference for the customer is going to show up in the reviews and word-of-mouth sentiment for any brand, and that, cumulatively, it could equal the brand building, maintaining, or shedding loyalty. Reputation can, quite literally, be the difference between solvency and closure. Positive press for third-party deliveries If there are so many potential negatives associated with outsourcing delivery, why do so many successful brands go this route? We’ve looked at some cons, but this shortlist of pros is illuminating: Third parties have their own, highly-visible, well-ranked directories of businesses they service. These websites are hard to compete with if you’re not included in them. Seen in a certain light, third parties can bring a business new visibility and new customers. More on this ahead. Third parties have ordering technology, logistics, drivers and either proprietary or driver-owned vehicles all ready to go, doing much of the heavy lifting. Not having to pay for a fleet of vehicles or directly pay the wages of drivers can impact brands’ initial, fixed, and ongoing costs. Concerns about insuring these drivers also belong to the third party, not the brand. Third-party reliance means the grocer can focus on groceries and the chef can focus on cooking, not delivery. For some brands, the challenge of becoming delivery experts is just too distracting. Many brands report having a good experience with major third parties. It’s important to read pre-COVID stories like these told by QSR’s Daniel P. Smith about companies that have relied on these providers for multiple years. Consider: The Buona family found that trying to focus on delivery detracted from the core operations of their 27-location Italian restaurant chain. In 2017, they turned the last mile over to DoorDash and were so pleased with the operation that they’re now also partnering with Uber Eats and Grubhub. Two years ago, the Habit Burger Grill launched a Postmates partnership in Northern California, and were happy enough with the arrangement to expand delivery from all 240 of their locations via Postmates, Doordash, and Uber Eats. Meanwhile, the 40-unit Just Salad chain has been using Grubhub since it launched sixteen years ago and praises their delivery time of under 35 minutes. At the same time, Just Salad also has an in-house delivery fleet. CEO Nick Kenner states that the company would prefer customers to choose the brand’s own delivery service, to “cut out the middleman.” That last point is absolutely key to this story and to the third-party vs. in-house decision. Cost issues with the middleman A narrative amplifying in volume during the public health emergency is that third-party delivery fees simply aren’t sustainable for small businesses. When BBQ restaurant owner Andy Salyards shared his Uber Eats bill with a local news station, I started doing some math. Salyards made $636.00 (pre-tax) selling 22 dinners. Uber Eats charged him $190.80 to deliver them. Salyards paid Uber Eats 30% of his earnings. I found averages stating that a driver can typically make 2.5 deliveries per hour, though this depends on geography. Out of respect for the drivers, let’s hypothesize that Salyards is operating in a city that’s passed a $15 minimum wage and that he decides to employ in-house delivery persons. It would take 8.8 hours for one driver to make 22 deliveries. 8.8 hours x $15 an hour = 132.00. Salyards would be paying 20.75% for in-house delivery instead of 30% for third-party fulfillment for the same work in this dynamic. And obviously, where the minimum wage is lower, Salyards costs for in-house delivery would be far less. On the face of it, in-house fleets look far more profitable than third parties, but here’s what my math doesn’t cover: Do in-house drivers use their own cars, or does the business have to make a major initial investment in a vehicle fleet? Who pays for gas/electric charging, auto maintenance, and liability insurance? How do you measure out the benefits of marketing your own brand by advertising on your company vehicles, vs. the loss of that opportunity because third-party vehicles don’t display your logo? What is the true cost to reputation, retention, and revenue when a brand loses control of the last mile of the customer experience? Is there an acceptable level of customer dissatisfaction caused by slower delivery times, lack of proper equipment, or ghosting drivers? Each business has a unique scenario, and all of them will need to find customized answers to all of these questions. Trust issues with the middleman Customer service rules the viability of local businesses, and the best ones labor over every aspect of their operations to get things just right. Handing off the home stretch between the physical locale of the business and the customer’s front door is a phenomenal act of trust, and unfortunately, the local SEO industry has long been documenting the damages of trust misplaced. To be completely honest, being set down amid Google, Yelp, and some of the major delivery brands, local business owners are gazelles amid a pride of lions. Some of the more infamous accusations against the lions over the past few years have included: Yelp and Grubhub cited for partnering up to replace restaurants’ listed phone numbers with Grubhub numbers. Google giving prime placement to Doordash on local business listings and telling furious business owners it’s on them to request removal of these unauthorized links. Grubhub’s awkward refutation and subsequent cancellation of the appearance of cybersquatting — i.e. buying up the domain names of its customers. Doordash cited for pickpocketing its drivers’ tips Uber Eats cited for giving no thought to safety inspections and delivering food from unvetted backyard BBQers. Most recently, and perhaps most infamously, Doordash cited for unauthorizedly scraping restaurant website menus and opening the door to bizarre pizza arbitrage. This last example, published by Ranjan Roy, received hundreds of frustrated comments, but it was the epic statement of Collin Wallace that glued me to my screen and deserves excerpting here: “I was the former Head of Innovation at Grubhub, so I have seen the truth behind many of these claims first hand. Sadly, I invented a lot of the food delivery technologies that are now being used for evil…COVID-19 is exposing the fact that delivery platforms are not actually in the business of delivery. They are in the business of finance... like payday lenders for restaurants and drivers… In the case of restaurants, these platforms slowly siphon off your customers and then charge you to have access to them. They are simultaneously selling these same customers to your competitor across the street, but, don’t worry, they are also selling their customers to you. For drivers, they are banking on a workforce that is willing to mortgage their assets, like cars and time, well below market value, in exchange for money now. They know that most delivery drivers are simply not doing the math...If they did, drivers would realize that they are actually the ones subsidizing the cost of delivery. Delivery platforms are “hyper-growth” businesses that are trying to grow into a no-growth industry. Food consumption really only grows at the rate of population growth, so if you want to grow faster than that, you have to take market share from someone else. Ideally, you take it from someone weaker, who has less information. In this industry, the delivery platforms have found unsuspecting victims in restaurants and drivers… Restaurants need to realize that they are now running e-commerce businesses and they need to act accordingly. Being proficient on Google, Yelp, Facebook and the dozens of other platforms is no longer optional, it is essential.” Local SEOs will nod their heads over the need for local Internet proficiency, but it’s Wallace’s summation of the welfare of the drivers that strikes the most discordant note with me for relationships hinging on trust. The Instacart driver who didn’t bother to bring me my potatoes sincerely worries me, not for my family’s sake, but for theirs. I already knew before reading Collin Wallace’s comments that some gig workers are living in their cars, camping in parking lots, and being forced to choose between safety and money. When you have a moment, brace yourself and read Quora threads in which gig drivers are arguing about how little they make. One of my own nieces is a gig worker, and she’s out there today as I write this column, trying to make ends meet and sanitizing her hands every five minutes. I’m worried about her every single day. There are local business owners who treat their staff like family, and others who don’t. Where trust and your brand’s reputation are involved, a question that deserves to be asked is whether you can trust business partners and models that rely on a desperate workforce. How do you feel about your handcrafted pizza being delivered, not by employees whose wellbeing you directly influence, but by one in four drivers who are hungry enough to be eating the food they’re supposed to deliver? As we look ahead with hope to a post-COVID marketplace, it’s worth taking the time to reflect on this question and how it relates to the quality of life in the community where you live and serve. Dignified work for local delivery drivers “Please leave it on the walkway. Thank you so much!” “Okay. You take care!” “Thank you. Stay safe! Take care!” This is the socially-distant duet I now sing through my kitchen window several times a week with the essential delivery workforce. While we may not deserve a Grammy, I do feel every driver who has brought water, food, and goods to my family these past few months deserves more than recognition — they deserve a dignified workplace and wage. If Grubhub’s former head of innovation is troubled by drivers subsidizing delivery costs in exchange for urgently-needed quick money, I am completely convinced that no local community is improved by reliance on an underpaid workforce with few protections, inadequate healthcare in time of illness, or housing insecurity. That’s the thing about seeing life through a local SEO’s lens: everyone is a neighbor, and people working in your city are your friends and family. I would prefer my niece to find work with a local business with an in-house delivery fleet being paid a living wage. I’d prefer her workforce to have a union, too. This is the advice I would give both as an aunt and as a local SEO, but if you are a driver trying to evaluate your personal decision about where to work, these links are for you: Here’s a short but good article from Fast Company comparing in-house to third-party realities for drivers. Read up on Instacart gig workers unionizing and Safeway drivers unionizing Read up on gig workers forming the first delivery app unions Check out the PayUp initiative organizing for a $15 minimum wage + tips + transparency for gig workers in Washington. Gig Workers Rising is a similar effort in California. In recent memory, many delivery jobs were filled by teenagers — like my big brother at 16 — with a new driver’s license, a stack of pizzas, and a need for part-time income to purchase disco records and car insurance. Now, it’s mothers, fathers, and grandparents driving those long miles to bring absolute necessities to our doors. If you work in delivery, my best advice to you is to study what Collin Wallace has said, study the market, and seek jobs with the best pay and best protections. You and your work are essential, and if you plan to work in delivery for the long haul, finding a union job, like the American Postal Workers Union, is likely to offer you the most protections and benefits. It’s not accurate to state that in-house drivers will automatically do a better job than gig workers for third parties. Many gig workers are going above and beyond to provide excellent service, day-in-day-out. But it’s only the in-house model that enables employers to ensure staff are receiving what they need to support themselves and support the brand. Last year, I did a very quick Twitter poll asking what it is that employees want most: Employers: keep seeing that through-line between reputation and revenue when weighing the wages and working conditions you feel will make your brand most trusted by customers. Think of me, and my hunt for taters, and my feelings of uncertainty about trusting Instacart again, or any business that’s using them for fulfillment right now. If you opt for in-house delivery, how will you compete? While competition will differ from market to market, here’s a very simple schematic of the typical set of Google results I’ve seen in my region for delivery-related queries, broken down into third-party vs. in-house delivery entries: As referenced above, corporate delivery services have massive, authoritative websites and big ad budgets that allow them to gobble up visibility in Google’s SERPs (search engine results pages). In my schematic of 16 opportunities — which represents an actual SERP in my town for the keyword phrase “hamburger delivery near me” — 10 of the entries are being bought or won by brands like GrubHub, DoorDash, and Postmates. If your business isn’t listed on the highly-ranked directories published by these services, and you lack a large paid advertising budget, a SERP like this leaves you just six places to compete for the customer’s attention. Here’s a basic three-part framework for how to compete: 1. Build your business for customers If Collin Wallace is right in casting third parties as payday lenders and in the business of finance, your competitive advantage is to be in the business of customers’ needs. In practical terms, this means: Analyzing what’s essential to the community you wish to serve. Investing in staffed, always-on lines of communication with customers and vigorously inviting feedback. On-going analysis of all forms of customer sentiment, especially online reviews, as cues for operational improvements. Mastering transforming negative sentiment into positive sentiment. Determining to feed, fight, and flip Google in ways that will benefit your local community. 2. Build the strongest website you can The usefulness, optimization, and technical quality of your website will all help you compete in both the organic and local SERPs. The more competitive your market, the more you will need to invest in implementing: Organic on-site SEO On-site local SEO Local content publication and marketing, including great content about your delivery service E-commerce and delivery technology Local link building Local competitive analysis (check out the beta of Moz’s Local Market Analytics for pro-level analysis) Moz’s Beginner’s Guide to SEO and Local Learning Center will get you well on your way to competitive wins. And double down in writing about the superlatives of your delivery service — don’t be shy about explaining exactly why ordering directly from your brand is best for the customer, the business, the delivery staff, and the community. 3. Build the strongest local SERP presence you can Your ability to publish, distribute, and manage your non-website-based local assets will strongly contribute to your ability to compete in Google’s local search engine results. Depending on your market competition, you’ll need to meet and exceed your competitors’ investments in: Managing all aspects of your Google Business Profiles, from basic informational fields, to reviews, to Google Posts, menus, Q&A, photos, and more. Getting your other third-party local business listings in good shape with complete and accurate data (a service like Moz Local can help with this). Fighting Google local spam with determination. Staying alert: if a third-party delivery service “mysteriously” appears on your Google listing, take these steps to request removal. There’s no downplaying the hold corporate delivery websites have on Google’s SERPs, nor the fact that Google has special relationships with some of them that redound to Google’s own financial interests. In competitive markets, it will be no easy task to compete with these brands. Many local businesses may feel that “if you can’t beat them, join them” is the only option to remain operational. But don’t overlook the powers you do have to compete by dint of running a beloved business and a brilliant search marketing strategy. You could even choose to utilize a third-party service only until you’ve got a large, built-in customer base you can guide to come directly to you for fulfillment in the years ahead. Summing up third-party vs. in-house delivery risks and benefits As you evaluate which solution will be the best fit for last-mile operations for your brand, you’ll want to painstakingly chart out the pros and cons of each option. Here’s my simple checklist to get you started, delineating which solution is most likely to afford the benefits we’ve covered today, as well as a few extra points of consideration: It’s too soon to predict what the sum total of change will be to the whole concept of delivery across all relevant industries. I talked with multiple business owners on St. Patrick’s Day, when California instituted its shelter-in-place order and all of them were hustling to create piecemeal solutions for remaining operational and serving my community. Several months later, brands are in a better position to evaluate consumer feedback and make adjustments to their delivery strategy. As our risk/benefit chart shows, there are clear pros and cons for in-house vs. third-party implementation. Many brands will take a “best of both worlds” approach, like Just Salads, while hoping more customers come directly to them instead of their outsourcing partner. Other business owners may steer clear of the big delivery brands and bet on a smaller service, like Takeout Central serving North Carolina, or Lodel covering seven states in the American West. And definitely check out this CHOMP restaurant cooperative story over at Localogy. What we can say with certainty in June of 2020 is that the brands you operate and market have major decisions to make about serving customers in both the best and worst of times. This is crucial work, and the only thing more important in local commerce right now is the significant power brands are suddenly wielding to set standards for how delivery and delivery persons will work. Recognize that power. We’ve all had enough of experiencing the “worst”, and it’s motivation enough to plan a better future, with consistently excellent service for customers, the building blocks of lucrative reputation for brands, and local communities that deliver fair and dignified livelihoods for valued essential workers. 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__label__wiki	0.692208	0.692208	Home Local News It’s about the team, not me – Felix Annan It’s about the team, not me – Felix Annan Asante Kotoko skipper, Felix Annan, has stated that his main interest is the overall success of the club and not his personal glories because Kotoko is a big family that goes beyond a player’s sentiments. Felix Annan lost his place as Kotoko’s number one to Kwame Baah after taking time off to wed his longtime girlfriend in the truncated 2019/20 Ghana Premier League season. Speaking to GNA Sports, Felix Annan said“When you are playing for a big club every season, your target is to win all trophies on board. So, I want to win every trophy that is available in the season.” The Black Stars goalie added that his target to win a CAF Champions League trophy hasn’t changed because Kotoko would be playing in the African elite club competition next season. “This has been my dream with the club that one day, I would win the Champions League with the club. It is still a target and I will work towards it as long as I’m with the club.” “Kotoko is a big club and the history behind it is very huge so it’s all about the team coming together because Kotoko is a family and I believe we can do it.” Last year, Asante Kotoko were booted out of the competition by Tunisian giant, Etoile Du Sahel by 3-2. Previous articleNana Yaw Amponsah will take Kotoko to the promised land- Samuel Oduro Nyarko Next articleHearts of Oak settle two month arrears to players and staff HIS NEXT POSSIBLE CASUALTY OR A RUNNING MATE? Airbus scandal: Amidu begins probe Mahama lost the elections immediately he accepted to be NDC flagbearer... Everyone is Affected by the Coronavirus (Covid-19) – Are you Not? Green Book debate: ‘Felix didn’t overwhelm me’ – Pius Hadzide as... Martin Amidu’s worker secretly granted an interview with him and begged...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line570
__label__cc	0.673031	0.326969	Great Graphic Novels for Ages 9 to 15 August 20, 2015 By Lan Nguyen 1 Comment Breezy Mama Editor Lan gets the scoop from author Howard Shaprio on great graphic novels for ages 9-15! From Lan: One of the great things about having older brothers while growing up was inheriting their collections of Conan the Barbarian, X-Men, Superman, Spider-Man and other comic books. Youth’s love affair with the graphic novel remains sizzling. Combined sales of graphic novels and periodical novels in North America rose to $935 million in 2014, a 7 percent increase from 2013, according to a joint report by comics trade news sites ICv2.com and Comichron. Breezy Mama tapped Howard Shapiro — author of The Hockey Saint, a well-crafted, insightful story about the lessons learned from friendship between a reclusive hockey star and a college sophomore — to recommend some of best graphic novels in the past five years. Here are the first-time author’s picks: The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future by Dav Pilkey Ook and Gluk are two kids from the cavemen time who <!–more–>find a way to get into trouble and find themselves on the wrong side of Chief Goppernopper. The Boys then travel into the future and learn kung-fu. What more could you ask for: cavemen and kung fu!! Bone: Out from Boneville This is great start to the Bone series and cannot to be missed! Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman by Marc Tyler Nobleman and Ross Macdonald (illustrator) This wonderful part graphic novel, part picture book centers on two high school friends, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, and how they created the man of steel. by Scott Christian Sava and Joseph Bergin (illustrator) Kids who enjoy The Flash will like this book! Joey has some weird happenings that enable him to run really fast. Adventures and fun ensues! Robot Dreams by Sara Varon For something a little different, check out this wordless graphic novel of an abandoned rusty robot, who dreams of a rescue, while its companion, a dog, tries to come up with ways to save it. The Whole World’s Crazy by Jimmy Gownley Amelia, her mother and father are divorced, and she now lives with her mom and aunt. She survives with the help of her friends… the Gathering of Awesome Superpals! This is the first book in the Amelia Rules! series. by Shaun Tan Another very cool and different book in that it is wordless but still a very moving story about a lonely man who has just arrived in a new town. Houdini: The Handcuff King by Jason Lutes and Nick Bertozzi (illustrator) An excellent story about the great and mysterious Harry Houdini. by Sharon Emerson, Renee Kurilla, Peter Reynolds In this wonderful tale, Vita and her rock band, Zebrafish, raise money to help the children’s hospital where their friend and bandmate is receiving cancer treatments. by Gipi This amazing story from the great and renowned Italian artist Gipi is about four friends who form a band. Playing music gives them a refuge from their tough home lives. But when their only amp breaks, their search for a new one begins to tear them apart. The Big Kahn by Neil Kleid and Nicholas Cinquegrani Great drama about the consequences of a family lie and the ripples that it causes among the family members and their friends. Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman, Chris Bachalo (illustrator), and Mark Buckingham (illustrator) Neil Gaiman, one of the best graphic novel authors, crafts this compelling story about the young, perky and incredibly likable Lady Death. One day in every century, Death walks the earth to better understand those to whom she will be the final visitor. Today is that day. What are your kids’ favorites? Filed Under: For Kids Entertainment Tagged With: Great Graphic Novels for Ages 9 to 15 My 9 year old son loved the Nathan Hale books–they’re all centered around historic events (i.e. the Donner party, a spy in the revolutionary war). My 6 year old daughter just finished another Hale book (written by Nathan’s brother and sister) called The Princess in Black. She couldn’t get enough!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line571
__label__wiki	0.745926	0.745926	Suzanne Weyn Full Impact No Naked Ads -> Here! $urlZ Full impact, p.1 Full Impact, p.1 Text copyright © 2013 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review. Darby Creek A division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 241 First Avenue North Minneapolis, MN 55401 U.S.A. Website address: www.lernerbooks.com The images in this book are used with the permission of: © Thomas Barwick/Digital Vision/Getty Images, (main image) front cover; © iStockphoto.com/com/Jill Fromer, (banner background) front cover and throughout interior; © iStockphoto.com/Naphtalina, (brick wall background) front cover and throughout interior. Main text set in Janson Text LT Std 55 Roman 12/17.5 Typeface provided by Adobe Systems Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Weyn, Suzanne. Full impact / by Suzanne Weyn. p. cm. — (Surviving Southside) ISBN: 978–1–4677–0311–6 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) [1. Football—Fiction. 2. High schools—Fiction. 3. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.W539Ful 2013 [Fic]—dc23 Manufactured in the United States of America 1 – BP – 12/31/12 eISBN: 978-1-4677-0967-5 (pdf) eISBN: 978-1-4677-2965-9 (ePub) eISBN: 978-1-4677-2966-6 (mobi) ith the score tied and just minutes left on the clock, the Titans began running the ball downfield with a series of laterals. Fullback Arnie Johnson sprinted toward the end zone. Halfback Norval Lamb saw two Cougar tackles gaining on Arnie and hoped Arnie saw them too. Arnie pivoted when he noticed the Cougar players within a few feet of him, shifting from foot to foot in a lightning-quick dance. Will Arnie take the ball out of bounds? Norval wondered. Does he have enough time? Or will he get rid of it? As the Cougars pounced, Arnie released the football. It spiraled toward Norval. Without time to think, Norval leaped into the air, stretching to reach the ball. He had it! Ducking and zigzagging through the last line of Cougars, Norval had only one goal—to make it to the end zone. The Titan fans in the bleachers roared with excitement as Norval pulled off a forward roll and scored the winning touchdown for Southside High. Grinning widely, Norval pulled off his helmet. He danced a quick salsa step to show his delight. He knew the coaches would frown on too much gloating, but he couldn’t resist. It had been a tight game from the start—this win hadn’t come easily. The Southside crowd continued cheering as Norval and his teammates jogged off the field. Arnie came alongside Norval and landed a friendly slap on Norval’s back. “Good play, man!” “Thanks. You too.” “Nah. It was all you. It was a gamble, but I knew you’d make it.” “Those tackles took you down hard,” Norval said. “You okay?” “Dude, please,” Arnie replied, rubbing the back of his neck. “They knock me down, but I bounce back up.” When they reached the sidelines, their teammates gave them cheers, thumps, and hugs. The Southside cheerleaders sang a victory chant, leaping in the air and shaking their pom-poms. A girl with silky black hair and large dark eyes wrapped Arnie in a hug. “You were amazing, Arnie!” Lara Velez cried. Norval and Arnie exchanged smiling glances. Norval knew Arnie liked Lara, even though the guys all agreed she was a big flirt. “Thanks, Lara,” Arnie said. “But Norval’s the man today.” “Norval made the TD, but you’re the one who carried the ball most of the way,” Lara said. “That’s the truth!” Norval agreed. He raised his arm and high-fived Arnie. Norval looked around and found his girlfriend, Sadie Collins, chatting with some of the other cheerleaders. He wanted to be sure she didn’t think he was the one flirting with Lara. They had a good thing going—Norval didn’t want to mess it up. Sadie wasn’t paying attention, though. Then—almost as if she could feel his eyes on her—she turned toward him and smiled. Norval smiled back and waved. “You and Sadie are still going strong, I see,” Lara said. “A month last week,” Norval confirmed. “You two make a cute couple,” Lara said. “Poor Sadie. She didn’t have a boyfriend for so long. Boys just didn’t seem to notice her.” Norval rolled his eyes. The remark was pure Lara. “Well, she has one now.” “I’m happy for you guys,” Lara said and then turned her attention to Arnie. “See you at Kadeem’s for pizza. You’re going, aren’t you, Arnie?” “I’ll be there,” Arnie said. “Cool. I’ll see you later, then,” Lara said, flashing him her most flirtatious smile as she danced away. “Look out, man. Lara’s coming for you. She’s got you in her sights,” Norval teased. “I wouldn’t mind,” Arnie said, his eyes still on Lara. Kadeem Jones, Southside’s quarterback, stepped between Norval and Arnie and threw his arms over their shoulders. “Way to go!” he shouted. “My place for victory pizza!” “We heard,” Norval said. “We’re in.” Kadeem jerked his head toward the stands, indicating the cluster of middle-aged men still lingering in the bleachers. “Scouts.” Norval recognized a few of them: one scout from Miller College, another from State University, and another scout from nearby Wendell College. “You guys heard anything yet?” Kadeem asked. Norval shook his head. Kadeem had already been recruited to play college ball for the Peterson Pirates. “Nothing yet for me,” Arnie admitted. “Something better come through. A scholarship is the only way I’m going to college.” orval squeezed his legs together to balance the paper plate holding his pizza. Kadeem’s parents had put out a great spread for the team. Norval couldn’t imagine how much the tower of pizzas on the table must have cost them. But they’d been right to order so much. This team could eat! Especially after a game like the one they had just played. Finishing his last bite of gyro pizza, Norval got up and headed back to the table for more. Lara was there with Maritza Rubio, another cheerleader. “Arnie was great today, wasn’t he?” Norval said. “I guess so. Whatever…” Lara grumbled. What had caused her enthusiasm to fade? “What’s going on?” Norval asked as he peeled another slice from the pie. “I don’t know. Go ask your buddy. When I tried to talk to him he just brushed me off.” “He’s acting weird,” Maritza added. When Norval went to find Arnie, someone said he’d just left. That’s odd, Norval thought. Arnie hadn’t even said goodbye. It wasn’t like him. He went and found Sadie. “Arnie just left all the sudden. Do you mind if I go try and find him? I’ll be back in time to walk you home.” “Sure, go ahead,” Sadie agreed. “Don’t worry about me. Paige’s mom is driving her home. I can get a ride with them.” Norval kissed her lightly. “Thanks. You’re the best.” Norval left the apartment and caught up with Arnie in the building’s main lobby. “Leaving so soon? What’s up?” he asked. “I don’t know,” Arnie said with a shrug. “All the noise in there was getting on my nerves. Giving me a headache.” “Well, you managed to make Lara pretty mad. What went down?” “Nothing, really. I just wasn’t in the mood for her chatter. I guess she could tell.” Arnie pushed the front door open and headed down the sidewalk. Norval fell into step beside him. “I thought you liked Lara.” “I do. I think I’m just tired. And, like I said, I have this headache.” “Maybe you should text her later,” Norval suggested. “She’s obviously into you. At least, she was before you blew her off.” “I didn’t blow her off. She’s cute, man, but she’s trouble. Look how she’s making a big deal over nothing. We’re not even together yet.” “She’s a drama queen, sure,” Norval said. “But I thought you had a thing for her.” “I did. I do,” Arnie said. “Is something else bugging you?” Norval asked. “Maybe this scholarship thing is weighing on me. How come nobody came up to us today?” “I don’t know. But I didn’t see them approach anyone.” “It’s like I said—no athletic scholarship, no college.” “What about Southside CC?” Norval asked. “Could you swing that?” “Community college?” Arnie cried. “They don’t even have a football team! I’m not getting to the pros that way.” “I didn’t know you were thinking pro ball.” Arnie reeled around, glaring. “What? Think I don’t have what it takes?” “Whoa, man!” Norval raised two hands to back Arnie up. “Don’t take it like that. I just didn’t know you had that in mind. I’m not sure I want to play pro. I haven’t thought that far ahead. Right now I’m just hoping for a free ride through school to play some college ball.” “Not me. Ever since I played peewee touch football, going pro’s all I’ve ever wanted.” Norval remembered Arnie as a little kid in their peewee football days. Arnie would complain that it was touch football and not tackle. He couldn’t wait to really mix it up with the other team. And that’s exactly what he did once they got to middle school. No one was more fearless than Arnie. Some of the kids took to calling him Bouncing Arnie Johnson because he seemed to bounce back after every tackle. It wasn’t surprising that Arnie wanted to play pro ball, once Norval thought about it. Football was what he lived for. “Sorry for yelling at you, man,” Arnie said, walking again. “I’ve just been cranky ever since the game ended.” “You seemed okay right after it,” Norval pointed out. “Did something happen?” “It’s my head. It started pounding once I got to the party.” “Should you get it checked out?” Norval asked. “It’ll stop. The same thing happened after the last game. But it went away in a couple of hours.” They came to Arnie’s apartment building, which was just a few buildings down from Norval’s place. With a quick fist bump, Arnie headed up the front steps. “Later,” he said as he pulled open the front door. “Take something for your head. Get some sleep,” Norval said from the sidewalk. “Call Lara.” “Sure, sure,” Arnie replied. Flashing Norval a grin, he went inside. As Norval walked toward his family’s own apartment, he put Arnie out of his mind. A headache could make anyone cranky. he Titans’ next big game was two weeks later, against Northside High. Norval joined his teammates at the thirty-yard line and got ready for kickoff. Arnie looked distracted, like he was searching the bleachers. Following Arnie’s gaze, Norval noticed scouts in the stands. He recognized the scouts from Wendell College and State U again. Then he spotted two more. One was from Croft College and the other from Phillips University. Arnie turned to Norval and jerked his head toward the scouts. Norval nodded, then started trying to block the scouts from his mind. He needed to focus on the game. Hopefully Arnie would do the same. Kadeem got into position and began calling plays. When he received the snap from the center, he quickly handed the ball off to Norval. Norval raced forward for five yards while Arnie ran interference against the Northside defensive end. With his head down, Norval barreled his way for another yard, confident that Arnie would block the defender. In the next second, though, Norval noticed two more Northside players coming at him from a different direction. Too fast—he couldn’t outrun them. He had to get rid of the ball. Is Arnie open, or is that defensive end still on him? Norval wondered. No. Arnie was clear! The defensive end was heading toward Norval. Pivoting, Norval lateralled the ball to Arnie. Before Arnie could catch it, the Northside defensive end turned back and slammed into him. The two players who’d been threatening Norval also changed course and piled onto Arnie. The whistle blew. Norval watched as the Northside defense got to their feet. Arnie lay on the ground, still. Assistant Coach Green hurried out onto the field and knelt beside Arnie. Norval was relieved to see Arnie get up onto his elbows. At least he was conscious. Head Coach Gannon called for a time-out as the medics came onto the field. Arnie lifted up his helmet to speak to them. Even though Norval couldn’t hear what was being said, he had the feeling that Arnie was telling them he was okay. To prove the point, Arnie rose to his feet—then staggered back. Coach Green steadied him. After more talk, the medics left the field and Arnie walked slowly off to the sideline with the two coaches on either side of him. orval joined his other teammates as they crowded around Arnie on the bench. “I’m good. Really!” Arnie said. “My helmet got creamed, but I’m okay.” Arnie smiled and pointed to a crack that ran all the way up the side of the helmet. “That could’ve been my head!” He twirled it on his hand. “Anybody have a spare? This one isn’t going to do me much good for the rest of the game.” “Forget it, Arnie,” Coach Green told him. “You’re sitting the rest of this game out.” Arnie leaped to his feet, protesting. “Come on, Coach! I want to play. I told you, I’m perfectly fine!” “Maybe I’ll put you in for fourth quarter,” Coach Green said. “Rest up for now, and we’ll see how you’re doing by then.” “Aw, come on!” Arnie said. “I’m good to play now. Honest!” Norval knew Arnie was thinking of the scouts in the stands. “No way, Johnson,” Coach Gannon said. “Calm down, or you’re benched for longer than this game.” “You can’t do this to me, Coach!” Arnie cried. Coach Green shot Arnie a warning look. “Last time I’m saying it. Sit down.” Arnie muttered something under his breath as he slumped back onto the bench. Arnie is really pushing his luck with all that arguing, Norval thought. Fortunately, the coaches didn’t seem to have heard him. “Don’t sweat it, Arnie,” Norval said. “The scouts will be back. It doesn’t reflect on you. Even the pros get pulled out when they’re injured.” “Yeah, well, they already have contracts,” Arnie grumbled. “Come on, man. The scouts know how it is.” “Yeah? How is it? They see me get pulled and they say, ‘This guy can’t take a hit. He doesn’t have the stuff.’” “It’s not like that,” Norval said. The rest of the game was close. This time, though, there was no thrilling final touchdown. The Titans lost. After the game, Norval met back up with Arnie, who was talking to Lara and Maritza by the bleachers. “How you feelin’?” he asked. “Completely fine,” Arnie said. “Wonderful! Not a scratch on me.” “And your head? Any headache this time?” Arnie tapped his head. “I’m having some trouble telling the voices apart.” “What?” Norval asked. “I’m playing with you, man,” Arnie confessed with a laugh. “I’m totally okay. Coach was crazy to pull me out of that game. I was so down to play.” “It was really dumb,” Lara added. “If Green had played him, you guys would have won for sure.” “I don’t know about that,” Arnie said, trying to sound modest. Norval was glad to see that Arnie had straightened things out with Lara. “Maybe so,” he said. “Still, it’s better to be safe.” Arnie scoffed. “It’s better to win!” “I don’t know about that,” Norval said. “What? You think we didn’t win ’cause I let the team down?” Arnie snapped. “I never said that!” Norval said. “Sounded like it,” Arnie mumbled. “No way.” Norval slapped Arnie’s back. “Anyways, I’m glad you’re okay.” As Norval spoke, he thought he saw Arnie wince. “You really okay?” he asked. “Don’t be such an old lady,” Arnie said, smiling once more. “I told you. I’m great.” orval was standing at his locker the next day when he saw Coach Green coming toward him. “Would you come see me in my office sometime today, Norval?” Coach asked. “Sure. I have a study hall third period,” Norval replied, growing worried. “Don’t look so nervous,” Coach Green said with a smile. “I just want to talk to you about something. Not a big deal.” “Okay. I’ll see you later.” Despite the reassurance from Coach Green, Norval couldn’t stop wondering what the meeting would be about. Southside had lost its last game. Maybe Coach felt Norval hadn’t played his best. Would he want Norval to put in extra practice time? Could one of his teachers have complained about his grades? He hadn’t done well on his last chemistry test. But they wouldn’t pull him from the team for that, right? On the way to the coach’s office he passed Arnie in the hall. “Do you have any idea why Coach Green would want to talk to me today?” Norval asked. “Maybe one of the college scouts contacted him about you,” Arnie said. “It’s possible.” Full Impact by Suzanne Weyn / History & Fiction have rating 4 out of 5 / Based on32 votes Daring to Dream Racing Against Time The Bar Code Prophecy The Pearl Earring Snapstreak The Secret Of The Unicorn Queen - Into The Dream The Phantom Music Box Distant Waves: A Novel of the Titanic: A Novel of the Titanic The Titanic Locket UNZANO Streaming Webcam with Ring Light and Dual Microphone, 1080P FHD Advanced Autofocus Webcam USB Adjustable… $69.99 LORELEI X6 Over-Ear Headphones with Microphone, Lightweight Foldable & Portable Stereo Bass Headphones with 1.45M No… $12.87 TEZO Wireless Earbuds IPX8 Waterproof Bluetooth Earphones Touch Control TWS Earbuds with Charging Case Built-in… $24.44 P24H-10 23.8IN LED LCD MON 25X14 USBC $259.99 StarTech.com 1-Port Wireless N USB 2.0 Network Print Server - 10/100 Mbps Ethernet USB Printer Server Adapter - Windows… $60.99	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line575
__label__wiki	0.820762	0.820762	Acts Passed at the First Session of the 1st Congress - 3d Session of the ... Հեղինակ՝ United States Shingle-mashe, his x mark. Little Charley, his x mark. Met-chin-equea, his x mark. Francis Godfroy, his x mark. Chin-qua-que-ah, his x mark. Pishewa, his x mark. Wa-pe-mung-qua, his x mark. Wa-ke-shin-qua, bis x mark. Wa-pa-pi-set, his x mark. Shaw-co-com-waugh, his x mark. Mung-go-saw, his x mark. La-laugh, his x mark. Ta-co-naugh, his x mark. Mi-a-que-a, his x mark. 0-san-dear, his x mark. 0-wan-so-pe-ah, his x mark. Me-chaw-cot-wah, his x mark. Pin-daw-lin-shaw, his x mark. Men-na-twa, his x mark. Wa-kin-e-kee-tough, his x mark. Ca-ta-ke-mon-guah, his x mark. Kee-sone-saw, his x mark. Po-come-cot-waugh, his x mark. Men-gone-saugh, his x mark. Ma-quagh-con-nong, his x mark. Ma-ma-see-cha, his x mark. Poqua, his x mark. Wa-pa-co-cha, his x mark. Sho.-pon-to-saw, his x mark. Ne-pa-wa, his x mark. Sha-pon-to-saw, his x mark. To-san-yah, his x mark. No-wa-co-paugh, his x mark. Sho-e-lin-chee, his x mark. Min-see-quah, his x mark. Mi-a-que-ah, his x mark. Fa-fa, his x mark. Pa-pin-gee-she, his x mark. Kee-mo-te-ah, his x mark. Wa-wa-saw-ma, his x mark. Mun-gone-saw, his x mark. 0-wan-so-pe-ah, his x mark. Kee-la-come-wa-quah, his x mark. Yah-ka-cone-na, his x mark. Co-come-wah, his x mark. Po-co-ga, his x mark. Che-ke-no-quah, his x mark. Kee-she-con-saw, his x mark. Wa-pa-co-se-ah, his x mark. Ta-co-qua, his x mark. Ta-co-qua, his x mark Cot-tee-mon-gua, his x mark. Long-guah, his x mark. Wa-pa-pe-taugh, his x mark. Go-ta-co-paugh, . his x mark To-san-ne-ah, his x mark. Captain Flour, his x mark. Go-ta-ca-puah, his x mark. John B. x Richardville, Principal chief. ALLEN HAMILTON, Sect'y to the Commissioner. . J. P. TAYLOR, Capt US army. JESSE VERMILYA PETER LANGLEY, Interpreter. Assent of the Indians to certain the treaty. And whereas, ANDREW JACKSON, then President of the United States of America, not approving of said treaty, the principal Chiefs of said tribe of Indians assented to certain modifications thereof, as appears by the following agreement between said Chiefs and Jonathan Keller, Commissioner of the United States, viz: modinamicerca in Articles of agreement, made and entered into, at the Forks of the Wabash, on the 31st day of July, 1837, between Jonathan Keller commissioner of the United States, and the principal chiefs of the Miami tribe of Indians, witnesseth: That it is agreed between the contracting parties, that certain articles of a treaty entered into between William Marshall commissioner of the United States and the Miami Indians on the 23d day of October 1834, (not being in conformity to the views of the President of the United States) and being submitted to us the head chiefs by direction of the President for modification the undersigned hereby consents and agrees to the following modifications, to wit ; From the second section strike out all that relates to the payment of goods to the Miamies as a part, consideration for the lands ceded, and insert money in lieu thereof-and all that relates to placing money in the hands of a white man to pay the debts of the Indians, to alter the 7th section, and to add the 8th section to the 6th and strike from the treaty the 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th, and 15th sections. The undersigned chiefs consenting to and confirming the entire cession made by the treaty above mentioned. In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our names the date above mentioned. JONATHAN KELLER, his JOHN B. RICHARDVILLE. FRANCIS > GODFROY. Witnesses present, ALLEN HAMILTON, A. C. PEPPER, MA-GI-NE-CA, Indian Agent. - 0: And whereas the said treaty with explanatory documents from 1837. the Department of War, having been submitted to the Senate for other its advice in regard to the ratification of the original treaty, with the amendments proposed by the Secretary of War, the treaty, ! with the amendments, in the event of its ratification by the United States, to be again submitted to the Chiefs and Warriors of the Miami tribes for their sanction or rejection, the Senate did on the niso twelfth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyPrin seven, resolve as follows, viz: IN SENATE OF THE United States, October 12th, 1837. Resolved, (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring) That The Senatecon. the Senate do advise and consent to the ratification of the treaty ication of the between the United States of America and the Miami tribe of treaty, with the Indians, concluded at the Forks of the Wabash, in the State of mendment. Indiana, on the twenty-third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four; with the following amendment; Pro- Proviso: vided, that the Chiefs and Warriors of the said tribe, shall in General Council, as on the occasion of concluding the aforesaid treaty, agree to and sign the same: Attest, · Asbury Dickins, sent to the rati. Miami Indians concluded 230 Oc cede the follow. ing tracts of land. toare Strike out the whole of said treaty after the title and insert the Amendment. following in lieu thereof: Articles of a treaty between the United States and the Miami tribe Treaty with the of Indians, concluded at the Forks of the Wabash, in the State of Indiana, on the 23d day of October, 1834, by and between lober 1834. William Marshall, commissioner of the United States, and the chiefs and warriors of said tribe. ARTICLE 1. The Miami tribe of Indians agree to cede to the The Indians the best United States the following described tracts of land within the inge State of Indiana, being a part of reservations made to said tribe from former cessions, now conveyed for and in consideration of the payments stipulated to be made to them in the 2d article of this treaty of cession. in One tract of land, thirty-six sections, at Flat Belly's village, a At Flat Belly's reserve made by the treaty of Wabash of 1826. Also, one tract of land, about twenty-three thousand acres On the Wabash more or less, a reserve made at Wabash treaty in 1826, of five river. miles-in length on the Wabash river, extending back to Eel river. Also, one other tract of ten sections at Racoon village, and a At Racoon vil. i lage, and Mudd tract of ten sections at Mudd creek on Eel river, reserves made Creek. at Wabash treaty of 1826. Also, one reserve of two miles square on the Salamany river on the Saja. at the mouth of At-che-pong-quaw creek, reserve made at the treaty of St. Mary's of 1818. Also, one other tract being a portion of the ten mile square a portion of reserve, made at the treaty of St. Mary's of 1818, opposite the square reserve, the the ten mile village. any river. Xer the big reserve on posite the inouth of Eel river. tion thereof. 1837. mouth of the river Aboutte, commencing at the northeast corner site the of said reserve, thence south with the eastern boundary of the mouth of the ri- same ten miles to the southeast corner of the reserve, thence west with the southern boundary one mile, thence north nine miles, thence west nine miles, thence north one mile to the northwest corner of said reserve, thence to the place of beginning. A. portion of The Miamies also agree to cede a portion of their big reserve, the Wabash op- made at the treaty of St. Mary's of 1818, situated southeast of in the Wabash, extending along the Wabash river, from the mouth of Salamany river, to the mouth of Eel river. The part now ceded shall be embraced within the following bounds to wit: commencing on the Wabash river, opposite the mouth of Ed river, running up said Wabash river eight miles, thence south two miles, thence westwardly one mile, thence south to the southern boundary of said reserve, thence along said boundary line seven miles to the southwest corner, thence northerly with the westen boundary line to the place of beginning. Payments to be ARTICLE 2. For and in consideration of the cession made in 8. in considera: the first article of this treaty, the United States agree to pay the Miami tribe of Indians the sum of two hundred and eight thousand dollars; of this sum fifty-eight thousand dollars to be paid within six months from the ratification of this treaty, fifty thousand dollars to be applied to the payment of the debts of the tribe, and the remaining sum of one hundred thousand dollars in annual instalments of ten thousand dollars per year. Grants to be ARTICLE 3. From the cession made in the first article of this lands ceded. treaty, there shall be granted to each of the persons named in the schedule hereunto annexed, and to their heirs and assigns, by patent from the President of the United States, the lands therein named. ARTICLE 4. It is agreed, between the parties to this treaty, that sued to J. B. Ri. a patent in fee simple shall be issued by the President of the reserve of ten United States to John B. Richadrille, principal chief of the Miami tribe, for a reserve of ten sections at the Forks of the Wabash, made to said tribe by treaty of twenty-third October, 1826, be having an Indian title to the same, a copy of which, marked A, accompanies this treaty. Article 5. The United States agree to furnish a skilful miller, miller in lieu of to superintend a mill for the Miamies, in lieu of the gunsmith promised by the 5th article of the treaty of St. Mary's of 1818. Improvements Article 6. The United States agree to have the buildings and to be inade by the . improvements on the lands ceded by the first article of this treaty valued. To cause a similar amount in value, laid out in building, clearing and fencing ground, for the use of the Indians, on such ossession place or places as their chiefs may select, and that the Indians im: have peaceable possession of their houses and improvements, on the lands ceded in the first article of this treaty, until the improve ments are made as provided for in this article. The U. S. 10 Article 7. The United States agree to pay the Miami Indians Stolen by the fifteen hundred dollars, for horses heretofore stolen from them by whites. the whites. Patents in fee. ARTICLE 8. The United States agree to cause patents in tee A patent in fee simple to be ig. chadrille for a gunsmith. The Indians to have possession until the im. provements are made. pay for horses section of land Schedule of grants referred - simple to issue to the following named persons, for the several 1837., tracts of land attached to their names, granted to them by former gimple for lands treaties, to wit: To Little Charley, for five sections of land, above to be issued the old village on the north side of Eel river, granted to him by ley. treaty of Wabash of 1826. - To Laronture's daughter, for one section of land on Maumee To Laronture's river, granted to her by treaty of Wabash of 1826. To To-pee-ah, son of Francis Lafontain, for one section, To To-pee-ah. granted himn by treaty of St. Mary's of 1818. To Met-chin-e-quea, for two sections of land granted him by To Met-chin-etreaty of Wabash of 1826, at the old town on Eel river. To Francis Godfroy, four sections of land on the Salamany To F. Godfroy. river, granted him at treaty of St. Mary's of 1818, being the residue of what he now holds of said grant. ARTICLE 9. There shall be granted to Hugh Hanna, one-quarter One quarter section of land, in lieu of one selected and not approved on the to be granted to grant made to Guire at treaty of Wabash of 1826, (Hanna hav- H. Hanna. ing purchased of Guire,) the selection to be made under the direction of the President of the United States. Schedule of grants referred to in the 3d Article. To Francis Godfroy one section of land at the lower line of to in the 3d arti. the five mile reserve on the Wabash river, to be located adjoining To F. Godfroy. the town of Peru; one half section to be located on said Wabash river, opposite his trading house, and one half section to be - located on that part of the big reserve southwest side the Wabash, above and adjoining the two sections granted to John B. Richardrille; and one half section back and adjoining the one granted to said John B. Richardrille, opposite the mouth of Eel river. - To To-pe-ah, one section of land, commencing one mile from To To-pe-ab. the northeast corner of the ten mile reserve, opposite the mouth of Aboit river, (granted by treaty of St. Mary's of 1818,) thence south one mile, thence west one mile, thence north one mile, thence east to the place of beginning. To Wa-pa-se-pah, son of Lafontain, one section of land west To Wa.pa-se. and adjoining the one to To-pee-ah. To Ne-ah-long-quaw, two sections of land, west and adjoining qu 5," the one to Wa-pa-se-pah. To A-saw-som-ma-quah, or Susan, one section of land, west To A saw-somand adjoining the two to Ne-ah-long-quaw. To Poqua, son of Francis Godfroy, one half section, west and To Poqua. adjoining the one to Susan. . To Francis Godfroy, one half section of land, west and adjoin- To F,G ing the one to Poqua. To Paul Longlois, one section of land on the Wabash river, to To P. Longlois, include his field. . To Chappene one section of land, to include Racoon village, To Chappene. e commencing two poles west of the grave yard northwest of the village, thence on an easterly direction to river About, thence with said river until it strikes the reserve line, thence with said line for quantity to include within the bounds one section of land; also, one other section of land, west and adjoining the half sec. tion granted to Francis Godfroy on the ten mile reserve.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line577
__label__wiki	0.553731	0.553731	save in the peasant folklore which keeps it up amongst us with so many other remnants of barbaric thought. And the like theory of spiritual influence as applied to idolatry, though still to be studied among savages and barbarians, and on record in past ages of the civilized world, has perished so utterly amongst ourselves, that few but students are aware of its ever having existed. To bring home to our minds the vastness of the intellectual tract which separates modern from savage philosophy, and to enable us to look back along the path where step by step the mind's journey was made, it will serve us to glance over the landmarks which language to this day keeps standing. Our modern languages reach back through the middle ages to classic and barbaric times, where in this matter the transition from the crudest primaeval animism is quite manifest. We keep in daily use, and turn to modern meaning, old words and idioms which carry us home to the philosophy of ancient days. We talk of "genius" still, but with thought how changed. The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to receive offerings on an altar as a deity. In modern English, Shakespeare, Newton, or Wellington, is said to be led and prompted by his genius, but that genius is a shrivelled philosophic metaphor. So the word "spirit" and its kindred terms keep up with wondrous pertinacity the traces which connect the thought of the savage with its hereditary successor, the thought of the philosopher. Barbaric philosophy retains as real what civilized language has reduced to simile. The Siamese is made drunk with the demon of the attack that possesses the drinker, while we with so different sense still extract the "spirit of wine." 1 Look at the saying ascribed to Pythagoras, and mentioned by Porphyry. "The sound indeed which is given by striking brass, is the voice of a certain demon contained in that brass." These might have been the representative words of some savage animistic philo 1 Bastian, 'OeatL Asien,' vol. ii. p. 455. See Spiegel, 'Avesta,' vol. ii. p. 5. sopherj but with the changed meaning brought by centuries of philosophizing, Oken hit upon a definition almost identical in form, that "What sounds, announces its spirit" (" Was tont, gibt seinen Geist kund.")1 What the savage would have meant, or Porphyry after him did mean, was that the brass was actually animated by a spirit of the brass apart from its matter, but when a modern philosopher takes up the old phrase, all he means is the qualities of the brass. As for our own selves and our feelings, we still talk of "animal spirits," of being in "good and bad spirits," only recalling with an effort the long past metaphysics which such words once expressed. The modern theory of the mind considers it capable of performing even exalted and unusual functions without the intervention of prompting or exciting demons; yet the old recognition of such beings crops up here and there in phrases which adapt animistic ideas to commonplaces of human disposition, as when a man is still said to be animated by a patriotic spirit, or possessed by a spirit of disobedience. In old times the (yyaaTpifxv9os, or "ventriloquus" was really held to have a spirit rumbling or talking from inside his body, as when Eurykles the soothsayer was inspired by such a familiar; or when a certain Patriarch mentioning a demon heard to speak out of a man's belly, remarks on the worthy place it had chosen to dwell in. In the time of Hippokrates, the giving of oracular responses by such ventriloquism was practised by certain women as a profession. To this day in China one may get an oracular response from a spirit apparently talking out of a medium's stomach, for a fee of about twopence-halfpenny. How changed a philosophy it marks, that among ourselves the word "ventriloquist" should have sunk to its present meaning.2 Nor is that 1 Porphyr. de Vita Pytliagor.v. Okeu, 'Lohrbuch der Naturphilosophie," 2753. 3 Suidas, s. v. lyyturrplnvSos; Isidor. Gloss s. v. 'piaicantatorcs; Bastian, 'Mensch vol. ii. p. 578. Maury, 1 Mag-'e,' etc. p. 209. Doolittle, 'Chinese,' vol ii, p. 115. change less significant which, starting with the conception of a man being really ZvOeos, possessed by a deity within him, carries on a metamorphosed relic of this thorough animistic thought, from ivOovaiao-nos to "enthusiasm." With all this, let it not be supposed that such change of opinion in the educated world has come about through wanton incredulity or decay of the religious temperament. Its source is the alteration in natural science, assigning new causes for the operations of nature and the events of life. The theory of the immediate action of personal spirits has here, as so widely elsewhere, given place to ideas of force and law. No indwelling deity now regulates the life of the burning sun, no guardian angels drive the stars across the arching firmament, the divine Ganges is water flowing down into the sea to evaporate into clouds and descend again in rain. No deity simmers in the boiling pot, no presiding spirits dwell in the volcano, no howling demon shrieks from the mouth of the lunatic. There was a period of human thought when the whole universe seemed actuated by spiritual life. For our knowledge of our own history, it is deeply interesting that there should remain rude races yet living under the philosophy which we have so far passed from, since Physics, Chemistry, Biology, have seized whole provinces of the ancient Animism, setting force for life and law for will. CHAPTER XV. 'ANIMISM (continued). Spirits regarded as personal causes of Phenomena of the World—Pervading; Spirits as good and evil Demons affecting man—Spirits manifest in Dreams and Visions: Nightmares; Incubi and Succubi;' Vampires; Visionary Demons—Demons of darkness repelled by fire —Demons otherwise manifest : seen by animals ; detected by footprints—Spirits conceived and treated as material—Guardian and Familiar Spirits—Nature-Spirits; historical course of the doctrine—Spirits of Volcanos, Whirlpools, Rocks —Water-Worship: Spirits of Wells, Streams, Lakes, etc. —Tree-Worship : Spirits embodied in or inhabiting Trees ; Spirits of Groves and Forests—Animal-Worship: Animals worshipped, directly, or as incarnations or representatives of Deities; Totem-Worship; Serpent-Worship— Species-Deities; their relation to Archetypal Ideas. * We have now to enter on the final topic of the investigation of Animism, by completing the classified survey of spiritual beings in general, from the myriad souls, elves, fairies, genii, conceived as filling their multifarious offices in man's life and the world's, up to the deities who reign, few and mighty, over the spiritual hierarchy. In spite of endless diversity of detail, the general principles of this investigation seem comparatively easy of access to the enquirer, if he will use the two keys which the foregoing studies supply: first, that spiritual beings are modelled by man on his primary conception of his own human soul, and second, that their purpose is to explain nature on the primitive childlike theory that it is truly and throughout " Animated Nature." If, as the poet says, "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas," then rude tribes of ancient men had within them this source of happiness, that they could explain to their own content the causes of things. For to them spiritual beings, elves and gnomes, ghosts and manes, demons and deities, were the living personal causes of universal life. "The first men found everything easy, the mysteries of nature were not so hidden from them as from us," said Jacob Bohme the mystic. True, we may well answer, if these primitive men believed in that animistic philosophy of nature which even now survives in the savage mind. They could ascribe to kind or hostile spirits all good and evil of their own lives, and all striking operations of nature; they lived in familiar intercourse with the living and powerful souls of their dead ancestors, with the spirits of the stream and grove, plain and mountain, they knew well the living mighty Sun pouring his beams of light and heat upon them, the living mighty Sea dashing her fierce billows on the shore, the great personal Heaven and Earth protecting and producing all things. For as the human body was held to live and act by virtue of its own inhabiting spirit-soul, so the operations of the world seemed to be carried on by the influence of other spirits. And thus Animism, starting as a philosophy of human life, extended and expanded itself till it became a philosophy of nature at large. To the minds of the lower races it seems that all nature is possessed, pervaded, crowded, with spiritual beings. In seeking by a few types to give an idea of this conception of pervading Spirits in its savage and barbaric stage, it is not indeed possible to draw an absolute line of separation between spirits occupied in affecting for good and ill the life of Man, and spirits specially concerned in carrying on the operations of Nature. In fact these two classes of spiritual beings blend into one another as inextricably as do the original animistic doctrines they are based on. As, however, the spirits considered directly to affect the life and fortune" of Man lie closest to the centre of the animistic scheme, it is well to give them precedence. The description and function of these beings extend upwards from among the rudest human tribes. Milligan writes of the natives of Tasmania: "They	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line578
__label__wiki	0.734898	0.734898	Tag Archives: Rabbit Polyclonal to Histone H2A phospho-Thr121) The current presence of a 500-bp fragment which amplifies a region The current presence of a 500-bp fragment which amplifies a region from the genome of (J. significant economic losses. directly in biological samples, such as milk or blood, and never have to culture them and which would enhance the predictive value from the tuberculin test also. Even though the PCR continues to be requested the analysis of tuberculosis effectively, routine software of a PCR-based technique Benzamide requires that the prospective sequence be extremely particular for the microorganism which it be there in all from the strains isolated. Rodrguez et al. (14) reported a PCR assay which amplifies a 500-bp fragment through the genome utilizing the JB21-JB22 primer set. Benzamide However, just a small amount of isolates had been found in that research. The present work was performed to determine whether this 500-bp fragment could be amplified from the genome of different, previously characterized, isolates. Mycobacterial isolates and DNA extraction. A total of 121 isolates identified as on the basis of growth in the presence of pyruvate (scarce growth in glycerol), colony morphology, and biochemical and enzymatic tests (niacin negative, nitrate reduction negative, catalase Rabbit Polyclonal to Histone H2A (phospho-Thr121) negative, urease positive, Benzamide pyrazinamidase negative) were used in this study (9). Susceptibility to thiophene-2-carboxylic acid hydrazide and identification. H37Rv and AN5 were used as reference strains. One hundred twelve of these were bovine strains from Argentina (taken from six different regions of the country), two were bovine strains from Mexico, and seven were from Colombia. Four isolates belonging to the complex were obtained from sea lions in Argentina and were also included in the study. Lymph nodes (40%), lung tissue (45%), liver (10%), and samples from other locations (5%) were collected during necropsy and cultured in Stonebrink broth (16). All of them showed macroscopic lesions typical of bovine tuberculosis. H37Rv, were also analyzed in the study. Chromosomal DNAs were isolated as described by van Soolingen et al. (17), and 100 ng Benzamide of each DNA was used for PCR amplification. PCR assay. Primers JB21 and JB22 were synthesized on a Pharmacia synthesizer. Primer sequences and performance of the PCR were as reported previously by Rodriguez et al. Benzamide (14). The reactions were performed in a final volume of 50 l containing 1 reaction buffer (Promega), 2.5 U of polymerase (Promega), 0.2 mM each deoxynucleoside triphosphate, 1.5 mM magnesium chloride, and 20 pmol of each primer. Target DNA was denatured by incubation for 5 min at 94C before amplification for 30 cycles of 94C for 1 min, annealing at 68C for 1 min, and extension at 72C for 1 min. All reactions were carried out in an automated thermal cycler (Biometra). After amplification, 1/10 from the PCR blend was examined by gel electrophoresis in 1% agarose gels formulated with 0.5 g of ethidium bromide per ml. Hybridization evaluation. Genomic DNA was hydrolyzed using the isolates through the use of primers JB22 and JB21, which amplify a 500-bp fragment of (14). The 500-bp genomic fragment was within every one of the isolates found in this scholarly research, offering a 100% relationship using the microbiological characterization. The fragment was also amplified through the genome from the four complicated strains isolated from ocean lions. These isolates had been characterized as complicated strains because they distributed molecular markers from both and (2, 15). No amplification was noticed for H37Rv, strains. To determine whether this 500-bp series exists as a distinctive fragment in the genome, Southern blot evaluation was completed through the use of 17 isolates chosen as reps of the full total strains as well as the 500-bp fragment was utilized being a hybridization probe. As proven in Fig. ?Fig.1,1, the 500-bp fragment hybridized to a 1.8-kb music group present in every one of the samples analyzed, indicating a common location inside the genome. Furthermore, positive signals had been obtained with a couple of high-molecular-weight rings, between 7 and 10 kb. Hybridization with these high-molecular-weight rings was polymorphic among the various isolates tested and in addition. This entry was posted in General and tagged Benzamide, Rabbit Polyclonal to Histone H2A phospho-Thr121) on July 17, 2017 by Minnie Lawson.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line581
__label__wiki	0.812853	0.812853	Top 10 Female Sex Fantasies 3. Exhibitionism The flip side of voyeurism is exhibitionism. Rather than the person watching, you’re one of the people being watched. But Dr. Jess O'Reilly, Astroglide's resident sexologist, says these feelings go deeper than just wanting to have all eyes on you. "[Exhibition fantasies] correlate to the desire to feel sexy, garner attention, be admired, feel appreciated and be objectified," she says. "It's the desire to indulge in the taboo element of sharing publicly that which has been rendered overwhelmingly private; for some this may facilitate the shedding of shameful messages associated with sex. Also, an association with power; as you embrace your sexuality for others to see, you may experience feelings of empowerment and control." Van Kirk agrees, adding that fantasies involving public nudity often come from a place of wanting to feel powerful: "Women want to feel empowered and appreciated in their bodies. Exhibiting themselves either nude or having sex with their partner may help them feel that." While public sex is a good example of that, exhibitionist fantasies can cover all sorts of scenarios, such as flashing, being exposed in a public area, or sex in a place where you might easily get caught. For some women, these are nightmare situations, but for others, they’re sources of serious sexual arousal. What Real Women Say: "I travel for work often, which means I find myself alone in hotel rooms most nights of the month," says Nakita, 29. "Standing in the floor-to-ceiling windows of these hotel rooms completely naked makes me feel sexy and powerful — but it's also a safe move for the most part, because no one can see me so many stories up. But in my exhibition fantasy, my hotel room is on the ground level of an easily accessible street. I stand like I normally do, totally naked and exposed, and I have admirers come by. Some of them put their hands up to the glass, others stare for so long that they end up tripping, or dropping coffee. One man comes up to the window and tells me through the glass that I'm beautiful. Another traces my body with his finger on the glass, fogging up where he's heavily breathing on it. I also fantasize about flashing someone, which then leads to us having sex in public. Overdone, I know. But I come across so many good looking businessmen while traveling to all of these client meetings that I can't help but weave them into my fantasies. A lot of my fantasies involve public transportation. For example, being stranded at an airport seated across from a handsome stranger, with nothing to do while we wait out the weather delay except to lock eyes, tease each other, and eventually seal the deal." Strategies to Coexist With Your Ex on Every Social Network There’s a Proper Way to Message Someone Goodbye Your Guide for Ending a Relationship With Kindness (Depending on How Long You Were Together) The Latest & Greatest Dating App Injects Some Substance Back Into Online Dating 5 of the Best Dating Sites to Use in 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line582
__label__wiki	0.723324	0.723324	Catasauqua Business Lawyers Catasauqua Entertainment Law Attorneys What is Entertainment Law? Find the right Entertainment attorney in Catasauqua, PA Entertainment law includes legal services, such as contracts and copyrights, that are aimed at protecting pieces of entertainment like books, movies and visual arts. In the entertainment industry, protecting your work from being exploited or plagiarized by others is an imminent concern. In Pennsylvania, the intellectual property rights of artists are protected by several laws that includes copyright and trademark provisions. What is A Copyright? A party holding a copyright can exclusively produce a certain form of entertainment, requiring any others who want to use it to get consent first. Under Pennsylvania law, the holder of a copyright has the right to negotiate licenses for the production of the copyrighted material that others might want to use. Entertainment law determines the procedure for getting a copyright and how long it lasts once issued. These concerns are important as you go about protecting your property rights or licensing your work to others. What is a Trademark? A trademark is any noticeable characteristic that is associated with something, such as the symbol for a commercial brand. Trademarks can be key to establishing product recognition in the entertainment industry. Trademarks, unlike copyrights, do not expire. However, they must be registered with the U.S. patent and trademark office. Once you have your trademark, establishing brand identity becomes much easier. How Can a Pennsylvania Attorney Help? In Catasauqua, many attorneys have specialized in the field of entertainment law. If you feel you need a copyright or a trademark, legal experts can explain the benefits and guide you through the process of obtaining them in Pennsylvania Catasauqua Breach of Contract Attorneys Catasauqua Business Dispute Lawyers Catasauqua Business Law Attorneys Catasauqua Contract Review Lawyers Catasauqua LLC Attorneys Catasauqua Business Law Lawyer Catasauqua Buying a Business Attorney Catasauqua Contract Drafting Lawyer Catasauqua Incorporation Attorneys Catasauqua Selling a Business Lawyers Entertainment Lawyers in Sayre Entertainment Lawyers in Schuylkill Haven Entertainment Lawyers in Dormont Entertainment Lawyers in Minersville Entertainment Lawyers in Baden Entertainment Lawyers in Hummelstown Entertainment Lawyers in Cranberryship Entertainment Lawyers in West Reading	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line588
__label__wiki	0.572127	0.572127	Degree and General Education Requirements College of Applied Science & Technology Lindquist College of Arts and Humanities Goddard School of Business & Economics Moyes College of Education Dumke College of Health Professions Engaged Learning and Interdisciplinary Programs Continuing Education & Community Services WSU Davis History (BA) Add to My Catalog Return to: Programs Sorted by Major/Minor Program Prerequisite: Not required. Minor: Required. The Public History and Asian Studies minors also eligible with a History Major. Grade Requirements: A grade of “C” or better in courses applied toward this major (a grade of “C-” is not acceptable). Also refer to the general grade requirements for graduation on page 38. Credit Hour Requirements: A total of 120 credit hours is required for graduation; a minimum of 36 of these is required within the major. A total of 40 upper division credit hours is required (courses numbered 3000 and above); 24 of these are required within the major. History majors are required to meet with their faculty advisor at least annually for course and program advisement. They must also meet with their advisor or the department chair before registration for HIST 4990 . Call 801-626-6706 for additional information or to schedule an appointment. (Also refer to the Department Advisor Referral List.) Declare your program of study (see Enrollment Services and Information ). There are no special admission or application requirements for the History major. Refer to Degree and General Education Requirements for Bachelor of Arts requirements. See Language Courses Required to fulfill the BA listed under the major course requirements. Major Course Requirements for BA Degree History Core Courses Required (12 credit hours) HIST 1500 SS - World History to 1500 C.E. (3) HIST 1510 SS/DV - World History from 1500 C.E. to the Present (3) HIST 2700 - History of the United States to 1877 (3) HIST 2710 - History of the United States since 1877 (3) All the above should be taken before upper-division course work (courses numbered 3000 and above). Language Courses Required to fulfill the BA (12 credit hours) 6 credit hours of foreign language and the following language arts courses HIST 3000 - Investigating History (3) HIST 4990 - Senior Seminar (3) * * Should be taken during senior year. HIST 3000 is a prerequisite to HIST 4990 . Upper Division Elective Courses (18 credit hours) Select at least one course in each area. HIST 3010 DV - American Indian History: 1300 to Present (3) HIST 3030 DV - African-American History (3) HIST 3050 DV - History of U.S. Latinos (3) HIST 3070 DV - Women in American History: 1600 to Present (3) HIST 3090 DV - American Social History (3) HIST 3110 - American Ideas and Culture (3) HIST 3130 - U.S. Urban History (3) HIST 3210 - U.S. Constitutional History (3) HIST 3230 - American Foreign Relations (3) HIST 3250 - Religion in American History (3) HIST 3270 - American Environmental History (3) HIST 3280 - American Military History to 1917 (3) HIST 3290 - American Military History since 1917 (3) HIST 4010 - Colonial America (3) HIST 4020 - Era of the American Revolution: 1763-1800 (3) HIST 4030 - New Nation: 1800-1840 (3) HIST 4040 - Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction: 1840-1877 (3) HIST 4050 - U.S. in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: 1877-1919 (3) HIST 4060 - Twentieth-Century United States: 1919-1945 (3) HIST 4070 - Twentieth-Century United States since 1945 (3) HIST 4110 DV - History of the American West to 1900 (3) HIST 4120 - The American West since 1900 (3) HIST 4130 - History of Utah (3) HIST 4710 - Special Issues and Topics in American History (3) HIST 4210 - Ancient History (3) HIST 4220 - History of the Middle Ages 300-1300 (3) HIST 4230 - Renaissance and Reformation - Europe: 1300-1660 (3) HIST 4240 - Absolutism, Enlightenment and Revolution - Europe: 1660-1815 (3) HIST 4250 - Nineteenth-Century Europe (3) HIST 4260 - Twentieth-Century Europe (3) HIST 4280 - History of Christianity in Europe (3) HIST 4310 - History of Russia to 1917 (3) HIST 4320 - Russia since 1917 (3) HIST 4330 - History of England to 1485 (3) HIST 4335 - Tudor and Stuart England (3) HIST 4340 - History of England since 1714 (3) HIST 4350 DV - History of Modern Germany (3) HIST 4370 - History of Modern France 1789-present (3) HIST 4410 - History of Spain and Portugal (3) HIST 4430 - History of Scandinavia (3) HIST 4450 - History of Modern Eastern Europe since 1815 (3) HIST 4720 - Special Issues and Topics in European History (3) Global, Comparative, and General HIST 3350 - History and Philosophy of Science (3) HIST 4510 DV - Twentieth Century World (3) HIST 4530 DV - Far Eastern History (3) HIST 4550 DV - Southeast Asian History (3) HIST 4590 DV - Middle Eastern History (3) HIST 4610 - History of Africa (3) HIST 4630 - History of Ancient and Colonial Latin America (3) HIST 4650 DV - Modern Latin America (3) HIST 4670 DV - History of Mexico (3) HIST 4730 - Special Issues and Topics in Global and Comparative History (3) Other Electives May be taken to meet credit hour requirements. HIST 3400 - Principles of Public History (3) HIST 3500 - Historical Preservation (3) HIST 4810 Experimental Courses (1-3) HIST 4810 - Experimental Courses (3) HIST 4830 - Directed Readings (1-3) (max 3 cr towards major/minor) HIST 4860 - Internships in Historical Studies (1-6) (max 6 cr towards major/minor) HIST 4890 - Cooperative Work Experience (1-6) (max 6 cr towards major/minor) HIST 4920 - Short Courses, Workshops, and Special Programs (1-6) (max 6 cr towards major/minor) HIST 4930 - History Workshop (1-5) (max 5 cr towards major/minor) HIST 4980 - History Honors Senior Project (2) History majors are encouraged to also take POLS 1100 AI - American National Government (3).	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line591
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__label__cc	0.571438	0.428562	Trauma-focused group intervention for unaccompanied young refugees: “Mein Weg”—predictors of treatment outcomes and sustainability of treatment effects Elisa Pfeiffer ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9742-30041, Cedric Sachser1, Dunja Tutus1, Joerg M. Fegert1 & Paul L. Plener1,2 Current research on treatment predictors and long-term effects of trauma-focused interventions for (unaccompanied) refugee minors is limited. This secondary analysis of a recent randomised controlled trial (RCT), evaluating the trauma-focused group intervention “Mein Weg” (English “My Way”) compared to usual care, investigated several refugee-specific factors such as treatment predictors and sustainability of treatment gains. In total N = 50 participants (Mage = 17.00, 94% male) were included in this analysis. Evaluation of 3-month follow-up data included: posttraumatic stress symptoms [(PTSS) CATS-Self, CATS-Care], depression (PHQ-8), and dysfunctional posttraumatic cognitions (CPTCI-S). Baseline symptom severity of the above-mentioned measures, trauma load and socio-demographic factors were investigated as the treatment predictors. Intention-to-treat-analyses (ITT) revealed the sustainability of treatment effects in self-reported PTSS (pre to post change: 6.48 ± 1.60, d = 0.62, p < 0.001; post to 3-month follow-up change: 1.41 ± 1.96, d = 0.11, p = 0.47) and depression (pre to post change: 7.82 ± 2.09, d = 0.64, p < 0.001; post to 3-month follow-up change: 1.35 ± 2.17, d = 0.05, p = 0.54). Country of origin alone was a significant predictor of the change in PTSS (b = − 8.22 ± 3.53, t(30) = − 2.33, p = 0.027), and baseline levels of depression were a significant predictor of the change in depression (b = 0.83 ± 0.19, t(33) = 4.46, p < 0.001). This group intervention can serve as a valuable component in a stepped care approach with promising long-term effects for young refugees. Trial registration DRKS, #DRKS00010915. Registered 15 September 2016, https://www.drks.de/drks_web/navigate.do?navigationId=trial.HTML&TRIAL_ID=DRKS00010915 In 2016 alone, 63,245 unaccompanied young refugees (UYRs) applied for asylum in Europe, more than half of them (57%) in Germany [1]. UYRs experience on average eight different types of traumatic events pre-/peri- and post-migration [2,3,4,5] and often go on to develop trauma-related disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression or anxiety. Recent studies report that 40–60% of UYRs report elevated posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) [3, 4]. Levels of depression are somewhat lower, ranging from 24 to 50% [6]. There is a growing body of literature not only on traumatised refugees’ psychopathology [3, 4, 6] but also on treatment options for their symptoms [7,8,9,10,11]. Several individual trauma-focused interventions have proved successful in reducing PTSS in this cohort [12,13,14]. In order to overcome prevalent barriers to individual therapy, such as a lack of therapists, translators or financing, school- and community-based interventions have been proposed and evaluated with young refugees. In a recent review by Tyrer and Fazel [15], 21 school- and community-based interventions for refugee minors were analysed and generally found to be effective. UYRs showed a significant decrease in PTSS and depression after taking part in evidence-based group programmes such as Teaching Recovery Techniques (TRT) [16] or other cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) group programs [9]. Furthermore, a review and meta-analysis of school- and community-based interventions concluded that school professionals or social workers can be successfully deployed to provide interventions for traumatised minors [17]. All of the above described interventions can be labelled as “psychosocial” interventions, which are normally administrated in a group format e.g. by social workers and take place in alternative settings such as schools or child and adolescent welfare (CAW), not in (specialized) clinics or private practice by board certified medical or psychological psychotherapists. The trauma-focused group intervention “Mein Weg” (English: “My Way”) is such a psychosocial intervention, specifically designed for UYRs and implemented by trained and supervised social workers in CAW programmes in Germany. The feasibility of the six session CBT-based group intervention as well as significant improvements in PTSS have been demonstrated in a pilot study [2]. A recent randomised controlled trial (RCT), comparing the intervention to usual care in CAW programmes with N = 99 UYRs, demonstrated its efficacy in decreasing PTSS and depression in this group [7]. When investigating treatment effects in UYRs, it is important to bear in mind that individual differences may affect success in mental healthcare interventions [18]. Social factors such as discrimination and changing social roles, or separation from family have been found to act as barriers to positive psychological outcomes in refugee populations [19,20,21,22]. High pre-treatment levels of depression [23, 24] and poor general mental health [25] have been found to predict poor treatment response in refugee samples. To our knowledge, the potential impact of the number of traumatic events (trauma load) and of the PTSS level pre-treatment on treatment outcomes has not been investigated in adolescent refugee samples. Furthermore, varying countries of origin involving different escape routes starting in the Middle East or in African countries have not been researched. Coming of age is a crucial time point for UYRs as this often involves a change in their legal status. At the age of 17 many of them face major uncertainty and helplessness in the asylum process. In the long run this might affect their mental health and treatment response [19]. Hence, specific peri-and post-migration factors need to be taken into account when evaluating treatment for this cohort, as post-migration stress also predicted both levels of anxiety as well as depression in a longitudinal study of UYRs [26]. Although studies on the sustainability of the treatment effects of well-established trauma-focused individual treatments such as KIDNET [27] with refugee samples are available, little is known about the long-term effects of trauma-focused treatments, especially regarding group interventions [28, 29]. This issue is, however, particularly relevant as insufficient trauma recovery is associated with academic and behavioural problems, social withdrawal and elevated anxiety or depression [30, 31]. In fact, existing findings on treatment sustainability are not only rare but also controversial [17]. Several promising group interventions based on CBT principles in schools only evaluated the intervention with young refugees post-treatment [32, 33]. A study by Goodkind et al. [34] evaluating a CBT intervention in a school setting with young refugees found that PTSS levels at the 6-month follow-up rebound to baseline. Refugee minors undergoing a six-session group CBT implemented in schools showed a significant decrease in PTSS post-treatment. However, the available follow-up data, which is restricted to eight cases, showed that treatment gains could not be maintained at the 2-month follow-up [9]. Results of an early intervention in a school setting showed stable effects at 3- and 6-month follow-up assessments [35]. A study comprising war-affected children undergoing TRT showed a significant decrease in PTSS but not in depression, not only post-treatment but also at the 3-month follow-up [36]. Generally, small to medium effect sizes were found at the 3- and 6-month follow-up when the intervention was delivered by lay counsellors [15]. In sum, the potential impact of specific post-migration factors needs to be investigated in order to optimise treatment for this cohort. More research is needed on the sustainability of treatment effects for UYRs in psychosocial interventions. In order to fill this gap in the literature, we studied predictors of the intervention outcome and the sustainability of treatment effects of the “Mein Weg” trial [7]. In research question 1, we aimed to identify, in an exploratory manner, the following possible predictors of a successful outcome of the intervention: Age, time spent in Germany, country of origin as indicator of differing escape routes (Middle East vs. African country), contact to family, trauma load, and baseline scores in PTSS, depression and dysfunctional posttraumatic cognitions (PTCs). In research question 2, we examined whether the significant improvements observed post-intervention in PTSS (primary outcome) as well as in depression, dysfunctional PTCs and caregiver-reported PTSS (secondary outcomes) are maintained at the 3-month follow-up (3MFU) post-intervention assessment. Treatment gains in all measures at 3MFU were analysed in an exploratory manner. Predictor analysis and sustainability of treatment effects were studied within the “Mein Weg” intervention arm of the aforementioned RCT study. In the original study, we applied a single-blind parallel-group RCT in seven CAW agencies in southern Germany with an allocation ratio of 1:1 (“Mein Weg” vs. usual care). The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee at the University of Ulm (#176/16) and registered in the German Clinical Trials Registry (#DRKS00010915). All participants were assessed at baseline, post-intervention (vs. 2 months’ usual care) and at the 3-month follow-up. More information on the trial design and randomisation is available elsewhere [7]. The participants were recruited between November 2016 and January 2017 in the collaborating CAW agencies. Eligible participants and their legal guardians were informed about the study protocol, and written informed consent and assent were obtained. Baseline assessments were performed by trained assessors from the study centre, and follow-up assessments were performed by trained social workers in the respective agencies. Participants qualified for the study on the basis of the following inclusion criteria: Being 13–21 years of age, not undergoing alternative psychological treatment, being able to participate in daily activities at CAW agencies, reporting a history of at least one traumatic event, and at least moderate PTSS (total symptom score of ≥ 19 in the Child and Adolescent Trauma Screen (CATS-Self) [37], basic command of German language, having spent at least 6 months in Germany, prospect of continuation of the current CAW program after study inclusion for at least 3 months, no acute suicidality, and willingness and ability to attend weekly sessions. The manualised trauma-focused group intervention “Mein Weg” comprises 6 weekly 90-min sessions with two to five participants delivered by two trained and supervised social workers in each CAW agency. The core elements of each session are depicted in a workbook. The intervention content is derived from CBT principles and comprises psychoeducation, relaxation, trauma narrative and cognitive restructuring. Several elements of the intervention, such as the narrative, could be done in the participants’ mother tongue, if they preferred to do so. For more information on the intervention see Pfeiffer et al. [7]. Within this study, the intervention was delivered by 28 social workers (11 male, Mage = 43.25, SDage = 13.41) who had on average 16.06 years of work experience (SD = 11.17; range: 0.67–37) in CAW programs, but no experience in clinical work. All social workers delivering the intervention received a 2-day training course comprising education in trauma, trauma-related disorders and training in the intervention beforehand. Experienced clinicians provided continuous weekly consultation for the social workers. Treatment fidelity was monitored via content checklists for each session which social workers filled out after every session. Overall fidelity was high (97%). Additionally, the social workers attended weekly supervisions with trained and experienced clinicians. Child and Adolescent Trauma Screen (CATS) The primary outcome PTSS was assessed via the Child and Adolescent Trauma Screen (CATS-Self) [37]. The CATS explores the individual trauma history with an event checklist of 15 different events and the frequency of 20 PTSS based on DSM-5 criteria [38] for PTSD on a scale ranging from 0 = “Never” to 3 = “Almost always”. The overall PTSS score is calculated by adding up all scores of the 20 DSM-5 PTSD symptoms (possible range 0–60). The internal consistency of the CATS-Self was α = 0.75 in our study sample [7]. A PTSS proxy-measure was assessed by the CATS caregiver version (CATS-Care) [37]. The proxy report was completed by the individual caregiver of each UYR within the CAW agency. Internal consistency for the caregiver report in this study was α = 0.91. Patient Health Questionnaire 8 Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire 8 (PHQ-8) which is a short version of the PHQ-9 [39]. The 8 items are based on DSM-IV criteria [40] and refer to the frequency of the symptoms during the previous 2 weeks using a scale ranging from 0 = “Not at all” to 3 = “Nearly every day”. The overall depression score is calculated by adding up all scores (possible range 0–24). The internal consistency in our sample was α = 0.76. Child Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory Short Version Dysfunctional PTCs were measured using the Child Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory Short Version (CPTCI-S) [41]. The 10-item questionnaire assesses the degree of agreement on a scale ranging from 1 = “Don’t agree at all” to 4 = “Agree a lot”. The overall dysfunctional PTCs score is calculated by adding up all scores (possible range 0–40). Cronbach’s α of 0.81 in the RCT indicated good internal consistency. All questionnaires were professionally translated (forward and backward translations) into the most common native languages of the refugee population in Germany. The assessors were only blinded at the first measurement point since randomization took place afterwards. Blinding for the follow-up assessments was not possible due to practical reasons within the CAW agencies. Research question 1: Predictor analysis was applied to the per protocol sample and to those participants in the intervention group who completed at least five of the six intervention sessions (including the trauma narrative), and provided valid assessments of relevant outcomes pre- and post-intervention (CATS-Self, PHQ-8). To investigate possible moderators of the intervention effect, we used regression analyses with change scores in PTSS and depression as the dependent variable. Covariates in our regression models were investigated in an exploratory manner due to the small sample size. Separate models were, therefore, estimated for every predictor. Research question 2: To investigate the sustainability of treatment effects we used three approaches: (1) mixed effect models with fixed effects of time (pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3MFUs were performed on all dependent variables (CATS-Self, CATS-Care, PHQ-8, CPTCI-S) with the ITT sample. Mixed effect models can handle missing data under the missing at random assumption. Little’s MCAR test indicated that data for all outcomes were missing completely at random for each outcome variable. Parameters were estimated using the restricted maximum likelihood (REML) method. Based on the longitudinal design of the study, data were nested by participants and repeated measures were modelled using an unstructured covariance matrix based on the comparison of likelihood criteria (AIC and BIC). (2) Additionally, a per protocol analysis was applied to those participants in the intervention group who completed at least five of the six intervention sessions and provided valid assessments of the relevant outcomes for all three time points. Given the exploratory nature of the secondary analyses, the significance level was set at p = 0.05 (2-tailed) for all analyses. Effect sizes (Cohen’s d) were calculated for pre to post, pre to 3MFU and post to 3MFU differences using the pooled standard deviation of the pre- and post-intervention score. The pooled standard deviation was used for the post to follow-up difference. (3) Finally, we calculated the reliable change index (RCI) [42] to check for clinically significant improvement or clinically significant deterioration from post-intervention to the 3MFU in order to gain an impression of treatment sustainability on a single person level. Based on the reliability α = 0.90 and the standard deviation of the CATS-Self measured at post-treatment, a score of 10.21 points on the scale indicated a reliable change in PTSS. Based on the reliability α = 0.82 and the standard deviation of the PHQ-8 measured at post-treatment, a score of 6.02 points on the scale indicated a reliable change. All analyses were performed using the SPSS version 23. All data were double-entered. Altogether N = 50 participants within seven CAW agencies fulfilled the inclusion criteria and were allocated to the “Mein Weg” group. Demographic data on the sample are given in Table 1, the participant flow and study samples can be found in Fig. 1. For more information on the entire study sample, see the efficacy study [7]. Once assigned to the “Mein Weg” group, n = 47 (94%) received the allocated intervention and n = 37 (74%) completed the full format of at least five sessions. Altogether n = 2 (4%) participants did not complete the assessment at post-intervention due to relocation to another CAW agency (n = 1) and organisational problems within the CAW agency (n = 1). Drop-outs did not complete the intervention either. Hence, the post-intervention completer sample (sample for research question 1) comprised all n = 37 intervention completers. There were no statistically significant differences between the completer and non-completer samples in terms of age, gender, country of origin, duration of stay in Germany, trauma load or baseline scores. Table 1 Sample description at baseline of the “Mein Weg” (engl. My Way) group (N = 50) Study Flow Chart. Participants included in this study are marked in green color. 1Participants who started the intervention and completed at least 5 sessions of the intervention “Mein Weg”. Study sample of research question 1. 2 Reasons for premature termination of the intervention “Mein Weg” were lack of motivation (n = 4); alternative treatment (n = 1); high psychosocial stress due to deportation notice (n = 1); and organizational reasons within the institution (n = 4). 3Lost to follow-up means that participants didn’t fill out any questionnaire. 4Study sample of research question 2 (ITT analysis) At the 3MFU assessment post-intervention n = 17 participants (34%) in the “Mein Weg” group were lost due to lack of motivation to fill out more questionnaires. The sample for research question 2 comprised all participants (N= 50) in the ITT analysis and a subsample (n = 22 to n = 24; depending on the measure) in the 3MFU completer analysis. Research question 1: predictor analysis Separate models were estimated for all eight predictors within the completer sample for PTSS and depressive symptoms as the dependent variable. With regard to PTSS only the factor country of origin, which was dichotomised to countries in the Middle East (n = 23, mean change = 4.22) vs. African countries (n = 9, mean change 12.44), was found to statistically significant predict treatment response. The effect was indicated by an 8.22 point (d = 0.95, p = 0.027) higher mean change on the CATS-Self scale for participants from African countries compared to participants from countries in the Middle East. Thereby it seems noteworthy that the number of different trauma types and rates of endorsement of different trauma types were comparable among both subgroups (Middle East vs. Africa). With regard to depressive symptoms, only the factor severity of depression pre-intervention was found to statistically significant predict treatment response. The effect was indicated by a higher treatment response by a 0.83 point (d = 0.30; p < 0.001) higher mean change in depression for participants with higher levels of depressive symptoms prior intervention (see Table 2). Table 2 Predictors of treatment response for the depended variables posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and depressive symptoms in the per protocol sample Research question 2: sustainability of treatment effects A post hoc power analysis to detect a difference between the two depended means [n = 50, alpha level 0.05 (two tailed, statistical power of 0.80)] indicated that a statistically significant mean difference (improvement or deterioration) was found for effects higher than d = 0.40. From post-intervention to 3 MFU no statistically significant mean improvement or deterioration was described for self-reported symptoms of PTSS, depression or dysfunctional PTCs (see Table 3 and Additional file 1: Tables S1–S3). Improvements due to participation in the “Mein Weg” intervention on PTSS and depression were stable in the FU period as indicated by comparable pre-post and pre-3MFU effect sizes. Dysfunctional PTCs deteriorated between post-intervention and 3MFU but were still lower compared to pre-intervention. Table 3 ITT: treatment outcomes: estimated marginal means (M), standard errors (SE), 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for Pre-, posttreatment and 3-month follow-up (3MFU) To investigate sustainability on a single person level we used the RCI to detect possible clinically significant improvements or deterioration within the completer sample (n = 24). With regard to PTSS as measured by the CATS-Self, n = 15 (62.5%) participants remained in a stable condition, n = 5 (20.8%) showed a clinically significant improvement and n = 4 (16.7%) showed a clinically significant deterioration according to the RCI. With regard to depressive symptoms, as measured by the PHQ-8, n = 20 (83.3%) participants remained in a stable condition, n = 2 (8.3%) showed a clinically significant improvement and n = 2 (8.3%) showed a clinically significant deterioration. Since our RCT demonstrated the efficacy of the trauma-focused group intervention “Mein Weg” for UYRs, compared with usual care [7], we conducted this secondary analysis with a view to investigating treatment outcome predictors on the one hand and the sustainability of treatment effects on the other. Country of origin (Middle East vs. African countries) remained the sole significant predictor of symptom improvement in PTSS. This is surprising as numerous studies showed that social and interpersonal factors, as well as post-migration stressors and psychopathological burden affect mental health outcomes in refugees [3, 19, 43]. The finding that contact to family does not seem to have any predictive value for treatment response is somewhat counterintuitive as social support plays an important role in trauma recovery. Future research needs to address not only the quantity but also the quality of the contact in order to derive conclusions for interventions delivered to this cohort. The finding that UYRs from countries in the Middle East benefit less from the intervention might be explained by the general increase in the number of deportation notices among Afghan youth [44]. Refusal of asylum was closely associated with higher levels of psychological distress in UYRs in Norway [45]. Afghan UYRs in particular are afraid of being deported as Afghanistan has been declared a “safe country of origin” by the German government. As this study sample mainly comprised Afghan youth in the Middle East group (n = 19), this threat might have overshadowed their benefit from the intervention. In fact, further analysis revealed that coming from Afghanistan was a significant predictor of poor treatment response not only in PTSS but also in depression. In fact, a necessary pre-requisite for trauma-focused treatment is the existence of a “safe place”, meaning reliable protection from ongoing traumatization. Having such a “safe place” cannot be assumed for Afghan refugees, being continuously threatened by a potential return to their previous traumatizing environment. It is therefore questionable whether refugee minors from Afghanistan can benefit from exposure-based treatments as long as they are seriously threatened by deportation. The symptom improvement in depression was only predicted by higher baseline scores in depression. This is in line with a longitudinal multilevel analysis of a study with refugees and asylum-seekers suffering from PTSD undergoing eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) and stabilisation [24]. This finding shows that highly affected UYRs who may fulfil all the criteria for a depressive disorder (and probably also PTSD) benefit from psychosocial interventions. The finding might also be explained by the fact that the study was not powered for symptom reduction in depression. Furthermore, mean severity at baseline was only moderate with 11.52 points on a possible range 0–24, so for some participants with low symptoms in depression, there was less room for improvement. In sum, the results of the predictor analysis are promising as many different participants might benefit equally from the intervention independently of age or psychopathology. However many questions remain as findings from our study contradict earlier studies on the influence of predictors for treatment response. This might be due to the limited number of participants. The results of the sustainability analyses demonstrated that treatment gains in self-reported PTSS and depression remained clinically stable on a mean level and single person level over the course of the 3 months post-intervention. Especially since literature on the long-time effects of psychosocial interventions is scarce and controversial, this is an important finding that backs similar evidence in (early) psychosocial interventions [15, 35, 36]. A trend was found that dysfunctional PTCs deteriorated between post-intervention and 3MFU but were still lower compared to pre-intervention. This trend may be explained by enduring/ongoing daily stressors in the follow-up period, which may affect cognitions such as “I don’t trust people”; “I am no good”, or “I can’t cope when things get tough”. The sample size of this secondary analysis was relatively small with a strong gender imbalance which greatly limits the impact and generalisability of the findings. However, most studies on psychosocial interventions with refugees include similar or smaller sample sizes [9, 46]. This highlights the need for larger RCTs to evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions. The small sample size, especially in completer samples, led to the employment of an explorative analysis approach that only included single predictor models for predictor analysis. Studies with larger samples should investigate factors that might influence treatment outcome within one model in order to evaluate confounding effects. Future studies might also include more heterogeneous samples. This study mainly comprises UYRs from Afghanistan (n = 19). Hence, results might not be identical for youth coming from other countries. Due to the inclusion criteria of the study, a large number of equally or potentially even more needy young refugees were excluded from the study. In a subsequent “dissemination and implementation” study conducted by the developers of the manual, these youth were invited to participate as well. Throughout this subsequent study no serious adverse events were reported. Hence, “Mein Weg” can be seen as safe and feasible for a sample of UYR without pre-selected criteria. The assessors were not blinded at the post-intervention and 3MFU assessments, which could have led to a performance and ascertainment bias after randomization. Longer follow-up assessments were not included in the study design because, when the study was being conducted, UYRs were often reassigned between CAW agencies or left the CAW programme altogether when they became of age. Since there are no follow-up data on 36% of the participants, we cannot draw any conclusions about whether they improved or deteriorated post-intervention. The measures used in this study were developed in western countries and not validated in refugee populations. Hence, we cannot assume that these measures are really appropriate for all the cultures of our study participants. The measures have revealed satisfactory psychometric properties, though. No clinical interviews by independent assessors were employed to assess the symptoms and to establish a possible diagnosis. However, a meta-analysis of trauma-focused therapy for (adult) refugees found no significant difference in effect size based on the method used to assess PTSD symptoms (clinical interview vs. questionnaire) [47]. Alongside various other authors, Horlings and Hein [48] argue that layered systems for Europe’s mental healthcare are promising options for catering for the diverse needs of refugee minors. Theses stepped care approaches include, in addition to early psychosocial interventions, focused non-specialised interventions and they recommend short-time group interventions for refugee minors suffering from PTSD. However, as described in the introduction, little research on school-and community based interventions for traumatised refugee minors has been conducted and evaluated over a longer time period than post-treatment. As far as we know, no such research has been undertaken in Germany. A recent systematic review of school-based socio-emotional interventions for this cohort did not find a single study carried out in Germany [49]. As Germany has welcomed the highest number of UYRs in the European Union [1], there is an urgent need for more research in this field [49]. More specifically, current research should focus to a greater degree on innovative and culture-sensitive interventions in naturalistic settings. The present study on the “Mein Weg” trial can be seen as one example of how to implement psychosocial interventions with long-term effects in diverse naturalistic settings such as German CAW programmes. Additionally, (therapeutic) interventions with a more “inclusive” approach need to be considered in order to fulfil the needs of UYRs who are not stable enough for a trauma-focused intervention in a group setting. In future research, several other, and potentially more relevant, pre- and post-migration factors such as perceived discrimination [50] or asylum status in particular [51] need to be investigated, especially with regard to the long-term effectiveness of an intervention. Apart from focused psychosocial interventions, several other layers of stepped-care approaches such as family or peer support groups or language training need to be systematically investigated, not only with regard to psychopathology but also to functional level and integration outcomes. This study increases understanding of the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions for young refugees in naturalistic settings. The intervention "Mein Weg" was found to be effective not only post-intervention but also for a further 3 months in self-reported PTSS and depression. The current study extended prior knowledge on the effect of pre-/peri- and post-migration factors on symptom reduction and hopefully stipulates more research on dismantling studies in psychosocial interventions. On a political level, the psychological consequences of an insecure asylum status need to be discussed. This intervention could be a valuable component in a stepped and collaborative care approach for UYRs in Germany. However, there is a need for more systematic research on different levels of stepped-care approaches in order to fill the ongoing gap between a large number of highly traumatised and psychologically impaired refugees, and an overstrained mental healthcare system. European Commission Eurostat. Asylum and managed migration database. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/asylum-and-managed-migration/data/database. 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EP applied for funding of the project at the World Childhood Foundation, wrote the study protocol and application for the ethics committee together with Prof. Dr. Lutz Goldbeck, designed the study, coordinated the study procedure and recruited study participants in Germany in collaboration with child welfare programs, was in charge of study monitoring, did a systematic literature search for the article, conducted a literature research, planned and performed the statistical analyses with co-author Cedric Sachser, wrote the first manuscript draft and revised the manuscript according to the co-authors’ comments. CS performed the assessments with co-authors EP and DT and was in charge of analysing and interpreting the patient data. DT also performed the assessments and was a major contributor in writing the manuscript. PLP and JMF were project leaders after the sudden death of Prof. Dr. Lutz Goldbeck (†30.10.2017) and were also contributors in writing the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. The authors would like to thank their cooperation partners, namely Erzbischöfliches children’s home (Kinderheim) Haus Nazareth, Sankt Hildegard Memmingen, Eva Heidenheim gGmbH, Paulinenpflege Winnenden, Foundation (Stiftung) Jugendhilfe Aktiv Esslingen, worker’s welfare association (Arbeiterwohlfahrt) Augsburg, and diaconal federation (Diakonieverband) region Heilbronn, along with their participating young refugees and social workers, all research assistants, the clinical consultants Thorsten Sukale, Veronica Kirsch, and Miriam Rassenhofer, and the World Childhood Foundation for funding this study. We would particularly like to thank Prof. Dr. Lutz Goldbeck who not only initiated and planned this research project but also helped every step of the way implementing the study and writing initial manuscripts on “Mein Weg”. PLP received funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the German Federal Institute of Drugs and Medical devices (BfArM), Volkswagen Foundation, Baden-Wuerttemberg Foundation, Lundbeck and Servier. He received a speaker’s honorarium from Shire. Over the last 5 years JMF has received research funding from the EU, DFG (German Research Foundation), BMG (Federal Ministry of Health), BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research), BMG (Federal Ministry of Health), BMFSFJ (Federal Ministry of Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth), BMVg (Federal Ministry of Defence), several state ministries of social affairs, State Foundation Baden Württemberg, the UBS Foundation, Pontifical Gregorian University, Caritas, Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Moreover, he received travel grants, honoraria and sponsoring for conferences and medical educational purposes from DFG, AACAP, NIMH/NIH, EU, Pro Helvetia, Janssen-Cilag (J&J), Shire, several universities, professional associations, political foundations and German federal and state ministries. Every grant and every honorarium was declared to the law office of the University Hospital Ulm. The authors EP, CS and DT have nothing to disclose. The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. The consent for publication was obtained from all study participants. The individual information was handled anonymous and no images or videos were employed. The study protocol of the RCT study was approved by the Ethics Committee at the University of Ulm (#176/16). All participants and their legal guardians, if minor, were informed about the study protocol and gave their written consent prior study inclusion. The development and implementation of the intervention “Mein Weg” was supported by a grant from the World Childhood Foundation. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm University, Steinhoevelstraße 5, 89075, Ulm, Germany Elisa Pfeiffer, Cedric Sachser, Dunja Tutus, Joerg M. Fegert & Paul L. Plener Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria Paul L. Plener Elisa Pfeiffer Cedric Sachser Dunja Tutus Joerg M. Fegert Correspondence to Elisa Pfeiffer. Per Protocol: Treatment Outcomes: Estimated Marginal Means (M), Standard Errors (SE), 95% Confidence Intervals (95% CI) for Pre-, Postintervention and 3-month Follow-Up (3MFU). Table S2. Results of the Mixed Effects Models (ITT Analyses, n = 50). Table S3. Results of the Mixed Effects Models (Per protocol Analyses). Pfeiffer, E., Sachser, C., Tutus, D. et al. Trauma-focused group intervention for unaccompanied young refugees: “Mein Weg”—predictors of treatment outcomes and sustainability of treatment effects. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health 13, 18 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-019-0277-0 Predictors of the treatment outcome Sustainability of treatment effects Trauma-focused group intervention	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line598
__label__cc	0.573387	0.426613	Creating Universal Use for the Glenview Preserve Abstract: The Adirondack Land Trust recently purchased 238 acres along Route 86 in Harrietstown. This tract of land is called the Glenview Preserve. The Adirondack Park Agency has already designated a scenic vista of Whiteface Mountain and the High Peaks. Along the back of the property is the Bloomingdale Bog, which is the third largest boreal peatland in New York. Vista like the Glenview Preserve, which doesn’t involve a climb and is also accessible to all. This poses the perfect opportunity to establish universal trails for all to enjoy. Conservation of land is made possible by connections that people make to the land. If there is no connection to nature, it could be destroyed without anyone speaking up. The location of this tract of land makes it ideal for accessible trail since there is no mountain to hike to get the view. Hiking is one of the oldest pastimes of the world. People can experience beauty every season of the year. It strengthens our bodies and minds at no cost. Hiking is a wonderful chance to feel the earth below your feet and get up close and personal with nature. Installing trails would not only open up recreational opportunities such as hiking, running, and bird watching, skiing and snowshoeing but also build community. Major: Forestry, Natural Resources Sustainability Studies Authors: Valerie Hoffman Tiny houses for families Abstract: Houses have changed in size and style over the centuries. We looked at tiny houses and research the economic and social benefits and issues with raising a family in a tiny house. We limited the family to four and made our house 800 square feet. We looked at case studies of families who are currently raising a family in a tiny home to find out what they say their problems may be. We found many unexpected benefits in our research. Many families believe that aside from the economic benefits, raising a family in a tiny home forces the family to be close and to communicate with each other. We interviewed a contractor, Harry Gordon, who gave us information in the building of sustainable housing. There was also a survey we conducted from the Paul Smith’s Community. The survey gave us data on the amount of people who were willing to raise a family in a tiny home. In our results, we found that for those willing to try to raise a family in a tiny house, it is very feasible. Major: Natural Resources Management and Policy, Natural Resources Sustainability Studies File Attachments: Tiny Houses for Families.docx Authors: Kimberly Yager, Sandra Esparza Planning for Accessibility in Wilmington Notch New York State Campground Abstract: A paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Bachelor of Science in Park Conservation Management File Attachments: KIC Document 1.pdf Authors: Christina Barton, Elayna Grove, Spencer Nolan, Katherine Nussbaumer (-) Natural Resources Sustainability Studies (2)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line599
__label__wiki	0.724458	0.724458	A Sophisticated Law Firm in Fort Worth DESIGN STUDIO / November 30, 2016 An established and successful law firm known for winning in the courtroom looks to Cantoni design consultant Nicole George for an equally impressive headquarters. Award-winning law firm Varghese Summersett PLLC, which represents those charged with the most serious of criminal offenses, is unlike any other in its modern, fresh approach. So when the firm’s partners wanted to design a sophisticated Fort Worth office to reflect their boutique services and style, they had some ideas in mind. “We wanted clients to elevate from a darker time in their lives to something that felt calm, so we envisioned a cool color palette that also incorporated natural elements,” partner Anna Summersett says. “We wanted it to be clear that our office was a firm place to land—a safe place for our clients to be.” Alongside managing partner Benson Varghese, Anna ended up at Cantoni, where she met design consultant Nicole George. “We hit it off, right off the bat,” Anna says. Not to mention, she and Benson instantly spotted their dream conference table in a one-of-a-kind Vintage tabletop, a centuries-old Acacia wood slab with natural edges which was paired with the Geom table base. “It was really incredible, beautiful and unique, and no two slabs are alike,” Anna says. “We thought it instantly spoke to our clients. Everyone is different and needs to be treated individually, and that’s where we started.” Nicole was eager to help. “I love the progressiveness of the firm and how they approach their clients’ cases, along with how they’ve grown into one of the most successful firms of their kind in Texas,” Nicole says. “I really admired their true grit.” She had one design challenge: the sleek space is lined with floor-to-ceiling glass walls, meaning that each office and area—including the mock jury trial courtroom—needed to be personalized, but also seamless in its arrangement. “They truly wanted the psychology of the firm to reflect in the design, and that’s how a designer approaches projects, so I thought it was really smart of them,” Nicole says. For Anna’s office, Nicole brought in gray and chrome chairs—including Zodiak chairs—a velvety gray low-slung sofa, and a white desk, table and console for a light-and-bright space. She tied the gray and white hues together with soothing paintings. Warmer tones are reflected in Benson’s office—in a deep-gray leather couch, black-leather armchairs, glossy black accessories, the Merit desk, and a painting mirroring Anna’s in darker shades. Partner Letty Martinez’ office was also warmed with walnut furnishings, including the Vetro Noce console. The verdict? “The result is really incredible,” Anna says. “We not only have an individualized style for each partner, but I think the environment calms the clients and people who enter. It’s a very serene color palette with transparent and reflective materials. I think they help everyone elevate out of their current state.” What’s more, Anna says, “Nicole was fantastic to work with. She wasn’t trying to put her own stamp on everything, but wanted us to become a better version of ourselves. As attorneys, we don’t have any design background but have strong opinions and personalities, and had an aesthetic in mind when we went to Cantoni. Nicole took on that challenge just beautifully, and made it seamless.” Photos by David Deleon Get to know design consultant, Nicole George, by checking out her entire portfolio here. Whether you are building a new home or simply shopping for the perfect piece of modern furniture to complete a room, a complimentary one-on-one consultation with our design team can help you create a space you’ll love. Click here to book your appointment! Get the Look! Vetro Noce console table Vetro Noce desk Mercury Hi-Back Executive Armchair Merit desk Franklin guest chair Zodiak chair Barone dining table Fairmont chair Tags: commercial property Dallas DESIGN STUDIO interior design A Luxuriously Calming Escape 8 Ways to Cozy Up Your Home for Winter	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line608
__label__cc	0.746672	0.253328	Judge Andrew Napolitano: Military Tribunals Are Unconstitutional David J. Theroux \| Saturday February 13, 2010 at 6:17 PM PST In an article in the Los Angeles Times on November 29th, “The case against military tribunals,” Judge Andrew P. Napolitano presented his opposition to military tribunals in the U.S. government’s undeclared “war on terror.” It’s a violation of the Constitution to use the panels without a declaration of war—and just calling it a “war”... Afghanistan Andrew Napolitano Barack Obama Barry Goldwater Bill O'Reilly Civil Liberties conservative Constitution Corruption Criminal Justice due process Fox News Franklin D. Roosevelt George W. Bush Glenn Beck Integrity Iraq Law Liberty Middle East Military military tribunals Morality Natural Law Nazi saboteurs Personal Liberty Presidential Power Ronald Reagan Rule of Law Torture Transparency War World War II Al Franken, Chickenhawk Anthony Gregory \| Monday July 6, 2009 at 3:42 PM PDT I used to love Franken on Saturday Night Live. Although his Stuart Smally character got old very quickly, he did a wonderful Paul Tsongas impression. I’d link to an example on YouTube, but NBC takes its intellectual property very seriously and therefore hundreds of the most humorous bits ever to air on late night... 9/11 Afghanistan Al Franken American History Bill O'Reilly Dick Cheney George W. Bush Iraq Middle East Military Saddam Hussein War war in Iraq war on terror Weapons of Mass Destruction welfare state	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line614
__label__cc	0.66228	0.33772	EoWhy? ICANN, Meetings, Policy I have come to acceptance that the community proposal for EoI was removed from consideration during the March 12th Board Meeting in Nairobi. It should have passed, but it got lobbied into oblivion by some in attendance at the Nairobi meeting. They deserve their say, those who oppose it, but quite frequently the arguments used fail logic once one reflects upon them, or contrast them against the facts. The EoI did not pass, but the silver lining in it all is that it proved that the community could raise up a proposal to the board using the Bottom-Up approach. I am grateful. I have a well honed ability to find acceptance in things that I don’t agree with. I hate the outcome but I would do it all again. The many stakeholders and applicants who had been trusting dates and time lines that they had been provided in all meetings between the Paris meeting in June 2008 and the Sydney meeting in 2009, and had been growing businesses and reaching out to communities, carrying the message of ICANN and the promise of new TLDs. These companies, individuals, volunteers, consultants, they all planned their lives, budgets, marketing, and jobs around the time lines that had been coming from ICANN. Sure, delays and adjustments meant the embarrassment of repeatedly revising and communicating new time lines to their clients, shareholders, boards of directors, communities. And then came the Seoul ICANN meeting. Rather than get the schedule in place and stop the sliding dates and the embarrassment that they were causing ICANN and the interested stakeholders, ICANN instead opted to clam up about dates and time lines. This not only completely undermined their own credibility; it froze financial support for new TLD applicants of every shape and size and eliminated institutional confidence in ICANN and its new TLD program. And in that choice to coward away from communicating dates, ICANN really created the EoI. All I did is channel the contempt, cynicism and abject frustrations of the various community members who had timelines pulled out from under them in the Seoul meeting, working to turn that passion into productive effort. So you could say ICANN was the catalyst. I am grateful that I had the influence, respect and trust from stakeholders to have pulled so many parties together to collaborate and support an initiative which tested ICANN’s ‘Bottom-up Process’. And I had the privilege of presenting the concept of an expressions of interest process as a way to keep the new TLD program on pace while removing pressure from the staff and board for evaporating the foundations out from under supporters and believers in the new TLD program at the Seoul meeting. I cannot take full credit for the Expressions of Interest, it came from a number of people in the community, from a number of various stakeholders who did not want to see the momentum die from ICANNs opting at redacting and retracting communication of dates and timelines. I just had tenacity to be a spokesperson for a large group of stakeholders in the Seoul meeting but could not at all take all of the credit for the EoI. It was humbling to read through the transcript from the public meeting as I notice the many, many supporters who I consider to be leaders in the community who stepped up after I did in support of the proposal at the public meeting. It was really just a sensible approach of decoupling the application process from the review, assignment and delegation stages of the new TLD program that we had seen originate from the GAC. I explained that the catalyst was the outright elimination of discussion of dates in Seoul, and that I’d chosen to do something positive and constructive rather than give in to the growing cynicism in the applicant pool. After gathering many in diverse parts of the community and stakeholder groups to provide a draft document to ICANN that contained a number of concepts and submitting it in the comment period that followed the Seoul board resolution, ICANN staff drafted a proposal for an Expression of Interest process and put it out to the community to comment on. The community rose up to support or not support the overall concept. Not everyone liked every aspect of it, some loved it outright, and many (especially brands who are fighting with their last breath to oppose the new TLDs but ironically are preparing applications and will apply once they can) sought to quash it. Ultimately it came down to transparency being the root of its demise. Many brands did not want the double-standard of their position on new TLDs exposed, and fears by governments that a public morality issue would creep in with .f-bomb holding up the whole process, because all strings would be released. It took reverse psychology and intense lobbying in Nairobi for those who wanted EoI their way or no-way, and those people got what they wanted. I disagree with the board’s decision, but the board was requested to pass or fail the EoI and they failed it opting to allegedly continue the momentum of the new TLD program. Using the Paris meeting announcements that stemmed from the board votes to open up the new TLD program in 2008, things had been progressing along until ‘overarching issues’ got thrown in front of the process, injecting delays. I am getting a lot of feedback from within the community that there is deep disappointment and outrage falling out of the board decisions. And I am seeing a lot of people still bracing for the tsunami effect from the EoI being voted into oblivion in the tragic events of 3-12 (The ICANN Board decided to withdraw the Expressions of Interest among other decisions). We’ll see some startups pare down their staff and marketing budgets, other participants will close down entirely or completely move their focus. Make no mistake, jobs were lost as a result of the board’s decision to fail the EoI. I am already witnessing gloating by those interested in delaying the introduction of new TLDs who won a small victory for the status quo amidst the zebras and hippos in Narobi. These are not people who ponder the consequences or outcomes, they only relish victories. Candidly, I was shocked the EoI did not pass. It essentially was just a time honored technique used in intelligent project management to reduce the ambiguity and theoretical concerns and operate in tandem with the solutions to some of the thorny issues that were open. It had every opportunity to thrive and provide benefit to ICANN, to the applicants, to the communities, investors, to the process itself. There was an opportunity to make the new TLD program real again after Seoul. In Seoul the new TLD program was converted into vaporous concept with hazy, slippery deadlines that have anyone that follows them met with laughter and doubt when presenting timeline estimates. Apparently the community had really gotten quite a bit of momentum with the Expressions of Interest concept. It looked like it had some promise. Many elements of the concept were attractive and productive. But the takeaway and probably the most important thing that happened was that the community rose to present an idea, that the board heard that message, and that it even became something to be voted upon at all. While I watch many of the investors and communities that were in strong support of the new TLD program wither or hibernate in a process that kills jobs during a weak global economy as a result of the March 12th board votes, I remain optimistic that the new TLD program will continue and we’ll see those who had the intestinal fortitude and capable war chests ride out the storm of perpetual delay. And I would do it all over. I have not lost my faith in the community. I hope the community has not lost faith in ICANN, and I would encourage the community not to become stoic when their efforts appear for naught like we were shown. My heart goes out to those who have families to feed that were impacted by the decisions the board made.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line615
__label__cc	0.613582	0.386418	Comm Eye Health Vol. 09 No. 20 1996 pp 49 - 50. Published online 01 December 1996. Diabetes and diabetic retinopathy DD Murray McGavin MD FRCS(Ed) FRCOphth Diabetes mellitus is on the increase. Hilary King and Marian Rewers, on behalf of the WHO Ad Hoc Diabetes Reporting Group, write in this issue of Community Eye Health that there is an apparent epidemic of diabetes amongst adult populations of disadvantaged communities, both in developing countries and also in the industrialised world. For every patient who is known to have diabetes another has the disease unawares.1 It is a significant cause of multisystem disease, including cardiovascular disease, renal failure – and blindness. The diagnosis of diabetes Although the diagnosis of diabetes may be anticipated when classical symptoms and signs are present; weight loss, fatigue, a history of polydipsia (excessive thirst) and polyuria (excessive urinating), the diagnosis should not rely only on the presence of glycosuria (sugar in the urine). The diagnosis must be confirmed by demonstrating the presence of fasting hyperglycaemia (raised blood sugar) and following an oral glucose tolerance test.2 Diabetic retinopathy and blindness Twenty years after the onset of diabetes nearly all patients with type I diabetes (insulin-dependent) and more than 60% of those with type II diabetes (non insulin-dependent) will have retinopathy.3 Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness amongst people of working age in industrialised countries.4 It is estimated that there are 20 million diabetics in the Middle East (WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region), of which 800,000 will require treatment for retinopathy, and 116,000 new patients will present for treatment each year.5 In Singapore, 8.6% of the population between 15 and 69 years is diabetic, that is, 165,000 diabetics and at least 16,500 of these will have retinopathy.6 Ricky Sharma writes in this issue of his experience at Aravind Eye Hospital, South India. In a six month period, 1,863 new eye patients had a diagnosis (either previously known or unknown) of diabetes mellitus. Of these, 684 (37%) were found to have diabetic retinopathy. Further, 987 (53%) had either immature or mature cataracts and so some retinopathy will have been obscured. Thylefors, Negrel, Pararajasegaram and Dadzie, in their analysis of the WHO Global Data Bank on Blindness, said that the survey data on diabetic retinopathy as a cause of blindness is too limited to reach an accurate figure.7 However, it does seem likely that blinding diabetic eye disease is now the fourth major cause of blindness worldwide, after cataract, the glaucomas and trachoma. Philip Hykin, in his review article, describes the clinical features and management of diabetic retinopathy. The new descriptive terms used by the Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) should be understood by us all (see Table). Screening and treatment Lyn Jenkins and Valerie Mayon-White address the difficult question of screening for diabetic retinopathy. Although the ‘ideal screening method does not exist’ and many in developing countries will not have available sophisticated equipment for screening, all eye care workers should be aware if diabetes is a public health problem in their region and make sure that diabetic patients have regular, dilated view ophthalmoscopy according to the guidelines given in Table 1, page 59 of this issue. Diabetic retinopathy terms Old descriptive term New term (ETDRS) Mild Non-Proliferative Moderate Non-Proliferative Pre-Proliferative Severe Non-Proliferative Very Severe Non-Proliferative Proliferative Proliferative (the same) Maculopathy (‘Diffuse’; ‘Exudative’; ‘Ischaemic’) Maculopathy (focal laser therapy based on whether ‘Clinically Significant Macular Oedema’) It is understood that adding retinal photography to direct or indirect ophthalmoscopy greatly improves sensitivity and specificity (see definitions on page 54) in identifying diabetic retinopathy.5,7,8 However, Yeo, Lim and colleagues rightly point out that ‘primary health care and other practitioners should … be encouraged to attempt direct ophthalmoscopy … and refer diabetics for further examination if the fundal state cannot be adequately assessed by them.’6 Early treatment using laser photocoagulation has been shown to reduce blindness due to diabetic retinopathy by at least 60% and the figure will improve further as patients at risk are identified early:3 the earlier the better. Recognition of the increasing problem of diabetes mellitus and its danger to sight, training in ophthalmoscopy (and other diagnostic methods, if possible), early identification of the stages of retinopathy in patients at risk and referral for expert opinion and treatment, will prevent blindness for many individuals in vulnerable communities around the world. 1 Diabetes 2000 Project Leaflet, “Elimination of preventable blindness from diabetes by the year 2000”. American Academy of Ophthalmology, USA. 2 WHO Technical Report Series 844, Prevention of diabetes mellitus: report of a WHO study group. Geneva: WHO, 1994. 3 American College of Physicians, American Diabetes Association and American Academy of Ophthalmology. Screening guidelines for diabetic retinopathy. Ophthalmology 1992; 99: 1626-8. 4 Kohner EN, Porta M. Screening for Diabetic Retinopathy in Europe: A Field Guide-Book. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 1992. 5 Ahmed AA. Prevention of blindness due to diabetes in the Middle East (Editorial). Middle East J Ophthalmol 1994; 2: 68-9. 6 Yeo KT, Lim ASM, Ling SL, Lau HC, et al. Mass screening for diabetic retinopathy in the prevention of blindness. Asia-Pacific J Ophthalmol 1995; 7: 2-8. 7 Thylefors B, Negrel A-D, Pararajasegaram R, Dadzie KY. Global data on blindness. Bull WHO 1995; 73(1): 115-21. 8 O’Hare JP, Hopper A, Madhaven C, Charny M, et al. Adding retinal photography to screening for diabetic retinopathy: a prospective study in primary care. BMJ 1996; 312: 679-82. 9 Ryder B. Screening for diabetic retinopathy. BMJ 1995; 311: 207-8.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line626
__label__wiki	0.901014	0.901014	Will Smith Appeared to Hint at Jada Pinkett Smith’s Fling With August Alsina in Resurfaced Video By Celebrities Cop On Jul 17, 2020 Following years of rumors, Jada Pinkett Smith has officially confirmed that she had a relationship with August Alsina while married to Will Smith. A lot of us were shocked by the revelation. But looking back, there were seemed to be signs that something was going on. Among them is a video where Smith talked about their marital woes and suggested the Girls Trip actor had started to explore outside of their relationship. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith on the red carpet at an event in 2007 \| Rebecca Sapp/WireImage What did Will Smith say exactly? In a video The Daily Mail says was recorded in 2018, Smith opened up about their relationship issues and how he’d urged Jada to find what would make her happy. Detailing how the conversation came about, Smith said: “Well, me and Jada was reflecting about love. I asked her what was one of the biggest revelations that she had had about love. She said you cannot make a person happy. And I thought that was a real deep idea.” “You can make a person smile, you can make a person feel good, you can make a person laugh, but whether or not a person is happy is deeply utterly and completely out of your control,” he continued. “I remember the day I [said to Jada], ‘I retire. I retire from trying to make you happy. I need you to go make yourself happy and just prove to me it’s even possible.’ And after we cracked the hell up, we started talking about [how] we came into this false romantic concept that somehow when we got married we would become one.” “And what we realized is that we were two completely separate people on two completely separate individual journeys and that we were choosing to walk our separate journeys together. But her happiness was her responsibility and my happiness was my responsibility.” “And we decided that we were gonna find our individual, internal private separate joy, and then we were going to present ourselves to the relationship and to each other already happy,” he added. RELATED: Jada Pinkett Smith and Marc Anthony Dating Rumors Resurface Jada Pinkett Smith began dating August Alsina ‘to feel good’ The Set It Off actor admitted such in a July 10 episode of her show Red Table Talk after August Alsina went public about their fling in a previous interview. She started by explaining how they met, noting they were introduced by her son Jaden at a 2015 festival when August Alsina was “really sick.” “And from there, you and I were going through a very difficult time,” she told Smith as he agreed. “We decided that we were going to separate for a period of time and you go figure out how to make yourself happy and I’ll go figure out how to make myself happy,” he continued. After their separation, Jada’s relationship with August Alsina turned romantic, according to the Jason’s Lyric actor. It continued until the “No Love” singer decided to cut her off for reasons that are still unclear. It is believed that he walked away when Jada allegedly refused to go public with him. However, neither of them has commented on the rumors. RELATED: R&B Singer August Alsina Confronted About Alleged Relationship with Jada Pinkett Smith Will and Jada Pinkett Smith say they are now doing better than ever Despite the drama surrounding their relationship, the Smiths maintained that they are in a great place — thanks to their honesty with each other and commitment to make it work regardless of what happens. “We came together young, and we were both broken in our own ways and to be able to make mistakes without the fear of losing your family is so critical,” Smith said to Jada, whom he married in 1997 and with whom he shares two children, Jaden and Willow. “We have really gotten to that new place of unconditional love,” Jada added. “We never, ever thought that we would make it back.” Read more: Willow Smith’s Letter to Tupac Shakur Begging Him to Come Back to Her Mom Resurfaces ‘The Zoya Factor’ director Abhishek Sharma says his film didn’t work because of ‘Chhichhore’ and ‘Dream Girl’ \| Hindi Movie News – Bollywood Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and daughter Aaradhya admitted to Nanavati hospital for COVID-19 treatment	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line627
__label__wiki	0.808472	0.808472	Last edited by Shabei 2 edition of introduction to classical Hausa and the major dialects found in the catalog. introduction to classical Hausa and the major dialects Umaru Ahmed by Umaru Ahmed Published 1970 by Northern Nigerian Pub. Co. in Zaria . Hausa language -- Dialects -- Texts. Statement [by] Umaru Ahmed and Bello Daura. Contributions Daura, Bello, joint author. LC Classifications PL8231 .A35 Pagination 136 p. Other articles where Hausa literature is discussed: African literature: Hausa: The first novels written in Hausa were the result of a competition launched in by the Translation Bureau in northern Nigeria. One year later the bureau published Muhammadu Bello’s Gandoki, in which its hero, Gandoki, struggles against the British colonial regime. Hausa and its Dialects Hausa has a number of geographical dialects, marked by differences in pronunciation and vocabulary. In some instances, one can notice the variation between eastern dialects on the one hand, e.g. Kano, and areas to the south (Zaria), southeast (Bauchi), with (Daura) and western dialects on the other, e.g Sokoto, Gobir, and. where, in a group of dialects, one is predominant and used outside of its natural boundaries as a means of inter-dialectal communication. This was the case with Athenian Greek and the remaining dialects in Classical Greece and - at least for writing - also held for West Saxon vis à vis the other dialects of English in the Old English period. A Look at Cultural Differences: Pre-Colonial Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo. the Hausa-Fulani, the Yoruba, and the Igbo. the Igbo were the most fragmented before colonization. The Igbo dialects were extremely different from each other from one town to the next, and political structures varied as well. They are the most village-oriented. Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity, and in Western culture traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature in their original languages of Ancient Greek and Latin, respectively. It may also include Greco-Roman philosophy, history, and archaeology as secondary subjects. Intermediate Greek. (3h) Review of grammar; readings in classical authors. P—Greek or equivalent. Intensive Intermediate Greek. (5h) Review of grammar in the context of reading classical authors. P—Greek or equivalent. Introduction to Attic Prose. (3h) Selections from the dialogues of Plato or other Attic prose. P. The conspirators Land/Space Faith Is... (First Look (Multnomah)) Rough-part sizes needed from lumber for manufacturing furniture and kitchen cabinets Developing Windows applications with Borland C++ 3.1 Choosers of the Slain European II and policy development and review departments. Video training guide Heart 2 Heart Northwest River, Va. and N. C. 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Poulsen [and others] The Courage of Marge ODoone The official patients sourcebook on stroke Introduction to classical Hausa and the major dialects by Umaru Ahmed Download PDF EPUB FB2 CLASSICAL HAUSA--Prose extracts with notes--Excerpts of poems with notes--Extracts from plays with notes--MAJOR DIALECTS--Standard Hausa extracts with notes--Konanci dialect versions of the extract in chapter four, with notes--Katsinanci--Sakkwatonci--Dauranci--Zazzaganci--Bauchi dialect--Hadejianci. Responsibility: Umaru Ahmed and Bello Daura. Modern Hausa: A concise introduction to the Hausa language (kasahorow Language Guides) [kasahorow] on FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Modern Hausa: A concise introduction to the Hausa language (kasahorow Language Guides)3/5(2). An Introduction to Classical Introduction to classical Hausa and the major dialects book and the Major Dialects by Ahmed, Umaru and Daura, BelloAuthor: Jon Giullian. Introduction: Hausa is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers, spoken in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan and Togo. Hausa spoken as a first language by about 25 million people and as a second language by about 18 million more. No distinction between glottalized consonants and the non-glottalized counterparts: ALL native Hausa speakers would distinguish karu ‘be protected’ (with a “plain” “k”) from k’aru ‘be increased’ (with an ejective “k'”) or daidai ‘correct’ (with “plain” “d”s) from d’aid’ai ‘one at a time’ (with implosive “d'”s). here to account for Hausa dialect variation. Chapter two aims at presenting in an overall way the major differences that exist between the dialects. The presentation is along traditional lines. Here the dialects of Hausa have been classified into two major dialects, namely East-Hausa and West-Hausa File Size: 8MB. It was challenging to find a good book for Hausa learners. It looks different than in the picture, but I guess that isn't important. Love it so far, but as a previous commentor wrote, it would be much better if there was audio included with the book.5/5(3). This article presents an analysis of Hausa glosses in a nineteenth-century Qur'anic manuscript (C) from the library of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts in St Petersburg, and argues that a Author: Nikolay Dobronravin. Hausa is one of the major languages of Nigeria and parts of Western Africa. Learn about the basic features of Hausa as well, the various dialects of the language, main speakers of Hausa. This is the 2nd most widely spoken of the hausa dialects (very similar to Kano central dialect). It is the most spoken 2nd language hausa dialect in Nigeria as most of the non-native hausa speakers from the middlebelt & parts of the north-east speak it as a lingua franca. 6) Gobiranci/Arewanci. The great philosophers Plato and Aristotle and the Greek dramatists of Classical Athens wrote in what is now known as Attic Greek (or Classical Greek), which is one of the four major dialects of the antique Greek-speaking world, the others being Ionic, Doric, and Aeolic. Initiation a la langue Hausa = koyon harshen Hausa. 2 vols. Niger: [s.n.], Marré, Ernst C. Die sprache der Hausa. Grammatik, nebungen und chrestomathie, sowie hausanisch-deutsches und deutsch-hausanisches : Yuusuf Caruso. A language profile for Hausa. Get a detailed look at the language, from population to dialects and usage. 8- Classical Arabic is the language of The Holy Qur'an and classical literature it is differs from standard Arabic mainly in style and vocabulary, some of which is archaic. 9- Dialects are not written and there is no dictionary for dialects This introduction provides a basic understanding of Arabic language to non-Arabic speakers. Hausa (هَوْسَ), also known as Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, and Mgbakpa, belongs to the West Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language is one of the largest languages on the African continent, spoken as a first language by the original Hausa people and by people of Fula ancestry. Hausa is the majority language of much of northern Nigeria and the neighboring. window to phonologists who are interested in OT and to explore further issues of Hausa in light of OT. KEYWORDS: Hausa, reduplication, Optimality Theory (OT), syllable structure, syllable weight, foot INTRODUCTION Hausa is one of the major languages that have more first language speakers than any other language in sub-Saharan Size: KB. nlh introduction to general linguistics il 2 c 2. nlh introduction to hausa oral literature 2 c 3 nlh introduction to hausa culture 2 c 4 nlh introduction to hausa studies 2 c 5. nlh introduction to hausa modern literature 2 c select 2 credits from english 6 eng introduction. Hausa language, the most important indigenous lingua franca in West and Central Africa, spoken as a first or second language by about 40–50 million people. It belongs to the Western branch of the Chadic language superfamily within the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. The home territories of the Hausa. The main government-funded agency, the Northern Region Literature Agency (NORLA), that undertook the publication of the overwhelming majority of Hausa language books in the s (Skinner Author: Graham Furniss. Find a huge variety of new & used Hausa language books online including bestsellers & rare titles at the best prices. Shop Hausa language books at Alibris. Discover New and Used Classical Music. Like Classical Music. So does Alibris. An Introduction to Hausa Muhammad Kabir Mahmud Galadanci Buy from $ An Advanced Hausa Reader. i Online Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics. compiled by. PAUL NEWMAN. 1. INTRODUCTION. The Online Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics (OBCHL), henceforth the 'biblio', is an updated, expanded, and corrected edition of the bibliography published some fifteen years.Sokoto is used in a variety of classical Hausa literature, and is often known as Classical Hausa. Northern Hausa dialects include Arewa (meaning 'North') and Arewaci. Zazzaganci in Zazzau is the major Southern dialect. 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__label__wiki	0.544755	0.544755	blogarya a new technology website How to delete your old Facebook posts in bulk When the restaurants reopen in Seattle, the Feastfox recommendation platform will be launched to support guests How to back up Gmail Intel teases "something big" for September 2nd, probably the start of the 11th generation processor Instacart threatens to withdraw from Seattle if new law on hazard payment is passed Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft work together to track coronavirus battle cells Is Amazon's face recognition moratorium a victory for police reformers or just a good PR? Maveron, Scooter Braun and Alex Rodriguez invest $ 30 million in the virtual entertainment startup Wave "Amazon doesn't go away and neither do we." The group of employees drives climate and race Seattle police will use body cameras to protest new guidelines Home/Latest/"Amazon doesn't go away and neither do we." The group of employees drives climate and race Kylo Crowther August 11, 2020 Latest Leave a comment 0 Views Amazon employees for climate justice will lead the crowd in songs and songs in September 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) An Amazon employee group has had some hits lately, but promises to continue fighting for members who are concerned about the company's environmental, color, and environmental impact. The company's shareholders recently rejected a decision supported by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice. In their proposal, Amazon was asked to report on the potential harm to color communities caused by aircraft, truck, and other machine pollution used to ship products ordered through the online retail giant. Just get the resolution 6% approval at the virtual meeting on May 27th. In April, Amazon dismissed Maren Costa and Emily Cunningham, two of the group's leaders, "for repeated internal policy violations," a spokesman said. The organization cannot be put off. PREVIOUS: Amazon and critics are waging a PR war in an annual meeting with highly contrasting portraits of the technology giant "It's full steam ahead," said Costa. "Amazon doesn't go away and neither do we." The layoffs occurred after the group invited Amazon warehouses and technicians to join one Webcast discussion about COVID-19 security. Many warehouse workers have contracted the virus and some have died, although the company has not released the number of cases. On his COVID-19 blog Amazon shares steps it has taken to protect workers, including improving warehouse cleaning and detachment, distributing masks, and offering temperature testing for employees. The employee activist group was founded in early 2019 and initially gained ground among the workers Concerns about climate change. Their spring climate-focused shareholder resolution won an impressive 31% of the vote, and the company has since implemented a more aggressive environmental policy. In the past few months, the group has highlighted problems that disproportionately affect black, indigenous and colored people. This is a step in the face of growing public awareness of the injustices of racist and ethnic minorities caused by the death of George Floyd and protests worldwide. Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, announces the climate protection promise in September 2019. (Amazon Photo) One might wonder whether the resolution supported by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice would have done better if the vote had taken place a week later. An interesting question, said Costa. “The climate crisis is a racist crisis. You cannot solve one without solving the other. " The resolution outlined Amazon warehouses in around three dozen cities across the country and their dependence on pollution from diesel trucks and airplane flights to ship goods. The neighboring communities in these areas have mostly black or Latin American populations. The emitted pollutants are associated with lung and breathing problems and are driving climate change. Costa particularly indicated plans for Airport freight expansion in San Bernardino, California. Almost 65% of the population identifies himself as Hispanic and 14% are black. "We are calling for racist justice assessments and community agreements to ensure that the community is supported, that it is good for the community – and there is nothing comparable at the moment," said Costa. She suspected that Amazon would counteract this by offering jobs to residents. "But people shouldn't have to choose between a job and clean air for their kids," she said. Maren Costa, a manager at Amazon Employees for Climate Justice. Amazon has opposed the shareholder resolution in its Power of attorney, Description of the order for 100,000 electric vehicles, the climate protection promise and other sustainability initiatives. The Seattle-based company added that employees earn at least a minimum wage of $ 15 an hour plus benefits. "We regularly analyze the environmental and social impacts of our companies and assess how we can positively contribute to and control the impact on the many communities in which we operate in the United States and around the world," the statement said. Amazon made no further comment on this story, but referred to a June 3rd blog post Announces his $ 10 million contribution to "organizations working for social justice and improving the lives of blacks and African Americans". Recipients include the ACLU Foundation, NAACP, the National Urban League and the United Negro College Fund. Amazon is one of the most valuable companies in the world, the market value of which has repeatedly exceeded $ 1 trillion. In addition to the "Amazon employees for climate justice" measure, many of the eleven shareholder resolutions at the annual meeting last month dealt with race and gender. It is a tough battle to get substantial support for the proposals, all of which have been rejected by the board. Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, owns 15% of the shares alone Company shares. Other resolutions dealing with race and percentage of vote for it:: Face detection (32%): For the second year in a row, shareholders asked Amazon to report whether its facial recognition software could pose issues of civil rights and privacy. After the resolution, Amazon should have investigated these issues, recognized whether recognition software was used by authoritarian governments, and assessed the financial risks associated with the controversial technology. Wage differentials (15%): Amazon was asked to report the global mean wage differentials between employees of different races and genders. Amazon reports a gender pay gap every year. Hate speech (35%): The shareholders wanted Amazon to report on its efforts to prevent the sale of items that promote discrimination in its market. The resolution is based on reports that anti-Semitic books, racist violence, and other offensive goods are available for purchase on Amazon.com. Ascent rate (12%): In order to better understand the effects of discrimination on job mobility, shareholders wanted Amazon to report on the “rate of ascent”. The report would detail the time between promotions for employees of different races and genders. About Kylo Crowther Kylo Crowther is a housewife who is fond of social media. She is also a blogger. Previous Seattle police will use body cameras to protest new guidelines Next Maveron, Scooter Braun and Alex Rodriguez invest $ 30 million in the virtual entertainment startup Wave Reddit adds image galleries, making it easier to share multiple images at once So far, if you wanted to include more than one picture in a single post …	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line633
__label__wiki	0.770365	0.770365	Browse: Home / Is Africa’s boom over? Is Africa’s boom over? Peter Kivuti / March 31, 2016 / Comments Off on Is Africa’s boom over? / AFRICA, Business, Entrepreneur, WORLD Scarred by communal violence and long ignored by the federal government, Nigeria’s remote north has not had much cause for celebration in recent years. But as the presidential election results trickled in last March, and the resounding victory of local favourite Muhammadu Buhari became known, Kano state hosted a bash that few will forget. Freeways turned into impromptu party venues as convoys of young riders, two or three to a bike, barrelled through the parting crowds, performing tricks and waving flags for the assembled revellers. Teetering rickshaws pulled off gravity-defying wheelies in celebration of a peaceful transition that many thought unlikely. A new era of hope had dawned for Africa’s most populous country. Almost a year later, the mood is very different. The plunging price of oil, which has fallen 70% in less than a year to around $30 a barrel, has decimated government finances and dashed hopes that Buhari’s cautious reform track will usher in a new era of prosperity. The government whose victory prompted such exuberant celebrations is now in talks with the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB), seeking a reported $3.5bn of emergency funding to help plug a budget deficit of $15bn and ward off the threat of an IMF bailout. The transition from hope to disappointment has been replicated across the continent. As the extraordinary growth that propelled China’s economic miracle struggles to maintain its momentum and OPEC continues to flood the markets with cheap oil in a bid to drive out competition, African commodity producers are feeling the squeeze. Angola, another of Africa’s largest oil producers, is in talks with the World Bank, having seen its 2015 assumption of $81 a barrel mercilessly upended. In South Africa, many of the mines that have supported growth since the Victorian era lie defunct, while thousands of jobless former employees struggle to support dependent families. For a generation that has grown used to the cosy optimism of ‘Africa Rising’ – a conviction that inevitable economic prosperity awaits – these are worrying times indeed. As the continent faces its most challenging spell since the turn of the century, global economic volatility and the collapse of commodities prices are prompting many to ask whether Africa’s growth narrative was based on anything more than transient good fortune and a commodities super-cycle. After a period in the wilderness, the bears are once again getting a hearing. Africa Rising has encouraged a premature, chest-beating celebratory mood that the continent has arrived, when it hasn’t taken off “Africa Rising has encouraged a premature, chest-beating celebratory mood that the continent has arrived, when it hasn’t taken off,” argues Kingsley Moghalu, former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and now a professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. When you don’t have control over the trajectory of development, you cannot be said to be truly rising.Kivuti And yet Africa’s continued growth amid a backdrop of falling commodity prices has prompted others to reassert their long-term optimism. They argue that the assumptions which prompted the Africa Rising narrative –the return of stability, the emergence of the middle class and a demographic dividend prompted by an expected population boom – are still in place. And if the outlook is so bad, they ask, why is the AfDB predicting growth of 4.4% this year? “Instead of pronouncing the requiem, my view is that behind every problem there’s a silver lining,” says Donald Kaberuka, president of the AfDB until 2015 and now an academic at the Harvard Kennedy School. The naked emperor For one week a year, the swanky bars and hotels of Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront provide an idyllic backdrop for Africa’s mining and political elite to kick back, muse on the latest deals and plot a course for the future of their industry. But the optimism which has characterised past instalments of the Mining Indaba was in short supply this February. The mood was best summed up by Mark Cutifani, chief executive of South Africa-focused mining group Anglo American, who proclaimed 2016 “the worst year yet” and cautioned that things may get worse before they get better. For the assembled audience of African policymakers and executives reeling from the fall in demand, that is a chilling prospect. Some $1.4 trillion has already been wiped off the value of global miners since 2011, according to Cutifani. The IMF says that the decline means most sub-Saharan African countries will struggle to achieve growth rates on a par with the previous decade. That has led some to argue that Africa has staked its economic future on factors beyond its control. “If you look at the last decade, the continent’s economies were driven largely by the commodities super-cycle,” says Moghalu. “They have no control over those cycles so the continent’s economies are perpetually in a passive state. When you are in this situation you really have no control over your economic destiny…clearly the emperor is naked.” The cost of this overexposure is apparent in some of the continent’s largest extractors. Both South African president Jacob Zuma and Nigeria’s Buhari have rued the decline in commodity prices in downbeat public speeches. The IMF projects that South Africa will grow at less than 1% this year, far below the government’s aspirational 5% target, while Nigeria is expected to grow 4.1%, compared to an average of 7.4% per year in the decade to 2012. Miguel Azevedo, head of investment banking for Africa at Citigroup, says that the commodities slump is damaging government earnings and foreign exchange, while derailing the ascendant oil and gas producers of East Africa. “I agree that the next 12 to 24 months and maybe beyond will be tough. Africa still, generally speaking, is a massive producer of commodities, and there were projects on the commodities side that were bringing a new dynamism and changing the landscape in countries like Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya. Everybody is linked to commodities.” The extent to which African countries have succeeded in ending their historic overreliance on extractive materials remains up for debate. As ever, the reality differs across Africa’s 54 states. Following a January visit to Nigeria, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde praised the country’s emerging film, fashion and software development sectors while pointing out that services now account for almost half of GDP. Botswana has had notable success in adding value to its stock of raw materials, particularly diamonds, while Rwanda has seen strong activity in construction, agriculture and services. Yet in major economies like Mozambique, Angola and Ethiopia, the fund said that more work is still required on structural transformation. For Kaberuka, the positive case studies confirm that Africa’s emergence has much deeper roots than a simple commodities bull market, and has its genesis in the structural economic reforms of the 1990s. “It’s true that the end to the commodities super-cycle requires adjustment, but that’s everywhere, not simply Africa…The fiscal growth in some countries has been investment-led, not export-led. There has been investment in infrastructure and financial services, for example in Ethiopia and Rwanda. In other countries the source of growth has been domestic consumption. We also find that regional trade deals played a very big role, for example in the East African space.” Yet some observers remain unconvinced that full structural transformation is under way. Nkosana Moyo, former chief operating officer of the AfDB and founder of the Mandela Institute for Development Studies, says that policymakers need to seize the initiative and make a definitive break from a past based largely on resources. “I think with Rwanda, it’s a small economy and you can sense it. And South Africa is a bit of an outlier. But with other countries it’s difficult to get your hands on the linkage between the positive numbers and deliberate plans. For countries to be running to the World Bank so quickly is an indicator that this was not being thought through.” Yet even if some African countries seem unwilling or unable to shape their own destinies, major foreign corporations are holding fast to their faith in the continent – in particular, the power of the emerging consumer. They argue that in the long term at least, the boom is still on. In January, Coca-Cola set Nigeria’s corporate world alight with a $240m swoop for a 40% stake in CHI, a juice and dairy producer. For Azevedo, who advised CHI, the deal represents a shot in the arm for a country struggling with its short-term prospects, and a riposte to those who believe Africa’s growth story is dead in the water. “It was an investment in Nigeria when everyone expects the naira to devalue, there’s a lack of raw materials and factories are not operating. It’s essentially nearly chaos. And at this moment, someone like Coca-Cola makes a massive investment, probably their biggest in Africa. Why? Because people take a long-term view.” Although foreign direct investment flows(FDI) into Africa decreased from $55bn in 2014 to $38bn in 2015, according to UNCTAD’s Global Investment Trends Monitor, cross-border mergers and acquisitions activity on the continent actually increased from $5.1bn to $20.4bn over the same period. This suggests that corporations retain more than a residual faith in the ‘Africa Rising’ narrative. With the continent’s population expected to double to 2.5bn by 2050, according to UN estimates, investors still have their eyes firmly set on the rapidly expanding consumer market. Cavan Osborne, an Africa-focused portfolio manager at Old Mutual, says that the commodities slump has had a limited effect on the intentions of consumer-focused businesses. “We talk to corporates and those on the consumer side are continuing to expand and invest. They’re still seeing the idea that the population will come through and will want consumer products like beer, cell phones and food. “In the longer term you can’t fight demographics, and that’s why I hope it’s just a short-term setback.” Nevertheless, Osborne says that policymakers must encourage the investment that will see the continent emerge from its current malaise. In too many countries, he argues, investors have been hindered by restrictive exchange rates which prevent them from pulling their money out when times are tough. Yet Moghalu believes that it will take more than tinkering with exchange rates to ensure that Africa does not squander its demographic dividend. It is not enough, he argues, for Africa to emerge solely on the basis of a demand for products. The continent must become both producer and consumer. The Africa Rising tendency has been based on a completely incorrect understanding of globalisation because it is based on Africa as a rising consumer market. But is Africa a factory of globalisation or a market? For as long as it remains a market the thinking is based on a false premise. We know that wealthy countries produce and export things. Never waste a good crisis If Africa’s future as an economic powerhouse is to move beyond that of a shifting mirage, forever beyond the grasp of its people, observers agree that the time for action is now. The African countries which do not rely on the export of primary commodities already have a priceless opportunity to reduce import bills, get their finances in order and fund transformative infrastructure projects. But for some of the continent’s largest commodity exporters, the necessity of fighting fires should not distract from the long term goal of moving their countries away from extraction. Without structural change, the continent will forever be caught in a cycle of fortuitous boom followed by inevitable bust. The continent must avoid the temptations of the commodities gravy train. “The growth has to happen independent of commodities,” says Azevedo. “The risk is that if they go up again, people will go easy. Hopefully commodities will not go up dramatically so people will get on with delivering transformation”. For Kaberuka, who in his time at the AfDB oversaw the era of ‘Africa Rising’, using the crisis to reform will be the best way to stick it to the naysayers. “In 2008 I got calls during the global financial crisis saying that Africa would be the most afflicted. Fast forward to the Arab Spring, and then Ebola. There is always a narrative of an African finality. But reforms are possible, we’ve done it before, and we know the road to take.” This article was originally Written by David Thomas David Thomas is Digital Editor at IC Publications and a features writer at African Business Magazine. He has previously been published at the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and South Africa's Cape Times. 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__label__wiki	0.500227	0.500227	Sam Bourgi Relax, Tether won’t be targeted by SEC, says Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino says Tether hasn't done anything to warrant any additional investigations from the SEC. Paolo Ardoino, the outspoken chief technology officer of Bitfinex, took to Twitter this week to dispel concerns that Tether could be the next target of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. In response to a tweet from CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju, Ardoino said Tether adheres to strict Know Yor Customer/Anti-Money Laundering regulations set forth by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN. In other words, people who say Tether is less regulated are just spreading “FUD”— or fear, uncertainty and doubt. Ki Young’s original tweet said: “If SEC's next target is Tether, it's going to be very, very bad for this bull run as this market heavily relying on $USDT.” Ardoino’s response: Reminder: #Tether is registered and regulated under FinCEN as all the centralised competitors. Strict KYC/AML is applied to all Tether direct users, as the other main issuers are doing. Less regulated is just FUD. Ask yourself who benefits from spreading such misinformation? https://t.co/0izlgpJ75r — Paolo Ardoino (@paoloardoino) December 30, 2020 While Ardoino isn’t wrong to point out Tether’s KYC/AML adherence, he doesn’t really address Ki Young’s central concern that the stablecoin may have skirted securities laws, especially if its dollar reserves are compromised. In 2019, the New York attorney general filed a memorandum of law alleging that Tether and its sister company, Bitfinex, ran an unregistered securities offering. The document also alleges that the companies loaned USDT to investors, raising suspicion that the coins are not fully backed by U.S. dollar reserves as is claimed. Tether’s USDT, which is allegedly only loosely pegged to the U.S. dollar, has been at the center of controversy for several years. In 2018, finance professor John Griffin and co-author Amin Shams argued in a research paper that USDT was used to manipulate Bitcoin (BTC) price as it surged all the way up to $20,000. Tether and Bitfinex were subpoenaed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in 2018 to seek proof that USDT is backed by equivalent dollar reserves. Despite the allegations, neither company has been accused of any wrongdoing. Many within the crypto community are waiting for the next domino to fall after the SEC filed a lawsuit against Ripple for allegedly running an unregulated securities offering. Ripple will get the chance to prove its case in court. In the meantime, it's urging market participants to not draw any conclusions from the regulator's accusations. #CFTC #Bitfinex #Tether Crypto lobby considers ideal Biden picks for SEC, CFTC, OCC US federal regulators set new expectations for stablecoin issuers	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line646
__label__cc	0.748405	0.251595	« first day (12 days earlier) ← previous day next day → last day (3526 days later) » @IsaacMoses - whoops, I missed your earlier ping. Sorry about that! I should be around more during week days, so let's try and coordinate something. Isaac Moses @Dori How important is synchronicity? And we're both here! @Dori Good evening! And to you as well. Do you have time now? Glad you got a laugh out of the jawbone reference; I wanted to put a giggle in there so I didn't sound like a super serious anonymous jerk from the main office coming in to change everything. Sure, now is good. Believe it or not, I and some others are happy about the "main office" influence coming in as an impetus to break free of some bad habits. I was ransacking my brain to figure out if or how someone could take offense at that comment, and I finally just decided to go with the mild version—I figured I could tell a lot by the reaction it got, and from whom. Hey, I'm here and happy to play bad cop. What kind of changes would you like to see? Wow. Glad I passed this Rorschach. :) I'm in favor of ending riddles and surveys (latter was less of an issue), for one thing. How about you? Nah, I know that tone doesn't come across well in text, and that it's particularly hard to tell with new people. I'm glad I passed! :-D As Robert said, if someone has a real question, they should ask it as a question, not a riddle. Also, (and this is a little less defined) I know that we under-moderated m.y, being a little too deferential to authors. The new tech is already changing that tendency a bit, by, e.g., suggesting "low quality" material from new users for mod attention. Something I noticed (and can't find now) was a comment that was disemvowelled—has that happened much? That was my first time. I'd seen the technique on boingboing and liked it, and thought it made sense in that case. The comment in question was belligerent, but it was the context for the following comment, which was more substantive. There's been a lot of talk over the last few months about what's referred to as broken windows—if people's initial impressions are of a site with low-quality content, they think that that's what the site is about. So we're focussing a lot on helping mods focus on high quality. On m.y there was very little real fighting, I'm happy to say. There were a few instances, and one that led to a user getting banned, but for the most part, people were civil. I expect that there'll be more little fires to put out as readership grows. In general, if something is low quality enough to get disemvowelled, it's low enough to just delete outright. What other broken windows have you seen that you think need mending now? Oh, there will be future fires; I know that just based on the mess we had with the short-lived atheist Q&A site. I haven't been there, but I suspect that one difference here is that there's an existing community with existing communal norms. One of the things I want to push the SE developers into doing is coming up with automatic glossary feature . I can read Hebrew, and I know more about the topic than the average SE user—but much of it is still over my head. That'd be cool. The tag wikis kind-of serve that purpose, but you only get five tags per question If they can come with up something that automatically does a look up on certain words (say, ones that aren't found in an English dictionary), and then makes a little pop-up if you hover over that word, I think that that brings down the barrier to entry. OTOH, not that bringing down the barrier to entry is always a good thing… And what, the pop-up would connnect to a wiki in which users could put a definition? What's your opinion on this jargon question? Accessibility is good, but translating/linking every term can get very cumbersome. The atheism site had a bad habit of attracting trollish wanna-be preachers who thought they could argue people into believing in their particular brand of faith—I'm not sure what the m.y community has done with those in the past. We had that once. That was the person we ended up having to ban, after multiple warnings. I personally think that the jargon guidelines are great, but it doesn't appear that overall community has an interest in following it. Unfortunately. So I was trying to come up with a way it could be done by computers instead. Well, the guideline I wrote essentially demanded a great deal of defining/linking, so was naturally hard to follow. And then there's the whole English/Hebrew/transliterated Hebrew issue (with occasional Yiddish as well) I think, based on the discussion to date on the jargon question, that it might make sense to have a weaker rule that calls for no gratuitous jargon (the first point in my guideline and something Joel et al seemed particularly interested in) and suggests that people try to define/link terms when they think it'd be useful to readers. I think that transliteration should be entirely up to the individual writer. Trying to standardize would be way too hard. Will the community go for it? I asked an interested non-Jew to take a look at the home page, and based on just the question titles, he said he could kind of figure out what we being asked about 30% of the time. Could we go through some examples of titles? Should we try to get that number up? And if yes, how? (And does it even matter?) That's what we need to figure out. He was impressed that I was at about 70-80% (If you don't mind my asking, now that it's become germane, what's your Jewish/Hebrew background?) I figured it would matter, and no, I don't mind. My father was raised Conservative to Conservadox, but he then met my mother who was brought up by her mother, a very poor illiterate immigrant. So, she'd been raised "Jewish," but only in terms of the few traditions her mother could remember and afford. My family attended a Reform synagogue throughout my childhood, and my brothers and I did the more religious things Reform Jews do—Jewish summer camps, Hebrew school, Sunday school, etc. But other than that, Judaism was more a matter of culture than religion. So, teenage years: Bat Mitzvah, Confirmation, summer trip to Israel, the usual. As for me: I was raised "Orthodox" (scare quotes b/c I don't like the label) and went to Jewish day schools from nursery through 12th. Studied in a partially English-speaking program in an Israeli yeshiva in Israel for a year before college. Speak Hebrew, though not fluently. Still observant ("O") and still studying Torah when I can. College: every time I looked into becoming more observant, I ran into people who assumed I was just husband hunting, Between that and the attitude of "you're a girl, you don't need to fret about that stuff", I got turned off by the more religious side. Note that this was 30-some years ago; I believe things have—in some groups, at least—become a little more flexible. And now here I am a few decades later, always interested, but not even knowing the questions to ask. Literally, in this case. Well, I hope you continue to hang around on main. No shortage of thought-provoking questions! So, to titles: "Adoptee a Cohen or Levi?" Well, at least that one is all in English! :-) OK, more Hebrew in "Will I ever actually make “al mitzvat tzitzit” on a daily basis if I don a tallit gadol?" Could be rephrased as "Will I ever recite the benediction called "al mitzvat tzitzit" ("on the commandment of the fringe") on a daily basis if I don a prayer shawl?" Should it be? That's exactly the kind of question that he & I discussed—I got it, he didn't What came up in your discussion? He was baffled at the amount of in-jargon. And that's to be expected, to a certain degree, of course. As I said, it may be a matter of: who is the target audience? Maybe if you don't speak Hebrew, this isn't the site for you? I wouldn't go that far. I hope that neophytes would at least come with their questions. Right now, someone with an interest who wasn't brought up in the tradition would be lost. There's a lot of jargon that's just assumed. As I wrote in the Area51 [definition comments](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/22435?phase=definition) when I re-wrote the definition: 2) "Anyone interested in learning more" // Unlike flying, law, or photography, Judaism intrinsically contains a mandate to educate. // Questions (and askers) welcome on all levels of sophistication. The experts in the core population are able and willing to address even the simplest questions with serious, backed-up answers. // Some types of questions (e.g. "Can you recommend an alternative for a talit bag with these specifications?") lend themsel… Hmm. So the problem is that if I want such people to ask their questions here, I probably also want them to hang around, which they won't want to do if they don't get most of the questions? OK, looking at that last question, here's the words he wouldn't know: "tallit katan", "al mitzvat tzitzit", Kitzur, Shacharit, halacha, b'racha, sidur, lehitatef, leshem ihud, rabenu iosef haim And yes, of course, hang out on the site for a short while and you'll quickly learn what sidur and bracha mean Impressive: if I Google "al mitzvat tzitzit" judaism.se is the #2 site after Chabad. So we could: 1) Leave questions like this as-is and accept that people with limited background probably wouldn't want to hang around 2) Mandate/edit questions like this so that all non-English terms are replaced, defined, or linked, so that most potential readers can understand most questions 3) Something in between? I might be because I've trained Google to know that I want SE sites, but above Wikipedia? That's impressive. m.y got lots of google hits every day and was highly-ranked for more of them than one would expect. Well, my hope is that the SE devs (for whom I have HUGE respect) will be able to take a list containing pairs of words & phrases and their meanings, and auto-create those pop ups on the fly. That way, nothing needs to be done to older questions, and the community won't have to change how they ask new questions. I fear that creating such a list might constitute a life's work. especially given variant transliterations true, true—but the nice thing is that it would be a growing document, so while it might not be a huge help at first, over time, it would get smarter and smarter. Somehow wikifying it may work. Basically like tag wikis, including the concept of synonyms Oooh, I like that… And it could be started by just grabbing lists like the one at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_prayers_and_blessings Do you have a sense of the likelihood and timing of such a feature being created? And starting with some of what's at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hebrew_words_and_phrases A couple more sources of semi-structured data: ou.org/about/judaism/index.htm jewfaq.org/glossary.htm @IsaacMoses There's a regular meeting every Thursday with Joel, Jeff, and the community team. I brought this up then, and both J&J liked the idea. Anything that lets computers make things easier for people works for them, and this site is one of Joel's faves. So, for the time being, leave things more or less as they are, language-wise? ... hoping for this feature to come out and make a strict policy less importatn? That's my goal. If the devs do get into this and want to slurp up more existing glossaries, they should definitely ask on either main or meta for ideas. (drat, it looks like those two sites have copyright policies keeping us from reuse) There are people here with very relevant experience (including Wikipedia and Wiktionary editing, siddur proofreading) and interests. It may be possible to get permission to use stuff like that if we ask nicely How is this issue dealt with on SO and SF? ... or is it considered a non-issue because there's less desire to make newbies feel welcome to hang around? I should have phrased it this way earlier: anything that combines community contributions and computing power to allow more people to understand a site's questions/answers—Jeff & Joel both love that concept. Generally, if you're starting to learn programming, you know enough to be able to figure out what's going on. Also, those sites don't have thousands of years worth of back history to learn ;-) The tag wiki helps too, but it's more of an issue on this site due to the number of different transliterations. ... and we can't do Hebrew tags, right? Ooh, good question. Given that both the German and Japanese language proposals recently hit 100% on Area 51, I think there's going to be a lot of effort put into internationalization But I'm not sure that tags in Hebrew make sense—synonyms, sure, but I don't know about the tags themselves. Hebrew synonyms would at least provide a standard for searchers who know Hebrew and don't want to guess different transliterations My thought exactly ... so at least for now, it sounds like we're agreed on not changing the language/jargon policy just yet. Well, I wouldn't discourage people from being more clear, but I think that in the long run, a technological answer is the way to bet I think gratuitous jargon (e.g. "chinuch" instead of "Jewish education" or "maise" instead of "story") should probably be strongly discouraged and edited out when possible. Do you want to tackle another issue? I agree completely—when there's an appropriate English term with the same context, yes, that's the way to go. I have a personal question, but I suspect that it's going to come up more and more: there are questions where someone wants to know "the Jewish opinion on topic x " (as if all Jews can 100% agree on anything) Such as (recent example) homosexuality? That's the one I was thinking of, yes. I live in California, so I saw how religious groups had a huge impact on Proposition 8. Depending on how it's asked, and how people feel like answering, that could mean "What does Halacha think of this?," which has available objective answers (sometimes multiple). So when someone asks "What's the Jewish viewpoint?"—well, there are a number of answers, depending on how you look at it. It could also mean "what do different Jewish communities think of this?" which also could be answered objectively, but less so, since you can't point to sources as easily as with Halacha Yes, Halacha is pretty clear—but then, I never heard of organized Jewish groups (as opposed to a few other faiths I could mention) donating huge sums to get voters on their side of Prop 8. It could also mean "what do all Jews think of this," which, as you hint, is pretty much un-answerable I just very much dislike the idea of "Halacha says" being turned into "All Jews are required to hate all gays"—which is what happens with those who are inclined to make that kind of jump. religiously conservative (small 'c') Jews have fish to fry that are seen as more pressing, I suspect (I would think the Catholics and Mormons would have bigger things to think about too, but that didn't stop me getting push polls from Utah phone numbers) Well, taking this question in particular, I think the overwhelmingly upvoted answer did a great job of describing what Halacha says in broad terms and distinguishing between that and how people tend to relate to homosexuals, and how people should. This isn't something where I have an answer, or even a definite question—but there are always those who are looking for bad guys, and I hate seeing us setting ourselves up for that. (Catholics and Mormons care about saving everyone around them. Jews don't in the same way. Also, Jews tend to expend a great deal of political capitol on Israel, for which Catholics and Mormons don't have an equivalent issue.) Oh, all true, no question! What's an example of how you see a bad outcome taking shape? Those who go looking for things to be offended about are almost always successful. Here's the Stack Exchange Network Content Policy. But there are always those who will scream that they're being repressed, whether it's gays that claim some part of the answers are hate speech, or Christians whose questions are barely-disguised proselytizing. Interesting information. (Also potentially relevant to meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/123/…). Yeah, I expect that sort of problem will come up. Worth thinking about, and maybe articulating as a full-blown meta question to see what [more of] the community thinks. As I said: I'm not saying I have an answer, or even a definite question; it's just something to think about. More meta questions are almost always a good thing Perhaps there are particular pathologies that came up on atheism.SE that would be worth referencing Well, that site had huge other issues—for instance, we found that, for the most part, atheists didn't have questions for each other after the first round of "So, whaddya think of the latest Dawkins video?" Imo, the newer Skeptics.se site is Atheists.se done right. (I notice that other than that, this is the first religion SE to hit beta. The next ones may indeed have interesting issues in this area.) Interesting (I haven't looked much at Skeptics either) Looks a bit like a crowdsourced Snopes. There are plenty on their way; they just first have to decide how pure they want their sites. Can Catholics and Fundamentalists share a common Christianity site? That's going to be fun to moderate, I'm sure. "crowdsourced Snopes" is exactly right. It's an interesting site for seeing how a community requirement that all answers must have citations can work. Religion-wise, though, Biblical Hermeneutics could actually be pretty interesting. Yeah, I don't know much about Christian Bible scholarship, but I suspect that there's a lot of interesting and objective discussion to be had there, very much parallel to some of the material here. OK, I think I'm running out of steam. Shall we pick this up again another time? Exactly—some have been talking about merging that into the generic Christianity proposal, but I think if it stays separate there could be some really good discussion to be had. At a minimum, just the haggling over exactly what various Hebrew words mean would be great. I know it's getting late for you, so I won't keep you too much longer. I just wanted to have a get to know you chat so we both know each other, and to let you know I'm here for further questions you have. Have a good night. Well, thanks very much for your interest and efforts. I'm confident that we'll [continue to] work well together. If there are other broken windows that you or others at SE think need addressing, I look forward to discussing them further here or on meta. Good night. 17 hours later… msh210 @SLaks, hi. (And the rest of you, but you're all greyed out.) SLaks Why the lazy eight? That's the Visual Studio logo /me goes to Google.... Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It can be used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all platforms supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft Silverlight. Visual Studio includes a code editor supporting IntelliSense as well as code refactoring. The integrated debugger works both as a source-level debugger an... Ja, thanks. I joined the SE network as a programmer SLaks ♦, New Jersey 140k 12 159 300 c# javascript .net jquery asp.net html vb.net Got it. (But I don't see where the profile you just posted is from. Is there a way to see the URL of a link someone includes into chat?) OIC: SO. Well, HAND. Bye. V'dibarta Bam "And speak of them" (Deut. 6:7) Speak of Jewish life and learn...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line648
__label__wiki	0.628799	0.628799	Currently viewing: S-01 \| Summary001 Key \| Experimental result 29 September 2015 to 12 November 2015 other: GLP study performed according to OECD Guideline No. 202. All validity criteria were fulfilled OECD Guideline 202 (Daphnia sp. Acute Immobilisation Test) EU Method C.2 (Acute Toxicity for Daphnia) - Specific Gravity at 20 °C: 0.8-0.9 - Chemical analyses: Single sample for analysis were taken from the control and all test concentrations at the start of the test (t=0 h), at t=24 h (new and old solutions) and at the end of the test (t=48 h). PREPARATION AND APPLICATION OF TEST SOLUTION - Method: The study was carried out using WAFs (Water Accommodated Fractions). The WAFs (for the fresh media at t=0 h and t=24 h) were prepared under closed conditions and by slow-stirring to avoid production of a dispersion. The mixing vessels were cylindrical glass bottles sealed with screw caps and fitted with a drain port near the bottom for drawing off the WAFs. The volume of each mixing vessel was approximately 5 L. A magnetic stirring bar was placed in each test vessel and 5.5 L of test water was added in order to use a maximum volume and to minimise headspace. The loading rates of the test item were weighed on glass slides that afterwards were placed under the surface of the test water contained in the mixing vessels through fishing wire. Then the mixing vessels were closed immediately. The mixing was carried out at a speed that was slow enough not to cause dispersion or emulsification of the undissolved fraction of the test item. Mixing was initiated with the vortex in the centre extending maximally around 10 % vessel depth from the top to the bottom of the vessel. After 24 ± 2 h of gentle stirring in the dark at room temperature, the WAFs were allowed to stand for 1 h before use. The first 100 mL were removed via the drain port. Then the WAFs were directly added into test tubes that were immediately sealed with screwcaps after introduction of daphnids. No small bubble was observed in the test tubes. The test solution was observed to be clear and colourless at all loading rates. The test was carried out without adjustment of the pH. - Controls: Test water without test substance but treated in the same way as the test substance solutions (WAFs). - Strain: Daphnia magna (Straus), clone 5 - Source: LIEBE - CNRS UMR 7146 - UFR SciFA - Université de Lorraine Campus Bridoux - Bât. IBISE, 8, rue du Général Delestraint - 57070 METZ, bred in the Laboratoires des Pyrénées et des Landes. - Daphnids originated from a healthy stock, showing no signs of stress such as mortality, presence of males, ephippia or discoloured animals. - Age at study initiation: < 24 h - Breeding Conditions: Daphnids were cultured in the Laboratoires des Pyrénées et des Landes under similar temperature and light conditions as used in the test. The cultivation of the parental daphnids was performed in all-glass vessel containing test water. Cultures were maintained at a density of 1 adult daphnid per 25 mL of culture medium. Daphnids were fed at least three times a week with a suspension of algal cells (Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata) up to 0.1-0.2 mg C/Daphnia/day. The water was changed at least once per week. These culture conditions maintained the daphnids in the parthenogenetic reproductive stage. - Feeding during test: No feeding Total water hardness was approximately 250 mg/L (as CaCO3) 20.9-21.9 °C (average value: 21.4 °C) 8.01-8.50 mg/L Nominal concentrations: 1.0, 1.3, 1.7, 2.3 and 3.0 mg/L - Test vessel: All-glass test tubes of approximately 20 mL capacity sealed with screw caps. - Aeration: No aeration of the test solutions occurred throughout the test. - Renewal rate of test solution: A semi-static test was performed with renewal of test solutions after 24 h (because of the properties of the test item). - No. of organisms per vessel: 5 - No. of vessels per concentration (replicates): 4 - No. of vessels per control (replicates): 4 - Loading: 5 daphnids per vessel each completely filled with test solution and without headspace. - Introduction of Daphnids: Daphnids were introduced into the test vessel each completely filled with test solution and without headspace as soon as possible after addition of the WAFs into test tubes. - Chemical analyses were taken from additional replicates with daphnids in order to avoid disturbing the daphnids at t=24h and to prevent potential test item losses on opening test tubes: two additional series for sampling for analysis of test concentrations from the freshly prepared solutions (t=0 h and t=24 h fresh); and another for sampling from the 24 h old solutions (t=24 h old). The sampling for analysis of the control and test concentrations at t=48 h was performed directly from one of the 4 remaining replicates with daphnids after reading of the immobilisation test. TEST MEDIUM / WATER PARAMETERS - Source/preparation of dilution water: Reconstituted water (Elendt M4 medium), as prescribed by the OECD Guideline 202 - Photoperiod: 16 h light : 8 h dark EFFECT PARAMETERS MEASURED: - Immobility: Immobility and abnormal behaviour were determined by visual observation after 24 and 48 h. Immobile animals were eliminated from the vessels as soon as they were discovered. Daphnids were considered to be immobile if they were not able to swim within 15 seconds after gentle agitation of test vessels. - pH and dissolved O2: At start (t=0 h), at t=24 h (new and old solutions) and the end of the test (t=48 h) from all test concentrations and control. - Temperature of Medium: Measured continuously in a vessel next to the test vessels, over the entire study period, beginning at the start of the test. - Spacing factor for test concentrations: ca. 1.32 - Range finding study: Daphnids were exposed to the nominal test concentrations of 1.0, 2.0, 5.0 and 10 mg/L and to a control. - Results used to determine the conditions for the definitive study: The per cent immobility was 0, 0, 30, 100 and 100 (24 h) and 0, 0, 100, 100 and 100 (48 h) at 0, 1.0, 2.0, 5.0 and 10 mg/L, respectively. Based on the results of a range-finding test, the following nominal concentrations (spaced by a factor of approximately 1.32): 1.0, 1.3, 1.7, 2.3 and 3.0 mg/L were selected for the definitive test. > 1.7 - < 2.3 mg/L 2.821 mg/L other: 95% confidence limits: 2.622 - 3.127 mg test item/L - After 24 h of exposure, immobilisations rates were 0 % at 1.0, 1.3 and 1.7 mg/L (loading), 10 % at 2.3 mg/L (loading) and 65 % at 3.0 mg/L (loading). - After 48 h of exposure, immobilisations rates were 0 % at 1.0 mg/L (loading), 5 % at 1.3 mg/L (loading), 15 % at 1.7 mg/L (loading) and 100 % at 2.3 and 3.0 mg/L (loading). - The 24 h EC50 including the 95 % confidence interval using Probit-analysis was determined by the computer program ToxRat. At t=48 h, an EC50 value was also determined by the software but due to lack of concentration/response data this value (1.834 mg/L) could not be valid. However, given immobilisations rates at the end of the test, the 48 h EC50 value should be estimated higher than 1.7 mg/L (loading) and lower than 2.3 mg/L (loading). On September 10, 2015 (most recent test), the 24 h-EC50 was 0.94 mg/L. Hence, the sensitivity of the clone of Daphnia magna was in agreement with OECD 202 (expected 24 h-EC50: 0.6 to 2.1 mg/L) at this time. The evaluation of the effects was based on the nominal WAFs concentrations (nominal loading values). The software ToxRat® Professional was used for the determination of the effective concentrations. Analytical results Although every effort was made to maintain the concentrations of the WAFs (semi-static and closed conditions without headspace), some constituents were lost over the study period. However, analytical monitoring of dl-limonene (sum of 2 isomers, representing 47 % of the mixture) revealed losses not exceeding 38 % of the initial concentration and not exceeding 20 % of the initial concentration at one relevant loading rate (2.3mg/L). Moreover, the measured concentrations of beta-phellandrene (29.6 % of the mixture) were overall stable and within ± 20 % of the initial concentration (except at 3.0 mg/L with losses ca. 25 % the first day and ca. 40 % the second day). Thus, since the major constituents of the mixture were generally maintained within or close to ± 20 % of the nominal concentration throughout the test and since the study was carried out using WAFs, it was considered acceptable to express the biological results based on nominal loading values. Table 6.1.3/1: Acute immobilisation of daphnids after 24 and 48 hours in the final test Nominal concentration* (mg/L) Number of daphnids exposed Response at 24 h Total % * WAF prepared at the given loading rate Water quality parameter values throughout the test: Test conditions remained within the limits prescribed by the study plan (pH: 6.0-9.0, not varying by more than 1.5 units;oxygen:≥ 60 % of the air-saturation valueat the end of the test), suggesting that pH and oxygen concentrations were not influenced by the test item. Furthermore, the temperature of the test medium was situated between 20.9 and 21.9 °C throughout the test (average value: 21.4 °C), and complied with the requirements as laid down in the study plan (20 ± 2 °C, constant within 1 °C). Validity criteria of the study: Controls: In the control, no daphnids became immobilized nor trapped at the surface of the water or showed signs of stress. Dissolved [O2]: Dissolved oxygen concentration at the end of the test was≥ 60 % of the air-saturation value in controls and test vessels. Thus the validity criteria have been fulfilled in the present study. The 48h-EC50 of the test item was estimated between 1.7 and 2.3 mg/L (loading). The NOEC was determined to be 1.3 mg/L (loading). Therefore, based on log Kow > 4, Reaction mass of beta-phellandrene and d-limonene and l-limonene is classified in chronic category 2 according to CLP regulation (EC) No. 1272/2008. A study was performed to assess the acute toxicity to Daphnia magna of test item REACTION MASS OF BETA-PHELLANDRENE AND D-LIMONENE AND L-LIMONENE according to OECD Guideline 202 with GLP compliance under semi-static conditions. Following a preliminary range-finding test, twenty daphnids (four replicates, five daphnids per replicate) were exposed to Water Accommodated Fractions (WAFs) of the test item over a range of nominal loading values of 1.0, 1.3, 1.7, 2.3 and 3.0 mg/L and to a control. The immobility of the daphnids was determined in a semi-static 48h test by visual observation after 24 and 48h. The concentrations of the test item, represented by analytical monitoring of the main constituents d- and l-limonene, and beta-phellandrene, were determined by chemical analyses at the start (t=0 h), at t=24 h (new and old solutions) and at the end of the test (t=48 h). Although every effort was made to maintain the concentrations of the WAFs (semi-static and closed conditions without headspace), some constituents were lost over the study period. However, analytical monitoring of dl-limonene (sum of 2 isomers, representing 47% of the mixture) revealed losses not exceeding 38% of the initial concentration and not exceeding 20% of the initial concentration at one relevant loading rate (2.3 mg/L). Moreover, the measured concentrations of beta-phellandrene (29.6 % of the mixture) were overall stable and within ± 20% of the initial concentration (except at 3.0 mg/L with losses ca. 25% the first day and ca. 40% the second day). Thus, since the major constituents of the mixture were generally maintained within or close to ± 20% of the nominal concentration throughout the test and since the study was carried out using WAFs, it was considered acceptable to express the biological results based on nominal loading values. After 24h of exposure, immobilisations rates were 0% at 1.0, 1.3 and 1.7 mg/L (loading), 10% at 2.3 mg/L (loading) and 65% at 3.0 mg/L (loading). After 48h of exposure, immobilisations rates were 0% at 1.0 mg/L (loading), 5% at 1.3 mg/L (loading), 15% at 1.7 mg/L (loading) and 100% at 2.3 and 3.0 mg/L (loading). 24h EC50: 2.821 mg/L (95% Cl 2.622-3.127 mg/L) 48h EC50:> 1.7-< 2.3mg/L Therefore, based on nominal concentrations, the 48h-EC50 value was estimated between 1.7 and 2.3 mg/L (loading). The NOEC was determined to be 1.3 mg/L (loading). Based on nominal concentrations, the 48-h EL50 value of Reaction mass of beta-phellandrene and d-limonene and l-limonene was estimated between 1.7 and 2.3 mg/L (loading). Therefore, based on log Kow > 4, Reaction mass of beta-phellandrene and d-limonene and l-limonene is classified in chronic category 2 according to CLP regumation (EC) No 1272/2008. EC50/LC50 for freshwater invertebrates: A reliable study was available to assess the acute toxicity to Daphnia magna of test item Reaction mass of beta-phellandrene and d-limonene and l-limonene according to OECD Guideline 202 with GLP compliance under semi-static conditions. Following a preliminary range-finding test, twenty daphnids (four replicates, five daphnids per replicate) were exposed to Water Accommodated Fractions (WAFs) of the test item over a range of nominal loading values of 1.0, 1.3, 1.7, 2.3 and 3.0 mg/L and to a control. The major constituents of the mixture were generally maintained within or close to ± 20% of the nominal concentration throughout the test and since the study was carried out using WAFs, it was considered acceptable to express the biological results based on nominal loading values. After 24 h of exposure, immobilisations rates were 0% at 1.0, 1.3 and 1.7 mg/L (loading), 10% at 2.3 mg/L (loading) and 65% at 3.0 mg/L (loading). After 48 h of exposure, immobilisations rates were 0% at 1.0 mg/L (loading), 5% at 1.3 mg/L (loading), 15% at 1.7 mg/L (loading) and 100% at 2.3 and 3.0 mg/L (loading). Therefore, based on nominal concentrations, the 48-h EC50 value was estimated between 1.7 and 2.3 mg/L (loading). The NOEC was determined to be 1.3 mg/L (loading). Therefore, based on log Kow > 4, Reaction mass of beta-phellandrene and d-limonene and l-limonene is classified in chronic category 2 according to CLP regulation (EC) N° 1272/2008.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line651
__label__cc	0.620189	0.379811	Ramadan Fasting Restricted as Official Vows Firm Hand Posted by Samuel Wade \| Jul 2, 2014 With Saturday’s fifth anniversary of deadly riots in Urumqi approaching, and amid a steady stream of arrests, trials and sentencings that has been described as a “race” between local authorities, Xinjiang’s Party chief Zhang Chunxian reiterated promises of a firm response to recent violence this week. From Angela Meng and AFP at South China Morning Post: Xinjiang party chief Zhang Chunxian has vowed to use an iron fist to stop terrorists, while also pledging to use an education campaign to engage ethnic Uygurs more effectively. Zhang vowed to respond to violence “firmly’ and “precisely” during a visit to a military outpost in Urumqi with armed forces commander Wang Jianping yesterday, according to local news portal Tianshan.net. […] Xinjiang has become the front line in Beijing’s national anti-terrorism crackdown, with the central government blaming the recent spate of violence around the country, including bombings and knife attacks, on separatists seeking to establish an independent Islamic state. However, human rights groups and the mainly Muslim Uygurs say Beijing’s hardline stance against religious practices and human rights violations in Xinjiang are only driving more people to extremism. [Source] As in previous years, authorities in Xinjiang have ordered civil servants, students and teachers not to fast during Ramadan, and discouraged others. From Heather Timmons at Quartz: Students, teachers, civil servants and and Communist Party cadre members—a far-flung group that includes everyone from nurses to engineers to scholars—are forbidden from fasting and other activities. Government-run websites are running prominent messages explaining the ban on fasting, and lauding Muslims who do not fast. […] “Although it was Ramadan, the party members and the officials in this area showed their attitudes and expressed their opinions by not fasting, which shows the advance of the Communist Party,” and shows they are people who admire science and want to improve society, the [Tarim River Basin Management Bureau]’s website said. [Source] At The Economist’s Analects’s blog, Nicola Davison posted an overview of recent developments and competing explanations for the violence: foreign instigation on one hand, and domestic grievances on the other. While claims of the former have long been disputed, there have been growing signs that it is emerging as a factor alongside religious restrictions, heavy-handed security, and economic disparities. Foreign analysts have long been sceptical about the links between Uighur separatists and the global jihadist independence movement. The unrest they say instead stems from resentment at Communist Party rule. There are around ten million ethnic Uighurs in China. Their language is Turkic and they practice Sufi Islam. Since the party wrested control of Xinjiang in 1949 there have been violent clashes. Some Uighurs protest what they say is cultural assimilation. In 1949, 76% of Xinjiang’s population was Uighur and 7% ethnic-Han. In 2012 Uighurs made up 46% while the number of people of Han ethnicity amounted to 39%. Grand infrastructure schemes and booming trade is transforming the region. But many Uighurs—especially those who do not speak Mandarin or who lack skills—feel they miss out on benefits that instead flow to Han migrants. […] The recent spate of terror attacks suggests that the government’s Xinjiang strategy is going badly awry. On May 22nd attackers drove two cars into a market in Urumqi, throwing explosives and killing 31 people. In April in a knife and bomb attack in the same city three people died. In March a group of Uighurs stabbed 29 people to death in Kunming, a city in the south-west. A recent review of China’s security environment by Chinese academics said terrorism in the country has entered an “active period”. Meanwhile analysts who watch online jihadist content in other languages report references to Turkestan from non-Uighur militants are becoming more frequent. This suggests that Xinjiang may indeed be increasingly on the radar of a broader global jihad. If the videos are any indication Mr Xi will have to cast his net wide. [Source] Categories : Culture & the Arts,Level 2 Article,Level 3 Article,Level 4 Article,Politics,Society Tags :islam,muslims,Ramadan,Xinjiang U.S. Issues Total Ban on Xinjiang Cotton and Tomatoes New E.U.-China Investment Deal Drives Wedge Between U.S. and Allies New Factories Next To Detention Centers Fuel Concerns Over Forced Labor In Xinjiang Tech Companies, Scientists Profit From Surveilling Uyghurs Report Shows Scale of Forced Labor in Xinjiang Cotton Industry Aksu List Shows Arbitrary Imprisonment, Extensive Surveillance of Uyghurs Minitrue Diary, March 3, 2020: Xinjiang, South China Sea, COVID Evacuations, Wasted Donations Major Brands Lobby to “Water Down” Xinjiang Forced Labor Bill New Rules And “Sinicization” Campaigns Reduce Religious Freedom China Curtails Islam Nationwide, Targeting Intellectuals Minitrue Diary, February 25, 2020: Coronavirus Data, HK Mask Donations State Department Removes East Turkestan Islamic Movement’s Terror Group Designation Sharp Eyes Surveillance Program Expands Dramatically	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line654
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With so many new state-specific laws also being passed at a rapid pace, it is getting harder for compliance professionals to meet all the requirements of these complex laws—many of which are still in flux. With the compelling need for data protection, what does this mean for compliance officers? The challenges of competing data protection laws Different statues and regulations apply depending on the type of data you are handling, rather than the specific enterprise or industry. For example, in the US, health and patient data are subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Financial information is subject to myriad regulations under the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Federal Information Security Management Act. Different geographies also mandate different protection. 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__label__cc	0.53056	0.46944	Corin Reyburn Writer • Editor • Educator The Rise of Saint Fox and The Independence The Rise of Saint Fox and The Independence, The Writing Process Rock N’ Write: The Birth of Saint Fox and The Independence 3.28.2018 6.28.2018 Corin Reyburn The one and only Ms. Carrie Brownstein at the Hollywood Palladium, 2015. Smoke and lights? Nah. An energy field, obviously. I began writing The Rise of Saint Fox and The Independence in December 2013, or so my computer tells me. That I don’t remember. What I do remember is when I got the idea for the book, driving up to Northern California to visit my best and dearest friend from high school. While listening to Bowie’s “Scream Like A Baby” (he is, of course, one of the most excellent among storytelling songwriters), the characters from that song began to take on a life of their own for me. I found myself having to pull over onto the shoulder of Highway 5 to jot down ideas, a scrawled rush of character names and details on the back of a gas station receipt. I hadn’t intended to write this book, but here it was. I have always been inspired by music and musicians. Though not much of a musician myself, only able to squeal out basic chords on my little Fender Strat, it’s in music, and particularly skilled lyricists, that many of my ideas for writing take shape. When I was driving up that highway five years ago, a sort of narrative began to weave itself among the songs coming through the speakers. Leonard Cohen’s “First We Take Manhattan” was obviously a war cry, a place to begin. Radiohead’s “You and Whose Army?” showed me what the fictional band’s fan base, my own army, would look like. And throughout it all, the heart of the book, the motif that repeated, was and is this: What if we could take the passion of music, that universal energy, that gorgeous, glittering feedback loop created between spectator and spectacle in live shows, and channel all that energy into something tangible, into changing the world? What if fans really became an army? What could that army do? Think of the kind of change we could affect with that sort of universal power that emanates from us, from the speakers, from the squeal of steel strings, the battle cries of a hundred thousand voices as they shout out, “This is what you get, when you mess with us” (a pinnacle moment during “Karma Police” at any Radiohead concert). Generate that energy, that strength, that oneness. Bottle it. Sell it. Change the world. I have always been partial to performers who do just that—perform, drowning myself in everything glam rock and energetic, bright and illuminating, favoring rock icons of old, your Bowies and Jaggers, over those staring at their sneakers up on stage. You know, in any of your rock icon archetypes, there is a ready-set revolution leader. In writing Saint Fox and The Independence, the concept of a rock n’ roll army ended up colliding with a financial revolution. The way I write, I let the story lead me, so when I started this project years ago, I didn’t know that’s where this was headed, but it was where it was always meant to go. Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, was only on the periphery of my knowledge, but somehow it made its way to the forefront in this story as the salvation of a near-future, rainy, glammy England—home of so many of the greatest rock bands, and the story began to really take shape. So there you have it—a bit of how the book was born, from the stage, the road, from a few scribbles on the side of a highway. The book is set to be released in June by Unsolicited Press, who came to me at just the right time as I turn my gaze now towards future projects, in the midst of working on this book’s sequel, among other things. Here I’ve included a pdf excerpt of the book if you’d like a sneak peek at what’s coming. If you have questions, are interested in reviewing the book, or just want to let me know which rock n’ roll band you find most inspiring, don’t hesitate to get in touch. Oh, and I’ve also been tweeting (into the void) the playlist that helped me write this book, and compiling the songs in a list on YouTube as I share them, since these songs and artists have played such a big part in this creative process. That’s it for now. Next time, (maybe) the editing process—how to take your gas receipt scribbles and strangle them into something cohesive and intelligible. Rock on, love on, suffer well, love well. – Corin Tagged music, novel, writing Published by Corin Reyburn CORIN REYBURN drifts through Southern California teaching a bit of this and coding a bit of that, and enjoys transmuting cosmic energy, cats more than people, and the use of unconventional instruments in rock n’ roll music. Corin holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Oregon State University, and has work featured or forthcoming in places such as M-BRANE SF, Subtopian Magazine, The Molotov Cocktail, Jersey Devil Press, The Gateway Review, Free Focus, Silicon Valley Debug, Clutching at Straws, and Quantum Muse. Reyburn co-produces and curates the speculative fiction podcast SubverCity Transmit. Get in touch with Corin at reyburnfiction [at] gmail.com. 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__label__cc	0.663066	0.336934	Design by Monolic paytm News of 01/16/21 PhonePe Raises $700 Million, Becomes A Separate Entity PhonePe, the crown jewel in Flipkart’s acquisition by Walmart, is “partially” spinning off, the financial services firm said on Thursday. To kick off its new journey, the firm said it has secured $700 million in a new financing round. ... India Opens Antitrust Case Against Google Over Its Payments App India’s antitrust watchdog has opened an investigation into Google for allegedly abusing the dominant position of its app store to promote its payments service in the world’s second largest internet market. In its Monday announcement (PDF) ... Google And Walmart Face Growth Hurdles As India Caps Payments Transactions Google and Walmart have a new challenge ahead of them as they race to expand the reach of their payments apps in India: They won’t be permitted to grow beyond a limit. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the body that operates the ... 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__label__cc	0.584931	0.415069	Stock Stories US Equities Ticker Update Equity Analysis DBT NEWS Evolus Inc. [EOLS] Is Currently 14.77 above its 200 Period Moving Avg: What Dose This Mean? By Edison Baldwin Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH) Has Growth Opportunity This Year Brandon Evans - January 15, 2021 0 The Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Inc. (NCLH) cruise group was the most affected by the cancellation of cruises during the COVID-19 coronavirus, losing more... Carnival (CCL) Made Loss of $2 Billion in Last Quarter As Tourism Is Still On Halt Annabelle Farmer - January 11, 2021 0 For the year, the cruise company Carnival Corporation & Plc, (CCL), announced a loss of more than $2 billion. The operation of the cruise... Renesola (SOL) Shares Risen 58% Over the Week Solar ventures in Romania have been offered by ReneSola Ltd (SOL), a manufacturer of advanced solar power systems. ReneSola recently sold Alternus Energy two... ShotSpotter (SSTI) Has Big Opportunity In Small Cities ShotSpotter Inc. (SSTI), the manufacturer of defense solutions, has entered into a partnership with seven small cities in the United States. These locations will... Evolus Inc. [NASDAQ: EOLS] jumped around 0.66 points on Tuesday, while shares priced at $5.13 at the close of the session, up 14.77%. The company report on December 17, 2020 that Evolus Provides Update on United States International Trade Commission (ITC) Case. Get the hottest stocks to trade every day before the market opens 100% free. Click here now. Section 337 Violation Partially Affirmed by ITC. A Backdoor Way To Profit From Today’s Crypto Bull Market Even if you’re not actively in crypto, you deserve to know what’s actually going on... Because while leading assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are climbing in value, a select group of public “crypto stocks” are surging right along with them. More importantly, these stocks are outpacing the returns these leading crypto assets aren already producing. Click here to get the full story… along with our long list of backdoor Bitcoin strategies. It’s free. . Jeuveau® Sales and Marketing Continue Under Bond. Evolus Inc. stock is now 52.68% up from its year-to-date (YTD) trading value. EOLS Stock saw the intraday high of $5.3586 and lowest of $4.51 per share. The company’s 52-week high price is 11.73, which means current price is +67.65% above from all time high which was touched on 01/12/21. Compared to the average trading volume of 637.52K shares, EOLS reached a trading volume of 1024265 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active. What do top market gurus say about Evolus Inc. [EOLS]? Mizuho have made an estimate for Evolus Inc. shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Neutral, with their previous recommendation back on July 07, 2020. The new note on the price target was released on February 06, 2020, representing the official price target for Evolus Inc. stock. Previously, the target price had yet another raise to $25, while SVB Leerink analysts kept a Outperform rating on EOLS stock. The Average True Range (ATR) for Evolus Inc. is set at 0.42, with the Price to Sales ratio for EOLS stock in the period of the last 12 months amounting to 2.85. The Price to Book ratio for the last quarter was 4.93, with the Price to Cash per share for the same quarter was set at 3.58. How has EOLS stock performed recently? Evolus Inc. [EOLS] gain into the green zone at the end of the last week, gaining into a positive trend and gaining by 45.33. With this latest performance, EOLS shares gained by 36.44% in over the last four-week period, additionally plugging by 62.86% over the last 6 months – not to mention a drop of -52.01% in the past year of trading. Overbought and oversold stocks can be easily traced with the Relative Strength Index (RSI), where an RSI result of over 70 would be overbought, and any rate below 30 would indicate oversold conditions. An RSI rate of 50 would represent a neutral market momentum. The current RSI for EOLS stock in for the last two-week period is set at 71.38, with the RSI for the last a single of trading hit 78.97, and the three-weeks RSI is set at 66.45 for Evolus Inc. [EOLS]. The present Moving Average for the last 50 days of trading for this stock 3.68, while it was recorded at 4.30 for the last single week of trading, and 4.00 for the last 200 days. Evolus Inc. [EOLS]: Deeper insight into the fundamentals Operating Margin for any stock indicates how profitable investing would be, and Evolus Inc. [EOLS] shares currently have an operating margin of -271.40 and a Gross Margin at +65.22. Evolus Inc.’s Net Margin is presently recorded at -257.79. Return on Total Capital for EOLS is now -68.37, given the latest momentum, and Return on Invested Capital for the company is -65.22. Return on Equity for this stock declined to -109.90, with Return on Assets sitting at -43.68. When it comes to the capital structure of this company, Evolus Inc. [EOLS] has a Total Debt to Total Equity ratio set at 121.51. Additionally, EOLS Total Debt to Total Capital is recorded at 54.85, with Total Debt to Total Assets ending up at 40.15. Long-Term Debt to Equity for the company is recorded at 120.00, with the Long-Term Debt to Total Capital now at 54.17. Reflecting on the efficiency of the workforce at the company, Evolus Inc. [EOLS] managed to generate an average of -$383,123 per employee. Receivables Turnover for the company is 6.55 with a Total Asset Turnover recorded at a value of 0.17.Evolus Inc.’s liquidity data is similarly interesting compelling, with a Quick Ratio of 10.00 and a Current Ratio set at 10.40. Earnings analysis for Evolus Inc. [EOLS] With the latest financial reports released by the company, Evolus Inc. posted -0.47/share EPS, while the average EPS was predicted by analysts to be reported at -0.73/share. When compared, the two values demonstrate that the company surpassed the estimates by a Surprise Factor of 35.60%. The progress of the company may be observed through the prism of EPS growth rate, while Wall Street analysts are focusing on predicting the 5-year EPS growth rate for EOLS. When it comes to the mentioned value, analysts are expecting to see the 5-year EPS growth rate for Evolus Inc. go to 16.50%. Insider trade positions for Evolus Inc. [EOLS] There are presently around $33 million, or 22.70% of EOLS stock, in the hands of institutional investors. The top three institutional holders of EOLS stocks are: BLACKROCK INC. with ownership of 1,772,143, which is approximately -11.121% of the company’s market cap and around 0.50% of the total institutional ownership; SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT GROUP, holding 1,360,884 shares of the stock with an approximate value of $6.08 million in EOLS stocks shares; and VANGUARD GROUP INC, currently with $4.27 million in EOLS stock with ownership of nearly -11.761% of the company’s market capitalization. Positions in Evolus Inc. stocks held by institutional investors increased at the end of April and at the time of the April reporting period, where 38 institutional holders increased their position in Evolus Inc. [NASDAQ:EOLS] by around 1,126,352 shares. Additionally, 48 investors decreased positions by around 3,117,933 shares, while 18 investors held positions by with 3,050,403 shares. The mentioned changes placed institutional holdings at 7,294,688 shares, according to the latest SEC report filing. EOLS stock had 18 new institutional investments in for a total of 586,344 shares, while 21 institutional investors sold positions of 2,496,105 shares during the same period. Join now to get the NewsHeater.com pre-market morning brief 100% free EOLS EOLS stock Evolus Inc. NASDAQ:EOLS Previous articleMarket cap of Futu Holdings Limited [FUTU] reaches 8.54B – now what? Next articleJMP Securities lifts Upstart Holdings Inc. [UPST] price estimate. Who else is bullish? Matinas BioPharma Holdings Inc. [MTNB] moved up 3.73: Why It’s Important Matinas BioPharma Holdings Inc. closed the trading session at $1.67 on 01/14/21. The day’s price range saw the stock hit a low of... Market cap of Snowflake Inc. [SNOW] reaches 87.17B – now what? Caleb Clifford - January 16, 2021 0 Snowflake Inc. price surged by 2.43 percent to reach at $7.21. 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__label__wiki	0.57177	0.57177	Musical Monday: “Two Weeks with Love” (1950) Posted on September 30, 2013 by Jnpickens It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: “Two Weeks With Love” (1950)-Musical #71 Ray Rowland Jane Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Ann Harding, Louis Calhern, Debbie Reynolds, Carleton Carpenter, Phyllis Kirk, Tommy Retting, Gary Gray In the early 1900s, the Robinson family takes their annual summer vacation to Kissimee in the Catskills. It’s a coming of age story as 17-year-old Patti (Powell) is ready to grow up and wear corsets and date men but her mother (Harding) and father (Calhern) still thinks she is too young. That summer a handsome young Cuban named Demi (Montalban) visits the resort. While Patti swoons, her older friend Valerie (Kirk) works to keep Demi’s attention on her. In the background, Patti’s younger teenage sister Melba (Reynolds) has a crush on Billy (Carpenter) who is chasing Patti. Patti’s rival Valerie is always making it hard for Patti and Demi to be alone. (Kirk, Montalban, Powell) (Comet Over Hollywood/ Screen Cap by Jessica P.) -Debbie Reynolds wrote in her memoir “Unsinkable,” that her mother packed her lunch of ground up bologna and pickle juice sandwiches every day. Louis Calhern’s lunches were prepared for him by the studio, but he usually traded with Debbie for her sandwiches. Famous stars in the 1930s, Ann Harding and Louis Calhern play Horatio and Katherine Robinson in “Two Weeks with Love.” (Comet Over Hollywood/ Screen Cap by Jessica P.) -Jane Powell says this is one of her favorite movies, according to her autobiography “The Girl Next Door and How She Grew.” “I loved making ‘Two Weeks with Love’ because it was a very special experience,” Powell wrote in her book. “The cast was so wonderful, I feel happy even now when I think about the film.” -Debbie Reynolds plays the French horn during the song “That’s How I Love You.” Whether she is really playing the horn in the film or not, Reynolds played the French horn in high school. -Louis Calhern once said he was miscast as playing the father of Debbie Reynolds and Jane Powell. “Me, with my long nose, and being as tall as I am, playing the father of two little button noses like Janie and Debbie,” Powell quoted in her book. -Phyllis Kirk’s third movie. -Debbie Reynolds fourth movie. -The hotel where the family is staying in “Two Weeks with Love” is the same hotel in the first scene of “Annie Get Your Gun” (1951). -The dances in the film were choreographed by Busby Berkeley, who was known for his kaleidoscope shots in 1930s films such as “42nd Street.” Patti’s mischievous little brothers hide fireworks under their bed, and father (Calhern) accidentally lights a fuse. (Comet Over Hollywood/ Screen cap by Jessica P.) -The two youngest boys hide hundreds of firecrackers under their bed. They accidentally get lit when their father unknowingly lights it with his cigar. Chaos ensues. -Powell has a few dream sequences where she imagines Montalban is fawning over her. Both are hilarious and adorable. One is when she is alone in a canoe. She imagines he proposes to her and he tells her that she is full of “latent fire” and then is outraged that she doesn’t wear a corset. -The second dream sequence is Powell glamorously dressed in only a corset, hat and umbrella. Everyone at the hotel is admiring her. Then, everyone’s outfits turn to royal wear and Montalban and Carpenter have a sword fight over Powell. Powell sings “My Hero” as she waltzes with Montalban. -Calhern tries to help Powell and buys her a corset in the film, not knowing what he’s buying, he gets a surgical corset. During a dance with Montalban, it locks. Patti (Powell) dreams of being a grown up lady who wears a corset in this dream sequence. (Comet Over Hollywood/Screen Cap by Jessica P.) Notable Songs: -“Abba Dabba Honeymoon” sung by Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter. This is the most notable song in the movie. Carpenter and Reynolds fast, energetic singing style is what makes it memorable. The song made the Hit Parade and Reynolds and Carleton went on tour to promote the song and the film. -“By the Light of the Silvery Moon” sung by Ann Harding and Louis Calhern. They don’t have great voices but it’s a very sweet moment. -“My Hero” sung by Jane Powell during the corset dream sequence. Patti (Powell) dances the tango with Demi (Montalban) in the resort’s talent show. (Comet Over Hollywood/ Screen Cap by Jessica Pickens) “Two Weeks With Love” is a joy to watch. It has an excellent cast, is fun and colorful with it’s Technicolor. But not only is it lighthearted, it’s hilarious. There are so many jokes in the movie that keep me laughing, keeping it charming and witty. It’s wonderful to see Ann Harding and Louis Calhern later in their career if you know them more from their 1930s role. In the 1930s, Harding usually played intellectual women with lose morals and Calhern played cads with gun. But later in their career, they fill the role of loving parents perfectly. Jane Powell was an established star by now and is 21 in the film, and is delightful as always. In her first major role, Debbie Reynolds energy and enthusiasm that made her famous is already shining. If you haven’t seen “Two Weeks with Love,” I highly suggest it. It may not be as famous as other 1950s MGM films, but you will remember it once you watch it. This entry was posted in Musical Monday and tagged Debbie Reynolds, Jane Powell, Musical Monday, musicals, Two Weeks with Love by Jnpickens. Bookmark the permalink. 4 thoughts on “Musical Monday: “Two Weeks with Love” (1950)” Grand Old Movies on September 30, 2013 at 11:59 AM said: This is a charming film, and I recall Debbie Reynolds as especially delightful – you could see that she was going to be a star. Thanks for posting! Danny on September 30, 2013 at 9:49 PM said: How many Jane Powell/Debbie Reynolds movies did they crank out back then? I know I’ve seen a couple outside of this. I’m sure I’ll end up seeing this one at some point, it’s just amazing to me that this was a ‘thing’ and I never knew about it. silverscreenings on September 30, 2013 at 10:22 PM said: The costumes look dee-vine! And what a terrific cast. Pingback: Review: Meet Me in St. Louis (1959) CBS TV Special \| Comet Over Hollywood	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line682
__label__cc	0.635384	0.364616	We Can Never Go Home 1 (February 2015) We Can Never Go Home Again is strange. Not so much in its content–small town teenage mutant girl hides her mutant powers, falls in with a boy with a secret (it’s a mix of countless young adult novels and the first X-Men movie)–but in how writers Matthew Rosenberg and Patrick Kindlon pace out the issue. They open with the boy with the secret, then switch focus between him and the girl, only neither one’s really the protagonist. Each seems to have some kind of secret the writers are keeping from the reader. It feels manufactured, but the dialogue–most of the issue is dialogue–is so strong, it doesn’t matter. It’s a fun read, with “so close to prime time it’s a shock when it isn’t” art from Josh Hood, even if it’s too fast. Hopefully it’ll go someplace more interesting than where it’s starting out from. What We Do Is Secret; writers, Patrick Kindlon and Matthew Rosenberg; artist, Josh Hood; letterer, Jim Campbell; publisher, Black Mask Studios. Black Mask, We Can Never Go Home Josh Hood, Matthew Rosenberg, Patrick Kindlon, We Can Never Go Home #1 Mayday 1 (April 2015) The Auteur: Sister Bambi 1 (May 2015)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line683
__label__wiki	0.651482	0.651482	Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914: Politics, Health, and Art April 14, 2000 by Marlise Schoeny April 14 – December 16, 2000 View the exhibition catalog (pdf). “Strive as you will to elevate woman, nevertheless the disabilities and degradation of her dress, together with that large group of false views of the uses of her being and of her relations to man, symbolized and perpetuated by her dress, will make your striving vain.” -Gerritt Smith Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914 is about the women’s dress reform movement of the late 19th and early 20th century. Fashionable dress in the 19th century went through several silhouette changes from tubular to hourglass and back to tubular. The fashion of the dress silhouette was not dependent on the natural human body but rather on a range of undergarments including chemise, petticoats, hoops, bustles, and corsets to create an artificial shape. A growing number of people including feminists, health advocates, physicians, artists, and educators began to believe that women’s clothing, particularly fashionable dress, was harmful to women’s health. Solutions promoted by the dress reformers included trousers, reform underwear, and artistic dress. The reformers had a lasting impression on dress as trousers were adopted by sports enthusiasts and became part of the archetypal gymnasium suit worn at colleges and high schools. Reform styles eventually became fashionable dress as artistic reformers created more comfortable gowns with empire waists and soft drapable fabrics. The Trouble with Fashion Ladies in Trousers Reform Underwear Artistic Dress The Impact of Dress Reform on Fashion The Trouble with Fashion: Getting Dressed in the 1880s “Trouble with Fashion” display as part of the Reforming Fashion exhibition in the Snowden Gallery. This display showcases various dresses with their “X-ray” counterparts to show the undergarments needed to achieve the various fashionable silhouettes. Problems with fashion were evident throughout the nineteenth century. The fashionable woman reshaped her body not with diet and exercise, but with many layers of undergarments, a built-up structure that then supported and created what became the correct and ideal silhouette for her gown. The process of getting dressed of 1885 was a time consuming ritual. Women did not just jump out of bed, throw on a bra, slip, panty hose, pumps and a comfortable knit dress before dashing out the door. When getting dressed, the fashionable woman first put on her stockings, which were gartered above the knee with elastic bands that could reduce circulation of the legs. She might then put on her high cut button shoes because, once the corset was on, it then became difficult to bend down to button the shoes. The next two pieces were drawers and chemise. Drawers were knee-length or longer cotton trousers that buttoned at the waist, often left open for ease in elimination. Over the drawers she put on either a hip-length knitted vest and a short petticoat or a chemise. The next essential garment was the corset stiffened with thin strips of whale bone. If a woman tight laced she risked squeezing her intestines and internal organs. Her breathing would be restricted as well. Over this, a woman put on a corset cover and then a bustle, a contraption made of coils that was tied around the waist and hung in back. Another petticoat would be worn over this. Finally, the fashionable woman would put on her gown, which might consist of a boned bodice and stiffened skirt to match. Strings or elastic might be attached inside the skirt to keep the back fullness and the bustle in place. If it were cold, the fashionable woman might wear a jacket decorated with jet beads, which could add as much as ten pounds to her clothing. In all, her complete outfit could weigh as much as 25 pounds. Examples of trousers for women in appropriate conditions, such as cycling and gymnasium sport activities. One of the first elements of fashionable dress to come under the reformers’ fire was the long full skirt. Long skirts dragged on the ground, sweeping up tiny vermin and debris from the street with the wearer’s every step, to be then deposited indoors. Petticoats hung heavily on the waist, cage crinolines could swing out and flip up in the wind, trains and bustles were heavy and awkwardly balanced. Women’s skirts made walking up and down stairs treacherous and running nearly impossible. The reformers chose a solution which they believed was both practical and modest. They did not elect to reveal women’s legs for that would have been improper, indeed, unthinkable. Rather, they chose to wear a dress made like other fashionable dresses except for its knee-length skirt worn over matching trousers. A similar style was worn by Turkish and Syrian women and had been worn on stage and for masquerade dress. Trousers, called pantalets, had also been worn under skirts by women in France in the early 1800s, and later became the fashion for young girls. Pantalets were seen on gymnasium outfits as early as 1830. Trousers also were worn by women in sanitariums and in communal societies. Although fairly restricted in use, trousers caught the attention of a young feminist, Elizabeth Smith Miller. She adopted the costume for her own everyday dress and introduced it to her cousin, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Stanton’s friend, Amelia Bloomer, editor of The Lily, a feminist tract devoted to temperance and women’s reform. Bloomer began wearing the shortened skirt and trousers in 1851, the advantages of which she described in a Lily article. The local newspaper in Seneca Falls, NY, The Courier, also commented favorably on the style worn by Mrs. Bloomer, and soon newspapers picked up the account and named the style, the “bloomer”. Although coverage was widespread, Amelia Bloomer observed that “some of our editorial brethren” commend us highly, while others cry out against this “usurpation of the rights of man.” In the 1850s commendations of the bloomer costume were indeed widespread; women in Europe–Britain and Germany– adopted a similar costume. Supporters in America noted the practicality and convenience of the new costume, as well as its health benefits. They saw moral and patriotic qualities in its simplicity. On the other hand, opponents have strong arguments for rejecting the bloomer. Some simply believed that it was bad fashion, or immoral or unpatriotic because it was based on foreign styles (Middle Eastern). Perhaps the strongest argument used was the belief that the bloomer was incongruous with prevailing ideology regarding women’s roles. There was strong antagonism towards women wearing trousers, and those who wore the bloomer in public faced harassment. Numerous cartoons played upon deep-seated fears of people regarding gender and fashion. Eventually, bloomers became associated with the women’s rights movement, an effort not wholly embraced by Americans. Indeed, feminists shared Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s opinion that woman’s dress perfectly described her condition: “her tight waist and long trailing skirts deprive her of all freedom.” Yet notwithstanding the recommendations given in The Lily, many feminists ceased wearing the bloomer after a few years. They believed that the ridicule became counter productive to gaining rights for women. When asked why she returned to fashionable dress, Amelia Bloomer noted the new cage crinoline greatly relieved the heavy weight of the petticoats, and as a newcomer in Iowa, she needed to be sensitive to local fashion. Some women activists continued to wear trousers and did not stop their promotion that the trousers were better for women for health reasons. Those that advocated bloomers for health implied a weakness to women which was then not met with as much criticism. The mid-nineteenth century saw a huge increase in the interest of exercise which further linker the trousers to the health of women and made it acceptable for a variety of sports and outdoor activities, such as mountain climbing, swimming, and bicycling. This continued through the early twentieth century. Trousers may not have been readily accepted as fashionable dress, however, they were accepted for physical activities such as bathing, bicycling, and gymnastics. Ivory cotton twill “equipose” corset/underbodice with no bones, c. 1880-1884. Kent State University Museum. Many of the objections to fashionable dress were in fact directly related to abuses caused by undergarments. Remember that the fashionable woman of the 1880s wore too much underwear; it restricted her and weighed her down. It could be too hot in the summer and not warm enough in the winter. (Even the cage crinoline, that mercifully reduced the number of petticoats, allowed air to blow around a woman’s legs). The corset was generally worn too tight. The many skirt layers created bulk at the waist and the weight of the clothing was unevenly distributed. If the excess bulk were removed, then a woman would not have to resort to tight-lacing which, according to many health experts, greatly damaged women’s internal organs and caused disease. One of the first reform undergarments to be promoted in America was the “emancipation union under flannel” patented in 1868. This union suit combined a knit flannel waist (shirt) and drawers in one. The combination, as the union suit was often called, was continuously improved by various knitwear companies and reformers in America. Susan Taylor Converse of Woburn, Massachusetts, designed an improved version in 1875 and named it the Emancipation Suit. A gathered section across the bodice freed the breasts from compression, and sets of buttons at the waist and hips helped suspend several layers of skirts. The Emancipation Suit also could have been purchased as two separate parts that buttoned together at the hips. The Emancipation Suit was endorsed by the New England Women’s Club, one of the earliest organizations to advocate undergarment reform. In 1873 their dress-reform committee, headed by Abba Goold Woolson, sponsored a series of lectures on the hazards of fashionable dress by four eminent female physicians. These lectures were later published in 1874 under the title, “Dress Reform.” One of the best known reformers of underwear was the German-born Dr. Gustav Jaeger, who published a book on rational dress titled in 1880 “Die Normalkleidung” (Rational Clothing). Jaeger’s knit union suits were particularly popular with reformers in England after they were featured at the International Health Exhibition in 1884. This Kensington exhibition included a section on hygienic dress and featured noted architect and theatrical designer Edward Godwin as a speaker on dress reform. Dress Systems Several individuals devoted to reform devised whole systems of underclothing that included no corset at all. In the 1890s, one of America’s best known health reformers, Dr. J. H. Kellogg, developed a dress system at the Battle Creek Sanitarium which was “practical, healthful and artistic”. Kellogg stated that “any young woman who has not permanently ruined her body by badly constructed apparel can in a short time learn to stand like the Venus Genetrix”. His dress system attempted to minimize the weight on the hips and shoulders previously emphasized in fashion. Corsets and tight bodices were discarded. Through the sanitarium women could order patterns or ‘garments made in the Dress Department’. The general plan for the dress system included designs for gowns and undergarments. For the latter, women could choose from the following selections to best suit their needs for warmth and comfort: the union suit, jersey tights (worn over the union suit for extra warmth), a combination suit (instead of chemise and drawers), the Dr. Lindsay divided skirt (knitted for warmth), the improved divided skirt (without visible divide), skirt waists (to be sewn or buttoned to skirts), the improved Freedom waist (with two rows of buttons for attaching the dress skirt and petticoat or drawers, or umbrella drawers (a yoked skirt, divided skirt, and ruffled drawers with yoke). Annie Jenness Miller, a frequent lecturer, author, and publisher on the subject of physical culture and correct dress, also devised a dress system to replace the fashionable chemise and drawers, corset, corset cover, and petticoats. As illustrated in her journal, Dress, the Jenness Miller Magazine, this system was similar to Kellogg’s and included, leglettes and chemilettes, to replace petticoats, and a model bodice, to replace the corset.. The Jenness-Miller system also included a bosom support for stout women, a garment similar to a brassiere. Although not a separate undergarment, the gown form provided by both Kellogg and Jenness-Miller was essential as a foundation for the outer dress. The gown form cut in the princess style not only replaced the lining of a fashionable skirt, but was so arranged “that graceful drapery [could] be formed upon it, and the weight evenly supported” by the body. It also eliminated tie backs around the legs and had no band at the waist. Patterns for the both systems could be purchased from the publisher or from various dress reform outlets across the country. The new reform underwear systems of Kellogg, Jenness-Miller and others were meant to distribute the weight of clothing, eliminate the heavily boned corset, and reduce excessive bulk and weight. These undergarments could be worn without being readily noticed and were a great improvement over the more fashionable, but distorting undergarment. View from Upper Snowden Gallery of various styles of artistic reform dress. In order to make visible the damaging effects of the corset many authors of dress reform literature showed the statue of Venus de Milo, the epitome of natural beauty, contrasted with the distorted body of a corseted woman. However, it was the proponents of artistic dress who most heartily adhered to classical ideals of beauty reflected in the Venus statue. They applied the principles of art, upon which these ideals were founded, to dress. For them the artificiality of fashionable dress “the corset, crinoline, bustle, and other disguising elements of fashion” went against nature and thus destroyed the beauty of a woman’s natural form. Among the earliest aesthetic dress reformers were those associated with the English Pre-Raphaelite painters. As the Pre-Raphaelites and their devotees gained recognition in the 1860s and 1870s, the public had opportunity to see historic and aesthetic dress in paintings and on women who attended exhibitions at the Royal Academy and the Grosvenor Gallery in London. Many of the fabrics for artistic dress were supplied by Liberty’s, the shop on Regent Street which had been established in 1875 by Arthur Lasenby Liberty as the East India Shop. Specializing in the silks most suitable to clinging robes and draperies worn by the artistic community, Liberty’s introduced delicate pastel tints which they called ‘Art Colors’ to dye imported silks. In 1884 Arthur Lasenby Liberty asked reformer Edward Godwin to direct the dress department in the Liberty store, making artistic dresses readily available. In its catalogs the Liberty Company offered artistic dresses which were modified to follow the conventions of modern life, but shared design elements with classical Greek clothing as reinterpreted during the Empire and Renaissance periods. The Liberty gowns were given appropriate names such as “Jacqueline”, a velvet and silk crepe gown fashioned after a French fifteenth-century gown for indoor use, or “Josephine”, an Empire-style (high-waisted) evening dress and they worked well with Liberty’s soft and very drapable fabrics. Liberty gowns were well publicized and available in their own Paris shop and other stores throughout Europe as well as New York. Artistic Dress in Germany and Austria Reformers in the British Arts and Crafts movement greatly influenced artists, architects, and designers in Germany and Austria where, not surprisingly, the modern design movement of the 1890s and early 1900s included artistic reform of women’s dress. Henry van de Velde, who advanced the art nouveau style, also supported artistic reform in women’s dress throughout the continent, especially in Germany. Not only did he write about reform dress, but he designed dresses as well. In support of a new artistic dress, Van de Velde observed that architects had finally realized that women’s dress must correspond with modern interior design and architecture as a new decorative idea that immediately makes it “a piece of art.” He further suggested that clothing should express a women’s individuality, the exception being street wear, which would be dictated by place or appropriateness; clothing should be fit to purpose and adapt to private, general, or ceremonial spheres. In April 1900, a successful exhibition in Krefeld, Germany, which included Van de Velde’s artistic dress designs generated exhibitions of artist-designed reform dress in other cities as well, including Dresden. Leipzig, Wiesbaden and Berlin. The Wiener Werkstatte director, Koloman Moser, created reform styles for his wife that were high-waisted and full. Anna Muthesius also preferred the full, high waist style. Muthesius was an opera star and author of a book on dress reform, The Personal Dress of Women (1903). Reform styles promoted in the Austrian fashion magazine, Wiener Mode, in 1903 included the princess and Empire style, as well as full gowns with a high waist, similar to a “Mother Hubbard” style. They could be for weddings, tea, society, or house work. Artistic Dress in America Aesthetic dress in America was greatly influenced by the British aesthetic movement. Ideas regarding artistic styles were rapidly dispersed through various print media. Rather than being solely confined to elite circles of artists, artistic dress appeared to have a middle-class following. Indeed, American magazines did not miss the opportunity to report an aesthetic dress. An 1878 issue of the American Agriculturist observed that the aim of the Pre-Raphaelite style was to “have a thick waist”, like the Venus de Medici and Venus of Milo. Furthermore, it reported that artists declared tight waists unartistic and vulgar because the natural beauty of the human figure is lost through the destruction of its healthy proportions. Annie Jenness Miller, publisher of Dress, the Jenness Miller Magazine (1887-1898), was an outspoken advocate of artistic reform in women’s dress, stressing the need to adapt artistic principles to life and to dress in order to achieve beauty through simplicity, unity, utility, and harmony. The magazine frequently featured examples of artistic dress, patterns for which were available for purchase from the Jenness-Miller Publishing Company. Outside of artistic circles, the artistic reform styles most acceptable to fashionable American women were wrappers, or house gowns, especially the more formal version, the tea gown, which gained popularity in the 1870s. Taking the lead of the British, Americans designed tea gowns in a vaguely medieval or classical style that appeared to be loose fitting. Etiquette demanded that they be worn only in the home where they were appropriate when entertaining close friends. However, as noted in the Jenness Miller Magazine, women of the 1890s frequently wore tea gowns in public, especially at summer resorts. Clearly, all efforts toward reforming dress had a lasting influence. The loose, Turkish-style trousers worn for the exercises became part of the archetypal gymnasium suit worn at colleges and high schools well into the mid twentieth century. And trousers remained quite acceptable and appropriate for hiking, biking, and many other recreational activities as well. The loose full trouser style occasionally sees revival as fashion today. Reform underwear–knit union suits, shirts and drawers–continued to be offered by stores and mail order catalogs. The drop seat union suit still provides a warm under layer for skiing and other winter sports.Reform styles as fashion was not a novelty on the continent of Europe. Wertheim’s Department Store in Berlin had a dress reform department, which was run by 1903. And as early as 1901, a fashion magazine published in Vienna, Wiener Mode, illustrated various reform style gowns along with more fashionable dress. They clearly drew on the language of the artistic reformers, calling these dresses the “new style”, “Empire Style” or “Empire Reform Style”.It is clear that even before 1909 the idea that women could wear loose-fitting artistically inspired clothing in public was a reality. Women not only became accustomed to wearing more comfortable clothing in their homes and during physical activities, but they also began seeing actresses, dancers, and opera singers wearing simpler artistically designed dresses on stage and in public. These entertainers sought out two of the most celebrated avant-garde designers in the early twentieth century, Paul Poiret and Mariano Fortuny.These designers were acquainted with the gowns created by the German and Viennese artists and architects, as well as the artistic reform dress promoted by the Liberty Company. Fortuny’s Delphos dresses and Poiret’s Directoire models offered to the public in 1907 were similar to other artistic styles inspired by the Greek ideal. While these two men are often credited with freeing women from corsets, they were not the innovators. Rather, they were simply nourishing the seed that had been planted by the artistic dress reformers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.The Empire, high-waisted, silhouette was dominant between 1909 and 1915. Gowns were often constructed of layers of soft, drapable and sometimes transparent silk fabrics, not unlike those imported and manufactured by the Liberty Co. in London. Other couture designers whose gowns reflect the reform style include Jacques Doucet and Lucille, and in the teens Vionnet and Chanel.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line691
__label__wiki	0.68674	0.68674	2021 Feminist Gift Guide Hope-Inspiring Feminist Gifts for Valentines in 2021 Feminist Socks Green New Deal Poster Book Kamala Harris Gifts See America National Parks The Green New Deal Latest & Greatest + Topics + Climate Justice by Emily Cork 18" by 24" Print / Unframed 18" by 24" Print / Framed 12" by 16" Print / Unframed 12" by 16" Print / Framed 8" by 10" Print / Unframed 8" by 10" Print / Framed Proceeds Support: Proceeds support Sunrise Movement, a growing army of young people dedicate to making climate change an urgent priority across America, ending the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and electing leaders who stand up for the health and well-being of all people. Learn more about the project here. See More Designs From This Collection » Design By: Emily Cork I am a 21 year old artist, graphic design student and activist living on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, Australia. I work mainly in watercolour and fineliner, and am inspired by the natural world around us, the goddess archetype, symbology and the cosmos. I am passionate about our environment and its delicate ecosystems, and about fighting for just climate solutions. See all work by Emily Cork » I was honoured to create this artwork for Friends of the Earth Melbourne, a watercolour interpretation of the collaborative journey to achieve climate justice in Australia. The climate movement is about so much more than just cutting carbon - we need to find people-focused and sustainable solutions to this humanitarian crisis. This includes decolonising and giving land ownership back to Indigenous communities who have cared for country for tens of thousands of years. Australia is a nation founded on stolen Aboriginal land, and sovereignty has never been ceded. Achieving justice for Indigenous communities is imperative in our fight for climate action. We need to protect sacred land and start working to repair the damage of colonisation. ⁣Spilling out from the top of the sunflower, you can see Aboriginal communities campaigning against uranium mines and nuclear waste dumps on country. You can also see farmers and locals fighting for water rights in the Murray-Darling basin (a large and important river system) and for a safe ecosystem for communities, not corporations. ⁣ ⁣Down the bottom of the sunflower, there are coal workers in the Latrobe Valley (a town with many mines and coal-fired power stations) calling for a just transition away from fossil fuels and into the renewable sector. On the right hand side there is a glimpse into what this future could look like: green, safe and sustainable. Friends of the Earth Melbourne are part of the global FoE network, and their campaigns are centred around phasing out fossil fuels, protecting forests, building sustainable cities, energy justice, and campaigning against the nuclear industry. They have also operated a food co-operative and cafe in Melbourne for over 30 years. - Emily Cork Contribute Art Artist Terms and Conditions © 2021 Creative Action Network.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line693
__label__cc	0.740668	0.259332	February 2018 Monthly Horoscope: What Will Eclipse Season Bring Up For You? In Aspect, Astrology, Date The edgy lunar eclipse on January 31 is only the beginning of eclipse season, and the first few weeks of February unfold to lead up to the solar eclipse in Aquarius on the fifteenth. For the first two weeks of February, the universe is open and expansive, inviting in new career opportunities, relationships, and opportunities. But no lie. These weeks are going to be intense. It’s only in the latter part of the month where all the shake ups surrounding the eclipses become clear. The weekend of February 17 holds a Mars-Neptune square. This could be a great weekend. Don’t overthink it or try to find meaning. Just enjoy. On the twenty-third, a quarter moon in Gemini in aspect to Saturn inspires you to take a risk. All month, Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn crank up the responsibility, but no pain, no gain. This is a very powerful month. Take advantage of it. Want 2018 to be the best year ever? Start prepping now with your 2018 horoscope! Aries February Horoscope You start the month with some chaos from the past full moon. Ride it out and don’t get yanked into conflicts that aren’t your own. You have enough on your plate. On the eigth, the moon conjoins Mercury in fiery Sagittarius. Expect action. You need to nail down what you want and go for it. But you’re also pretty used to quick outcomes, and may be frustrated that nothing seems clear in the beginning of the month. You may feel like you’re spinning your wheels. Patience. Everything will become clear in time. Do what you can, but don’t rush anything, especially contracts or commitments. The new moon and solar eclipse on February 15 urge you to hang back and let others lead the rest of the month. Your time to shine is coming. Standout Days: 4, 14, 28 Challenging Days: 1, 25 Taurus February Horoscope Your social life is uplifted at the beginning of the month, and it can be tough to prioritize work and play. On the tenth, when Venus enters Pisces, your romantic life could receive a boost. You need to be proactive, though. If you’re single, join some apps and start swiping. This month, for you, is about deepening friendships and commitments. You may not have realized just how much you missed socializing. The new moon and solar eclipse on February 15 could lead to a breakthrough—this breakthrough may be one you didn’t expect. For example, maybe a new friend has a lead on a new job or a coworker has a person to introduce you to for a potential relationship. In other words, stop sticking people into categories. This month is all about mixing things (and people up.) Making time for fun is not a luxury or indulgence. Gemini February Horoscope You’re in a social mood, Gemini, but be careful. Your work may be sliding, and you may need to get things back on track before the new moon of the fifteenth. It can be hard to reign in pleasure. You’re enjoying so much of your life, but some schedules, routine, and order could be needed. On February 25, Mercury conjoins Neptune and a dream could come true—but you have to put in the work first. You’ve been living in a bit of a dreamy space this month, but day dreams need anchors. It’s time to get some discipline. Standout Days: 10, 12, 20 Challenging Days: 23, 24 Cancer February Horoscope Woah, last month was an emotional roller coaster, right? Your immense vulnerability can be a gift and a curse, and at the beginning of the month, it may feel like it’s the latter. You wore your heart on your sleeve and things didnt turn out as you hoped. It’s horrible and it’s okay. Learn to be okay with the in-between. The new moon on the fifteenth sheds light on your innate talents and abilities, and the few days surrounding this date could be a huge career and confidence boost. On February 17, Mercury enters Pisces, encouraging you to move on. You’re braver, bolder, smarter, and stronger than ever. Own it. Believe it. Leo February Horoscope The Leo full moon at the end of January may have been intense and chaotic, but now things have calmed down a bit. So what do you want? Love is confusing, and mixed messages may crop up in the weeks leading up to the new moon and solar eclipse of February 15. Deep breaths. You need to listen to what the other person wants. In the beginning of the month, you may be too invested in a reality that’s all your own making. It’s time to change the script and listen to others for a full reveal of what’s really going on in your life right now. On February 18, when the sun enters Pisces, it’s time for a change. Have you been frustrated with how life is going? Change up your routine or commit to a new habit. Virgo February Horoscope This is your total life makeover month, Virgo. You’re feeling on an even keel, and feel like everything in your life is going in a direction you’re contented with. Because of this, this is a month where little fixes can make a huge difference. In particular, pay attention to your finances. If you feel like they’re confusing or all over the place, shore things up, with professional assistance if necessary. On February 15, the new moon turns over a new leaf, and you may realize that you could do without something you’ve been using as a crutch these past few weeks or months. February 25 the conjunction between Mercury and Neptune can make wishes come true. Put in the work, reap the rewards. Libra February Horoscope Your emotions are all over the place at the beginning of the month, thanks to late January’s full moon. Because of this, it’s hard for you to figure out next steps. Your best course of action is to breathe, wait, and relax. Things will become clear toward the new moon. It’s not bad to rest and hold back the first few weeks of the month. Regrouping can put you on more sure footing, and reacting based on emotion may not be the savviest move. The new moon on the fifteenth lightens up everything, and you have the clear perspective you crave. On February 21, a conjunction between Venus and Neptune may invigorate a love or relationship from the past or reignite passion for a hobby, job, or project. Love yourself this month, and the universe will love you back. Scorpio February Horoscope Your ambition is high at the beginning of the month. You know what you want and are poised to get it. But you can’t let emotions get in the way. Passion is great, but in order to make positive next steps you must lead with your head and your heart in cooperation. The new moon and solar eclipse on the fifteenth may bring up a family issue. Confront it head on. You may need to be the leader for this, and it’s best to accept the responsibility rather than pass the issue off to someone else. You can handle it best. February 27 can be a magical day as Venus sextiles Pluto. Use this day when you need an extra dose of strength or bravery. Sagittarius February Horoscope This month can be busy, hectic, confusing AF and also pretty damn memorable. Perspective is everything. The month starts with a bang and you may have to put out some fires that have come up from various issues stemming from the eclipse. It’s a good time to sort out best practices so these issues don’t happen again. You may have been burning the candle at both ends or stretching yourself too thin. The new moon on the fifteenth encourages fun, relaxation, and maybe an unexpected vacation or day off to take care of you. The Moon-Jupiter quincunx on February 24 may cause some self-doubt … let it run its course. You may want to get an outside opinion; hearing someone tell you how great you are may give you the shift in perspective you need. Standout Days: 2, 7 26 Capricorn February Horoscope You’re feeling in love with love, just in time for Valentine’s Day. You’ve had a serious 2017, and this year is one where you’re experimenting with the right balance between work and play, between fun and intensity. And it’s working. You may have some fun, passionate nights, just because. A good time doesn’t need to “mean” anything. Losing the quest for meaning can actually imbue more meaning and purpose into your life. The new moon on the fifteenth may be time to let go of something. The more gracefully you can do it, the better. On February 25, as the sun sextiles Saturn, you’re in a position of authority. You are up for the challenge. Aquarius February Horoscope You’ve been feeling pulled in different directions and impatient with a stop-start situation happening in work or a relationship. You want everything to go, go, go, and are feeling frustrated when forces beyond your control may be pulling back on progress. The beginning of the month is an ideal time to focus on your social life, focusing more on fun and adventure than any longterm plans. The Sun-Uranus sextile on February 13 can shift your mood and can be a fun, random day where anything can happen. The new moon on the fifteenth is all about luxury and indulgence. On February 26, a Uranus square with the moon may cast self doubt on a project. Don’t be too hard on yourself. You’re doing pretty great. Standout Days: 1, 6, 24 Pisces February Horoscope You’re feeling emotional coming out of the late January full moon eclipse. Lead with your heart, but think with your head. Don’t make any decisions that don’t need to be made at the beginning of the month. The new moon on solar eclipse on February 15 can be a turning point and a time to start a new project, on a fresh page. And mark your calendar for February 21, a romantic, dreamy day where love comes first. In the weeks leading up to your birthday, you may be turning inward and doing a lot of mental work and reflection. Expect for things to happen and changes to occur after your birthday; right now, you’re doing the valuable work to put the building blocks in place for a productive, fun year ahead. Read last month’s horoscope here. Want more spirituality, mysticism, and advice for bringing your spirit to the next level of awesome? Follow us on Instagram. Rock February With These Articles! Self Care Strategies and Goals for Eclipse Season Your Love Horoscope for February: What Does Valentine’s Day Have in Store? An Eclipse Spell to Try During February How to be Happy and Single for Valentine’s Day … or Any Other Day A New Way to Look at Miracles and How You Can Have One	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line698
__label__wiki	0.811688	0.811688	GORDON: Russiagate Hoax Mastermind Must Be Exposed (Win McNamee/Getty Images) J. D. Gordon Former Trump Campaign National Security Adviser In the bureaucratic struggle to declassify Russiagate-related documents before the Nov. 3 elections and help ensure they aren’t buried forever, some valuable nuggets have just been partially unearthed by the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe. Like handwritten notes by then-CIA Director John Brennan. During the summer of 2016, he briefed President Obama and top advisers that the agency learned of startling intelligence about the Clinton campaign and Russia. Brennan’s bullet points include: “cite alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on 26 July of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to villify (sic) Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.” This was reportedly designed to distract attention from her private e-mail server scandal which simmered in the headlines. Yet many questions remain – such as who was the Russiagate Hoax Mastermind alluded to by Brennan? Americans need to know. The smear campaign wasn’t just a political dirty trick. Nor was it proportionate to combat Trump supporters chanting “lock her up.” No, the malicious lie was the acorn from which the mighty oak grew — one that launched the crime wave of the century. Unprecedented and wrongful surveillance of a presidential campaign. Then a prolonged stealth coup to overturn the election. President Trump and over 50 associates were subjected to seemingly limitless investigations, Privacy Act violations, criminal leaks, defamation and ruthlessly pursued by overzealous prosecutors, including numerous Obama and Clinton political donors. You know, the type of people who would wipe dozens of government phones from the century’s most sensitive investigation before an Inspector General could examine them. The kind who, according to testimony from one senior FBI Investigator on their team, would allegedly joke about wiping phones. The sort who would boast about a Whodunnit-style game called “Collusion Clue” — only with real people as their victims, not imaginary characters like Professor Plum, Colonel Mustard or Mrs. Peacock. What barbarism. Russiagate cost millions of dollars in personal legal bills and indicted six Trump associates who were innocent of the purported offense – colluding or conspiring with Russia to steal the 2016 election. It shattered many lives, including of families who had a loved one in presidential politics, as so powerfully stated by my former colleague, Asst. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Caputo. So what kind of depraved person would start such a nationally destabilizing rumor, one which was magnified every, single, day by complicit figures in the media and activist groups? Some point to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Chief Foreign Policy Adviser, Jake Sullivan. Yes, the same Jake Sullivan who secretly began years of negotiations with the Iranians dating back to July 2012 in Oman over their nuclear program. And yes, the same Jake Sullivan who is now a senior policy adviser to the Biden campaign. During July 2016, Sullivan, along with senior campaign colleagues Robby Mook and Jennifer Palmieri, reportedly worked hard to spread the Trump-Russia collusion false narrative in the media. That includes the GOP Platform change hoax about a rejected proposal of “lethal defensive weapons” for Ukraine, of which I became the principal victim by simply protecting Mr. Trump’s public policy statements and maintaining the Obama administration’s status quo. Mook nevertheless continued to repeat such slanderous misinformation on CNN as recently as Jan. 2019, months before the Mueller Report thoroughly debunked it. Paul Sperry, a Media Fellow with the Hoover Institution and writer for Real Clear Investigations claimed Sullivan was the Russiagate originator, tweeting on Oct. 5, “Hillary OK’d his proposal July 26, 2016 – days before FBI probe opened.” Having personally served in a roughly equivalent position to Jake’s on the 2016 Trump Campaign as the Director of National Security, I’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt. After all, I wouldn’t want to get blamed for the actions of my colleagues. It wasn’t feasible to know everything they did. Yet it wasn’t impossible either. Hundreds of investigators eagerly dug into us. In addition to federal surveillance beginning with Carter Page and radiating into the campaign, many of us were also hit with federal and Congressional subpoenas, subjected to years of Senate and House investigations, Special Counsel interrogations and the resulting harsh media spotlight. Even though most of my colleagues and I weren’t accused of any wrongdoing by investigators, over the course of three years, the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senate Judiciary Committee and House Intelligence Committee still brought me in separately for testimony and the House Judiciary Committee eventually requested years-old documents. I was also called to testify three times before the Special Counsel, the first of which in August 2017 was apparently leaked to the Washington Post’s 2018 Pulitzer-Prize Winner Roz Helderman, per my descriptions on One America News and Fox & Friends. So while it’s beyond my purview to uncover the Russiagate Hoax Mastermind who damaged America so badly, it’s entirely appropriate for Congress and the Attorney General. Thus the Senate should immediately subpoena Clinton 2016’s foreign policy team. The Judiciary Committee already voted to subpoena 53 Obama/Comey-era officials in June 2020 over the origins of Trump-Russia — now they have probable cause for more. Attorney General William Barr ought to ensure U.S. Attorney John Durham adds Sullivan, Mook, Palmieri, et al to his investigation too, if he hasn’t already. Failure to hold those responsible for Russiagate will guarantee repeats. The rule of law and concept of equal justice must be preserved. J.D. Gordon is a former Senior National Security & Foreign Policy Advisor to Donald Trump. Previously, he served as a Pentagon spokesman during the George W. Bush Administration and is a retired Navy Commander. Tags : donald trump hillary clinton russia collusion J. D. 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__label__cc	0.628692	0.371308	Paco Pena Flamenco Dance Company – Quimeras – London Graham Watts Paco Pena Flamenco Dance Company in Quimeras. © Cesar Alocer. (Click image for larger version) Paco Pena Flamenco Dance Company London, Sadler’s Wells www.pacopena.com www.sadlerswells.com The wedding is over: drunken couples are propping each other up on the dance floor but the DJ has gone. A man of a certain age – perhaps he’s the uncle of the bride – with unfashionably long grey hair, wearing a pair of equally unfashionable, yet comfortable, slacks (the kind you might see advertised in the back of the Daily Mail) – pulls up a chair in the darkened hall and starts to strum at a guitar. There you have an image of the scene that begins Quimeras, but this 70 year-old is Paco Peña and the music that flows from his fingers and thumbs is the best traditional Flamenco guitar that you are ever likely to hear. He conjures up a whole orchestra of sound. Although I had the Rioja (albeit in a plastic cup), the pity was that we were listening to Peña’s magical music at Sadler’s Wells and not on the patio of a restaurant on the outskirts of Córdoba with the scent of bougainvillea hovering in the late evening sky. In some respects, it was also a pity when the dancing broke the spell. Not that the dancing isn’t often also wonderful. The four flamenco dancers are experienced world-class performers, dancing with that strange mix of severity and softness, rigidity and fluency that is peculiar to their art. The long, unkempt curly hair of the male bailaores (Ángel Muñoz and Cristóbal García) gives them the superficial air and arrogance of poolside barmen in Benidorm but they dance with the elegance and pride of princes; the women (Carmen Ríos and Charo Espino, who is married to Muñoz) can be spell-binding in their precision, power and sexuality. A flowing solo by the inscrutable Espino, dancing with a shawl, was especially notable. The percussive energy of the African dances (from Senegal and Guinea) is infectious and the show’s first act develops into a dance-off between the styles, punctuated with songs and music from both traditions. Delia Membrive’s flamenco singing and the unstoppable ball of energy in the human form of Guinean, Marisa Camara (who both sang and danced), gave a gritty glue to gel the group together. The whole performance could have fallen into a bitty, cabaret feel but the direction – by South Bank Director, Jude Kelly (who must be on any long list to succeed Tony Hall at the Royal Opera House) – ensured that the pace and the interest levels never faltered while switching focus between music and dance and stylistically traversing the continents on a regular basis. It was slick and well-presented without any frills. Carmen Rios in Quimeras. The concept of Quimeras concerns the evolutionary tide of humanity that has crossed over the Mediterranean Sea from Africa into Spain. Peña is illuminating the plight of modern-day Africans but this is a cyclical issue that must also address the roots of Flamenco culture that has coagulated in southern Spain – since the eighteenth century – as a fusion of many diverse influences including those that had emigrated north from Africa. Extracts of moving text being read in voiceovers told of the sufferings of modern-day Africans risking the journey across the sea and there is a cold, confrontational scene to symbolise the African refugees being met by Spanish officials. One might view the whole show as a battle of flamenco and African styles: the one, refined, disciplined and exact; the other wild and free; but both sharing a total dependence on rhythm. In one memorable sequence the African immigrants have apparently found employment as waiters in a flamenco restaurant, hovering at the edges in white shirts and bowties while the festival of tanguillos, alegrias and sevillanas takes place: but gradually, the Africans are drawn in to the dance and when the two cultures merge it becomes surprisingly difficult to see the join. This is the simple truth of the exercise and a political point made very plainly and succinctly, without narrative, by that old, grey man who sure plays a mean guitar. TagsAngel Munoz Carmen Rios Charo Espino Cristobal García Delia Membrive London Marisa Camara Paco Pena Paco Pena Flamenco Dance Company Quimeras Sadler's Wells Dance Writer/Critic. Member of the Critics' Circle, Chairman of the Dance Section and National Dance Awards Committee. Writes for leading dance magazines & websites - in UK, Europe, USA, Japan & cyberspace. Graham is based in London. Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company – Flamencura – London Sadler’s Wells Sampled – companies from Hip hop to Ballet – London Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company – Patrias – London Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company – Flamenco Vivo – New York 2015 National Dance Awards – Announcement of Nominations	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line702
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__label__cc	0.614984	0.385016	Do adults need booster shots? Written By Lisa Fields Daily wisdomScienceResearchHealth New research has the answer. Adults are typically told to get Tdap booster shots (for diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough) every 10 years. A new study, however, found no difference in incidence rates across 31 countries, regardless of whether the shots were recommended or not. Expert insight: As long as you get a Tdap vaccination as a kid, you should be protected for life, says study author Mark Slifka, Ph.D., professor at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. This is in line with the World Health Organization's stance on booster shots, though it has yet to be adopted in the United States. There are a couple exceptions: Every woman should get a booster shot during every pregnancy, Slifka says. Doing so protects the infant from becoming infected when they’re too young to be vaccinated. If you’re traveling to a country with a diphtheria outbreak, ask your doctor if a booster is recommended. Even though the new research finds little need for booster shots, it absolutely advocates for childhood Tdap vaccinations, Slifka notes. Is the keto flu real? How happy couples show love How to distribute your daily calories	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line719
__label__cc	0.571004	0.428996	The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess by Daniel De Leon CHAPTER I.NARBONNE. Cruel intestine wars between the descendants of the Frankish conquerors were devastating Gaul when the Arab invasion took place in 719. The invaders poured down from the Pyrenees and drove back or subjugated the Visigoths. The exchange of masters was almost a gain to the inhabitants of the region. The conquerors from the south were more civilized than those from the north. Many of the Gauls,—either freemen, or colonists or slaves—took so strongly to the southern invader that they even embraced his religion, the religion of Mahomet, allured thereto by the promises of a paradise peopled with houris. "The virtuous believer," declared the Koran, "will be taken to the delicious home of Eden, enchanted gardens, through which well-shaded rivers flow. There, ornamented with bracelets of gold, clad in green clothes of woven silk and resplendent with glory, the faithful will recline upon nuptial beds, the happy prize in the dwelling of delights." Preferring, accordingly, the white houris promised by the Koran to the winged seraphs of the Christian paradise, many Gauls embraced Mohamedanism with ardor. Mosques rose in Languedoc beside Christian churches. More tolerant than the bishops, the Arabs allowed the Christians to follow their own religion. Moreover, Mohamedanism, founded by Mahomet during the previous century, 608, acknowledged the divinity of the Scriptures and recognized Moses and the Jewish prophets as beings chosen by God, only it did not recognize the godship of Jesus. "Oh, ye, who have received the Scriptures, keep within the bounds of the faith. Speak only the truth about God. Jesus is the son of Mary, and he was sent by the All-High, but is not his son. Say not that God is a trinity. God is one. Jesus will not blush at being the servant of God. The angels that surround the throne of God obey God!"—thus spoke the Koran. The town of Narbonne, capital of Languedoc under the dominion of the Arabs, had in 737 quite an Oriental aspect, due as much to the clearness of the sky as to the dress and customs of a large number of its inhabitants. The laurel shrubs, the green oaks and palm trees recalled the vegetation of Africa. Saracen women were seen going to or coming from the fountains with earthen vessels nicely balanced on their heads, and draped in their white clothes like the women of the time of Abraham, or of the young master of Nazareth. Camels with their long necks and loaded with merchandise left the town for Nimes, Beziers, Toulouse or Marseilles. The caravans passed on these journeys, along the fields, a great variety of settlements—mud hovels thatched with straw and inhabited by Gallic peasants, who were successively the slaves of the Visigoths and of the Musselmen; tents of a Barbary tribe, Arabian mountaineers who had descended to the plains from the peak of Mt. Atlas, and who preserved in Gaul the nomad habits of their old home, warriors, ever ready to mount their tireless and swift horses in answer to the first call of battle from the emir of the province; finally, and at long distances apart, on the crests of the mountains, high towers where, during war, the Saracens lighted fires for the purpose of signaling the approach of the enemy to one another. In the almost Musselman town of Narbonne, the same as in all the other towns of Gaul under the sway of the Franks and the bishops, there were, sad to say, public market-places where slaves were set up for sale. But that which imparted a peculiar character to the market of Narbonne was the diversity of the races of the captives that were offered to purchasers. There were seen negroes and negresses in large numbers, as well as Ethiopians of ebony blackness; copper-colored mestizos; handsome young Greek girls and boys brought from Athens, Crete or Samos and taken prisoner on some of the frequent maritime raids made by the Arabs. A skilful politician, Mahomet, their prophet, had incited in his sectarians a passion for maritime expeditions. "The believer who dies on land feels a pain that is hardly comparable with the bite of an ant," says the Koran, "but the believer who dies at sea, feels on the contrary the delicious sensation of a man, who, a prey to burning thirst, is offered iced water mixed with citron and honey." Around the slave market stood numerous Arabian shops filled with merchandise mainly manufactured at Cordova or Granada, centers, at the time, of Saracen art and civilization: brilliant arms inlaid in arabesques with gold and silver, coffers of chiseled ivory, crystal cups, rich silk fabrics, embroidered hose, precious collars and bracelets....	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line722
__label__wiki	0.725672	0.725672	Items Family prayer meeting. Family prayer meeting. Stereographs The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection Image ID G92F012_105F Rhode Island. Stereoscopic views, possibly of Newport, Rhode Island, or vicinity. Date Created: 1850 - 1930 (Approximate) Shelf locator: MFY Dennis Coll 92-F12 Newport (R.I.) Albumen prints RLIN/OCLC: NYPG92-F12 Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): cb005cd0-c56a-012f-3e36-58d385a7bc34 1850: Created (Approximate) The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Family prayer meeting." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 - 1930. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-ad32-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Family prayer meeting." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-ad32-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1850 - 1930). Family prayer meeting. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-ad32-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 <ref name=NYPL>{{cite web \| url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-ad32-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 \| title= (still image) Family prayer meeting., (1850 - 1930)\|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library \|accessdate=January 16, 2021 \|publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line723
__label__wiki	0.554723	0.554723	Intramural solitary fibrous tumor of the ileum: A case report and review of the literature ABSTRACT Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is a rare spindle cell tumor, which has never been reported to be derived from the wall of the small intestine. To describe a case of ileum intramural SFT. An ileum intramural SFT was observed in a healthy 26-year-old woman during cesarean section. Complete resection was performed to remove the tumor. Surgical specimens were used for pathological examination and immunohistochemistry, which confirmed the diagnosis of SFT. The patient had an uneventful recovery from the operation without any complications, recurrence, or metastasis during the 4-month follow-up. This report shows for the first time that SFT can occur in the intestinal wall and that complete resection can successfully remove the tumor with promising short-term prognosis. Thus, SFT should be considered in the differential diagnosis of any mesenchymal lesion arising from the gastrointestinal tract. KEY WORDS: Ileum, intestinal wall, solitary fibrous tumor INTRODUCTION Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is a rare spindle cell tumor which was first described in the pleura by Klemperer and Robin in 1931.[1] By 2008, approximately 820 cases had been reported worldwide, [2] which occurs commonly in the pleura, but also rarely in extrapleural sites. SFT in the abdomen has been sporadically reported over the past decade.[2,3-5] Moreover, Lucas and Ledgerwood in 2006[6] and Lau et al. in 2008,[2] each reported a case of SFT arising from the small bowel mesentery. However, there has been no report so far on SFT derived from the intestinal wall of the small intestine. In this report, we describe a case of intramural SFT derived from the intestinal wall in a 26-year-old woman, which was accidentally observed during cesarean section. While clearing the abdominal cavity after delivery of a healthy baby girl by the lower uterine segment cesarean section, the obstetrician observed a solid hard mass of the ileum, which was approximately 3.5 × 3.0 cm2 in size. The patient’s relatives were informed of the mass and agreed, with written informed consent, for a complete resection. After the operation, the excised tumor tissue was sent for pathological examination and immunohistochemistry. Yong-Qiao Liu, Jun-Qiu Yue1 Department of Pathology, People’s Hospital of Yingcheng, Yingcheng, 1 Department of Pathology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, Hubei Province, China For correspondence: Dr. Jun-Qiu Yue, Department of Pathology, Hubei Cancer Hospital, 116 Zhuodao Quan South Road, Wuhan 430079, China. E-mail: [email protected] Gross pathology The tumor was a well-encapsulated gray mass of size 3.5 × 3.0 × 3.0 cm3. The resected surface appeared to be off-white, homogenous, rubberylike, and firm. The mass was covered by a brown membrane-like layer of tissue [Figure 1], which was confirmed to be the small intestinal mucosa by microscopic examination. A 26-year-old woman at 9 months plus pregnancy was referred to our hospital due to vaginal discharge. The patient previously had normal menstruation. The physical examination and electrocardiograph were normal. There were no laboratory abnormalities (blood glucose 5.6 mmol/L, alkaline phosphatase 287 U/L, leucine aminopeptidase 264.8 U/L, alanine aminotransferase 19.0 U/L, and cystatin C 1.14 mg/L). Microscopic pathology The tumor tissue was derived from the muscular layer of the ileum, with a relatively clear boundary, and its outer layer was covered by the intestinal mucosa [Figure 2a]. The tumor was composed of spindle-shaped cells, collagen fibers, and increased blood vessels [Figure 2b]. There were alternatively distributed hypocellular areas and hypercellular areas separated by thick hyaline degeneration of collagen fibers, which was similar to scarring tissue. In addition, branching hemangiopericytoma-like vascular proliferation was present in some areas. Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics - October-December 2013 - Volume 9 - Issue 4 Access this article online Website: www.cancerjournal.net DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.126469 PMID: 24518727 Quick Response Code: Liu and Yue: Intramural SFT of the ileum Immunohistochemical phenotype The tumor cells were positive for CD34 [Figure 3a], CD99 [Figure 3b], vimentin, and B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL-2) protein staining, focally positive for p53 [Figure 3c], but uniformly negative for CD117 [Figure 3d], S-100 protein, and smooth muscle actin (SMA) [Figure 3e]. Based on these pathological and immunohistochemical results, the tumor was diagnosed as benign SFT of the ileum. Follow-up The patient had an uneventful recovery from the operation. The patient was followed up for 4 months, without any complications. No tumor recurrence or metastasis occurred during this period of follow-up. DISCUSSION SFT is believed to originate from dendritic mesenchymal cells.[7] Schirosi et al. summarized the clinical characteristics, organizational structure, immunohistochemistry, fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis, mutation analysis, and epidemiology of pleural SFTs. [8] Although extrapleural SFTs share similar pathological and immunohistochemical characteristics with pleural SFTs, they may have different clinical manifestations. For example, approximately 70% of patients with pleural SFTs are females, whereas 50% of patients with extrapleural SFTs are females.[9] The present case represents the first reported that originated from the wall of the ileum, indicating that SFT can occur in the intestinal wall. The uniqueness of this case is that the tumor was accidentally observed in a young woman during cesarean section. Since the patient did not present with any apparent intestinal symptoms before cesarean section and the tumor was resected right after cesarean section, no radiological, ultrasound or colonoscopic data for this case were available. There were no abnormalities in the levels of blood glucose, alkaline phosphatase, leucine aminopeptidase, alanine aminotransferase, and cystatin. Figure 1: Tumor was encapsulated gray mass of size 3.5 × 3.0 × 3.0 cm3, elastic hard, appears off-white in color at the resected surface, covered by small intestinal uosa Figure 2: Histological examination with hematoxylin and eosin staining showing the tumor tissue located in the muscular layer, with a relatively clear boundary and the intestine mucosa as the outer lyer (Aa, original magnification ×4), and the keloid-like tissues and the proliferated microblood vessels area (Bb, original magnification ×20) Schirosi et al. classified SFTs into three categories:[8] (1) keloid type, when the tumor mainly consists of hyperplasied collagen fibers; (2) mixed/conventional type, when the tumor alters the areas with a keloid-type appearance with the zones of hypercellularity; and (3) sarcoma type, when the tumor tissue shows increased cellularity as in a sarcoma. Based on this classification, our present case should be categorized under the mixed/conventional type. Diagnosis of SFT must integrate results and analyses from gross pathology, microscopic pathology, and immunohistochemistry. It has been reported that SFTs are characteristically CD34 and CD99 positive, but CD117 negative.[2] CD117 antibody is the best marker to distinguish SFT from gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), and immunohistochemistry for CD117 expression, especially when CD34 expression is positive, plays a very Figure 3: Immunohistochemistry showing positive staining for CD34 (Aa), CD99 (Bb), and several cells positive for p53 (Cc), but negative for CD117 (Dd) and SMA (Ee) important role in the diagnosis of SFT. In the present case, the tumor was finally confirmed to be SFT by immunohistochemistry. Extrapleural SFTs might be difficult to distinguish from other soft tissue tumors. It is recommended that for all the spindle cell tumors that occur in the gastrointestinal tract, the differential diagnosis should be considered for GIST, smooth muscle tumors, and neurogenic tumors. The appropriate therapy for SFT is complete surgical excision. SFT has the tendency to recur, mainly due to incomplete excision.[10] SFT has an unpredictable biological behavior. WHO classification[10] has categorized SFT into the middle type of tumors (occasionally metastatic). Approximately 20% of SFTs are malignant, generally characterized by size larger than 5.0 cm in diameter, with the mitoses of more than 4 per 10 high power fields, and necrosis.[2] Distant metastasis might occur in a small number of SFT cases, also mainly due to incomplete resection.[10] The prognosis of extrapleural SFTs is unknown. It has been shown that tumor necrosis and increased expression of p53 and Ki-67 are valuable predictors for poor prognosis.[9] The present case did not show any evidence of recurrence or distant metastasis during the 4-month follow-up. The favorable prognosis of this patient is likely attributed to its benign nature. However, long-term monitoring is required to further determine the prognosis and verify the association between p53 protein expression and prognosis. Tumori 2010;96:1035-9. Miyamoto H, Molena DA, Schoeniger LO, Haodon Xu. Solitary fibrous tumor of the pancreas: A case report. Int J Surg Pathol 2007;15:311-4. 4. Park SH, Kim MJ, Kwon J, Park JP, Park MS, Lim JS, et al. Solitary fibrous tumor arising from stomach: CT findings. Yonsei Med J 2007;48:1056-60. 5. Ben Fadhel C, Ferchiou M, Nfoussi H, Lahmar-Boufaroua A, Bouraoui S, Triki A, et al. [Solitary fibrous tumour originating in the mesentery: Diagnostic and prognostic problems (a case report)]. Tunis Med 2008;86:936-7. 6. Lucas CE, Ledgerwood AM. Malignant solitary fibrous tumor of the intestine with refractory hypoglycemia (Doege Potter Syndrome). J Am Coll Surg 2006;203:398. 7. Ramdial PK, Madaree A. Aggressive CD34-positive fibrous scalp lesion of childhood: Extrapulmonary solitary fibrous tumor. Pediatr Dev Pathol 2001;4:267-75. 8. Schirosi L, Lantuejoul S, Cavazza A, Murer B, Yves Brichon P, Migaldi M, et al. Pleuro-pulmonary solitary fibrous tumors: A clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular study of 88 cases confirming the prognostic value of de Perrot staging system and p53 expression, and evaluating the role of c-kit, BRAF, PDGFRs (alpha/beta), c-met, and EGFR. Am J Surg Pathol 2008;32:1627-42. 9. Nakamori M, Oda Y, Kurihara S, Tsuneyoshi M. Clinicopathological and immunohistochemical study of extrapleural and pleural solitary fibrous tumors: A special emphasis on the comparison between ordinary tumors and their malignant variant. 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__label__wiki	0.732025	0.732025	Sword Art Online – Alicization Lycoris: Solid RPG Experience! by Tarnieb Written by Tarnieb Bandai Namco and a game adapted from an anime series have indeed become a combination of two names that are almost irreplaceable in the gaming industry. The problem is, not all of these games carry a high quality standard that is worthy of praise. Few of their anime-based games exist worthy of celebration, as Arc System Works accomplished with Dragon Ball FighterZ which is not only charming as a fighting game, but also a Dragon Ball game itself. One interesting thing, Bandai Namco looks hard. You will see many of the latest series of games of this type that try to offer something better, bigger, more magnificent, and more ambitious than the previous series. The question now is, has he succeeded in fulfilling this ambition? So, what does Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris actually offer? Why do we call it a game that offers both the Waifu line and the problem line? This review will discuss it more deeply for you. Before we dive deeper into the story line that SAO: Alicization Lycoris has to offer, there are a few things that of course we need to emphasize. First, regardless of whether you follow SAO’s light novel / anime or not, you will still be able to enjoy the game’s story as long as you at least know who Kirito is and the “isekai” story concept inherent in this franchise. Second? For those of you who are following the latest anime series, Alicization Lycoris acts as an alternative story scenario from what you find in the media. Like the previous SAO series, Kirito – the main character is now thrown into a new MMO game that stands under a company called R.A.T.H. He inevitably returns, has to study the system, the world, the characters, and in the end – what kind of conflict awaits in this one world. In the midst of the confusion he experienced, Kirito met an NPC character named Eugeo who then decided to go on an adventure together to find his childhood friend – Alice. The effort to find Alice, who is now an Integrity Knight, actually opens up new mysteries, especially regarding the figure of Pontifex – who can be seen as a “god” from the MMO world that Kirito is in. As can be predicted, Pontifex, which is full of tricks, is an enemy that must be defeated. However, as can be predicted, defeating Pontifex does not necessarily mean that this world has no lasting peace. For some mysterious reason, his death actually spawned so many giant flowers called “Clamp” that were scattered all over the world. These flowers of various shapes and traits continually produce vicious monsters that will not stop being born until they are destroyed. In the midst of this new conflict that needs an explanation, Kirito meets a woman named Medina who carries a mysterious ability. With his strength, Medina can control and demand full loyalty from the characters of other NPC fighters who are known as “Wayfarers” without being completely denied. So the presence of Medina left a special role in the SAO story: Alicization Lycoris and because of that, made it the key that made the story of this game different from the existing anime / light novel series. So, what exactly are the flowers called Clamp that appeared after Pontifex’s death? Who is Medina and what role does she have in the story? Will Kirito be able to overcome the various conflicts in this MMO world and in the end, save him? You will of course have to play SAO: Alicization Lycoris for the answers to these questions. The Quality the Presentation Should Be Comes with cell-shading visualization with a thick anime flavor and animation of various weapons attacks, especially Kirito’s, which must be admittedly successfully executed, SAO: Alicization Lycoris also carries the concept of an open world which is divided into 4 areas with different terrain approaches in each area. Another extra appreciation also deserves to be directed at the design of the monsters you face, especially for the alternative bosses that you can beat, which not only look deadly and fierce, but are also ready to represent what kind of fierce battle you have to get through. Thumbs up also deserves to be directed at character designs, especially original characters such as Medina, who are not difficult to jump quickly into Waifu’s top-tier through this series. But unfortunately, this commitment to the presentation side creates its own dilemma when we talk about how the story is presented in the existing cut-scenes. SAO: Alicization Lycoris contains two types of cut-scenes: those that are built pre-rendered and those that appear as events with the in-game engine. For pre-rendered cut-scenes? It comes with a quality that deserves thumbs up, with super beautiful visuals, you might hope that the SAO anime series in the future offers a similar approach. Cut-scenes with in-game engine? Unfortunately, it’s boring. Most of the events where you can’t skip dialogue end with exposition-filled, super-long dialogue where the character just stands still while talking, or with only a few movements. For this last situation, this condition indeed made it difficult to enjoy, especially for gamers like us, who did not actively participate in SAO. For the portion of the story that follows the anime series, Aquria and Bandai Namco also modified one of the iconic scenes that occurred to make it more “friendly”. Regardless of whether you follow SAO or not, you will still remember the controversy case of the scene in the anime version, which contains elements of coercion which are explicit enough to mix a strong sense of antipathy to the existing antagonistic characters. In SAO: Alicization Lyrocis, this scene does exist, but it only contains characters who are just silent talking and screaming with animation, without any animation that is ready to make you stifling and uncomfortable. The bad news? The quality of this animation, regardless of whether it is deliberately formulated in such a way as to avoid a higher age rating, is representative of the quality of in-game cut-scenes like what you will find throughout this SAO: Alicization Lyrocis game. The good news, this super long cut-scene is also followed by an extra sense of appreciation for the VA quality that this game offers. Whereas most of the cut-scenes are presented, pre-rendered or in-game, complete with main mission dialogues and side missions which are only presented through two character artworks that stand without emotion, all of which are filled with full Japanese VAs. This means, those of you who enjoy lively character dialogue will be able to enjoy it, moreover, it is presented with Japanese VA quality at a level worth anticipating. SAO: Alicization Lyrocis is also supported by a brilliant soundtrack with the opening song sung by Reona titled “Scarlet”. What’s cool again? Through the last update, Reona even played a playable character with his own in-game side mission. So with all the combinations of presentation sides, SAO: Alicization Lycoris carries the presentation side that comes with the quality it deserves. The biggest complaint only comes from the dialogue which sometimes ends up being too long, but it is a little relieved thanks to the commitment to include a VA that is available in almost all existing dialogues. The presence of original character designs such as the enchanting Medina also gets extra attention. A True Solid RPG Trying to represent a story concept based on the “isekai” MMO which has been synonymous with Sword Art Online, SAO: Alicization Lycoris actually presents a solid JRPG concept and has been successful in offering the MMO sensation. The sensation is at its strongest when you, with a 4-person party system, are fighting against super strong monsters whose HP numbers take tens of minutes alone to drain. There are challenges and strategies needed there, instead of just blindly attacking. SAO: Alicization Lycoris has also recently released RAID mode along with the latest updates released before this review was written, which unfortunately, we haven’t been able to finish yet. Basically, the battle concept of SAO: Alicization Lycoris is fairly simple. With a 4-person party system, you will fight actively like an action-RPG game. Kirito will be equipped with one normal attack and one jump attack to hit enemies in the air. By attacking, you will fill a bar of 3 pieces which is used as a resource to access stronger attack skills, which of course depends on what weapon Kirito is using. This combination and repetition of regular and special attacks will make up a large part of your fighting experience in SAO: Alicization Lycoris. Of course there are other indicators to watch. Every enemy you meet will have a special bar which, if you succeed in filling it by continuing to throw attacks after attacks, will make them fall in a “Stun” position. Once into this Fatal state, attacking them using the jump attack will bring their condition further into a “Down” state which makes them more vulnerable to attack damage and of course, remains silent for a period of time. Continuous attacks will also encourage an indicator called “Risk” in the form of numbers (maximum at number 3) which functions as an amplifier for the damage you can generate. If he is at number 3, this means that your attacks will now deal up to 3x more damage than they should. So like most RPG action games in general, you will also be provided with several other options. Magic in SAO: Alicization Lycoris is called “Sacred Arts” with a unique system. Instead of mana-based or cooldown time, it uses a charging system with a length of time depending on the magic level, as the foundation for the balancing process. Through this system which is divided into various elements, you can access a variety of magic, from just healing, buffs, to those that focus on damage. Kirito will also be equipped with a variety of other special attacks that use different resources, which allow him to access deadlier finishing attacks, trigger attacks with other party members, or open opportunities to access skill attacks freely within a certain period. To ensure that the battle system doesn’t take place monotonously and requires a little attention from you, this game carries rank-based skill attacks. That to strengthen the attack skills that you trigger, you can combine them with a coherent rank to get more damage. There will be an indicator in the form of a blue light at the end of the attack as a clue to trigger skill attacks at the advanced rank, up to a maximum of 3 attacks, for extra damage and more effective battles. To destroy giant monsters or ordinary monsters at higher levels, action will not only help you collect massive damage, but also save the ultimate attack resource while increasing the enemy’s Risk and Stun bar numbers. At least this system requires you to pay at least a little bit of attention if you want a faster battle. Unfortunately, SAO: Alicization Lycoris prevents you from fighting with monsters whose levels are too high. Why? Because it carries a “bullshit” system where the chance of Miss attack will be much greater depending on the different levels of your character and the enemy, which must be admitted, is one of the JRPG systems we hate the most. This means, to test your guts and luck, you will have to deal with not only the monster’s bigger HP but also the RNG that your attacks can miss. Fortunately, it presents a character revive system that is quite friendly. There is no need to use magic or certain interactive actions, party characters who died in battle will only be rested for a maximum of 60 seconds before they rejoin half of their total HP in the same battle. This means, you don’t need to worry about system resources to solve this problem. Of course with a 4-person party, SAO: Alicization Lycoris also gives you the opportunity to command other party members. Through a simple button, you can order this character to access certain attack skills that you have previously pinned, which of course are essential for triggering combination attacks to destroy enemies faster. There is also a Final Fantasy XV-style slow-down mode where with a cursor, you can point and command the character you want. But unfortunately, it also comes with a character switching system which is pretty annoying if you want to take full control of it, which we’ll cover in the next section. SAO: Alicization Lycoris also carries a Gambit-style system in FF XII which, unfortunately, is not as comprehensive as you need and want. So the rest, like the experience of other JRPG games with an open-world concept, your experience will be spent completing the main mission or side missions that will be offered by various NPCs – with a concept that, as you can predict, ends by asking you to collect certain items. or finish off specific monsters. With it, rewards such as money and resources can be used to strengthen characters through weapons and accessories. You will also encounter a weapon-based skill tree system used by Kirito where the frequency with which you use these weapons will determine the skills unlocked and hence, their effectiveness. We ourselves are still relying on the dual-wielding sword as our favorite weapon at the time this review was written. With all these combinations, the RPG experience offered by SAO: Alicization Lycoris is actually pretty solid. It represents a satisfying MMO experience with an open world concept, which feels intense especially when you are fighting bosses or giant monsters that are scattered around. The side mission system that he carries is quite standard and nothing special, but in the end, it’s still ready to keep those of you who are interested in completing it busy. SAO’s worst problem: Alicization Lycoris does not lie in the RPG concept he is carrying. Its worst problem spills over so many creative decisions that it raises many questions. SAO: Alicization Lycoris is a clear approach to the Sword Art Online game, which seems to have the ambition to improve the gaming experience that it carries in the previous series. We meet the open world concept, more side missions, more giant monsters that always offer intense battles to be defeated, an interesting romance system, to the quality of pre-rendered cut-scenes that deserve thumbs up. But it’s clear, for some reason, the developer doesn’t seem to have sharpened himself with information and knowledge about how to mix an open-world RPG game that should be. That there are so many things that they seem to skip over to make the experience comfortable, and instead end up with lots of upsetting decisions. Decisions that unfortunately end up injuring positive things that actually deserve to be talked about from SAO: Alicization Lycoris. So with all of our complaints above, it looks like you already understand what deficiencies we are talking about. The unintuitive user-interface seems to be at the top of the highest complaints, which makes us dream how beautiful and comfortable this game would be if it came with the “standard” menu of JRPG games in general. Some other technical complaints such as framerate and map navigation for the various icons available should be something that can be resolved with more updates in the future. Something that we hoped Bandai Namco would plan and concoct as quickly as they could, before the status of SAO: Alicization Lycoris fell into the position of the SAO game which received more scorn than praise. So with all these complaints, despite the solid RPG system, we recommend that you hold off on your buying process with SAO: Alicization Lycoris if you really put forward a comfortable open-world RPG experience. But if you are a loyal fan who comes only for stories and doesn’t bother much with gameplay details and the like, this game should live up to those expectations well. For now, SAO: Alicization Lycoris is an SAO game that contains the same number of Waifus and number of problems! Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal Bring New Summon Mechanism, Available... Athenion: Tactical CCG – Trading Card Game From... Tarnieb	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line728
__label__wiki	0.586741	0.586741	Surnames found in the Earltown District from 1813 to 1945: Baillie Langille McGill Bruce Lynch McRae Cameron MacBain Morrison Campbell MacDonald Munro Douglas MacIntosh Murdoch Ferguson MacKay Payne Forbes MacKenzie Polson Fraser MacLean Ross Graham MacLeod Stewart Gunn Manning Sullivan Hayman Marshall Sutherland Henderson Matheson Taylor Surnames found in Corktown – West Earltown subdistrict which was annexed to New Annan in 1840’s: Conkey Hyslop Shearer Crowe Kisslepaugh (Heinzelback) Downing McKeen Studivan Drysdale McNutt White Fitzpatrick Porter Wortman Hodge Ryan 11 comments on “Surnames” Charlotte McGill Naylor says: I stumbled across this today, and it brought back many memories. I am a McGill from Nuttby by birth, my mother was a Fowler from West Branch. Many a summer Saturday in August spent at the Piper’s Picnic started by my uncle Alex W. Sutherland. Ah the memories! No matter how far away I am Nova Scotia is still ‘home’. Chris pilger says: I am researching Hugh Macdonald born 1838, I believe in Earl town, he married Marion Mackenzie born 1832 and they lived in the River John, Dalhousie and Loganville area. If any one has any info on who his parents were it would be much appreciated. Barbara Henninger says: Thank you for this blog. MacKay, Kisselpaugh and Porter are my ancestors. Catherine MacKay and Jacob Kisselpaugh are 3rd great grandparents. Their daughter, Jane and George Carter are my 2nd ggps. Henry Porter married Charlotte Cock and they are my 2nd ggps. Their daughter, Letitia Anne Porter married James Carter, George and Jane’s son. You probably know that the several of this extended family wound up emigrating to the United States, to Wolf Creek, Montana. Floyd Carter, James and Letitia’s son, is my grandfather. Floyd married Viva Widner and had a son, Leslie, settling in Plains, Mt. for a while, before removing to Spokane, Washington, where Leslie married Ruth Ann Smith and I was born. I have settled in N. California, and have a daughter and grandson who live here. I’m looking hard to find George Carter’s origin. He came from England in around 1840, but I’ve yet to find much more that I can verify. Tom Stallworth says: Peter and Eliza Murray are my 5th great grandparents. I would be interested in knowing more about their life in Nova Scotia and their origins in Scotland. GMMatheson says: Thank you for indicating your connection to Peter & Eliza “Bonesetter” Murray. I have a little more information as well as a fair amount of genealogical detail on this couple. If interested, you can reach me at gmmatheson@gmail.com Thank you for your prompt reply. Yes, I would certainly be very interested in any information you could provide about Peter and Eliza. Their son Donald was my 4th great grandfather. Also, my late mother visited her “cousin” Dr. William MacKay “Billy” NICHOLSON of Reserve Mines. He took over his grandfather’s (William MacKay) medical practice in 1945. I believe he died in 2000. If you know anything about my family’s connection to him, I would appreciate learning about him. Alex Morrison says: Eliza’s sister Jane, was my 3rd great grandmother. I believe Eliza and Jane’s parents were Alex Murray and Christy Sutherland. That is as far back as I go on that side. Burdena Shea says: Does anyone remember a James Sutherland (b. 1807 Scotland and died 1884 either in Nova Scotia or Ontario). He was married to Barbra MacDonald. It is believed that James Sutherland lived on Berichon or Biorachan Road. He had a son William S. and a grandson James S. Hello Brudena: I believe you are referring to “Blind Jimmie” Sutherland who lived at East Branch, at least in his later years. He was son of Donald and Catherine Sutherland of Clyne. The family came to Nova Scotia in the clearances. I have no information as to where they first settled but it was not likely at East Branch as that area didn’t open up until a few years later. Blind Jimmie had a sister Marion, wife of John Campbell and mother of Dr. Duncan Campbell, Loganville. Jimmie and Barbara’s daughter, Catherine, was married Donald Murray “Craig” , Loganville. There were very close ties between the Berrichan and Loganville so it is possible that these Sutherland first settled in that general area. I would be interested in delving further if you could contact me direct at gmmatheson@gmail.com. Williama Sharkey says: I am looking for a Hugh Munro who came to Earltown about 1830 to 1832. He and Annie Mckay were married in Sutherlandshire Scotland about 1830. Specifically I am trying to trace the ship they came on. They later moved to Albion Mines in Pictou A shipload of immigrants arrived in Pictou in 1831/32 from the parishes of Eastern Sutherland, (Golspie, Rogart, Clyne and Dornoch). Most of them settled in Earltown and Kemptown and many had family who came over around 1820. Another boat load from the same area continued on to Lake Ontario and ended up settling in Oxford County. The names of the ships are unknown although there is likely a record of them in Aberdeen, Scotland, where most of the ships servicing the north east trade were registered. It would appear that a number of leases in eastern Sutherland expired in 1831.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line729
__label__cc	0.549211	0.450789	The PDM knows why the people are so angry Posted by Guest Contributor \| Jul 31, 2019 \| Speak your mind By Nico Smit MP Treasurer General PDM. The HE President Dr. Hage Geingob clearly hoped that his town hall meetings to listen to the people’s grievances would rescue him from the growing negativity he and his government have been receiving over the past three years. However, this more than obvious election trick (despite his denials in this regard) at the taxpayers’ expense blew up in his face when he chose to make a truly short sighted speech at Omuthiya in Oshikoto Region recently where he arrogantly and condescendingly suggested that Namibians should not talk about things they don’t understand and then put the cherry on the cake by asking why Namibians are so angry with the government. The people of Namibia now have no choice other than to read these remarks in conjunction with his suggestion to the media last month that what he discusses with official visitors ‘is none of their business. Such inconsiderate and insensitive remarks must finally convince Namibians that the president is completely out of touch with what is really happening in his country! Since he needed to ask why the people of Namibia are so angry, the PDM is more than willing to mention a few although there are numerous, to help him to understand. The people of Namibia are angry because his party have managed in 30 short years to completely destroy the country the people fought so long and hard to liberate. What has become of the promise of a bright future for every Namibian that inspired people to participate in the struggle for independence? Let’s take stock of a few issues that are making the people angry. What has become of the free education for all Swapo promised the people 30 years ago? Education in this country has become a total disaster – there is no purpose in giving the people the inferior education now being offered in government schools instead of the quality education they want and deserve. The Swapo government has changed the school curricula at least three times since Independence, with each change weakening the system and leaving our children less educated and prepared for the prosperous future they were promised. And Geingob wonders why the people are so angry! The people were promised better health services throughout the country – yet not one new hospital has been built by the Swapo lead government since Independence and the service has deteriorated to such an extent that hospitals have become the place where you go to die, even when you are just going to give birth. There is constantly a shortage of essential medicines and other necessities in clinics as well as hospitals. And Geingob wonders why the people are so angry! Swapo promised houses for everyone – and instead hundreds of thousands of Namibians now live in shanty towns on the outskirts of cities and towns with no running water, no electricity, no rubbish and sewage removal. Can this be what they fought for? Three years ago Geingob promised the people 20,0000 serviced erven throughout the country. The result to date has been negligible but in the meantime the Swapo elite have received vast tracts of land to build flats. So the people are saying the government doesn’t want to give them erven to own because the Swapo elite want to rent out their flats to the people. And Geingob wonders why the people are so angry! Swapo promised the people of Namibia jobs for everybody – and instead unemployment has skyrocketed to nearly 50%, with especially the young people failing to find work. This does not even address the problem of the thousands of graduates who cannot find employment and the inability of the government service to determine in which fields trained people are required. Is the president aware of the growing frustration among these young unemployed graduates that has become a ticking time-bomb? And Geingob wonders why the people are so angry! According to SWAPO, the Liberation struggle’s main aim was to take back the land – it was such a high priority that one of the first things the new government did after Independence was to hold a land conference. Now, 30 years later, the land issue remains unresolved and threatens to tear our nation apart. It is clear that this government has no solution for this burning issue and no clear intention to solve the land question. This is a powder keg and Geingob talks about civil war and Geingob wonders why the people are so angry! The collapse of the Namibian economy which has caused unbelievable suffering and hardship for especially the poorer people of this country is man-made through incompetent and corrupt leadership and must be laid squarely at the door of the ruling Swapo party and the blatant corruption it has fostered and encouraged ever since it came to power in 1990. The only people who have clearly not been touched by the economic collapse and have in fact continued to grow richer by the day, are the Swapo elite. The ordinary people are today questioning where all the millionaires have come from overnight, including Geingob who owns up to possessing a cool N$50 million. This is serious money in anybody’s language. And Geingob wonders why the people are so angry! Businesses are closing down daily and people are losing their jobs by the thousands, but still nothing is done about the corruption, inability and mismanagement by the Swapo elite. Another Swapo policy that has contributed to the collapse of the economy as well as the governance of this country has been so-called cadre deployment, where the only qualification required for appointment to top jobs has been your political affiliation. And Geingob wonders why the people are so angry! Without spending millions of the tax payers’ money on town hall meetings the PDM could have told Geingob why the people are so angry. If only our president would learn to be less arrogant and listen to the people who know what is being said by the communities. PreviousNational emergency disaster fund gets N$5 million boost from central bank NextPerformance cruiser fans set for a ride of their lives’, as local Harley-Davidson Chapter hosts brag night on Friday A Guest Contributor is any of a number of experts who contribute articles and columns under their own respective names. 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__label__cc	0.551062	0.448938	NASA's Kepler Spacecraft in Sleep Mode Again Rechelle Ann Fuertes Oct 25, 2018 at 10:15 am GMT Rechelle Ann Fuertes Oct 25, 2018 at 10:15 am GMT NASA's kepler spacecraft has once again fallen into sleep mode. \| Image via NASA.gov NASA’s Kepler spacecraft once again suffered an unknown malfunction, sending it into sleep mode…again. Although the famous planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft is nearing the end of its life, NASA has been doing everything it can to keep it working these past few months. NASA already intentionally placed the space telescope into sleep mode several times to conserve fuel. However, earlier this month, the telescope mysteriously went into sleep mode on its own accord. According to NASA, the space observatory returned to sleep mode just a few days after it began its most recent campaign. “Following a successful return of data from the last observation campaign, the Kepler team commanded the spacecraft into position to begin collecting data for its next campaign,” NASA said in a statement. “On Friday, October 19, during a regularly scheduled spacecraft contact using NASA’s Deep Space Network, the team learned that the spacecraft had transitioned to its no-fuel-use sleep mode.” Read More: First Ever Exomoon Discovered with Kepler Telescope The Kepler Spacecraft These past few weeks, engineers at NASA have tried to use every bit of the remaining fuel onboard the Kepler spacecraft as efficiently as possible. However, NASA engineers already warned that the fuel of the space telescope is running low and that it may soon go offline permanently. At the moment, the telescope uses much of its power to point it towards Earth to send back the data it has collected while surveying the stars. This time around, if the Kepler fails to wake up, its mission will officially come to a close. The spacecraft will be left on its own 100 million miles away from our planet, drifting across space without power. Kepler was sent into space back in 2009. Since then, it has been on an extended 9-year mission, discovering nearly 3,000 alien worlds millions of light years away from Earth. This current problem with Kepler comes right after its sibling space telescopes, the Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory, also experienced malfunctions in their gyroscopes, sending the two into sleep mode. If it comes down to sending a new generation of satellites into space or putting everything toward a Mars Mission, which should NASA choose? Let Rechelle Ann Fuertes know how much you appreciate this article by clicking the heart icon and by sharing this article on social media. Rechelle is the current Managing Editor of Edgy. She's an experienced SEO content writer, researcher, social media manager, and visual artist. She enjoys traveling and spending time anywhere near the sea with her family and friends. NEOWISE Data Shows 29,000 Asteroids and 788 Near-Earth Objects Brett ForsbergShare White House Proposes Cancellation of NASA's WFIRST Observatory Hubble Measurement Confirms Discrepancy in Universe's Expansion R... NASA's TESS Telescope: The Next Step in the Search for new… New NASA-Roscosmos Partnership for Deep Space Missions 40 Black Inventors That Changed the World Weird Technologies and Experiments NASA is Sending to the ISS NASA Uses Supercomputer to Simulate the Martian Weather Space Race 2.0: Next Decade to Bring $1 Trillion Boost to…... NASA Soothes Fears of the Latest End-of-days Conspiracy Theorist Flying Car Update: Uber Elevate Teams up with NASA Boeing Helped win Space Race 1.0, Will it win 2.0? Look out SpaceX: 3 Lockheed Martin Mars Plans you Should Know…... World Reacts to Twitter's 280 Character Limit Chris ParbeyShare New Space-Proof Materials use old Ceramics Tech for Next-gen Prop... Space Rocks Debunk Apollo 11 Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line734
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__label__wiki	0.776515	0.776515	Register/Login You are not logged in. Close [x] To subscribe, click here Beer and cider news Travel retail news 2021 Annual Brands report 2020 Rum Supplement 2020 The Global Bar Edition featuring The World's 50 Best Bars 2020 International Spirits Challenge 2020 Bar World 100 2020 The Millionaires' Club 2020 The World's Most Admired Wine Brands 2020 The World's Most Admired Champagne Brands 2019 World Whiskies The Millionaires' Club 2017 2017 World’s Most Admired Wine Brands 2017 Iberia Bar Guide 2017 World's Most Admired Beers 2017 World’s Most Admired Champagne Brands 2017 Annual Bar Report DI events DI Challenge Series International Spirits Challenge Travel Retail Awards The World's Most Admired Wine Brands Browse articles by date Home » Analysis Sherried Malts: Barrels of Distinction By Gavin D Smith Sherry casks are pricey but offer malt whisky another dimension. Gavin D Smith reports WHEN IAN MACLEOD DISTILLERS decided to relaunch Tamdhu single malt after purchasing the mothballed Speyside distillery from the Edrington Group in 2011 it needed to do something that would make this previously ultra-low key brand stand out from the crowd. It settled on some distinctive packaging options, but when it came to the liquid itself it struck gold. As managing director Leonard Russell says: “We discovered that, for the past 10 years, Edrington had been using sherry casks for maturation of Tamdhu and we inherited a rich vein of the best sherry casks up to 10 years old. “The whole project is indescribably exciting for us and we are investing heavily in good sherry casks for Tamdhu in the future. A high percentage of the Edrington stock is in first-fill sherry casks, and we will continue that policy.” The ‘standard’ version of the ‘new’ Tamdhu is a 10-year-old, matured in a mix of first-fill and refill ex-sherry casks, although a limited edition 10-year-old has also been released, comprising spirit from just two first-fill oloroso sherry casks. It seems that, when it comes to offering a distinctive single malt with a strong perception of luxury, the use of sherry wood still works its magic, as evidenced by the Macallan’s position as the third-bestselling malt in the world behind Glenfiddich and the Glenlivet in terms of volume, and the second-best in respect of value. Speaking of leading emerging markets, Ken Grier, director of malts for the Edrington Group, owner of the Macallan, notes: “Both Russia and China have experienced strong relative growth in terms of percentage, up 320% and 285% respectively in the past five years – the strongest growth for any one brand in these countries.” The Macallan is currently in the process of rolling out its 1824 Series across 54 markets, and the series – comprising Gold (UK only), Amber, Sienna and Ruby, plus the ultra-premium ‘M’ – represents a departure from brand tradition by not offering age statements. According to Ken Grier: “The 1824 Series brings together two of the most important elements of the Macallan – natural colour and sherry casks. Together these create a signature Macallan character, embracing all the defining elements which have made it one of the world’s truly great single malt whiskies. “The new range has been driven by colour first and foremost with the character derived from the colour. This meant looking at a broad range of casks which provided a specific colour, then working with the character these casks delivered. Sherry-seasoned oak casks have been at the heart of the Macallan since its inception in 1824. This range is 100% matured in sherry casks crafted from American and European oak.” Despite The Macallan’s international success, there are relatively few other Scotch single malts which place such a strong emphasis on maturation in former sherry casks, though those that do include some of the ‘great’ names of whisky, such as Highland Park, Aberlour, Glenfarclas, The Glendronach and The Dalmore. Keywords: Sherried malt, sherry finish single malt, sherry single malts Nick Strangeway Bottled cocktails: The dos and don'ts Pre-made cocktails have always carried a stigma, which I find odd. The romance of watching bartenders make drinks from scratch left pre-batched cocktails feeling cheap to many consumers, but lockdowns have forced this attitude to change. You will need to log in/register to view it. The World’s Best-Selling Classic Cocktail... Brands Report 2021: Bartenders' Choice The Brands Report 2021 launches Brands Report 2021: Cognac Brands Report 2021: Gin Beefeater launches new bottle design Brands Report 2021: Champagne Brands Report 2021: Irish whiskey Brands Report 2021: Beer Brands Report 2021: Rum Brands Report 2020 launches Brands Report 2021: How We Did It Drinks International Digital Edition	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line741
__label__wiki	0.561325	0.561325	The Knowers by Helen Phillips, recommended by Electric Literature INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN SAMUEL Jump to Story Written by Helen Phillips Recommended by Benjamin Samuel Despite my misanthropic tendencies, I have to concede that humans are damned remarkable creatures. We’re thoughtful, perplexing beings that create majestic works of art, painstakingly preserve them in museums housed in spectacular cities that will one day be violently reduced to dust. We sacks of meat and bone are smart enough to be aware of our own mortality, foolish enough to think we can forestall its arrival, and clever enough to devise ways to ignore this ultimate knowledge. It’s this great human paradox that forms the backbone of Helen Phillips’ “The Knowers,” a story set in a world where people may choose to learn the date — although not the circumstance — of their own demise. In a sense, we’re either thinking about death or we’re ignoring it; death is always, even if subconsciously, on our minds — like a tattoo upon the brain, as Phillips puts it. In the world of “The Knowers” people have the choice to make that pervasive ticking clock tick just a little louder. The information is not prophecy, it doesn’t come from an oracle or the supernatural, but a machine that appears as humdrum as an ATM. Reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut’s story “2 B R 0 2 B,” in which human’s are invincible until they volunteer to die, death — or at least its arrival — is a little less mysterious thanks to the macabre triumphs of science. But unlike Vonnegut’s story, Phillips’ characters have not defeated death, they’ve only spoiled the surprise. The narrator of “The Knowers” is both empowered and burdened by the revelation of her doomsday: the monumental date is delivered on a scrap of paper easily destroyed but impossible to forget. Every moment is informed — clouded or enlivened — by that date, “I regretted knowing,” she says. “I was grateful to know.” But that’s how it is for all of us. We see friends at funerals, and we’re grateful for the reminder to appreciate the time we have together. We don’t need some ghoulish Paul Revere to tell us that death is coming. We know. Life is a countdown and we find ways to occupy ourselves and forget until we’re forced to remember — like a morbid game of peekaboo. There are the “silly little band-aids” of ice cream, and television, and seaside vacations. And then there’s those little domestic tragedies, like a toothbrush falling into a toilet — that they feel like any kind of tragedy at all is, actually, pretty miraculous. Literature, and all great art for that matter, isn’t just another band-aid, another distraction. Literature is a meaningful way to keep occupied, especially when it asks us to confront difficult questions. And here Helen Phillips has given us something worth spending time with, however much happens to remain. Benjamin Samuel Co-Editor, Electric Literature https://medium.com/media/68adef66c706c8086943059d661ad7c8/href Short stories and novel excerpts by the most dynamic voices in contemporary literature delivered to your inbox every Wednesday. There are those who wish to know, and there are those who don’t wish to know. At first Tem made fun of me in that condescending way of his (a flick of my nipple, a grape tossed at my nose) when I claimed to be among the former; when he realized I meant it, he grew anxious, and when he realized I really did mean it, his anxiety morphed into terror. “Why?” he demanded tearfully in the middle of the night. “Why why why?” I couldn’t answer. I had no answer. “This isn’t only about you, you know,” he scolded. “It affects me too. Hell, maybe it affects me more than it affects you. I don’t want to sit around for a bunch of decades awaiting the worst day of my life.” Touched, I reached out to squeeze his hand in the dark. Grudgingly, he squeezed back. I would have preferred to be like Tem, of course I would have! If only I could have known it was possible to know and still have been fine with ignorance. But now that the technology had been mastered, the knowledge was available to every citizen for a nominal fee. Tem stood in the doorway as I buttoned the blue wool coat he’d given me for, I think, our four-year anniversary a couple years back. “I don’t want to know where you’re going,” he said. He glared. “Fine,” I said, matter-of-factly checking my purse for my keys, my eye-drops. “I won’t tell you.” “I forbid you to leave this apartment,” he said. “Oh honey,” I sighed. I did feel bad. “That’s just not in your character.” With a tremor, he fell away from the doorway to let me pass. He slouched against the wall, arms crossed, staring at me, his eyes wet and so very dark. Splendid Tem. After I stepped out, I heard the deadbolt sliding into place. “So?” Tem said when I unlocked the deadbolt, stepped back inside. He was standing right there in the hallway, his eyes darker than ever, his slouch more pronounced. I was willing to believe he hadn’t moved in the 127 minutes I’d been gone. “So,” I replied forcefully. I was shaken, I’ll admit it, but I refused to shake him with my shakenness. “You …?” He mouthed the question more than spoke it. I nodded curtly. No way was I going to tell him about the bureaucratic office with its pale yellow walls that either smelled like urine or brought it so strongly to mind that one’s own associations created the odor. It never ceases to amaze me that, even as our country forges into the future with ever more bedazzling devices and technologies, the archaic infrastructure rots away beneath our feet, the pavement and the rails, the schools and the DMV. In any case: Tem would not know, today or ever, about the place I’d gone, about the humming machine that looked like a low-budge ATM (could they really do no better?), about the chilly metal buttons of the keypad into which I punched my social security number after waiting in line for over forty-five minutes behind other soon-to-be Knowers. There was a silent, grim camaraderie among us; surely I was not the only one who felt it. Yet carefully, deliberately, desperately, I avoided looking at their faces as they stepped away from the machine and exited the room. Grief, relief — I didn’t want to know. I had to do what I’d come to do. And what did my face look like, I wonder, as I glanced down at the paper the slot spat out at me, as I folded it up and stepped away from the machine? Tem held his hand out, his fingers spread wide, his palm quivering but receptive. “Okay, lay it on me,” he said. The words were light, almost jovial, but I could tell they were the five hardest words he’d ever uttered. I swore to never again accuse Tem of being less than courageous. And I applauded myself for going straight from the bureaucratic office to the canal, for standing there above the sickly greenish water, for glancing once more at the piece of paper, for tearing it into as many scraps as possible though it was essentially a scrap to begin with, for dropping it into the factory-scented breeze. I’d thought it was the right thing to do, and now I knew it was. Tem should not have to live under the same roof with that piece of paper. “I don’t have it,” I said brightly. “You don’t?” he gasped, suspended between joy and confusion. “You mean you changed your — ” Poor Tem. “I got it,” I said, before he could go too far down that road. “I got it, and then I got rid of it.” He stared at me, waiting. “I mean, after memorizing it, of course.” I watched him deflate. “Fuck you,” he said. “I’m sorry, but fuck you.” “Yeah,” I said sympathetically. “I know.” “You do know!” he raged, seizing upon the word. “You know! You know!” He was thrashing about, he was so pissed, he was grabbing me, he was weeping, he half-collapsed upon me. I navigated us down the hallway to the old couch. When he finally quieted, he was different. Maybe different than he’d ever been. “Tell me,” he calmly commanded. His voice just at the threshold of my hearing. “Are you sure?” I said. My voice sounded too loud, too hard. In that moment I found myself, my insistence on knowing, profoundly annoying. I despised myself as part of Tem surely despised me then. Suddenly it seemed quite likely that I’d made a catastrophic error. The kind of error that could ruin the rest of my life. Tem nodded, gazed evenly at me. I became wildly scared; I who’d so boldly sought knowledge now did not even dare give voice to a date. Tem nodded again, controlled, miserable. It was my responsibility to inform him. “April 17 — ” I began. But Tem shrieked before I could finish. “Stop!” he cried, shoving his fingers into his ears, his calmness vanished. “Stop stop stop stop! Never mind! I don’t want to know! Don’t! Don’t don’t don’t!” “OKAY!” I screamed, loud enough that he could hear it through his fingers. It was lonely — ever so lonely — to hold this knowledge alone. April 17, 2043: a tattoo inside my brain. But it was as it should be. It was the choice I had made. Tem wished to be spared, and spare him I would. It was an okay lifespan. Not enough — is it ever enough? — but enough to have a life; enough to work a job, to raise children, perhaps to meet a grandchild or two. Certainly abbreviated, though; shorter than average; too short, yes; but not tragically short. And so in many ways I could live a life like any other. Like Tem’s. I could go blithely along, indulging my petty concerns, lacking perspective, frequently forgetting I wasn’t immortal. Yet it would be a lie if I said a single day passed without me thinking about April 17, 2043. In those early years, I’d sink into a black mood come mid-April. I’d lie in bed for a couple of days, clinging to the sheets, my heart a big swollen wound. Tem would bring me cereal, tea. But after the kids were born I had no time for such self-indulgence, and I began to mark April 17 in smaller, kinder ways. Would buy myself a tiny gift, a bar of dark chocolate or a clutch of daffodils. As time went on, I permitted myself slightly more elaborate gestures — a new dress, an afternoon champagne at some hushed bar. I always felt extravagant on April 17; I’d leave a tip of twenty-five percent, hand out a five-dollar bill to any vagrant who happened to cross my path. You can’t take it with you and all that. Tem tried hard to forget what he’d heard, but every time April 17 came around again, I could feel his awareness of it, a slight buzz in the way he looked at me, tenderness and fury rolled up in one. “Oh,” he’d say, staring hard at the daffodils (their stems already weakening) as I stepped through the door. “That.” I’d make a reservation for us at a fancy restaurant; I’d schedule a weekend getaway. Luxuries we spent the whole rest of the year carefully avoiding. Meanwhile, my birthday languished unnoticed in July. Tem would sigh and pack his overnight case. We sat drinking coffee in rocking chairs on the front porch of a bed-and-breakfast on a hill in the chill of early spring. Tem was generous to me; it was his least favorite day of the year, but he managed to pretend; we’d stroll. We’d eat ice cream. The silly little band-aids. My life would seem normal — bland, really — to an outside observer, but I tell you that for me it has been rich, layered and rich. I realize that it just looks like 2.2 children, a bureaucratic job and a long marriage, an average number of blessings and curses, but there have been so many moments, almost an infinity of moments — soaping up the kids’ hair when they were tiny, walking from the parking lot to the office on a bird-studded Friday morning, smelling the back of Tem’s neck in the middle of the night. What can I say. I don’t mean to be sentimental, but these are not small things. As the cliché of our time goes, The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. This is no time to go into the ups and downs, the stillbirths and the car accident and the estrangement and what happened to my brother, but I will say that I believe the above statement to be true. April 17. I’d lived that date thirty-one times already before I learned about April 17, 2043. Isn’t it macabre to know that we’ve lived the date of our death many times, passing by it each year as the calendar turns? And doesn’t it perhaps deflate that horror just a bit to take the mystery out of it, to actually know, to not have every date bear the heavy possibility of someday being the date of one’s death? I do not know the answer to this question. April 17, 2043. The knowledge heightened my life. The knowledge burdened my life. I regretted knowing. I was grateful to know. I’ve never been the type to bungee jump or skydive, yet in many small ways I lived more courageously than others. More courageously than Tem, for instance. I knew when to fear death, yes, but that also meant I knew when not to fear it. I’d gone to the grocery store during times of quarantine. I’d volunteered at the hospital, driven in blizzards, ridden roller coasters so rickety Tem wouldn’t let the kids on them. But I have to admit that December 31, 2042, was a fearful day for me. “Are you okay?” Tem said after the kids had gone home. We’d hosted everyone for a last supper of the year, both children and their spouses, and our son’s six-month-old, our first grandchild, bright as a brand-new penny. At the dinner table, our radiant daughter and her bashful husband announced that they were expecting in August. Amid the raucous cheers and exclamations, no one noticed that I wasn’t cheering or exclaiming. The child I’d miss by four months. The ache was vast, vast. I couldn’t speak. I watched them, their hugs and high-fives, as though from behind a glass wall. “Oh god, Ellie,” Tem said painfully, sinking onto the couch in the dark living room. “Oh god.” “No,” I lied, joining him on the couch. “Not this year.” Tem embraced me so warmly, with such relief, that I felt cruel. I couldn’t bear myself. I stood up and, unsteady with dread, limped toward the bathroom. “Ellie?” he said. “You’re limping?” “My foot fell asleep,” I lied again, yanking the door shut behind me. I stood there in the bathroom, hunched over the sink, clinging to the sink, staring at my face in the mirror until it no longer felt like my face. This would develop into a distasteful and disorienting but addictive habit over the course of the next three and a half months. Aside from the increasing frequency with which I found myself falling into myself in the bathroom mirror, I got pretty good at hiding my dread. From Tem, and even at times from myself. We planted bulbs; we bought a cooler for summer picnics. I pretended and pretended; it felt nice to pretend. Yet when Tem asked, on April 10, what I’d planned for this year’s getaway, the veil fell away. Given the circumstance, I had — of course — neglected to make any plans for the 17th. The dread rushed outward from my gut until my entire body was hot and cold. Panicking, I looked across the table at Tem, who was gazing at me openly, hopefully, boyishly, the way he’d looked at me for almost four decades. Tem and I — we’ve been so lucky in love. “Tem,” I choked. “You okay?” he said. And then he realized. “Damn it, Ellie!” he yelled. “Why’d you have to — !” I still didn’t know, just as I hadn’t known way back then. I quietly quit my job, handed in the paperwork, and Tem took the week off, and we spent every minute together and invited the blissfully ignorant kids out for brunch (I clutched the baby, forced her to stay in my lap even as she tried to wiggle and whine her way out, until eventually I had to hand her over to her mother, a chunk of my heart squirming away from me). Everything I saw — a gas station, a tree, a flagpole — I thought how it would go on existing, just the same. Tem and I had more sex than we’d had in the previous twelve months combined. Briefly I hung suspended and immortal in orgasm, and a few times, lying sun-stroked in bed in the late afternoon, felt infinite. What can I say, what did we do? We held hands under the covers. We made fettuccine alfredo and, cleaning the kitchen, listened to our favorite radio show. I dried the dishes with a green dishcloth, warm and damp. On the morning of April 17, 2043, I was half-amazed to open my eyes to the light. Six hours and four minutes into the day, and I was alive. Petrified, scared to move even a muscle, I wondered how death would come for me. I supposed I’d been hoping it would come mercifully, in the soft sleep of early morning. I turned to Tem, who wasn’t in bed beside me. “Tem!” I screamed. He was in the doorway before I’d reached the “m,” his face stricken. “Tem,” I said plaintively, joyously. He looked so good to me, standing there holding two coffee mugs, his ancient baby-blue robe. “I thought you were dying!” he exclaimed. I thought you were dying. It sounded like a figure of speech. But he meant it so literally, so very literally, that I gave a short sharp laugh. Would it be a heart attack, a stroke, a tumble down the basement stairs? I had the inclination to stay in bed resting my head on Tem, see if I might somehow sneak through the day, but by 10 a.m. I was still alive and feeling antsy, bold. Why lie here whimpering when it was coming for me no matter what? “Let’s go out,” I said. Tem looked at me doubtfully. “It’s not like I’m sick or anything.” I threw the sheets aside, stood up, pulled on my old comfy jeans. The outside seemed more dangerous — there it could be a falling branch, a malfunctioning crane, a truck raring up onto the sidewalk. But it could just as easily catch me at home — misplaced rat poison, a chunk of meat lodged in my throat, a slick bathtub. “Okay,” I said as I stepped out the door, Tem hesitant behind me. We walked, looking this way and that as we went, hyperaware of everything. Vigilant. I felt like a newborn person, passing so alertly through the world. It was such an anti-death day; the crocuses. Tem kept saying these beautiful, solemn one-liners that would work well if they happened to be the last words he ever said to me, but what I really wanted to hear was throwaway words (all those thousands of times Tem had said “What?” patiently or irritably or absentmindedly when I’d mumbled something from the other room), so eventually I had to tell him to please stop. “You’re stressing me out,” I said. “I’m stressing you out?” Tem scoffed. But he did stop saying the solemn things. We strolled and got coffee, we strolled some more and got lunch, we sat in a park, each additional moment a small shock, we sat in another park, we got more coffee, we strolled and got dinner. Every time I caught a glimpse of us reflected in a window, I had to look again — who was that aging couple in the glass, the balding shuffling guy hanging onto the grandmother in the saggy jeans? Still, old though we’d become, my senses felt bright and young, supremely sensitive to the taste of the coffee, the color of the rising grass, the sound of kids whispering on the playground. I felt carefree and at the same time the opposite of carefree, as though I could sense the seismic activity taking place beneath the bench where we sat, gazing up at kites. Is it strange to say that this day reminded me of the first day I’d ever spent with Tem, thirty-eight years ago? The afternoon gave way to a serene blue evening, the moon a sharp and perfect half, and we sat on our small front porch, watching cars glide down our street. At times the air buzzed with invisible threat, and at times it just felt like air. But the instant I noticed it just felt like air, it would begin to buzz with invisible threat once more. Come 11:45 pm, we were inside, brushing our teeth, shaking. Tem dropped his toothbrush in the toilet. I grabbed it out for him. Would I simply collapse onto the floor, or would it be a burglar with a weapon? What if there had been an error? Remembering back to that humble machine, that thin scrap of paper, the cold buttons of the keypad, I indulged in the fantasy I’d avoided over the years. It suddenly seemed possible that I’d punched my social in wrong, one digit off. Or that there had been some kind of bureaucratic mistake, some malfunction deep within the machine. Or perhaps I’d mixed up the digits — April 13, 2047. If I lived beyond April 17, 2043, where would the new boundaries of my life lie? Shakily, I washed Tem’s toothbrush in steaming hot water from the faucet; it wouldn’t be me lingering in the aisle of the drugstore, considering the potential replacements, the colors. We stood there staring at each other in the bathroom mirror. This time I didn’t fall into my own reflection — Tem, I was looking at Tem, that’s what I was doing. Why had it never occurred to me that it might be something that would kill Tem too? In all of these years, truly, I had never once entertained that possibility. But it could be a meteorite, a bomb, an earthquake, a fire. I unlocked my eyes from Tem’s reflection and grabbed the real Tem. I clung to him like I was clinging to a cliff, and he clung right back. I counted ten tense seconds. The pulse in his neck. “Should we — ?” I said. “What?” Tem said quickly, almost hopefully, as though I was about to propose a solution. “I don’t know,” I said. “Go to bed? It’s way past our bedtime.” “Bedtime!” Tem said as though I was hilarious, though he didn’t manage a laugh. 11:54pm on April 17, 2043. We are both alive and well. Yet I mustn’t get ahead of myself. There are still six minutes remaining. Helen Phillips is the author of the novel-in-fables And Yet They Were Happy and the children’s adventure novel Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction, The Iowa Review Nonfiction Award, the DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Award, and the Meridian Editors’ Prize. Her work has recently appeared in Tin House, and has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts, and is forthcoming in Slice and the flash science fiction anthology Gigantic Worlds. She teaches at Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, artist Adam Douglas Thompson, and their baby daughter. About the Guest Editor Electric Literature is an independent publisher working to ensure that literature remains a vibrant presence in popular culture. Electric Literature’s weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, invites established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommended great fiction. One a month (as in this issue) we feature our own recommendation of original, previously unpublished fiction, accompanied by a Single Sentence Animation. Single Sentence Animations are creative collaborations: the author chooses a favorite sentence and we commission an artist to interpret it. Stay connected with us through our eNewsletter (where you can win weekly prizes), Facebook, and Twitter, and find previous Electric Literature picks in the Recommended Reading archives. Copyright © 2013 by the Author. About the Recommendor Electric Literature’s Editor-at-Large and Co-Founder of Recommended Reading. More about the recommendor About Recommended Reading Recommended Reading is the weekly fiction magazine from Electric Literature, publishing here every Wednesday morning. In addition to featuring our own recommendations of original, previously unpublished fiction, we invite established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommend great work from their pages, past and present. Sign up for our Recommended Reading newsletter to get every issue straight to your inbox, or join our membership program for access to year-round submissions. EL’s literary magazines are supported in part by the Amazon Literary Partnership, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. 2013 Booker Prize Shortlist is “Most Diverse in Recent Memory” Sep 10 - Benjamin Samuel Read 10 Intimate Stories About Love and Loss Mimi Lok, author of "Last of Her Name," recommends fiction about yearning Oct 17 - Mimi Lok A 5-Star Blender Review That Affirms Love is Real "Osterizer Classic Series 10 Cycle Blender," a story by Emily Everett Aug 5 - Emily Everett The Skeletons Tangled Under Our Feet Reading Paul Monette’s AIDS memoir helped me figure out how to move forward after my boyfriend’s death Nov 5 - Greg Marshall	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line745
__label__wiki	0.55359	0.55359	Decider Lists The 25 Best Wedding Movies Streaming On Amazon Prime By Paige Gawley Twitter @paigegawley Aug 7, 2015 at 2:00pm Photos: Everett Collection; Photo Illustration: Jaclyn Kessel It’s officially wedding season, which means the days of scrolling through Facebook and discovering that essentially everyone you’ve ever known is either married or engaged are upon us. Though the constant wedding planning updates and endless pictures of the Big Day could irk anyone not currently in a relationship, we must remember that our friends or family members finding love and happiness is something that we should celebrate. To remind you of this fact, we pulled the 25 best wedding movies currently streaming on Amazon Prime Instant Video. Our list includes older hits like The Royal Wedding, current obsessions such as Bridesmaids, and indie darlings like The Virgins. Read on for the movies that are sure to get you in the wedding spirit! Photo: Everett Collection MOVIE: 27 Dresses (2008) STARS: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden PLOT: After being a bridesmaid 27 times, Katherine Heigl decides that she wants her turn as the lady in white. [Stream 27 Dresses on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: The Big Wedding (2013) STARS: Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton PLOT:A divorced couple pretends to be married during their adoptive son's wedding to impress his very conservative biological mother. [Stream The Big Wedding on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: Bridesmaids (2011) STARS: Kristen Wigg, Maya Rudolph PLOT: Food poisoning at a dress fitting, an ill-fated attempted trip to Vegas, and puppies as bridal shower party favors make this a wedding to remember. [Stream Bridesmaids on Amazon Prime Instant Video] Photo: Universal Pictures MOVIE: Bride Wars (2009) STARS: Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson PLOT: Two best friends become enemies when they accidentally book their weddings on the same day. [Stream Bride Wars on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) STARS: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell PLOT: A British man and an American woman meet at a wedding and continue to cross paths at other weddings and a funeral. [Stream Four Weddings and a Funeral on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: The Godfather (1972) STARS: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino PLOT: An insightful look into the lives of the members of an organized crime family, this crime epic begins with a huge Sicilian wedding celebration. [Stream The Godfather on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: The Graduate (1967) STARS: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft PLOT: A recent college graduate finds himself torn between two women — Mrs. Robinson...and her daughter. [Stream The Graduate on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: Love Actually (2003) STARS: Hugh Grant, Keira Knightley PLOT: The ensemble cast all have interwoven stories that revolve around love during Christmas in London. Remember, love is all around us. [Stream Love Actually on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011) STARS: Mandy Moore, Kellan Lutz PLOT: A newlywed marriage counselor is thrown for a loop when she finds out that her parents are getting divorced. [Stream Love, Wedding, Marriage on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: Made of Honor (2008) STARS: Michelle Monaghan, Patrick Dempsey PLOT: Patrick Dempsey serves as Michelle Monaghan's made of honor (even though he's in love with her!) [Stream Made of Honor on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: Muriel's Wedding (1994) STARS: Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths PLOT: Muriel has always dreamed of her wedding day, but has never had a date. Her life changes when she moves from her small town to Sydney, Australia, and has the adventure of her life. [Stream Muriel's Wedding on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) STARS: Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney PLOT: Julia Roberts plays Julianne, who realizes that she is in love with her best friend (played by Dermot Mulroney) just days before his wedding. [Stream My Best Friend's Wedding on Amazon Prime Instant Video] Photo: TriStar Pictures MOVIE: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) STARS: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett PLOT: The 30-year-old Toula falls for a non-Greek guy, and her traditional family is not totally on board. [Stream My Big Fat Greek Wedding on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: The Perfect Wedding (2013) STARS: James Rebhorn, Kristine Sutherland PLOT: Two men meet while helping to plan a wedding for one of their sisters. [Stream The Perfect Wedding on Amazon Prime Instant Video] Photo: Arcadia Creative MOVIE: The Princess Bride (1987) STARS: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin PLOT: A woman and her true love battle through a mythical kingdom to be together. [Stream The Princess Bride on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: The Proposal (2009) STARS: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds PLOT: A big-time book editor forces her assistant to marry her so she won't get deported to Canada. [Stream The Proposal on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: The Royal Wedding (1951) STARS: Fred Astaire, Jane Powell PLOT: A brother and sister dance pair each find love while touring London. [Stream The Royal Wedding on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: Runaway Bride (1999) STARS: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere PLOT: A reporter is assigned to cover the story about a bride who keeps leaving her grooms at the altar. [Stream Runaway Bride on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: Steel Magnolias (1989) STARS: Shirley MacLaine, Julia Roberts PLOT: The southern princess Shelby Eatenton plans her wedding in a small Louisiana town with the help of her mother and friends. [Stream Steel Magnolias on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: The Virgins (2014) STARS: Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sonya Davis PLOT: A couple waited to have sex until their wedding night, but a series of hilariously unfortunate events make consummating their relationship quite challenging. [Stream The Virgins on Amazon Prime Instant Video] Photo: Matthew Wilson MOVIE: Wedding Crashers (2005) STARS: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn PLOT: Two womanizers hilariously crash weddings to pick up girls. [Stream Wedding Crashers on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: The Wedding Date (2005) STARS: Dermot Mulroney, Debra Messing PLOT: A single New Yorker hires a male escort to accompany her to her sister's wedding — and to make her ex-boyfriend jealous. [Stream The Wedding Date on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: Wedding Palace (2014) STARS: Brian Tee, Hye-jeong Kang PLOT: A couple decides to marry after never having never met in person, only online. [Stream Wedding Palace on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: The Wedding Planner (2001) STARS: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey PLOT: San Francisco's most sought-after wedding planner is hired to plan her crush's wedding to another woman, but the two end up falling in love with each other. [Stream The Wedding Planner on Amazon Prime Instant Video] MOVIE: The Wedding Ringer (2015) STARS: Kevin Hart, Josh Gad PLOT: A friendless groom hires a professional best man to stand beside him at his wedding. [Stream The Wedding Ringer on Amazon Prime Instant Video]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line749
__label__wiki	0.892074	0.892074	Wait, How Do I Watch Apple TV+? By Josh Sorokach Twitter @joshsorokach Oct 31, 2019 at 4:00pm When Will 'Servant' Season 2, Episode 2 Premiere on Apple TV+? Here's Why 'Dickinson' Stuck Toby Huss in a Hole What Time Will 'Servant' Season 2 be on Apple TV+ Tom Holland Gets Reckless in Apple's New 'Cherry' Trailer If you thought there were too many TV shows before, well, friend, as the Canadian rock group Bachman-Turner Overdrive once said, “You ain’t seen nothing yet!” We’re less than 24-hours away from the official launch of Apple TV+. Joining Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video but debuting before Disney+, HBO Max, and Peacock, the buzzy new service has made quite the splash, offering intriguing shows starring a number of high-profile celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Oprah Winfrey, Jason Momoa, and Hailee Steinfeld. New programs like See, The Morning Show, and Dickinson are about to premiere, but where can you watch them? Cord-cutters have plenty of questions on the eve of the Apple TV+ launch. But don’t worry, Decider’s got the answers. Where can you watch Apple TV+? How can you watch Apple TV+ for free? Here’s everything you need to know. WHEN DOES APPLE TV+ LAUNCH? Apple TV+ launches on Friday, November 1. HOW CAN I SUBSCRIBE TO APPLE TV PLUS? Beginning on November 1, you can sign up in the Apple TV app or on tv.apple.com. HOW MUCH IS APPLE TV PLUS? If you purchased an Apple device (iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac) after September 10, 2019, you’re eligible for one free year of Apple TV+. To activate your free trial, open the Apple TV app on or after November 1st and an offer that says “Enjoy 1 Year Free” should pop up. Additional information is available on the support section of the Apple website. If you don’t have a free subscription, Apple TV+ is $4.99/month. HOW TO WATCH APPLE TV PLUS: Besides the obvious (iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV 4K/Apple TV HD), you can stream Apple TV+ on a smart TV that supports the Apple TV app (Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TVs). You can also watch Apple TV+ on your web browser (Safari, Firefox, or Chrome ) at tv.apple.com. HOW CAN I WATCH APPLE TV PLUS FOR FREE? If you’re interested in sampling the service before committing, Apple is offering a seven-day free trial of Apple TV+. One word of warning: Your free preview will auto-renew into a monthly subscription if you don’t cancel before the free trial concludes. WHAT IF I HAVE AN APPLE MUSIC STUDENT PLAN? Who doesn’t love a good bundle? If you subscribe to Apple Music’s $4.99/month student plan, for a limited time you’ll also receive Apple TV+ at no additional charge. WHAT WILL BE ON APPLE TV PLUS? As Decider’s Claire Spellberg reports, the full list of original content available via Apple TV+ on November 1 includes: See, an epic drama starring Jason Momoa and Alfre Woodard The Morning Show, a drama series starring and produced by Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Anniston Dickinson, a dramedy starring Hailee Steinfeld as young poet Emily Dickinson For All Mankind, a space drama from Ron. D. Moore Helpsters, a children’s series from the makers of Sesame Street Snoopy in Space, an original series from Peanuts Worldwide and DHX Media Ghostwriter, a reinvention of the beloved original series The Elephant Queen, an acclaimed documentary about a species on the verge of extinction Oprah’s Book Club, a project about the pop culture maven’s vibrant book club community The Morning Show, See, and For All Mankind will drop their first three episodes on November 1 (with new episodes premiering every Friday), while all ten Season 1 episodes of Dickinson will be available to stream on premiere day. Yes! Here are a few more interesting tidbits about Apple TV+: New originals will be added to Apple TV+ every month. You can download episodes or films to stream offline. Your Apple TV+ subscription includes access for up to six family members, which means you can enjoy up to six simultaneous streams. No ads, baby. Stream The Morning Show on Apple TV+	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line750
__label__wiki	0.660198	0.660198	Radiant Sponsors Automotive Interiors Virtual “Live” Conference Featuring a Technical Program from Industry Leaders 2 min read Radiant Sponsors Automotive Interiors Virtual “Live” Conference Featuring a Technical Program from Industry Leaders [email protected]_84 2 months ago REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Radiant Vision Systems, a leading provider of test and measurement for light sources and displays, announces that it will sponsor the upcoming Automotive Interiors Virtual ‘Live’ conference and expo, taking place online December 1-2, 2020, from 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. CET daily. The event is free to attend and will feature live streaming web presentations from automotive suppliers and OEMs in the fields of interior design, concepts, materials, and technologies. Although conference program presentations will air in Central European Time (CET), registrants will have the opportunity to access all sessions—as well as sponsor resources, networking, and event functions—online and on demand 24/7 until March 1, 2021. Trends in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles (AV) have implications for new vehicle designs, including considerations for sustainability, new materials, finishes, colors, textures, and emerging technology integrations. Smart surfaces like e-textiles, plastics, wood, glass, and others enable touch sensors and lighting to be embedded into new areas of the vehicle, providing seamless control panel and symbol integration for almost any substrate. The Automotive Interiors Virtual ‘Live’ event brings together the automotive community to discuss topics like these over an intuitive networking platform. Industry experts and attendees alike will benefit from the educational sessions and panels, as well as the ability to network, share content, host video meetings, and discuss industry developments. As a Silver Sponsor of the conference, Radiant Vision Systems supports idea exchange and continued development of interior vehicle systems that enhance user experience, safety, and operation. Radiant’s ProMetric® Imaging Colorimeters and Photometers provide manufacturers with scientific measurement data to enable objective evaluation of illuminated components throughout the vehicle, including new backlit smart surfaces, integrated displays, ADAS, head-up displays (HUD), and near-infrared sensing used in driver monitoring systems (DMS). Throughout the event, Radiant’s Automotive Solutions Team will be available to connect with attendees to answer questions and discuss projects, and will host the company’s resource page, featuring a breadth of educational content from product specifications to video demonstrations. Resources on the Radiant page will showcase the benefits of test and measurement systems for light sources and displays, highlighting integrated camera/software solutions specially developed to meet needs for metrology, automated visual inspection, and quality control in unique applications from automotive labs to production settings. To register for the free Automotive Interiors Virtual ‘Live’ event taking place online December 1-2, visit http://www.automotiveinteriorsvirtuallive.com. For more information about Radiant, visit http://www.RadiantVisionSystems.com. About Radiant Vision Systems Radiant Vision Systems works with world-class brands and manufacturers to deliver creative visual inspection solutions that improve quality, reduce costs, and increase customer satisfaction. Radiant’s legacy of technology innovation in photometric imaging and worldwide install base date back more than 25 years and address applications from consumer electronics to automotive manufacturing. Radiant Vision Systems product lines include TrueTest™ automated visual inspection software for quality control, and ProMetric® imaging colorimeters, photometers, and light source measurement systems. Radiant is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, with strategic offices in Chicopee to join ValleyBike bicycle sharing program 2 min read Chicopee to join ValleyBike bicycle sharing program CHICOPEE — The city will join the region’s bicycle sharing program in the spring, providing a link between multiple communities that have joined the service over the past two years. City officials started the process to join ValleyBike last year, but the COVID-19 pandemic created multiple delays in getting it up and running. “We jumped on board. We wanted to be part of it and a lot of people were asking about it,” said Nathan Moreau, associate city planner. “We are filling in a gap in service.” ValleyBike began in 2018 with electric-assist bikes that can be rented from docking stations in several communities. People can pick up a bike from one place and drop it off at a different docking station when they reach their destination. Bikes are rented often through a cellphone app. Rates range from $2 for 30 minutes to $90 a year to take unlimited rides of up to 60 minutes. There are a variety of membership plans people can use and discounts for students and those who live in public housing, said Wayne Feiden, Northampton’s director of planning and sustainability and one of the officials behind ValleyBike. Last year the bikes were ridden about 196,000 miles. Some ride them for commuting, shopping or to do errands. They are used a lot for recreation based on the fact they are rented most often on the weekends, Feiden said. “We want to give people transportation choices,” Feiden said. “There is no question it is reducing vehicle trips, and although it is electric-assisted, you have to peddle some so it is giving people exercise.” ValleyBike now has a presence in Amherst, Easthampton, Holyoke, South Hadley, Northampton and Springfield, with the University of Massachusetts Amherst providing the most riders. The addition of Chicopee is an important link in the program since it is in the middle of Springfield, Holyoke and South Hadley, Moreau said. The three docking stations will be across from City Hall, at Rivers Park off Meadow Street and in the island at the intersection of Church Street and Broadway, where the monument topped by a giant granite ball honoring Gen. Arthur MacArthur sits. The three locations were selected because they are crossroads that lead in multiple directions people may want to go, Moreau said. The one at City Hall is at the start of a short bike path that runs along the Chicopee River. Past Grape Street the path turns into a gravel road that is not officially part of the bike path but is used as such and connects to Szot Park and the Chicopee Senior Center. Rivers Park is a few streets over from a proposed bike path, scheduled to be completed in April 2022, that will run along the shore of the Connecticut River. A $1.1 million federal traffic congestion mitigation grant is providing the money to expand ValleyBike into Chicopee as well as Hadley and West Springfield. It pays for things such as bikes and equipment for the docking stations, Feiden said. KBRA Releases Report Assigning A- Rating with Stable Outlook to NJTTFA Transportation Program Bonds, 2020 Series AA 1 min read {{unknown}}… Standard Motor Products Launches Automotive Education Program 2 min read Standard Motor Products Launches Automotive Education Program NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Standard Motor Products, Inc. (SMP) has launched the Automotive Education Program (AEP) to assist instructors and help automotive technology students develop professional skills they can use in the bay. As virtual learning is becoming a welcome addition to classroom instruction, the SMP program offers supplemental training for students, while providing an opportunity for them to earn gifts and help their instructor outfit the classroom. The initial AEP course features a series of four videos that explore ignition coil issues, testing, and tips. Since its launch in early September, more than a thousand tech students have already participated in Level 1 of the program. To sign up, instructors create an account and build their class on www.SMPAutoEducation.com. The system generates a unique URL that instructors send to their students, who register and join their instructor’s AEP classroom. Upon successful course completion, students receive a certificate and gift package, and instructors receive posters, countermats, and more for their classrooms. Commenting on the program, Ryan Kooiman, Director of Training, SMP, stated, “We are pleased that our Automotive Education Program has been so well received and that we’re able to support the instructors and students. This is one of the many ways SMP is helping to educate the next generation of automotive technicians.” AEP is expanding into new topics and the level 2 course will be available soon. For more information, visit www.standardbrand.com/en/content/aep. With over 100 years in business, Standard Motor Products, Inc. is a leading independent manufacturer and distributor of premium automotive replacement parts. SMP supplies independent professional technicians and do-it-yourselfers with high quality replacement parts for engine management, ignition, emissions, fuel and safety-related systems, as well as temperature control products for domestic and import cars and light trucks. SMP® products are sold worldwide through both traditional and non-traditional distribution channels. For more information, download the SMP® Parts App or visit www.smpcorp.com. View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/standard-motor-products-launches-automotive-education-program-301174450.html SOURCE Standard Motor Products, Inc. Geotab Joins California Bureau of Automotive Repair’s Continuous Testing Program Pilot 3 min read Geotab Joins California Bureau of Automotive Repair’s Continuous Testing Program Pilot Geotab telematics technology will be used to streamline Smog Checks for government fleet vehicles Geotab, a global leader in IoT and connected transportation, today announced that it has joined the California Bureau of Automotive Repair’s (BAR) Continuous Testing Program (CTP) pilot, a program designed to help alleviate the effort of in-person Smog Checks for government fleet vehicles in California. Leveraging near real-time engine information processed through Geotab’s telematics device, BAR will receive Smog Check information for government fleet vehicles enrolled in the CTP without the vehicles ever needing to do a manual inspection. “As the trusted single-source telematics provider for the state of California, Geotab is uniquely positioned to deliver its telematics platform to government agencies across the state to help improve efficiency, reduce GHG emissions, streamline regulatory reporting and compliance and much more,” said Jean Pilon-Bignell, Vice President of Business Development, Government and Smart City at Geotab. “Geotab’s new membership in BAR’s CTP program will do just that, enabling BAR and government agencies alike to share a more seamless Smog Check process, ultimately helping to ensure that vehicles are running as cleanly and efficiently as possible while reducing unnecessary fleet downtime.” Utilizing a Geotab GO9 device to support the integration, eligible vehicles are equipped with Geotab’s telematics technology which can process all necessary information from the OBD-II port and can send the information to a secured, Geotab-hosted cloud environment. From there, engine data may be securely sent to BAR to satisfy the vehicle’s Smog Check requirements. “An average manual Smog Check can take approximately 30 minutes to complete and be accompanied by varying prices, which can potentially result in significant downtime and additional maintenance costs, especially for large fleets,” said Neil Garrett, Associate Vice President of Business Development, Government at Geotab. “We are proud to be able to help combat this issue and to deliver additional value for government fleets in California through our membership in BAR’s Continuous Testing Program pilot. Geotab’s involvement in this program not only enables fleets in California to save time and money by automating Smog Checks, but allows government agencies at all levels across the nation to leverage this technology and Smog Check functionality to ensure their own fleet vehicles are operating in a sustainable and efficient manner.” Processing more than 40 billion data points a day from more than 2.1 million connected vehicles across the globe, Geotab is a proven leader in IoT and connected transportation. In 2019, Geotab announced that the General Services Administration awarded the company the largest telematics contract in history, right on the heels of the industry leader becoming the first telematics company to receive FIPS 140-2 validation for its cryptographic library. In addition, Geotab achieved FedRAMP and ISO 27001 certifications this year. To learn more about Geotab’s involvement with BAR CTP, please visit: https://www.bar.ca.gov/PubWebQuery/FINE/PublicLetterOfResponseForm.aspx?form=ctp About the Bureau of Automotive Repair The California Bureau of Automotive Repair’s primary mission is to protect and serve California consumers through effective regulation of the automotive repair and Smog Check industry. U.S. News & World Report Announces the Best Vehicle Brand and Best CPO Program Awards \| Press Room 3 min read U.S. News & World Report Announces the Best Vehicle Brand and Best CPO Program Awards \| Press Room Washington, D.C. – U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in rankings and consumer advice, today unveiled its Best Vehicle Brand awards and Best Certified Pre-Owned Program award. The Best Vehicle Brand awards, evaluating 34 brands, recognize industry-wide excellence for cars, SUVs, trucks and luxury vehicles. By highlighting the best brand in the four major segments of the automotive marketplace, the awards help consumers narrow their search for a new car. Drawing on data from the U.S. News Best Used Cars rankings and each auto brand’s CPO program parameters, the Best Certified Pre-Owned Program award highlights the CPO program that offers buyers the most benefits. Mazda wins the Best Car Brand award on the strength of the Mazda3, Mazda6 and Mazda MX-5 Miata. All three models have top-notch performance that puts an emphasis on direct, sporty handling, as well as quality interiors that are more upscale than their price tags might suggest. This is the sixth consecutive year Mazda has won this award. With a fresh, new lineup of SUVs in all sizes, Hyundai wins the Best SUV Brand award for the first time. The Hyundai SUV lineup ranges from the large and luxurious Hyundai Palisade to the midsize Santa Fe, compact Tucson and subcompact Venue. With so many updated models, Hyundai SUVs win points for offering buyers the latest in driver assistance and infotainment technology at an affordable price. Ram wins the Best Truck Brand award on the strength of the Ram 1500, which is one of the few trucks on the market to make a case for itself as both a work vehicle and a daily driver. The Ram 1500 features a coil-over suspension that makes the Ram comfortable enough for commuting but capable enough for serious towing and hauling. The Ram interior features a top-notch infotainment system with intuitive controls and a huge touch screen. The interiors of high-end Ram trims feature materials that keep pace with what luxury SUVs offer. This is the sixth consecutive Best Luxury Brand win for Porsche. Though the brand is known for sports cars, Porsche offers a lineup of vehicles that effortlessly marry performance with upscale panache. Though almost any Porsche is at home on a racetrack, all models feature driver-focused interiors built with high-end materials and plenty of comfort. “Many buyers know the type of vehicle they want but not the best brands for their needs,” says Jamie Page Deaton, executive editor of U.S. News Best Cars. “The Best Vehicle Brand awards point consumers to the brands that excel in producing the type of vehicle each buyer is interested in.” To determine the award winners, U.S. News Best Cars averaged the overall score of all the given brand’s products in each award class. The brand with the highest overall average score was named the winner in the category. The overall scores come directly from the U.S. News Best Cars rankings, which are based on a combination of the consensus of the automotive press, safety scores and reliability data. Woolpert’s Google Cloud Partner Program status gains recognition for retail and automotive expertise 2 min read Woolpert’s Google Cloud Partner Program status gains recognition for retail and automotive expertise Woolpert was recently approved for two separate distinctions in the Google Cloud Partner Program: Retail Expertise and Automotive Expertise. According to Google, partners are awarded Expertise status “for demonstrated customer success.” Woolpert supports the mapping, location services, and data storage needs of its nearly 500 Google customers, while providing personalized geospatial and technical support. The firm also invests in developing location-based solutions specific to customer needs. “We have a significant number of customers in both the retail and the automotive, transportation, and logistics industries—these two are by far our most robust verticals,” said Woolpert director of cloud sales Rick Bennett. “We work diligently to ensure we have a successful track record with all of our customers, and we’re honored the Google Cloud Partner Program has certified our expertise in these industries.” Woolpert was awarded the Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award for Location-based Services this spring and the Google Cloud Partner Award for Customer Success in the Google Maps Platform in 2018. Woolpert has been a Google Cloud Partner since 2017 and a Google Maps Partner since 2014. In August, the firm launched GeoAwareness, a quick-start solution designed to improve online ordering and curbside pickup, which supports both the retail and logistics industries. “We are very appreciative to be part of the Google ecosystem, to support the rollout of their solutions and help expand their offerings,” Bennett said. “We want to continue to combine the wealth of Google knowledge with our half-century of geospatial expertise to provide elevated customer service and to create next-level solutions to meet or exceed all client needs.” For more information about this news, visit https://woolpert.com/. Woolpert Approved for Retail Expertise and Automotive Expertise in Google Cloud Partner Program 2 min read Woolpert Approved for Retail Expertise and Automotive Expertise in Google Cloud Partner Program These qualifications recognize the firm’s proven success in serving these industries. DAYTON, Ohio (Nov. 16, 2020) — Woolpert was recently approved for two separate distinctions in the Google Cloud Partner Program: Retail Expertise and Automotive Expertise. According to Google, partners are awarded Expertise status “for demonstrated customer success.” Woolpert supports the mapping, location services and data storage needs of its nearly 500 Google customers, while providing personalized geospatial and technical support. The firm also invests in developing location-based solutions specific to customer needs. “We have a significant number of customers in both the retail and the automotive, transportation and logistics industries—these two are by far our most robust verticals,” Woolpert Director of Cloud Sales Rick Bennett said. “We work diligently to ensure we have a successful track record with all of our customers, and we’re honored the Google Cloud Partner Program has certified our expertise in these industries.” Woolpert was awarded the Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award for Location-based Services this spring and the Google Cloud Partner Award for Customer Success in the Google Maps Platform in 2018. Woolpert has been a Google Cloud Partner since 2017 and a Google Maps Partner since 2014. In August, the firm launched GeoAwareness, a quick-start solution designed to improve online ordering and curbside pickup, which supports both the retail and logistics industries. About Woolpert Woolpert is committed to a vision to become the premier architecture, engineering, geospatial (AEG) and strategic consulting firm, and one of the best companies in the world. It’s a vision we’ve been fine-tuning for decades. It guides our decisions and investments, provides our clients with optimal solutions and offers our employees unrivaled opportunities. Woolpert is recognized as a Great Place to Work by its employees and is America’s fastest-growing AEG firm. With more than a century of experience, over 1,000 employees and 39 offices, Woolpert supports public, private, federal, and U.S. military clients nationally and around the globe. For more information, visit woolpert.com and connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. TrueCar, DAV and AutoNation Award Injured Veteran with New Retrofitted Vehicle through 4th Annual DrivenToDrive Program 2 min read TrueCar, DAV and AutoNation Award Injured Veteran with New Retrofitted Vehicle through 4th Annual DrivenToDrive Program Medically Retired Air Force Senior Airman and Rally Car Racer, Karah Behrend, will use her new vehicle to help other disabled people learn how to drive with hand-controls DrivenToDrive 2020 Recipient and Veteran, Karah Behrend TrueCar’s DrivenToDrive 2020 Recipient, Karah Behrend, next to her brand-new 2020 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2. SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TrueCar, Inc., (NASDAQ: TRUE), the most efficient and transparent way to find a car, and AutoNation, America’s largest and most recognized automotive retailer, and DAV (Disabled American Veterans) today announced the awarding of a vehicle to medically retired Air Force Senior Airman Karah Behrend. The retrofitted 2020 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 was presented to Behrend in a surprise virtual ceremony by TrueCar Military’s brand ambassador, Jesse Iwuji, in conjunction with Veterans Day, November 11, 2020 at 10 am PT. DrivenToDrive was inspired by Army Ranger and DrivenToDrive ambassador, Cory Remsburg, who influenced TrueCar’s connection to the disabled veterans’ community. The DrivenToDrive program helps injured veterans, like Behrend, who have greatly sacrificed for our country, regain their independence and get back behind the wheel of a retrofitted vehicle. This marks the fourth year and fifth vehicle donation through TrueCar’s DrivenToDrive, a program built in partnership with DAV and AutoNation. The DrivenToDrive program took place remotely this year with a virtual ceremony on Veterans Day. This year, TrueCar Military’s brand ambassador, NASCAR Driver and Naval Officer, Jesse Iwuji, participated as a special guest in the 2020 DrivenToDrive program. He surprised Behrend at her home in Phoenix, Arizona with a brand-new 2020 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2. “No one can see my disability when I’m behind the wheel of a car. Driving gives me a sense of freedom and the confidence that I’m not limited by my disability,” said Airman Behrend. “Whether it’s running errands or letting my adrenaline flow with off-road racing, I feel like I have my independence back when I’m driving. I’m proud of serving my country and so appreciative to be TrueCar’s 2020 DrivenToDrive recipient. I cannot wait to drive my brand-new Chevy Colorado.” Behrend joined the Air Force in 2011 as a Signals Intelligence Analyst and spent approximately six and a half years in the military before medically retiring. She was diagnosed with RSD CRPS (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) that left her in a wheelchair. The 27-year-old’s fighting spirit has led her to become an incredible adaptive athlete who participates in basketball and rugby Warrior Games. Additionally, Behrend is passionate about off-road racing and competes as an amateur rally racer; she recently placed second in the Rebelle Rally, the first women’s off-road navigation rally raid in the United States. Behrend plans to use the vehicle that she receives from the DrivenToDrive program to train other disabled individuals how to drive off-road with hand controls, in case they find themselves in a vulnerable situation or stuck off-road. She also has ambitions to create her very Bicycle Therapeutics Announces Gross Proceeds of $50.0 Million from its At-the-Market Offering Program and Enters into Debt Financing from Hercules Capital 2 min read Bicycle Therapeutics Announces Gross Proceeds of $50.0 Million from its At-the-Market Offering Program and Enters into Debt Financing from Hercules Capital CAMBRIDGE, England & BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bicycle Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: BCYC), a biotechnology company pioneering a new and differentiated class of therapeutics based on its proprietary bicyclic peptide (Bicycle®) technology, today announced that it has completed its at-the-market (ATM) offering program initiated during the third quarter, generating gross proceeds of $50.0 million. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. and Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. acted as placement agents for the offering. In addition, Bicycle announced that it has closed a financing with Hercules Capital, Inc. (NYSE: HTGC) for a term loan of up to $40.0 million in two tranches. Under the terms of the loan and security agreement, an initial tranche of $30.0 million will be fully available at the loan closing, with a minimum draw of $15.0 million. “I am pleased to announce the successful utilization of our ATM program and our flexible financing with Hercules, which have further strengthened our balance sheet as we prepare for multiple clinical catalysts in the coming year. Over the course of 2020, we have continued to execute on our financing strategy, generating approximately $120 million, over half of which was non-dilutive and the remainder was pursuant to our ATM program,” said Lee Kalowski, President and Chief Financial Officer of Bicycle Therapeutics. “These financings allow us to continue progressing our three clinical programs, support clinical development of our lead immuno-oncology candidate BT7480, expected to start next year, and extend our cash runway well into the first half of 2023. We believe we have the financial resources to advance our clinical and pre-clinical oncology pipeline with the aim of potentially shifting the treatment paradigm for patients with cancer who have limited therapeutic options.” Bicycle plans to use the proceeds of the financings to advance its oncology pipeline of Bicycle Toxin Conjugates and immuno-oncology candidates through multiple clinical milestones expected in 2021, including interim updates from the ongoing Phase IIa trial of BT1718, Phase I/II trial of BT5528 and Phase I/II trial of BT8009, as well as the initiation of a Phase I/II trial of BT7480 and advancement of IND-enabling studies for BT7455. The securities described above were offered by Bicycle pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), which the SEC declared effective on June 15, 2020. A final prospectus supplement related to the offering was filed with the SEC and is available on the SEC’s website located at http://www.sec.gov. Additional information about the debt facility with Hercules will be contained in a future Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor may there be any sale of Bicycle’s common stock in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities law of any state or jurisdiction. About Bicycle Therapeutics	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line754
__label__wiki	0.833783	0.833783	Progressive Conservative leadership convention, 2003 Canadian politics/leadership race party = Progressive Conservative year = 2003 date = May 31, 2003 location = Toronto, Ontario winner = Peter MacKay replaces = Joe Clark numcands = 5 entryfee = C$ spendc The 2003 Progressive Conservative leadership convention was held on May 31, 2003 to elect a leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Peter MacKay was elected as leader to replace former Prime Minister Joe Clark who had retired as party leader. In the end, five candidates emerged as challengers for the leadership by the convention date. Two other candidates had participated in the race but both resigned as contestants before the vote. Quebec Member of Parliament (MP) André Bachand withdrew his candidacy from the race due to financial concerns and backed Peter MacKay. Former Cabinet Minister and Quebec MP Heward Grafftey also withdrew his candidacy from the race due to health concerns and backed David Orchard. The results of the race produced immediate controversy when it emerged that winner Mackay had signed an agreement with David Orchard in order to get elected. This deal promised the party would review the Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement, and that it would not cooperate or merge with the Canadian Alliance. This controversy continued when MacKay ignored the agreement, and signed an agreement to merge his party with the Canadian Alliance to form the new Conservative Party of Canada. The merger was approved by party members in December 2003. Peter MacKay - Member of Parliament (winner 64.4% on final ballot) Jim Prentice - Calgary lawyer (35.6% on final ballot) David Orchard - Saskatchewan farmer Scott Brison - Member of Parliament Craig Chandler - Executive Director of Progressive Group for Independent Business Dropped out André Bachand - Member of Parliament - backed MacKay Heward Grafftey - former Science and Social Programs Minister - informally backed Orchard Ballot results First ballot MACKAY, Peter Gordon 1,080 (41.08%) * ORCHARD, David 640 (24.34%) * PRENTICE, Jim 478 (18.18%) * BRISON, Scott 431 (16.39%) * CHANDLER, Craig (Chandler successfully removed from first ballot after dropping out)Total ballots cast 2,629. Chandler withdrew before voting began to endorse Prentice. Estimates suggest that Chandler had six committed delegates from Calgary ridings who voted in favour of Prentice. econd ballot * BRISON, Scott 463 (18.04%)Total ballots cast 2,566. Brison dropped off and supported Prentice. Brison was the only candidate to gain votes on this ballot compared to his first ballot result; all of the other candidates lost votes. Third ballot * ORCHARD, David 617 (24.62%)Total ballots cast 2,506. Orchard threw his support to MacKay after the two men signed an agreement committing MacKay to not merge the PCs with the Canadian Alliance, and to hold a review of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. Fourth ballot * PRENTICE, Jim 836 (35.21%)Total ballots cast 2,374. *Progressive Conservative leadership conventions Abbasi ROH Pure Championship Progressive Conservative leadership conventions — The first Progressive Conservative Party of Canada leadership convention was held in 1927, when the party was called the Conservative Party. Prior to then the party s leader was chosen by caucus. There have been two permanent leaders since 1927… … Wikipedia Progressive Conservative Party of Canada — Parti progressiste conservateur du Canada Former federal party Founded December 10, 1942 … Wikipedia Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, 2004 — Date September 18, 2004 Convention Toronto, Ontario Campaign to replace Ernie Eves Won by John Tory Ballots … Wikipedia Leadership convention — In Canadian politics, a leadership convention is held by a political party when the party needs to choose a leader due to a vacancy or a challenge to the incumbent leader. Overview In Canada, the leader of a party generally remains that party s… … Wikipedia Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario — Parti progressiste conservateur de l Ontario Active provincial party Leader Tim Hudak … Wikipedia Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick leadership election, 2008 — Date October 18, 2008 Convention Fredericton, New Brunswick Campaign to replace Bernard Lord Won by David Alward Ballots 1 … Wikipedia Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election, 2011 — Date April 1 2, 2011 Convention St. John s, Newfoundland and Labrador Campaign to replace Danny Williams Won by Kathy Dunderdale Ballo … Wikipedia Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba — Active provincial party Leader Hugh McFadyen President Michael Richards Founded 1882 ( … Wikipedia Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan — Active provincial party Leader Richard Swenson President Lori Is … Wikipedia Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick — Active provincial party Leader … Wikipedia	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line756
__label__wiki	0.773193	0.773193	Elsa Zylberstein Did the actress just get engaged? Elsa Zylberstein Engaged? Did the 52-year-old actress just get engaged? Elsa Zylberstein » Elsa Zylberstein Pregnant? Elsa Zylberstein’s Dog Recovering from Surgery Is Elsa Zylberstein secretly gay and hiding in the closet? On Thursday morning (January 14, 2021) the French Sun-Times reported Elsa Zylberstein and boyfriend, to be shopping for engagement rings.The couple was seen closely eyeing some pricey bling in a couple of major jewelry stores — especially major diamond baubles that could only be described as the kind usually slipped on a woman’s left-hand ring finger. The newspaper also added that people who claim to be close to the couple are “convinced” an engagement is inevitable. “She's madly in love with him,” says a source. It is believed the relationship is “heating up”. Naturally, the Sun-Times’ article sent Facebook and Twitter into a frenzy. Fans were simultaneously mourning and celebrating the news. “So many people would flip but if the couple at some point announced they were engaged I’d be happy,” tweeted one fan. “They’re so cute!”. Many other fans were crushed because they hoped to marry her... On Friday, Elsa Zylberstein’s rep said “no comment” when asked whether the 52-year-old actress was tying the knot. Elsa Zylberstein: Recent News Elsa Zylberstein is Highest-Paid Actress in the World Elsa Zylberstein Named Sexiest Actress Alive Elsa Zylberstein goes ‘Gangnam Style’	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line758
__label__cc	0.529888	0.470112	3SBio Inc. received milestone payment of USD 4 million upon commencement of phase III clinical program of SEL-212 3SBio Inc. SHENYANG, China, Nov. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese leading biopharmaceutical company, 3SBio Inc.(01530.HK, the "Company"), announced today that Selecta Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SELB), the Company's partner, has commenced the phase III clinical program of a combination therapy involving SEL-212 for the treatment of chronic refractory gout on behalf of SobiTM, and has made a milestone payment of USD 4 million to 3SBio Inc. The Phase III clinical program, known as DISSOLVE, dosed the first patient in September 2020. In 2014, Selecta was authorized by 3SBio Inc. to use pegsiticase, also known as pegadricase, (a recombinant enzyme that metabolizes uric acid) in the development of SEL-212, and it was agreed that 3SBio Inc. would receive milestone payment and royalties in the clinical and future commercialization stages of the product. SEL-212 consists of pegsiticase and ImmTOR® immune tolerance platform, which can durably control serum uric acid, reduce immunogenicity, and allow for repeated monthly dosing. On 29 July 2020, Sobi and Selecta announced that the companies have entered into a strategic licensing agreement for Selecta's product candidate, SEL-212. Under the agreement, Sobi is responsible for development, regulatory and commercial activities in all markets outside of Greater China(including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), while Selecta will commence phase III research on behalf of Sobi. Gout is an autoinflammatory disease, of which patients suffer from intensely painful flares and debilitating inflammatory arthritis due to pro-inflammatory monosodium urate (MSU) crystal deposition. High tissue MSU burden is always found in patients with chronic refractory gout, which can lead to frequent gout flares and chronic arthritis. Gout is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis in the United States. SEL-212 has the potential to reduce serum uric acid and MSU deposits in patients with chronic refractory gout. Recombinant uricases are highly immunogenic in humans, and SEL-212, through Selecta's proprietary ImmTOR platform, has the potential to mitigate the formation of anti-drug antibodies, thereby enabling convenient once-monthly dosing and improving the efficacy and tolerability of the uricase. "We are greatly inspired by the new progress achieved in the clinical studies of SEL-212. 3SBio has long been focusing on therapeutic areas of major diseases such as auto-immune diseases and tumors, with an aim to develop biologics to address urgent needs. We look forward to advancing our cooperation with Selecta in the future to provide more treatment options for Chinese and global patients," said Dr. Jing Lou, Chairman of 3SBio. About 3SBio 3SBio is a fully-integrated biotechnology company in China with market-leading biopharmaceutical franchises in oncology, auto-immune diseases, nephrology, metabolic diseases and dermatology. 3SBio is focusing on building an innovative product pipeline, currently with over 30 product candidates underdevelopment, 22 of which are being developed as national new drugs in China. 3SBio's manufacturing capabilities include recombinant proteins, monoclonal antibodies and chemically-synthesized molecules. 3SBio has research and production centers in Shenyang, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen and Como, Italy. Please visit www.3sbio.com for additional information. Cautionary Note and Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements, such as those relating to business or products outlook, or Company's intent, plans, beliefs, expectation and strategies. These forward-looking statements are based on information currently available to the Company and are stated herein on the basis of the outlook at the time of this press release. They are based on certain expectations, assumptions and premises, some of which are subjective or beyond our control. These forward-looking statements may prove to be incorrect or may not be realized in the future. With respect to any new product or new indication, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to successfully develop or eventually launch and market such product or indication. Underlying the forward-looking statements is a large number of risks and uncertainties. Further information regarding such risks and uncertainties may be found in our other public disclosure documents. The scientific information involved may only be preliminary and empirical. Shareholders and potential investors of the Company are advised to exercise caution when dealing in the shares of the Company. Source: 3SBio Inc. HongKong:1530 http://www.3sbio.com Keywords: Banking/Financial Service Biotechnology Health Care/Hospital Medical/Pharmaceuticals Pharmaceuticals Sunshine Guojian Selects Verseau's VSIG4-targeted Antibody as the Second Partnered Macrophage Checkpoint Modulator in Immuno-Oncology Collaboration 3SBio MSCI ESG Rating Upgraded to A, Ranking at the Forefront of the Global Biotechnology Industry 3SBio Unveils 2019 Annual Results: Revenue Rises by 16.0%, Normalized Net Profit attributable to owners of the parent Jumps by19.4%, R&D Expenses Soar 45.2% 3SBIO makes investment in MPM's $100M Oncology Innovations Fund and donation to Dana-Farber cancer research 3SBio Selects Verseau's PSGL-1-targeted Antibody VTX-0811 as First Partnered Macrophage Checkpoint Modulator in Immuno-Oncology Collaboration 3SBio's MSCI ESG Rating Upgraded to BBB, Ranking at the Forefront of the Global Biotechnology Industry Ascentage Pharma Presents Updates on its Global Clinical Development at the J.P. 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__label__wiki	0.66512	0.66512	Review 8: The United States at Home and Abroad, 1860-1920 Review 8: The United States at Home and Abroad, 1860-1920 1. E 2. E 3. A 4. C 5. B 14. A 15. E 16. C 17. E 18. E 19. A 20. E 21. A 1. During the First World War, the Committee on Public Information issued propaganda to persuade the American people of all of the following EXCEPT: The United States was fighting for freedom and democracy. The United States was fighting a barbarous nation. Buying bonds was important to support the war effort. A German invasion of the United States was a possibility. Congress should reject the League of Nations. 2. The Open Door policy of the early twentieth century called for the continuation of the Monroe Doctrine in the Western Hemisphere the opening of United States markets to foreign goods the elimination of passports for international travel unlimited European immigration into the United States open access to China for American investment and commercial interests 3. Which of the following had integration rather than Black separatism as a goal? W. E. B. Du Bois and the Niagara movement Marcus Garvey and the Back-to-Africa movement Elijah Muhammad and the Black Muslim movement Stokely Carmichael and the Black Power movement Huey Newton and the Black Panther movement "We have pacified some thousands of the islanders and buried them; destroyed their fields; burned their villages, and turned their widows and orphans out-of-doors; subjugated the remaining ten millions by Benevolent assimilation .... And 'so, by these Providences of God- and the phrase is the government's, not mine--we are a World Power." 4. The statement above was most probably made in reference to United States policy in the opening of Japan occupation of the Philippines acquisition of Puerto Rico and tuba confrontation with the Soviet Union over Cuba 5. All of the following statements about higher education in the United States from 1865 to 1917 are correct EXCEPT: Many states established new institutions under the provisions of the Morrill Act. The teaching of religion became increasingly important at major northeastern institutions. An increasing number of institutions of higher education admitted women. Graduate education based on the German model became widespread. Many new scientific and engineering institutions were established. 6. Which of the following led immediately and directly to Theodore Roosevelt's issuance of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine? Pancho Villa's armed raids into Texas and New Mexico General Augusto Sandino's insurrection against American troops occupying Nicaragua The arrest of an unarmed party of American sailors in Tampleo, Mexico American concern that a Japanese syndicate would attempt to purchase land near the Panama Canal American fear that financial instability in the Dominican Republic would lead to European intervention 7. Which of the following statements about the Treaty of Versailles is true? The United States Senate rejected it because it treated Germany too leniently. The United States Senate rejected it because it required increased American involvement in European affairs. The United States Senate approved it, with reservations concerning the division of Eastern Europe. The United States Senate approved it without reservations. It was never voted on by the United States Senate. 8. Woodrow Wilson hardened Senate opposition to the Treaty of Versailles by his refusal to compromise on the issue of (A) reparations limited to the amount Germany could afford to pay (B) plebiscites to determine the new borders of Germany (C) the border between Italy and Yugoslavia (D) protectorate status for African colonies seized from Germany (E) the unconditional adherence of the United States to the charter of the League of Nations 9. The disagreement between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington regarding the status of African-Americans in the early twentieth century is best summed up as a debate over what social injustices federal legislation should correct first whether African-Americans should emigrate to Africa whether state governments or the federal government should be the primary vehicle of social change how prominent a role African-American churches should play in the struggle for civil rights whether African-Americans should first seek legal or economic equality with white Americans "Free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing panic." 10. The excerpt above is from a 1919 Supreme Court ruling prohibiting speech that represented a "clear and present danger." The defendant in the case had given a speech urging black residents of Chicago to demand equal rights written a magazine article in support of the Russian revolution sent letters to military draftees arguing that conscription was illegal given a speech suggesting that Texas should be returned to Mexico posted fliers denouncing a department store in St. Louis 11. In the period 1890-1915, all of the following were generally true about African Americans EXCEPT: Voting rights previously gained were denied through changes in state laws and constitutions. Back-to-Africa movements were widely popular among African Americans in urban areas. African American leaders disagreed on the principal strategy for attaining equal rights. Numerous African Americans were lynched, and mob attacks on African American individuals occurred in both the North and South. African Americans from the rural South migrated to both southern and northern cities. 12. Conservative Republican opponents of the Treaty of Versailles argued that the League of Nations would isolate the United States from postwar world affairs prevent the United States from seeking reparations from Germany violate President Wilson's own Fourteen Points limit United States sovereignty give England and France a greater role than the United States in maintaining world peace 13. Which of the following constitutes a significant change in the treatment of American Indians during the last half of the nineteenth century? The beginnings of negotiations with individual tribes The start of a removal policy The abandonment of the reservation system The admission of all American Indians to the full rights of United States citizenship The division of the tribal lands among individual members 14. Many Mexicans migrated to the United States during the First World War because revolution in Mexico had caused social upheaval and dislocation immigration quotas for Europeans went untilled as a result of the war the war in Europe had disrupted the Mexican economy American Progressives generally held liberal views on the issue of racial assimilation the United States government offered Mexicans land in exchange for military service 15. Joseph Pulitzer achieved fame and wealth as a radio commentator political cartoonist 16. Which of the following best accounts for the fact that Slavic immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries settled principally in Midwestern cities like Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Chicago? The immigrants' inability to speak English was a serious obstacle to securing work on the East Coast. Housing was better and food cheaper in the newer cities of the Midwest. Midwestern steel, meatpacking, and other mass production industries offered many unskilled jobs. Immigration authorities subsidized rail fares for westward migrants. Ethnic and religious prejudice was less widespread in the Midwest than in eastern cities. 17. Which of the following was true of the American labor movement in the late nineteenth century? It was controlled by immigrant socialists and anarchists. It was confined to factory workers. It was protected from employer harassment by federal law and policy. It was allied with the Democratic party. It was involved in a number of violent strikes. 18. As a result of the Spanish-American War, Spain relinquished to the United States control of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and which of the following? The Panama Canal Zone 19. The Palmer Raids of 1919 were conducted against suspected communists and anarchists Republicans bitterly opposed to the Wilson administration alleged financial backers of Marcus Garvey labor organizers for the American Federation of Labor White racist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan 20. "Now, a word about the whole Bible. I believe it is a master stroke of Satan to get us to doubt any portion of the Bible. If he can get us to doubt just one thing in that book, he has accomplished a great point, and it is going to be the overthrow of many a man's and woman's faith." The passage above, from the nineteenth century, expresses the viewpoint of the proponents of the higher criticism the Social Gospel the Gospel of Wealth 21. All of the following were objectives of W.E.B. DuBois EXCEPT the total enfranchisement of all eligible Black citizens the establishment of an organization to seek legal redress of Black grievances the establishment of Black political power cooperation with White people in obtaining Black progress the implementation of Booker T. Washington's program for Black progress 22. In the late nineteenth-century United States, farmers sought federal relief from distress caused by low tariffs infiationary monetary policies excise taxes on agricultural products discriminatory freight rates 23. Theodore Roosevelt's mediation in the Russo-Japanese War reflected his belief that United States interests were best served by a decisive victory for Russia a decisive victory for Japan the acquisition of Russian and Japanese spheres of interest by the United States a balance of power between Russia and Japan the return of Russian and Japanese spheres of interest to China 24. In the late nineteenth century, all of the following encouraged American jingoism EXCEPT yellow journalism the New Navy policy of Alfred Thayer Mahan and Theodore Roosevelt the example of European imperialism the flooding of American markets by foreign producers "Article X says that every member of the League, and that means every great fighting power in the world .... solemnly engages to respect and preserve... the territorial integrity and existing political independence of the other members of the League. If you do that, you have absolutely stopped ambitious and aggressive war." 25. Woodrow Wilson's statement above was made in justification of his decision to send troops to northern Russia and Siberia after the Bolshevik Revolution refusal to award Fiume to the Italians insistence on "open treaties, openly arrived at" opposition to the resolution on racial equality put forward at the Paris peace negotiations by the Japanese delegation refusal to accept the "reservations" proposed by Henry Cabot Lodge in the Senate debate over ratification of the treaty of Versailles 1. E 10. C 11. B 13. E Directory: ourpages -> auto -> 2012 2012 -> Islamic Civilization Review Sheet 2012 -> Name U. S. History / 20 points 2012 -> Review 2 past ap questions 2012 -> Test Unit 6: The Gilded Age (1865 – 1900) part I 2012 -> Summer Reading Assignment 2012 -> Name Ms. K. Demircanli 2012 -> Unit #3: Revolution and the New Nation 2012 -> Setting: Time: 1941- 1945 Place: The story starts in the town of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. 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__label__cc	0.505728	0.494272	Architects of Infrastructure: Meet Uber Aarhus Engineering Catharina Nordlien Johnsen In January 2014, Uber opened its first remote engineering office in Aarhus, Denmark. Located in the Clemensbourg district of the city, Uber Aarhus Engineering has grown from 5 to 50 engineers, all focused on scaling our core infrastructure for 24/7/365 availability worldwide. The office serves two major areas core to Uber’s tech stack—storage and compute: The Storage Platform Team: Ensuring that petabytes of data are available and elastically scalable is the main challenge tackled by the Storage Platform Team. Our Aarhus office is responsible for building and running Schemaless, Uber’s homegrown, horizontally scalable NoSQL storage engine, maintaining our company-wide storage management platform, and supporting our infrastructure more broadly. The Compute Team: Uber’s microservice architecture runs on uDeploy, a massively scalable virtualized platform with automated tooling for lifecycle management. The Compute Team develops and drives the infrastructure needed for deploying, managing, and running thousands of microservices across multiple geographical locations. Below, several members of the Aarhus engineering team discuss their experiences building Uber’s infrastructure and what it is like to work in Uber’s first European engineering office. Steffen Grarup, Director of Engineering, Core Infrastructure Steffen Grarup (L) and Anders Madsen (R) discuss tactics for growing our infrastructure scalably and reliably. You worked at several other companies before coming to Uber. How does your Uber experience compare? I think Uber is by far the fastest moving company I’ve ever been at, and it’s also the most fun. I like that I get to focus on scaling and deploying high quality code quickly. I also really enjoy that my team gets to both own their own services and witness the impact of these services on a global scale. So, in a nutshell, the entire focus of our work is on getting software to execute seamlessly, worldwide. What is the primary objective of your site’s engineering work? Uber Engineering Aarhus’ main focus is making Uber’s core infrastructure scalable and highly available. Just keeping our platform scaling—doubling every 5-6 months—is a big challenge. We have to be resilient to any form of hardware, network, or data center failover, and in many cases, resilient to humans as well! In terms of executing high quality services, it boils down to writing software that is easy-to-diagnose, easy-to-upgrade, easy-to-expand iteratively, and easy-to-onboard for new engineers. What have you learned the most from your experience at Uber so far? I think the biggest learning experience has been realizing just how big of a productivity gain you can have by owning your service. From conceptualization to operation, engineering teams at Uber own their service’s entire workflow. Uber Engineering has SRE and Observability teams, but at the end of the day, you are responsible for your work. How would you describe engineering opportunities at Uber to job candidates? You get to collaborate with very smart, motivated people, both locally and globally. As of May 2017, we have engineering offices in 11 cities spanning five countries. Operating in well over 70 countries now, Uber is truly an international company. From San Francisco to Sofia and Bangalore to Boston, Uber gives its employees the opportunity to work with people in offices around the globe. When I started my career, information was much more local. These young software engineers don’t realize how lucky they are! Mary Fesenko, Software Engineer, Compute Platform Mary Fesenko (L) and the author take a coffee break to discuss our next Uber Aarhus Engineering meetup. What’s your role at Uber? I am software engineering on the Compute Platform Team. I work on our deployment system, uDeploy. Why did you decide to join Uber Engineering? I have been using Uber for years as a rider, but never thought about applying for a job here—I didn’t even know that Uber had offices in Europe. A year ago, I received an email from a recruiter with information about open positions in the Aarhus office and decided to give it a try. You moved from Ukraine to join our team. What convinced you to make the move to Aarhus? At that time I was actually looking for job opportunities abroad because I wanted to try living and working in another country. I mostly focused on opportunities in Europe and already applied for different engineering roles in Germany and Holland. I didn’t know much about Denmark and job opportunities there, so I hadn’t really considered working there. After full day of on-site interviews, I realized that the opportunity was the perfect fit for me. The Uber interview process was quite different from those I’d had in my home country—I didn’t know that someone could feel so excited and full of energy after a whole day of talking. Moving to Aarhus and working at Uber were the two best decisions of my life (thus far). We have an amazing team here, people are always ready to help, and I learn a lot from them. On top of that, I’ve made a lot of great connections with fellow expats at Uber who have taught me the ins and outs of living in my new city. How would you describe the engineering opportunities at Uber? At Uber, I get to collaborate with intelligent and experienced engineers across the company to solve challenging problems, and you get to meet interesting people from different countries on a near-daily basis. I’ve been here for eight months, and I still learn something new every day. Before Uber, I worked at companies that outsource their software, and I think it’s a nice change to have full ownership over your product. Additionally, I really like that you’re not tied to one technology or language here. You’re not just a Java engineer or Python engineer, you’re a software engineer, and no matter your preferences or background, you need to use the appropriate tool set for the task at hand. Jeppe Bronsted, Software Engineer, Schemaless Jeppe Bronsted smiles for the camera in front of the entrance to the Uber Aarhus office. I’m a back-end infrastructure engineer. I help build out the basic infrastructure for the Uber platform. How did you get into software engineering? When I was younger I wanted to be a musician; I played the trumpet. When I was 22, I started studying computer science, and eventually pursued a Ph.D. I conducted research on how you can use sensor data from multiple cars to increase safety, for example, to detect potholes on the road before vehicles reach them. In many ways, software engineering combines the creativity of music with the precision and problem solving of science. As an engineer, I find it much easier to figure out what I need to do to improve, and that’s very rewarding. What made you go into industry versus continuing on in academia? What I really like about being in industry is that the time period from when you develop ideas to when they affect real people is so much shorter in comparison to research. Research can take years to actually make a positive impact. Before I worked at Uber, I was at a healthcare company where I built infrastructure. In that environment, the timeline of writing a line of code to seeing it in production was a year-long process. At Uber, I deploy new software three to four times per day; that’s really a huge benefit of our model. Another thing that’s unique about Uber is the sheer scale of the company. We facilitate more than 10 million rides daily, so every day my piece of code gets used by at least a million people. And every time I think about it, it motivates me to continue executing at the highest level. Lasse Damgaard, Software Engineer, Service Infrastructure Lasse Damgaard (R) and Damon Toal-Rossi (L) review a new deployment. How did you get into engineering? I took an alternative career path compared to a lot of engineers. I don’t have a formal computer science background, but during my studies I worked on various projects related to human-computer interaction. I design the UI for uDeploy, our code deployment solution, but I also do some back-end work on the platform. By building a UI that is effective and easy-to-use, my team ensures that uDeploy can ship new code quickly and seamlessly across our services without engineers having to think about it. How would you define Uber Engineering’s culture? Our culture boils down to the fact that we move quickly and at scale. There is a certain mentality that comes from knowing that things move as efficiently as they do—you have to have a strong design, but you can’t lock yourself in a box for two months to develop a prototype. We need to release software into production and then iterate. What else should Infrastructure candidates know about what it’s like to work in our office? We’re always moving forward, and that’s also the fun part. We strike a balance between having an environment where we can grow the infrastructure at the rate we need to; we can’t have barriers or rigid processes. Just like our networks, our attitude towards development has to be agile and malleable. Anders Madsen, Software Engineer, Compute Platform Anders Madsen (L) presenting a project to his team members. I am a senior software engineer on the Compute Platform team. Like other engineers in my office, I primarily work on uDeploy and many of its supporting services. Over the years, I have been involved in growing the uDeploy system, onboarding services to this platform, building and distributing services, and most recently, scaling the system to accommodate even higher rates of user demand. You’ve been at Uber Engineering Aarhus since its inception. How has the role of the office changed over time? I was one of the office’s first five engineers. In the beginning, we conducted a lot of infrastructure improvement tasks and bug fixes while building uDeploy. Our goal was to create a system which would allow engineers to deploy with confidence at Uber’s ever-expanding scale. My first year at Uber was all about keeping up with the growth of the company by onboarding services to our uDeploy and creating useful new features. At that point in time, we never planned more than a month in advance because we were iterating so rapidly. Over the years, however, we have matured the system and expanded the portfolio of applications we maintain to keep the uDeploy system operational. Development has shifted from quick solutions and firefighting to carefully planned features which are delivered without risking the stability of the system. While engineers out of Aarhus built uDeploy, we are now part of a larger group running the compute platform with team members in San Francisco and Palo Alto. What other engineering challenges are you working on? While it might look like uDeploy is done being built, there is much more to do. Generally when you design a component of a larger distributed system, you only imagine it scaling to a certain load or size. But when you are approaching these parameters, you must stretch or redesign that component. Consequently, we are constantly working on improving uDeploy to deliver a better experience for our customers: the rest of Uber Engineering. What makes being a software engineer at Uber different from working at other companies? A couple of things come to my mind, one of which is being an owner. At other companies, I built software products which we sold to customers. The normal cycle from inception to production was two months of planning, six months of development, and six months of testing before a new product was shipped. I was only really involved in the six months of development and after that moved on to building a new product. At the end of the day, there is only really one version of each service: the version running in production. Another differentiator is the scale and scope of the engineering problems we tackle. Many companies use the same open source software as we do, but the amount of traffic we have surfaces unforeseen limitations that companies operating at a smaller scale never reach. This demand forces us to think creatively about how we tackle these types of challenges. If helping us grow our compute and storage platforms appeals to you, consider applying for a role on our team, or, get to know us at an Uber Aarhus Engineering meetup! Catharina Nordlien Johnsen is the site program manager for Uber Engineering Aarhus office. Compute Platform Computer Team Schemadock Schemaless Storage Platform Team Uber Engineering Aarhus uDeploy Previous article Year in Review: 2017 Highlights from Uber Open Source Next article COTA: Improving Uber Customer Care with NLP & Machine Learning Catharina Maria Johnsen is a program manager in Uber's Aarhus Engineering office. 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__label__wiki	0.930586	0.930586	⁄ Entertainment Kim Kardashian, Kanye West to head for divorce? Reports suggest 'she has had enough' Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are still figuring out the decision that best suits their children North West, Saint West, Chicago West, and Psalm West. Updated: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 01:18 PM IST file pic New Delhi \| Jagran Entertainment Desk: Celebrity couple Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are in no mood to give their six-year-long marriage a second chance as reality TV star continues to live in Los Angeles with their four children. While 43-year-old Rapper is staying at his ranch in Wyoming. According to E! News, the 40-year-old star and her husband have decided to go separate ways, however, Kim is yet to file for divorce. "It's gotten to the point where they haven't spent time together as a married couple in months. They've seen each other for the sake of the kids but have been living separately. Kim knows the marriage is over. She's known for a while," as per E! News. When asked about why Kim hasn't filed for divorce yet, the source revealed that though everything is over between the couple, they are still figuring out the decision that best suits their children North West, Saint West, Chicago West, and Psalm West. A post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) As per E! News the source further added, "She wants to make sure she's making the right decision for the kids. It's not about the marriage anymore, she'll always care for Kanye but it's over between them. Kim is only focused on what's best for the kids. It's a tough decision for her and she's figuring it out." Kim Kardashian and Kanye West made their relationship public in April 2012 and are parents to four children, 7-year-old North West, 5-year-old Saint West, 2-year-old Chicago West, and almost 20-month-old Psalm West. The Kim and Kanye's relationship has seen increased pressure in recent months after Kanye West declared that he was going to contest in US Presidential elections in mid-2020. In July, Kim Kardashian for the first time in public spoke about Kanye's mental health and termed the situation "complicated and painful." A post shared by ye (@kanyewest) Earlier last year, it was reported that though the couple is together, they are not living together. #BanTandavNow trends on Twitter as netizens call Saif Ali Khan-starrer.. Posted By: Niharika Sanjeeiv Sara Ali Khan, Ananya Panday, Gauri Khan and others kick start weekend.. KBC 12: This question worth Rs 25 lakh made Anupam Kher and Pabiben Rabari.. Bigg Boss 14: THIS TV actress is going to enter as Vikas Gupta's proxy.. Saint West Psalm West Kim Kardashian children Kim-Kanye Kim-Kanye divorce Kim Kardashian and Kanye West divorce COVID-19 Vaccination LIVE: 'Day of tremendous relief', says health minister as 1,65,714 beneficiaries vaccinated on day 1 COVID-19 Vaccination LIVE: 'Day of tremendous relief', says health.. Technology47 mins ago	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line767
__label__wiki	0.65326	0.65326	Envision Humanity BEST SPEAKERS IN ONE PLACE SUSAN FONSECA LANHAM She’s a Founding Member of Women@TheFrontier, Singularity University, and SheWorks! Currently she also serves as Innovator-In-Residence Susan Fonseca Lanham is a visionary and global connector. She’s a Founding Member of Women@TheFrontier, Singularity University, and SheWorks! Currently she also serves as Innovator-In-Residence building next gen innovation-education programs at Rocky Hill K12 School, launching the 1st statewide social good Energy Hackathon! Susan is an international keynote speaker, having presented at The Clinton Foundation’s Future of the America’s Summit, Forbes Latin America Women of Power Summit, The International Development Bank’s Demand Solutions Conference, NASA’s STEM Summit, The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Leadership Summit, and Global Entrepreneurship Innovation Summit. With a background in Anthropology and Law, Susan served as Presidential Attaché on diplomatic missions by Latin American Presidents and led international relations during CAFTA-DR (a multinational Free Trade Agreement between The United States, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica and The Dominican Republic.) Susan’s focus is to leverage Education – Innovation – Entrepreneurship to launch social good startups and build new ecosystems that solve the world’s biggest problems. Described by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil as “the Heart” of Singularity University, Susan led the initial build-out to execute the Founding structure, source 1.5M seed capital and negotiate a 5-year Space Act Agreement with NASA. Under her leadership, SingularityU launched it’s flagship GSP and EP programs, drove strategic partnerships with Google, Autodesk and TED and reached 70+ nations around the world. For her role and impact, she is named “Singularity University Founding Architect.” In an effort to balance the ratio, and positively impact 1 Billion people, Susan launched Women@TheFrontier, a 501(c)3 nonprofit with a mission to connect Diverse game-changers, discover Female Role Models and fuel the future STEM disruptors. Comments, questions? Drop us a note, and we’ll get back with you shortly info@envisionhumanity.com Berkeley, California Copyright © 2020, Envision Humanity \| All Rights Reserved	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line768
__label__wiki	0.986432	0.986432	Image: Netflix The Last Kingdom is British Drama TV series. Produced by Carnival Film & Television. Stars: Alexander Dreymon, Eliza Butterworth, Ian Hart. Also known as The Last Kingdom in Germany. It premiered on Oct 10, 2015, on Netflix. The series has 8.3 * rating by IMDb. The Last Kingdom is set in Korda Studios, Etyek, Hungary. Music Soundtrack Cast & Crew How Many Seasons Does The Last Kingdom Have: 3 (26 episodes) Season premieres on November 19, 2018 Netflix, 10 episodes Season premieres on March 16, 2017 Finale: May 4, 2017 Netflix, 8 episodes 2015, Netflix, 8 episodes The Last Kingdom Watch Online WATCH ON: GooglePlay The Last Kingdom is not streaming or available to purchase online. Come back later to check if there's something new! Music from The Last Kingdom Series Music by John Lunn, Eivør Pálsdóttir Eivør Pálsdóttir — vocals Paul Golding — music scoring engineer What Time Does The Last Kingdom Come On The Last Kingdom is on Netflix (United Kingdom) Mondays at 6 pm Last episode: Season 3 Episode 9 (Episode 9) - Air Date: Nov 19, 2018 (3 years ago) Shows like The Last Kingdom Vice Live Paf le Chien	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line771
__label__wiki	0.597053	0.597053	Evolution Literacy Acceptance of Evolution And Religiosity in New England Colleges and Universities Atheists Science and Evolution Knowledge Survey Educators of Prospective Teachers Hesitate to Embrace Evolution EvoLiteracy – Biology and Science Videos Evolution Stands Faith Up – On Francis Collins’ and Karl Giberson’s “The Language of Science and Faith” Evolution Wars: Debunk II Guillermo Paz-y-Mino-C BioArt Guillermo Paz-y-Mino-C Publications Guillermo Paz-y-Mino-C Publications in Spanish New England Science Public Series Evolution Photography – Wildlife – Fossils – Landscapes – Museums – Monuments – Cities Scientific Literacy at Risk of Extinction Why People Do Not Accept Evolution Why the Notion that “The Theory of Evolution is Not an Explanation for the Origin of Life” is Wrong science, the universal language Anti-amebic effects of Chinese rhubarb, what? Another review of “Kin Recognition in Protists and Other Microbes” Rome, 2800 years of history – Great location for a scientific meeting Clone Discrimination/Recognition in Entamoeba Featured on Cover of Scientific Journal New Review of “Kin Recognition in Protists and Other Microbes” Articles Evolution Literacy Blog Master Posting Communicating Evolutionary Principles to Students Editorials The Providence Journal Editorials The Standard Times EvoLiteracy News Evolution Cartoons Excerpts from scientific articles Polls and Surveys Acceptance of evolution Science Historic Locations Science Traveling Posted on May 15, 2014 December 28, 2017 Articles Evolution Literacy, Communicating Evolutionary Principles to Students, Editorials The Standard Times, Polls and Surveys Acceptance of evolution, Recommended Books, Scientific Literacy Fragmentary Truths and the Intellectual Imbalance in Academia Dr. Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C — © 2014 Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth [click on title to be redirected to The Standard Times] “…If we ought to quote E.O. Wilson in the context of what is good for science and science education, then we must look at his unyielding journey in support to fundamental research and long-standing concerns about the future of academia. Although open to dialog with spiritualists, Wilson has never endorsed creationism under the principle of Consilience, nor sponsored profit at the expense of quality schooling…” Some months ago, an administrator ventured to school me by asserting: “E.O. Wilson is known for his books in popular science, but his area of research is ants.” I will return to this fragmentary truth after documenting what can be done, following Harvard Professor Edward Osborne Wilson’s example, to make outreach to students —our public— via proper science education. Above, Professor Edward O. Wilson, painting by Jennie Summerall When I arrived at UMass Dartmouth in 2007, the evolution wars were at their peak. Although Intelligent Design had been defeated in the 2005 Dover, Pa., trial for violating the rules of science by “invoking and permitting supernatural causation” in matters of evolution and for “failing to gain acceptance in the scientific community,” the 21st century anti-science crusade had just began. Current legislation constraining the teaching of evolution reigns in 12 states. According to Intelligent Design, evolution could not explain holistically the origin of the natural world or the emergence of intricate molecular pathways essential to life, nor the immense phylogenetic differentiation of biological diversity and, instead, proposed an “intelligent agent,” a designer, as the ultimate architect of nature. During the process of ripping Intelligent Design apart, earlier variants of creationism resuscitated —mostly in media-driven discussions, which I never considered harmless since they reflected the quiescent mind of the public— and newly emerged as, allegedly, better alternatives to Intelligent Design. I discuss them in my 2013 book “Evolution Stands Faith Up: Reflections on Evolution’s Wars:” Among the former were Theistic Evolution and Creation Science, creationism in principle and practice (God the maker of the universe, always present in the fore- or background of causality); among the latter was BioLogos (2000s), which aimed at merging Christianity with science by proposing a “model for divinely guided evolution” that required “no intrusions from the outside for its account of God’s creative process, except for the origin of the natural laws guiding the process.” Supporters of BioLogos suggested that “once life arose, evolution and natural selection permitted the development of biological diversity and complexity,” including humans. After evolution got underway, “no special supernatural intervention was required” (quotes from “The Language of Science and Faith” 2011, co-authored by Karl Giberson and Francis Collins —the latter Director of the National Institutes of Health). In essence, the Creator was done, but remained in touch for eternity! This is, of course, inconsistent with everything we know about reality. As an evolutionary biologist and university professor, I considered a duty to properly educate my students and prepare them to examine, by themselves, the anti-science cultural pollutants that aim at “zombieing” their minds, “corpseing” their innate spirit of inquiry, and perpetuating societal confusion around empirical discoveries. New England has the highest acceptance of evolution in the U.S., only 59 percent. Back in 2008, when I first polled the UMass Dartmouth campus, our biology graduates used to join the workforce with an acceptance level evolution of 65 percent; the freshman —right out of high school— were at 52 percent. A year later, in May 2009, after I restructured the core biology courses with an evolutionary perspective, acceptance of evolution jumped to 82 percent among the youngest undergrads. Today, 95 percent of graduating bio-majors accept evolution at UMass Dartmouth, the highest score ever reported for college students in the U.S., and comparable to 97 percent of the New England faculty. Evolution literacy matters: It correlates with understanding climate change, support for stem-cell research, vaccines, alternative sources of energy, respect for education and human rights. And this brings me back to my allusion to Professor E.O. Wilson. Indeed, he had (still does) a celebrated career in the study of Hymenoptera (ants, wasps and bees). But there is high complexity in Wilson’s contribution to theoretical science, far beyond “ants” (which vastness has been revealed by his passionate disciples). Forgive my professorial account: Concepts such as Island Biogeography (1967), the still controversial Sociobiology (1975), Biophilia (1984), Biodiversity (1988), Consilience (1998), “The Creation” in the context of what nature can do to assemble life (2006), are among Wilson’s seminal proposals. But he also co-founded “evolutionary biology” in 1960, in an attempt to address “the intellectual imbalance of biology at Harvard,” and his fears of seeing ecology and evolution “being outgunned, outfunded, and outnumbered” by alternative fields of investigation, as he narrates in “Letters to A Young Scientist” (2013). If we ought to quote Wilson in the context of what is good for science and science education, then we must look at his unyielding journey in support to fundamental research and long-standing concerns about the future of academia. Although open to dialog with spiritualists, E.O. 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__label__cc	0.628508	0.371492	ewritersjourney Exploring brave new e-worlds for writers Posts Tagged ‘cross-platform’ Monetising video: commercialising content in a world of video overload Retired content delivery devices find a new purpose as street art in Melbourne By Kaye Blum Held at the KPMG Auditorium (Sydney) in August, this panel session from the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) proposed to address the issue of how to make money from video and whether people will actually pay for content. Presenting industry insights were Matt Moran from the Platform, Nick Love from Shine 360°, Angus Stevens from Southern Cross Austereo, Georgie Powell from YouTube, Sue Carter from Tigerspike, Will McKinnon from SBS, and event chair Scott Bradley Pearce from ArgentDigital. Following are my key highlights from the session. Adapting to storytelling across platforms Shine 360° Managing Director Nick Love started out making content for TV but now focuses on storytelling for multiple screens. He presented a case study for The Voice, for which they managed the social media in-house last season. “We used it to tell stories, not just cross-sell,” he explained. They scripted for three platforms: TV, Facebook and Twitter. Plotting story across the three screens, they used the right channel choices with the right voices. “It takes design,” he said, adding that they worked on it for six months before going to air to ensure it was an integrated part of production. They had to re-design the production supply chain and publishing workflow. “Without metadata you are lost… We couldn’t find any tools so we built our own,” he claimed, “MDM, adding, adapting and building metadata from content creation to distribution.” In terms of monetizing, Shine 360° are not in the ad selling business, so they partnered with M9. On top of pre-roll and mid-roll ads, they made money through sponsored integration, with Ford sponsoring the live stream. They also integrated e-commerce with music sales and episodes on iTunes. Love emphasised the importance of social media and data, and noted that Season 1 had 67% desktop traffic, while Season 2 saw an increase in mobile traffic. “It’s just the beginning – our storytelling hasn’t changed, it’s just introducing different screens.” Monetising with YouTube Georgie Powell, Content Partner Manager at YouTube, highlighted some vital company stats: Youtube is the world’s largest video platform and the second biggest search engine in world. Content owners can take 100% if they sell above the rate card. 90% of views of Australian content is from outside Australia, impacting import/export and rights. One in three YouTube views are on mobile devices. YouTube’s demographic is Gen C – the curators, creators, connectors and communities of content. They like to upload and share, 91% sleep with their smartphone by the bed, they have an active social media presence. “We need to think differently about how we program and create content for this type of audience”, Powell said. “We need to engage WITH, rather than program AT them.” She explained one of the ways for content creators to make money from YouTube content is with Content ID. This enables rights owners to upload content and turn it into a reference file that shows who has ripped your content by scanning for matching videos, which you can monetise. Freemantle Media have Content ID and saw 20x growth in monetisation. She covered the YouTube business models: ad supported, paid channels and transactional. Paid channels are already available in Australia. Multi channel networks (MCNs), she claimed, are the next generation of broadcasters. There has been a huge investment in this field in the last six months overseas, but we are behind here in Australia (about three years). A new model for production houses Angus Stevens, Creative Director at Southern Cross Austereo, was previously a film/TV director and provided some great insights to the changing industry for production houses. “There’s still money to be made, but you have to use a different model than what you’d use for TV,” he said. Crews and producers need to think this way as well. It’s not about making pretty pictures, it’s about how it will reach the audience. And this means different budgets. “You have to put the old [production] model away”, he claimed, “You’re judged on distribution and scale.” He talked about innovation in execution and the need to be nimble to be profitable. Consider how can you use the medium to engage. “You can’t shoe-horn TVC values into a small platform.” Co-incidentally I had recently done some initial consulting for a start-up run by traditional TVC directors and producers and had made the recommendation that a different model was needed for their purely digital product, but they insisted on maintaining a traditional TVC production house model. I chose not to proceed with these clients. Hearing Stevens dispelled any doubts I may have had about my decision. Stevens also discussed client needs versus audience wants, describing content marketing as those who want to hang out around the campfire. With branded content, those guys bring their own guitar, music, etc. to control the environment. The client wants their music to be played at the campfire. Be clear about the difference between the two, he advised. For content marketing, fish where the fish are, he said. Find where your audience is and go to them. Be honest (“Gen Y can smell bullshit a mile away so don’t bullshit”, he later added). Consumers don’t have loyalty. “Creativity is hard to make and hard to sell and hard to measure, so you need to be in it for the long haul,” Stevens claimed. The online environment is quick, fast. “Do you want high impact, fast turn-around or a genuine engagement with the content?” He showed a quote from an ADMA Report June 2013 to emphasise the point: “Creative brand campaigns take longer to deliver business success – after 6 months – compared to short term… but ultimately creativity wins out.” Stephens took us through some great case studies, including The Friskies awards for best cat video of 2013; Vice (“the content is so good on Vice that brands want to be associated with it); and TAC Victoria’s roadtripforever.com campaign integrating social media. Written by Kaye Blum Posted in AIMIA, Content creator, Cross media, Cross platform, Research, Social media, Storytelling, Transmedia, Video Tagged with content creator, cross-platform, future of storytelling, social media, Storytelling, transmedia, video, YouTube X Media Lab & KR8V masterclasses – Sydney, June 2013 View from the Harbourview Terrace, MCA For the past five years I’ve been trying to attend a X Media Lab (the “X” in X Media Lab stands for cross-platform, cross-disciplinary, and cross-cultural) conference, but for various reasons, missed out. This year it was back on home turf to celebrate its tenth anniversary after holding events in over a dozen countries. Founded by Brendan Harken, X Media Lab events have covered as much ground in digital topics as it has geographical locations. Themes have included global media cultures and ideas; the future of journalism; animation and games; location based services; storytelling in the digital age; digital music; cross-platform and immersive media; and, in Switzerland this month, transmedia (wish I could be there). This year’s event comprised a highlights day conference designed for “time-poor” creative industries executives, held at the stunning Museum of Contemporary Art’s (MCA’s) Harbourview Terrace; plus two days of KR8V masterclasses, held at the University of NSW College of Fine Arts (COFA). The highlights day featured over a dozen national and international academics, digital professionals and artists; each limited to a snappy 20 minute presentation (the full list of keynote speakers can be found here). Here are my picks: Kristen Taylor, Digital Community Strategist for Al Jazeera (previously at The Huffington Post, FourSquare and the BBC New York) shared some poignant insights to why a digital community needs narratives. She talked about context and curating an archive that accrues value over time, such as tumblrs by The New York Times and National Geographic’s ‘Found’. Tumblr and Instagram are her preferred social media channels. Key take-out from Kristen: “The internet continues to run on kindness… networks have self-healing properties – they heal themselves through kindness.” Kate McQuillen from Mememe Productions had just won an interactive Emmy award for dirtgirlworld, an “organically designed transmedia project” including an animated kids TV series, merchandise, website, live events, garbage trucks, seeds, and more. There are only eight Emmys in Australia so it’s a fantastic achievement. It was fascinating to hear her journey from having the seed of an idea based on core values such as love and sustainability, and meeting future colleagues in the loo at X Media Lab ten years ago. Key take-out from Kate: “We wear our hearts on our sleeves and don’t apologise for being ‘out there’.” Author and presenter Dominic Knight talked about story and structure; the hero’s journey (Robert McKee, Joseph Conran) and the importance of knowing the rules, but where you can innovate. Key take-out from Dom: “Stories are the conceptual framework that help us understand the world.” Alvin Wang Graylin, CEO of minfo (China’s leading mobile search service), and founder of Guanxi Inc (a location-based social discovery platform), provided an overview of what it takes to be a tech entrepreneur. And judging by the long list of criteria he shared, there’s obviously a lot more required than just having the idea. Executing the idea is only the beginning, he explained. A strong work ethic is critical, and being prepared to do the stuff that no one wants to do. Self-esteem, focus, creativity, patience, selling acumen, passion, in-depth industry knowledge, and having a strong team around you were just some of the points he covered. Having savings in the bank and being in a position to take risks were other crucial points – ones that often get ignored, usually to the detriment of the start-up. To help get investors on board, Alvin provided a list of critical questions that need to be clearly and confidently answerable. Key take-out from Alvin: “Be healthy – it gets tiring.” I attended Alvin’s Masterclass on Saturday to hear him share a generous amount of detail on creating integrated mobile marketing campaigns. He also provided some terrific insights to the mobile market in China. As a digital producer, Galvin Scott Davis has developed top lifestyle apps, business apps and kids games. He is the founder of Protein One, a boutique digital design and development agency in Sydney. His presentation opened with the question: are you a “why” or a “why not”? Creatives realise early on that they are “whys” – they’re always asking questions even as young children, he explained, then they realise it’s more fun to be a “why not”. It was asking “why not” that pushed him through the challenges of creating a children’s app that required a technology that hadn’t yet been developed. (This process was explained in his masterclass.) Key take-out from Galvin: “Creatives have imagination, innovation, and talent. We forget to have bravery, stubbornness, and persistence. We need all of the above.” And one more: “if you’ve got stories, don’t let other people saying ‘no’ get in the way…. Embrace your hurdles – it can be dangerous but rewarding.” Galvin also delivered an information-packed Masterclass on Saturday, called Reversing The Publishing Model – How To Reinvent Your Story Across Digital Media To Getting A Book Deal. Using the creation of his Dandelion e-book app as a case study, he generously shared the process from concept development through to reaching the Number 1 downloaded app in the Australian AppStore, then scoring a 3-book print publishing deal with Random House. It was fascinating, informative and inspiring stuff. Adam Good, director of digital media and content at Telstra Media, also had plenty to share in his presentation. He explained his concern with creative leadership in business and the two areas where he believes more training is needed. Strong leadership is one mandatory skillset; creativity is the other. “You need to flex both of those muscles to succeed” he said, naming Steve Jobs as an example. Adam believes there are not enough CEOs in Australia that have both of these attributes, with many coming up through financial management but lacking the sales/marketing/artistic side. He said he sees a lot of businesses failing due to this; there are not enough of these type of leaders here. I wanted to ask him why – is it because our culture places less value on creativity? If you’ve grown up enduring more than an occasional ribbing for being creative like I have, then it’s easy to assume so. But that’s a debate for another time… The MCA illuminated for Vivid Festival Back to Adam’s presentation, which moved on to Telstra’s future vision. There were many informative stats but 20 minutes wasn’t nearly enough time and the presentation ended prematurely, with the promise of providing the rest via a Twitter link (which I followed up on). Key take-out from Adam: “We need to change the mindset of people who don’t pay for content.” Michael Naimark, media artist and part of the original design team for the MIT Media Laboratory; and Horst Hörtner, founding member and Director of the Ars Electronica Futurelab, a world leading interdisciplinary research project uniting art, technology and society in Austria, both shared some valuable insights in their presentations. Key take-out from Michael: “Wearable tech is inevitable.” Key take-out from Horst: “The next revolution: key technology that has the potential to change fundamental paradigms of our society…. 3D printing, we believe, is the next revolution.” Vivid Festival and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) were held in Sydney at the same time as X Media Lab and the city was literally bursting with creative energy. By night, Vivid’s stunning light projections transformed the Opera House, the MCA and other city buildings into dazzling palettes of colour and light. The post-conference networking event on the MCA’s balcony provided a spectacular view and an impressive end to an information-intense day. Posted in Apps, eBooks, Mobile marketing, Research, Social media, Transmedia, X Media Lab Tagged with apps, content creator, Cross media, cross-platform, digital publishing, Digital trends, e-book, e-publishing, future of storytelling, geo-location, interactive, interactive storytelling, ISEA, locative media, social media, transmedia, Vivid Festival, writers, writing, X Media Lab SXSW final wrap-up: transmedia, mobile & making it through crowdfunding My final wrap-up of SXSW Interactive and Film sessions below. SXSW Music reports will soon be published on my music blog eyeswideclosed.com (in production). SXSW13 Hipster warning: If only they read the signs… My main areas of interest at SXSW Interactive (and Film) 2013 were social media, transmedia and mobile. There was a huge range of sessions and workshops on social (of which I attended as many as was physically possible), hence it gleaned the majority of my report coverage. The queue for a session on mobile at SXSW13 SXSW13 queue blues cured by getting mobile in a Corvette As mentioned in my first post from SXSW, there weren’t a lot of mobile themed sessions. Of the few they did have, most were held in a small venue called Wanderlust, which was a yoga studio with around 100 seats (if that). With the huge growth of mobile it was a surprising choice of venue. Consequently there were queues stretching around the block for these sessions and I missed out on both (one just after the opening night party which I’d forfeited to ensure I could get up early enough the next morning to attend). I consoled myself by taking a test-drive of the latest Corvette around the block (what a great branding exercise from Chevy). I was also keen to attend any SXSW Film sessions featuring transmedia, interactive or cross-platform projects. Given the Film sessions overlapped between Interactive and Music, it was a challenge making the five or six I’d highlighted in the schedule. I managed to make it to two. The first, Exploring place with cross-platform storytelling, included some excellent speakers providing insights to their projects (Michel Reilhac, Liz Nord, Danny Harris and Mike Knowlton). The second, 10 things I learned fro Kim Jong IL to make an interactive doc, featured Ann Shin and Hannah Donegan from Fathom Film Group; plus Media Ridha and Adrian Bellna from Toronto-based Jam3 (who made the award-winning Bear71). They presented some great insights to the making of their interactive doco The Defector including spreading the word, doing your research, finance options, pushing boundaries, and the importance of testing. I also attended a session on crowdfunding called Hacking the crowd – artists as entrepreneurs featuring musician Kim Boekbinder (The Impossible Girl) and Molly Crabapple, Founder of Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. Both have built careers through crowdfunding and on their own, no management or labels or galleries involved. They provided informal yet detailed accounts of their lives, creative drives, and how crowdfunding provided a powerful platform to launch their careers. Key take-out was a comment from Kim: “What we used to call art, photography, writing and music is now just called content. I make my living as a creator – it’s not about the content I’m putting out… I’m really really lucky, and I’d like a world where everybody’s that lucky.” Hell yeah. Overall, SXSW Interactive was a full-on, intensive and pretty exhausting experience – but I still got a lot out of the sessions I attended and found it an enriching – albeit information-overloading – experience. Being a first-timer, I learned some valuable lessons on how to make it a better experience next time. These include getting to Austin a few days before the conference actually starts to get your bearings on the many conference locations spread across town and to get over the jet-lag. I flew in from Australia via LA the day before it started which was almost two days in transit – I think it took me the whole first week to recover. Quicker than the bus? Smart SXSW transport alternatives. I also recommend securing central accommodation at any cost (if budget is not an issue as it was for me this time) to avoid time-consuming bus rides or relying on the virtually non-existent cabs. City hotels start booking out in August, so be quick. Plus, make an effort to go to as many of the social events that your liver can handle: it’s a great way to meet peers (I spent too much time running from panel session to workshops to more sessions, not wanting to miss out!). Most importantly: accept that you can’t do everything on offer (and there were over 1,000 interactive sessions to choose from this year). Try to choose a few sessions that are completely unrelated to your chosen topics – these are the sessions that can provide the most inspiration. Would I go back? To be honest, I’m not exactly sure it provided enough bang for buck, with the cost of travel thrown in. It seemed to be over-subscribed, too much going on at once and too many people (there were 30,621 Interactive participants, plus 16,297 for Film and 25,119 for Music, although some of these numbers could have attended all three – the stats provided don’t specify). However I fell in love with cowboy boots, duck tacos and the city of Austin itself; so I’d like to return one day and see it in its usual state without the 70,000 or so SXSW punters jammed into the city. For now, Austin, it’s over ‘n’ out. Posted in Research, Social media, South By South West (SXSW) 2013, SXSW Interactive 2013, SXSW2013, Transmedia Tagged with Austin, cross-platform, crowdfunding, interactive, mobile, social media, SXSW 2013, SXSW Film, SXSW Interactive, transmedia How are you travelling? Great apps for digital nomads – article now live How are you travelling? 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__label__cc	0.647601	0.352399	Home › Wharton@Work › Becoming More Strategic Leaders: Frameworks for Success August 2020 \| Strategy Becoming More Strategic Leaders: Frameworks for Success One of the most common business risks is also one of the least obvious. It’s called playing it safe, business as usual, the status quo — anything to disguise what it really is: inaction. With today’s high levels of uncertainty, it can feel like the least risky direction. But standing still means you’re not ready to seize opportunities as they arise. And as COVID-19 continues to reshape and reorder the business landscape, opportunities are there. Wharton’s strategy experts have long stressed the need for balance: getting the most out of the assets you have while working to identify new lines of business. For decades in Strategy and Management for Competitive Advantage, they have shared practical tools and insights that have made a difference for companies around the globe. Now, when the need for getting that balance right is greater than ever, they apply those tools and insights to strategy leaders' most challenging demands. Professor Harbir Singh says the Wharton LIVE version of the program will help business leaders capitalize on changing times and move their organizations forward. “It’s important not to let the current situation slow you down. If you don’t generate the next opportunity, someone else will. And keep in mind that the velocity of change was there before COVID, and it will be there after. Having a disciplined focus on strategy will help you long term.” “It’s important not to let the current situation slow you down. If you don’t generate the next opportunity, someone else will. And keep in mind that the velocity of change was there before COVID, and it will be there after. Having a disciplined focus on strategy will help you long term.” Harbir Singh, PhD, Mack Professor; Professor of Management; Co-Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management; Wharton School Faculty Director for the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, The Wharton School Part of that disciplined focus is the use of a strategy audit, both during and after the program, to analyze current and future strategic initiatives. “The audit is grounded in systematic thinking instead of gut feelings or pet projects,” says Professor Nicolaj Siggelkow. “In times of plenty, it’s possible to have many things going at the same time. But when resources are tight, you have to be explicit about your choices. The audit will help you get a sense of strategic importance so you can make decisions about what to focus on and then drive resource allocation accordingly.” Siggelkow also helps participants map their firm’s “system of interconnected choices,” which clearly shows core and supporting strategic initiatives and their interdependencies. “This practice gives you a better understanding of underlying trade-offs, how to prioritize resources, and how to anticipate the effects of engaging in change initiatives,” says Siggelkow. “Challenging times include opportunities, but to take advantage of them you have to know where to increase and where to decrease investments. As a leader, these tools allow you to be disciplined about your strategies, and to clearly communicate what to focus on and why.” Strategic leadership is the focus for two days of the program. “Recently there has been a real impact on leadership in general and strategic leadership specifically,” says Singh. “Today there is a need for greater risk taking, inspirational communication, and development of other leaders. The latter is what we refer to as layered leadership. How can you create initiatives that are meant to be led by others so they can develop as strategic leaders? Coordinating the execution of multiple initiatives by different people is a necessary challenge.” On the final day, participants will explore connected strategy with Siggelkow and Professor Christian Terwiesch, who together wrote the book on the subject. The need for this new source of competitive advantage, delivering superior customer service at a lower cost, has accelerated during the current crisis. Siggelkow says connected strategy also has importance internally, as the need to keep remote workforces connected grows. “This is incredibly timely,” he notes. “The movement from transactions to relationships shouldn’t be happening only with your external customers. There is growing awareness that we should be thinking more systematically about the need for increased connectivity within organizations. It’s just one of the ways the content for the program has been updated to address the most current challenges.” Strategy and Management for Competitive Advantage Effective Execution of Organizational Strategy Business Model Innovation in the Digital Age	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line786
__label__wiki	0.795873	0.795873	Bid Rounds Create Opportunities in Mexico January 2017 Emily Smith Llinás In a world with shifting politics, fluctuating commodity prices and economic uncertainty, Mexico’s energy sector provides promise. So affirmed Gaspar Franco, one of seven commissioners at Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH), the authority tasked with bidding, signing and regulating hydrocarbon contracts and advising Mexico’s Secretary of Energy. Addressing students and professors at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)’s Earth Science Days in Mexico City recently, Franco explained how the nation’s energy reform is transforming industry today and offering opportunities for the future. Bid Rounds “In Mexico we have everything that could exist, deep water, shallow water, shale gas and more,” he said. “The geology is very diverse.” The government made a variety of fields available during Round 0, the bid round organized exclusively for state-owned company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). Franco explained how Round 0, held in August 2014, provided the opportunity for Pemex to select areas of interest for exploration and production. CNH awarded Pemex 100 percent of blocks requested for extraction and 67 percent of areas requested for exploration. The next step was Round 1, a series of four auctions conducted over a two-year period. Franco explained that the CNH wanted to strike a balance when deciding which contracts to auction. Offering large deepwater projects at the outset could create the impression that the government was only interested in attracting large foreign companies. Offering only small blocks could make some think that the reform was designed for small operators or Mexican companies only. The solution was to offer a diversified round, with options available for large and small operators, he said. At the time of the UNAM talk in November, CNH had completed three of four auctions in Round 1, which Franco deemed successful overall. From left are Emily Smith Llinás, AAPG; Nayeli Islas, CNH; Gaspar Franco, CNH; Pedro Avituá, AAPG Mexico Young Professionals Chapter; and Fernando Apango, UNAM AAPG Student Chapter. The Elephant of All Elephants A really big show: Among the many prolific oil fields in the Middle East, the giant Ghawar... Who Will Rule the World Oil Market Over the ... While many are working to forecast when the price of oil mi... Year of Discovery Sees 'Dim Bright Spots' By one measure, 2016 shaped up to be the worst time for int... He noted that of the 44 contracted areas, 30 have been finalized and signed. Seven operators or consortia other than Pemex are producing in 23 areas. “They are operating, paying royalties to the state and producing oil,” he affirmed. Deepwater Bid Round The final phase in Round 1 focused on deepwater and involved several firsts, including Pemex participation. “Obviously Pemex can bid whenever it wants, but the first time they decided to do so was in Round 1,” Franco said. The deepwater auction held Dec. 5 gave Pemex the historic opportunity to seek a partner to operate in the Trion field in deepwater Gulf of Mexico, near the U.S. border. Franco noted that partnerships, prohibited prior to the 2013 Energy Reform, allow Pemex to operate like companies throughout the world. “In these types of projects around the world, not even the largest companies operate alone,” he said. Five-year Plan Round 2, initiated in July 2016, marked Mexico’s first shallow water bid round. In bidding 1, CNH offers 15 contracted areas in the Tampico-Misantla Basin, Veracruz Basin and Sureste Basin. In bidding 2, CNH offers 12 contracted areas, nine in the Burgos Basin, two in the Chiapas fold belt and one in the Sureste Basin. In bidding 3, CNH offers 14 contracted areas in the Burgos Basin, Tampico-Misantla Basin, Veracruz Basin and Sureste Basin. Round 2 is part of a five-year plan that the CNH has implemented to ensure that Mexico continues to develop reserves and to maintain financial stability long-term. “We need to figure out how to have a margin independent of the oil price,” he said. During his talk at the UNAM, Franco projected maps showing more than 1,400 reservoirs, including black oil, volatile oil, gas condensate, wet gas and dry gas. He described how the Commission aims to help Mexico reach its potential through the five-year plan, which is designed to help companies participate in production of both conventional and unconventional exploration projects. Extraction projects focus on 237 oil fields: 169 onshore, 12 in Chicontepec, 39 in shallow water, four in deepwater and 13 heavy oil fields. Exploration focuses on 72 conventional areas: 29 deepwater, 17 shallow water, 26 onshore and 24 unconventional areas including five in the Burgos Basin, two in Burro-Pachos and 17 in Tampico-Misantla. The fields available provide numerous opportunities both for Mexican companies familiar with the geology and foreign companies bringing outside expertise to areas not previously explored. Benefits of the Reform Franco noted that progress is being made, and quickly. “In the past two years, we have had more seismic run than in 70 years prior,” he said. He explained how, in addition to opening Mexico to outsiders, the country’s energy reform provides benefits to Mexican companies. Of the 37 companies who participated in the first three Round 1 auctions, 24 were Mexican. Companies from eight other countries help Mexico by assuming financial risk for projects and by bringing in local operators. “This is a business. When other companies risk their capital the (Mexican) government doesn’t have to risk its own,” he said. “Who runs the seismic registries? Who gets the oil out of the ground? Who brings the rigs in? The foreign companies work with local companies.” He noted that Mexican companies benefit from the federal government’s policy of promoting national content. The “Made in Mexico” legislation, adopted in 2009, requires companies operating in Mexico to purchase goods and services in order to promote the use of national products. The policy provides an opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs, even recent graduates, Franco said. Franco urged against discouragement from the current low price environment and noted that geoscientists and engineers have a key role in helping the country develop its energy potential. “We need to understand naturally fractured reservoirs. We have to understand the reservoir in order to extract the hydrocarbons. We need to reach out to the local communities in areas where we are looking for shale oil and shale gas,” he said. “People have questions, and geoscientists can help to answer them.” Franco also highlighted opportunities for wells that have been operated since 1900 and need strategies for well abandonment. “In Mexico, we don’t have a single project involving secondary or enhanced recovery yet,” he said. “The projects may be expensive now, but we have to be ready so we can move forward when prices go up. They’re not going to be this low forever.” Mexico is a great place to work and do business, Franco said. “People have said there is no work, there are no employment opportunities in Mexico, but now we have many companies interested in doing business in Mexico,” he said. 'Realities' Create Opportunities A Washington outsider once quipped, 'Washington, D.C., is 1... Is the Next Oil Production Breakthrough Alre... The shale revolution was made possible because there was te...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line788
__label__wiki	0.919613	0.919613	Home/Africa/Uganda arrests Bobi Wine’s lawyer on charges of money laundering Uganda arrests Bobi Wine’s lawyer on charges of money laundering africanews– A Ugandan human rights lawyer who represents opposition figure Bobi Wine was arrested on Tuesday on charges of money laundering, police said. Nicholas Opiyo is the founder of the robust human rights defence organisation Chapter Four Uganda and is the lawyer for many activists. Rights groups have increasingly criticised Uganda over arresting political opponents and violating freedom of association, assembly, and expression as last year authorities introduced new regulations restricting online activities and stifling independent media. Uganda Police Force confirmed Opiyo’s arrest on Twitter for “allegations of money laundering and related malicious acts”. “The investigations are progressing well and any new developments will be communicated in due course,” it added. Opiyo is detained at the Special Investigations Division. He was arrested with three other lawyers; Herbert Dakasi, Anthony Odur and Esomu Obure. In a statement, Chapter Four Uganda said it is “deeply concerned about the abduction and incommunicado detention” of Opiyo. Amnesty International’s Eastern African bureau also condemned the “arbitrary arrest” and called for the lawyers’ release. According to Bobi Wine, Opiyo was arrested along with three other lawyers and a member of his party. Wine, a former pop star turned politician, has emerged as the strongest challenger to Uganda’s longtime leader Yoweri Museveni in elections set for early next year. Museveni is seeking a sixth term. Wine was arrested on November 20 and later released on bail, sparking violent clashes between his supporters and security forces, which killed 37 people. It was unclear who was responsible for the deaths. Most of the dead suffered gunshot wounds and traumatic injuries, Ugandan police said. Opiyo said at the time Wine was arrested on a coronavirus violation. But, he said, “the actual reason really is that it is part of the broader attempt to stifle opposition campaigns.” Bobi Wine's Police Ugandan UNICEF: Boko Haram has kidnapped more than 1000 children in Nigeria Niger ambush investigation focuses on key questions South African student kills herself after alleged rape South African ‘cannibal case’ men get life sentences 157 children rescued from West Africa trafficking ring	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line789
__label__cc	0.63659	0.36341	Soundfly Home for the Curious Musician The 11 Best Podcasts for Exploring Music Theory Concepts on the Go February 28, 2019 by Tim Maryon + Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. Podcasts are an incredible learning resource that should not be overlooked in your quest to master the ins and outs of music composition and professional songwriting. With such a wealth of podcasts out there, there’s no limit to what you can learn, even passively, in your spare time riding on the subway, jogging, or driving around in your tour van. We’ve been thinking a lot about music education podcasts lately since we here at Soundfly just launched our own podcast called “Themes and Variation.” In it, we bring musicians and music lovers together to break down meaningful songs in their lives with a common theme. If you’d like to check it out, listen to Episode 1 right here on Flypaper, or click over to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher to subscribe. And now, without further ado, here’s our list of the 11 best podcasts for deepening your knowledge and understanding of music theory concepts. Enjoy! 1) Art of Composing Podcast Composing, creativity, theory. Brought to us by Jon Brantingham, the Art of Composing Podcast gives you everything you need “to take your composing, knowledge of music theory, and creativity to the next level!” Concise and super knowledgeable, this is a great place to start. 2) The Labyrinth of Music Theory Podcast The Labyrinth of Music Theory is a tour through the tangled mazes of composition, music theory, computer music, ethnomusicology, acoustics, synthesis, and related subjects of interest to music lovers and music-makers alike. It includes both a fresh look at theoretical ideas from a global, first-principles perspective, and practical advice about composition and conceptual music, made with or without computers. 3) Music Student 101 One of the big players in the music theory podcast world, and coming highly recommended from us at Soundfly, is Music Student 101. The nice thing about this podcast is that it gets gradually harder. The beginning episodes cover some pretty easy topics — in episode 15 we’re looking at inversions and figured bass — and then by episode 46 we’re delving into the overtone series! I really like this podcast, too, because it touches on other important theoretical aspects of music seemingly not covered elsewhere; such as episode 51, about on-stage production tech, and episode 57, on instrument care. 4) Song Appeal Song Appeal is a podcast written and recorded by Flypaper’s own Hunter Farris. The tagline for this series of episodes asks “Why do we like the music we like?” Farris starts with this question and/or variants of it to delve into topics like why sad music is so enjoyable to listen to, or why certain music, like the Twilight Zone theme, sounds scary. It is as much about music theory as it is about human expression and our emotional response to sound and music. 5) The Musicality Podcast This one is mega. With over 130 episodes, The Musicality Podcast literally touches on everything… and in some depth! Coming to you as a mix of interviews and teaching materials, the creators of The Musicality Podcast are passionate hosts and they undeniably know their stuff! + Learn production, composition, songwriting, theory, arranging, mixing, and more — whenever you want and wherever you are. Subscribe for unlimited access! 6) Switched on Pop Here’s a podcast by two music theory majors (musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding) who pull analytical interpretations out of trending pop music. Even if you’re not into pop, the hosts offer super interesting explanations as to what’s going on just beneath the surface of the music you hear every day. Switched on Pop is about how popular music functions, what makes a hit song, and what its place is in culture at any given moment. They help listeners find “a-ha” moments in the music, and they’ll make you laugh, dance, and ask ridiculous questions about the songs we too often take for granted. 7) Hack Music Theory I really like this one. It’s varied and extensive — and it’s got everything from an episode on how to write a Christmas song to why you need to spell music with numbers. Hack Music Theory is taught by award-winning music lecturer Ray Harmony and his once-protégé, now-wife Kate Harmony. Ray has been teaching music theory for 24 years, and along the way he’s made music with Serj Tankian (System of a Down), Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine), Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), and Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad), among others. 8) Hype Harmony This one’s got some real quirkiness about it! The niche topics that get discussed here are both common and widely used, yet often misunderstood. This one will have you intrigued and help you get ahead of the game, no matter what style of music you make. The description on the Hype Harmony website reads: “Come alongside your host, Jeremiah Tabb, as we navigate the dangerous waters of music theory! Through descriptive lessons, real-time audio examples, and interviews with successful musicians of all kinds, anybody can learn the secrets of music.” 9) The Bollywood Theory This podcast is cool. If you’re a global listener, like me, and you crave learning about new South Asian music and the world of Bollywood, specifically (I mean who doesn’t!), then check out The Bollywood Theory! To be honest, much of what’s discussed here is going to be useful for whatever genre of music you make, but just listening for the sake of becoming more aware of the incredible popular music coming out of India is reason enough. There’s some really enthusiastic and knowledgeable personalities on here, as well. I highly recommend it! 10) Guitar Music Theory This podcast is seriously practical, and for the many, many guitar players out there eager to build their skills and hone their chops, the Guitar Music Theory podcast is going to be seriously useful. It includes free audio guitar lessons, in-depth episodes on scales, chords, modes, and getting around the fret board. There are a lot of guitar theory podcasts out there, but so far this is the best I’ve found! 11) The DrumMantra Oh my, we’re ending this list on a real winner. This podcast focuses on the world of drumming, but unlike most drummer-centric content, the wisdom that host Rich Stitzel imparts is priceless to any musician. The DrumMantra Podcast is all about going deeper in your practice of music and rhythm. Its goal is to advance every listener’s confidence, insight, and motivation through discussions on topics like approaches to practice, rhythmic concepts, technique, theory, creativity, gear, and even the music business. Stitzel is a veteran drummer, author, and educator with nearly 30 years of professional experience as a full-time musician. 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__label__wiki	0.520711	0.520711	The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network (PENGON) The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network- Friends of Earth Palestine (PENGON-FoE Palestine) is a coordinating body among different Palestinian NGOs working in the field of environment. It aims to serve Palestinian environmental issues by coordinating endeavors between the member organizations, strengthening and building the efficiency within each organization, and enhancing relations within the Network as well as with other organizations domestically and abroad, such as local government agencies and international environmental organizations and advocacy groups. PENGON-FOE Palestine aims to serve Palestinian environmental issues by coordinating endeavors between the member organizations. PENGON looks to coordinate Palestinian efforts, in order to resist and highlight the Israeli’s violations against Palestinian Environment, and Israel’s control on Palestinian natural resources. PENGON sees international advocacy as fundamental in its hopes to stop these violations against our environment. PENGON- FoE Palestine was established in 1996 to serve the Palestinian environment by coordinating the scattered efforts of the different Palestinian NGOs working in the field of environment.The idea of establishing a network of Palestinian environmental organizations began when a number of NGOs felt the urgent need to protect our environment and face the environmental violations. PENGON-FOE Palestine is the only environmental network for Palestinian environmental organizations in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip. PENGON became a member in Friends of the Earth International in 2008. Friends of the Earth Palestine/ Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network Web: www.pengon.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/Pengon-foe-Palestine Contact: Friends of the Earth Palestine/ Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network Latest Updates from The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network (PENGON) PENGON advocates for Environmental Rights in Gaza during COVID-19 To highlight environmental issues that pose an immediate threat to human life in Gaza during the pandemic, PENGON organized different activities to advocate for environmental rights in Gaza both locally and internationally through a rights-based approach with an... Female empowerment: Women are helping to generate clean energy in the besieged Gaza Strip VOTE for PENGON in the Transformative Cities 2020 People’s Choice Award! Majida Sabta, a 40-year-old mother of four children — three of which are blind — remembers the dark nights of the decades long electricity crisis in Gaza. “I was always tired, I was feeling... FILM LAUNCH: Gaza waiting the worst PENGON/Friends of the Earth Palestine invites you to participate in the online launch of the short documentary film “GAZA WAITING FOR THE WORST”. The online discussion will focus on the environmental and health situation in the Gaza Strip in light of the COVID-19...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line802
__label__cc	0.587144	0.412856	AGW in general » Policy and solutions (Moderator: kassy) » Author Topic: The Boring Company (Read 63079 times) Sigmetnow Multi-year ice Re: Boring, boring ol' Elon Musk... Godot is the name of Musk's (first, slow) boring machine. Elon Musk: No longer waiting for Godot. It has begun boring and just completed the first segment of tunnel in LA. People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. What are Musk's top five traits? According to the study: 1. Intellect 2. Immoderation 3. Cautiousness 4. Emotionality 5. Altruism http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/29/ibm-watson-elon-musks-personality-traits-are-summed-up-by-this-image.html Quote from: Sigmetnow on June 28, 2017, 02:54:12 PM Quote from: numerobis on June 27, 2017, 10:55:26 PM I had thought that the principle cost in subways was the stations, not the tunnels. Is The Boring Company doing anything about that? It seems that their principle cost savings is from making smaller tunnels, and efficiencies from scale of digging a lot of tunnels. The concept video, included in this article: https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/28/elon-musk-wants-to-build-a-traffic-skipping-tunnel-utopia/ shows cars entering and exiting the tunnels using only a few parking spaces at street level. No "stations" needed. All those lifts sound/look expensive to me. Either that or traffic jams trying to get to too small a number of entry points. But I know nothing compared to Musk. Who thought Musk was kidding about this? When he started tweeting about "floors" yesterday (”they never let you down") there was speculation about his mental state. Then this! (Best guess is the tunnel is at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, and runs under the street -- where several employees have been injured from cars running red lights -- to the SpaceX parking lot.) Elon Musk: This is a really great floor. GIFs at these links: IMG_0984.PNG (179.43 kB, 1063x1536 - viewed 211 times.) IMG_0982.PNG (198.22 kB, 853x1536 - viewed 210 times.) « Last Edit: June 30, 2017, 01:50:48 PM by Sigmetnow » Quote from: crandles on June 30, 2017, 01:19:50 PM Remember, Musk has data on where all his cars are, and when. (Did you notice that all the cars in the concept video's tunnel were Teslas? ) But seriously: because all the cars in the tunnels are on computer-controlled sleds, their spacing can quickly be adjusted to fit any number of merging vehicle sleds. I imagine the program would be simpler than what SpaceX uses to get the Dragon capsule's orbit to safely approach the International Space Station. « Last Edit: July 01, 2017, 12:21:36 AM by Sigmetnow » From the Hyperloop thread. Quote from: Sigmetnow on July 20, 2017, 07:49:18 PM Wut?!? Elon Musk says he got 'verbal govt' approval for Hyperloop between NY and DC Elon Musk says The Boring Co. has verbal government approval to build an underground Hyperloop. The infrastructure and tunneling company would connect four Northeastern cities: New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Musk plans to begin the East Coast project at the same time as his previously proposed Los Angeles tunneling venture. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/20/elon-musk-says-he-got-verbal-govt-approval-for-hyperloop-between-ny-and-dc.html The Tweet: (Enjoy the replies. ) Bob Wallace From the same article... Musk cautioned that there is "still a lot of work needed to receive formal approval," even while he is optimistic that a regulatory green light will be given quickly. An Amtrak ride on the Northeast Regional line from Washington to New York currently takes three hours and 20 minutes, Hyperloop, 29 minutes. If Musk can pull this off it would be a huge game-changer. I'd love to see his cost numbers. And the average boring speed for his drilling machines. He talks about a dozen or so stations along the NYC to DC route. Would Tesla use a number of machines and insert one (or two) at each station site? A swarm of drills that could be extracted and reused could make digging one route fast. Currently large drilling rigs finish their tunnel and then bury themselves in a permanent grave. Tesla might take a more SpaceX 'recover and reuse' approach in order to greatly slash costs. An advantage to smaller diameter tunnels is that the drilling rigs would be small enough to be trucked from site to site. Put them (in sections) on a lowboy and 14' minimum underpasses would be no problem. Very high speed subway. Elon Musk: Discussing physics of tunnels with Mayor Vargas (who has a physics background). Hawthorne support for The Boring Company much appreciated. More photos in the sub-tweet. IMG_1860.JPG (172 kB, 960x720 - viewed 192 times.) Elon Musk: Often comes as a surprise when people learn that 80% of my time is on engineering/design and just 20% on other stuff Why Elon Musk Spends 80 Percent of His Time on This 1 Activity He is a designer at heart. Elon Musk is doing right by design. Musk, who in a recent interview on Y Combinator, often called world's #1 start-up incubator, explained that he spends 80% of his time on engineering and design, developing next generation products, is what I call a designers' CEO. Musk's optimism in the face of great odds (SpaceX, the company he founded "to revolutionize space technology," had a 10% chance of success at the onset); his belief that beauty is as important as usefulness of products (from the Tesla door handles to his more recent aspiration to bring aesthetics to SolarCity tiles); his strong sense of empathy for others (feeling for every parent who ever put a child's seats into a minivan whichled to Tesla's falcon wing doors); and the humanity with which he goes after what designers call "wicked problems" (i.e. multiplanetary habitation); make him if not a designer, a rare and much welcome enabler of ground-breaking design. 4. Understanding humans Perhaps what makes Musk a designers' CEO most is his capacity for empathy. Empathy, the ability to put yourself in the shoes of others and feel their pain, is design's guiding principle. Everything that Musk does, from creating affordable solar energy to the Boring Company to bring cities closer to each other, are because he cares deeply about people. Musk is an advocate for people and aims to remove longstanding obstacles from our lives using design and engineering. ... https://www.inc.com/ayse-birsel/why-elon-musk-spends-80-percent-of-his-time-on-thi.html Hawthorne, California. SpaceX headquarters. ~15 second video: Elon Musk: Testing The Boring Company car elevator: https://www.instagram.com/p/BW_-mlYAMrs/ By the way, SpaceX is also building a pedestrian bridge to alleviate the risk of crossing Crenshaw Boulevard there. SpaceX constructs pedestrian bridge in response to traffic collisions http://www.teslarati.com/spacex-bridge/ Edit: article: https://electrek.co/2017/07/26/elon-musks-boring-company-new-car-elevator-tesla-model-s/ « Last Edit: July 26, 2017, 01:36:42 PM by Sigmetnow » Transcript of Boring Company meeting with Hawthorne city council about their test projects, explaining their safety procedures, including contacting all utilities, continual measurements for ground settling (they expect less than half an inch/13 mm), and continual tests for gas. "They aim to have no impact at the surface by digging just about 20 feet (6 meters) in the ground" -- inspectors could not detect activity above the digging site. Elon Musk’s Boring Company to use Tesla’s technology for its tunnel project under LA https://electrek.co/2017/08/08/elon-musk-boring-company-tesla-tunnel/ From the comments: text of the transcript can be found here: https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FBoringCompany%2Fcomments%2F6rj3py%2Fhawthorne_city_council_special_meeting_on_the%2Fdl60p2a%2F%3ApJcMS-yrh-FIe7AvbzDCiiNhkDg&cuid=4193136 I found it odd that he claimed no vibration would be felt just 20ish feet above at ground level. They've been digging a tunnel under downtown Ottawa the last few years deeper than that and there were many complaints of terrible vibrations in the buildings above. Different substrate and digging techniques but still seems over stated. Quote from: ghoti on August 09, 2017, 04:09:43 PM Size of that tunnel? Musk's tunnels are smaller than most. From the Hawthorne Council meeting transcript: The Boring Company confirms that it will develop its own Hyperloop tech Following closely on the heels of rumors that Elon Musk was pursuing development of his own Hyperloop technology, a spokesperson for the Musk-backed The Boring Company has confirmed plans to build a 600+mph high speed transportation system “aka Hyperloop”. In a statement to Wired, the spokesperson revealed that The Boring Company was indeed exploring the development of tunnels and related infrastructure that would allow for two different types of transport. “At the Boring Company, we plan to build low-cost, fast-to-dig tunnels that will house new high-speed transportation systems. Most will be standard pressurized tunnels with electric skates going 125+ mph. For long-distance routes in straight lines, such as NY to DC, it will make sense to use pressurized pods in a depressurized tunnel to allow speeds up to approximately 600+ mph (aka Hyperloop).” http://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-the-boring-company-will-develop-hyperloop-technology/ When things are moving too slowly for you (or the planet).... Although this will worry the existing hyperloop companies, it should reassure investors that Musk Means Business. The odds of these new transportation systems becoming reality just received a major boost. Get on board! I want to hear some numbers on cost per mile and time to dig a mile of tunnel. How long would it take to construct a NYC to DC tunnel? Quote from: Bob Wallace on August 09, 2017, 07:23:04 PM Their current testing in Hawthorne is for the purpose of learning how to dig safely, and to determine how they can improve the process -- and the boring machine itself -- and dig faster than Gary the Snail can move. Even they don't have those numbers yet. You are asking for Boring Model S specs, while they are still trying to build the Roadster. I want the boring Model Y price and the Model 3 Ludicrous mode 0 to 60 time. Greedy and impatient, I am.... Archimid I bet that boring machine will eventually be small enough to go to Mars. It will probably be mostly automated and with ridiculously low power requirements. By finding a good use for a small and fast boring machine on Earth Elon can significantly reduce the cost and even make money developing the Mars Boring Machine. « Last Edit: August 10, 2017, 03:39:34 AM by Archimid » I am an energy reservoir seemingly intent on lowering entropy for self preservation. Quote from: Archimid on August 10, 2017, 02:48:47 AM I bet that boring machine will eventually be small enough to go to Mars. It will probably be mostly automated and with ridiculously low power requirements. By finding a good use for a small and fast boring machine on Earth Elon can significantly reduce, even make money, developing the Mars Boring Machine. In a harsh environment it makes sense to go underground. Solar panels on the surface. Food production underground under lights. Moderate heating/cooling needs. If there's a way to geo-engineer Mars so that it supports some sort of flora that's probably a very long term project, establishing a new atmosphere and that sort of thing. We may need boring machines here on Earth if we don't get our carbon act together. We may evolve into mole people.... Morlocks well before 802701 AD ? Boring has approached the Hawthorne city council to get permission to dig a two mile tunnel under a city street. This would be the next step in testing out their boring machine. And (while they didn't say anything) should provide a test tunnel for their car sleds or Hyperloop. Cost and time to dig were not made public. https://www.teslarati.com/boring-company-city-council-construction/ One end of the tunnel is very close to the Hawthorne airport and Tesla, SpaceX, and Boring headquarters. If you extend the tunnel west you end up close to LA International. And the beach. IIRC, they said something about 8 months. Their philosophy is to "fail fast, fix fast" -- and they will assume all risks for any damage that might occur. Quote from: Sigmetnow on August 11, 2017, 03:42:25 AM Pretty good recall Once we cross our property line and go into the public right of way, we think it's going to take us eight months to finish the tunnel. We don't have a set tim will want to test as quickly and as reliably as possible so success will come quickly. We don't move slowly, that's why we're here, and we will continuously iterate. We like to failfast and continuously improve. Success will come very quickly. I think it will be, won't put an exact timeline on it other than to say: it's going to be very fast >"And (while they didn't say anything) should provide a test tunnel for their car sleds or Hyperloop." the way the concrete segments are designed to basically make them waterproof it's very easy to make them a vacuum we could at some point in the future, create a hyperloop out of this, but that's not what we're testing in this tunnel is it a potential idea sometime in the future, sure But is that what we're doing now? no Brett success at first will actually getting the tunnel done, showing people that we can do this. Success for the test portion of the tunnel will be understanding the true performance specifications and what the machine can do. Understanding where we can improve that for future tunnel boring machines and future tunnelling projects, and also laying the groundwork to prove the technology that we're developing for the skates Because we know it's going to operate a little bit differently in a tunnel verses on the street, so taking what we're designing, some of which is proprietary; we won't give away the secret sauce, then proving that in the tunnel and showing that we do it safely, reliably and for a significant cost saving to traditional projects and also test and prove out the transportation system, so to speak very quickly about how the transportation system works and how we're going to be testing in this tunnel is it's based on Tesla technology. We all know about autonomous driving and the capabilities we've seen demonstrated in various videos. We're going to be using that technology, but instead of an enclosed Tesla, it's going to be an electric skate, so imagine the drivetrain of a Models with a flat platform on top of it, where cars can drive on, turn off and drive through the system. In this tunnel, we won't be putting any cars. One of the critical things to understand today is that we'll be testing the skate, and we'll be testing the technology. This is not meant to be a tunnel that's inhabited by people, and it's actually not meant to transport cars or people through the tunnel. It is just a test « Last Edit: August 11, 2017, 03:20:03 PM by crandles » I thought it was surprising that there was very little discussion of: a) how the machine was going to be altered if at all. If the boring front end was staying the same and they intend to add wall building automation behind it, perhaps that doesn't need going into such detail and possible proprietary information planning. However if they were going to do anything to improve the boring front end, I would have expected questions about this or assurances that they wouldn't make any such changes. b) What happens afterwards. There seemed little to no discussion of how long development activities might continue in the tunnel or of whether there might ever be a requirement to refill the tunnel, or more likely maintain a register of the existence of the tunnel so that any utility that might want to plan some work would be able to find out details of exactly where the tunnel is. Perhaps there is already some system(s) that deals with that sort of thing, already accepted, such that no questions needed to be asked. You seem to have very high expectations of a city council's power of foresight and insight. They mostly spend their time approving developer's projects. For them the most important words were "this won't cost you anything and might lead to great things in the future" "trust me" Make that less of the "trust me", and more of the The other thing we want to clear up is we are not asking the city of Hawthorne to assume any risk the Boring company is assuming that risk if we break something, we will fix it. Ken Feldman Tunnel boring machines typically make 50 to 60 feet per day on average. They can mine 100+ feet on a good day, but there are often times that they are down for maintenance. At typical rates, it would take 3 to 4 months to go a mile. That's assuming everything goes well, which it typically doesn't on a tunneling job. You also need to dig the pit to launch the tunneling machine, which can take several months. Much of the vibration for tunneling comes from the small rail cars (called locos) that shuttle equipment, including the pre-cast concrete rings that line the tunnel as it is bored, from the launch pit to the cutter head. It's somewhat deceptive to claim there is no vibration felt from a TBM unless you do the measurements when the conveyor belts bringing the dirt from the tunnel to the tail end of the TBM and the locos are running. And tunnels are pretty expensive to drill. A TBM will cost about $10 million and take about a year to build. They are generally good for about 5 miles before needing a major overhaul in softer soils. In hard rock, it would be much less. And you have to pay the crews (assume two shifts per day), run the ventilation equipment, fuel for all of the machinery, etc... Basically, supplying the international space station in low earth orbit under government contracts is probably a less risky business venture than trying to build a hyperloop tunnel from New York City to Washington, DC. Boring is boring much smaller diameter tunnels so feet per day averages from other tunnels won't apply. If you look at the size of the Boring machine it wouldn't take months to dig an entry hole. I'd say a short number of days. Quote from: Ken Feldman on August 11, 2017, 08:24:45 PM It's somewhat deceptive to claim there is no vibration felt from a TBM unless you do the measurements when the conveyor belts bringing the dirt from the tunnel to the tail end of the TBM and the locos are running. It was kind of funny, a few days ago one of your Public Works inspectors was actually on-site at the tunneling to test noise, to understand do you feel vibrations, do you hear this machine when it's activate, we stood at the back of the launch shaft and waited until we saw the dirt coming out and then we walked to the parking lot to where we were standing over roughly where the machine was going. You didn't hear it you could put your hand on the parking lot, you didn't feel the vibration and it was a 14 foot (2.4m) machine spinning and chewing dirt any other information we can provide, we'd be very happy to provide. We still hope that you'll come out as see it we'll do that same test, you'll be standing above it running, the dirt moving equipment that's on the lot and the crane and the compressor that provides air to the shaft, actually makes more noise than the tunnel boring machine in it. No mention of locos for transporting concrete wall sections, but seems conveyors were running. They seem quite up front about crane and compressor being noisier. Not sure deceptive is the right word if they are saying about what happened and everything that was going on. But perhaps still slightly misleading if there is no mention of locos that are likely to be noisiest activity hearable/feelable above the drilling? As of February 2017, the company has begun digging a 30-foot-wide (9 m), 50-foot-long (15 m), and 15-foot-deep (4.6 m) testing trench At the end of April 2017, a TBM was seen at SpaceX with the company's name on the side. Given that they have already drilled to the edge of their property (350 feet), several months does seem a little excessive, I doubt they have proceeded as fast as they could if they were already fully knowledgeable about what they are doing and besides they have also done car elevator and doubtless other work. Handy map. Green initial test tunnel has been completed. Red is the 2-mile tunnel under discussion. All of the above-ground work/noise/dust will be on SpaceX property, except for the system keeping an eye on earth-movement/-settlement/utilities -- which is already in place along the route. IMG_2677.PNG (2383.6 kB, 1838x826 - viewed 197 times.) Just some crayon/lunch bag math. 226 miles from NYC to Washington DC. 1,193,280 feet. Assume Boring can speed things up and average 100 feet per day that would mean 11,933 drilling days. 33 drilling years. Or one year if they used 33 drilling rigs. (66 since two tubes would be needed to "loop".) These tunneling machines should be reusable unlike the monster ones that do their drilling and then bury themselves below the tunnel they've dug. There's some interesting info about how Boring thinks they can lower cost and increase boring speed on this page... https://www.boringcompany.com/faq/ I especially liked this bit - In typical tunneling projects, excavated dirt is shipped offsite to disposal locations. This process is costly, time-consuming, noisy, and can be environmentally hazardous. The Boring Company is investigating technologies that will recycle the earth into useful bricks to be used to build structures. Quote from: crandles on August 11, 2017, 09:17:42 PM They started work on the launch pit in January and installed the TBM in May. That's four months just to get started. Musk tweeted that the first segment of the tunnel was complete on June 29th. There were no details about how long the segment was. If we assume that it's the 350 feet you mention in the quote above, that's a month to go 350 feet, or 12 feet a day. That's about right for a TBM and crew working up to speed on a new tunneling project. In another another article, Boring's representative estimates that it will take 8 months to bore the 2 mile long test tunnel in Hawthorne. Horton also told the council members that the tunneling process, which should take just eight months, would prove the company can build “safely, reliably, and for significant cost savings to traditional tunneling projects.” "Table from bricks made after soil is removed during tunnel boring. #recycle #nowaste #cool #boring @TheBoringComp" https://twitter.com/mayemusk/status/867809393311600640 IMG_2681.JPG (537.11 kB, 1094x1459 - viewed 181 times.) You're confusing digging their first entry pit with the speed they might be drilling tunnels once they've traveled a little way down the learning curve. Musk thinks that once they've started 'for real' drilling they can go at least twice as fast as other tunnels are drilled. Is he right? He usually is, he's got facts and does good math. He's done pretty good with a whole bunch of projects (Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX). He's got the money to bring smart people onboard to help him suss things out in addition to his own particular strengths. Time will tell, but at this point in history betting against Musk is not a good idea. Quote from: Bob Wallace on August 12, 2017, 01:18:15 AM At first, that seems like too ridiculous a number of TBMs to even consider. But once they've taken what they've learned from digging their test tunnels, and designed a new, faster-better-cheaper tunnel boring machine (“You know engineers, they love to change things,” ), Musk’s newfound obsession with “The machine that builds the machine,” will take over and they’ll be building dozens of those puppies in no time. I suspect that is correct. Once they dig one tunnel system for a month/year then they can be hauled on a truck to a new site. Properly designed they should be usable for many years by simply replacing the parts that wear out. Drop a swarm of machines into one project. Get it up and producing revenue in a year/whatever and move to the next project. All these miles don't have to be underground. It would be interesting to see the cost difference between the underground and the over the ground solution. Underground might be mainly interesting in urban areas. This is a little bit like the Suez/Panama canal story. Suez was a success, but Panama took a long time to be finished and the initial company went bankrupt. Going along the coast is a good idea, I guess the crossing of the rocky mountains is for a far future. Maybe not so misleading: Go electric. Current tunnel operations often include diesel locomotives. These can be replaced by electric vehicles re: Increase TBM power. The machine’s power output can be tripled (while coupled with the appropriate upgrades in cooling systems). What effect does tripling power have on speed? To judge by the map in #80 above, the machines can dig in a fairly tight turn. So, one entry-tunnel, in an out-of-the-way place, could start both a southbound tunnel segment and a second machine, after making a 180° turn, the northbound one. The tunnel could progress in long "loops," not just straight lines. TerryM First-year ice Quote from: etienne on August 12, 2017, 09:05:22 AM I concur. It took decades to finish the Interstate Highway System because of holdups in California and Utah. When they were mining Iron Mountain on the California/Nevada border babies were being born with no brains. The town has been buried, but locals know better than to dig holes in that formation. My guess is that if the TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) has more power it can use a more aggressive "bit" or push harder against the face of the bore in order to remove more material with each rotation. It also may be able to move more material per unit time from the face of the bore to the system that removes the dirt. Did you pick up on what he says here - A snail is effectively 14 times faster than a soft-soil TBM. Our goal is to defeat the snail in a race. I read that as Boring is setting a goal of going more than 14x as fast as current tunnel boring machines in soft soil. If they can achieve anything like that then that would mean, using Ken's information of 50' to 60' average per day for typical tunneling, 700' to 1,000' (?) per day. Something like that would be incredible. A mile a week in soft soil. Musk is very hard to believe at times. But he is landing rockets and reusing them among the other things he's talked about and delivered. jai mitchell cubed root of 3 Haiku of Past Futures My "burning embers" are not tri-color bar graphs +3C today He plans to use a machine like this to test improvements in tunneling technology. He thinks that with more power, better materials, and a design that allows it to continue digging while installing the tunnel walls—a feat that’s impossible today—the Boring Company will be able to drastically reduce the price of digging. “To make it a little better should be easy,” he says. “To make it five times better is not crazy hard. To make it 10 times better is hard, but nobody will need to win a Nobel Prize. We don’t have to change the standard model of physics.” As we walk through the machine, Musk and Davis pepper the tunnel’s project manager, Shane Yanagisawa, with questions. They ask about grouting materials and staffing, but mostly about speed. Yanagisawa says the limiting factor is muck. Nannie’s conveyor belts can carry only so much dirt at a time. The fastest he thinks the machine can possibly run is 75 millimeters per minute. In a typical week, it moves through 300 feet of clay. Musk nods. “We’re trying to dramatically increase the tunneling speed,” he says. “We want to know what it would take to get to a mile a week? Could it be possible?” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-16/elon-musk-is-really-boring that dates to 16th Feb 2017 "A snail is effectively 14 times faster than a soft-soil TBM. Our goal is to defeat the snail in a race." seems to be said around 17th May 2017 Isn't toning it down over those 3 months. Will be interesting to see if this mile a week continues to be the target and whether he gets anywhere close. "cube root of 3" interesting is that forward speed increase? Why cube root? (I could understand square root as being 2 dimensions of tunnel being dug compared to direction of travel of the machine or some relationship between area of tunnel to area of earth being moved away.) I don't think we can make a lot of sense using the "cubic root of 3". You can put a lot more power on the spinning end but if the bits can't hold up to the increased force or the dirt removal system can't remove the spoils fast enough then the additional power won't pay off. Five times better would be a crazy improvement. Fishing out my favorite colored crayon and redoing my math... Assume Boring can speed things up and average 250 feet (5 x 50') per day that would mean 4,773 drilling days. 13 drilling years. Take Sigmet's idea and you need only 6-7 entry holes. Each could serve four TBMs (two tunnels, north and south). Surface disruption could be minimized. Material delivery and spoils removal would be centralized for four TBMs. They'd need only 6-7 big power drops to provide the needed electricity. This is becoming so damned interesting.... Spoils removal. "30" foot electric powered conveyor belts on wheels. Slightly inclined front to back so belt A dumps on belt B which, in turn, dumps on belt C. As the TBM moves forward just add conveyor belt cars as needed. "This is becoming so damned interesting...." LOL. I totally agree. No wonder that Musk, even with everything else he has on his plate, couldn't just sit back and wait for someone else to move forward with this. Tor Bejnar 'Wish I had a billion dollars! Arctic ice is healthy for children and other living things. Quote from: Tor Bejnar on August 13, 2017, 01:23:34 AM Well, a billion dollars plus a mindset of: “I don’t care if you say it’s impossible. We’re going to do it anyway.” “Of course there’s a good chance we will fail. But this needs to be done, for the planet.” “When you’re going through hell — keep going.” “Anything beyond five years is infinity.” Yeah, okay. Thanks for the "reality check", Sigmetnow. Quote from: Sigmetnow on August 13, 2017, 06:32:17 PM "Well, it does look impossible in terms of how it's been attempted before. Let's take out a clean sheet of paper and see if we can imagine something that might work." "Of course we might fail. If we do we'll try to figure out how to not fail on our next attempt." "When you're going through hell - keep going if heaven is right ahead." "Infinity? That brand may go extinct in five years if they don't develop a good EV."	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line809
__label__cc	0.518004	0.481996	Giant in the Playground Forums > Gaming > Roleplaying Games > Interesting Build Challenge? View Full Version : Interesting Build Challenge? SamTheCleric I had an idea to get the players at my game together on an off week and make an arena type challenge with a twist. Everyone builds a character... but then passes that sheet to the person on their left. So do you over optimize or do you purposefully cripple? I think it would make for interesting builds. playswithfire Personally, I'd still try to optimize quite a bit, because it's what I do, but, in this instance, I think I'd modify it a bit. Ideally, I'd leave one weakness; something not immediately obvious to the person who receives the sheet but which I know how to exploit. Then you hope you get a sheet that's at all capable of exploiting that weakness and that you're fairly fair apart in the arena brackets. If he wins, your build looks good. If you both make it to the end, you know how to defeat him and you look good, or at least clever. But that's me way overthinking the scenario. Deepblue706 I wonder how many Fighters and Monks you'll get. Or, Wizards with 9 Int. If it's point buy, I'd choose a human caster and decide not to put any points into the casting stat. They'd instead have a DIFFERENT mental stat absolutely maxed. Also dump CON and DEX. And, grab Weapon Focus for like 4 different weapons for feats. All skills will be cross-class. What's the level on this? Lochar First, as the DM, you put down the rule that the class has to be viable. IE: Casters have to be able to at least cast their spells. Not saying you couldn't make a wizard with 9 int and then give him an item that bumps it up, but yeah. Hmm, monk with nothing but Weapon Focus: Non monk weapons would be fun. With int maxed and the rest dumped as well as possible. Zincorium Telling them about it in advance is likely to end up with an absolutely horrid band of incompetents. Ideally, they wouldn't know about the 'pass to the left' business until it actually happens, at which point they have a short amount of time to figure out what combos their character might be based on. It changes the skill involved from optimization to versatile thinking. I haven't come up with the exact rules yet... but im thinking somewhere between level 10 and 15. If you cast spells, you must be able to at least cast your highest level spell, wealth by level, no one item more than half your WBL. 100' radius arena, everyone starts behind a wall (no direct LoS for long range attacks)... Kurald Galain So, what's to prevent me from building e.g. * A weird mixture like Wizard 2 / Sorcerer 2 / Beguiler 2 / Warmage 2 / Shugenja 2 / Bard 2 / Wu jen 2 * Something that can't use most of his powers any more, like a paladin 14 / Barbarian 1 * Fifteen levels in a near-useless class like commoner, healer, samurai or monk Roderick_BR I tend to build characters based on some concept, nor crippling nor overpowering it. Most players don't like when their characters can't kill things in one round, so my friends tends to dislike my character sheets anyway :smalltongue: I like this idea. I may use it for a one-shot story to see what happens. Kurald Galain: If you know in advance, you'll purposedly make a crippled build? That can bite you in the ass when you need more manpower, and your hope of survival falls in the hand of some useless idiot that you helped make :smallamused: Yes, as a DM, I'd make these kind of situation. A lot. Kurald Galain: If you know in advance, you'll purposedly make a crippled build? I was under the impression that this was an arena match, not an adventure situation. That is not to say that I would do that in practice; rather, I was looking for ways to break this (novel) ruleset, because such suggestions might serve in improving the ruleset. Yeah, I need to find a way to prevent completely unplayable characters. Starsinger Zincorium had it right, don't tell them they're switching. Or, if they already know that they're supposed to switch, don't tell them that its a competition. And if they know the whole deal.. then well you might be a bit screwed. I'm going to third this... don't tell them they're switching characters. Let them optimize the heck out of their character sheets, then tell 'em to pass 'em on down the line. Though, even if I knew the conditions in advance, I would do what playswithfire suggested... give them a good-but-flawed build... and I'd roleplay it to the hilt with repeated "Only I am allowed to defeat you!" sort of rival remarks. I'd also run it at lower level and in teams, but mix up the team members as well as the character sheets. Bob, Joe, and Frank signed up for a team and made character sheets as a team, but right before the tourney begins you hand Bob Hank's character sheet and stick him in a team with Sue and Beth. They have... say... seven minutes to familiarize themselves with the new character and the new teammates. That'll practically kill all your powergaming right there. It'll come down to off-the-cuff teamwork and last minute improvisation. Megafly Why not tell them that character assignment is random. They might get their own char back. GoodbyeSoberDay Why not tell them that character assignment is random. They might get their own char back.If that were the case, the optimized build would probably be an ostensibly weak character who has some well-hidden combo. Duke of URL If you are going to tell them about it, make it clear that there are two "winners" -- the one who played the winning build, and the one who came up with it. The overall winner would be the player who had the best combined finish of the character he played and the character he created.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line812
__label__cc	0.521183	0.478817	HomeA Community Iftar Gathers Muslims and Jews Virtually A Community Iftar Gathers Muslims and Jews Virtually Esther D. KustanowitzMay 4, 2020 Los Angeles It was during the traditional Muslim call to prayer when Rabbi Tova Leibovic-Douglas found herself becoming emotional. “I kept thinking about my Muslim friends who were not in one space with their family or friends for Ramadan and how beautiful and painful our world is,” she said. The rabbi was one of over 1400 participants in a massive, virtual Muslim-Jewish iftar, the evening meal that marks the end of one of the days of Ramadan. The event’s sponsor, Los Angeles-based New Ground: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change, had set their 10th annual interfaith Los Angeles Community Iftar for Thursday, April 30. The annual event is an opportunity for Jewish and Muslim Angelenos to meet, pray, and talk about their respective sacred texts. It also marks the completion of MAJIC (Muslims and Jews Inspiring Change), New Ground’s Muslim and Jewish program for high school students. Michael Skloff, who wrote the melody for “I’ll Be There For You” (The “Friends” Theme), performed a slowed-down version of that song on the piano. Then came California’s April 10 “Safer at Home” order. The iftar’s organizers considered cancellation for “about 30 seconds,” said New Ground’s Associate Director Andrea Hodos, before applying themselves to the challenge of convening virtually. “It actually felt more urgent to find the right way to get us all together in a space of connection and meaning,” Hodos said. “This is who we are, and we couldn’t abandon that sense of purpose in this moment.” The board of directors of New Ground offer their thank yous at the end of the iftar. New Ground, founded in 2006, provides leadership trainings, public programs and private lectures and discussions, with the goal of strengthening Jewish-Muslim relations in Los Angeles, where the organization has partnered with more than 35 Muslim and Jewish organizations. “Our main objective was to create a nurturing space that would nourish ourselves and one another,” Executive Director Aziza Hasan said. The event was hosted on Facebook Live. In addition to the 1400 people who tuned in, as of Sunday, the recording of the event had 2,600 views. Hasan said that people watched from across the country. The event was timed so that Muslim participants could break their fasts, and Muslim and Jewish participants could complete maghrib or maariv prayers, before joining. While waiting for the event to start, the Ismaili Choir performed songs in Hebrew and Arabic as it did live at last year’s iftar. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti reminded the virtually gathered that “faith will give us strength” and “love will carry us through.” Rabbi Michelle Missaghieh from Temple Israel of Hollywood shared a Talmudic text about the difference between heaven and hell being how people approached each other. In heaven, she said, “they worked together so each person could get what they needed.” Activist and New Ground board member Edina Lekovic presented Quranic texts defining the righteous as, “those who feed the poor, the orphan and the captive for the love of God, seeking neither reward nor thanks. Faith and action is critical and what God is looking for.” Hodos said her favorite part of each year’s Iftar is introducing arrivals to each other and having them start conversations before the event starts and at intentionally created diverse tables during the dinner program. This year, wary of “Zoom-bombing,” the recent trend of unwanted guests infiltrating Zoom meetings, the team opted for Facebook Live and an approach of what Hodos called “radical welcoming and engagement” in the comments section. “There’s an advantage of being able to watch from the comfort of your own home,” said New Ground alumna Marium Mohiuddin. “NewGround took a rough situation and not only did the best they could, they truly created a heartwarming experience.” “Getting a wink or a shout-out gave me the same feeling of spotting someone across the crowded room and making my way over for a hello,” said Rabbi Sarah Bassin, a New Ground board member. “Sometimes these relationships in the community don’t need much more than a simple expression of care. And that came across in spades over the chat.” “No, it’s not the same as being in person,” Maia Ferdman, who works for New Ground part-time, texted her colleagues. “But, at least for me, the weight and warmth of that community presence is now sitting here in the room, tangible and as socially ‘near’ as it gets.” For Hassan, the success of the event is a reminder “that we can hold one another in other ways as we grapple with fear and self-doubt.” “Intentional relationships rooted in love create a sacred space that allows us all to rise to a better version of ourselves,” Hodos added. “The way through this is in reaching out past our usual boundaries to connect our communities.” Esther Kustanowitz is a journalist based in Los Angeles. Esther D. Kustanowitz The Forward welcomes reader comments in order to promote thoughtful discussion on issues of importance to the Jewish community. All readers can browse the comments, and all Forward subscribers can add to the conversation. 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__label__wiki	0.980216	0.980216	19 Games Like Infamous On this compiled list of games like Infamous you’ll learn about other action adventures that give you incredible powers in an open world environment. Infamous is a series of PlayStation exclusive titles that combine the best elements of the free roam genre with sci-fi like abilities. With plenty of opportunity for exploration and destruction the series is an electrifying experience. The games use a unique comic inspired theme that puts you at the heart of an urban metropolis. As an open world game you’ll get to adventure around this environment as you please and can approach the game from many different angles. The most notable of these paths is controlled by the karma system which pushes you towards good or evil. These choices can close off missions and even skills ensuring you can play the game multiple times and get a different experience. 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Your The Amazing Spider-Man 2 adventure follows along with Peter Parker as he hunts down the serial killer known as Carnage Killer while also dealing with the threats of cross-species experiments and the notorious Kingpin character who rises up to fill the power vacuum in the city amon...[Read Review] 3DSPCPS3PS4Wii UXbox 360Xbox One Games Like Assassin's Creed, Games Like Bully, Games Like Far Cry, Games Like Grand Theft Auto, Games Like Infamous, Games Like Just Cause, Games Like Mafia, Games Like Max Payne, Games Like Red Dead Redemption, Games Like Saints Row, Games Like Sleeping Dogs, Games Like Watch Dogs, Games Like Mad Max, Games Like Prototype, Games Like Splinter Cell , Games Like Uncharted, Games Like Deus Ex, Games Like Devil May Cry, Games Like Dynasty Warriors, Games Like God of War, Games Like BioShock, Games Like Dead Space, Games Like Gangstar Vegas Show More	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0008.json.gz/line819

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